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The LPI has taken part in the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), held in Washington, D.C. between the 4th and 7th of April 2018. One poster about bias correction technique in MRI was presented.
Last April 19 2018, the LPI was present at the First Meeting for Advanced Users in Neuroimaging, organized by Philips in Madrid. Santiago Aja and Rodrigo de Luis presented the main breakthroughs of the group in diffusion analysis.
The LPI has contributed with 3 chapters to the new book Handbook of Speckle Filtering and Tracking in Cardiovascular Ultrasound Imaging and Video, published by the IET (Institution of Enigineering and Technology), edited by Christos P. Loizou, Constantinos S. Pattichis and Jan D' hooge. Authors from the lab have added their expertise in Speckle Tracking and filtering.
A novel curl-based cardiac rotation measurement but from tensorial magnitudes devised to cardiomyopathy discrimination entitled "Vortical Features for Myocardial Rotation Assessment in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy using Cardiac Tagged Magnetic Resonance" has been recently published in the international journal Medical Image Analysis.


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I recently returned home from the 2018 CHIME CIO Forum. This is one of my favorite events of the year, and I highly recommend that every CIO attend if you can. The event is important for two main reasons: networking and inspiration.
During my tenure as CIO, I chose not to attend from time-to-time. This was largely due to budget (or at least the optics of heading to a conference after doing staff reductions) and/or busyness, but I still think it was a mistake on my part.
The large majority of the CIOs I spoke with at the event have allowed themselves to be pushed into an operational role. The job has become managing the EHR, keeping the computers running, and managing the budget. This is not true for all of the CIOs that I spoke with, but it is the case for many.
No matter how or why it is happening, the basic fact rings true for most: the CIO role has evolved considerably.
The CIOs that haven't fallen into the operational trap have a laser focus on two things: one is the customer experience, and the other is the use of data.
Two forward-leaning CIOs shared with me their plans to eliminate the waiting room and fully automate the intake process. The goal is lofty, but they are putting technologies in place to make this a reality in the next 24 months. It involves a single patient ID across the entire health system; mobile applications that collect and aggregate data, and move it into the process when needed; and facial and voice recognition to identify the patient using nothing but a phone. It all sounds very cool.
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf gave us what I think will be the theme of this year's event. He said that the "crucial challenge is the delta between massive data and lack of actionable information," stressing the power of and – better health through technology and information.
Eric Schmidt (of Google fame) shared the concept that healthcare has become a data science, and gave a wide-ranging vision for what is already possible at Google.
In fairness, this material was from the opening of HIMSS, which took place directly following the CHIME event. However, it was echoed in the projects that CMIOs and CIOs are addressing.
Dr. Bob Wachter from UCSF urged us to move beyond digitizing paper processes and begin to reimagine work. He gave great examples of physicians doing in 45 minutes for an entire hospital of patients, what used to be done with one patient, in a single consult. The outcome was a 45 percent improvement.
My big takeaway – and the inspiration that was derived from this conference – is the fact that we have things in place today to truly change the way healthcare is delivered in the next five years. The driving factor is that the EHR is in place now, the consumer is activated with new expectations, and the cloud gives us technology at scale today, right now, which enables new ways of using the data.
Twice during the day, we were reminded of Google's first failure in healthcare. Dr. Wachter told us that it failed because it tried to take the massive amounts of paper data and processes, and put them into the cloud. The lift was too much, it was too complex, and it ultimately failed.
In his keynote, Eric Schmidt also reiterated the same exact thoughts. He even gave a shout-out to the companies that have done this amazing work. He reinforced their growing importance, even with the emergence of new technologies that will utilize the data that they have. Now that we have the data and processes digitized, the problem becomes making sense of the massive amounts of data.
Sounds like something at which these internet giants excel.
Nicholas Webb, a medical futurist and author of What Customers Crave, also spoke at the CIO Forum. He gave us a call to action to rethink our work. Every industry experiences major disruption a short ten years after the data is digitized. Healthcare data is either at or very near that 10-year mark.
The experience will be the new frontier. He cautioned that the birth of something new usually is preceded by the death of something else. Disruption will start with destruction. Destruction of old models, old processes, and old technologies. This is where the CIO will earn their stripes.
Navigating change is the core of the future role of the CIO.
Finally, Eric Schmidt told us stories of great possibility with machine learning and AI. However, there is a step before you get to the Promised Land: you have to go to the cloud.
This CHIME event was particularly inspiring to me. Health Lyrics has a vision to "Reimagine healthcare, everywhere for everyone." We only do two things for healthcare: we move health systems to the cloud, and we do digital transformation around the consumer experience. We believe that cloud is the core enabler, and that the end goal will be to change the health journey for everyone around the world.
These speakers confirmed that the time is finally upon us.


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Son of Rambow es una película británica de 2007 dirigida por Garth Jennings. La película se estrenó el 22 de enero de 2007. Está protagonizada por Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Hynes y Neil Dudgeon. La película está basada en la película de 1982 First Blood.

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Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) es un niño tranquilo y tímido de 11 años, cuya familia pertenece a la iglesia de los Hermanos de Plymouth. Debido a las estrictas reglas de su madre (Jessica Hynes), Will tiene prohibido ver películas y televisión. Un día, el protagonista conoce a un niño bravucón de 13 años llamado Lee Carter (Will Poulter), y ambos se vuelven amigos. Carter ha decidido filmar una película inspirado en el éxito de Stallone First Blood (1982), pidiéndole a Will que participe en ella.

