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The Most Common Myths About South Africa
South Africa is a unique, diverse, and fascinating country consisting of a range of different cultures, religions, creeds, and peoples. There's always something new to see and do while in the country, and many people that are born and live in South Africa, there's simply no other place quite like it.
It's also a country that's suffered much strife over the last century, and much of that strife is still ongoing today. And over the years, there have been a lot of misconceptions, myths, and misbeliefs that have popped up, many of which are widely believed, even if they're horribly untrue.
South Africa Is A Lawless Wasteland
This myth is born out of the fact that South Africa is, in fact, one of the more dangerous countries in the world, with a high rate of crime. But the misconception comes in when we consider that the majority of the crime in the country is localised.
What that means is that there are certain places in South Africa where the crime is significantly higher than others, and it skews the numbers, making people believe that it's the entirety of the country that has serious issues with crime. There are some areas within South Africa that are perfectly safe to live, and crime is almost non-existent.
It's a common belief among foreigners that South Africa is not great to visit for those that don't speak English, as there are some pretty severe language barriers. This is very much dependent on the location, but in general it's extremely easy to get around as a large portion of the people living in the country speak perfectly good English. It's important to remember that there are 11 official languages in South Africa, and there are some areas where it might be quite difficult to find an English speaker, but even then, it doesn't take that much effort to get around.
Animals Roaming Everywhere
This is a strange myth with obscure origins, but most likely was created due to the many well-known nature reserves that are dotted around the country. The fact is that there are no animals that freely roam around the towns, and that includes lions and elephants. These animals are typically confined to nature reserves like the Kruger National Park, and while it's not uncommon for some wildlife to be seen crossing highways and roads, they are not making their way around suburban streets.
Everyone Lives in Huts
Another weird misbelief that has somehow made its rounds across the globe. Here, it's believed that everyone in South Africa lives in small huts or shacks. This myth is born out of the extreme poverty that many in the country have to deal with on a daily basis. But there are also incredibly rich suburbs throughout the country with properties that can be worth tens of millions of Rands, with high speed internet for streaming, gaming, the latest FIFA World Cup odds, and one of the most advanced economies on the African continent.
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In this article, we'll show you how to properly hang hammock chairs outdoors, from a tree, as many as you'd like, so that you can make a wonderful hang out for you and your companions.
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A new Bitcoin reference design is released
An article has been published which shows a new Bitcoin specification which has been designed to be compatible with the existing Litecoin specification.
The design, codenamed AvantGram, has been described by the developers as "an all-in-one specification for Bitcoin that is modular, extensible and modularizing" to allow it to be used as a reference for the existing specification.
"With the Avantgram specification, you have the flexibility to use it to design any Bitcoin ASIC with any design specification, so you can use it for all the different applications you need," the developer notes.
The Avantgram specification was originally published in March this year, and it has been a long time coming.
The project was originally started by the founder of the cryptocurrency and blockchain platform, Mark Karpeles, in June this year.
It was also announced that the project would be merged with the Litecoin project.
AvantGrams design has the advantage of being able to be reused, and the developers were able to build upon the codebase by writing a new specification that could be used by a wide range of hardware.
The Avant Gram specification has been released to the public and is being reviewed by the Bitcoin Foundation, which will soon make a decision on whether to support it.
A reference design for Bitcoin uses a different protocol than Litecoin.
It has two versions, one with a single key, and one with four key pairs.
Each keypair is defined by a hash value and a number of values, with a default of 1.0.
A single keypair can be used for multiple applications.
The main differences between the Bitcoin and Litecoin reference designs are that the Bitcoin reference uses the same algorithm and the Litecoind reference uses a new one that can be applied to multiple applications, whereas the AventGram specification only uses the one key.
According to the Aventuregram spec, the specification has no hard limits on the number of transactions a block can accept, and only a single block can ever be accepted at a time.
It is also possible to implement the specification on any Bitcoin hardware and it is currently being designed by a number on the Bitcoin development team.
The Bitcoin reference is expected to be available to the general public by the end of the year, but the Litecoins will not be ready for widespread use until at least the second half of 2020.
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Each week, beginning on Sunday, 21 November 2021, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the CCCB will release a video recording of a Bishop reflecting on the Gospel Reading for each Sunday of Advent. This year's reflections were inspired by Indigenous Delegation travelling to Rome to meet with Pope Francis from 17-20 December 2021. Each reflection is based one of the five essential stages of reconciliation: examen, confession, repentance, reparation (making amends), and reconciliation. It is likewise hoped these reflections will assist the faithful, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in preparing for Pope Francis' eventual apostolic journey to Canada.
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Hydro Lake Storage Continues to Decline
National hydro lake storage continued its decline during August, reaching its lowest level for the year at the end of the month.
Careful management of electricity generating resources during the winter of 2006 maintained the hydro storage at levels well above the 1992 crisis year, managing to meet demand caused by 40-year record snows in the South Island and very wet conditions in parts of the North Island.
However, hydro reserves at the end of August dropped below the storage levels at the same time at end of the 1992 crisis period, highlighting a continued need for more generating capacity.
Energy managers have faced erratic inflows, new record load figures and a cold, wet winter during 2006. Despite this, they have carefully managed generation from wind, thermal and North Island hydro lakes (which benefitted from increased rainfall) to meet the increased demand and maintain supply.
At the beginning of August, national hydro storage stood at 1932 Giga-Watt hours (GWh), which was 79% of average. Positive inflows declined sharply during the 3rd week, recovering slightly at month's end. On September 1st, national hydro storage stood at 73% of average, or 1657 GWh.
Some commentators have seized on the fact that this value is actually lower than hydro lake storage values at the same time in 1992. However, it has to be pointed out that this was achieved at the end of the winter period, and is well above storage during June and July of 1992 when storage was less than 1000 GWh during our coldest months.
Declining lake levels in the South Island were managed by maintaining North Island generation at consistently high levels, and feeding more energy from north to south via the Cook Strait cable. North-to-south transfers exceeded south-to-north transfers on 24 days during the 27-day reporting period to August 27th.
To meet this demand, North Island hydro generation was kept above 30 GWh on 16 days of the reporting period, making use of the increased rainfall in some North Island catchments. Generation from wind, thermal and geothermal sources was kept consistently high between 42 GWh and 52 GWh during most of August.
Some lessons are already apparent from this winter. Industry management changes have maintained supply during a cold and wet winter which started out with tight energy reserves, but national reserve capacity is still too low. A serious energy shortage is looming in the South Island where the lack of new infrastructure (the Clyde dam was the last large energy project) combined with the fact that the Cook Strait cable is primarily designed for south-to-north transfers will soon cause problems if "dry year" conditions persist there.
Whilst we have avoided an energy crisis this winter, we still have a serious deficit with hydro storage sitting at 73% of average as we head into spring. The water contributed by the melting of that snow which fell in the South Island is now crucial to restoring hydro storage to more favourable levels.
[Compiled from data supplied by M-Co.]
So, we have "squeaked" through another winter by a mixture of close management of resources and good luck that essential thermal plant avoided failures. We still have some serious work to do to increase our reserves for dry, cold or peak demand years. The growing deficit between generation capacity and demand in both islands (the South Island has now emerged as a more serious case) means that we have to face some difficult decisions. Perhaps the most serious is addressing the head-in-the-sand attitude which is causing us to sit on huge coal resources which would allow us to better manage the erratic hydro storage systems upon which we rely. The absence of a large modern coal-fired station close to southern coalfields deserves re-investigation in a calm, practical, open-minded fashion.
At the same time, some practical initiatives to encourage home-owners to convert to solar water heating would be timely. Perhaps the application of more "carrot" than "stick" is required to achieve this.
The stick has been liberally applied in sometimes smoggy Christchurch to discourage the use of wood fires to keep warm during winter. It seems ludicrous that we can't accept a national responsibility to use "carbon credits" obtained from a move away from wood burning to ensure that people in population centres can keep warm with energy supplied from a new efficient coal-fired power station making use of Southland's coal.
