An ode to the new year!
Hello 2018! It's been a hot minute since I've uploaded but I needed to take a second to reflect and to plan for this coming year. I think I can look back at 2017 and say that I would consider it my "break out year" thus far and its definitely due to some of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of last year. I've never felt so comfortable in my own skin, proud of my achievements and relationships, and confident in my risks and choices. Of course, none of it is truly self-made. I can't express enough gratitude for all of the opportunities and blessings I've had this past year. The support from my close family and friends and all of you reading these blog posts has made it all possible. I feel loved. I feel powerful. I feel truly happy.
This blog is the physical manifestation of my progress. Growing up, I was always naturally introverted, a conformist afraid to stick out or make mistakes. I didn't realize how much I was holding back until this year. I can't remember exactly when I did it or what triggered the change, but I distinctly recall telling myself "why not?" and literally applying that to all my choices from then on. While I'm still on a track that I'm passionate about and still have concrete plans for my future, I'm no longer shutting myself out of the opportunities that I used to consider "out of character." In short, I've learned to just say "yes," with safety in mind of course, but where I'm intrigued, I go. And through this principle, I've met and become closer to amazing people who continue to push me. I've opened up and never felt closer to myself and my most valuable relations.
So, now that I'm done rambling, here are the resolutions that got me here followed by the ones I'll be shooting for in 2018. I'm so so so excited for what's to come. There's plenty planned and even more possible so keep me accountable and don't be afraid to reach out about any and all of these things!
Let us know what you think! What are your resolutions?
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Explore solo- This is one I didn't complete last year. I haven't yet decided how or where I want to do this but I think it'll be incredibly powerful.
Yoga consistently- I am currently taking yoga at Chapman so I like my prospects on this one. I already feel more flexible and loose.
Habit tracker!- I have used this before to track my health habits (flossing, reading, journaling, etc) and it was super helpful. I like checking boxes!
Express gratitude daily- I never want to lose awe, never want to feel entitled so I'm looking to focus on my blessings.
Find a volunteer passion project- While I volunteered sporadically last year, I want to find something consistent to create real change.
Reconnect with my creativity- My calligraphy and art has taken a back seat and I miss it!
Do more research on living a healthy lifestyle- As I exercise and eat, I'm becoming more aware of bodily pains from either food or exercise. It's time I do my own research and begin promoting pain-free longevity!
Read the news twice a week- I need to be more informed period.
Be present- No more planning tomorrow, I want to savor every moment.
Do something daily for mental health- In today's world, this is of utmost importance.
Get active in new ways- What is out there beyond volleyball? Kickboxing? Ultimate frisbee? Bouldering? I want to try!
Learn something new- This is an annual goal for sure.
Immerse into a new culture!!!- Stay tuned for my next summer adventure!!!


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The anticipation can overcome some people during the flight but if you did your research and selected a country that is right for your situation you are ready for the adventure. Kick off your shoes, grab a complimentary beverage from the flight attendant and relax, there is still a little work to do at the end.
Finding a Home. Some companies provide employees accommodation but most of us have to hit the streets and find a place to call home for our stay overseas. Tim Ferriss recommends taking a few weeks to get to know the city before you settle on a neighbourhood and a longer lease. Good advice but you also need to find a good agent to help sift through the options and especially the paperwork, remembering you may need to translate the lease before signing.
Your new co-workers are an excellent source of information and advice about the most livable areas but ensure you understand their situation before using their advice. The hipster single cruising bars every night might love living in the club district but your wife and kids may not be as enthused about the club scene.
Schools. English language schools are available in most countries but your choices may be limited. Young kids are capable of learning languages quickly, and I would not discount sending your child to a local school to be immersed in the culture. Of course, if you chose a country that speaks your mother tongue, the school choices are unlimited within the local zoning rules. Consider schools when looking for a home.
When in Rome. The biggest mistake people make when they move overseas is to try live their lives exactly the same way they did back in the old country. When I lived in Malaysia, we ate the local food and adjusted our habits to take advantage of the local conditions to minimise costs but some people would not adjust their steak and potatoes diet. Those families usually did not enjoy their time in Malaysia because it cost more to live and travel was less affordable.
Did you choose a similar country for your first job overseas?
America and Australia have similar cultures but there are differences that can stress people who insist on retaining the old ways. They go to extraordinary lengths to get their favourite comfort foods instead of finding a new favourite at the supermarket. I enjoy a Tim Tam as much as anyone but an Oreo is good with a cuppa too. You came to experience a new culture, leaving yours behind can make that goal easier to obtain.
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The show will highlight the 250 B and Open Pro Sport classes, featuring rising stars like Jalek Swoll and Pierce Brown. Up-and-coming youth rider, Haiden Deegan will also be included in this second episode as he went on to win the 65cc (7-11) class championship. A salute to the 2018 class champions, and winner of the Nicky Hayden AMA Horizon Award, Derek Drake, will wrap up the coverage.
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University of Toronto Quarterly
Volume 54, Number 2, Winter 1984/85
SPECIAL CANADIAN ISSUE
University of Toronto Press Quarterly publishes interdisciplinary articles and reviews of international repute in English and French. This interdisciplinary approach provides a depth and quality to the journal that attracts both general readers and specialists from across the humanities. The Letters in Canada issue, published each winter, contains reviews of the previous year s work in Canadian fiction, poetry, drama, translations, and works in the humanities. Many of the recent issues have included over 650 pages of the years work in creative writing and scholarship! Published quarterly.
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The Gigantomachy of E.J. Pratt
F.W. Watt
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Of Words and Understanding in Grove's Settlers of the Marsh
Camille R. La Bossière
Crossing Boundaries: Hubert Aquin's L'Antiphonaire and Robert Kroetsch's Gone Indian as Fictions of the Avant-Garde
E. Arnold, Cathy N. Davidson
Energie textuelle et production de sens: images de l'énergie dans Les Fous de Bassan d'Anne Hébert
Neil B. Bishop
From the Quakers to the Children of Peace: The Development of David Willson's Mystical Religion
Thomas Gerry
Introducing Canadian Writers
Arnold E. Davidson
Canadian Literature's Silver Jubilee
W.J. Keith
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Q: Matplotlib Plotting: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'axhline' I'm plotting 3 charts in one figure.
The first chart came out fine and I could use the methods associated with a matplotlib chart.
fig = plt.figure(constrained_layout = True, figsize = [10,10])
gs = fig.add_gridspec(4,2)
fig_ax_curve = fig.add_subplot(gs[0:2,:])

However, as I proceeded with the second chart:
fig_ax_2_10 = fig.add_subplot(gs[2,:])
fig_ax_2_10 = fig_ax_2_10.plot(yield_history_2_10_30["2Y-10Y Spread"], label = "2Y - 10Y Spread", color = "red")
fig_ax_2_10.axhline(color = "black")

I was unable to execute any of the associated methods and got back:
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'axhline'

I am aware of an existing question that was similar: Matplotlib Plotting: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'xaxis'
If I'm not mistaken, my code has already followed what is suggested in that answer to avoid the error, specifically using ax.(methods)

A: The error comes from the line :
fig_ax_2_10 = fig_ax_2_10.plot(yield_history_2_10_30["2Y-10Y Spread"], label = "2Y - 10Y Spread", color = "red")

You are assigning the result of the plot function (a list of Line2D) to fig_ax_2_10. This is why you can not call axhline on that object.
Just replace :
fig_ax_2_10 = fig.add_subplot(gs[2,:])
fig_ax_2_10.plot(yield_history_2_10_30["2Y-10Y Spread"], label = "2Y - 10Y Spread", color = "red")
fig_ax_2_10.axhline(color = "black")

