Where to buy high-quality organic herbs and teas, organic produce, heirloom seeds, wonderful bee hives etc.
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It has taken me a while to find companies that I really love buying from and that I can recommend without hesitation. Guiding principles in my choice have been: organic, fair-trade, sustainable practices, and good customer service. By visiting some of these links or by making purchases through some of these companies, Sustainable Homesteading may earn a small commission which helps to support my efforts to write blog posts and the costs involved in hosting this page. I am grateful for any purchases that you make using affiliate links on this site.
If I can not wild-harvest my herbs there are two companies I love buying from: Mountain Rose Herbs and Starwest Botanicals. Sustainability and ethical stewardship represent the blueprint these companies. Their herbs are organic or wild-crafted and of superb quality.
I love Tulsi tea, and buy all my Tulsi tea in bulk from Organic India. My favorites are "sweet rose," "original," and "licorice." This company actively promotes sustainable agriculture and pays a premium market rate to their farmers.
Art of Tea is a tea importer and wholesaler that uses sustainable and environmentally responsible business practices. I like that they hand blend and custom craft a wonderful assortment of organic teas and botanicals.
Backyard Beehive is a small company and great place to get your Beekeeping Supplies and Information on Backyard Beekeeping. Their Top Bar Hives are beautiful and now you can add insulation panels for those cold winter months. I have two of The Golden Mean Top Bar Hives and am super happy with them. Backyard Beehives offers a FREE building plan for their beehive.
Botanical Interests sells a great selection of heirloom and organic seeds. Whenever I can't save my seeds, this is where I buy my seeds from. Vegetables, flowers, herbs, all contain no GMO's! I love their pretty packages and have been super happy with the germination rate.
For all of you who are going green, seeking to reduce your exposure to toxins in plastics as well as waste, stainless steel ECO friendly lunchbox are a great option. Those guys sell different style lunchboxes in beautiful cotton bags, including cutlery.
Only Natural Pet Store – Everything Natural for Dogs & Cats This is where I buy all my dog food. My boys love their dehydrated raw food and they eat it every day. They are founding members of the Pet Industry Sustainability Project, which thrives to make the planet healthier for both us and our pets.
http://www.fehringerfarms.com/ is where I get my organic feed. They are a small organic family farm located south of Sidney, NE. They grow mostly small grains and forage crops and manufacture organic non-soy poultry feed and other livestock feeds.
Earth Easy is the place to go to if you are looking for anything that will make your home and garden more sustainable. From rain barrels to dehydrators and pressure canners those guys have an amazing selection of high quality items. I love looking around in this online store and be inspired.
Wild Dill features organic, fair trade and natural toys, clothes and bedding for little ones.
Organic Wholesale Club is FREE to join.
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/ The objective of FTCLDF is to defend the rights of sustainable family farms and artisan food producers to make their products available to consumers in a manner that protects, preserves and enhances the environment and its natural resources.
http://www.realmilk.com/ The goal of A Campaign for Real Milk is universal access to clean raw whole milk from pasture-fed cows, especially access for pregnant and nursing mothers and for babies and growing children. A Campaign meets this goal first and foremost by providing information on the safety and health benefits of raw milk over pasteurized, and by providing a list of raw milk providers.
www.westonaprice.org The Weston A. Price Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense, traditional foods through public education, research, and activism.
http://edibleschoolyard.org/ The mission of the Edible Schoolyard Project is to build and share an edible education curriculum for kindergarten through high school. We envision gardens and kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a free, nutritious, organic lunch for every student. Integrating this curriculum into schools can transform the health and values of every child in America.
http://www.seedsavers.org/ is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
www.slowfoodusa.org is an educational organization devoted to reviving heritage breeds, heirloom seeds and cultivating the joy of food and the connection among farms, communities and the environment.
http://www.osgata.org/ The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association is a national non-profit organization committed to protecting, promoting, and developing the organic seed trade and it's growers, thereby assuring that the organic community has access to excellent quality organic seed, free of contaminants and adapted to the diverse needs of organic agriculture.
http://www.sare.org/ Established in 1988 and funded through the Federal government, SARE administers a nationwide grant program for research and education in sustainable agriculture. They also publish an excellent print and electronic resources for farmers, educators, and consumers.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ The David Suzuki foundation's mission is to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.
http://rodaleinstitute.org/ Rodale Institute is nonprofit organization originally founded in 1947 by J.I. Rodale. Their mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people and the planet. Rodale offers an online, 15 hour course to assist farmers in transitioning to organic farming.
permies.com is now the largest permaculture site on the internet and a great resource.
Geoff Lawton is one of the key permaculture consultants, designers and teachers on this planet. I have been sharing his weekly permaculture video on my Facebook page.
David Holmgren's website is a great resource for everything permaculture.
Masanobu Fukuoka worked over 65 years to develop a system of natural farming. He wrote The One-Straw Revolution an amazing book on permaculture.
Sepp Holzer pioneered the use of ecological farming/permaculture techniques at high altitudes in Austria. He wrote several important books in the field of permaculture.
Permaculture Global is a great community and interactive database for all of us permaculture enthusiasts.
MyPlants is a free software product that helps you research and catalogue all your trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Check it out, it's pretty cool.
I used GoodReads to list a lot of the books I have read, am currently reading, and want to read. I sorted them by category, anything from organic gardening to canning and permaculture. Come on over and check out my bookshelf at Sustainable Homesteading on GoodReads .
The Greater Denver Urban Homesteading Group is a wonderful way to connect with like-minded people in the area. Come join the group and maybe we will meet in person.
The Ecological Living Network : Front Range Design & Build Co-Op is another wonderful meetup group not to be missed.
Mountain Flower Goat Dairy is a working dairy farm whose goal is to connect urban residents back to the land, back to their food and back to nature by providing access to sustainable agriculture, farm education and humane dairy production.
Growing Gardens is a Boulder-based non-profit organization established in 1998. Growing Gardens mission is to enrich the lives of our community through sustainable urban agriculture.
The Living Arts School is Colorado's first folk school. A place for "folks" of all ages to pursue a unique and life-changing education–one that focuses on the renewal of traditional living skills, crafts and music.


Liverpool will have to do without defender Joe Gomez for key games against Napoli and Manchester United due to a leg injury.
Joe Gomez is expected to be out for up to six weeks after it was confirmed he suffered a fractured leg during Liverpool's 3-1 win over Burnley on Wednesday.
The England defender was hurt in the first half of the Premier League fixture following a tackle from Ben Mee and had to be substituted in the 23rd minute at Turf Moor.
Gomez, who ended up sliding into an advertising board following the initial contact, received treatment by the pitch before being carried away on a stretcher.
After further assessment by the club's medical team at Melwood on Thursday, Liverpool have announced the 21-year-old has a fracture to the lower left leg.
The injury is expected to keep him out for the busy period of fixtures until the end of the year, including next week's crucial Champions League game against Napoli at Anfield as the Reds look to secure a place in the knockout stages.
The versatile Gomez will also miss the home clash against Manchester United on December 16, while Jurgen Klopp's second-placed side travel to leaders Manchester City on January 3.


