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Hobbies for the heart
Tuesday 3rd January, 2023
As I approached my thirties I started to feel as though my life was becoming all work and no play, my down time was limited to Netflix viewing and Facebook scrolling. When I was younger I had lots of hobbies, but my energy disappeared as I got older and worked full time. Truthfully I also felt as though certain hobbies weren't cool, and perhaps my co-workers and friends would think I was 'cringey' and weird. I was quite self conscious about fitting into the corporate world, which was miles away from the all singing and dancing girl who loved performing in a church hall pantomime. I was so much more aware of what people thought of me and fitting in. I started playing netball because it was what my colleagues were doing, but I have never been sporty and it was more of a chore than a fun hobby. I was also absolutely terrible at it, I would have helped the team more by staying at home.
I convinced myself I didn't have time to take up any hobbies. However, the weekly iPhone report of how much time I spent on my phone shocked me into realising that I clearly had time to take up a hobby, I just needed to stop scrolling for hours. I was also rattling through way too many Netflix documentaries, if I have hours of time to watch unsolved murders then surely I have time to take up a hobby.
I used my scrolling expertise to do something positive and look for ideas of hobbies I could take up. Many years ago I was in my school choir, after leaving school I never really gave it a second thought. I started to see a local choir pop up on my Facebook who were doing gigs in my area. I watched a few videos of the choir and thought there is no way I have the confidence to perform like that, but submitted a request to join out of boredom. Three years later and I am so proud of being part of the choir I will tell anyone that will listen about it. I love spending every Monday night chatting to my new friends that I have made there, and performing at various events and venues. We recently sang at a wedding and it was really special, I loved seeing such happy faces dancing along as we sang. It gave me such a boost, much more than a day of unsolved murders could.
I know choir isn't 'cool', but I couldn't care less as it makes me happy and I am proud of myself for finding something that makes me feel good. My husband joined too and he equally surprised himself about how good it made him feel, previously his only hobby was going to the pub!
Let me give you a few other ideas for hobbies to embrace:
A friend of mine recently joined a book club, I immediately imagined retired ladies discussing an old novel but it's a wide range of ages who enjoy reading new books and discussing them. It turns out they also like going for cocktails and just general chit chat. Again, she only joined once she was in her thirties as she felt it just wasn't a young person's hobby- but there are plenty of girls in their twenties who love reading and they should absolutely shout about it! You don't need to pretend you love clubbing when actually you just want to stay in with a good book. Books don't give you a hangover!
Its been quite well publicised that the British Olympian Tom Daley enjoys knitting, and was seen at the Tokyo Olympics knitting at the poolside. Tom is in his 20s and is very proudly showing the world how much he loves knitting, to the extent he has an Instagram page dedicated to it and sells knitting kits to inspire other people to take it up. As with book club, perhaps this activity is associated with older ladies knitting hats, but in a world when people are conscious of fast fashion knitting your own clothes has so many benefits.
There are plenty of hobbies that are free, for example outdoor activities. Parkrun are free events that happen all over the world, they are organised runs in parks and open spaces which take place on Saturday mornings. They are really well organised and friendly events, their website states that Parkrun is 'a positive, welcoming and inclusive experience where there is no time limit and no one finishes last. Everyone is welcome to come along, whether you walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate.' Of course you can run alone and on your own time, but attending an event means you can meet new people and it may help motivate you to keep running.
In North East England we are very lucky to have quite a few lovely beaches, albeit they are absolutely freezing most months of the year. We don't exactly benefit from tropical temperatures up north but that doesn't stop sea swimming groups! They are becoming really popular, people have created Facebook groups to sea swim together, sometimes there are 200 attendees all running into the sea together! A friend recently took this up, never in my life did I think she would be seen dead in a wetsuit but she is fully embracing this new hobby. Historically she would send me a selfie of her hungover face on a Saturday, but she recently sent me a selfie of her looking really fresh and happy after a morning sea swim! It was great to see that she had found a new hobby that made her feel much better than a stinking hangover.
I can honestly say I have never woken up and had a desire to go into the sea, but I have been inspired by the idea I can have a laugh with new people and do something different. Full disclosure, at the time of writing I am still at the stage of being inspired and have yet to take the plunge. One day…
Why am I telling you all this? Hobbies are a great way to decompress from the stresses of adult life. Whilst work can leave you feeling very tired at the end of the day, doing a hobby you enjoy even for half an hour can really lift your mood and take your focus away from the tiring work day you have endured. Quite often I have convinced myself I am far too tired to go to choir after work, but it actually revitalises me and helps my mind clear before going to bed. Its also a great way to meet new and interesting people with similar interests, after all there is no age limit for making new friends!
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It is not a profession that is undertaken by many in Uganda. However, Celestine Masiga has trained as a sommelier and currently works at the Kampala Serena Hotel. He shares why he chose this profession, his achievements thus far and his future aspirations with Edgar R. Batte.
Marrying a friend is no fallacy, at least not for the likes of Celestine Masiga who speak of their work like it is a marriage to someone dear. He is a sommelier at Kampala Serena Hotel.
His work revolves around ensuring that customers get the best at the hotel. Masiga is the gentleman who will stop by your table during lunch, breakfast and dinner to find out if you are enjoying your meal.
He will request to recommend a wine or any other drink to complement your meal, putting in consideration the knowledge he has of drinks, their alcohol levels and how they complement the different meals on the menu.
"My job is ensure to clients understand and appreciate the wines and spirits. If I am to recommend a drink, I make sure that it has the same balance and will not overpower the meal," he explains.
The sommelier draws his expertise from both personal and professional achievement. His story paints a grass to grace picture, having started out as a waiter who grew through the ranks to become a restaurant manager and now a sommelier. Thus a portfolio that puts him in charge of purchases of all drinks that are consumed by clients at the hotel.
Masiga, 33, is a graduate of Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) in Wandegeya where he pursued a diploma in Hotel Management in 2009. To become a wine expert, he also had to enrol for a course at the Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WESTE), in London, a school that is internationally recognised. He pursued the course online and flew to the institute's branch at Stellenbosch University of Cape Town to write examinations.
