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Sri Lanka highlights country achievements at panel discussion on Women, labour and nutrition during CSW61
The overall health policy of Sri Lanka focuses on providing free health services in an equitable manner that benefit the rural poor, vulnerable and post conflict communities, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Dr. Rohan Perera told a large audience at the UN today (20 March 2017).
The ambassador was a panellist at an event titled 'Women and labour: A nutritional perspective' at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, held on the sidelines of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
The event was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka together with Argentina and Indonesia in collaboration with WHO, FAO, UNICEF and the World Bank.
H.E. Dr. Rohan Perera, Ambassador & Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka, as a panelist at the event along side Dr. Menabde, Executive Director, WHO Office at the UN, H.E. Esther Lungu, First Lady of the Republic of Zambia, and H.E. Ms. Silvia Lommi, Under-Secretary, National Council of Women of Argentina
The discussion was moderated by Dr. Nata Menabde, Executive Director, WHO Office at the UN, and speakers included Ms. Esther Lungu, First Lady of the Republic of Zambia, H.E. Ms. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, First Lady of Canada,(by video message) H.E. Ms. Silvia Lommi, Under-Secretary for the National Coordination Unit for the Prevention, Assistance and Eradication of Violence against Women of the National Council of Women of Argentina and Dr. Sameera M. Al. Tuwaijri, Global Lead, Population and Development, World Bank. Both the First Ladies of Zambia and Canada thanked Sri Lanka for co-sponsoring the event in their messages.
Ambassador Perera in his remarks highlighted the achievements of Sri Lanka in women's maternal nutrition, underlining the provision of free health services in an equitable manner, the maintenance of about 78% of exclusive breastfeeding and the decline in stunted and underweight population among children under 5 as well as a decline of low birth weight which reflected improvements in maternal health and nutrition. He further noted the focus on assisting conflict affected women, referencing the National Framework for Women Headed Households to improve their wellbeing, a fact which was appreciated by Dr. Menabde in her follow up observations to the Ambassador's remarks.
H.E. Dr. Rohan Perera delivers his remarks at the side event on 'Women and Labour: a nutritional perspective'
Ambassador Perera also emphasized the usefulness of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition, stating that Sri Lanka welcomes the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition from 2016 to 2025 as "such a cohesive umbrella framework will help Sri Lanka mobilize its national plan in the context of improving nutrition around the world. It will provide an overall structure for all stakeholders including the private sector and academia to work together: and for countries to learn from each other and support each other," the Ambassador said. Dr. Menabde commended the commitment by H.E. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, in investing in nutrition which indicates a noteworthy commitment at the highest political levels.
The audience at the event


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VENÉCO VELO is een Handbalvereniging uit het Zuid-Hollandse Wateringen, in het Westland.

Geschiedenis
Handbalvereniging VELO is opgericht op 15 juni 1949. De handbalvereniging is begonnen onder de naam O.N.A. (Ontspanning na Arbeid) en komt voort uit de gelijknamige gymnastiekvereniging. Er wordt gespeeld volgens het 11-handbal (=11 spelers). Alleen meisjes ouder dan 16 jaar mogen op dat moment lid worden van de handbalvereniging. Op 29 december 1951 wordt besloten om zich aan te sluiten bij de vereniging VELO.

Op 23 oktober 1954 wordt het clubgebouw op het VELO-complex aan de Harry Hoekstraat geopend. De herenafdeling wordt opgericht op 29 april 1954. De dames- en herenafdeling handbal worden op 30 juli 1957 samengevoegd tot één afdeling handbal. Ook beide besturen worden hiermee samengevoegd. Vanaf het seizoen 1963-1964 wordt het voor het eerst ook mogelijk voor meisjes vanaf 10 jaar om te handballen. Begin jaren 70 wordt de sportfederatie VELO opgericht. Hierin werken de afdelingen voetbal, handbal, judo en badminton samen. Hierdoor wordt de afdeling handbal een zelfstandige vereniging. Vanaf 31 maart 1971 krijgt handbal een eigen statuut en een eigen huishoudelijk reglement. Eind oktober 1972 is de officiële opening van het complex aan de Noordweg.

In het seizoen 1972-1973 wordt besloten om over te gaan op het 7-handbal, ook wel het klein-veldhandbal genaamd. Doordat al veel verenigingen hierop zijn overgegaan verdwijnt het 11-handbal langzamerhand. Hierdoor is wel de noodzaak ontstaan voor verharde buitenvelden. Deze zijn bij de start van het veldseizoen 1974-1975 gereed.

Anno 2018 is VELO een sportvereniging die niet meer weg te denken is uit Wateringen. De afdeling handbal is uitgegroeid tot een club met maar liefst 37 teams, waarvan enkele heren/jongens teams.

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Matthew Spear (born December 2, 1970 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American former soccer coach who is currently the President of the Richmond Kickers.

Spear attended Davidson College where he was a four-year starter (1988–1992) on the men's soccer team. He was captain of the 1992 squad that won the Southern Conference championship.

In 1993, Spear became an assistant coach at Davidson, moving up to head coach in 2000 when longtime head coach Charlie Slagle retired.  In 2003, he took the Wildcats to a 15–6–2 record and an NCAA post-season berth.  He was a Southern Conference Coach of the Year and has compiled an 85–84–11 record. On December 6, 2018, Spear stepped down as Davidson's men's soccer coach to be named President of the Richmond Kickers. Spear overlooked the Kickers during their 2019 and 2020 seasons. Following the 2020 season, Spear stepped down citing family reasons.

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Banner Promotions signs Cornelius Whitlock
Gabriel J Gonzalez @GabeJGonzalez Mon, Mar 25 2013
PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 25, 2013)—Arthur Pelullo's Banner Promotions is pleased to announce the signing of Welterweight Cornelius Whitlock to a promotional contract. Whitlock will make his Banner Promotions debut on March 29th as part of ESPN's Friday Night Fights undercard at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
Whitlock of Landover, Maryland has a record of 1-0-1 with his victory coming by vicious knockout of former amateur standout Shakur Jackson in the third round on January 31st in Staten Island, New York.
The twenty-nine year old Whitlock turned pro on December 19th, 2012 with a draw with Mikkel Lespierre in Lespierre's hometown of New York.
Whitlock competed in over 30 amateur fights and won Golden Gloves titles and competed in the world championships.
Whitlock has a slick and elusive style with quick hands and footwork and he displayed his explosive power in the win over Jackson.
"I am happy to sign with Banner Promotions", said Whitlock.
"This is the first time someone has been behind me in my career so this is pretty big."
Whitlock is trained by Malcolm Lowery and sees big things for his pupil.
"He is a great kid, fights hard and is a gym rat", said Lowery.
"He has a lot of tools as he is a very slick boxer-puncher with great punching power in both hands."
"We are very excited about this signing", said Banner Promotions CEO Arthur Pelullo.
"We got to see Cornelius in person and we came away very impressed after he stopped Jackson and we know he has talent to become a terrific fighter."

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Since being initiated into the Benares Gharana of tabla by one of the great old masters of the style in 1994, Shen Flindell has grown to become one of Australia's leading tabla players. He is the accompanist of choice for Indian classical artists visiting Brisbane, and performs in several fusion groups including Tibet2Timbuk2 and Spirit of Bhakti. He is best known for his beautiful sound and supportive accompaniment, and has released 6 CDs ranging from Indian classical bansuri to Tibetan world fusion. Shen loves bringing people together to unite through music, whether it's playing with his many young students or collaborating with top musicians from around the world.


One of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, Romano Guardini influenced many, not least Luigi Guissani, the founder of Communion and Liberation, the philosopher Josef Pieper, and Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. The German theologian — his family moved to Germany from Italy when he was one-year-old — helped begin the liturgical movement and through that and other work affected the Second Vatican Council. Among his most famous books in English are The Spirit of the Liturgy, his devotional biography of Jesus, The Lord, and The End of the Modern World.
The insights below are taken from his book Sacred Signs, which can be read here.
Ashes [especially the ashes applied on Ash Wednesday] signify man's overthrow by time. Our own swift passage, ours and not someone else's, ours, mine. Everything turns to ashes, everything whatever. This house I live in, these clothes I am waring, my household stuff, my money, my fields, meadows, woods, the dog that follows me, the clock in the hall, this hand I am writing with, these eyes that read what I write, all the rest of my body, people I have loved, people I have hated, or been afraid of, whatever was great in my eyes upon earth, whatever small and contemptible, all without exception will fall back into dust.
The high "art of dying" is to accept the life that is leaving us, and by a single act of affirmation put it into God's hands.
When he comes to die a man must decide whether he will or will not once more take his whole life in hand, be sorry for all he has done amiss, and plunge and recast it in the burning heat of repentance, give God humble thanks for what was well done, (to him be the honor!) and cast the whole upon God in entire abandonment. Or he may give way to despondency and weakly and ignobly let life slip from him. In this case life comes to no conclusion; it merely, without shape or character, ceases to be.
The deep significance of death is that it is the final sentence a man passes on his whole life. It is the definite character he stamps upon it.
The evening hour is the hour of completion. We stand then before God with a premonition of the day on which we shall stand before him face to face and give in our final reckoning. We have a sense of the past being past, with its good and evil, its losses and waste. We place ourselves before God to whom all time, past or future, is the living present, before God who is able to restore to the penitent even what is lost.