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Bill Milner - Will Proudfoot
Will Poulter - Lee Carter
Jessica Hynes - Mary Proudfoot
Anna Wing - Abuela
Neil Dudgeon - Joshua
Tallulah Evans - Jess Proudfoot
Jules Sitruk - Didier Revol
Charlie Thrift - Duncan Miller
Ed Westwick - Lawrence Carter
Adam Godley - Líder de la hermandad
Asa Butterfield - Niño de la hermandad
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Update: Miserable Life in India...
Taslima Nasreen's writing has again been banned over fears of violent protest
See article from aljazeera.com
T he planned launch of an Indian television serial scripted by a Bangladeshi-feminist author Taslima Nasreen has been scrapped after several Muslim groups demanded that her writings be banned.
Dussahobas (Miserable Life Together) , a Bengali serial written by Taslima Nasreen, was to go on air on Thursday, but the TV channel behind the programme was forced to defer its plan after local police said the serial could stir unrest.
Syed Mohammad Noorur Rahman Barkati, an Imam of a Kolkata mosque, told Al Jazeera.
In her writings, she routinely seeks to ridicule Islam and vilify our revered Prophet Mohammed. In this serial, she might come up with something to show Islam in bad light again.
Nasreen's writing became well known after she was forced to flee Bangladesh in 1994 after her novel Lajja (Shame) was banned. She allegedly called for changes in the Quran, antagonizing sections of the country's population that prompted death threats against her.
Ishita Surana, spokesperson of Channel Aat, the Kolkata-based channel that commissioned the serial, said the serial did not have anything that hurts the religious sentiments of Muslims.
Nasreen insists her script talks only of women who became victims of dowry, forced marriage, rape, prostitution and other social evils. she explained to Indian news-agency PTI:
Unlike other TV serials which glorify women as being submissive or relegate them to the role of housewives, this serial portrays them as strong individuals...and how they keep fighting for their rights,
Update: Low Cost Court Action...
Spanish judge bans the 2013 Ryanair bikini calendar
A Spanish judge has belatedly banned adverts for the 2013 Ryanair calendar featuring female flight attendants in bikinis.
The judge claimed that the calendar, released each year by the low-cost airline in support of charitable causes, was sexist. Ryanair said it would appeal the decision.
Adverts for the calendar prompted an appeal by a gender extremist group, and this week a court in the southern city of Malaga ruled that the adverts treated the women as objects and were discriminatory, Spanish media reported.
The judge reportedly banned the airline from using the pictures and ordered it to publish the judgement at its own expense.
The calendar raised over 100,000 euros for a Polish charity, the TVN Foundation, to help sick children in Poland.
Sticking Their Noses Into Other People's Business...
Catholics have a whinge at traditional statuettes featuring defecating celebrities
See article from sbs.com.au
The northeastern region of Catalonia has a tradition of producing caganer statuettes, which depict bare-bottomed celebrities defecating.
The ceramic figurines have been sold in Catalonia since the 18th century to be placed in Christmas nativity scenes for good luck.
But some Roman Catholics were outraged by one of this year's subjects: the Virgin of Montserrat, a black statue of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ. Believed to date back at least to the Middle Ages, the Madonna stands in the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, near Barcelona. The abbey's prior, Ignassi Fossas, wrote in a letter:
Using the image of the Virgin of Montserrat for this grotesque figurine seems to us a sign of insensitivity and lack of respect to many people who could feel their beliefs are hurt.
A Roman Catholic association, e-Cristianos , said it planned to sue the manufacturer for attacking the respect and dignity of religious symbols.
Update: Banned Words...
UN official tells Malaysia to stop monopolising the religious character name, Allah
See article from stuff.co.nz
Malaysia should reverse a ban on a Christian newspaper using the word Allah to refer to the christian religious character called God, a UN official said about a decision that fanned religious tension in the mainly Muslim country.
The UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, said in statement:
Freedom of religion or belief is a right of human beings, not a right of the state. It cannot be the business of the state to shape or reshape religious traditions, nor can the state claim any binding authority in the interpretation of religious sources or in the definition of the tenets of faith.
Religious Censor...
Sikhs call for representation on India's film censorship board
See article from business-standard.com
The Sikh religious body, Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandhak Committee, has demanded inclusion in India's Film Censorship Board for vetting any scenes relating to the Sikh community.
The group claims that such a step would prevent religious 'outrage' by being able to censor scenes that hurt the sentiments of Sikhs.
SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar said he had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in this regard:
Since the Prime Minister is a Sikh, he can understand the sentiments of the community better. ]
Updated: Family First New Zealand Recommends...
Lady Gaga advert on the back of buses
8th November 2013. See Family First press release from scoop.co.nz
Moralist campaigners at Family First NZ have written to the Howick and Eastern Bus Company asking them to remove a supposedly objectionable billboard on the back of their buses. The image advertising Lady Gaga's latest album features the partly-covered naked singer in a provocative pose. Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ spouted:
We expect this raunch culture from shock artists like Lady Gaga, but to display it on a public bus often used as a school bus is unacceptable. The image simply objectifies women as sex objects and is part of the agenda of a pornified music world.
These images should not be 'broadcast' on street billboards and school buses. It is offensive and inappropriate and many parents will not want their children being exposed to larger-than-life porn images. It's difficult to have 'parental controls' over the images on a bus driving in front of you.
The music industry wants to sexualise and objectify women. But advertisers, and the Advertising Standards Authority, should be doing everything it can to reject this.
We are asking the Howick and Eastern Bus Company to show social responsibility.
Update: Advert to be withdrawn
11th November 2013. See article from tvnz.co.nz
An Auckland bus company has asked its advertising agency to remove a racy Lady Gaga billboard from the back of its buses.
Family First NZ said it has received notification from the Howick and Eastern Bus Company that they have asked their advertising agency to remove a billboard advertising the popstar's latest album from the back of its buses.
We're stoked that Howick and Eastern Bus Company have responded to the concerns of families and have shown social responsibility, Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ, said.
Approved Politically Correct...
Swedish cinemas introduce a kite mark for gender equality in movies
See article from translate.google.com
Four Swedish cinemas: Rio Cinema (Stockholm), Roy (Gothenburg), mirror (Malmo ), Red Mill (Helsingborg) that are run by the National Organisation People's Houses and Parks have introduced a politically correct approval symbol for movies.
The launch of the scheme is in partnership with WIFT (Women in Film and Television) and Fair Service.
An A-labeled film is a small indication that in this film, there are two women with names, talking to each other about something other than men.
The so-called Bechdel test has its origins in a 1985 storyline in Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It may sound like a low bar. But several big name films have not been 'approved'.
Ellen Tejle , who runs Stockholm's Rio, one of the participating cinemas said:
The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, all Star Wars movies, The Social Network, Pulp Fiction and all but one of the Harry Potter movies fail this test.
The Guardian adds a number of current releases and Oscar contenders that fail the test: Alfonso Cuaro'n's Gravity , despite its starring role for Sandra Bullock; Lee Daniels' The Butler, about a presidential servant and the civil rights movement; and Captain Phillips , Paul Greengrass's piracy drama, which involves an all-male gang of pirates attacking an all-male shipping crew.
But of course a seal of political correct approval may be a mixed blessing. It may be that some cinema goers use it to identify films best avoided.
Successfully Ridiculed...
Hindus complain about an drawing of Ganesha used in a newspaper cartoon about cricket administration
See article from timeslive.co.za
South African Hindu organisations are 'outraged' about a cartoon by Jonathan Zapiro Shapiro depicting their religious character, the god of success, Lord Ganesha.
The Star reported that the organisations described the cartoon as a flagrant disrespect and denigration of our glorious Hindu faith .
The cartoon, carried on Shapiro's website on Sunday and in the Sunday Times, alludes to shenanigans amongst cricket administrators.
The Hindu Dharma Sabha has announced that he will officially complain to the grandly titled, Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities.
Dharma Sabha president Ram Maharaj told The Star he had been 'inundated' with calls from angry Hindus.
Update: Zed Grade Whinge
5th November 2013. See article from jacarandafm.com
President of Universal Society of Hinduism, the perennial whinger, Rajan Zed, said in a statement from the US that Zapiro's cartoon of Ganesha was hurtful and a trivialisation of a highly revered deity.
Zed urged Sunday Times editor, Phylicia Oppelt, as well as cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro to issue a formal apology immediately and remove the cartoon from their websites. He also urged the Hindus on the Times Media Group board to resign if no apology was offered.
The Sunday Times and Zapiro said they would not apologise for the cartoon.
Update: Tit for Tat...
Afghan clerics refuse to condemn suicide bombing unless TV is censored more
See article from rferl.org
Afghanistan's muslim Ulema Council claims that immoral shows on television pose a greater danger to the country than do suicide bombers.
The spokesman of the council, Faroq Husseini, warned that if immoral shows were not prevented the clerics would not denounce suicide attacks any more.
I Ham Outraged...
A few trivial tweets about a poster for ham in Capri
See article from digitaljournal.com
An advertisement billboard is causing 'outrage' on the Italian island of Capri. It shows a couple of slices of the famous Parma ham placed strategically on the rump of a naked woman.
Above the image on the advertising poster for the company Onesto Ghirardi is the slogan, I Ham.
A few trivial postings on social networks claimed that the advert is degrading women and pointing out the a woman's body is not a piece of meat.
A local councilor in Capri, Anita de Pascale, reportedly asked the mayor to immediately ban the billboard. She told La Repubblica newspaper: The image is detrimental to the dignity of women .
However the authorities in Parma have not so far intervened.
Update: Love your neighbour...unless he does something you don't like...
Philippines police arrests adult magazine editors after whinges from baptist preachers
See article from xbiz.com
Several men's magazines including Playboy have been busted for supposed obscenity in the Philippines.
Editors for Playboy, Maxim, FHM, and others were dragged into the Manila Regional Trial Court for printing supposedly lewd photos. They were later released on bail.
The action stemmed from joint complaints filed by pastors and preachers of Bible Baptist Churches in Metro Manila, led by Manila District Representative Bienvenido Abante, and a senior pastor of the Metropolitan Bible Baptist Church.
According to the complaint, the publications contained pornographic, erotic or indecent pictures that exhibited nude or semi-nude bodies, sexual acts and private parts of male and female bodies with no educational, artistic, cultural or scientific value from September 2007 to July 2008.
The complainants reportedly said that the magazines' photos were clearly and purely intended or calculated to draw lust, stimulate sexual drive, excite impure imagination or arouse prurient interest .
Playboy and FHM, disputed the charges and said the complainants made a sweeping statement of culpability based only portions of publications without directly pointing to the acts of each of those charged. Playhouse also argued and said it has never published nudity, private parts of men and women, and cannot be considered obscene. Maxim futher stated that scantily clad photos of actresses were tastefully done and did not depict any sexual act or nudity.
Update: Even in a Burkha...
Rihanna Manages to Offend
See article from independent.co.uk
Even dressed head-to-toe in a hooded black jumpsuit Rihanna has managed to provoke 'outrage'.
She posted images on her Instagram account showing her posing at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in UAE, where she is currently on tour.
Despite a very conscious effort to tone down her usual attention-grabbing-garb, she is seen sporting crimson lipstick and wearing dark red fingernails while adopting a series of trademark sultry, pouting poses that some have deemed disrespectful for a place of worship.
Her picture prompted a few trivial outraged tweets such as the whatever she does is wrong tweet:
Rihanna may look gorgeous and all but she's covering her head out of fashion not out of respect for the mosque, wrote one user.
Highly Offensive Attempt to Censor Newspapers...
Muslim group attempts to get South African press ombudsman to ban terms such as 'islamist militants'
South Africa's press ombudsman has declined a request to ban the use of the words Islamist militants and militant Islam from newspaper reports.
An organisation called United Muslim Nations International claimed that the use of terms like Islamist militants and militant Islam was defamatory and highly offensive.
Ombudsman Johan Retief replied in a letter that he could not instruct publications on editorial content or policy as that amounted to censorship. Retief did not feel the terms in question crossed ethical borders .
Sheik Faarooq al Mohammedi of the Muslim group said it would appeal against the decision.
According to the independent news website WND, Al Mohammedi is the author of a 23-page booklet containing a plan to wipe Christianity from the face of the earth .
Update: Judgement Day...
Malaysia bans christian newspaper from using the religious character name, Allah
See article from thestar.com.my
Catholic weekly The Herald will not be allowed to use the word Allah to refer to the Christian God, ruled the Court of Appeal.
The panel, chaired by Justice Mohamed Apandi Ali, overturned a High Court decision and unanimously ruled in favour of the Government's appeal, saying that the minister had not acted in any way that required a judicial review.
The court also found that there had been sufficient material considered by the minister in taking action under the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984. The Judgement reads:
Our common finding is that the usage of Allah is not an integral part of the Christian faith. We cannot find why the parties are so adamant on the usage of the word.
The court claimed that such usage of the word would cause confusion and that in the interest of supposed public safety, chose to grant the Government's appeal.
The welfare of an individual or group must yield to the interest of society at large, said Justice Mohamed Apandi, adding that this should be read alongside the constitutional freedom of religion.
The weekly, published in four languages, has been using the word Allah as a translation for God in its Malay-language section, but the Government argued that Allah should be used exclusively only by Muslims.
Family First New Zealand Recommends...
Into the River by Ted Dawe
See article from nzherald.co.nz
See press release from spcs.org.nz
The New Zealand children's book of the year, Into The River by Ted Dawe, will carry a warning that it is only suitable for readers aged 16 years and older.
The Office of Film and Literature Classification said in its findings on the novel, saying people might be offended but the book would remain unrestricted. It recommends, however, that the book be read by a mature audience.
Information and policy manager Kate Ward said there were already young-adult books with similar sexual descriptions, and to place a restriction on Dawe's novel would be unfair.
Dawe welcomed the decision, saying it was based on a thorough and expansive analysi
Into The River includes detailed descriptions of sex acts, strong language and scenes of drug-taking. It claimed top prize at this year's New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. The award organisers had sent explicit content stickers to all booksellers after the book won the supreme award.
However some morality campaigners are not happy with the over 16 warning. and have been lobbying the government for the book to be age restricted. Now New Zealand's Secretary for Internal Affairs has approved Family First NZ's application for leave to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review to review the classification of the book.
Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ, whinged:
The Office of Film and Literature Classification originally reviewed the book, which contains explicit sexual content, highly offensive language and other adult themes, after Family First NZ laid an official complaint. The OFLC acknowledged that it's suitable for mature audiences 16 years of age and over, but they have made no requirement to warn parents about the content. They say it is up to marketers and booksellers to take the responsibility of warning parents and caregivers -- something the OFLC won't do.
The OFLC bases their judgment extensively on those with a vested interest in the book or its award -- for example, the author, the chief judge of the Awards, and a blogger who just happened to have 'worked on in its initial assessment and editing phase'.
They also argue that a low number of calls to the Classification Office suggests there's little objection. They fail to mention the widespread condemnation by many in the media including the NZ Herald editorial, and they also fail to acknowledge the massive protest to NZ Post calling on them to withdraw the Award given to the book, and that some bookstores refused to sell the book.
Family First have kindly counted occurrences of strong language in the book and took exception to OFLC report:
The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are used occasionally and the word 'cunt' is seen once. The language is not likely to cause harm. These are words and terms that have relatively common usage amongst teenage boys.
However Family First contend that 'cunt' is used nine times and 'fuck' is used 17 times, 'shit' 16 times, and 'cock' 10 times.
Family First is seeking clear warning labels for parents to be displayed on the cover of the book and for the book to be banned from school and public libraries. They have also asked NZ Post to withdraw the Award given to the book.
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Mexico declares success in slowing migrant flow
by: MARIA VERZA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press
FILE – In this June 5, 2019 file photo, Mexican authorities stop a migrant caravan that had earlier crossed the Mexico – Guatemala border, near Metapa, Chiapas state, Mexico. Mexico said in Friday, Sept. 5, that it has complied with a 90-day deadline from the U.S. to reduce the flow of migrants through its territory, but activists say Mexico's crackdown has only forced migrants into greater desperation and more illicit, dangerous routes. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under threat of crippling U.S. tariffs, Mexico said Friday it had reduced the flow of migrants arriving at its northern border by 56% in three months.
Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said he believes Mexico's strategy of cracking down on illegal migration with a National Guard deployment, investment in Central America and allowing the U.S. to make more asylum seekers wait in Mexico is enough to avert President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports.
Ebrard is scheduled to meet with U.S. officials Tuesday at the White House to review the progress.
"We're showing that the strategy that Mexico put forward has been successful," Ebrard said. "I don't expect a tariff threat Tuesday because it wouldn't make sense."
Using U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, Ebrard said the number of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in August was 63,989, down from 144,266 in May. Ebrard's numbers include those who presented themselves at U.S. ports of entry and were deemed inadmissible.
Mexico has reinforced security on its porous southern border and set up checkpoints on highways leading north, deploying 21,600 police and troops across the nation. Ebrard said there had been seven formal complaints of human rights violations involving the National Guard, a relatively low number which he saw as another sign of success.
The enforcement has been paired with an incipient economic development plan. Mexico has agreed with Honduras and El Salvador to expand a tree planting program that aims to keep farmers on their land through direct payments and provide them with income-generating fruit and timber trees.
Mexico has committed $60 million to that program and another to create job opportunities for youth.
Some 4,300 Central American migrants are working in Mexico's version of that program in the south, Ebrard said.
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, a leftist who took office Dec. 1 promising better treatment of migrants, instead has embraced the fight against migrant smuggling.
In recent weeks, he has seldom mentioned the U.S. pressure and depicts the crackdown on migrants as a struggle to defend Mexican laws. His administration has taken a tough line against hundreds of African migrants waiting in the southern city of Tapachula for transit visas that Mexico no longer hands out.
"We will not budge," he said after the Africans protested, "because the recent events in Tapachula aim to make Mexico yield and oblige us to give out certificates so migrants can get into the United States. We cannot do that. It isn't our job."
He said migrant caravans once tolerated by Mexico were the work of human traffickers, and effectively ended them.
"All of these people who traffic with migrants' needs for jobs, safety and welfare, they are committing a crime and they will be punished," López Obrador said last week. "We are already doing this in Mexico, without violating human rights. We are ensuring there isn't anarchy, disorder."
Migrant-rights activists say López Obrador is simply dressing up the fact that he yielded to Trump's pressure tactics.
"Mexico is just trying to comply with the U.S. (demands) and cut down on migration, but it is improvising and violating the law," said Javier Martínez, a lawyer for the Casa del Migrante shelter in the northern city of Saltillo. "We are seeing things we never saw before."
Mexico has raided freight trains that migrants ride north, and pulled thousands off buses and out of the freight compartments of trucks. The government has warned bus and taxi drivers they could lose their permits if they transport migrants.
Activists say that has forced migrants to hike through unpopulated areas to avoid checkpoints, exposing them to greater risk from thieves, muggers and rapists who lie in wait.
Ebrard said Friday that authorities had found 2,186 migrants inside 35 tractor trailers and said that nearly 40% were minors. Ebrard said 357 people had been charged in migrant-smuggling cases.
The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, who runs a migrant shelter in the southern state of Oaxaca, said Mexico essentially had no choice.
"It was the least worse choice," Solalinde said of the government's decision. "Given that Donald Trump is an unstable person, full of surprises, we had to make this deal."
All of that has left migrants like Jose Bento, a 30-year-old from Congo, feeling like they have been caught in the middle and left in limbo.
"We are in a jail without walls," said Bento, who has spent four months travelling though South and Central America in a bid to reach the United States. "This is a policy of lies. We are considered as animals."
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government plans to offer a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to every adult by September as the nation's health service battles the worst crisis in its 72-year-history.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Sunday that the government is still opening new vaccination sites and will soon begin trials that will give round-the-clock injections at some locations to help increase the pace of delivery.


