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Who is Tia Mowry's Husband? How Long Has She Been Married?
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Grab all the details on the husband and married life of American actress Tia Mowry.
Tia Mowry is best known for her starring role in the sitcom' Sister, Sister' from 1994 to 1999, alongside her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry. The two sisters also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie 'Twitches' in 2005 and its sequel, 'Twitches Too' in 2007. The twins are also popular from their reality television series 'Tia & Tamera,' in which they starred from 2011 to 2013.
Tia Mowry starred in the role of 'Melanie Barnett' in the comedy-drama series 'The Game,' 'Stephanie Phillips' in the sitcom 'Instant Mom,' and 'Cocoa McKellan' in the sitcom 'Family Reunion.' Additionally, she has also appeared in several other movies and series. Apart from her professional career, many people are also eager to learn about her private life. So below, we take a look at her married life and relationship status, so you get to know her better.
Who is Tia Mowry's Husband?
Tia Mowry is currently married to her husband, actor Cory Hardrict. Cory began his career in the late 1990s, acting in weekly prime-time programs like 'Smart Guy,' 'Thats So Raven,' 'Felicity,' 'Once and Again' and 'ER.' He was also an executive producer for the 2012 film 'The Watch.'
Tia Mowry is currently married to her husband, actor Cory Hardrict.
Source: Page Six
Tia Mowry - who recently underwent weight loss - met Cory for the first time when he was working odd jobs in Los Angeles and also living in a studio apartment with no furniture. At the time, Tia was already successful starring on the show 'Sister, Sister.' 'I was waiting on a bus stop—after I shot my first film. Her sister and her drove by, they saw me waiting and asked to give me a ride,' Cory recalls their first encounter, according to Country Living. 'I was embarrassed. I was downtown. They gave me a ride, and we were friends ever since. They took me to Inglewood, so that's how that relationship started.'
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Tia and Cory were attracted to each other at first sight, but they took things gradually at the beginning. 'We courted each other for about a year,' Tia said, as per Showbiz Cheat Sheet. 'We didn't go on dates with just him and I, there were other people around. We waited a year to kiss.'
But Cory and Tia began taking things to the next level after a year. The couple dated for the six years before they got engaged, and Cory proposed to Tia on Christmas Day of 2006. The two tied the knot on April 20, 2008, in Santa Barbara, California.
Tia And Cory Shares Two Children, a Son and a Daughter
On January 11, 2011, People magazine made public that Tia and Cory were expecting their first child as a married couple. Mowry herself made the announcement on '106 & Park' soon after. Her pregnancy was even documented on the reality show 'Tia & Tamera,' which also features her twin sister Tamera Mowry, on the Style Network. Cory and Tia welcomed their first child, son Cree Hardrict, on June 28, 2011.
Cory and Tia welcomed their first child, son Cree Hardrict, on June 28, 2011.
Source: Popsugar
Tia Mowry announced on November 8, 2017, that she and Cory Hardrict were expecting the second child. The two welcomed their second child, daughter Cairo Tiahna Hardrict on May 5, 2018.
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My wife is in a nursing home and I have applied for Medicaid. Luckily I was able to find a knowledgeable person to help me so I did not have to pay for assistance in applying. We own our home and I have about $30,000 in joint accounts with my wife. My wife has about $60,000 in an IRA which I know does not count and she has $20,000 in an annuity which pays us $4,000 per month. I receive $1820 in Social Security and $55 in a pension per month. My wife receives $1123 in Social Security and $678 in pension per month. I am a Veteran and have applied for VA benefits but I have not yet received any money from that. I am disabled and have home health care coming for four hours per day. The Department of Children and Families has now told me that I need a Qualified Income Trust. What is that and why do I need it?
While I cannot give you individual legal advice, there are several issues that you raise.
When applying for benefits, one must be concerned about the structure of the assets and whether an optimal structure is used; otherwise limited resources may be wasted.
An Income Trust is needed when the applicant's income exceeds the income cap (currently $2094). It appears in the situation at hand that the wife's income is $5,801, which is clearly over the cap. However, it is actually higher than this number because the IRA will also have mandatory withdrawals. Her total income, probably over $6,000 per month will be paid to the facility even while your wife is on Medicaid. The only amount that will be deducted from the wife's income will be her personal needs allowance of $105 and the amount that will be diverted to the husband as the spouse living in the community. The amount that is diverted to the husband will be based upon his shelter costs and if he does not have a mortgage, it does not appear that he will receive diversion. Based upon the information provided he will pay an exceedingly high patient responsibility to the nursing home which will deplete the annuity and IRA over his wife's lifetime. These resources will not be available to pay for his needs in the community and he can expect his care needs to deplete his limited resources within the year.
This application can be restructured easily to reduce patient responsibility to approximately $1766 per month. Under this scenario, no Qualified Income Trust will be necessary. It is also possible to petition for court ordered support which potentially would allow this $1766 to be retained by the husband to help pay for your home health care. The net benefit of this restructuring would be almost $6,000 per month.
It appears that Davey has applied for Veteran's benefits when his assets exceed the VA limits. In our experience this has always led to a denial of benefits. If his assets had been restructured prior to application it is likely that he could have received the benefits. As is, if a denial is issued it is doubtful that he will be able to reapply and receive a favorable determination for 6-12 months. After waiting this period of time, he may be able to receive almost $2000 per month from the VA.
Many well meaning friends attempt to provide assistance with applying for benefits. Unfortunately this type of "help" sometimes ends up costing more than the legal services which are available.


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Both my parents are extremely hard to shop for, but now my dad is really into running and health. He just ran a 10K in 46 minutes and change and he wants to run a half-marathon (um, I haven't run a mile in... um... long time) so it seems like a good theme. Any runners have any ideas?


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American Panorama - Digital Scholarship Lab - University of Richmond
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American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.
American Social History Project
https://ashp.cuny.edu/
ASHP/CML challenges traditional ways that people learn about the past with its print, visual, and multimedia materials that explore the diverse social and cultural histories of the nation.
A website that contains a cache of research-based resources which highlight American diversity.
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Discovery Education offers free educational resources to help students with homework, test preparation and more. Free resources for grades K-12 classroom resources for Math, Science and Social Studies.
