STOP and spend time in prayer based on the responses to these questions.
READ Isaiah 40:6-8. Summarize it in your own words.
Why does the Bible repeatedly need to revisit the sobering illustrations about our lives being fleeting like a fading flower or mist?
Does the fleeting nature of our lives or this world diminish the value of life? Why or why not?
What fleeting aspects of this world are you most prone to depend on too much?
What if God were not eternal? What problems does a non-eternal god present to our faith?
Why is being reminded of God's eternal, unchanging, constant nature good news for us facing a fading, fleeting life? List as many reasons as you can think of.
READ the following Scriptures to add to your good news list.
…there is radiant hope in God's eternal faithfulness.
How does the repetition in verse 11 highlight God's faithfulness?
How do the descriptions God uses about Himself differ between verse 10 and verse 11?
How is the combination of these descriptions more hope-stirring than just one or the other would be?
READ 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24. What makes this statement of God's faithfulness radically fantastic?
Who should you pray for, and perhaps contact, today that is under heavy struggle and/or sin? How could you reflect God's faithfulness and shepherding care to them?
In the midst of struggle and sin there is radiant hope in God's eternal constancy and faithfulness!


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Blizzard cut Massachusetts carbon emissions by 32%
January 28, 2015 Tim De Chant
During this week's blizzard, Massachusetts and several other states in the Northeast took the not-unprecedented measure of banning nonessential traffic from the roads. The official reason was to keep plows moving freely and prevent distracted drivers from sliding into ditch, but it also had an unintended consequence—the ban lowered the region's carbon emissions.
Every day, transportation pumps out just over 60,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts alone. That's about a third of the state's overall emissions, which total about 178,000 metric tons per day. In other words, taking cars off the road can have a considerable impact.
And it did, though it's not as straightforward as subtracting those 60,000 metric tons. While private cars weren't on the road, plenty of snowplows and other machinery are. Since they wouldn't be prowling about without a snowstorm, they mitigated the reduction. Statewide, there were about 5,000 pieces of equipment out dealing with the snow. As a ballpark estimate based on self-reported fuel use by snowplow drivers, they use about two gallons of fuel per hour and were split between gas and diesel. (Gas sold at service stations produces about 18 pounds of CO2 per gallon, diesel about 22 pounds, so we'll say 20 pounds on average.) So while 60,000 metric tons of emissions are eliminated with the ban, about 2,300 metric tons are added.
Work through the math and you see about 57,000 metric tons of emissions were reduced by the driving ban. So yesterday, Massachusetts produced about 32 percent less CO2 than it typically would have. Over the course of the year, that's a drop in the bucket. But for one day, we caught a unique glimpse of an automobile-free future.
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Q: Drawing and writing on image and save it I have images hosted on the server, and I would like develop some functionality to let the user have possibility to draw over the picture.
They need to write some text too, and, finally save the result as picture.
Finally, its a simple editor, but I don't find JavaScript library who permit it...
You can see an example of final result I need here : https://nsa40.casimages.com/img/2019/08/29/190829023122267348.jpg

A: You can achieve this with the Canvas API pretty easily.
Your images can be pulled into the canvas by creating a new Image object. The canvas API itself has a lot of methods for doing the things shown on the image (drawing shapes like ellipses and rasterising text).
Finally a canvas can be saved into a png using the toDataURL method.
I am sure if you dig around the internet, you will find there are already some libraries for these sorts of things. Possibly some keywords to try would be "image editing library JS" or something of that sort. Developing the functionality on your own should be ok if you follow some examples online for how to do each individual bit. Hope this helps :)

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A Teen's Response To Teen Vogue's "Abortion Gift Guide"
by Ruth KennedyAbortion, Morals & Values, Pro-Life, Value of Human Life
In sitting down to write on this video, I am more aware than I have ever been of how little there is to add to the excellent and well-reasoned words of 16-year-old Autumn from StudentsForLife.org. All I can say is, go, go and watch the video for yourself! Still, I want to add some additional thoughts to what she is saying.
The video is a response to an article described as a "Post-Abortion Gift Guide" in Teen Vogue, which you can read here, or not, depending on whether you really want to go there.
The idea of the article is to provide teens with gift ideas that they might offer their friend who has just had an abortion. Autumn quotes much of the article in her video response. The list of gifts for "post-abortion care" include a coloring book, chocolate, a heating pad shaped like an angry uterus, a "F U-terus" pin that you can wear and "high waisted period panties", so you can "rock em for post-abortion woes." I don't think I need to spell out much more than what is obvious both from the article and from Autumn's response: this is wrong on so many levels.
The grotesqueness of this article lies in its twistedness. Evil is a great plagiarizer, it replicates goodness, it repackages it so it looks caring on the outside, leaving the inside, at best, woefully inadequate and at worst, rotten inside. The pro-choice arguments in this article are clear. Presumably, they come from a caring place, but they stop damagingly and dangerously short. In no way am I advocating the article at all. Teen Vogue's lack of judgment is utterly irresponsible and their flippant, blasé and cozy language is callous.
However, I want to pick up on the irony of the things they so harmfully offer as some kind of solution and solace to abortion. The author writes that "abortion is something that many woman feel like they can't talk about, even amongst themselves, which creates a false stigma. The more we hide something, the more confusing it becomes." So, I want to say, yes! Let's talk about abortion, let's talk about abortion-after-care, precisely because abortion hurts women. Let's not hide it, because the truth of the hurt of abortion is so routinely suppressed that how can anyone openly express regret or pain over having had one?
Let's talk about shame, because no woman (or man, for that matter, let's not forget that men are hurt by abortion too) deserves to suffer the effects of abortion in silence. Let's talk about all that, not in order to give a "cute" toy or a flippant pin as a gift, but because people, real people, deserve better than abortion, better than silence, better than having a pregnancy surgically removed from a woman's body and then celebrated, or ignored, afterwards.
