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Nova Scotia Mass Choir at the Halifax ceremony
Every year, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to the people of Boston to say thank you for their help in the aftermath of the 1917 Halifax explosion. This year's Tree for Boston ceremony included a touch of Prince Edward County.
Suzanne Pasternak. – Graham Davies photo
The County's Suzanne Pasternak, a former Massachusetts resident, was among the hundreds gathered for the 1,117-kilometre send off late last month. The tradition inspired her to write a song called 'We Will See You Through' with the County's Mark Despault, of Digby and Tom Leighton, formerly of Moncton.
Pasternak spent the past year negotiating with Boston City Hall, The Boston Children's Chorus, The Nova Scotia Mass Choir and the Marketing Department of the Government of Nova Scotia to have the song performed at both tree ceremonies.
She was inspired while writing a book for young readers about the Halifax Explosion of 1917 and the heroic involvement immediately given to the city by the people of Boston. On Dec. 6th, 1917, a massive explosion rocked Halifax when the Norwegian supply ship Imo collided with the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc, causing the largest man-made explosion the world had ever seen. Close to 2,000 people were killed, hundreds wounded, 1,600 homes were destroyed.
In 1918 Halifax sent a Christmas tree in thanks. That giving of that gift was revived in 1971.
"This annual Tree for Boston tradition is a stellar example of both international relations and one of the finest models of hope and courage born from the most tragic events in Canadian history," said Pasternak. "It is a great honour for me to be the representative from the writing team at such an important, heartfelt event."
At the ceremony she was advised the Ministry of Natural Resources had sent the song to 130 school kids in Truro who were going to perform the song live as the tree came through town later that day.
Pasternak's book, titled "Heroes Without Borders….the Story of the Boston Christmas Tree" is expected to be ready for release this month.
"I really felt that that the relationship between Canada and the United States should be honoured," says Pasternak. "We live in peace, side by side and are there for each other without hesitation whether it is the Halifax Explosion, Katrina, 911, on and on," Pasternak said. "The Halifax ceremony took place just a few days after the terrible event in Paris and the plight of the Syrian refugees. These events added a very sombre and thoughtful feeling to what it is our two countries are honouring every year by the gift of this tree."
The tree-lighting ceremony on Boston Common Thursday, Dec. 3 attracts about 30,000 people.
Cheryl Anderson says:
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 4:44 pm
Wow, Our Suzanne has done it again! Congratulations on continuing your stellar writing and song writing career.


Have you ever went for a walk and cringed at the kerning on a billboard or sign?
You are not alone. The New York Times has a great article on what it's like to be a typography lover in a world where good typography isn't always practiced.


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I have worn glasses on or off since I was 8 years old.
Let me tell you, some of the frames I had as a kid.... ohhh were they pretty..
I now like to think that my taste in glasses has much improved.
They are mainly to help with eye strain. Considering the fact that my day job and a lot of my favourite past times are in front of a monitor, I tend to be in them a lot.
Whilst playing around on eBay recently I stumbled something awesome.
The problem I have is...I have a wide face..
So most vintage cat's eye frames make me look like a demented cross eyed Siamese cat.
So when i saw these on eBay and realised that they were wide enough, I thought 'what the hell', Hit Buy Now and crossed my fingers.
They are actually on eBay from a few different sellers but here is a link to one store that has both colours. I got them for about $20 a pair... so cheap.
I also had new lenses put into my favourite chunky black Red or Dead frames, which i am sure you have all seen before.
Do you wear glasses at all? if so do you have more than one pair??
And I also like your first image. Did you use a avatar generator for that?
I do wear glasses! :D I absolutely love the red gradient ones. I have two pair, but one pair are RX sunglasses.
LOVE the new ones, ohmygosh!


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Australia's largest bio-energy project a step closer to reality
The Turnbull Government is providing up to $3 million early-stage funding support towards an ambitious project that may result in an innovative renewable biofuel production facility being built at Pentland in North Queensland. The funding, through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), will allow Renewable Developments Australia to develop a detailed business case for the…
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Bill Shorten's massive new electricity tax
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A new era of Antarctic engagement was announced today by the Turnbull Government, with the launch of the Australian Antarctic Strategy and 20 Year Action Plan. The Turnbull Government is providing $255 million in funding over the next ten years to enhance Australia's Antarctic logistics and science capabilities. This includes $55 million for infrastructure and…
Phillip Island Nature Park receives welcome funding to expand its facility
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$50 million to help farmers continue to protect the Great Barrier Reef
The Turnbull Government is investing an extra $50 million in new projects to improve the health and resilience of the Great Barrier Reef, bringing new investment to a total of $61 million over the last 4 days. Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, said this latest investment under Phase Three of the Reef Trust will…
Turnbull Government supports Australian-grown solar technology set for commercialisation and export
The Australian Government is providing up to $2.9 million of funding to support the $5.8 million project by Victorian company RayGen. RayGen's technology relies on low-cost mirrors to track and reflect the sun onto an ultra-efficient solar PV receiver at the top of a central tower. The potential for RayGen's groundbreaking technology extends well beyond…
Commonwealth Heritage Listing for the Royal Australian Mint
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Local businesses were invited to find out more about Australia's Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with China, Japan and Korea at a seminar in Rosebud on Thursday. The seminar was hosted by Austrade, in conjunction with Flinders MP Greg Hunt, to assist local businesses in expanding into international export markets. The seminar, held at Rosebud Country…
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About Artistic Stone
Artistic Stone is an established, successful importer and wholesaler of natural stone, marble, glass, metal and porcelain products from around the globe. The team at Artistic Stone constantly exceeds customer expectations by being an international industry leader in product innovation, design and development. Artistic Stone creates a sustainable competitive advantage for its customers and we will continuously provide a caring level of service so that our customers can continue to further grow and prosper in the Australian domestic market.
The founder of Artistic Stone, Peter Maniscalco, has been involved in the natural stone business for over 33 years. Having a passion for natural stone and a love for mosaics, Peter established Artistic Stone Australia in 1993. Since then his company has grown to be the largest supplier of natural stone mosaics, borders, glass, metal tiles, medallions, and liners in Australia. With his reputation for quality, service and availability, Peter has also been recognized worldwide, especially in the United States of America.
In June of 1999, Peter Maniscalco opened his first manufacturing facility in India. In January of 2000 the first container of mosaics arrived in Australia. Due to the increasing demand for its products, Artistic Stone India expanded the company's services and products to Italy, Singapore, China and North America.
At the end of 2003 Artistic Stone India opened its second factory. Now with over 1,000 employees in both factories, Artistic Stone is the largest manufacturer of quality slate and marble mosaics, borders and medallions in India.
January 2003, Peter Maniscalco established an office in Turkey. This gives Artistic Stone the control to create and supply fashionable, trend-setting products with on-time delivery.
In October 2003, Artistic Stone decided to expand its operations again. Having conducted a large amount of business on the East Coast of the United States, and responding to a growing demand for his products on the West Coast, Peter opened his first American warehouse, Artistic Stone Gallery in San Carlos, California.
In the fall of 2005, Artistic Stone Gallery moved from San Carlos to a 40,000 square foot facility in nearby Menlo Park. It is one of the largest mosaic, border and medallion facilities in California.


In a ceremony conducted today in HDW shipyards in the city of Kiel, Germany, Israel assumed control of a fourth Dolphin-class submarine. The submarine, titled the Tanin (Crocodile), was inaugurated by Israeli and German officials, who broke a bottle of champagne on the submarine's outer hull. It was officially handed over to the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli Navy following the acquisition and development process led by the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli Navy. Representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the IDF (Zahal) Navy attended the event.
Last month, the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General (res.) Ehud Barak signed a construction and supply contract for a new and improved submarine scheduled to arrive in Israel during 2017. It will be the sixth submarine, following the fifth that will arrive in 2015 and the fourth that was launched today.
The submarines flotilla represents the long arm of the Navy, the IDF (Zahal) and Israel. The flotilla personnel regularly perform intensive operational activity near and far, operating away from the public spotlight. These submarines, together with the ones that will follow, will double the number of existing Israeli submarines. They are an essential part of the effort to protect the citizens of Israel.


