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import unittest
import server
import logging
import db
import custom_exceptions
import search

class TestSearch(unittest.TestCase):

	def testBasicSearch(self):
		mydb = db.DBMemory()
		with mydb:
			obj = server.Server(mydb)
			ctx = server.Context("<unittest>")

			data={}
			data["contentType"]="mediawiki"
			data["content"]="= Test =\nThis is a test page to verify that search is working\n"

			obj.updatePage(ctx,"testPage",data)

			ret = obj.search(ctx,"test")
			print(ret)
			ret = obj.search(ctx,"verify")
			print(ret)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	#FORMAT = "%(asctime)-15s %(message)s"
	#logging.basicConfig(format=FORMAT)
	unittest.main()

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WSA Co Limited
WSA Co Limited (WSA) was established by the Australian Government to develop and operate Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport (the Airport) at Badgery's Creek. WSA is required to execute its responsibilities in accordance with a Project Deed with the Government in order to open the Airport by 2026. In delivering the Airport, WSA's objectives are to: - improve access to aviation services in Western Sydney - resolve the long-term aviation capacity issue in the Sydney basin - maximise the value of athe Airport as a national asset - optimise the benefits of the Airport for employment and investment in Western Sydney - effectively integrate with new and existing initiatives in the Western Sydney area - operate on commercially sound principles
https://www.westernsydneyairport.gov.au/
Liverpool NSW 2170
Mr. Simon Hickey
C. Commonwealth Company
PNFC
Commonwealth company under the Corporations Act 2001
WSA Co Limited (Board)

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My wife had a collection account on her report and disputed it, it was deleted then they changed the account number and reported it again once again it was deleted now I got a letter in the mail from the collection agency and they are reporting it on my credit. It does not belong to either of us. I filed a complaint with FTC and Attorney General but all they did was send a letter to the collection agency and the collection agency responded back saying sorry we changed our numbers we use to file with the credit bureaus that's why it was deleted and found the new numbers wouldn't work so went back to our old numbering system. They did not offer any explanation as to why they are reporting on me.
It sounds like you've already taken the initial steps we would suggest to someone in your situation.
So now we would really encourage you to talk with a consumer law attorney. The collector may be violating two federal laws - the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. If that's the case, then the attorney will likely take your case at no charge to you since the collector would have to pay the attorney's fees.
You can get a free consultation with a consumer law attorney to find out what they think of the situation.


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Q: SwiftUI: Why do I get the " 'nil' requires a contextual type " with Xcode 11.3 but it worked in Xcode 11.2? I had the following declaration in a view where SpecialData is a Codable, Hashable struct:
struct SpecialData: Codable, Hashable {
    var id: Int = 0
    var data: String = ""
}

@State private var data: SpecialData = nil

and it compiled in Xcode 11.2
now I get this error: nil' requires a contextual type
I know that I need to make the variable an optional:
@State private var data: SpecialData? = nil

What did change and why did they change it? Was this not intended in the first place?
EDIT: Couldn't find anything in the release notes.

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This year the UK's crazy weather began with the 'Beast from the East'. Plunged into the middle of Siberia everyone was surrounded by cold, beautiful snow, deeper than we had seen in years. Cars were buried beneath mountains of white and yet the sky kept falling as though it would never stop. Road conditions were dangerous and many were stranded; on busy motorways as they tried to get home, or at home, with no way of picking up supplies. And yet, there was something magical about those couple of weeks of extreme weather. Whilst the media panicked, schools and workplaces closed, the roads became silent and families in desperate need of quality time together found themselves, for a couple of days at least, home, with nothing to do and nowhere to be. Children built snowmen and rode sledges, the allure of social media momentarily forgotten. I spent two days reading fiction in front of the fire and actually made dinner with my husband on a weeknight for the first time in weeks. I look back on those brief days fondly, as if they were a magical happy adventure. But I, like almost everyone, adapted to the weather and began wishing for it to change.
This is a common theme for us. Fast forward a few months to summer and the longest heatwave we have seen since the 1970s. For a few weeks this weather was amazing. Finally a summer where it isn't raining. We can plan barbecues three weeks in the future and actually host a barbecue, rather than an "indoor picnic", complete with soggy burgers. The holiday clothes came out and everyone commented on what a wonderful summer it has been. A few weeks of this, however, and we all started complaining again. For the first time in decades (for Scotland at least) humidity began to set in. Unaccustomed to properly functioning in hot weather and fed up of applying factor 50 three times a day, we all began longing for a little bit of rain… or wind… or cloud coverage. This week our wish was granted. Spectacular thunderstorms raged across Britain bringing with them a lot of rain and strong winds. As always, this weather has caused havoc in some areas, with flood and wind damage creating chaos. But, I swear, I heard my garden breathe a sigh of relief.
Whilst many of us are grateful for a break in the weather and some nourishment for our crops, many still are not content, wishing for the sunshine to return. We Brits are well-known for our obsession with the weather, always convinced that any weather is better than this.
In simplest terms this is a national manifestation of the Hedonic Adaption or the Hedonic Treadmill. This is where we believe firmly that a change in circumstances will make us happier. Hedonic happiness is the happiness we get from simple pleasures or material things such as designer clothes or fancy cars. Unlike Eudemonic happiness, which arises from leading a virtuous and meaningful life, this type of happiness, although potentially wonderful at the time, doesn't last. Before long we adapt to our new situation and begin longing for more. Studies have shown that this is why getting married or buying a new house only brings happiness for a few years after which our happiness levels go back to where they had been before. It is why the pursuit of happiness is so often unfulfilled and explains why all too often we are longing for a change in season.
There are a number of ways to ensure that we don't get stuck in the trap of the hedonic treadmill. Adopting a daily practice of gratitude can help you to see the positives of the current circumstances and can help prevent you from taking your situation for granted. The next time the weather is getting you down ask yourself what you are being given. The chance to spend extra quality time with family, the opportunity to spend more time in nature or simply some water to help the flowers grow. Similarly, living more mindfully and savouring the positive moments can help to centre you in the here and now and can greatly improve wellbeing.
Hedonic adaption is a part of everyday existence but we can help to combat its affects by filling our lives with things and people that bring our life meaning. Volunteering for a local charity, taking part in community events and sharing experiences with those close to us can all help us to escape the treadmill and, ultimately, lead happier lives, no matter what the weather is up to.
About the author: Katherine Halliday lives in Dundee in Scotland and works in student support at the University of St Andrews. Katherine is currently undertaking the MAPP course at Bucks New University and is loving every minute of it.


Hybrid technology may top the charts in Japan, in the rest of the world, it definitely does not. The market share of all hybrid cars sits in the 3 percent range in the U.S. In diesel-enamored Europe, the market share of hybrid vehicles remains mostly below the detection threshold. In China and the world's emerging markets, hybrids play even less of a role. This is beginning to change. Experts agree that Europe's ambitious emission goals need hybrid technology to be met. China is dropping its fruitless fixation on EVs and is moving towards hybrid. Toyota's internal goal is that hybrid powertrains are mainstream by the end of the decade: Small enough in price to be affordable. Small in package size to fit in most cars. Big in savings.


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Eugênio de Barros (Matões, 13 de noviembre de 1898 — Río de Janeiro, 15 de octubre de 1988) fue un empresario y político brasileño, con base electoral en el estado del Maranhão.

Biografía
Eugenio de Barros nació en Matões, el día 13 de noviembre de 1898, en el seno de una familia de propietarios. Era hijo del político José Barros. Estudió Derecho en la capital brasileña y se dedicó a sus empresas. En 1948 inició su carrera política, que ya no abandonaría. Murió en Río de Janeiro, el 15 de octubre de 1988, a los 89 años de edad. Entre sus familiares, destacan sus hijos, Balbino Barros y Hermelinda Azevedo Barros. O su tío, Eziquio Barros Filho. Es también abuelo paterno del diputado provincial del Maranhão Max Barros.

Carrera política
Eugênio de Barros fue alcalde de la ciudad de Caxias entre 1948 y 1950. Fue gobernador del estado del Maranhão durante el periodo 1951-1956, sucediendo en el cargo a Traiaú Rodrigues Moreira, que estuvo solo un mes en el puesto (del 31 de enero al 28 de febrero de 1951). El mismo Barros, a los pocos meses de ser nombrado Gobernador, fue sustituido por César Aboud. A fianes del año 1951 volvió al puesto y ya no lo dejó hasta 1956. Por último, fue senador de la República por el estado del Maranhão durante los años 1959-1967.

Reconocimientos

En 1961 se le dio el nombre de Governador Eugênio Barros a una localidad del interior del estado del Maranhão.

Referencias

Gobernadores del Estado de Maranhão

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In Washington, D.C., Hot 99.5's Samy K dines at Buffalo Wings and Beer and tries hot sauce so spicy it's been known to cause blindness.
You can make your own hot sauce from scratch for Buffalo wings or any grilled entree with this easy recipe.
Cabo Wabo executive chef Dustin Paris shares recipes for spicy guacamole and his special margaritas.
From the Martha Stewart Show! You'll love this fast and easy Everyday Food recipe for Spicy Cheese Bread. Use your favorite dried chile powder for customized heat and flavor.