This is an issue that simply won't go away, with the news that Nelson and, out-of-the blue, Arrowtown face similar controls due to air pollution from wood fires. The stick method simply won't work. A carrot is required to encourage people to move to other heating sources in these population centres. As for the smaller towns in south Canterbury, they won't be giving up their wood-burners after this year's 40-year record snowfall. None of us want to see them freezing to death while power companies struggle to re-connect power lines collapsed under snow.
A bit more pragmatism and a little less ideology will allow us to make progress on these issues.
On a lighter note, my South Island friends have been conspicuously quiet this winter about their plans to unplug the Cook Strait cable and allow the North Island to float away. With the prospect of the spring snowmelt replenishing southern hydro storage, I expect that this situation will change, and that a small investment in ear-plugs might be warranted before next winter when South Island independence jerseys might make a re-appearance…
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The Oberlin verdict, town v. gown, and the urban schism in America
Posted on June 10, 2019 June 10, 2019 by Bookworm
The verdict against Oberlin is emblematic, not just of a town versus gown schism, but of a much larger schism between urban America and the rest of us.
As you all know, a jury in Oberlin, Ohio, concluded that Oberlin College and one of its deans had behaved very badly indeed when they sided with those students who had claimed racism lay behind Gibson Bakery's accusation that a student was guilty of shoplifting. The accused student was black, so the woke students stirred themselves into a frenzy aimed at destroying a family bakery in continuous operation since 1885.
Oberlin, rather than calming that frenzy, cultivated it and even took the policy step of canceling its standing order from the bakery. The bakery sued and a local jury awarded it $11 million. Oberlin promptly, and officially, announced that the verdict was idiotic, which was probably a bad move considering that the local Oberlin community jury still has the chance to award the Gibson Bakery another $22 million in punitive damages.
And no, I'm not kidding about Oberlin College officially stating that the jury verdict was stupid. Immediately after the verdict, it sent a mass email out in which it stated, among other things, "We are disappointed with the verdict and regret that the jury did not agree with the clear evidence our team presented." There's no other way to read it than to understand that Oberlin College contends that the local Oberlin jurors were too intellectually defective to understand the college's exquisitely nuanced defense.
This whole thing prompted John Ringo to remind Glenn Reynolds about the "town v. gown" warfare that was long a fixture in towns hosting academic institutions:
One point that none of the commentors seem to be making/noticing is the 'town/gown' dynamic.
Oberlin is the classic small liberal college in a less liberal (though still very) town that exists entirely to support the small liberal college.
Thus the jury was made up of 'townies' who resent the college, the students and the administration and the college resented that the unwashed townies were ALLOWED to have any input on the actions and deportment of their superiors.
Throw in the many notable examples of the current 'elites' being both lacking in competence and unlacking in hubris and you get everything from the protests against an innocent (townie/unwashed/ignorant) baker through the hubristic email. Not to mention a jury that's about to throw the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary at them.
Ringo nails it. After all, historically, those town v. gown hostilities can be really serious. In 1354, the Oxford townies took up arms:
One of the most infamous outbreaks came on St. Scholastrica's Day (February 10) in 1354. It started innocently enough, when some students drinking at the Swyndlestock Tavern, close to the Carfax Tower, accused the landlord of serving them "indifferent wine". The argument escalated until townsfolk came to the defence of the innkeeper.
The bells of St Mary's church called townsfolk to arms, and for three days they beat and killed students and ransacked the colleges.
The fallout from the riot was severe. The city had to pay for repairs to the colleges, and the Mayor and burgesses of Oxford had to swear allegiance to the Chancellor of the University every year and pay token damages in a special ceremony. The ceremony continued well into the Victorian period.
I don't recall such severe rioting in America's college towns, but the distance between colleges and the communities in which they exist made it into at least one movie. In 1979's Breaking Away, a townie boy, obsessed with bicycle racing, crossed the class lines (pardon the pun) to have a relationship with a college girl. Since I was at Berkeley when the movie came out, a town that moved in Leftist lockstep with the gown, I didn't quite understand the hostility between the two sides, but it made for some great movie tension — and probably accurately reflected a lot of the simmering resentment townspeople feel for the coddled college students who look down on the working people who make those same coddled lives possible.
Given that America's universities have moved left at an exponential rate in the last couple of decades, it's reasonable to believe that the town v. gown schisms may fast approach those seen in Oxford in 1354 — or maybe they'll be even worse. In Oxford, it was an economic fight, with each side believing that the other was taking gross advantage of it. In the movie Breaking Away, it was a form of class warfare, with working class townies and self-styled upper class college students sneering at each other. But what we're seeing now is a profound cultural break, one that goes beyond fights over the price and quality of merchandise or whether someone is "better" or "worse" than someone else depending on their familiarity with Shakespeare.
Of course, to begin with, part of the problem is that Shakespeare has been kicked off of college campuses, along with all the other thinkers and creators underpinning traditional Western culture. America's colleges and universities have jettisoned every single traditional American principle: patriotism, capitalism, constitutionalism, Judeo-Christian morality, traditional gender (not just gender roles but actual biology), racial equality (something true liberals once fought for), Western culture — even math, which is now part of the battle ground, for Leftists argue that traditional math is sexist, racist, and heteronormative, all of which must be destroyed. When it comes to the core beliefs and animating town and gown, there no longer exists any common ground.
That same schism that we're seeing in Oberlin also plays out between town and country in ways that have a very profound effect on our national politics. As regular readers may have noticed, I've been spending a lot of time lately driving through America. In the past five months, at various times, I've driven through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. All told I've traveled about 4,500 miles in that time. That, my friends, is a sh*t-ton of driving — and I've done it all while remaining in just a fraction of the same country.
Had I covered not-quite-that-distance in Europe, I could have driven from Cardiff in Wales to Moscow in Russia (using the Chunnel), and then looped back to London via Budapest, with a couple of hundred miles to spare. That drive, by the way, would have taken me through myriad small and large countries: Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria.
I mention this because it's only after you've put rubber on the road that you realize how vast America is. Sure, people who routinely fly from one coast to the other, or even from the coast to major cities such as Chicago or Dallas, are aware that they're spending a lot of time in the air, but it's still a five- or six-hour flight at most. It's when you're traveling for miles and miles, hundreds and hundreds of miles, through Southwestern desert, or Midwestern fields, or Southeastern primal forests that you realize America's geographic enormity.
One of the other things you realize as you travel through America is how much emptiness there is. The same travel in Europe takes you from town to town to town to city to city to city. Europe has people and buildings everywhere. In America, there is so much . . . nothingness. It's beautiful nothingness. It's austere or lush, barren or bursting with natural life. But what it isn't is filled with people.
In these vast spaces, the streets are clean, the skies are clear, and a car is an absolute necessity — and moreover, that car had better be traveling fast because otherwise you feel as if you're not moving at all.
Keep this in mind when you think about Leftism. Leftists are urban creatures, creatures like Ocasio-Cortez, who measure distances by subway stops. To Ocasio-Cortez, life without a car is logical. Indeed, in New York, a car can be an inconvenience. It's inconceivable to her that, in other parts of America, a car is not just a convenience, it's a necessity.
The same holds true for those urban creatures who put their faith in electric cars (never mind that electric cars have filthy batteries and usually are as dependent as gas cars are on fossil fuel — it's just that the fossil fuel is displaced from the car). Only in a densely populated urban area or equally densely populated Europe can you have a sufficiency of electric fueling stations to sustain vast numbers of electric vehicles. Moreover, electric cars do best in stop and go traffic, for the constant braking helps regenerate the battery. If you're lucky, you're barely braking at all when you traverse Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas.
Leftists also put their faith in government because the big cities that give rise to their ideas lack community. When you live in a small town out in Texas or in a cove in Tennessee, it's your neighbors who are there for you, not the government. Meanwhile, in New York, you have no idea who your neighbors are, but you're always just a subway ride away from the welfare office or emergency room.
[Since I posted this, a friend with whom I had a discussion on this subject emailed me. Her take on city versus country bears repeating here:
agree with you about Leftists and cities…I'm inclined to think that it has something to do with self reliance…in the country, if something breaks, you fix it. In a city, you call the landlord and tell him he has to fix it. The government often becomes responsible, so if you live in a city, you depend on the government for rules and support. In the country, if you want your road paved, you get it paved. As government moves in, you have to ask for it to do so, or at the very least, ask for a permit etc. The other thing is the density of population means that city folks have more power to control the government.
That's a very important distinction and I'm glad she thought of it.]