If Sally's can't host a winter shelter, then where?
If not Sally's, then where?
Don't blame the Salvation Army for its apparent decision to forgo running a winter shelter for homeless people next fall. It's been a tough road for the staff there over the past four months, during which the overnight shelter served a record number of people and dealt with interruptions like a bedbug infestation and the personal issues like drugs or violence that a "low-bar" shelter attracts.
The organization will continue its admirable task of the needy in Kitsap County, but the intention not to apply for grant funding to open another winter overnight shelter means more pressure on community leaders to come up with solutions. The issue is already at hand, in wake of a closure that arguably ended before the winter's weather. As detailed in our story, as many as 90 people (the high mark for attendance this winter) were left without a place to stay. They've been directed to friends or family, given bus tickets out of town and some placed in hotels, but anyone following this issue knows the streets or surrounding forests are the most likely landing place for some.
The great outdoors is not a solution, of course, as the experience in illegal campsites is that they often draw the criminal element or drugs, or foul the landscape and lead to public health issues. Landowners who have pushed back by clearing property or fencing to discourage illegal camping have done the right thing.
Though progress has been made in establishing services — the program for veterans run by Kitsap County Resources and Kitsap County being among the most noteworthy — the shelter's closure should be another wake up call. You can give to Kitsap Rescue Mission, an organization offering overnight shelter — although for a smaller population and with a higher bar for entry — and you can continue to support Salvation Army in the other relief they offer. Organizations like Coffee Oasis continue to grow their services aimed at youth who are at risk, and the nine food banks across Kitsap and North Mason counties remain good stewards for your donations. Kitsap Community Resources continues to be the place for surrounding services to assist people faced with homelessness, making connections with providers like Kitsap Mental Health Services or the Bremerton Housing Authority.
But as the overnight shelter demonstrates, it's still not enough.
Nearly two years ago Kitsap County held a summit on homeless and solutions, and Sunday afternoon another will take place, this one hosted by West Sound for Social Justice at the Bremerton United Methodist Church at 1:30 p.m.
The public should demand more than talk, particularly from elected leaders who have publicly acknowledged the need. We're still waiting on a tiny house village, for one. Whether or not its the ultimate answer, its an idea that needs to be tested. We need to continue supporting the planned mental health triage center that could address some of the underlying problems. We need to have a conversation about what an affordable housing levy could look like — maybe it's not the right approach, but communities like Seattle (which enacted one) and Port Angeles (which didn't) at least have brought the idea up for public debate.
For now, the cold spring rains keep pounding and anywhere from 60 to 100 people don't have the roof over their heads that had been there for several months. What does that mean to you?


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AAL Recycling (AAL) owes its success to its innovative and dynamic owner, Alan Langlois, who set up the company over 20 years ago and has developed it into the successful and well respected Company it is today.
The Haulage and Plant Hire division employs a team of specialist drivers and machine operators who you will see all over the Island in vehicles with distinctive AAL red and yellow livery.
AALs equipment is maintained by trained mechanics at the Company's in-house maintenance facility which services the entire fleet.
The demolition and excavation works is the fastest growing area of the business and the team is made up of experienced site foremen, specialist machine operators, charge hands and labourers who have taken on some of the Island's most complex projects in recent times (link to the projects page).
The Recycling Centre at La Collette also has a team comprising civil engineers, quantity surveyors and Weighbridge operators.
The Company's administrative and finance department is based at the Head Office in St Lawrence.
If you are interested in becoming part of the team as opportunities may arise, please contact us with your details.


