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Pence: U.S. Will Not Ignore Persecuted Christians
Evan Wilt | WORLD News Service | Monday, May 15, 2017
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Vice President Mike Pence on May 11 worked to reassure religious freedom advocates that persecuted Christians around the world have the support of the Trump administration.
"The Bible tells us all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted," Pence said in a keynote address at the first-ever World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians in Washington. "The reality is across the wider world the Christian faith is under siege. Throughout the world, no people of faith today face greater hostility or hatred than followers of Christ."
Pence addressed an audience of hopeful religious liberty advocates ready to see the Trump administration fulfill its promises to take substantive action for persecuted religious minorities around the world.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, led by Franklin Graham, hosted the summit to raise awareness of religious persecution around the world and stand in solidarity with the persecuted church.
More than 600 Christian delegates from 130 countries and territories attended the summit.
According to Open Doors USA's 2017 World Watch List, Christians are now one of the most persecuted groups in the world. More than 1,200 Christians died defending their faith in 2016, and hundreds of millions live in countries where they can't fully live out their beliefs.
"What I appreciate so much about our vice president is his strong faith in God and his belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God," Graham said while introducing Pence.
Pence assured the audience he and the president have not forgotten about persecuted Christians and said the administration is ready to follow through with tangible action.
The vice president pointed to Trump's executive order last week to help promote domestic religious freedom and the president's commitment to confronting radical Islamic terrorists who target Christians and other minority faiths abroad.
But there's still much work needed, religious freedom advocates told me after hearing Pence's address.
Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation, said she's still waiting for Trump to refocus his foreign policy to address human rights abuses.
"Obviously, Vice President Mike Pence is personally a man of great faith, he feels this in his heart, but with an administration there sometimes can seem to be a focus on deals and getting the deals done in a very transactional approach to our foreign policy," Swett said. "But I think it's reassuring to have the vice president come and speak clearly from a position of values and faith and conviction and express solidarity."
President Donald Trump speaks often on human rights abuses by ISIS, but, so far, he has not prioritized deploying aid to victims or restructuring the State Department to help foster more international religious freedom.
Former Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., now the senior fellow of the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, told me the State Department is still grossly understaffed, pointing out Secretary of State Rex Tillerson doesn't have a deputy secretary yet.
"You can't fill all these empty positions until you have a deputy because the deputy runs the building," Wolf said.
Trump's first budget blueprint asked for a $10 billion cut to the State Department, trimming down the number of staff and the amount of annual foreign aid. But Wolf told me he believes at the end of the day Congress will make sure the State Department has the funding it needs.
Wolf said one of Trump's first actions should be appointing a special envoy to Nigeria, where Boko Haram continues to slaughter more Christians than any other group in the world.
Many Christian leaders praised a law President Barack Obama signed at the end of last year that tasked the State Department with creating lists of prisoners of conscience in each country. It also implemented mandatory training for Foreign Service officers so they can better advocate for religious freedom in their respective places of work. But Wolf told me none of that work has begun since the State Department has so few staff members in place.
Pence didn't mention any the challenges facing the new administration but gave broad assurance that Trump will stand with Christians abroad.
"But I'd still say Pence's speech was very powerful," Wolf said. "What it does is put the administration boldly on record for these issues."
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Q: Conditional image src render react I am building a resusable react component to display some custom message with either warning icon or success Icon.
I will pass the the warning or success prop down so as when a user wants to use the component he either sends warning or success.
this is the code so far
<img
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how can i conditionally either put {warningIcon} or {successIcon} when i do create the prop and send down to the child component?

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const Img = ({ success }) => (
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A: Use a ternari in the source:
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Pope names six women to previously all-male Council for Economy
Cindy Wooden August 6, 2020
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Renewing the membership of the Vatican Council for the Economy, Pope Francis named six women to the previously all-male board that oversees the financial operations of all Vatican offices and entities.
Statutes for the council, approved by the pope in 2015, say the body will have 15 members: eight cardinals or bishops and seven laypeople, each serving a five-year term.
The original seven lay members were all men with experience in business, finance or government.
The six women the pope named to replace them Aug. 6 have a similarly high profile and background. The six are: Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, a German professor of law; Marija Kolak, president of Germany's national association of cooperative banks; Maria Concepcion Osacar Garaicoechea, a Spaniard and founding partner of the Azora Group and president of the Board of Azora Capital and Azora Gestion; Eva Castillo Sanz, former president of Merrill Lynch Spain and Portugal; Ruth Maria Kelly, a former banking executive, former member of Parliament and former secretary of education in Great Britain; and Leslie Jane Ferrar, former treasurer to Prince Charles.
The only layman named to the council was Alberto Minali, a former executive at Italian insurance companies.
According to Vatican News, Pope Francis renewed German Cardinal Reinhard Marx's mandate as "cardinal coordinator" of the council. The cardinal, who is archbishop of Munich and Freising, also serves on the pope's international advisory Council of Cardinals.
The pope also renewed the mandate of Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa.
The new cardinals and bishops named to the council are: Cardinals Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary; Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo; Gerald Lacroix of Quebec; Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey; Anders Arborelius of Stockholm; and Archbishop Giuseppe Petrocchi of L'Aquila, Italy.
According to the statutes, the council is "responsible for supervising the administrative and financial structures and activities of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia, of the institutions connected to or referring to the Holy See and of the administrations" falling under the governorate of Vatican City State.
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Beto O' Rourke decries Trump rhetoric at march
Adrianna Rodriguez
Published 9:05 PM EDT Aug 10, 2019
EL PASO, Texas – Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke joined a group Saturday marching in opposition to President Donald Trump's "white supremacist rhetoric and policies."
The March for a United America, organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens, began Saturday morning at Armijo Park and ended at the El Paso County Courthouse, where the suspected Walmart shooter is currently being jailed.
The march ended with a rally across the street from the courthouse where O'Rourke overlooked a sea of white T-shirts that popped against the brown backdrop. Attendees were asked to wear the color white to symbolize peace.
"Our differences don't define us … but in fact make us stronger," the former congressman said. "And I think it offers a lesson to a very divided, very polarized country right now being driven further apart every day by a president who operates on fear and paranoia and lies."
According to a release about the event, LULAC has blamed the president for "deliberately feeding into the anti-immigrant frenzy and white supremacist violence."
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Although the event description singled out the president, other politicians and advocates who spoke at the rally chose to focus on the Latino community and it's fight against intolerance.
Texas state Sen. José Rodríguez, a Democrat from El Paso, said the Walmart mass shooting last week that killed 22 people and injured 25 is not the first act of violence against Hispanics.
Police say the killings were carried out by a 21-year-old white man from suburban Dallas who posted an online screed saying it was a response to an "invasion" of Hispanics coming across the U.S. southern border.
"This has been going on for a long time," Rodríguez said right before the march began. "We've engaged in a struggle as brown people ever since the founding of this country."
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Other attendees echoed the senator's sentiment saying that the recent string of violence is bigger than the president's words.
"We cannot just focus on Donald Trump," said Nidu Alonso Day, 60, a recent El Paso transplant from Los Angeles. "He represents a movement in this country that is very divisive (and) filled with hate."
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Rivera says seeing her on television made her think of her own mother.
"My mother could have just as easily been in that Walmart as hers," she said. "I'm still so stressed about the event that I can't visit the makeshift memorial. It's still too raw for me."
Contributing: Associated Press. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.