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Russian suspicions of U.S. motives in Syria make cooperation unlikely
Kurdish Syrian refugees carry their belongings after crossing the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc on Sept 25. At least 140,000 Kurds have fled the town and surrounding villages due to a siege by Islamic State militants, crossing into Turkey.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - The United States and Russia see Islamic State as a common enemy but are failing to overcome deep mutual distrust and agree on how to tackle the threat together, making any role for Moscow in the US-led campaign unlikely, say US officials.
Differences between the former Cold War foes are stark, say the officials. Moscow suspects Washington's ulterior motive is removal of its ally, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. Washington refuses to consider working together as long as Moscow insists that US strikes need Syrian and UN approval.
Diplomatic efforts, from high-level talks at the United Nations to informal contacts in Moscow, have failed to resolve those misgivings, which echo broader problems in US-Russian relations, already at a post-Cold War low over the crisis in Ukraine, American officials say. "The main obstacle to Russian participation is Moscow's position that 'this can only be taken with permission of the Syrian government or through the UN,' which is not something we accept," a senior US administration official told Reuters on the condition of anonymity. "If Russia thinks that somehow they're going to gain some kind of shift in the US policy, that is not going to happen." Though Russia has no sympathy for Islamic State militants who have seized large tracts of territory in Iraq and Syria and face US-led air strikes in both countries, Moscow's relationship with Syria forms a difficult backdrop to talks over any potential role.
Russia's absence from the anti-Islamic State coalition complicates Washington's calculus, reducing the possibility of US leverage over the flow of Russian arms into Damascus as the US-led campaign moves forward with air strikes in Syria and arms anti-Assad rebels.
Moscow, which has been trying to raise its diplomatic and economic influence in the Middle East, has been a major provider of conventional weapons to Syria, giving Assad crucial support during the nearly four-year civil war and blocking wider Western attempts to punish him with sanctions for the use of force against civilians.
Washington, meanwhile, backs moderate Syrian rebels who are seeking to topple Assad and are likely to play a central role in any future ground campaign inside Syria. The US government accuses Assad of widespread human rights abuses and says it will never ask for Assad's permission for its air strikes.
While this all but rules out military collaboration in Syria against Islamic State, also known as ISIL, US officials still see potential for common cause on another front: aiding Baghdad's battle to roll back Islamic State's gains in Iraq. But there, too, joint US-Russian action appears out of the question. "The US and Russia share an interest in defeating the kind of violent extremism that ISIL represents," a senior State Department official said.
DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING
Russian sensitivity about Assad's fate figured prominently in private discussions between Moscow and Washington in recent weeks, say US officials with direct knowledge of those talks. After President Barack Obama announced air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq in August, members of his administration began signaling to Moscow that Syria was next, the officials said.
They said Secretary of State John Kerry conveyed the message to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris on Sept. 15 on the sidelines of a conference on Iraq, attended by UN Security Council permanent members, European and Arab states, and representatives of the EU, Arab League and United Nations. All pledged to help the government in Baghdad.
At that meeting, Kerry offered assurances that the United States would not directly target Assad or his forces, the officials said. Meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday, just days after the start of the US-led air assault in Syria, the two again discussed the conflict. "It didn't change anything," a senior US official said.
At a news conference at the United Nations on Friday, Lavrov questioned the legality of the air campaign and also gave the United States a "we-told-you-so" message about the consequences of US policy in the region. "We are fighting against terrorism consistently, constantly, not just when someone announces a coalition," Lavrov said.
Moscow had long warned of the potential blowback of US support for the anti-Assad opposition in Syria's civil war. Plans to expand American training and arming of moderate rebels have only heightened those concerns.
BEHIND-THE-SCENES EFFORTS
Despite that, Russia could gain from any US success against Islamic State, which has been joined by fighters from Russia's predominantly Muslim North Caucasus, a region where militants wage daily violence to establish an Islamic state.
The bloodshed there is rooted in two wars that Moscow fought with Chechen separatists after the Soviet Union's fall and these fighters could pose a security risk for Russia if they return to the North Caucasus.
Among two dozen individuals and groups identified by the US State Department on Sept. 24 as foreign terrorists or terrorist facilitators was a Chechen militant group, Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar. The designation, which enables Washington to freeze assets and block financial transactions, was seen as benefiting Moscow.
But US officials say Washington has made no specific request to Moscow to join the coalition or work together in the fight against Islamic State. Nor has Russia offered to do so, they said. But they acknowledge Moscow's potential importance in any campaign in the Middle East. "There's no doubt that Russia is a key player on Syria, on Iraq, and will inevitably be involved in whatever we are dealing with," though it remains to be seen what kind of role that will entail, the senior Obama administration official said.
A group of US and Russian foreign policy experts who regularly advise their own governments met privately in Moscow last week, seeking common ground in the fight against Islamic State, according to a person close to the matter.
The Russian delegation, which included former officials still close to the Kremlin, expressed interest in counterterrorism cooperation, including intelligence sharing. But the talks encountered too much mutual distrust to agree on anything tangible, the person said.
The discussions were held on the basis of what is known as"Track II" diplomacy, an unofficial channel for international conflict resolution.
In Moscow, Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, said Russia's role in the fight against Islamic State likely would be limited to assisting the Iraqi and Syrian governments. Moscow already supplies weapons to security forces in both countries. "Russia has no desire, no plan and no interest to be part of any campaign led by the United States," said Lukyanov, who is also head of a Kremlin foreign-policy advisory panel. "The Russian view is that all this mess to a large extent has been produced by the reckless and crazy policy in its invasion of Iraq," he said, referring to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq that was heavily criticised by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Washington was pleased when Russia, which has often shielded Assad at the United Nations, voted on Wednesday in favour of a US-backed resolution urging governments to help stem the flow of foreign fighters to militant groups, US officials said.
But Matthew Rojansky, a Russia expert at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, said Obama's UN speech the same day in which he warned Putin of further costs of "aggression"against Ukraine may have erased any goodwill. "From the Russian perspective, everything is linked," he said.


