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The connection with the brain does not in itself prove that the psyche is an epiphenomenon, a secondary function causally dependent on biochemical processes.
Nevertheless, we know only too well how much the psychic function can be disturbed by verifiable processes in the brain, and this fact is so impressive that the subsidiary nature of the psyche seems an almost unavoidable inference.
The phenomena of parapsychology, however, warn us to be careful, for they point to a relativization of space and time through psychic factors which casts doubt on our naïve and overhasty explanation of the parallels between the psychic and the physical.
For the sake of this explanation people deny the findings of parapsychology outright, either for philosophical reasons or from intellectual laziness.
To assess the psychic phenomenon, we have to take account of all the other phenomena that come with it, and accordingly we can no longer practice any psychology that ignores the existence of the unconscious or of parapsychology.
The structure and physiology of the brain furnish no explanation of the psychic process.
The psyche has a peculiar nature which cannot be reduced to anything else.
Like physiology, it represents a relatively self-contained field of experience to which we must attribute a quite special importance because it holds within itself one of the two indispensable conditions for existence as such, namely, the phenomenon of consciousness.
Science devalues it as subjectivism, and the Churches condemn it morally as heresy and spiritual pride. ~Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self.
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Sierra Leone: A Canadian nurse in a country with one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world
Jane Little
MSF nurse
"The obvious humanitarian needs are no longer Ebola, no longer the war, but are clearly this high, high maternal mortality rate."
Fifteen years after her last field posting with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Canadian nurse Jane Little returned to the organization last February to work on a maternal and child health project in Sierra Leone. Below she recounts her experiences delivering healthcare in a post-Ebola context.
By McKenzie Ross
When Jane Little received a call confirming her first overseas posting with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), she was working in the Canadian Arctic as a nurse. It was the winter of 1993, and within a month Little found herself in the heat of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While this was her first visit to Africa, it wouldn't be her last. Little took part in 10 more field placements across the continent with MSF until 2001, when she took a break from international humanitarian work to raise her family.
"Before my children were born, being in the humanitarian world was very important to me and it remained important to me," the nurse from Wiarton, Ontario, says. "Of course I missed it, but it's okay to miss something when you become a mother because there's nothing better."
Fifteen years after her last mission with MSF, Little returned to the field last February for three months, this time to help fellow mothers in Sierra Leone — the country with the highest maternal mortality in the world.
Concern over Ebola ongoing
Little arrived in Magburaka, Sierra Leone, during the aftermath of the largest Ebola epidemic in history. The virus had caused nearly 4,000 deaths in the country since the the start of the outbreak in the spring of 2014. While the outbreak has since been declared over, there is still concern over ongoing transmission. To prevent new flare-ups, healthcare providers have to follow strict protocols around anyone showing possible symptoms of Ebola. This restricts the quality of care available to patients because they can't be treated as quickly as they need to be, and close contact with medical staff is not possible when they have to be dressed in full personal protective equipment (PPE).
"You'd have a child in front of you with fever, aches and pains, and you knew that kid just had to be responded to right away. But because of the nature of Ebola, it had to be so methodical, and then sometimes that child would die in the interim," she says.
While working in this context brought many challenges for Little's team, Ebola wasn't the only medical concern in the country. "The obvious humanitarian needs were no longer Ebola, no longer the war that had been over for many years, but it was clearly this high, high maternal mortality," says Little.
Maternal mortality highest in world
In Sierra Leone, approximately 1,360 of every 100,000 live births result in the death of the mother — in Canada, this number is only seven. Delivering healthcare to these women and their children in a fractured medical system that has been further damaged by the Ebola outbreak is difficult, but it is also the area where Little believes that MSF is making the biggest impact.
She was especially impressed by the work being done in pediatrics. "I think the pediatrics unit was quite profound. In the hospital there was a unit of about 45 really sick little guys, and you know kids can turn around quite quickly even though there was a high mortality there," she says. "There were amazing staff who tried so hard with those kids for them to be able to have a good outcome."
Collaborating with national staff has always been the best part of MSF field work for Little, and it was no different on her latest mission in Sierra Leone. "They have worked in the war, they have worked in Lassa Fever, they have worked in Ebola," she says of her Sierra Leonean colleagues. "They have so many skills. I think it's a privilege to work alongside those national staff."
These are the kinds of experiences that Little returned to humanitarian work for, and that she hopes to continue to encounter as she gets more involved in field work with MSF in the future.
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Why I'm No Longer A Black Poet
Robert Hayden
………by Reginald Dwayne Betts, ………PR Guest Blogger
Forgetting is the gift to folks who don't mind circling the same wagon, year after year, decade after decade. It seems that is the case for black poetry in America, this circling of the wagon, a perpetual seeking of place and definition. How one manages racial identity in these fifty states has become something that can always be mined for content and controversy.
I'm thinking about Robert Hayden and about his position on the infamous question, "Am I a poet, or am I a black poet?"—that "to be or not to be" used to bludgeon African-American men and women who write in America. It's what prompted the 1966 Black Writers Conference at Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee; it was an historic gathering of writers, civil rights workers, and others to discuss the image of the Negro in literature.
At the Conference, the poet Robert Hayden remarked, "Let's quit saying we're black writers writing to black folks—it has been given importance it should not have." His remarks preceded those of Melvin Tolson, who famously went on to proclaim, "I'm a black poet, an African American poet, a Negro poet. I'm no accident – and I don't give a tinker's damn what you think."
This contentious encounter is all recorded in the June 1966 issue of Black Digest, and if you aren't careful, after reading the account of this encounter, you might walk away thinking that Hayden's and Tolson's poetics were a world apart. But read a bit of Tolson's "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia" and you will find Tolson doing what Hayden did time and again: write about black folks with a serious sense of wordplay, with panache. Tolson's poetry makes this public spat over the question all the more interesting, and all the more redundant.
Melvin Tolson
The backstory to this is everything Robert Hayden's writing has taught me: Nat Turner, the Amistad Mutiny, all those figures from the (Detroit) Paradise Valley series, Bessie Smith, the meticulous emotional turmoil that was the Middle Passage, Paul Robeson – all names and historical moments that are but a sample of what I found early on in his verse. I think that I benefited from having read Hayden before I had any real idea that I wanted to be a poet, because at that time I read him alongside Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, Lucy Terry and countless others, including the anonymous authors of the Spirituals and Work Songs, without yet having a social or historical context.
There is no one that could walk away from the Hayden's Collected Poems not knowing these poems were soaked in what it meant to be black in America from slavery to beyond the 1960s. Hayden was the guy with narratives, history, myth. He dropped science in a way that the other poets I read just weren't.
At this point, it's almost a waste to go into comparisons between Hayden and poets of the Black Arts Movement. Any such comparison would be more about personality, less about poem. And at the end of the day, Hayden maintained an exquisite balance in his poetry, work that didn't seek to demonize or make heroic the figures that found their way into those poems. Hayden sought less to grant historic black figures anything (be it humanity or heroism) and more to carve a truth out of words that didn't exist, exactly that way, before they were written. When I first learned of the Fisk Conference controversy, of Hayden's not wanting to be referred to as a "black" poet, I hadn't thought about how naming can be akin to handcuffing. And frankly, I left that issue alone. I wanted to be black because I already had been black as a failure and so I wanted to be black as a success.