In urban areas, illegal immigrants are just more guys in the barrio competing for a rather dense concentration of employment. In country areas, where jobs are as spread out as the people, every illegal immigrant is a burden on the employment situation. Moreover, to the extent that there are government services in these sprawling, relatively un-populated regions, that same lack of population density means government resources are spread thin (literally), so it's a big deal when illegal immigrants hog those resources.
These geographic distances have profound political consequences, consequences that are as great as they were when the Founders created the Electoral College to make sure that each area of the new country had a loud voice in national elections. Back then, the issue was slave states versus free states. Today, the issue is still slave states versus free states: Will America become a socialist country with every citizen a slave to an overreaching government or will it remain a free country in which government is defined by what it cannot do and citizens are defined by the inherent rights they possess?
You might have read that Oregon just signed on to the National Popular Vote ("NPV") movement. If you're unfamiliar with that, the idea is that those states that enact the NPV promise that, no matter how citizens of that state vote, the electors of the state will always give their vote to the presidential candidate who received the most popular votes nationwide. For example, if the NPV had been in effect in 2016, those states that signed the compact, even if their citizens voted for Trump, would have had to give their votes to Hillary. This Prager U video from four years ago explains nicely the myriad problems with the NPV:
In the years since the above video, states with a total of 189 electoral votes have enacted the NPV. When that hits 270 (only 81 electoral votes to go), those states will have achieved an end run around the Constitution. That most-wise document was intended to give each state in America a voice in the election. The only way to change it should be through amendment, but the NPV bypasses that. I claim it's entirely unconstitutional, but there's no telling what havoc it could wreak before it's tossed into history's dustbin.
America's voting population (both legal and illegal) is concentrated in urban areas that hew Left, hard Left: New York, Chicago, D.C., Seattle, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Los Angeles Basin, Atlanta, and (with greater frequency) Dallas and Houston. The citizens in these places have no concept of America's vastness or of the differing needs of citizens in those less populated regions, yet it is becoming increasingly likely that they can and will control our presidential and congressional elections for the foreseeable future. This is a town versus gown, or city versus country, schism on steroids. If the NPV gets its way, people in the outback of Oklahoma will be told that they need to give up their cars and the great cattle regions of Texas will find all of their cows consigned to immediate death for their farting sins.
If the NPV movement comes to your state, fight it tooth and nail. While it pretends to be about increasing democracy through the popular vote, it's really about disenfranchising all non-urban America, just as the college towns are now actively seeking to disenfranchise and destroy the communities in which they live. The jurors in Oberlin pushed back and it's up to the rest of us to do the same.
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I am excited to be one of the first people to have the new Stampin' Up stamp placement tool. My history in the development of this fabulous tool and some FAQs can be seen in this post.
At my house, we are still digging out after a Christmas storm that has laid down over 5 feet of snow in 2 days. The good news is that my Stamparatus arrived before Christmas. We are in a snow emergency – so no mail, newspapers or UPS deliveries have been made since before Christmas. The bad news is that most of my free time has been spend shoveling, and my hands are too sore to do much stamping.
But I did get this card featuring the Smitten Mitten stamp set quickly made before the storm hit. How appropriate! My mittens have had a good workout this week. This stamp set is great for winter and Valentine's Day. It is retiring soon and in low inventory, so you better grab it today if it is still available. There are darling matching dies as well. With the Stamparatus, you can align multiple stamps exactly where you want them. And if your image is not dark enough, you can ink and stamp again in perfect alignment.
In the photo below you can see how the Stamparatus was key in getting the hearts in a line. Hinge jumping (moving down one notch at a time) is just one of the fun techniques you can do with your Stamparatus.
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Visitation Child Care Center is situated in a multi-generational environment: six-week-old infants through 90-year-old Sisters get to spend their days together at Vis! Visit each of the classrooms in the tabs below.
For more information or to schedule a tour, contact Anne Cherrier at acherrier@vischool.org or 651-683-1739.
We are licensed by the State of Minnesota and accredited by National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
* Program transitions are based on ability, not age.
The philosophy of care in the Infant Room is based on a child-oriented, individualized approach to accommodate each infant's needs and personality and complement parents' styles and wishes. The Infant Room staff provides comfort, body contact, food, social activities and language experiences, presenting the external world to each infant in ways that promote his or her developmental process within a context of safety, security and trust. Education of children is a constant process of interaction based on the belief that everything we do with the child is education.
We provide individualized scheduling, following the child's home schedule and routine to ease the child's transition from home to center.
We create a stimulating environment, which includes a rotation of classroom supplies and materials.
We provide close communication with parents.
We create a comfortable environment where parents are welcome and encouraged to breast feed their child throughout the day.
We offer nurturing, developmentally appropriate interactions.
All children are held and rocked to sleep and then placed in their own full-size crib.
All children are held while bottle fed.
We provide opportunities for infants to interact with siblings enrolled in other classrooms.
We host parent-teacher conferences two times per year.
The Toddler Room has a child-oriented, individualized approach to foster each child's physical, intellectual, social, and emotional growth and development. Quiet activities include stories, puzzles, painting, water play and quiet one-to-one play interactions. Active activities include block play, wheel toys, rocking horses, climbing ramp, outdoor playground play, walks and active participation in songs and games.
Our staff look to the children for cues as to what they may want or need to be doing. We understand that toddlers are constantly learning through exploration of their environment, so much of the day is spent allowing the children to make choices among a variety of options. Each child's unique development is respected, and activities are provided based on individual differences in tempo, style and approach. Education of children is a constant process of interaction based on the belief that everything we do with the children is education.
A stimulating environment, which includes the rotation of classroom supplies and materials.
A room designed for open exploration, with low, open shelves that allow for easy access to materials.
Art, music and sensory experiences daily.
Opportunities for daily fine and large motor development.
Modeling and reinforcement of language skills.
Toilet training to complement family efforts and child readiness (a child-size toilet is available, in addition to changing tables).
Opportunities for toddlers to interact with siblings enrolled in other classrooms.
Parent-teacher conferences two times per year.
The Preschool Room is based on a child-oriented, individualized approach to offer each child the opportunity to develop his or her unique potential. We provide opportunities for each child to explore, experience and discover his or her world, promoting developmental progress within a context of safety, security and trust.
To support and enhance physical development, experiences that promote emerging skills and utilize the full range of the child's physical capabilities are part of the daily routine. To foster each child's intellectual growth, our staff assists preschoolers in enhancing their abilities to acquire, organize and utilize information from the environment in increasingly complex ways. Every child is nurtured and supported to enable him or her to develop a positive, trusting attitude toward others and a secure sense of self. Education of children is a constant process of interaction based on the belief that everything we do with the children is education.
A stimulating environment with activity areas that enhance learning. Learning supplies and materials are rotated frequently.
Large- and small-group activities daily.
Mixed-age groups, which foster a sense of community, with older and younger children working together.
Emphasis on socialization and problem-solving skills.
Encouragement with toilet training (although it is not required). Child-sized toilets are available, in addition to a changing table.
Opportunities for preschoolers to interact with siblings enrolled in other classrooms.
An application fee of $25 per child is required. Application fees must be paid prior to placing a child in a classroom or on the waiting list. Application fees are non-refundable.
The daily rate applies to any child who attends our program fewer than five days a week. Download the current rate sheet.
split their day between the Child Care Preschool Room and the Montessori Preschool class.
have any additional hours or minutes outside the contracted hours.
have any hours beyond nine hours per day, regardless of the number of days.
The minimum time is two days per week, except students who are also enrolled in Visitation's Montessori Preschool class.
Our late fee is $1.00 per minute, which will be charged beginning at 6:05 p.m. for late pick-up. The fee will go directly to the staff member who stays late.
Once a child is placed on the waiting list, he or she will remain active on the waiting list until the child is placed in a classroom or becomes kindergarten eligible.
Waiting list families are encouraged to contact the center periodically to check program availability.
Prearranged center and classroom tours are available all days of the week, any time between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.


