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Cohen Hearing Summed Up
Ken Ashford February 28, 2019 Congress, L'Affaire Russe, Stormy Daniels & Karen McDougal Affairs, Trump & AdministrationLeave a Comment
Cohen's testimony includes accusations — relating to Trump's racism, his lack of concern for the public weal and his attempts to conceal his academic record — that, if true, are simply embarrassing. But, as noted by Max Bergmann of the Moscow Project at the Center for American Progress, the president's former lawyer also implicated him in at least four felonies:
1. Conspiracy to defraud the United States. Cohen testified that he was present in July 2016 when Trump took a call on the speakerphone from Roger Stone, who said "that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign." According to Cohen, Trump replied, "Wouldn't that be great." (Stone has denied that account, in possible violation of a judge's gag order.) Trump cannot claim that he did not know where the leaked emails ultimately came from: It had been public knowledge since mid-June 2016 that Russian hackers had penetrated the Democratic National Committee.
2. Lying to the FBI and the Justice Department. According to CNN, Trump, in his written testimony to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, claimed "that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton." Cohen contradicted those assertions.
3. Suborning perjury. Cohen testified that Trump encouraged him to lie to Congress about his attempts in 2016 to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and that his personal lawyers reviewed the mendacious testimony.
4. Violating campaign finance laws. Cohen testified that Trump told him to pay off a porn star and reimbursed him for doing so. Cohen even produced a check Trump signed while he was president and another one that was signed by Donald Trump Jr., implicating the president's son in this felony, as well.
To these four offenses, one may add: 5. Bank, wire and tax fraud. Cohen testified that Trump inflated his assets to win bank loans and deflated them to reduce his taxes — precisely the kind of scheme for which Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is now facing lengthy prison time. And Cohen added that he knew of other offenses that federal prosecutors are still investigating.
Notably, Cohen confirmed that he is actively cooperating with prosecutors in the Southern District of New York:
Prior to Wednesday, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York were known to have been examining whether any Trump Org executives violated campaign-finance laws as part of the scheme to reimburse Cohen and had been conducting an investigation of the Trump inaugural committee, CNN has reported.
On Wednesday, Cohen suggested they are also examining a conversation he had with Trump in the spring of 2018, within two months of the FBI having executed search warrants on Cohen's home, hotel room and office.
After telling the committee that conversation was the last time Cohen spoke to Trump, Cohen said he couldn't speak further about that matter because it is under investigation by prosecutors. "I've been asked by them not to discuss and not to talk about these issues," Cohen said.
Minutes later, Cohen was asked: "Is there any other wrongdoing or illegal acts that you are aware of regarding Donald Trump that we haven't yet discussed today?" Cohen replied: "Yes, and again those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the Southern District of New York."
At another point, Cohen disclosed: "I am in constant contact with the Southern District of New York regarding ongoing investigations."
Questions directly related to the Russia investigation were intentionally limited; Cohen provided closed-door testimony on those matters this week to the congressional intelligence committees. After his Tuesday appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, ranking member Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia stated, "When this investigation started, I said it may be the most important thing that I'm involved in in my public life in the Senate. Nothing I have heard today dissuades me from that view."
Yet, two pieces of pertinent information were discussed in the open session testimony on Wednesday. First, Cohen stated that it was his opinion that he had witnessed Donald Trump Jr. informing his father that the now infamous June 6th, 2016 Trump Tower meeting was set up and going forward, although this is nothing more than informed conjecture on Cohen's part. Second, and more concrete, was Cohen's testimony that he was present for a July 2016 speakerphone conversation between Donald Trump and Roger Stone in which Stone claimed to have spoken directly with Julian Assange.
In July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump's office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone. Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign. Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of "wouldn't that be great."
In one way, this isn't as damning as it might look. As a Republican congressman pointed out in the hearing, Assange had publicly stated more than a month before, on June 12, 2016, that he had documents that would provide "enough evidence" to indict Hillary Clinton. The significance of the Trump/Stone call is that it contradicts the story both of them have been telling for almost three years now.
Based on other evidence that the Office of Special Counsel has produced in court filings, it seems unlikely that Stone was telling the truth about speaking directly with Assange. At different times, Stone used Jerome Corsi, Ted Malloch and Randy Credico as intermediaries, and he exchanged some text messages with Assange, but there's no public evidence that Stone had phone conversations with him. On the other hand, assuming that Stone was at least accurately conveying what he had learned second-hand from Assange, this represents an earlier (and probably different) contact than anything Mueller has so far produced.
To see why this is a problem for the president, remember that this was one of the items Mueller had on his list of questions he asked Trump to answer: "What knowledge did you have of communication with or regarding Roger Stone, persons associated with Roger Stone, Julian Assange, or WikiLeaks?"
Trump reportedly denied explicitly and in-writing having any knowledge of these communications. Mueller would need further corroboration to make a perjury charge here stick, but presumably he has phone records and, perhaps, other witnesses.
Not one Republican asked a question about Trump. Predictable I suppose. Instead, they tried to impugn Cohen's character. It almost was overkill — the fact that he is going to prison for lying. But Cohen was contrite, and unflustered.
They continuously lambasted Cohen for having come before Congress previously and lying his head off. But the only perjury counts he received were related to lies the president had told himself. Even more sketchy is the fact that Cohen stated under oath that the president's lawyers had reviewed and edited his perjurious testimony before he gave it.
This cognitive dissonance provide extra poignancy when Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona told Cohen, "You're a pathological liar; you don't know truth from falsehood" and Cohen responded, "I'm sorry, are you referring to me or the president?"
Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) made an ass out of himself by countering the charge of Trump being a racist, by using Trump's (African-American) wedding planner as a prop.
At the end of the day, Cohen did more political damage to Trump than legal damage. In a normal world, the political damage would be devastating. But the political divide is so entrenched that I don't think it moved the needles on most people.
House Republicans needed a trial lawyer—or even a moderately bright junior-high mock-trial participant—to tell them how to do anything. Cross-examination is hard. It's not just barking at the witness. It takes meticulous planning and patience. Republicans could have marshaled Cohen's many sins of the past to undermine his statements today. Instead, they returned repeatedly to lies and misdeeds he's already admitted, wallowed in silly trivialities such as the "Women for Cohen" Twitter account, and yelled. The effect was to make an unsympathetic man modestly more sympathetic. Republicans committed the classic cross-examination blunder: They gave the witness the opportunity to further explain his harmful direct testimony. They provided Cohen with one slow pitch up the middle after another, letting him repeat the cooperating witness's go-to explanation like a mantra: I did these bad things so often and so long because that's what it took to work for your guy. I have seldom seen a cross-examination go worse.
The attacks on Cohen's credibility only went so far because, in many cases, Cohen had the receipts, including reimbursements to Cohen for the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
Peter Wehner in the New York Times:
Michael Cohen's testimony before Congress on Wednesday revealed as much about the Republican Party as it did about President Trump and his former lawyer. In the aftermath of Mr. Cohen's damning testimony, several things stand out.
The first is that unlike John Dean, the former White House counsel who delivered searing testimony against President Richard Nixon in 1973, Mr. Cohen produced documents of Mr. Trump's ethical and criminal wrongdoing. (Mr. Dean had to wait for the Watergate tapes to prove that what he was saying was true.)
Mr. Cohen's most explosive evidence included a copy of a check Mr. Trump wrote from his personal bank account, while he was president, to reimburse Mr. Cohen for hush money payments. The purpose of that hush money, of course, was to cover up Mr. Trump's affair with a pornographic film star in order to prevent damage to his campaign.
Other evidence produced by Mr. Cohen included financial statements, examples of Mr. Trump inflating and deflating his wealth to serve his interests, examples of charity fraud, efforts to intimidate Mr. Cohen and his family and even letters sent by Mr. Cohen to academic institutions threatening legal actions if Mr. Trump's grades and SAT scores were released. (Mr. Trump hammered President Barack Obama on this front, referring to him as a "terrible student, terrible," and mocking him for not releasing his grades.)
Yet Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, in their frantic effort to discredit Mr. Cohen, went after him while steadfastly ignoring the actual evidence he produced. They tried to impugn his character, but were unable to impugn the documents he provided. Nor did a single Republican offer a character defense of Mr. Trump. It turns out that was too much, even for them.
In that sense, what Republicans didn't say reveals the truth about what happened at the hearing on Wednesday as much as what they did say. Republicans showed no interest, for example, in pursuing fresh allegations made by Mr. Cohen that Mr. Trump knew that WikiLeaks planned to release hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016.
In a sane world, the fact that the president's former lawyer produced evidence that the president knowingly and deceptively committed a federal crime — hush money payments that violated campaign finance laws — is something that even members of the president's own party would find disquieting. But not today's Republican Party.
Instead, in the most transparent and ham-handed way, they saw no evil and heard no evil, unless it involved Mr. Cohen. Republicans on the committee tried to destroy the credibility of his testimony, not because they believe that his testimony is false, but because they fear it is true.
By now Republicans must know, deep in their hearts, that Mr. Cohen's portrayal of Mr. Trump as a "racist," "a con man" and "a cheat" is spot on. So it is the truth they fear, and it is the truth — the fundamental reality of the world as it actually is — that they feel compelled to destroy.
This is the central organizing principle of the Republican Party now. More than tax cuts. More than trade wars. More even than building a wall on our southern border. Republicans are dedicated to annihilating truth in order to defend Mr. Trump and they will go after anyone, from Mr. Cohen to Robert Mueller, who is a threat to him.
This quote from the day stands out. Cohen tied Trump directly to Wikileaks via Roger Stone:
… I was in Mr. Trump's office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone. Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of "wouldn't that be great."
It is not criminal, but damaging politically. In the past, Stone has denied the link, Jeffrey Toobin wrote:
"I have no memory of ever talking about WikiLeaks with him," Stone told me in Fort Lauderdale. Responding to persistent rumors that Mueller has a witness who says he heard Trump and Stone on a speakerphone discussing WikiLeaks, Stone said, "Prove it."
Cohen is that witness, and perhaps Trump's secretary too. The danger for Trump now is other Trump Organization employees, although they are few, may see an opening for abandoning a sinking ship, as may White House staff.
Cohen made that danger explicit in a damning statement to Trump's defenders: "I did the same thing that you're doing now for 10 years. I protected Mr Trump for 10 years," Cohen said. "I can only warn people, the more people follow Mr. Trump, as I did blindly, are going to suffer the consequences that I'm suffering."
Those words will outlive those of Trump's defenders. The former Trump "fixer' delivered them like an oracle in Act 1 of a Greek tragedy. We know what happens in the final act.
Seth Meyers takes a closer look:
On a side issue, the Florida State Bar is looking into ethics violations by Matt Gaetz for his threatening tweet (now removed from Twitter):