CVSWMD offers programs for residents, businesses, schools and other institutions to assist those in the district with reducing the amount of waste generated, as well as the amount of waste entering the waste stream. This is consistent with the state's mandate for solid waste districts and our mission of leading member communities to reduce waste. Our programs have helped thousand of residents access hazardous waste collections events, set up home composting options, divert food waste from the landfill, and taught multitudes of students about the food cycle and the importance of composting both at home, school and work.


Middletown, CT- The Connecticut Sports Management Group, Inc. is proud to announce the 7th Annual Northeast Football Showcase presented by the Connecticut Army National Guard, which will be held Saturday, April 30th at Cheshire High School. The Northeast Football Showcase provides high school, prep school, and junior college football players with the opportunity to showcase their athletic abilities to Division II, Division III, and NAIA college coaches throughout the Northeast. This year's showcase is directed by Mike Ciotti, Assistant Football Coach at Daniel Hand High School in Madison, CT. 2016 is Coach Ciotti's 5th year as the Showcase Director. Coach Ciotti is a former Yale University player, and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this event.
Registration for the 26th Annual ShopRite Nutmeg State Games, to be held July 12-27 in New Britain, is available online. There are openings for 22 individual and team sport offerings at www.nutmegstategames.org.
The Nutmeg State Games seeks to promote and reinforce the Olympic spirit of competition that values sportsmanship, effort, and achievement, and to help motivate personal development in physical fitness. More than 6,500 athletes, 1,500 volunteers, and 20,000-plus spectators are expected to come together in New Britain to be a part of the Games this July.
For the Nutmeg State Games, the state of Connecticut is divided into four regions: North, South, East, and West. Athletes will represent their region based on their residency. The various competitions will be held throughout Connecticut in more than 30 of the state's top athletics facilities.
On Saturday, a number of football teams from around the state competed in the first annual Connecticut High School Football Weight Lifting Competition at New London High School, hosted by the Nutmeg State Games.
Representing the area teams were Southington and Berlin, who brought players to New London so they could show off their strength. The Blue Knights were impressive, finishing in fourth place, lifting a grand total of 11,905 pounds.
The Redcoats finished 10th among the 19 teams in attendance, lifting a total of 9,990 pounds.
Open to players currently in ninth, 10th or 11th grade, the event was a huge success. Each team assigned three players to compete in three different events across five weight classes. The power clean, bench press and squat were the three events.
SOUTHINGTON — The Nutmeg State Games and Connecticut Masters' Games honored three area heros with Athlete of the Year awards at the 20th Annual Director's Club Banquet Thursday night at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington.
In front of over 250 people, Newington's Marjorie Sasiela, Plainville's Patrick Creel and Farmington's Veronica Khokhryakova were all recognized for their athletic ability and selflessness towards other people.
Sasiela, who took up many different activities throughout her life including running, basketball, bowling and track and field events, received the Masters' Games Athlete of the Year.
SOUTHINGTON — Jim and Geno have done it.
So have the likes of Bobby Valentine, Mike Schmidt and Dan Duquette from the baseball world and Bill Raftery, Frank Layden Jazz and Digger Phelps from the basketball world.
And on Thursday night, UConn football coach Bob Diaco joined that prestigious group as the featured speaker at the 20th Director's Club Banquet, at the Aqua Turf Club, the kickoff fundraiser for the Nutmeg State Games.
Diaco certainly enjoyed talking about his team and engaging fans and potential fans.


Washington, DC -- Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) and Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) sent a letter signed by 63 of their colleagues to President Obama urging him to remove a FY15 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security that mandates Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have over thirty thousand immigrants in detention at all times. The letter emphasizes that in an era of fiscal restraint, this mandate undermines the ability of ICE to exercise discretion and embrace more cost-effective alternatives to detention. Currently, ICE spends $159 per detainee – amounting to $5.05 million per day and over $2 billion annually spent on immigration detention – when alternatives to detention are available that cost as little as 70 cents to $17 a day.


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Milan have confirmed that a deal has been reached which will see Antonio Cassano join the club in the new year.
The Italy international will officially link up with the Rossoneri once the Serie A transfer window reopens on 2nd January.
The 28-year-old striker is desperate to leave Sampdoria, after suffering a falling-out with president Riccardo Garrone.
A row with the Samp chief led to him being dropped from the first-team picture, forcing him to look for a New Year move.
"Yes. We will be signing Cassano. I am also very happy with how the side are playing," club president Silvio Berlusconi confirmed to Adnkronos.
The arrival of Cassano cast doubt on the future of Brazilian playmaker Ronaldinho, who has been below his best this season.


Soldiers of Undeclared Wars. Veterans of Asphalt and Broken Glass. Field Nurses from North of Page. An album done, essentially, in the "New Industrial" style ,excepting the synthesizers in Frore's piece and a drone texture in the final piece. Thanks to Jack Hertz for the sounds on "Untitled" and Frore for his work on the Third Track.