DPLA: Digital Public Library of America
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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
The Gilderman Lehrman Institute of American History
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Amazing social studies resource that has a treasure trove of information.
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Historypin is a digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections. Users are able to use the location and date of their content to "pin" it to Google Maps. Where Google Street View is available, users can overlay historical photographs and compare it with the contemporary.
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PlayStation VR is a gaming platform first and foremost, but virtual reality is capable of so much more. Imagine a future where you're able to sit in the dugout alongside Jose Mourinho, as Manchester United lift the Champions League for a third time. Or perhaps where you're able to ride shotgun in Earth's first ever voyage to Mars. Exciting times.
We're obviously not there yet, but Sony clearly sees potential for its headset beyond games, as it's opened a new "Experiences" area on the PlayStation Store specifically for non-game virtual reality content. And we figured that we'd take a look at everything that's on offer right now, ranging from a virtual fortune teller right the way through to a 360-degree version of YouTube.
Watch the video for a full rundown of all of the interactive experiences, and let us know which your favourites are in the comments section below.
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MBS & Mission Female Study "Beyond Borders: International Female Leaders and Their Way to the Top" Reveals Success Factors and Barriers for Female Leaders
On the evening of March 8, MBS professors Dr. Patricia Kraft and Dr. Ellen Schmid as well as MBA student Giulia De Anna presented the results of the current study "International Female Leaders and Their Way to the Top" at the first Beyond Border Talk of the women's network Mission Female. As part of its Women in Leadership initiative, Munich Business School thus joined the worldwide campaigns for International Women's Day, which is celebrated annually on March 8 to draw attention to women's rights and the (lack of) gender equality.
As part of her master's thesis, Giulia De Anna, who has been interested in the dimensions of diversity for several years and also wanted to address this topic in her thesis, collaborated with Mission Female. Mission Female is a Germany-based career network for women with over 70 members, whose mission is to improve career opportunities for women, to increase the visibility of successful women, and to help women develop personally and professionally through shared exchange across industries. Together with Mission Female, Giulia de Anna, Prof. Dr. Patricia Kraft and Prof. Dr. Ellen Schmid identified three countries as the object of investigation for the central study question "What are barriers and success factors for female leaders?": the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands. The reason for this selection is that in all three countries, different historical, structural, organizational and societal conditions prevail with regard to, for example, the percentage of women in board positions or the existence of quotas and support services, and thus different success factors and barriers could also be assumed.
Giulia de Anna conducted twelve qualitative interviews with female executives from various industries in the countries mentioned. All executives were in upper-management positions and had an average of 25 years of professional experience. Giulia De Anna categorized the responses from the open question setting in terms of four different factors that, according to prior research, can represent both barriers and success factors: individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal. The results of the study are surprising. Despite the diversity of the countries selected, the study was able to show that success factors and barriers are perceived identically in all three countries. Interpersonal and individual factors such as the existence of business networks, mentors and self-confidence are identified as success factors across all countries, while social and organizational factors play only a subordinate role. With regard to barriers, however, the picture is exactly the opposite: here, organizational and social factors, i.e. prejudices, stereotypes and quotas, are perceived as the greatest – mostly invisible – hurdles.
For the researchers, this is a great result: Instead of lamenting the organizational and societal barriers, they believe one should focus much more on the success factors. It is precisely the individual and interpersonal factors that can be further promoted with coaching and networking activities, while the upheaval of organizational and societal structures often takes more time.
After the brief introduction to the study, Frederike Probert, CEO of Mission Female and moderator of the first Beyond Border Talk, opened the discussion and started directly with the pointed question of whether the study results were valid for the whole world. Due to the small sample size and the focus on countries with a Western standard of living, this must of course be answered in the negative, although the study shows that the frequently used argument "We can't compare our situation with that of women in country xyz." is not undoubtedly true, explained Prof. Dr. Patricia Kraft, Prof. Dr. Ellen Schmid and Giulia De Anna. Many of the audience members – including a large number of men, by the way – were interested in a continuation of the study and suggested various other countries, such as China, India, Canada, Mexico, Colombia or Switzerland, as a basis for investigation.
The evening concluded with a collection of personal success factors of the participants, including demanding opportunities, making oneself visible and believing in one's own competencies, having supporters in and outside the company, acting as a role model and stepping out of one's own comfort zone, and repeatedly building relationships. Frederike Probert's personal tip and task for all (future) female executives: Be clear about what you want your career path to look like, think about who and what you need to achieve these goals, and then just get started!
This advice is exactly what the other Women in Leadership events planned for this semester at Munich Business School will build on: In April, MBS alumna Camila Kuhn will provide MBS students – regardless of their gender – with important tools, tips and tricks on how to train their self-marketing skills in two #IamRemarkable workshops. Stay tuned!
The complete study "Beyond Borders: International Female Leaders and Their Way to the Top" can be read here.
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Breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes for day 14 of the farm-to-table diet.
On the final day of the farm-to-table diet, eat black-bean-edamame-avocado breakfast scramble to start, roasted delicata squash tartine for lunch, and roasted salmon with shaved fennel, avocado, and grapefruit saladfor dinner. Two weeks in, tell us, how good do you feel?
Recipe: Sauté 1 small clove garlic, ¼ cup diced onion, ½ cup canned black beans, and ⅓ cup edamame with 2 tsp olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Add 2 cups spinach or Swiss chard and ¼ tsp cumin. Top with ¼ diced avocado, 1 Tbsp salsa, and 1 Tbsp crumbled feta cheese. Scramble in 2 eggs.
Recipe: Slice 1 delicata squash in half-moons and toss with 1 Tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp maple syrup, 1 tsp balsamic vinegar, 1 sprig thyme, 2 cloves smashed garlic, salt, and pepper. Roast at 350° until tender, about 20 minutes. Spread 2 Tbsp fresh ricotta cheese on 1 slice toasted whole-wheat sourdough. Top with 4 to 5 slices squash. Serve with a simple mixed green salad tossed with 2 tsp olive oil and sea salt.
Recipe: Season 3 oz salmon with salt and pepper and roast skin side down at 375°, 12 to 15 minutes. Serve atop a mixed salad of 2 cups shaved fennel bulb, ¼ sliced avocado, and ¾ cup sliced grapefruit. Drizzle with 2 tsp olive oil, 1 tsp lime juice, 1 tsp fresh mint, salt, and pepper.