A community organization focused on helping former offenders be successful after their release has been gifted a grant to help female clients.
The Zonta Club of Midland has granted $1,000 to Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation to assist female offenders.
"We are very grateful for their support," said Rob Worsley, executive director.
MCFOAR focuses on helping former offenders in Midland County with their successful reintegration into productivesocietallife, improving not only their quality of life, but that of their families, neighborhoods, and community. The organization helps with a variety of needs by providing resources and services for shelter, food, and clothing, transportation, creating resumes, applying for jobs, substance abuse disorder mentoring, mental health referrals, anger management andmore.
So far this year, MCFOAR has placed 82 clients with employment and assisted 47 with housing, including moving in or emergency rent. Housing and employment are major predictors as to if former offenders will reoffend or not.
FromJuly21,2015,toJuly21,2018,MCFOARhasreceived145formerprisoninmates, those returning to the Midland community from the state prison system, as opposed to those being released from the Midland County Jail. Of those145,only nine have returned to incarceration in prison, resulting in a recidivism rate of only 6.2percent.
The reduction in the recidivism rate is a substantial savings to the citizens of Midland County regarding Midland County Jail housing costs, the cost of law enforcement and the judicial system, and most importantly the lower number of victimsinour community.
For more information or to donate, go to midlandcommunityformeroffenders.org or call 989-423- 1124. MCFOARislocated at 1415 Washington St. and is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.
"We are continuing to grow," Worsely said of the nonprofit, which is in its sixth year of ensuring community safety by supporting inmates returning to the community with housing, employment and more.
The number of clients coming in continues to grow as well, with the office handling 750 client files total since the organization began in January 2013. Last year brought the addition of 115 new clients, which is a bit down from 141 clients assisted in 2016.
There have been 63 new clients so far this year.
"We're almost getting to the point where we have more jobs to fill than clients," he said. More than 360 clients have been placed with employment.
Worsley added that as of May7, MCFOAR has received 138 former inmates and from May 7,2015, to May 7,2018, only four of those clients are back in prison.
"There are some evil people out there – but most aren't." So says Rob Worsley, the executive director of Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation, located in Midland, Michigan.
Worsley, an Army veteran, has more than 37 years of experience working with offenders in law enforcement, jail administration and the Michigan Department of Corrections. He started the Midland organization after working for the Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative. During its tenure, the initiative gave local agencies funding to help ex-offenders find housing and employment when they return home. But it was replaced by a more centralized program run by the Michigan Department of Corrections that uses state re-entry money on in-prison programming.
Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation is the only nonprofit in the Tri-City area that helps returning prisoners. It works with faith communities, community assistance agencies and government offices, including law enforcement, the courts and parole and probation offices. Worsley's devotion to this work has paid off: Of the 86 parolees he is actively working with, only two have returned to prison. He says this is a win for public safety and a major savings for taxpayers, who would bear the $45,000 cost of imprisoning an offender for a year.
With new eyes and a new heart for each client, a local nonprofit is working to help those who struggle with a unique set of challenges — the kind that test trust and patience, but overcoming can make all the difference.
The work done by the staff at Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation is a special outreach aimed at helping former offenders learn how to take care of themselves without breaking the law again.
"People don't offend on a schedule, they do so when a circumstance occurs," said Rob Worsley, program director for the nonprofit MCFOAR, 1415 Washington St.
Worsley and assistant program directors Gerry McIvor and Tom Vander Zouwen spend their time assisting former inmates and prisoners as well as those who are in the Midland County Drug Court obtain housing, employment and basic needs. They also try to educate and serve as sources of on-call advice, provide workforce training and overcome road blocks.
The idea is the more these needs are met, the less likely former offenders are to revert back to their old ways. And that's a good thing for the community, because it means less crime and less recidivism, plus less costly law enforcement and judicial systems.
MCFOAR is working to add additional layers of services for clients, the latest in the form of a mentoring program for those with employment needs or drug addiction.
"We have some great opportunities for people with addictions," locally to get back on the right path, Worsley said, adding the first two weeks after a person leaves detox are the most dangerous for relapse.
The mentoring program would provide a one-on-one mentor for each client, to help them with accountability so they can sustain employment, as well as for support when they come out of drug treatment programs. The idea is to work with other organizations and employers in town.
"We're trying to put another layer in there," Worsley said.
The program would be modeled after the 70×7 Life Recovery program offered in Holland, Michigan, and Worsley said he is in the process of seeking community interest and volunteers.
Worsley, a former Midland County sheriff's deputy and jail manager, went on to work with the state's prison re-entry program. When funding for that program was discontinued in December 2012, he began MCFOAR.
The plan is to help former offenders build skills to reduce risk behaviors, plus help them build value and life balance. That means Worsley, McIvor and Vander Zouwen are on call to answer questions and provide emergency assistance, as well as hold office hours during which they help offenders obtain documents like identification and birth certificates, plus housing, employment and more.
As of March, the program has 571 client files since January 2013. Of those clients, 258 have served prison time, and 313 are former Midland County Jail inmates or involved in other programs.
During the same time period, MCFOAR placed 269 clients out of 321 with employment, resulting in a placement percentage of 84 percent. The organization also helped 163 of 165 clients asking for help with housing.
Employment and housing help are critical because they are the major predictors of whether a former offender will reoffend, Worsley said.
From March 2015 and March 2017, MCFOAR worked with 84 former prisoners. Of those, only three are now incarcerated, making the recidivism rate 3.6 percent. State and national recidivism rates, measured during the same time frame, are at 43 percent and 51 percent, according to information from MCFOAR.
MCFOAR recently was awarded a $500 grant from the Rotary Club of Midland Morning to support the Alternatives to Violence program.
There is no typical day at MCFOAR, both Worsley and McIvor say.
Some days see the staff attending the Midland County Drug Court or presenting at various organizations around town, working on new programs, or tasks including picking up furnishings, dropping off food and items to clients on tethers or who are homebound, and more.
There's no appointment necessary for offenders who need help, and they flow through the door from the morning to early afternoon.
"For each client that comes in, new eyes, new heart," McIvor said.
Jerry Laughton turned to MCFOAR for help after his second stint in prison. He and Worsley have known each other for decades, due in part to Worsley's work in law enforcement and Laughton's history. His first time in prison was in 1997, and there was no one to help when he was released two years later.
"I was totally homeless," Laughton said, adding he lived in the woods. He said his most recent release was better, knowing he could visit MCFOAR and have a cup of coffee and a chat, as well as support.
That support included help getting an apartment, as well as furnishings. MCFOAR also offered help with education, and cell phone minutes so Laughton could obtain employment. The pair talked as Worsely filled out a form to create a voucher for a check that Laughton was to take to Kmart to purchase more minutes.
"We don't give money to clients, we give them resources to meet the need," Worsley said. The cell phone minutes were a big deal for Laughton, who has mechanical skills and picked up work as he could doing odd jobs.
MCFOAR also helped Laughton obtain an apartment, as well as with furnishings, clothing and more. Laughton is no longer involved in the MCFOAR program.
Erica Hansen also has been on the client list, after experiencing the criminal system due to drugs.
A recovering addict, Hansen said she depended on support groups, meetings and church to keep her occupied and away from drugs. MCFOAR provided her help with finding a job, no small task for a person with a record, and she pointed thanks toward Worsley.
Much of the attention given to clients is teaching them to deal with things right now instead of putting them off for another day, Worsely said.
"Many of our clients have substance or other disability situations come up and we usually hear about it in the last hour," he said. That includes things like eviction orders, which clients call about on the seventh day. Many clients don't want to reach out for help because of pride, but run into trouble when the figure out they can't do it alone.
Another issue the program helps former offenders deal with is the tendency to deal with today but not worry about tomorrow, Worsley said.
The idea of making it through the current day is how their lives developed over time, he explained, pointing out many offenders were put into survival mode early in life because they did not have the kind of support or stable living situations they needed. That also means MCFOAR is teaching clients to have a long-term vision, and "it's OK to plan for the future," Worsley said.
Mindy Kuhn is a former offender who has learned much about having a long term vision, and how to reach for it.
She was connected with MCFOAR by drug court staff due to struggles with housing and food after entering the court program in the fall of 2014. "My life is awesome now," she said.
Not only did Kuhn receive help with those problems, she received support and help with transportation, and regained her happy nature and contagious smile.
"It truly changed my life," she said, citing her relationship with God, having support and being able to keep her young daughter, Kylyn, who will turn 2 in August. That was huge for Kuhn, whose problems with drug use caused her to lose custody of her three older children. She needed to have a stable home to keep Kylyn.
"They worked real hard to help me get into a place," she said.
The work Kuhn completed during her recovery, in addition to keeping clean, included attending recovery meetings, staying away from people who would pull her back into poor decision making, attending church and working with counselors and an infant mental health worker.
"I understand I had to put in the work," she said, pointing to MCFOAR for helping her or pointing her to people who could.
"We're always blessed when we can hear the recovery in people's lives, where they come from," McIvor said.
"They have your back," Kuhn said of the program staff.
As one of the requirements to graduate drug court, Kuhn wrote a 15-page life plan. It includes self-accountability, stability, attending school for her aesthetician and nail tech licenses. Her long-term goal was to operate an animal rescue operation.
"I want to go to school. I want to move out. I want to have my rescue center," she said.
At her drug court graduation, Kuhn summed it up.
Rob Worsley, program director for the Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation program, and Tina S. Van Dam of the Midland 100 Club.
The Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation program is growing, in terms of donations and community recognition.
The latest good news for the organization, which operates out of a small office in the Midland Towne Center, came with the last meeting of the Midland 100 Club for the year. At the Sept. 28 meeting, the MCFOAR program was selected for presentation to the group and received enough votes of support that it was awarded $50 from each of the 325 members.
While the monetary gift is big for the program, the community support is priceless, program director Rob Worsely said.
"While the gift is great for our program, having the support of 325 women who are leaders in the community is important," he said, pointing out the members of the Midland 100 Club are looked up to by many in the community.
MCFOAR, which partners with the Caregiving Network, assists former inmates obtain housing, employment and other basic needs. The more those needs are met, the less likely former inmates are to revert back to their old ways, Worsely said.
In July, the MCFOAR office had 458 client files, with 243 of those files belonging to people who have served prison time. Of those former prisoners, the recidivism rate is 4.5 percent. For all other offenders participating in the program, including those who have served jail time or have not been institutionalized, the recidivism rate is 2.5 percent, Worsley said.
Nearly three quarters of those seeking employment had been placed, and 98 percent of clients seeking housing assistance, including move ins and emergency rent, had been helped.
The Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation program has recently received multiple grants from community organizations.
MCFOAR, which partners with the Caregiving Network, assists former inmates to obtain housing, employment and other basic needs. The more those needs are met, the less likely former inmates are to revert back to their old ways, Rob Worsely, program director, said.
$15,000 from the St. John's Episcopal Endowment Fund.
The funding from the First Baptist Harlow Fund is for obtaining essential documents, while the remaining grants are for workforce development. The Dow Corning Donor Advised Fund monies also are to assist with housing, Worsley said.
His office has 458 client files, with 243 of those files belonging to people who have served prison time. Of those former prisoners, the recidivism rate is 4.5 percent. For all other offenders participating in the program, including those who have served jail time or have not been institutionalized, the recidivism rate is 2.5 percent, Worsley said.
"Our employment assistance has placed over 74 percent of our clients requesting assistance," he said, adding 98 percent of clients seeking housing assistance, including move ins and emergency rent, have been helped.
The Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation program has received a $19,436 grant from the Midland Area Community Foundation.
Rob Worsley, program director of MCFOAR, said the grant will fund two new programs: Alternatives to Violence and Character First.
Alternatives to Violence seeks to change the behavior of domestic assault offenders. In the past, it was operated by Shelterhouse. Character First involves 49 character qualities that are focused on reducing risk behaviors of former offenders.
MCFOAR, which partners with the Caregiving Network, assists former prisoners with obtaining housing, employment and other basic needs.
Worsley can be reached at (989) 832-8533.
A local advocacy organization aimed at helping former offenders and in turn keeping recidivism rates low is ending the year with big news.
Rob Worsley, program director of Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation, said a $20,000 grant from the Charles J. Strostacker Foundation was recently announced.
The grant will be used to continue providing housing and rental assistance, behavior assessment and modification, and more. It also requires updates on housing, expenses and recidivism rates.
MCFOAR, which partnered with the Caregiving Network earlier this year, assists former inmates with obtaining housing, employment and other basic needs. The more those needs are met, the less likely former inmates are to revert back to their old ways, Worsely said.
"It's a great savings not just to our community, but to the state overall," Worsley said of the program to help inmates be self sufficient.
So far, Worlsey has about 290 client files, and an additional 30 workforce files. The local recidivism rate is pretty stable at 4 to 5 percent, while the state average is about 35 percent, he said.
"It's been amazing since April," when MCFOAR partnered with the Caregiving Network. In June, Worsley had 240 client files.
Worsley, a former Midland County sheriff'deputy and jail manager, went on to work with the state's prison re-entry program. When funding for that program was discontinued in December 2012, Worsley began MCFOAR. He pointed out not only has he been in inmate homes, but he's talked with offenders while they were incarcerated, so he understands their situations.
He said it costs $39,000 to incarcerate one person in a Michigan prison for a year.
A program to help former prisoners integrate into society has received a boost in funding with a grant from The Dow Chemical Co. Foundation.
Rob Worsley, program director of Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation, said the $15,000 grant was made in July. The money will be used for workforce development, emergency assistance and more.
Earlier this year, MCFOAR was in need of a partner organization, which gave an opportunity for the Caregiving Network to step in.
Worsley, a former Midland County Sheriff's Office deputy and jail manager, went on to work with the state's prison re-entry program. When funding for that program was discontinued in December 2012, Worsley began MCFOAR.
He said it costs $39,000 to incarcerate one person in a Michigan prison for a year. He said his program provides a cost savings to law enforcement and the court system, and also to the community, as he assists former inmates obtain housing, employment and other basic needs, he said, adding the more that these needs are met, the less likely former inmates are to revert back to old ways.
This is the 14th in a series of articles on agencies that participate in the Midland County Continuum of Care.
When offenders complete their prison sentences and return to society, where do they go? What happens to them?
Ninety-five percent of the time they go back to the community from which they came. The success or failure of their re-entry depends on having their basic needs met and on developing the skills needed to make it on the outside.
Without such support, many ex-offenders soon go back to prison. According to the Pew Center on the States, 31 percent of Michigan prisoners released between 2004 and 2007 were re-incarcerated within three years.
Concern for ex-offenders' well-being and successful rehabilitation when they return to society has prompted former law enforcement officer Rob Worsley to form Midland Community Former Offenders Advocacy and Rehabilitation (MCFOAR).
Through MCFOAR, Worsley hopes to carry on and expand the work he did for the last four and a half years as community resource specialist (CRS) with the Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative. Michigan Department of Correction's funding for a full-time (CRS) in Midland and Bay counties was reduced to one full-time specialist for both. This greatly reduced the accessibility and availability for resources for Midland County active parolees.
Worsley, a 25-year veteran of the Midland County Sheriff's Office, including service as jail administrator, had connected with 100 or more ex-offenders in the Midland area through the state program. Now he feels compelled to carry on the work through MCFOAR.
He describes MCFOAR, for which he serves as program director, as a "one-stop shop" for former offenders. Its mission is two-fold: reduce recidivism in Midland County and make the community safer. Worsley said that ex-offenders, both former prisoners and county jail inmates, having adjusted to the controlled setting of incarceration, come back to their communities poorly equipped to function in society. They lack coping and job skills and struggle to trust strangers.
MCFOAR addresses the errant ways of ex-offenders and provides them with tools to assist their transition into society. All ex-offenders living in Midland County are eligible for help with finding housing, food, clothing, medical and mental health referrals, employment readiness, addiction counseling and mentoring.
MCFOAR is working with The Legacy Center for Community Success to apply the concept of developmental assets to former offenders. The concept of developmental assets has been successfully implemented with adolescents to reduce delinquency and improve health outcomes for Midland County youth. A parallel approach with adults is anticipated to produce related outcomes.
Worsley has his office at 1415 Washington St.; the phone number is (989) 832-8533. He currently is working without taking a wage or benefits while he seeks funding from local foundations, a City of Midland block grant fund, and area faith-based organizations. Local agencies, including the Caregiving Network, Open Door Ministries and 1016 Recovery Network, work closely with MCFOAR.
MCFOAR operates under a 501c3 tax exemption status. Worsley welcomes inquiries from individuals and community groups.
Along with more than 20 other agencies, MCFOAR participates in the Midland County Continuum of Care, working to prevent homelessness by providing housing-related services to those who are homeless or living in substandard housing.
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Note: Because the government looks for stability and wants to see that you've been financially sound for the last few years, experience counts a great deal–especially if you can relate it to the contract you're bidding on.
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IFBs are easy to find, as all of them are posted online at the Federal Business Opportunities government website.
The IFB will provide details of the contract.
Evaluate your company and each IFB to see if it would be a good match.
Before bidding, you should be completely confident that your company can complete the job and do it well.
This step is important because if you are awarded a contract and fail at the job, it will likely be your last.
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If you find you need help, check out the Small Business Administration, your local procurement office, consulting firms, and/or utilize other available resources.
Past bids are public record, so check them out.
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Before bidding on a government contract, use data analysis tools and techniques to target those contracts you have the highest likelihood of winning.
You should respond to every requirement outlined in the IFB in your bid.
Your bid should be clear. Also, make sure it points out the direct benefits of working with your company.
If you're bidding on a government contract, you may want to consider partnering with another business.
Small businesses can be somewhat limited in their capabilities. However, by partnering with another company, you can fill in those gaps.
In fact, some government contracts can only be awarded to those businesses owned by women, minorities or veterans. So, if your business doesn't fall into one of those categories, it might be helpful to pair up with one that does.
First, fill out any and all required forms. Then, as your last step, submit your sealed bid.
Bids will be opened at the assigned time that's listed in the IFB.
Now that you've got some great information on bidding on government contracts, you can incorporate these steps into your process!