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The UChicago community is searching for answers after a graduate's murder
Dennis Zheng's murder sparked turmoil on campus and beyond. Six people with a stake in the crisis share their take on the path forward.
By Anna Savchenko
Dec. 20, 2021, 6 a.m. CT
An impromptu memorial of flowers, stuffed animals and signs was constructed at the site of the Nov. 9, 2021 murder of Shaoxiong "Dennis" Zheng, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago. Marc Monaghan / WBEZ
The murder of a University of Chicago graduate last month, just a block from campus, has thrown the Hyde Park community into turmoil like nothing else in its recent history.
It was the third murder of a person affiliated with the university this year in a city grappling with a surge in violence, prompting what some on campus are calling an "existential crisis" for the school. In response, UChicago has ramped up policing and surveillance, while also talking about longer-term structural solutions to social issues that drive crime.
University leaders are calling safety the school's top priority as they try to calm rattled students, parents and faculty as well as protect the long-term prospects for the school. But its moves are exacerbating long-simmering tensions within the South Side, majority-Black neighborhoods UChicago is nestled in, which have often been subject to over-policing, crime and are under-resourced.
The delicate balance all urban universities try to strike between taking care of their own and protecting their interests, while trying to be a good neighbor and a part of the city they inhabit, is now on display for everyone to inspect.
In the weeks following the murder, WBEZ has been tracking the reactions of students, community members, politicians and others at the center of this unfolding crisis.
Paul Alivisatos
UChicago president
A day after the Nov. 9 murder of Shaoxiong "Dennis" Zheng, President Alivisatos offered condolences to Zheng's family and his loved ones in a video message.
"Tragically, violence afflicts our city and others in the U.S.," Alivisatos said. "It is more vital than ever for the University of Chicago and our neighbors on the South Side to show what is possible by coming together with purpose and creativity to address this issue."
Zheng, a 24-year-old from China who recently graduated with a master's in statistics, was shot and killed during a robbery on 54th Street at the edge of campus.
Within 48 hours, Alivisatos and other university officials hosted a forum to announce short-term steps to address public safety: adding officers, surveillance and cameras to the Hyde Park area, more collaboration with the Chicago Police Department and extending transportation services for students.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said six permanent positions were added to the second district, which serves Hyde Park, with 10 more coming by the end of the year and another 10 early next year. The university police department also announced plans to start a 24-hour center to adjust police deployments quickly and a new unit to support victims of serious crime.
"I would like to state unequivocally that safety is my top priority," Alivisatos said at a follow up forum on Nov. 17. "We are diligently working to make it safer on and around our campus."
UChicago officials also pledged to develop a long-term safety plan with Brown and Mayor Lori Lightfoot to get at the root causes of rising violence in the neighborhood and the city.
But the unfolding situation had already taken on a life of its own, leaving students, faculty and locals divided over whether increased policing is the right way to respond.
It also has raised longstanding questions about the role UChicago has played in gentrifying the South Side and whether that has contributed to increased violence.
The university has a long and often fraught history as it has expanded and imposed itself on Hyde Park and its neighbors.
Amid this crisis, Alivisatos has maintained that UChicago will not wall itself off from the rest of the South Side. When asked in a forum whether UChicago was considering creating barriers to protect the university as some other urban schools have, Alivisatos said "I don't want us to have a wall."
"We're a part of the city," he said. "We're not separate from it."
The University of Chicago campus. Simonne Carlton declined to be photographed. Marc Monaghan / WBEZ
Simonne Carlton
UChicago graduate student
Graduate student Simonne Carlton said she's felt an overwhelming sense of sadness for the students who knew Zheng personally.
She understands why an institution like UChicago would call on law enforcement in a crisis, but the grad student in fine arts said she doesn't think it's "the most productive way to deal with harm caused to students on our campus."
"The police presence makes a lot of students uncomfortable, particularly students of color and Black students," said Carlton, who is Black and from Chicago. "It also makes for an unsafe environment for the people who live in this neighborhood who are not a part of the university community."
In addition to more Chicago police, the university police force is stepping up its patrols. Its area extends far beyond UChicago's footprint, south into Woodlawn and north into North Kenwood/Oakland. It also extends from the Lakefront west to Cottage Grove. These areas are mostly African-American and struggle with more violence than Hyde Park.
There have long been calls by some students and activists to disband the university's police department, and they've grown louder in the wake of George Floyd's killing. Many people of color, students and community members, have long complained of being over-policed and singled out, with many arguing for addressing crime on the South Side by investing in people and institutions rather than through policing. The university says it has reformed the university police but is committed to retaining it.
In the immediate aftermath of Zheng's murder, students reported a rise in anti-Black sentiment on campus, particularly over social media, that paints Black students and Black residents of neighboring communities with a broad brush. The man arrested in Zheng's murder is Black.
For Carlton personally, the increased policing on campus has left her anxious. She's had bad experiences with city police in the past. "And I know that when it comes to going on campus, there's a certain way that I now feel like I have to act or behave or be careful of, because I don't want to get profiled if something is happening and … they're looking for someone," she said.
Carlton said she feels like she has to move differently because of how law enforcement disproportionately targets Black, brown and marginalized people nationwide.
"If other students feel more comfortable with more police being around," she said, then "good for them. But it's not the same for all of us."
Yue Gong
UChicago Ph.D. student
Yue Gong, a Ph.D. student from China, said she's felt paranoid since the death of Zheng.
"He appeared in a safe place at a safe time, but he got killed," said Gong, who is studying computer science. "So every time I pass that place … I feel like I could be like the next one to get killed."
Gong attended a student-organized rally after the incident where more than 200 UChicago students, many of them Asian or from elsewhere abroad, called on the university for safety improvements. The slogan of the rally was "We are here to learn, not die," and students held signs saying "Keep us alive," and "Who is next?"
About 400 faculty members also signed an open letter asking the university to take immediate, specific actions to address violence on and around the campus. The letter includes a broad cross section of faculty but many who signed are also Asian.
"These recent tragedies have had a negative impact on the reputation of our university," the faculty wrote. "They have also severely affected our capability of attracting and retaining talented students and researchers. U of C is being depicted as one of the most dangerous campuses in the United States by several international news outlets. Even more concerning, the repeated gun violence on and around campus has started to affect our students' willingness to go to classes in person."
Akira Imamoto, a UChicago biology professor, said he signed the letter because recent incidents of violence in the Hyde Park area have just felt "too close" to campus.
"This year has just been exceptional, in a bad way," he said.
Imamoto said other faculty members have been reluctant to talk about signing the letter because of how polarizing the issues of policing and gun ownership are in the U.S. He added that the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans this past year has made the discussion over policing even more sensitive for a group that is feeling targeted.
Others say international students and faculty might have a different perspective on policing that "comes from [having experienced] policing in a different country, and it's very different the way that policing is racialized in the United States," Jasmine Lu, a graduate computer science student, said in a WBEZ report last month.
Gong said she has felt safer since the university increased policing and extended its free Lyft program at night. But Gong still feels the need to stay alert on and off campus.
"We also need to keep a normal life," she said. "We can't not go out of our homes, just to not go anywhere because of those safety issues."
Mario Smith
Poet, writer, radio host
Mario Smith has lived in the Hyde Park area for the last two decades. He heard the gunshots on the day of Zheng's murder from his apartment on 51st street.
He says the surge in violence in Hyde Park is on par with the spike in crime across the city of Chicago, where the murder rate has already exceeded 800 murders this year, the most violent year in a quarter century. But when tragedies happen within the UChicago community, they receive more attention than in surrounding neighborhoods, he said.
"When you talk about the University of Chicago, you have to talk about Woodlawn, you have to talk about Kenwood, you have to talk about west of 55th Street," he said, talking about the neighborhoods on all sides of Hyde Park. "These areas are feeling the brunt [of violence and over-policing] more than the insular Hyde Park neighborhood is."
He expects that to get worse now that there is more law enforcement in the area.
Still, he understands the university needs to look after its own interests.
"Of course you're gonna protect somebody that's paying that much money to be in your care," Smith said. "No one is implying that they shouldn't take care of those folks. But I don't see more cops and more cameras as a solution. And it looks like that's the band aid they're going to put on it."
Smith thinks UChicago officials and politicians should be more willing to involve South Side residents in conversations about policing and working to give people the tools needed to help themselves, such as affordable housing and mental health services.
Leslie Hairston
5th ward alderman
Ald. Leslie Hairston at Hillary Clinton for president rally. Andrew Gill
Alderman Leslie Hairston, whose ward includes parts of Hyde Park, Woodlawn and extends south to 79th Street, said residents have been as divided as students over policing concerns.
"I think that it's important that they [UChicago] take these steps," Hairston said. "It's their responsibility to educate their students and keep them safe … and not everybody is going to agree with the response."
She said the violence in Hyde Park is part of the city's larger struggle with gun violence.
"We are in a crisis," Hairston said of the city as a whole, "and we have the responsibility to respond. It isn't going to be perfect. But at the end of the day, we're trying to keep everybody safe."
Hairston said it's going to take more than a month to develop a plan that adequately addresses public safety and the socioeconomic disparities in Hyde Park and the surrounding communities.
"If there was a magic wand, one that we could wave and make this go away, surely we would," she said. "But that is not the situation. And we are all working 24/7 trying to figure out how to deal with this. But this is not just a policing issue. This is a social equity issue. This is a social justice issue. And it is a family issue as well."
Davarian Baldwin
Professor of American studies at Trinity College
Davarian Baldwin, who researches universities in urban settings, says Zheng's murder highlights the disparity between the prosperity of college campuses such as UChicago's and the poverty that often surrounds them.
Baldwin says similar tensions are playing out in Philadelphia. After two shooting deaths near the campus of Temple University in November, the university announced it would increase policing and add cameras around campus.
And in New York City, Columbia University is having similar conversations about safety with New York City officials and police following the fatal Dec. 2 stabbing of a doctoral student near campus.
"When we look at crime as connective tissue, these are mostly crimes of poverty. Why else would somebody try to steal a cell phone? To sell it," Baldwin said. Zheng was murdered during a robbery. "So when we pull back and look at the response that we see at Temple, at Columbia, at UChicago, these shootings become a gateway into ramping up the policing infrastructure that universities have been building over the last 30 … 40 years," he explained.
The impact has become more profound as armed university police officers have been given authority to reach deeper into neighborhoods beyond campus, Baldwin said.
"This is critical because, especially with private schools like UChicago and Columbia, this creates a dynamic where you have private police forces with public authority with limited public oversight," Baldwin said.
He doesn't think the policing response will solve UChicago or the city's problems.
"From an institutional standpoint, it makes sense that they have to offer an immediate show of force because they're worried about student enrollment atrophying," he added. "But it's not a public safety response. Public safety issues are about housing security, food security and job security."
Reporter Anna Savchenko covers higher education for WBEZ. Follow her @WBEZeducation and @annasavchenkoo.
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namespace UDD_Corporate_Profiles;
use WP_Error;

/**
 * Controla la comunicación con el API de Huella Digital
 */
class Repository {
	/**
	 * URL predeterminada del servicio Huella Digital
	 * @var string
	 */
	const DEFAULT_API_BASE_URL = 'https://www.udd.cl/wp-json/huella-digital/v1/';

	/**
	 * Obtener los datos de 1 o más personas a partir de su ID
	 * @param  int|array $ids  ID(s) de las personas consultadas
	 * @return array|WP_Error  Array con objetos de personas u objeto de error de WordPress
	 */
	public static function get_by_id( $ids ) {
		$ids      = (array) $ids;
		$cached   = array();
		$uncached = array();
		// chequear contra caché local
		foreach ( $ids as $id ) {
			$person_is_cached = get_transient("perfil_huella_{$id}");
			if ( $person_is_cached ) {
				$cached[] = $person_is_cached;
			} else {
				$uncached[] = $id;
			}
		}
		// si están todos en caché, retornar
		if ( empty( $uncached ) ) {
			return $cached;
		}

		// así sólo necesitamos obtener los datos de los que no estén en transient
		$remote = static::get_from_API( $uncached );
		if ( is_wp_error( $remote ) ) {
			// loguear
			static::log_error('Error al consultar el API de Huella Digital', $remote );
			return $remote;
		}

		$response = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $remote );
		$people   = json_decode( $response );
		if ( json_last_error() ) {
			// loguear
			$error_message = function_exists('json_last_error_msg') ? json_last_error_msg() : json_last_error();
			static::log_error('Error en la respuesta del API de Huella Digital', array(
				'message' => $error_message,
				'data'    => $response
			));
			return new WP_Error('api_response_invalid_json', 'Error al intentar decodificar la respuesta JSON', $people);
		}
		foreach ( $people as $person ) {
			// set_transient
			set_transient("perfil_huella_{$person->entry_id}", $person, static::get_transient_lifetime() );
			// agregar a $cached
			$cached[] = $person;
		}

		// ordenar todos los $cached según el orden indicado al llamar el método
		usort( $cached, function( $a, $b ) use ( $ids ) {
			$order_a = array_search( $a->entry_id, $ids );
			$order_b = array_search( $b->entry_id, $ids );
			// en php 7 esto se puede hacer con el cohetito <=>
			if ( $order_a > $order_b ) {
				return 1;
			}
			if ( $order_a < $order_b ) {
				return -1;
			}
			return 0;
		} );

