"My name is Jenna Rice and I live in a small town in Vermont. I am a homeschool student in my junior year focusing on learning about farming and sustainable agriculture. I am doing things like growing a garden, training a team of oxen, and working on a small farm.
I made the video below for a contest called Restore My Climate.
On the Restore My Climate webpage, the competition is introduced in this way: "Climate change is the issue of our time, but America's public dialogue on the issue is characterized by pessimism and misunderstanding. This creates a confusing picture of what's happening and what we can do now about climate change.
Jenna's video went on to win third place in this national competition! She produced the video using her own photographs, script and music. For more on Jenna and her self-directed learning and action, visit her blog, Bright and Bold.
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Excellent to see the next generation doing such great work! Here's to youth carrying on!
Wow, Jena – great piece and great expression! "If together we are powerful enough to change the climate of an entire planet then… we have the power to put it right." Beautifully said and the call from your heart is definitely heard.
Inspiring, Jenna! Your combined narration and images makes action on climate change so obvious and appealing!
Great going Jenna! Your message is clear and inspiring, thanks for doing this.


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Q: How To Show Topic Details for Multiple Sections in Segue I created a splitview master-detail application that has a single section with 135+ topics, and it works like a charm.  I decided to add an index list along the RH side to help the user scroll through the topics listing, but when I did that, I no longer know how to show the details for the topics in each subsequent section after 0.  The index list shows correctly along the RH side and all the topics display correctly in the topics tableview with their appropriate section headings.  But, if I select a topic in the second section, or subsequent sections, the selected topic details are always for the section 0 topics.
Here is the segue method where I believe the problem lies.  I'm not sure how to show the appropriate topic details for sections 1 + n.  Thanks for any suggestions.
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
    if segue.identifier == "showTopicDetail" {
        if let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
            let topics = self.topics[indexPath.row]
            let controller = (segue.destination as! UINavigationController).topViewController as! DetailViewController

            //Loads data set for selected topic to segue
            controller.topics = topics

            //adds selected topic as detailViewController page title
            controller.title = topics.topic

            // Ads breadcrumb button to go back the Topics list
            controller.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = splitViewController?.displayModeButtonItem
            controller.navigationItem.leftItemsSupplementBackButton = true
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HONOLULU, July 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A jaunt to the beach, a quick errand or the drive to work. These activities just became more manageable for residents of Honolulu and visitors alike with today's launch of a creative new mobility solution called Hui – a round-trip, station-based car share service. Operated by Servco Pacific (Servco), Toyota's distributor in Hawaii, the Hui service utilizes Toyota's proprietary global Mobility Service Platform (MSPF) and a consumer facing app developed by Toyota Connected North America (TCNA), the global technology strategy business unit for Toyota.
"We're really excited about Hui because it's a game changing way to offer car sharing," said Zack Hicks, chief executive officer and president of TCNA, and chief digital officer of Toyota Motor North America. "The program is simple to use and more convenient than a traditional car rental service – plus typical add-ons like gas and insurance are included in the reservation cost. And thanks to Servco's strong relationships with consumers and extensive knowledge of this market, Hui will be the most accessible car share service in Honolulu by far."


Mark Reid is a Melbourne-based new media artist. His practice explores connections between landscape, experience and the mediated image, seeking to reveal different ways of relating to the environment and our psychological and emotional responses to it. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at RMIT in 2010 and has exhibited both in Australia and throughout Europe.
RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne.
The Projects Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne.
Art Not Apart Festival, Canberra. Collaboration with Julia Dunne.
The Lock-up, Newcastle. Collaboration with Boe-lin Bastian, curated by Elyss McCleary and Doug Heslop.
Kings ARI, Melbourne. Collaboration with Boe-lin Bastian.
Art Not Apart Festival, Canberra. Curated by James Wright.


When Jack and Sarah* went to Taiwan with their little daughter, Sarah's parents went along. Not in body, but in every other way they could.
With a need-to-know desire for every detail in Sarah and Jack's life, they called, they wrote, they came to visit. Then, when Jack's co-worker, a local pastor, helped them choose a name for their daughter, Sarah's mom went into action. She talked to the only woman she knew from that part of the world. Soon Sarah was informed they'd picked a bad name! The fact that Mama's neighbor, an unbeliever, was Cantonese while Jack and Sarah were learning Mandarin was ignored. Mama knew better than the local pastor!
Eventually, to keep family peace, Jack and Sarah chose another name for their daughter, but it was the beginning of the end. Sarah's parents were so deeply entwined in their daughter's life that they simply could not handle her living abroad.
To be very simple, there are three kinds of missionary parents: Helicopter, Kite and Launch Pad.
Helicopter parents, a term used by colleges, are parents who hover so closely over their adult children that the new missionaries have difficulty connecting with their adopted language and culture. Technology makes it easy. Email, internet phone calls, inexpensive airfare, "skype" connections complete with video streaming. It's like they never left!
"Never left" is bad news for new missionaries learning to minister cross-culturally.
Kite parents set their kids loose with their blessing, but there's a long string attached. Parents can yank it when they feel too disengaged from their children and grandchildren. It's subtle. Comments like "We praise God you are serving Him but we do wish you were closer" heap guilt on new missionaries.
Launch pad parents, by contrast, believe that God called them to raise missionaries and blast them off to impact a lost world. They don't love their children and grandchildren any less, but they feel privileged to be the "Houston" support staff.
Another woman wrote that her parents were "deeply involved without demands." Half a world from each other, they wrote often and came to visit. When the grandchildren went back to the USA, the grandparents continued a nurturing relationship with them despite the fact they had grown up so far apart.
How can you be a Launch Pad parent? Let your children "fly" with the Lord. Pray fervently for them and the people they serve. Love deeply and communicate both the good and the bad well – it's equally frustrating for missionaries to be shielded from bad news. They need to know when folks at home are struggling so they can pray too! Keep a balance between intense and happy, light communication. Yes, use the new technology to see their faces and hear their voices. Yes, go visit them. But respect them as adults adjusting to a new job. Wait till your missionary children are well established in language and culture before descending.
Meanwhile, keep the home fires of prayer, logistical and moral support burning between their visits to you.