2018 was a fantastic year for the Chamber of Commerce and our last event of the year was to celebrate with our members and friends at our Christmas Lunch at the Bvlgari Hotel, Knightsbridge.
After our Prosecco reception and delicious three course lunch we will had speeches from the Rt Hon Greg Hands MP and the Mayor of RBK&C.
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X-Men Forever - Volume 3: Come to Mother...Russia!
Ironic Contradictions
It is my feeling that novels within series must contribute to the overall narrative. I can understand therefore why authors in series often will not make a book that can be read alone. For instance where would The Wheel of Time end up if anyone could jump in at book eight and be able to instantly understand what was going on (Let alone the fact that book 8 is one of the worse examples in the series). However graphic novels and comics are a different matter. Often people (like myself) can only come into a comic book thread at a point nearing the conclusion. I therefore think that graphic novels should allow for more of an opening into them.
That is not to say that X-Men Forever Welcome to Mother Russia did not allow for an opening. Certainly the introduction that explained what had occurred previously was useful. However I do not believe it was executed well and I do not think that I particularly like the overlying arc for the X-Men Forever continuity as explained in this work. Because in this work it was explained to me that Wolverine had died previously (killed by Storm no less), that Kitty Pryde now had one of Wolverine's claws somehow (details are very sketchy), Gambit has a new look (okay so they took Wolverine and now they altered my other favourite character?), Sabretooth is now allied with the X-Men, there's a clone of Storm (a teenage clone) and Collosus headed back to Russia to become an item with Black Widow. So what else could be messed up in the world of the X-Men? Oh yeah Beast and Jean Grey decide to become an item by the conclusion of the novel and Professor X has left the team over revelations that mutants burn out young.
In other words this novel took my favourite parts of the X-Men, twisted it around, mangled it somewhat and then spat it back out in the form of a shiny new compilation. The strange thing is that I did not mind reading it too much. However at the back of my mind I could hear myself going: "This is not how you do a good comic let alone an X-Men comic."
So in the end it was a very weak effort from my perspective. One which I would not have likely bothered reading if I knew what kind of story existed within. Let this be a warning to future graphic novel writers: one does not screw up both Wolverine and Gambit in the same comic!


