Two years ago, he was a healthy toddler playing happily at nursery with his little friends.
But one day in early summer 2012, something happened to Bo Cox which left him battling for survival and changed his life forever.
The youngster became infected with potentially-deadly e. coli 0157 and became so ill his mother Lucy feared she would lose him.
He suffered acute kidney failure and was left blind and deaf, had most of his bowel removed and has endured 19 operations.
He receives dialysis four times a week, does not pass urine and is fed through a tube fed straight into his stomach.
The consultant treating him said it was the worst case of e. coli he had seen in a child who had not died from the bug.
Bo, who is now aged three-and-a-half, has spent the past two years as a patient of the Yorkhill Children's Hospital in Glasgow.
His mum says she not only feels "bitter and sad" about the way her boy's life has been destroyed by the illness, but also robbed of her motherhood.
Bo was one of four children infected with e. coli at Rose Lodge Nursery at Aboyne in Aberdeenshire in May 2012. Two staff were also infected.
He is the only one not to have recovered.
An official report into the outbreak found the infection had been brought in by a child, possibly after coming into contact with animal faeces – either on the surrounding land or from a contaminated private water supply – and spread through weak infection control practices at the nursery at the time.
Lone parent Ms Cox, 40, said: "Of course there is bitterness and sadness. Bo's conditions are still life-threatening and, at times, we have been on a knife-edge wondering whether he would survive.
"It has had a really deep effect on us all and it is not something we can get over.
A report carried out by NHS Grampian and Aberdeenshire Council in August 2012 demanded improvements to hand washing and some hygiene practices at the nursery.
It was found that staff in the nappy room may not have been cleaning their hands properly, given the hot temperature of the water.
Staff were immediately ordered to stop using a communal bowl in the baby room to wash their hands.
In July last year, the Care Inspectorate said the nursery had addressed all infection control matters and rated the service "good" in all areas.
But Ms Cox claimed there had been a lack of recognition of the consequences of the outbreak.
Ms Cox said: "There has been no mention since as to how extreme Bo's illness has been. When the report was written in 2012 he was just coming out of intensive care, but things continued to get worse.
"I feel that Bo's illness has just been allowed to happen.
Ms Cox now lives permanently in Glasgow given Bo's medical treatment at Yorkhill.
Her mother has also left Aberdeenshire to be close to her daughter and grandson.
Ms Cox, a former office manager, now cares full-time for Bo.
She said she felt "totally isolated" in a city she does not know.
She said: "People say you have to find the hope but it is incredibly hard not to think that it just shouldn't be like this, that this didn't need to happen'.
"I feel absolutely robbed, for him and for me. I am robbed of all the motherly things you should do, like feeding him a home cooked meal and taking him swimming, the things we did before.
Bo was discharged as an inpatient from Yorkhill in January and can now live at home, with the help of night carers and respite staff from the Robin House Hospice at Loch Lomond. He is fed by tubes continuously as he sleeps.
The next possible step is to prepare Bo for a kidney transplant, but the very poor state of his gut means he would not yet be able to absorb the medication to help his body accept the organ.
After all he has been through, Ms Cox is worried about him having more major surgery.
She said: "The future, medically speaking, is really quite frightening.
A spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said the family had suffered a "tragedy".
He said: "No family should have to go through a tragedy like this. It highlights, in a heartbreaking way, the need for every agency to be vigilant and proactive in doing everything possible to prevent infection.
"We regularly inspect all nurseries, most unannounced, and require each to have an up-to-date infection control policy which staff and parents understand, and which meets the latest standards.
"NHS Grampian carried out a very important review of the e. coli outbreak at Roselodge. Following that, we have increased our resources to look in-depth at how well infection prevention and control is carried out at every nursery in Scotland.
"That started in April and is an additional, focused part of our inspection programme.
"Every child is entitled to safe, compassionate care and we have recently issued new guidance on nappy changing in nurseries.
Lawyers for Ms Cox are working to mount a legal action against the nursery.
Julie Grant, owner of Rose Lodge Nursery, declined to comment last night.


Calepino Notebooks are made in France, from recycled materials. The outer cover is a very stiff cardboard: their words, not mine. I would call it heavy duty chipboard card stock? Regardless, it is heavy, but will bend and mold to your back pocket like it should. It's reminiscent of the Scout Books I reviewed earlier.