October 2017 will mark the beginning of Esprit Orchestra's 35th Anniversary Season. With an emphasis on Canadian content, three World Premieres, and Canadian Premieres of works by leading international composers, the 2017/18 season strongly reflects the dynamic artistic vision that has always been at the core of Esprit's programming. Founding Music Director & Conductor, Alex Pauk and the orchestra will be joined by outstanding guest soloists throughout the season, including Canadian violinist Véronique Mathieu, soprano Shannon Mercer, and the Japanese taiko drumming ensemble, Nagata Shachu. All concerts take place at 8:00 pm at Koerner Hall, and are preceded by engaging pre-concert talks with the composers and musicians. Concert dates are: October 15, 2017; November 19, 2017; February 11, 2018; April 15, 2017.
Esprit's opening concert, an all-Canadian program titled Eternal Light, takes place on October 15, 2017. Drawing listeners into an enchanted realm of expressive intensity and exotic beauty, the concert features Colin McPhee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, always a favourite with Esprit audiences. In this work for large orchestra, inspired by Balinese gamelan music, McPhee magically adapts gamelan motifs and rhythms to create musical forms ranging from symphonic surges with powerful rhythmic drive to atmospheric, dream-like meditations. Eternal Light opens with Christopher Goddard's Spacious Euphony. From its beginning, this vast musical arch builds in energy and exuberance to transform itself into a fanfare for the start of the concert as well as the celebration of Esprit's season. Claude Vivier's Siddhartha, the composer's largest and most profound orchestral work, will receive its Toronto premiere on the concert. Based on Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha, this other-worldly work of awe-inspiring monumentality "inhabits a twilight realm between reality and the imagination" and encompasses every musical aspect of the mystical and spiritual explorations that consumed the now world-renowned Vivier's life.
November 19, 2017 marks the second concert of Esprit's 2017/18 season, titled after Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason's piece, Emergence. This work sweeps listeners up in a kind of dayream that reflects Bjarnason's wide-ranging experience working in pop and classical new music. Violinist Véronique Mathieu returns to the Esprit stage after her spellbinding performance at the end of last season to perform as guest soloist in the Canadian premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Just a stranger here myself…, a work by Doug Schmidt previously commissioned and premiered by Esprit, will have its second performance. The piece explores Schmidt's unique take on what it means to be 'home'. Finally, Ana Sokolovic's Ringelspiel is an evocative depiction of childhood, inspired by the merry-go-round.
Plug In, on February 11, 2017, will allow the audience to experience the technological progression of the telephone through music. Hear My Voice by Toronto-based composer, Eugene Astapov, was commissioned and premiered by Esprit in spring 2017, as part of Creative Sparks, Esprit's annual mentoring/education program. The piece incorporates the very first recordings of Alexander Graham Bell's voice on the first telephone, out of Brantford, Ontario in 1876. From the historic origin of the telephone to the modern day smart phone, Chinese composer Tan Dun's Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds will include audience participation in creating sound via an app on their phones. The February program also features the Canadian Premiere of Korean composer, Unsuk Chin's Mannequin, and the World Premiere of a commissioned work titled Lilt by Canadian composer, Matthew Ricketts.
The season ends on April 15, 2017 with Taiko Plus!, a program that includes Maki Ishii's spectacular, electrifying Mono-Prism, combining Toronto's Japanese taiko drumming ensemble, Nagata Shachu with Esprit. In keeping with the Asian threads running through our season and maintaining strong musical relations with China, Esprit will give the Canadian premiere of Chinese composer Fuhong Shi's Concentric Circles. World Premieres of two new works by Canadian composers are also on this program. Esprit will premiere a new work for soprano Shannon Mercer and orchestra by Chris Paul Harman. Scott Wilson's new work, Dark Matter, will transform scientific data from the CERN Large Hadron Collider into orchestral and electronic sound as well as video graphics.
In addition to the subscription concert series, Esprit will be expanding education and outreach programming in major ways for the 2017/18 season. The cornerstone project this season will be Ontario Resonance, a free student mentorship program to mark the 150th Anniversary of Ontario. Running from September to November, the program focuses on the creation of new music by students with the theme of Ontario places, sounds, and cultural ties. Professional composers will mentor students in seven schools in the GTA region, providing them with hands-on performance and composition opportunities. The program incorporates multiple artistic disciplines, and includes students from diverse backgrounds. Each participating school will host a concert in November, during which the students' compositions will be performed by a combination of student musicians and members of Esprit Orchestra.
Ontario Resonance Mentor Composers have been commissioned by Esprit to compose short pieces under the same Ontario theme as their students. These pieces will all be premiered at the Ontario Resonance finale concert on November 23, 2017 at Trinity St. Paul's Church. This concert will be free of charge and open to the general public.
All Pre-Concert Chats Moderated by composer Alexina Louie.
Sunday April 15, 2018 | Esprit Orchestra Presents: Taiko Plus!
Esprit Orchestra is Canada's only full-sized orchestra devoted exclusively to performing and promoting new orchestral music. Esprit Orchestra gratefully acknowledges Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Foundation, SOCAN Foundation, The Koerner Foundation, The Hal Jackman Foundation, The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundation, Timothy & Frances Price, Judy & Wilmot Matthews, and The Max Clarkson Family Foundation for the their generous support.