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Rep. Thomas M. Stanley
Representing the 9th Middlesex District of Massachusetts
The Stanley Family
Constituent Service
The Stanley Report
2019 Progressive Waltham City Council Questionnaire
October 2, 2019 Team Stanley
Please share with us one or two reasons why you decided to run for the City Council?
Serving our community to help others when help is most needed is why I dedicated my career to working in public service. It is important for the city to support and care for all residents regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, or financial status.
Waltham benefits from having a City Council diversified in gender, age, culture, length of residency and experience. My long history of community involvement, education and experience in state and local government adds an important dynamic to the Council when making tough decisions for the betterment of all.
What new legislation will you work on/introduce to the City Council that will address the affordable housing crisis?
The nation is facing a critical affordable housing crisis. There are far too many individuals, families, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities who lack access to clean and safe affordable housing. I worked with my colleagues on the council and WATCH Inc. to pass a new ordinance increasing affordable housing requirements for private housing developments from 10% to 15%. During the next two years I will work with colleagues to better understand the viability of increasing the requirement to 20%.
To do this, I will ask the Council President to establish an ad-hoc committee on affordable housing to provide the Council with factual information on ramifications of a possible further increase.
How do you feel the Waltham immigrant community can best be served, and how would you go about empowering them?
In past years, our city embraced newcomers from places like Italy, Ireland, England, Scotland and Canada. In recent years, we have welcomed Latin Americans, South Asians, Ugandans and Haitians, among others. We are a better city for their presence and contributions.
The actions of the Trump Administration sets a damaging tone and misrepresents what our country stands for: religious freedom and embracing people from far and wide. They send the wrong message to those who wish to come here, and communities at home that now fear for the safety of themselves and their loved ones.
We all want to be safe from people who instill fear, hatred, and violence. But the President's Executive Orders effecting refugees and immigration make America less safe. Policies banning Muslims and directing law enforcement to ramp up the deportation of families have the effect of motivating white nationalist who wish to harm us.
I co-sponsored state legislation (Safe Communities Act) and support city policies which empower immigrants by prohibiting religious registries and the use of state and local resources for mass deportations or deportation raids. Every resident deserves to feel safe and unafraid to engage the police when victimized by criminals or domestic and sexual assault.
We cannot allow fear to divide us.
How have you been involved with the Waltham community?
Community Involvement, Past & Present:
Waltham Boys & Girls Club, Waltham Youth Basketball Association, Basketball Plus Program, Central Middle School Basketball, Little Nippers Baseball, Warrendale Little League, Waltham Youth Soccer, Waltham Police Athletic League, CCD Teacher, St. Jude Church, Waltham Lions Club, Waltham Rotary Club, Reagle Players Board of Directors, Warrendale Little League Board of Directors, Waltham Partnership for Youth Board of Directors, Waltham Day Center (Homeless) Advisors Board, Waltham Family School Advisory Board, regular guest & advocate of the Waltham Creative Head Start Program, Waltham Safe & Healthy Schools YRBS Steering Committee, Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Advisory Board, Waltham Public Library Planning Committee, Waltham Sons of Italy, Middlesex Area Enough Abuse Campaign, elected Waltham City Councillor & MA state representative.
Recognition of Community Involvement:
Work, Community, Independence – Human Service Advocate of the Year
COFAR – award recipient for support of people with mental disabilities
MassBay Community College Distinguished Alumni Award
WATCH CDC – Housing Advocate Award
Minuteman Senior Services – Certificate of Appreciation
Boston Bar Assoc., Greater Boston Legal Services and MetroWest Legal Services – Pillar of Justice Award
Shining Star Award (Edinburg Center)
Community Health Center Leader Award (The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers)
What ideas do you have for reducing carbon emissions in Waltham and other ways of sustaining the environment?
After years of tireless advocacy, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources finally designated Waltham as a Green Community in 2018. The City is now able to apply for grants through both the state's Green Communities Program and Energy Resilience Program.
As Councilor, I will push for the city to apply for these grants that will help supplement efforts in reducing energy consumption in schools and public buildings, erecting solar arrays, and implementing the latest building codes.
This past year, I made the successful motion supported by WECAN members to increase the default percentage of renewable energy homeowners will soon receive to help power their homes. As the city finalizes conditions I will ensure this provision remains.
As Councilor, I will encourage the development of long-range sustainability and resiliency planning with an actionable implementation plan. I will also push for the new Sustainability Manager to host an annual Waltham Sustainability Summit to engage residents and promote a more sustainable city.
Recognizing that climate change is an international issue, 14 metro-Boston area mayors have teamed up and created a task force seeking to address the region's efforts to fight climate change. This task force will make policy recommendations and set regional priorities for climate preparedness.
As Councilor, I will push for Waltham to join the Metro-Boston area mayor's task force on climate change, and work in partnership with other municipalities who have implemented smart sustainability plans, such as Somerville, Boston, Cambridge and the Merrimack Valley.
What is your long-term vision for Waltham?
My vision for Waltham is to get all residents engaged in the governing process. Waltham is full of hard working and talented residents who care and have so much to offer. It is a failure of local government to not fully engage the residents of Waltham in a serious way for new ideas on how to improve our city and better serve the community. I will make community engagement a priority, and treat public input as a responsibility of our local government. I will work with the mayor, City Council, residents, senior's, parents, immigrant and minority groups, and every organization in Waltham to ensure that each and every stakeholder group is heard, valued and that their perspective is considered during the governing process. I will respect the time, commitment and input of all residents who call Waltham home.
Citizens become more engaged when they have a better understanding of what is happening in their city. It's the responsibility of City Hall to make information readily available to all residents and in a way that is easily understood. A city that is known as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution should do a better job of embracing technology in local government, and I will do just that to make sure our residents feel better-informed and invited to engage in ways they feel comfortable, including through the internet, social media, smart phone apps, and in more traditional ways such as community meetings, by telephone or in writing.
I will work to improve the transparency of city government by making more information available online in a clear and concise way, and by providing more ways for citizens to offer feedback and suggestions. Waltham will be a stronger community when more people feel informed and engaged.
How will you work to increase voter turnout in Waltham?
As elected officials we can change the laws to make voting as easy as possible. As a state representative I have supported automatic registration, same day registration and early voting.
Automatic registration is a reality and as a co-sponsor of legislation to allow same day registration I see progress being made this session.
Early voting was successfully piloted during the last Presidential election. I am strongly advocating in both my rolls to make early voting an option in every election.
If elected, I will push for Waltham to make available election ballots in Spanish and other languages to remove the language obstacle for some Waltham residents.
However, perhaps the most successful effort is by organizations like Progressive Waltham who reach out to voters at the grass-roots level to encourage their participation.
How can Waltham support people experiencing homelessness in our city?
Every elected official does not support WATCH, the Waltham Day Center or increasing access to affordable housing to the same degree. Supporting candidates for public office who have demonstrated their support and commitment to ending homelessness is a good way to ensure decisions are made that make the most progress toward ending homelessness.
At the state level my bill which prevents fraud and abuse in the housing lending industry was recently signed by Gov. Baker. I will continue to be a strong supporter of the Community Preservation Act which funds affordable housing preservation as well as the following housing programs for Rental Voucher's, Alternative Housing, Public Housing Authorities, Public Housing Reform, Housing Consumer Education Centers and Residential Assistance for Families in Transition. As well as homelessness programs such as the Emergency Assistance Family Shelters, Homeless Individual Assistance, Home & Healthy for Good, Unoccupied Homeless Youth and HomeBASE.
At the local level I support creating a permanent homeless facility at the former city dog pound. Recently, I worked with WATCH to increase private housing affordability unit requirements from 10% to 15%. If re-elected I will work toward increasing this requirement. I will continue to serve on the Waltham (Homeless) Community Day Center Advisory Board, support the continuance of the CPA housing voucher program and support the use of federal CDBG funding for this nonprofit.
Finally, I will continue to be a leader on the City Council advocating for the city to adopt the Fernald Working Groups approach to reusing the Fernald property. This will result in additional affordable housing in our city.
How will you go about supporting alternative and public transportation in the city?
Waltham's high congestion is one of the most pressing issues facing the city. Sitting in traffic wastes residents' time, fuel, and money, in addition to needlessly harming the environment. The City must absolutely push for more alternative and public transportation options to get folks out of their cars. I have long been a proponent of encouraging safe and accessible transportation for all travel modes (including walking and biking).
At the state-level, I supported legislation in 2016 that codified the Commonwealth's Complete Streets program into law which incentivizes cities and towns to pass Complete Streets policies by funding local projects. I will encourage the City of apply for Complete Streets grants to help implement a network of roads that accommodate walkers and cyclists just as much as motor vehicles.
I'll also continue to support projects like the proposed pedestrian and bicycle flyover-bridge over I-95 and the Wayside Rail Trail that repurpose existing infrastructure and provide residents with an alternative means of traveling around the City.
I will continue to advocate for multi-modal infrastructure improvements which reduce traffic gridlock and protect neighborhoods. These improvements include the reconstruction of the Piety Corner, the Rt. 117 Bridge, the Green Street Connector, and reconstruction of the Totten Pond Road, Third Avenue and Winter Street intersection as well as a new train station on the Weston-Waltham town line in the future.
How can Waltham support the disenfranchised elderly in our city?
Waltham and our state have a proud history of supporting our growing senior population. In both of my positions supporting seniors is a priority of mine. Whether it is funding the William F. Stanley Senior Center named after my father, its parking lot, or the many programs provided through the Council on Aging, which runs the building, it is critical that state and local government provide the necessary resources to support our older citizens in our community.
Adjacent to the Senior Center is the Leland Home for Seniors. Rep. Lawn and I successfully obtained state funding to provide for critical capital needs. In addition, as a City Councillor I supported the use of CPA money to fund the rent at Leland for seniors in need.
I am working with the Leland Home to explore the creation of a senior zone where property owners would be incentivized to create safe and accessible senior housing and the city would provide a safe walking environment with infrastructure and utility improvements.
Not including the construction of the new Waltham High School, what is the most important line item in the school budget?
Instead of choosing one line item I believe the line items addressing immigrant student needs is crucial to the success of Waltham Public Schools.
Education is another critical component to empower the immigrant community in Waltham. WPS has made great strides these past few years with developing programs that are sensitive to immigrant student's culture and education levels. The Newcomer Academy provides newly arrived SIFE and SLIFE immigrant and refugee students with a caring and supportive environment to rapidly acquire the English language, develop native language skills, and orient themselves to American culture. The Dual Immersion Program provides academic content in two languages, Spanish and English, to Hispanic elementary students to help them become proficient in both languages. As a city councilor, I will continue to support these efforts as well as the Waltham Family School which has been instrumental in connecting immigrant parents with their children's education.
How will you work to promote greater transparency in the decision making process within the City?
Citizens become more engaged when they have a better understanding of what is happening in their city. It is difficult for taxpayers to understand city affairs because the website is antiquated and the information lacks an explanation of the big picture. I will advocate for the city to publish an annual report that discusses the goals of the city, plans for achieving our goals, and how our city expenditures align with those priorities. I will ask for the publishing of an organizational chart for City Hall, so residents understand who their public employees are and the employees feel a strong sense of accountability to those taxpayers. In addition, the city should annually publish a detailed fiscal analysis outlining the health of city finances with benchmarks and a clear, understandable budget document that shows budgeted and actual spending by category. I will utilize the City of Boston's Budget Office webpage (http://www.cityofboston.gov/budget) as a model for the City of Waltham and our city will be a stronger community when more people feel informed and engaged.
During your two year term, what will be your two biggest priorities?
The UMASS Field Station on Beaver Street is home to Waltham Fields Community Farm, Green Rows of Waltham Community Gardens, Waltham Land Trust, Massachusetts Federation of Farmers Markets, Boston Area Gleaners and 4-H among other agriculture and land use groups. Transferring ownership from the state to Waltham will preserve the working farm and continue to provide space for these important non-profits. Furthermore, local ownership will allow for the possibility of a cutting-edge Sustainability Center to benefit our regional economy by providing resources and training in the areas of sustainable farming, ecological land-use, and best practices of adaptive and green technologies to meet the ecological challenges ahead. The historic 58-acre UMass Waltham Field Station is uniquely suited for this exciting project as it has served a similar function for decades as a well-respected regional agronomic field station.
Waltham residents deserve an inclusive and transparent process for planning the future use of the Fernald. The future of this 189.7 acre campus, a National Historic Landmark, is vitally important to Waltham and deserves a professionally developed and competently managed comprehensive master plan to achieve the best possible outcome for the City.
I worked with advocates and led the state effort to prevent development of the Fernald and transfer ownership to the city. On the City Council, I made the motions and gained Council support for the Fernald Working Group's recommendation to hire an outside professional planning consultant to manage the reuse process of the Fernald property. In addition, I made the motion and gained council approval to fund the process. During our next session I will encourage our mayor to embrace the Fernald Working Group's vision of a community driven and professionally assisted re-use process.
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The 2016 Chinese-Egyptian Culture Year has enhanced the understanding and friendship between people of the two great nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a congratulatory message.
Xi made the comment to the closing ceremony of the event, which was launched to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt.
"Bilateral relations have continuously progressed with concerted efforts from both sides in the 60 years and benefited the two countries and two peoples, and have become a model for China's ties with the Arab world, African countries and South-South cooperation," Xi said.
China and Egypt held more than 100 cultural activities in 25 provincial regions and cities in the two countries, covering literature and art, books, broadcast, film and television as well as youth and education.
This first culture year between China and Arab countries increased people's understanding under the Belt and Road Initiative, and was a successful exchange program, Xi said.
China is willing to work with Egypt to strengthen cultural exchanges and cooperation to lay a solid social foundation for the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership, he said.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi also sent a congratulatory message to the event.