Recently, I started thinking about making a new Spellslinger based around a Wizard with Spellslinger archetype at Level 1 and then using Arcane Bloodline Sorceror for the remaining levels. During the creation I had developed some questions regarding Arcane Bond which I researched. Through the research there seemed to be 3 facts regarding Wiz/Sorc Arcane Bond.
3. The effects for the Arcane Bond for Wiz/Sorceror "stack" with each other.
Point number 3 is where my question comes into play. As a Spellslinger my Arcane Bond is replaced by the Arcane Gun feature. So, when I get the Arcane Bond ability from the Arcane Bloodline Sorceror, does this mean that my Arcane Gun will be able to have one Sorceror spell stored in it as a free cast like a normal Arcane Bonded object would?
Appreciate any thoughts on this and thanks in advance.
Spellslinger doesn't have an arcane bond. Arcane sorcerer could take familiar or item (which could be the gun) for bond. There is no wizard bonded item to stack levels with, so that's not a thing.
That. Arcane gun is completely separate from arcane bond. They do not interact with each other at all.
The familiar IS your Arcane Bond.
At 1st level, wizards form a powerful bond with an object or a creature. This bond can take one of two forms: a familiar or a bonded object.
Magic comes naturally to you, but as you gain levels you must take care to prevent the power from overwhelming you.
Arcane Bond (Su): At 1st level, you gain an arcane bond, as a wizard equal to your sorcerer level. Your sorcerer levels stack with any wizard levels you possess when determining the powers of your familiar or bonded object. Once per day, your bonded item allows you to cast any one of your spells known (unlike a wizard's bonded item, which allows him to cast any one spell in his spellbook). This ability does not allow you to have both a familiar and a bonded item.
You only get one bond unless some feat or class feature states otherwise.
No. No spell is stored. The free cast is from the class that gave you the Arcane Bond, so no spells from the spellsinger set can be done. While you can use the bond to cast one of youe Sorcerer's spells known, those are the only spells you can free cast. You also prepare spells for the spellsinger as per a wizard of the level would normally get. Your spells known and spells castable as a Sorcerer is as a Sorcerer of the levels you have.
These Wizard and Sorcerer levels do not stack.
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Liberal Democrat peers have defeated the Government on a key vote on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill.
Amendment 15, tabled jointly by Liberal Democrat frontbench spokesperson Brian Paddick and two Labour peers, creates exemptions to the new offence of "entering or remaining in a designated area" so that it doesn't apply to aid workers, journalists, people visiting ill relatives or those attending funerals.
The amendment passed by 220 votes to 191.
Liberal Democrat peers also voted for another amendment, tabled jointly by Lord Paddick and Baroness Jones, to limit the Bill's impact on freedom of speech. However, Labour abstained and Tory peers voted against the amendment, so it failed by 93 votes to 198.
Liberal Democrat MPs had previously voted against the Bill in the House of Commons, joined only by Caroline Lucas, but Labour voted with the Tories to pass it 376–10.
Brian Paddick, Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Home Affairs, said:
Through our opposition to these unnecessary, illiberal new laws, we have secured important changes that will reduce the risk of innocent people being wrongly convicted.
However, we are still fundamentally opposed to much of the Bill, most of which is based on the discredited 'conveyor belt' theory: that simply expressing extreme views inevitably leads to radicalisation and terrorist violence.
Completely innocent people could be arrested and detained simply for expressing an opinion or for undertaking legitimate research.
It would also allow people to be detained at ports, airports and the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic, have the contents of their phones and computers gone through, even if they had no intention of committing any offence.
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I realise that civil liberties issues are a minority interest, but someone needs to fight this corner. Like with the proposed 15 year sentences for accessing extremist content online, this is terrible law, and is part of a pattern of increasingly forcing people to prove their innocence.
Rather than facing the inconvenience of having to prove that people are up to no good e.g. by actually being involved in planning or carrying out terror attacks, the law now seeks to punish the far more easily proven "crimes" of being in the wrong place or visiting the wrong web site, and requiring the accused to rely on a subjective "legitimate interest" defence.
Apart from a 15 year sentence being disproportionate for someone who hasn't been shown to be doing any physical harm, it can only act to deter genuine academic or journalistic research.
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Farnsworth Group announced today that its President and CEO Karen Jensen received the Illinois State University Alumni Achievement Award during the University's Annual Founders Day Celebration.
The award recognizes significant achievements of alumni to society, their profession or Illinois State. Selection is based upon significant accomplishments in one's chosen field measured by statewide, national, or international recognition; honors from associations or employers; or documentation illustrating work that has proved beneficial to a pronounced segment of society.
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Full-time, continuing faculty members may choose to participate in cross-disciplinary, semester-long or half-semester, Faculty Pedagogy Seminars and work in one-on-one partnerships with undergraduate students who assume the role of pedagogical consultant.
Part-time and interim faculty members are not eligible for participation in the seminars but may partner with student consultants through the Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) program.
In addition to these partnerships, continuing faculty members can participate in faculty seminars known as TLI2s (for those who have already participated in a faculty pedagogy seminar), Colleagues as Teachers and Learners (cross-visitations between faculty members, or "teaching circles") and Summer Course Development/Revision Workshops.
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These are semester-long seminars offered in the Fall and/or Spring semesters (depending on faculty interest) and include all of the commitments listed above. They are appropriate for faculty members who want to work with faculty colleagues and student consultants for a full 15 weeks, exploring both a course they are currently teaching and a course (or courses) they plan to teach. The first part of the semester focuses on larger pedagogical questions in relation to a course being taught, the middle portion focuses on issues and topics identified for further exploration by the group, and the final third focuses on applying what we have explored in the seminar to future courses.
Half-semester seminars allow for more faculty participation and a differentiation between focusing on a course currently being taught and a course to be taught the next or in a subsequent semester. These seminars are offered in the Fall and/or Spring semesters (depending on faculty interest) and include all of the commitments listed above. Seminars focused on a course currently being taught begin in week 1 and conclude in week 7. Seminars focused on a course to be taught in a future semester begin in week 8 and conclude in week 14.
Student Consultants are available to work with interested faculty members on a focal course. A student who is not enrolled in the course upon which you want to focus can work with you for the entire semester or for some portion of it. S/he visits your class, takes detailed observation notes focused on pedagogical issues you identify, gathers midcourse feedback (if you wish), and meets with you to discuss what is happening in your class.
These partnerships are for faculty members who do not wish to participate in a faculty pedagogy seminar or have already participated in a seminar and wish to continue in a partnership with a Student Consultant.
Any faculty member may request a Student Consultant for a full semester, a portion of a semester, or for a focused assessment (e.g., midsemester feedback).
documenting the work accomplished in each meeting and overall.
Faculty may request Student Consultants to work as partners in TLI2s.
This program affords you the opportunity to visit and/or be visited by a faculty colleague in the bi-co and then meet to talk. If you indicate what discipline or division and what kind of class you are interested in observing, appropriate partnerships between faculty who wish to engage in this cross-visitation can be arranged.
You may wish to combine this program with the SaLT program. Faculty have found that the intersection of faculty and student colleague observations, and a three-way dialogue about what is happening in the classroom, are very informative.
Continuing and new faculty members are invited to participate in summer workshops focused on developing a new course or revising an existing one.
Working in collaboration with other faculty members, members of the Information Services staff, and undergraduate students in the role of pedagogical consultant, you may develop a syllabus from scratch, revise a syllabus in a general way, or revise a syllabus with a particular focus (e.g., the integration of technology).
Participants meet four or five times over the summer, with communication maintained through technological media in between meetings. In-person meetings are scheduled around participants' schedules. While no stipends are attached to this forum, travel beyond the regular commute to campus may be reimbursed.
The Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities offers Access/Enrichment Grants. Recognizing that the stimulus for innovative research and teaching, as well as for the organization of public events, often emerges from ideas and experiences encountered outside the faculty's usual scholarly societies and conferences, the Humanities Center supports several Access/Enrichment Grants each year.
The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, through its Faculty/Curricular Support Fund, sponsors faculty-initiated events designed to spur thoughtful dialogue on issues of global significance. The format may vary, running the gamut from a panel discussion to technical training to a lecture/performance. Regardless of the format, the goal is to provide members of the Haverford community with access to recognized expertise on important issues in a way that stimulates intellectual reflection. Monthly application deadlines.
Funds are available from the KINSC to support faculty travel to professional meetings and training workshops in order to enhance teaching and faculty-student research at Haverford.
For faculty interested in arts events/performances, residencies, and exhibits in conjunction with their classes, the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities has funds for these activities.
If you have a Symposium/Forum/Conference that you would like to organize in support of a class, the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities will provide up to $10,000 to stage a symposium, conference, or other public event that offers students opportunities to engage in advanced concerns and scholarship in the humanities or social sciences.
The Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities supports Dialogues on Art trips, in which small groups of faculty and students from a wide variety of departments visit exhibitions, performances, or screenings of contemporary art in and around Philadelphia and then discuss their experiences over dinner.
The Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center offers funds for symposia covering topics in interdisciplinary areas such as environmental studies, public health, and science and society.
All faculty members at Haverford are expected to develop a means of evaluating their teaching on a regular basis, although the methods used to collect student opinion are normally left to the discretion of the individual. Responses from at least one course per semester should be delivered to the Office of the Provost.
New and visiting members of the faculty will want to consult with their department chairs and colleagues to see what is customary and recommended practice. If there is no standard form suggested by the department, you might find it helpful to look at the enclosed examples of questionnaires previously and in some cases currently distributed by various faculty members across the College. These examples are not meant to be representative of the best or preferred forms of soliciting student evaluation, but rather of the variety of approaches that faculty have used in the recent past.
Use this list of religious holidays while planning syllabi for the upcoming academic year.
Download the Managing Athletic/Academic Concerns guide.
This document is offered in an attempt to make Honor Council procedures more accessible and comprehensible. Information on this page comes from the Faculty Handbook and the Constitution of the Students' Association. If there are any conflicts between the information on this website and the information in those documents, please refer to those official guidelines.
As part of Haverford's mission to bring "the full force of our institutional commitment and collective engagement to foster diversity as a multilayered process through which we can sustain excellence and equity in teaching, learning, and the holistic development of every member of our community,"* we invite you to apply to a Spring 2019 pedagogy seminar focused on fostering greater equity, inclusion, and belonging within Haverford College classrooms and in the wider College community. Supported by a grant from the Lumina Foundation and by the Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI), the seminar will be facilitated by Alison Cook-Sather.
*President Kim Benston, Strategic Plan for Diversity and Inclusion.
In conjunction with the Ethical Leadership Initiative of the Strategic Plan, the Provost's Office has received funding from Andy Pleatman ('66) for a new curriculum development program. Designed to encourage ethical inquiry across the curriculum, these curricular development grants will support the creation of new courses, the major renovation of existing courses, and/or the establishment of interdisciplinary curricular offerings that challenge students to think critically about ethical principles, practices, claims, obligations, and/or challenges. Proposed work should require resources not normally available through departments or the academic centers; in a year when resources of the fund are limited, priority will be given to courses arising in areas of the curriculum where ethical inquiry is currently absent or comparatively under-developed.
Possible areas and activities for support include but are not limited to curricular consultations, travel, material procurement, student research assistance, speaker series support. For the first three years of this funding program, a $1,000 stipend can be incorporated into the course development budget; this provision will be revisited by the Provost after three years and, if renewed, every three years thereafter. Please contact the Provost's Office for a more detailed list of potential projects appropriate for funding.
Proposals involving one or more of such tools for course development with budgets totaling up to $7,500 will be entertained once yearly, with proposals due to the Provost's during the spring semester. In general, preference will be given to new courses in areas presently underserved by ethical inquiry.
TwT (Teaching with Technology) grants are designed for Tenure Track and Continuing Appointment faculty members interested in enhancing their teaching through the use of technology. The grant provides support for using emerging technologies in the classroom, and opportunities for faculty to develop new and innovative approaches to education through technology.
These grants have been used in a variety of projects over the years, including: development of a website interface to specific CD tracks being demonstrated in a Music course, a course site that compiled an extensive view of Medieval art, an interactive web site utilizing current tools to illustrate effective use of a language dictionary, audio annotations critiquing student work, the creation of a Japanese community of past and current students of Japanese including chat, audio, video and graphics, interactive video demonstrations of biological processes, and video demonstrations of the proper technique for using certain equipment necessary in a Physics course.
Funds also can be used to attend conferences or training about the use of technology in teaching or to acquire software for use in a particular course. Grant funds may be used to purchase equipment directly necessary to the success of the underlying pedagogical innovation.
Grant Requirements: To qualify for a Teaching with Technology grant, the proposal should identify the purpose of the project and what will be needed in order to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Faculty members are required to contact Hiroyo Saito, Director of Instructional Technology Services for assistance and support in developing the proposals prior to submission of the final application.
Recipients must submit a report to the Provost at the end of the grant period, describing the project and its contributions to their teaching. Recipients will also be expected to share information about their project in aTechnology Symposium sponsored by ITS and via a web site linked from the Provost's Office. This will give other Haverford faculty an opportunity to see the variety of technology projects supported by this program. By sharing information and experiences, we hope to encourage innovation and effective use of technologies in the classroom.
How to apply: There are two calls per year for applications: Monday, February 11, 2019 and Monday, April 22, 2019. A link to the on-line application will be included in an email announcement calling for proposals. Faculty members are required to contact Hiroyo Saito, Director of Instructional Technology Services (hsaito@haverford.edu) for assistance and support in developing the proposals prior to submission of the final application.
Funding Terms: The period of the grant will typically last one year, or longer, depending on the scope and nature of the proposal. Grant funds will not roll over. Funds not used during the grant period will be made available for other grant recipients the following year.
The Office of the Provost is continuing a new initiative launched in 2017-2018 to offer awards of up to $5,000 for course development from all academic areas, but preference will be given to courses that enhance student engagement with issues of diversity, especially those that focus on histories and experiences of difference, structures of power, and struggles to define and establish social justice, as described in the Strategic Plan for Diversity and Inclusion.
How to apply: The application deadline for 2018-2019 grants is Monday, March 25, 2019. Please include a description of the new or reimagined class, the articulated goals, a draft syllabus or outline of the course and the associated budget to Marta Bartholomew, Assistant Provost.
Funding terms: Awards are typically available for one year upon award date. The funds do not roll over.
The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship supports Haverford faculty members in their efforts to integrate experiential and service learning into their teaching and mentoring. This might take the form of travel in conjunction with courses, or the development of new courses with experiential learning components. Monthly application deadlines.
The Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities sponsors the Tuttle Fund for Development of Visual Culture Across the Curriculum . This fund encourages innovative and experimental approaches to visual culture across the curriculum. To advance the integration of visual studies in disciplines ranging beyond Art History and Fine Arts, and to engage students in its various theoretical, generic, and material modes, these grants support development of new courses, the major renovation of existing courses, and/or the creation of interdisciplinary curricular offerings in various areas of visual culture. Proposed work will require resources not normally available through departments or the Provost's Office and will address specific curricular goals.
The Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities sponsors Course Innovation/Renovation Grants to help fashion a new course or renovate an existing one to augment its intellectual scope and appeal to students broadly interested in humanistic inquiry.
The Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities sponsors Course Enhancement Grants of up to $500 is available to support class visits to libraries, collections, or other sites. The grants are for one-time exploratory class trips. The Center does not support ventures beyond the initial grant.
In support of the faculty, librarians teach students research skills and strategies, including the very critical work of finding and interrogating texts, in both print and digital formats. Librarians also facilitate rich, complex, dynamic, and dialectic engagement with these texts. At all academic levels, librarians foster information literacy, understanding, critical reflection, knowledge production, and scholarship with classes, while also providing intensive, one-on-one support with students throughout their college career and culminating in their senior capstone projects.
Librarians provide a scaffolding of instruction that takes students from the basics of library catalogs and database searching, through an informed use of both print and digital sources, to an insider view of their chosen discipline's literature. Students at each level are encouraged to develop the evaluative and critical skills that will lead them to more complex projects. Librarians help students learn to contextualize ideas, whether on the screen or in print, and see themselves as active participants in a purposeful conversation.
Librarians work with faculty to provide instruction tailored to the needs of a particular class in terms of subject matter. They prepare web pages of relevant resources, so that students can become familiar with the key tools they need for research (see a tri-college list of guides for current courses). In their discussions with classes, librarians bring in examples of content and issues that relate to course readings and to individual student research topics. They also explain strategies for navigating library systems, scholarly literatures, and the hybrid world of digital and print resources.
The Library's instruction format is very flexible. It can be used in the classroom, in the library, or in a workshop outside of class hours. Students also work individually with librarians on approaches and resources for research questions, with senior thesis writers in contact with their subject librarians throughout the project. Content for instruction can focus on a class research paper, on learning to use particular databases, on resources for a subject area, or whatever will be most useful for students.
Contact the librarian who works with your department or program (from the subject specialist list) to discuss what kind of instruction your students need.
Haverford has an endowed program to assist the faculty in bringing distinguished visitors to the campus in support of their classes. Established by a generous bequest from William Pyle Phillips (Class of 1902) and augmented by gifts from other alumni and Friends of the College, this program supports 60-70 visits to the campus each year by distinguished statesmen and scholars in the arts, sciences and humanities.
Faculty bringing visitors with enhanced curricular engagements should also refer to Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities curricular funding initiatives.
As a result of funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Tri-College Faculty Forum Grant was established to support initiatives and programs that encourage and foster collaborations between faculty at Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. These collaborations can be in areas of pedagogy, research, and governance/service, and one of the primary goals of the grant is to help strengthen and broaden the intellectual pursuits of faculty in the tri-college community, encourage collaboration and in many cases, encourage interdisciplinary endeavors. The Forum funds four separate initiatives, of which the Brainstorming Grants and Seed Grants can be used for teaching support and curricular development.
Brainstorming grants are available to support tri-co faculty members who share common interests. Awards range from$400-$600, and can be used for lunches, dinners or other gatherings where meaningful discussions, brainstorming sessions, workshops, and interactions can occur with peers from the three campuses. The goal of the brainstorming grant is to encourage faculty gatherings in order to discuss scholarly interests, curricular projects and program initiatives. The Brainstorming proposal deadline is typically in early November, and notification of the successful grant awards usually follows several weeks later.
The Seed Grant Fellowships support innovative faculty projects related to research, teaching, curriculum, or service/governance. The grants are flexible as to the nature and scope of the initiatives funded. Projects might include faculty working groups, topical workshops or symposia, exchanges with other liberal arts colleges or universities, invited speakers, travel money for faculty training, etc. Fellowship support includes up to $3,000 per project, to reimburse expenses appropriate to the nature of the proposal such as travel, hosting events, small honoraria for outside speakers, materials and equipment, etc.
The Seed grant proposal deadline is typically in late March or early April, and notification of the successful proposals usually follows several weeks later.