Let's talk to our teens about sex, relationships, contraception, and abortion precisely because not talking about it leaves a void so quickly filled by the world's view. "Just don't do it" is not enough: chastity is a much bigger yes than a negative rule, we need to make this case clear and appealing to them. We owe it to them to treat them with the intelligence they deserve, not to infantilize them, to respect them and their development, but to not leave them woefully unprepared to face a world where they are bombarded with sexual pressures on every side. We owe it to them to discuss what true freedom is, the freedom for all life to have the chance to make it to birth. We owe it to them to discuss the reasons behind abstinence (and I want to direct you to this excellent article on that matter, as a starting point), we owe it to them to offer them an alternative to the path of casual sex, the stress and toxicity of contraception and the objectification of themselves and their peers.
We don't owe them quick-fixes or an attitude that stands on the sidelines leaving them to sort out their own problems (see Matthew 7:9). We owe them this as adults. We owe them alternatives to abortion, and if they are hurting from an abortion, we owe them a lifetime of healing. Not an article suggesting one teen gives another a coloring book and some poetry.
Resources For Post-Abortion Healing
These resources can help bring you or a loved one to healing post-abortion, for God can make all things new. He loves you and wants nothing more than to embrace you into wholeness and recovery:
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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it is a wonder." – G. K. Chesterton As a child, I remember exploring in the woods for hours with my cousins, playing in the creek and climbing trees. I would get lost in my imagination and in the beauty of it all. As I got […]
This Is Your Invitation To Daily Mass
When you love someone, you don't just hang out with them once a week for Friday night dates. You want to be with them, in person, every moment you can. You don't need entertainment. You don't always need to understand each other or even say much. You just want to be with each other. Maybe […]
Discernment Of Spirits And Mental Health: The 3 Spirits At Work In Our Lives
I want to introduce two things to you- discernment of spirits as taught by St. Ignatius and Satan as the great accuser. St. Ignatius taught that there are three spirits at work in our lives. The first is the spirit of God. The idea is that we can tell which spirit is at work by the […]
This Lent, Take A Deeper Journey Through The Story Of Salvation
Salvation history has been called the most important story ever told—but even though it's the most important, it's surprising how few of us truly know it. Sure, we may recognize names like Abraham and Moses, David and Jesus. We may be able to pronounce locations like Canaan and Sinai, Judea and Galilee—maybe even Caesarea Philippi. Even so, […]
5 Things Even Devout Catholics Can Do To Go Deeper In Discipleship
As Catholics, we have a desire to know the Lord, to deepen our relationship with God. To somehow invite Jesus Christ, who pursues us each personally, into every part of our lives. I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is […]
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Utica Mayor Thom Dionne pictured here with a $500,000 legislative grant, awarded from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to build the new Pioneer Park.
Utica City Council has approved a proposal to include a dog park within the city's planned Pioneer Park. The park, still unofficially known as Pioneer Park, will be located to the north of Eppler Junior High School at the end of Hahn Street.
The city received a $500,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to use toward the land because it was previously a landfill and is now a brownfield development site. The money will be put toward developing the area as a recreational space.
Current plans for the proposed park include cleaning up the property, connecting it to the Iron Belle Trail, installing bathrooms, and improving Hahn Street.
The dog park will be located within the park and operate on a key fob entry system. The key fobs would have to be purchased, and the cost would go toward maintaining the park.
The idea for introducing a dog park in the City of Utica began as an Eagle Scout project planned by Utica High School student Charlie Borus. Borus presented the idea to the city back in April. Plans for the dog park include an area for off-leash play, obstacles for dogs, fencing, and an area for food and water for dogs and their owners. More may be added to the dog park as it is built.
Plans for the dog park and Pioneer Park are still being finished to ensure that it is both safe and effective for the city. The city welcomes the public at meetings to learn about the park's construction and to offer input on how the city will operate the park.
City council meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. The next meeting is on October 9. To learn more about the proposed plan, contact the city at 586-739-1600. City council meeting agendas and minutes are also available online at cityofutica.org/.
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DSS, Police, NSCDC at loggerheads in Osun
Africa-Press – Nigeria. There is currently a hot controversy between security agencies – Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Service (DSS), and Nigerian Security & Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), in Osun State.
The recent melee emerged after the report of the alleged abduction of a Bureau de Change operator in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, Bala Zakariyau by men of DSS and NSCDC emanated from the police.
On Friday, the Osun State Police Command paraded the prime suspect, one Ajibola Ogunibi, who told newsmen that he connived with DSS and NSCDC operatives to kidnap and demand ransom from a Bureau De Change operator.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, the state's Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, told DAILY POST the command did not confirm the identities of the alleged operatives of the DSS and NSCDC prior to the announcement.
The Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, Adigun Daniel, however, condemned the state police for not confirming the identities of the alleged operatives before releasing the information to the media, thus, added that the command was not aware of any arrest of its members before the parading.
Since Saturday, the sister agencies have been on loggerheads. A source in DSS told this medium that there is currently an underground rivalry between the police in the state and DSS which led to the announcement without first reaching out to the agencies involved.
The impeccable source further revealed that the Bureau de Change, Zakariyau, has recanted his claim that he was kidnapped in his statement with the command's DSS.
According to information filed to the DSS, Zakariyau was arrested by the security operatives in the Joint Task Force due to a deal involving a necklace he bought from a customer. But the Bureau de Change operator later reported to the police that the officers, led by his customer, kidnapped him and took some money from him, which prompted the police to go after the officers and arrest them, from their houses.
The security source said the refusal of the commissioner of police to inform sister agencies infuriated the NSCDC and DSS and they perceived the action of the police as deliberate. "The police have been competing with DSS in the state. The action of the police is intentional."
Complementing the claim, the NSCDC told this medium in a chat that there was no case of kidnapping, conspiracy or attempted murder added that the operation was a business operation that went wrong.
Adigun revealed that the men involved were later released on Sunday for further investigation. "Investigation is still ongoing to ascertain the Genuity of the operation that happened even on the so-called businessman Bala Zakariyahu."
Contacting the spokesperson of the police command, SP Yemisi Opalola said she could not react to the case, adding that the operatives were paraded by the state's commissioner of police himself.
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This is the key to the Star's dressing room from a Boston nightclub called Blinstrub's, which burned to the ground in February of 1968.