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Food, Vegetables
Interesting facts about parsnips
The parsnip is a root vegetable closely related to the carrot and parsley.
Parsnips have been cultivated for their sweet roots since ancient times.
Parsnips are native to Europe, but they have been introduced throughout the world, and because they are so hardy, they now grow wild having escaped from cultivated gardens in many areas.
The Romans frequently grew the vegetables. In fact, Emperor Tiberius adored parsnips and, every year, had them brought from France where the colder climate allowed the roots to develop a sweeter flavor.
As a source of both starch and sweetness, parsnips were of supreme importance in the medieval European kitchen.
The British are particularly fond of parsnips. It was British colonists that introduced the vegetable into the New World in 1609.
They were grown in Virginia in 1609 and were common in Massachusetts 20 years later.
Even the American Indians readily took up the growing of parsnips. In 1779 Gen. John Sullivan in his forays against the Iroquois destroyed stores of parsnips grown by these Indians in western New York.
Parsnip seed is sown in the spring, thinly in rows about a half meter apart, and the plants are thinned to stand 5 to 7 cm (2 to 3 inches) apart in the row.
It is an biennial plant that is strongly-scented and grows to over 1.5 meters (59 inches) in height.
The single green stem is 2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2 inches) thick and smooth with few hairs.
Compound leaves are arranged in pairs, with sharply toothed leaflets that are shaped like a mitten.
Yellowish green flowers form umbrella-shaped clusters 10 to 20 centimeters across.
The edible taproot is fleshy, long (can be over 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) at times), and white.
There are 75 calories in 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of parsnips.
Parsnips contain a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and nutrients, including dietary fiber, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, sodium and zinc several of the B-group vitamins, vitamin C, Vitamin E and vitamin K.
Since most of the vitamins and minerals are found close to the skin, many will be lost unless the root is finely peeled or cooked whole.
The health benefits of parsnips include improve heart health, boost the immune system, promote brain health, skin health and oral health, improve vision, prevent diabetes, supporting digestion and aid in weight loss.
Parsnip is sweet in flavor and is usually served as a cooked vegetable.
It can be baked, boiled, pureed, roasted, fried, grilled, or steamed.
Famous chefs reveal that parsnip is easy to prepared for diverse roles when brought to the table as an appetizer, soup, salad, or side dish.
When used in stews, soups, and casseroles, they give a rich flavor.
Roast parsnip is considered an essential part of Christmas dinner in some parts of the English-speaking world and frequently features in the traditional Sunday roast.
Parsnips can also be fried or thinly sliced and made into crisps.
The word "parsnip" was borrowed into Middle English in the 14th century as a modification of the Old French word pasnaie, itself derived from the Latin noun pastinaca, meaning "parsnip" or "carrot." The scientific name for the parsnip, "Pastinaca sativa," still reflects this history. "Pastinaca," in turn, traces back to "pastinum," a Latin word for a small gardening tool used to make holes in the ground for the insertion of plants, seeds, or bulbs. "Parsnip" may also remind you of the name of another edible root, "turnip," and there's a possible explanation for the resemblance. The Middle English spelling of "parsnip" ("passenep") may have been influenced by "nepe," the old form of "turnip."
In Europe, the vegetable was used as a source of sugar before cane and beet sugars were available.
In 1859, a new cultivar called 'Student' was developed by James Buckman at the Royal Agricultural College in England. He back-crossed cultivated plants to wild stock, aiming to demonstrate how native plants could be improved by selective breeding. This experiment was so successful, 'Student' became the major variety in cultivation in the late 19th century.
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Q: ProxMox with PERC 5/i RAID 5 I recently set up a dell 2950 III with ProxMox. I attached an external hard disk that is used to boot ProxMox and I would like to use the RAID 5 array to store data such as images and disks. How would I go about making a file system and allowing ProxMox to access it?
My previous attempts involve creating a partition and formatting it to be an ext4 filesystem. It appears from ssh to be a 1.8TB volume but when I add it to the ProxMox web interface it shows as 10MB.
Thanks!

A: You can use /etc/fstab to mount your raid volume to /var/lib/vz and whalla! Format you raid volume to whatever your like, EXT4(in RAID 5 is OK), ZFS(only with your raid controller in JBOD mode), whatever, and attach it via the FSTAB.
I did it that way, and it works well for me.
PS: If you already have stuff at /var/lib/vz, move it to the raid volume before you attach and reboot.