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Horizon League: Major NBA Offseason Changes Loom
Thomas Domol
Just shut up and play.
Sometimes, work is the best distraction. That's especially true when you unpack the 2018-19 NBA season. With the playoffs underway, one can't help but breathe a cathartic sigh of relief in seeing a necessary pause to the full-blown off-the-court circus transpiring with some of basketball's biggest names.
Arguably none larger than the man with whom Boston's championship hopes are firmly situated: Kyrie Irving. Where does one even start with him? He has the cosmically misguided belief the earth is flat (it's not), he lashes out at the media with regularity, and he just has a bad attitude in general. And, even though he embodies everything about the player you hate if he's not on your team, Irving flips a switch when it's basketball time and he tasked with making a big play.
In the Celtics' 99-91 Game 2 win over the Pacers, Kyrie put up 37 points and 7 assists. After that, he, along with Gordon Hayword , provided huge minutes in a 4-game sweep of Indiana. Thus dismissing Reggie Miller's former team from the Playoffs on Easter Sunday. Kyrie is the current in a storied line of polarizing Boston Celtics' players, which includes literally everyone on the Celtics' roster, if you ask Lakers fans And yet, he is merely one juicy NBA plum on a tree of intrigue this year.
The most succulent piece of produce is Anthony Davis, the centerpiece of a colossal trade fiasco. The 6'10 power forward and former Kentucky Wildcat apparently hates the New Orleans Pelicans. Maybe that's why after he demanded his trade from NOLA, he proceeded to deny countless paying fans the opportunity to see the remarkably talented big man play.
Watching one of the greatest talents in the world ride the bench in the fourth quarter of every pivotal game, was disgraceful. Even more disgraceful yet, was the Lakers pitiful campaign to lure him to Hollywood.
Though his job title was merely for appearances, Luke Walton is out as head coach of "The Lake Show". LeBron James, the team's real coach and horrible boss, helped pitch a trade that virtually would've dealt the Lakers whole roster, including tentpoles Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma. The Pelicans rejected that and every subsequent offer from House James, leading to the "Unibrow" sporting a stylish "That's All Folks" t-shirt for what was most likely his final game as a Pelican.
No matter where he goes, LeBron drives people away. I'm not saying he's toxic; but, Britney Spears could sue him for copyright infringement. So too, perhaps, causing L.A. to lose its Magic.
If all of this wasn't enough, remember, these are the off-the-court plotlines. The playoff run unfolding before our eyes, could very well be the last for the vaunted Golden State Warriors.
How do I know?
Because Kevin Durant is set for free agency at the end of this season, he headlines another blockbuster free agency summer to come. Listen to this: with the New York Knicks sending Kristaps Porzingis to Dallas, it stands to reason that Spike Lee's team intends to assemble its own big three, consisting of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving (also a 2019 free agent), and Zion Williamson, assuming New York wins the draft lottery. I lost an hour of sleep by simply typing that sentence. If this scenario comes to fruition, the Knicks will wreak havoc on the NBA next season.
But that's next season. So, save the night terrors for around late-September. Right now, Brad Stevens is still in charge of Irving and his Celtics. They're still contenders for the Eastern Conference championship. If they want to be in the playoffs well after Avengers: Endgame hits theaters this Friday, they'll need a better comprehensive effort. Lock down on the perimeter and politely ask Al Horford to stop turning the ball over. If they do this, Horford and the Celtics will have their shot versus Giannis Antetokounmpo and his top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in Round 2.
Neither Boston nor Milwaukee have lost this postseason. Coming off respective sweeps over their first-round opponents Indiana and Detroit. This is a rematch of 2018 when the Celtics and Bucks met in the first round. The Bucks are no joke this year and the Greek Freak has revenge on his mind from last year's ouster. The Celtics have Herculean task in repeating their 2018 success.
The formula is simple: stop Giannis, stop the Bucks. And the way to that, is to limit turnovers. On average, the C's take fine care of the rock, but turnovers inevitably lead to transition thunder-dunks. In which case, "Fear the Deer". Ultimately, I like the Bucks advancing in a seesaw 6-game series, setting up a date in the East Finals with Philly.
But the Warriors still exist, so this year's playoffs are a contest for runner-up. And yes, that's despite Damian Lillard drilling an awe-inspiring, 37-foot buzzer-beater that erased Oklahoma City from the 2019 NBA Playoffs.
Steve Kerr and his Warriors are the dynasty of a generation, and any team intent on dethroning them, better bring more than merely buzzer-beating viral buckets.
Even with DeMarcus Cousins injured (again), The Bay Area will celebrate another Larry O'Brien Trophy. But, seismic changes loom on the horizon for the NBA landscape. Who will grab the brass ring and emerge as the league's new dynasty? And, what elite challenger will rise to stop them? We're about to find out.
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Cecil Dawson Art
( SOLD ) Lingcod on wood Painting
Cecil Dawson ''Lingcod'' on Wood
NOS Beautiful, original and signed 16 inches long by 8 1/4 inch height by 3/4 deep ''Lingcod'' on wood painting with Cecil's depiction in the style of the Kwakuitl nation.
This beautiful approx. late 80's wood painting is signed and initialed by Cecil Dawson.
Wood Carver, Painter, First Nations, Pryrographic Woodburner
Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada • Kwakuitl Nation
Born into a family of artists, Cecil Dawson began his artistic career at a very young age. His grandfather Jimmy Dick, a totem and mask carver, taught Cecil the intricacies of carving. Cecil also spent time under the tutelage of his cousin, mask carver Simon Dick. Other masters who influenced Cecil's artistic gifts were his great uncles Willie Seaweed, Henry Speck, and Dick Hawkins.
Cecil is from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation. His father is head chief of the Mountain Goat Hunter clan and his mother comes from the Wolf clan. Cecil's cultural involvement is important to him; he is a historian and an initiated Hamatsa dancer.
Cecil's great labour of love is to replicate his family's masks and bring them back into ceremonial use once again. By doing so, he honours his cultural and traditional values. Cecil has a strong sense of propriety and will not copy from a book. His pieces are unique and to his own style, demonstrating a deeply rooted understanding of his culture.