"The course has four levels, and the most flagship is level four after which I graduated with a diploma in wines and spirits. I did these levels in three years. The fourth takes two of the three years. If you are a professional, you can skip level one. I was interviewed and taken into level four since I already had experience from working at Serena Hotel for a while," Masiga explains.
South Africa as a choice for part of the training was relevant since it is a leading producer of wine globally. The trainees are skilled in undertaking roles of sourcing, buying, selling and marketing of wines and spirits in addition to commercial and service roles. There, he visited vine farms and got exposed to the processes of making wine and spirits. Part of his practical learning was to taste drinks for the right levels of the alcohol, flavours, clarity and purity.
His kind of work has got clients curious, some on initial contact when he introduces himself as a sommelier. Many do not know what a sommelier does and then for those who know, it comes as a surprise that a third world country such as Uganda has a sommelier.
"One time as I went on with my responsibilities, I met a group of Australians who were not sure of what to drink with their meal. They were out to celebrate a deal. I sat down and shared the different choices they had. They were very impressed and said they would recommend their friends and family to visit the hotel. It is a good job that keeps me smiling throughout the day," he says.
Masiga's expertise is put to good use at the newly-opened Champagne Bar. "We wanted to create a corporate bar but we needed to associate it with something luxurious. Champagne is a luxurious drink associated with celebrating victory and good moments. We called it so because we have the widest selection of champagne in the region," he says adding that the bar has 26 brands styles of champagne in addition to wines, spirits, whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rum, all premium, exotic juices and premium cognac, among others.
Masiga's day begins at 11am when he reads his emails. He then moves around the hotel bars to check on stock, takes note of missing wines and connects with suppliers to get them. He also checks drinks for their expiry dates.
From noon, he attends briefings from staff and gives advice on new products being introduced. When the hotel opens for lunch at 1pm, Masiga is on the restaurant's floor, to chat with clients and suggest drinks as well as get feedback on service set-up.
In addition to his stipulated roles, he also shares knowledge through training on service of wines and spirits, other drinks and source for equipment. He works six days a week, from 11am to 1am. "I rarely get time to associate with peers. I get a day off and when at home, I rest and watch a movie as I refresh to prepare to work another day," he shares.
Masiga was born in Dabani Sub-country in Busia District to Alexis Williams Wesonga, a teacher and Miriam Kitui. He believes that his father's profession gave him the passion to learn new things which has propelled him thus far. "I come from a family of four where I am the last born. I am also married with two children, a boy and a girl," he says.
On his wish list is to try and change the culture of wine in Uganda. I got certified last year as a wine and spirit expert. I want to see how I can transfer my knowledge to other people, and find ways a sommelier as a position in the hotel can earn respect and relevance in the hospitality industry," Masiga concludes.
I know Masiga as a professional food and beverage specialist with a bias in wines. You can easily tell his star proficiency in the field by the job he currently occupies at the Kampala Serena Hotel. Through him, the hospitality professional development and research Institute hopes to infuse skills into young hospitality enthusiasts who wish to pursue a career as Sommeliers.
Since his return from SA and France where he pursued his studies, he spends literally every working hour crafting something new to introduce to his clientele. His optimism and influence has cultivated a great attitude among his peers of which you can actually feel a sense of pride in their work. He has earned the respect of so many wine lovers and collectors, both locally and internationally.


"We are now in the final moment. We are really at the moment of truth. This is where we actually will find out if this can be solved" stated Espen Barth Eide, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Cyprus after the first day of Cyprus talks in Geneva.
The Special Adviser in his remarks after the meeting between the Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and the Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Akinci and their delegations, explained that the meetings between 9 – 11 Jan are laying the groundwork for an international conference on Cyprus, "which will convene in Geneva in the Palais des Nations on the morning of Thursday, the 12th of January", where the guarantor powers Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom will participate aswell as "the EU [European Union] in a special observer role, together with the delegation from Cyprus, and who will then jointly try to solve the large and challenging issues pertaining to the security and guarantees chapter".
Eide reiterated what has been said over the past few weeks that "the 12th will only be effective if we are successful between the 9th and 11th but was certain that the Conference on the 12th will take place.
He was quite clear as to the difficulty of the Cyprus talks but hopeful, "this is going to be difficult, but it's possible" he stated. He explained that it will be difficult because "it is not the easiest of questions that have been left until the end" adding that "as normal, it is some of the most complicated, or most emotional issues that we have left to the end, and this is the nature of this kind of talks".
The Special Adviser to Cyprus underlined that "these talks are fully led by and owned by the Cypriots. It's the leaders in Cyprus that are responsible for every single sentence, every single word, in the talks".
Eide did not fail to mention 2004 and made sure he differentiated between the two periods by stating that the "two leaders are the ones who are responsible now, but at the end of the day, through referenda, in the two communities in Cyprus, it will be all Cypriots who make up their mind about this".
He recognised the fact that this is a historic moment for the Cypriots and appreciated that it has taken several generations to solve this problem, in doing so Eide believes that solving the problem "would send a very strong signal to a world and a region where there are many wars and many things breaking apart".
Asked on who will participate on the 12th in Geneva Eide clarified the fact that both Greece and Turkey are in unison in their opinion that if they participate in the conference they expect that most issues would be solved and that they "are not interested in being party to discussions that should and will be left to the Cypriots". Concerning who will participate, Eide left some room for the Turkish President's presence by answering that participants will be of "the highest or the second highest level available".
On today's talks Eide said that the main topic was property and did not conceal the fact that there some issues that surround the property topic that they are "stuck on". One of these as stated by the Adviser is the "concept of emotional link". Eide also stated that "the World Bank and the IMF" are at the talks and that a lot of work had been done on the financing of the settlement "including the property financing, and it's part of the whole picture".
According to Eide today they also discussed governance, tomorrow they will discuss economy and the EU "where there isn't really anything dramatic left to be done, and then we will also have a discussion on implementation" he stated. He added that on Wednesday territory will be discussed, and then property will be looked at again.