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Betts, Michael J.
Michael J. Betts has over thirty-seven years of experience handling a wide range of litigation matters filed in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Those matters include complex commercial cases, banking litigation, class actions, consumer litigation, fiduciary litigation, insurance litigation, securities litigation (including FINRA arbitrations), professional negligence cases (legal and accounting malpractice), and trade secret/non-compete litigation. Through his diverse background, Mr. Betts has a breadth of experience and perspectives - as a Litigation Partner with Reed Smith Shaw & McClay (now Reed Smith LLP), as a Principal of Post & Schell, P.C., as in-house litigation counsel of PNC Bank, N.A., and as the managing member of a "boutique" litigation firm.
Mr. Betts was born and bred in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College in 1977, with a major in economics. Mr. Betts received his law degree in 1980 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he was a member of its Law Review. Mr. Betts began his legal career in the fall of 1980 with Reed Smith Shaw & McClay (now Reed Smith LLP), where he practiced within the firm's Litigation Department. Mr. Betts was made a Partner of Reed Smith in January 1989 and he continued to practice with the firm until 1994, when he formed a boutique litigation firm that handled commercial litigation and securities litigation matters for more than fifteen years. In 2009, Mr. Betts became Senior Counsel - Litigation for PNC Bank, N.A., with responsibility for the handling of various lawsuits and other claims asserted against the bank. Mr. Betts returned to private practice in 2013. Since then, he has practiced as a litigation principal with the law firm of Post & Schell, P.C. and from April 2018 to the present has been the principal and owner of Michael J. Betts LLC.
In addition to representing clients in litigation matters, Mr. Betts provides alternative dispute resolution services and is an experienced mediator. Mr. Betts is on the approved roster of neutrals for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and has been approved by that Court to serve as an E-Discovery Special Master and Mediator. Mr. Betts also is an arbitrator for commercial and consumer cases administered by the American Arbitration Association and is included on the AAA's Roster of Arbitrators. For information about mediation and other dispute resolution services offered by Michael J. Betts, or to schedule a mediation or ADR session, please contact Mr. Betts by telephone.
Securities Litigation/Arbitrations
Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant (Non-Compete) Litigation
Professional Negligence (Malpractice) Claims
Commercial Litigation/Business Disputes
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Honors: cum laude
B.A. - 1977
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania
Past Positions
Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Litigation Partner, 1980 to 1994
Post & Schell, P.C., Principal, 2016 to 2018
PNC Bank, N.A., Senior Counsel - Litigation, 2009 to 2013
Betts Law Office LLC, Managing Member, 2013 to 2016
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The 1989 Sudanese coup d'état was a military coup that occurred in Sudan on the 30th of June 1989. The coup was led by Col. Omar al-Bashir against the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. The current one that has toppled Al Bashir is coup number 6 coup and the first coup was 50 YEARS ago.
The Sudanese people are now demanding a civilian transitional authority because they have learnt from the last 5 coups that the military Is NOT meant for governance.
I hope it doesn't take Zimbabwe 50 years. Zimbabwe badly needs a CIVILIAN TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITY without POLITICAL LEADERS.
Zimbabwe has a deficit of honest people who are driven political leaders. It appears people are willing to do and say anything for political positions and such people cannot ever be trusted with the nation.
It is also important to come to terms with the fact that freedom for our nation will never come through the ballot box.
For it to come through the ballot, we would need reforms in the electoral System. I can confidently say that ZEC is a ZANU PF entity and it will never reform.
Reforms also have to be pushed through in parliament and the opposition does not have the numbers to push such reforms and as long as the opposition continues to field double candidates and engaging in self-sabotage, there will never be enough numbers to push for reforms in parliament and this reality we must all face instead of lying to ourselves about a victory in 2023.
2.ZANU PF will never Reform.
3.ZANU PF will always promise you the moon and the stars BUT YOU NEVER GET ANYTHING and if ZANU PF gives you something there is a price tag on it and they will collect. We Zimbabweans need to understand that we are in this together, Black, White Asian, Shona or Ndebele we must be UNITED. The notion of CHERO ZVANGU ZVABADARA must end – that is how ZANU PF divides us. ZANU PF capitalizes on human greed to divide us.
4. ZANU PF will never relinquish power through the ballot. ZANU PF Is already planning how they will rig the next election. They are ten steps ahead as ZANU PFs Primary business is the business of staying in POWER. Somewhere in the ZEC Office the Presidential results for 2023 are already being plotted.


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Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville, Tennessee. Like any other girl, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret. There's a reason why she transferred schools for her senior year, and why she's determined not to get too close to anyone. An...
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Young adult fiction.
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Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville, Tennessee. Like any other girl, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret. There's a reason why she transferred schools for her senior year, and why she's determined not to get too close to anyone. And then she meets Grant Everett. Grant is unlike anyone she's ever met -- open, honest, kind -- and Amanda can't help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself ... including her past. But she's terrified that once she tells Grant the truth, he won't be able to see past it. Because the secret that Amanda's been keeping? It's that she used to be Andrew.
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Q: How to install Tesseract 3.04 (old) in Alpine Linux, in Docker? In my Dockerfile, I have
RUN apk update && apk add tesseract-ocr=3.04
Which errors with:
unable to select packages:
tesseract-ocr-4.1.3-r0:
breaks: world[tesseract-ocr=3.04]

I've also tried add tesseract-ocr=3.04.01, which is how it's listed on the releases page.
Simple add tesseract-ocr installs version 4.13, but I need 3.04 specifically.

A: Answer in progress:
From this question: Install older package version in Alpine
I see that each new version of Alpine updates its packages, tossing out the older versions to stay lean.
So we need to find the version of Alpine that corresponds to the date that Tesseract 3.04 was released, and use FROM Alpine:3.5 in Dockerfile.
Then add tesseract-ocr will add the only version available in that Alpine version.
It seems that Alpine 3.5 or 3.4 should have Tesseract 3.04.
EDIT:  I've run into a problem, which is that FROM Alpine:3.5 fails.  Investigating.
EDIT 2: the earliest official version of Alpine available on Docker Hub is 3.12, which is why alpine:3.5 fails.  So...
If anyone knows a better way, please shout it out!

A: It's true that Alpine repositories only keep the latest version of each package, and that old package version may still be found in repositories of old Alpine versions. However, you don't necessarily need to revert to an older Alpine version as the base image. Instead, you could instruct apk to install a specific package version from the desired repository. This will work if the installed package doesn't have dependencies which conflict with other installed Alpine packages.
tesseract-ocr 3.04 is available up to Alpine 3.6:
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.6/community/x86_64/tesseract-ocr
For installing it on a newer Alpine image, you should use apk's --repository parameter for specifying the 3.6 community repository. Also, make sure to specify the full version name for tessaract, which is 3.04.01-r1. For locating the exact package version number, use Alpine's package search.
Putting it together:
FROM alpine:3.15
RUN apk update && apk add tesseract-ocr=3.04.01-r1 --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community