BEAUTY FINDS - I Blog, Therefore I Am.
I bought the Shimmer Square in Cashmere Pink above from The Body Shop. It has four pallettes of velvety shimmering powder that can be used for eyes, cheeks or face. You can blend colors together with a brush to create highlighted cheeks and face, or use a blusher brush to apply just one color at a time as a blush. For eyes, use an eyeshadow brush to apply individual colors. Since it's shimmery and may be too much for everyday office use, I usually put on powder right after the blush application to lessen the shine.
Make-up brushes are investments. This one from The Body Shop is really good in applying blush, bronzing, shimmering powder products and sculpting cheekbones. This is definitely a must for all blush-on-lovers. It can also be washed after prolong period of use.
I also bought the Mini Brush Kit above to compliment my new Blusher. It's very portable and it has the mini-versions of the other make-up brushes from Body Shop. It has the Blusher Brush, Eye Shadow Brush, Slanted Brush and Lipstick/Concealer Brush.
Here's a product that came all the way from Korea. I am not much of a believer of Korean Beauty products but this one is really really good and refreshing. They are called masksheets and it has several variants depending on your beauty needs. I initially bought Collagen (for hydration) and Pearl (for clearer skin). Each is less than 100 bucks but has to be used 2-3x a week for effective results. Each product contains one sheet that you must put on for 15 to 20 minutes. I already tried Pearl and it was really refreshing. It also gave me glowing skin the morning after I tried it. It's from The Face Shop with branches in Glorietta, SM MOA, etc.
The best beauty find which I can probably share is Girl Talk. Girl Talk is the on-line community of Female Network (online site of Summit Publishing) which provide insights, reviews and suggestions for beauty, fashion and health woes. Been a member for the longest time but I don't have the time before to browse and post at their very good and informative topics. Answers to every girl's problems are all there! :).