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The Day I Let Go
Posted on April 27, 2015 September 30, 2017 by kimwilbanks
"Oh, dear God, please keep my boy safe"!
My heart was racing as I got to church and parked my car. My stomach was in my throat and my hands were trembling as I texted a quick message to my son.
"On campus, we're being evacuated into a tornado shelter. Mom, I saw it".
April 27, 2011 is a day I will long remember. It was the day a devastating tornado swept through Alabama, cutting an 80-mile-long path of destruction that left 64 people dead. It was a day that taught me the meaning of trusting God completely.
Both of my children left their home state of Florida to attend colleges in Alabama. My son was a senior at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa the day the tornado hit and my daughter was a sophomore at Samford University in Birmingham, about 60 miles away.
My husband and I learned early on that springtime in Alabama meant tornadoes. We were always on the alert when severe weather was in the forecast (often to the dismay of our young adult children). We soon found out this particular Wednesday afternoon was going to be exceedingly different than any other stormy, spring day.
I was watching The Weather Channel so I knew there was a line of thunderstorms advancing toward Tuscaloosa and that the city was under a tornado warning. I said a quick prayer and left my house, heading for church. The radio in my car was set to a sports radio station airing one of my husband's favorite shows, The Paul Finebaum Show. At the time, the show was broadcast from Birmingham.
I don't recall the exact words Mr. Finebaum used, but it was something like "Folks, there is a massive tornado about to hit Tuscaloosa and it doesn't look good". I could tell from the tone of his voice that it was bad. It was not the voice of a radio personality trying to sensationalize an event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcUDIXX2G4
I said a quick prayer of thanksgiving that my son was on campus where there were strong buildings with tornado shelters and not at his house a few miles north of campus.
The thing I remember most was feeling utterly helpless. My child was nearly 500 miles away in the midst of a monster storm and there was not one thing I could do – except pray.
"Dear God, he's yours. I know how much I love him and I know you love him even more. I'm placing him in your hands. Please protect him".
After the tornado barreled through Tuscaloosa, it made a beeline toward Birmingham, and my daughter.
"Oh dear God, this is too much! Please protect my girl"!
A quick text message to her confirmed that she was in her dorm getting ready to take shelter.
The following hours were nerve-wracking but I did find out that both of my children were safe in the storm. In a quick conversation with my son, he said that his typical 10-minute drive home took more than an hour because of the debris from the tornado. It had passed just a few blocks from where he was sheltered on campus. His neighborhood was spared as the tornado's path was a couple of miles to the south. Other neighborhoods were not so lucky. Several subdivisions north of Birmingham were destroyed but, thankfully, my daughter's campus was not affected.
About a week after the tornado hit, my husband and I made a trip to Alabama to take some of my daughter's things from her dorm room to my son's house in Tuscaloosa for summer storage. We were not prepared for the devastation we saw as we drove through the college town. The pictures streaming over the news did not do justice to the reality.
It was nearly impossible to recognize the main intersection on the way into town, 15th St. and McFarland Blvd. There was debris everywhere . . . twisted metal, concrete rubble, trees and poles snapped in two. An entire shopping center was destroyed as was a neighborhood across the boulevard. Businesses along the road were flattened. The path of the tornado left a raw, ugly scar etched diagonally across the city. An apartment complex was the first thing intact next to a decimated neighborhood. I learned that my son's roommate was with his girlfriend in her apartment when the storm hit.
There was an emotional release with the realization of what could have been.
I was so thankful that my son and all of his friends, those who I had grown so fond of, were unharmed. I was heartbroken for the moms and dads of the UA students who did not survive. I felt compassion toward the ones who lived through the terror of that April afternoon and wondered how long their nightmares would last.
My son graduated in December of 2011. Families accepting diplomas on behalf of slain students were a poignant reminder of the storm that hit eight months earlier. The scars on the land and in the heart were still fresh.
We sold the house in Tuscaloosa in August of 2013. As we left Tuscaloosa for the last time, we drove through an area that was hit particularly hard. The trees that had been snapped in two sported new growth making them look like something from a Dr. Seuss book. God was healing the land and making all things new.
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Chasing Lola

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Evening came with the singing of insects, every little voice chirping and wanting to be heard. Kelly was at home with a bottle of wine and this was a sweet relief. There was sanctity in it. This was one thing you could have faith in. People let you down. They were annoying. But wine was a good friend, at least for awhile, at least while you were drinking it.
She went ritualistically to the store. They all knew her there, or so she felt. When she craved a bottle of wine she would slink shamefully to the back, the old black cashiers seeming to be watching her, judging her. She called it the judgmental Kroger in her head. She would think, "I don't want to go to the judgmental Kroger."
Sometimes she would go to the trouble to go a little farther, to the other grocery store, where no one seemed to care if she came in and bought wine late at night.
That was what she was- what she had become. A late night wine-o. Kelly had a pretty face, or the potential for one, but the drinking had made her slightly overweight. Her normally sharp features were blurred and obscured, almost soft looking. She was tall, with unnaturally blonde hair, pale, skin, and light blue eyes. She was gaining weight rapidly around her once small hips.
Going to get the bottle she was nervous, antsy. It was kind of like a terrible itch that came under her skin, a great restlessness. She did not want to sleep when the dark of the night came upon her. She felt the need to do, to be, to create. And all this creation, this celebration, seemed to be magically encapsulated in a bottle of wine, a party in a bottle. Suddenly, drinking her first glass, her restlessness, bitterness, dispiritedness, began to fade away as a rosy glow fell over her. She was happy. She loved everyone. She would sit and watch TV in a sort of foggy bliss, eating something to counteract the acrid, distasteful flavor of the wine. She wasn't drinking it for the flavor, oh no. She was drinking it for the high. And high she became- so high indeed, until she came, unavoidably, crashing down again.