		// retornar
		return $cached;
	}

	/**
	 * Obtener el tiempo que se deben mantener los datos en caché, en segundos (mínimo 1 hora)
	 * @return int Cantidad de segundos que se guardan los datos en caché
	 */
	private static function get_transient_lifetime( ) {
		$default = HOUR_IN_SECONDS * 4;
		$lifetime = apply_filters('UDD_Corporate_Profiles\Repository\transient_lifetime', $default );
		if ( is_int( $lifetime ) && $lifetime > HOUR_IN_SECONDS ) {
			return (int) $lifetime;
		}
		return $default;
	}

	/**
	 * Intentar loguear información de un error
	 * @param  string $message Mensaje descriptivo del error
	 * @param  array $context  Información de contexto
	 * @return void
	 */
	private static function log_error( $message, $context ){
		if ( function_exists('SimpleLogger') ) {
			SimpleLogger()->error( $message, $context );
		} else {
			error_log( str_repeat('-', min( strlen( $message), 80 ) ) );
			error_log( $message );
			error_log( print_r( $context, true ) );
			error_log( str_repeat('-', min( strlen( $message), 80 ) ) );
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Obtener los datos de 1 o más personas directamente desde el API
	 * @param  int|array $ids ID(s) de las personas consultadas
	 * @return array|WP_Error Datos de la respuesta u objeto de error de WordPress
	 */
	public static function get_from_API( $ids ) {
		$ids = (array) $ids;
		$request_url = add_query_arg(
			'include',
			implode(',', $ids),
			static::get_API_endpoint_url('perfiles')
		);
		// permitir pasar argumentos adicionales y filtrar para implementar, por
		// ejemplo, autenticación básica HTTP
		$args = apply_filters('UDD_Corporate_Profiles\Repository\get_from_API_args', array() );
		return wp_remote_get( $request_url, $args );
	}

	/**
	 * Obtener la URL base del API de Huella Digital
	 * @return string URL base del API de Huella Digital
	 */
	public static function get_API_base_url() {
		if ( ! defined('CORPORATE_PROFILES_API_BASE_URL') ) {
			return static::DEFAULT_API_BASE_URL;
		} else {
			return trailingslashit( CORPORATE_PROFILES_API_BASE_URL );
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Obtener la URL de un endpoint de Huella Digital
	 * @param  string $endpoint Endpoint solicitado
	 * @return string           URL del endpoint
	 */
	public static function get_API_endpoint_url( $endpoint = '' ) {
		if ( ! $endpoint ) {
			return static::get_API_base_url();
		}
		return esc_url_raw( untrailingslashit( trailingslashit( static::get_API_base_url() ) . $endpoint ) );
	}
}


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Scott Morrison Biography and Profile
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Scott Morrison (Scott John Morrison) or ScoMo as he is better known, was born on 13 May 1968. Continue reading Scott Morrison Biography and Profile.
Scott Morrison (Scott John Morrison) or ScoMo as he is better known, was born on 13 May 1968. During his more than ten years in the parliament, ScoMo has established a reputation as a passionate advocate for his local community as well as a proven fixer for difficult policy problems in three senior Cabinet portfolios.
Scott Morrison was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia on 24 August 2018 after being elected leader of the Liberal Party. He was first elected as the Federal Member for Cook in 2007.
Scott Morrison Full Biography
Scott Morrison was born in Waverley on 13 May 1968 and had a career as a child actor in TV commercials in the 1970s, reportedly advertising Vicks Vapour Rub, among other fine products.
His father was a policeman and his mother worked in administrative positions. They ran youth programs for the local church. His father also worked as a local-government councillor for 16 years.
At nine, he was handing out "how to vote" pamphlets on behalf of his father, a policeman turned local councillor and mayor. After studying applied economic geography at the University of New South Wales, he entered the tourism industry.
During his more than ten years in the parliament, the Prime Minister has established a reputation as a passionate advocate for his local community as well as a proven fixer for difficult policy problems in three senior Cabinet portfolios.
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As Treasurer, his achievements included reducing the deficit, getting debt under control, maintaining Australia's AAA credit rating, record jobs growth, cutting corporate and personal income taxes, ensuring multinationals pay their fair share of tax and reforming Australia's banking and financial system.
As Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, he successfully stopped the boats. As Social Services Minister, he reduced abuse of the welfare system and put Australia's social safety net on a more sustainable footing.
The Prime Minister is from the Sutherland Shire in Sydney's south. He is married to Jenny and has two young daughters.
He is a 'netball dad', a member of his local church, number one ticket holder of his beloved NRL Cronulla Sutherland Sharks and a big Tina Arena fan.
ScoMo lives in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney's south with his wife Jenny and their two young daughters. He is a netball dad, a member of Shirelive church, number one ticket holder of his beloved NRL Cronulla Sutherland Sharks and a big Tina Arena fan.
He is a netball dad, a member of Shirelive church, number one ticket holder of his beloved NRL Cronulla Sutherland Sharks and a big Tina Arena fan.
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Soak moong lentils for at least six hours, preferably overnight; drain and rinse under running water. Combine the lentils in a pan with water, salt, and a little turmeric. Use just enough water to cover the lentils. Using turmeric is totally optional; I use it to accentuate the yellow color of moong lentils. Over medium heat, bring to a boil. A layer of foam forms in the pan. I usually skim the foam, a trick I learned observing my grandmother doing the same.
Check the lentils once the liquid has almost evaporated. For this salad, lentils should be al dente i.e. should be slightly firm to the bite but cooked through. Drain the cooked lentils in a fine-mesh colander and rinse with cold water and bring to room temperature before adding other ingredients. You can also prepare the lentils a day in advance and store in refrigerator.
Grate carrots. Cut mango in small cubes. Please make sure that the mango is ripe and firm but not overripe. An overripe mango shows up too sugary and tends to subdue other flavors. Finely chop cilantro (fresh coriander) and mint.
Add carrots, mango, chopped herbs, and roasted ground cumin to cooked lentils. Stir the salad with a fork and a spoon to mix well. Don't over mix as mango may start to disintegrate. I have not tried it, but you could also use cucumber instead of carrots. Cucumber tends to sweat a lot after adding salt. Therefore, remember to eat the salad immediately after adding cucumber and dressing.
To make lemon-garlic dressing– add lemon juice, minced garlic, salt, and cayenne pepper. Stir and mix well with the other salad ingredients. Before serving, cover and chill in refrigerator for at least 20-30 minutes to meld flavors. I usually don't store this salad in refrigerator. However, if I plan to make the salad twice in a week, I prepare two batches of moong lentils and store in refrigerator for 4-5 days. It is super quick to add carrots, mango, spices, and dressing to recreate this salad. Enjoy.
This gluten-free vegan salad is high in protein and big on texture and flavors. Either have it with your favorite greens as a light lunch or as a side dish with soup or veggies.
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and stir with a fork.
Soak yellow moong lentils for at least six hours. Lentils double in volume after soaking. Drain and rinse under running water.
In a medium pan, bring lentils, salt, and turmeric to a boil with 3/4 cup of water on medium heat. Skim the foam and continue to simmer till lentils are al dente, i.e. firm to the bite but cooked through. Drain in a fine-mesh calendar and rinse with cold water.
Bring lentils to room temperature and place in a bowl. Add grated carrots, cubed mango, chopped cilantro, chopped mint, and roasted ground cumin.
Add salad dressing and mix well to meld flavors. Cover with an aluminum foil and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
*You can also use French lentils to make this salad.
**Most of the salt washes away when lentils are rinsed after cooking.
***You can add more cayenne pepper if you like spicy food; decrease cayenne pepper to 1/8 tsp if you like less spicy food.
Great salad recipe Garima!I tried it and it had the right combination of flavours.