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Aknasugatag (, jiddisül אוקנה-שוגאטאג) falu Romániában, a történeti Máramarosban, Máramaros megyében. Az Iza völgyének egyetlen, jelentős magyar népességgel rendelkező települése.

Fekvése
A Mára és a Kaszó (Cosău) folyása között, a Máramarosi-medencében, Máramarosszigettől 18 km-re dél–délkeletre fekszik. A sótömzs 5×2,1 kilométeres alapterületű, 154 méter vastag, dőlése északnyugat felé 60–80°-os, felette 1–34 méter vastag sóagyag-, majd palaréteg található.

Nevének eredete
Neve arra utal, hogy Falusugataghoz tartozó sóbányász telepből (akna 'sóbánya') fejlődött önálló településsé. Sugatagi Só Akna alakban 1799-ben, mint Akna Sugatagh 1828-ban jegyezték föl.

Története
Külön története a 14. század elején kezdődött, amikor Falusugatag a Sugatagi Gyulafiak, Aknasugatag pedig előbb a Drágfiak, majd a 15. század végén a király tulajdona lett. 1355-ben említették először a sóbányát. 1360-ban vlach jogú település volt.

A sókitermelés a 18. századig főként külszíni fejtéssel történt. A középkor végén szláv és magyar, a 16. században német bányászok telepedtek le benne.