Flor de Luna is a family owned and operated restaurant. We pride ourselves to bring the authentic flavors of the Latin American cuisine to the Rockville area.
Located at 11417 Woodglen Dr. we are only a couple of blocks away from the White Flint Metro station.
Flor de Luna offers lunch specials on week days from 11:00AM to 3:00PM, as well as Happy Hour from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
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By Malcolm Macdonald on August 28, 2013
August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, but it's also the anniversary of Midway Atoll formally becoming a United States possession. The proclamation was made by Captain William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna in 1867.
The acquisition of the islands that make up the Midway Atoll differs from the stereotypical colonial conquest. Midway was uninhabited when first spotted by the Hawaiian barque Gambia in 1859. The word barque comes to us from a combination of etymological roots; one source being an early Irish word for boat, the other deriving from Latin to French and related to "barge." In the 1859 context a barque meant a sailing vessel of three or more masts.
Midway's islands were uninhabited because much of its land is nothing more than sand. As its name implies Midway sits half way across the Pacific between Asia and North America, just 140 miles east of the International Date Line. Midway lies near the northwestern end of the lengthy Hawaiian archipelago. Most of its coral reefs protrude no more than a few feet above sea level, contributing to many shipwrecks.
As many readers know the Battle of Midway proved a pivotal point in World War II. What most readers probably are unaware of is that Midway was already a naval air station in the 1930s. Pan American Airways' so-called Clipper airships started trans-continental passenger service across the Pacific in 1936 with the lagoon at Midway one of the stopover points for the flying boats. An even littler known aspect of Midway's history began almost as soon as the Pan Am Clipper's first flight. The possibility of accidental or intentional transport of plants bearing disease and insect pests led the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association to set up an inspection post on Midway. Entomologist Fred Hadden was assigned to Midway, not only to inspect aircraft passing through Midway, but also to fumigate each and every plane landing there.
As tensions between the US and Japan mounted, the United States government contracted with a private firm out of Detroit to build a military air base on Midway. Hundreds of civilian contractors from nail pounders to crane operators to surveyors were employed for that purpose at wages far outstripping what the laborers could make back at home. Most of these civilian workers signed contracts that bound them to the job in Midway for several months.
One of them was my great uncle, Leonard Ward. Leonard had been a rodeo cowboy for nearly 20 years prior to accepting the Midway contract. He had been the All-Around Rodeo champion of 1934, ranking nearly as high for several years before and a couple of years after. Nearing 40 years of age, he'd suffered a severe leg break at a Salinas rodeo two years before taking the job on Midway.
Leonard's contract on Midway concluded in early November, 1941. At that point, he chose to take a more lucrative deal to work a similar construction job on Wake Atoll. Less than a month later, Wake was attacked by Japanese planes only hours after Pearl Harbor. 1,500 civilians and 400 or so Navy and Marines surrendered Wake to the Japanese on December 23, 1941.
At the end of the first week of June, 1942, one of Uncle Leonard's fellow POWs, Leroy Myers, then barely an adult, was ordered by the Japanese to shimmy up the tallest crane on Wake to oil its highest parts. From his shaky perch, several dozen feet above the ground, Leroy could see far out to sea, spotting smoke rising from the remnants of the Japanese fleet as it retreated from its defeat at Midway.

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Public Works Don't
Column by Jim Davies, posted on January 04, 2009
Exclusive to STR
A financial report I encountered says that "President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office Jan. 20, has said his first priority will be to pass an economic stimulus plan that will invest in public works and create or save 3 million jobs." I don't doubt that it's accurate, and so am horrified.
One thing he and his admirers have glossed over is that almost the entire infrastructure of the United States is already a vast, long-running "public works program." If there is a road so full of potholes that the cost of repairing damage to vehicles that use it exceeds the estimated cost of repairing the road (and they now admit there are plenty), that fact is a stunning indictment of the public works program that put the road down in the first place and failed to maintain it ever since. Government has had 100% control of that infrastructure, ever since the market was almost totally excluded from road ownership" some time early in the19th Century. If it has failed--and now its supporters say it has--then the failure is a failure of government, and of public works. For the almost-President to promise "investment in public works" therefore means that he plans to take a failed strategy and do more of it. Some "change"! Some "hope"! If he was really interested in improving the infrastructure, he would auction it off to free enterprise and repeal all laws that impede its for-profit operation.
But I dare say his focus is not so much on that objective, as on the idea of putting idle hands to work. Government has caused a major economic downturn, by pumping in artificial money that caused a housing bubble, and by forcing lenders to write unsound mortgages to make sure the bubble burst (I don't say that consequence was intended, just that it was so caused). That financial collapse is already being allegedly solved by more of the same--new injections of artificial money. The patient is bleeding, so bleed him some more, that will do the trick; in medicine, that's called quackery. And now, before even taking office, the activist who took a job in Chicago to urge unreliable borrowers to take advantage of those forced mortgage offers is now proposing to fix the crumbling public works of the last half century by dramatically increasing public works. That, too, is sheer quackery; and to the extent that it puts idle hands to work, it removes those idle hands from the pool of labor available to the productive sector if and when it is allowed to recover and hire people to do something productive.
Several years ago it was observed that on average, government is much less efficient than profit-seeking enterprise and the "bureaucratic rule of two" was formulated. It says that by and large, if some function can be performed by (a) government or (b) unfettered private enterprise, the former will do it at twice the cost of the latter. It doesn't always hold (sometimes the market does a bad job and sometimes government does a good one), but by and large, over time and over many functions, that's the way it is. It was an empirical observation without systematic proof that it must be so, but it's not hard to see a theoretical underpinning: people tend to work much better when their personal interests are at stake. I grew up near a city known for its earthenware and fine china; my first memory of the world of work was a report that workers in a certain roof-tile factory suddenly became several times more productive when they were changed from hourly labor to piece-work--that is, they were paid by results. Gee, whoever would have guessed.
So if Obama moves more of America 's labor force into public works and out of free enterprise, the first result will probably be a serious drop in productivity; the Rule of Two will kick in. The nation will prosper less in consequence.
That's just the start, and it assumes that the objective is worth doing in the first place; it's not hard for example to "solve" unemployment by printing money to pay people, then having them dig large holes in the desert and fill them in again. The Rule of Two merely says that if the hole-digging and refilling were contracted out to profit-seeking companies, twice as many would be dug and refilled than if government did it directly. But ought they to be dug in the first place? That's a key decision that ought not to be left to players the political arena, yet that's exactly where the next President plans to place it. The reason it ought to be taken instead in the market arena is that only there can "demand" be measured and satisfied. "Demand" consists of the wish, plus the money; we all wish to acquire good things, but someone else will work to make them available to us only if we offer something in exchange--most conveniently, money. Why would they do otherwise? If they did, they would be our slaves, contrary to the self-ownership axiom. So if something (a road, a bridge, an airport, a wind farm, a sewer) is proposed, only the market can judge whether or not it's actually worth building, for only in the market can true demand be measured.
But Obama's "public works" idea removes all those market indicators and substitutes political decision-making; the choice of what to build (or repair) is left to those without any personal stake in the outcome. Actually that's not always true, for Pols are notorious for finding a way to profit from projects which they have the power to approve--but even they sometimes call that "corruption," and the latest to be caught with his hand in the till is Illinois Governor Blagojevich; but the point is that it's only in the market that a construction proposal is evaluated on the basis of what true demand exists for its completion. To the extent that Obama moves more of them out of the market and into government control, the nation will suffer more waste of resources, more bridges to nowhere and fewer bridges to somewhere useful.
Then comes the matter of how a project is to be funded, assuming it is worth doing'i.e., that a true demand for it exists, that potential customers are willing to pay for it. That might be a highway from A to B, with users paying a toll high enough to return the construction and maintenance costs as well as a profit to make the project worthwhile. How is the capital to be raised? The market has an elegant solution ready: Capital is invested on the basis of how sound the business plan appears to those who own the money and will carry the risk, and how well it seems likely to yield profits in comparison to other possible ways to invest the same, fixed chunk of money; in other words, the road-builders have to compete for the money on the basis of excellence, efficiency and anticipated usefulness to the community. Sometimes the judgments made will be wrong; but overall, there can be no finer way to allocate that scarce resource.
In contrast, in the political or "public works" arena, the capital required is merely stolen, by thieves who have enough guns and prisons to define the theft as non-theft and so get clean away with it. The stealing as we know may be done by compelling the payment of taxes, or by borrowing today and compelling tomorrow's taxpayers to repay the loan, or by simply printing it, which seems to be the current vogue. The bill hits us all tomorrow, in the form of higher prices--and if it's not done with sufficient finesse, the process runs away Mugabe-fashion. That fiat-money scam is perhaps the ultimate "public works" project.
Public works work all right, but they work only for the greater benefit of the government industry; they extend the tentacles of political control to choke more and more economic life out of society. Possibly Democrats salivate over them more than Republicans, but the difference is trivial; it was the latter who begged the former (on bended knee, if the tale of Paulson and Pelosi is correct) for three quarters of a trillion stolen dollars to prevent the market rescuing the failing finance industry, as it would surely have done, and I cannot think of a single public work that Republicans have returned to the productive sector. For everyone outside government, public works don't.
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Jim Davies is a retired businessman in New Hampshire who led the development of an on-line school of liberty in 2006, and who wrote A Vision of Liberty" , "Transition to Liberty" and, in 2010, "Denial of Liberty" and "To FREEDOM from Fascism, America!" He started The Zero Government Blog in the same year.
In 2012 Jim launched http://TinyURL.com/QuitGov , to help lead government workers to an honest life.
In 2013 he wrote his fifth book, a concise and rational introduction to the Christian religion called "Which Church (if any)?" and in 2016, an unraveling of the great paradox of "income tax law" with "How Government Silenced Irwin Schiff."
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Q: How to print a docx file to a printer using Node.js I am trying to write a program in node.js that will allow the user to print a docx file to the printer.
anyone that can show me how its done in Node.js?