As a girl who considers herself one of the farthest things from a trend follower, I kinda just dismissed the idea of all this talk about 'safer beauty' that has surfaced in 2019. There has been so much hype around using natural products on our skin instead of what's typically found in the aisle of our drugstores.
I mean, I had been using the same brand of eyeliner and mascara since the sixth grade – no joke! I have consistently bought Maybelline Unstoppable black onyx eyeliner (and the volumizing mascara to accompany) for over 15 years.
I probably wouldn't have stopped any time soon either, until one day I heard someone talk about how she found out there was propane in her dry shampoo. Propane…? What! I ran to my bedroom to check mine and one of the first ingredients: Propane. I was appalled.
Things started clicking in my head that I was literally putting ingredients that were found in lawn mowers and grills directly on my eyes, in my hair, on my lips (yikes) and I realized that ignorance really isn't bliss.
Where do I even start with clean beauty products?
There were a few of my friends and people in the social media world who started to swear by cleaner beauty products and it really started to pique my interest, especially because it seemed like brands were actually making good products that worked now.
Prior to this, I actually had already been using one natural product so far: deodorant. I decided to make this switch about two years ago because it is one of the most talked about skincare products in the safer beauty industry.
I saw a plethora of brands out there, so I decided just to take it to myself to try them out.
So on my own accord, I took myself to Target and bought one of the first natural deodorants I saw. I tried it. It didn't really work, it was so bumpy going on that I was almost immediately reaching for my conventional deodorant.
But I decided to stick with it because there was a podcast that I listened to from a medical doctor and how she always recommended using natural deodorant because of the fact that your armpits are so close to your breasts and she doesn't think the aluminum in regular deodorant is good for women and it also made her nervous about developing certain types of cancer.
Well, just hearing that word immediately flipped me out and even if it wasn't causing cancer, I felt like it was time for me to completely make the switch.
After trying several deodorants and not really being satisfied, I was hesitant to try another, but I kept hearing about Primally Pure and how it is different than your typical natural deodorant, so I figured, why not order myself some?
The minute I received the package and the deodorant went on smooth and just like my conventional drugstore deodorant, I knew I was going to like it. Not to mention it literally tamed my incredibly sweaty pits – seriously.
But anyway, I started off with the lemongrass one because the charcoal was out of stock, but I loved starting with the lemongrass and am glad I did.
I now rotate between the lemongrass, the blue tansy (favorite smell!), and the charcoal. The charcoal is best for intense sweaters and I use that on days where I know I'm going to be really active. Their products are unlike any other and I'm so glad I feel confident and comfortable in a natural deodorant. There is really no worse feeling that being afraid that you're sweaty and you smell, right?
After dabbling in my first ever serious natural deodorant, it took me a little while to hop on the safer beauty + skincare train.
Until it was October of 2018 and I was diagnosed with melanoma.
My whole world flipped. I remember cursing my 17-year-old self for wanting to go tanning so bad and doing anything she could to make sure her red-headed self wasn't the palest one at the winter dance. But then tanning for winter dance turned into tanning for Senior class trip and then mine as well keep it up because prom was a few months away. And why not just go into college tan, too?
Well, I did just that. And didn't think any of it would ever come back to haunt me. I share more about that story in my battle with melanoma post, but just know that if I was able to stop that horrifying fear from happening again, that was going to be the last time I would consciously put myself in danger of getting cancer.
I knew I needed to do whatever I could to prevent any more health scares of any type (not just melanoma) so I dubbed 2019 the year of cleaner beauty.
So 2019 kicked off and I decided to dive into safer beauty products.
January 1st came along and I decided I would start making the changes.
There are SO many brands on the market and it's so easy to get overwhelmed, I get it. I was SO overwhelmed at where to turn and what to try first. Walking into the aisles of Whole Foods, there are thousands of different natural products for every little inch of our bodies so I decided to take it to Instagram to ask around what everyone was loving for natural beauty.
I knew I wanted to switch over everything from my skincare, my make-up, my perfume, to my shampoo and conditioner too! But I needed to start small.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Beautycounter was one of the most popular, loved, and recognized choice among my followers so I did what anyone would do and went to their website to see if I could find out more about their products and their clean beauty.
I immediately was so excited to see that they had everything from skincare routines, to stuff for babies and kids, stuff for me, and make-up, too. They have been recognized in Allure magazine, Cosmopolitan, NYTimes, Refinery29, and so many more, so I figured there was something good going on here.
They also have "Never List" which is made up of more than 1,500 questionable or harmful chemicals that they never use as ingredients in their products.
SO I figured, hey, if I can make a few simple swaps, and feel good about the company behind brand (they are a B- Corp!), why not try.
I ordered some of their products to see if I liked them and started with a basic make-up kit (Flawless in Five) and a skin care regimen (Countermatch) that had cleansers, serum and lotion in it. I also noticed that they had regimens for people who are acne prone or have aging skin, I got the one for normal/dry skin.
Dew Skin Moisturizing Coverage– lightweight sheer coverage, spf 20, slightly tinted. Allure magazine best seller and is amazing.
Radiant All Over Bronzer, obsessed with bronzer right now.
Satin Powder Blush – I use melon!
Velvet Classic Eyeshadow Palette – just as good as my old Naked palette.
These are just a handful of the safer beauty products I've been using for my make-up, but I've also been using a ton more and slowly trying out all of the BC products.
Right now I am using Beautycounter's sunscreen and their Dew Skin which has SPF 26 for all of my sunscreen needs.
This one was hard for me because I really like my drug store shampoos and conditioners. I've never been one for fancy hair-care because I've never really had to be.
I don't color my hair, I have thick, curly hair that needs to be scrubbed with a lot of shampoo and conditioner so buying anything that was more than $10 seemed like a waste to me because I would go through it so fast. Plus I literally sweat a ton, and am intensely exercising 5-6 days a week and that requires me to wash my hair 5-6 times a week.
I've also heard that cleaner beauty hair care doesn't really 'clean' and can leave residue so I was hesitant. But then I was introduced to Seed Phytonutrients.
I had heard about Seed Phytonutrients beause they are actually a 'local-to-me' brand, however they have recently been placed in Whole Foods Markets and Sephoras across the country! They create natural, sustainable, and affordable hair care and other beauty products made from, you guessed it, seeds.
They partner with local, independent farmers to help get these seeds, all while making sure everything is farmed sustainably. They then take these seeds and create incredible products for hair care and body. Good enough for Sephora + Whole Foods…so you can guess how good the actual product is.
They seriously thought of it ALL, even down to the bottle. The shower-safe paper bottles are made of 100% post-consumer recycled paper with a post-consumer recycled liner. How amazing is that?
And guess what? The shampoo and conditioner is amaaaazzzing!!!! It suds up (which doesn't always happen with clean beauty), cleans well, and the best part? It smells amazing.
Also this is not sponsored at ALL, I buy it with my own money, I just absolutely love the product and the brand and want to share.
And the absolute hardest of them all? Perfume. I love my Flowerbomb by Viktor + Rolf. That is MY scent! I really didn't want to switch but knew that if I was switching everything else I mine as well go all in.
I've tried a few perfumes: Pacifica and Skylar, and I also tried using essential oils. And my favorite without a doubt is Skylar. It smells SO good and you would never know it was 'clean'. I tried their sampler pack so I got to sample all of the scents and my favorites were Isle and Meadow.
Really didn't like Pacifica at all because it smelled like straight up alcohol to me and I couldn't really get passed that.
I still want to try Phlur, By Rosie Jane, and Lurk. I'll share about those on my beauty newsletter!
SO yeah! That's my journey with switching to safer beauty products so far.
It's going to be a life time journey and I know I won't be perfect but I'm willing to take baby steps to get there.
If you want to follow me more on this journey, sign up for my safer beauty email list where I navigate my journey through finding cleaner beauty products and sharing my favorite products, giveaways, promotions, discounts + more!
What about you all? Any favorite clean beauty products that I need to know about?


I can't make my house payments but I do have an ability to pay back all or part of the negative equity. Also, I want to preserve my credit score, is a short sale right for me?
Do I have to have my home 'Approved' by the lender prior to offering it for sale as a short sale?
No. Technically speaking there is no such thing as being 'Short Sale Approved'. The actual approval only happens with an accepted offer.
Do I have to pay income taxes, I have heard that I will get a 1099. Will the loss the bank takes be treated as a taxable gain to me, the seller..is this true?


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Q: PowerMockito not obeying when.thenReturn I am using PowerMockito to verify the number of calls on a private method: loadProperties().
I also have that method stubbed to return a pre-defined value.
Even though I have the method stubbed, the real implementation is being called, and throwing a NullPointerException, since its dependency (the "loader" variable, see snippet below) is not defined (nor should it be) for this test.
As an experiment, I changed the method to be public, and then it works fine!
I am thinking it is a bug in PowerMockito, but I have been wrong about more certain things than this!
Here is the code
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyString;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.mock;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.when;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({DArgumentsLoader.class})
public class TestConfig {
 @Test
 public void testGetPropertyMapCalledOnce() throws Exception {
     Config configMock = mock(Config.class);
     Map<String, String> testMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
     testMap.put("xx", "xx");
     when(configMock, "loadProperties").thenReturn(testMap);

     when(configMock.getString(anyString(), anyString())).thenCallRealMethod();
     // call it twice
     configMock.getString("xx", "yy");
     configMock.getString("xx", "yy");
     // verify loadProperties was only called once
     PowerMockito.verifyPrivate(configMock, times(1)).invoke("loadProperties");
 }
}

Just to clarify, the Config class looks like this
private Map<String, String> loadProperties() throws IOException, HttpException {
    return loader.loadProperties();
}

public String getString(String key, final String defaultValue) {
    String value = getPropertyMap().get(key);
    if(value != null) {
        return value;
    } else {
        return defaultValue;
    }
}

private Map<String, String> getPropertyMap() throws LoadException {
    if(propertyMap == null) {
        propertyMap = loadProperties();
    }
    return propertyMap;
}

The loadProperties() method should not be called at all, in view of the fact that the tester says
when(configMock, "loadProperties").thenReturn(testMap);

But it is being called, and it is throwing a NullPointerException. Is that a bug or a feature?

