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Erie's 40 Under 40
Congratulations to our very own Mercyhurst alumni and friends who were honored with Erie's 40 Under 40 this week!
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Jo Theisen
Jo Theisen has been dancing practically all her life — from kindergarten to Mercyhurst University (as a dual major in Dance and World Languages and Cultures) all the way to the court of law. The balance, grace, and coordination she's derived from ballet and modern dance have also served her well as a family law practitioner. She earned her law degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (while also performing professionally with the Ballet Theatre of Ohio) before returning to Erie to work with a mid-sized firm and ultimately establishing her own practice with partner Andrea Amicangelo in 2017. Says Amicangelo: "Jo is an excellent example of an accomplished woman who balances both the creative and professional worlds in her life. I believe this makes her a more open, insightful forward-thinking, yet disciplined individual."
The Board President of the Erie Contemporary Ballet Theatre and Board Co-President of the Erie Dance Consortium is equally adept at choreographing routines (one of which was selected for the Regional Dance America Northeast Festival in Manchester, N.H. this spring) and resolutions between families embroiled in difficult legal conflicts as a mediator and collaborative practitioner. Theisen serves on the board of directors for the Erie County Bar Association, including as vice-chair of the ECBA Family Law Section. She is also involved with the Erie Women's Fund and ATHENA Circle of Trust. Her objectives for a better Erie include providing "people with a healthier way to resolve their family law issues by offering individualized out-of-court resolution services" and "uniting and strengthening the dance scene in Erie." Nominators agree that Theisen is going through the motions the right way.
Jennifer Dennehy
You probably know Jennifer Dennehy. She's the one with the hula-hoops, encouraging your kids and your friends' kids (and sometimes you!) to get your body moving at any one of Erie's arts and culture events throughout the year. What you may not know is that those hula-hoops are representative of a much greater repertoire of dance and service to the community. She's developed dance programs for early learners at St. Martin Center for nearly six years, she teaches in the Partners in Dance Program, a collaborative effort between Dafmark Dance and Erie Homes for Children and Adults, and this spring she launched a dance program for people with Parkinson's Disease. These are just a few of the reasons why she was the 2015 recipient of the Bruce Morton Wright Artist of the Year Award from Erie Arts and Culture. Dennehy is a native of North Tonawanda, N.Y., and she's studied psychology at Mercyhurst University and creative dance at Luna Dance Institute in Berkeley, Calif.
Bakul Gokhale
If you've been attending any of the growing number of multicultural events in Erie recently, chances are that Bakul Gokhale has played a part in organizing one of them.
At the Erie Art Museum's recent Taste of Asia festival, she offered dosas, curries, and chutneys from her native India to raise money for the Erie Asian American Pacific Association, where she serves as vice president. In late May, she helped organize the biennial Asian Festival at Rainbow Gardens. The event featured performances of Indian classical dance, cuisines from various Asian nations, and display booths highlighting the cultures of our immigrant communities. Gokhale has also helps organize the Multicultural Asia Day at the ExpERIEnce Children's Museum and recently piloted a series of cultural evenings for our young people at places like the Asbury School.
Professionally, Gokhale became a Project manager at Erie Insurance in 2017. She holds two master's degrees — one in human resources from Mercyhurst University, and one in tourism and hospitality from India's Garware College of Commerce. She was nominated for this list because she has been "instrumental in bringing new events and strategies" to our region, while partnering our immigrant and minority communities with "various schools in the area to encourage the children to recognize and accept our diverse community."
Caitlin Handerhan
You could say Caitlin Handerhan is good at wearing many different — and at times multiple — hats. Whether it's a literal riding helmet — this 27-year-old Mercer native often can be found riding horses and training herself for a 5K run or half marathons when she isn't at the office — or a figurative cranial adornment, Handerhan carries each with passion and poise.
As the Executive Director of the Public Policy Fund at Penn State Behrend, Handerhan, who earned her Master of Public Administration degree from Cornell University in 2015, teaches political science classes, such as Media & Politics; organizes policy-related events, such as panel discussions and debates; and oversees many other things, such as students' political science internships and a grant program that sponsors research on pressing issues facing Erie. She has also taken point on the Council of Academic Advisors, and if that wasn't enough she'll begin serving as the managing editor of the soon-to-be-launched Behrend Policy Review.
Off campus, she serves as a board member of Emerge PA, an organization that helps train women to run for office.
Prior to the classroom, she spent time on the campaign trail, serving as the campaign manager for Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper's successful 2017 re-election bid.
"I hope to contribute research and interdisciplinary perspectives to the policy discussions driving Erie's resurgence," Handerhan says. "This is a place that I have chosen to make my home, and I want as many people as possible to see all of the great things that Erie has to offer."
Katie Huba
Since assuming directorship of the Opportunities for Academic Success in Inclusive Settings (OASIS) Program in 2017, Katie Huba has had little trouble fitting in with its mission — to assist students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to fit into both the classroom and society at large. The OASIS Program was instituted in 2007 to nurture basic academic and social skills, as well as the hard and soft skills essential to obtaining gainful employment. Specifically, OASIS offers proficiency-based certificates in the culinary arts, hospitality, business, and early childhood. Huba has been a passionate advocate for special education since the age of 12.
Huba, a graduate of Penn Hills Senior High School and Edinboro University, received a Master's of Science in Applied Behavioral Analysis from Mercyhurst University last year and has swiftly put that degree to use, growing the program significantly within her short time at the helm. "Expanding the OASIS Program … will increase not only our employment rate in the area, but also provide voices to the population within our community that are often not heard. Since my involvement with the program began, I have met many professionals, families, and students in the area who were unaware of the program and what it can possibly help to do." With Huba's recognition here, hopefully all of Erie will soon be in on the loop.
Kristin Bowers
Kristin Bowers serves as one of Erie's prime connections with county government, with colleagues citing her professionalism and commitment to building a better government. Since the summer of 2016, she has handled communications for departments across our county's government, focusing on things like public relations, social media, and a soon-to-be-unveiled new design for the Erie County website. Bowers claims that her "overarching goal is to help connect the residents of Erie County with the services and programs that are available to them through their county government."
Prior to working for the County, Bowers was a seasoned journalist, designer, and copy editor for the Erie Times-News. She still maintains her connections to journalism by serving as an adviser to The Merciad — Mercyhurst University's student newspaper. Her way with words has been crucial to her work as Public Information Officer, which helped the DuBois native to deepen her roots in Erie. With local connections in mind, she also completed the Jefferson Educational Society's Civic Leadership Academy in 2017. "As someone who wasn't raised here but who chose to make a life in Erie, I can clearly see the many advantages that sometimes get overshadowed by naysayers," says Bowers.
Tyler G. Travis
A champion of healthy living, Tyler Travis oversees a key part of one of our region's largest players — the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. The John M. and Silvia Ferretti LECOM Health and Wellness Center serves as a community conduit, offering world-class facilities, and at the heart of it you can find Travis, the center's director. "As a community," Travis explained, "we can eliminate many diseases such as diabetes and heart disease by moving more, sitting less, and eating sensibly." The 82,000 square foot building is open to the public, and features a full gym, swimming pools, basketball and racquetball courts, as well as classes and health screenings. A graduate of Penn State Behrend and Minnesota State-Mankato, Travis holds certifications from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and USA Weightlifting. His commitment to staying active rings true even after work — he's also a strength and conditioning coach for Mercyhurst Hockey, an affiliate instructor for the American College of Sports Medicine, and Volunteer Chair for the 2018 American Heart Association Heart Walk. Travis' charming positivity truly shines through from the moment you meet him. He reasons simply that "when it comes to improving health and well-being, it doesn't have to be complex."