My dad's band was one night into a multi-night engagement when the club burned down. It happened after hours, so the place was empty and no one was hurt, but all of my dad's band's equipment and stage clothes were destroyed. (Jimmy Durante was scheduled to be the next act in the club, and his gear had arrived ahead of him and was also destroyed.) My dad and his fellow band members had been given the keys to the dressing room, however, which they kept.
The keys were later made into cufflinks, which the band members wore for a long time after. Eventually the soldered-on cufflink post from this key broke off. I came across it in a drawer about 30 years ago and threw it on my key ring. I've had it ever since.


The belief that the Aryan race (Caucasian, Blonde-hair, blue-eyed Northern Europeans) are better than other human races (especially, in regards to the Jewish race).
What did the Aryans do?
They took power in Dasyu territory and destroyed stone forts in northwest India and Pakistan.
What did the Aryans have to do with the Holocaust?
What is the definition of Aryans?
here is one definition for Aryans no longer in technical use but there are a lot of other definitions for this word.
What are the Aryans know as?
Who were the Aryans. What did they do?
They were a race and tribe in ancient India. Later on, the word wasused in Nazi Germany to describe the blonde and blue-eyed 'pureGermanic' race.


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With the new StarTrek movie slated to launch this summer it got me to thinking about captain Kirk's sideburns and fast salon financing. Have you ever noticed the shape? I've never seen anyone wearing their sideburns in this way even after all these years. You'd think someone on the street would be "sportin" those sideburns.
The gentleman responsible for that look was Richard Mendoza, the wig master. The slant of the sideburns was created to distract from William Shatner's toupee; and it worked. With the new Star Trek movie coming out it would be a good idea for a salon to build on the popularity and run some sort of marketing campaign to piggy bank off of the following. Smallbusinessfunding.com would be the perfect source to find fast salon financing to launch an intensive and elaborate marketing campaign for salon owners. Fast Salon financing would enable the salon owner to concentrate on their business and not worry about where or how to pay for marketing. Salon financing sources other than traditional banks provide the service of funding capital fast, with little documentation, and pay backs over a relatively short period of time. Banks cannot provide this as they take months to approve and fund a salon. This industry is fast paced and requires the "eyes" of the salon owner at all times. There is a lot of cash flying around and in cash intensive businesses you cannot have distractions. Small Business Funding takes all the time and leg work away from the owner. We go to work on their behalf to secure financing fast with terms that they can live with. No personal guarantees, little documentation, fast funding, and easy daily payments makes this a no brainer for salon's to find fast financing for any reason.Fast Salon financing in the alternative arena will cost more for the merchant but one must look past relative interest rates and consider the cost of money, which is what type of loan this is. What will this money do for my business? That is the question to ask.
If your a salon owner needing fast salon financing check us out. Apply for a small business loan today.
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import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;
import org.junit.Test;
import au.com.breakpoint.hedron.core.MaxCounter;
import au.com.breakpoint.hedron.core.log.Logging;

public class MaxCounterTest
{
    @Test
    public void testGetResults ()
    {
        // Profiling wrapper. Timed wrapper for the inserts and the stored proc.
        final MaxCounter ts1 = MaxCounter.of ("ts1");
        final MaxCounter ts2 = MaxCounter.of ("ts2");

        for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
        {
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            {
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    public void testnewInstance ()
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Living a #WasteNot life: What to know about composting, kombucha and canning
Cheryl Makin
Editor's note: This story is part of our on-going #WasteNotNJ series on reducing food waste in New Jersey.
Common thinking that living a #WasteNot life takes a lot of effort is a myth, said longtime friends Carol Bergman of Old Bridge and Teresa Maltz of Tinton Falls.
In recent years, their shared interest in living sustainability and as waste-free as possible has led them to activities such as kombucha-making, gardening, composting and canning.
These methods of preserving sustainability and wasting less in terms of food have become more than trendy and retro actions of the millennial generation. Preserving, composting and fermenting are ways to save and re-purpose food from the refrigerator and garden that hearken back generations.
"It intrigued me to learn all of this. My mother's family did this kind of thing for years," said Bergman. "They were farmers. They always recycled. They always did compost, but it wasn't such a formal thing like we are doing because they had a lot of property. They didn't have garbage trucks back then, so they had to reduce the garbage. It was a way of living. It had to be."
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While it can be time consuming, the different methods of food preservation — fermentation, preserving, canning, freezing and composting — can be economically rewarding, said Rachel Weston, a Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County master gardener.
"When you get a large amount of fruit and freeze or can it and make it into a product you want to use, it will be a fraction of the cost you would pay at the supermarket or for an artisan vendor to make that product," said Weston, who also is a chef and culinary instructor with Elijah's Promise of New Brunswick and the author of "New Jersey Fresh: Four Seasons from Farm to Table (American Palate)." "Canning and preserving started to get trendier when the economy kinda tanked in 2007-2008. There was a whole little moment going back to these techniques because everybody was broke. I've seen a really big bump in people who are interested and becoming competent in this."
#WasteNot, want not
Certified organic Profeta Farms on Route 202 in Readington is a "full-diet farm" promoting healthier eating. According to COO and co-founder John Place, Profeta Farms aims to create a one-stop shopping experience where consumers can purchase all their food grown by the farm. This includes produce, beef, pork, chicken and eggs and dairy products as well as grains for milling for in bakery and prepared items such as jams, pickles and sauerkraut.
"The more that we can capture nutrient-wise out of any given item, the less land, water, fuel — whatever resource you want to list — are needed to feed a given population," he said. "On a given year, I can only grow so many things on an acre of land if half of that is getting wasted in someone's refrigerator. That is just additional acreage needed to feed that same person."
Peace, love and composting
A natural recycling system, composting is a biological process that turns organic material into a dark rich substance, known as compost or humus. It then acts as a soil enhancer or conditioner. Both Maltz and Bergman collect kitchen scraps — eggshells, fruit and vegetable remnants and peels, coffee grinds, tea leaves and the like — as well as yard waste such as leaves and grass cuttings for use in their outdoor composting bins.
"I'm at the point now where I can use compost from my finished bins to use in my raised beds. I can use it for my soil seed starters," Maltz said.
Bergman has a kitchen compost container that she then transfers the contents to her outdoor composting bin. This not only has cut down on the actual weekly garbage output, but has improved their soil for their gardens as well.