Below are a collection of anxiety success stories from people I have helped over the years. Nothing has been changed in any way; these are real stories from real people and are just a tiny percentage of the people who get in touch with me each year to tell me how well they are doing. These are not testimonials; they have been placed here to encourage others.
Hi, I just wanted to come here and tell my story of the new attitude I have learnt and how much progress I have made.
I have progressed from experiencing anxiety every day, thick depersonalisation, unrelenting fear and wandering thoughts that had to do with everything and anything, to a new me. After some time it comes off in layers. Of course, your perception is stuck on you for a while, but it makes too much sense even to question, as all you have been doing is noticing and fearing everything that's been going on.
Anyway, the main thing we have to keep in mind that I got out of Paul's book and found to be the most helpful in understanding that, in order to get better, it is VITAL to feel terrible… Feeling awful, whether it be anxiety, depersonalisation or panic, is the key to overcoming all of this. It is necessary that we fully experience it. Sounds weird, but when you are trying to get over anxiety, it is the ANXIETY you are feeling that is going to help you overcome these issues. We need to look at it as the friend that it is to us in this process rather than the enemy we fear so much.
Without feeling the anxiety, how are we going to show ourselves that it is not a threat anymore? Whenever the anxiety comes, we go "Oh my God it's happening again, no, I'm scared" Well, that is telling us it is a threat, and if we even feel a tiny bit of it, we are going to feel threatened. Of course, these triggers are going to make us feel anxious and bring on all the issues again because the triggers ignite that reaction we have had to anxiety for so long, which is nothing but attention, fear, and panic.
WE HAVE TO TEACH OURSELVES TO CHANGE OUR REACTION TO ANXIETY.
To implement this, we MUST feel the anxiety; the anxiety HAS to be there to change our mentality. We have to teach ourselves to have a different reaction WHILE we are experiencing these feelings. We give the emotions so much power that even the slightest trigger can bring them back up to the point where the cycle starts again. But when we change our reaction to the issues we are dealing with, over time, we learn to respond to them differently, and we take their power away.
In my road to recovery, every time I felt anxiety, fear, panic, DP or intense thoughts, I would almost be happy about it. Here is my chance to change this cycle, RIGHT NOW!! With these feelings I can reverse this thing, as I accept these feelings, I am changing my reaction to them, which takes their power away. I am going to sit back and let them come and let them make me feel however I feel. If anything I would want them to stay for as long as they wanted to.
It truly is a process. You have to train your mind to think differently, and in time it will react differently to these feelings, rather than with fear and frustration, the very things that keep them coming. The most important message I got out of this book was the desire for the anxiety to be there, as it was the only way to make progress with this. What Paul teaches makes so much sense to me now.
Before I viewed anxiety and everything that came with it as the thickest terror of the world and when it had its hold on me I just felt helpless. Now, through this book, I look at it as almost a teacher who is on my side and wants me to succeed, as whenever it's around, that is when I have the opportunity to grow.
So remember "Anxiety is not a disease; therefore it needs no cure".
I just wanted to start by saying that your book saved my life. I cannot thank you enough for all of the information. I suffered from anxiety and severe depression after the birth of my son on July 7, 2014. I came home the following day with my baby and that night suffered from what I know now is a panic attack, and thus my anxiety began. I had every symptom in your book and no answers.
I had no idea what was going on. I thought I had a heart attack or something else horrible was happening to me. I ended up in the emergency room, and after 5 hours of painful tests, I was told that I was OK, which left me even more bewildered.
I went home and began thinking about what could be wrong with me? What had happened to me? And it started happening again and again because I kept fearing another episode. I thought for sure I had postpartum psychosis or some other type of postpartum problem.
I visited many doctors, with no answers. They all just looked at me and wondered why I was so agitated. They kept trying to force pills that did not help. I stayed away from my son and could not even be around him because I had such disturbing thoughts that I might hurt him or myself.
I was back into the emergency room because I knew for sure something was terribly wrong. Barely missing being admitted into a 'mental' hospital I was sent home again to try and get better. I slowly began to slip into depression, stopped caring about what I looked like, stopped eating, no longer slept and all because my brain would not stop searching for the answer to this new found problem.
I tried to explain what I was going through to my husband but he had no idea, nobody understood. I was alone trying to fight my way out of this hell. I figured I would end up in a being carted off somewhere, never to see my family again. But I began to research what this could be and stumbled upon your site online, and then your book.
At the time my anxiety was so severe that I could hardly read the book or talk, never mind hold a conversation. But eventually I started to read, and finally, I had found the answers to all the questions my mind was seeking. It all began to make sense, and I just gave up the fight, it was very challenging to do so, but I did it. Initially, I still had many, many bad days, thinking I will be stuck in this hell forever.
Then I began to have moments where my mind went quiet. The advice in your book really started to help, and I was so relieved that I had some relief from the way I was feeling. I then realised that the anxiety was there to help me, a friend that would force me to stop the worry and the stress. It was my wake up call to change. I realised at this point how much of my suffering I was creating.
I had to read your book many times to let the information really sink in, but slowly, very slowly my mind began to reverse these habits I had created. It is early days, and although I don't feel I'm 100% recovered, I know that full recovery is just around the corner.
I can now do all of the things I could do before, including taking care of my son. I found myself smiling on the days where it was impossible and never gave up. I realise now how precious life is and how important friends and family are.
Though I can say I hope I never reach that place again, I know that I can get through it and because of it, I am a better person. I also now realise how important your health is.
The most important point I took from you was to get on with your life and take the anxiety with you, and boy is it the hardest thing to do because all my anxiety wanted me to do was stay in bed.
To others that are suffering from anxiety, you will get through it. And believe me, I was one who thought "yeah right," I'm going to be like this forever, my life is over.
But just let go of the fight, let your body heal itself and never give up, there is so much to live for. Thank you so much, Paul, for all of the information you provide, I truly thought I wouldn't make it out of that hell and was ready to give up.
But thankfully I did not, and I thank you and God every day for that. I hope this helps provide hope to someone as all of their success stories did for me.
Hi, I'm 21 and a 4th year nursing student. I suffered an anxiety attack in April of 2008 and went down the road of deep thinking and constant worry about how I was feeling, which left me with constant anxiety and feelings of depersonalisation.
I found Paul's writings in the summer and started making real progress from then on. Initially, it took a while to understand the information and truly apply it to my life but when I did I began to see huge changes.
I just want to say that my anxiety left me layer by layer. I want to tell you all, or reassure you all, that it is TRULY a process and there is no quick fix.
The key is to LIVE as normal as possible and focus on outside OUTWARD tasks like reading, exercising and socialising. This stops the constant inward thinking of your condition and gives the mind the break it needs. As I applied this behaviour, I noticed moments of normality that kept adding up as the days passed!!!!
It was just a matter of keeping my mind busy and focusing on outward tasks rather than me. This does not mean I ran around frantically doing things to forget my anxiety as this would be running away. No, if it's there, it's there.
Everyone worries that they may be the only one who doesn't recover. It is part of the self-doubt that we all have when suffering. But keep following Paul's advice. Live your normal life alongside anxiety, accept the thoughts and let them be in the background. Try not to analyse them (it takes practice I know – but small steps at first) and face any fears that you may have and try not to fall into avoidance behaviours.
Do not avoid doing things and going to places that you would have done before the anxiety, even if you feel strange or anxious. You are changing old behaviours and to do this, you need to step out of old routines and comfort zones. Growth isn't always easy and it isn't always comfortable, but the rewards are so worth it.
I promise you Paul's method works; it has been a lifesaver for me. I truly hope my story encourages other people.
I truly understand the message about not trying to care or fix how I feel constantly.
Think of it this way. An example: my mom has no anxiety whatsoever. She is happy 95% of the time. She doesn't have things better than anyone else. She just does a few things every day and is content with those few small things. BUT SHE IS NEVER THINKING OF WAYS TO FEEL GOOD, NEVER. It doesn't cross her mind.
She doesn't think "Oh what can I do that will make me feel happy?" No. "Oh, maybe this subconscious conditioning CD will help me feel good." No. "Oh, maybe I can make my life better by thinking about X." No. Instead, she wakes up and says, "I've got to go and meet some people from my women's group at church. I've got to get groceries. I'm going to make some coffee. I should try and find something my daughter will like at the thrift store. I should write a letter to Aunt Sheryl, Kelly, David. I should read the newspaper. I should go for a walk". She's just not thinking about herself.
My uncle had depression and anxiety and has been going to a psychiatrist for 30 years. When I talked to him about it, he still has it! I wish I could tell him that he is doing the wrong thing, but who is going to listen to a 23-year-old punk kid, right?
Anyway, the message is: happy people are out doing things. They are doing things with people. They are not thinking existential crap all day like me. They are not thinking and obsessing about themselves the way I have been.
We get out of this trap by allowing all the thoughts to be there until our mind is just so sick of them that we finally find other stuff to occupy ourselves with.
I now go to the bookstore every day, the mall every other day, talk to friends, read funny stuff online, watch silly movies, go to church, call relatives, go to the used record store, bike ride.
In a certain sense, I have always been a bit of a worrier and used to freak myself out that I had every illness in the world. My biggest fear was (like many) going mad or "losing my mind". Well, this site and Paul's book has been a wonderful help to me, and it's only been TWO days since I read the book.
I suffered a very tragic loss on Oct 07 (stillbirth at 25 weeks), and it tore my reality apart. I went into tremendous shock and was so upset that what I was feeling was happening to me, to ME!!! The world terrified the holy crap out of me, and I had no idea who/what/where/how I was.
Somehow I held it together, after so much falling apart it didn't seem possible. Anxiety was HUGE at the start; I had no idea what was happening to me at all.
I was terrified I was going to get postnatal depression/post-natal psychosis (because others did) etc. etc. I convinced myself at one stage that I had it and, of course, cue the scary thoughts which fuelled that belief and I ended up in a huge mess.
We moved house and I went back to work, which lifted my spirits for a few weeks, but I felt the down-ness coming back again, and then all the symptoms seem to return. The feelings and scary thoughts got SO bad that I honestly thought that day I was having a nervous breakdown.
The scary thoughts were the worst for me. I was convinced I could do some harm to my partner – so bad that I was terrified of my kitchen knives (ALL BECAUSE OF ONE THOUGHT) and because I pondered and utterly obsessed about that thought. I was even more convinced that I had post-natal depression which made me worse and so it went on and on -cycles of anxiety, fear, sadness, adrenalin, frayed nerves…unable to sleep. I was utterly EXHAUSTED physically and mentally!!!
How I continued going to work, I will never know. I was going around like a ghost, like a shell; it was awful. I was beating myself up constantly because I SHOULD have been feeling better.
Believe me; I am a true information gatherer and, of course, like many of us, convinced myself that I had every symptom, disorder etc. The number of times I asked my partner if he thought I had this or that. No amount of convincing would appease me.
Then I found Paul! And I finally realised what was causing all of this. Yes, I went through a terrible trauma. Of course, my poor mind and body wanted and needed to shut down. But did I give it the break it deserved and needed…NO! Of course, I didn't, I thrashed it constantly, worrying and stressing even more. Now I finally realise where the bodily feelings come from and why I was getting worse and not better.
I have learned that no matter what I feel it's okay and that was key to me recovering.
Whatever I am feeling, I am feeling, and that's okay. If I experience depersonalisation, then is it any wonder? My mind is tired and shut off and needs a break, so it's okay.
If my stomach churns, then that's okay too, just sensitised nerves.
My mind has developed a habit, and my memory believes that somehow I'm not safe – that's okay too – habits take time to change. It's all part of it.
If my hands shake, sure, that's okay too, my nerves are a little fraught at the minute, nothing happens overnight.
Scary thoughts – I've learned a lot from this one… I didn't believe that if I just followed Paul's advice when the thoughts came, it would work. Believe me; I'm a sceptic when it comes to ME!… It worked.
When they came, I let them in, watched them bounce around in there, let them have a stretch and roar and shout if they wished, they were just forms of energy needing an outlet, they held no importance.
Let the thought in, pay it no attention. Give it space and time and let it run alongside your day. I didn't believe it would work, but it did. Without me giving them attention or belief, without me adding fuel to them, they just began to weaken and eventually fade away.
Old thoughts that used to torment me may still pop up now, but they don't mean anything anymore. I just see it as a little bit of old subconscious energy needing to escape. I just think, 'oh I haven't thought that in a while'. Then it comes back, and I do the same all over again: "come on in, take your time, leave as and when you wish' they hardly get any attention from me, their presence really is no concern of mine anymore.
The finish the best advice I can give with anxiety is; Don't "try" to let it go, don't try and force it away and don't try to make yourself feel better but invite every bit of it in. Live it, experience it, realise that it's all a part of what you are going through. Don't wage some kind of war against anxiety; this battle with myself is what kept me stuck for so long, it just created more of what I was trying to get rid of.
My recovery did take time, and I did have to educate myself but through understanding and perseverance, I was able to fully come through this period of my life. I believe we can all come through, just as Paul and many others have. It just takes an understanding of what is keeping us in the loop, and then we can finally find a way out.
First of all, a small caveat, by "success", since this is part of a success stories page, I mean I know I have found the way to recover from anxiety and know it works.
So, my story. A few years ago I overworked my mind with a combination of things- working long hours, worrying and overthinking. I can be particularly bad at ruminating. I took this to the point of triggering anxiety symptoms.
Once they had appeared- constant feelings of anxiety, tight band around my head, tight chest, disturbed sleep, panic- I then made the classic mistake of worrying about them constantly. Thus I entered what I now know to be the anxiety cycle.
My recovery began with a combination of three things: I was given a low dose of Prozac, which I have found helped a little. I know there are mixed views on medication, but I found it helped take the edge off the feelings and give me the space to put in place a way to recover properly. I also found mindfulness helpful and, thanks to a friend I am ever grateful to, finally discovering Paul's book.
When I read Paul's book back in 2014, I knew it was the answer. For the first time- despite frequent visits to the doctor and CBT sessions (which did help in their own way)- I had both an answer on what was wrong and a way to get better that made total sense to me.
Over the next couple of months, I put in place Paul's methods and got back to full health. I first got back to work, moved to a new exciting job, got married and have mainly been anxiety free since.
I have, like most people, had the occasional blip, probably most notably while unsuccessfully trying to taper off my medication, but I know I have achieved success in two ways: 1) I have found the one route to being free of anxiety that I believe in, 2) I know that for me it works.
Like many things I have found the process of putting in place what I read in Paul's books, Dr Claire Weekes' books and mindfulness a journey.
Through the blips I have had I have tried each time to deepen the process of allowing, recognise I am not my mind (or my thoughts), treat every symptom as part of the same thing (not focus in particular on one like sleep) and have faith they will all pass as I get better- and they always do.
Recovery truly does come through understanding, understanding that we are the creator of our suffering is vital to recovery, as then we can cut out the cause instead of continually treating symptoms. When you see what is causing you to suffer, then it makes no sense to keep on doing it. Prevention is far better than cure!!
I am so grateful I found Paul's book and to Paul for all his efforts to share what he has learned so unselfishly with others. There have been day's when I fall into bad habits but now know what I am doing wrong, know what to do (or more accurately not to do) to give my mind space and have the underlying faith that I have the right answers.
I cannot recommend Paul's books and website any more highly. The more people can understand anxiety (what it is, how it occurs, how to let it pass without struggle) the more we can help ensure they get better sooner. I wish, for instance, all doctors read Paul's work as part of their training.