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America Is Not Completely Trash After All: DeAndre Harris Found Not Guilty of Assaulting White Supremacist at Charlottesville, Va., Rally
On Friday, the American criminal-justice system actually got something right; as it turns out, DeAndre Harris, the black man who was brutally beaten during the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right white supremacist rally, was found not guilty of assaulting a white nationalist.
Last year, Harris, who was counterprotesting the infamous rally, was cornered and attacked by white supremacists in a parking garage. He sustained multiple injuries, including a broken wrist and staples in his head. Yet for some reason, Harris was charged with felony counts as well as misdemeanor assault following his own beating. The felony charges were ultimately dropped, but he was still forced to stand trial for the misdemeanor.
However, on the same day Harris went to trial, he was immediately acquitted. Charlottesville General District Court Judge Robert Downer Jr. found Harris, 20, not guilty. Had Harris been convicted, he would have faced up to 12 months in jail along with a $2,500 fine for allegedly striking Harold Crews, a North Carolina attorney and state chairman of the League of the South, the Washington Post reports.
However, Downer declared that Harris did not intend to strike Crews and only swung a flashlight at him because he believed that Crews was hitting his friends with a flagpole.
(Come THROUGH, Downer!)
Racists White nationalists and their minions had attempted to use footage of what happened prior to Harris' beating as an attempt to discredit the 20-year-old. YouTube video, the Post notes, showed the moments before Harris was attacked.
In one clip, Crews is seen holding a large flagpole in front of a black protester, who is pulling on the other end. As the two grapple over the pole, Harris swings his flashlight, seemingly hitting Crews on his head or shoulder.
Moments later, several white supremacists cornered Harris in the garage and brutally took him to the ground, attacking him.
As stated, Harris suffered severe injuries, only to be treated as a criminal afterward. His friends and family started a GoFundMe to help pay for his medical expenses, a campaign that raised a whopping $166,045.
Hopefully, now that his legal trial has been tossed out once and for all, he can truly start to move on from the horrifying ordeal … as much as he can, at least, as the people who attacked him await their own trials.
"I think for them to be allowed to come here and protest is really crazy. How do you expect the KKK to come to your city to protest, and them not be violent? I understand everyone is entitled to their freedom of speech, but the government and the mayor made a bad business move. It's only caused havoc in your own city. It's crazier that people have the hatred in their heart to want to kill black people," Harris told The Root's Yesha Callahan in an interview after his attack.
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In 1909 after proving the practicality of aviation to the U.S. Army, Wilbur Wright trained the first generation of military aviators at a new airfield in what would come to be known as College Park. The College Park Airport has been home to a century of aviation history, and still operates today, making it the oldest continually operated airport in the world. It is home to many "firsts" in aviation, and is particularly significant for the well-known aviators and aviation inventors who played a part in this field's long history.
Founding of the College Park Airport
After four years of courting, negotiating, building, and testing, the U.S. Army agreed to purchase a Wright aeroplane in August 1909. An addition to selling the machine, the Wrights also had to train 2 U.S. Army officers to fly it.
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The Post Office Department initiated regular U.S. Air Mail Service from College Park Airfield to New York City on August 12, 1918. This 218-mile route was the first step in establishing a transcontinental route by air.
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Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (* 24. März 1937 in Barbados) ist ein Politiker aus Barbados.

Biografie
Sandiford, Mitglied der Democratic Labour Party (DLP), wurde 1966 Persönlicher Assistent von Premierminister Errol Walton Barrow.

Seine eigene politische Laufbahn begann er 1967, als er zum Senator ernannt wurde. Noch im gleichen Jahr berief ihn Barrow als Minister für Erziehung und Gemeindeentwicklung ins Kabinett. Im Rahmen einer Kabinettsumbildung wurde er dann 1975 Minister für Gesundheit und Wohlfahrt. Als die DLP bei den Parlamentswahlen die Regierungsmehrheit gegen die Barbados Labour Party (BLP) unter John Michael G. Adams verlor, konnte auch er sein Mandat nur knapp mit 12 Stimmen Vorsprung verteidigen.

In den folgenden Jahren der Opposition war er von 1976 bis 1986 Barrows Stellvertreter als Oppositionsführer (Deputy Leader of Opposition). Bei den Parlamentswahlen von 1981 konnte er den Stimmenvorsprung in seinem Wahlkreis wieder ausbauen und wurde wieder zum Mitglied des Versammlungshauses (House of Assembly) gewählt.

1983 kam es zu Differenzen zwischen ihm und Barrow: Sandiford sagte als stellvertretender Oppositionsführer während der Abwesenheit Barrows der Regierung unter Adams die Unterstützung zur US-Invasion in Grenada zu, die von Barrow vehement abgelehnt wurde.

Nach dem großen Wahlerfolg der DLP bei den allgemeinen Wahlen vom Mai 1986 wurde er von Premierminister Barrow am 29. Mai 1986 zum Stellvertretenden Premierminister berufen und dadurch anderen Anwärter wie Branford Taitt und Richie Haynes vorgezogen.