"When I started recycling using compost and making sure I was recycling everything I was supposed to, my actual garbage was reduced to one-fourth," Bergman said.
"As I've evolved with it I've been able to learn more and practice more," said Maltz, who has been composting for more than 20 years. "It started out simple and we have added more and more composting techniques to make it a better process."
Dehydration, canning and preserving
Weston has long been interested in sustainability, growing her own food and preservation. Initially, she focused, preservation-wise, on freezing. But after Hurricane Sandy hit her shore home and she was without power for 14 days, Weston said she began learning the art of canning with local artisanal jam maker Kim Osterhoudt of Jams by Kim of Hillsborough.
Weston also is a big fan of dehydration, which she calls "a gateway" to other methods of preservation and a good place for people to start. One of the oldest methods of food preservation, dehydration in food processing is the means where many types of food can be preserved for indefinite periods of time by removing the moisture. This inhibits the growth of bacteria, yeast and mold.
"It's good because you can do it with your oven, you can do it with your microwave, air dry or get a $30 dehydrator," she said. "You can make sun-dried tomatoes and dry your herbs, apple slices, peach chips. Last year, I made something called watermelon bacon. There is so many different things you can do whether you are preserving fruits, vegetables, herbs in a variety of different methods."
Weston said many of her recipes come from Philadelphia area cookbook author Marisa McClellan, her books and website Food in Jars.
"She has a lot of good recipes for smaller batches," Weston said. "So you are not making huge quantities, which can be off-putting."
Maltz also makes her own jams and preserves. This activity started as her interest in sustainability and living sustainably grew.
Additionally, Bergman and Maltz agreed that preserving is healthier.
"It's nice that you are not dealing with the preservatives and additives," Maltz said. "No added sugars. With the jams, there is sugar, but I make allowances for that."
The art of the 'booch
Lately, Bergman and Maltz have been practicing the art of making kombucha or 'booch' as it is affectionately called. Besides kombucha — fermented tea — being trendy, Maltz said, it has "innumerable health benefits." Created through a fermentation process that involves both bacteria and yeast, kombucha is flavorful and a bit fizzy and is packed with probiotics, vitamins, amino acids and digestive enzymes.
"It helps your gut health," Bergman said. "Digestion and inflammation."
"It is also supposed to have some immune enhancing properties," Maltz said. "It has an immunity boost. It's good for detoxification, healthy joints, reduces the pancreatic load and eases the burden of your liver."
"Either you will really like it, or you don't," Maltz said. "I tend to like the fruity ones, but many people like the savory ones as well."
The steps are simple and straightforward. Make tea, either green or black with caffeine. Add one cup of sugar and/or honey and dilute it in the tea. Let it cool. Put four cups of tea in a big jug. Add a gallon of filtered water. Put the SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, with some of its original brew on top. Cover with a cheesecloth and place in a dark, warm place for 10 to 14 days. Every two weeks, they bottle another batch.
"It is fun," Bergman said. "It was a little intimidating at first, but then now it's pretty easy. I'm still working on getting my favors more pronounced. I'm still tweaking. The bottling part is when you get to be a bit creative."
Weston said fermentation as a whole has become very popular. Lacto-fermentation is the act of taking the product — such as a raw vegetable — adding salt and seasonings and making something such as sauerkraut and kimchi. The process of lacto-fermentation happens when the starches and sugars in vegetables and fruit convert to lactic acid.
"This would probably the third or fourth technique someone would want to take on, just because it can get trickier," Weston said. "It's not unsafe and it's a thousands and thousands of years old technique, but it can definitely make people feel a little more uncomfortable. Just like canning can make people feel a little uncomfortable because of botulism. Those risks are pretty minimal. You always need to follow the recipes. You cannot switch the cooking times or the type of sweetener or the amount of sweetener or amount of salt. The sugar and the salt are what are acting as the preservatives in those recipes so if you change those ratios there is a chance you could get an unsafe product."
Homesteading farmers
Profeta Farms was co-founded by Paul Profeta, a commercial real estate investor, his wife Joanne Malino, a certified Integrative Nutrition counselor, and Place, a first-generation farmer with an agricultural degrees from University of Delaware.
"Anyone who is serious about their food spends a ton of time hopping from one place to another picking everything up," Place said. "So we are trying to create a more convenient solution that has the integrity and the transparency that we are concerned with."
On the farm itself, Place, who also owns a full-service dairy farm in Pennsylvania, said they approach food preservation as "homesteading farmers."
"We grow a lot of what we eat," Place said. "We are trying to preserve the harvest. And we are also trying to enhance the harvest with fermentation. We make a lot of fermented products for the health benefits associated with them. And once you start going down this rabbit hole of healthy eating, you start chipping away deeper and deeper until you are making your own soap and sauerkraut and toothpaste and everything else."
Place said he and his wife started getting into preservation because they needed to support themselves on their family farm.
"We had to put away the harvest so we could use it the rest of the year," he said. "And then also educating ourselves in the health benefits gave us better resolve...and it's delicious. What tastes better — cabbage or kraut? If we have a chicken at home, we eat the meat and then pick it clean and the carcass goes in a pot that night with onions and carrots and celery and slow cooks and we have bone broth."
Profeta Farms is at 803 Route 202 in Readington. For more information, call 908-237-1301 or visit profetafarms.com.
For more information on programs offered by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County's Agriculture office, call at 732-398-5260 or call 732-398-5262 for the E.A.R.T.H. Center or visit www.middlesexcountynj.gov and search "extension." For information about the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County, go to http://somerset.njaes.rutgers.edu/ or call 908-526-6295.
Staff Writer Cheryl Makin: 732-565-7256; cmakin@gannettnj.com
More #WasteNotNJ coverage:
Americans waste nearly half their food. How can we reduce food waste in New Jersey?
#WasteNot for CFET: an evening of farm-to-fork tastings, farm tours, and community conversation about reducing food waste
Food waste in NJ: Leftover foods used to help those who are left out


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OTHER FEATURED WORK
Creative Writing in Palliative Care
Expressive Writing Workshops in Iraq
NEWS AND RECORDINGS
Creative Writing as Social Practice
Dr. Siobhan Campbell is an academic and consultant in post-conflict, recovering, and contested environments, providing humanities-based interventions to support social cohesion, capacity building and the development of civic imagination.