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TAIPEI A planned expansion of the biggest city in the once all but uninhabitable South China Sea will strengthen China's control over the waterway, despite rival claims by five governments.
The city of Sansha, anchored by a tiny tropical islet south of the Chinese mainland, will "obtain new breakthroughs" in infrastructure, environmental protection, people's livelihoods and integration of the military, municipal Communist Party Secretary Zhang Jun said March 22 on the city's website.
A population today of about 1,500 makes Sansha the largest city in the South China Sea and helps China control the whole Paracel archipelago. Taiwan and Vietnam also claim the Paracels. The Chinese government spars over sovereignty in parts of the South China Sea's Spratly Islands with Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Expansion of Sansha would bolster China's military and research advantages in the disputed 3.5 million-square-kilometer sea, in turn making its sovereignty claim more convincing, said Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
"To strengthen your case under international law that you exercise sovereignty over a stretch of land or sea, you would have to show that you have administration, you would have to show that you have people actually living there and then they are making a livelihood, for example," Oh said.
Last year was a "milestone" period for Sansha's expansion, the party secretary said on the city website. He did not announce specific plans for 2019.
Today the city centered on Woody Island covers 10 square kilometers, enough for a hospital, a bank branch and stores. The most developed of any settlement in the sea, Sansha has the "role as both a military and civilian basing and logistics hub," said Gregory Poling, director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative under the Washington-based research organization Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Woody Island is already pivotal to Chinese military power in the resource-rich sea, CSIS says. The island now supports an air base, early-warning radar facilities and a surface-to-air missile system, the initiative says. The other claimant countries lack China's military strength.
Growth of the city will give China a "track record" of administration over the islands, said Stephen Nagy, senior associate politics and international studies professor at International Christian University in Tokyo.
The Permanent Court of International Justice considers a continual display of authority as an "effective administrative exercise" in the South China Sea, according to a Cambridge International Law Journal analysis in 2015.
Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines send civilians to the Spratly chain. Other countries' civilian activity lacks the scale of China's, Shinji Yamaguchi, senior research fellow at the Tokyo-based National Institute for Defense Studies, wrote in a 2017 research paper.
"Although China is not alone in using non-military measures to enhance its claims, its efforts are greater than its neighbors' in both scale and impact," Yamaguchi wrote.
Other countries will probably say little, though Vietnam might "make noise," the Singapore Institute's Oh said.


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Abstract Factory é um padrão de projeto de software (também conhecido como design pattern em inglês). Este padrão permite a criação de famílias de objetos relacionados ou dependentes por meio de uma única interface e sem que a classe concreta seja especificada. Uma fábrica é a localização de uma classe concreta no código em que objetos são construídos . O objetivo em empregar o padrão é isolar a criação de objetos de seu uso e criar famílias de objetos relacionados sem ter que depender de suas classes concretas. Isto permite novos tipos derivados de ser introduzidas sem qualquer alteração ao código que usa a classe base . O uso deste padrão torna possível trocar implementações concretas sem alterar o código que estas usam, mesmo em tempo de execução. No entanto, o emprego deste padrão, como acontece com outros padrões semelhantes, pode resultar em uma complexidade desnecessária e trabalho extra no início do código. Além disso, os níveis mais elevados de abstração podem resultar em sistemas que são mais difíceis de manter. A essência do padrão Abstract Factory é fornecer uma interface para criar famílias de objetos relacionados ou dependentes sem especificar suas classes concretas.

Diagrama UML

Fábrica Abstrata
Pode ser uma classe abstrata ou uma interface, mas a classe abstrata é utilizada com maior frequência. Seu objetivo é declarar métodos de criação de objetos do tipo ProdutoAbstrato, que são implementados por uma classe do tipo FabricaConcreta, que estende ou implementa a FabricaAbstrata.

Produto Abstrato
Pode ser uma classe abstrata ou uma interface, mas a classe abstrata é utilizada com maior frequência. Produto abstrato declara os métodos que são implementados por classes do tipo ProdutoConcreto. FabricaConcreta cria internamente um objeto do tipo ProdutoConcreto, mas esse objeto é retornado como um ProdutoAbstrato. O Abstract Factory não sabe qual ProdutoConcreto está sendo criado, mas sabe quais métodos do produto ele pode utilizar.

Fábrica Concreta
Estende ou implementa a FabricaAbstrata. O objetivo dessa classe é implementar os métodos declarados em FabricaAbstrata, criando um objeto do tipo ProdutoConcreto e retornando-o como um ProdutoAbstrato. Isso é polimorfismo. É comum existir mais de uma classe do tipo ProdutoConcreto assim como ocorre com FabricaConcreta. A quantidade de classes do tipo FabricaConcreta está diretamente ligada com a quantidade de classes do tipo ProdutoConcreto.

Produto Concreto(ProdutoA1, ProdutoA2, etc..)
Estende ou implementa a classe ProdutoAbstrato. Nessa classe são implementados os métodos declarados em ProdutoAbstrato. Essa é a classe que faz uma instância concreta ser criada. Para cada FabricaConcreta, há pelo menos um ProdutoConcreto.

Utilização
A fábrica determina o tipo concreto do objeto a ser criado, e é nela que o objeto é realmente criado. No entanto, a fábrica só retorna um ponteiro abstrato para o objeto concreto criado.

O código do cliente não tem conhecimento algum do tipo concreto. Objetos concretos são, de fato criados pela fábrica, mas o código do cliente acessa tais objetos só através da sua interface abstrata.

A adição de novos tipos concretos é feita modificando o código do cliente para usar uma fábrica diferente, uma modificação que é tipicamente uma linha em um arquivo. A nova fábrica, em seguida, cria objetos de um tipo de concreto diferente, mas ainda retorna um ponteiro do mesmo tipo abstrato como antes. Isto é significativamente mais fácil do que modificar o código de cliente para instanciar um novo tipo. Se todos os objetos de fábrica são armazenados globalmente em um objeto Singleton, e todo o código do cliente passa pelo Singleton para acessar a fábrica adequada para a criação do objeto, então alterar as fábricas se torna tão fácil como mudar o objeto Singleton.

Representação do diagrama em código Java
public class FabricaAbstrataExemplo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        FabricaAbstrata fabrica1 = new FabricaConcreta1();
        Cliente cliente1 = new Cliente(fabrica1);
        cliente1.executar();

        FabricaAbstrata fabrica2 = new FabricaConcreta2();
        Cliente cliente2 = new Cliente(fabrica2);
        cliente2.executar();
    }
}

class Cliente {
    private ProdutoAbstratoA produtoA;
    private ProdutoAbstratoB produtoB;

    Cliente(FabricaAbstrata fabrica) {
        produtoA = fabrica.createProdutoA();
        produtoB = fabrica.createProdutoB();
    }

    void executar() {
        produtoB.interagir(produtoA);
    }
}

interface FabricaAbstrata {
    ProdutoAbstratoA createProdutoA();
    ProdutoAbstratoB createProdutoB();
}

interface ProdutoAbstratoA {

}

interface ProdutoAbstratoB {
    void interagir(ProdutoAbstratoA a);
}

class FabricaConcreta1 implements FabricaAbstrata {

    @Override
    public ProdutoAbstratoA createProdutoA() {
        return new ProdutoA1();
    }
    @Override
    public ProdutoAbstratoB createProdutoB() {
        return new ProdutoB1();
    }
}

class FabricaConcreta2 implements FabricaAbstrata {

    @Override
    public ProdutoAbstratoA createProdutoA() {
        return new ProdutoA2();
    }
    @Override
    public ProdutoAbstratoB createProdutoB() {
        return new ProdutoB2();
    }
}

class ProdutoA1 implements ProdutoAbstratoA {

}

class ProdutoB1 implements ProdutoAbstratoB {

    @Override
    public void interagir(ProdutoAbstratoA a) {
        System.out.println(this.getClass().getNome() + " interage com " + a.getClass().getNome());
    }