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Bicycling Mon Mar 30 2015
Race the 2015 Gapers Block Criterium
Still in your winter malaise? Haven't really prepared for bike racing season? Well your chance is next week with Half Acre Cycling at the 2015 Gapers Block Criterium in Calumet Park, 9801 S. Avenue G, starting Monday, April 6 and running through April 9. For four days, racers of all genders interested in criterium racing can come gain experience and motivation to get ready for the upcoming racing season. Registration costs $40 for women's cat 5, $60 for men's cat 4/5 or 5.
— Jake Payne
Bicycling Tue Apr 22 2014
Chicago College Students, Grab Your Bike for Bike2Campus Week
By Nick Wright
If you're a college student in Chicago who bikes to campus, this is your week to shine. Don't ride much, or at all? Air up the tires of that Schwinn 10-speed, or grab a Divvy bike. It's Bike2Campus Week.
During this week (April 21-25), Bike2Campus Week is part collegiate competition, part challenge that encourages students from ten local colleges and universities to use two wheels for trips to and from class. At the end of the week, the school with the highest participation percentage will earn a winning title. Prizes, too! The top pedaler at each campus gets a one-year Divvy membership, and the top rider overall earns a four-year Divvy membership with his or her photo featured on divvybikes.com.
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— Tailgate
Bicycling Fri Mar 28 2014
Half Acre Cycling Hosts Sixth Annual Gapers Block Crits
This week, the Tribune ran a story about the delays that spring sports — baseball, soccer, softball — are facing because of the still-frozen fields. Talk about a bummer. It's supposedly been spring for a week now, but it seems Mother Nature's joke is on us.
Ice-afflicted earth aside, the end of March always marks the beginning of road bicycle racing season in Chicago, beginning with the sixth annual Gapers Block Criterium, hosted by Half Acre Cycling. The series is four days (Monday, March 31 through Thursday, April 3), with races each evening for men and women. If you're new to road racing, this is the chance to test the waters. The course is a 1-mile loop at Calumet Park on Chicago's south side, a stone's throw from Lake Michigan.
What's a criterium, you ask? Essentially, a criterium (or "crit") is a race in which road cyclists ride laps around a closed course for a set time. Beginners race for 30 minutes, and higher competition categories race longer. The races are usually held on closed-off city streets, and the course is generally 1 mile long. (As a first-time crit racer last year, I often describe it as NASCAR for bikes.)
Bicycling Tue Sep 03 2013
What are a Bicyclist's Rights in The City of Chicago? Let's Find Out.
According to Bicycling Magazine, Chicago ranks 5th in America's Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities. We should be proud, but we're not, are we? Would we have been happy if the Chicago Blackhawks got the fifth place in hockey? Heck no. We're Chicagoans. We want to be the most bike-friendly city in America. Whether you're a cyclist or not, some education about the Chicago bicycle laws will help us get to number one. We can do it!
— Matt Willens / Comments (8)
Bicycling Wed Jul 31 2013
The Importance of Bicycle Collision Data
Cycling in Chicago is becoming more and more popular not only as a source of recreation and exercise, but, for many, as the primary method of transportation. The warm weather attracts people to their bikes and now with the Divvy bike-share program expanding on what seems to be a daily basis; more and more cyclists have taken to the road. Many commuters have also replaced vehicles with bicycles as a way to save money, avoid traffic and parking woes and help the environment.
Bicycling Thu Jul 18 2013
Children's Bicycle Safety in Chicago
As a father of three children under the age of 13, I am hyper-sensitive to the issue of child bicycle safety. It wasn't too long ago that I taught them each how to ride a bike.
How do we teach our children to ride a bicycle? Do we teach bicycle safety?
Here was my process: 1. Removed training wheels from bike; 2. Put child on bike and said, "I'm going to hold onto you, jog down the block for a bit and then let go"; 3. Started jogging along with them until they seemed steady; 4. Let go of bike; 5. Watched helplessly as they lost control and fell; 6. Helped them up; 7. Watched them get mad at me and run inside house to pout for a bit; 8. Repeated steps 3 and 4.
— Matt Willens
There Are More Bikes But Are There More Helmets?
Here's an equation that I ask you to solve: bicycles + cyclists unfamiliar with Chicago bike laws - helmets = ? Read on, come back and fill in your answer.
If you haven't noticed, Chicago has a new bike-share program called the Divvy bike-share program. There are racks of bikes set up all through the city and people can rent them for limited periods of time. There will be 300 bike-share stations open in Chicago by August. You can rent a bike from one rack and return it to another. You may have seen these bikes around (photo above).
Bicycling Tue Jul 02 2013
Protected Bike Lanes: Who Needs Them? We Do!
Why do Chicagoans need protected bike lanes? Recently, there was a car vs. bicycle accident on Clybourn Avenue in Old Town. The driver of the bicycle, Bobby Cann, 26, was killed, sending shivers through the biking community. Some think this accident could have been avoided if this stretch of Clybourn had protected bike lanes (PBLs).
The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has proposed building PBLs on Clybourn. However, the street is under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and IDOT has "red lighted" PBLs on roads under its jurisdiction until 2014, when there's three years of safety data in Chicago to consider. Many question why IDOT needs years of data to study when it's quite obvious that designated bike lanes help keep cyclists out of harm's way.
Half Acre Cycling Celebrates 5 Years of Gapers Block Crits
By Annette Stahelin
It's March, which in the Chicago cycling community means it's about time to see how we've all fared over a winter of joyless indoor biking and finally get to test our mettle against one another in the first criterium race series of the season! Now in its fifth year, Half Acre Cycling's Gapers Block Crits is a week-long race series held at the beautiful and little-known (to Northsiders) Calumet Park! Fun fact about Calumet Park: it's home to the Lake Shore Model Train exhibit -- check it out on the Wednesday of the series when it's open to the public!
Half Acre Cycling has been throwing this race series to provide an entry point for beginner bike racers looking to get their feet wet -- offering four days of racing at affordable prices in a low-key racing environment. A criterium offers spectators the ability to watch racers each time they come around the typical 1-mile or less closed circuit, with excitement growing as racers near the final lap.
The first race starts at 6:10pm each day, with the last starting at 7:30pm. Online registration is closed; walk-up registration is $20 per day for men and $10 per day for women. And even if you're not riding, you can watch and cheer racers on for free!
Annette Stahelin is a member of Half Acre Cycling; Gapers Block is a team sponsor.
Bicycling Fri Jun 17 2011
Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein Meets Chicago's Bicycle Community
by John Greenfield
Today's Bike to Work Week rally in Daley Plaza was inspiring, a far cry from last year's lackluster event, thanks to big plans for bicycling from new mayor Rahm Emanuel and forward-thinking transportation commissioner Gabe Klein.
In 2010 Chicago's efforts to become a world-class bike town had stagnated. The city had installed over 100 miles of bike lanes and over 10,000 parking racks, achieved bike access on transit and educated multitudes about safe cycling, but we seemed to be resting on our laurels. Meanwhile other U.S. cities were pioneering car-separated bike lanes, automated bike sharing systems, on-street parking corrals, traffic-calmed "bike boulevard" streets, car-free "ciclovia" events and more.
— Tailgate / Comments (5)
Cycling Mon Jun 13 2011
On the Right (Cycle) Track?
Chicagoans sound off about the new car-separated bike lanes on Kinzie
Richard M. Daley had a widespread, if somewhat undeserved, reputation as a bicycle-friendly mayor. But with Rahm Emanuel in power, along with progressive new transportation commissioner Gabe Klein, it looks like there's going to be a sea change in the way the city pushes pedaling.
Emanuel's Chicago 2011 Transition Plan includes three bold, possibly unrealistic, bike goals. But it's refreshing that the City is finally making big plans that have, to paraphrase Daniel Burnham, magic to stir cyclists' blood.
The mayor's bike proposal, obviously influenced by transition team member Randy Neufeld, former director of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, calls for expanding our anemic automated public bike sharing system from only 100 bicycles to thousands of vehicles. The mayor also promises to build the Bloomingdale Trail, a 2.65-mile elevated rails-to-trails conversion on the Northwest Side within his first term, although it's taken two years just to get the design contract approved and the price tag for the trail is estimated at $50-70 million.
The third goal may be the least realistic but most exciting, and there's already rubber, nay bike lane paint, on the road. Rahm has pledged to install 100 miles of European-style "cycle tracks," bike lanes that are physically separated from cars by medians, parked cars and/or posts, within his first four years in office. This would require a lot more money than is currently spent on striping eight miles of conventional bike lanes per year, and it would involve taking away travel lanes and parking spaces from automobiles.
Bicycling Sun Nov 28 2010
WTTW's Geoffrey Baer Discusses His New Show, "Biking the Boulevards"
This article was submitted by John Greenfield.
"Biking the Boulevards," premiering on WTTW on Monday, Nov. 29, at 7:30pm, focuses on three topics: Chicago's 28-mile boulevard system, the often-overlooked neighborhoods and parks connected by the boulevards, and the history of cycling in Chicago.
In the show, host Geoffrey Baer, a veteran of many local travel and architecture documentaries, leads a tour of this network of tree-lined streets, first developed in the 1860s, from the seat of a Pashley Roadster Sovereign bicycle, showcasing features you might not notice while speeding by in a car. He pedals by landmarks like Bronzeville's Walk of Fame, Laredo Taft's Fountain of Time sculpture on the Midway Plaissance, the golden dome of the Garfield Park field house, and Logan Square's eagle-topped Illinois Centennial Monument.