A 18–19. században a legfontosabb máramarosi sóbányász település volt. 1777-ben sóbányahivatalt állítottak föl, Gölnicbányáról és Szomolnokról pedig cipszer és szlovák bányamunkások költöztek be. Vályi András a 18. század végén még magyar–német–román településként írja le, de pár generáció alatt a németek, románok és szlovákok nyelvileg elmagyarosodtak. Az új sóbányászokkal az 1772-ben megnyitott Julianna- és Anna-aknát és az 1777-ben megnyitott Erzsébet-aknát vették művelés alá. Története folyamán az aknasugatagi bányászok folytonos küzdelmet vívtak a beszivárgó vízzel, és több új akna is hamar víz alá került.

1789-ben alakult meg római katolikus plébániája. 1817-ben telkeket osztottak a bányamunkásoknak és hat új aknát vettek művelés alá. 1838-ban 763 római katolikus (magyar, német és szláv nyelvűek) és 364 görögkatolikus lakosa volt. 1848. június 21-én választókerülete a helyi görögkatolikus pap, Bud János helyett a későbbi máramarosi főispánt, Iosif Mant küldte képviselőjeként a pesti országgyűlésbe.

1858-ban meteorológiai megfigyelőállomást hoztak létre benne, a mai Románia területén ez a legkorábbi ilyen létesítmény. 1861-ben megnyílt a nem sokkal korábban elhunyt Széchenyi Istvánról elnevezett gyógyszertára. 1866 és 1875 között évente átlagosan 22 tonna sót bányásztak. Ekkoriban 192 sóvágó és munkás és 18 hivatalnok dolgozott a sóbányáknál. 1883-ban Máramarossziget és a falu között keskeny nyomtávú vasút épült.

A 20. század első felében, 1948-ig járási székhely volt. Bár a bánya 1938-ban még 14 878 tonna sót termelt ki, 1950-ben bezárták.

Demográfia

Látnivalók
 Strandja három medencéből áll, vize erősen konyhasós. Elődjét, a régi fürdőt 1931-ben nyitották meg, egy beomlott bánya helyén.
 Sós bányatavak és bányák: Gábor-tó (egy 1957–1958-ban beomlott bánya helyén, Románia legnagyobb aknatava), Feneketlen-tó (egy 1909-ben megnyitott bánya helyén, amelyet a beszivárgó víz miatt még abban az évben be is zártak), Boszorkány-tó, Gábor-bánya (1821 és 1950 között a legnagyobb bánya volt, ma zsombékos terület), Mihály-bánya (1802–1839), Kerekhegy-bánya (1942-ben zárták be) stb.
 Római katolikus temploma 1834–1836-ban épült. A faluban van egy 1979-ben épült ortodox fatemplom is.
 Kápolnák: Anna-kápolna, Mária-kápolna, Nepomuki Szent János-kápolna.
 Évente, augusztusban gulyásfőző fesztivált rendeznek.
 Elena Tămaș népi ikonfestő műhelye
 A falutól északra, 44 hektáron elterülő Király-erdő (Pădurea Crăiască), kocsánytalan tölgyes.

Híres emberek
 Itt született 1874. október 3-án Ivánovich Emil egri apátkanonok, pápai prelátus, jogakadémiai igazgató.
 Itt született 1894. április 5-én Zsedényi Béla legitimista, majd polgári demokrata politikus, az Ideiglenes Nemzetgyűlés elnöke. Apja a sóbánya hivatali főnöke volt.
 Itt született 1929. február 24-én Marga Barbu színésznő.

Gazdaság
Idegenforgalom, panziók.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Mihályi János: Máramarosi diplomák a XIV. és XV. századból, Máramarossziget, 1900.Online hozzáférés
 Szilágyi István (szerk.): Máramaros vármegye egyetemes leirása. Budapesten, 1876
 Bélay Vilmos: Máramaros vármegye társadalma és nemzetiségei a megye betelepülésétől a 18. század elejéig. Budapest, 1943
 Réthy László: Aknasugatag sóbányászata. Bányászattörténeti Közlemények 2010, 1. sz.
 Janitsek Jenő: Máramarosi helynevek: Aknasugatag, Rónaszék, Hosszúmező. Nyelv- és Irodalomtudományi Közlemények, 1984/1.

További információk
 A falu rövid története
 A falu térképe 1800-ból

Máramaros megye települései
Románia fürdőhelyei
Máramaros vármegye települései


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17 Turner Padget Attorneys Included Among South Carolina Super Lawyers For 2017
Columbia, S.C., April 26, 2017 – Turner Padget is pleased to announce that 17 of its attorneys have been recognized by South Carolina Super Lawyers for 2017. Ten attorneys from across the firm are included among the annual list of leading lawyers, and an additional seven attorneys have been named as Rising Stars by the…
Thirty-Two Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd Attorneys Named in 2017 South Carolina Super Lawyers
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. is pleased to congratulate 32 firm attorneys from 13 practice areas who were listed in the 2017 edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers. "Of the 32 attorneys recognized, our firm had 11 attorneys in the publication's Rising Star category and nine attorneys who have been listed for more than 10 years,"…
UofSC School of Law announces 2017 Compleat Lawyer Award recipients
Nine alumni from the School of Law at the University of South Carolina have been named recipients of the 2017 Compleat Lawyer Awards. Established in 1992, the Compleat Lawyer Award is the School of Law's highest recognition of professional achievement and civic leadership by the school's alumni. Because award recipients are nominated by other lawyers…
Seven Barnwell Whaley attorneys chosen for 2017 South Carolina Super Lawyers list
M. Dawes Cooke, Jr. listed as the number two attorney in South Carolina Seven Barnwell Whaley attorneys have been chosen for the 2017 South Carolina Super Lawyers list, including member attorney M. Dawes Cooke, Jr. who was chosen as the number two attorney in the State of South Carolina. Cooke, who held the number one…


Last week, 60-odd fact-checkers and onlookers gathered in Brussels for a conference aimed at promoting collaboration ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections.
The everyday work of fact-checkers across the EU shows how valuable such collaboration could be. False political claims and viral hoaxes get recycled across the continent with minor edits (see the Agence France-Presse buzzer fact check linked below).


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Suit alleges Falor misled investors, mismanaged projects
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(Crain's) -- Condominium-hotel developer Robert Falor is fighting a lawsuit alleging that he misled investors and mismanaged several projects, including the Hotel Blake in Printers Row.
Mr. Falor engaged in "fraud, self-dealing, theft and gross mismanagement" as developer of the Hotel Blake, according to a 40-page complaint filed last month by an Ohio investor, Michael Voll.
Mr. Falor's alleged transgressions include loaning money from the hotel to a failed Falor-led condo-hotel project on State Street, and paying money from the hotel to support his father's estranged wife, who didn't work on the Blake development.
Mr. Falor referred a reporter to his attorney, Ariel Weissberg, who denies the allegations.
"Mr. Voll is pursuing litigation to obtain an unfair advantage over other investors and we will not cave in to his tactics," Mr. Weissberg says. "We are vigorously defending the lawsuit and we believe we will prevail on the merits."
Mr. Falor had planned to convert the Blake, a former Hyatt at 500 S. Dearborn St., into a condo-hotel, selling off its 162 rooms to individual investors as condominiums. But the project hasn't worked out as planned.
Mr. Falor decided to drop the condo conversion last year after agreeing to rebrand the property as a Nicky O, a chain launched by Hilton Hotels heiress Nicky Hilton. That prompted a lawsuit last fall from an investor group that had signed a contract to buy 90 of the hotel's rooms. Mr. Falor says he has severed his ties with Ms. Hilton after filing a breach-of-contract lawsuit against her last week.
Related story: Nicky O hotel projects dropped
Now, Mr. Falor faces a challenge from Mr. Voll, who filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cleveland in January. The suit says Mr. Falor indicated that Mr. Voll, who invested $400,000 in the condo-hotel project, would receive a "guaranteed return" of more than double his original investment.
Yet Mr. Falor "unilaterally altered his business plan" when he decided to drop the condo conversion and "disavowed his obligation to pay investors at all," the complaint says.
Mr. Voll also accuses the Chicago-based developer of a litany of other misdeeds in three condo-hotel projects in Florida: the Mayfair Hotel & Spa in Coconut Grove; the Breakwater and Edison in Miami; and the Tides in Miami Beach.
Nearly three years after announcing his planned condo conversion of the Hotel Blake, Mr. Falor still has a contract to buy the property under an installment sale. Mr. Falor recently renegotiated terms of the contract with the owner, an affiliate of Chicago-based Marc Realty, after a dispute over whether the contract was still valid, Mr. Weissberg says. He declines to provide specifics.
Mr. Falor recently "demanded additional capital from investors," something he didn't disclose was a possibility when he was raising money, the lawsuit says. But Mr. Weissberg, his attorney, says the decision was "necessitated by development costs and acquisition costs that were totally above board."
Mr. Voll, who is seeking compensatory damages in excess of $3.8 million, says he has spoken with about 25 investors in Mr. Falor's projects. He expects to see more lawsuits filed against Mr. Falor.
"They are coming if they haven't already come," he says.