}

class ProdutoA2 implements ProdutoAbstratoA {

}

class ProdutoB2 implements ProdutoAbstratoB {

    @Override
    public void interagir(ProdutoAbstratoA a) {
        System.out.println(this.getClass().getNome() + " interage com " + a.getClass().getNome());
    }

}

Utilização (Interfaces Gráficas)
O padrão Abstract Factory pode ser utilizado na implementação de um toolkit que disponibilize controles que funcionem em diferentes interfaces gráficas, tal como Motif, GTK+ (GNOME) ou Qt (KDE). Estas GUIs possuem diferentes padrões de controles visuais e, para facilitar a construção de aplicativos que interajam facilmente com diferentes interfaces gráficas, é interessante que se defina interfaces comuns para acesso aos controles, independentemente da GUI utilizada. Este problema pode ser resolvido por meio de uma classe abstrata que declara uma interface genérica para criação dos controles visuais e de uma classe abstrata para criação de cada tipo de controle. O comportamento específico, de cada um dos padrões tecnológicos contemplados, é implementado por meio de uma classe concreta. O aplicativo, ou "cliente", interage com o toolkit por meio das classes abstratas sem ter conhecimento da implementação das classes concretas.

Um exemplo bem simplista seria um projeto com interface para Mobile e para Desktop, uma boa opção para reaproveitar os mesmos controles de interface seria criar pacotes com classes abstratas e os pacotes com as classes concretas implementando apenas as diferenças.
Esse padrão também se aplica na padronização de ambientes, por exemplo, tamanhos de botões, fontes, cores de fundo, largura de bordas. Com isso e havendo uma política que exija que os desenvolvedores usem essas classes em vez das nativas da linguagem, ajudará a padronizar a aparência e comportamento das aplicações.

Exemplo de Aplicação
Neste exemplo, a classe abstrata WidgetFactory possui duas especializações: MotifWidgetFactory para widgets Motif e QtWidgetFactory para widgets Qt. Essas especializações são classes concretas capazes de "produzir" os elementos da interface gráfica. O cliente do toolkit obtém os elementos gráficos de que necessita por meio da classe (interface) WidgetFactory sem ter conhecimento das classes concretas. Da mesma maneira, o cliente somente interage com as interfaces que representam os elementos produzidos pela Abstract Factory (no exemplo, a classe Janela e a classe Botao).

Estrutura

Código em Java
Este código, escrito na linguagem Java, mostra a implementação do diagrama mostrado acima. Por uma questão de simplicidade, o código relacionado às janelas é omitido.

 abstract class WidgetFactory
 {
     public static WidgetFactory obterFactory()
     {

         if( Configuracao.obterInterfaceGraficaAtual() == Configuracao.MotifWidget )
         {
             return new MotifWidgetFactory();
         }
         else
         {
             return new QtWidgetFactory();
         }
    }

    public abstract Botao criarBotao();
 }

 class MotifWidgetFactory extends WidgetFactory
 {
     public Botao criarBotao()  {
         return new BotaoMotif();
     }
 }

 class QtWidgetFactory extends WidgetFactory
 {
     public Botao criarBotao()  {
         return new BotaoQt();
     }
  }

 abstract class Botao
 {
     public abstract void desenhar();
 }

 class BotaoMotif extends Botao
 {
     public void desenhar()  {
        System.out.println("Eu sou um botao Motif!");
     }
 }

 class BotaoQt extends Botao
 {
     public void desenhar()  {
        System.out.println("Eu sou um botao Qt!");
     }
 }

 public class Cliente
 {
     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
         WidgetFactory factory = WidgetFactory.obterFactory();

         Botao botao = factory.criarBotao();
         botao.desenhar();
     }
 }

Este exemplo imprimiria na tela o texto "Eu sou um botao Motif!" ou "Eu sou um botao Qt!" dependendo do valor retornado pelo método Configuracao.obterInterfaceGraficaAtual(), que descobre a interface gráfica, Motif ou Qt, utilizada pelo sistema.

Código em VB.NET
Public MustInherit Class WidgetFactory

    Shared Function obterFactory() As WidgetFactory
        If Configuracao.obterInterfaceGraficaAtual() Is Configuracao.MotifWidget Then
            Return New MotifWidgetFactory()
        Else
            Return New QtWidgetFactory()
        End If
    End Function

    Public MustOverride Function criarBotao() As Botao

End Class

Public Class MotifWidgetFactory
    Inherits WidgetFactory

    Public Overrides Function criarBotao() As Botao
        Return New BotaoMotif

    End Function
End Class

Public Class QtWidgetFactory
    Inherits WidgetFactory

    Public Overrides Function criarBotao() As Botao
        Return New BotaoQt
    End Function

End Class

Public MustInherit Class Botao

    Public MustOverride Sub desenhar()

End Class

Public Class BotaoMotif
    Inherits Botao

    Public Overrides Sub desenhar()
        Console.Out.WriteLine("Eu sou um botão Motif.")
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class BotaoQt
    Inherits Botao

    Public Overrides Sub desenhar()
        Console.Out.WriteLine("Eu sou um botão Qt.")
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class Client
    Public Shared Sub main()

        Dim factory As WidgetFactory = WidgetFactory.obterFactory

        Dim botao As Botao = factory.criarBotao

        botao.desenhar()