I recently talked to Baer about the making of the program, aspects of the boulevards and local bike history that may come as a surprise to Chicagoans, and his own ideas about how to improve cycling here.
Bicycling Tue Aug 31 2010
Cupcakes! Bikes! Cupcake Bike Tour!
(photo by Flickr user freefakesmiles)
Normally wouldn't pair bicycling and eating cupcakes, but I'm certainly not going to argue against it. Far from it. This Saturday, Sept. 4, is your chance to take your buns and your baked goods (see what I did there?) on the road for a Cupcake Bike Tour. Hosted by the gals at Cupcakes Take the Cake, the tour starts at Fritz Pastry and continues to Sweet Mandy B's and Molly's, ending at Phoebe's Cupcakes. The whole shindig kicks off at 1 p.m. and is free -- though be sure to bring cash to purchase cupcakes along the way. RSVP to participate on their site.
— Kara Luger / Comments (1)
Bicycling Fri Aug 27 2010
(The following does not represent the official views of Critical Mass or of Gaper's Block and is merely one bicyclist's perspective.)
Today is a Happy Friday and not just because it will be the weekend soon and it is still quite nice out. It's especially happy today because of Critical Mass, the bicycle movement that this city just wouldn't be the same without. Even though other cities celebrate Critical Mass, I like to think Chicago's is special because of the welcoming people that are here to enjoy it. This is the kind of thing that neighborhood kids jump up and down over. This is the same mass that people watch from their balconies, clapping and smiling. It brings a bit of joy to people in different areas of the city and what they see passing by may just be thousands of bicycles to the naked eye but symbolizes community and possibilities.
— Kirstie Shanley / Comments (73)
Bicycling Thu Aug 05 2010
Dirt Jam a Total Success
So the skies opened up last Friday and the Garden Dirt Jam, CAMBR's big party for celebrating the "official-and-legal-ness" of The Garden (3400 N. Rockwell) went off Saturday with few hitches despite the dampness.
For those who don't know, the Garden is located on a long-abused and ignored patch of land behind Lane Tech High School. BMXers and MTB trials riders took over the grounds and built a passel of jumps, berms, and platforms that utilized demolished building foundations and the natural terrain to create a short and fast pump track. Over the past year, volunteers from CAMBR have cleaned up the grounds, removed trash, and made the Gardens into a place where the public can come, ride bikes, and enjoy themselves without fear of a ticket for trespassing.
Saturday was the big party to welcome this thing into being. Races, demonstrations, and lots of sweet jumps ruled the day. Click here for a massive album of photos from the Dirt Jam -- notice the big air and rad hits. The wet grounds were no match for a huge enthusiastic crowd, though the clouds of mosquitoes left everyone quite drained at day's end. Blame the drenching rains, not the tight jumps, for those bloodsuckers.
— Zach Thomas
Bicycling Wed Jun 23 2010
Bikin' Around (in the Rain)
Biking in the rain sounds crappy, but it's basically biking in the snow, only less tedious and with fewer layers of gloves and socks. See? It's not so bad! There are a few precautions specific to biking in the rain.
— Andrew Joanis
Bicycling Wed May 19 2010
Snakebite Flats and a Biking Column
This is a new monthly, comic-style column covering bike riding, maintenance, and safety. The focus will be on basic bike ideas, for example today's topic is the vexing snakebite flat tire. Chicago may not have any hills, but it's got a few potholes that are basically manholes.
— Andrew Joanis / Comments (1)
Events Tue Jan 19 2010
Braving the Cold
The day: January 20. The year: 1985. Temperature: -27 degrees. Wind chill: as low as -93 degrees. The coldest day in Chicago on record, and to celebrate people are dusting off their bikes and pedaling to the office. The Active Transportation Alliance is putting on it's annual Winter Bike to Work Day tomorrow.
For those brave enough to bike in the cold, head over to Active Trans's location at 9 W. Hubbard Street between 6:30 and 9 a.m. for Caribou Coffee and a sweet treat. And don't worry, the weather will be much milder compared to twenty-five years ago.
— Vanessa Day / Comments (2)
White Sox Tue Dec 08 2009
Conventional Wisdom
The roster of White Sox players attending the team's annual convention has been expanded with stalwarts Mark Buerhle, Paul Konerko and Gordon Beckham joining Freddy Garcia, Jayson Nix, Jake Peavy, A.J. Pierzynski, Alexei Ramirez, Matt Thornton and newly signed Andruw Jones at SoxFest 2010, January 22-24 at the Palmer House Hilton.
Meanwhile, the Blackhawks have announced that ticket sales for their annual convention in 2010 will go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. The convention will kick off July 30 at the Hilton and feature Blackhawks Hall-of-Famers and Team Ambassadors Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito and Denis Savard, General Manager Stan Bowman along with head coach Joel Quenneville and players Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane.
— Ken Green
News Thu Sep 24 2009
Short Hops
Will he or won't he? President Obama may go pitch Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics afterall (with Arne Duncan in tow). But, as everyone knows, Oprah has the last word.
Whither goest thou, White Sox? Kenny Williams is trying to figure that out.
Milton Bradley says he's sorry. Does anyone care?
Cubs fans disillusioned by the outcome of this season can take a look back at the 1984 team. Not that the outcome then was any better, but still...
Seattle's T.J. Houshmandzadeh says he has something to prove when the Seahawks meet the Bears this Sunday. Meanwhile, the Bears seek to establish the running game. But if wide receiver Johnny Knox continues his ascent, we can wait a little while.
Mixed martial arts star Fedor Emelianenko is coming to Chicago in November. Take appropriate action.
And you find yourself...riding a bike down Michigan Ave. Musician David Byrne talks about his cycling fixation and cruising around Chicago.
Boxer David Diaz brings it back home this Saturday.
If you're participating in the sixth annual Salmon Classic this Sunday at Northerly Island, use this as inspiration.
The Chicago Fire prepare to honor another Chicago soccer team who weren't too shabby themselves in their day.
Late Chicago Olympian Willye White has a new park named in her honor.
The Big Ten football season kicks off this Saturday and while other teams discuss strategy for their upcoming opponents, Northwestern's gridiron gang has different concerns on their mind.
The Chicago Outfit close out their 2009 season this Saturday at the Windy City Fieldhouse. Get pumped up for the contest by checking out the cool video below.
The Chicago Outfit - The Latest Show Ever from Spencer M. Rohan on Vimeo.
— Ken Green / Comments (1)
News Thu Jul 30 2009
Boy, you have one inter-team spat... Even though the Bears are denying any rift between Brian Urlacher and new QB Jay Cutler, USA Today has concluded that the team is the new Dallas Cowboys.
Can we leave the poor guy alone? A documentary is being planned on Steve Bartman and the "incident".
Speaking of the Cubs, the middle of their lineup (Alfonso Soriano, Derrek Lee, Aramis Ramirez and Milton Bradley) are heating up at just the right time.
If the Illini make it to the Rose Bowl again, they can thank... Donovan McNabb?
If you join up with the Fork In The Road biking and dining group, will you be having a well-rounded meal?
Not only are the Chicago Fire doing well in MSL action, but their developmental and Super-20 teams aren't doing too shabby either.
The Chicago Huddle, a weekly Bears preview and recap show, is looking for a spokesperson to open each program. Looking at the photo on the front of the video, I can't for the life of me figure out what they're looking for.
The Chicago Women In Baseball League and the Chicago Gems baseball club will take their skills to a bigger audience when they conduct and exhibition prior to the start of a Schaumburg Flyers game during Women In Baseball Day
Bicycling Mon Jun 08 2009
Bike To Work A Special Time...For Some
Yeah, we know. You don't need any special week as incentive to ride your bike to work. You're an everyday two-wheeled commuter, streaking past stalled traffic, your change of clothes neatly tucked away in your pannier, a system you've perfected after years of practice. Riding to the front door of your downtown office and maybe even outfitting your bike with special tires to blast through the snowy streets of Chicago in November.
So we can understand if you get a little smug as the rest of the city dusts off their barely used Schwinns or Treks and awaken long dormant muscles to take part in the annual Bike To Work Week that kicks off next Saturday and runs through June 19. Bike to Work week? Psh, everyday is bike-to-work week for you.
News Thu Apr 09 2009
The Great Dewayne Wise Experiment is over. Ozzie's going with Chris Getz in the leadoff spot for tonight's game. Getz says he's ready for the change.
Bears tracks: Orlando Pace says he came here to play with a winner; Will Cutler fit in with the Bears, and if so, will he be throwing to this guy?
ESPN's much-ballyhooed (never thought I'd write that word) Chicagocentric website debuts Monday.
If you like your sports bloody and brutal (other than badminton, I mean), you probably already have your tickets to the upcoming World Extreme Cagefighting match at Allstate Arena
A Pennsylvania man is biking 840 miles to Chicago to bring awareness to the fight against brain tumors and take part in a special 5K.
The Chicago area just missed out on another championship as the Chicago Mission lost in the title game of the USA Hockey Nationals.
The first-year Red Stars are looking to succeed where other Chicago soccer franchises have failed and their victory over St. Louis puts then on the right path. You can see for yourself at their home debut on April 19.
The Chicago Force kick off their 2009 season this Saturday, April 11, in Iowa vs. the Crush, before returing to North Park University for their home opener April 18 against the Wisconsin Warriors. You can hear head coach John Konecki discuss the upcoming season this Friday on AM 1240 (11 a.m.) and on WJJG-AM 1530 at 4:15 p.m.
News Thu Nov 20 2008
And the Cubs post-season post-mortem examination continues, with Lou Pinella blaming that old standby, the media, while Ryan Dempster says the team flatout wasn't ready. Hey guys, sorry, no do-overs.
Meanwhile, the White Sox, who seems to have come to grips with their playoff loss, work on keeping Bobby Jenks around. But did Nick Swisher phone it in for much of the season?