Spring Breakers can look forward to a new entertainment experience this year after the Cameron County Commissioners' Court approved the use of the bay flats north of the South Padre Island Convention Centre for a novel entertainment venue idea: concerts inside a fully enclosed inflatable dome.
William Pledge and Hector Ortiz of Hector Ortiz Promotions were on hand at a Commissioners' Court meeting earlier this month to discuss the proposal to hold three days' worth of concerts on the flats. The musical events will be held inside an inflatable dome with a capacity for 5,000 people, Pledge explained.
"We're actually taking this dome up to the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. It's an enclosed dome that holds 5,000 people. It's unlike anything you've ever seen. It's 360 degrees," Pledge said. As Pledge explained it, the dome is 200 feet long and 165 feet wide.
Exits can be secured, and the entire site would be fenced off for additional security, he said. "We have an emergency exit plan. … Our gate entrances are secured," Pledge said.


Two bike riders snatched chain of a lady at about 4.00 p.m. near Mass Society T Point. The matter was reported to PCR van at phone no. 100 which PCR immediately and local police visited and noted the incident. The lady told the police that she is resident of Uti in Tamil Nadu and has come to her relative residing at Cosmos Society, Sec. 10, Dwarka. She got some injuries around her neck and her Kurta got torn in the attempt.
Fortunately, it was a failed attempt of snatching as the chain has not broken and was thus saved.


The tragedy in New Zealand is an attack on religious freedoms. This attack was planned and carried out by a crazed terrorist on the very fundamental values we treasure as human beings. The senseless murders of these innocent souls is beyond the human capacity of understanding.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has become the face of true leadership in the face of the most violent terrorist attack facing her country. Her empathy and stoic determination in supporting the families of the victims has won her admiration from around the world as New Zealand comes to grips with the aftermath of the unprecedented attack on the mosques.
What can we do to prevent such a catastrophe from happening in Canada? Religious organizations in BC, in particular the BCMA must determine a viable course of action to discuss the future of our community, our safety, our security and the protection of freedom to practice our faith in our mosques. This issue is beyond the scope of a few executives at the BCMA. The mosques under the BCMA are not equipped to handle and proceed with drastic measures to protect our members.
The Security Infrastructure Program put in place by the Canadian government provides funding to help secure our places of worship. It is unfortunate when places of worship must concern themselves with ensuring the safety of its congregants but all of us know the toll that Islamophobia has taken on Muslim families and the continuing crisis it presents. Places of worship must be sanctuaries of peace and reflection not hate and intolerance.
My suggestion is we should have a security card for each member. The ID card can be sold for $5 and the card must be swiped at the door before entering. No one without the ID card would be permitted to enter the masjid. This is not an easy or painless system to put into place but for the sake of the security of our members, we must pursue procedures that must be implemented. The BCMA must be the leader in organizing a widespread plan of action which would require the Executive to include past and current members to commit to a strategy for the benefit of our community. Please put the differences aside and collectively come together and put a security plan in place for every member of the BCMA.
Let us show true wisdom by being vigilant in the face of any security risks. Let us not be penny wise and pound foolish.


Here's the deal, friends: Exam 70-620 is the entry-level Microsoft exam for folks certifying on Windows Vista support. What's cool about 70-620 is that it is a remarkably versatile exam with respect to how it plugs into several Microsoft certification programs.
Sweet! The above information positions Exam 70-620 as a sort of "Swiss Army Knife" test that any Microsoft certification candidate worth his or her salt should consider sitting for immediately.
Do not pass GO, do not collect 200 dollars. Register to take Exam 70-620 today. Why the heck not? Doing so will shorten your certification path for a number of different tracks. Best of luck to you.


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Tous dans l'même bateau (All in the Same Boat) was the debut album by the Canadian progressive rock group, CANO. Released in 1976, the album was produced by Luc Cousineau and Jon Red Mitchell.

In 2021, two of the album's classic songs, André Paiement's "Dimanche après-midi" and Marcel Aymar's "Baie Sainte-Marie," were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Track listing
 "Viens nous voir" (8:35)
 "Dimanche après-midi" (3:41)
 "Pluie estivale" (2:53)
 "Le vieux Médéric" (2:59)
 "Les rues d'Ottawa" (3:49)
 "En plein hiver" (9:30)
 "Chanson pour Suzie" (1:05)
 "Baie Sainte-Marie" (9:29)

References

1976 debut albums
CANO albums
A&M Records albums


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Posted May 24th 2010 at 9:40 am by Dayna Cunningham
A Letter from Mississippi
I am at the Marriott Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi. My partners arrive tomorrow. We are working on a communications strategy for an effort to improve educational outcomes for black children. The donors want more traction for the project in the community.
Tonight before dinner, I walked to the Mississippi state capitol building. There in front of the white stone building sit three monuments to the perplexing trinity of white Southern identity. First, a small replica of the Liberty Bell. Next, just behind it, a marble tribute to the women of the Confederacy, a four-cornered statue, each face carved with a hymn of praise to white womanhood: our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, our wives. This monument scrupulously follows the laws of tribalism by which blood always comes first. Off to the side and parallel to the U.S. flag stands the Confederate flag, which is Mississippi's state flag.
I tried to take pictures with my iPhone, but couldn't fit everything in one frame no matter where I stood.
Then I looked down to discover that, in my enthusiasm for documenting this scene, I trampled the daisies planted around the white women statue. I looked up again and, with a touch of dread, found that there was a state trooper's car parked directly in front of the capitol, perfectly positioned to witness my accidental desecration. The police car door opened and a black officer, slightly balding and with a bit of a paunch, stepped out. I was instantly relieved. A barely conscious racial calculus let me assume two things: he wouldn't care about the trampled flowerbed, and if any whites nearby did, he would come to my aid.
Trying to calm myself, I recalled that the whites I met earlier were genuinely friendly. At the airport, I saw an airport employee, a white woman, pushing a black man in a wheel chair to his departure gate. She spoke animatedly and touched his back kindly as she asked him which way to go. Just fifteen years ago, when I worked in the Mississippi Delta as a voting rights lawyer, the social distance between whites and blacks would never have allowed a scene like that. Now, the airport itself is named after slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
A small exhibit space in the airport chronicles Evers's life and celebrates prominent black political leaders, business people and educators. Most of the photos date back to the 70's. In a state that has been majority black for over one hundred years, this handful of success stories seems a paltry basis for self-congratulation. Unlike the Medgar Evers story, the stories of the successful blacks say nothing about commitment, struggle, values or sacrifice. They speak only of positioning and prominence. We don't know if this federal education secretary who served under Reagan advised his president to cut funding for school lunches or fought like hell to improve childhood nutrition in schools. We cannot tell if the first black appointed judge ruled wisely in a case where the crime was poverty, not venal intent. There is no clue as to whether the first black airport commissioner sought to make up for years of underinvestment by developing black neighborhoods around the airport.
When I left the airport by taxicab, my black driver shook his head when I told him that coming back to the Delta after ten years, I was reminded how much I loved and missed it. "I love it too," he said, "but the Delta is hard-time Mississippi. There is a lot of history and a lot of memories here."
Tomorrow I will meet with my friend, the president of the state chapter of the NAACP. We will continue our conversation about the NAACP's successful effort, after fifty years, to win political control of sixteen counties that have been majority black since before Reconstruction. We will talk about how MIT's bright and motivated planning students can help him support local leaders' efforts to leverage political control for more public resources and more enterprise development for black constituents.
And the next day, I will travel to the Delta. I will see towns where no white children enter the public schools and black children are never expected to succeed, where the textbooks still promise a day when humans will go to the moon, where a kindergartner's temper tantrum can land her in jail, and where the school truancy officer is the local prosecutor, providing a seamless pipeline from the schoolhouse to the jail.
On Tuesday night, seated comfortably on the plane back to Boston, I will reflect on my own twenty-five years of civil rights and social justice work and consider that though these have been the most personally fulfilling years of my life, my efforts have been of far too little value.
I'll think of my cousin, David, born one month before me, and raised with me like a brother, whose mother married a postman. The postman died of a heart attack when my cousin was nine, forcing his family to move to public housing in the Bronx. It did not help that my aunt was quietly mentally ill. Meanwhile, my mother married a medical student who became a successful doctor and moved us to the suburbs. My sister and I got a great education in suburban public schools and went on to the best colleges. My cousin and his sister, the smartest of my grandmother's grandchildren, doomed by their father's death, their mother's incapacity, and terrible urban public schools, dropped out of high school and into the crack epidemic that crippled black communities in the late 90's. His sister graduated to a life-long heroin addiction. He died last year, also of a heart attack. It was not clear if he had finally become sober. None of my fervent advocacy ever reached the conditions in which he lived.
Once, in a meeting of professional civil rights advocates, I asked that each person tell of the person in their lives who, though not physically present, was in the room with them. Wrenching stories of the ravages of exclusion emerged. A woman spoke of her brother, promising and bright, but now strung out on crack, leaving his kids to be raised by her mother. A powerful labor leader spoke of the eulogy he gave at his own mother's funeral. She had been the family matriarch. So many cousins came furloughed from prison, he said, that as he began to speak, the clinking of leg cuffs rang throughout the church. From the podium, he gazed down into a sea of deeply dispirited faces, people who had loved and relied on his mother. He realized the task of celebrating his mother was not so much about remembering her life, as about lifting up the lives of the loved ones who were barely surviving, standing there before him. I told the story of my cousin.
I think about my cousin a lot. To my mind, the lesson of his short life is not that social justice efforts are in vain. I am still an optimist; I believe that we must continue to struggle and that the universe is a helpful place. To me, the lesson is about the limits of professionalism as a substitute for movement building – which is precisely and disastrously the shortcut taken by the civil rights movement after the death of martyrs like Evers and King. It is my personal reminder that racial pride and solidarity, while useful, are thin and uncritical salve that rarely reach the deepest historic exclusion. And this means that regardless of how personally fulfilled I am by the work that I do, I can never forget that the task is not done.
Essay, photos, and audio by Dayna Cunningham.