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City Lights Media Group Announces Video and Digital Distribution Agreement With WEA Corp.
Strategic partnership includes video and digital distribution of feature films, television programming, documentaries and special interest
City Lights Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with WEA Corp., Warner Music Group Corp.'s (NYSE: WMG) U.S. sales and retail marketing company, for U.S. video and digital distribution of City Lights' produced and acquired feature film, television, documentary and special interest programming.
City Lights Media Group, based in New York City with an office in Los Angeles, is a fully integrated media company that includes one of the largest post-production facilities in the country. City Lights creates, markets and distributes hundreds of hours of television programming for major cable networks, produces exclusive content for broadband and hand held digital devices, in addition to developing, producing, acquiring and distributing feature films and special interest fare.
WEA Corp., named 2006 "Large Distributor of the Year" by the National Association of Retail Merchandisers (NARM), distributes audio and video product in the U.S. for WMG and its family of award-winning record labels. Beginning in spring 2007, City Lights Home Entertainment intends to release between 20-25 programs per year through WEA's distribution network.
"WEA is thrilled to join forces with City Lights to distribute their diverse portfolio of television, film, documentary and special-interest video content. We look forward to supporting their top notch releases with our national distribution and marketing resources," said John Esposito, President and CEO, WEA Corp.
"City Lights has been pursuing its objective of transitioning from a service facility and producer of content to a broad based producer and distributor of content in all spheres," says Danny Fisher, CEO and principal of City Lights along with brothers Jack and Joe Fisher, Michael Almog, and TV president Dave Noll. "We have found in WEA an enthusiastic and creative partner that shares our vision of diversity of both content and delivery systems of the future."
Sal Scamardo, president of City Lights Home Entertainment states, "It's a rare opportunity to be able to shape and launch a new company, particularly one with the extraordinary resources and talent pool that City Lights possesses. Together with WEA's amazing team, including John Esposito and Vice President Allan Golden, we look forward to creating and nurturing a brand that represents entertaining, diverse and high quality programming that consumers want."
About City Lights Media Group
City Lights Media Group has become one of New York City's most respected and fastest growing media companies, engaged in film and television financing, production and distribution and operating one of the largest post-production facilities in the country. City Lights Pictures executive produced John Waters' "A Dirty Shame" for New Line Cinema and produced supernatural thriller "Tamara" for Lionsgate from "Final Destination" creator Jeffrey Reddick. City Lights Pictures is completing post-production on "Descent," produced by and starring Rosario Dawson, directed by Talia Lugacy, and produced by Morris S. Levy's M.E.G.A. Films. City Lights is also in post-production on "The Ten," a comedy spoof of The Ten Commandments directed by David Wain and starring Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Famke Janssen and Gretchen Mol. City Lights Pictures is in development on "Interrupted," a feature film adapted from legendary director Nicholas Ray's posthumous autobiography, "I Was Interrupted," to be directed by Philip Kaufman. City Lights Television is currently in production on over 200 episodes of television for networks including AMC, TLC, Court TV, Discovery, HGTV, WE, DIY, Oxygen, Weather Channel, and MTV. Series currently airing include AMC's "Movies 101," HGTV's "Hammered" and "Don't Sweat It," and TLC's "Cover Shot." City Lights Digital's broadband series include its popular daily show "Heavy News" on Heavy.com.
About WEA Corp.
WEA was the first major music distribution company in the U.S. and has continued to set the standard for sales and marketing in the music industry for more than thirty years. In addition to the Warner Bros., Elektra and Atlantic labels, WEA distributes audio and video releases from Rhino Entertainment, Asylum Records, Word Entertainment, Time-Life Music, Warner Music Latina and Curb Records, as well as several other labels. WEA's e-Commerce department works with online and traditional retailers for all commercial, digital and wireless transactions on behalf of Warner Music Group's (WMG) U.S. labels. The department develops and delivers sales and marketing programs to promote WMG's artists to online retailers and other partners.
Headquartered in New York, WEA Corp. has regional offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Source: WEA Corp.