A: You can use the node-printer module.
Here's example how to use it to print a file:
// use: node printFile.js [filePath printerName]
var printer = require("printer"),
    filename = process.argv[2] || __filename;

console.log('platform:', process.platform);
console.log('try to print file: ' + filename);

if( process.platform != 'win32') {
  printer.printFile({filename:filename,
    printer: process.env[3], // printer name, if missing then will print to default printer
    success:function(jobID){
      console.log("sent to printer with ID: "+jobID);
    },
    error:function(err){
      console.log(err);
    }
  });
} else {
  // not yet implemented, use printDirect and text
  var fs = require('fs');
  printer.printDirect({data:fs.readFileSync(filename),
    printer: process.env[3], // printer name, if missing then will print to default printer
    success:function(jobID){
      console.log("sent to printer with ID: "+jobID);
    },
    error:function(err){
      console.log(err);
    }
  });
}


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Reasons to join our Tribe
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Coburn updates facilities, discusses NIL legislation
Written by Bob Ferrante	in Sports business
(photo courtesy FSU athletics)
The Osceola
Florida State athletics director David Coburn addressed the school's athletics board on Wednesday afternoon. Below are some highlights of his thoughts:
Football staff: Strength and conditioning staff is complete and is particularly impressive, Coburn said. "The strength and conditioning staff is absolutely making a difference, you can already see it," Coburn said.
Football schedule: Coburn discussed some of FSU's requests as the ACC built the 2020 football schedule. "We made some asks and we were pretty much granted our asks," Coburn said. "We asked for fewer home games in September and we got fewer home games in September. We asked for fewer back-to-back home games and we got fewer back to back. I thought the ACC did a pretty nice job of accommodating." Season tickets are doing "slightly better than they have been" and he's encouraged by that, Coburn noted.
Football facility: Coburn has talked at length with coach Mike Norvell and chief of staff Bruce Warwick to "work through the spring, get familiar with the setup" and then discuss what the plan will be with a football facility. After the spring, they will meet again. "It all comes down to money," Coburn said. Fundraising from the boosters has been "very successful," Coburn noted.
Doak Campbell Stadium revenue: The boosters have engaged with Legends, a corporation that deals with stadiums. They will look at stadium seating and potential revenue streams, Coburn said. FSU is sending a survey to 500,000 people — which includes current and former ticket holders and Boosters, students, and alumni — to get feedback on their past game experience.
State legislation on name, image and likeness: The Florida Legislature has bills in the house and senate. The house bill has become an "athletes bill of rights" bill, that also includes provisions to require health insurance, disability insurance, continuation of aid, and authority to hire agents by players, Coburn said. The effective date would be July 1, 2020. The senate bill is focused on name, image and likeness but would be effective July 1, 2021. "We'll see what moves ultimately in that process," Coburn said.
Federal legislation of name, image and likeness: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is drafting legislation. He is talking mostly to the conferences, Coburn said. Of note is a "federal pre-emption provision," meaning that what Washington does would take precedent over any legislation on a state-by-state basis. The effective date would be July 2021. It would allow the NCAA a broad authority to draft policy rules.
Men's basketball: The regular-season home finale between FSU and BC on March 7 will be the fifth sell out of the 2019-20 season. After the Louisville game, the final tickets for FSU-BC went fast, Coburn said. Some changes to basketball seating could come for 2020-21. "For a long time our emphasis with our fans was selling tickets," Coburn said. "… Now we're at the point where we care if they come. And we think we can sell them if they're not (using the tickets)."
Softball: The shade structure was complete ahead of the start of the season. In addition to keeping spectators shaded and featuring large cooling fans, the structure also funnels noise out onto the field, making it a difficult setting for the visiting teams. The field is a sell out most nights, Coburn said.
Baseball: All of the grandstand seats have sold out for the 2020 season, Coburn said.
Top Golf: More than 1,200 slots have been sold for the Top Golf event on April 23-26 at Doak Campbell Stadium, which will be held over a few days after spring football practice.
Admissions: Not an athletics note, but Coburn stated that FSU would admit 6,500 students in the fall – out of 62,000 applications. The average GPA of the applicants is 4.3. "This school is hot, not just athletics," Coburn said. "People have noticed."
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Craig Gilman February 26, 2020 at 9:05 pm	 Reply
So many great things going on at FSU. As an alumnus I'm very proud of the progress that's been made in both athletics and academics. Now, just need to get the football program back on its feet and moving in the right direction. It's going to require some patience but I think we've got the right folks in leadership roles to take us there.
Jerry Kutz February 26, 2020 at 10:42 pm	 Reply
You are right. There are a lot of pieces moving in the right direction. And I agree, FSU has the leadership in football to get that program turned eventually too. Norvell spoke to the athletic board before Coburn's comments and brought the same energy to the board he's brought to every other group. It's clear he cherishes FSU's history, respects who Coach Bowden is as much as what he accomplished, which is important in my eyes. It is also clear he has a plan and the intelligence, energy and mental maturity to see the plan through whether in good times or bad and that will be important as this Renaissance will require a strong and steady hand, until the corner is turned.
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Reading: BTS Jimin and BIGBANG's Taeyang Collab "Vibe" Track
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BTS Jimin and BIGBANG's Taeyang Collab "Vibe" Track
The teaser for the song, which will be released on January 13, 2023, has already got K-pop fans excited. Taeyang and Jimin's collaboration
Seema Rai Published Monday, 16 January 2023, 02:05 EST
After captivating audiences with their respective K-pop groups' unmissable beats and tunes, BTS' Jimin and BIGBANG member Taeyang have collaborated on a new track called "Vibe."
Taeyang and Jimin's collaborationThe Jimin x Taeyang collaboration
The teaser for the song, which will be released on January 13, 2023, has already got K-pop fans excited.
Taeyang and Jimin's collaboration
The energetic 3-minute track combines R&B and pop music. Taeyang and singer-songwriter Vince wrote it together. "Vibe" also features Jimin, THEBLACKLABEL's Teddy Park, Kush, and 24 as co-composers.
The song begins with the lines "Girl, you gotta know you got that vibe, your smile is like fine art," and immediately sets the mood with the two idols dancing to groovy beats.
This is also the first time the BTS member and the BIGBANG member have collaborated. In fact, this comes shortly after Taeyang terminated his contract with YG Entertainment and relocated to its subsidiary agency THEBLACKLABEL in December 2022. It's his first solo performance in six years.
The Jimin x Taeyang collaboration
"Vibe" is the two K-pop stars' first collaboration. This track is even more special to BTS ARMY because it is Jimin's first solo collaboration since the band members began their army enlistment and announced their intention to focus on their solo endeavors before returning together in 2025.
Stay tuned at InterviewerPR.com for more updates
It will, however, be his second solo project outside of BTS; the first was an original soundtrack titled "With You" with Ha Sung-woon for the K-drama Our Blues. Taeyang, too, is taking a big step after leaving YG Entertainment.
The news of such a collaboration first spread in December 2022. Taeyang posted a couple of photos on Instagram (which have since been deleted) with the caption #2023.
On 11 January, THEBLACKLABEL released an 18-second teaser video for "Vibe" on social media handles, sending the internet into a frenzy.
This year is expected to be a year of solo projects for BTS members. Along with Jimin, Suga, Jungkook, and V are all expected to release solo albums. Suga is expected to join the South Korean military shortly after Jin.
It's also an exciting time for BIGBANG. According to the Pinkvilla report, in addition to Taeyang, another member, Daesung, has decided to leave the parent company. As a result, only G-Dragon, the group's leader, remains with YG Entertainment.
TAGGED: collaboration BTS, JIMIN X TAEYANG
Seema Rai Monday, 16 January 2023, 02:05 EST