The humanities create a natural network linking writers, cultural policy makers, social justice advocates, academics, diplomats and others, all pursuing new intersections for the arts in society. Her research investigates how applications of creative and expressive writing pedagogy can play a role in the reclamation and development of civic imagination through work with refugees, military veterans, human rights defenders and charities. The projects look at how participatory writing practice can enable participants to recognise their own personal potential as well as their potential for creating cultural cohesion, particularly after divisive conflicts, involuntary displacement or traumatic events.
Research Trajectory
Understandings of writing practice as enabling cultural resilience emerged in work with military veterans and families via Combat Stress UK and SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen Family Association) while Associate Professor at Kingston University London. Workshops with veterans supported by a grant (HEFCE) and aid-in-kind (CSUK) generated outputs including publications, an exhibition and an archive. This work received top plaudits for the reach and significance of its impact in REF 2014 (see http://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies2/refservice.svc/GetCaseStudyPDF/40629).
Funded work in story-gathering includes 'Mapping Jabal al-Natheef', Jordan, 2013, supported by the Ruwwad Arab Foundation for Sustainable Development and the Heinrich-Boll foundation and working with settled refugees in life-writing and providing story-gathering training to the international group of architects and urban planners in interviewing residents. ('Protocols and responses to interviewing-in-place' in Jabal Al Natheef, ed. Arini C.P., Heinrich-Boll Stiftung Palestine/Jordan, 2013).
Investigating the applications of narrative practice continued with the Beyond Borders/ Foreign and Commonwealth Office Human Rights initiative in the 'Beyond do no harm' project with Dr. Meg Jensen, investigating the place of expressive life-writing in post-conflict situations and in collaborating with mobile human rights project groups. This work is underpinned by a DPC Diploma (Dialogue for Peaceful Change) undertaken by invitation under the auspices of EU post-conflict funding which looks at DPC processes as related to writing workshop process with adjudicated ex-prisoners.
Expanding the field of investigation, having joined The Open University, Siobhan has worked to consolidate the protocols and practices of expressive writing pedagogy in life-writing for work with post-conflict victims of sexual and other violence leading to The Expressive Life-Writing Handbook (2016) now used by the FCO's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programme and in a 'training the trainers' scheme where the Fellows of the Gulf Reconstruction initiative have trained in the uses of writing workshops in enabling cultural story-telling. The Expressive Life Writing and Telling protocols and practices are now in use in the UNDP SIRI project Iraq.
In 2017, the all-party report Creative Health - the Arts for Health and Wellbeing - emphasized the importance of imaginative and creative work for those affected by illness, care-giving or displacement. In 2017/8, Siobhan is leading a pilot project with Trinity Hospice London, working with those in palliative care as well as volunteers and bereaved relatives. The project will explore whether creative writing and expressive writing has a place in recovery, particularly with a view to making art that can enter the wider culture.
Siobhan is also working with a nurse practitioner based at an NHS Trust in Hartlepool to explore creative writing practice with patients and advocate groups.
Siobhan can be contacted at Siobhan.Campbell@open.ac.uk or via this website.
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Let's Stop Talking About the Shooters and Start Talking About the Heroes
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By Dagny Taggart
It's a been a heartbreaking last few weeks here in the United States, with mass shootings occurring on July 28, August 3, and August 4.
What is becoming of our nation? The US continues to rank disturbingly low on the Global Peace Index scale, coming in at 128 out of 163 countries. The US is home to five of the world's most violent cities.
Despite these grim statistics, fewer violent crimes are occurring in the US overall.
But there is still a tremendous amount of room for improvement.
Mass shootings seem to be here to stay.
The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the US, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time. By that criteria, there have been 255 mass shootings in this country so far in 2019. To put this in perspective, today is the 217th day in 2019.
We've had more mass shootings than days this year.
Mass shootings are not anything new. They have been occurring since at least the 1920s. There is no standard, widely-accepted definition for what constitutes a mass shooting, which makes gathering accurate statistics challenging. Some sources say these events are occurring more frequently, some say they aren't – and still others say they are happening less often but are more deadly now.
But it doesn't really matter, does it? The fact that they happen at all is deeply troubling.
In the wake of a tragedy, it is easy to find ourselves slipping into feelings of desolation and hopelessness. While it is important to study the minds of mass shooters and others who are prone to violence for the sake of preventing tragedies, it is also important to take some time to recognize the courageous individuals who step in to help during these events.
I know that many people believe these mass shootings are false flags (and it certainly is possible that at least some of them are), but for the purpose of this article, we will take things at face value, and focus on people who try to help others during these incidents.
I feel it is important to mention that I am personally very pro-gun rights. Many people tend to blame guns for these tragedies rather than the individuals who committed the atrocities. I think that is a copout – it is easier to blame inanimate objects and call for the government to do something (typically in the form of useless gun control laws – since when do criminals obey laws?) than it is to take a deep look at the possible root causes of these horrible crimes. What drives people to mass murder? What can be done to reduce or eliminate these events? Those are tough questions that do not have simple answers.
Guns are not the problem – people are – but that is a complex topic that is beyond the scope of this article.
While mass shootings expose us to the worst of humanity, they also expose us to the best – the brave people who put their own lives on the line to save others.
There are still a lot of good people out there.
Glendon Oakley, a 22-year-old Army serviceman, was shopping at the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso on Saturday morning when a child ran up to him and said there was a shooter at the nearby Walmart. Oakley said he didn't take the boy's claims seriously at first, but knew it was real when he began to hear gunfire. He said he immediately went into combat mode and began to grab as many children as he could to get them out of harm's way, reports ABC News:
"I did that because that's what I was trained to do. That is what the military has taught me to do," he told reporters Sunday. "But I really want you guys to focus on the people that are actually grieving through this. Yes, I'm grieving, but I'm not the one that lost a family member. Yes, it feels like I have lost one. But they are the ones that need to be the [focus]."
Oakley refused to offer details about the "tragic" scene he witnessed, but he called it "the worst thing" he's ever seen.