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Home champions league 10 Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
10 Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
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10 players who have played for Manchester United and Chelsea
Football players who played for Manchester United and Chelsea ? Footballers who have played for Manchester United and Man United ? Here we will take a look at some of the players who played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
We also have a list of the ten players who played for both Manchester United and Liverpool here.
Some of the best players have played for both Manchester United and Chelsea. it's quite rare for a player to play at both of these clubs so we have prepared a list of the top 10 players (in no particular order) who have played for these clubs.
10 players who played for both Manchester United and Chelsea
10. Mark Hughes: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Mark Hughes had an extensive career with Manchester United. A product of the United academy, Hughes moved to Barcelona in 1986 and after spending a few years at a number of other clubs he came back at United in 1989.
Hughes moved to Chelsea in 1995 for £1 million and stayed until 1998. The Englishman made 95 appearances for The Blues and scored 25 goals.
Mark Hughes started his career at Manchester United in 1980. He moved in 1986 to Barcelona for two seasons. Hughes then had a loan spell at Bayern Munich before returning to United in 1988.
What trophies has Mark Hughes won?
Mark Hughes has won a lot of trophies including; The Premier League (2), FA Cup (4), League Cup (3) and the European Cup Winners' Cup among many more.
9. Juan Sebastian Veron: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Juan Sebastian Veron is a midfielder who played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
Juan Sebastian Veron moved to Manchester United in 2001 from Lazio for a whopping £ 24.3m . However, he only stayed at the club for two years and then joined Chelsea in 2003.
8. Radamel Falcao: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Radamel Falcao is a Colombian striker who has played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
Radamel Falcao was sent on loan from AS Monaco (via Manchester United) to Manchester United in 2014.
Falcao was once one of the most lethal and deadly strikers in the world. But his star fell from grace quite spectacularly after a disastrous loan at Manchester United. After his failed loan at Old Trafford, Chelsea decided to take a gamble and sign him on loan too. But he only made ten League appearances scoring just one goal.
7. Juan Mata: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Juan Mata is a Spanish attacking midfielder who has played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
Juan Mata joined Manchester United in 2014 from Chelsea for a fee in the range of £34 m. His feud with then Blues manager Jose Mourinho was the main reason behind his dismissal from the club.
Later when Mourinho joined the Red Devils the Spanish midfielder played under his tutelage pretty well.
What trophies has Juan Mata won?
Manchester United:
FA Cup 2011/12
EFL Cup 2016/17
FA Community Shield 2016
6. Romelu Lukaku: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Romelu Lukaku is a Belgian striker who has played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
When did Romelu Lukaku join Manchester United?
Lukaku moved to Chelsea in 2011 from Anderlecht for around £10 million. The Belgian only made 10 appearances though in the four years he was at the club. The reason? Well, Lukaku spent most of his time at the Stamford Bridge on loan at West Brom and Everton. He didn't get the chance in West London and moved to Everton permanently in 2014.
Lukaku moved to Manchester United on transfer deadline day in August 2017 from Everton for around £90 millionm Many media outlets believed the Belgian was off to his former club as Antonio Conte was an avid admirer of the player as but the Red Devils had the last laugh.
What trophies has Romelu Lukaku won?
Romelu Lukaku has not won any major titles yet in England but he did win the Belgian Pro League in 2009/10.
5. George Graham: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
George Graham played for both Manchester United and Chelsea as a striker. He is one of the few players that have played for Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
George Graham moved to Chelsea in 1964 from Aston Villa for £5,000.
Graham scored 35 goals in 72 league games. The Scotsman played for two seasons before he moved to Arsenal in 1966.
Graham moved to Manchester United in 1972 from Arsenal for £120,000. The Scotsman made 43 league appearances for the Red Devils but only scored two goals.
The former striker won a few trophies during his time in the top division.
Graham won The League Cup with Chelsea in 1964/65. Most of his other trophies he won playing for Arsenal including the First Division in 1970/71.
4. Nemanja Matic: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Nemanja Matic is a Serbian defensive midfielder who has played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
When did Nemanja Matic move to Manchester United?
Nemanja Matic had two spells at Chelsea . The first time, Matic moved to Chelsea in 2009 from Kosice for £1.5 million. But he only made two League appearances in the two years he was there. In 2011, The Blues included Matic (£20m) in a swap-deal for Benfica defender David Luiz.
ChelseaManchester United re-signed Nemanja Matic from Benfica in 2014 for £21 million. From there on, he established himself as one of the League's best defensive midfielders under Jose Mourinho.
Matic moved to United from Chelsea in 2017 for around £40 million. Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho wanted Matic to join him at United to help bolster their midfield.
Matic is one of the key players Manchester United should not have sold.
What trophies has Nemanja Matic won at Manchester United and Chelsea?
Premier League 2014/15, 2016/17
None (so far)
3. Paul Parker: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Paul Parker is a former footballer and one of the few players who played for Manchester United and Chelsea.
Paul Parker arrived at United from Queens Park Rangers and played for five years at the Old Trafford. In his previous clubs, he played in the centre of defence but Alex Ferguson shifted him to the right side of the defence and he established himself as a regular in the first team.
2. Mal Donaghy: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Mal Donaghy is a former Northern Ireland footballer who played for both Manchester United and Chelsea.
The Northern Ireland defender joined Manchester United in the latter part of his career at the age of 31. for £100,000. He won three trophies during four year spell at United and later went on to join Chelsea which was his last club.
What trophies did Mal Donaghy win?
Mal Donaghy won:
Luton Town: League Cup 1987/88
Chelsea:
European Cup Winners' Cup 1990/91
FA Charity Shield 1990
European Super Cup 1991
1. Ray Wilkins: Players Who Played For Manchester United And Chelsea
Ray Wilkins sadly passed away on 4 April 2018 but he will be remembered as one of the greatest footballers in England.
Wilkins was a boyhood Chelsea fan and started his career with them in 1973. he spent six seasons with the blues. The midfielder had a five year long journey with United and guided the club to the FA Cup triumph back in 1983.
What trophies did Ray Wilkins win at Manchester United and Chelsea?
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What is San Vino 2016?
A battle so fierce that the vineyard and surrounding hillsides turn red, so violent that the weary and wounded stumble away from the fighting, covered from head to toe in what seems to be blood but what is in fact gorgeous red wine...this is the wine fight, La Batalla de Vino de Haro, our favourite festival. For a few hours on the 29th of June we take advantage of a bottomless supply of red wine and throw it on each other, on friends and strangers alike. But that's not all! The night before the village of Haro goes crazy with street parties and bar hopping, dancing and chatting and eating delicious food until the sun comes up - just in time for the wine fight!
It returns on 30th June, leaving Haro campsite at 12pm and getting to Barcelona at roughly 6-7pm.
29th June 06:00 – Hot breakfast 07:00 – Walk up the hill and partake in enormous wine fight 13:00 – Chill out for the arvo, get showered and de-purple yourself 20:00 – Massive campsite party. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The celebration takes place on 29th June, the day of the patron saint San Pedro. The night before the village of Haro goes crazy with street parties and bar hopping, dancing and chatting and eating delicious food until the sun comes up – just in time to take part in the wine fight. -----------------------------------------------------------------The day starts at 7am with a procession of people old and young, locals and tourists, dressed in white shirts and red scarves, all carrying jugs, bottles, water pistols and other types of containers filled to the brim with red wine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What follow then are hours and hours of dancing, eating, competitions and drinking!