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Alexander von Humboldt and the
United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
Skeleton of the Mastodon, excavated 1801-2 by Charles Willson Peale. Bone, wood and papier mâché, approximately 118 by 177 by 65 inches. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany. Installation view of Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, photo by Libby Weiler.
By Jessica Skwire Routhier
Ed note: due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the Smithsonian American Art Museum has closed and this exhibition will open at a future date, as yet to be determined.
WASHINGTON DC – Science is an overriding concern of American life today. An individual's attitude toward, for instance, climate change, or vaccines, or gender identity is generally perceived to reflect the degree to which that person does or does not accept the truths of science. Thanks to the infamous Scopes trial of 1925, in which opposing views of human evolution were hashed out on a national stage, the last century has been dominated by a popular understanding of the works of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Darwin's theory of evolution emerged victorious from the Scopes trial, and with it his attendant ideas about the "survival of the fittest" – all life forms being in competition with each other for resources – and a general philosophy of natural progress: that over time, species' adaptations would allow them to maximize their use of these resources.
But just like the giraffe's long neck and the elephant's prehensile trunk, Darwin did not emerge, instantaneously, out of nothing. His ideas evolved, as it were, from an Enlightenment-era approach to science that was rooted in the observation of the natural world, on every continent of the earth, and that set the stage for Darwin's revolutionary ideas about the relationship between organisms and their environment. More than any other individual, the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) drove and popularized that earlier movement; in his day his name was every bit as well known as Darwin's, and his ideas were, if anything, even more celebrated. Although Humboldt was German and lived his life, when not exploring, in Paris and Berlin, he had a special relationship with the United States, dating from his first and only sojourn there in 1804. "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), originally scheduled to open March 20 through August 16, tells the story of that visit and its aftermath through the work of the American artists who were influenced by his expansive, exhaustive and reverential study of nature.
Alexander von Humboldt was already famous for his South American expeditions and his writings about them when he stepped onto the dock at Philadelphia in 1804 and was greeted by artist Charles Willson Peale. Peale was famous, too, having three years earlier excavated the skeleton of a prehistoric mastodon in upstate New York, reassembled it (partially by hand-carving missing sections of bone), and placed it in his museum in the City of Brotherly Love. "They had dinner underneath his mastodon after touring DC," says exhibition curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at SAAM; it seems wildly appropriate, then, that this very same mastodon skeleton introduces museumgoers to the present exhibition, just as it introduced Humboldt to the United States. Brought with some effort and much ballyhoo from the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany, where it has been since 1855, the mastodon occupies the center of the special exhibition galleries, literally providing a framework through which to view the artworks that encircle it. "Because the mastodon is a skeleton and you can see through it," says Harvey, "you can see ahead to where you are going and back to where you have been." Indeed.
But why such a prominent place in an exhibition that is otherwise of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture? What, really, does the mastodon have to do with art? A lot, it turns out. Peale, 63 at the time of his meeting with Humboldt, had been a celebrated portraitist in his prime, but was "functionally retired" by 1804, according to Harvey, and focusing primarily on his museum project. But somehow, Harvey says, that encounter with the great German naturalist underneath the massive bones he had salvaged from the earth "makes Peale realize that he still has things he wants to say." Within two years, Peale painted "The Exhumation of the Mastodon," a massive, genre-defying work of art that spans portraiture, landscape, history painting and scientific illustration. He went on to channel his gift for portraiture and passion for science into a series of other important works, including two late famed self-portraits done in his 80s: one in which he draws a curtain back to reveal the interior of his museum, and another in which he presents a massive mastodon bone to the viewer. All of these, plus the portrait Peale did of Humboldt during their visit, are part of SAAM's show.
The enormity of the mastodon was part of what made it so remarkable. It was also remarkable that this largest of all land mammals was, apparently, unique to North America; in this way, it was part of a key group of natural wonders that helped to shape the identity of the young United States. "Most countries pin their identities on things that they make," says Harvey – cathedrals, aqueducts, palaces, temples – "we decided to pin our cultural identity on what was already here, on features in the landscape. That's a pretty radical departure." Correspondingly, the mastodon is accompanied by representations of other mammoth-sized natural wonders, including paintings of Niagara Falls and Virginia's Natural Bridge by the crown prince of the Hudson River School, Frederic Edwin Church.
"Church is functionally raised on Humboldt," says Harvey, observing that Humboldt was well established in school curricula by the second quarter of the Nineteenth Century. By the time Church came of age, Humboldt's magnum opus, Cosmos, had begun to be published. The second volume, which came out in 1847 when Church was 21, includes an extensive section, about one-third of the total volume, in which Humboldt advises landscape painters on how to study the natural world and represent it in their artwork. "For Church, the advice that he got and that he took to heart was that as an artist you have to also be enough of a scientist to understand what you're looking at," says Harvey. "His advice to the scientist is never lose the sense of wonder; to the artist, it's don't forget the science as well as the aesthetics."
Such a philosophy bears up well today – especially now that representation is back in vogue and there is a renewed artistic interest in landscape and ecological art. (Harvey says she would have liked to do an ancillary show of contemporary art.) It also dovetails well with Humboldt's overall view of the interconnectedness of all things; in Cosmos and his other writings, Humboldt espoused the idea of the "unity of nature." In his preface for Harvey's outstanding catalogue, SAAM's chair of paleobiology, Hans-Dieter Sues, writes, "Humboldt saw humans as part of nature, not outside it, and warned that they were capable of destroying it. He viewed the atmosphere, land and sea, and all life-including humans-as parts of a harmonious, interconnected, and interdependent whole." This, Sues observes, was a "radical idea" for the time, and, again, it helped establish a basis for Darwin's observations about how living things adapt to their environments. But whereas Darwin's theories, in much of Twentieth-Century thought both in and outside of the sciences, have fostered many spinoff theories on how to adapt or die, to win the great contest that is life, Humboldt's focus on interdependence, rather than competition – along with his prescient observations about climate change and environmental degradation – give him unique relevance to our present moment.
Humboldt was also forward-looking in other respects, reflected here in groupings of objects that are related to his support of the American abolitionist movement, his interactions with America's Indigenous peoples, and his lasting influence in Latin America, where he has long been seen as a thought leader for several countries' revolutionary movements. "There's no question that when [Simón] Bolivar met Humboldt in 1804/1805 in Paris, he was deeply influenced by Humboldt's belief in the natural equality of the races," Harvey says. "Humboldt hates colonialism, hates monarchy; he and Napoleon are constantly at odds…and Bolivar wants to free his native Venezuela and throw off Spanish oppression." In Mexico, she notes, Humboldt is seen as "the father of modern archeology," having encouraged interest in and respect for preserving pre-Columbian architecture and artifacts. And Humboldt's early expeditions in South America influenced artists like Church to follow in his footsteps, helping to make the profiles of peaks like Ecuador's Cotopaxi and Chimborazo as familiar worldwide as those of the Alps.
In the Indigenous peoples of the United States, with whom Humboldt interacted on both sides of the Atlantic, Humboldt saw a vibrant, non-European cultural tradition equally worthy of esteem. He took great interest in the artist and ethnographer George Catlin's traveling troupe of Iowa (Báxoje) when they toured Paris, and he became a lifelong friend of Catlin's. Today Catlin's ethnographic portraits – and by extension, his friendship with Humboldt – can be somewhat difficult to parse. Catlin was in it to become famous and make money, at least in part, and he was also interested in his performers and portrait subjects primarily as representatives of a "vanishing race," so his work can feel exoticizing and even exploitative. He was criticized even at the time by more academically trained artist-ethnographers, including Karl Bodmer, whose 1830s trip to the United States to study Indigenous populations was directly inspired by Humboldt and resulted in a series of popular publications and engravings, also represented in the show.
"Niagara" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857. Oil on canvas, 40 by 90½ inches. National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection, museum purchase, Gallery Fund.
Revolutions in Humboldt's native Germany beginning in 1848 "solidified him as a political radical," Harvey says, dedicated to the idea of "equality of the races and support for an American-style democracy." But he was well aware of the failures of the American experiment, specifically the proliferation of chattel slavery, which he vigorously opposed throughout his life. Early on, Humboldt showed a reluctance to engage directly in political discourse about slavery, though he was unguarded in his personal correspondence. Later, however, after decades of describing himself as "half an American," he vocally endorsed the 1856 Presidential campaign of the abolitionist John C. Fremont against Millard Fillmore. A campaign ambrotype of Fremont, as well as John Quincy Adams Ward's celebrated sculpture "The Freedman," commemorate this crucial aspect of Humboldt's political and philosophical life.
Unfortunately, Humboldt did not live to see the emancipation of America's enslaved citizens. He did, however, live just long enough to witness an important historic moment that he thought might serve to bring the world together – and in which he played a not-insignificant role. The first communications across the transatlantic cable occurred on August 16, 1858, a satisfying but by no means assured advancement in the telegraph technology invented by artist and Humboldt devotee Samuel F.B. Morse. While Humboldt could and did not claim a primary role in that invention, his lifelong research into the earth's electromagnetic fields was important foundational work. Beyond that, he was a "networker and a facilitator," Harvey says, part of the circle of educated, ambitious, creative people imagining the possibilities of instantaneous global communication and figuring out how to make it possible. Two paintings, Daniel Huntington's group portrait "The Atlantic Cable Projectors," and Church's riveting "Aurora Borealis," together illustrate this remarkable scientist's interconnected allegiances to the observation, study and majesty of the natural world.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is at 8th and F Streets NW. For information: www.americanart.si.edu or 202-633-7970.
"Gallery of the Louvre" by Samuel F.B. Morse, 1831-33. Oil on canvas, 73¾ by 108 inches. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection. Photo ©Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
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If you've ever been involved in a car accident, you know just how confusing and contradictory things can be in the aftermath. So many questions, some that are downright accusatory. You may think there's no way you could be found at fault - or even partially at fault - but you may be surprised at the outcome. Car insurance adjusters go to great lengths to get you to say things that you may not want to say. Let's face it - their job is to protect their financial interests, save their company money and pay out as little as possible to make you and your car whole again. Adjusters are experts at phrasing questions to get the kind of answers they're looking for. They have years of experience in using just the right words and phrases that are specifically designed to arrive at the answer they want to hear - that you in some way contributed to the accident - even when that's not the case. Speaking to an insurance adjuster after an accident can seem like an extremely casual, even offhand conversation. Very easygoing, matter-of-fact questions, designed to seem like they are not even questions at all, are meant to make you feel at ease, like your talking to a friend. Well, rest assured - this is an adversarial conversation from the beginning. Many people think they're too smart to be lured into saying anything incriminating, so why not go ahead and give a recorded statement. After all, you didn't do anything wrong, so what's to fear, right? Wrong. What you say after an accident - as well as what you don't say - are essential elements of whether your claim is resolved fairly, and whether you receive adequate financial compensation for your damages, including any serious physical injuries. Here's one of the trickiest questions you'll encounter when the adjuster calls to get your take on what happened. They'll usually toss off some casual question like, 'Based on what happened, is there anything you could have done to avoid or prevent the accident?' And here is where I'm going to tell you exactly how to answer that one - DON'T. Again, it doesn't matter that you think you're clever enough to say just the right thing - just DON'T answer that question, period. While this is not the only form of a potentially treacherous question you may get from an insurance adjuster, it is one of the most dangerous in effecting the positive outcome of your case. There is virtually no good or correct answer to that one, and the sooner you understand that, the better. If you've been involved in motor vehicle accident - and particularly if you've ended up with serious injuries - there are some really critical things you need to know in order to protect your legal rights: •	DON'T give a recorded statement to the insurance adjuster. There are no laws requiring you to do so. •	Get a copy of the accident police report. •	No matter how tempting it may be, resist the urge to answer the 'is there anything you think you could have done to avoid the accident' question. When it comes to trick questions, this one is the killer. •	Don't agree or disagree with the adjuster's version of events. Here's the most important thing to take away from this if you've been hurt in an accident that you feel was caused through no fault of your own - don't be fooled by the "friendly" insurance adjuster and their casual questions.
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Make a Scene Revised and Expanded Edition: Writing a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time (Paperback)
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The definitive guide to writing scenes--now revised and expanded!
Scenes are the building blocks for any work of fiction--the DNA sequence that makes a novel un-put-downable and unforgettable. When writers are able to craft effective, engaging scenes, they can develop a complete, cohesive story--and a mesmerizing experience for readers.