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Missing New York Teen: Police Asking For Public's Help In Locating 16-Year-Old Marissa Graham
By Kevin Billings
Police are asking for the public's help in locating a teen that went missing in upstate New York.
Marissa Graham, 16, was reported missing Monday after leaving Lancaster High School in Lancaster, New York. She reportedly left the school at about 9:30 a.m. by herself and wasn't seen for the rest of the day.
As of Tuesday afternoon, police have not found evidence about her possible whereabouts.
The Lancaster Police Department took to Facebook asking for the public's help in attempting to locate the missing teen.
The post has prompted multiple comments aimed at the police and Graham herself. Comments range from questions about what happened to messages asking Graham to return home if she had run away. Commenters echoed the police, as well, asking anyone with information to her possible whereabouts to come forward.
"This is my niece Marissa Graham, Please if you see her or know where she is, PLEASE PLEASE, call Lancaster Police. Please !!!!!!," Graham's aunt, Susan Lynn Graham, wrote.
Lancaster Police can be reached at (716) 683-2800. Lancaster is located about 12 miles outside of Buffalo.
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Senate Hearing Sees Digital Dollar as a Tool for Economic Supremacy
Senator Tom Cotton, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee ecnomic subcommittee, said U.S. dollar supremacy helps it maintain its sanctions regime while asking about the potential benefits of a digital dollar. (Michael Vadon/Flickr)
Jul 23, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. UTC Updated Jul 27, 2020 at 9:04 p.m. UTC
The idea of a U.S. digital dollar is no longer a fringe novelty. Now, it may be a means to an end.
The U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy conducted a hearing on "Winning the Economic Competition" between China and the U.S. on Wednesday. Once again, the idea of a Federal Reserve-administered central bank digital currency reared its head.
Much of the hearing was about America's economic relationship with China, and both nations' economic relationships with the rest of the world. Four of the five speakers had no close ties to the crypto space and discussed issues like supply chain dependence and technologies like 5G.
Rather than focus a major part of the hearing on crypto, as two previous hearings did, crypto was brought up as one of many possible tools to maintain U.S. economic supremacy. This could be interpreted as crypto's increasing acceptance as a mainstream idea.
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Christopher Giancarlo, a longtime advocate for a digital dollar and one of Wednesday's witnesses, once again called for the U.S. to begin conducting pilot programs to test out different facets of a tokenized dollar.
The idea is not just academic, said Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who chairs the subcommittee. During a previous hearing, Cotton also advocated for modernizing the dollar, saying it would need to be better than bitcoin.
Read more: In Wargaming Exercise, a Digital Yuan Neuters US Sanctions and North Korea Buys Nukes
"For us, maintaining the dollar's supremacy is not only an economic matter, it is a critical strategic matter as well. It is what allows us to have such effective sanction regimes around the world as well as other benefits," he said, before asking Giancarlo about the next steps in rolling out a digital dollar.
Giancarlo, as he has in the past, emphasized the issue of which nation's values would define the global reserve currency. At the moment, the U.S. dollar fills that role, but he noted that China has been preparing to roll out a digital yuan, which could give the world's most populous nation an edge.
Walter Russell Mead, the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and a member of the Hudson Institute, agreed. A strong financial system "has been a foundation of prosperity and power for hundreds of years," he said. He believes this is unlikely to change in the future, and agreed with Cotton that global dependence on the U.S. banking system is "one of our most effective tools of power."
"We can't just take an asset like that for granted," he said. "We have to assume that as the nature of finance changes, the nature of currencies change, we have to stay at the leading edge of that … innovation, so we do need to be thinking actively about how the dollar can be a fundamental building block for economic activity in this time of the information revolution."
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In this scenario, the tyranny of the urgent supplants the value of the important, and lubrication tasks go unattended.
The solution is hiring a full-time lube tech with the righ combination of general business and communication skills plus an aptitude to develop lubrication specific knowledge.
Read this article to find out why its well worth the investment to hire dedicated lurication personnel.