For me, being black, wanting to be a writer, wanting to engage in the world larger than my block and my fears, have been about using color as the first filter. I was the kid who wanted to know why we read Shakespeare in high school and not Chinua Achebe, the kid who read the Stolen Legacy and waxed poetic about how Aristotelian thought was stolen from a library in Egypt. My mind was the constant playing of Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back—and I had yet to hear the album.
The thing is, you get older. And when I did, I recognized how racial solidarity addled my brain. My obsession with race became more important than the history I didn't know.
In "The Negro and the Racial Mountain," (1926) published in The Nation, Langston Hughes did not argue for a singular blackness, but I read it that way, missing the part where he wrote, "If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either." No, I was stuck on his chastising Countée Cullen for his desire not to be known as a "Negro poet," his wanting to be brave where Cullen seemed so awkwardly afraid of his blackness.
This craving worked as gift and detriment for me. And it was silly. At the time, I viewed black poetry—all black literature—as a kind of service literature. The problem, of course, is that the best of black literature is far more than service, even when the writers are completely devoted to a kind of service. Ultimately, when I am moved to shirk racial symbolism, it's partly because no one wanted my wearing "race" when I ran wild in the streets, and partly because there is a little dishonesty in the ordeal–as the idea of blackness too often replaces the fact of blackness. And so, a group of black writers who scrape with words to create a world gets reduced to: "X confronts his black identity (or decides to abandon it)."
What has been lost as I enter into present, public conversations about black literature is the myriad ways of conveying blackness. Conversations about "blackness" always overshadow the elements, the sounds, the nuance, the slang and vibrancy that reduce regional distinctions in African America to places where words become worlds. In having discussions about what it means to be a black poet, I forget that my moms went to work at four every morning without having to name herself "black" anything. That my folks, all of them, lived fully in their black skins, and, when need be, discussed racism and dealt with it—but they needed no obsession with adjectives. None of my friends who aren't writers or reading the books about "post black" use these terms, or talk about them. They talk about the cost of daycare, of healthcare, of rent – and I imagine there is a poet singing his songs right now who only will be noticed for writing "black"—or being black while writing.
All of this returns me to Robert Hayden, whose "blackness" was called into question because he, like Cullen, didn't want to be relegated to a literary ghetto (like today's black literature section in popular bookstores). I've come to realize that black poets' racial solidarity has become tantamount to another restraint: our thinking about black poetry has been reduced to how and why we represent racial issues—and our commitment to language has been allowed to fall slack. We will not call it service literature, but we do want it to serve.
I have found access within the black literary community and felt at home, but that community sometimes has looked askance at me when I've admitted to feeling at home at largely white institutions, too. As the saying goes, I am "the Negro of the moment."—And yes, there is a trace of truth to this saying, but the idea behind it is corrupt and corrupting. Am I to understand the entire history of literature and black folks in America as merely a succession of chosen Negroes?
What is apparent is that the erasing of history that goes on is layered and complex. If you aren't careful someone will dress you in a beret and an Afro pick before your first good line is written, or they will have you referring to your complexion as a mere coincidence. It's all from the same bag, a not-so subtle-way to erase the nuance out of you.
Sometimes the black community that raised me is a far cry from the community represented in the work I read, often the work I write. Sadly, many of the people who are my "black" peers display an overwhelming gap in information. But our poems dance. They dance before a crowd that has no sense of literary tradition. (Or does). They dance before those most concerned (if concerned at all) with what moves them, and little else.
And at a time when we black poets must demand our presence be acknowledged, must scrap and badger with decision makers and power holders of largely white institutions, we have survived, in large part, due to racial solidarity. Yet, this same solidarity has now lead to a climate where to criticize the work of another black writer is tantamount to racial treason.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe these aren't real issues issue at all.
I want to say I stopped being a black poet when I discovered that black poets had the audacity to question Robert Hayden's authenticity—but the truth is that it is deeper than that. The truth is I have found myself longing to be fuller in my own skin, to dismiss the rhetoric that surrounds what it means to be a black poet and find a way to write a poetry that better reflects the sounds I hear in my sleep, the sounds I hear when I walk down the streets that are most familiar with me – and the sounds that I hear when I am in a strange place filled with black faces.
At the Fisk Conference, Robert Hayden ended his speech by saying the blackest thing ever said at an academic conference (at least to me). Speaking to those whom he expected to disagree with him, Hayden remarked, "Baby, that's your problem, not mine."
With that statement, he took it back to where the truth always exists: don't listen to what a person calls him- or herself, just listen to what is said when the guards are down. And the proof is always in the poems, because if your guards aren't down when you go to that necessary place, then you were lying before you even started.
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two sons. His memoir, A Question of Freedom (Avery/Penguin 2009), won the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction, and his collection of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), was awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Open Society Institute, Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop and Warren Wilson College. As a poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society.
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17 thoughts on "Why I'm No Longer A Black Poet"
Kijana says:
Wow , gonna have to read and digest this several times, thanks for the information, I truly enjoy your blog.
phillisremastered says:
Hey Miss Kijuana:
I like to keep y'all guessing on Phillis Remastered!:-) I hope the links help, though.–And seriously, thanks so much for the kind words. I appreciate you and I'm doing the best I can.
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HFJ
Nomi says:
This is pure nourishment.
Fred Courtright says:
Great stuff. Like good poetry, I'm going to have the re-read this. I did want to point out that Hayden's word echo that of another Liveright poet: Jean Toomer.
Mr. Courtright:
If I may, Jean Toomer wanted to pass for White and he later repudiated his African ancestry. And he didn't want to write about people who called themselves Black, either, after he wrote Cane.
To me, there's a real difference between someone eschewing polemical/political terms for his poetry, but who still wants to write about Black people and all their "beautiful and ugly, too", to use Hughes's words–like Hayden–and someone who just doesn't want anything to do with Black folks anymore after he made a literary career writing about them–like Toomer–or even admit he has African ancestry–again, like Toomer. I think that's a fine point that many people miss about Hayden, the poet who "happened to be Black" instead of "the Black poet"–but who still writes about Black people, at least sometimes.:-)
Yeah–I think the passing presents another dimension to Toomer. He never really could escape it, however, despite his rejection of the term.
Frankly, I think that his lack of continued success after CANE had as much to do with the rejection of his own heritage as anything else. I just don't think he was grounded enough to write as well as he did with CANE. His rejection prevented him from his own transformation.
This piece reminds me that I've been meaning to look again at Tolson's work. His son's passing last year, along with Rita Dove's inclusion of both Tolson and Hayden's "Middle Passage" in her Penguin book, has been a kick-in-the-pants to re-visit poets I thought I knew.
Laura Diamondstone says:
Clearly we are beneficiaries of your 'fullness in your own skin'. Interesting how we morph by socio/cultural/political decade or by biology. I am fuller from the happenstance of intersecting with your cyberwriting. Thank you.