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Appalachian Today
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This mobiLANDING, a sheltered workspace located at the university's Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site on Beech Mountain, was designed and built by Appalachian State University students. Its features include locally sourced lumber and bifacial solar panels, which power the structure's lighting and tie back into the electrical grid. Photo by Marie Freeman
Appalachian students build research structure at Beech Mountain
"Being a team leader has given me great experience that I will be able to apply in the workforce. … The most valuable thing I learned is that with good leadership, even seemingly impossible tasks can be completed."
building sciences major Christian Najafi, a rising senior from Hendersonville
By Meghan McCandless
Posted June 4, 2018 at 11:30 a.m.
BOONE, N.C. — Students enrolled in the Integrative Design Experience Laboratory (IDEXlab) at Appalachian State University have completed the mobiLANDING, a sheltered workspace located at the university's Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site on Beech Mountain.
The mobiLANDING is a docking station for the MOBILab, the university's energy-independent mobile classroom built in 2015. mobiLANDING provides a storage facility and covered space for workshops and trainings hosted at the Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site. The structure consists of a concrete foundation, locally sourced lumber for the decking and trusses, corrugated metal roofing and bifacial solar panels. The solar panels power the lighting for the structure and tie back into the electrical grid.
Signatures adorn a section of the mobiLANDING structure. All students who worked on the project signed their name. Photo by Marie Freeman
A small team of graduate students began the project in 2017 under the guidance of Jason Miller, associate professor in Appalachian's Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment. The project culminated with the mobiLANDING's grand opening on April 27.
During spring 2018, 15 undergraduate students, along with three graduate students, took the concept designed in 2017 and built the physical structure. Led by Miller, along with practitioner-in-residence Chelsea Helms and associate professor Dr. Jamie Russell, both faculty in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment, the group met their goal of establishing an interactive learning community that showcases sustainable building practices and facilitates research.
Dean Phyllis Kloda of the College of Fine and Applied Arts speaks at the structure's recent grand opening. Pictured far left is student Gabe Talavera, of Boone, who worked on the IDEXlab team in 2017–18. Others at right of Kloda are, from left, alumnus Adrian Tate Right of IONCON PLLC engineering firm; Dr. Jeremy Ferrell, assistant professor; alumni Chris Noel and Daniel Farmer, both part of Appalachian's IDEXlab team in 2015–16; senior Ashley Winecoff, of Cornelius, who worked on construction of mobiLANDING; and graduate student Leah Simmerman, who worked on the design of mobiLANDING. Photo by Marie Freeman
According to Helms, the mobiLANDING project provided unparalleled experiential learning. She estimates the students spent approximately 3,500 hours building the structure, often in extreme weather.
"In this particular experience, the students rose to a new level of passion and dedication, overcoming some of the harshest weather conditions in IDEXlab project history," she said. "These students are what make these projects reality, and they have, yet again, transformed a design idea into a product that will impact the community by providing a learning platform for wind research and education."
The MOBILab logo on the side of the newly constructed mobiLANDING structure. mobiLANDING acts as a docking station for MOBILab, an energy-independent mobile classroom built by IDEXlab students in 2015. Photo by Marie Freeman
IDEXlab project manager Christian Najafi, a senior from Hendersonville majoring in building sciences, is grateful for both the leadership experience and the hands-on nature of the work.
"Being a team leader has given me great experience that I will be able to apply in the workforce," he shared. "The most valuable thing I learned is that with good leadership, even seemingly impossible tasks can be completed. If something doesn't work out the first time, then come up with another solution. Don't give up too quickly."
Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site
Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment
At an elevation of 5,500 feet, the Beech Mountain Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site is a unique program to give first-hand experience with wind power technology in a world-class, class 5 wind resource. Beech Mountain is the premier site in the U.S. for research, durability testing and demonstration of small wind turbine technology. Operating as an off-campus research facility of Appalachian's Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment, students and faculty gain experience in wind turbine and tower technology, maintenance and operation of wind turbines and data collection and analysis. Appstate also uses the site for wind energy education and hosts numerous training workshops.
Sonsight Wind funds prototype testing of their new three-kilowatt small wind turbine at Appalachian's Beech Mountain Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site
Appalachian State University received funding from Sonsight Wind to prototype test a new three-kilowatt small wind turbine at Appalachian's Beech Mountain Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site in Banner Elk.
About the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment
One of seven departments housed in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment at Appalachian State University features an integrated array of programs spanning the fields of sustainable design and technology. Its mission is to foster a strong and vibrant culture of inquiry, discovery and innovation that integrates theory with application, problem seeking with problem-solving, local issues with global perspectives and technological progress with environmental stewardship. It offers bachelor's degrees in sustainable technology and building science, and a master's degree in technology. Learn more at https://stbe.appstate.edu.
About the College of Fine and Applied Arts
Appalachian State University's College of Fine and Applied Arts is a dynamic and innovative group of seven academic departments, bringing together a variety of perspectives, experiences and real-world education to provide unique opportunities for student success. The college has more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate majors. Its departments are Applied Design, Art, Communication, Military Science and Leadership, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment, and Theatre and Dance. Learn more at https://faa.appstate.edu.
As the premier public undergraduate institution in the Southeast, Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all. The Appalachian Experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to acquire and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and determination, and to embrace diversity and difference. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina System. Appalachian enrolls nearly 21,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.
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there are already 18 confirmed cases of measles
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They were confirmed 18 cases of measles in Argentina so far this year. This figure includes the six people diagnosed with the disease in the last two weeks of September. The Ministry of Health Ministry added a triple viral dose for boys aged 6 to 11 months in some areas of the City and Greater Buenos Aires.
Of the 18 cases, 16 were detected in Argentina and 2 are cases of Spanish tourists who were detected when they returned to their country. The six new cases of measles occurred in two adults and four children.
One of the men diagnosed is a medical student, lives in Capital and works in the northeast of the province of Buenos Aires. He is 27 years old and only one dose of vaccine in his childhood. Presents good evolution to date.
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The other adult person with measles is a 44-year-old woman, who also lives in the northeastern area of Greater Buenos Aires, with no proven history of vaccination.
The last part added two girls: one of four years with a single dose of vaccine, from the City of Buenos Aires. She is hospitalized in serious condition for causes not related to measles. The other is a five-month-old baby, who was not vaccinated because she did not correspond to her age, but it evolves well.
The same situation occurred in two babies of two and 11 months who had not received the vaccine because they were not of the recommended age. Both present good evolution. "Until now, in five of the new cases it has been possible to establish an epidemiological link with cases already reported. The different transmission chains are still under investigation, "says the report of the Ministry of Health.
The agency recalled that all children between 13 months to four years inclusive, must prove at least two doses of triple viral vaccine, but added a dose for babies between 6 and eleven months living in Capital and much of Greater Buenos Aires .
What is measles?
It is a very contagious and potentially serious or fatal viral disease, which spreads easily when the infected person eliminates respiratory secretions when speaking, coughing or sneezing, or by being in contact with any contaminated object.
It mostly affects children and in some cases it can be lethal.
Eruption on the face and neck that extends to the rest of the body.
Nasal discharge, conjunctivitis and cough.
Small white spots on the inside of the cheek.
The Triple Viral vaccine is effective in preventing measles. This vaccine is mandatory and must be applied to children at the end of the year of life with a boost to school admission, according to the National Vaccination Calendar:
From 12 months to 4 years inclusive: they must prove ONE DOSE of Triple Viral vaccine (measles-rubella-mumps).
Over 5 years, including adults: they must prove DOSAGE of vaccine with Double Viral or Triple Viral.
People born before 1965 do NOT need to get vaccinated because they consider themselves protected because they have been in contact with the virus.
All health personnel must accredit two doses of Double Viral or Triple Viral vaccine to be adequately protected.
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Home » Encyclopedia Entry » The Old Man and The Boy
The Old Man and The Boy
Written by Dr. Troy L. Kickler
Considered by some critics to be an Ernest Hemingway spinoff, Robert Ruark's The Old Man and the Boy (1957) is the North Carolina writer's most famous work. In it, he remembers his North Carolina boyhood and the life lessons learned from his maternal grandfather
Robert Ruark appreciated the novelist Ernest Hemingway's work, so it is accurate in many ways to refer to The Old Man and the Boy as a Hemingway spin-off. Yet that label dismisses Ruark's writing and original, story telling abilities and his national appeal.
The book is a collection of previous Field and Stream monthly columns. Americans enjoyed reading Ruark's bucolic tales emphasizing nature and man's interaction with it. The accounts of a grandfather and grandson's friendship also appealed to Field and Stream's wide readership. The boy always learned something from his grandfather, who guided him through the rites of passage for manhood and outdoorsmanship.
Ruark's childhood memories and visits with Edward Adkins, his grandfather in Southport, provided material for The Old Man and the Boy. Critics correctly stated that outdoorsmen and nature lovers would think Ruark's stories were the best. Ruark paid great attention to detail when describing the countryside and animals, and he devoted that same amount of attention when describing the relationship between the old man and the boy.
Here is a representative excerpt from the story "Along with His First Gun Came and Education in Using It Responsibly":
"Can I really shoot it now?, I said.
"Load her up," the Old Man said. "Then walk in, and when the birds get up pick out one and shoot him."
I loaded and walked up to the dogs and slipped off the safety. It made a click that you could hardly hear. But the Old Man heard it.
"Whoa," he said. "Give me the gun."
I was mystified and my feelings hurt, because it was my gun. The Old Man had given it to me, and now he was taking it away from me. He switched his pipe to the outboard corner of his moustache and walked in behind the dogs. He wasn't looking at the ground where the birds were. He was looking straight ahead of him, with the gun held across his body at a 45-degree angle. The birds got up and the Old Man jumped the gun up. As it came up his thumb flicked the safety off and the gun came smooth up under his chin and he seemed to fire the second it got there. About 25 yards out a bird dropped in a shower of feathers.
"Fetch," the Old Man said, unloading the other shell.
"Why'd you take the gun away from me?" I yelled. I was mad as a wet hen. "Dammit, it's my gun. It ain't your gun."
"You ain't old enough to cuss yet," the Old Man said. "Cussing is a prerogative for adults. You got to earn the right to cuss, like you got to earn the right to do most things. Cussing is for emphasis. When every other word is a swear word it just gets to be dull and don't mean anything anymore. I'll tell you why I took the gun away from you, You'll never forget it, will you?"
"You bet I won't forget it, I said, still mad and about to cry . . . . "I don't even know why you took it. What I'd do wrong then?"
"Safety catch," he said. "No reason in the world for a man to go blundering around with the catch off his gun. You don't know the birds are going to get up where the dog says they are. Maybe they're running on you. So the dog breaks point and you stumble along behind him and fall in a hole or trip over a rock and the gun goes off—blooey."
"You got to take it off some time if you're planning to shoot something," I said.
"Habit is a wonderful thing," the Old Man said. "It's just as easy to form good ones as it is to make bad ones. Once they're made, they stick There's no earthly use of slipping off a gun intil you're figuring to shoot it. There's plenty of time to slip it off while she's coming to your shoulder after the birds are up. Shooting a shotgun is all reflexes, anyhow."
Robert Ruark, The Old Man and The Boy. New York, 1957.