"I'm not describing anything," he said. "I didn't get any sleep last night. I don't want to think about what happened because it was tragic. I'm telling you this was the worst thing I've ever been through in my life. And I don't want to keep having flashbacks of what happened." (source)
Yesterday, Oakley addressed the media. The first five minutes or so of the interview is a bit erratic, but stick with it – it is worth it.
Every bit of Oakley's interview moved me, but I found this bit remarkable:
"Don't be afraid to put others before yourself."
We could use more of that mentality, couldn't we?
Surely there were others who stepped up to help out during this event, like this woman:
A Walmart employee told KTSM in El Paso that she was working by the self-checkout when gunshots rang out.
The employee, who only wanted to be identified by her first name, Leslie, said she initially thought boxes had been dropped.
"I thought it was just like loud boxes being dropped or something, until they got closer and closer," she said. "That's when I looked at my co-worker, and we looked at each other like shocked and scared."
"I got all the people that I could, I even found a little girl that was missing from her parents, and I got her, too. I tried to get as many people as I could out," the Walmart worker said. (source)
In times of crisis, many people DO snap into survival and protection mode and help others.
Heroes have emerged during past tragedies as well.
The following individuals demonstrated extraordinary courage in the face of danger. Some made the ultimate sacrifice, losing their own lives to save others.
As shots fired inside a synagogue outside San Diego in April, Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, put herself in between the shooter and the rabbi and died as a result. Oscar Stewart charged the shooter and chased him into the parking lot. Jonathan Morales shot four bullets into the shooter's car, and he and Stewart were able to get the man's license plate number as he sped away.
Riley Howell, 21, was fatally shot when he charged a gunman who burst into a University of North Carolina-Charlotte lecture room carrying a pistol on April 30.
In May, at a STEM school in Denver, Colorado, Kendrick Castillo, 18, lunged at a fellow student who had pulled a gun in class, giving his classmates time to take cover. He was the lone student killed in the attack. Brendan Bialy also helped subdue the gunman. "Brendan's courage and commitment to swiftly ending this tragic incident at the risk of his own safety is admirable and inspiring," Capt. Michael Maggitti said in a statement. "His decisive actions resulted in the safety and protection of his teachers and fellow classmates."
When a gunman walked into a Waffle House and opened fire in April 2018, James Shaw Jr waited for the right moment to tackle the man. Shaw was able to wrestle the gun out of the shooter's hands – and stopped the murderer from killing more people. Four people were killed by the shooter. Shaw started a GoFundMe campaign for the victims' families and raised $241,731 – far more than his goal of $15,000.
Juan Carlos Nazario and Bryan Whittle, two armed citizens, gunned down a shooter outside an Oklahoma City restaurant in May of 2018.
Stephen Willeford stopped a man who shot 46 people (26 of them died) at a Texas church in 2017. Willeford opened fire on the shooter and hit him twice before the murderer took off in an SUV. Willeford then jumped inside a vehicle driven by Johnnie Langendorff, who gave chase until Kelley's Ford Explorer hit a stop sign 10 miles away, lost control and veered into a ditch, where he shot himself in the head.
In 2018, Jason Seaman, a middle school science teacher, tackled a student who walked into his classroom and fired shots. Seaman and one student were injured during the incident, but no one was killed.
Anthony Borges was shot five times during the Parkland school shooting. He was 15 at the time. Borges barricaded a classroom door and used his body as a shield as the bullets flew, protecting a class full of students from harm. Aaron Feis, 37, worked as an assistant football coach and security guard at the school. Feis threw himself in front of students to shield them from bullets. He was shot and later died during surgery. Several other teachers and school staff took action to protect students during the massacre. (Meanwhile, the Coward of Broward County, Scot Peterson, did nothing to stop the shooting, despite being employed as a school security officer.)
Are mass shootings causing psychological changes in Americans?
In the article The Hero Solution to the Mass-Shooting Contagion, David French observes that we're now remembering the heroes' names more than the shooters. "The shooters failed in two of their core missions — to kill large numbers of victims and achieve enduring fame. And if they keep failing, I wonder . . . could the mass-shooting contagion finally start to break?" he writes.
But I do wonder if the sheer number of mass killings has caused a psychological change in a segment of the American people. I do wonder if "fight" is replacing "flight" in enough American hearts that immediate and courageous resistance becomes the norm – and that killers will start to understand that they'll have to instantly battle one or more raging, charging men before they can complete their terrible, deadly work.
And if we can continue to honor and elevate the heroes at the same time that we ignore the killer, so that they don't enjoy the infamy of their predecessors, perhaps we can start to change the psychology of a dreadful national moment. (source)
French concludes,
The killer? He should either die or rot away in anonymity. Take away his fame, take away his victims, and you just might take away his purpose. If so, we'll have men like Riley Howell and Kendrick Castillo to thank. They didn't just save lives; they're inspiring a change in American hearts. (source)
I think French is onto something. I refuse to give mass shooters the notoriety they seem to crave, which is why I omitted their names from this article.
Let's focus on the heroes – their courage should be appreciated and serve as inspiration for all of us.
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Do you think would-be mass murderers will think twice about shooting up public places if they think they will face resistance? Do you know of any heroes I have forgotten to mention here? How do you think you'd react during a mass shooting event? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
Dagny Taggart is the pseudonym of an experienced journalist who needs to maintain anonymity to keep her job in the public eye. Dagny is non-partisan and aims to expose the half-truths, misrepresentations, and blatant lies of the MSM.
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I kind of lost sight of what episodes the crew is working on right now - there's so much going on! While the promo continued at full speed, we didn't get that many pictures as in the weeks before. Some showed a new set or set equipment like this fog horn.
Chris Payne Gilbert shared a nice pic of George Eads preparing his lines. Lucas Till posted an interesting picture of himself "wreaking havoc". MacGyver shooting an automated weapon? *gasp*. Lucas was quick to add that New MacGyver still doesn't use guns. My guess is this is a BtS from the Pilot Episode where we get to see bikini-clad women shooting Ninjas off a tank. (You will know soon why that is.) On the same day, Lucas shared a picture of his bomb-defusal suit - and he wasn't the only one following the dresscode.