Whenever I hear I don't want to be viewed as a black_____(fill in the blank); I always cringe. It suggests that black is somehow a restrictive concept. I find black just as encompassing as any other ethnicity. I am black and my intellect, interests and beliefs are universal and are boundless–absolutely no limitations at all. It's descriptive and as a member of the human family suggests some cultural uniqueness dependent on where we are in the diaspora.
When a white colleague stated how they didn't view me as a black woman but as a human being with an arrogance and a smile that somehow implied that my response should be one of gratitude. However, my reply was that human beings are black too. I was tired and had been worn out with this encounter as it was a reminder of a refrain I've heard so many times before over the years.
Here's a flip side.
On a few occasions, people have mistaken me for Black, and it's been an honor, and in one instance ( a very dear friend's health was failing ), a source of humor…
I wonder how, or if, technology will shift our experiences?
Glenis Redmond says:
Excerpt from Interview from Artful Dodge. Gwendolyn Brooks speaks:
SC: What about the future of black poetry in America, do you see any trends which you think are going to be developed?
Brooks: I believe that events will dictate what turns black poetry takes next. A lot of black poetry is being written now that seems to be interior poetry, poetry that goes deeper into the interior to explore, but I believe that the writing concern will be coming back outdoors just as soon as some things become blatantly obvious. A lot of stuff is happening now that I believe will involve us all, and the poets, their writing, will reflect what they're experiencing, just as it did in the late 60's.
Thanks Dwayne for your thoughts and ideas — food for thought. Coming from a person that does not feel completely at home in any institution black or white — always the outsider, I write out of what concerns my interiority. If it is urgent, I write it. If not, I don't. What people label it –that onus is on them. There is and will always be many camps even in the black community — it is a good thing.
kwamealexander says:
Hmmm…I feel a certain kind of way about this. Any time a black writer begins to talk about how they want to be "fuller in my own skin," or they don't want to be "relegated to the literary ghetto," it reads to me like code for "I want to be more than 'just' a black writer," as if they've bought into the notion that in order to be viewed as a "real" writer one has to eschew one's blackness. Being black and nuanced are not mutually exclusive. You can be both. The quintessential black writer, the black bard, the multi-genre genius Langston Hughes was, and we can be as well (if we want).
I have admiration for Mr. Betts' work, and appreciate his story. In reading this brilliantly written essay, I do notice something though, and here it is: fifth para from the bottom, he says, "at a time when we black poets must demand our presence be acknowledged…" Hmmm…perhaps this is my problem. If you have decision makers and power holders who determine your literary plight that are not looking back at you when you look in the mirror, then nuance may the only thing being erased out of you. And, baby, that's your problem, not mine, or Haki's, or Nikki's, or Achebe's, Duke's, Etta's, Sonny's, et al.
I dig that too. Except, my current project is titled Bastards of the Reagan Era, and I'm trying as hard as I can to connect what I write to the tradition I love, to all the writers I love and admire. More than that though, I'm talking to my folks – to people who lived the 80s I missed. I'm James Browning this collection, I'm planning to Ether it – and do it in iambic pentameter because I like to have something in my lines that tell me they are lines, and I like counting. But I'm really just saying that I need to diss someone's work that I don't admire, and be unafraid to do that – to not feel like if I say something bad about one of my peers poems it'll ruin black poetry. And to say that, look, for real, I hope people continue to admire my poems, and that they walk away from the work grasping, (at least with this project) something of a particular cultural and regional flavor. Something that is black, but that people recognize is Suitland circa 80, that is me as a father, etc.
Then, Dwayne, be unafraid! As you've pointed out, these conversations have always been part of the tradition–from how we identify and represent, and to how those representations are seen to reflect the whole. And I think the we're better for those conversations… If you feel limited by "blackness," then it may be worth looking at what lens you're using. Either way, it's all about perspective. And you have to choose whatever allows space to do the work you need to…
Barbara Soloski Albin says:
Hi, For reasons of health, and the surprise of someone other than Miss Honoree on her site, it has taken me until tonight to read this wonderful article. I really need to read it again. I am not sure I have anything to add other than if I didn't read works from people of all colors, cultures and religions it would be my loss, and it would be a big one. Being Jewish, I do try to read Jewish literature and history, but being American I want to read literature, history and now poetry of all Americans. Also at the ripe age of 64 I have finally started being interested in world history, I have always read literature from other countries. I want to thank you, Mr. Betts for the wonderful article and the names of authors I am unfamiliar with. I am familiar with Mr. Hughes and Mr. Robeson, but Robert Hayden's writings sound wonderful. Thank you again, Barbara
aomuse says:
Insightful and refreshing entry in the ongoing dialogue between those ever grappling sectors of double consciousness. Betts cited one of my most favorite essays on the subject Hughes' "The Negro and the Racial Mountain". I can feel that sticky thread finding him still intertwined within the tradition of Ellison's "The World and the Jug" or Jones' "The Myth of a Negro Literature".
Afaa Michael Weaver says:
Nicely done, Dwayne. I think of photography and how I used to go about with a 35 mm whenever I could. As someone who is red green colorblind I was advised by an established photographer to concentrate on lines, geometric configurations in everything, in people and things, the lines that make us. Studying depth of field and the way it works helped me to understand how the eye works. When we focus on a single point in a field the field goes out of focus. Sitting here in the coffee shop this morning typing on my iPad, I can only focus on the words as they appear and not the conversations, canned music, lights, smells, etc. although I know they are there. So I suppose it is when we focus on the facts– as we surmise them–of who we are and while doing so cannot see all of being. But both are necessary. Life is flux, and in this time we are living in the aftermath of five hundred plus years of European colonialism. We are awakening, slowly as it were, very slowly. The human need to differentiate and create hierarchies is an obstacle to genuine compassion, but it is very human, and being human, the assertion of that fundamental fact for descendants of black Africans in this time is the field that we change by being both on a single point and then on the larger field of things. Keep at it. Thanks for the work. –Afaa
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Really great post. Very insightful and I am sure that I will be thinking about it for some time. I think you might like my blog, Rhymes and Reasons. It is a series of interviews with hip-hop heads who discuss their lives in the context of a few songs that matter to them. The interviews tend to focus on questions of justice like racism, sexism, sexual violence, white privilege, etc. I hope you enjoy it.
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Everything about SpaceX mission and how it is a great step towards space tourism
by - Yashraj on - July 09, 2020
A month or two back we experience a landmark event in the history of space travel. It all went according to the plan on the 27th of May 2020 and we saw for the first time in nine years the launch of astronauts from American soil going to the International Space Station. The last mission of this kind was the final NASA space shuttle mission in 2011 before the Space Shuttle was decommissioned, after which all of the missions to the space station were launched from Russia on Soyuz Rockets. This new mission is also a big deal because it's the first crewed mission to the International Space Station to be run by a private company. SpaceX aren't merely supplying the rocket and spacecraft to NASA, they're actually running the entire mission as well. So this really is the beginning of commercial human spaceflight.