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Spotlight on Scientists: Dr. Hasina Samji
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By Andrea Lucy, Experiential Learning Program Lead
To celebrate this year's Science Odyssey, Canada's biggest science and technology festival, we are highlighting amazing scientists from across the country! Young adult staff members at Fresh Roots interviewed inspiring individuals contributing to science, to learn more about their personal and professional journey, career, and what advice they have for youth. These scientists surprise and delight us with their unique topics and backgrounds, and the unexpected ways their work connects back to healthy food systems and a healthy environment.
Interview with Dr. Hasina Samji
Dr. Hasina Samji (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. She is an epidemiologist trained at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Samji leads the CHART Lab's Youth Development Instrument (YDI), an interdisciplinary study measuring predictors of positive youth well-being, mental health, and development in high school students in collaboration with the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP-UBC), community, clinical and policy partners, and youth themselves. The YDI will identify skill-development and structural supports for mental illness prevention and positive trajectories for young people. She is also the co-Principal Investigator of the Personal Impacts of COVID-19 Survey (PICS) study in partnership with Anxiety Canada and BC Children's Hospital to measure the population-level mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The PICS study is currently open to anyone over the age of 8 interested in participating.
We have a tradition at Fresh Roots of starting our conversations with this question: What vegetable do you feel like today?
Well, I feel like today I'm channelling a beet, basically because I'm wearing a bright purple shirt. I chose to wear bright purple today because it's been a little rainy, and I wanted something bright and fun.
Can you describe your work as an epidemiologist?
[laughs] I laugh because up until last year, I used to get a lot of, "Oh, you're an epidemiologist, that's like a skin doctor, right?" I see how you got there, like epidermis? Yeah, okay, close. But now with the COVID pandemic, I don't have to explain what an epidemiologist is as much. Broadly, it's a person who looks at the distribution and determinants of disease in a population. What I like about epidemiology is it doesn't just stop at measuring risk factors for disease, but also what can be done to improve prevention and control of these. This applies to not just diseases, but any kind of health outcomes.
With the CHART Lab, what we're looking at primarily is among young people, what are some of the positive factors that promote lifelong health? What are resilience factors for youth which protect against adversity? What are the experiences and resources that we can build upon to help youth thrive? To answer these questions, we look at individual-level factors such as emotional and social intelligence. I'm also very interested in structural factors. I've found youth to be quite underserved in services, especially mental health services. We do focus groups with young adults, and they say "We're basically ignored unless we're in crisis mode, and then people kind of pay some attention to us". And I thought that's really not fair. With the CHART Lab team, we work to improve access to services for young people, earlier in the lifecourse.
What was your path to becoming an epidemiologist and working in public health?
Initially, I wanted to work in international health, to go abroad and do international development work. Right after my undergraduate degree, I went to Karachi, Pakistan, where I initially knew no one, to volunteer at the Aga Khan University. One of my projects was to work with a community health center located in an urban slum environment, called a katchi abadi, where we held a cleanliness day. When we visited the slum there were bottles and plastic bags everywhere in the streets, but when you got invited into people's homes, they were spotless. Keeping your home is important, but you also don't want your kids playing in the garbage right outside your home. Kids were playing in muddy puddles that were not just mud. So, we held the cleanliness day in partnership with the community and local schools and we walked through the streets and cleaned them up. What was really positive from that experience was the mayor and community organizations were able to come together, not only to clean up the street. They were also able to negotiate a water pipeline that previously hadn't gone through because it needed cooperation from many different partners. The cleanliness day event helped bring people together at a table and build that kind of community support. My experience in Karachi was really pivotal for learning about community engagement.
I later did my PhD in infectious disease epidemiology and was really passionate about HIV at that point. I had volunteered after coming back from Karachi to Vancouver, on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside at an organization called Vancouver Native Health Society that provides HIV services for people who are Indigenous. That was incredibly eye-opening. I remember I went to a talk at BC Children's Hospital about international and global health, and they said, "You want to do international health? You just need to look in your own backyard". I thought, "Ah, yes, you are absolutely right." There's work that has to be done here as well and huge disparities in our local populations.
There were lots of amazing experiences that shaped my path into working with underserved populations, including people living with HIV, people using drugs, and now with a focus on upstream prevention with children and youth.
What motivates you to keep doing what you do?
I'm always amazed at how there are such immense health inequities, even here in the context of tremendous wealth in comparison to other places., There still are huge gaps and people whose voices are not being heard. I'm lucky to be in a position where I can work collaboratively to make a difference.
How does your work relate to food systems or the environment?
We have a lot of interest in our team in looking at the climate crisis. We started with a paper that was a call to action looking at the mental health impacts of the climate crisis for young people. We followed that up with questions in our survey, the Youth Development Instrument (YDI), asking young people about the impacts of the climate crisis to their mental health. We asked them to rank problems in the world, and in Canada, and certainly, pollution and the climate crisis come out on top for young people.
We're also really interested in food security for young people, because no young person should go hungry. No one should go hungry, frankly. We also ask about eating habits, asking about whether they eat breakfast? Do they have five servings of fruits and vegetables daily? We want to know how young people are eating because that is one of the things that really sets people up for success, along with good sleep and positive social connections. It also makes you feel so much better when you're eating well, exercising, getting outside. Do young people get a chance to go out in nature? Because we know that's such an important coping mechanism.
What advice would you give to your younger self, or to youth today?
I can answer for both young people and myself. Your job or your career is not going to be linear, and you shouldn't expect it to be. Imagine you got your dream job right out of undergrad, or high school, or whatever your training may be, would you really want to do that for the next 50 years of your life? No, that would be incredibly boring! Remember, it's not about getting to the end, it's about what you learn along the way. When I was doing my undergraduate degree, Ruth Simmons, the first black female President of an Ivy League school, said "learning should be uncomfortable," and that always stuck with me. If you're not being challenged, you're not growing.
I would also highly recommend young people to volunteer in different projects. For me, that was really invaluable in terms of learning what was it that interested me. Which populations do you want to work with? The planet is sort of a population [laughs]. Getting a sense of what motivates you is important to know, and you need to expose yourself to many different avenues. Talk to people. If there's something that seems of interest to you, most people will be very open to meeting with you for coffee or a quick chat. My advice would be to start thinking about those things earlier. What's next? What am I interested in? There are so many different career paths out there.
Is there anything else you would like to share?
One of the reasons I'm so excited to work with young people is I'm constantly inspired by young people. We have a Youth Advisory Committee of 15 youth from across the province for the YDI, and I look forward to those meetings more than any other meeting I have. They bring so much energy and they know, in many cases, what challenges there are and how they should be addressed in such a straightforward way. One of the joys of my job now is getting to work directly with young people in our province, and getting to learn from them and collaborate with them.
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