    End Sub
End Class

Padrões relacionados
 Factory Method
 Prototype
 Singleton

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Padrões de projeto de software
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Top 4 shows: May 27-June 2
The humorous glam metal group Steel Panther returns for an 8 p.m. show at Val Air Ballroom, 301 Ashworth Road, West Des Moines.
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Friday: The humorous glam metal group Steel Panther returns for an 8 p.m. show at Val Air Ballroom, 301 Ashworth Road, West Des Moines. The band's image pays tribute to the sex and drugs lifestyle of 80's bands like Motley Crue, Steel Panther released its third album, "All You Can Eat," last year. $30. Go to valairballroom.com.
Paul Doffing
Saturday: Ames musician Paul Doffing plays a release show for his album "Songs from the (quaking) Heart" at 8 p.m. at Bluestem, 3329 Lincoln Way, Ames. It will be Doffing's final Ames show for a while, he's about to hit the road, touring the world on a bicycle and playing music as he goes. Like Caine from "Kung Fu," but with bikes and guitars instead of kicking. $10. Go to bluestemames.com.
Girls Rock! Pedal Jam
Sunday: Girls Rock! Des Moines hosts a Pedal Jam starting at 12:30 p.m. at the Des Moines Social Club, 900 Mulberry St. Fans bike to Confluence Brewery, Mullet's and back to the Social Club, enjoying shows by Hot Lady Band, Patresa Hartman, Jenny Kohls and Mary McAdams, Ramona and the Slim Dudes, Peace, Love & Stuff, Sarah and the Meanies and headliner Caroline Smith at each stop. $30-$50. Go to girlsrockdsm.com.
Monday: Former "The Walking Dead" star Emily Kinney performs her own music at 7:30 p.m. at Wooly's, 504 E. Locust St. Kinney is set to release her third album, "This is War," in August. Kinney's singing was featured multiple times on "The Walking Dead," including covers of Tom Waits' "Hold On" and Jimmy Cliff's "Struggling Man." Dylan Gardner and Adam Tressler open. $15 in advance, $17 at the door. Go to woolysdm.com.
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Newly discovered extra-solar planet may be Earth-like
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A range of theoretical habitable zones with stars of different mass (our solar system is at the centre, a red dwarf similar to Gliese 581 at the bottom).
A planet 50% greater in radius and with about 5 times earth mass orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 581 has been discovered inside the constellation of Libra.
A 2005 search revealed that the star Gliese 581 possessed a Neptune sized planet, prompting astronomers to take a closer look.
Gliese 581 c, as the planet is aptly named, has an estimated surface temperature between 0 and 40°C (32 and 104°F). Scientists claim the planet is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Artist's impression of the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581.
Image: European Southern Observatory.
A second planet, about 8 times the mass of earth, was also discovered not too far from Gliese 581 c.
A team of scientists from France, Switzerland and Portugal discovered the planets using the ESO 3.6-m telescope from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher or HARPS, located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile.
"The separation between the planet and its star is just right for having liquid water at its surface," said team spokesperson Stephane Udry of the Observatory of Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland. "That's why we are a bit excited."
"Liquid water is critical to life as we know it and because of its temperature and relative proximity, this planet will most probably be a very important [focus] of future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life. On the treasure map of the Universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," added Xavier Delfosse, from Grenoble University in France.
The newly discovered planet is 20.5 light-years away from the Earth.
"Press Release: Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone" — European Southern Observatory, April 25, 2007
"New 'super-Earth' found in space" — BBC News Online, April 25, 2007
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Религия в Японии представлена главным образом буддизмом и синтоизмом. Большинство верующих в Японии причисляет себя к обеим религиям сразу, что свидетельствует о религиозном синкретизме. В 1886 году, во время реставрации Мэйдзи синтоизм был объявлен единственной и обязательной государственной религией японского государства. После Второй мировой войны с принятием новой японской конституции в 1947 году синтоизм потерял этот статус.

Буддисты и синтоисты составляют по некоторым оценкам до 84—96 % населения, представляя большое количество верующих в синкретизме обеих религий. Однако эти оценки основаны на ассоциации японцев с тем или иным храмом, а не на количестве действительно верующих. Профессор Роберт Кисала предполагает, что всего 30 % населения идентифицируют себя как верующие.

Китайские даосизм, конфуцианство и буддизм также повлияли на японские верования и традиции. Религия в Японии склонна к синкретизму, что выливается в смешение различных религиозных практик. Так, взрослые и дети отмечают ритуалы синто, школьники молятся перед экзаменами, молодые пары устраивают свадебные церемонии в христианской церкви, а похороны — в буддистском храме. Христиане представляют собой религиозное меньшинство, всего 2,04 % населения. Среди объединений христианских церквей, действующих в общеяпонском масштабе, самое крупное — Католический центральный совет, далее, по числу последователей идут Свидетели Иеговы, пятидесятники и прихожане Объединённой церкви Христа в Японии.

С середины XIX века в Японии также появились различные новые религиозные движения, такие как Тэнрикё и Аум Синрикё.

Синтоизм

Традиционной японской религией принято считать синтоизм, представляющий собой совокупность местных верований и до XIX столетия не представлявший собой единой системы верований.

Буддизм

Буддизм является второй по распространённости религией в Японии после Синтоизма.

Христианство

Всего в Японии насчитывается по разным оценкам от 1,9 млн до 2,9 млн христиан (2010 год). Среди объединений христианских церквей, действующих в общеяпонском масштабе, самое крупное — Католический центральный совет (свыше 400 тыс. верующих, около 2 тыс. культовых учреждений, 2 тыс. священников).

Численность приверженцев всех общеяпонских объединений протестантских церквей в 2010 году составляла около 1 млн человек. Крупнейшую конфессиональную группу среди японских протестантов составляют пятидесятники (257 тыс.). Объединённая церковь Христа в Японии насчитывает 196 тыс. прихожан, церковь «Дух Иисуса» — 125 тыс. В стране также действуют баптисты, англикане, лютеране, различные перфекционистские церкви и другие протестантские деноминации.

Православие появилось в Японии в середине XIX века благодаря русскому миссионеру святителю Николаю Японскому. К 1912 году (год кончины архиепископа Николая Японского) в Японии насчитывалось 266 православных общин и около 33 тысяч человек исповедующих православие. Сегодня, в начале XXI века в Японии насчитывается более 36 тысяч человек исповедующих православие. Японская Православная Церковь имеет большую самостоятельность и на правах автономии входит в состав Русской Православной Церкви.

Значительное число японцев являются сторонниками маргинального христианства. Численность свидетелей Иеговы в 2012 году составила 217 тыс. человек, объединённых в 3055 собраний. Церковь Иисуса Христа святых последних дней насчитывает в Японии 279 конгрегаций и 127 тыс. прихожан.

Ислам

Мусульманское общество состоит в основном из пакистанцев и татар — эмигрантов из России.

Первая мечеть была построена в 1905 году, в городе Осаке, иммигрировавшими татарами.

Известный башкир Мухаммед-Габдулхай Курбангалиев организовал общество мусульман Токио и стал его главой. В 1927 году открыл школу для мусульман Японии. В 1928 организовал Всеяпонский съезд мусульман. 12 мая 1938 под его руководством состоялось открытие мечети в городе Токио. Также известна мечеть в городе Кобе.

В 1939 году ислам признали одной из действующих религий Японии. К 2010 году общая численность мусульман оценивалась в 185 тыс. человек.

Другие религии
Общины других религиозных групп весьма малочисленны. Это конфуцианцы (127 тыс.), индуисты (25,7 тыс.), верующие бахаи (16 тыс.), сикхи (2 тыс.), джайны (1,6 тыс.) и иудеи (1,5 тыс.). Ещё 10 тыс. жителей Японии являются сторонниками местных первобытных верований и культов.

Статистика
По данным Службы статистики Японии при Министерстве культуры и науки Японии на 31 декабря 2000 года, 31 декабря 2005 — 31 декабря 2008 годов

Количество общин

Количество верующих
Общее количество верующих превышает население Японии в связи с широким распространением практики религиозного синкретизма. Так, например, синтоист может быть одновременно и буддистом.