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Q: How safe is it to use prototypes Form.serialize()? Somehow, when using Prototype's Form.serialize() to submit complex forms, I always feel a bit unsure as to whether this will work in all cases.
Possible issues I worry about are quote/string escaping issues, or perhaps the submission of unusual character codes, anything that could mess up the process.
So the question is:
Is it safe (on the client side) to collect all the data from a form using Prototype and then send it to the server via AJAX or are there any browsers that are known to have troubles sending forms this way — or perhaps, lack of support for it?

A: While no browser that I know internally uses Javascript to submit a form, the exact details of how a form should be submitted are very well documented.
It is quite possible to write form submission code in Javascript that follows the protocol exactly.  On the other hand, an experienced coder may miss some of the edge cases -- like disabled checkbox controls.
I can't speak for the prototype library since I've never used it, but if there is a form that does not submit properly, or a server that does not take a submitted form, then it should be submitted as a bug report.

A: I'm not sure why you were downvoted originally, it's a valid question.
I think that the real answer, though, is that the security aspect really happens on the backend. It's OK to serialize an entire form and send it through a request but you need to validate the information that you receive on the other side.
For instance, you don't want to do this (or the equivalent in another language):
(assume $form is the serialized form)
foreach ($form as $key => $value) {
  $object->$key = $value;
}

save($object);