BNP Paribas Securities Services has won a mandate to provide Sara Assicurazioni S.p.A. with global custody services for EUR 1.3 billion worth of Italian and foreign assets.
Sara Assicurazioni is an Italian life and general insurance company which is focused on servicing SMEs, professionals and traders.
Stefano Catanzaro, General Manager of BNP Paribas Securities Services Italy, said: "We are delighted Sara Assicurazioni has selected us as its global custodian. Sara Assicurazioni stands out for its transparency, quality and innovation of insurance products and is recognised as a leader in serving Italian families for over seventy years.


Actor Darren McGiven best know as Kolchack The Night Stalker.
Black, lesbian sf writer Octavia Butler.
McGavin was also in Raw Deal, which has my all time favourite Arnholt quote in.
"You should not drink and bake!"
Octavia Butler was a NW local. I've never actually read any of her stuff though.
This one hot of the presses. Well, News24: Dennis Weaver RIP.
I reckon Kolchak was done in by vampires. You can't prove it's not true!
Not if you're Kolchak - poor stiff never got the scoop.
You've missed a prime opportunity for a McCloud pun there, RAC.
Thats really sad about Denis Weaver. Always had a soft spot for him that stems form my youth, when my dad christened the local nutjob who used to go around dressed as a cowboy( 6 guns and all) "Mc Cloud".
He was great in Duel.
A couple more names to add to this thread - Lou Gish died last week. She's probably most known for playing Jeffs boss/girlfriend in half a dozen episodes of Coupling. Linda Smith the 'nice' comedian from practically any Radio 4 comedy show died yesterday. Both from Cancer.
Oh, and it was my Birthday on Saturday.
Did you die? If not take it to another thread.


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The State of Union America
Flaws and Frustrations Galore
By Luka Ladan
America may be home to fewer labor union members than ever before, but their political impact cannot be overlooked. As 2020 approaches, the union vote has the potential to swing the White House one way or the other.
In 2012, nearly 65 percent of union members voted for President Obama, with barely 30 percent supporting his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. Fast forward to 2016, and President Trump won over 38 percent of the union vote, compared to Hillary Clinton's 55.2 percent—still a gap, but a much closer one. Moreover, Clinton only managed to win 40.7 percent of the white union vote, trailing her Republican opponent by a significant margin and helping propel him to victory.
Indeed, much has been written about President Trump's support among blue-collar households. But what exactly is the state of union America today? And how might it impact the 2020 election?
Here's the short answer: Union officials are struggling to find new sources of revenue. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the percentage of wage and salary workers who are union members has fallen to 10.5 percent—down from about one-third of the U.S. workforce in the 1960s.
In other words, fewer than 15 million U.S. employees belong to a labor union. And the numbers get worse for union officials in the private sector, where only 7.6 million workers are union members—just 6.4 percent of the private-sector workforce.
On the bright side, Millennials are providing a new source of revenue. Between 2016 and 2017, union ranks welcomed nearly 400,000 new members under the age of 35. Indeed, 75 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 view labor unions favorably, compared to only 50 percent of those older than 65.
Partly due to the youth surge, union officials still wield a disproportionate amount of political power. During the 2016 election cycle, labor-affiliated groups and individuals poured more than $215 million into political races nationwide. Almost 90 percent of those contributions went to Democratic candidates.
Dig deeper into union financial filings, and their political spending transcends direct contributions to candidates. According to the right-leaning Center for Union Facts, labor unions have donated more than $1.3 billion to liberal causes in recent years—99 percent of their total political advocacy spending. This includes contributions to liberal advocacy groups such as the Clinton Foundation, Center for American Progress, and Planned Parenthood—not Democratic campaigns per se, but activist groups generally aligned with the party platform.
So union America must be overwhelmingly liberal, right? Wrong: Roughly 40 percent of union household members—that is, members of households with at least one union member—vote Republican, which is a sizable minority.
What you find is a clear disconnect between union officials and their dues-paying members—a far less monolithic voting bloc than one might expect. The numbers bear this out: Based on 2016 polling data, only 25 percent of current and former union members believe that union officials "do a good job representing their membership." Nearly 60 percent consider union leadership to be "out of touch."
Unionized workers have legitimate gripes—political and otherwise. Much of today's union leadership is essentially grandfathered in from generations past, so many employees are "represented" by their predecessors' union officials. According to research from the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, 94 percent of union members never actually voted for the labor union that currently "represents" them. That's right: 94 percent!
(This is corroborated by an earlier Zogby International survey of more than 700 union members.)
In union America, workplace democracy is not the status quo. That's why, in part, members of Congress have recently taken interest in reforming federal labor laws. The Employee Rights Act (ERA), for example, would require all unionized workplaces to periodically hold a secret ballot referendum to determine whether those employees wish to remain represented by their current labor union or not.
The ERA would, at least in theory, hold union officials more accountable to their membership. Given the increase in union membership among Millennials, there is no better time for pro-employee reform.
But, for now, accountability too often escapes union America. Many employees find themselves stuck in antiquated, unproductive labor unions, dealing with union officials who are unresponsive to their needs.
Which brings us to 2020: The status quo presents a dream opportunity for a pragmatic politician. Democrat or Republican, the candidate who can sympathize with and capitalize on workplace frustration is the one most likely to succeed.
That candidate should look no further than union America, where frustrated workplaces are a dime a dozen.


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When this little 6 lbs newborn's mom contacted me about newborn portraits and wanted an organic/rustic feel to the images, I knew they would be the perfect fit at Snips and Snails Photography. Their little one was a perfect addition just after Valentine's Day and so fun to work with! He had the sweetest face that somehow looked wiser in years than that of a newborn and his expressions (especially the smiles) melted my heart. Happy to share a few favorites from his newborn session! Congratulations to these new parents!