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What's Trending Today?
Twitter Teaches American Reporter How to Eat Somali Food
A traditional Somali meal of rice, lamb and banana (photo taken in Minneapolis, MN, by Matt Pearce)
This is What's Trending Today…
Matt Pearce works as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper sent him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier this month to cover an event. One night, he had dinner at one of the city's Somali restaurants. Minneapolis has a large population of Somali refugees.
Matt Pearce ordered a lamb and rice dish at the eatery. The server brought the food to him. He also brought a banana, something Pearce had not ordered.
The reporter did not know what to do with the banana. He tweeted a photograph of his first-ever Somali meal. He wrote on Twitter that the banana was "brought as an appetizer."
An appetizer is a small dish served before the main meal.
As Pearce learned, the banana was not, in fact, an appetizer. Somali Twitter users on social media quickly corrected him. In fact, bananas are an important part of any Somali meal. Somalis cut up the fruit and eat it over the rice.
Twitter user Abdirahman Ali lives in Kenya. He explained that "a rice without banana is not complete. [I] am Somali and I eat [it] daily. Banana is life."
Thousands of people mocked Pearce on social media for not knowing what to do with the banana. Somali Twitter user Hiba wrote, "man said the banana was brought in as an appetizer ... like it's not the meal."
Another Twitter user joked that anyone who goes to a Somali restaurant should know what to do with the banana.
On Wednesday, Pearce wrote a story about his mistake for the Los Angeles Times. He admitted that, although he likes to try new foods, he does not know very much about the food of different cultures. He added that the many comments he received showed the importance of the Internet and social media for Somalis around the world.
"Somali millennials around the world," he wrote, "were laughing at me (definitely not with me) for failing Somali Cuisine 101 ... it taught me about how food -- and the internet -- bring people in the Somali diaspora together."
One Somali Twitter user wrote that "this article is evident to why Somali Twitter is the best …"
By Wednesday night in the U.S., "Somali Cuisine" was the No. 1 trending topic on Facebook.
That same day, Pearce joked on Twitter about all the attention he has received from his banana mistake.
He wrote, "Today I covered a Trump rally and was a trending banana idiot."
And that's What's Trending Today.
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dish - n. food that is prepared in a particular way
appetizer - n. a small dish of food served before the main part of a meal
mock - v. to laugh at or make fun of (someone or something)
diaspora - n. a group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for a long time or in which their ancestors lived
rally - n. a public meeting to support or oppose someone or something
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A special device wakes up sleepy drivers on the highway. What device do we need for a spiritual wake up call?
A spate of recent studies have shown that taking a good 30-minute drool-in-the-pillow nap in the afternoon at least three times a week can not only energize you for that late-afternoon or evening meeting, but can also lower your risk of heart-related death by 37 percent. Regular napping lowers stress levels, which may be why countries where siestas are not only common but encouraged seem to be a whole lot more easygoing than our own. So, go ahead — it's perfectly okay to crash and catch a few Z's there in your office chair before you tackle this week's sermon.
It's up to you whether you want to invite your audience to snooze and lose while you're preaching your sermon.


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Documenting Persecution in Nigeria
Boko Haram, Faith J. H. McDonnell, Foreign Terrorist Organization, Islamists, Jihad, moral equivalence, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, persecution, Sharia, State Department
The Washington Working Group on Nigeria, of which The IRD is a founding member, this week will release a report of the documented atrocities committed in Nigeria by Boko Haram in 2012. Compiled by Justice for Jos, a project of Jubilee Campaign, the report is in the form of a prayer calendar which memorializes attacks against individual Christians, churches, government institutions and employees, schools, and businesses in 2012 in Nigeria by month and day.
The report is in itself an indictment of the false moral equivalence frequently utilized by the United States government and the media to describe the growing conflict in Nigeria. It will be released on Friday, April 26, at 11:00AM at a briefing at The Family Research Council, 801 G Street, NW, Washington, DC featuring human rights leaders and government officials from northern Nigeria.
April 2013 marks the second anniversary of one of the worst attacks on Christendom in modern history. In Nigeria's 12 Sharia states in the north, over 700 churches were destroyed in the space of 48 hours in post-election violence stemming from Islamist anger at the April 2011 election of a Christian president, Goodluck Jonathan. The carnage resulted in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of over 65,000 people. But Islamic of militants of the terrorist organization, Boko Haram ("Western education is forbidden") continue their campaign to Islamize Nigeria with ongoing attacks.
Just this past week over 185 people were killed in Boko Haram's Friday-after-prayers-at-the-mosque attack on Baga, a town in Borno State. According to the BBC news Boko Haram bombarded Baga with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire, burning down 40% of the town. BBC reported that "Residents of Baga fled into the bush and only returned on Sunday afternoon to find much of the town destroyed and human and animal corpses strewn through the streets."
Justice for Jos Special Counsel, Emmanuel Ogebe, adds that his contacts on the ground have revealed that Boko Haram has overrun northern Borno State, much as jihadists took over northern Mali last year. He told of a recent attack on a bus, in which the passengers were separated by religion, and the Christians were killed.
In addition to the meeting on Friday to launch the 2012 report, the Washington Working Group on Nigeria will hold a briefing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, April 25, at 12:30 at the Cannon House Office Building, Room 234. Although open to the public, the briefing will focus on helping Congressional staff members to understand the true situation in northern Nigeria and to encourage a renewed effort by Congress to push the State Department to designate Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Twenty Years Ago in South Sudan
Arabist, Ayod, Blue Nile State, Darfur, ethnic cleansing, genocide, government-orchestrated starvation, Islamist, Jihad, Kevin Carter, manmade famine, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, South Sudan, starvation, Sudan
(Photo credit: Kevin Carter, 1960-1994) Photo-journalist Carter committed suicide in July 1994, just months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for the photo.
2013 is the tenth anniversary of the Government of Sudan's genocidal war against the people of the western region of Darfur. The Darfur genocide continues today, as populations that were ethnically cleansed from their land are replaced with non-indigenous people groups loyal to the regime. The Darfur 10 campaign is just one of many initiatives to commemorate the genocide. "As we look back on the past 10 years since the conflict began, we are reminded that more than 300,000 people have lost their lives and another 4 million have been displaced from their homes," Darfur 10 reflects.
I have a good (some would say annoying) memory for details. I also have the bad habit of holding onto emails for a long time. So somewhere in my computer, or in the hundreds of purple file folders that are stacked everywhere in my office or, remarkably, reside in the filing cabinet, I have pretty thorough documentation of the Government of Sudan's first genocidal jihad — against the South, Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile State, and elsewhere since 1994, when IRD began focusing on Sudan.
In those regions, the conflict was confusingly referred to as Sudan's "civil war," or the "North/South war." Over 2.5 million people died, tens of thousands were taken into slavery, and over 5 million were displaced. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) led to the cessation of active war throughout most of the region, but by the time of South Sudan's independence in July 2011, Khartoum had already resumed war against the Nuba Mountains. A few months later, the people of Blue Nile were attacked as well.
Khartoum's supremacist agenda is also being implemented elsewhere throughout the country. Criminal neglect and cultural cleansing is slowly extinguishing the Beja people of eastern Sudan. And in the far north, Khartoum is literally "drowning" Nubia with dams on the Nile. The floods are wiping out traces of the great Nubian civilizations that pre-dated the Islamic invasion.
Just as the genocide in Darfur should be commemorated, Khartoum's decades-long genodical war against South Sudan and the other regions that resisted its agenda of Islamization and Arabization should be remembered, as well. Anyone who has seen it can never forget the famous photo above, taken twenty years ago this month by South African photo-journalist Kevin Carter, in March 1993 outside an emergency feeding center in Ayod, Jonglei State, South Sudan.
This image of the tiny starving girl and the vulture is still used to speak of "famine" in Sudan. The outrageous truth was that the famine was man-made, Khartoum-orchestrated — the deliberate starvation of a people by their own government. The same thing happened in the Nuba Mountains, in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, and in numerous other places. Today Khartoum is perpetrating the same starvation technique in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State. It is time to remember the past — not just the ten years since genocide began in Darfur, but the decades of atrocities committed by the Government of Sudan. The sad truth is that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to allow Khartoum to repeat it.