Motley Fool Australia » Investing » Billabong swamped: Should you buy?
Billabong's shares have fallen 42% in the last 10 weeks, after private equity suitor TPG Capital lobbed an indicative $1.45 share bid for the company on 24 July 2012.
At one stage the shares had fallen 18% today alone, after the company announced that TPG Capital had walked away from its bid. Should Foolish investors take advantage of the all-time low price and buy?
First, a recap of the story.
TPG made its first bid for Billabong International Limited (ASX: BBG) in February 2012, offering $3 a share. After Billabong's board rejected the bid, TPG came back with a revised higher bid of $3.30, but that too was rejected.
Then Billabong, under pressure from falling revenues and profits, and a mountain of debt, was forced into an equity raising at just $1.02 per share – a massive 44% discount to its then last traded price of $1.83. It was also forced into a sale of half of its best brand, Nixon for US$285 million.
TPG came back in July, offering $1.45 per share, less than half its previous offer. In September, a second bidder, rumoured to be Bain Capital, also offered $1.45. But just two weeks later, that second bidder walked away from its proposal. Today, Billabong announced that TPG had also withdrawn its offer.
With the share price currently trading around 84 cents, is there value left in Billabong? Perhaps, but its less than certain.
Successful turnarounds in retailing companies are few and far between. David Jones Limited (ASX: DJS), Myer Holdings (ASX: MYR) and JB Hi-Fi Limited (ASX: JBH) are all struggling with structural and cyclical challenges to their businesses now, and there's no real sign that they have overcome those issues yet.
Billabong expects challenging conditions to continue during the 2013 financial year, but still expects to report EBITDA in the range of $100-$110 million, in constant currency terms. Looking further out, in 2016, Billabong is targeting EBITDA of more than $210 million, through a range of initiatives. These include simplifying the business, investing in key brands, building its global online platform and improving its supply chain.
The company has reduced its debt to more manageable levels, and has a stable of well known, respected brands. If the company even gets its half right, Billabong could be worth a punt for an investor prepared to wait for the company to turnaround its performance.
The problem is that two private equity companies, with access to much more inside information than you or I, have walked away, without even offering a lower bid. Until investors find out what it was those firms didn't like, the uncertainty is likely to weigh on Billabong's shares.
Aussie John: What property bubble?