For the full 14-day plan, click here.


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The idea of a museum for Osoyoos began in 1955. The Osoyoos Museum Society was formally established in 1963. The museum was first located o...
Osoyoos & District Museum and Archives
The idea of a museum for Osoyoos began in 1955. The Osoyoos Museum Society was formally established in 1963. The museum was first located on Main Street and since 1975 has been situated next to Gyro Park in the former curling rink -- including a clubhouse and Quonset hut -- which houses a collection of over 4,000 objects.
The Mission of the Osoyoos Museum is to collect, preserve, research, document, interpret and exhibit artifacts and archival records of historic significance to the area. In addition to its core mandate, the museum presents educational and outreach programs and provides a place for the community to gather and celebrate its history.
For more details visit their website osoyoosmuseum.ca
19 Park Pl, Osoyoos, BC
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In Crowded Treatment Centers, Patients Describe Stress of Covid-19 Diagnosis
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Sambath Sotherith takes a masked selfie with patients in a Covid-19 treatment center in Kampong Cham province in the background during his admission in June. (Supplied)
Nget Sineath entered a treatment center at Kampot province's Preah Reach Phea High school about two weeks ago with a high fever and no sense of taste. Though she said the center was noisy, the vegetable vendor was able to sleep after the first few days, and her more severe symptoms of Covid-19 faded. The bigger problem was the bathroom: All the patients in her building, which includes multiple classrooms with about 20 people per room, share seven toilets.
"Some people keep up sanitary practices, but some of them, they do not care at all," she said by phone from the treatment center.
Because she was still able to socialize with her friends in the evening, Sineath, 34, said she was able to calm her nerves and tolerate the stay. She's also grateful to arrive when she did. New arrivals in the treatment center have had to sleep in tents, or stay in a campus building with fewer bathrooms, she said.
"We are a bit luckier than the other building" on the school campus, she said. "They did not have enough bathrooms because I saw more patients coming every single day."
The Covid-19 patients who find themselves in provincial and Phnom Penh quarantine centers say they have struggled with the stress, boredom and lack of information and doctor attention during their stay, but several people said dance breaks and meditation helped them power through the confusion and anxiety.
Cambodian officials reported more than 900 new cases of Covid-19 each day in the seven days leading up to Monday, with 830 new cases on Tuesday. The number of active cases across the country has remained above 7,000 since July 5.
Taxi driver Hun Bunthoeun, 39, said he landed in an unexpected destination — a Stung Treng province Covid-19 treatment center — last Monday as he was driving to the province from Phnom Penh. One of his passengers tested positive on a rapid test required at a Stung Treng border checkpoint, and though he tested negative, he was put into the treatment center with few instructions as to what would happen next.
"I'm not sure how many days before I will be able to get back home, because they haven't informed me yet," he said. "I just heard some people say 15 days they will allow us back home and on the same day we will get another Covid test."
Bunthoeun, a resident of Stung Treng, said he considered escaping the quarantine because there were few guards on duty, but he decided against it, knowing health authorities had already taken his contact information and home address.
So he stays at the treatment center, feeling healthy but bored and making conversation with the two men staying in his quarantine room.
"I just wash my clothes and clean my room, that's what I always do," he said.
Sambath Sotherith, 27, said he had no clue how he got Covid-19, saying he and his family in Kampong Cham province had just visited the marketplace and shops in town they've always been to. However, three members of the family tested positive in early June and were sent to a quarantine center in the provincial town's Mekong Hotel.
While Sotherith's symptoms were mild — a fever and sore throat — his father, who has a lung disease, started developing severe symptoms.
"We all stayed at the same place at first, but only my father started having trouble breathing and the doctor brought him to the ICU room," he said. "They put my father on oxygen and an IV for 9 days."
Sotherith's father tested negative after 17 days alongside his son, but the elder asked to stay in quarantine for longer because he has a preexisting lung disease and was worried about his health.
During Sotherith's stay, he received medicine for fever three times a day, in addition to three meals daily, though he says he could not eat at first out of nervousness about Covid-19.
"Every day my routine was repeated like a circle. I wake up, do exercise, eat and sleep," he said. "The main focus is to take as much rest as I could during the treatment."
Most of the patients' complaints revolved around the fear of the disease and the mental stress of waiting for their escape from the quarantine center.
Choub Chanda, a 38-year-old garment worker, said she was admitted into a Poipet school converted into a testing center on Thursday with some of her coworkers at Hi-Tech Apparel in Banteay Meanchey province. She said a doctor regularly offers her medicine to treat her symptoms, which include a stomach ache and fever, but she still feels anxious about being in the center.
"At first, I felt so broken and scared at the same time," she said. "After I heard that I tested positive for this disease, I could not believe it. I'm quite stressed here because I could not go anywhere. Just staying in one place."
A 25-year-old Phnom Penh resident who didn't want to give his name said his experience in April at the Koh Pich quarantine center was just as it looked in photos on Facebook: crowded and boring.
"On the first day, it was difficult for me to adapt to a new place with so many people surrounding [me]. I felt stressed and annoyed. But I could call my family and friends to help with my boredom," he said.
He said the treatment center seemed understaffed for the amount of patients in each room, and doctors would only arrive if he and other patients said they were very sick, to bring drugs like paracetamol. The man said his symptoms weren't severe and he was released from the center, which he described as noisy, after 17 days.
Sotherith, the recovered Covid-19 patient in Kampong Cham, said he too panicked after receiving his diagnosis, unable to eat or sleep in the testing center.
"I can say I had been depressed during my stay at the center. But when I saw patients recovering from Covid-19 at the center, I felt much better," he said.
The doctors were also aware that patients may be depressed by the quarantine centers, and made sure he and others had time to exercise and turned on music to allow everyone to dance. Sotherith said he also found inner peace from listening to the words of Kou Sopheap, a Phnom Penh-based monk who posts meditative speeches about withstanding pain and easing a busy mind on his Facebook page.
"After about five days, I accepted the truth and was encouraged."


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DroneFlit » Hot news » Who Knows Where Your iPhone Comes From?