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The Way to a Beautiful Heart
Fostering Community
"Teaching music in not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart." – Shinichi Suzuki
I grew up in The Junction, a now trendy west-end neighborhood north of High Park in Toronto. But in my day (or as my daughter would say, in the olden days), it wasn't so trendy. A working-class neighborhood close to train tracks, stockyards, and an abattoir, the Junction was gritty and (depending upon the direction of the wind from the abattoir) malodorous. But for me, it was an urban playground filled with intriguing sights and sounds and fascinating characters. I remember One-Eyed Jack who teetered down the street every day accompanied by a three-legged dog named Dog (so named, I assume, to keep things simple, for Jack was not a deep thinker). Then there was Strange Sadie, a mysterious recluse and hoarder whose dilapidated house was to be avoided at all costs (especially during Halloween). And who could forget the Maltese Marching Band that perennially ushered in spring by shutting down Dundas Street West with a glorious pandemonium of pomp, circumstance, and overly elaborate uniforms. And finally, there was the food – oh, I definitely remember the food. While many of my generation grew up in meat-and-potato households where plastic cheese squeezed out of a tube was a delicacy, the Junction surrounded me with an exotic banquet of ethnic delights. Perogies from Poland, cherry dumplings from Czechoslovakia, cabbage rolls from the Ukraine, halvah from Greece, pastizzi from Malta, and spicy meat patties from Jamaica – unfamiliar yet tasty delights that found their way onto our kitchen table.
Despite the working-class nature of the neighborhood, I benefitted from the richness of our local school's arts program, particularly music. I had an opportunity to begin violin in grade 4 with expert instruction by Mrs. Cusack, an itinerant music teacher who travelled from school to school. Every afternoon, my homeroom teacher Miss Procunier carefully took out her pitch pipe and taught us a selection of hits from the 20s and 30s (I still remember sitting mesmerized as her warbling but captivating voice performed Irving Berlin's Easter Parade or Harry Wood's Side by Side a capella). In grade 5 and 6, Mr. Gleeson accompanied us on the banjo as we channeled artists such as Woody Guthrie and Joni Mitchell. And then in grade 7, instrumental band opportunities opened up and I turned my enthusiasm to the flute. I carried my instrument proudly between home and school, and practiced every day, blossoming under the tutelage of a caring and talented music teacher, and growing through the camaraderie of school choir rehearsals and ensemble performances.
This week, People for Education released its Annual Report on Ontario's Publicly Funded Schools, and music was one area of focus. The report shows access to music education declining and severely unequal in schools across the province. Only 33% of urban and suburban schools have a full-time music teacher, and the situation for small town and rural schools is even worse (11%). The trend for music in schools is downward, and declining enrolments combined with tightening budgets suggest things won't change in the near future. Knowing what we know about the relationship between music and academic outcomes, the lessening commitment to music does not bode well for the future of many public school students in Ontario.
The importance of music education is now indisputable. Longitudinal research and the use of technology such as functional MRIs demonstrate a positive relationship between musical training, cognitive development, and academic performance. Children who study music tend to develop stronger working memory, are more fluent readers, have better focus, and possess a larger vocabulary than children who receive no musical training. In addition to the cognitive and academic benefits of music instruction, however, I believe there are many other skills that develop and grow when children have the opportunity to learn an instrument.
When my daughter was four-years-old, I wanted to share my love of music with her and suggested she take up an instrument. She chose the violin and began weekly lessons with a young, gentle and exceptionally patient teacher named Dini. Olivia would be the first to tell you that focus, attention and standing in one place for more than 10 seconds did not come easily to her as a child, so the violin posed certain challenges. Watching her simultaneously rejoice in making sounds on her wee instrument while struggling mightily to follow Dini's technical instruction, I quickly realized that I had not given birth to a budding Itzhak Perlman. But I knew that perfection in performance was not the reason for encouraging her to play. She was developing a host of life skills that would be increasingly important as she got older. I saw her become a better listener. I watched her slowly but surely internalize the self-control that standing still required. When she was young, daily practice had to be initiated by me and supervised mightily, but over the years, I was able to step back as I saw her develop greater self-discipline, self-awareness and perseverance. She learned to listen, to assess, to self-correct, and to try again. I saw these same skills transfer to her academic studies in university.
There was something else that music gave my daughter. It gave her joy. It made her happy. She experienced what it feels like to play as part of an ensemble – that magical moment when each part blends together to create a whole that sounds magnificent, and you realize that you are suddenly better than you could ever be alone. Violin lessons didn't last beyond the age of twelve, and despite a brief and painful flirtation with the alto saxophone, she didn't pursue an instrument. But years of lessons, alongside band classes and weekly choir practice at school took root, and she remains keenly interested in music of all genres.
When I think of the many students across Ontario who may never have these same experiences, I am saddened and angry. The students at our school are blessed. Each one of them can access music inside the classroom and out. They have opportunities to follow their passion, and support from teachers who have the skill to take them as far as they want to go. So as a Head of School, I feel immensely proud in what we offer to our girls. But as a citizen of Ontario and a proponent of equal access to public education, I am discouraged. I hope things will improve for children across the province, because I know there are many beautiful young hearts out there, yearning to make music together.


I am a lover of photography... ALL photography!
but I definitely have a love for children.
This was my first newborn session ever.
I loved this baby from moment I met him.
Thank you Lord for blessing my family with this sweet little boy!
I learn something from every single shoot that I do.
There is always something I wish I had done differently when it's all said and done.
On this session, I wish I had taken off baby boys clothes.
"I would love to take his clothes off and get some bare skin shots".
But I didn't do it... gosh darn it that would have been cute!
I was so glad to meet sweet Carson.
He is adorable and precious in every way.
I am looking forward to getting to know him better.
What a precious little one! You did such an amazing job with these! The lighting is amazing you captured some great expressions! I absolutely love the shots you got with the other kids! GREAT job on your first newborn session!
Thanks so much Becky! I really appreciate your nice compliments... You are a fantastic photographer as well!!!


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My visa to work in Australia has been granted!
So the family and I are planning to pack up and head out in January. We still have a lot to do before finally leaving, so we don't know the exact date yet, but it's coming soon!
Congratulations on your visa. If you have any questions about life here, give me a shout (for what it's worth!).
We will be here 4 years in August and we managed to get over the hump (which everyone must conquer) and we are settled and looking forward to getting an Aussie passport at the 4 year point.
Be prepared to be shocked at the price of alcohol and books!


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Watch Nicki Minaj 'No Frauds' feat. Drake & Lil Wayne
Throw your wrist-es up. Nicki Minaj unleashes her Drake and Lil Wayne-assisted video for "No Frauds."
Directed by Benny Boom, "No Frauds" is a trip across the pond. Featuring scenes shot in London and scenes shot in the U.S., the video also showcases Young Money's reunited and renewed energy.
Prior to releasing the visual, Nicki called it "iconic" and described the vibes on the set as "fun, free…euphoric" and "nostalgic" in large part due to her collaborators. "So good shooting w/my babies again," she tweeted. "Missed them a lot. Young Money."
Beyond that, Nicki also promised her fans that "No Frauds" would supersede any of her past visuals. "It's definitely the best video I've ever released," she said.
The "No Frauds" clip arrives shortly after Nicki previewed her forthcoming Mert & Marcus-directed mini-movie for "Regret in Your Tears."
Watch "No Frauds" below.


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Q: Iphone PickerView inside a ScrollView If you place a UIPickerView inside a UIScrollView and try to change the pickerview's data by flicking your fingers, the scrollview moves as well. I want a mutex when if you touch the picker view, it completely eats up the event (stops event propogation from affecting the evil scrollview). Any ideas?

A: you could subclass the pickerview and override the touch methods from UIResponder to not pass the touch along. I am not sure how 'acceptable' that is, but i think it should be fine.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIResponder_Class/Reference/Reference.html%23//apple_ref/occ/cl/UIResponder


Our portfolio includes some of the most prominent clients in the Training and Simulation Industry!
Instructional videos are a great way to distribute training content over the internet. The videos can be hosted and kept public or private. Below is the process we use to develop our instructional videos.
There are tens of thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube everyday for training. It is one of the most cost effective and most reused type of learning product in the training industry to date.
Using the Clients' Operator or Maintainer Manuals, CTT will develop an outline of the Terminal Learning Objective (TLO) that will be used as part of the storyboard development and Table of Contents.
Reviews are consistently added throughout the development process. Video Flow Review allow the client to have the ability to input their direction into the process.
This is the chance for the client to get a detailed view of the content that will be filmed during the Data Collection process. The document will contain a segment by segment description of the data collection process and it will have sketches or images for the reader to understand the material that will be filmed. The document will also contain Lighting, Camera Angle, Back Drops, and any other material that will be used for the shoot.
This process is conducted to ensure the material which will be filmed during the data collection will be available and onsite at the time the shoot will take place. The check list is also a method of tracking the material necessary to produce the video.
CTT can travel to your location to film and conduct other data collection events. Lights, Cameras, Action, no matter what it takes to get the job done we will have the equipment necessary to do the job of collecting data.
We provide the client with a unique proofing tool that will allow clients to make comments on the videos to guide our production staff to make the necessary changes. Clients receive e-mail notifications when a proof requires their attention and all videos are provided to the client online for multiple rounds of proofing.


Cody Snider serves as President of UNIT Solutions, overseeing business development, day-to-day operations and recruitment, as well as sales and marketing. Previous to his role at UNIT Solutions, Cody served as Marketing Manager at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, working for Comcast-Spectacor. In that role, Cody led a team that managed marketing and public relations for all non-Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers events at the arena, including concerts, family shows, and special events such as NCAA Basketball.
Cody graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California and currently resides in New York City.