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The Egyptian Revolt one year on: How should it change the way we think about development?
This week IDS releases a collection of papers authored by Egyptians who bridge the academic and activist worlds on "The Pulse of Egypt's Revolt".
The collection is edited by my colleague, Mariz Tadros. Mariz is a Research Fellow at IDS and previously an Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo and a journalist for the Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper.
The collection of papers, including a nice overview from Mariz, asks two questions:
why and how did the Egyptian uprisings begin? and
what are the implications for development paradigms, concepts and practices?
Linking to and getting inspiration from the other 11 papers in the volume (including one of her own on "Backstage Governance") Tadros puts forward 5 ideas:
1. We need new ways to grasp the pulse on the street
The paper argues that "disciplinary silos" and "methodological precincts" make it hard to get a rounded picture (deductive political science, for a variety of reasons, assumes Egyptians will not rise). It says that what matters is the "dark matter of citizenship" and that this cannot be assessed by surveys. Finally it highlights sites of information that are not mainstream but which need to be engaged (Wikileaks, online reactions to stories, new Arab satellite TV channels, soap operas, films).
2. Calling the revolts a "Facebook revolution" is a gross simplification
There were many triggers and it was their confluence that was important: youth (Facebook, yes, but also old fashioned pamphlets and slogans) and the brutality they were subjected to; the people, who were connected to the brutality by Al-Jazeera and the like and came out in numbers that the security forces couldn't handle; and the military which did not side with Mubarak (and we don't know how hard they had to be pushed to switch loyalties). All of these factors came together.
3. The act of revolting should not be confused with its outcome
Tahrir Square in Jan-Feb 2011 was a particular time and space: it did not represent the whole of the nation (Facebook offered limited opportunities for forging a coalition outside of youth in Cairo), and the political truce called for by rivals with a common goal--get rid of Mubarak--was quickly called off.
4. The concept of "unruly politics" may offer a powerful way to understand people's mobilisation
Much of the public dissent leading up to the revolt was missed because it does not fit conventional "checklists" of what constitutes the right way of challenging the status quo (for example the Stay at Home campaign in 2008 or campaign that conveyed their anger with politicians of their hunger by banging on pots and pans). The unruly label is because citizens engaged in spaces outside of the conventions realms of state and civil society--in hidden and informal spaces that many civil society organisations failed to connect to.
5. There is a disconnect between development paradigms and the dynamics of unruly politics in authoritarian settings.
First, there is a disconnect between the publicised state of the economy (good) and conditions on the ground (no change). Second, the irrelevance of institutions mandated to improve governance and the background operation of the State Security Investigations in pulling the governance strings. Finally, the neutering of civil society through apolitical compartmentalisation and projectisation. These disconnects, together with the right political catalysts and moment, created the right environment for mass mobilisation.
Overall, the shifts the Bulletin calls for include:
(a) a "made in Egypt" economic growth policy, one that recognises the politics of different choices about how markets function, the political consequences of those choices, and how citizens should be protected from its extremes,
(b) civil society organisations to root themselves in civil society, not in donor society,
(c) looking before leaping onto the social media bandwagon--it undoubtedly has a role to play in creating new spaces for meaningful engagement, but not if it is not embedded in the context,
(d) aid to be viewed less through a geopolitical lens and more through a developmental one, and
(e) new ways of supplementing conventional methods of data collection as to the conditions, attitudes and perceptions of ordinary citizens, capable of doing extraordinary things.
Clearly Mariz argues that the donors have a very large opportunity to shape the way they interact with civil society and the Government and that these new relationships must be driven by home grown initiatives, development. Having worked in Egypt in the late 90s this all makes a lot of sense to me. I just hope the new government provides the space to let this happen.
anuj jain said...
Amazing clarity and succinctness! My compliments to you and all the authors!
david rieff said...
Dear Lawrence,
A fascinating set of papers. Thanks for making them available: there is much to learn from them. I do wonder what exactly is meant, though, by calling for aid to be viewed through a developmental lens instead of a geopolitical one. If what is being said is that aid was given to Egypt, and the success of it measured, according to Egypt's geo-strategic importance in the region, its relations with Israel and with the Palestinians, etc., etc., but that instead the criteria --- at least as much as is feasible --- should be developmental effect, then of course I agree totally. However, if what is being implied is the old development world self-delusion that aid can ever be non-political and non-ideological, or that, in giving aid, we are not also involving ourselves in the most profound question about justice, equity, the rule of law, gender relations, etc., then this is a hopeless enterprise. Aid is always political in that it seeks to change society, to move it in some directions and away from others, and the idea that it can be approached purely as a technocratic rather than (as Amartya Sen among others has argued) as an idea about freedom and how human beings should live. And that of course brings up a second problem: is the development world ready to shoulder this responsibility, or does it want to denounce the geopolitical concerns of donors but itself shy away from the political implications of its action?
Best, as always,
lawrence haddad said...
David, i certainly meant that the development world should understand the political consequences of its actions and how politics shapes its actions, but to try to use that political process to strengthen development outcomes.. Appreciated the thoughtful comment. Lawrence
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Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor, on how the government plans to help the economy grow after Brexit and will offer a Budget to boost the building industry.
The UK is no longer the fastest-growing G7 economy with the Brexit helping make us the slowest. We also have the highest inflation of the ten major EU economies and now London is losing the European Medicines Agency to Amsterdam and the European Banking Authority to Paris, in one of the first concrete signs of the 'Brexit effect'.
On Monday, the Prime Minister Theresa announced 4 billion pounds of spending on research and development and regional growth strategies, setting out plans to help the economy grow after Brexit. We look forward to tomorrow's Autumn Budget for more positive changes. Here are some of the predictions based on the widely trailed hints to the media
Budget for the construction industry?
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the chancellor warned that there is no 'single magic bullet' to increase housing supply. However, he wants to speed up developments where planning permission has been granted and give more help to small building firms that have been increasingly muscled out of the housebuilding market.
Richard Beresford, chief executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB), said he was glad that Mr Hammond has recognised the need to enable SMEs to help fix the broken housing market. "We look forward to seeing Mr Hammond match his sensible words with sensible housing and planning policies in the Autumn Budget. Construction SMEs can help to get Britain building but we must be realistic about deliverable solutions. The NFB has always been clear that the best way to get Britain building is to empower SMEs, the engine of the economy. Every £1 invested in construction generates £2.84 in wider economic benefits, while for every £1 invested in an SME, 90p is spent on local employment, local apprentices and growing the local economy".
The government has also unveiled a new £1.7bn fund to boost transport connections in and around UK cities. The Chancellor is also expected to announce a £76m fund for digital and construction skills.
Read what Max Banner, Buildingtalk Online Editor, said about what the Budget could mean for the construction industry.
300,000 new homes a year
Under pressure from Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and young voters struggling to find a home, Philip Hammond has already announced that 300,000 new homes will be built a year. But how many will be truly affordable social housing? And will they be built on the greenbelt?
It is nonsense to expect developers to be the solution. I support Javid's demand for £50bn spending on Housing Association and Local Authority schemes. We need to remember that the last real housing building boom began in the early 1950's despite real austerity including food rationing. So it can be done.
Driverless cars, buses, lorries and taxis are going to revolutionise road transport.
The Treasury are to spend £400m on electric car charge points, £75m on artificial intelligence, and £100m to boost purchases of clean fuel cars. The borough of Wandsworth, where I live in London, is already planning for charge points on every street. According to the Chancellor we can expect driverless cars on our roads by 2021.
Millennial bribes
Leaked Budget plans also include cheaper travel via a 'Millennial Railcard' for the under-30s and rumours that Hammond will also scrap stamp duty for first-time buyers.
Budget for Foodbanks
On my wish list is for the government to cut the payment delay of the new benefits system. There are rumours it could be cut from six to four weeks but they should do better than this to reduce the misery that delays have caused our poorest citizens who now have to rely on Foodbank handouts to survive.
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As of what I have read, I would highly recommend this book, regardless of what you think you know, or what you believe…. It is a heck of a good read, and it offers worthwhile information. In addition, there are a number of yummy-looking recipes.
I finally bought this book, a year after it was recommended to me by a wonderful man in my raw food training atRaw Soul. This amazing man kept bringing in marvelous books that he had found, and, one day, he brought in some Jubb books. I was moderately intrigued, at the time, but something attracted me the other day, when I was browsing the Internet, and I bought this one.
For the moment, after seeing ZenPawn's hurt face, and after spending some time on his blog, I have put ZenPawn's blog back on my list. I had removed it because I don't really think wine belongs to a raw food diet. After a good long think, however, I have decided, because his site does have quite a bit of useful information, to put him back.
I'm Excited!!! I've found new blogs!!
I found this photo at I Can Has Cheezburger and I so love it.
I am singing "Halleluia!" because I know about the raw food lifestyle, and because I can communicate with other raw foodies via my computer, and I can even meet people who believe in a raw food lifestyle in my town. I am so very blessed.
I have been hanging out on the Internet more than I'd like to (I miss reading sometimes) and I have found a lot of new raw food blogs and sites. Now I have to find out some way to make my links list manageable… ahhh! the blog learning curve!…. meanwhile, please do check out my links, because there are a lot of exciting places to visit, particularly if you are looking for new recipes! I'm excited because I have new places to go back to and check out from time to time.