If you're looking for an answer to that question, the recent news might shed some light on the subject. We all know that smugglers are quite innovative, using all of the means at their disposal to avoid laws; they all get caught eventually, but the lesson to be learned is this: these guys really raise the bar in terms of technology and ways of using it.
For example, a group of smugglers in China put drones to a different use, at least a different one compared to what we're used to, by having them smuggle almost $80 million worth of iPhones from Hong Kong to China's technology hub of Shenzhen.
According to authorities in Shenzhen, 26 suspects were arrested for using drones to fly two 200-meter fables between Hong Kong and mainland China. They then smuggled refurbished iPhones valued at $79.8 million. Now, that's a lot of money, I don't care who you are.
According to local news reports, this is the first time in China where drones were being used to facilitate cross-border smuggling – at least, the first case we know of. China introduced some strict rules for drones last year to prevent incidents of drones crossing into the flight paths of aircraft – just think FAA but of Asian origins.
It would seem that did not scare anyone, at least not these smugglers; which is why Shenzhen customs is now on the lookout; they are going to use drones themselves to keep it all legal. Will these flying machines be armed? I wonder.


Lynne Griffin's GIRL SENT AWAY!
Check back next week, where we will announce the winner of this weeks giveaway, Julie Cohen's DEAR THING.
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Louise Miller is on her way back from the AWP conference.
Jennifer S. Brown has bought pens for signing books, picked out a dress to wear at her launch, and is trying not to think about the fact that for the next Deb News she posts, she'll be a published author….
Heather Young is cheering on Jenny Brown from the Left Coast, as she sails into her life as Published Author next week. She also went to the AWP Conference in LA, where she met Aya and Louise face to face, and is writing this entry in the Los Angeles airport, on her way home to bed, where she will sleep for about sixteen hours.
Abby Fabiaschi is back from her ski adventure, working on plotting book 2 revisions chapter by chapter and 2015 taxes. Which do you think she's enjoying more?
Aya de Leon has returned, exhuasted but excited, from AWP (the Association of Writers Programs conference). The highlights were meeting other debut writers, especially fellow debs!! It's all becoming more real, thrilling, terrifying, but real.


Happy last day of January! Since it's the end of the month I thought I would just share with you my changes for the month. Some changes have been easy, some have been harder. It actually only took a few hours to clean out the pantry, although the emotional trauma is still with me. 🙂 So, drumroll please: in the healthy eating category I got rid of the bad oils, high fructose corn syrup, white refined sugar (see what I did with that here), and I'm working in kicking my Dr. Pepper habit. I have begun soaking my oatmeal and I installed a faucet mount water filter for drinking and cooking.
In other areas, I have begun recycling (I know, right?) and I am doing a ton of research on whole foods, traditional ways of food preparation, and healthier alternatives to household products. And I've been more consistent with my blogging! 🙂 My pantry purge also triggered a purging spree throughout my entire house. If I don't love it and/or use it, it's outa here. It's been incredibly freeing to de-clutter. And I love having less to dust.
So there you have it. Some baby steps towards a better year and a better, healthier life. Over this next month I hope to find healthier versions of some of our favorite foods, especially some of those packaged mixes the I like. Switching to whole foods is a process and there's grace for the journey.
Have you made some changes this month? What has been the most challenging for you?
I know you have all been impatiently waiting to read the continuing adventures of Pantry Girl, Food Avenger. If you want to find out what happened before, you can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.
We now re-join our heroine sobbing in the middle of the kitchen floor surrounded by mountains of canned goods and boxes of "stuff" thinly disguised as food. Battles can be emotional, and having just ninja chopped HFCS to near extinction, and Chuck Norris kicking MSG and artificial sweeteners to the curb, our pantry purging protagonist is portraying her passionate protest at the plight of our national provender. Holy hyperbole, Batman! Seriously, I could be a one woman reality show! Ok, enough with the drama. I really didn't break down and cry, but it did kinda make me mad when I began to realize all the junk that is in so much of the foods that we eat.
Another change that's in process is replacing refined, white sugar with raw organic honey and organic dehydrated sugar cane juice. While I know that is not the least refined kind of sugar, as I said before it's a process. I have quite a bit of white refined sugar in my pantry left over from some very good intentions I had about making goodie baskets for all those near and dear to me for Christmas gifts. Unfortunately the goodie fairy never showed and now I'm stuck with lots of refined sugar that I don't want to eat and I feel that it wouldn't be good stewardship to toss all of it out. (Now that I know how to make sugar body scrub it won't go to waste!) I am also continuing my search for healthier alternatives to some things I use frequently, like the onion soup mix, Italian salad dressing mix, and the ubiquitous cream of something soups. There are several recipes online and I will keep trying them until I find one I like.
I linked this at Fight Back Friday.


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Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? (Where Do...Series) (Board book)
By Brianna Caplan Sayres, Christian Slade (Illustrator)
I Am Max (Dr. Seuss's I Am Board Books) (Board book)
By Astrid Holm
By Clement Clarke Moore, Christian Birmingham (Illustrator)
Every Little Thing: Based on the song 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley (Preschool Music Books, Children Song Books, Reggae for Kids) (Board book)
By Bob Marley, Cedella Marley, Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
Love That Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
By Sharon Creech
Llama Llama Loose Tooth Drama (Hardcover)
By Anna Dewdney, JT Morrow (Illustrator)
The Tickle Book: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Board book)
By Ian Whybrow, Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
Little Green Box of Bright and Early Board Books (Bright & Early Board Books(TM)) (Abridged / Board book)
The Night Before Christmas (Little Golden Book) (Hardcover)
By Clement C. Moore, Corinne Malvern (Illustrator)
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (Hardcover)
By Robert Barry, Robert Barry (Illustrator)
Cooking with the Grinch (Dr. Seuss) (Step into Reading) (Paperback)
By Tish Rabe, Tom Brannon (Illustrator)
Ancient Adventures: 20 Epic Stories from the Bible (Paperback)
By Jimmy Lynn, Javier Gimenez Ratti (Illustrator)


Price: This event is 100% free so everyone will be able to enjoy some Christmas magic.
Description: With the help of Santa's elves, we're inviting children to write their Christmas wish list and post their letters through a magical post box and watch as it travels all the way to Santa in Lapland – we reckon it will be the perfect place to make some special memories this Christmas. You'll even get a reply!