On this night she had found a special bottle of wine- one in the back corner of the store. Her Kroger had an unusually good selection of wines, anything you could dream of, and even a special, pricey, sectioned off room that someone had to open for you with a key. But Kelly never bought the expensive wines. She went straight for the cheap stuff and picked her wine on a whim, in a serendipitous fashion.
On this night she was scouting around for a bottle that might have a fascinating name, or that might taste a little better than the others. Her eye was somehow caught by a darkish, dusty bottle in the back of one of the shelves. It was behind another bottle she'd been looking at called "Pink Pig." But the name of the bottle that captured her attention was written in a fancy, flowery script and simply said, "Drink Me." This label with its inscription was the only thing on the bottle, besides a price tag on the bottom that said $5.00. At such a good price, and with such an intriguing name, Kelly figured she'd buy the bottle, even if it turned out to be old and rancid. She dusted it off and carried it to the counter. She was determined to imbibe it, whether she liked it or not.
At the counter she saw a familiar late night cashier, an older black gentleman, clearly gay, with a very dignified bearing, almost like some old time English butler. He looked at her with his judgmental eyes and did not ID her. He knew her. She was glad when the incident was over and she felt the familiar relief of a weight lifted when the bottle was in her car and she was on the way home. Mission accomplished.
Coming home, she immediately, impatiently went into her kitchen to open the bottle. The cork was made of real cork, and when she had popped it out the wine smelled strangely good, bittersweet, almost a sentimental smell. She could picture old vineyards when she smelled it. She was surprised because she never liked the wines she bought, and excited because she realized she must have stumbled upon some treasure. Tonight she was going to enjoy the flavor of the wine, not just the buzz. Pouring her first very full glass, she sat down before the TV, ready to zone out and reach towards oblivion.
The glasses of wine were delicious to her, and her buzz was fabulous. Kelly could hardly believe it. Each glass went down so sweetly, so easily, and with each glass she seemed to feel better, brighter, as the colors in the room began to swim, and her cheeks got red. She spilled little drops of the wine on the table and lazily wiped them up. Before long she had drunk nearly the whole bottle. She looked upon her last glass almost with sadness. At this point in her drunkenness she had gotten hungry and popped a large bowl of popcorn which she ate in handfuls as she savored her last glass of the wonderful wine before finally sitting there in a drunken stupor, staring at the empty bottle, every drop gone. She almost wished there was more.
Suddenly, to her horror, a black smoke or fog began to seep out of the bottle. It flowed murkily out down the bottle's side and onto the table. Was she hallucinating? Was the wine she'd bought really rancid poison? It had tasted so good! Perhaps it had been some sort of absinthe that somehow or other got mixed in with the wines, maybe someone's sick idea of a joke. She was so drunk though that she couldn't feel too alarmed. She watched the seeping black smoke with a bemused fascination- it was so thick and strangely beautiful in a way, almost hypnotic. She stared as it seeped towards her on the couch. Then strangely, the smoke seemed to be making a figure, or a figure began to appear in the smoke, and suddenly there was a sprightly little bald man with red cheeks sitting beside her, smiling. He looked drunk too.
Kelly stood before him, her eyes goggling. "Who, who are you?" she managed to gasp. "I, little lady am the wine spirit, the gin of gins, or the spirit of spirits, if you like," he said, chuckling at his own corny joke.
"But what are you doing here? Where did you come from?"
"You found me, my dear," he said. "Now come, don't look so alarmed."
Despite the utter strangeness of the situation, and the fact that Kelly knew she may very well have lost her mind, the alcohol coursing through her made her calmer and she slouched down next to him, smiling. "Well, I wasn't expecting a visitor," she said, "but make yourself at home." If this was a sick, insane dream, she was going to play along with it. Might as well.
"Only the most dedicated drinkers find the wine spirit," he said, as though congratulating her.
"I wish there were more," she pouted, staring woefully at the empty bottle.
"Why, but there is!" he said, winking at her jovially. Then suddenly wine shot out of his index finger as though from a spigot and refilled the bottle to the brim. Kelley clapped her hands with glee. "More wine! You made more!"
"And there's more where that came from," he said proudly. Kelley then knew she loved the wine spirit. At that moment he was her best friend in the world. It vaguely occurred to her that the little man himself was drunk, with his rosy cheeks, his shiny head, and his bushy gray eyebrows. He was dressed smartly, in a crisp white shirt with a little beige vest over it and perfect beige trousers to match. His little black shoes shone. Yes, she decided as she poured herself another full glass of wine- she liked him very much. This was a wonderful night indeed.
When the morning came the neighbors found Kelly in the yard, wine stains on her lips, clutching the empty bottle in her hand. She had soiled herself. They felt her pulse. She was dead. A smile of absolute contentment was on her lips.


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Home Education Audio: Sen. Chap Petersen (D?) Goes on Trumpster Radio, Says During "Jim...
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Audio: Sen. Chap Petersen (D?) Goes on Trumpster Radio, Says During "Jim Crow" era, "there were some bad decisions made, but at least they had a functioning school system"
Also says if Confederate monuments are pulled down on Monument Ave. they will be "empty spaces for years and years"
UPDATE 6/12: Here's Sen. Petersen's response.
Just when you think Sen. Chap Petersen (D?) can't top his last crazy move, he…does exactly that. We'll get to that in a minute, but quick background: this Tuesday, Petersen filed a lawsuit against Gov. Northam, claiming "a continuing violation of the United States and Virginia Constitutions." That came after Petersen, for months, has been railing against stay-at-home orders, business closures, and other measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic (which he has repeatedly minimized).
Now, though, Petersen may have topped all that in terms of outrageous, frankly offensive, rhetoric. See below for audio of Petersen's latest appearance, this morning, on Trumpster Radio ("The John Fredericks Show," which Petersen has sponsored for years, by the way), in which he had the following to say:
Apropos of nothing, Petersen exclaimed, "I hate Zoom, it's a terrible, terrible thing." Wuuut? LOL
Petersen talked about filing for "mandamus" with the Virginia Supreme Court, because we supposedly have a "constitutional crisis" that requires "a ruling immediately"; and also filed suit in federal court, because supposedly his small business clients' property rights have been violated without due process.