On May 17, 2007, the day of the Ascension of the Lord, the Act of Canonical Communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate was signed. The ceremony of the reestablishment of the fullness of communion within one Local Russian Orthodox Church was attended by President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, along with other government officials.
From early morning, a multitude of Orthodox Christians of Moscow and pilgrims of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia began streaming to the church.
During the proskomedia, the First Hierarch of the Church Abroad arrived. His Eminence was greeted by the Secretary of the Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on talks with the Moscow Patriarchate, Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff, and the Secretary of the Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate on talks with the Church Abroad, Protopriest Nikolai Balashov. Clergymen of the Moscow Patriarchate emerged from one of the side altar doors to greet His Eminence, and an equal number of clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia from the other side. Venerating the altar-table cross, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus blessed the clerics and worshipers with it, and then entered the altar.
Greeting His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia were the archpastors of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and members of the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, plus Archbishop Innokenty of Korsun and Archbishop Evgeny of Verey, members of the Moscow Patriarchate's Commission, who all emerged together through the Royal Doors wearing white vestments.
As the bells of Christ the Savior Cathedral pealed overhead, His Holiness was greeted by the Dean of the Central Deanery of Moscow, Protopriest Vladimir Divakov, and Senior Priest of Christ the Savior Cathedral, Protopriest Mikhail Ryazantsev.
Donning the mantle, His Holiness blessed the bishops and clergymen with the cross, after which he ascended the cathedra in the middle of the church. As His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II entered the church, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York proceeded to the cathedra. Standing on the north and south sides were the bishops and clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate.
Then, the Secretaries of both Church Commissions, Mitred Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff and Protopriest Nikolai Balashov read the texts of the decrees of the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate and of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia on the confirmation of the Act of Canonical Communion. The text of the Act itself was read from the ambo by Protodeacon Vladimir Nazarkin.
The Act was then signed on the ambo of Christ the Savior Cathedral. His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York put their signatures under this historic document. Then, with the words "Christ is among us! Now and forever," they kissed each other three times.
Archdeacon Andrei Mazur intoned Many Years to Patriarch Alexy and the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, to His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and its Synod of Bishops.
"Your Holiness! Your Excellency! Eminent archpastors, beloved in the Lord fathers and children of the Russian Orthodox Church!
"The first word that Christ said to His followers after He rose from the dead was 'Rejoice.' The second word that the Lord said to His disciples after the Resurrection was 'peace be unto you.' And so, on this holiday, we hear these greetings from the Ascended Lord, who granted us the joy of unity and blessed us with His peace. I congratulate all of you with this great joy!
"First of all, I bring thanks to the great Chief Pastor, our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave us the strength to perform this great deed. On behalf of my fellow-travelers and on my own behalf, I personally express to Your Holiness and Your Excellency the profound gratitude that fills our hearts and souls for the loving invitation to visit you, for your brotherly benevolence and hospitality, and I raise my prayers to the Altar of the All-Highest, that He send His Omnipotent help and heavenly blessing to your zealous labors for the glory of the Holy Church of Christ and our Russian people.
His Holiness then addressed the Chief of State of the Russian Federation, noting his participation in the work of reestablishing unity within the Local Russian Orthodox Church. His Holiness reminded everyone that a few years ago, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, during a visit to New York, met with His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus and the members of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. "In you they saw a person dedicated to Russia, an Orthodox Christian who serves his people," said the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In memory of this event, His Holiness gave the President a triptych representing the Life-Giving Trinity, the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the Icon of the Host of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
The Russian President then addressed those present. He said that the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion is an epochal event not only in the history of the Church but in the life of society in general. This event places an end to the division of the Church in the Fatherland and abroad.
After the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion, a solemn Divine Liturgy began, at the end of which His Holiness and His Eminence exchanged greetings.
After Liturgy followed the opening of an exhibition on the recent history of the Russian Orthodox Church, the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and the discussions on reconciliation that led to the restoration of brotherly communion and the unity of the Local Russian Orthodox Church. A trapeza then followed.
That evening, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus met with the participants of the Church History Conferences held in 2001 and 2002, and others who helped in the great work of the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church.