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Adaptations Opening Today
It may seem crazy to open a movie today, debut day for Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuts, but the studios hope there will be audiences looking for different fare. For kids, theres Alvin and the Chipmunks The Road Chip (see our listing for tie-ins) and for comedy fans, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play Sisters.
It's also an ideal time to release movies with Oscar buzz, barely within the deadline late enough to be fresh in the Academy's mind. Two such movies open today, both adaptations [CORRECTION: We jumped the gun on both of these films, 45 Years opens on Wed. Dec. 23 and The Revenant opens in limited released on Friday, Dec. 25]:
45 Years, an adaptation of David Constantine's short story "In Another Country," was just selected by The Guardian as #1 on their list of the 50 best films of 2015 in the UK . Stars Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay already won best actress and actor awards at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie explores what happens when a long-buried secret shakes up a 45-year-long happy marriage and is getting kudos for daring to feature older actors.
The story it is based on is in the collection, In Another Country, (Biblioasis, June, 2015).
Opening in limited number of theaters on Dec. 25, expanding to more on Jan. 8, is The Revenant starring Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman).
Early preview screenings brought a shiver of internet excitement when the Drudge Report claimed that the movie contains scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio being raped by a bear (unfounded, although the process of filming the movie has been described as "a living hell").
Based on Michael Punke's 2002 debut novel of the same name, it is a vengeance tale set on the 19th-century American frontier, based on a true story, as The Tekegraph reports "Best served cold: the terrifying true story behind The Revenant."
A tie-in edition is scheduled for Dec. 29., The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke (Macmillian/Picador; OverDrive Sample).
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Will Outdoor Seating Save Our Restaurants? It's Not an Easy Fix, Chamber Says
By Jennette Barnes • May 7, 2020
Falmouth Village Association
As restaurants plan ways to safely reopen for table service, some Cape and Islands communities are considering expanded outdoor seating.
Among the communities investigating the idea is Falmouth, where people have proposed closing a section of Main Street to vehicles to allow for European-style seating at outdoor tables.
Michael Kasparian, CEO of the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, tells WCAI the chamber initially favored it, but since then, has heard from retailers who oppose the idea.
"Some folks have said that they think that it's better for the businesses to have cars driving down there," he said.
He said merchants want people who are out driving to see that businesses are open, and see the advertising in their windows.
And some are concerned that a closed street would become a distraction, "and that people would be coming down, kind of hanging around, and not really supporting their businesses," he said.
Kasparian said alternatives could include closing parts of adjacent streets, such as Academy Lane, Library Lane, and Shore Street Extension.
But that raises the question, he said, of whether wait staff would cross the street to provide table service. And if the tables were just for takeout, who would be responsible for sanitizing them?
"In the beginning, the chamber embraced it as a very good idea and thought that it would be something that would be fairly simple to put into place," he said. "But frankly, after reaching out to a lot of the members that we have along Main Street, we found that there is a lot of opposition to that from several of the merchants, and even the restaurants along Main Street."
Although restaurants aren't doing their regular business, many have been able to generate revenue with takeout. Other retailers have been hit very hard, he said.
"They've been shuttered," he said. "And those who don't have an ability to do any online sales really are suffering badly, and it's a lot of those folks who we've heard from."
Kasparian said he hopes the town of Falmouth will conduct a survey to guide reopening plans for the downtown shopping district.
"It really does need to be led by the town," he said.
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DB00575 Clonidine Clonidine, an imidazoline-derivative hypotensive agent is a centrally-acting α2-adrenergic agonist. It crosses the blood-brain barrier and acts in the hypothalamus to induce a decrease in blood pressure. It may also be administered as an epidural infusion as an adjunct treatment in the management of severe cancer pain that is not relieved by opiate analgesics alone. Clonidine may be used for differential diagnosis of pheochromocytoma in hypertensive patients. Other uses for clonidine include prophylaxis of vascular migraine headaches, treatment of severe dysmenorrhea, management of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause, rapid detoxification in the management of opiate withdrawal, treatment of alcohol withdrawal used in conjunction with benzodiazepines, management of nicotine dependence, topical use to reduce intraocular pressure in the treatment of open-angle and secondary glaucoma and hemorrhagic glaucoma associated with hypertension, and in the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Clonidine also exhibits some peripheral activity.
DB00623 Fluphenazine A phenothiazine used in the treatment of psychoses. Its properties and uses are generally similar to those of chlorpromazine.
DB01018 Guanfacine A centrally acting antihypertensive agent. The drug lowers both systolic and diastolic blood pressure by activating the central nervous system alpha-2 adrenoreceptors, which results in reduced sympathetic outflow leading to reduced vascular tone. Its adverse reactions include dry mouth, sedation, and constipation.
DB00502 Haloperidol A phenyl-piperidinyl-butyrophenone, traditional antipsychotic drug that is used primarily to treat schizophrenia and other psychoses. It is also used for the management of schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorders, ballism, and Tourette syndrome (a drug of choice) and occasionally as adjunctive therapy in mental retardation and the chorea associated with Huntington's disease. It is a potent antiemetic and is used in the treatment of intractable hiccups [L1994], [L1996]. The efficacy of haloperidol was first established in controlled trials in the 1960s [L2014]. Interestingly, in vivo pharmacogenetic studies have demonstrated that the metabolism of haloperidol may be modulated by genetically determined polymorphic _CYP2D6_ activity. However, these findings contradict the findings from studies in vitro with human liver microsomes and from drug interaction studies in vivo. Inter-ethnic and pharmacogenetic differences in haloperidol metabolism may possibly explain these observations [A32346].
DB00734 Risperidone Schizophrenia and various mood disorders are thought to be caused by an excess of dopaminergic D2 and serotonergic 5-HT2A activity, resulting in overactivity of central mesolimbic pathways and mesocortical pathways, respectively [L1212, L1213]. Risperidone inhibits dopaminergic D2 receptors and serotonergic 5-HT2A receptors in the brain. It is also said to block histamine receptors, and other neural receptors which are currently being studied [L1213, A1115]. Risperidone binds with a very high affinity to 5-HT2A receptors, approximately 10-20 fold greater than the drug's binding affinity to D2 receptors [L1212, L1213, A1115].
DB04844 Tetrabenazine A drug formerly used as an antipsychotic but now used primarily in the symptomatic treatment of various hyperkinetic disorders. It is a monoamine depletor and used as symptomatic treatment of chorea associated with Huntington's disease. FDA approved on August 15, 2008.