Petersen asserted that Gov. Northam just needs to repeal his executive orders and call the legislature back in session so they can debate "certain rules and measures." According to Petersen, at least then we'd have a "democratic process as opposed to 90 days of just imperial edicts." Petersen said the governor has suspended ordinary rule of law, and he's not allowed to do that. What next, he asked, "smoking is an emergency?"
Petersen talked about how "sad" he is at the situation in Richmond, with "graffiti sprayed on the walls of the Supreme Court…the Pocahontas Building…"
Petersen said what's going on in Richmond – people spraying graffiti, pulling down statues without police intervening, etc. – is "very emotional," "demoralizing," "very scary," "shocking," "very frightening." Petersen added: "at the end of the day, you're gonna have a situation [where] people are gonna be like, 'I'm done with it, I'm not gonna live in this town,' and that's kind of how it was in the 60s, that's why a lot of people moved out of the cities, and that had a huge impact on American life for the next generation…in some ways, cities have kind of slowly come back from that, it took about 40 years, and I'm afraid that's maybe what's happening now."
Petersen said he thinks "a lot of what's going on is not coming from people that live in Richmond…especially the…violence and destruction…"
Petersen said that if Confederate monuments are all pulled down on Monument Avenue, they will be "empty spaces for years and years…who will ever reach consensus of what to put there?"
Petersen said the governor "did not have power to close the schools," that it's been the "biggest collective failure…we have to provide in-person instruction…and it's going to begin at the regular time...the actual statistics show there were no children who died of COVID-19 in the Commonwealth…the idea that we're going to continue putting our children last without scientific basis…has got to come to an end."
Petersen topped it all off with these comments: "It's the ultimate irony that here
we spent all this time talking about racial inequality in America…we spent weeks on it, and yet this whole time we're talking about it our school systems are shut down…It just gets me angry, you're gonna make me angry…I will tell you, as a parent, the whole school situation has been outrageous, it has been disgraceful, and it's an embarrassment that we've allowed this to happen. You know, all the people that we talked about that…Jim Crow, segregation, Massive Resistance, all those people, look, there were some bad decisions made, but at least they had a school system, ok, at least they had a functioning school system. And we don't even have a functioning system at this point. I mean, it's amazing, we can't even maintain a functioning school system. Let's do *that*. And then, you know, we can move on…until you have a functioning school system, I don't even see how you can talk intelligently about whatever equality, progress you want to make – how do you do it without a functioning system?…You don't."
P.S. "Functioning school system" in the Jim Crow era? Is Chap referring to "separate but unequal," segregation, etc? WTF?
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Prada Spreads the Word
Prada isn't content to be the artist's preferred fashion label. Following a six-month search for writers, the Italian house unveiled the winners of the Prada Journal literary contest in its Soho Epicenter in New York.
Not for the word-shy, the event saw the flagship transformed into a "theater of conversation and exchange," an idea taken from the literary salons of yore, intimate and dark spaces ideal for telling stories.
The contest, created in partnership with Giangiacomo Feltrinelli publishers, drew 1,313 entries from all over the world. Each hopeful responded to the question: "What are the realities that our eyes give back to us? And how are these realities filtered through lenses?" Because, yes, this is also about promoting a line of optical glasses, Prada Journal, a suitably nerdy style for him and a slightly cat-eye style her. Think beatnik.
The five winners — Mattia Conti, Leisl Egan, Angel Mario Fernández, Sarah Harris Waman, Peng Yang — will receive 5000 euros each. Their winning manuscripts will also be digitally published jointly by Prada and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli later this year. But the prize among prizes might have been the animated reading of the entries by authors Jonathan Ames, Zoe Kazan, Anthony Mackie, Jay McInerney and Gary Shteyngart.
10.26.2013 – Jetsetera / Anthony Mackie / author / contest / Gary Shteyngart / Giangiacomo Feltrinelli publishers / glasses / Jay McInerney / Jonathan Ames / optical / Prada Journal / writer / Zoe Kazan


As the standard theriogenology text for veterinary students, Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics is also a great reference to keep post-graduation.
"Arthur's Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics" has been the standard reference textbook for veterinary students for many years, as well as for students of animal science and related disciplines; in addition it has also been a useful reference source for the practicing veterinary surgeon. The new edition builds on the success of the previous edition covering normal reproduction and reproductive disorders and diseases in the common and less common domesticated species (llamas, alpacas, camels). The book has been completely revised with full colour throughout to include recent developments in reproductive biology and endocrinology, as well as the new knowledge on the causes and treatment of reproductive disease.


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Q: COPY Failed: no source files were specified I am crafting a dockerfile to do couple of things. Listing the step below which throws the error when building the file.
I am downloading a tar.gz file and then extracting it to a location followed by downloading another .zip file and extracting that to a secondary location on the same parent directrory.
WORKDIR /opt/MicroFocus
RUN curl -O http://apache.mirror.amaze.com.au/nifi/1.9.2/nifi-1.9.2-bin.tar.gz
RUN tar xzvf nifi-1.9.2-bin.tar.gz
RUN curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/xxxx/xxxxxx/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_LINUX_X86_64.zip
RUN unzip NiFiIngest_12.2.0_LINUX_X86_64.zip
WORKDIR /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64
COPY /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64/idol-nifi-framework-12.2.0.nar /op/MicroFocus/nifi-1.9.2-bin/nifi-1.9.2/lib

However, when I try to build the docker file I get the following errors
Step 36/47 : WORKDIR /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64
 ---> Using cache
 ---> e6e0e64c5490
Step 37/47 : COPY /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64/idol-nifi-framework-12.2.0.nar /op/MicroFocus/nifi-1.9.2-bin/nifi-1.9.2/lib
COPY failed: stat /var/lib/docker/tmp/docker-builder486894156/opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64/idol-nifi-framework-12.2.0.nar: no such file o
r directory

A: The COPY command is used to copy from the docker context inside the image. You have the file already inside the image so you need to use OS commands to copy files from one location to another.