Der plötzliche Tod von Errol Barrow am 1. Juni 1987 führte dazu, dass er am folgenden Tag kraft Amtes dessen Nachfolger als Premierminister wurde. Im September 1987 wurde Sandifords Führungsstil von Haynes kritisiert, der von seinem Amt als Finanzminister zurücktrat, nachdem er dem Premierminister vorwarf ihn nicht bei Ernennungen von leitenden Finanzbeamten und in anderen Angelegenheiten konsultiert zu haben. Sandiford übernahm darauf hin selbst das Amt des Finanzministers neben dem bisher von Barrow 1986 geschaffenen und geleiteten Ministerium für Wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten. Er sicherte eine Fortführung der Politik Barrows zu, allerdings war sein Regierungsstil wesentlich technokratischer ausgerichtet als der seines Vorgängers. Trotzdem gelang es ihm die DLP zum Sieg bei den Parlamentswahlen von 1991 zu führen.

Im Juli 1994 trat er als Vorsitzender der DLP zurück und wurde von David Thompson abgelöst. Als seine Partei jedoch die Wahlen im September 1994 verlor, wurde Owen Arthur, der Vorsitzende der BLP, am 7. September 1994 neuer Premierminister.

Für seine politischen Verdienste wurde er als Knight of St Andrew des Order of Barbados im Jahr 2000 in den persönlichen Adelsstand erhoben und durfte fortan den Namenszusatz Sir führen.

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When you make a charitable donation, it's because you want that money to go to, well, charity — not buying a new car for the head of the foundation. But some charities are better than others at putting your money to good use, which is why it's a good idea to evaluate charities before you give.
All non-profits have to register with the IRS and provide annual financial information on a Form 990, which should be available for download from the organization's website, along with its annual report. This information will also give you some insight into how each charity is spending its resources.
Luckily, you don't have to do this on your own. There are a number of websites designed to help you.
The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance accredits charities based on 20 standards.
Charity Navigator rates charities based on financial health, accountability and transparency.
CharityWatch also publishes ratings as well as news stories and analyst's notes about the charities it evaluates.
Generally speaking, CharityWatch considers a charity to be "highly efficient" when it spends at least 75 percent of its budget on charitable programs.
What exactly should you be looking for? If you're like most people, you simply want to know that the money you donate will be will be used to support the organization's mission rather than cover excessive administrative costs or CEO extravagances.
Reputable charities usually provide a percentage breakdown of how much goes to actual programs compared to other costs. But the numbers can sometimes be misleading. When a charity says, "90 percent of every dollar donated goes to programs," that doesn't necessarily mean that 90 percent of its budget is spent on the cause and just 10 percent is spent on overhead costs and fundraising. If the charity generates income in addition to donations (from investments, for example, or from in-kind donations) cash donations may represent just a fraction of its annual revenue. To get a truer picture, look for wording like, "90 percent of every dollar spent goes to programs." Generally speaking, CharityWatch considers a charity to be "highly efficient" when it spends at least 75 percent of its budget on charitable programs (and less than 25 percent on overhead expenses and fundraising).


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Donald Trump speaking at a primary night news conference in Palm Beach, Fla., March 15, 2016.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Has Donald Trump's time come, and will Jewish political conservatives embrace him?
Trump, the real estate magnate and front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, rolled closer to victory on Tuesday with wins in at least three primary states. His strong showing, earning 161 delegates or more depending on the final tally in Missouri, brought his delegate tally to 621, halfway to the 1,237 he needs to secure the nomination.
The question for Jewish political conservatives is whether to hold their noses and embrace him.
With Sen. Marco Rubio's departure from the race after losing decisively in his home state of Florida, the alternatives for Jewish conservatives are narrowing: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who remained locked in a dead heat with Trump in Missouri as of Wednesday morning, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who won his home state.
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Both men still face a daunting challenge in overcoming Trump. But cable news pundits theorized Tuesday night that Kasich's victory, along with the delegates Cruz already accrued having won seven states so far, could keep Trump from winning the majority of delegates and bring the party to a brokered convention in July.
Trump's rise has appalled the Republican establishment, and even more so its Jewish contingent, many of whom have openly rejected his Trump's candidacy. They have reeled both at his insistence that he would remain neutral on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking and his rhetoric targeting Muslims and Mexicans.
The "Jews are next" thought that haunts the Jewish psyche every time minorities are targeted seemed to bear out the day before the primaries, when a Trump surrogate, Pastor Mark Burns, mocked Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Jewish Vermonter vying for the Democratic nomination.
"Bernie Sanders, who doesn't believe in God, how in the world are we gonna let Bernie … really?" Burns told a crowd in Hickory, North Carolina. "He gotta meet Jesus, he gotta have a coming to Jesus meeting."
Sanders is not known to be an atheist. The Anti-Defamation League called the remarks "offensive, erroneous, and exclusionary."
Rubio, who had emerged as the favorite of Jewish foreign policy hawks, could not bring himself to mention Trump's name in his concession speech Tuesday night, delivering a plea for a party "built on principles and ideas, not on anger, not on preying on people's frustrations."
Trump in his victory speech congratulated Rubio, whom he had derided as "Little Marco" for much of the campaign, for having fought hard and predicted a "great future" for him.
Speaking from his palatial home in South Florida, Trump took aim at the Obama administration's trade policies and the Iran nuclear deal, saying it had released $150 billion in Iranian frozen assets for "nothing." (The figure is closer to $100 billion.) He wound up his speech by calling the reporters present "disgusting," eliciting laughter from his supporters.
There are signs that Trump may be getting a grudging second look from Republican Jews dedicated to the proposition of keeping a Democrat out of the White House. Israel Hayom, the Israeli newspaper owned by Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate and kingmaker in GOP politics, plastered its Wednesday front page with a photo of Trump and the headline "Within Reach." The newspaper is known to generally reflect Adelson's political preferences in Israel and the United States.
Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York mayor who was an early Jewish establishment favorite during his failed 2008 presidential campaign, had told the newspaper the day before that Trump was all but inevitable as a candidate.
"They're all going to get behind Donald Trump," Giuliani said. "Here's one thing we're united about – we do not want Hillary Clinton as president of the United States."
Adelson has yet to declare his support for a candidate, although for a period he was said to be wavering between Cruz and Rubio. The Israeli political blogger Tal Schneider reported that at an event honoring Giuliani two weeks ago in Las Vegas, Adelson replied "Why not?" when asked if he would support Trump, and praised Trump's success as a businessman.
Clinton, with her own decisive string of victories on Tuesday, also took a clear step toward securing the Democratic nomination. With 1,094 delegates to Sanders' 774, catching up looks to be more difficult than ever for Sanders, who had hoped to repeat his surprise victory last week in Michigan and forge a path to to the nomination through the Midwestern states.
Clinton's wins in Ohio, Illinois, Florida and North Carolina dashed those hopes. Factoring in superdelegates — party officials who have promised to back her — Clinton now has 1,561 delegates of the 2,383 total delegates necessary to secure the nomination. Clinton and Sanders remained in a close race in Missouri as of Wednesday morning.
"We are moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and winning this election in November," Clinton said at her victory party Tuesday night in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Clinton praised Sanders for his "vigorous" campaign, but her remarks made clear she is training her sights on Trump, citing some of Trump's more controversial positions, including the use of torture against prisoners of war and barring Muslims from entering the country.
"That doesn't make him strong — it makes him wrong," Clinton said. "To be great we can't be small."