A: You are not preparing the Config class for mocking, so PowerMock cannot handle it. Just add it to the @PrepareForTest annotation, and you should be fine:
@PrepareForTest({Config.class, DArgumentsLoader.class})

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Anxiety Disorders – and especially Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) – are often misdiagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
Anxiety is uncontrollable and excessive apprehension. Anxiety disorders usually come replete with obsessive thoughts, compulsive and ritualistic acts, restlessness, fatigue, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and somatic manifestations (such as an increased heart rate, sweating, or, in Panic Attacks, chest pains).
By definition, narcissists are anxious for social approval or attention (Narcissistic Supply). The narcissist cannot control this need and the attendant anxiety because he requires external feedback to regulate his labile sense of self-worth. This dependence makes most narcissists irritable. They fly into rages and have a very low threshold of frustration.
Like patients who suffer from Panic Attacks and Social Phobia (another anxiety disorder), narcissists are terrified of being embarrassed or criticised in public. Consequently, most narcissists fail to function well in various settings (social, occupational, romantic, etc.).
"… (A)re typically overzealous in seeking approval and require excessive reassurance about their performance and their other worries."
This could apply equally well to narcissists. Both classes of patients are paralysed by the fear of being judged as imperfect or lacking. Narcissists as well as patients with anxiety disorders constantly fail to measure up to an inner, harsh, and sadistic critic and a grandiose, inflated self-image.
The narcissistic solution is to avoid comparison and competition altogether and to demand special treatment. The narcissist's sense of entitlement is incommensurate with the narcissist's true accomplishments. He withdraws from the rat race because he does not deem his opponents, colleagues, or peers worthy of his efforts.
As opposed to narcissists, patients with Anxiety Disorders are invested in their work and their profession. To be exact, they are over-invested. Their preoccupation with perfection is counter-productive and, ironically, renders them underachievers.
It is easy to mistake the presenting symptoms of certain anxiety disorders with pathological narcissism. Both types of patients are worried about social approbation and seek it actively. Both present a haughty or impervious facade to the world. Both are dysfunctional and weighed down by a history of personal failure on the job and in the family. But the narcissist is ego-syntonic: he is proud and happy of who he is. The anxious patient is distressed and is looking for help and a way out of his or her predicament. Hence the differential diagnosis.


CNA Recertification is the procedure to renew a person's nursing assistant certification. No matter which state you are in, you have to do this every two years before the end of your birth month.
In order to be re-certified, you have to have worked at least 150 hours during the past two years. You should check with the state you will be working in, as that number differs from state to state. Check with the state board. That is the place that makes sure CNA's are current their field. However, if you have been out of the field for longer than two years, there may be requirements you need to follow.
You also must have documentation showing you are a citizen of the United States and are eligible to work in the country. This type of documentation is required in most working boards. You also have to admit whether or not you have ever committed a felony and been convicted to a state board of nursing. If you fail to do so, this will lead to you being immediately taken off the nursing register.
When you fill out the re-certification application, put your personal information in the first section of the form. The employer fills out the second section. While this is simple if you already have a job, if you have been out of work you must go to your last employer whom you worked at least 150 hours for in the past two years and get them to fill it out.
Upon completion of the form, it must be mailed to the state board. It will take about two weeks for the renewal process to be finished.
If you haven't worked in two years, things can get a little difficult and are handled differently from state to state. Some states will make you do your CAN training over again. That means you must return to school to get at least 100 or more hours of nurse aide training and then retake the CNA certification test.
This could be a costly experience, so that's why you need to make sure you work the required hours even if you have to do it by working part time so you will continue to meet those requirements.
Some states don't require you to go back to school, and merely want you to retake the CNA test. If so, you just have to study up on the topics and take the test. You will also have to pay whatever the state charges to take the test.
I had New Jersey State CNA but i did not recertify . Because at the time I was taking care of my son with cancer. But since then i been working as a Home Health Aide and work more than 150 hours. doing long caare and short term. Even patient that requring feedind tube, hoya lifts, feeding, running errands, giving meds, bathing, showers, housekeeping,cooking for them. How do I go by getting them back.
I had a New Mexico cna certificate and then certified as a Nursing Tech in 2007. I have been working the last 2 years as a homehealth aide and want to recertify my nursing tech and cna. How do I go about recertifying either or both?


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Promotion Celebrations!
by Tony Cunningham
in Club News
Ramsbottom United's successful promotion campaign was celebrated on Friday night (16th May) at the adjacent Cricket Club which saw a number of the players recognised for their outstanding seasons in the blue and white shirt.
Joint-managers Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley were presented with the "Play-off Winners Trophy" by Chairman Harry Williams, as the Rams grabbed the second promotion spot in Evo-Stik North to move into the clubs' highest ever position in the football pyramid, the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League Premier Division.
Ramsbottom United Chairman Harry Williams with the Evo-Stik NPL Division One North Play-off Winners Trophy, flanked by joint-managers Bernard Morley (left) and Anthony Johnson.
The players also received accolades on the night.
"Clubman of the Year" went to full-back Owen Robers in his first season with the club. Owen Roberts (right) receiving his award from the joint-managers.
"Players Player of the Year" was scooped by industrious midfielder Gary Stopforth, who also figured in the Evo-Stik Team of the Year. The midfield dynamo received his award from the joint-managers Anthony (left) and Bernard (right).
The "Supporters Player of the Year" went to former Barnoldswick Town defender Billy Priestley, who joined the Rams early in the season. Having proved a solid addition to the defence, he narrowly beat Gary Stopforth to the supporters award. A delighted Billy picked up his awards, having been presented by the joint-managers.
Savouring the moment - The Evo-Stik NPL Division One North Play-off Winners Trophy in the hands of successful joint-managers of Ramsbottom United.