In this blog I've tried to summarize everything you need to know about this mission. This mission is the final test to validate that SpaceX can deliver astronauts to and from the space station. The astronauts flying this mission are Douglas G. Hurley and Robert L. Behnken – they're both veterans of the space shuttle program with two flights each under their belts and it's very cool for Douglas Hurley because he was the pilot of the final space shuttle mission and now he's the pilot of the first commercial flight. They've both come across as being very calm and confident, which is what you want – if it was me, I would be feeling very anxious. Obviously, everyone's gone to great lengths to make sure everything's as safe as possible, but spaceflight is inherently risky and being the first people to sit on top of a new rocket and get blasted into space is – Well, I can't even imagine what that would be like. Uh, probably pretty amazing and pretty terrifying.
This is the vehicle they'll be traveling in. Most of this is the Falcon 9 rocket – that'll get them into space. But the top bit is the spacecraft housing the astronauts. For safety this is a kind of... ejector mechanism that can launch it away from the main rocket if there are any problems during the launch. This is called the Integrated Launch Escape System. And everything on this spacecraft has been slightly over-engineered in case of failures: the escape system only really needs four engines, but it's got eight for redundancy. And the main Falcon 9 rocket only needs seven engines to get into space, but has got nine just in case. On this test flight only two seats are going to be used, but it's got capacity for seven astronauts. The biggest change from other spacecraft is that this one's controlled via touchscreen monitors. I have to admit, I was kind of surprised when I learned this. I would have thought that a single point of failure would be risky from an engineering point of view. All of your controls go through one screen and you can't really fix if it breaks. But what do I know? I'm not a space engineer. I'm sure they've tested this like crazy and on the plus side it does free up a lot of space from [the] million switches and levers that you see in other spacecraft. And anyway, most of the flight is completely automated. Although, the astronauts do have a manual override if they need to take control.
Let's take a look at the overall mission:
Another difference to other missions is that the astronauts will be sitting on top of the rocket while it's being fuelled. In other missions they fuel the rocket before the astronauts embark. They're fuelling it with the astronauts on top so that they can launch as soon as the fuel is in the rocket, which they want to do because they're using cooled propellants – liquid oxygen and kerosene – which are more effective when they're cold. The worry is that the rocket could explode during fuelling, which has happened once but SpaceX have fuelled safely many times and NASA have given it the green light, so they think it's safe.
After the launch, the first stage of the rocket separates and comes back to earth to land on a barge, which is an amazing feat of engineering because this part of the rocket is reusable – It brings the cost of spaceflight way down for this mission. On the way to the space station the astronauts will test fly the spacecraft with the manual controls and then oversee an automatic docking with the space station Then they'll be working on the space station for two to three months, before flying back down to earth – I say flying. It's more of a ...controlled falling. This mission is the final test to prove to NASA that SpaceX can safely deliver astronauts to and from the International Space Station. They've made lots of cargo deliveries before, but never transported people.
And to get to this stage, they've had to pass a whole set of safety tests shown here:
The pad abort test was to test the escape system to make sure it works properly and this was passed in 2015, but unfortunately in 2019 the escape system rockets exploded during a test, which set the whole schedule back by nearly a year. Fortunately, they fixed the issue at the end of 2019 Retested it and all works okay, and then they successfully tested the escape system in mid-air where they blew up a whole rocket to make sure that the crew capsule could get away from it okay. Back in March of 2019 they ran this whole mission to the space station and back, just without the astronauts on board. And so this mission, taken place on 27th of May, will be the final test to prove that they can safely deliver people to space and get them back safely. If this all works, it's very cool because it's a new, cheaper way to get people into space. And this has all happened because of NASA's Commercial Crew program. This is a NASA program to fund commercial companies to incentivize them to work out ways of efficiently getting into space.
SpaceX is not the only beneficiary of this program, Boeing also has a spacecraft in the works as well. And so this mission, if successful, really marks the beginning of commercial space travel and potentially the beginning of space tourism. In the future a company called Space Adventures is planning to sell tickets to fly into space beyond the Space Station for something like 50 million dollars a ticket. And that ticket price is way cheaper than any seat to space in the past. NASA have also given the go-ahead to a company called Axiom Space, who are planning to build a commercial space station in orbit which would also be served by rockets like the SpaceX Falcon 9. But all of these plans hinge on the success of the mission last month, which is why it feels like a landmark event in space aviation. I'm very excited to watch it, I'll be there watching it as it happens, but I want to hear from you, too. Will you watch? and what do you think about this commercialization of space and space tourism? Do you think it's a good way to fund space science, or are you generally worried about what all these wealthy people will be doing up there? Leave me your thoughts in the comments below.


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What Is the Purpose of a JCAHO Accreditation?
By: Eric Feigenbaum
What Is Quality Management in Health Care?
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (formerly known as JCAHO), is a nonprofit organization that sets standards by which medical facilities operate. Although Joint Commission accreditation is strictly voluntary, medical facilities often have trouble maintaining their reputations if they can't pass reviews or lose their accreditation. Medical facilities applying for or trying to maintain their accreditation must allow Joint Commission auditors to review their patient care, record-keeping, financial administration, nursing standards, ethical policies and any important incidents or regulatory problems a facility may have experienced.
Medical facilities most benefit from a Joint Commission accreditation because of its prestige. An accreditation tells patients and the community at large that a facility operates at a standard they can trust. Although the Joint Commission looks at other aspects of a facility's operation, consumers can take comfort in knowing that accreditation involves an extensive investigation of a hospital or skilled nursing facility's nursing care, medication management, patient privacy protocols and safety standards. Typically, the Joint Commission holds a higher standard than state departments of health.
Because of the Joint Commission's high standards and respected work, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given the Joint Commission the ability to audit hospitals for Medicare compliance. CMS accepts Joint Commission accreditation as proof of a hospital's compliance with federal Medicare regulations. Hospitals that fail to obtain accreditation or choose to not apply must instead undergo a direct compliance audit by CMS.
Hospitals handle sensitive personal and financial information. Not only does the Joint Commission concern itself with hospitals' ethical standards in dealing with these sensitive materials, but it looks into billing procedures and accuracy. The Joint Commission audits for intentional and accidental billing errors. In turn, this saves patients, insurance companies and taxpayers money. The Joint Commission advises facilities on how to tighten up systems to avoid errors and prevent fraud.
State Compliance
To legally operate, medical facilities need licensing and accreditation from their state departments of health. Although state standards are designed to protect the public, they aren't usually as stringent as Joint Commissions. Additionally, most states don't have the resources to afford audits as lengthy and involved as those of the Joint Commission. By focusing on meeting Joint Commission standards, medical facilities also ensure they will pass state inspections. This is why hospital management teams tend to encourage their employees to achieve and maintain Joint Commission standards at all times.
The Joint Commission: Hospital Standards FAQ
The Joint Commission: Fact Sheets
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Hospital Policy.net: CMS Survey Preparation and Rescue Services Joint Commission Consulting Services
Eric Feigenbaum started his career in print journalism, becoming editor-in-chief of "The Daily" of the University of Washington during college and afterward working at two major newspapers. He later did many print and Web projects including re-brandings for major companies and catalog production.
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TC Squared is working with high school actors on this professional production. The text, adapted by TC Squared, is based on the National Theatre London adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy.
The story: The text has been adapted for 2016 in Boston, USA. It is funny and funky and full of cool contemporary music.