Make a Scene Revised and Expanded Edition takes you step-by-step through the elements of strong scene construction and demonstrates how the essential aspects of a compelling story--including character, plot and dramatic tension--function within the framework of individual scenes to give momentum to the whole narrative. You'll learn how to:
• Craft an opening scene that hooks readers and foreshadows conflict.
• Develop various scene types--from contemplative to suspenseful to flashback--that are distinct and purposeful.
• Establish characters' intentions within a scene that drive the plot.
• Transition into new scenes by clearly establishing details of setting, character, and point of view.
• Create resonating climactic and final scenes that stay with readers long after they've finished your story.
The revised and expanded edition includes brand-new examples, an increased focus on advancing plot and character development, and the same knowledge and clarity that writers have come to expect from Jordan Rosenfeld. Make a Scene is an essential part of any novelist's library--make sure it's in yours.
"Scenes are the building blocks for any work of fiction, basically they are the DNA sequence that makes a novel un-put-downable and unforgettable reading experience. When writers are able to craft effective, engaging scenes, they can develop a complete, cohesive story -- and a mesmerizing experience for readers. Now in a significantly revised and newly expanded edition, Make a Scene: Writing a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time by Jordan Rosenfeld takes aspiring writers step-by-step through the elements of strong scene construction and demonstrates how the essential aspects of a compelling story (including character, plot and dramatic tension) function within the framework of individual scenes to give momentum to the whole narrative. Make a Scene shows how to: Craft an opening scene that hooks readers and foreshadows conflict; Develop various scene types--from contemplative to suspenseful to flashback--that are distinct and purposeful; Establish characters' intentions within a scene that drive the plot; Transition into new scenes by clearly establishing details of setting, character, and point of view; Create resonating climactic and final scenes that stay with readers long after they've finished your story. This newly revised and expanded edition includes brand-new examples, an increased focus on advancing plot and character development, making it an essential part of any personal, community, or academic library's Writing/Publishing instructional reference collections." --James A. Cox at Midwest Book Review
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
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Upper Kanawha Valley Today TV Show Features KVC-WV & BridgeValley Community and Technical College
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Upper Kanawha Valley Today TV…
Upper Kanawha Valley Today is a new 30-minute monthly TV show featuring organizations, events, and ALL good things happening in and around the upper Kanawha Valley of West Virginia.
The show is a collaboration with Kanawha County Schools, Suddenlink Communications, Jim Strawn & Company, and Bridgevalley Community and Technical College.
The show airs daily at 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Suddenlink's channel 17.
This month's show will air April 2, 2018 – April 9, 2018 and features KVC of WV and BridgeValley Community & Technical College.
We interviewed Tommy Bailey, Executive VP of Strategic Initiatives with KVC-WV and John Berry, VP of Student Services at BridgeValley.
Tommy talked about the recent announcement of Riverbend: Center for Supporting Higher Education.
The planned center in Montgomery for children coming out of foster care now has a name — Riverbend Center Supporting Higher Education — and is aiming to open its doors at part of the former West Virginia University Institute of Technology campus in July.
Riverbend will be the first program of its kind; to target teens aging out of foster care.
Riverbend is expected to create 210 jobs in its first 10 years and have an annual economic impact of $22 million once it has a full body of 200 students. The new program will provide a year-round environment for its students, along with life coaching services and wraparound support.
Eventually, the school should grow to have a full body of 200 students enrolled in Riverbend's three-year program, Bailey said.
"We're going to grow slowly over time, given the uniqueness of what we're doing," he said. "We want to make sure we get off on the right foot."
John discussed the role of BridgeValley. They are an vital partner in Riverbend's success as they provide the academic curriculum.
BridgeValley is excited to welcome foster youth to their community and their college
BridgeValley meets the higher education, workforce development, and training needs for industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing.
They promote student success, prepares a skilled workforce, and builds tomorrow's leaders by providing access to quality education.
He talked about their 2 campuses. Not only do they operate in Montgomery, WV but also in South Charleston, WV. They serve approximately 2000 students.
For more information about BridgeValley contact them at 304-205-6600.
If you would like to learn more about the Upper Kanawha Valley Today TV Show, contact Host and Executive Producer Jim Strawn at 304-541-4756.
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Norman Reedus Previews Season 6; Lauren Cohan Discusses the Wolves
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This week, Entertainment Weekly interviews Norman Reedus, while Lauren Cohan discusses the danger of the Wolves. Plus, there are previews from lots of other cast and crew members and building anticipation for the Season 6 premiere. Read on for more:
• Norman Reedus teases to Entertainment Weekly that Episode 6 will reveal "one particularly beautiful, gruesome zombie" as well as something that "harks back to a Daryl and Carol moment."
• Entertainment Weekly interviews Lauren Cohan, who reveals that the Wolves are "going to feel like the beginning of the end. The Wolves are going to be incredibly scary and at a time when we have a limited amount of strong people that can actually deal."
• The Telegraph interviews Andrew Lincoln, who reveals that the cast has "the same reaction as the audience does when someone dies. We feel robbed."
• Andrew Lincoln tells the Toronto Sun, "You'll notice from the first episode of the new season, it's tonally different. We're not trying to replicate what we did last year, quite the opposite. Because we know, if you repeat, it's death for a show."
• Steven Yeun, speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the battle for Alexandria, says Glenn is "finding a reason to fight for this place, and that's to have a life, to bring some semblance of life back."
• Deadline talks to Gale Anne Hurd about Morgan, and she says, "The remarkable thing is considering how few episodes he's been in, the impact that he's had. That even though he hasn't been present very much, Morgan's presence continues to resonate."
• Scott Gimple reveals to TVLine that a Season 6 episode will focus on Morgan's transformation: "Something happened in the middle of all of that. And we really do need to show [it to] you."
• Danai Gurira tells Entertainment Weekly that, at the end of Season 5, "Michonne starts to go back a little bit and pick up her sword again and realizes that, you know, I can't … I can't put away my power. There's just no way."
• Andrew Lincoln teases to the New York Daily News, "A bow is being pulled back, and in the last 30 seconds of the premiere, that bow is released, the arrow flies, and the next eight episodes are about the fallout from what happened in those last 30 seconds."
• Entertainment Weekly talks to Tovah Feldshuh, who says that Deanna "has a complete understanding now that there has to be a shift in her reality and her point of view of how the world runs in order for her to survive. So we have a woman transitioning from statesman to warrior."
• "Picking up where season 5 left off, while embarking on new plots, The Walking Dead looks very much at the top of its game, with strong character material mixed with a massive set piece in the extended premiere made possible, no doubt, by its enormous popularity," Variety says of the Season 6 premiere.
• For its part, MTV raves, "The episode is an incredible, complete package, as big as you'd want a Walking Dead movie to be; but it also shows how things start off bad — and as usual, are only going to get way, way worse."
• Deadline adds that Season 6 brings the show "an extra jolt – which, as much as the series stays focused and re-invents as it has most seasons, is a surprising and welcome reinvigoration of a blockbuster that I didn't think even needed it."
• TV Guide previews the Season 6 premiere, wondering about Rick and Morgan and whether "the two old friends [are] still on the same side."
• ComicBook.com reviews the Season 6 premiere, declaring it's "going to satisfy die-hard Walking Dead fans and Walking Dead critics alike. Staunch performances from the well-known cast and tremendous execution of character relationships combine for a a satisfying 90-minute premiere of The Walking Dead."
• Alexandra Breckenridge tells Entertainment Weekly that Pete's demise causes Jessie to feel "immense guilt because she feels relieved, but she also is mourning his death. It's so complicated for her that any interest that she had for Rick in that moment, it's not her main focus."
• Popular Science interviews Ross Marquand, who shares his zombie apocalypse survival strategy: "I'd find the nearest Costco, secure it, and become king of my domain. Seriously, if you had just one Costco, you'd be set for life!"
• Ross Marquand, chatting with Entertainment Weekly, previews, "At the very beginning of season 6, and then throughout this season, you'll see a shift in Aaron where he goes from being polite and very deferential to really kind of taking a stronger leadership role and deciding, this is what we need to do."
• Even though a traditionally happy ending is unlikely, Andrew Lincoln tells ComicBook.com that his vision for Rick would be "taking his boots off, getting in a warm bath, and watching his children frolic hand in hand through a field of daisies."
• Cleveland.com previews "what you can expect from Rick Grimes and company" during Season 6.
• Meanwhile, Rolling Stone decides to "take a moment to recall exactly where we left off, and to prepare for whatever horrors may await the living in the weeks ahead."
• Channel Guide Magazine checks in with Greg Nicotero and several cast members about where the major characters are at the start of Season 6.
• Fast Company features a supercut of "the most innovative ways the zombies of The Walking Dead have been taken down."
• Cleveland.com speculates what the show would be like "if Shane were still around."
• Slate applauds the show's use of flashbacks, commenting, "The showrunners have said that this season will use flashbacks extensively. So far, that seems like a very good thing."
• MTV speculates what would happen if "the whole FtWD Clark-Manawa squad were to be suddenly transported, Once Upon a Time-style, to the significantly tougher world of the OG Walking Dead?"
• Entertainment Weekly tests viewers about the show's deaths, whether "the killings were a result of a hungry walker, or a jealous love triangle between red-blooded foes."
• Wetpaint gives seven reasons why Daryl is "the coolest TV character ever," saying, "it was pretty hard to cut it down to just seven."
• Speaking with ComicBook.com about different Punisher incarnations, Jon Bernthal says, "Look, outside of my family, there's nobody in this world I love like Norman Reedus. I love that dude with everything I got. But his Punisher couldn't touch my Punisher."
• Entertainment Weekly takes a look back at members of The Walking Dead cast "before they were stars."
• Dread Central highlights AMC's release of "Then and Now" videos for Maggie, Glenn and Daryl "focusing on the transformations our survivors have gone through."
• Zimbio looks back at its favorite Easter eggs over the years.
• Flickering Myth spotlights some new photos from the Season 6 premiere.
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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Earlier this week, I attended a summit with European leaders to focus on the opportunities and challenges of the new economy. One of those changes, clearly, is bridging the digital divide and helping all our people make the most of technology's promise. Today, I want to talk with you about new steps our administration is taking to help America's students and teachers do just that.
I'm proud of the progress we've made over the last seven years to expand access to technology in our schools. In 1994, only 35 percent of our schools had any Internet connection; today, 95 percent do. In 1994, only 3 percent of our classrooms were actually connected to the Internet.
Today, thanks in large part to the e-rate program championed by Vice President Gore, 95 percent of our schools, as I said, are wired; but, now, 63 percent of our classrooms have an Internet connection. That's a very big step.
But there's more to do, and it's about more than computers and connections. Access is important, but it's only a means to an end. The ultimate purpose of computers in the classroom is to boost student performance and help children learn. That can only happen if teachers have the best training to make the most of this technology.
Today, two out of three teachers with access to a computer say they don't feel well-prepared to use it in class. We owe it to America's children to help their teachers become as comfortable with a computer as they are with a chalk board. And we must start early. With rising student enrollment and teacher retirements, America will need more than 2 million new teachers over the next 10 years. We have to make sure every one of them can use a computer to help students meet high standards. We're taking steps to do that.
Earlier this year, the deans of over 200 colleges of education committed to work with our administration to meet this goal. Today, I'm announcing $128 million in new, three-year technology grants to help tomorrow's teacher prepare 21st century students. We're awarding 122 grants to teacher colleges and other partners in every region of the country. These resources will train new teachers to use technology to improve student achievement.
A grant to Western Michigan University, for example, will be used to build partnerships with business leaders and local school districts to help future teachers use technology in the classroom. San Diego State University is receiving a grant to develop advanced technologies to improve student reading and teach educators throughout California.
Combined with past grants, today's awards will help train as many as 600,000 new teachers nationwide. My budget for the coming year doubles our investment in quality technology training to reach a million teachers by 2004.
Unfortunately, so far, Congress has failed to provide the resources to meet that target. The House budget would deny hundreds of thousands of future teachers the training they need to use technology to help students meet challenging academic standards. Their budget also denies the funding I requested to create up to a thousand new community technology centers to help young people and adults gain critical technology skills.
In too many ways, the education budget making its way through Congress simply doesn't make the grade. It invests too little in our schools and demands too little from them. In order to pay for large and irresponsible tax breaks, it fails to address some of our schools most pressing needs -- from increasing accountability to building and modernizing schools to improving teacher quality and reducing class size.
In this time of unprecedented prosperity, there is no reason to short-change our children and our schools. So I ask Congress again to pass a budget that reflects our values and puts education first; a budget that strengthens accountability and helps turn around low-performing schools; reduces class size and increases after-school opportunities; closes the digital divide and opens doors to help disadvantaged children gear up for college; rebuilds crumbling schools and boosts teacher quality.
If Congress sends me a budget that fails that test, I'll have to veto it. But I hope Congress will work with me to pass balanced, responsible budget increases to invest in our children and their future. Instead of widening the divide in technology and education, we can widen the circle of opportunity for every American. And now is the time to get this done.