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20:30 - 22:30 Famous 'Double Scotch' Ceilidh Band followed by tombola and live auction for fantastic items, with all the proceeds going to worthwhile charities.
There will also be a break just after midnight for bacon rolls and stuffed cabbage.
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Chimanimani: A community in distress
Stories and News
Communities living in Chimanimani district, in the mountainous province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, are slowly coming to terms with the havoc wreaked by cyclone Idai, which resulted in the death of more than 169 people in the area (according to the Civil Protection Unit).
Few will forget the night of 15 March 2019, when winds of 200 km an hour tore through the valley, bringing such heavy rains that rivers and their tributaries burst their banks, and landslides washed whole houses away. Community members have different tales to tell.
Heavy rock fall caused some to experience what felt like an earthquake. Others heard sounds like heavy trucks moving.
Their stories speak of a community that is still in deep shock. In these small communities, almost everyone knows each other and everyone has been affected. Children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, neighbours, or whole families have been lost.
Many have relatives and colleagues who have still not been found. More than 328 people are reported missing and 11 255 people have been displaced in Chimanimani.
Some village members have spent days digging, trying to recover the remains of loved ones buried under boulders. A detection of smell or flies lingering, being a signal of a possible dead body underneath. Some bodies were retrieved using this cruel tactic.
MSF logistics coordinator, Guillaume Malin makes an assessment to check if the MSF vehicle can pass through the river. Photo: Gloria Ganyani/MSF
This catastrophe, the first of its kind to be experienced in the area, leaving a trail of destruction in the community and changed the lives of many in an instant. In some communities, houses, shops and factories were completely destroyed, and all that remains are rocks and wood.
Many lost everything including food, shelter, clothing and their sources of livelihood. Life-saving medication, for chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, washed away.
As news filtered through of the destruction in Chimanimani, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team quickly travelled to the area. Yet with roads and bridges destroyed, Chimanimani was completely cut off from access, making it difficult for humanitarian actors to quickly provide aid.
With the health ministry, MSF set up a stabilization centre at 'Skyline' on the outskirts of Chimanimani. The injured were ferried by Army and private helicopters from inside Chimanimani to 'Skyline', with the most seriously injured being transferred to the nearest referral hospital in Chipinge.
A total of 80 patients were airlifted to medical centres while a total of 232 patients had received medical assistance from a combined effort of various medical practitioners as of 26 March 2019.
With water pipes destroyed by the cyclone, the lack of clean water sources in Chimanimani is a concern for water-borne diseases like cholera and typhoid. There are still bodies lying buried under rubble in river beds, which also contaminates drinking water.
MSF teams are supporting the Ministry of Health and Child Care to provide medical assistance including the provision of chronic care medicines to people that were affected by Cyclone Idai.
Where the roads are inaccessible, the teams are resorting to walking on foot or cycling to reach patients in affected areas but difficult to reach. MSF will also continue to focus on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities and continuity of chronic care and will remain alert for any other additional needs.
Regina Dirani (37) from Ngangu township, Chimanimani in eastern Zimbabwe, is one of many people whose houses were destroyed by Cyclone Idai. Photo: Gloria Ganyani/MSF
Regina: "I continue to hear earth tremors during the night"
Regina Dirani (37) from Ngangu, Chimanimani, had her home destroyed by the cyclone. What started as the sound of a heavy truck and then felt like an earthquake lead to the destruction of her house and everything inside. She continues to hear earth tremors each night between 12 midnight and 2 am, a clear sign of mental trauma.
Before the disaster, Regina was earning a living as a cross border trader. However, her identity documents including her passport were lost and she fears being unable to provide for her family. She feels stranded and wants to leave the area as soon as possible but is unable to do so.
She worries about the lack of food and is worried about disease outbreaks like cholera or typhoid, as there is no clean drinking water and all toilets were destroyed.
Peter Matonhodze was treated at the Skyline stabilization centre that was set up by MSF to provide medical assistance to victims of Cyclone Idai. Photo: Gloria Ganyani/MSF
Peter: "If I try to sleep, I continue to see visions of bodies being swept away in the floods"
Peter Matonhodze (25) from Runyowani village in Chimanimani, eastern Zimbabwe is grateful to be alive after narrowly escaping death. Peter was swept away by heavy rains caused by the cyclone, as he tried to run home from his banana plantation in nearby Copper.
He was luckily caught on a tree, which he climbed up for safety, and spent the next three days there, without food or water.
Speaking from the 'Skyline' stabilisation centre, where Peter received medical treatment from MSF, a visibly shaken Peter explains: "In Copper, I left my brothers and their families. I fear that I might have lost all of them and I might be the only person in my family who is still alive."
While his wife and two children thankfully survived, scenes of people being swept away in the floods continue to haunt him.
"My mind is still unsettled. The memories are still fresh. If I try to sleep, I continue to see the pictures and visions of bodies being swept away in the floods. I see visions as if I am playing a film of what happened. I also saw cars being washed away and some were hitting the tree that I was climbing," explains Peter.
Peter has lost everything to the rains: his identity documents were swept away, his maize field and banana plantations were destroyed and he does not know how he is going to survive.
Rudo Mukuruzadu of Ngangu township in Chimanimani lost a bag which had all her medicines and medical records after her bag was washed away by the rains. Photo:
Gloria Ganyani/MSF
Rudo: "I was worried because I didn't know how I was going to survive after losing my medication
Rudo Mukuruzadu of Ngangu suburb in Chimanimani lost a bag containing all her medicines for hypertension and medical records after it was washed away by the rains caused by the cyclone.
Tormented that she may not be able to remember all the medicines she used to take, Rudo decided to go to Chimanimani hospital to check if they still had her medical records. MSF teams have been supporting health centres in Chimanimani by providing medical assistance including providing chronic care medicines to survivors of cyclone Idai.
The nurses found that Rudo's blood pressure was very high. "I think my blood pressure shot up because of the stress induced by cyclone Idai. I was worried because I didn't know how I was going to survive after losing my medication", says Rudo. "I am grateful because the nurses and doctors have really assisted me. I feel like my life is in their hands", she adds.
MSF doctor Virginia Moneti attends to a patient, Peter Matonhodze from Runyowani village in Chimanimani, eastern Zimbabwe. Photo: Gloria Ganyani/MSF
Dr Virginia Moneti, MSF doctor: "Most patients we saw were traumatized
Virginia, who works in MSF's non-communicable disease (NCD) project in nearby Chipinge was one of the medical doctors treating patients brought to 'Skyline', the stabilisation centre set up by MSF to provide medical assistance to survivors of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani.
"We saw many patients who were traumatized, with injuries and wounds that were infected because they had spent days without treatment. Others had fractures and needed to be transferred immediately," she says.
"Many people in Chimanimani spent days alone isolated from the world. They suffered alone. Some took time to determine whether their relatives were alive or not," she explains.
The stabilisation centre that was set up by MSF at Skyline, Chimanimani, eastern Zimbabwe to support the Ministry of Health and Child Care and partners to provide medical assistance to people affected by Cyclone Idai. Photo:
Dr Elizabeth Irungu, Medical Activity Manager, MSF, Chipinge Sub Base, Mutare Project
Elizabeth visited Ngorima clinic as part of an MSF outreach team which is visiting clinics and communities in Chimanimani which were cut off from all road access after the cyclone.
We met the Sister in charge and other villagers who narrated their experience during the cyclone and we were able to do an assessment and establish the clinic needs as well as surrounding satellite sites. Residents narrated horror stories of an entire family swept away, of recovered bodies and those missing. A heroic story of a family of six rescued by neighbours who pulled them using a rope from the rooftop of their house made me proud of the humanity of this community. Patients with chronic conditions had run out of medicines and the clinic was low on stocks. A story of two girls who incurred burns and were unable to access the clinic for four days was very sad.
Read more about MSF's activities in Zimbabwe
Read more stories from Zimbabwe.
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Gallery Talk: Carla Rae Johnson
Séance: Exhibition by Carla Rae Johnson
Tuesday, January 16 – Saturday, March 10
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Fine Arts Gallery
Westchester Community College
Academic Arts Building 3rd Floor
75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla New York 10595
Gallery Hours: Mon–Sat 10am–3pm + Thu 4–6pm
Imagine Bessie Smith at the piano with Beethoven. Picture Emily Dickinson playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. What would Anne Frank discuss with Albert Schweitzer? "Séance," an exhibition by artist Carla Rae Johnson, stages imaginary meetings between inspiring individuals who never met during their lifetimes.
While Emily Dickinson and Marcel Duchamp meet to play a game of "chess," word games occupy Hildegard of Bingen and Herman Melville who float on a sea of letter tiles. As Bessie Smith and Ludwig Van Beethoven gather at the piano, Audre Lorde and Abraham Lincoln build a bridge. Georgia O'Keeffe and Galileo Galilei search the heavens and the earth in a game of "I Spy" and Anne Frank and Albert Schweitzer play "Hide and Seek." (Unexpectedly, it is Anne who seeks and Albert who hides.) Finally, in a work-in-progress, Frida Kahlo meets Franz Kafka to ponder human suffering while playing "Ring-Around-the-Rosie." Thought-provoking and carefully researched, these drawings and sculptures are beautifully suited to exhibition on a college campus.
Carla Rae Johnson, a professor at Westchester Community College for 13 years, taught drawing and 3-d design in the Art Department. In 2016, she retired to work full-time in her studio. As an artist, Carla Rae's work includes drawing, sculpture, conceptual, performance, and installation art. Her work is directly connected to ideas and often addresses issues of social, political, and cultural import. Carla Rae Johnson is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Drawing, a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture, and a 1990 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited in solo, invitational, and curated shows in museums and galleries in New York City and nationally.
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Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has warned that it will terminate the optical fibre laying contract with Nepal Telecom (NT), United Telecom Ltd (UTL) and Smart Telecom if these telecom operators fail to make tangible progress in the project within the next two months.
Talking to The Himalayan Times, Digambar Jha, chairman of NTA, informed that none of the aforementioned telecom firms have made desirable progress in optical fibre laying projects assigned to them, thereby compelling NTA to take necessary action.
Jha was reappointed to the top post of NTA on Friday.
"We will set a certain work completion target and give these firms two months to accomplish the target. If they fail to accelerate the fibre laying projects accordingly, we will terminate contracts with each of them," informed Jha.
With an intention to develop information superhighway in the country, NTA had signed an agreement with NT in September 2016 to lay the fibre network in Provinces 1, 2 and 3; with UTL in April 2017 to lay the fibre network in Provinces 4 and 5; and with Smart telecom in September 2017 to lay the fibre network in Provinces 6 (Karnali) and 7.
As per the agreement signed with these telecom firms, NT must complete the optical fibre laying process by September this year, while UTL and Smart Telecom must complete their projects by April and September next year, respectively.
Sadly, NT has just completed the tender process while Smart Telecom and UTL have not started the construction work of the project yet, as per Jha. Both UTL and Smart Telecom have just received the right of way permission to lay the optical fibre from the Department of Roads.
If these firms cannot take forward the designated projects in a desired manner, NTA should bring foreign firms for the project, opines Jha. However, bringing in foreign firms for the optical fibre laying projects, which are being funded through the Rural Telecommunications Development Fund (RTDF), will need a few amendments in laws as existing legal provisions state that NTA must use RTDF through local operators to increase people's access to telecommunication services.
Citing technical problems, Nepal Telecom had cancelled its first tender for optical fibre and had published a retender for the project, thereby delaying the project by several months. NTA had awarded the contract to NT to lay the optical fibre network in 32 districts or 2,376 kilometres along the Mid-Hill Highway.
The project awarded to NT costs almost Rs 4.88 billion. Similarly, the cost of laying optical fibre along sections assigned to UTL and Smart Telecom hovers around Rs 2.1 billion and Rs 3.94 billion, respectively.
Meanwhile, officials of NT and Smart Telecom have vowed to expedite the optical fibre projects. "We have already begun optical fibre laying process and will complete the project within time," informed an official of Smart telecom.
Similarly, Shovan Adhikari, spokesperson for NT, informed that while NT will not be able to meet the set deadline, it is now in a position to expedite the project as the bidding process has been completed and necessary project equipment have been purchased.