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Something that can surprise people when they file for bankruptcy is what is called a fraudulent conveyance. While the term "fraudulent conveyance" can sound almost criminal, but it is nothing of the sort. It refers to something a person may have done in the years before filing for bankruptcy that because of how the law is written can cause problems now.
The theory behind fraudulent conveyance law is that when a creditor loans you money, the creditor is looking at your complete picture, seeing what you earn, what you own and what your past credit history is. The bank may give you a regular loan thinking that you own a house and if the worst happens, they can always put a lien on your house. While this may have been true many, many years ago when a bank was a local business and the local bankers knew the people in their community, these days it is a complete fiction. Banks loan money based on your past performance with them and based on your credit score. The fact that you own something, like a house or a car, usually means nothing in their decision whether or not to loan you money.
The law on fraudulent conveyance was written in the old days, and never changed. The idea was that if a loan was made to you based on the banker's knowledge that you owned a house, a car or something else, it was unfair to the bank for you to give that asset away. Thus, if you transferred your house to your children, or gave you car away to a relative, it was considered a fraudulent conveyance if you did not get full value in return. If the bank then had to sue you for the loan, it could have a court reverse the transfer so that it had that asset back in your name and could put a lien on it.
A common scenario for making a fraudulent conveyance is when someone is opening a new business, or sees their present business having difficulties, and transfers their house to their spouse. Another common way this comes up is where family members change who is on the deed to a house.
For the conveyance to be considered fraudulent, though, the person making the transfer had to be either insolvent when the transfer was made, or the transfer had to make the person insolvent. Insolvency in this case means either that one's liabilities exceed one's assets, or that one cannot pay their regular bills as they become due. Thus, if someone whose assets total $100,000 and who has $50,000 in debts gives away a $20,000 car, it is not a fraudulent conveyance, but if their debts were $100,000, it would be.
A fraudulent conveyance, in New York, matters only for six years. If the transfer was made over six years ago, it cannot be reversed.
The way this typically comes up in a bankruptcy case is that someone was on a deed to a family house and at some point in the past six years had their name taken off of the deed. They then file for bankruptcy and the trustee learns that at some point in the past 6 years they were on the deed of a house. The trustee then has the power to reverse that transfer, have the house put back in the debtor's name and sell that interest for the benefit of the creditors.
It also often happens that someone has the income to support a house but their credit is not good enough, so a relative co-signs the mortgage note or even buys the house in their name, never intending to really own the house or live there. Then, after the closing, they sign a deed to transfer the house to the "real" owners. If the co-signing relative files for bankruptcy within six years, even though they never really "owned" the house or put any money into it, this can been seen as a fraudulent conveyance.
This is why we ask our clients not only whether they own any real property now, but ask them if they ever owned any real property. We also ask if they have every taken their name off of anything, every had their name on someone else's property, and so on. We ask the question in several ways because clients often never really considered themselves to be actual owners of the property. We do not want there to be any surprises in their bankruptcy.
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Q: Excel line plotted graph changes when horizontal axis is changed to Date I have always experienced a frustrating problem when plotting line graphs. The plotted lines are smooth as they should be, but I would still need to tweak the horizontal axis to Date in order to show the days/months correctly.
But, when I format the horizontal axis to "Date Axis", the plotted line in the graph becomes jittery and rugged. (The lines becomes smooth again when I format the horizontal axis to "Text Axis" though this would, in turn, mess the day/date display).
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As someone who started his career in newspaper, former MSU vice president Keith Kappes (70, 73) swore he would get back into the journalism business in some fashion. When he went from being a hard news reporter to a columnist, he had his motivations.
"I felt for a longtime that everybody was entitled to my opinion," he joked.
Now, Kappes has a collection of columns titled "The View From My Keyboard," which was published this February through the Jesse Stuart Foundation Inc. In addition to being available for purchase at Amazon and other outlets, he will have a book-signing event and reading of his work from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at CoffeeTree Books in Morehead.
A native of Carter County and resident of Morehead, Kappes spent much of his college career as a reporter. He wrote for the The Daily Independent in Ashland, the Ironton Tribune in Ironton, Ohio, and The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, West Virginia, and later served as an Associated Press reporter in Ohio.
After attending both Ashland Community College in Ashland and Marshall University in Huntington, Kappes transferred to MSU in 1969 and took a job with the campus news bureau while earning a bachelor's degree in journalism a year later. He furthered his education at MSU by earning a master's degree in higher education administration in 1973.
Kappes held 13 different titles with MSU over 40 years and spent two decades as the vice president of university relations.
Upon his retirement in 2008, Kappes became the publisher of The Morehead News, the Grayson Journal-Enquirer and the Olive Hill Times, for which he also served as a regular newspaper columnist. He has won national and statewide awards for excellence in personal commentary. Even after he retired from full-time employment in 2016, he continued to write editorials and his personal column for another three years.
For "The View From My Keyboard," Kappes selected 125 personal columns that received the most reader feedback from approximately 450 he has written over the years. He said the collection is "a smorgasbord of life lessons" broken up into categories like family, humor and military life. In his columns, he touches on everything from his time teaching classes to prison inmates to the time his grandson attempted to name his newest pet frog.
Kappes said some of his columns come from a personal place while others were thrown together to meet a pressing deadline. Regardless of how they materialized, he was consistently surprised about how his words managed to inspire action, change minds and touch hearts for appreciative readers in Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia.
Morehead State University's Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) recently implemented a new project to bring awareness and recognition to its volunteers and their Kentucky roots.
Kentucky SMP worked with Louisville-based mural artists Often Seen Rarely Spoken (OSRS) to bring together these images and create a series or murals across Kentucky.
Morehead State University's esteemed music program will welcome a successful professional musician to share his musical experience, knowledge and talent with students and the community.
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Working in partnership with Medic Mobile, Living Goods created the Smart Health app that uses a basic clinical decision support system (CDSS) to ensure consistent and accurate diagnoses and smart workflows for pregnancy care, childhood diseases, nutrition, family planning, and immunization tracking. The app also allows CHWs to collect data that is compatible and integrated with government District Health Information Software 2, an open-source software platform for reporting, analysis, and dissemination of data for many national health programs that support decision-making for better and more targeted service delivery.
Often, a lack of accountability impedes effective health delivery. The vast majority of health data in Africa is still collected on paper in a process that is both slow and notoriously unreliable. In contrast, our mobile tools digitally capture a mobile number and GPS location for every patient visit and provide supervisors with dashboards that show the performance of every health worker against targets in real-time, advancing performance management in distant villages from an era of bicycle-powered delivery of health data to lightspeed dissemination. This system also eliminates labor-intensive, costly, and inaccurate paper-based data entry while exponentially increasing the scope of data available to improve performance.
Digital technology is integral to our vision for effective community health and we can only reach the scale we seek through partnerships—particularly with governments. Consequently, while Living Goods will continue using Smart Health in our direct operations in Uganda and Kenya, we are building up our internal capacity to support governments and partners that choose to use any robust mHealth application that supports the effective and sustainable delivery of community health services. We are focused on continuing to develop easily customizable technologies that can be integrated with existing systems and support timely and informed decision-making.
Introducing the Maturity Model, a digital tool strengthening community-level digital health programs
In collaboration with HealthEnabled, Ministries of Health and other stakeholders, Living Goods has co-designed a digital health maturity model to help governments and other community health implementers grow effective digital health programs for the community level. The model evaluates three domains:
Policy, funding & technical Infrastructure
Existing health technologies, positioning health systems on a maturity level based on a 5-staged continuum scale.
Through the use of this model and the tool kit ("how-to-guide"), programs are able to identify areas of priority that inform strategy development, investment cases and a structured pathway to implementing a scalable sustainable digital health program for community health.
Read the Toolkit!
Automated Diagnosis for Childhood Diseases:
Our app's simple algorithm enables reliable diagnoses of malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia.