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MedImmune, AstraZeneca's biologics arm, and NGM Biopharmaceuticals announce agreement to discover and develop therapies for diabetes and obesity
måndag, 17 juni 2013
AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, and NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. have entered into an exclusive agreement to discover, develop and commercialise novel therapeutics from NGM's enteroendocrine cell (EEC) programme for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
EECs represent less than 1% of all gastrointestinal (GI) cells, but produce virtually all of the known GI hormones, including GLP-1. EECs are an underexplored source of novel hormones that could play a major role in the positive and negative regulation of metabolism and glucose homeostasis. NGM has established a proprietary platform capable of isolating and analysing EECs in order to identify novel secreted peptide hormones that are potentially linked to the profound metabolic effects of bariatric surgery and serve as potential targets for the treatment of metabolic diseases.
MedImmune and NGM will jointly advance first-in-class peptide and antibody drug candidates based on the discovered EEC hormones. MedImmune will have the option to license in these EEC targets, and will be responsible for the global development, manufacture and commercialisation of compounds resulting from the collaboration.
"We believe that hormones found in the gastrointestinal tract can play an important role in resolving diabetes after bariatric surgery. Through NGM's innovative research in metabolic disease, we believe our collaboration could lead to potential innovative medicines for diabetes and obesity that will make a difference in patients' lives," said Cristina Rondinone, Ph.D., Head of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Innovative Medicines Unit, MedImmune. "Our partnership with NGM complements AstraZeneca's existing small molecule and biologics portfolio in cardiovascular and metabolic disease, one of our core therapy areas."
Under the terms of the agreement, MedImmune will make an upfront payment and provide NGM research funding over the course of the collaboration. If certain development, regulatory and commercial milestones are achieved, NGM will be entitled to receive various payments, as well as royalties on worldwide product sales.
"We are excited to enter into this strategic partnership with MedImmune as it represents a unique opportunity to maximise the full complement of novel hormones secreted by these EECs for drug discovery purposes," said Jin-Long Chen, Ph.D., founder, president and chief scientific officer of NGM. "Together, NGM and MedImmune will build upon the culture of scientific excellence at both organisations. With MedImmune's deep biologics and development expertise, we are confident that we will further enrich the pipeline of therapies for the treatment of diabetes and obesity."
About NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Founded in 2008, NGM is a privately-held drug discovery company in South San Francisco, California committed to the identification and development of transformational biologics for diabetes, obesity and other cardio-metabolic diseases. The Company is focused on discovering the next generation of therapeutics that will fundamentally change the treatment paradigm for the growing population of diabetes and obesity patients worldwide. NGM has established collaborations with Daiichi Sankyo, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and JDRF. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.ngmbio.com.
About MedImmune
MedImmune is the worldwide biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule and biologic prescription medicines. MedImmune is pioneering innovative research and exploring novel pathways across key therapeutic areas, including respiratory, inflammation and autoimmunity; cardiovascular and metabolic disease; oncology; neuroscience; and infection and vaccines. The MedImmune headquarters is located in Gaithersburg, Md., one of AstraZeneca's three global R&D centers. For more information, please visit www.medimmune.com.
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory, inflammation, autoimmune, oncology, infection and neuroscience diseases. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. For more information please visit: www.astrazeneca.com.
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Mr. Streit
Mr. Streit's Hawthorne Website
Homework Calendar
6th Grade - Unit 1
Additional Lessons
Civics - Unit 0
Civics - Unit on Race
Civics Summative Assessment
Social Science - Unit 1
History Fair
Unit 3 - Changing Face of the World & The Rise of America in the Modern World
Unit Question - Why does perspective matter? What factors can influence people's perspectives? What social opportunities and problems arise from an interconnected global economy?
Historical Context – The Cold War, International Realignment, Contemporary Society, United States as a "Super Power", Korean War, Vietnam War, War at Home, & Civil Rights Movement
Final Assessment - The Counterculture (Music) Task
America: The Story of Us
(History Channel Documentary)
Superpower & Millennium
The final two episodes of this series look at defining moments in U.S. history from 1945 on and trace them back to their antecedents in earlier American history. Some of the nation's most prominent personalities and leaders share their ideas on the definitive moments in American history, and reflect on what is unique about the U.S.
Full Video links:
History: America the Story of US - 11 Superpower
History: America the Story of US - 12 Millennium
Mini-Task: Answer the following questions in your COMP books and be able and willing to discuss with the class.
What inventions do you think have been most important in U.S. history and why?
What do you think have been the five most important events in U.S. history since WWII?
Many historians debate whether or not the U.S. has seen continual progress throughout its history, or if there have been moments of back-peddling or regression. How do you define progress in history? Do you think the U.S. has always progressed? Discuss.
If you could interview one American about our nation's past, who would it be and why?
Interesting Facts from America: The Story of Us:
The Greatest Generation built the Interstate Highway system in only 5 years.
They produced 80% of the world's cars.
They built 13 million homes in 10 years following the end of World War II and it cost only $71,000 in today's currency.
The Greatest Generation produced a baby (Baby Boomer Generation) every 10 seconds!
They made 15 times more than Europeans during this time.
The U.S. Army was desegregated in 1948.
The U.S. government spent an average of $4,000 ($20,000 today) per U.S. citizen on nuclear and military technology. While the average salary was $4,237 dollars ($24,000 today) in 1950.
Lesson idea borrowed from: America-History of US- Episode 11-12 Guide.pdf
Marshall Plan & McCarthyism
Read p. 30-33 & 40-48 in your All The People mini-book and answer the Marshall Plan & McCarthyism questions in your COMP books:
How does the Marshall Plan prove a lot has been learned since the end of World War I? HINT: ThinkGermany!
Why do think the Soviet Union and countries controlled by the Soviet Union denied aid?
The Marshall Plan can be viewed as extremely unselfish, but what was the large benefit to the U.S. economy and manufacturing? In addition to your response, was there an additional agenda or motive for the Marshall Plan? HINT: Think Cold War!
Some historians have argued that the Civil Rights Movement famous after Martin Luther King Jr. and during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, really started under President Harry S. Truman. Cite one example. HINT: Try this Jim Crow Stories: Harry S. Truman Supports Civil Rights (1947-1948)
What made communism attractive to many U.S. citizens from the Great Depression to the post-World War II era? HINT: Start reading p. 40
How did the attractiveness, sympathy, or simple understanding of communism come to a dramatic end in the United States?
After World War II and the Chinese Civil War ended, who is the communist leader of China?
What did the Truman administration call the Korean War because it was never authorized by Congress? More on the Korean War a bit later!
What was the HUAC? HINT: Try this History Channel: HUAC
Was Joseph McCarthy's "list of 205 names" real? Why did he do it?
What 1952 presidential candidate was "blacklisted" by Senator McCarthy?
Why did the American public believe Joseph "McCarthyism" McCarthy? Give an example.
Why didn't Congressman stand up against Joseph McCarthy (image on the right)?
Wisconsin Senator
Marshall Plan & McCarthyism Resources:
Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan (Short Video)
Marshall Foundation: Marshall Plan
McCarthyism in America Video
McCarthy Years Video
Make Mine Freedom - 1948 Anti-Communist Propaganda Cartoon
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial (image on the left)
Cold War (Capitalism vs. Communism)
The Cold War is the name given to the relationship
that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some. For many, the growth in weapons of mass destruction was the most worrying issue.A clash of very different beliefs and ideology - capitalism versus communism - each held with almost religious conviction, formed the basis of an international power struggle with both sides vying for dominance, exploiting every opportunity for expansion anywhere in the world.
DBQ - Beginning of the Cold War.doc (homework)
Cold War Resources:
History Learning Site: The Cold War
The Cold War Part 1: From World War to Cold War
The Cold War Part 2: Containment
CRASH COURSE: The Cold War (US History)
CRASH COURSE: The Cold War (World History)
CRASH COURSE: Cold War in Asia (World History)
Pretty Much the Cold War (Funny Short Video)
Operation Paperclip (NHD Student Project) Video
NY Times: Operation Paperclip
BONUS: What was Operation Paperclip?
The Korean War (The Forgotten War)
The Korean War began as a civil war between North and South Korea, but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and the People's Republic of China (PRC) entered to aid North Korea. The war left Korea divided and brought the Cold War to Asia. Read more: Office of the Historian: The Korean War
Discussion Question:
Who won the Korean War? Was anyone victorious?