GOD looks at this messed up world of 2016 and She decides it's time for a reckoning with MAN – and that means EVERYMAN, which means US! She calls her Messenger DEATH and tells him to bring EVERYMAN to meet Her and announce his good deeds.
EVERYMAN is trashed at his 40th birthday party when he meets DEATH and falls off the balcony of his Boston penthouse apartment. As he falls to his death, he tries desperately to find someone in his egocentric and selfish life who will be able to tell GOD about his good deeds. But he doesn't seem to have done anything good so far! Nobody will help him, and they all refuse to come with him to die. Bad luck! However, since they are all a part of EVERYMAN they actually have no choice but to die with him.
KNOWLEDGE finally shows EVERYMAN the way to finding his soul, and God accepts him in death as a good guy who has repented. DEATH, snubbed by EVERYMAN, is furious, and there is a twist for the audience at the end of the play.
Youth groups involved in the production come from Another Course to College, Boston Arts Academy, Josiah Quincy Upper School, Lena Park Community Arts Workshop, and True Colors Theatre Offensive Youth Group.
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Series of Collisions Between Trains and Cars in West Monroe
West Monroe, a city of some fifteen thousand people, has seen an increase in the number of collisions between trains and cars over the last two years. One person has been killed and four injured in such accidents, three of which occurred in 2010 and two of which occurred at the Plum Street railroad crossing.
The City of West Monroe, the Department of Transportation and Development (DODT), and the Kansas City Southern Railroad Company are responsible for maintaining these railroad crossings. As a result of the increase in accidents, they have collectively decided to close two railroad crossings, at South Second and Plum Street. Although they initially planned to close the Trenton Street Underpass, the city decided to keep it open due to the inconvenience to traffic.
In addition to closing two intersections, the city and railroad company plan to upgrade all other railroad crossings within city limits. These upgrades will consist of adding new warning devices and cutting back any vegetation that might obscure drivers' views. They might also involve lowering the speed of passing trains and increasing the trains' use of their horns.
Municipalities and railroad companies have a duty to maintain safe railroad crossings based on the Federal Railroad Safety Act and supplementary state legislation. This duty applies equally to both the municipalities and railroad companies; a railroad intersection is as much a street as it is a railroad. As such, victims of accidents at railroad crossings may collect damages from both the municipality and the railroad company, the two of whom may sort things out between themselves after paying for the harm to the victim.
The importance of this duty, relative to the other duties which fall on municipalities and railroad companies, becomes readily apparent with a brief look at statistics. There are over two hundred thousand railroad crossings in this country, which cause over twelve thousand car accidents each year. Of these twelve thousand car accidents, more than fifteen hundred involve fatalities and more than seven thousand involve serious injuries.
Despite the dangers of railroad crossings, there is no hard and fast definition of what is and what is not a safe railroad crossing. Rather, the safety of a crossing, or the negligence of a municipality or railroad company, is determined by the circumstances of the particular crossing. For instance, no single train speed limit is per se negligent, unless an ordinance or statute makes it so. However, any such speed may be negligent if, under the circumstances, reasonable prudence calls for a slower speed. The same is true of vegetation obscuring the view of the tracks, the amount of traffic crossing the tracks, and the existence of warning signals. An area which is lightly traveled, by cars or by trains, requires fewer warning signals and allows more vegetation and train speed than an area which is heavily traveled.
A spike in the number of accidents, as has occurred in West Monroe, may be evidence that the railroad crossings have become unsafe because the circumstances under which they are used has changed. If West Monroe or the Kansas City Southern Railroad Company failed to remove vegetation over the last few years, resulting in an increasingly obscured view of oncoming trains, they may have turned an otherwise safe crossing into a liability. Likewise, if the city or railroad company failed to adjust train speed or failed to place more warning signs in response to an increase in traffic, they may have allowed a potentially safe crossing to become a liability.
The decision to upgrade the crossing does not, in itself, increase the municipality's or the railroad company's potential liability. Neither would deciding to upgrade an intersection and then failing to do so. This is because selecting a crossing for upgrade does not make drivers think that the particular crossing is safer than they otherwise would. Because plans to upgrade a railroad crossing do not create a perception of safety, they do not cause more drivers to use the crossing than otherwise would. As such, planned upgrades are not the proximate cause of accidents.
The City of West Monroe, DODT, and Kansas City Southern Railroad Company are liable for the state of their railroad intersections not because they have decided to upgrade them, but because they must upgrade them so urgently. Cities and railroad companies across Louisiana which maintain hazardous railroad crossings should learn from West Monroe. Public safety demands that they upgrade their facilities without the prompting of a spike in fatalities or a wrongful death lawsuit.
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Waxing Crescent on 13 April 2062 Thursday
Moon phase on 13 April 2062 Thursday is Waxing Crescent, 4 days young Moon is in Gemini.
Moon phase for 13 April 2062 Thursday 12:00 UTC
Lunar calendar 2062 | April 2062
Waxing Crescent phase
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on 13 April 2062, Thursday . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
14 April Apr
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Crescent ♋ Cancer
16* April Apr12:03
Quarter* ♋ Cancer
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 9 April 2062 at 17:17.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2062 after 10 days on 23 April 2062 at 16:57.
First Quarter in Cancer ♋ after 3 days on 16 April 2062 at 12:03
Full Moon in Libra ♎ after 10 days on 23 April 2062 at 16:57
Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ after 18 days on 1 May 2062 at 18:33
New Moon in Taurus ♉ after 25 days on 9 May 2062 at 03:22
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 770 of Meeus index or 1723 from Brown series.
Length of current 770 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 6 minutes. It is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer than next lunation 771 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 31 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on 13 April 2062 Thursday 12:00 UTC
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 17:32, this is 12 days after last apogee on 1 April 2062 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 29 April 2062 at 08:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
Previous apogee | Next apogee
This perigee Moon is 367 906 km (228 606 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 398 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 450 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after its ascending node on 8 April 2062 at 08:18 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 21 April 2062 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra.
12 days after previous South standstill on 31 March 2062 at 23:35 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.700°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.655° in the next northern standstill on 14 April 2062 at 15:56 in ♊ Gemini.
After 10 days on 23 April 2062 at 16:57 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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Mahmood Kaiss: New Validity
Curator: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg
Mahmood Kaiss' solo exhibition focuses on the new working processes that have occupied Kaiss in the past two years. At its center stands a cluster of sculptures made of metal pieces of motor vehicles meant for scrap. Kaiss, who has worked in wood and concrete thus far, chooses to give "new validity" to parts of vehicles that have been demolished in accidents or were banished from the roads due to old age. At his hand, the car parts, particularly the damaged metal fenders, undergo a series of "treatments" including hammering, welding, and painting, and become full-fledged sculptures that stand on their own in their setting. The artist's point of departure for his engagement with this "new material" was the automobile junkyards near his home in northern Israel. These "graveyards," with their suppressed content of literal or symbolic death, attracted his attention and fascination.