The cryptocurrency community is enjoying the new green market after being held captive by the bear for a long time. However, one coin which performed exceedingly well even in the bear market was Tron [TRX]. Tron Foundation's elaborate activities including the niTron summit and the launch BitTorrent token [BTT], had made TRX holders positive about the future of the token. However, the ongoing spree of scams has converted many dedicated members of the cryptocurrency community against them and one such probable scam has infected Tron Foundation's ecosystem too.
TronCandy [TRZ], a TRC10 token could be an example of the perfect exit scam where investors are stuck with a delisted token. AMBCrypto had contacted Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation about the alleged rise in scams on their platform, but did not respond. People who have constantly shared these experiences with Sun and the Foundation have also been unsuccessful in garnering a response for the millions of missing tokens.
There is not much information available about the inception of the TronCandy project, but according to their unfamiliar Twitter presence, it appears to have launched around November 15, 2018, and once the tokens were bought, it got delisted from Tronscan.org Dex in the following month i.e. December 2018.
Wahid then took the issue forward on Tronscan's Telegram, where he claimed that the users were "spamming the chat with the same problem in their site where people had lost their balance". He later added that Tronscan provided him with a form to fill. On submission, they confirmed its receipt and informed that an update will be provided soon. However, he says that they did not get back to him.
Wahid continued by saying that he further contacted another person, apparently from Tronscan, and they told him that "we don't have TronCandy".
Wahid ended his post by asking for justice and not compensation and provided the community with screenshots of his conversations with the two Tronscan telegram IDs in question, along with the hash details.
AMBCrypto researched on the Hash details provided by Wahid on TronScan and did find the confirmation of the transaction on the 5715193 block. However, unlike other exchanges, this transaction did not mention the source ('from') and the amount. The owner address did have the transaction details, but the balance was not made available.
We looked into the link provided on Tronscan for TronCandy, however, there was no site and was instead taken to a different website.
When the Twitter handle of the said token was analyzed, it appears to be a very unfamiliar page for a popular Tron token and with the handle name @hjdm9, which raises suspicion. The page also had a very limited number of tweets, which did not include the mention of Tron foundation or Justin Sun promoting it, but included one retweet of Justin Sun's tweet.
An interesting fact about Tron is that it allows users to create their own token and many Redditors suggest that this could be a probable scam and looking at the last tweet from the TronCandy 'official' account, this incident with Wahid could be a probable 'exit scam'. TronCandy has no other internet presence that is currently accessible.
Apart from the Troncandy project duping people, there are two more projects that have been accused of scamming people – Tronlottery and Tronpoker. A Twitter user @Rad_Shar, who had invested in the aforementioned projects, said in a private conversation with AMBCrypto that he believed that "they exit scammed" him.
The people who have lost their money in such seemingly fake tokens and many other such scam projects expect some level of accountability for their losses from the Tron Foundation and Justin Sun, and a fix is much needed for such projects.


*The closest metro station to the hotel is King Street (yellow or blue line) which is 2 stops from Reagan National (DCA). The fare is approx. $2.00 one-way, depending time of day, transit time is approximately 10 minutes. The hotel is 2 blocks from the King Street station [map].
Baltimore Washington International (BWI) - about 42 miles away (1 hour +); potentially brutal traffic.
If you are traveling on the east coast, the closest stop is Alexandria station on Amtrak. The station is within walking distance of AAPM HQ.


Metacognition, thinking about thinking, helps learners to recognise how they solve problems. Doing it provides the opportunity to develop their problem-solving techniques, rather than learning the solution to a specific problem.
And it's simple to try in class. Arrange students into groups and give each student a specific role within that group; I use talk trios. To make the most of any of the talk activities here and in the EEF Improving secondary science guidance it's important to model and scaffold both listening and speaking; download the resource below and use it as a prompt or checklist for students and yourself to develop your classroom practice. Next, make the process visible. Use the metacognitive cycle so everyone can locate where they are in the process and where they are going.
Assess the demands of the task, visualise both what needs to be done and what it will look like when complete.
Assess your own skills base recognising: strengths, weaknesses and what must be mastered to move forward, an action plan.
Spend time planning the strategies required to put the action plan into practice.
Put the plan into action by applying the planned strategies. The real skill at this stage is to continually monitor progress and make small adjustments to the strategy accordingly.
Once the actions are completed, allow a period of reflection. This can be as simple as asking what went well or what could be improved. From here, you can continue the cycle.
Download a prompt sheet for using talk trios as MS Powerpoint or pdf.
Talk trios can work together using the metacognitive cycle to answer this question: 'Describe how you could produce pure dry crystals of magnesium chloride'.
Students recognise this is a practical procedure question. They take turns to express their thoughts and then the similarities and differences in their thinking.
Next the students assess their own skills base. You can scaffold this by asking questions or encouraging peer questioning. For example: what do they know already, draw attention to a similar experiment that they have done. Ask them what don't they know, what's different about this question to the practical that they did. Question what they want to master and what additional knowledge they need to answer this question. And finally, ask what they will do to improve, and how the method used in class can be modified to answer this question.
Encourage your students to check for logical sequencing of events – has unreacted magnesium been filtered off before crystallising the salt? Initially students will try and skip the planning phase. Ask the talk trios to compare plans, identify points they may have missed and work together to create a 'best' plan.
Individually, or as talk trios, ask the students to write out an answer to the question. Remind them they have approximately one minute per mark in an exam. The real skill at this stage is to continually think about what they have planned and make small adjustments where necessary. If, for example, they planned to heat the hydrochloric acid they may now realise this is unnecessary as reaction is vigorous at room temperature.
Reflection; ask the students to read their answer then mark it using an answer rubric and encourage the talk trios to discuss what when well and what could be improved. Ask the students to compare their 'best' plan to the marking rubric – what information was unnecessary or missed?
The metacognitive cycle and scientific method are immediately comparable. Draw attention to the similarities in these processes, making your students aware of how much of the process is familiar.
Stress the importance of time, emphasising how much time is needed to plan, to implement the plan, to reflect upon the outcome and how much time is available.
With practice, these processes will become internalised as a cognitive habit.
This article is part of the series 7 simple rules for science teaching, developed in response to the EEF's Improving secondary science guidance. It supports rule 2c, Promote metacognitive talk and dialogue in the classroom.


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This is the legendary soulman James Carr's first classic 1966 Goldwax album, and it's making it's worldwide CD debut here. Kent's LP issue features the album in it's original running order (and, largely, in true stereo for the first time), followed by 12 generous originally-unissued bonus tracks, several of which have never been issued anywhere prior to this release. Features two sleevenotes, one of which is by acclaimed author and all-round James Carr fan Barney Hoskyns.
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You Got My Mind Messed Up
Artist: James Carr
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1. Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
2. Love Attack
3. Coming Back to Me Baby
4. I Don't Want to Be Hurt Anymore
5. That's What I Want to Know
6. These Ain't Raindrops
7. Dark End of the Street
8. I'm Going for Myself
9. Loveable Girl 1
10. Forgetting You 1
11. She's Better Than You 1
12. You've Got My Mind Messed Up 1
13. These Arms of Mine 1
14. You Don't Want Me 1
15. There Goes My Used to Be 1
16. Lucky Loser 1
17. Dixie Belle 1
18. Search Your Heart 1
19. Sock It to Me - Baby! 2
20. My Adorable One 2
21. Love Is a Beautiful Thing 2
22. Life Turned Her That Way 2
23. Losing Game 2
24. What Can I Call My Own