Korean War Resources:
Korean War WS (CNN Documentary on Korean War).doc (classwork / homework)
CNN Korean War Documentary (Episode 5)
Korean War Maps
20th Century Battlefields 1951 Korea Video (MacArthur's Decision)
Shmoop: Korean War Statistics
History Channel: Korean War
Best of M.A.S.H. (TV Series)
Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Read p.68-87 in your All The People mini-book and answer Birth of the Civil Rights Movement questions in your COMP books:
I know you remember the Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson (see the Before Progress section far above), which stated "separate but equal" re-establishing segregation in the United States. Before the historic Brown v. Board of Education, Briggs v. Clarendon County challenged separate but equal by showing the vast difference in educational spending for black students compared to white students. So, how much was spent on black students compared to white students in Clarendon County in South Carolina?
What National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader and great-grandson of a slave and later Supreme Court Justice, argued the Brown v. Board of Education case at the Supreme Court?
What was the Supreme Court's decision regarding the famous Brown v. Board of Education? What is the historical impact of this decision?
What was the Supreme Court's decision regarding Tinker v. Des Moines?
What did Mike King change his name to?
Name the two influential and enlightened thinkers that inspired Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sit-ins, peaceful protests, boycotts, and civil disobedience policies?
Where does Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. start his career as a preacher? [HINT: Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement]
What did Rosa Parks do as a member of the NAACP?
Why were members of the NAACP surprised at the arrest of Rosa Parks? Where did Rosa Parks get the idea? HINT: Try this: BBC.com: Claudette Colvin
How does the NAACP respond to Rosa Parks' arrest? Who led the boycott?
Was life like for the Melba Pattillo and the other nine African-Americans at Central High in Little Rock Arkansas after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision?
What did President Dwight D. Eisenhower do to secure the safe education for these African-Americans at Central High? Why didn't he act sooner?
Civil Rights Movement Continued
(Progressive and Violent)
Read p.97-104 in your All The People mini-book and answer the Civil Rights Movement Continued (Progressive and Violent) questions in your COMP books:
How did Birmingham, Alabama respond to the government attempts desegregate the city?
Who helped finance and elect Eugene "Bull" Connor as Birmingham Commissioner (Police Chief)? Why did residents of Birmingham, even those considered "kindhearted", support or allow the racist policies of "Bull" Connor?
How, although not their intentions, did the racist leaders of Birmingham actually help the Civil Rights Movement? HINT: Try this MLK Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" also think TV!
How did "Bull" Connor respond to the nonviolent protests of over 1,600 kids?
What happened to the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963?
Who did President John F. Kennedy put in charge of justice issues for African Americans? Why choice?
What Civil Rights Movement organization did Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. help create?
What event took place on August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C.? Who's idea was it?
Name a few celebrities that supported, or better yet, where in attendance at the March on Washington? HINT: Try this AJC: Famous Faces-March on Washington 1963
What famous speech did Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. deliver on August 28, 1963?
What famous African American leader died around the time of the March on Washington? HINT: We learned about him and his famous debates earlier this school year!
Who were the Black Panthers? What was their message? HINT: Try this Marxist.org - Black Panthers History
BONUS: Can you tell us why Malcolm X is pictured here with Fidel Castro of Cuba (right)?
Civil Rights Movement Continued (A New Message)
Read p.120-127 and p.157-164 in your All The People mini-book and answer the Civil Rights Movement Continued (A New Message) questions in your COMP books:
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
What award did Martin Luther King Jr. win at the young age of 35? What did he do with the prize money?
What did the Norwegian students teach or prove to Martin Luther King Jr.?
The 15th Amendment (see Reconstruction period above) guarantees that everyone has the right to vote. So, why didn't African Americans in Alabama and Mississippi vote in 1964? Why did Martin Luther King Jr. go to Selma, Alabama that same year?
What did Malcolm X mean by, "If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King"?
Why did Malcolm X break away from the Nation of Islam or Black Muslims? HINT: Try this US History: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Why was the death of Jimmy Lee Jackson too much for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Civil Rights Movement to bear?
What happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama? How does the tragedy eventually help the Civil Rights Movement?
After the tragedy of Selma, known as "Bloody Sunday", how did President Lyndon B. Johnson respond on live television to over 70 million people?
As the Civil Rights Movement progressed, Martin Luther King Jr. viewed the struggles as more than an issue of race. The problems of the United States included poverty, sexism, and labor injustice. So why was Martin Luther King Jr. disappointed shortly after agreeing to a Poor People's Campaign? Why did he proceed to Memphis? HINT: Start reading p. 157
What did Martin Luther King Jr. mean by, "Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty and say if you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th Century, I will be happy"?
Who was responsible for the assassination of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968?
Who broke the news to African Americans in Indianapolis, which was televised to the entire nation? Violence erupted around the entire country almost immediately, but not in Indianapolis. Why do you suppose that is?
How many cities burst into riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.? How did the Black Panthers respond?
Which of the African Americans writers from 1940-1970, mentioned on pages 162-164, do you most admire? Why?
Death of another 1960s American icon! What made Robert "Bobby" Kennedy so popular as a presidential candidate in 1968? June 6, 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot by Palestinian nationalist Sirhan Sirhan. What did the historian mean by, "Born the son of wealth, he died a champion of outcasts of the world"?
BONUS: I think most of us would like to believe that we would have followed the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. over that of his most famous contemporary Malcolm X, but if you were truly honest with yourself; could you really practice his non-violent methods or would the path of Malcolm X or the Black Panthers guide your frustration? Need help deciding? Try this Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate
Civil Rights Movement Resources:
PBS: Civil Rights Timeline of Events
CRASH COURSE: Civil Rights Movement
Racism, School Desegregation Laws and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (Full Documentary)
Separate But Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
BIO: Rosa Parks
BIO: Martin Luther King Jr.
BIO: Jesse Jackson
BIO: Malcolm X
PBS: Malcolm X (FullDocumentary)
BIO: Emmett Till
The Murder Of Emmett Till - Documentary
Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 (Video)
PBS: Rise & Fall of Jim Crow (Full Documentary)
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate
Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama
U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday (Song)
President Lyndon B. Johnson Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King
Assassination of Martin Luther King part 1 of 2
60 Minutes: Interview with James Earl Ray: Part One (1977)
Robert F Kennedy assassination
Interview with Sirhan Sirhan
Eyes on the Prize (Civil Rights Movement) Collection:
Eyes on the Prize - 01- Awakenings, 1954-1956
Eyes on the Prize - 02 - Fighting Back, 1957-1962
Eyes on the Prize - 03 - Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
Eyes on the Prize - 04 - No Easy Walk 1962-1966
Eyes on the Prize - 05 - Mississippi, Is This America 1962-1964
Eyes on the Prize - 06 - Bridge to Freedom 1965
Eyes on the Prize - 07 - The Time Has Come, 1964-1965
Eyes on the Prize - 08 - Two Societies, 1965-1968
Eyes on the Prize - 09 - Power! 1967-1968
Eyes on the Prize - 10 - The Promised Land 1967-1968
Eyes on the Prize - 11 - Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More 1964-1972
The Problem We All Live With Painting (1964)
- Norman Rockwell
More Civil Rights Leaders:
Stokely Carmichael
Whitney M. Young
Daisy Bates
Medgar Evers
James Meredith
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
Fred Hampton
Ruby Bridges (look below)
& many, many more
Enter the 1960s
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- President John F. Kennedy
Read p.88-96 in your All The People mini-book and answer the Enter the 1960s questions in your COMP books:
Who is the youngest President ever elected?
Who took power of Cuba two years before the election and inauguration of President John F. Kennedy? Who was the militant revolutionary from Argentina that helped the communist Cuban revolution? HINT: BBC: Che Guevara (1928 - 1967)
How and why was the small island country of Cuba a real threat to the U.S.A.?
Who took power as the Soviet Premier after the death of Joseph Stalin?
What was the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) plan, before the Bay of Pigs disaster, for dealing with Cuba? Was this President Kennedy's idea?
What was the Bay of Pigs? Describe one failed CIA assassination attempt of Fidel Castro. HINT: Try these Mental Floss: 10 Ways the CIA Tried to Kill Castro or The Guardian: 638 ways to kill Castro
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?What secret concession did JFK make to resolve the crisis peacefully?