Replace this:
COPY /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64/idol-nifi-framework-12.2.0.nar /op/MicroFocus/nifi-1.9.2-bin/nifi-1.9.2/lib

with
RUN cp /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64/idol-nifi-framework-12.2.0.nar /op/MicroFocus/nifi-1.9.2-bin/nifi-1.9.2/lib

A: As you already set WORKDIR, you must not set path for your source COPY:
WORKDIR /opt/MicroFocus/NiFiIngest_12.2.0_Linux_X86_X64
COPY idol-nifi-framework-12.2.0.nar /op/MicroFocus/nifi-1.9.2-bin/nifi-1.9.2/lib

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Bipartisan Senators Raise Pressure on Obamacare Cadillac Tax
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The repeal bill unveiled Thursday in the U.S. Senate by Nevada Republican Dean Heller and New Mexico Democrat Martin Heinrich stands little chance of becoming law soon, especially with Barack Obama in the White House. Yet it demonstrates lawmakers' frustration with the tax, which takes effect in 2018.
"I have not seen a piece of legislation that brings more sides together," Heller said at a news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, invoking a coalition of business groups and unions opposed to the tax, including those that represent casino workers in Las Vegas. "I think we're going to see a breakthrough."
Businesses have already begun planning for the tax and are considering trimming health benefits while closely monitoring rules from the Internal Revenue Service. About one-third of employers are at risk of paying the Cadillac tax in 2018 if they don't adjust their insurance plans, according to Mercer, the benefits consulting unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos. The proportion is projected to quickly rise to over 50 percent.
The tax applies to family health-care coverage exceeding $27,500 and individual coverage exceeding $10,200, with low inflation adjustments intended to capture more people over time.
Largest Tax Break
The tax was designed to put pressure on health costs and reduce the benefit of the largest tax break for individuals, which allows the value of employer-provided health insurance to escape income and payroll taxation.
It has faced bipartisan opposition since first being proposed. Republicans dislike it as they have almost every piece of the Affordable Care Act. Democrats aligned with labor unions also object, as unions have often negotiated generous, untaxed benefit packages in lieu of taxable wage increases.
Heller and Heinrich said the tax has stymied labor negotiations and would hurt middle-income workers it wasn't intended to affect.
"This is not a Cadillac tax," Heinrich said. "This is not a Lexus tax. This is going to be a Ford Focus tax."
Many of the tax's defenders are no longer in office. They have left behind frustration and a campaign that has united labor unions and large companies including Procter & Gamble Co. and Pfizer Inc. in an effort to repeal the tax.
In the House, a repeal bill by Connecticut Democrat Representative Joe Courtney has 145 co-sponsors, and similar legislation by New Hampshire Republican Representative Frank Guinta is supported by 91 of his colleagues.
Senate Democrats
Heinrich said he thought more Senate Democrats would support his effort. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan said in an interview Thursday that she wasn't opposed to repeal and is "supportive of doing something" to push the tax's impact off the middle class.
The biggest obstacle for lawmakers, other than Obama's veto, is the cost of repealing the tax. It is projected to generate $87 billion for the government over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Democrats generally want to replace that money, and their votes would be essential to overcoming procedural hurdles in the Senate and a possible veto.
Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, said he has never supported the tax and worries about its effect on middle-income families. That said, he doesn't want to undermine the broader aims of the health-care law.
"It is a mistake to take away revenues from the Affordable Care Act without replacing them," he said in an interview earlier this year. "Those who are advocating the repeal of the Cadillac tax are a collection of very mixed motives."
The Courtney bill is H.R. 2050. The Guinta bill is H.R. 879.
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One of the better known and most tragic facts about the Colombian civil war is that the majority of its victims are civilians. In the standard Associated Press tag-line that ends almost every piece the wire service files on Colombia, "At least 3,500 people, mostly civilians, die in the fighting every year." Perhaps unintentionally, this phrase casts the civilian deaths in a manner that implies they occur in combat, in the crossfire of the conflict between armed groups. But what is lesser known about this aspect of Colombia's war is the way in which so many of these civilian deaths are cast by the various armed factions—both legal and illegal—as the justifiable elimination of "collaborators" and "sympathizers" of the enemy. Though such phrases are frequently cited in press reports as the reason for civilian deaths, the parameters of what qualifies as "collaboration" are left almost utterly unexplored by mainstream coverage.
Under international law, civilians are considered non-combatants unless they partake in activities that seek to physically harm combatants or their war materiel. It is important to understand that while many civilians may harbor sympathies for one side or another in the conflict, few civilians overtly assist or harass the armed groups in any substantive way. The majority of Colombia's civilians are caught in a situation where they must be cautious at all turns not to display allegiance or aversion to the armed group(s) that hold(s) sway in the region where they live and work. Despite their best efforts to avoid involvement, thousands of civilians are murdered by the armed groups—and thousands more are intimidated to the point where they flee their homes and become internally displaced person or refugees—for simply going about their daily activities. This article attempts to explain some of the ways in which civilians are cast as collaborators, and in so doing, to shed light on the ongoing human tragedy in Colombia.
Simply put, just about every Colombian has done something that might result in him or herself being labeled a collaborator or sympathizer by one of Colombia's armed groups. In truth, the armed groups act with impunity and do not necessarily have any rationale behind who they target; the right-wing paramilitaries of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) have proven themselves particularly adept at show killings and massacres that victimize unwitting civilians and leave an indelible mark on the popular consciousness.
That said, on a general level there are overarching attributes that can tarnish whole sectors of the population as alleged collaborators or sympathizers in the eyes of one armed group or another. For instance, to the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN), by and large any wealthy Colombian is seen as fair game for the kidnapping-for-ransom schemes that partly fund their insurgencies. Of course, as the guerrillas cast their nets in what they call "miracle fishing," they occasionally catch people who don't fit the traditional prerequisites for ransom, as was the case in the FARC's February raid on a well-to-do apartment complex in Neiva, where the guerrillas abducted four people, one of whom was a servant they mistook for someone more affluent.