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Thanks to Maggie Foard and the Woodside Farmers Market for asking Cool Cuisine to Local Authors Day.
Mix 2.5 oz Frisch Cheese from North Bay Curds and Whey (Valley Foard, CA) with a few drops of Mexican Vanilla and 1 tablespoon confectioners sugar.
Pipe the mix out or spoon into strawberries (that were hollowed out with a melon baller). Top with fresh blueberries. Yum!
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Beginning 1 June 2021, the online cloud storage policy from Google will undergo significant changes. It is because the search mega-firm will stop providing unlimited free storage to upload videos and photos on the Google Photos service it offers. Furthermore, Google is also going to begin erasing content from dormant accounts. We give you all the information you require about Google's latest online cloud storage policy as well as its effect on you as the user.
What does Google's current policy entail?
Users who are on a standard Google Account get a storage space of 15 GB for free. It is significantly more, compared to Microsoft, which provides OneDrive at 5GB free space and iCloud from Apple that provides 5GB also.
The 15GB space is included in the user's Photos, Drive and Gmail. Drive consists of all spreadsheets, files, etc., that are set up on Google's series of apps like Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc. But, pictures that were uploaded to the Google Photos app did not feature in this free space. It affected all high-resolution videos and pictures and express resolution pictures and videos.
Google explains that when you use the high resolution to upload photos, for saving space, they are compressed. Photos that are bigger than 16MP are restructured to 16MP. Each video that exceeds 108p resolution had its dimensions altered to 1080P high-definition. When the photos are in the express resolution they are at 3MP at most, while videos are at 480p resolution.
For people who used the original resolution to upload videos and photos, it signifies that the videos and photos were not compressed, and the change will not affect them in any way. The reason is that if you used the original resolution to upload videos and photos, Google did not include them in your account's available online storage.
What are the policy's significant changes?
Beginning 1 June 2021, Google Photos are not going to be free like before. All videos and photos uploaded before 1 June 2021 are
going to be included in the account storage. The previous policy stipulated that technically, you could go on uploading videos and photos with unlimited free account space as it was not counted. However, next year everything will change.
Therefore, what is Google's reason for this change?
Google's users exceed 1 billion for all its offerings, and it is to be expected that they will implement the change since offering this amount of free cloud storage is not a practical move.
In a blog post, Google said that 'the content individuals are uploading is more significant compared to earlier; over 4.3 million GB are included across Drive, Gmail, and Photos each day.'
According to the firm, making these changes is necessary so that it can keep up with the expanding demand.
Also, Google's action will probably motivate undecided users to pay to use its cloud service, particularly the ones who are now accustomed to using Google Photos to upload and store in the photo gallery of their phone.
The firm provides paid selections for more storage using Google One program. Each month in India, it begins at 200GB for Rs 210, 2TB for RS 650 each month, or Rs 6500 each year, 10TB at Rs 3,250 each month, and 20TB at Rs 6,500 each month.
I have many pictures on Google, but I want to avoid paying. Should I erase all the photos I had before?
Google will offer some discounts. All videos and photos uploaded before 1 June 2021 will still be free and will not be included in the storage. Therefore, if you managed to upload pictures and videos exceeding 15GB to your Google Account as of today, you should not be concerned. You don't need to erase them.
However, all videos and photos uploaded after 1 June 2021 will be included in the free space provided to you by Google. If you want to go on uploading more videos and photos, it would be best for you to pay for this service since the 15GB is split across Drive, Photos, and Gmail. For people who use a paid Google One account, there is no cause for worry, as the change is minimal.
Why does Google erase content from dormant accounts?
A section of Google's latest policy involves erasing content from dormant accounts. Any account that has remained dormant for 24 months or a period exceeding two years may have their content erased from the products that the user doesn't utilize.
Therefore, if you have not used your account's Google Photos for two years, it means the firm will erase content from that specific product. However, 'members of Google One who maintain their storage limit and have a good reputation will not be affected by this latest dormant policy,' states the firm. The good news is that Google will send you numerous alerts before erasing the information, and you can choose to download the content also.
You can maintain an active account by visiting 'Google Photos, Gmail, and Google Drive' sometimes on the web or via a Google app, states the firm. If you go beyond the 2-year storage limit, your content may be erased. Once more, Google will alert you before it resolves to erase all your information from accounts if you exceed the storage limit.
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The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, usually with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and thus, in many ways, assumes the function of an encyclopaedia. Its source material ranges in time from the 3rd millennium BC to the 1st century AD and in geographic area from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Zagros Mountains in the east. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary has become an invaluable source for the study of the civilisations of the ancient Near East; their political and cultural history; their achievements in the sciences of medicine, astronomy, mathematics and linguistics; and not least, the timeless beauty of their poetry. Volume 21, alphabetically the last, was published in the early years of the project; Volume 20: U/W is the final volume and its publication marks the completion of the set.


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La sua opera è vicina a quella del fratello, Jan Brueghel il Giovane, e del nipote, Abraham Brueghel; collaborò direttamente con David Teniers il Giovane per alcune opere. Fu attivo prevalentemente ad Anversa e probabilmente viaggiò in Italia attorno al 1639; ricoprì la carica di decano della Corporazione di San Luca dal 1653 al 1671.

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Bibliografia
 Hans J. Van Miegroet, "Ambrose Breughel," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press.
 Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07038-1

Voci correlate
 Albero genealogico della famiglia Brueghel

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Artisti associati alla Corporazione di San Luca di Anversa


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Home Book News On-Line Publisher, Sniplits, Offers DRM-free Digital Audio Short Stories
On-Line Publisher, Sniplits, Offers DRM-free Digital Audio Short Stories
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. /Publishers Newswire/ — Local author Jim Musgrave is featured on Sniplits' beta test site. Anyone with a digital music player, smart phone or laptop understands the hunger for new content. Now, with the launch of Sniplits.com, there's a new source for entertainment on the Internet. Sniplits(SM) is publishing audio short stories, packaged as DRM-free MP3 files and playable on virtually any device capable of playing digital music.
Sniplits launched its website with 85 audio shorts, ranging from about one minutes in length to nearly an hour. The stories represent the work of approximately 50 authors, including "What Were You When You Were Alive?" by Jim Musgrave (a.k.a. Efraim Z. Graves).
"I wrote the story because I wanted people to recognize the plight of homeless veterans and how difficult it is to cope after experiencing combat. If just one person looks at a homeless person differently after listening to my story, then I will have succeeded," said Musgrave.
The author, who also teaches English classes at Grossmont Community College to students online and in the classroom, wants his students to understand the problems of modern veterans returning from war, and this story was his attempt to get them active politically. "The writer must be active in political causes," added Musgrave, "because our society is already alienated as it is, and only through dramatic communications will we be able to get the true message out to those who care."
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This went up on the Patreon page a few weeks ago, but I hadn't had a chance to post this until now. Here is a commission I did recently of Sassy Schoolgirl Sara Valentine cranking Trixie (from the FAWN federation-NOTE that some material on the FAWN site may not be NSFW) into a bone crunching headscissors. Note that Trixie is Sam's OC and you can find more great artwork HERE.
On Monday, March 7th, we'll be kickstarting the last book of Season 2 (remember that we're on Season 3 currently) and considering we hit 200% of goal, I think we can succeed again in getting this book funded. There will be tiers for digital copies, physical print books to getting you or your OC a match in the Rival Angels ring! And we hit so many great add-on Stretch Goals including a sweet Wrestling Encyclopedia, DAMSELS OF DESTRUCTION that could only be acquired through the campaign. And one of the best way to support the Kickstarter campaign is to pledge early. We know YOU love Rival Angels and if strangers and newcomers see how successful the campaign is going, they'll be more likely to throw in their support.
There is a common joke about being happy to be stuck in X's triangle, but a picture is worth a thousand words.
Something tells me this isn't the first time Sara has done this to someone, and not always in the ring.
Sara inflicts this hold whenever the mood suits her.
Hmmm that pin could be taken wrong.
That's close to trademark infringement of my Celtic Knot! Hmmph! Lemme at 'er!
Ok, it's knot really. But I'll still school 'er! Snowy, fetch!
One normally has to pay to be in such a position with Sara.
Hey! You updated your Gravatar with Kim! That's fantastic.
Poor Trix. If that girl gets tired of being jobbed, Mo Chen is happy to work with her.
Now that's a MA3 crossover.


Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. My unadulterated desire is to do both during my time on this earth. From the very first moment that I took pen to paper, it became my passion. I wanted to use my voice to inspire others.
With it, I could create worlds like my own or ones that I had only dreamt of. I could bring to life heroes and heroines and give them a purpose. I could even fashion the path that led an ordinary person to become villainous and bring it all together to tell a story. It was for this reason alone that I wanted to become an author. At the time, my favorite author was J.R.R. Tolkien and I was convinced that I would be an author, just like him.
Let's wind back a bit and to a time where I couldn't even write much less speak English. My parents and siblings and I made our journey from a war-stricken country, El Salvador, to Canada. After having witnessed many atrocities and having a few personal and very close calls where I had been shot at and a bullet grazed my arm, my parents decided it was time to seek refuge in a country where this insecurity and perilous environment didn't exist. A place where martial law was not a reality.
They applied for asylum and between 1982 and 1987, Canada admitted 15,877 refugees from Central America, 11,251 of them Salvadoran. Under a special program, 4,444 family members were allowed entry, bringing the five-year total to 20,955. We were very lucky to make this move and with it, we left everything we knew behind.
The welcome we received is something that I write about often because it is something that I am immensely grateful for. With generosity and my parent's hard work, they learned English, gained employment and in succession we became Canadian citizens. My siblings and I were attending school and getting our education.
Education here in Canada is something that I am indebted to and one thing that I do not take for granted. Sadly, not all kids around the world have this privilege.
Small Voices, Big Dreams is one of the largest polls taken by childfundalliance.org of children's views in the world. They surveyed 6, 226 children from 41 countries to tell them how they feel about the importance of education and safety at school.
Did you know that 98% of children surveyed say that education and school are important to them? About 48% of them believe that a school and education will get them a good job. They're right because we all know that it begins with school and education.
Our education system allowed my parents to learn English and even get post-secondary education to get better jobs. That privilege was extended to us as well when the time came. My siblings and I have all gotten certifications and degrees because of the opportunities offered and through hard work. Most of all, there was no outside force impeding our success, our schools were safe and we were able to learn without fear.
Using my wildest imagination, I could not envision what going to school in my country would have been like during those volatile times. 31% of kids surveyed said that there school is sometimes safe and 48% say that there are security measures in place to keep them safe. Could you imagine? We all know that being safe is incredibly important for a child to succeed.
Coming to Canada and getting an education here is what sparked my love for the written word and I do not think I would be who I am today had it not happened. My Grade 5 teacher, Mr. Bishop gave me a copy of The Hobbit and it all started there. While I took a break from this passion and entered the world of nursing for some years, it still helped me to touch the lives of other people and given me experiences that I take with me always.
When I write, it may not meet everyone's standards but, I write for myself. It is cathartic. While I may not be an author just yet, there is still time. Even if I never publish a book, I've had the immense joy of writing for different publications. There's nothing like seeing my name in my byline and reading my words in print and online.
Through education and studying journalism, I have found my own voice and path. I look forward to continue to share whenever and wherever I am inspired. Like me, every child deserves a chance to turn their passion into a reality and to have the opportunity to attend school, be free from violence, safe at all times and arrive on time.
You can take action and support kids around the world to have these freedoms by following Childfund Alliance's Facebook page and sharing their posts with your friends and community. You can follow them on Twitter and retweet them and engage in the global conversation using the hashtag #SmallVoices.
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We are so lucky here in Canada having so many resources. With two kids already completed college we have a third looking at universities. Education is so important.
Education really is key!!! Most people just think of schooling as a tool to land a job, but it really does help you figure out who you are and what your purpose is!
I agree, I think everyone should have that privilege!
That opening statement is extremely powerful! Wow!
Wow, even though I realize I am lucky to live in the country that I do, I guess I never realized how lucky until I read your post. Reading about what you and your family went through makes me appreciate where I live even more. You all deserve a huge amount of credit for coming to a new country, embracing and excelling in a new culture!
Thanks Monica, I am grateful for this country too. To say it is not tough would be a lie but, the opportunities and safety here is something I never take for granted.
Your inspiring story is a reminder that immigrants bring a wisdom and sensibility that adds something of value to any society. I am happy for you and your loved ones. Indeed,you are truly blessed.
Education has helped me be able to support myself through writing while I pursue my dreams. It has taught me how to communicate with others to be able to be effective.
What an amazing story! You and your family have so much to be proud of!
Thanks so much, we are blessed.
Everyone of us have the responsibility to support kids around the world to make sure the future generation is on safe hands. Child Fund Alliance are doing an amazing job on this and I would check their Facebook page for more information!
Wow, what an amazing story. I just went through school hating it like most kids- I totally took my education for granted.
What a wonderful life story of leaving a country to better yourselves. Going through proper channels, learning a new language and well everything and succeeding.
Education is so important for helping people achieve their dreams. It sounds like you have done really well for yourself.
What an inspirational story. Living in North America, we have no clue how families from war torn places like El Savador really are. You are really lucky and I am glad you were able to get out of there.
Thanks so much, I am very grateful too.
Nancy I can really relate to your story. I am from Guatemala and grew up while a civil war was being fought in my country. I lost a couple of family members to war including my uncle. I moved to the US with my children inspired by the possibilities of giving them a safer environment and a better education. Your story is really inspiring and you write beautifully. I have no doubt that you will achieve your dreams. Un abrazo!
Congrats to you for never giving up on your dream!! I love this post!!
What an amazing story! I love hearing peoples journey and how they got to where they are. It is so inspiring to see that hard work and a dream pays off. You should celebrate all of what you have accomplished!