What was the public opinion regarding the Vietnam War in the early 1960s? Remember, Congress never approved the Korean and Vietnam Wars, so what were the American troops called in the conflict?
Enter the 1960s Resources:
History Channel: Kennedy-Nixon TV Debate
World Revolutions For Students - Castro And The Cuban Revolution
CRASH COURSE: The 1960s
KAHN Academy: Bay of Pigs
Kennedy addresses the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Death of a President (again!) JFK
Read p. 105-108 in your All The People mini-book and answer the Death of a President (again!) JFK questions in your COMP books:
When President John F. Kennedy spoke to the American people about the "New Frontier", what did he mean? HINT: Try this US History: Kennedy's New Frontier or JFK: Frontier Speech
What did the critics of President Kennedy call him and his plans of civil rights, equal pay, and aid to the poor? HINT: Think same criticism of President Barack Obama and FDR
Premier Khrushchev said of President Kennedy, "It quickly became clear that he [Kennedy] understood...that an improvement in relations [with Russia] was the only rational course." How does this comment from Premier Khrushchev prove President Kennedy had survived the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis disasters and the U.S. could possibly survive the Cold War?
Why did President Kennedy decide to visit Texas in November of 1963, despite his press secretary's warning, "DON'T LET THE PRESIDENT COME TO DALLAS...IT IS TOO DANGEROUS"?
How did the people of Texas greet the President and his wife?
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. According to the Warren Commission's Report who was the lone assassin? HINT: History.com: Warren Commission
If we are to believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, why did he do it? HINT: National Archive: Warren Commission-Chapter 7: Lee Harvey Oswald: Background and Possible Motives
Unfortunately, it is unlikely we will ever know whether Oswald acted alone because he was silenced two days after the death of the President, by whom? Why did he kill Oswald? HINT: History.com: Ruby kills Oswald
Conspiracy Time! So who really killed President Kennedy? HINT: Try Death of a President (again) JFK Resources below to help you decide.
Death of a President! (again) JFK Resources:
The Zapruder Film: JFK Assassination
JFK Assassination Magic Bullet Theory Computer Recreation
Oswald Shooting - Digitally Remastered
Jack Ruby "The World Will Never Know" Video
USA Today: Top JFK Conspiracy Theories
History.com: JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories
LiveScience: Top 10 Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories
Final Interview with Jack Ruby: 12/16/1966
LBJ interview with Walter Cronkite (1969) "I don't trust the Warren Commission"
Seinfeld: Magic Loogie Theory (just for fun)
Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Called the "American War" in Vietnam (or, in full, the "War Against the Americans to Save the Nation"), the war was also part of a larger regional conflict (see Indochina Wars) and a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. Read more: Encyclopedia Britannica: Vietnam War
DBQ on Vietnam (discussion): Use the DBQ on Vietnam: History Teacher.net link, answer the following questions in your COMP books and be ready and willing to share with the class: Did the attitudes and policies of the United States government regarding the war in Viet Nam (1965-1975) reflect the attitudes of the American people during the time of the war? Why or why not? Include present-day opinions and facts about the war in assessing this question as well as the documents.
Vietnam Resources:
DBQ on Vietnam: History Teacher.net
Vietnam War Part 1
Why America Lost the Vietnam War (Full Documentary)
Hearts and Minds Video (Full Movie)
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Book (Free Online Version)
The Counterculture Movement
The American Counterculture refers to the period between 1964-1972 when the norms of the 1950s were rejected by the youth. Counterculture youth rejected the cultural standards of their parents, especially with respect to racial segregation (Civil Rights Movement), the Vietnam War (Anti-War Protests), sexual norms (start of the LGBT Movement here), women's rights (a rebirth in the movement), and materialism (see the SDS and Weather Underground). Hippies were the largest countercultural classification comprising mostly white members of the middle class. The counterculture movement divided the country. Authorities attempted to ban all drug use (start the War on Drugs here), restricted political gatherings, and tried to enforce bans on what they considered obscenity in books, music, theater, and other media. Parents argued with their children and worried about their safety. Some adults accepted elements of the counterculture, while others became estranged from sons and daughters. The movement died in the early 1970s because most of their goals had become mainstream, and because of rising economic troubles.
The Counterculture (Music) Task: Music in the 1960s becomes more political in nature. Your task is to discover a musician of the 1960s and find a song that embodies the Counterculture Movement (read above). Share that song with the class, it's meaning including specific lyrical examples. You can find any musician, from the era, you want, but here is a list of musicians to consider. If you find it difficult to select a musician or song, also see Counterculture Resources:
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
The Beatles but mainly John Lennon
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young especially Neil Young
Mavis Staples (Chicago's own!)
Rodriguez (popular musician in the Anti-Apartheid Movement of South Africa)
Counterculture Resources:
40 great protest songs, A to Z
About.com: Anti-war protest songs of the '60s and '70s
Rebel Music through the Decades
VH1 Behind the Music: Woodstock
U.S. vs. John Lennon (Full Documentary)
BED PEACE starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono
John Lennon's Imagine, Made into a Comic by Pablo Stanley
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Ohio 1970 Kent State University
Country Joe and The Fish "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (Live at Woodstock 1969)
Vietnam War- Students for a Democratic Society "To Change the World"
The Weather Underground (Full Documentary)
Black Panther Leader of Chicago, Fred Hampton on the Weather Underground
History.com: The Chicago 8 / Chicago 7 Trial
Trial of the Chicago 8 Part 1 (Video)
BONUS: Of course, there is another side to the Counterculture and the best; I mean most terrifying and evil example would probably have to be Charles Manson. If you are interested in these horrific stories, I suggest starting here: The Charles Manson (Tate-LaBianca Murder) Trial NOTE: Don't try to understand or find an explanation because, there is not a good answer. Need proof? Try this: Charles Manson's Epic Answer
Senator Robert F. Kennedy described Cesar Chavez as
"one of the heroic figures of our time."
A true American hero, Cesar was a civil rights, Latino and farm labor leader; a genuinely religious and spiritual figure; a community organizer and social entrepreneur; a champion of militant nonviolent social change; and a crusader for the environment and consumer rights.
A first-generation American, he was born on March 31, 1927, near his family's small homestead in the North Gila River Valley outside Yuma, Arizona. At age 11, his family lost their farm during the Great Depression and became migrant farm workers. Throughout his youth and into adulthood, Cesar traveled the migrant streams throughout California laboring in the fields, orchards and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.
After attending numerous schools as the family migrated, Cesar finished his formal education after the eighth grade and worked the fields full-time to help support his family. Although his formal education ended then, he later satisfied an insatiable intellectual curiosity and was self-taught on an eclectic range of subjects through reading during the rest of his life.
Cesar joined the U.S. Navy in 1946, in the aftermath of World War II, and served in the Western Pacific. He returned from the service in 1948 to marry Helen Fabela, whom he met while working in fields and vineyards around Delano. Together they settled in the East San Jose barrio of Sal Si Puedes (Get Out if You Can), and had eight children, later enjoying 31 grandchildren.
Please choose a category below to read more information about Cesar Chavez:
Also visit: Chavez Foundation
♦ Dream to Organize Farm Workers
♦ Historic Victories for Union
♦ A Labor Movement of His Qwn
♦ Cesar Chavez's Legacy
Cesar Chavez Resources:
Bio.com: Cesar Chavez
Chicano! PBS Documentary - The Struggle in the Fields: VIDEO 1 of 4
¡Si, Se Puede! (Yes, We Can!): Bobby Kennedy Visits Cesar Chavez
President Obama creates monument to Cesar Chavez
American Feminist Movement
"The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — Is this all?"
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace. A woman was expected to follow one path: to marry in her early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote her life to homemaking. As one woman at the time put it, "The female doesn't really expect a lot from life. She's here as someone's keeper — her husband's or her children's." As such, wives bore the full load of housekeeping and child care, spending an average of 55 hours a week on domestic chores. They were legally subject to their husbands via "head and master laws," and they had no legal right to any of their husbands' earnings or property, aside from a limited right to "proper support"; husbands, however, would control their wives' property and earnings. If the marriage deteriorated, divorce was difficult to obtain, as "no-fault" divorce was not an option, forcing women to prove wrongdoing on the part of their husbands in order to get divorced. Read more: Tavanna.org: THE 1960S-70S AMERICAN FEMINIST MOVEMENT: BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS FOR WOMEN
American Feminist Movement Resources:
CRASH COURSE: Women in the 19th Century
Women's Rights: Betty Friedan Interview 1977 (Video)
History.com: The 1970s
Great Women's Rights Movement Footage - 1970s (Short Documentary)
PBS: Part Two: Changing the World
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package com.svbio.cloudkeeper.model.beans;