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By: Sheron Lear
A little history! My first day in the histology lab, was November 7, 1960. I was so enamored with the science and the manual methods that I could not wait to return to the lab each and every day. Surgical specimens and autopsies were embedded in pans, paraffin was cooled in the freezer, paraffin and specimens, were cut apart and placed on metal object holders by heating a spatula over the flame of a Bunsen burner, melting the paraffin on the back of the tissue block and pressing the heated block to the object holder. Paraffin was melted in a pitcher with cotton balls in the spout to filter the dirty paraffin. The paraffin was full of dust, black specks, fibers, and had to be filtered prior to use.
Eventually lead 'L's were used for embedding on surgical specimens. This was much safer to maintain patient identity because the block numbers, hand printed on strips of paper using India ink, could be better attached to the paraffin block than when embedding in large pans.
The microtomes I used were referred to as the black box; I was told all made by the same individual. Maintaining the proper cutting angle for microtomy, was often challenging.
The water bath by today's standard, was a crude metal ring, with an electric socket that held a lightbulb to heat the Pyrex or Corning pie plate that we painted black annually. The heat was controlled by turning the light on and off.
When I started my training, all specimens large enough were dissected, were fixed in test tubes of:10% formalin, Bouin's, 100% alcohol, Helly's, Zenker's, Carnoy's, as well as several other fixatives I do not recall but can still see the lineup of test tubes in the racks. Each specimen was appropriately washed where needed, and placed in metal cassettes, processed, embedded and sectioned. The pathologist compared the various fixatives and ultimately diagnosed the specimens.
All solutions, formalin, Bouin's, Zenker's, Helly's, Carnoy's, hematoxylins, eosins, special stains, trichrome, were made by hand, checking the color index, the dye content, and calculating the differences to make up the solutions. It wasn't until we had a fire making 8 liters of hematoxylin that we were able to purchase a Corning hot plate and an embedding center. The tech forgot to turn off the Bunsen burner when adding the alcoholic hematoxylin.
All waste, including formalin, xylenes, acetones, alcohols, acids, potassium ferrocyanide, and special stain solutions, were poured down the drain.
The tissue processor was referred to as the 'black spider'. It held glass beakers for the formalin, acetone (or graded alcohols) and xylenes and heated vessels for the paraffin. The dial was tricky as it would slip and often the tissues would not stop in the paraffin but advance into the formalin next to the paraffin. Then we would have to open each cassette, dry the formalin off the tissues, if soggy, reprocess. This always took at least a day.
Eventually the tissue processor was replaced by the dual Auto Technicon. We had two levels of beakers so we could process all the surgical and autopsy tissues making the turn-around-time speedier.
I was training at a hospital lab that was without a histotechnologist for a time. When I went there, we found over 300 brains and autopsies in arrears. I was taught to hand process, embed and cut many of these. This taught me to recognize all the stages of dehydration, clearing and infiltration. Each specimen had to be embedded in its own block and only one tissue on a slide. The H&E stained slides had to be organized in a folder in order; lung, heart, kidney and so on. I learned quickly how to recognize each tissue without a microscope. I also hand sharpened the knives using a 3 stones, course, medium and fine, drenched in pike oil, for my instructor, another tech and myself and to hand strop using a leather
strop and diamond dust.
Peel-A-Way molds replaced the leaky embedding 'L's until we could actually purchase processing and embedding cassettes. These techniques had the advantage of making one always improvise and think outside the box.
The H&E staining tables consisted of glass staining dishes without fume hoods, much like the pictures in the 3rd edition AFIP staining manual. One could find a histology lab when you walked into the hospital by just following the fumes of alcohols/xylenes/formalins. Some labs used chloroform for clearing and were in very small rooms with no ventilation. Several labs in this country caught on fire because of sparks, used of alcohol burners, Bunsen burners, and the fumes or direct contact of fire and chemicals.
Mouth pipetting was in; acids, poisons, etc. One was told if you could not mouth pipet without getting a chemical in your mouth, get another profession.
Very slowly, automation started creeping into the histology lab. Vendors began offering hematoxylins as a ready to use dye, then eosins, finally various special stain reagents. Eventually an automated H&E stainer was introduced. Tissue processors that offered vacuum so porous tissues could more easily be infiltrated and section better. It wasn't until about 1988 that the first automated IHC stainer was introduced. Antigen retrieval followed in 1991 and went thru lots of testing prior to becoming the gold standard for a high variety of IHC.
Using the technology first published, about 2012, from Advanced Cell Diagnostics, a single viral transcript can be detected in a head and neck tumor. This allows the patient to be treated and not have to succumb to disfiguring radical surgeries. The long range future of histology will surely include actual testing on the DNA/RNA/organelles/molecular properties, and other to be able to treat diseases prior to the patient becoming debilitated from the disease (cancers, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, other). Biopsies and Fine Needle Aspirations under full body scans in color, body fluids (tumors and serums) floated over micro arrays of target DNA/RNA/molecules/chromosomes/genes, viewed under a fluorescent scope and
rendering an instant diagnosis.
I think computers will be programmed with high power microscopes and detection systems to be able to
render a diagnosis much more accurately and speedy than today.
The techs of today will be programming, troubleshooting, and aiding in the process instead of hands on embedding, etc. My goal is to see my visions in my lifetime.
Sheron Lear was the 2017 Histotech of the Year! Know someone with an equally illustrious histology career? Nominate them for this year's Histotech of the Year to have their accomplishments recognized.
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In 1962, Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes were at the forefront of city experiments in government experiments in racial integration, housing 11,000 people on the edge of Chicago's south side. Despite being a testing ground for radical programs such as Project Head Start, the neighborhood rapidly declined. High unemployment figures reflected the racial segregation and economic isolation that increasingly typified black inner-city neighborhoods after 1970. Graffiti and low-level drug trade in the 70s evolved during the 80s into gang wars, arson, and high murder rates. By the year 2000, Robert Taylor Homes were presented in urban planning textbooks as the icon of a geography of despair. When the homes were demolished between 2005 and 2007, their absence told a story about the scale of government hope, its breakdown, and reversal.
Here are some examples of invisible frontiers.
1) You drive from north-side Chicago to the South Side, staying on the I-95, looking out over church steeples and houses and trees. You are unaware of the twenty different ethnic cultures you are passing, the five different school boards and three different public health jurisdictions, the courts local and federal, or the thousand other divisions in the landscape. They are invisible to you.
2) Say you go from north to south by Lakeshore Drive. Here invisibility is in cahoots with landscape architecture. Between Northeastern University north in Evanston and the University of Chicago south in Hyde Park, you will drive between the gleaming lake and a cushion of trees and native grasses, especially beautifully landscaped to the south, where they hide some of the worst poverty in the nation. The nearest reason is development: cities that look rich lure more money. The consequence is invisibility: you can drive this road every day without having any idea where you are.
3) You bicycle instead from north to south past an unending series of empty storefronts on one side, five miles of field or wasteland or parkland on the other. You don't think about it: this is a city in which there are a lot of parks. You bicycle every day, unaware that these fields were as recently as three years ago the site of Robert Taylor Homes, a project as utopian as it was notorious, the site of a dozen thriving churches, back-to-school programs, community farming initiatives, and childrens' reading programs, most of which are now dispersed.
4) You're an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, and cultural habit, city planning, and weekly email crime alerts have convinced you never to explore the south of 61stStreet or north of 53rd. You rarely even visit the interracial bars, restaurants, grocery stores, and coffee shops that border on campus. Some reasons are pragmatic (fear of crime), while some are the unreflective habit. The consequence is that you inhabit an island, a bubble of affluence, whiteness, and consumable luxury goods, quarantined from the ocean of politics around you.
Plenty is invisible to us, always: the motivations of strangers. The unprocessed structures of kinship and talent that propel a teenager to musical stardom and her next-door neighbor to work the fast-food counter. Sociologists compile data to illuminate structures. We trust experts; we listen to them because they have done the work.
But the landscape encodes information of another sort: epics about modernity's failures, about government abuses and neglect, about disintegrating markets. A drive through the wrong side of town shows the grocery stores that are closing their doors, the encampments of homeless, the empty factories. A drive through the rustbelt shows quick the devastation hidden from coastal enclaves: entire neighborhoods, demolished. Standing skyscrapers, vacant. New empty lots, cleared by arson. Closing schools. Closing hospitals. Abandoned old folks' homes. No one can afford them. This information is frequently of a kind that is useful to those who care about the future: it shows how bad the economy is and how much worse it could get. The invisible frontiers show what happens in the breakdown of capitalism and government: they show the societies of hobos, the existence of spontaneous guilds in trailer parks, child-care co-ops, community gardens, and utopian storefronts. The invisible frontier is the location of experiments that rival capitalism.
Invisibility happens to landscape when capital leaves a place. Before the ghost towns of the west were celebrated, they surprised visitors, who wondered how many mining experiments had been planted and moved past. Americans living in New York and Boston and San Francisco are shocked to hear that there are abandoned skyscrapers in Detroit. There too, history becomes invisible; the story of out competition and white flight and arson only known to a few people who study it. It drifts out of the consciousness of Americans who live elsewhere.
Landscape invisibility compounds class invisibility. Stockton, a foreclosure capital, is home to Hispanic truck-drivers and factory-workers who have lost their houses in great numbers. They are no different than other, better-known working-class immigrants in San Diego, Chicago, and New York. However, Stockton is off the map. First, the poor lose their landscape; next, they become invisible. Whatever capital has forgotten about dissolves like the soft paper of midcentury paperbacks, crumbling in hand.
When the outside is invisible, the urge to explore dies in the bud. We all know this when we've eaten at a second-rate restaurant that we know rather than driving across town to explore the recommendation of a friend. We know that an outside is out there: but it's too far, too unknown.


"Shrinking world consumption and the world economic crisis", says Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc (CPF) president and CEO Adirek Sirpratak, are the main reasons to cut the investment budget by over 50% over the next two years.
The approach would have to be very cautious and selective and the "focus" would have to be market development, sales distribution, channel expansion and high-potential projects in countries such as Russia, India and Malaysia.
The group's annual investment expenditure will be reduced by half to Bt2-Bt2.5 billion (€41m-€51m) next year from the previous Bt5 billion (€102.5m), but it will continue to boost product quality and manufacturing efficiency.
The global recession and downward trend of raw material prices have also prompted CPF to adjust its sales and marketing policy. Now, it will try to lengthen contracts signed with business partners and clients, while reducing raw material inventory to lower production costs. At present, its order backlog extends to the second quarter of next year.This will help avoid risks from the global economic downturn, particularly the impacts on CPF's major export markets, the US, European Union and Japan.
The company will also focus next year on such marketing activities as brand building and overseas market expansion into Russia, for example. More hi-tech, automated equipment would be installed in plants to reduce energy consumption and boost productivity, Adirek Sirpratak said.
The company expects its sales to grow by 5% next year, up from this year's Bt150 billion (€3.08b). Domestic sales now account for 60-65% of the total sales, while the overseas investments generate 16-18% with the rest generated by export sales. The animal feed business currently contributes 35% of total sales, with 55% from livestock and aquaculture and 10% from processed foods. In the long- term 10 year plan, processed foods should contribute 50% of revenues with the balance coming from animal feed, livestock and aquaculture.


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A hero lorry driver ran across three lanes of motorway traffic to pull an injured motorbike rider to safety in atrocious weather.
Andy Brown, who lives in South Gloucestershire, had watched motorcyclist Ralph Winslade come off his bike in the third lane of the M5 in Somerset.
Seeing the biker lie motionless, Andy swiftly pulled over on to the hard shoulder and dialled 999.
And while emergency services were quickly deployed to the scene by call hander Claire Bounds, Andy, from Coalpit Heath, south of Yate, feared for the life of the motorcyclist in the dark, with heavy rain and standing water on the motorway.
Fearing Ralph would be hit, Andy risked his life by running across the three lanes and pulled the injured rider, who lives in Bridgwater, Somerset, to the relative safety of the hard shoulder.
Claire stayed on the phone with Andy offering reassurance and support until PC Olly Low and the ambulance crew arrived.
The rider suffered significant injuries to both legs and his back.
All four people, Claire, Andy, PC Low and the injured rider met at Avon and Somerset Police Headquarters, Portishead, after Andy was nominated for a Police and Crime Commissioner's (PCC) Pride Award by the man he had rescued.
Oliver and Claire were delighted to join Andy, Ralph and their families to see Andy presented with his award by PCC Sue Mountstevens.
Ms Mountstevens said: "Through the awards I have the privilege of hearing stories of people saving lives, fundraising for charity, volunteering to support those in need and those who devote their careers to serving their communities.
"These are the people who we rely on to support our communities to make them stronger; they do this without a second thought and mostly without recognition or thanks.