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Letter of intent between Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) and FamiCordTx signed
Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw prof. Mirosław Wielgoś and representatives of the FamiCordTx company: Dr Tomasz Baran - President of the Management Board and Dr Tomasz Ołdak - Member of the Management Board - signed a letter of intent regarding cooperation in the field of development and implementation of immunotherapy as an innovative cancer treatment strategy.
The purpose of signing the letter is to strengthen cooperation between the Clinic of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Diseases (WUM), the Department of Regenerative Medicine (WUM) and FamiCordTx in the field of CAR-T development - the most advanced and personalized technology used in hematooncological treatment, in which a drug for each patient is based on his own lymphocytes.
As prof. Mirosław Wielgoś emphasized during the meeting:
"CAR-T therapy - the greatest discovery and hope in oncology of recent years, can be used only in certified health care centers, therefore, by implementing it at the Medical University of Warsaw, we will become a reference center for FamiCordTx in the development of this technology in Europe. This is undoubtedly one of the most innovative and promising directions in medicine. WUM as a leading medical university and research center in Poland, employs highly qualified academic teachers and research workers, carries out specialized research and has clinical experience and appropriate conditions that allow the implementation of this technology. "
Tomasz Baran - President of the Management Board of FamiCordTx noted:
"The introduction of CAR-T in treatment is a breakthrough in the approach to treatment and opens a new category of cancer therapies - cancer immunotherapy. The essence of CAR-T technology is to equip the patient's own T lymphocytes with a molecule that will recognize the protein on the cancer cell. This process is taking place in a special cell engineering laboratory. Then specially modified T-cells - CAR-T - go back to the patient. In the patient's body CAR-T in a targeted manner destroys the patient's cancer cells. It is highly effective even after a single administration. "
Prof. Grzegorz Basak - Head of the Department and Clinic of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw said:
"The Clinic of Hematology, Oncology and Internal Diseases of the Medical University of Warsaw, as a leading center in the country will be the first place in Poland for the clinical implementation of this state-of-the-art therapy in the World - genetically modified lymphocyte therapy. This is a unique opportunity for patients to increase access to breakthrough treatment. I hope that the first phases of clinical trials will give an access to an effective therapy for a large group of patients who would otherwise have little chance of success. "
Dr Tomasz Ołdak - Member of the Management Board of FamiCordTx emphasized:
"FamiCordTx has the exclusive license to develop and commercialize CAR-T technology in Europe. As a daughter company of Polish Stem Cell Bank, it is the first Polish company with the appropriate technological facilities, knowledge and experience necessary for the production of CAR-T therapy. Currently CAR-T therapies are manufactured by global pharmaceutical companies, and the cost is about EUR 400,000 per patient. The Medical University of Warsaw and FamiCordTx will cooperate in optimizing CAR-T technology and reducing treatment costs using CAR-T to increase their availability for Polish patients. "