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I'm in this photo, the very tanned kid with black hair in the 5th row.
Some forty Augusts ago, I was sweating it out on a blazing hot northwest Indiana practice field, along with 60 or so other guys who wanted to play football. Yes folks, despite my lack of physical prowess and athletic talent, I was on my high school football team for several years.
The caption of the team photo above is a bit misleading. Any sophomore, junior, or senior who tried out for football and survived the grueling two-a-day August practice sessions was on the "varsity." However, my role was to be practice fodder — a member of what today is called the "scout team" — helping to prepare the starting players and top reserves for the Friday night games. I would get to play in the Saturday morning junior varsity games, and occasionally at the tail end of varsity games when the result was quite settled.
Given that I wasn't very big, you'd think that my "natural" position was running back and/or defensive back. However, my blinding lack of speed and quickness made that problematic, so the coaches put me on the line. Yup, I was a 150 lb. center, guard, and nose tackle. This was largely for practice purposes only, because unless the phalanx of guys ahead of me on the depth chart all suddenly got sick, hurt, suspended, or quit the team, no one needed to be concerned that I'd be in the lineup during key moments of a game.
At some point I smartened up and realized that this was not the most best use of my extracurricular time. I would get involved in activities such as student government, which proved to be a better match for me.
But looking back, I know the experience of high school football toughened me up in valuable ways. Lining up in practice every day against bigger, stronger, faster players, and getting up when you're knocked down, may not be fun, but you learn that you can get up and be ready to go again. Plus, I liked being on the team. It planted the seeds for being a lifetime football fan.
When Glee (Fox) came onto the scene in 2009, it was all the buzz due to its edgy humor and snappy musical numbers, built around the ongoing fortunes of a high school glee club in small-town Ohio. It quickly gave notice that it would tackle, often in unorthodox fashion, topics such as teenaged angst, sexual orientation, jock culture, bullying, and the dynamics of a dysfunctional American high school.
Glee's ensemble cast of emerging stars, including Lea Michele as ingenue Rachel Berry and Broadway veteran Matthew Morrison as glee club director Will Shuester, would be joined regularly by notable guests drawn from stage and screen, some jumping into self-mocking roles.
The show was nominated for a slew of Emmy awards following its first full season. That would prove to be its high water mark, for although Glee would continue to have a core of devoted fans, it would soon lose some of its novelty. It also experienced real-life tragedy when Corey Monteith, a beloved core cast member, lost his battle with drug addiction and died due to an apparent overdose.
When Glee appeared, I found myself comparing it to another TV depiction of high school, the brilliant (and criminally overlooked) Friday Night Lights, a drama about life and football in small town Texas. With a few exceptions, the story lines and dialogue in Friday Night Lights were pitch perfect, even when dealing with sensitive subjects such as race or abortion.
By contrast, Glee has been a hot mess, sometimes nailing its messages, other times eliciting grimaces, but almost always in an entertaining mode. Pushing the envelope via a quirky mix of humor, music, and emotional drama is not an easy thing to do on network TV, but Glee has succeeded more often than not.
I haven't been a steady Glee viewer. Like others, I was drawn to it at the beginning, and then kind of lost interest. But I've decided to tune in for the final season, and it has proven rewarding. On the whole, Glee has been good for television and spoken to a lot of kids (and some adults) who have felt like misfits while navigating the halls of their high schools and life in general.
I've spent my whole life in places where the seasons change: Northwest Indiana, New York City, and now Boston. Of course I complain about the extremes of hot and cold weather, but if I'm being honest with myself, I admit to liking the change of seasons.
Spring is my favorite, but it never lasts long enough anywhere I've lived. Fall, however, has staying power, and for some reason it's the season that most pushes my favorite childhood nostalgia buttons.
I think it has a lot to do with memories of going back to school as a grade schooler. My brother Jeff and I were fortunate to go to a good little neighborhood public grade school in Hammond, Indiana, staffed largely by old-fashioned teachers who really cared about the kids and drilled us on the basics. I don't have to engage in a lot of revisionist history to say that it created some good memories.
Fall is a wonderful time of year in Boston. The weather is cool and comfortable, and the leaves turn colors in spectacular ways. The many historical sites from the American Revolution remind me of my childhood introduction to history, which quickly became one of my favorite subjects and remains so to this day. And not too far away is Salem, home to the real-life witch trials and some modern day tourist traps!
Today, of course, the seasons also correlate with what I do for a living. We have a fall semester and a spring semester, and I still use a personal, academic year calendar book where I write in my class schedule and various meetings by hand. Classes started this past week, and the weather has hit a classic fall-type cool patch. It's a comforting combination for me.