The post office will be open from 11.30am – 4.00pm every weekend up until Christmas.
Description: It's back! Santa's Grotto 2016! We are delighted that Santa Claus will once again be joining us at Trump International in his beautiful Grotto! Mr Claus will be available to meet Children and grant their Christmas wishes.
Maximum of three children per visit. Due to the cosy nature of our Grotto, space for adults is limited therefore if you could please ensure that you have a maximum of three adults during your visit it will ensure there is plenty of space for everyone!
Our Clubhouse Restaurant will be open to serve fabulous lunches and dinners with great options for children. We strongly advise booking your table in advance to avoid disappointment.
Price: Tickets £4.50 for all – big or small!
Description: Ever wondered how Santa can deliver billions of presents to the whole world in just one night? Well we are here to help!
Find out more about the science of Santa in a fun and fascinating show from Dr Sharon George of Keele University.
Then sit back, relax and enjoy animated comedy Arthur Christmas on the big screen.You can even take home some Christmas crafts too!
This special, festive family event is the latest instalment of Aberdeen's Sci-Screen series, brought to you by the British Science Association Branch in Aberdeen and supported by the Big Lottery Fund.
Santa's Arriving at Stonehaven Harbour!
Description: HO! HO! HO! Come along to Stonehaven Harbour on Saturday 17th December and see Santa arriving by the RNLI LIfe Boat!
There's festive drinks and mince pies in aid of the RNLI at The Granary Garage, on the harbour front, from 12:30pm.
Meet Chase and Marshall from Paw Patrol, then see Santa speed into the harbour at 1pm.
Follow his festive road train procession up through the town where you can meet him in his Paw Patrol themed grotto at Charles Michies, 24 Market Sq, Stonehaven. Santa will also be back in his grotto at Charles Michies, Stonehaven, on Saturday 24th December from 1.00 – 4.00 pm.
Price: Tickets are £12.95 per child and include two free adults as well as a present for every participating child!
Description: Join us for some festive fun at our Christmas Party on 17 December! Participate in Christmas-themed science activities shows, and party games, as we explore science in a festive way!
The Christmas Party will take place from 1pm to 4pm on the 17 December and is recommended for children aged 7 and under.
Description: The Linx Ice Arena is proud to present our 2016 ice show, Once Upon a Christmas featuring skaters from all levels and ages in our exciting and fun Christmas performance.
Performances featuring home grown skaters from the Linx ice arena in a show to entertain the whole family!
Description: Part of the Aberdeen winter festival. Joined by the capriccio choir from Albyn school.
Come and join us for festive music and Christmas carol singing.
Two "sittings" 11:00am – 12:00pm, and 2:00pm – 3:00pm.
Price: £7 per child for 2 hours play including gift from Santa. Must be booked and paid for in advance.
Description: Give the kids a special memory of an evening with Santa! At just £9.50 per child, come along for fun & games and a children's buffet meal.
Description: It's £8.99 deposit including meals, games, meet santa and present from santa.
The can book by coming in or call us on 01224 783 856 Santa is coming to the mains and it's not to be missed!
Description: Come and visit Santa in his grotto, his reindeer will be outside while you visit so remember to pop past and meet them too! There will also be our annual craft fayre where you will be able to pick up any last minute gifts.
Price: Tickets £7.50 for children, include breakfast and a gift. Adults free entry, refreshments will be available to buy.
Description: Santa will be taking a break from his busy schedule to come have breakfast at Culter Village Hall.
Tickets must be purchased in advance so Santa will know who's coming!
Description: As part of Aberdeen's Winter Festival 2016 we will be having a Friends of Hazlehead Winter Wonderland in the park on Sunday 18th December!
and of course there will also be: • Craft Stalls • Mince Pies • Santa Hats • Face Painting. Spread the word and come and join us!
Price: £5 per person, under 12s free.
Description: Escape the Christmas chaos and join us for a wintery wander around the park. We'll see loads of ducks and geese on the lake, look for some late fungi and learn to identify trees in winter.
Mostly on level, surfaced tracks with some walking in the woods while looking for squirrels. We will be walking for the full 2 hours and may have to stop and stand very quietly for some time while looking for squirrels.
Description: Christmas Shopping Market, Local Traders and Makers.
Onsite Cafe with Coffees, Cakes and Carvery!
Description: A festive buffet lunch for all of the family with a gift from Santa for the children.
Price: £5, Call reception on 01224 438900 to book.
Description: Ho Ho Ho! Celebrate Christmas with our festive parties! Inflatable fun, games and sensory activities.
Children under 5 will receive a visit from Santa's helper and a gift!


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With App.net, a betrayed entrepreneur crusades against the injustices of Facebook and Twitter
Burned one too many times, esteemed entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell is too angry to let bygones be bygones. The former Imeem founder and Picplz creator is now funneling his rage against the anti-competitive machines of Twitter and Facebook into a social mission he calls App.net.
App.net, as described in a series of blog posts by Caldwell, will be a social utopia where people can post status updates without fear that their updates will be processed for targeting purposes or that their personal data will be sold to advertisers. It will also be a welcoming safe house for dejected and runaway developers who have been crushed by Twitter or bullied by Facebook.
In App.net's sanctuary, people will pay an annual fee for freedom from advertisers. Much like Twitter in its earliest days, on App.net developers will build the tools — mobile applications, desktop clients, and so forth — that make the communication channel indispensable. Developers will even be encouraged to take the essence of the service and apply it in any fashion they see fit.
Above: App.net menu design
The ad-free, developer-friendly social platform doesn't exist yet in a form that you or I can use. It is very real though, Caldwell assured me in an extensive interview yesterday. The infrastructure is already in place, and a consumer-facing website is in prototype stage, he said. A remarkably beautiful iPhone app built for a separate endeavor — more on that later — may also be repurposed for the App.net cause. Press and supporters will get access in a few days' time, Caldwell promised.
But Caldwell needs, and desperately wants, the people to champion his mission. The brazen entrepreneur put out an impassioned call to those frustrated by ad-supported social services to back his company. Employing a Kickstarter-like model, Caldwell and team are asking for financial commitments from everyman supporters to make the idyllic social society a dream come true.