Using the World Health Organization (WHO) standards, the Smart Health app's simple algorithm enables reliable diagnoses of malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia. It incorporates a breath timer and also helps to triage the severity of an illness that may trigger a health facility referral. The app sends automated texts to parents each day to reinforce adherence to treatment protocols. For cases in which the app refers a patient to a facility, the CHW gets a follow-up reminder to ensure that the patient was seen and treated. CHWs must also log and clear follow-ups, ensuring the full cycle of care is complete. Learn More about the health issues we help address.
Real-Time, Tech-Enabled Performance Management:
Comprehensive monitoring and supervision of CHWs is an essential component of effective community health programs. Because the app immediately captures every patient touchpoint—providing names, mobile numbers, GPS locations, and timestamps—any manager or government official can see CHW or regional metrics plotted against targets in real-time. User-friendly dashboards automatically flag low- and high-performing CHWs and regions. Learn More about our approach to performance management.
Check out a basic overview of how the Smart Health app works
Data-Driven Task Lists – Optimizing CHW Performance and Supervision
Often, data travels a one-way route that is fine for generating reports, but doesn't actually drive performance. At Living Goods, we use data to improve performance every single day: We call this "Data to Action." The Living Goods system uses live patient data to create "Daily Data-Driven Task Lists" for CHWs that help them optimize their time with those patients at the highest risk. To improve supervisors' performance, simple algorithms turn real-time data into daily action lists for them such as CHWs falling short of targets, field offices low on stock, or missed follow-ups on acute cases. Some of the uses of our tools include:
Pregnancy Registration, Triage, and Reminders: Our mobile tools also enable CHWs to register pregnant mothers and assess risk factors to triage cases in need of immediate referral or follow up. CHWs get daily task lists to follow up with mothers, tailored to each pregnancy's risk profile. This allows personalization of care and ensures each mother receives an appropriate number of visits. The system sends stage-based text messages to remind mothers what to do each week to stay healthy.
Community health workers can easily register new pregnancies and receive tips and information on necessary follow-ups.
Family-Planning Tool: The Smart Health app captures the family-planning status of every woman of reproductive age and facilitates a guided discussion for counseling. The app helps guide personalized referrals for long-term options, sends automated refill reminders for short-term methods, and tracks referrals to family-planning clinics.
Immunization Targeting Tool: With support from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiatives (Gavi), Living Goods created a tool to help CHWs pinpoint under-immunized children. Both CHWs and parents will receive reminders until the child is up-to-date on all immunizations.
Facility Referral Linkage: With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Living Goods is testing a tablet-based system at local health facilities that link to the Smart Health app, alerting facilities about incoming high-risk referrals. These facilities can then digitally notify the referring CHW when their patient received care and how best to follow up.
Predictive Analytics: Using the vast collection of patient-level data and outcomes, Living Goods develops tools that accurately identify individuals at the highest risk of health problems who can then receive priority care. In certain cases, our algorithms can predict with 80 percent accuracy which pregnancies are likely to lead to a low-birth-weight baby.
Health Census/Electronic Medical Records: For the first time, health systems can take advantage of the power of patient-level data at the community level. Living Goods-supported CHWs register household members, including their basic demographics, to track and manage the equity in service provision across populations with different socioeconomic backgrounds. In the process of treating sick children and supporting pregnancies, the system creates a simple longitudinal medical record for each family.
Works Anywhere: In areas that lack stable mobile coverage, we can employ Bluetooth handoffs to upload data whenever supervisors visit their CHWs.
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Exclusive: YouTube pays video creator more than $1M for loyalty
YouTube's most popular video creators are so vital to the service's success that it is paying them for their loyalty.
Facing growing competition from Facebook and other rivals, YouTube has paid more than $1 million to one group that creates widely viewed videos and has promised to remain active on its platform, The Chronicle has learned. Similar payments to other high-profile contributors have been discussed, according to sources who weren't authorized to speak publicly about the deals.
"When you have this creative community, everybody's going to need to work extra hard to retain the talent," said Paul Verna, a senior analyst at research firm eMarketer. "YouTube is no exception."
YouTube declined to comment on the seven-figure pay-out, but said it has supported video creators for years through efforts like marketing, funding and training. "We will continue to recognize and value the creativity of our top talent," the company said.
The deals aren't going to ordinary YouTube users, or even those who have posted one or two widely viewed videos. Instead, YouTube is trying to negotiate deals with producers who create TV-quality content and have large fan bases, consistently drawing more than 50,000 views per video.
With big audiences comes substantial ad revenue.
YouTube controls a 20 percent share of revenues this year in the $7.8 billion U.S. digital video ad market, according to research firm eMarketer. But as its rivals gain more momentum, YouTube, which was acquired by Google in 2006 in a $1.65 billion stock deal, could be in danger of losing its dominance.
"There is a lot more pressure now to continue to validate its place in the video ecosystem, which is getting more and more crowded," Verna said.
The biggest potential competitor could be Facebook, which sees its future in video.
Once a hub for text status updates, the world's biggest social network racks up an average of more than 3 billion video views per day, with more than half of U.S. users watching at least one video when they log onto the social network.
Much like YouTube, which is trying to attract new viewers by showcasing movies alongside its mountains of user-generated content, Facebook has also worked to land professionally produced videos, including Twilight-related films. Recently, political news group the Young Turks, which has a large presence on YouTube, began a Facebook show called "Final Judgment."
For video creators, Facebook has some advantages over YouTube. Users treat YouTube almost like a library — they search for keywords, or specific videos. For a video to find a big audience, it either needs to come from an established creator with a fan base, or be shared on other outlets, such as news sites, blogs or social media.
Nearly 1.4 billion people log onto Facebook each month, and when they're there, they watch — and share — most anything their friends post. That helps many videos uploaded to the social network outpace YouTube videos in views in the hours immediately after posting, several video creators said.
"It's Facebook, more than anybody, who could give YouTube a run for their money," said Eugene Lee, co-founder of ChannelMeter, a digital video analytics firm.
Though Facebook is an effective means of attracting viewers, it so far hasn't provided a way for video creators to make money. The social network does not run ads before videos, nor does it share ad revenue with those who upload videos. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, told investors last month that the social network hasn't figured out what form of payment it might offer.
YouTube makes money from the commercials that play before videos. It offers all users who upload videos a chance to share in ad revenue, generally steering 55 percent of ad sales to the person or group who uploaded the video.
One upstart competitor is trying to court YouTube stars by offering more. San Francisco video site Vessel, which has raised $77 million in venture capital, provides greater financial incentives — generally 70 percent of advertising revenue and a cut of monthly $2.99 subscriptions — to YouTube creators who post videos exclusively on Vessel for 72 hours.
YouTube stars Connor Franta and Arden Ricks, both popular vloggers, and Jack Vale, who posts pranks captured on hidden cameras, are among those who have joined Vessel.
Different audiences
Steve Raymond, CEO of Big Frame, a talent management agency that represents Franta, Vale and Ricks, said creators reach different audiences on multiple devices by putting their videos on many sites.
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Vessel remains a small player. Steve Oh, the Young Turks' chief operating officer, said putting exclusive content on Vessel for three days before YouTube is "crazy talk."
"We would lose so many viewers that doesn't make sense," Oh said.
But Oh doesn't oppose uploading videos to multiple sites. Even though the Young Turks' "Final Judgment" show — based on the day's biggest news story — is created with Facebook in mind, the group posts it on YouTube simultaneously.
For the Young Turks, Facebook generates attention and drives traffic to YouTube, where the group earns ad revenue, Oh said.
"Our strategy is to grow large on YouTube and large on Facebook," Oh said. "In this new world of digital video, that's how it works."
Still, YouTube remains dominant ("YouTube is king," said Young Turks host Cenk Uygur).
But with mounting competition, it's smart for YouTube to start paying a retainer to its most popular users, analysts said.
"It would be foolish for them to rest on their laurels," said Will Richmond, publisher of industry analysis site VideoNuze.
Wendy Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: wlee@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @thewendylee
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Wendy Lee covers Yahoo, Google and Apple for The Chronicle's tech desk. Previously, she worked at NPR-affiliate 89.3 FM KPCC in Pasadena, Star Tribune in Minneapolis and The Tennessean in Nashville.
Lee grew up in the Bay Area. She won The Chronicle's high school scholarship in 2001 and landed a summer job as a copyperson at the paper, delivering mail, answering phones and writing news briefs. Lee graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in history and wrote for campus newspaper The Daily Californian.
She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and a preliminary judge for The Gerald Loeb Awards.