Four area college soccer teams have made it to the NCAA tournament.
It was bound to happen after that embarrassing loss to the Packers: The "Fire Lovie" talks are heating up. Here is one blogs' 10 reasons why he deserves the ax. Meanwhile, Fanhouse questions Lovie's assessment that the Bears receivers are "pretty good".
The Bulls' Derrick Rose sits atop most Sports Illustrated NBA writers' list of early top rookies. Naturally.
It's not the major draw it used to be, but prep football is still a big deal in Chicago. The Catholic League is gearing up for its title game, pitting Loyola Academy against De La Salle.
A disabled cyclist bikes 1,064 miles from Jacksonville, Fla. to Chicago. His final destination? Where else: Oprah.
The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation gets a new name.
The Chicago Outfit wants YOU... well, that is, if you're a female and don't mind getting knocked around a little. There's a recruitment Q&A tonight at 9:30
The Onion reports on an unusual source of nourishment for the Bears and God's plans for the Cubs.
If you haven't had enough of cornhole, and really who has (OK, put your hands down), there's a Thanksgiving tournament coming up called the "Turkeyhole Classic" coming up here in Chicago. No, really.
News Thu Oct 23 2008
Not a big fan of the ultimate fighting myself (Saturday nights in Wrigleyville about 10 years ago... Been there, done that). But for those who are, this is a big weekend in UFC-land, including a weight-in and Q&A open to the fans on Friday at the Chicago Theater. The main event, of course, is Saturday at the Allstate Arena.
If you think you want to give it a shot yourself, there are tryouts on Monday. Note: There will be blood.
Not to be outdone, UFC's bastard cousin, pro wrestling, has a bunch of events lined up in the coming days as well on the local level.
USA Today is as surprised at Kyle Orton as we are.
A Chicago woman is at the center of a controversy on how marathons are timed. The recent Chicago Marathon also has a mini-controversy base on the timing system.
Chicago State University has a new AD and a new conference.
A new fan joins Bear Nation...but hangs on to his Detroit Lion allegiance. Why?
Cool Hunting has a story on Chicago's new Dutch Bike shop.
The Windy City Rollers crack the seal on their new home, the UIC Pavilion, with a match against the Carolina Rollergirls. Oh, and there's supposed to be free beer!
The bye-week Bears talk about their scariest Halloween costumes. Probably not as scary as their game against Atlanta, but still...
The White Sox ship may be sinking, but Juan Uribe is worried about a different boat.
Cubs' manager Lou Pinella talks about his future with the Cubs.
"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks has added to this personal roster.
With talk of the sale of the Cubs heating up again, a YouTube video offers one possible outcome.
That All-Time Cubs/White Sox team has irked one fan... in Indianapolis.
The White Sox will take on the Reds in next year's Civil Rights Game.
Donovan McNabb says he's fired up to play against the Bears this Sunday. Great... just great.
An AIDS activist is running from New York City to Chicago to raise awareness of the disease's devastating affect in Africa
The Chicago Red Stars of the Women's Professional Soccer league obtained the rights to four international stars.
"Cicero Fury" comes to, well, Cicero in the form of an evening of boxing on October 17.
Brush up on your Big Wheel skills. The Urban Assault Ride is coming to Chicago this weekend.
More pedal-powered fun: bike polo.
Feature Thu Sep 11 2008
No, we didn't expect the Bears to beat the Colts last Sunday night either. But if they're going to build on that, there are three things they must do to beat the Carolina Panthers this Sunday.
Even if they don't win the game, the Bears are still scoring touchdowns at the bank.
Arguing over who gets the last drumstick is one thing. But a Cubs-White Sox World Series could drive one family nuts.
REALLY old school White Sox fans will mourn the death of former manager Don Gutteridge.
Current White Sox star Carlos Quentin hopes to be healthy by the playoffs. Question is: will he be playing or watching?
Patrick Kane and Jonathan Towes, the Blackhawks' Teen Titans (OK, they're not really teens but it's not far off) get some more (inter)national publicity.
From Kansas City to Chicago on a bike: Are gas prices THAT high?
The marathon gold-medalist from this year's Olympics, Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania has joined the field (pdf) of runners for the 2008 Chicago marathon. Hopefully, we'll have better weather this year.
The Sky take on the New York Liberty in their next-to-last game of their WNBA regular season.
Chicago teams finished third, fourth and fifth in the 2008 North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association Gay Softball World Series.
You're in Lisle. You're riding your bike. You have a hankering to see a play. What are you going to do?
Cycling Thu Aug 28 2008
Register Now for Cyclocross Clinic
Register now for the Chicago 'Cross Cup's cyclocross skills clinic, on Saturday September 13, hosted by Ben Turner of Cycle-Smart, a CX racer who has raced in Europe, doing well in a racing environment that many Americans seem to not do so well in. The race flyer with more information on it is here.
And if you pre-register for the clinic, you get in line to receive a free copy of Cycle-Smart's "Solutions for Cyclo-Cross" DVD and other schwag. Everyone likes free stuff and when you couple free stuff with coaching and advice from a real expert, well, the deal's made even better.
Last night and this morning, I was out practicing my CX skills in anticipation for a busy autumn of racing and the point that technique and skill matters just as much as a set of strong legs and lungs was really hammered home. Yeah, you can pedal hard on the flats and up the hills, but if you can't dismount and remount without coming to a complete stop or crashing, well, you're gonna need some help. And judging from my bruised shoulder and posterior earned after tripping over the barriers and flying over my handlebars, it might not be a bad idea for me to register for this clinic, too.
News Thu Aug 28 2008
Stories That Will Not Die 1: Mariotti says he's not going to Boston, which leaves only five bazillion other cities for him to tell us where he's not going. Also, the Sun-Times takes a parting shot at their one-time star columnist.
Stories That Will Not Die 2: The Wall Street Journal says Barack Obama isn't the only one down on the Wrigley Field Experience. And Sports Illustrated jumps on the pile, too. But another website turns the other cheek and tries to link White Sox-lovin' Obama with the Cubs.
Stories That Will Not Die 3: Another week, another standing: Now, Chicago is supposedly the front runner for the 2016 Olympics.
The City of Chicago has a plan to make use the most bike-friendly place in the world.
Professional squash fever: Catch it! An international pro squash tournament is headed here.
A lesson in how not to write a press release, this one involving the Bears. My favorite sentence: "The Chicago Bears tickets have many sources of power that let the team to be so."
Among upcoming events at Soldier Field: the Chicago High School Kick Off Classic this weekend.
Bicycling Mon Aug 25 2008
One Championship Down, One to Go
The Illinois State Road Race Championships, aka The Tour of Oak Brook, was held this past Saturday. Official results aren't yet up, and here they are. The grapevine's come around with news of the race, and while numerous crashes and registration issues marred the good times a bit, by and large, the race went off well.
Chris Padfield's already made a big name for himself in the 3's, earning big props for a huge solo effort that while didn't earn him the win, at least let him earn a bit of an reputation.
Check out this link to CBR for additional race reports.
And as a reminder, coming up this weekend is the North American Cycle Courier Championships. A messenger prom, bike polo, and gratuitous and impressive displays of package handling will be the main attractions. Oh, and BBQ. It ain't a party unless someone's grilling something, and if bike action's not enough to get you out of your house, maybe the vague promise of grilled eats will. And yes, all events are open to "civvies."
Cycling Mon Aug 18 2008
Downers Grove to Oak Brook
While summer's heat still rages, the regional criterium racing is starting to wind down. Superweek was a blast, same with Elk Grove, and the Chicago Criterium, and now cyclists are setting-up their cyclocross bikes, ordering their cowbells, and practicing their dismounts for the upcoming Chicago 'Cross Cup. However, 'cross season's not here yet - there's still plenty of road and crit racing to be had.
This past weekend saw a whole lot of race action in Downers Grove, in which Rahsaan Bahati of Rock Racing earned the stars and bars and became the National Criterium Champ, by coming in ahead of Alex Candelario of Kelly Benefit Strategies and Mark Hekman of Toshiba Santo.
In the men's 3/4 race, Ryan Freund, a member of the IIT/Cycle Smithy squad, took first, leaving second and third place to Julian Baumgartner of Burnham Racing and Ricardo Otero of Team Mack, respectively. Local cycling talent in the Women's 1/2/3 race was shut out from the top places, but in the 3/4 race Catherine Burnham of Bartlett came in third place.
Looking ahead, the Tour of Oak Brook on August 23, which also serves as the Illinois road race state championship seems to be the biggest highlight. The course, a winding 3.2 miler (nearly the minimum distance for a road race, and not much longer than a crit) should break up the field with two hills, or whatever passes for hills in Chicagoland.
Registration's filling-up fast, so if you want to earn the right to sport the Illinois Champ's jersey for next year, better head on over.
The Windy City Rollers threw the smack down in their 138-19 trampling of the Tuscon Saddle Tramps in roller derby action.
The Blackhawks' Nikolai Khabibulin to the Ottawa Senators? Reports out of Canada say it's in the works.
Never let them see you sweat: Barack Obama is apparently a gym rat.
Women's Health Magazine is asking local female fitness buffs: "Are You Game?" (pdf)
The Chicago Bandits have a chance to move into first place in the NPF when they continued their four-game series against the league-leading Philadelphia Force tonight. The Bandits beat the Force 3-1 in the series opener on Wednesday.
The 2008 Aberdeen Street Dodgeball Ninjas will host their summer tournament this Saturday at Sheridan Park. If nothing else, it should provide some interesting photos.