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Online Only: Inclusivity and Accessibility in Library Services & Instruction
By Barbara Sobol and Sajni Lacey
During this transitional time of remote learning in post-secondary, we chose a question-and-answer format to share our logistical responses to COVID-19 closures, as well as our initial reflections. We are curious how others would answer these questions and encourage you to respond in the Comments section, or email us directly to turn these initial musings into a more fulsome conversation.
Introductory Reflections
Barbara: As a Public Services Librarian, much of my pre-COVID-19 work focused on creating a welcoming service environment through staff training, inclusive programming and physical space design. COVID-19 has caused our library to redesign service delivery, and has also provided opportunity for reflection on our standard practices. A virtual service model is not a common approach in academic libraries; rarely do you see a "virtual branch" as is prevalent in public library systems (Cahill 2009). Located in Kelowna, BC, the UBC Okanagan Library forms part of the UBC Library system, but is normally separated geographically by 400km. The most overarching service implication of a fully remote service model is that the entire UBC community now has one main portal for Library services, a website. The sixteen specialized and nuanced spaces that we normally staff as starting points for engagement are far opaquer to patrons with physical doors closed. The implications of a fully virtual environment for inclusive library services are significant with serious challenges as well as meaningful opportunities for improvement. There are many articles speculating whether libraries will persist or decline in the "internet age," and yet we would have never collectively considered the possibility of all campus operations moving online – not just the library. As our initial responses were justifiably focused on logistics, we are only now beginning to examine the broader ramifications of "virtual only" or "virtual first" as a service model (Cox, 2020; IFLA, 2020; Ma, 2020).
Sajni: My role as a Learning and Curriculum Support Librarian at the UBC Okanagan Library has primarily focused on instruction from the perspectives of strategic and individual practice. I aim to provide direction to my colleagues in the creation of classroom experiences that are engaging, active-learning focused, and inclusive. This approach has been informed and structured around texts such as Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction, the Critical Library Pedagogy Volume 1 and Volume 2 set, and Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods. At UBC Okanagan Library we have a teaching space that I co-designed, which is intentionally built to have students engage and talk to each other at group tables, rather than behind computer screens. Up until recently, my instructional work has been focused on the physicality of in-person learning. However, leading up to the pandemic, the librarian team had started to think about opportunities to blend and flip library instruction. Through a UBC grant, and in collaboration with colleagues at UBC Vancouver, we hired a graduate student to support the creation of a series of foundational information literacy skill modules to embed into the learning management systems [LMS]. These modules were intended to be used in advance of introductory level library instructional sessions so that the in-person instruction could focus on higher level skills and application. This project was in its first year and was still very much in its initial development when the pandemic hit. We were able to advance our project timeline and launch the first couple of modules to meet the immediate need of finishing out the academic year. That being said, module creation at that point was, at best, informed by a basic level of inclusion, accessibility, and engagement principles to meet the pandemic-imposed timeline. The initial modules were created without thinking about the opportunities and challenges of actually creating an accessible and inclusive online space for learning from the library perspective in a long-term, holistic way. Now that we are somewhat through the panic mode of moving online, there feels to be more space to engage with how this new context can allow for more inclusive practices in an ongoing way.
What does it mean to provide an inclusive library services without a physical building?
Barbara: From a logistical standpoint, our library has adapted the following from being location-based to virtual services: reference via AskAway, email and Zoom consults, contactless materials lending, remote access to computers, and online programs and workshops. In all of these service examples, accessibility, equity and diversity can be thoughtfully incorporated to ensure inclusion as a guiding principle, with important impacts for patrons and library employees alike. And yet, we are constantly referencing our physical space – it remains dominant in our web presence through imagery and "services not currently available" notices. I ponder these questions: Is there actually a library without a physical space, or is space part of the definition? What about for the majority of our patrons who never physically enter our library – have they seen a drastic improvement due to focused virtual service delivery? How can we take basic inclusivity measures and expand them into proactive approaches to build services that expect diversity rather than react to it?
Sajni: This question is so essential as we approach one full year in an almost exclusively online learning environment. As with Barbara's comments above, there are some logistical considerations that the online environment greatly enables that make library instruction significantly more inclusive from what has been my established practice for in-person instruction. As I mentioned previously, the classroom in which I typically teach is designed for students to work with each other to problem solve and discuss questions that I pose, with me there to facilitate. This has been harder to replicate in the online environment where students are not forming the same connections that they might in person. That being said, there is a significant amount of utility in using what we have learned in transitioning to online to inform how we will do in-person instruction when we return. The online environment lets me provide multiple examples in multiple formats and allow me to ensure that accessibility best practices are being met. It also creates a large library of learning objects that can be updated, assessed, and reused in an ongoing way. I can see using this to blend and flip the classroom going forward, and allow more space for questions, discussion and application during synchronous sessions, either in-person or virtual.
What are some of the initial considerations that you made in switching to an entirely virtual environment? What are some of the individual and/or big-picture initiatives and changes that you have made to address inclusivity in your practices?
Barbara: At UBC Okanagan, we choose to create a streamlined set of pathways for patrons to connect: a single phone line for voicemails which forward automatically to email, a single general email with triage and referral done internally, a revised online form to improve accessibility in connecting patrons with subject librarians, and use of our existing participation in AskAway for on-demand assistance. We provided substantial training to reference assistants to support them in virtual reference and redirected most reference hours to our AskAway institutional queue. We have focused our social media campaigns and programs on equity-enhancing topics. Our regular ongoing staff training program has directly addressed equity considerations in an online environment, focused on the student perspective, and builds on an existing culture of collective learning and service improvement.
As a liaison librarian I have created asynchronous teaching materials with transcripts for all video content, in addition to teaching synchronous classes online, while being cognizant and directly addressing device and internet connection, as well as accessibility limitations of the platforms provided.
As the pandemic has been layered with global conversations about racism and inequity, there definitely seems to be potential right now for incorporating inclusivity into daily university practices, and beyond strategic documents. For me, the big-picture question is whether our existing efforts to create an inclusive service space could effectively be transitioned online. In many ways, it seems too early to assess whether we have achieved this goal.
Sajni: From the instructional perspective there were a number of things that were initially considered to get virtual instruction off the ground. Most of this tied into how were we going to create material that could be seamlessly added into courses through the LMS, and how we were going to ensure that students with all abilities would be able to engage with this material. This led to a number of questions including: "What are the best practices in creating accessible and inclusive online instructional learning objects?", "What is an inclusive and accessible online learning classroom?", and "How can we provide content in multiple formats for students to use and take away for ongoing use?"
From the big-picture perspective, the core elements of these questions are, or should be similar to in-person instruction. How should communication happen when we are not in the classroom all the time? How will we encourage and outline to students how they can connect and engage with the library outside of the prepared content? How will the design of learning objects help and/or hinder the learners experience? Where do we make assumptions about what learners do and don't know about the library? How can we change that? Where are the implicit biases that we have about students and how they engage in the online environment? How do we be aware of our own biases when teaching online? How do we support students who have inconsistent or limited internet access? Like Barbara has outlined above, the asynchronous environment allows for providing materials in multiple formats, videos with captions and transcripts, and multiple examples of each skill or task, that in in-person instruction would have to all be provided in 50-80 minutes (for the classes I typically teach). I think these learning objects being embedded directly into course sites provides a precedent for including this content in multiple forms and access points even when we go back in-person.
How have your understandings and perceptions of inclusivity changed since March 2020?
Barbara: Late in the spring of 2020, when contemplating a virtual academic year, I reviewed the personal characteristics protected by the BC Human Rights Code as a critical lens into our virtual service planning. With AskAway as a crucial element of our service model, I also began to think province-wide, instead of being focused only on UBC Okanagan, which is my normal sphere of service delivery. What if we were to collectively consider what we could offer academic library patrons in BC to enhance their learning, teaching and research? Could we build on the work of BC Campus to more holistically approach library collaboration in BC? Could we offer a point of contact not tied to a computer? A province-wide 1-800 reference line to address internet connectivity and device limitations, mental and physical disability, and any age-based constraints to virtual services? Could we offer multilingual chat reference to support the languages spoken in our province and studied in our institutions? Does the anonymity of AskAway reduce known barriers (Daniels, 2013) to asking for assistance? Despite all of our efforts to design a welcoming and inclusive service model and space at UBC Okanagan (Sobol 2020), only a fraction of the university population engages with our service desk – could this be improved through a concentrated focus on virtual service offerings?
Sajni: It has become almost cliché to say that 2020 has been a challenging year. The pandemic, justifiable outrage and activism around the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and the presidential election in the U.S. have created an increased urgency for many of us. This has been paralleled in Canada through the murder of Coco in police custody in Toronto as one of many other examples of our unjust society. How do we hold ourselves accountable for enacting anti-racism initiatives that are appearing on most of our campuses in response to these events? How do we incorporate this awareness into our work? How do we advocate in a meaningful way to incorporate anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-ableist perspectives and initiatives into all levels of the library work? I have no answers, except that these are the questions that we need to focus on going forward, both in our continued pandemic context, and when we eventually transition back to campus.
Existing library practices have historical roots tied to race, class, and gender. Can we use this 'virtual moment' in time to plan for how we move past these practices when we "return" in a post-pandemic context?
Barbara: If remote work were a continued feature of library services post-pandemic, could we employ a more diverse set of library employees – on all the grounds of diversity outlined in the BC Human Rights Code? What are the potential technical solutions that would allow us to create meaningful connections with library patrons virtually, in a sustained way? The traditional reference desk heralds from a time of mediated stacks access for privileged scholars, and adaptations over time have been minimal – do we still need desks in order to provide library services that foster meaningful relationships while supporting learning, teaching and research?