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Q: Mysql select with CASE not retrieving other column value? As the answer that I got receive from my question which drive me nuts applying to my code for some reason, why it did not worked.
Here's a part of my data on table.

Original Code:
SELECT AGE_RANGE, COUNT(*) FROM (
    SELECT CASE
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 0 AND 5 THEN '0-5'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 6 AND 10 THEN '6-10'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 11 AND 15 THEN '11-15'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 16 AND 20 THEN '16-20'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 21 AND 30 THEN '21-30'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 31 AND 40 THEN '31-40'
        WHEN YearsOld > 40 THEN '40+'
        END AS 'AGE_RANGE'
        FROM (
            SELECT YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(DATE(birthdate)) 'YearsOld'
            FROM MyTable
        ) B
) A
GROUP BY AGE_RANGE

and here is the result.

What I'm trying to do is, I'm trying to add another column which would count on how many people who is in that area which would be location as you would see on the picture on top which includes Perth, Western Australia, Sunbury, Victoria and so on.
First attempt to fix my problem
As you would see below, I've added location, and COUNT(location) loc to get the name of the location and count on how many location that is duplicated in the table.
SELECT AGE_RANGE, COUNT(*), location, COUNT(location) loc FROM (
    SELECT CASE
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 0 AND 5 THEN '0-5'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 6 AND 10 THEN '6-10'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 11 AND 15 THEN '11-15'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 16 AND 20 THEN '16-20'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 21 AND 30 THEN '21-30'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 31 AND 40 THEN '31-40'
        WHEN YearsOld > 40 THEN '40+'
        END AS 'AGE_RANGE', 'location'
        FROM (
            SELECT YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(DATE(birthday)) 'YearsOld'
            FROM event_participants
        ) B
) A
FROM event_participants WHERE location <> '' GROUP BY location HAVING loc >= 1 ORDER BY loc DESC LIMIT 5

Which results to..

Obviously, hearing from the aid of god doesn't work out to well..
My second attempt to fix this problem
SELECT AGE_RANGE, COUNT(*), location FROM (
    SELECT CASE
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 0 AND 5 THEN '0-5'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 6 AND 10 THEN '6-10'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 11 AND 15 THEN '11-15'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 16 AND 20 THEN '16-20'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 21 AND 30 THEN '21-30'
        WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 31 AND 40 THEN '31-40'
        WHEN YearsOld > 40 THEN '40+'
        END AS 'AGE_RANGE', 'location'
        FROM (
            SELECT YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(DATE(birthday)) 'YearsOld'
            FROM event_participants
        ) B
) A
GROUP BY AGE_RANGE

And the result is...

Instead of showing the name of the countries, it only show location.
Well..
Long story short, what's wrong with the code? Any solution for this stuff?
It was like, my desired result would be,
AGE_RANGE COUNT(*) location            total number of same location

16-20        4     Name of location                 #

21-30       45     Name of location                 #

31-40       79     Name of location                 #

40+        102     Name of location                 #

A: This should work: Think of each subquery as it's own table, so you just need to make sure to select all the columns you need. (CASE WHEN THEN END AS) is actually just a single column value. You will probably also want to group on location so you can get the same age ranges for different locations. (Ex. 11-15 in Canada and 11-15 in USA)
SELECT AGE_RANGE, COUNT(*), A.location FROM (
        SELECT CASE
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 0 AND 5 THEN '0-5'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 6 AND 10 THEN '6-10'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 11 AND 15 THEN '11-15'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 16 AND 20 THEN '16-20'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 21 AND 30 THEN '21-30'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 31 AND 40 THEN '31-40'
            WHEN YearsOld > 40 THEN '40+'
            END AS 'AGE_RANGE', B.location
            FROM (
                SELECT YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(DATE(birthday)) 'YearsOld',
                location /* << just missing this select */
                FROM event_participants
            ) B
    ) A
    GROUP BY A.location, AGE_RANGE