The AUC is every bit as prone—if not more so—as the FARC and ELN to look upon wide segments of the civilian population as willing conspirators for the enemy. For the AUC, all labor organizers and human rights workers are akin to guerrilla collaborators, and thus are "justifiable" military targets. The AUC are not alone in this regard: many members of the Colombian military and police forces openly express disdain for human rights and labor activists, accusing them of working for the guerrillas. Even Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has railed against human rights workers—echoing former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner's remark that human rights were the Trojan Horse of international communism—by taunting rights activists to "take off their masks and stop hiding their ideas behind human rights." With wide brush strokes like these, many Colombians can swiftly be painted as collaborators. It's no surprise then, that Colombia leads the planet in terms of kidnappings-for-ransom and murders of labor organizers.
Beyond these broad parameters, there are many more levels of perceived "collaboration" in Colombia. While the following discussion is by no means exhaustive, it does illustrate the extent to which an armed group can cast almost any civilian action as collaboration with the enemy. Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups have repeatedly documented such cases. Sadly, the following scenarios are the everyday reality in which most Colombians live.
In a parallel manner, attendance at rallies, church-sponsored meetings, and other events that articulate a certain political line is enough to get someone branded a collaborator; state authorities frequently photograph attendees at such events to compile lists of suspects, despite the fact that freedom of assembly is protected by Colombia's Constitution. It is a perverse extension of this guilt by association principle that, just as union membership or class affiliation can "justify" targeting civilians in the eyes of Colombia's armed actors, so too can mere attendance at civic events or openness to a political trajectory be construed as active collaboration with the armed groups that share some of those political views. In such a climate, Colombian civilians cannot realistically hope to engage in political discourse that might lead to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
A second class of activities that frequently lead to charges of collaboration can be characterized as the "catch-22 of conflicting demands," whereby civilians are caught between two or more armed groups and forced to make "choices" that will invariably aggravate one of the armed actors. There are countless incidents of shopkeepers in rural small towns who have sold produce or supplies to one armed group, only to be accused of collaboration with that group when a rival armed faction comes to town. In a variation on the tactic, merchants are frequently threatened by one armed faction and ordered not to sell to members of another armed group; disobeying the order will draw the ire of the group that issued the threat, while obeying it leads the boycotted group to assume the merchant is sympathetic to the other side—in this non-choice, either path the merchant opts for is tantamount to a death sentence.
The same principle is readily applied to other forms of succor, such as providing shelter or assistance to persons alleged to be members or partisans of an armed group. It's a measure of the absurdity and the extremity of Colombia's war that a butcher who sells a few kilos of meat to some guerrillas becomes a collaborator in the eyes of the paramilitaries, or vice versa, and that this "collaboration" is punishable by death.
A third form of alleged civilian collaboration with armed groups is "the act of informing," or being perceived to inform, an armed group. The armed groups refer to alleged informers as sapos (toads). But what counts as "informing" in Colombia's war zones differs greatly from the espionage-type activities that first come to mind for those accustomed to societies not torn by internal conflict.
What passes for "informing" in Colombia more closely resembles civilians under informal interrogation saying what they think a given armed group wants to hear. Though it cannot be denied that some civilians actively supply information to the armed groups with which they identify, the fact is that informing is more often than not an act that ordinary Colombians feel compelled to do, often in situations involving direct contact with armed combatants. In a broad sense, informing can also include acting as a messenger for an armed group, though this, too, is often done under duress.
The fear of resembling—or even inadvertently becoming—an informer, or simply of being overheard saying something that sounds too partisan, cannot be underemphasized in Colombia. Armed groups repeatedly cite informing as a "justification" to level accusations of collaboration, although simply supplying information does not convert a civilian into a combatant. It is precisely this fear of "informing" an armed group either directly or indirectly about anything relevant—or fear of one's words getting back to an armed group—that has stifled the ability of Colombian civilians to speak freely. Instead, a self-protectionist self-censorship characterizes the public speech of many civilians in Colombia's conflict zones, reinforcing the near-monopoly on political discourse wielded by the armed groups.
Without negating actual instances of civilian partnership with specific armed groups, it is crucial to understand that little or nothing the vast majority of Colombian civilians do in their daily lives has any significant military or strategic benefit to any of the armed groups. But the line between combatants and non-combatants, and between collaboration and everyday activity, has become utterly blurred in Colombia's war.
This article was extracted from the Colombia Journal Special Report, Civilian 'Collaborators' in Colombia's Conflict", which expands on the themes here, including a discussion of the ever-shifting front lines of the war in Colombia.
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Lisa Felepchuk - May 16
Why roughhousing is actually a really good thing for kids
Grab your kids and put them in a headlock, in the name of good parenting.
Want a great reason to wrestle your kids?
Researchers at the University of Newcastle in Australia say that children who engage in rough and tumble play (RTP) with their fathers are more likely to be more emotionally balanced and self regulated.
"Children whose fathers engage in rough and tumble play that was warm and playful are also children with better emotional and behavioural outcomes," said Dr St George, the study's lead researcher.
The thinking is that roughhousing (or horseplay, Tomfoolery, good old fashioned wrasslin', whatever you want to call it) allows children the opportunity to flex their naturally competitive muscles while also learning how to control aggression.
It also teaches them who's the boss.
"During "quality RTP," a father is able to communicate a double message to his child: "I love you" (affective component) and "I am stronger than you" (agonistic component)," the study says.
This an interesting finding, to be sure, but one that has us asking the question, "what about the Moms?" What, can't mothers wrestle with their kids? We know plenty of moms who love a good bit of roughhousing—and they're obvs way stronger than their kids, so why wouldn't mom's rough play be just as valuable?
Science has the answer.
"When mothers' play and fathers' play have been compared (in western industrialized countries), fathers' play has frequently been found to be more physical than mothers' play and to more often involve rough and tumble play," the study says.