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DOJ Defers to States for CWA Enforcement
Ethan Ware
Williams Mullen
The threat of EPA administrative action often drives industry to consider quick, administrative settlements with state or local environmental agencies for even the slightest environmental violations. Unless the Biden Administration changes course, industries can now do the same to avoid federal civil actions for Clean Water Act violations, which heretofore were excluded from the exercise of enforcement discretion.
The Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 to 1388 (CWA), authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States (WOTUS) or publicly owned treatment works (POTW) pursuant to a federal or state permit. Most states have obtained delegated authority to issue CWA permits in lieu of EPA. The CWA envisions a role for EPA in delegated states when it comes to enforcement. For the first time, a recent Department of Justice (DOJ) guidance document directs DOJ not to file a federal civil action on behalf of EPA where a state proactively seeks enforcement against a violator.
Congress reserved to the United States the lead role in enforcing water quality standards in the CWA. EPA is granted special oversight in citizen suits, CWA § 505 (c)(d), 33 U.S.C. § 1365 (c)-(d), and the federal government retains emergency authority to sue "any person" to prevent imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and the environment, CWA § 504 (a), 33 U.S.C § 1364 (a).
On the other hand, states are the primary enforcement arm for violations of the CWA:
It is the policy of the Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of States to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution, to plan the development and use…of land and waste resources, and to consult with [EPA] in the exercise of [its] authority under this chapter.
53 U.S.C. § 1251 (b) (emphasis added). A state's right to enforce environmental statutes like the CWA makes sense because it is constitutionally required. Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898, 918-19 (1997) (quoting The Federalist by James Madison). In fact, the CWA precludes a federal civil penalty action when a state (1) commences and is diligently prosecuting or (2) successfully pursues or is pursuing administrative action under state law "comparable" to the federal administrative penalty scheme. CWA § 309(g), 33 U.S.C. § 1319 (g). Strangely, however, the statutory deference to states does not apply to state civil judicial enforcement actions. Likewise, the CWA does not explicitly prevent the federal government from pursuing a subsequent administrative action even when civil judicial enforcement is precluded by the CWA.
New DOJ Policy
Recognizing the incongruity of state action precluding a federal administrative action but not a federal judicial action for the same violations, DOJ recently adopted a revised enforcement policy. The new policy requires DOJ to defer to states in civil judicial actions, as well as administrative actions:
Accordingly, [DOJ has] come to the conclusion that – as a matter of enforcement discretion – civil enforcement actions seeking penalties under the CWA will henceforward be strongly disfavored if a state has already initiated or concluded its own civil or administrative proceeding for penalties under an analogous state law arising from the same operative facts.
Memorandum: "Civil Enforcement Discretion in Certain Clean Water Act Matters Involving Prior State Proceedings," Clark to Section Chiefs (July 27, 2020) (the "Policy").
The Policy is remarkable for three reasons. First, DOJ actions are "strongly disfavored." This elevates the burden of proof for DOJ and gives increased opportunity to the alleged violator's legal counsel to work with the delegated state to avoid CWA litigation.
Second, it applies where states have taken or are taking either administrative or judicial action. This encourages industries to work with POTWs and states informally when a CWA violation occurs to work out a solution promptly and efficiently. The company does not have to be sued by a state for the Policy to apply.
Third, state penalties need only be assessed under "analogous state law" to avoid DOJ action. The Policy does not appear to require that the amount of penalties assessed by the state be equivalent to the amount EPA could demand under EPA penalty policies. This may result in substantial savings if the violation is promptly settled with the state or POTW using state or local penalty policies.
Application of the Policy
For the Policy to apply, the state action must be initiated prior to a federal civil penalty action, which suggests CWA violators may wish to seek out state or POTW enforcement in complex cases right away. Also, the Policy is not absolute, meaning there are circumstances where DOJ reserves the right not to apply it. These circumstances are limited and include:
The violator would receive an "unfair windfall" if a federal action is not filed;
The state is not "diligently prosecuting" the action;
The state requests EPA assistance and the request "would not amount to unfair piling on"; or
The federal action is necessary to protect an important federal interest or there is a
"discernible gap in the prior state relief," or "other exceptional circumstances."
Policy at pp. 8-9. The last category carries the greatest risk of the Policy not applying since it is not clearly explained by the guidance.
Conclusion and Use of Policy
Where a company experiences a violation of CWA permit requirements, the Policy offers an opportunity to resolve non-compliance efficiently with a local POTW or state agency. By settling early, the company limits the potential for EPA civil actions where significant fines are common. EPA action is "strongly disfavored" under the Policy when this occurs. Preclusion is available even if the underlying POTW or state action is merely administrative, as long as the state law is analogous to the CWA, which is likely to be the case.
To maximize use of the Policy, companies under threat of EPA enforcement for noncompliance with wastewater permits may wish to take the following measures:
Step 1: Audit wastewater permit compliance and implement corrective action where possible;
Step 2: Evaluate the need to voluntarily disclose non-compliance to the appropriate agency, and in cases where significant non-compliance may be a risk, apply voluntary disclosure procedures; and
Step 3: Resolve the non-compliance consistent with the scope and intent of the Policy.
This approach could remove the risk of substantial enforcement by DOJ in the future for the covered violations.
With all of this said, however, the Policy may be short-lived. The Biden Administration will undoubtably be tougher on enforcement than the Trump Administration and is unlikely to bind DOJ to policies that defer enforcement to the states. Accordingly, the new Attorney General or the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division may void the Policy shortly after taking office. We will keep you apprised.
Civil Enforcement Discretion in Certain Clean Water Act Matters Involving Prior State Proceedings (DOJ July 27, 2020).
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General information: First Jewish presence: 18th century; peak Jewish population: 80 in 1870; Jewish population in 1933: approximately 50
Summary: Records from 1786 mention a Jewish cemetery, indicating that it was during the 18th century that Jews first settled in Hagen. A prayer room had been consecrated there by 1800, but its location is not known. We also know that the community founded a Jewish school in 1853. In 1870, nine years after local Jews inaugurated a proper synagogue, the community recorded its peak membership figure (80). Between 1900 and 1930, Hagen's Jewish population remained at exactly 60. Records reveal very little about Hagen during the early Nazi period. On Pogrom Night, SS men burned down the synagogue. At least 13 Hagen Jews were killed during the Shoah. Several memorial sites in Hagen and nearby Beverstedt commemorate Jewish life in the region.
Author / Sources: Benjamin Rosendahl
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Morgan Stanley Predicts…
Morgan Stanley Predicts Over 100% Rally for These New "Strong Buy" Stocks
Whatever your thoughts on 2021, there's no denying it has been a banner year for IPOs. In the US alone, we're on track to see about 1,000 companies join the ranks of the publicly traded. That's a plurality of the approximately 2,850 businesses that have gone public globally – and we still have a full month to go. By mid-November, the newly public companies had raised a global total of more than $600 billion.
This brings us to Morgan Stanley. The banking giant's stock analysts have been looking for the equities primed to gain, and they've tapped two stocks new to the public markets as likely to jump 100% or more in the coming months. Not to mention, both have earned a "Strong Buy" consensus rating from the rest of the Street. Let's take a closer look.
Rent the Runway (RENT)
First up is a company in the e-commerce field, with an interesting twist. Rent the Runway makes contemporary fashion available to everyone, through 4- to 8-day clothing rentals. Customers can choose a one-off rental, or buy a subscription service, and clothing is available for special events, everyday use, children, even sports. Accessories, such as jewelry and handbags, are also available, and rents include care and dry-cleaning of the clothing.
All of this would generate interest – but Rent the Runway has another claim to fame, too, as the CEO and all of the top company officers are women. Founder Jennifer Hyman built the company on the idea that all women should have access to an unlimited designer closet. Her idea took hold, and now her company boasts over 2.5 million lifetime customers, of whom 88% were acquired organically.
This company held its IPO in October of this year, debuting the RENT ticker on Wall Street on October 27. The IPO saw 17 million shares go on the market, at $21 each. This was above the expected pricing of $18 to $21. Overall, RENT brought in $357 million from the IPO.
Morgan Stanley analyst Lauren Schenk looks at RENT, and takes a bullish stance, writing, "We see RENT's market-leading, innovative fashion rental subscription business in early innings with a clear path to profitability: RENT is the largest women's fashion rental business, with significantly larger share than all other players in the market combined. We see the fashion rental space as a winner-take-most/all market with RENT building a deep competitive moat through its broad inventory assortment, strong brand relationships, complex reverse logistics network, and unique inventory models."
Unsurprisingly, Schenk rates RENT an Overweight (i.e. Buy), and sets a $28 price target that implies room for a substantial 125% upside in the next 12 months. (To watch Schenk's track record, click here)
Wall Street is in broad agreement with the Morgan Stanley take. This new stock has a unanimous Strong Buy consensus rating, based on 9 analyst reviews. RENT shares are trading for $12.44, and their $22.78 average target suggests an 83% one-year upside potential. (See RENT stock analysis on TipRanks)
IO Biotech (IOBT)
The next company we'll look at, IO Biotech, is a clinical-stage biopharma, working on a new approach to cancer vaccines. The company's proprietary T-win platform is designed to develop novel immunotherapies that stimulate the body's own immune system to suppress tumors. IO Biotech has an active research pipeline, with its lead drug candidate, IO102-IO103 under investigation in multiple clinical trials as a treatment for various solid tumors.
The leading research track is a Phase 2 study of IO102-IO103 in the treatment of advanced melanoma. The drug candidate was granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by the FDA one year ago, and has since demonstrated clinically significant results on the melanoma track. Results from the current Phase 2 study are expected in the second half of next year. The company will also shortly initiate a Phase 3 trial assessing IO102-103 plus pembrolizumab for the treatment of metastatic (advanced) melanoma with interim data anticipated by the end of 2023.
The active research pipeline was a key attractor for investors in the IPO, which was held in November. The IOBT ticker started trading on November 5, and the offering was fully subscribed. The company put 7.15 million shares on the market at $14 each; when the offering closed on November 9, 8,222,500 shares had been sold, including the underwriters' options. The IPO raised a total of $115.1 million in gross proceeds.
Analyst Matthew Harrison, in his coverage for Morgan Stanley, points out that this company's new development platform is a major point of interest to investors.
"Immunotherapy has become the standard of care and backbone of combination therapies for many cancers. However, due to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy only works in some patients and in selective cancer types (e.g., PD-1 positive vs. PD-1 negative). IO Biotech aims to address the challenges of current immunotherapies through their T-win platform, which select targets and epitope within the TME designed to simultaneously activate the body's immune cells while also eliminating cells that bear immunosuppressive properties," Harrison wrote.
"Overall, based on promising clinical data and broad pipeline expansion opportunities, we believe IO Biotech is well positioned," the analyst summed up.
To this end, Harrison rates IOBT an Overweight (i.e. Buy), and sets a $21 price target indicating confidence in a robust 178% potential upside. (To watch Harrison's track record, click here)
This is another new stock with a unanimous Strong Buy rating; all three of the recent reviews are positive. The stock's current trading price is $7.56 and its $20.50 average price target implies an upside of ~171% from that level. (See IOBT stock analysis on TipRanks)
To find good ideas for stocks trading at attractive valuations, visit TipRanks' Best Stocks to Buy, a newly launched tool that unites all of TipRanks' equity insights.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analysts. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
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Jasenice ist eine Gemeinde in Kroatien in der Gespanschaft Zadar.

Lage und Einwohner
Jasenice liegt etwa 40 km nordöstlich von Zadar. Die Gemeinde liegt im Hinterland des Velebit-Gebirges.

Die Gemeinde Jasenice hat 1398 Einwohner und besteht aus den zwei Orten Zaton Obrovački (126 Bewohner) und Jasenice mit 1272 Einwohnern (Volkszählung 2011), zu dem auch der Ortsteil Maslenica gehört.

Geschichte
Auf dem Wappen der Gemeinde ist die Fee vom Velebit zu sehen, eine alte kroatische Sagengestalt.

Die Gegend um Jasenice war ein wichtiger Platz für die Winnetoufilme in den 1960er Jahren. In Jasenice wird auch über einen Winnetou-Themenpark diskutiert.

Im Kroatienkrieg 1991 war Jasenica schwerer serbischer Angriffe ausgesetzt und wurde dabei erheblich zerstört.