Script Writer Brian Durkin sent greetings from the Writer's Office and revealed what bike he's riding at the moment.
On September 22, Aina Dumlao shared the news that she's back on set - watching MacGyver episodes in her trailer. There's worse homework than watching original MacGyver, right?
Promo is still hitting the state fairs - recently in Oklahoma. But the main promo consists of previews and sneak peek videos.
CBS distributed many videos to various outlets this week. To list a few: We got to see a BtS-Video of the stunt work with Stunt Coordinator Jeff Wolfe. One video let us "get to know the stars" a bit better while ET Canada shared another Featurette with short interviews on set.
CBS also helped us to freshen up our knowledge about MacGyver's 7 Notorious Tools (as if we wouldn't remember) and to decide which episodes of classic MacGyver to watch before the premiere - the cast and crew's favorites, of course: "Trumbo's World" (Lucas), "The Heist" (Tristin Mays) and "Partners" (James Wan).
On September 20, Yahoo! posted an amazing fake title opening sequence they had edited together for fun. It's actually a recreation of the original title sequence that many people mistook as the real deal. Only hours later, Entertainment Weekly posted the official new title sequence - and squashed the excitement of many fans.
I'm glad the reboot gets a "real" opening sequence (and not just the title for five seconds like other modern TV shows). I love that they kept the focus on MacGyver's hands instead of the character's faces. I kinda like the music although it sure isn't as memorable as the original. But this opening is not as much fun as it could have been - especially not if you compare it to Yahoo's fan-made title sequence *sigh*.
Several reviews of the Pilot Episode have made the rounds now and they keep coming in. Some are quite harsh; e.g. the reviews by Variety or The Hollywood Reporter. Others are more "meh" about it; e.g. Collider or USA Today. I liked the review by Your Entertainment Corner - it is critical, but fair and rather points out the strong and weak points instead of just bashing on it. Another very nice one is the review by Cinemablend which comments some more on the characters and the performances.
As Justin Hires reveals, press days and doing interview rounds for TV is hard work, but can also be very fun and practical. With the help of journalists at Yahoo and TV Guide, the cast managed to escape one of the famous Escape Rooms. Of course they did; it's MacGyver!
Central Casting Georgia has made more casting calls; e.g. for onlookers of a crime scene, for people to work in flashback scenes to the 1970's, for a SWAT guy and for downscale and dented neighborhood cars.
India Batson shared the news that her scene as Tiffany was cut from the pilot episode. Seems like some of the bikini-babes didn't fulfill their Shooting-Ninjas-off-Tanks-quota. Hopefully, there's DVD extras for people who were looking forward to see her.
On September 22, SpoilerTV revealed the press release for Episode 3 ("Awl"): Team MacGyver will travel to Malaysia to extract a terrorist groups' money man who holds key intel to an impending attack.
As I stated in my very first blog post about the reboot, I'm not a fan of reboots or remakes in general and I don't like that many of the shows on TV right now. This so-called reimagination sure has its flaws and problems. Some of them because the reboot is set in modern times, others because of the creation and background stories of certain characters. I'm also not very fond of the Team MacGyver concept because it's the typical team formula you get to see on television all the time.
Of course, it's not that easy to satisfy fans of the old show. Yet I do think this reboot can be fun if you don't compare it too much to the original and to the iconic character that Richard Dean Anderson created over the course of 7 seasons. It's a good thing that a new generation will also get to see a hero like MacGyver, even if he's different.
Also, with the buzz going on on social media (Forbes states that along with "This is Us", MacGyver gets the most buzz of all the fall tv premieres), it's nice to see that so many people are fans of the old show. The reboot will inspire people to check out the original, regardless if they liked the new version or not.
I don't know when and if I get to see the Pilot Episode - living in Switzerland has its perks, but not when it comes to brand new American TV Shows. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to discuss the episodes and to keep up with the production.
Interesting that the reboot is getting the second most buzz of any new show. I hadn't heard that. Only 11 hours as of my typing till we get our first look. Crossing my fingers but keeping expectations low.
I was also quite surprised, especially since they only included data from May to August. Interestingly, it felt to me like the most buzz was in April, May and September. I'm curious what ranking September would produce!
I was one of those fooled by the "fake" theme and was initially really excited only to be later bummed out that it wasn't being used as the "real" theme. I hope you get a chance to watch it in Switzerland!
Yes, the fan-made theme got me all excited at first; so mean... But now after reading the new Interview with Lenkov and Wan, I'm happy they insisted to have opening credits theme music at all!


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How TfL is mapping relationships for better results
How TfL is mapping relationships for better results...
The Cambridge Business Ecosystem Mapping Framework, developed by the Cambridge Service Alliance at the IfM, enables identification of value relationships between members of an ecosystem, and analysis of how that value could be increased for mutual benefit. The framework was recently applied to a large public sector project, mapping the ecosystem of Transport for London and its stakeholders. We talked with Dr Florian Urmetzer to find out more.
On any Friday evening, London's Leicester Square tube station is a throng of activity. Office workers head home after a long week, crossing paths with shoppers, tourists, theatre-goers, and those heading to restaurants, bars and clubs to start to their weekend. In a short space of time, thousands of other people come and go, relying on the tube to help them reach their destinations.
Like all the underground stations across London's bustling West End, Leicester Square forms part of a transport network that is the arterial system for the life blood flowing around the local economy. West End businesses, restaurants, theatres, shops, hotels and museums rely on this transport corridor, as do the institutions of government and state extending down towards Westminster.
All these varied commuter destinations represent local organisations, which are part of the 'ecosystem' of the West End's transport network. They are stakeholders who would be affected by changes to the operation of the London Underground.
So as Transport for London (TfL) plans its improvement projects in the West End, how might it better understand its ecosystem, and consider how the organisations within it are likely to be impacted?
And in doing so, could it identify ways to work more effectively with the organisations within the ecosystem, and find opportunities for mutual increases in value?
Business ecosystems and value creation
A business ecosystem is a network of interdependent organisations and individuals. Any company needs to work alongside other bodies: suppliers, competitors, partners, complementary firms, policy makers, customers, and other stakeholders. Ecosystem organisations interact in ways which include both competition and cooperation.