The clean and astonishing formalistic outcomes, although seemingly detached from their damaged originals, preserve the memory of the source material by leaving behind allusions to some of the blows that the metal sustained, notwithstanding its rich and colorful mantle. The flaws and nicks in the metal serve Kaiss as a basis on which to apply the sculptural craft to the material, allowing the artist to plunge into continuous unstructured work, changing, unplanned and spontaneous, that yield abstract outcomes true to the latent possibilities of the material and the paint.
Damaged or new cars have been central in the works of many artists, such as John Chamberlain, Andy Warhol, César Baldaccini, and Ron Arad, to name a few. The vehicles on which their works are predicated, either as a theme or as raw material, touch on matters such as consumer and pop products, readymade, and death, among others.
In his current sculptures, Kaiss chooses to breathe new life into vehicle parts that have lost their usefulness. He recycles the old "damaged" material—objects meant for scrap and demise—and makes it functional again. By so doing, he subverts the existing order. The outcomes—inert sculptures—bear memories of both life and death like monuments akin to organisms that move in space and form relationships with themselves and with the observer.
Engaging in the memory and, above all, the form of material is recurrent in Kaiss' works—from the series that he produced from burnt matches (2011–2012) to those made of poured concrete (2015–2016) and up to the wood installations that concurrently deconstruct and preserve the memory of the ornament (2012–2019).
The wall relief, a suspended installation made to fit the wall of the gallery, allows observers to lose themselves in it for a moment and commune with the memory embedded in the material. The observer's distorted reflected image blends into the vehicle parts with their metallic coat of paint and vanishes in the blink of an eye, like a breeze or a fleeting memory.


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HISTORY FOR THE RAYMOND COLORED SCHOOL DISTRICT currently known as Carver Middle School and Raymond Freshman Academy
The history of the Colored School of Raymond began with the kindness of one man, Julius Rosenwald. The Julius Rosenwald Fund built 500 Negro schools from 1917 through 1948.
The first school was the Cornbarn-Cornsilk School, location unknown, in or near Raymond, MS. The principal and trustees were also unknown.
The second school, Raymond Colored School, was located on Dry Grove Rd. The trustees were unknown and the principal was Mrs. Carmen Nelson.
The third Raymond Colored School remained on Dry Grove Rd., where Mrs. Carmen Nelson remained Principal. The trustees of 1937-1938 were: Mr. Benjamin E. Henderson, Mr. Robert Kent, Mr. Bill Peace, Mrs. Carmen Nelson, and Rev. A.M. Peterson
Rev. Peterson would serve as the principal from 1945-1952, when he retired.
In September 1952, Mr. Roosevelt Catchings was hired as principal of the Raymond Colored Elementary School. Principal Catchings encountered very poor conditions throughout the Dry Grove Rd. location. The location had deplorable conditions such as broken windows, little to no heating, and outdoor restrooms. Because the school grounds were unsafe for students, Principal Catchings immediately requested a meeting with Hinds County Superintendent of Schools to discuss a resolution to the problems. The Superintendent gave Catchings the authority to set the boundaries of a five to six mile radius for a new school to be constructed and built. Once approved by a four member committee of trustees which included, Deacon James W. Nichols, WWI Veteran Paul Williams, WWI Veteran Frank L. McGowan, and WWI Veteran Frank Robinson.
The new school was successfully completed and opened in September of 1958, and the school's name was officially changed to Carver Junior High School.
This history provided by the Raymond Colored School Alumni Association:
Dr. Walter L. Nichols, President
Laura Inez Richardson, Vice President
Louise Fain, Acting Secretary
Robert White, Treasurer
Ethel W. Singleton, Past President
Catherine Walker, Secretary 12-14
Effie Mae Hubbard
Frank White
Archie Singleton
Thelma Murphy
Annie P. Hubbard
Althanette Cole
Arlillian Turner
Louvenia Hunter
John W. Davis


St. Modwen, the UK's leading regeneration specialist, has started on site with the next phase of Stonebridge Business Park.
A ground-breaking ceremony, attended by the Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, marked the official start of work on site at Sugarbrook Drive on Friday 22 July.
The development will create 63,657 sq ft of speculative warehouse industrial space across four units, each with their own self-contained yards.
The four high quality units range in size from 31,157 sq ft to 5,020 sq ft and overlook the A580 East Lancashire Road.
The build is being carried out by Caddick Construction and is expected to complete by February 2017.
The new units will add to a total investment of almost £4m to the region which will create 160 permanent and construction jobs.
David Nuttall, Development Manager at St. Modwen North West, said: "Our continued commitment to Stonebridge Business Park reflects our confidence in this location and our belief that there is demand in the local and regional economy for high quality accommodation.
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said: "This further development is another sign of both Liverpool's economic success in job creation and the faith of developers to make and build speculative investment in our city.
All units are available to let or purchase. Bilfinger GVA and Knight Frank are the agents for the scheme.


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Microsoft debunked ZDNet's report about built-in Ad Blocker for Edge browser
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Amanda Smith · April 1, 2016
Microsoft Edge browser will not come with built-in Ad Blocker
In the last couple of days, various reports were swirling around the Internet that the next version of Microsoft Edge browser would come with a built-in Ad Blocker.
ZDNet was the first to report this story, when its reporter saw a slide during Microsoft's Build 2016 developer titled "Microsoft Edge: What's Next for Microsoft's New Browser and Web Platform." In the image below, you can clearly see that point 4 clearly indicates plans to build ad blocking features into the Microsoft's Edge browser.
Slide that mentioned AdBlocker would come built-in
But shortly after the report by ZDNet went live; Jacob Rossi, Microsoft Edge engineer Tweeted:
"We are not building a native ad blocker within MS Edge, but we will support third-party ad blockers like AdBlock and AdBlock Plus."
Microsoft official debunked the report by ZDNet and said that the company was just referencing the fact it is building AdBlock extension support into Edge. It simply means that ad blocking will be coming to Edge, but not built-in.
The Redmond-based company isn't taking the bold step of offering a built-in Ad Blocking facility in the Edge browser, at least for now.
Even if Microsoft was building a browser with built-in ad block feature, it wouldn't be the first to do so. Last month, Opera announced that its web browser would get a built-in ad blocker and it would apparently perform 45% faster than other rival browsers like Chrome and Firefox.
If all the popular browsers adopt an ad blocking feature by default, it could spell trouble for online publishers that completely rely on advertising money.
Well, it's good news for online publishers that Microsoft Edge Browser isn't coming with built-in ad blocker. But, they need to think about their future plans of earning money as more people have started using ad blocking software and extensions.
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The Suicide Mortality Review Committee (SuMRC) is an independent committee that reviews and advises the Health Quality & Safety Commission on how to reduce the number of suicide deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Committee comprises eight members, appointed by the Commission. The current chair of the Committee is Professor Rob Kydd.
The committee is advised by a secretariat within the Health Quality & Safety Commission and also benefits from the guidance of advisors from the coronial service and the Ministry of Health.
Find out more about our committee members and advisors.
Contact us at info@hqsc.govt.nz if you would like more information about the SUMRC.
Aotearoa New Zealand has a high suicide rate – each week, on average, more than 10 people die by suicide. Suicide is devastating for all those personally affected and is a tragedy for society as a whole. The SuMRC acknowledges the grief of the families, whānau and friends whose loss has contributed to the statistics.