The Chicago Cycling Club hosts a "Baseball Nostalgia Tour", which includes stops at 10 present and former ballparks and lunch at the Billy Goat Tavern.
And speaking of baseball, an all-Cubs channel? I thought we already had that...and referred to it as the local news (said the White Sox fan with the inferiority complex).
Bicycling Mon May 19 2008
Car Culture on Lakefront Path
Lakefront Path is one of Chicago's primary alternate transportation arteries. Over eighteen miles of trail pass through Southshore, Lincoln, Jackson, Burnham, and Grant Park allowing thousands of cyclists, skaters, tourists, and runners to pound the path daily. The path is both a reminder of Chicago's rich architectural history (skyline views are plentiful) and glimpse of a potential future where alternative transportation methods replace gas hungry automobiles.
Nuzzled next to Chicago's famous Lake Shore Drive, however, the path adopts many components of car culture. A familiar mixture of pedestrians, stoplights, informative signage, and different sized vehicles litter Lakefront Path. Pay attention to the below analogies and always remember to avoid Gapers Block (the social phenomenon not the publication).
Sedans, SUVS, and Hybrids. Driving down Lake Shore Drive usually presents an interesting collage of vehicles ranging from taxi cabs to Hummers, all driving at different speeds with separate destinations. Filling the role of the Hummer and large SUV on Lakefront Path is the in-line skate. Both SUVs and in-line skates boast a disproportionate "energy to distance traveled" ratio and also consume an excessive amount of lane space. Scientific studies from the Angelos Foundation suggest one skater occupies the space of 2.5 cyclists with road tires.
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During the early 1980s, Phil Baird of Sinte Gleska College and Elaine Beaudreau of Oglala Lakota College regularly conducted conference workshops on the topic of Student Leadership Development. Their presentations focused on leadership development within student government and youth organizations at the high school and intercollegiate levels. Emerging from these same workshops at the annual AIHEC conferences came the interest to organize student leadership among Tribal colleges and universities.
During a student assembly at the fifth annual AIHEC Higher Education conference in March, Tribal college students organized an ad hoc committee to formally establish the AIHEC Student Congress. Committee members included Marty Cuny, Oglala Lakota College; Robert Geboe, Dull Knife Memorial College; Linda Eschbach, Salish Kootenai College; and Maria Marcavage, Turtle Mountain Community College. The idea for the college student leadership organization came from information about the South Dakota Tribal High School Student Congress, an annual youth leadership program established in the late 1970s by Phil Baird and sponsored through the South Dakota Indian Education Association in collaboration with Sinte Gleska College.
In July Phil Baird (UTTC) and Elaine Beaudreau (OLC) convened Tribal college students and facilitated a two-day organizational development meeting on the Tsaile campus of Navajo Community College. The students presented their draft constitution and bylaws to the AIHEC board of directors. In principle, the student ad hoc committee now included Marty Cuny, OLC (chair); Robert Geboe, DKMC (vice chair); Maria Marcavage, TMCC (secretary); Brenda Clauschee, NCC; Ted Griffin, Blackfeet Community College; Joann Kuntz, SKC; Chris Rochelle, DKMC; Ray Slick, Haskell Indian Junior College; Phil Baird and Elaine Beaudreau (co-advisors).
In October, the ad hoc committee of the AIHEC Student Congress met with the AIHEC board of directors prior to the annual NIEA Convention in Reno, Nevada. Formal action was taken to accept the amendments to the AIHEC Student Congress constitution and bylaws, to approve the allocation of $3,450 for operational funds, and to support the sale of Martin Red Bear posters as a Student Congress fundraiser. The organization's financial accounts are established at Salish Kootenai College.
In April, the first annual AIHEC Student Congress awards program was held at the annual AIHEC Higher Education conference in Missoula, Montana. American Indian College Fund board chair Ann Sward-Hanson met with the TCU students to share goals of AICF.
In July, an organizational retreat proposed at Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas was canceled. A re-organizational meeting was held in Bismarck, N.D. with interim officers – Sharon Iron Star, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (acting chair); LeLewis Gipp, Standing Rock Community College (acting vice chair); and Beatrice Raygo, United Tribes Technical College (acting secretary/treasurer). Student Congress representatives met with the AIHEC Board of directors in July at Flagstaff, Arizona.
In October, at the annual membership meeting of the AIHEC Student Congress, Tribal college students realign goals and representation. Amendments are approved by the AIHEC board of directors.
In November AIHEC Student Congress President Sharon Iron Star of Saskatchewan Indian Federated College convened the third annual membership meeting during the 20th annual NIEA Convention at Tulsa, OK. Robert Moore of Sinte Gleska University is elected the new AIHEC S.C. president. Other officers included Sharon Iron Star (vice chair); Nicole Sheridan, SKC (secretary) and Willowa Horn, Fort Belknap Community College (treasurer).
More information about the early 1990s was requested from Elaine Beaudreau and Robert Moore. Phil Baird and Elaine Beaudreau, who is now employed at Anoka Ramsey College in Minnesota, remained organizational advisors until about the mid-1990s. Subsequent advisors included Robert Moore (SGU), Dana Grant (SKC), and Juan Perez (SKC).
Tribal College Journal Excerpt: Leadership and the power to change are key concepts inherent in a special project being implemented by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Congress. With funding from the Kellogg Foundation as a part of its "Capturing the Dream Initiative," the Student Congress project will expand the leadership options for students at all tribal colleges. Over the next four years, the AIHEC Student Congress plans to establish a summer leadership institute, create an alumni network, and produce training manuals and seminars relevant to tribal communities. Under the initiative, the Student Congress members will create community action plans, carry out a yearly national theme effort, establish collaborative relationships with other national organizations, and host an annual, student-designed national training conference. Kellogg funding for the initiative will total over $400,000, also enabling the Student Congress to build up an endowment to ensure longevity and stability.
Established in 1986, the AIHEC Student Congress provides opportunities for leadership development, education advocacy, and intercollegiate student competitions. The group has an ex-officio position on the AIHEC board of directors. The Student Congress also coordinates planning for workshops and activities during the annual AIHEC conference. For more information contact Student Congress advisor Dana Grant at Salish Kootenai College, P.O. Box 117, Pablo, Mont. 59855.
Provide close mentoring of new presidents by experienced TCU presidents.
Identify resource pool of people—inside and outside TCU community—with specific expertise in critical knowledge and skill areas to assist new TCU presidents.
Identify essential skills needed for success in a TCU (e.g., communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, etc.). How is this similar or different than a mainstream institution?
Sponsor a leadership institute for prospective TCU presidents drawing from TCUs and emerging scholars nationally focusing on essential leadership skills and knowledge in the TCU environment.
Develop the collective leadership of the TCU community—staff, faculty, board, and students—so that leadership responsibility is shared and not dependent upon one person.
Collect information on various scholarship and research (i.e., books, articles, theses, etc.) focusing on TCUs and make available to TCU presidents and community as a resource.
In February, members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Congress traveled to Washington, DC , to speak with their members of Congress about the value of tribal colleges. Brandon Nurlow, Dwayne Bane, Rhonda Davis, Tate Haukaas, John LittleSky, and Gabrielle Tiomanipi; Sheila Wetterling, Julian Manyhides, Linda White, Stephanie Laducer, Collen Kelly, Mechelle Crazy Thunder, Denise Krueger; and Eric Dumarce, Jessie McDonald, Nadine Vasquez, and Windy Whirlwindsoldier participated.
The new officers of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Congress met May 24-25 in Rapid City, SD, and began planning their 20th anniversary celebration for spring 2006. Established in 1986, the student congress represents tribal college and university students.
At the AIHEC Conference in April 2005, the students elected Zannita Fast Horse as their new president. Fast Horse is a student at Oglala Lakota College (OLC, Kyle, SD). In other election results, Tristan Ahtone of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA, Santa Fe, NM) will serve as vice president; Warren Eagle of OLC will serve as secretary; Kimberly Killer of OLC is treasurer; Brenda Wounded Arrow of OLC is sergeant at arms; and Jeff Quintana of OLC is historian.
For the first time, the students elected regional representatives. The four regional reps are designed to improve communications by serving as liaisons between the colleges in their regions and the national student organization.
Landon Lafromboise of Sisseton Wahpeton College (SWC, Sisseton, SD)serves as the Midwest regional representative, Sara Marie Ortiz of the Institute of American Indian Arts as the Southwest regional representative, and Aaire Madplume of Blackfeet Community College (BCC, Browning, MT) as the Mountain/Pacific regional representative.
Since no one was elected from the Great Lakes region, Julian Many Hides of Salish Kootenai College (SKC, Pablo, MT)has volunteered to serve as the liaison in an interim capacity.
At their meeting in Rapid City, the student officers set some ambitious goals for themselves, including standardizing the rules for student competitions at the annual conference, setting up a film festival, filming a documentary on the student congress, setting up a website and a newsletter, working on the constitution and bylaws and archives, and including Mr. and Ms. AIHEC in student congress activities.
The co-advisors of the student congress are Michele Vecenti of Diné College (Tsaile, AZ)and Juan Perez of Salish Kootenai College.