Quantico Classic, Day 1 Middle Distance, Green. Not a very satisfactory performance. Bad mistake on 4 (went to 5 first, thought it was 4, realized my mistake when things didn't look right) and even worse mistake on 6 (thought I was on a bearing straight to it, was actually a long way off, should have relocated immediately but I kept thinking it was right there).
Looking at the gps route, I see I was pretty far off the line all the way, until the last few controls. That was certainly not my plan, so something to think about.
Quantico Classic Relay. Lead-off runner on QOC's 9-point team, followed by Alex and Michael. I had a solid run, and fell into a pattern: navigated on my own towards the next control, then as I got close I could follow others into the control. That's the nice thing about running first leg. Alex and Michael ran well, but we were outclassed by NEOC (Jeff, Tim, Kristin -- what a powerhouse!).
A repeat of last week's tempo run. It was a half-mile shorter, because I forgot to add the segment on Homewood Parkway. It was also slower. I just couldn't get my legs to move. First thing in the morning.
Easy run, mid-day, 70s and some cloud cover.
3 x (200+200 jog, 200+400 jog, 800+400 jog). The 200s were all 45-46. The 800s were 3:21, 3:25, 3:27. I've been doing these things around noon, to hit the warm part of the day, but this was the day I should have switched to early morning. It was 80 on the track, and the heat was a problem on the longer intervals. Also, I need to bring water the next time.
Low energy day. Short and slow.


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'Never forget': 9/11 remembered by owner-operator Dick McCorkle
Todd Dills
Perkins Specialized leased owner-operator Dick McCorkle (pictured) was there, or at least within a few miles of there, when jet airliners were flown into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center complex on Sept. 11, 2001. Specifically, he'd just delivered to a trade show at 42nd St. and 7th Ave., near Times Square. "I was delivering New York City for three or four years there," he says. "At one point in time, New York City was our biggest city" as a freight origin point and destination. On 9/11, McCorkle had unloaded at an indoor dock when all the lights went out.
"They got an emergency light," he says of building personnel's efforts to deal with the outage. "They went to the fuse terminal and there were no circuits out — they couldn't let me out because the doors were all electrical." Finally, they did what they had to, utilizing crobars to pry open the doors. "When we got the door opened high enough for my truck to get under," McCorkle says it became clear that something terrible had happened.
All traffic lights were out and the streets were filled with cars lined end to end. "We thought we'd been hit with a bomb," McCorkle says. "We couldn't do anything. People were wandering around wondering what was going on, no one knowing what actually happened. We saw the smoke, but we didn't know where it was coming from because of the buildings" obstructing the view miles south.
McCorkle stayed put through the day, as later on that afternoon he saw people walking through Midtown from the Trade Center on their slow ways home. "It's hard to describe," he says. "I finally got out of there, just before daylight the next day, and got up into Connecticut" to a rest area four of five miles into the state on I-95, where he was finally able to get in touch with Perkins reps in Indianapolis, who told him what had happened. It was the first solid information he'd been able to obtain about the situation in which he found himself that day.
"It's something you never get out of your mind," he says of the experience today. "I thought it could have been the end of the world. I didn't know what was going on."
And as a member of a family with strong military connections, the Noblesville, Ind.-based owner-operator says, he wants it remembered. "My wife's whole family is military," he says, and though he himself has never served, "I support the servicemen any way I can. I hope the whole country never forgets it.
"A couple weeks later, I had a show load to New York City that had to be brought back. All the trade shows had been canceled. I didn't do another trade show I don't think until after the first of the year. All of them were canceled. I haven't been in New York City much since. Work that was once there is no longer there."
Dick McCorkle blogs as part of the Freightliner long-term Cascadia test-drive project at the Slice of Trucker Life site. He wrote about his experience on 9/11 this time last year, and you may remember him from my Exit Only piece about McCorkle in Truckers News and a vid posted to Channel 19 here.
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Muslim women wear the hijab as a statement of fashion and identity. from www.shutterstock.com
How Muslim women break stereotypes by mixing faith and modesty with fashion
Anoosh Soltani, University of Waikato and Hannah Thinyane, United Nations University
Muslim women are often perceived as oppressed and self-segregated, but many contemporary Muslim women reinterpret Islam to express their sense of style and fashion.
This term 'jihad' can include various forms of nonviolent struggles: for instance, the struggle to become a better person. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
So, what really is jihad?
Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Michigan State University
Violent radicals are often described as jihadists. A scholar explains what the word means and why those using the word to justify terrorism are often misrepresenting their sources.
Muslim women at a prayer service at a mosque in Redmond, Washington, to mark the end of Ramadan and the start of Eid-al-Fitr in 2016. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
What is Eid and how do Muslims celebrate it? 6 questions answered
Ken Chitwood, University of Florida
Muslims throughout the world will celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a celebration at the end of Ramadan. Here's an introduction to this important feast and its partner, Eid al-Adha.
A delegate in traditional Uighur dress listens to a speaker during a meeting with delegates from China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in Beijing, AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
The history of China's Muslims and what's behind their persecution
Kelly Anne Hammond, University of Arkansas
Muslims came to China in the 13th century and played an influential role. Tensions have escalated since 9/11, and the global community is largely silent.
Halima Aden, the first Muslim model to wear a hijab and burkini on the cover of the swimsuit edition of the Sports Illustrated. Yu Tsai
The black Muslim female fashion trailblazers who came before model Halima Aden
Kayla Renée Wheeler, Grand Valley State University
Hijab-wearing model Halima Aden will be featured in Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition. Here's why her success needs to be viewed in context of a long history of black Muslim women's fashions.
Women pray at a mosque during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on May 6 in Bali, Indonesia. AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati
What Ramadan means to Muslims: 4 essential reads
Kalpana Jain, The Conversation
Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam – acts that denote the obligations of living a good Muslim life.
Muslims praying in a Chicago mosque following the shooting in New Zealand, on Friday, March 15. AP Photo/Noreen Nasir
What is the significance of Friday prayers in Islam?
Rose S. Aslan, California Lutheran University
Last Friday, Muslims were killed while praying at two mosques in New Zealand. For Muslims, Friday is the day of gathering, the most important prayer day of the week.
A student on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, trying out the hijab on World Hijab Day, 2017. AP Photo/Russell Contreras
Why Muslim women wear a hijab: 3 essential reads
For Muslim women, the hijab is not simply about religion. They may wear it for a variety of reasons. On World Hijab Day. women – Muslim and non-Muslim, are invited to experience this head covering.
For many Muslim women, a hijab is a way of expressing resistance. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
Why do Muslim women wear a hijab?
Caitlin Killian, Drew University
Hijab is not simply about religion – women wear it for a variety of reasons.
The connection between the gardens of Versailles, and your backyard garden, are closer than you might think. Shutterstock
Heaven on earth: the ancient roots of your backyard garden
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University
From the Bible to Versailles, gardens are bound to their political and religious history.
Ilhan Omar, a Somali American, who was elected from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, will be the first woman in U.S. Congress to wear a hijab. AP Photo/Jim Mone, File
Three things we can learn from contemporary Muslim women's fashion
Liz Bucar, Northeastern University
The de Young Museum of San Francisco recently opened an exhibit devoted to the Islamic fashion scene. Here's how Muslim women's fashions challenge popular stereotypes.
An activist in Pakistan takes part in a protest against Salman Rushdie in Karachi in 2007. Zahid Hussein
Thirty years on, why 'The Satanic Verses' remains so controversial
Myriam Renaud, University of Chicago
Author Salman Rushdie's book goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of the most sensitive tenets.
Muslim pilgrims pray at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in August 2017. AP Photo/Khalil Hamra
What is the Hajj?
Each year, Muslims from all over the world go on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, known as Hajj. A scholar explains its spiritual significance.
A Muslim family breaks fast during the month of Ramadan. AP Photo/Chris Carlson
What are halal foods?
Food plays an integral role during the 30-day period of Ramadan. This Speed Read explains how Muslims determine what foods are 'halal,' an Arabic word that means 'permissible.'
Indian women protested against 'instant divorce', a practice that has been ruled unconstitutional by India's Supreme court. EPA/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI
India's 'instant divorce' ban: the end result or the first step in reforming Islamic law?
Justin Jones, University of Oxford
What are the implications of the 'instant divorce' ban in India? Will it provoke a wider re-evaluation of India's Muslim family laws, that affect millions of women?
Muslims start the hajj by circling the Kaaba, the black, cube-shaped house of God. UmmSqueaky
Explaining the Muslim pilgrimage of hajj
Eid prayers. IIOC Masjid Omar AlFarouk
Why Muslims celebrate Eid twice a year: 6 questions answered
Muslims throughout the world will celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) beginning this Thursday evening. Here's an introduction to this important feast and its partner, Eid al-Fitr.
What's the role of faith in service? European Commission DG ECHO
How religion motivates people to give and serve
David King, IUPUI
Religious values, deeply rooted in texts, serve as an important motivator for giving. Religious Americans volunteer more, give more, and give more often.
A page from the Quran. ~crystalina~
What Sharia means: 5 questions answered
Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University
There are many myths around Sharia. A scholar explains the moral and ethical principles behind it, as also why there are different interpretations.
There is a common misunderstanding that one particular Qur'anic verse perpetuates violence against women. AAP/Lukas Coch
Explainer: what Islam actually says about domestic violence
Nada Ibrahim, University of South Australia
Islam's position on domestic violence is drawn from the Qur'an, prophetic practice, and historical and contemporary legal verdicts.
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Ken Chitwood
Ph.D. Candidate, Religion in the Americas, Global Islam, University of Florida
Myriam Renaud
Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Global Ethic Project, Parliament of the World's Religions, University of Chicago
Ali Mamouri
PhD Candidate at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University
Carlos Fraenkel
James McGill Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, McGill University
Mira Baz
PhD, University of Birmingham
Asma Afsaruddin
Professor of Islamic Studies and former Chairperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Fozia Bora
Lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Islamic History, University of Leeds
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University
Denise A. Spellberg
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Harith Bin Ramli
Research Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College & Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London
Mohammad Hassan Khalil
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Muslim Studies Program, Michigan State University
Yusef Waghid
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University
Nuraan Davids
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University
Kishwar Rizvi
Associate Professor in the History of Art Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University
Nada Ibrahim
Senior Research Fellow in Domestic and Family Violence, University of South Australia