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Slovene diaspora, attempting to classify the treatment of the confusion of cultural identity from age and gender perspectives through three landmark novels of contemporary British Asian writers: The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureish
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Hello there! Today's Stampin Royalty Challenge is a color challenge, check out the colors and grab your supplies and head over to Stampin' Royalty to show us what you have created.
Today's card has a ton of new products from the new catalog. I really love the new stamp set/framelits combos. This stamp set is Layered Labels and the framelits are the apothecary accents framelits dies. The sentiment is stamped twice in more mustard and old olive, punched out with the oval punch and popped up on the more mustard framelit. Two basic pearls anchor the sentiment.
This new set Papaya Collage has some great images, this frame, bird, leaves and rose all work together well. The bird was stamped first in pool party, and rolled in old olive for the two toned look. This card has a bit of vintage to it, some spritzing, sponging, and curled edges do the trick. The inside of the frame was embossed with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder for a bit of definition.
This is some retired spice cake DSP, the rose is stamped in island indigo to break up the print. Another apothecary accent die was used for this shape. A pool party seam binding ribbon bow was crinkled up and rolled into a ball to get just the right vintage look.
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Mihintale is the most important place for Sri Lankan Buddhists because that is where Buddhism was first introduced to the country. The King Devanam Piyatissa who reigned at Anuradhapura received the first message of Buddhism at this mountain in 247 BC which was delivered by Thera Mahinda, the son of the great Buddhist emperor Ashoka of India at that time. This deliverance is said to have happened on a Poson Poya day which falls in the month of June and therefore it is celebrated at Mihintale every year.
Mihintale, also known as "Missaka Pabbatha" is a peak of a mountain range which has steps cut on the rock to climb up to a summit that is 1000 feet in height. Aradhana Gala, another rock which is known as the place where the Thera Mahinda and his group of Buddhist monks landed after travelling through air from India. The view from the summit is of course enchanting and quite worth the long climb. It is best to manage the climb early in the morning if you wish to manage it comfortably because once sun is high, the rock get heated and hard for bare feet. Maha Saya is the large stupa built on top of the summit and still survives in its full glory as a result of careful preservation processes.
There are other stupas around the Mihintale hill like the Kantaka Cethiya and Ambhastala Dageba which had been built by various kings along the years. Scattered at the foot of this sacred mountain are some ancient ruins that have been discovered to be an ancient hospital complex. Traditional medical equipments had been found at this site.


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Economic Watch: China's foreign trade maintains stable growth on sound economic fundamentals
Source: Xinhua| 2019-04-12 19:17:21|Editor: Li Xia
BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade registered stable growth in the first quarter thanks to a robust performance in March, as the country's sound economic growth supported supply and demand.
China's foreign trade of goods climbed 3.7 percent year on year in Q1 to 7.01 trillion yuan (1.04 trillion U.S. dollars), the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Friday.
Exports increased by 6.7 percent year-on-year to 3.77 trillion yuan in the first three months, while imports went up by 0.3 percent to 3.24 trillion yuan, the GAC said.
The stable growth was partly driven by a rapid increase in trade volume in March, which jumped by 9.6 percent year on year to 2.46 trillion yuan, said Li Kuiwen, spokesperson for the GAC.
Exports surged by 21.3 percent in yuan terms last month, while imports dipped by 1.8 percent, GAC data showed.
China's economy has maintained stable growth this year, with economic indicators such as the manufacturing purchasing managers' index for March pointing to upward momentum, which provided a sound environment for trade growth, Li said.
"We believe the economic fundamentals are solid," Li said, adding that the country would continue to promote balanced trade, with pro-import events such as the second China International Import Expo scheduled in November.
The growth was also driven by mild increase in prices, which climbed by 3.5 percent for imports and 4.4 percent for exports in Q1, Li said.
The exchange rate of Chinese currency yuan was generally stable in Q1, also contributing to the stable growth, he added.
In Q1, exports and imports of products under the general trade category rose 6 percent year-on-year to 4.17 trillion yuan, accounting for 59.6 percent of the total foreign trade, 1.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year, customs data showed.
China's trade with the European Union, ASEAN countries and Japan increased 11.5 percent, 8.1 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively, while trade with countries along the Belt and Road registered faster-than-average growth, with the combined trade volume standing at 2 trillion yuan, up 7.8 percent year on year.
"The potential for trade cooperation between China and other Belt and Road countries has been unleashing, which is becoming a new driver for China's trade growth," Li said.
He expected that the country's foreign trade will maintain mild growth in the second quarter.
To keep trade stable, the GAC will continue to implement policies to improve customs efficiency and cut compliance costs in exports and imports, Li said.
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Through the first month of the 2017 MLB season the tightest division in baseball is without a doubt the NL Central. All five teams have had some major surprises, and with 70 percent of the division's games played against fellow NL Central teams, the standings are separated from top to bottom by just three games. April is in the books, and here's how the division looks.
The Cardinals have bounced back after starting the season 3-9 to go on a 10-4 run. With eight of those 10 wins coming against NL Central teams, the Cardinals have charged up the standings to the second position. Jedd Gyorko has been the lone bright spot for the Red Birds at the plate. After hitting a career-high 30 home runs in 2016, Gyorko leads the Cardinals once again in home runs in 2017 with six. Strong pitching has been the story so far for the Cardinals. Their starting rotation is led by Mike Leake and is among the best in the majors. Leake boasts a 3-1 record with a 1.35 ERA while posting a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5. The pitching has succeeded largely without the help of the rest of the team. The Cardinals have the worst fielding percentage in the entire MLB.
Eric Thames has been a God-send for the Milwaukee Brewers. He's hitting .326 with 11 home runs, but the most amazing part is his amount of runs he has scored. Thames has crossed home 29 times this season, second only to the 2015 NL MVP Bryce Harper. The rest of the Brewers are also scoring like crazy this season, good for third in the league with 143 in total. They lead the league in home runs by the wide margin of four, and five brewers have at least 16 RBI's. Besides righthander Chase Anderson, the Milwaukee pitchers have been awful. Even closer Neftalí Feliz has an ERA of over 6.00. Look for the Brewers to go on a run, as six of Milwaukee's nine series in May come against teams with losing records.
The Cincinnati Reds are 6-12 in their last 18 games, including 4-10 against the rest of the NL Central. Their pitchers have the second-worst ERA in the MLB, and are tied for the fourth-highest amount of earned-runs allowed. Brandon Finnegan is the only starter for the Reds with an ERA under 4.00. The pitching has been particularly terrorized by Milwaukee Brewer Eric Thames, giving up eight home runs to the first baseman in the month of April. Billy Hamilton is still stealing bases, and Joey Votto is still hitting home runs, but scoring the eleventh-most runs in the MLB just is not cutting it with the simply awful pitching. Watch out for Adam Duvall as a possible sleeper-pick NL MVP candidate.
With one of the youngest starting rotations in the MLB, 30-year-old veteran Ivan Nova has anchored the Pittsburgh Pirates pitching staff. Along with Nova, former prospects Gerrit Cole, Jameson Taillon, Chad Khul and Tyler Glasnow are now all in the majors, and look poised to be one of the best rotations Pittsburgh has ever had. Closer Tony Watson has picked up right where he left off last season and is among the best sinker-ball pitchers across the big leagues. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh the rest of the team had a terrible first month. They rank second-worst in fielding percentage, and 25th in runs scored. Look out for the Pirates if just one or two hitters can get hot.