A: Try this
SELECT AGE_RANGE, COUNT(*), location FROM (
        SELECT CASE
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 0 AND 5 THEN '0-5'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 6 AND 10 THEN '6-10'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 11 AND 15 THEN '11-15'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 16 AND 20 THEN '16-20'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 21 AND 30 THEN '21-30'
            WHEN YearsOld BETWEEN 31 AND 40 THEN '31-40'
            WHEN YearsOld > 40 THEN '40+'
            END AS 'AGE_RANGE', 'location'
            FROM (
                SELECT YEAR(CURDATE())-YEAR(DATE(birthday)) 'YearsOld'
                FROM event_participants
            ) B
    ) A
    GROUP BY location, AGE_RANGE

A: This is not correct:-
SELECT AGE_RANGE, COUNT(*), location FROM

When you use GROUP BY the attribute list in select must be applied either to aggregate function or must be a part of GROUP BY clause.
In the example below you cannot show the name of the location as the person in the age-group may belong to different location:-
AGE_RANGE COUNT(*) location            total number of same location

16-20        4     Name of location                 #

21-30       45     Name of location                 #


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WKAF condemns Indian NIA's charges against Dr Asif, Muzzammil Thakur
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Washington, DC, January 12 (KMS): The Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF) has condemned the authorities of India's notorious National Investigation agency (NIA) for filing criminal cases against Kashmiri political activists, Dr Asif Dar and Muzzamil Thakur.
The WKAF in a statement issued in Washington said, "We condemn the fraudulent charges made against Dr Asif Dar and Mr Muzzammil Thakur by the Indian National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Dr Dar is one of Kashmir's most accomplished and peaceful activists, an anesthesiologist, and role model for Kashmiri youth. Muzzammill Thakur is a London based human rights defender and political activist of Kashmiri ancestry."
On January 6, Indian police registered a case against Dr Dar and Muzzammil Thakur under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on false charges. Dr Dar is known for his peaceful resistance against India's colonialist occupation of Jammu and Kashmir and he remains a fearless supporter of Kashmiris' efforts to secure their right to self-determination. Muzzammil Thakur is a youthful and articulate public speaker on Kashmiris' right to self-determination with a large diaspora following on social media. Such baseless claims made by the Indian government are used to suppress the indigenous population's free speech and activists' efforts for freedom of Kashmir from foreign occupation, the statement said.
The WKAF said, the actions taken by the NIA are politically motivated and are part of the Indian government's attempt to censor peaceful Kashmiri voices. The UAPA has been used countless times to harass, assault and imprison activists, political leaders and journalists who aim to expose the human rights violations committed by Indian forces. As human rights violations against the people of Jammu and Kashmir continue, it is important for activists like Dr Dar and Muzzammil Thakur to continue to expose the atrocities committed by Indian forces to the rest of the world. We stand in fierce opposition to India's actions against Dr Dar, Muzzammil Thakur and the people of Kashmir. We condemn any restriction of free speech and expression throughout the region," it added.
The WKAF urged the United Nations and international community to ensure that rights activists, political leaders, and local journalists are not forcibly silenced for speaking the truth. "Dr Dar's and Muzzammil Thakur's passion for resistance against the occupation continues to be an inspiration for Kashmiri youth and resistance activists. On behalf of Kashmiris, domestic and abroad we demand that all charges against Dr Dar and Muzzammil Thakur are dropped and the Indian government is held accountable for another unjustified case of censorship and imprisonment under the UAPA," it demanded.
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State fair season is here, especially in northern states that don't have to wait till summer's swelter abates to have a little fried food fun. Iowa and Minnesota recently released their food menus for this year's events, and there's a whole lot more to eat than fried things on a stick. (There is a lot of on-a-stick, too.) Consider this a warmup for the State Fair of Texas.
In Minnesota it looks like the Blue Moon Drive-in Theaters is leading the creativity front. They're not even leaning on bubbling oil to get their food to delicious. Chop dogs feature diced hot dogs cooked on a flat griddle and served in a bread pocket. Don't forget to order yours with chili. They're also making caramel corn with liquid nitrogen, so cups of sweetened confection trail a fog of vapor in the warm summer air.
In the definitely freaky category, Axel's is serving up Wisconsin cheddar cheese nuggets breaded with cocoa puffs, fried and served with a chocolate dipping sauce. Can you picture a toddler going to town on these? The little brown nuggets of melted cheese are sure to require two-dozen napkins at least.
There's even a smoothie on a stick, which is thankfully not deep fried. The simple strawberry smoothie is frozen impaled on a stick, and served to those looking for more healthy options of refreshment on a hot summer day.
Speaking of health matters, you better hit the gym, Texans. It won't be long before we're talking about our own coronary on a stick, right here in Dallas.