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The Toxic Avenger Musical
Personally, I think it's kind of ridiculous that SO many movies are getting converted to musicals these days. For every Hairspray or The Producers, you're just as likely to end up with the next Carrie or Lestat (both of which closed within a month of opening). And I bring up those last two examples up for a reason: because it seems especially unlikely that a musical based on a genre movie/novel should work at all.
So color me pleasantly surprised that when I saw The Toxic Avenger musical at the George Street Playhouse here in New Jersey this weekend, I pretty much LAUGHED MY ASS OFF. Obnoxiously so. And for all the right reasons — because it was actually good, not because it was laughably bad (refer back to Carrie). It really was a great show, even better than the Evil Dead musical that I saw and enjoyed the hell out of back in 2006.
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What you see below might be the most brilliant marketing for a musical ever. And definitely for a musical based on a classic campy horror movie. Freakgirl and I got to see this show in 2006, before it fled the country and moved to Toronto, and I LOVED it. The script was hilarious. We sat three rows back from the stage, and had to wear disposable ponchos in case blood splattered on us. Can't wait for it to come back to the U.S. so I can see it again!
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The Town of Markham retained Urban Strategies in 2011 to prepare a Precinct Plan for Cornell Centre, the future heart of the Markham's growing Cornell community. The Cornell Centre Precinct Plan will provide detailed planning and design direction to ensure the development of a high density, mixed use centre that serves the needs of the anticipated 40,000 Cornell residents and many thousands of jobs.
Urban Strategies is currently working to evaluate and refine the principles and planning direction provided by the Cornell Secondary Plan. In the context of this Secondary Plan and emerging planning applications for the area, Urban Strategies is preparing a detailed planning framework and built form and urban design guidelines for Cornell Centre. Aligned with Town, Regional and Provincial goals, the Precinct Plan promotes a high quality of life, supports active streets for walking and cycling, integrates planned rapid transit investments, supports high quality and diverse retail environments, protect employment lands, enhances the open space network, and provides a wide variety of living choices.


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RaceCars Designed To Win!
JDR RaceCars is the designer and manufacturer of the JDR F1000 race car, which competes in professional competition in the North American Formula 1000 Championship and in the Formula B class in the Sports Car Club of America amateur competition.
Jerry Hodges
Chief Designer / Chief Engineer
Jerry began his career in motorsports racing in the fabled Can-Am Series of the mid to late 60's, racing with legends including Mario Andretti, Jim Clark, Parnelli Jones, and many others. Throughout his life Jerry has engineered Can-Am cars, Formula 5000, Formula Atlantic, Formula 2000, Sports 2000, Prototype 1, Prototype 2, Formula Ford, Formula Vee, Karts, and more.
Working out of a 800 sq foot shop in suburban St. Louis, Jerry hand designs and builds race winning cars, including cars and parts for D-Sports Racer, Formula 2000, Prototype 1, Formula Vee, and Formula 1000.
Not limited to race cars, Jerry has designed windmills, land speed record cars, airplanes, and many others.
Jerry's racing accolades include lists of poles, wins, and championships a mile long, between driving, engineering, and car manufacturing, there has not been a decade in 60 years without a Hodges winning car in motorsports.
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Oral health is a vital portion of the overall health of people. An attractive, healthy and confident is an essential asset of individuals. The presence of healthy smile carries more significance as well as appears as the best indication of a person's sense of health. Apart from that, it also includes a great impact on business and personal relationships of a person. A healthy smile can represent the image of vitality, confidence, and approachability. Shree Sai Clinic is the highly dedicated multi-specialist hospital that comes with all essential facilities and conveniences to bring patients proper dental care. We are an expertise team of highly skilled and well trained dental surgeons who have the capability to bring you professional dental services at very cost-effective rates. Our hospital has eminent doctors, world-class dental equipment, friendly administrate staff and nursing staff. They are the experienced and proficient professionals who bring patients best possible dental care.
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View of the fire station after alterations
Opening of the first construction phase of the main fire station in Freiburg
With its official opening by Mayor of Freiburg Dieter Salomon on 19th December 2013, the first construction phase of the main fire station in Freiburg ended shortly before Christmas.
Following a decision by the city council of Freiburg im Breisgau, the main fire station on Eschholzstrasse is currently being altered and extended. The overall concept includes integration of the voluntary fire service, additional parking spaces for fire service vehicles, office areas and an integrated control center.
For this purpose, the structure, which originated in the 60s, was altered, renovated and adapted to meet current safety standards. As part of the overall concept, the uses of some individual rooms were changed.
The alterations to the two-floor Building A, which is 70 m wide and 19 m deep, are being carried out while the station is in operation and have been divided into two stages:
Rearrangement of office space, alterations to the rest areas and the canteen plus modernization of the building exterior. The roof and wall structures now comply with the current EnEV specifications.
Installation of new doors and of a new technical control center on the roof.
The first stage was realized in the period from September 2012 to December 2013. Following the relocation of the fire services into the newly modernized area, the second stage will take place in the remaining areas of Building A in the period from February to October 2014.
The planned investment volume for the modernization of Building A of the main fire station in Freiburg is around 6 million Euros.
KREBS+KIEFER is responsible for local construction supervision in this project and is also producing part of the design and execution planning for the outside facilities.
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17th ANNUAL WOMAN OF GREAT ESTEEM EMERALD AWARDS | STREETS OF NEW YORK 411 INC.
The Woman of Great Esteem 2013 honorees represent women who develop and advance their communities without regard for race, ethnicity, religiosity, gender, age or national origin in the areas of education, finance, business and health care. 2013 Honoree Joyce Gilman will receive the Humanitarian award; Sabrina HoSang, born in the US but identifies as a Jamaican, will receive the Entrepreneur award; Jean Joseph representing the island of Dominica will receive the Finance award; Dr. Duranda Greene, Cheryl Packwood and Gita Blackeney Saltus from the island of Bermuda and will receive the Education, Business and Business/Entertainment award respectively.
Bishop Gonzales points out that, "The Emerald Award is a vehicle used for the empowerment of women, honoring them for their relentless efforts to nurture and serve their communities." To date, the organization has honored over 150 women from twenty-seven countries from North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Bermuda, the Caribbean and Central America.
The Women of Great Esteem Emerald Award was founded in 1995 by Brooklyn based, Bishop Sylveta Hamilton – Gonzales, as a vision to recognize the increasing contribution of women who have excelled beyond normal expectations in a multi-cultural society. The annual event is a fundraiser for MACADEMY, School of Science and Technology in Brooklyn. Bishop Gonzales has recognized women from around the world in various fields of endeavor from politics to medicine to education.