Moving beyond service-model considerations, does this pause in normal operations provide a place from which to reevaluate the overall set of policies and subsequent services that academic libraries provide to their communities? What exactly are the bounds of our individual communities – enrollment and employment? As publicly funded institutions, is there opportunity to collaborate further to create more inclusive support services for learners, teachers and researchers, in the spirit of the open movement? I am very skeptical that this level of reflection and change will occur, certainly any time soon, but I do think that these conversations currently have a foothold that they did not pre-pandemic. Considering global library perspectives and solutions provides valuable insights for us to consider in BC (IFLA 2020).
Sajni: In the move to online it became very clear that students on our campus heavily relied on the library's desktop computers and laptops available through our lending program. It also became clear that the physical spaces for studying and engaging with each other was a vital component of the library's physical space and how students saw the library as part of the campus environment. This is not really surprising, but was put into stark relief when everything shut down so quickly and right before the exam period. This should tell us a lot about how to support students when we do eventually return to the physical campus and how to consider equitable access to technology, spaces and services.
In addition, in light of everything that has happened in the last year, I think it further should draw our attention to how our collections, spaces, and contextual framings of information in academic libraries are still firmly rooted in white supremacy (Santamaria, 2020; Sierpe, 2019) and colonization (Edwards, 2019). While many of us are actively working to include a deeper awareness of this in our teaching, through critical information literacy, social justice focused practices, and OwnVoices we are still working within a system that does not always allow for this work to succeed. However, this perspective feels too hopeless. I think what this 'virtual moment' shows us is that we can be forced to change, and at a faster pace than we thought possible. We have learned that institutions, and those of us that work within them, can pivot, we can change. So, we can take this as an opportunity, where possible, and when supported, to ensure that we change our library practices, policies, and values to reflect the world we want to live in.
What opportunities do you see, or ideas do you have for the future to address inclusivity in library practices?
Barbara: One of the main challenges that I foresee in improving inclusivity long-term is a desire to return to "normal operations" when the pandemic draws to a close. I see an opportunity to examine library services from non-library viewpoints before restarting them. At UBC we have an Inclusion Action Plan, an Indigenous Strategic Plan, and Truth and Reconciliation Commitments on the Okanagan Campus. Can we imagine an exercise in which we take advantage of this pause in normal operations to examine library services from these perspectives, and then actually commit to making change based on the analysis? I would imagine that if we did this, the resources that we have traditionally put toward staffing service desks, operating buildings and purchasing collections would need to be realigned to ensure that those various elements of an academic library were in support of inclusion. When our library closed and halted most services in March 2020, the technology access issues that Sajni mentioned were definitely apparent. We heard immediately from many students who had no other place to study, and needed solutions provided by the Library in order to be successful in their education. Would an evaluation led by our strategic documents allow us to create robust access to space, technology, and collections that were flexible enough to support students in this unprecedented pandemic closure? Unlikely. But they may allow us to better support those students under "normal" circumstances by improving human connections, accessibility, socioeconomic-informed scaffolding of technology access and study space, and free/open access to resources.
Sajni: To start, I want to echo what Barbara has said above. I think we will need to ensure that we do not return to business as normal whenever we are able to return to the physical campus. UBC in particular has put out a number of plans that we will need to be held accountable for (Inclusion Action Plan, TRC, and Indigenous Strategic Plan). These provide us with a framework to build our work on as we go forward. I think there is an opportunity to use these documents to create more opportunities for students' voices, diverse voices, and to provide space for those of us who work in libraries to listen to what is needed from our services. I think we have learned the services that students are using remotely can inform what they may continue to use more in the future: access to open resources and textbooks, multiple points of asking questions, ease with which to connect the library to open web sources, self-serve tools and resources, etc.
Barbara Sobol is a Public Services Librarian at UBC Okanagan Library
Sajni Lacey is a Learning and Curriculum Support Librarian at UBC Okanagan Library
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Clarification on Dr. Zackaria Ahmed Hankir's arrest
I thought it would be appropriate to mention the comments I received on an earlier post regarding Zackaria Ahmed Hankir's arrest for having a Doshka in his car.
The man in question is a highly esteemed doctor who treats a majority of his patients for free and has a hobby of collecting antiques. It is quite shameful that relatively reliable news portals and radios would spread such inaccurate information. Here's a link to MTV's report on that matter. [YouTube]
Here are comments from Dr Mohammed Zackaria Hankir and Zahra Hankir, Dr. Zakaria's children. Thank you for your comments and apologies for any inconvenience caused noting that I did not accuse your father of arms smuggling but commented on the arrest as mentioned in the news.
I am the proud son of Dr Zackaria Ahmed Hankir and would like to take the opportunity to say a few words on this peculiar matter. Whilst my dad might have been quoted for saying that he used the Doshka as a "decoration item" what he meant was that he is in the habit of collecting all sorts of items which he uses to furnish his private home and clinic. That particular item is something he simply acquired over decades of collecting various bits and bobs (believe me, I used to go to the Sunday Markets in the UK with him as far back as 20 years ago when I was 10 years of age). The army confiscated this item among many others which as Sergio rightfully said don't even shoot. Further, they subjected my further to the ignominy of being detained in jail. Now I may have a relatively liberal sense of what constitutes human rights having lived in the UK for a vast majority of my life, but a man is fully entitled to collect whatever his heart desires so long as it is not to the harm of others. My father is an exceptional physician who as Sam (bless your soul sir) rightly said, doesn't charge a majority of his patients for his services. I can attest to this because despite the fact my father is a Dr, I (and the rest of my family) have had to work for everything we have just so that the people of Saida and other cities in Lebanon could benefit from his altruistic services. I can't give you a figure (likely in the hundreds if not the thousands), but it is a matter of fact that there are a plethora of people out there in this world (the UK and Ireland included) who are alive and well thanks to my father's ingenuity and compassion as a physician. He is an asset to Lebanon in the truest sense of the term and nothing less than a devoted patriot. The man has a British passport and me and my 3 brothers are all based in the UK. He can easily return here if he had the desire but he simply does n't. Finally my father has dealt with this matter with dignity and transparency and so I hope other more pressing matters can be addressed by the authorities of Lebanon; a nation that I will always be inextricably connected to and also deeply proud of.
Dr Mohammed Zackaria Hankir, Oxford UK.
I am this individual's daughter and yes that item was part of an antique collection and not used for some sinister purpose, as was originally reported in the press (or as you seem to suggest.) Please get your facts right before contributing to such ridiculous, unfounded and absurd claims, which essentially are defamation. My father is a well-respected doctor with a hobby, not a smuggler. At the very least, his name should not be mentioned in the context of these ridiculous charges, and the army should be focusing its efforts on arresting and raiding the many homes of those who truly harbour and smuggle weapons, not an innocent, law-abiding citizen who owns antiques.
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Zahra Hankir says:
Many thanks for this kind clarification – We very much appreciate it.
Najib says:
There's no need to thank me. Least I could do.
Taaaaaj says:
so 3ajib tlo3na kellna metel moukhabarat el Jaish!
Aw bil a7ra moukhabarat el Jaich tol3o metel el cha3eb el lebneneh!
Another proof of the limited individual freedom and liberties in Lebanon. An individual is innocent until proven guilty. In Lebanon, it is the other way around and the press adds fuel to the fire.
I believe in the press' freedom but they must refrain on publishing such articles until after the individual is proven to be at fault!
Dr Mohammed Hankir says:
As my sister stated, it is very much appreciated that you have clarified the matter and have formally contributed to the clearing of my father's name. Hopefully other news portals can follow BlogBaladi's lead.
Dr Ahmed Hankir says:
I am Dr Ahmed Hankir, son of Dr Zakaria Hankir. Dr Mohammed Hankir and Zahra Hankir are my siblings. It behooves me to comment on what my brother has called this rather peculiar matter.
I am, like my father, a medical doctor. I received my training in Manchester Medical School and I completed an academic component of my studies in Cambridge University. I presently practice medicine in Greater Manchester. The moment I received word about what was happening in Lebanon regarding my father I made my way to Beirut as soon as I could. I am in Saida at the moment. My father has received an incessant stream of visitors from all the different strata of society expressing their outrage at what my father was subjected to. My father has worked relentlessly and assiduously to merit the reputation that precedes him: a compassionate and altruistic doctor who was inspired to practice medicine to heal the sick, regardless of their socioeconomic standing. As my brother eloquently stated, my father has saved hundreds if not thousands of lives in the UK and in Lebanon. Whilst by my father's side I have witnessed the people of Sidon sob and even wail due to the ill treatment that he received whilst he was detained. My father is an honorable physician who has served humanity with steadfastness, diligence and earnestness. He has honoured the Hippocratic Oath, something as dear to him as his own family. If we heed Bertrand Russel and look at the facts, my father is a 65 year old healer who has a penchant for collecting antiques, the entire city of Sidon are aware of this. There is no more to this matter than this. As my sister so intelligently put it, the authorities should be devoting their time and efforts on locating those who are a real menace to societry. I am deeply disturbed by what has taken place, my father is a brave and courageous man and I know that he would never reveal to others what kind of profound effect this has had on him lest he burden others with his own tales of woe. But I can discern in the lineaments of his face that this trauma has taken a toll on him. Nobody deserves this kind of treatment, least of all my father. If only you knew how pure and selfless a man he is. All he would do is give and never expect anything in return.
Maya Nassar says:
I would like to clarify that Dr.Zakaria Hankir was not arrested for having a doshka in his car. The media merged two totally different stories that coincidentally happened on the same day. The first story being that the army had stopped a car leaving the Ein El Hilwi refugee camp in saida and in that car, not Dr Hankir's car, they found a doshka. The second story being that the army intelligence called Dr. Hankir for questionning about antique weapons he collects that were confiscated from a pick up truck that was hired to move Dr.Hankir's belongings (furniture) from his house in Hlelieh saida to his new house in Ein El dilib Saida.I stress on the point that Dr. Hankir does not own a doshka, and that it is 100% false that he was arrested for having a doshka in his car. The media has done a very poor job at reporting the incidents that took place that day and I wish they get their stories right before posting such accusations.
Ahmed Hankir says:
Thank you Maya for that clarification.
Herica Lopes says:
Beautiful and wisely words Dr. Amed Hankir. It is admirable the love and respect that you and your siblings have to your father. Best regards for Dr. Zacaria Hankir.
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