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Weblinks
 Webpräsenz der Gemeinde

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Discussion in 'Big XII Conference' started by Cyclonepride, Nov 9, 2018.
I saw yesterday WVU was only favored by 10. This is not really surprising.
Not watching, but Buffalo up 7 with 1:48 to go.
WVU looks awful. Isn't McCabe some type of basketball phenom? He's getting a true taste of college basketball.
This. Konate and Amad are useless without good guards to facilitate the offense.
Bolden out now, but they look like they struggle creating offense. Just looked awful in OT. They're going to miss their backcourt for sure.
Buffalo is a good team. Wouldn't be surprised to see them win a game in the tourney.
That being said our result tonight makes me feel pretty good about where our young team is at compared you WV.
Disappointing that WVU gave it away. They led most of the game. Up by 13 w/ 7 minutes and up 5 with 1 minute.
Wow - when I saw their score, WVU was ahead. I thought they were losing a lot of production at the guard spot. Huggy will probably have them ready to mug the Big 12 though.
Buffalo is actually a pretty good team. They have a shot at getting in as an at large spot in the tourney. Tough game for a young WVU team to start with.


Every advertiser takes immense pride in the ads they write.
After all, writing the perfect PPC ad takes time, creativity, coffee, the occasional beer, and months and months of testing. It's more than writing a 140-character ad: it's a monumental and never-ending task.
We know that writing ads is important and challenging, but busy advertisers and business owners know that their time is a precious commodity as well. How can hustling advertisers benefit from testing multiple ads per ad group without investing more of their limited time?
That's the question Google is looking to answer with their new Ad Suggestions feature.
As of now, Google will begin to automatically suggest new ads to run within your campaigns. Once Google creates an ad suggestion, advertisers will receive email notification and then will be able to review, edit, or dismiss these ad suggestions within the Recommendations page. If they don't act within 14 days, these ads will be applied to their accounts automatically.
Why Did Google Create Automatic Ad Suggestions?
While some might welcome the extra help from Google Ads (formerly known as AdWords), many PPC'ers don't love the idea of Google adding ads to their account (potentially without their involvement). So why would Google risk upsetting advertisers?
Well, Google is only going to surface these suggestions in campaigns already set to "Optimize" their ad rotation and have potential to improve performance.
In ad groups with their ad rotation set to "Optimize," sometimes simply having more ads with slightly different messages is enough to make a difference when it comes to performance.
Advertisers who have multiple ads average a 21% higher CTR than those that only have one!
Google hopes that by applying these ad suggestions to accounts with fewer ads, they'll be able to deliver more relevant ads with a higher CTR.
What Will Ad Suggestions Look Like?
Google will create these new ad suggestions by creating ad variations of existing ad messaging within your account.
Google will not create new original content or messages within your ads.
That means these ads shouldn't look or perform radically different from your other ads and your messaging should be safe for your brand.
Consider these four ads: Can you tell which were written by humans and which were written by Google's algorithms?
Turns out most searchers can't tell the difference either (it's the first and third ones, if you're curious). The automatically created ads have a 10% higher CTR than those manually written.
Once these ads are live in your account, they'll appear like another ad, just denoted slightly differently.
These ads can still be changed, paused, or removed at any time, and you can filter to only view auto-applied ad suggestions as well.
There are some cases where the messaging in our ads is intentionally very specific and there's not room for the creative variations that Google may automatically write for us.
Many industries, such as healthcare, pharma, rehab, or finance, may have to follow specific policies and laws when crafting their ads. For this reason, any ad groups with disapproved or limited approved ads will not be eligible for Google Ad Suggestions.
These changes aren't unique to Google Ads either.
Advertisers on Bing may notice the opportunity to opt in to Ads by Bing. Similar to Google's Ad Suggestions, Ads by Bing will help improve your campaign performance by automatically creating variations of your existing ads.
Unlike on Google, these ads will immediately go live and start testing against your original ads. Bing will also change your ad rotation settings to "rotate more evenly," so that you can more easily evaluate their performance.
How Can I Opt Out of Ad Suggestions?
Some advertisers will welcome the extra help and enjoy the expected performance boost of these ad suggestions. However, if you'd rather have complete control over the messaging in your ads, you can easily opt out of receiving Google's ad suggestions.
Within your account's settings page, simply expand the "ad suggestions" component and select "Don't automatically apply ad suggestions" and then hit save.
If you use an MCC to manage multiple accounts, you can even opt-out multiple accounts at once by selecting the "Management" tab within your MCC.
From there, you can select any or all of the accounts in your MCC and then hit "edit" to change the ad suggestion settings for all of your accounts.


Sunseeker International has appointed widely respected Andrea Frabetti as its new Chief Technical Officer following the retirement of John Braithwaite last year. Together with his brother Robert Braithwaite, John helped establish and build the Sunseeker business over 50 years, with a focus on in-house design and product development.
Andrea Frabetti brings to Sunseeker extensive experience having worked at Italy's Ferretti Group for over 25 years across all of the company's key brands, overseeing the development of motor yachts from concept to production-ready – and most recently served as VP of Product Development where he led a team of 200 people across the design, engineering and R&D functions. Since leaving Ferretti, he has been CEO for Diesel Center SPA, a supplier of propulsion engines and technological systems in the marine sector.
In recent years, Fabretti has served as a valued member of the judging panels for the METSTRADE Dame Awards and IBI's Boat Builder Awards. He graduated with a marine and mechanical engineering degree from the University of Genoa in 1990.
Fabretti will be locating from Italy to Poole on England's south coast where Sunseeker employs approximately 2,600 people and produces around 150 boats every year ranging from 50ft-161ft.


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Ypsilanti Lincoln's Emoni Bates one of three finalists for national player of the year
David Goricki
Emoni Bates lost his chance at a payback journey while trying to help Ypsilanti Lincoln repeat as Division 1 state champions, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state finals for boys basketball were scheduled for this Saturday at the Breslin Center and Lincoln's run was halted before Bates – a 6-foot-9 sophomore – and his teammates had a chance to avenge a 64-54 loss to Ann Arbor Huron in a district championship game.
So, instead of collecting trophies for district, regional and state championships like a year ago, Bates is getting more personal accolades.
Bates joins senior center Evan Mobley of Temecula, California, and senior point guard Cade Cunningham of Montverde, Florida, as the three finalists for the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year award.
Mobley will play at USC next year and Cunningham at Oklahoma State.
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Bates was joined by four new starters this season and averaged 31 points and 10 rebounds for Lincoln, which was 19-3 and ranked No. 8 by The Detroit News prior to the season being halted. He has multiple offers, including Michigan, Michigan State and Florida State, but his goal is to go directly to the NBA after high school.
ESPN analyst and former longtime NBA player Kendrick Perkins said last month on a segment of ESPN's NBA The Jump that Bates was the nation's No. 1 high school player regardless of class and was good enough to be a lottery pick in the 2020 NBA Draft.
Bates earned a spot on the Jersey Mike's Naismith High School All-American second team earlier this month.
As a freshman phenom, Bates joined an 11-10 team from the previous year and led Lincoln to its first league championship in 15 years, then first regional title in program history before going on to win the state title.
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Bates was at his best when he led Lincoln back from a 10-point deficit with 4:40 left to defeat Ann Arbor Skyline in a regional semifinal, then back from a 60-51 deficit with five minutes left to defeat No. 1 U-D Jesuit in the state championship game.
Bates averaged 28.5 points and 10.2 rebounds last season to earn a spot on The Detroit News Dream Team. He was then featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated this past fall before once again taking the court and scoring more than 40 points in five games, including a 63-point, 21-rebound effort in a 108-102 double-overtime win over Chelsea, and then a 48-point performance in a win over No. 13 Grand Rapids Catholic Central.