I've never been that girl who has dreamed of slow kisses or the ideal romantic dates. I've never went out of my way to talk to a guy at a bar or even smiled at a guy from across the room. Sure, I have been on a date. I've been stood up more times than I'd like to admit. I've been disrespected and mistreated by a guy. I'm a little too familiar with the experience of a guy ignoring the word "no," instead favoring his own ideas of a "good time." I'm in my early twenties and I had never been in a real relationship. By all means, I'd given up hope that I could qualify for any kind of normalcy in my life. I'd figured that since I (really) love cats, I would end up as your stereotypical crazy cat lady. Single my whole life, spending eternity in pajamas with curlers in my hair, a house that resembles a kitty cat toy box more than a home. That was my destiny. Until… now.
Someone has finally taught me that I don't have to be alone. That doesn't have to be who I am. I'm not saying I've found "forever", but I have definitely found hope. An opportunity. Someone who has shown me that it feels good to have someone to rely on. Something I will always remember because in just the few months I have been in this situation, this relationship, I have learned so very much.
Well, I met a guy and in only nine months, he has managed to change my life in a million tiny ways. Believe me, there have been a few bumps along the way, but that's a part of life. You move on. You make that choice you need to make. Would you rather let that bump destroy all the progress you've made or do you choose to keep progressing and moving forward and trying. So far, we've chosen to keep trying because overall, I have yet to find a day or a fight or a disagreement or a letdown that has taken away that "butterflies" feeling. The fuzzy feeling in your stomach that signifies so much. The need to know he is going to be there for me in the way that I will be there for him, even at the worst of times. That feeling that I'm happy. That feeling that his happiness means so much to me. That feeling that I want to keep fighting for him, even when I might be fighting with him. That's the best feeling in the world. I don't know if this is much of a mutual feeling, but I like knowing that I will choose to be his side even on his worse days. He's earned that much respect from me. He's earned that respect from me by being who he is. What can I say? He has the kindest eyes, the biggest smile, and the most caring heart.
Have you ever been surprised with plans for a date? Been told a time and a place to be and to be there? I have. One of my favorite restaurants is a franchise Italian place, nothing too fancy, that has a great mac and cheese and gives you ice cream with every entrée. He texted me one weekend, a weekend I didn't think I'd see him (we're a little long-distance) and he gave me the name of the restaurant and the time to be there. I laughed and told him I'd be there. My mom took me shopping when I told her about the plan. She bought me a fancy new dress and I picked out a pair of sophisticated flats and I walked into the crowded restaurant. The moment I saw him, I became so nervous that he wouldn't like my dress or my makeup or my hair, but he smiled when he saw me and that was the only thing that mattered to me at that moment. I didn't realize it at the time, but I needed to see him that night. We ate and talked, and we walked out to the parking lot and kissed in the rain. I felt like we belonged in a cheesy rom-com but that was okay.
Have you ever met a person that has taken away all of your fears with a single smile? I'm generally nervous person. I don't do well in crowds, or social situations really. I am, without a doubt, an introvert. The first time we were planning to hang out and spend real time together, a group hang out, (there was really no plan, it was quite spontaneous) I was so nervous. I sat in the car with my friend, hiding. Watching his car. I had never had a good encounter with a guy I had such a huge crush on before, so I was terrified. I wasn't concerned about whether he'd "like like" me or not. I was concerned about losing the friend I was certain I was making. I liked talking to him. Asking about his day. Hearing about his family. I didn't want to lose that and so far, I still have it. It has only got better over time. The moment he stepped out of his truck, he smiled at me and I wasn't nervous anymore. I was excited. The night was suddenly full of possibilities.
Have you ever listened to person talk about something they love? A passion? The most important thing in the world to them? You see, him and I, we are very different. He's outdoorsy and loves being on the water. Fishing, hunting, anything requiring nature and freedom. I'm only outdoorsy in the way that I like reading my favorite book while sitting in a park or on a riverbank. I love to paint landscape scenes, but only from pictures. Well, his passions are foreign to me. I don't know anything about fishing, but I recently had the chance to listen to him talk about it. What made this opportunity special was that he wasn't talking to me. He was talking to a salesman at an outdoors store. Had he been talking to me, I never would have been so fascinated. What made it so great, so intriguing, was how "in his element" he was. He knew what he was talking about. He instantly had the older gentleman's respect simply by the way he carried himself and how confidently knew what he was talking about. The words sounded a little like gibberish to me, but I couldn't stop listening and smiling. I could have listened to him talk to this man for hours and I kind of wanted to. I don't think I've ever felt so passionately about something as he obviously does about fishing. I never want to forget that moment where he looked at me nervously, when he realized how long they'd been talking, and I just smiled because I genuinely wanted him to keep talking.
Have you ever had a particular detail about your life that only you and a select few have known? Maybe your best friends know and an obscure cousin or two have been in the loop? Well, I do. Ever since high school, I have had anxiety and while being in college, it has started impacting my life more and more. Well, this man has a way drawing the truth out of me with ease. Early on, I told him about my anxiety and to be honest, I don't remember when or how. It just happened. And I am beyond thankful it did. There came a night where it felt like my world stopped turning. A single text message and my heart skipped a beat in a horrifying way. There was a mass shooting and two people I loved were there. I was lucky because the message I received was a declaration of safety and reassurance. Other families weren't so lucky. I read the message and researched the horror. I was scared and in shock and I needed him. I wanted him. He was already there. I read him the message then I clung to him until I started falling asleep, but my drowsy thoughts were no match for my anxiety. Within minutes of finally falling asleep, I couldn't breathe. I knew I was hyperventilating, but knowing it's happening and being able to stop it are two very different things. Suddenly, I was sitting up in my bed and he had wrapped his arms around me and was telling me that he was there. "I'm right here, I'm right here." I can still hear him say that. The way his voice sounded. I don't know how he did it, but he got me to calm down. Since that night, I have had a few more anxiety attacks caused by school and stress. The strange thing is that I no longer have a fear of him knowing that I'm having an attack. I may not always text him or call him when it is happening (much to his dismay) but I don't think he understands why I don't. It isn't that I don't want him to know. It isn't that he doesn't help. He does help. He helps me through them without saying anything. Just knowing that if I were to text him, saying I can't breathe, he would be there to help me through it. I know that if he were beside me in that moment, he would say "I'm right here." All of that is usually enough for me start calming down. And if it isn't enough, I can actually do it. I can text him or call him because that doesn't scare me. I've never had that before and maybe I'm still getting used to it, but I know he's there to help me.
Have you ever been so happy that you can't believe that this whole thing is happening? That this is real life? That this guy whom you believe is way too good for you is actually going out of his way to spend his time with you? And sure, I worry too much. And I have a lot of doubts because I don't want to disappoint him. I want him to be happy, even if his life of happiness requires my no longer being a part of it. Everything happening, good and bad, is so new to me. Each time we laugh is new. Every piece of advice I ask for and he gives is valuable. His opinions intrigue me. His ideas fascinate me. His stories amuse me. They're all new adventures. New puzzle pieces to keep putting together and maybe someday, I'll finally see what picture the puzzle will make. In the meantime, I think I'll keep being happy. I'll keep trying to make him happy. I'll try to stop worrying and just live in the moment because maybe I can be the girl who dreams of the breathtaking kisses of a boy who can light up a room with his big smile and kind eyes.