The SuMRC believes suicide is preventable and intends to use the learnings from these deaths to help prevent further deaths by suicide.
The SuMRC, along with four other mortality review committees, operates under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. This allows it to obtain data from any agency and examine a wider range of material than might otherwise be available.
providing advice and recommendations to prevent further deaths.
From reviewing the lives of those who die by suicide, the SuMRC will develop an in-depth understanding of suicide and guide new prevention and intervention activities. It will also improve existing activities, policies and practices.
The Suicide Mortality Review Committee (SuMRC) was initially established as a trial in late 2013. The trial produced two reports: a cost-benefit analysis of investment in ongoing suicide mortality review as a tool for reducing suicide rates, and a report reviewing the suicides of three groups with particularly high death rates. These groups were rangatahi Māori (Māori youth) aged 15–24, men aged 25–64 and people who had accessed mental health services in the year before their death.
After identifying that there were clear opportunities across the health, justice, and social sectors for intervention, the SuMRC has now been established as a permanent mortality review committee.
Carla studied sociology, Māori studies and law at Victoria University of Wellington. She worked in primarily in research, lecturing and policy analysis before practising law from 2000.
Since being appointed a coroner in 2007, Carla has developed a particular interest in the social, cultural and familial backgrounds of young people who commit suicide. She sees this as being directly relevant to establishing the circumstances of death.
In the context of these inquiries, Carla explores ways to work with young people to identify ways to reduce deaths by suicide.
Dr Ian Soosay joined the Ministry of Health in November 2016 as deputy director of mental health. His previous role was as a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland.
Ian attended medical school in Edinburgh and went on to train in psychiatry in Edinburgh, Cambridge and London. Since moving to Auckland in 2009, he has worked in clinical roles across all three metropolitan DHBs in early intervention, general adult psychiatry and maternal mental health. He was also the clinical director for Raukura Hauora o Tainui PHO, which gave him valuable experience in primary care.
Ian has been the psychiatrist responsible for Niue since 2010, which has helped his understanding of the mental health needs of Pacific peoples. In addition to his experience in the UK and New Zealand, Ian has worked for the World Health Organisation in Indonesia in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and conducted mental health research in East Timor.
Ian is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has master's degrees in social epidemiology from University College London and mental health policy and service development from University Nova in Lisbon.


Brendan Betyn is an innovative percussionist devoted to sharing his love of music with the masses, and is quickly making a name for himself as freelance performer and educator in the Mid-Atlantic region. From the concert hall to the classroom, Brendan brings a infectious energy to his craft.
Performing with groups large and small, Brendan feels as much at home with a symphony orchestra as he does with a blues band. Brendan has performed with acclaimed groups such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Newprism Ensemble, and the Heritage Players. He has also formed his own groups, Tala Rasa and Mitt3n Percussion, which focus on creating new and exciting contemporary music.
Passionate about influencing generations to come, Brendan has worked as an educator through the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Orchkids program, aimed at giving music education to public schools in the Baltimore area. Through these programs, Brendan hopes to give access to music education in areas where it would otherwise not be possible. He has also given clinics around the country at different schools including Juiliard Pre-College, Interlochen Academy for the Arts, and New York University.
In addition to winning the grand prize in the MFMC (Michigan Federation Music Club) Percussion Competition, Brendan was a finalist in the WAMSO (Woman's Association of the Minnesota Orchestra) Young Artists Competition. In 2016, he was awarded a Graduate Music Grant from the Presser Foundation.
Brendan is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in music from the Peabody Conservatory where he studies with renowned professor Robert van Sice. He holds degrees from both the Peabody Conservatory and Michigan State University. Brendan is also a Vic Firth Performing Artist.


A few weeks ago, the House Appropriations Committee recommended increasing Peace Corps funding to $450 million. Thursday, the House voted to approve funding at that level. The same day, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to match Obama's more modest $373.4M budget request for the agency.
While the Corporation for National and Community Service — the agency that coordinates and oversees the AmeriCorps family of service programs — had a disappointing day in a House subcommittee yesterday, Peace Corps won a huge increase in funding as its supporters in the House defeated an amendment that would have only moderately increased funding for the agency in the fiscal year 2010.
The increase — if matched in the Senate — would mean Peace Corps could start ramping up Volunteer numbers, as Obama has called for doubling Peace Corps by the agency's 50th anniversary in 2011.
In the House of Representatives, lawmakers defeated an amendment offered by Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) to reduce Peace Corps funding from the $450 Million recommended by the House Appropriations Committee, to $373.4 Million, the level proposed in President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 budget request.
Those speaking in support of the $450 Million included Nita Lowey (D-NY) who noted that she and her colleagues have heard from thousands of RPCVs, serving volunteers and others in support of the higher funding. RPCV Congressmen Sam Farr (D-CA) and Steve Driehaus (D-OH), and Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) also spoke forcefully about the benefits of the Peace Corps and the need for a $450 Million appropriation.
If the $373.44 million request is approved by Congress, this will be the largest operating budget in Peace Corps' history.
The proposed budget request reflects a plan for agency wide quality growth. This budget of $373.44 million will enable the Peace Corps to recruit, train, and support the thousands of Americans willing to devote two years of their lives to serve in a community abroad.
The Committee strongly supports the mission of the Peace Corps, which can be as relevant today in promoting American values abroad as it was when it was founded almost a half century ago. But the world has changed significantly since then, and the Peace Corps needs to adapt to the 21st century. Past efforts by the Committee to encourage the Peace Corps to reform and make better use of resources have been ignored. A new Director with a new vision, who recognizes the need for reform, supports transparency and seeks a constructive relationship with Congress, is urgently needed.
The Committee is aware that some have called for a large increase in funding above the amount requested by the President for fiscal year 2010, in order to send volunteers to new countries. Very few of such countries are safe enough or otherwise ready to host volunteers, and there are hundreds of volunteers currently serving in countries with little if any strategic importance to the United States who could be used more effectively. At a time of intense pressures on a limited budget, each volunteer costs the U.S. Government $50,000 a year. Each dose of vaccine for measles, which threatens hundreds of millions of children in poor countries and needlessly kills 200,000 children annually, costs a few dollars. This is but one of the many difficult funding choices the Committee faced, yet its recommendation for the Peace Corps is the largest percentage increase in the Peace Corps' budget since 1993. The Committee believes that reform, not dramatic increases in funding in a single year, is the Peace Corps' most urgent need.
Because of the falling value of the dollar, and a surge in applications, Peace Corps has recently been forced to decrease the number of Volunteer positions around the world, shrinking our army of citizen diplomats just when we aspire to regain a positive image on the world stage; forcing qualified applicants to wait as long as 18 months to depart for an assignment; and turning away potential host countries who would love to put Volunteers to work on the ground.
To learn more about the movement to expand Peace Corps, check out the More Peace Corps campaign, and the Brookings Institution paper Ten Times the Peace Corps: A Smart Investment in Soft Power.