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Tiafoe defeats Mahut in 1st round of Paris Masters
By Jason Barron
Frances Tiafoe has had a tough couple months on the ATP Tour having lost 8 of his last 10 matches, with some of those losses coming against top players like Kei Nishikori, Kevin Anderson, Marin Cilic, and Borna Coric. Tiafoe is now playing in Paris at a Masters 1,000 Event and picked up his first win of the tournament against the tall Frenchman and great doubles player, Nicolas Mahut in straight sets 7-6 (7-1), 6-2. Tiafoe played a tight 1st set as Mahut was able to hold serve against a more aggressive and powerful opponent.
When Tiafoe gets his 1st serves in, he is awfully tough to beat, so it is imperative as he continues in his career to eliminate these serving errors to win more easy points. Tiafoe still won this match despite only having a 56% 1st serve percentage compared to 63% for Mahut. When Tiafoe did get a 1st serve in he won 85% of those points compared to 64% for Mahut, which is where the match was partly won and lost.
Tiafoe increased his level of play in the 1st set tiebreak with strong serving and great service returns on Mahut to win crucial points, to easily win the tiebreak 7-1. Throughout the match, especially in the tiebreak and the 2nd set, Tiafoe used his backhand to great effectiveness to break Mahut twice in the 2nd set. Tiafoe was also coming to the net well and played with more force and power than Mahut as the match progressed. Once Tiafoe got the second break he was able to serve it out and win the 2nd set 6-2.
The draw only gets harder for Tiafoe in the next round where he will face Alexander Zverev, currently the 5th ranked player. Zverev holds a 2-1 record against Tiafoe, with all 3 matches contested in 2017. Tiafoe last beat him in 3 sets at the Cincinnati Masters in their most recent match. Previously, Zverev knocked Tiafoe out of both Wimbledon and the Australian Open. Tiafoe will need to get high percentage of 1st serves in and look to take advantage of any errors Zverev commits. Tiafoe will also need to play to his backhand as he is really utilizing it well to win points, both offensively and defensively.
Zverev will look to have a great performance in Paris after getting upset in the Basel Semi-Finals by Marius Copil in 3 sets. Zverev missed out on the chance to play for the Title against Roger Federer, who went on to beat Copil in the Final. This could give Zverev extra motivation coming into his match against Tiafoe. Tiafoe will need to play some clean and powerful tennis in order to have a chance against Zverev. They will play on Wednesday, October 31st. Perhaps, Tiafoe can spook Zverev and pull off the upset on Halloween.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will also be competing in Paris as he continues his comeback from injury, with his 1st match coming against Milos Raonic. Perhaps the home crowd can help the Frenchman Tsonga in a tough matchup against Raonic. The match is scheduled for Tuesday, October 30th. For live coverage of the Paris Masters tune in to Tennis Channel.
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In addition to becoming the youngest player to enter the main draw of Wimbledon via qualifying, Cori "CoCo" Gauff has earned a prim-time match-up against one of the greatest grass court players of all time in the first round of play.
This match is not only a first, but also a sharp contrast of current generation talent versus veteran grand slam champion. Venus just turned 39 this month and must now face the 15 year old dynamo that goes by CoCo making this a true battle of the ages. Ironically, as in a Hollywood movie, these two are respectively the oldest and youngest players in the tournament.
Venus can sure respect Cori's hustle in advancing her career at the ripe age of 15. Venus shares a similar start, but was able to win 5 Wimbledon titles with the last win in 2008.
Coming off of a great 2017 season, Venus (unseeded this year) has struggled lately with injuries and fatigue late in matches. This year has not rolled out favorably for Venus after several on-off coaching relationships and hitting partners. Taking on a more independent role of seasoned veteran, Venus is going at it alone on tour. She has a strong management team in place, but they appear to be more assistants than highly experienced coaches giving her instruction.
In contrast, Cori has a tight-knit team around her not to mention her father as head coach. There have been several assistants offering advice, but Corey remains the largest influence on Cori's progress.
Progress is exactly what they have made – and in short record time. Just last year Cori was making her way toward the Roehamption Championship title as the world's number one ranked junior. It seems as if Cori has a trusting relationship with her Dad and is able to take constructive criticism in stride. Hard work has been Cori's mantra since the beginning of her junior career, and that hard work and preparation has landed her here at Wimbledon with a main draw match against Venus Williams.
The odds heavily favor Venus, but nothing is out of the question for Cori. Given the fact that she has played each qualifying round with a "nothing to lose" attitude, it can only be assumed that she will continue to do the same in her first round match.
The big stage is also a factor as Cori has not played on such a large WTA Tour center court yet in her career. This will definitely be a learning experience for Cori. It may be a little ambitious to expect Cori to figure out the atmosphere and surroundings all within a 2 out of 3 match. Cori is undefeated at Roehamption (ITF Juniors and WTA Qualifying), but it remains to be seen if she can muster a win against a declining, but a still very capable Venus Williams on her favorite surface.
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The Poker Players Alliance has released a guide for voters for the upcoming elections. The PPA has tracked all members of Congress and the Senate. They have assigned a grade between A to F to each lawmakers on how likely they are to support online poker legislation.
According to their findings, fewer lawmakers are opposed to regulating online poker than in the previous couple of years. The PPA only gave a failing grade to about 10% of current lawmakers.
However, the movement away from opposition to online poker does not necessarily indicate that the landscape for online gaming is improving. The support for online gaming as a whole may be declining as well. The PPA has given fewer As and Bs to current lawmakers. This makes it more difficult for online poker advocates to determine who they should vote for in the upcoming Congressional election.
When the PPA released the same report during the 2010 Congressional election, 8 lawmakers were assigned a letter grade of C. The PPA has assigned that grade to 87 lawmakers this year. In addition, the number of lawmakers the PPA has classified as wild cards has doubled.
However, vice president Rich Muny has stipulated that much of the change is that the PPA has used much stricter standards in their rankings. Overall, Muny appears to be encouraged by the new ratings. He said that the real goal of the PPA has been to reduce opposition to online gaming. The findings published in the Congressional Ratings Guide have shown that more lawmakers are opening up to the idea of legalizing online poker at the federal level.
Some congressmen who were staunch opponents to online poker in 2010 now have a more neutral perspective. Texas Republican Senator Cornyn was given an F in the previous guide. However, the PPA isn't sure how he would be likely to vote on a new bill at this time, because he has since opened up the idea.


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Oleg Kyselov, "Soviet Atheism as a Science, a Worldview, and a Social Discipline" (review), Central European Journal of Contemporary Religion 3 (2, 2019): p. 125-126.
DOI: 10.14712/25704893.2020.4
Victoria Smolkin's book A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism is based on the study of archive materials and interviews with former scientific atheists. The author studied 16 different archives in Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow, Saint Petersburg (Russia), and Vilnius (Lithuania). She also conducted 14 interviews, including with some respondents who cannot provide additional information any longer, because they have since passed away. These include Nikolai Gordienko (1929–2011), Evgraf Duluman (1928–2013), and Nikolai Zakovich (1931–2017). Victoria Smolkin undoubtedly also used the available literature on scientific atheism, documents of the Communist Party of the USSR, and other sources in her research.
At the beginning of her book, Smolkin presents the three existing narratives on religion and atheism in the USSR: 1) antireligious repressions; 2) the role of atheism in the project of utopianism and cultural revolution, and 3) Soviet religious policy as a form of secular modernity. These three narratives have appeared chronologically, but all of them regard Soviet communism as a totalitarian political religion (p. 7). This is also the interpretation of the book under review. Unlike her predecessors, however, Smolkin considers atheism to be an important part of the Soviet ideology and talks about atheistic upbringing.
The book accounts for Soviet atheism from 1917 till 1991. Smolkin suggests that during the period of militant atheism (until 1943), religion was considered a political problem, but in the period of scientific atheism (starting in 1954), it was seen as a worldview problem. The global rise of religion in the public space (starting at the end of the 1970s) restored it as a political problem for the Communist party and ideological activists.
The focus of the book is directed at Khrushchev's and Brezhnev's times. Atheism itself is considered in three different forms: as a science, a worldview, and a social discipline. In the first case, the author implies science was an instrument of atheist propaganda. Smolkin illustrates this with the case of using cosmic themes in atheist propaganda. Atheism was part of the scientific and materialist worldview and appealed to human reason. But the author, using her study of primary sources, confirms that the Communist Party and ideological activists recognized this was not sufficient to constitute effective propaganda and that propagandists would also need to appeal to human emotion. That was the way Soviet atheism transformed from a brutal critic of religion towards an optimistic non-religious worldview. The appeal to emotions in religious rites provoked the Communist Party to develop new non-religious rites and introduce them to Soviet society. The author found out that even though new rites were an integral part of life in the late Soviet Union, its citizens continued to take part in religious rituals as well. She explains this with a shared ideological indifference, on the one hand, and with an interest in religion as a cultural phenomenon on the other. People participated in church services and sacraments – as the author of the reviewed book discovered – not because of religious motives but because of their aesthetic and entertainment value. People treated going to church, as Smolkin writes, in the same way as going to the theatre or circus.
Soviet atheism, in the author's opinion, was not about secularism or secularization but the conversion of Soviet citizens to atheism. The idea of replacement is stressed throughout the whole book – the sacred space of religion was supposed to be filled with its secular analogue (museums and planetariums instead of temples, cosmonauts instead of saints and prophets, scientific atheists instead of priest and preachers, Soviet rites instead of church rituals). But Smolkin also states that "Soviet atheism was not secular because secularism can tolerate indifference" (p. 241), but "[f ]or Soviet atheism, however, the privatization of religion was never acceptable in the long term, and indifference and neutrality were unacceptable positions" (p. 242).
Smolkin compares the situation with religion in the USSR to the fate of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The Cathedral was destroyed in 1931, to be replaced with the Palace of the Soviets. Eventually, a swimming pool was built there instead, in 1960. In the same way, atheism attempted to fill the space exempted from religion, but it left an empty space instead. Soviet citizens, liberated from religion, didn't automatically become atheists. As the Soviet sociological surveys demonstrated, a significant part of the Soviet population had become indifferent towards religion and atheism simultaneously.
Unquestionably, the book under review will be interesting not only for scholars focused on atheism and the antireligious policy in the USSR. The book is written in a sufficiently dynamic way, constantly changing its focus from specific examples to a general image of the situation and back. The used archive materials turn the book into unique and fascinating research which reflects the various aspects of Soviet society, culture, and ideology. I am convinced that Smolkin's book will attract the attention of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, as well as scholars of religion, culture, and politics.
Smolkin, Victoria, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2018, 360 p.