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Biogeochemist Receives High Honor
UC Riverside's Timothy Lyons is named a 2015 Geochemical Fellow in recognition of major contributions to geochemistry
By Iqbal Pittalwala on February 18, 2015
Timothy Lyons is a distinguished professor of biogeochemistry at UC Riverside. Photo credit: Sarah Simpson.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Timothy Lyons, a distinguished professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, has been named a 2015 Geochemical Fellow by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. The honorary title is awarded to outstanding scientists who have made major contributions to the field of geochemistry.
"We are delighted that Tim has been named a Geochemical Fellow," said David Oglesby, the chair of the Department of Earth Sciences. "Tim's biogeochemical research on the evolution of our ocean and atmosphere has revolutionized his field, and is a source of tremendous pride for all of us in the Department of Earth Sciences at UC Riverside. We are very happy that he and his work are receiving the recognition they so richly deserve."
Lyons, his research group, and UCR colleagues explore the evolving compositions of the early atmosphere and oceans. Their recent work reveals that the initial rise of oxygen may have been protracted — occurring in fits and starts rather than a single step — and that once permanently present in the atmosphere, oxygen likely rose to very high levels and then plummeted.
Lyons's primary research themes are astrobiology, marine geochemistry, geobiology, biogeochemical cycles through time, and Earth history and paleoclimatology. His career-long interests in anoxic marine environments, early atmospheric oxygenation, and co-evolving life have inspired the development and refinement of diverse geochemical tracers in modern settings for exploration of the ancient ocean and atmosphere and the search for life beyond Earth.
He has been on the faculty at UCR since 2005. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Geochemical Society and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. He has been a visiting scholar at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, the University of Queensland, the University of Tasmania (Comet Fellow, 2010), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg Fellow, 2007-2008), Cambridge University (Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, 2011), the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012), the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (2013), Rhodes University in South Africa (Hugh Kelly Research Fellow, 2014), and Yale University (Visiting Fellow, 2015). He was the first Agassiz Lecturer at Harvard University and a recipient of the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at the University of Missouri.
Lyons has served on numerous steering and organizing committees, including service to the Goldschmidt Conference of the Geochemical Society, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, and funding panels spanning four programs within the National Science Foundation (NSF) and four within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is chair of the Geochemistry Committee of the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and works frequently with international funding agencies, including long-standing membership in the College of Reviewers of the Canada Research Chairs Program. He was previously a member of two research teams within the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) and has helped steer the new NASA Astrobiology Roadmap. He is leader of the new 'Alternative Earths' NAI team at UC Riverside and a member of the NAI Executive Council. Lyons was also a member of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.
He has served in ten editorial positions, including a long-standing affiliation with Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and recent service to Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and he has served on advisory boards with the American Geological Union and Cambridge University Press. He is active within the Agouron Institute and the Southern California geobiology community. He has also co-organized 22 symposia at international conferences and co-organized and/or participated in 31 workshops (NSF, NASA, etc.) and has given almost 100 invited lectures in addition to those at conferences since 2005.
Lyons is a frequent invited/keynote speakers and has nearly 175 peer reviewed publications spanning topics in astrobiology, biogeochemistry, isotope geochemistry, oceanography, paleoceanography, Earth history, and diverse themes in geology. He has supervised 27 graduate students and 10 postdocs as primary mentor and often serves on external examining committees.
Lyons received a B.S. with honors in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.S. in geology from the University of Arizona, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in geology/geochemistry from Yale University, followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan.
He is one of 10 scientists named 2015 Geochemical Fellows. They will receive their honor at the 2015 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
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