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We were booked for the Shinkansen at 10:16. car 16. What we didn't realise that there are something like 10 shinkansens an hour between Kyoto and Tokyo. This takes about 2 3/4 hrs for the 400 or so Km (In fact the route is from Tokyo to the south west - Hakita a further 400 Km west of Kyoto). The train was virtually full, which is a lot of people travelling this route every day. And of course it was precisely on time at each end.
We took the metro to our hotel - Only three stops but a change on the way. Lunch of noodles then we headed off to look for the Rei Harakami cd in the local emporium. Nearly success. They didn't have precisely the cd we wanted but three others. We bought the others. Then the metro to head for a LP-recomended small walking tour. An ice cream and a beer later, and a tea tasting and purchase later, we took a train to Shinjuku to visit a d.i.y. department store mention in the LP We finally discovered (after 5 days in all i Tokyo)that there are two metro systems run by two different companies, operating from the same station - we hadn't noted this on our first visit - and we had bought our tickets from the wrong machine, so we had to take a longer route with a change, rather than the direct train we had planned. A couple of kitchen tools and a present later, we struggled through the masses to the metro. "home" to the running sushi recommended by the hotel. 135 yen per plate, we ate 13, with beer, one of the cheapest meals we had experienced, and included squid, tune ... you mae it!
Up early for the 2 hr journey to Narita airport, which lies some 50 km east of Tokyo. The easiest route from our hotel was to take one of the three local metro lines to its terminus (over 30 min), then change to a "limited express" for Narita (60 min). We made the same mistake as the day before and bought our tickets from the wrong machine. After a ticket refund new tickets from the right machine, we made it for the train! We had 5 minutes at the terminus (and 250 m with new signs regularly) and 60 minutes on the train, arriving at Narita exactly 2 hrs before our departure. Amazingly, we were not overweight in total, only in distribution - probably because David's heavy bits (Nikon lenses) were draped over Andrea's arm in a the rain jacket pocket .Final souvenirs - award-wining Japanese whisky and Sake - purchased, we boarded. SAS is somewhat more stingy than Austrian with respect to drinks - only an aperitif and wine for the meal. all others to be purchased! No wonder they are going bust.


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1. Streaming extends reach – Streaming a live event provides an opportunity to connect in new ways, whether we are talking about sports matches, church services, concerts, company all-hands meetings, or university lectures. You can reach people who could not otherwise attend in person, which, depending on your goals and business model, typically translates either to positive membership impacts or new customers.
2. Streaming boosts engagement – Live events are compelling for users. There is an immediacy to them that can't be matched with on-demand viewing, especially for live games. According to Ooyala, the average live-streamed video is viewed as much as 10 times longer than on-demand. Social media only bolsters the engagement, making us part of a larger real-time conversation around the event.
3. The live experience has drastically improved – Live streaming now provides a better user experience than ever. Over the last 15 years, we've gone from low-resolution, stuttering, postage-stamp sized viewing experiences on desktop computer monitors to HD (and even Ultra HD) streaming on computer screens, mobile devices, and connected TVs. Thanks to increasing bandwidth, more-scalable Internet infrastructures, improved streaming technologies, and a plethora of devices that support HD playback, our streaming experiences now can rival or surpass those of traditional television delivery.
4. Cost is no longer an excuse – The prices for computer hardware, storage, and bandwidth continue to drop. Cloud-based infrastructures and services make streaming even more affordable for many people, providing the flexible low-cost computing and scalability you need, and for discrete events, only when you need it. As an example, you can stream an hour of high-quality video to 100 users for about the price of a latte.
5. Higher quality is now possible with less complexity – In just minutes, you can be online and streaming live events globally. The more advanced your requirements, the longer the first-time setup may take, but streaming products and services continue to abstract away more of the complexities and reduce the learning curves.
Live streaming has come a long way, and it will only continue to advance; however businesses that continue to wait for the next best thing will likely find themselves playing catch up to those embracing it today. We'll likely see these types of battles ensue across industries in the years to come.
I would add to this that a live-streamed event that is archived and available for immediate viewing is the best of both worlds. The fact that a video was streamed live gives it a sense of authenticity that a pre-recorded video can't compete with. We have seen viewership of a live event increase by a factor of 10 within the first week after its initial broadcast!


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News > Sports News > Sports : Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
Sports : Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
High School Football:
Flyway Conference:
St. Mary's Springs 20, Winnebago Lutheran 3.
–Blake Bauer ran for three touchdowns in the second half as the Ledgers rallied from a 3-0 halftime deficit to win 20-3 over Winnebago Lutheran on Saturday afternoon at Viking Field. With the win, the Ledgers improve to 4-0 in the Flyway and 7-0 overall and are now eligible for the playoffs. St. Mary's Springs plays at Laconia next Friday, while WLA travels to Mayville.
Great Eight South (8 Man);
Oakfield 8, North Shore Country Day (IL) 6.
Boys Soccer:
NFDL/Oakfield/St. Mary's Springs/Laconia United competed in the Denmark Invitational on Saturday. United finished in 3rd place with a 2-0-1 record. United defeated Peshtigo 1-0, tied Clintonville 2-2 and defeated Random Lake 1-0 in the 3rd place game.
Central Wisconsin Christian competed in the Gresham Tournament and repeated as champions. The Crusaders defeated Wisconsin Valley Christian 3-0 in the semifinals and Gresham/Bowler 4-0 in the championship.
Girls Swimming:
Fond du Lac finished 4th at their home invitational. Kristilee McCadden and the 400 meter relay take 1st place. 400 meter relay also breaks a school record.
College Football:
Michigan 14, Wisconsin 7
–The Badgers held their own with the #4 Wolverines in Ann Arbor, falling 14-7 to Michigan in a game between top 10 teams. Down 7-0 at halftime, Wisconsin tied the game with 8:03 left in the 3rd Quarter on a 17 yard touchdown pass from Alex Hornibrook to Dare Ogunbowale. Michigan took the lead for good on a 46 yard touchdown from Quarterback Wilton Speight to Amara Darboh with 7:56 left in the game. Hornibrook went 9 of 25 for 88 yards, 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions. Corey Clement led the Badgers with 68 yards rushing. Rob Wheelwright had 46 yards receiving for the Badgers. Wisconsin is off next Saturday and hosts Ohio State on October 15th.
In other Big Ten games:
Northwestern 38, Iowa 31
Nebraska 31, Illinois 16
Penn State 29, Minnesota 26 (OT) — Fond du Lac's Robert Windsor credited with 1/2 of a sack in the game.
Maryland 50, Purdue 7
Ohio State 58, Rutgers 0
Indiana 24, Michigan State 21 (OT)
In-state schools:
UW-Oshkosh 45, UW-Stout 17
UW-Whitewater 30, UW-Platteville 24
UW-Stevens Point 28, UW-Eau Claire 19
UW-La Crosse 35, UW-River Falls 14
Midwest Conference:
Macalester College 16, Ripon College 8
St. Norbert 35, Lake Forest 21
Lawrence 36, Beloit 22
Chris Carter hit his 41st home run of the year in the top of the 10th inning to push the Brewers past the Rockies 4-3 on Saturday night. The Brewers play the final game of the 2016 season today, pregame at 1:35 on KFIZ.