Basically, it boils down to the way that moms and dads play—fathers tend to be more physical when it comes to roughhousing.
If you need us, we'll be holding our kids down while we tickle them until they ask us to stop. Because it's good for their development, and has nothing to do with the fact that they're driving us totally crazy.
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Talk:1871: Bun Alert
Revision as of 20:13, 2 August 2017 by 172.68.46.41 (talk)
This is basically the title text from 1682. Is it just me, or has Randall been running out of ideas lately? Jaalenja (talk) 13:31, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
In all fairness, Randall has been known to play the long game. There might be a thread to pull here. 172.68.143.186 (talk) 13:44, 2 August 2017 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Yea, Randall has built on earlier ideas before. E.g. 1818 being built on an idea from What-If 141. It's non-indicative of a lack of ideas. But the notion that ideas are a finite resource is silly anyways. Watch the talk he gave at Google in 2007, it's on YouTube, and there's a bit in there where he talks about how he comes up with his comics. 108.162.238.35 13:49, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
No idea why he's picked bunnies specifically, maybe that will become apparent in a future strip. Considering just this standalone comic, it seems to be a parody of apps that increasingly swamp the user with notifications about pointless things that one might imagine nobody would ever care about. In this instance, it might be imagined that few people would care about notifications for bunny sightings, but in the last pane it appears that someone truly does. This might compare with notifications for rare pokemon sightings in Pokémon Go (not provided in-app but there are groups on facebook etc. that alert users to rare pokemon / legendary raids) - with the difference that bunnies are extremely common. Also, is it significant that he specifically uses the word "buns" instead of "bunnies"? There may be a connection with the observation that they are just like little hopping loaves of bread.141.101.98.208 14:45, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I mean, that's pretty much what twitter is for.162.158.134.190 15:11, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Cf. memes such as "anatomy of the bun". 108.162.238.35 19:37, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
I think this may just be an extended example of dadaism. If he carries on with the theme I think it is as likely to make less sense as it is to make more sense. 162.158.58.189 15:12, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
Beret Guy's comment about investors and building the alert system could be a reference to 1493: Meeting. Is the "loaves of bread that hop" line just a pun on the word "bun"? Is "Night Buns" a reference to something? --172.68.46.41 20:13, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
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Houston Jewish Film Festival returns with Itzhak Perlman and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Culture // Movies & TV
Cary Darling
Feb. 5, 2018 Updated: Feb. 5, 2018 8:12 p.m.
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The Houston Jewish Film Festival returns for a 16-day run March 3-18 with two films that have received a wealth of critical acclaim during runs and festival showings in other cities.
"Menashe," a Sundance audience-award-nominated drama set in a New York City Orthodox Jewish community and the first film shot entirely in Yiddish, and Israel's "The Wedding Plan," a comedy about a woman's hunt for a husband that won three awards at Israel's version of the Oscars, are among the 25 films to screen.
GOODBYE: Thrice-flooded Meyerland synagogue's search for higher ground continues
The opening-night film at this 14th edition of the festival is "Shelter," an Israeli thriller about a female Mossad agent protecting a Lebanese informant, while the closing film is "Keep the Change," a romantic comedy set in New York City revolving around two young adults on the autism spectrum.
Other notable films on the schedule are: "Itzhak," a documentary about famed violinist Itzhak Perlman (March 5); "Scaffolding," best-feature winner at the Jerusalem Film Festival, a drama centering around a teacher and his troublesome student (March 4); "An Act of Defiance," a drama set in apartheid-era South Africa when black and Jewish joined forces to oppose the state (March 7); and the huge Israeli box-office hit and buddy-movie comedy "The Last Band in Lebanon" (March 11).
"Dr. Strangelove," Stanley Kubrick's classic about Cold War paranoia, is being shown as the Chair's Choice selection on March 13.
Screenings take place at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Holocaust Museum Houston, Midtown Arts & Theater Center (MATCH), and Axelrad Beer Garden.
For more information, go to http://www.erjcchouston.org/arts/houston-jewish-film-festival/
New films opening this week
Newsmakers: U.S. violinist Perlman receives 'Jewish Nobel'
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Cary Darling joined the Houston Chronicle in 2017 where he writes about arts, entertainment and pop culture, with an emphasis on film and media. Originally from Los Angeles and a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, he has been a features reporter or editor at the Orange County Register, Miami Herald, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In addition, he has freelanced for a number of publications including the Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News.


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General News Fri, 17 Feb 2017
Invest in education, reserving money for future 'needless' - Pratt
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has expressed disappointment in opponents of the government's decision to use the Heritage Fund to implement President Nana Akufo-Addo free SHS policy.
According to him, he sees nothing wrong if the government wants to use the Heritage Fund as a source of funding for the SHS because education is a vital to the success of the economy.
Speaking on Kokrokoo on Peace FM, Kwesi Pratt questioned the logic in saving money for future generations when it can be used to benefit today's generation and improve the economy.
In his view, it won't be advisable to keep the Heritage Fund till the next generations come to withdraw from it.
He explained that Ghana's currency keeps shifting value and it is difficult for the nation to guarantee that there won't be any fluctuations in the value of the currency so as to store up the Heritage Fund for the future leaders.
To him, the nation should rather invest in the children of today to build them into great future leaders in order to address the country's challenges.
"If you're investing in the future, one of the best investments you can make in the future is education. It's a major investment in the future and whatever way we can adopt to invest in the education, let's use it so there will be progress in education. If we don't it that way and we rather put some 'useless' money down somewhere, that money won't help us in anyway," Kwesi Pratt stated.


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National Drinking Water Advisory Council collection
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Title: National Drinking Water Advisory Council collection
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Abstract: The collection consists of transcripts of the proceedings of twenty-two day meetings held in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, Calif.; Boston, Mass.; DesPlaines, Ill.; Dallas, Texas; and Denver, Colorado and minutes of proceedings from five meetings.
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Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was MS 80/9. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019 to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Drinking water -- Standards -- United States
Water Quality -- Standards -- United States
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