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Winning $1.8 Million Gopher 5 Ticket Sold in St. Joseph
Jim Maurice Published: December 17, 2022
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ST. JOSEPH (WJON News) -- Someone just got a nice present right before Christmas.
The Minnesota State Lottery says the jackpot has been won for the Gopher 5 game. The prize is $1,821,826 million. That is one of the top five biggest prizes in the game's history.
The winning ticket was sold at the Speedway at 27 West Birch Street in St. Joseph.
The numbers drawn on Friday evening are 16, 22, 38, 42, 46
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Unless the winner chooses to opt in to publicity, their name and city will not be released. As of Sept. 1, 2021, the names and cities of lottery prize winners above $10,000 are private data.
Saturday night the Lotto America jackpot is up for grabs. It is at a record nearly $31 million. That game is played in 13 states including Minnesota.
St. Joseph's on the Grow!
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Corporate Lobbyists Will Ensure Canada Will Be Part of Trump's New NAFTA
Donald Trump arrives on September 11, 2018, to speak at the site of a new memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Christina Fattore,
The announcement last month that the US and Mexico had reached an agreement to replace NAFTA without Canada surprised trade experts around the globe. A deadline of Aug. 31 was set for the Canadians to join or be left out in the cold – and hit with fresh tariffs.
The news was stunning because negotiators for all three countries had been trying to hammer out a new accord for over a year, ever since President Donald Trump followed through on his campaign threat to demand the North American Free Trade Agreement be scrapped or replaced.
After the arbitrary deadline passed without any concessions from the Canadians, let alone a finalized deal, Trump once again threatened to exclude Canada from the new NAFTA via Twitter.
There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don't make a fair deal for the US after decades of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018
While his blustering included a threat to end NAFTA entirely, it is all bark and no bite. What trade scholars like me know is that Trump does not have the upper hand in these negotiations.
Interest groups on both sides of the border will ensure that Canada is in the deal – and legally, it would be cumbersome to do a deal that excludes the Canadians.
Interest Groups Usually Win
In his tweets, Trump claimed that there was "no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal." However, Canada does not seem to be feeling any sense of impending doom – and for good reason.
After Trump's threats, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a compromise "will hinge on whether there is ultimately a good deal for Canada. No NAFTA deal is better than a bad NAFTA deal."
In my own research I've studied how interest groups influence trade policy, specifically in World Trade Organization dispute initiation and litigation. My work illustrates how countries depend upon industry interest groups – and in some cases, companies themselves – to help shape trade policy.
This research borrows from the work of Princeton politics professor Andrew Moravcsik, who theorized that countries – especially democratic ones – primarily represent the preferences of domestic interest groups when engaged in international negotiations, and will rarely kowtow to the desires of trading partners.
In other words, governments want to stay in power and get re-elected. They need votes and campaign contributions to meet that goal, and corporate and industry interest groups can provide both.
That's why Trudeau continues to stand firm that any deal with the US and Mexico protect Canadian middle class jobs by protecting domestic dairy and poultry production and why he insists a so-called cultural exemption that safeguards domestic television and radio from takeovers by US media conglomerates be included in the new NAFTA.
Trudeau and his team of negotiators are not going to sing to the tune of Trump's tweets. Rather, they're following the standard political economist playbook: protect those industries and sectors that can help carry Trudeau to another win in the federal elections 13 months from now.
Americans First
On the other side of the table, there's Trump.
He professes to have American interests at heart in his hard-line handling of Canada in these ongoing NAFTA negotiations. And he has framed NAFTA as a disaster and an agreement that has brought "the US … decades of abuse" at the hands of Canada.
What Trump hesitates to acknowledge is the interdependence between the US and Canadian economies. Both countries need each other.
Canada is the United States' second-largest trading partner, with US$673 billion in total goods and services crossing the border in 2017. The US Department of Commerce estimates that exports to Canada support over 1.5 million jobs, heavily concentrated in border states that went for Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Take the automobile industry as an example: If Canada was left out of NAFTA, car prices could rise in the US due to proposed new tariffs on Canadian autos. And Canadians are already discussing a boycott of American goods if negotiations turn sour, which could also lead to a decline in the sales of American cars.
If consumers in Canada and other countries are buying fewer American cars as a result of these trade disputes, that could lead to layoffs. The possible downward spiral that could result has both the auto industry and labor unions concerned about a NAFTA with no Canada.
And it's not just cars. If Canada is kicked out of the new NAFTA, Americans would see a number of industries negatively affected, from oil production to retail stores to tourism as Canadians will choose to buy more domestic products to avoid American ones.
Basically, a NAFTA without Canada is a lose-lose situation for all involved. And while Trump may be willing to ignore the wishes of some interest groups since he has two years before he faces re-election, most lawmakers in Congress don't have that luxury as the midterms fast approach.
It's hard for me to imagine that Congress would support a NAFTA minus Canada, regardless of who controls the House in January 2019.
Three Is Not a Crowd
The idea of throwing NAFTA out all together is, in my view, ludicrous, as industry on both sides of the border will not stand for it and Congress will not support it.
Trump is also legally restricted. While he has been granted fast-track authority by Congress to renegotiate NAFTA, this only allows Trump to ask lawmakers to approve a deal, by an up or down vote, that includes all three countries. If the current negotiations fail and Trump presents Congress with a trade deal with Mexico alone, the process will be slow and could be held up significantly – especially if there's a change in control of the House.
Considering manufacturing interests were pro-NAFTA in 1994 and continues to derive benefits from the treaty today, North Americans can expect whatever replaces that deal to continue with Canada well into the future regardless of how long these negotiations take.
Christina Fattore
Christina Fattore is an associate professor of political science at West Virginia University.
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Discrimination against loved ones harms health, too
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Discrimination interacts with certain genetic variants to change blood pressure, report researchers.
In addition, discrimination experienced by close friends and family had a more significant impact on study participants than did firsthand experiences, according to Connie Mulligan, a professor with appointments at the University of Florida's anthropology department and Genetics Institute.
"We've been missing a huge factor in explaining racial disparities in disease."
The researchers developed a novel measure of unfair treatment to study the effects of discrimination on health, particularly with respect to racial disparities in complex diseases, which are illnesses resulting from both genetic and environmental factors. They used the measure to investigate hypertension, which is more prevalent among African Americans.
"We've been missing a huge factor in explaining racial disparities in disease," says Mulligan, coauthor of the new study in PLOS ONE. "Our finding of an interaction between genetics and environment could explain why it's been so hard to identify all the risk factors for complex diseases, particularly those that have racial disparities.
"You have to look at genetics and environment in the same study if you're investigating complex diseases like hypertension, certain kinds of cancer, and psychological disorders."
The researchers combined anthropological analysis, including in-depth, ethnographic interviews with 157 AfricanAmericans, with measurements of 30,000 genetic variants and measures of genetic ancestry.
Mulligan and colleagues identified eight significant genetic variants in five genes that were previously associated with cardiovascular disease. They added sociocultural data collected by study coauthor Lance Gravlee, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, and community partners in Tallahassee, Florida, and their novel measure of vicarious unfair treatment, and tested for interactions between genetic variants and unfair treatment.
This let them identify associations with blood pressure and a new class of genes that previously had been associated with psychosocial distress and mood disorders.
The researchers suggest genetic variants that predispose some people to depression, anxiety, or suicide might also make them more sensitive to the effects of discrimination and lead to higher blood pressure. The role of these genes with blood pressure regulation may only become relevant when dealing with the effects of discrimination and could help explain why it's been so difficult to understand racial disparities in disease, Mulligan says.
As for the finding that vicarious discrimination causes greater stress, Mulligan says people may feel they have more control over things experienced personally than acts of discrimination happening to people close to them.
"People may also be reluctant to report personal experiences of discrimination to avoid the stigma, and denial may itself be a coping mechanism," Mulligan says. "It's also likely effects of vicarious unfair treatment may be even greater, since the study did not include events that one hears through the news, such as an act of racial violence."
Mulligan was inspired by the personal history of the study's lead author Jacklyn Quinlan, a former postdoctoral researcher, who tackled the project after the loss of her Caribbean-American husband to a heart attack.
She hopes the new study will broaden the way both the academic and medical fields approach disease. "We're quick to say that racial disparities in disease are due to poverty or access to good healthcare. Or that there might be a genetic basis. Our research suggests it's even more complicated," Mulligan says.
Additional coauthors are from Health Equality Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT) and the Florida Department of Children and Families Substance Abuse and Mental Health Program, the University of Florida's department of anthropology, Greater Frenchtown Revitalization Council in Tallahassee, and Pennsylvania University's department of anthropology.
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