If thousands of backers pool together $500,000 in funding by August 13, then App.net will live to see at least a year, Dalton told me. If funds falls short, then in all likelihood so too will App.net.
But why is Caldwell doing this? Why is he risking humiliation and burning bridges for a social platform that people may not even know they want? After all, the average Twitter or Facebook user will surely balk at a $50 annual fee paid solely for the privilege of posting status updates. They can do that now free of charge.
In Caldwell's world, there does exist an idealistic group of people who are in desperate need of what App.net can provide: trust and freedom. And this group is large enough to unite and rally around something better, he reasons.
In his mind, developers and consumers are anxious to break free of the shackles Twitter and Facebook impose. That's because, as Caldwell describes it, Twitter and Facebook have gone from good guys to goons, selling out users for a quick buck and squashing applications built on their platforms just as soon as they deem them harmful to their businesses.
Screwed by Facebook
Really, though, Caldwell's quest is one that's deeply personal and motivated by years of being betrayed, the most recent instance courtesy of Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
As recounted in a blog post earlier today and shared with me with additional details during our conversation, Caldwell got "screwed" by Facebook.
Above: The app that Facebook killed
Facebook declined to comment on this story. This is Caldwell's version of events: Before App.net evolved to become a social framework for ad-free communication, Caldwell and his team were working on a consumer-facing iPhone application for app discovery through friends. The app, now sitting idly in the App Store just waiting to be approved (Caldwell won't allow it to be), takes inventory of the user's applications, but more importantly plugs into Facebook's Open Graph to enable app discovery through friends. Caldwell called the app the best thing he's ever worked on.
"Betting the life of my company on the Facebook developer platform [was] extremely crazy and risky," Caldwell told me, adding that App.net had spent more than a year building Facebook developer tools.
"So I actually spent a lot of time talking to the people running Facebook platform to make sure that what we were doing was cool," he said. "I even went so far as to get personal approval from Mark Zuckerberg … that if we were to build Open Graph app promotion tools that we wouldn't just get squashed one day."
Caldwell felt so reassured by Facebook and Zuckerberg that when he was called to Facebook's office for a discussion with the platform team in June, he never expected to be intimidated into giving up his project. But that's what happened in his version of events.
Instead of lending its support, Facebook, said Caldwell, gave him an ultimatum: let us acqui-hire you for a nominal sum or we'll kill off your application.
"I walked out of the meeting, frankly, livid," he said. "This is exactly what it was like to have meetings in the music industry. They were all very nice to me. They would smile and tell me that they liked what I'm doing, but that if I don't take the business terms then they're going to put me out of business."
Shoulda, woulda, coulda
The chain of events put in motion a start for App.net. Caldwell used his anger at Facebook to write a blog post on what Twitter could have been. The post created a tidal wave of positive response that inspired him to take the tools he had in place and apply them to a truly open platform.
"I'm so angry that Facebook is getting away with what they're getting away with," he told me, sharing that the only reason he chose to build on Facebook in the first place was because he didn't want to build on Twitter. "Twitter is closed to third-party developers, and you'd have to be crazy to build on the platform … but back in day, if Twitter would have taken a different route, I think that they could have actually enabled an ecosystem that could have crushed Facebook."
Facebook's and Twitter's platforms are actually not platforms at all, he said. "They're more like tar pits or sand traps … no developer should build on [them]."
The betrayed entrepreneur now believes that he can right the wrongs of the social networking giants by shucking an advertising-based business model and making something that's actually open. But he doesn't want to do it unless there's a critical mass of interest; that's why he's going the crowdfunding route and not hitting up primary investor Andreessen Horowitz for additional cash.
"Doing this in a Kickstarter-like model is the best idea I could come up with to effectively gauge if someone wants it or not. If not enough people want it, I don't want to take peoples' money," he said. "I don't want to build something that's not sustainable."
The approach also leaves Caldwell open to ridicule, especially if App.net fails to hit its $500,000 funding goal. Plenty of critics have taken to Hacker News and Twitter to voice their opposition to Caldwell's idea and criticize his open letter to Zuckerberg.
"I don't understand what @daltonc is upset about in his latest article. He's insulted that Facebook made an offer for his company?," Twitter user Eric Florenzano said, echoing the sentiments of many others.
And hovering around $120,000 in funding, the project may never come to fruition. Caldwell, however, remains confident that App.net will get funded. He is, of course, using his own story as a way to light a fire and inspire people to join the cause.
"I'm trying to be radically transparent," Caldwell said. "I'm doing my best to tell the truth and be genuine."
Even if it works in the short term, there's no telling whether the service will have the mainstream appeal or the longevity of a Facebook or Twitter. Something to worry about another day, I suppose. Right now, there's a crusade to lead.


Do you love country music? Are you always looking for the latest hits from your favorite artists and having a hard time looking for them? Well the good news is that you are able to find their music online a lot of times through streaming radio, there are a few reasons why you might want to listen to their music through the Internet instead of going out to buy the tracks.
It's Free – The first reason is that it's free. Not a lot of things are free these days so finding something that is free is really nice. You won't have trouble finding the music that you are looking for or the artists that you are looking for when you look for music stations online.
Lots to Choose from- The second reason is that there are a lot of stations that you can choose from. Unlike the radio stations in the car that might be limited by the area in which you live, you don't have to worry about that through the Internet. So you can listen to music sometimes directly from Nashville if you really want to do that.
If you are looking for quality music, you are going to find it at the Online Radio Stations website. They have lots of music types that you can choose from and that makes everyone who goes there really happy because they can find what they are looking for in their music genre. They are able to find their favorite music in one place.


The new Dreambaby Drogenbos will be opening its doors on Wednesday 26 September and will be the 28th outlet for Colruyt Group's baby expert. The latest Dreambaby is near the DreamLand store in Drogenbos and has its own entrance and logo over the door. Dreambaby has taken the familiar range of basic items and added accessories, decoration and baby clothes up to the age of 2. To mark its fresh start, Dreambaby is organising an opening reception and an opening week with interesting workshops, attractive promotions and a fun competition for customers.
The new Dreambaby Drogenbos covers 600 m² and offers customers a wide range of baby equipment, from clothing and cutlery to prams and even nurseries. The decor in the store is warm and welcoming, with a particular focus on creating the right atmosphere and experience, and the low shelves create an attractively spacious feel for customers.