Significantly, there are exchanges of value within a business ecosystem, in terms of how organisations can benefit each other. Dr Florian Urmetzer of the Cambridge Service Alliance (CSA) explains:
"Different types of value can be created and captured within an ecosystem. We distinguish between direct value exchanges, which usually involve money changing hands, and indirect value exchanges which are non-financial."
Value exchanges change at different stages of a project. If managers can pinpoint project stages when particular relationships are critical, they can better assess how they could be strengthened for mutually beneficial results. In order to do this, the relationships need to be identified and mapped.
CSA researchers have developed the Cambridge Ecosystem Mapping Framework to facilitate this. As Florian explains:
"What we try to do is explore the question of how managers perceive the complexity in their value relationships. We then ask how this complexity can be used, described, and harnessed to provide better service or outcomes."
Developed initially with private sector partners, would the framework be applicable to large public sector infrastructure projects? TfL's West End Corridor (WEC) project provided an excellent opportunity to test this out.
The WEC project considers a range of underground stations critical to long-term performance of the network in the West End. Previous TfL studies have looked at individual stations to consider delivery of capacity improvements and step-free access. But TfL wanted to look at the area more holistically, developing a plan which considered stations across the area as well as other forms of public transport and the needs of the West End and the wider city.
West End tube maps?
Through focus group discussions led by a CSA researcher, the WEC project team created a visual representation of the ecosystem, and mapped the direct value transfers within it.
The Cambridge Ecosystem Mapping Framework involves nine steps:
The first step, defining the end customer, helped the WEC team to specify the beneficiaries of transport improvement. In addition to the direct benefits of a better service for fare-paying customers, the team could identify customers in a broader sense to include those who would benefit economically or socially from transport improvements.
Next the ecosystem members were identified and clustered – with 64 members in 13 clusters representing internal TfL teams, local community and community actors, financing organisations, infrastructure deliverers and public institutions. Ecosystem members include local, regional and national political players such as the Greater London Authority, Secretary of State, MPs, local councillors and the Mayor of London. It also includes other statutory bodies such as the British Transport Police, London Fire Brigade and the Environment Agency.
In step 4, the team mapped out connections between members. This led them to highlight an important aspect of public sector projects: the approvals process. As Jennifer Henderson of TfL explains:
"In terms of stakeholder requirements, public sector projects bring with them extensive requirements for approval and accountability, often with multiple layers of influence and decision making. Ultimately they demand accountability to the voter and tax payer."
Thus they identified two key types of direct value exchange. Direct financial transactions flow to stakeholders who are providing a service. Additionally, there are stakeholders with a more strategic relationship – identified by the additional direct transaction of approval. Both types of transactions change at different stages of the project.
Delivery stage – financial transactions
Delivery stage – approval transactions
Building value in key relationships: TfL and the Mayor of London
The transactions maps made it easier for the WEC team to identify the key relationships and transfers of value at each stage of the project. They could then investigate 'ecosystem innovations': strategies to develop those key relationships to increase the value for both parties.
As a starting point, the team chose to focus on the relationship between itself and the Mayor of London. TfL is responsible for delivering the Mayoral Transport Strategy. Given that the Mayor holds elected office for a four year term, the team found that connecting its own project planning to the Mayoral electoral terms provided better strategic alignment and could increase value for both parties.
How would this work? The project team identified opportunities to phase delivery of project elements within the timeframe of Mayoral terms. There are benefits to the Mayor through enhanced public perception, by demonstrating an ability to deliver on promises made to the electorate. There is also potential for better alignment of transport projects with other Mayoral goals such as housing, air quality and public health initiatives.
In return, the value benefits to WEC would be increased likelihood of support and approval from the Mayoral Office. In turn, this would also lead to greater likelihood of funding and support from other parties.
The team also identified that Mayoral support early in the project is likely to lead to more efficient delivery and therefore reduced costs. Conversely, failure to build strategic alignment creates a disconnect between TfL and Mayor, and is likely to lead to value slippage in cost and delivery.
In summary, mapping and understanding this pivotal relationship has uncovered innovations that can be created for better strategic alignment. Similar analysis of other key relationships is also likely to demonstrate opportunities for creating and capturing increased transfer of value in the ecosystem.
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The second step toward the new computing is inclusiveness, what I call Universal Usability, enabling all citizens to succeed in using information and communication technologies to support their tasks. This goal leads to designs that support users with new or old computers, fast or slow network connections, and small or large screens. It should make possible participation not only by young and old, novice and expert, able and disabled, but also those yearning for literacy, overcoming insecurities, and coping with various limitations. Responding to these digital divide challenges will take hard work, but we have come to learn that diversity promotes quality. Accommodating diversity pushes designers to produce higher quality for all users.
Emphasis mine because, well, damn.
This post was originally published at http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/entry/the-second-step-is-inclusiveness.
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Saints Sign Entire Draft Class
May 10th, 2019 at 10:34am CST by Zach Links
That's a wrap! On Friday, the Saints announced that they have signed their entire draft class:
2-48: Erik McCoy, OL (Texas A&M)
4-105: Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, S (Florida)
6-177: Saquan Hampton, S (Rutgers)
7-231: Alize Mack, TE (Notre Dame)
7-244: Kaden Elliss, LB (Idaho)
All players will receive four-year deals. But, naturally, McCoy gets the biggest payout of the bunch. His draft slot at No. 48 overall gives him almost $6.1MM in total, with a signing bonus of nearly $2.5MM.
McCoy spent three years as the Aggies' starting center, but he also made a pair of starts at guard in 2017. With the Saints, McCoy is expected to compete for the starting center job, though he could theoretically see time at left or right guard.
The Saints had a condensed draft class this year, due in part to the two trades they made to land McCoy and Gardner-Johnson. Last year, Gardner-Johnson made 71 tackles, nine tackles for loss, three sacks, and came away with a team-high four interceptions. He already has a relationship with secondary coach Aaron Glenn and couldn't be happier to be in New Orleans.
"It's the best all around team from top to bottom, offense and defense,"Gardner-Johnson said recently. "I'm just coming into a system where everything has a standard. I'm just going to come in and live up to that standard so everyone on the team and in the front office upstairs can be proud of me and say these guys are set."
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