Aaron Rodgers threw for 250 yards and four touchdowns as the Packers remained undefeated with a 45-7 rout of the Vikings on "Monday Night Football." Randall Cobb returned a punt 80 yards for a score just over a minute into the game for the 9-and-0 Packers, who are off to their best start since opening the 1962 season with 10 straight wins. Jordy Nelson had five grabs for 63 yards and two touchdowns in the one-sided affair. Christian Ponder was just 16-of-34 for 190 yards and an interception for Minnesota, which dropped to 2-and-7. Adrian Peterson rushed for 51 yards and a touchdown in the lopsided loss.


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I've enjoyed your holiday blog. I'm sure you've had a fabulous time and hopefully are returning home refreshed.
Sounds a lovely trip Joanna. Thanks for sharing.
A fitting finale. Glad you enjoyed it and shared it with us.
It looks like you are having a wonderful time. Top marks for trying the language. I once got into a pickle trying to buy half a chicken in a Spanish market once. I sent the man behind the counter into a fit of giggles and later when I described what I'd said to someone who could speak very good spanish, he told me I had asked for something very rude indeed, and what's more I'd asked for half a one!
Joanne, I had a similar experience when cruising through the Panama Canal. You could almost reach out and touch the sides. what a wonder of engineering. You should take that cruise. You would really enjoy it.
Tasting olive oil and rocket fuel! A dropped ice cream!


Put the fruits of your labors front and center. With plentiful sun, a little open space and an audience of appreciative passersby, the front yard has all the ingredients for a beautiful and bountiful garden. Let famed blogger and garden designer Ivette Soler show you how to make over that space—too often unused or purely decorative—into a gorgeously designed oasis of fruits and vegetables.
The Edible Front Yard combines the loveliest and tastiest edibles and ornamentals in a garden that is a year-round feast for the eyes. Soler teaches all the tricks, from laying out the design and choosing the best front yard plants, to clear instructions for a bounty of exciting projects like a fragrant carpet of herbs, a trellis privacy screen and an eye-catching raised bed that turns areas where you have trouble growing grass into a paradise.
From the curb right up to your front door, the information in these pages includes everything you need to have a beautiful front yard—and eat it too!
Ivette Soler is a garden designer and writer living in Los Angeles, California. Her plant design work for Elysian Landscapes, and her own personal garden, have appeared in magazines such as Metropolitan Home, Sunset, and House & Garden, as well as in several books.
Ivette's garden writing has been featured in Garden Design, Cottage Living, and Budget Living, and she was the resident gardening expert on NBC's The Bonnie Hunt Show.
Her popular gardening blog, The Germinatrix, originated in 2006 as a part of Domino magazine; since 2009, Ivette's blog has been thriving independently.
You may also be interested in the author's own Web site, www.thegerminatrix.com.


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Survived and Punished
'No Choice But To Do It'
Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. Research for The Appeal shows that at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.
Justine van der Leun	Dec 17, 2020
Louisiana Women Incarcerated for Defending Themselves Against Abusive Partners Seek Clemency Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
The state has recommended the release of 10 women at a coronavirus-ravaged prison—but Governor John Bel Edwards still hasn't signed the paperwork.
Jerry Iannelli	May 20, 2020
Coalition's Efforts Amid Coronavirus Derail Plans For New Women's Prison
The onset of COVID-19—and the need for social distancing—gave an unexpected boost to efforts against plans for a new prison in Washington.
Victoria Law	May 04, 2020
Judge Denies 'Stand Your Ground' Defense For Alabama Woman Who Killed Her Alleged Rapist
Brittany Smith will most likely go to trial, where she faces up to a life sentence.
Lauren Gill	Feb 04, 2020
'He Had Already Hurt Me.' Alabama Woman Argues For 'Stand Your Ground' Immunity In Killing of Alleged Rapist
Brittany Smith, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a man she says brutally raped her, argued in court this week that she acted in self-defense and should be immune from prosecution.
Lauren Gill	Jan 17, 2020
Women In Jail And The Criminalization Of Survivors
Vaidya Gullapalli	Oct 30, 2019
Louisiana Woman Sentenced to Life for Attempting to Rob Grocery Store With Toy Gun Seeks Mercy
Gloria Williams was in her 20s when she was sent to prison for her part in a robbery that turned deadly. After serving nearly five decades, including one decade in solitary confinement, Williams now has a chance at freedom.
Victoria Law	Aug 06, 2019
Alabama Woman Faces Life Sentence For Killing Man Who Allegedly Raped Her
In 2018, Brittany Smith killed a man who she said brutally raped her. Smith was charged with murder and she now faces life in prison as well as challenges getting adequate treatment at a state psychiatric hospital.
Lauren Gill	Apr 10, 2019
Justice in America Episode 20: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition
Josie and Clint talk about prison abolition with Mariame Kaba.
Josie Duffy Rice, Clint Smith	Mar 20, 2019
Sentenced To Life At 16 In Slaying Of Man Who She Said Pulled A Gun On Her
In 1996, Michele Benjamin was sentenced to life without parole for killing a man who she said solicited her for sex and menaced her with a weapon in New Orleans. A Supreme Court decision led her to be re-sentenced to life with a chance at parole in 2016. Today, a parole hearing brings the possibility of freedom.
Josie Duffy Rice	Feb 11, 2019