"Thanks to the success of the other Dreambaby stores around Brussels, we have decided to create a new, separate store in Drogenbos. This means we can be more responsive to the growing demand from our customers in the area around Brussels", says Bruno Van Eeckhoudt, director at Dreambaby.
Six experienced baby specialists – team leader Jessica and her colleagues – are ready and waiting in the new store to provide high-quality service every day. They will assist parents-to-be, so they always make the right choices and can prepare for the birth of their child without any worries.
To welcome customers in Drogenbos to the new store, Dreambaby is organising an opening reception on Tuesday 25 September from 5pm to 8pm. That will also signal the start of the opening week celebrations, which run until 29 September. Participants in the special competition are in with a chance of winning a pram and there will be exclusive promotions and vouchers running throughout the week.
On Wednesday 26 September, parents can learn all about car seats in the Maxi-Cosi workshop and Colruyt Group Academy will be giving useful advice about baby slings and baby carriers. On Wednesday, there will also be a professional photo shoot for babies and on Saturday, Béaba will talk about its products that blend and steam cook baby food.


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Tic Tac Toe ( Gomoku )
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Author: Sweet Games Box
Content rating: Everyone
Package name: sgb.tic.tac.toe
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Are you missing your school life? Or maybe you just can't live without old good noughts and crosses on the blackboard? Now you can feed your nostalgia and play our new Tic Tac Toe game for android!
Try to beat your friends or a computer opponent and become the best of the best in all tic tac toe games! This game is for the most quick-witted players in the world! Test your brain with noughts and crosses free, and you'll be really surprised! Throw down a challenge to your friends and play tic tac toe online with them or with android, and you'll get:
- Tic tac toe free with 3 levels of complexity
- 1 player mode – you can play with your android device online or offline
- 2 players mode – enjoy playing with your friend!
- two options of the grid size: 3x3 or 10x10
- original and cute design
- easy game mechanics
Tic Tac Toe free 2 player seems to be a simple game, but don't judge by appearances! It's one of the most challenging free games that can:
- make you think faster and become more and more skillful
- give you a chance to compete with your friends
- let you spend you free time with delight and excitement
Are you still in search of a game for kids? Have no doubt about Tic Tac Toe, it's suitable for all ages!
There's nothing easier than playing this funny game with noughts and crosses:
- you and your opponent pick your symbols: either O (nought) or X (cross)
- take turns in putting the symbols into the boxes of the 3x3 or 10x10 grid
- the one who fills all the boxes in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line with their symbol wins
With Tic Tac Toe for two players you don't need to have a chalk or a blackboard. All you have to do is install this fascinating old-school tic tac toe multiplayer game for tablets or smartphones and enjoy its simplicity and brain teaser tricks at the same time!
Free Tic Tac Toe games will never let you feel bored on travelling or in a queue. Just invite you friend to play tic tac toe 2 players or play it alone with your android device!
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Here you can find the link to official Play Market Tic Tac Toe ( Gomoku ) game page. On that page you can get and easily install it on a mobile phone or an Android-based tablet. Please note: the application may ask for additional permissions and contain in-app purchases.
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Moscow, October 13, (Interfax) - The Russian Orthodox Church is deeply concerned "over the anti-canonical actions" made by hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Constantinople's Ukrainian church structures in the USA and Canada, website of the Department for External Church Relations reports.
On the instruction of Patriarch Kirill, DECR head Metropolitan Hilarion expressed the Russian Orthodox Church's concerns at the 5th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference in Chambesy near Geneva.
He explained that the mentioned hierarchs arrived in Ukraine allegedly on behalf to the Patriarch of Constantinople without informing about it the canonical Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, come into contact with the schismatics, declare the alleged readiness of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to grant autocephaly to the schismatics, challenge the Patriarchate of Constantinople's universally recognized canonical acts of the past centuries, accept with honour the persons defrocked and excommunicated from the Church, letting them 'celebrate' in their churches and praying together with them.
"We ask the Patriarchate of Constantinople to give an assessment to these anti-canonical actions and oblige these hierarchs to stop such actions destroying our pan-Orthodox unity," Metropolitan Hilarions stated.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church's delegation expressed hope that, despite the existing difficulties, the participants in the Conference will be able, "in the spirit of fraternal unanimity and cooperation", to prepare the Pan-Orthodox Council at a time when Orthodoxy "needs it so much."


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Kirill Zhirkov, winner of the Angus Campbell Scholars Fund Research Award and the Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion is looking for answers to timely questions.
by Jaishree Drepaul-Bruder
Kirill Zhirkov believes that among all the vast mysteries in the world humans are the biggest one. "I am among those people for whom knowledge represents possibly the largest motivation in life," says the 32-year-old Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. "If my research can improve the understanding of how humans behave in politics and why they behave the way they do, even by a tiny bit, I'll be happy." The international student (who is pursuing a dual M.A. degree in the Department of Statistics) has had many reasons to be happy recently. And at least two of those reasons are related to help he has received towards his research – last summer Zhirkov won the Angus Campbell Scholars Fund Research Award and this past summer he received the Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion.
Before landing at the University of Michigan (U-M), Zhirkov worked as a junior fellow at the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research in St. Petersburg, Russia. He earned an M.A. in social psychology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a B.A. in economics from Russia's St. Petersburg State University. "The story of how I ended up studying in Michigan spans almost 10 years, three countries, and thousands of kilometers," he says. "It also features multiple U-M and Institute for Social Research (ISR) professors who helped and inspired me along the way," he adds. The short version includes a couple of important details: Zhirkov enjoyed a semester as a visiting scholar for the ISR in 2013, returned to Russia afterward and by 2014 he knew that he would be doing his graduate studies at U-M. "I was so impressed with the university. When I was first here in 2013, I could approach almost any faculty member and they would take time to talk to me. Sometimes for as long as 20 minutes," he says. "I hadn't experienced that in Russia or the Netherlands. I wasn't even technically their student, but they were willing to support me."