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I would like to nominate Poochie's in Skokie. I've been eating at Poochies for 20+ years and have loved it from the beginning. Great food and great people make this my pick. Below I've included my review Poochies.
By definition a hamburger is a sandwich that consists of a cooked patty made of ground meat and is generally served with various garnish or condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and cheese toppings, placed inside a sliced Hamburger bun. But those who know burgers, know that there's much more that goes into making a burger great! Enter "Poochie's", a hot dog joint I've frequented for much of my life. Most people think you can only find hidden gems in the city, but they would be wrong. Drive past this place, and you're quite possibly passing up burger heaven. If you make the wise choice to check out "Poochies" you'll notice a small place, a store front to be exact, that is making some of Chicagolands best "street food".
Once inside you notice just a handful of tables, most of the eating is done by pulling up a stool and enjoying your food along the counters stretched across the restaurant. Opened in the 1960's, the very relaxed decor includes red and white tiles, red and white paint, and a wall filled with newspaper and magazine clippings singing the praises of this little gem in Skokie. The staff led by owner Chris is friendly and efficient in handling your order. Come often enough and they'll know your name, and trust me, you will come back.
The menu covers the basics such as hot dogs (steamed and charred), polishes, top notch burgers, and fries. Just becuase they cover the basics doen't mean they're not doing it better than most anyone else. While I have sampled much of this menu before, my favorites include the 2/3lb double cheddar burger, char salami, barbecue chicken sandwich, and fries.
The salami is an 8 inch piece of Vienna Beef soft salami that is charred on the grill and served on french bread. I add grilled onions and mustard. This is unlike any salami sandwiches your mother made for you. Slightly crisp on the outside and soft on the inside make this a sandwich that is truly unique. The chicken sandwich is a large grilled chicken breast that is grilled to a slight char and then basted with their tasty BBQ sauce. It's served on a bun and I add grilled onions, lettuce and tomato. The sandwich is big, juicy, and very flavorful. Before we get to the burger, let's talk fries. The fresh cut fries are served up hot, crisp, and have a very real potato taste to them. Many times fresh cut fries can be greasy, but these are hot steamy nirvana. They are a nice change from the fast food fries many of us are accustomed to.
If you want a true taste of heaven, order up one of their fantastic burgers. All patties are 1/3 lb and can be had in either single or double variety. Opt for the double cheddar, and you get a burger you won't soon forget. "Chef" Jimmy chars mine up to a perfect medium, and it almost seems illegal for a burger to be this good. The big 1/3 lb patties are charred perfectly on the outside, while the beef flavor practically explodes in your mouth! Top this beauty with some fantastic grilled onions, and you're one step from heaven. One bite and you'll have the juices running down your arm, a true sign of greatness.
I have frequented "Poochies" many times before and have found that just about everything on the menu is top notch. Everything from the char salami, skirt steak, polishes, char dogs, and the BBQ chicken sandwich are unbelievable. But, if you're only going to try one thing, then it has to be the burgers.
Pricing is more than fast food chains(well worth it) and lower than a sit down restaurant. Food quality is very high, as is the friendly atmosphere. It's that combination that keeps winning "Poochie's" new fans every day. "Poochie's" in Skokie is worth the trip if you live anywhere in the Chicagoland area.
I strongly second the nomination of Poochie's. Here's a link to a thread that talks about their signature item (in my opinion), the charred salami sandwich. And here's one that talks about hiring Poochies to come out and cater backyard events.
Gosh, I love Poochies and used to live two blocks away from it!!!! I miss it so much. I strongly support this nomination!!
Poochies fits my idea of a GNR because it's a go-to place for us when we're out at lunch time and are trying to figure what we want. The menu is broad enough, as described above, to fit whatever you have a taste for -- they also have decent IB, Italian sausage and even a Turkey Burger for those who wish to delude themselves about "eating healthy".
And the fries are truly a treat. We like them because they fry in short batches, so there's a good chance that you will get an order right out of the fryer. Also, they have an uncanny ability to include, in one order, big, light-colored pieces and small Cripsies: those dark and well-done scraps with crunch and extra flavor. Great for sharing, as one order is usually enough for both of us.
I also endorse this thoughtful nomination.
I completely agree with the above except, well, I've never had anything other than the cheddar burger. It's just too good to order anything else. I order it plain with pickle on the side with fries. I've been going there for probably 30 years and it's still great.
Lived mere blocks from Poochies in the past & have been there at least a hundred times. Met Jimmy Carter & Secret Service detail there in the eighties. He actually asked me what should go on his hot dog. I believe his son Chip lived in Evanston around then.
Have never ordered a Char Salami, but may have to now. Do they still have 'Gribness in Season' on the menu? Apparently gribness (correct spelling 'gribbenes') is chicken skin cracklings mixed with schmaltz (chicken fat).
Has anyone ever ordered it...and lived?
Just think of gribenes-gribness-gribbenes as Kosher Chicharrones.
Yes -- you can survive after eating gribenes.
No -- some of us cannot survive without eating gribenes.
My favorite use of this marvelous treat is to spread schmaltz (a butter-substitute staple in a kosher kitchen and the other result of rendering chicken fat) on dark, heavy rye bread and add gribenes, chopped onion and chopped radish (preferably white radish). Salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy! Enjoy!
HungryZ wrote: If you want a true taste of heaven, order up one of their fantastic burgers. All patties are 1/3 lb and can be had in either single or double variety. Opt for the double cheddar, and you get a burger you won't soon forget. "Chef" Jimmy chars mine up to a perfect medium, and it almost seems illegal for a burger to be this good. The big 1/3 lb patties are charred perfectly on the outside, while the beef flavor practically explodes in your mouth! Top this beauty with some fantastic grilled onions, and you're one step from heaven. One bite and you'll have the juices running down your arm, a true sign of greatness.
I've been to Poochie's any number of times, Char Salami and hot dogs my usual fare, but after today I may just switch to double cheddar burgers, one bite and, as you say, juice was running down my arm, the double really ought to come with a bib. Charred burgers were dead-on med-rare, grilled and raw onion, sport peppers and not bad tomato, this was a nap inducing burger, I barely made a dent in the fries, which are hand cut and delicious.
I'm all for this nom, but what sort of bun are they using for the burgers these days? I was there about 8 months ago and they had switched from the typical sesame seed-dotted Rosen bun to a thicker potato-esque contraption that I felt intruded on, to quoth Pat Bruno, the "goodness." The meat and cheese were perfect as usual, but the thickness and constitution of the bun threw it out of balance--way too bready, yo.
Them some great fries, though.
When I was there Friday Poochie's was using a sesame seed-dotted bun for the char burgers.
Unless those are really tiny sesame seeds on your hamburger bun, because it looks like coarse cornmeal dusted on your bun instead.
That looks like the bun I remember, yeah. I found it challah-like in thickness. A minor complaint, but an irrational decision on the part of the Poochie's owners, I thought.
Happy to support this nomination. My son and I have been going to Poochies for 20+ years and always enjoyed the consistently fine dogs, Polishes & fries.
The consistently great food at Poochies makes supporting this nomination a no brainer for me. Weekend trips to irvings in Wilmette and Cookers in Deerfield have reminded me how dreadful a poorly executed hot dog, etc can taste. Poochies has been doing things right for many many years and that is saying something.
I renewed my love affair with the Poochie's Char Salami the other day.
Served with mustard, grilled onions and giardiniare.
I've been going to Poochies for 30+ years and am delighted to see this nomination.
Darren72 wrote: I've been going to Poochies for 30+ years and am delighted to see this nomination.
I've been going to Poochies for 32+ years and support renewal.
Poochies has been there for over 40 years and I think I've been going there almost as long. I don't live close anymore and I no longer work in the area. But if I'm even close, I stop by. What's really bad, usually when I'm in the area it's because I just had dinner at a relatives. But I still have to stop by. Renewal should be a no-brainer.
Yes, renew. It's as fine as ever.
Let me add my praise. I eat at Poochie's often, but rarely post about it anymore. It's such a constantly good place to eat, but everything's already been said. Besides the great dogs and burgers, their grilled salami is still the standard bearer. Interestingly enough, just yesterday I saw my old friend Harvey Bernstein (the original owner of Poochies) at Patty's Diner. He managed to leave while I wasn't looking so I didn't get a chance to say hello, but I thought it was a sign that I should post my strong support for Poochie's renewal.
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I've only been going to Poochie's for about 3 years, and their fries are not my favorite in that area, but I've loved everything that's come off the grill there, and they're super friendly. I support this renewal.
I will throw in my support for Poochies, especially the char salami, which is a true revelation in eating pleasure. Yum , double YUM.
Solid "Yes" for renewal. I use Poochie's as the benchmark to which all other hot dog stands are judged.