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The simplest system of modal logic (K stands for Kripke).
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This study addresses gender inequity in college sports and in sports in general. An account of women's history in sport and research literature from the 1960's to the present, indicate that resistance to the male control of sport, have occurred. As well, there have been changes in many areas of sport. However, sport is still very much a male dominated institution. An exploratory study of female athletes at a private college in Montreal is presented with the intention of discovering whether college sports are as inequitable as sports in general; if the research reflects the situation of female college athletes; and if these athletes have any suggestions for changes. Finally, it is argued that a strategy to generate change at the college level would be to develop a sports feminist course based on critical and feminist pedagogy.


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Foster + Partners withdraws from Architects Declare over aviation dispute
By Alexander Walter
Dec 2, '20 1:15 PM EST
One of the UK's most famous architects has withdrawn from an environmental coalition in a dispute about the destructive role of aviation in the escalating climate crisis. [...]
The decision follows a row over Foster and Partners' work on airports around the world – seen by critics as incompatible with tackling the climate and ecological emergency. — The Guardian
Airport designs have been key projects in Foster + Partners' portfolio for years, with prominent recent commissions and competition entries in Saudi Arabia, Marseille, Chicago, Mexico City, and Beijing. Following Foster's decision to withdraw from his initial commitment, Architects Declare issued...	View full entry
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'Enthralling gateway to its city:' Blair Kamin on Foster + Partners-led O'Hare expansion proposal
Jan 30, '19 3:14 PM EST
Chances for architectural greatness are rare. When they come around, we best grab them. Such is the opportunity Chicago has before it with one of the five plans for a new global terminal at O'Hare International Airport. — Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune architecture critic, Blair Kamin, comes out in clear support of the Norman Foster-led finalist entry to the $8.5B Chicago O'Hare 21 Terminal Expansion competition: "That plan, from a team led by London-based Foster + Partners architects, promises to be everything an airport...	View full entry
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Foster + Partners-designed Tulip tower may impact London's air traffic control systems
Gondalas designed to move up and down the top of the Tulip tower are at risk of confusing air traffic control systems, according to technical experts at London City airport.
Construction on the 305-metre (1,000ft) tower must not go ahead until an assessment has been carried out into its potential impact on radar systems at the airport six miles to the east, officials told the authority considering whether to grant planning permission. — The Guardian
After its big reveal in November, planning for the 1,000-foot-tall The Tulip observation tower by Foster + Partners has been halted by officials to study the impact the attraction's moving glass spheres high up in the sky will have on radar systems at the nearby London City airport, pointing out...	View full entry
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Foster, Calatrava, Gang, SOM among teams shortlisted for $8.5B Chicago O'Hare airport expansion
Nov 9, '18 3:01 PM EST
After receiving bids from twelve groups that included some of the planet's top architectural talent, Chicago has narrowed its search down to five teams hoping to design a $8.5 billion terminal expansion of O'Hare International Airport. — Curbed Chicago
The list of five finalist teams includes some of the big-name bidders that responded to Chicago's O'Hare 21 Terminal Expansion Project RFP back in September: Fentress-EXP-Brook-Garza Joint Venture Partners Foster Epstein Moreno JV Joint Venture Partners Santiago Calatrava LLC Skidmore, Owings...	View full entry
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Architects bidding for Chicago O'Hare airport expansion includes BIG, Calatrava, SOM, Fuksas
Sep 24, '18 2:12 PM EST
The architect of the unbuilt Chicago Spire is among the designers vying for the massive O'Hare International Airport expansion project.
The Zurich-based firm of Santiago Calatrava, whose projects include an airport in Bilbao, Spain, and the over-budget World Trade Center transportation center in New York, was one of 12 teams that responded to the city's Thursday deadline to submit qualifications for the $8.7 billion expansion [...]. — Chicago Tribune
According to the Chicago Tribune, the list of teams bidding for the $8.7 billion Chicago O'Hare International Airport expansion includes big-name firms such as SOM, Perkins+Will, Bjarke Ingels Group, Santiago Calatrava, Gensler, HOK, Fentress Architects, JAHN, Epstein, and Studio Fuksas.	View full entry
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Chicago city council approves $8.5 billion O'Hare airport expansion
Chicago's City Council on Wednesday approved a multibillion-dollar expansion plan for O'Hare International Airport, after an earlier dispute between the airport's two largest carriers had previously threatened to snarl the project. — Reuters
"The city of Chicago entered into an agreement with carriers United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Spirit Airlines for airport renovations that include expanding the airport's existing terminals and increasing the number and availability of some gates," Reuters reports.	View full entry
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FAA restricts drones over ten major U.S. landmarks, including St. Louis Gateway Arch, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore
Oct 2, '17 2:14 PM EST
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new regulation restricting unauthorized drone operations over 10 Department of Interior sites, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. [...]
The announcement says the action comes at "the request of U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies." — NPR
These new FAA restrictions will be effective as of October 5 so make sure to keep your drones at least 400 feet away from these ten National Landmarks: Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York, NYBoston National Historical Park (U.S.S. Constitution), Boston, MAIndependence National Historical...	View full entry
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Third runway at Heathrow gets the go-ahead
By Ellen Hancock
Oct 25, '16 12:30 PM EST
Ministers approved the long-awaited decision at a cabinet committee meeting on Tuesday.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling called the decision "truly momentous" and said expansion would improve the UK's connections with the rest of the world and support trade and jobs.
Although Heathrow has always been the favourite among businesses, it has attracted the most opposition from MPs with constituencies near the airport or under flight paths. — bbc.co.uk
The expansion which had been publicly opposed by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Tory MP for Richmond Park, Zac Goldsmith and Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson has been widely debated for years.Funded with private sector cash the new runway will cost £17.6 billion but provide 260,000 more flights...	View full entry
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I wrote this piece when we lived in a little house on a hill in a West Los Angeles neighborhood. On a clear day we could see the Hollywood sign from our backyard; from the front yard, if you craned your neck 50 feet to the west, you might see the ocean. It's a true story, an Easter story, about an old couple who lived next door, and their undying love.