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Whispers of a Womanist
A Black Female Perspective…
Cultural Controversy
Black Business and Entrepreneurship
A Black Female Perspective on the Twerking Diner at True Kitchen and Kocktails
December 12, 2020 by C.
It's been almost two weeks since the video of a twerking diner and a reactionary owner went viral on social media. The now-viral footage betrayed a crucial divide in the black community and a harmful preoccupation with what lies on the surface. Some viewers contended that the twerking diner had no respect for black men, and a consensus sided with the indignant manager.
I couldn't help but think that those reluctant to castigate domestic terrorism engendered by the African-adjacent took an immediate and overt stance against this black woman's behavior. It proved quite upsetting how quickly many reprimanded the black woman claiming that she deserved to be ejected from the establishment. This scenario deemed twerking as on par with sagging pants which became grounds for ejecting black men from spaces, and hoodies and loud music became a "reason" to murder black people. Twerking will soon, if it has not already, become a means to villainize black people or at least serve as grounds for conceptualizing black degeneracy and vindicating suspicion against black people, black women in particular.
Moreover, what is most troublesome about this scenario, and what has largely gone unsaid, is a seemingly undetected pseudo elitism. What I mean here, is that the issue is not the twerker herself, but she who twerks. So when the owner spoke of wanting a "nice" establishment for "his" people, he meant an establishment of black folks autonomous from the twerking aesthetic.
To provide an analogy, let us consider what many cannot stop talking about: the election. Many are still elated about Kamala Harris's upcoming vice-presidency. Notably, many remain blissful that she is the first "black" woman elected to the position. Harris is a woman of mixed race, with a professional degree, and a white husband. She paints a white ideal of blackness that conveys and engenders a culture of elitism. This level of elitism is perhaps most overt in considering Mary J Blige, who provided the voice for Harris's entry but would not be seen to bear the necessary politics of respectability to in fact "be" vice president. I provide this analogy to illuminate the exclusionary politics often disguised as "respectability" that become the gatekeeper for spaces that delineate a firm line of demarcation between those of the black collective yet remain anchored in superficiality.
Moreover, the restaurant owner's tirade was not about maintaining black politics of respectability, it was about setting a firm notice about the type of exclusionary ambiance he wished to establish amongst his own people. This line of demarcation mirrors the Harris-Blige optic where Harris gains entry and Blige provides the entertainment, present only in the auditory feature of her talent. Similarly, this restaurant plays "twerk" music, but those who twerk are not to dine in the establishment. My words do not suggest that twerking is what anyone should warrant in an establishment, but I do wish to note that the dismemberment of blacks seen to personify what an anti-black world deems degeneracy is simply another form of cultural dehumanization. In countless spaces, the black sound or other components of black culture remain far more welcome than black people themselves. From blackface parties to several series on streaming black forms the black dismemberment functions as a normalized feature of "high art." Black spaces should not mirror this form of dehumanization amongst our own.
Additionally, I wish to highlight the double standards that many black gatekeepers or aspiring black elitists have for those within their culture but would easily pardon the African-adjacent for on the account of their non-blackness. To be specific, I highly doubt this owner would have conducted himself as he did if Miley Cyrus or one of her white female counterparts twerked in his establishment. Even if they were given a warning, it is doubtful that he would have addressed the rest of the diners abrasively to mark his territory of pseudo elitism.
Nevertheless, standards are a formidable way to proceed in life, but not at the expense of exclusionary practices that level black people according to hegemonic ideals. By making a reservation and being granted entry in a gate kept space, True Kitchen and Kocktails became synonymous with a plethora of other spaces that vet blacks based on proximity to white ideology. Therefore, the largest issue here is that what (to some) looked like a black man "taking his respect," was intra-cultural policing which acts as a platform to vindicate domestic terrorism from external sources.
To those questioning my perspective, consider why this scenario, out of all that occurs daily to black people and within black communities, made the news. Considering the trajectory of black media coverage, the footage went viral on white media platforms due to its work to elucidate the myth of meritocracy. Specifically, that the merit of "inherent white goodness" and respectability, not systemic favor, grants the African-adjacent nice things, and the dissent from said goodness or respectability merits the detriment of facilities that inundate the black communities. This misconceptualization serves as an undercurrent for American elitism and affords yet another form to the ideology that says blacks are best murdered, caged in jails, their diversified abjection the sountrack to global white supremacy.
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Truth. Age 46. I worked in a country club during college. There was nothing respectable happening after the Black co-workers from corporate sponsored affairs departed.
I heard this about other corporate affairs at various
venues…After the happy hour time-frame (7pm latest) it was best to leave if you were an AA woman. Furthermore, as a young girl, twerking (it didn't have that name in the 80s) by women was reserved for the purview of familial female members. It was to give a glimpse of how to please your man behind close doors! If a man walked up during the raunchiess portions – the women would immediately break it up ( while snickering) because it was not for public male consumption but for female bonding, fun and the celebration of the black woman's curves. Sad to see how this has been distorted.
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While Joanne Moore describes herself as an 'accidental' distiller, it is more accurate to accentuate the noun in her job title: 'master'. When it comes to gin, the creative force behind G&J Distillers is certainly the latter and has a portfolio of stunning gins to prove it.
BLOOM, Opihr and Thomas Dakin all bolt into bars from her prestigious stable, brimming with botanical brilliance, and when/if you want to learn more about the spirit, you'd do well to learn more about Moore. Coming to G&J Distillers after completing a degree in biochemistry, she has had 22 years distilling experience and certainly knows her onions – although one suspects that onions are one thing she'd never try to infuse into a gin.
"My first role was in the Quality Control department," says Joanne. "I learnt all about the whole production process, from raw ingredients through to distillation and bottling.
When combining the talent of Joanne with the extraordinary history of the distillery, any gin-crazed bartender is presented with the perfect backdrop for customer-friendly story-telling. And to give that 1761 date some context, it helps to understand what was happening with gin at the time.
In the late 17th century, Dutchman William of Orange took the English throne and passed legislation to relax gin distilling, a reform expected to benefit farmers who had a glut of grain. In the short term it worked but, unfortunately, the law led to gin carnage. By 1723 every man, woman and child was reportedly drinking a pint of gin a week, one in five London households was distilling badly and bulking it out with anything they could get their grubby mitts on, including urine. By 1750 the gin craze was at a catastrophic climax and new laws had to haul it back.
Gin was bad juju, and it took a handful of innovators to reinvent and restore its integrity. In 1761, Thomas Dakin was one such moderniser. "Our history and heritage credentials are extremely important to us," says Joanne. "It's the foundation on which everything we produce today was built. Back in 1761, Thomas Dakin pioneered the development and refinement of high quality English gin and his inventive and enlightened outlook created a superior quality, unrivalled gin, which is still produced by us today – Greenall's London Dry Original." Today Joanne continues this legacy in Warrington, where she is a part of the story at the oldest gin distillery in continuous production in the world. It's a role that sees her research flavours and trends from all over the planet, with access to some enviable resources. And it's this that enables her to produce stunning and thought-provoking gins like BLOOM.
Such additions to the gin category are a reason the spirit is currently flying, and Joanne's broad finely-tuned palate helps her deliver a broad botanical palette, and subsequently helps you build a case for a wide range of gin styles behind the bar.
As you'd expect with a creative mind, she is always looking forward and more innovation will undoubtedly follow. Her research currently has her weighing up other historic recipes.
"I'm looking at an old English red cole and orange cordial recipe, which was used to revive the spirits of weary travellers," says Joanne. "This actually helped form the choices of key botanicals in my Thomas Dakin Gin. Red cole, which is the old name for horseradish root, was difficult to balance and blend in Thomas Dakin, but the result was worth all the effort!
Anyone with a modest knowledge of gin in cocktails will understand how it sits at the base of an extraordinary number of classics. Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book from the 1930s is packed with forgotten gin masterpieces, some of which have more recently been revived and lent themselves to bar names, Satan's Whiskers and the Last Word among them.
"Gin has so much flavour complexity to offer," says Joanne as she considers the rise and rise of the spirit. "It's so versatile and can be used to make some great cocktails, so once the popularity of cocktails rose, for me it was logical that gin would become more popular too.
"For those working with gin it is also good to look at what the trends are in other countries as what seems like an old idea in one country may be the next big thing in another," she advises.
As Joanne points out, each botanical will react differently to a method of extraction, and how she approaches them in distilling ultimately depends on what she is trying to achieve in terms of flavour. With its versatility, it's no surprise gin experiments can be vast. It's interesting, then, to hear this expert's insights into the future of the spirit.
"There are many more botanicals to explore but I do think we need to make sure that as an industry, we remain true to our origins," she warns. "While flavour trends come and go, I will always advocate that gin should be about complementing the juniper note, as that's the essence of our gin definition and we should never lose sight of this for short term gain.
The Holy Trinity sounds like a pukka name for a gin cocktail based on these three botanicals, and when you engage with industry experts like Joanne, it's easy to be enthused and inspired to create new things. But it's interesting to consider how far the ideas can go without straying too far from the soul of the spirit. It's her opinion, which she makes clear, but the statement seems remarkably simple and logical, plus it's the opinion of a true gin master, so it's one to bear in mind when you're weighing up which gins to select in your bar.