import com.svbio.cloudkeeper.model.bare.BareLocatable;
import com.svbio.cloudkeeper.model.immutable.Location;
import com.svbio.cloudkeeper.model.immutable.element.Name;
import com.svbio.cloudkeeper.model.immutable.element.SimpleName;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlTransient;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * Abstract base class of all bean-style classes in the package and subpackages.
 *
 * <p>This class provides a property {@code location} that contains the source-code location of this object, or
 * {@code null} if not available.
 */
@XmlTransient
public abstract class MutableLocatable<D extends MutableLocatable<D>> implements BareLocatable, Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8068367861372683749L;

    @Nullable private Location location;

    protected MutableLocatable() { }

    protected MutableLocatable(BareLocatable original, CopyOption[] copyOptions) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(original, "Copy constructor called with null argument.");
        location = Arrays.asList(copyOptions).contains(StandardCopyOption.STRIP_LOCATION)
            ? null
            : original.getLocation();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object otherObject) {
        return otherObject != null && getClass() == otherObject.getClass()
            && Objects.equals(location, ((MutableLocatable<?>) otherObject).location);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return Objects.hashCode(location);
    }

    protected abstract D self();

    @XmlTransient
    @Override
    @Nullable
    public Location getLocation() {
        return location;
    }

    public D setLocation(@Nullable Location location) {
        this.location = location;
        return self();
    }

    /**
     * Returns whether the CloudKeeper plug-in declaration corresponding to the given class should be treated as a
     * nested declaration.
     *
     * @param clazz class object that defines a CloudKeeper plug-in declaration
     * @param copyOptions copy options
     * @return whether the CloudKeeper plug-in declaration should be treated as a nested declaration
     *
     * @see NestedNameCopyOption#isNested(Class)
     */
    protected static boolean isNested(Class<?> clazz, CopyOption[] copyOptions) {
        if (clazz.getEnclosingClass() == null) {
            return false;
        }
        for (CopyOption copyOption: copyOptions) {
            if (copyOption instanceof NestedNameCopyOption) {
                return ((NestedNameCopyOption) copyOption).isNested(clazz);
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the name that should be used for the CloudKeeper plug-in declaration corresponding to the given class.
     *
     * @param clazz class object that defines a CloudKeeper plug-in declaration
     * @param copyOptions copy options
     * @return the name that should be used for the CloudKeeper plug-in declaration corresponding to the given class
     * @throws NullPointerException if any argument is null
     */
    protected static Name nameForClass(Class<?> clazz, CopyOption[] copyOptions) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(clazz);
        Objects.requireNonNull(copyOptions);

        @Nullable Class<?> enclosingClass = clazz.getEnclosingClass();
        if (enclosingClass != null) {
            if (isNested(clazz, copyOptions)) {
                return nameForClass(enclosingClass, copyOptions).join(SimpleName.identifier(clazz.getSimpleName()));
            }
        }
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Dolph Lundgren is an actor from Sweden, born in 1957. He has studied engineering and has a master's degree of it. He also practices karate and was the European and Australian karate champion. He also represented the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics in pentathlon. He is usually seen as Genius Bruiser and is rumoured to have a genius-level IQ, but he denies it.
Lundgren's first foray in film industry was a minor role in A View to a Kill as a KGB mook, Venz, who has two seconds of screentime. He got this role thanks to his then-girlfriend Grace Jones (that's right, this guy dated Grace Jones, which is enough to prove that this guy has the balls of steel). After that, he got his breakthrough role in Rocky IV as the Russian boxer Ivan Drago, which launched his career in action movies.
Lundgren's first starring role was in the Live Action Adaptation of Masters of the Universe as He-Man in 1987, whose fight against Skeletor is taken to Earth. This was followed by Rambo-esque Red Scorpion in 1988, where he plays a Soviet special ops soldier who is sent to assignment in Africa but ultimately turns against his own after witnessing the atrocities they have committed. After that he was cast in the comic book film The Punisher in 1989, where he played the titular vigilante and got bad press for not wearing the iconic skull shirt.
After The Eighties, Lundgren gradually disappered from the conscious of the movie-going audiences but is still making action movies.
He hates unicorns. Some people consider him proof that the axiom "All other factors in a fight being equal, the biggest guy wins", especially after watching him knock Jet Li on his butt in The Expendables.
Legend has it that a bunch of burglars broke into his house and tied up his wife in 2009. Luckily, before they got to anything serious they saw a family photo and realized they had just tied up Dolph Lundgren's wife, which was in itself enough reason for them to let her go and run away very quickly. Fortunately for them, he wasn't home at the time, or he would have chased them with his He-Man sword.
Other notable films:
I Come in Peace (1990) in which he plays a Cowboy Cop Jack Caine who is put against drug-addicted alien. Also known as Dark Angel.
Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991). In this movie he fights Shang Tsung, makes love to Relic Hunter and his penis size is praised by Eric Draven. Truly, a chain of feats that can only be pulled by one and only Dolph Lundgren.
Universal Soldier (1992), where he and Jean Claude Van Damme play feuding Vietnam vets who after death are re-used in military's experimental UniSol project, which then goes haywire when the two start remembering who they were in the past.
Army of One (1993) in which he plays Wellman Santee, who is escaping the law and must clear his name. He drives a Cool Car, kills a warehouseful of Asians and makes love to Hope Brady along the way. Also known as Joshua Tree.
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) in which he plays a Church Militant street preacher who is after the titular hero.
Bridge Of Dragons (1999) in which he plays a guy called Warchild and fights Shang Tsung again. Titular bridge doesn't appear in the movie at all.
Detention (2003) in which he plays a Badass Teacher who inspires bunch of detention students while battling violent criminals in Die Hard On A High School.
Fat Slags (2004) in a quick appearance as Randy.
Missionary Man (2007), a modern-day western in which he wrote, directed and played a tequila-drinking, shotgun-toting, motor-biking, bible-reading vigilante out to save a town from a gang of Hell's Angels that may or may not have shot him dead some time in the past.
The Expendables (2010), where he plays Gunnar Jensen, who is the Sixth Ranger Psycho Party Member of a mercenary team consisting of Rocky Balboa, Danny the Dog, Frank Martin, Cmdr. Fuller and Chris Rock's dad.
Skin Trade as Nick Cassidy, a detective taking revenge on human traffickers led by Ron Perlman.
Don't Kill It (2016), where he plays demon hunter Jebidiah Woodsley.


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Q: How to get $post_id to default to current post I am using Wordpress, and on my single post page I wan't to display all the comments to this particular post, but I get all comments to all posts on my blog. Shouldn't $post_id default to the post in question? I have this code:
$comments = get_comments();
foreach($comments as $comment) :

  if ($comment->comment_approved == 1) {

    echo '

' . $comment->comment_author . '

' . $comment->comment_date . '

' . $comment->comment_content . '
';
    if ($comment->comment_author_url != '') { echo '
comment_author_url . '" Target="_blank">Besök min hemsida' ; }

 }

endforeach;

A: If you using <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?> in The Loop Then You dont have to pass post_id this will automatically display comments of the particular post. comments_template
but for get_comments, you have to pass post_id parameter to get comments for particular post.
by default it will get all the comments get_comments
Example
<?php
$args = array(
    'status' => 'approve',
    'post_id' => 1, // use post_id, not post_ID
);
$comments = get_comments($args);

Above code should get all the approved comments for post id 1

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Q: How to enter chroot on Jenkins Hi i am trying to automate the process of sync and build chromium builds on a Jenkins server
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/quick-start-guide
./chromite/bin/cros_sdk --enter

i am trying to run something like this ,the desired output is expected to be a chroot prompt with a changed home directory, I have a Jenkins slave and when i do these steps manually, i am able to enter chroot without any issues and it provides me with the changed home directory and the path shows up where i need it to be for the next step ,
But when i roll this into a Jenkins Execute Shell on the same machine and same credentials, it is not able enter chroot,
./chromite/bin/cros_sdk --enter --log-level=debug
15:59:05: DEBUG: Cache dir lookup.
15:59:05: DEBUG: Configured cache_dir to '/media/1TB/home/qcaswnbu/jenkins1/workspace/Brillo_trial/.cache'