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Pamela Shellberg (December 2017). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, Uncategorized.
Editors Note: Each month, Bearings contributors offer insights on a key theme in the practice of life-as-ministry. As the final installment in the issue, The BTS Center's scholar-in-residence Pamela Shellberg, PhD reflects on the articles in the issue and poses questions for further reflection by Bearings readers and the communities in which life-as-ministry plays out for them.
The authors of December's pieces in Bearings explored the nature of sacred space—what it is, how we find it, and how we might create it. In a more subtle but no less compelling way, they also explored our need for sacred space, the nature of the ache when we long to place ourselves in a sacred space.
The question of sacred space invokes a quite a lot of spatial terminology, all of which gestures toward its physical dimensions. There are words that suggest directionality, revealing us as the center of the compass rose and the point from which movement in physical spaces is referenced: up, down, outward, inward, going deep. There are words that imply the expansiveness of space as well as its limits when constrained by boundaries. There are chalk outlines on a hard floor, there is a castle, there is a Mexican restaurant.
But what makes a space sacred or not sacred is not anything that is necessarily integral to the physical place itself, but rather a felt experience, a particular quality to the apprehension of the space. In the Christian tradition, we are accustomed to making a distinction when speaking of time, calling the regular ticking of the second hand or the turning of calendar pages chronos, while referring to a time of some significance, a time with a special quality of purpose or fullness, as kairos. Belden Lane, in Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality, illuminates a similar distinction made when talking about time: topos points to a measurable, quantifiable point, a "mere location," while chora refers to a place with an energizing force, one that engages the imagination in drawing connections to other aspects of our life. Lane draws on Plato who referred to chora as the "wet-nurse," the "suckler and feeder of all things," and "the capacity of a place to resonate to the immediacies of human experience" (p. 39). It is generative space just as kairos is generative time.
The human experiences to which sacred space resonates for the authors are best described with the spatial language of distance, space becoming sacred whenever that distance collapses. Mark Collins has misplaced himself, absent from himself and distant in depression. Hazel Cherry feels unknown, distant from God in her grief, anguish, and discontent. Paul Blankenship reports that for his friend Robert, the most miserable part of being homeless is alienation, being distant from human community. All three long to close a perceived distance—from one's self, from God, from each other.
Mark Collins "How the Grinch Told Christmas: Or, Sacred Space Is Where It Finds You"
Mark Collins says that he "misplaced" himself, that he discovered that he was clearly "absent" from his life. Although he could see himself in the mirror, Collins didn't find himself there. The mirror is a topos kind of space, the mere location of his reflection. And, he notes that mirrors lie. On the other hand, when he helps an elderly couple who needed directions, he sees through himself, past topos to chora, to a place where there is something other than himself—his more angelic self, a self that has a part in something greater than himself.
Can you relate to Collins's experience of having "misplaced" himself? What circumstances lead to feeling lost to one's self?
What exactly does he find in looking toward the older couple who needed help?
What makes the space he now occupies "sacred"?
What other spatial terminology do you find in the article? How does it expand or extend Collins's ideas about what makes sacred space?
What is the character of sacred space for Mark Collins?
Hazel Cherry: "Where Can I Run To? Creating Sacred Space as a Black Woman"
Hazel Cherry locates herself in a space often circumscribed by classism, sexism, and racism, and also by the anguish of deaths and broken relationships. Having been "lynched" by life's tragedies and feeling forsaken, the sacred space Cherry seeks is one of healing and of being intimately known. It is a space in which each aspect of the fullness of her human experience is affirmed as holy—something she does not find in traditional church or the world. She doesn't seek external refuge, but instead goes deeper within herself, entering what Teresa of Avila the "interior castle" and the path that could "lead her home." Imagining God as a Black Woman, listening to music by Black women artists singing her life story, and addressing God in her journal by the familiar names of her grandmother, her friends, and significant historical figures all serve to open a space within her in which she recognizes herself as intimately known. The distance between God and her collapses into chora.
If sacred space is the capacity of a place to resonate to the immediacies of human experience" how does Hazel Cherry's construction of sacred spaces resonate to the immediacies of her experiences?
Try to map, with some specificity, her experiences and the practices that lead her deeper.
How could you similarly construct space in which your deepest needs are acknowledged and would "lead you home"? What music? What writing? What rituals?
What other spatial terminology do you find in the article? How does it expand or extend Cherry's ideas about what makes sacred space?
What is the character of sacred space for Hazel Cherry?
Paul Blankenship: "Make a Place for Yourself in the Darkness"
In the context of our current political climate and the particular challenge that people who support Donald Trump pose to many progressives, Paul Blankenship demands that we consider how it is that sacred space must hold all those who seem most "other" to us, whoever "they" or "us" happens to be. Blankenship takes the measure of what liberals say about Trump supporters as they try to make sense of Trump's success. But the article isn't specifically about this political situation as much as it is proffering an example of all the ways we speak about, explain, and interpret those who are disturbingly different from us. Sharing the story of Robert, a homeless gay man in Seattle who supported Trump, Blankenship challenges Christians by saying that in order to actually be a Christian, the Christian must create a space for the judgments made to be at least temporarily untrue.
Blankenship makes the creation of sacred space a communal obligation, in service of the sacred work of reconciliation. What makes the space sacred is that it is a place where people can "suspend their immanent identities" and "practice their transcendence." Quoting Emanuel Levinas he asserts that, "When we try to contain another person in our thoughts, we do violence to who they really are. And that prevents the possibility of authentic, ethical relationships."
How do you react to Blankenship's propositions to the church?
Transcendence can be considered movement into a space beyond what is physically apprehended. Explain what you think Blankenship means when he talks about suspending immanent identities and practicing transcendence. For whom would it be most difficult for you to create a space where immanent identities could be suspended? Do you agree with this as a way to characterize "sacred" space?
What is your response to the quote by Emmanuel Levinas? Have you ever felt victim to this kind of violence? Can you think of a way you have done this kind of violence to another?
What is the character of sacred space for Paul Blankenship?
A Convergence of Sacred Space
Mark Collins talks about love pointing outward, that the sacred is found in acts that gesture away from one's self in the direction of another. Hazel Cherry quoted Teresa of Avila who described the interior castle and an interior path that leads you home. What might a conversation between Mark Collins and Teresa of Avila sound like?
Paul Blankenship asserts that when we try to contain God or another in our thoughts we do violence to them. How do you think containing one in one's thought might apply to Mark Collins as he stands before the mirror?
How does Blankenship's idea about the sacred being a place where immanent ideas are suspended and transcendence is practiced relate to Cherry's and Collins's ideas about the sacred?
Who would Cherry, Blankenship, or Robert see in Collins's mirror?
Do Cherry and Collins suspend their immanent identities and practice transcendence? In what ways?
Can it be that one's own self is the person we try to contain in our thoughts, doing violence to who we really are? Can you see a way that you do violence to your own self in this way? How could you create a space for the judgments you make about yourself to be at least temporarily untrue? What would you imagine that transcendence to be like?
Beldon Lane, Black Women, Hazel Cherry, Interior Castle, Levinas, Mark Collins, Pamela Shellberg, Paul Houston Blankenship, Sacred Space, Theresa of Avila
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Simone Toomer serves each family, believing that each should have access to support, resources and autonomy, in NYC where many are distant from their families and dear friends. After the positive natural birth experience of her daughter, with her doula and partner by her side, Simone wanted to channel her energy in a new direction by becoming a certified birth and postpartum doula. Simone also takes from her own birthing and postpartum journey to fuel her passion through the 4th trimester. Simone is a certified lactation counselor working in her IBCLC, doula educator/ mentor for her certifying doula organization Doula Trainings International and Lamaze certified childbirth educator. Simone also holds a certification as an infant sleep educator to normalize newborn behaviors and gentle parenting through what can be seen as challenging times in babies development. She is involved in many community parenting support groups by being a La Leche League Leader and Hospitality chair of Mocha Moms, Brooklyn chapter and is ready to hold hands with those on this journey, no matter how many times you've walked the path before, or not.
After her 2nd was born at home with a supportive birth team, Simone further realized how important a trusted, skilled care provider and support team was and made a difference. Simone struggled with breastfeeding for the first 2 weeks, which was a drastically different experience from with her first. Despite feeling discouraged at times, she called on her community for support and advice. Simone realized before how birth preferences can be different, however through her own experience realized how each journey can be different too, as is each family. Simone respects and honors this and brings forth education and non-judgmental care to the families which she serves.
Simone is CPR and First Aid certified and is always attending workshops and conferences continuously to strengthen her knowledge, further her education and support her families to the best of her ability. Simone has worked with families in different scopes from being an employee of the Women, Infant and Children Program(WIC) program as a breastfeeding peer counselor, where their goal is to increase nutritional and breastfeeding awareness in communities, to working with families of the foster care system, shelters, of the LGBTQ community, with special needs, premature births and parents of multiples. Simone has a BA in psychology, is a birth doula with the Brooklyn Department of Health By My Side Doula Support Program and looks to continue her education to further nurturing families and bridge the gap between her community work and passion for social justice and advocacy. Simone is a Brooklyn based mom and when not supporting families, she's building memories with her own.
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A Florida man was killed by his large, flightless bird called a cassowary after he fell into it's enclosure.
According to the Daily Beast, Marvin Hajos,75, was in close proximity to the bird when he fell into it's enclosure. Deputy Chief Jeff Taylor said the cassowary may have attacked the caretaker once he close to it.
The cassowary is known to be the most dangerous bird in the world due to its ability to kill predators or threats with a kick. It can also run up to 31 miles per hour and can cut open their victims with their long, blade-like talons.
Cassowaries are native to Australia and New Guinea and are used for their meat but if they are brought to the United States, they are often raised as a pet or prize possession. However, Florida Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Karen Parker says the birds are not easy to handle since they are dangerous.
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ADVICS Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. was established on December 1, 2011. It is located in Pinthong 3 Industrial Estate, Sriracha, Chonburi Province, covering 84,800 sqm (53 rai) and currently employs around 400 people.
Caliper Brakes are a main product of the factory. After considerable investment in technologies, machinery and human resources, ADVICS finally became the first manufacturer in Thailand able to provide high safety equipment in the form of ABS. As a result, we have gained the confidence of car manufacturers such as Toyota, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Daihatsu Japan, GM and Suzuki, who trust in our competence, rely on our high-quality products and choose ADVICS as their brake systems supplier.
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"We welcome the decision to extend TPS for some Yemeni nationals, but not redesignating Yemen as a nation with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a cruel move that will condemn families who fled violence after the administration's deadline. The US is actively bombing Yemen, and the country's civil war has displaced more than 2 million people. These families need protection, but instead are faced with a heartless administration focused on making America white again.