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This portrait of the British composer Rebecca Saunders, who lives in Germany, includes her violin concerto "Still", the German premiere of the composition "Aether" for two bass clarinets and "Alba" for trumpet and orchestra. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays under the direction of Ilan Volkov and Peter Eötvös.
The portrait of Rebecca Saunders begins with her two-part violin concerto Still, written in 2011. It was premiered on September 29, 2011 at the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Carolin Widmann, who at the time was the first performer of the work, can also be heard as the violin soloist in this recording. The chamber music composition Aether for two bass clarinets was composed in 2015/16; its German premiere was recorded on December 15, 2017 in the Herkulessaal der Residenz in Munich. Finally, Alba for trumpet and orchestra came from a composition commission in 2014 by musica viva des Bayerischer Rundfunks and BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The premiere of the work, which is dedicated to the trumpeter Marco Blaauw, was recorded on February 20, 2015 in the Herkulessaal der Residenz in Munich.
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for violin and orchestra [2011]
Commissioned by the Beethovenfest Bonn with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
for two bass clarinets [2015/16]
Commissioned by Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik | German premiere
for solo trumpet and orchestra
Commissioned by musica viva des Bayerischen Rundfunks and BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | World premiere
Carolin Widmann violin (Still)
Ilan Volkov conductor
Carl Rosman and Richard Haynes bass clarinet (Aether)
Marco Blaauw trumpet (Alba)
Peter Eötvös conductor
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The power of community is vital to address the challenges keeping public power leaders up at night, and the American Public Power Association is working to help its members meet those challenges, said Sue Kelly, President and CEO of APPA, in her annual state of the public power industry" address at the 2016 APPA National Conference in Phoenix, Ariz.
In her June 13 remarks, Kelly emphasized the "power of community" in public power and said that the power of community is crucial to meet the challenges that are on the minds of public power leaders these days.
Those challenges include cyber and physical security, environmental regulations, electricity markets, distributed generation and new technologies, and workforce issues.
Cybersecurity challenges
In her remarks, Kelly highlighted cyber and physical security challenges. She said that any utility that does not follow sound cybersecurity practices is at risk of a cyber attack similar to those in the Ukraine last December.
Kelly commended the work of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and its Electric Sector Information and Analysis Center as well as the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council to monitor threats, share information and help utilities prepare for potential future attacks. APPA is developing simulation exercises and education efforts to help public power utilities be prepared.
"APPA is taking steps to help you," Kelly said, noting that the association continues to work closely with its federal government and industry partners through the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council.
Addressing the challenge of environmental regulations, Kelly said that regardless of what happens with the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, some kind of carbon regulation is likely coming. There is also growing demand among commercial and residential customers for carbon-free power. APPA will support members in continuing to reduce emissions, while minimizing adverse impacts on rates and reliability.
Kelly noted that the Supreme Court in February granted several requests that it stay the CPP pending judicial review of the rule, which is proceeding before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The CPP aims to curb carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.
"I can never recall the Supreme Court stepping in and staying a case before a lower court in all my years of practice before the D.C. Circuit," Kelly told the APPA conference.
She also noted another highly unusual event involving the CPP and the courts took place this spring. The D.C. Circuit court on May 16 pushed back oral argument in a proceeding related to the CPP from June until late September and expanded oral argument in the case to include all of the active judges on the appeals court.
"Given the key vacancy on the Supreme Court, we do not know all of the justices who will eventually hear this case and you know it's going to go to the Supreme Court," Kelly said. "So all bets are off on where this case is going."
In the meantime, states are discussing possible Clean Power Plan compliance strategies "and we think it's smart for public power utilities to participate in those discussions," Kelly said in her remarks.
As with other key issues such as cybersecurity, Kelly underscored the point that APPA wants to help its members when it comes to the CPP.
"Guided by our CEO task force, we filed extensive comments with EPA in January," Kelly noted. "We commented on the EPA's proposed model trading rules and its federal plan."
She said that many of APPA's members will need a workable cross-state trading scheme "if they're going to comply with the rule, so our comments focused on changes that EPA could make to help make that possible."
Kelly also used her remarks as an opportunity to note that APPA and Nebraska-based Lincoln Electric System recently unveiled a free CPP modeling tool for members. The tool "helps you assess where your utility and your state or region are now and what your compliance options might be," she told the gathering of public power officials.
Problems with mandatory capacity markets
On the electricity markets front, APPA continues to highlight the problems that Eastern-style mandatory capacity markets pose for public power. "We see more and more questioning of the value of mandatory capacity markets, especially in light of carbon reduction goals," said Kelly. Public power must stay vigilant so it can continue to self-supply power to retail customers, she cautioned.
In the west, APPA and its members are carefully watching the planned Energy Imbalance Market and the California ISO's proposed expansion. APPA is helping Western members develop unified positions on three key issues — ISO governance, resource adequacy and transmission rates. "We are urging the West not to rush full on into ISO expansion, but to allow time to fully evaluate the EIM," said Kelly.
Distributed generation and workforce challenges
In the area of distributed generation, Kelly noted that public power utilities are leading the charge in developing community solar, according to a recent paper from the Consumer Federation of America. Six public power utilities are included on the Smart Electric Power Alliance's list of top 10 utilities that added the most watts of solar power per customer in 2015.
As for workforce challenges, which range from succession planning to the struggle to pay competitive salaries and encourage diversity, public power utilities are finding creative ways to address these challenges and APPA is helping, said Kelly.
Strength in community
Kelly urged public power utilities to think about what they can do in their communities to improve service, update products, recruit new employees, and tell customers what they do. She noted that an old African proverb says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Public power utilities are on this journey together, so she urged APPA's members to take the next step, and then another and another, until they are well down the path to becoming the trusted energy service providers in their communities.
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