This is what i get in Jenkins
Manually though
./chromite/bin/cros_sdk --enter --log-level=debug
17:27:05: DEBUG: Cache dir lookup.
17:27:05: DEBUG: Configured cache_dir to '/media/1TB/home/qcaswnbu/jenkins1/workspace/Brillo_trial/.cache'
17:27:05: DEBUG: Configured cache_dir to '/media/1TB/home/qcaswnbu/jenkins1/workspace/Brillo_trial/.cache'

i get an extra line with the same message , could there be a chance its quitting half way through when it is initiated from Jenkins job ?
any input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Prem

A: when you run cros_sdk by itself, it expects an interactive prompt.  i imagine Jenkins has no terminal attached (by design) which means trying to use it that way doesn't make much sense.
we've designed the tool so it can easily be scripted.  if you have some command you want to run inside of the chroot, simply pass it as an argument:
$ cros_sdk -- ls /
bin  build  dev  etc  home  lib  lib32  lib64 ....

i think that should get you everything you need.


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Fairtrade Fortnight 2020 focuses on 'She Deserves' campaign
Fairtrade Fortnight, the annual campaign calling for cocoa farmers to be paid fairly for their work and earn a living income, began on February 24 and will continue until March 8. This year Fairtrade's nationwide 'She Deserves' campaign is highlighting the hidden inequality experienced by the women and girls behind the multibillion global chocolate industry. In West Africa, where 60% of the world's cocoa is grown, the average woman cocoa farmer earns as little as 23p a day.
In Côte d'Ivoire, despite carrying out 68% of the labour, which involves planting and harvesting, hacking cocoa pods, fermenting, drying and bagging up the cocoa beans as well as domestic duties in the home, women have fewer rights than men, get less money than men and are often landless.
Fairtrade's industry-leading Standards, innovative programmes and ground-breaking research are changing this for some. Fairtrade is striving towards equality for women and is enabling women farmers to earn better incomes and become leaders in their fields.
Julia Nicoara, Director of Public Engagement at the Fairtrade Foundation said: "Many of us don't know the bitter truth of exploited farmers behind much of our chocolate, with women doing much more of the work for much less of the pay. This Fairtrade Fortnight, our campaign is 'She Deserves Fairtrade', and we'll be telling and hearing the stories of some of the inspirational women cocoa growers.
"Help us write a different story for the cocoa farmers behind our chocolate; choose Fairtrade and support a different future where poverty and inequality have no place in our chocolate."
The campaign will be supported by inspiring women from the arts, food, civil society, business and politics including Hollywood actress and Fairtrade Patron Adjoa Andoh, chef, writer and restauranteur Fairtrade Patron Allegra McEvedy, the award-winning poet Jackie Kay CBE, sustainable chef Melissa Helmsley, MP Rachael Maskell, chef Mary-Ellen McTague, academic Dr Lesley Orr, from Edinburgh University and Cathryn Higgs, Head of Food Policy, the Co-op. Fairtrade patron Nick Hewer and chef Tom Hunt will also lend their support.
During and in the run up to the launch, Fairtrade's grassroots networks of around 1,600 Fairtrade schools and towns will be holding story telling events throughout the two-week campaign to highlight the women's stories and engage the public in the 'She Deserves' campaign.
Fairtrade will arm its supporters up and down the country with more than 15,000 little attention-grabbing 'storybombs' illustrated by DorcasCreates, featuring the stories of women cocoa farmers, to be hidden and found in local communities spanning Land's End to John o'Groats. Once discovered, that person will be invited to re-hide the story to continue the treasure hunt.
A new 60-second animation short featuring illustrations by DorcasCreates and voiced by model Mariah Idrissi will explore the story of women cocoa farmers who do the lion's share of the work, but earn just 23p a day. The film sends a strong message that together we really can make a big difference by taking small actions like choosing Fairtrade.
Manchester, York, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Oxford will host special flagship community events that will feature keynote speeches from two West African women cocoa farmers and panel discussions with other inspirational women from the UK.
Two cocoa farmers – Rosine and Leocadie – will visit the UK to tell their stories about how, against the odds, they have become leaders in their communities.
Nicoara added: "We can easily feel overwhelmed by the world's problems and how to make a difference. Choosing Fairtrade is a very simple way to fight poverty and ensure farmers are getting a better deal.
"Only Fairtrade protects farmers from the volatility of market price crashes that trap many cocoa growing communities in poverty. Fairtrade guarantees farmers get a higher than market price when the market crashes, plus an additional sum to invest in their communities, getting them closer to a living income. This means they can send their children to school, develop their communities and grow their businesses."


Spring has been slow to arrive in my part of the world. Just the barest hint of buds on the trees, pale sunshine, and slightly warmer temps hint that it will be here soon. In the meantime, I've been getting my Spring-time inspiration from beautiful mood boards like this series featured at Pocketful of Dreams. The lovely board shown above is just one of 8 inspired by everything Spring from the venue, to clothing, to food and drink, paper and signage, details and so much more!


Five Times a Feast, the Institute for Integrative Health's community-based cooking program, expanded in 2017 by introducing a cooking coach training course that enables Five Times a Feast participants to become leaders of the six-class series in their communities. Since starting the cooking coach training, the program has been able to add eight more host sites.
The idea for the training arose when Five Times a Feast participants at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, the program's very first host site, expressed interest in leading the program for more members of their neighborhood. In response, the Institute developed a course that equips coaches-to-be with skills and tools to help others be successful in the kitchen. The Institute also provides seed funding for ingredients and cooking equipment, and pairs coaches-in-training with mentors who support them throughout the process.
The enthusiasm of community members like Ardella "Diane" McCauley, one of the first cooking coaches, helped lay the foundation for the training's success. "Once I saw the kids really wanting to do it and they were eating and coming back for more, I felt a whole lot better," said McCauley, who ran her first Five Times a Feast session at Fulton Baptist Church in West Baltimore.
Typically held at Baltimore schools, churches, and other community sites, the hands-on program often attracts multiple generations. Together, they practice cooking skills and learn about nutrition, cooking on a budget, and kitchen safety. At the end of each session, they share a meal, and each household takes home five additional servings.
Through bold ideas like Five Times a Feast and its cooking coach training, the Institute for Integrative Health is building healthy communities with the support of its partners, donors, and volunteers.


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The Rest of the Questions
– an interview with Stephen Jenkinson
A podcast episode with Stephen Jenkinson at his farm in Canada, on topics like palliative care, death phobia, burial practices and the meat industry. We'll also hear Stephen describe his own brushes with death, and what they've done to his relationship with life.
I recently met and interviewed one of my biggest sources of inspiration, the poet, storyteller and author Stephen Jenkinson. (You can listen to that podcast episode here: "On Death and Dying – On Life and Living"). He was on tour in the UK and we met in Portsmouth after one of his gigs of the Grief and Mystery Tour. I had taken the train from Sweden to the UK to see him, and it was a two-day affair to get there. I used the travel time to re-read portions of his book Die Wise, and to formulate a whole lot of questions for the interview.
We had ample time, an hour and a half, for our meeting, but still I only got through a fraction of my questions. And now, two months later, I've decided to reach out and see if it'd be possible to do a followup interview. The only trouble is that I'm in Sweden and he in Canada. But with a little bit of willpower, technological wizardry and help from fantastic filmmaker Ian MacKenzie who, by some genious stroke of synchronicity, happened to be at Stephen's farm, we made a new meeting possible.
Watch the filmed version of this interview above. If you prefer the audio-only version, you'll find that below.
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If you're in North America during the fall of 2019, don't miss the Nights of Grief and Mystery tour.
Here you can watch a trailer for Nights of Grief and Mystery.
If you haven't yet seen Ian MacKenzie's short film Lost Nation Road about Stephen Jenkinson, Gregory Hoskins and the Nights of Grief and Mystery tour, you're in for a real treat!
You can watch more of Ian MacKenzies films here.
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