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Heart Attack Statistics by Age
Heart attacks have been the major cause of death across the world. The heart attack statistics available to us from sources in the medical field support this fact clearly. So, in this article, let us go through some statistics to understand the connection between heart attacks and the age of a person.
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A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is caused due to a blockage in the flow of blood to the heart. The main cause of heart attacks is believed to be fatty deposits on the walls of arteries. Fat deposits leads to the narrowing of the arteries and they get ruptured, leading to clotting of bloodstream. The statistics related heart attacks, by age, reveals that this ailment leads to more deaths as compared to various other serious ailments. Family history, work related stress, lack of proper sleep, smoking, drinking excessively and lack of exercise are the main reasons for heart attacks. Given below are some heart attack statistics which you need to read carefully to get an idea of how heart attacks affect people of different ages.
The incident rate of heart attacks per 10,000 people is around 190 in people who are over 85 years of age, around 117 for those between 75-84 years of age, 66 for those between 65 and 74 years of age, 37 for those between 55 and 64 and 18 for people between 45 and 54.
Among middle-aged people, i.e. those in the age group of 35 – 44, the rate per 10,000 is below 7, while for those between 0 – 34 years is 0.3 per 10,000.
More than 8.7 million people in the United States suffer from angina.
For all people (all age groups), heart attacks is projected to be the leading cause of death by 2020.
Statistics also reveals that around 40% of American men have some kind of heart trouble (heart attacks included) after the age of 20.
Statistics reveal that 1 in every 8 women aged between 45 to 64 has heart trouble, whereas 1 in every 4 woman has heart trouble above the age of 65.
In the age group of 40 to 67, the number of heart attacks in African-American men is much more as compared to those in Caucasian men.
The percentage of death is as high as 50% in cases when heart attacks are not immediately treated, irrespective of age.
The total number of heart attacks occurring in the United States is around 1.5 million (mostly for older age groups), and the number of deaths are around half a million.
In the above paragraph, we got the general statistics for heart attacks as per the age of a person. The table given below will help you know statistics for men and women about heart attacks.
Age Criteria Statistics for Men Statistics for Women
Does not matter Vulnerability to heart attacks Men are more vulnerable to heart attacks as compared to women. More than 420,000 men are hospitalized for heart attacks every year. Though women are less vulnerable to heart attacks, death due to heart attacks are more in women as compared to men. Around 350,000 women are hospitalized for heart attacks every year.
40 and above Death after first heart attack In this age group, around 18% deaths occur after the first heart attack. In this age group, in women, around 22% deaths occur after the first heart attack.
45 and above Death after first heart attack In this age group, 32 % deaths occur after the first heart attack. For women in this age group, the fatality rate is around 42%.
45 and above Risk of heart attack In men, risk of heart attack increases greatly after 45 years of age In women, the risk of heart attack increases greatly after 50 years of age.
64 to 70 Average age for first heart attack The average age for first heart attack in men is 64. The average age for first heart attack in women is 70.
Technological advancement in the medical field has come as a big relief for heart patients. By following a healthy lifestyle and undergoing regular check ups, it is possible to live a life free of heart attacks. So take care of yourself.
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A tough novel species of Muraingrasses identified by scientists
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New Delhi, December 10, 2020: A new species of Indian Muraingrasses known for their ecological and economic importance, such as fodder, have been spotted by scientists in Goa in the Western Ghats, one of the four global biodiversity hotspots of India. The species has adapted to survive harsh conditions, low nutrient availability, and blossoms every monsoon.
Globally 85 species are known from Ischaemum, of which 61 species are exclusively found in India. The Western Ghats have 40 species with the highest concentration of the genus.
Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology, has been exploring the biodiversity of the Western Ghats for last few decades.
A team led by Dr. Mandar Datar and Dr.Ritesh Kumar Choudhary from ARI has been working on relationships among different groups of plants and their evolutionary development (plant taxonomy and phylogeny) of Indian Muraingrasses (Genus Ischaemum) to document the diversity and report novel species. The team discovered a novel species named Ischaemumjanarthanamiifrom plateaus of Western Ghats of Goa, and a research paper describing this species was published recently in Annales BotaniciFennici, a Finland based journal.
During their explorations on lateritic outcrops (habitats where portions of freely exposed bedrocks protrude above the soil level due to natural reasons) of Goa, the ARI team collected an interesting specimen of the species. Careful observations and critical morphological studies identified the species as a novel one. The species was named Ischaemumjanarthanamiiin honour of Prof. M. K. Janarthanam, Professor of Botany, Goa University, for his contribution to the Indian grass taxonomy and documentation of the floristic diversity of Goa state.
The first collection of this new species was made in the 2017 monsoon. The population was kept under observation for the next two years to confirm the consistency of its characters. Morphological and molecular data of the species were used to confirm the novelty of the species.
Ischaemumjanarthanamii grows on low altitude lateritic plateaus in the outskirts of Bhagwan Mahavir National Park, Goa. The vegetation is exposed to extreme climatic conditions like desiccation in drier months and soils with low nutrient availability. However, withstanding these, the species has adapted to survive harsh conditions and blossom every monsoon.
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The 2005 GCN Gala: Innovators who march to their own drums take their awards in stride
By Trudy Walsh
Defense Executive of the Year Dave Wennergren, Navy CIO, talks about drawing daily inspiration from 'young men and women who have chosen service and sacrifice.'
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Industry Executive of the Year Robert Stevens, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., with Lockheed executive Linda Gooden.
Innovation in support of public service was the dominant theme at the 2005 GCN Awards Gala earlier this month in Washington.
Spicing up the traditional black-tie color scheme were splashes of red, white and blue'from the huge American flag backdrop on stage to the bow tie worn by Jim Williams, director of the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visit program and the winner of the Civilian Executive of the Year award.
It was also his 20th wedding anniversary. He thanked GCN for 'saving me. I didn't have any time to plan an intimate dinner.' Williams, looking over at his wife, said: 'So Honey, this is it. Please enjoy it.'
Eighteen months into his job as Navy CIO, Defense Executive of the Year David Wennergren heard that the average life span of a CIO was 18 months. He thought he'd prefer to stick around. 'I'm having a lot of fun,' he said. 'I have small children to send to college.'
Industry Executive of the Year Robert Stevens said he was 'humbled' by the award, as he couldn't get his BlackBerry to work. Stevens, Lockheed Martin chairman, president and CEO, talked about the promises of technology and ended on a serious note: 'The global war on terror is real, and it must and it will be won.'
The newest member of the GCN Hall of Fame, former IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti, received the award for a 'lifetime of service and his substantial contribution to government IT,' said emcee Tom Temin, senior vice president and editor in chief of PostNewsweek Tech Media, which publishes GCN.
Rossotti, who founded American Management Systems Inc. (now CGI-AMS) in 1970 and now is a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group of Washington, praised the 'success we have had in using technology to make the government work as effectively as it does.'
To see more pictures and read about the winning projects and people, go to www.gcn.com.
Trudy Walsh is a senior writer for GCN.


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La contea di Miami-Dade (in inglese Miami-Dade County) è una contea situata nella parte sud-orientale della Florida, negli Stati Uniti.

Con una popolazione di 2.701.767 abitanti nel 2020, è la contea più popolosa della Florida e settima di tutti gli Stati Uniti.

Il suo capoluogo amministrativo e culturale è Miami ed è una delle tre contee che compongono l'area metropolitana di Miami.

Geografia fisica
La contea ha un'area di 6.297 km² di cui il 19,96% è coperta d'acqua. La contea di Miami è l'unica negli USA che confina con due parchi nazionali, il Biscayne National Park a est e l'Everglades National Park ad ovest. I confini della contea sono:
Contea di Broward - nord
Contea di Monroe - sud e ovest
Contea di Collier - nord-ovest

Storia
La Contea di Miami-Dade fu creata nel 1836 e fu nominata così per il Maggiore Francis L. Dade, un soldato ucciso nella seconda guerra contro i Seminole. Il nome fu cambiato in Miami-Dade nel 1997 dopo una votazione di approvazione che rifletteva la modifica istituzionale che dava vita ad un nuovo governo metropolitano con un sindaco per la contea.

Uno dei maggiori disastri naturali degli Stati Uniti colpì la parte centrale della contea nel 1992, l'uragano Andrew. Causò danni per 25 milioni di dollari e necessitarono degli anni per riprendersi.

Dopo la rivoluzione cubana numerosi emigranti cubani si stabilirono nella contea.

La contea in Italia è gemellata con il comune di Viareggio e la provincia di Asti

Città principali

Miami
Miami Gardens
North Miami Beach
North Miami
Hialeah
Miami Beach
Coral Gables
Homestead

Politica

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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How to rescue a Raspbian SD card without free disk space due to large log files?
When I used tcpdump to carry out V2Ray experiments without too much attention, the file size of the system became full. When I rebooted the system, it stopped after a while. Is there any way to remote the large log files (I guessed)?
After having searched on the Internet, I found that I have to install the same Linux Raspbian as I have one on hand on another new SD card.
I downloaded a lite version of Raspbian of size 3xxMB. I was able to install on a new SD card and made it run on my Rasberry Pi 3b box. I put it on a USB reader and plugged into the USB slot before powering up the Raspberry Pi.
removed the large files such as /var/log/daemon.log and other large-sized logs.
After the above steps, I was able to rescue the Raspbian SD card.
There is another method which is the same as above if you have a Raspbian Desktop version SD card. Just boot it up and plug the over-run sized SD card into one of the USB slot with an SD card reader. After just a few second, the system will detect the presence of the inserted SD card with two partitions. You can easily edit the over-sized partition by removing unnecessary big log file.
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