Speaking to the more recent support he has received via the two awards, Zhirkov recalls that both times when he was notified that he won, he quickly cycled through the same thought processes. "First I was surprised. I knew these were very competitive awards. Then I got excited as I started thinking about how I could improve my research using the awards' money," he says. Essentially, Zhirkov studies how people think about politically relevant categories (such as partisans, welfare recipients and immigrants). He says that these categories tend to be abstract and complicated. "Most people don't possess a ton of knowledge about them," he explains. "So, they link these categories to ones that are relatively simple and familiar." He illustrates what he means with an easy-to-recognize example. "A popular stereotype here in the United States links welfare recipients and African-Americans. I attempt to measure such stereotypes and apply them to study anti-immigration attitudes both in the U.S. and in Europe," he says.
Zhirkov's dissertation is about "imagined immigration." His aim is to develop a generalizable theory of public opinion formation with regard to group-related policies, using immigration as an example. "It is well-known in behavioral political science that people are never perfectly informed about the policies that they have to form opinions about in order to participate most effectively in the democratic process," he says. Zhirkov's most important findings so far: people have essential misperceptions about the composition of the immigrant population; misperceptions come from both over-generalization of personal experience and the media; misperceptions are consequential for public opinion about immigration, and attempts to correct misperceptions seem to backfire.
As he pushes forward with his work, Zhirkov doesn't take for granted for the support he's received. "I have so much gratitude to the donors for the opportunities they offer to graduate students generally, and especially to international students, like myself, who are often ineligible for many other popular sources of funding," he says. For Garth Taylor, the retired pollster who created the Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion in 2013, it's gratifying to assist students like Zhirkov. "My commitment is to the topic of American public opinion research," he says. "The fact that a non-American is in a position to provide top-quality work does not surprise me, and it pleases me to be able to provide a resource that will make this work possible."
Zhirkov has started putting the Taylor award money to good use. He happily reports, "I ran the key pilot study for my dissertation that effectively pretested the measurement instrument – just as described in my award application." The results of the pilot were presented at professional conferences this year both in the United States and Europe. Zhirkov says that he plans to spend the rest of the funds to access diverse samples of respondents, beyond popular convenience samples such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk. "That would be impossible without the award money," he confides.
The money from the Angus Campbell Scholars Fund Research Award has had an equally beneficial impact on Zhirkov's research. He shares that it opened up new possibilities for his dissertation in terms of data collection that were almost unthinkable before. With this fund, Zhirkov was able to collect data and spend almost a month as a visiting scholar in GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. "The institute is a major center of quantitative social sciences and survey research situated in Cologne, Germany," he says. "Overall, my research benefited enormously during my time there."
One person who is very satisfied to know all this Carol Welsch, Angus Campbell's daughter. Her father enjoyed a distinguished career at U-M as a professor of psychology and sociology and held directorships at the university's Survey Research Center and the ISR. "The Angus Campbell Scholar's Fund began after the death of my father in 1980. It was my mother's effort to honor my father with a funded scholarship program in his name," she explains. "I love that Kirill's dissertation work in understanding political changes in Europe and the U.S., relates to main areas my father's work: political behavior, quality of life, and social change." Welsch was also struck when Zhirkov told her of the importance of the scholarship to his future career. "He mentioned that the affiliation to ISR and the Campbell Scholarship could make a difference, above and beyond the monetary value, to his success, she says. "I hadn't thought of the scholarship in that way at the outset, and it was a reminder that my father's legacy is enlivened, and my mother would be pleased."
The support that Zhirkov has received has indeed made a difference to his life and he hopes that his research will make a difference in the lives of others and society in general.
He strongly believes that immigration represents the focal point in the profound transformations that occurred in politics of developed democracies over the last two decades. He explains that in western Europe, the political landscape was completely reshaped by the rise of the anti-immigrant right parties and the decline of the traditional social democratic left. "In U.S. politics, the most recent manifestation of anti-immigrant attitudes has been the successful presidential campaign of Donald Trump," he says. "Political science still needs to fully understand the origins of mass policy preferences that underlie these developments, and I hope that my research will provide at least some answers in this regard."
Hakeem Jefferson is the winner of the 2017 Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion.
Hakeem Jefferson at the Other America Conference, January 2018. Photo by Michael McIntyre/ISR
For much of Hakeem Jefferson's childhood, he lived "right through the yard" from his grandparents in Gable, South Carolina. Reflecting on the numerous conversations he had with his beloved grandfather, the 2017 recipient of the Garth Taylor Dissertation Fellowship in Public Opinion, recognizes that those porch discourses were fundamental to his development, both as a citizen and a scholar. In fact, those chats were a critical springboard for his love of politics. "Though he lacked much of the formal education I've obtained, my grandfather was one of my earliest teachers. He recounted tales about being a black man in the South during the period of Jim Crow, and was keenly aware of how race and power shaped outcomes," Jefferson says. "My grandfather never told me to stay in my place. He invited me into conversations he would have with others from our community – allowing me to become comfortable early on with wrestling with big, important questions."
More recently, Jefferson, now 29-years-old and a doctoral student in political science at the University of Michigan (U-M), found himself grappling with the focus of his dissertation. "I really struggled with figuring out exactly what my dissertation would look like. I knew I was interested in heterogeneity among black people. I knew I was interested in stigma. I knew I was particularly interested in ways that black folks thought about punishment," he says. With the help of his primary advisor, Vince Hutchings, professor of political science and research professor in the Center for Political Studies, Jefferson eventually decided to focus on the curiously high levels of African-American support for punitive social policies that negatively affect the life outcomes of in-group members. His project is titled, "Black, but Not Like Me: When Political Solidarity Breaks Down Among Black Americans." He is proud to point out that his work is one of the first attempts to theorize and empirically test the connection of politics of respectability, where members of marginalized groups police their own members to show their social values as being continuous with mainstream values, to African-American backing for harsh social policies.
The bulk of Jefferson's study was conducted using a sample of 500 African-American respondents from YouGov, an online polling firm. He asked respondents various questions regarding their racial group identity. For example: How important is being black to your racial identity? And, how linked do you think your fate is with that of other Blacks? He inquired about the frequency with which they felt an array of emotions when they thought about their racial group. Did they feel shame? Embarrassment? Anger? Respondents also had to answer several policy questions, such as their support for bans on sagging pants, work requirements for welfare recipients, beliefs about the causes of gangs in American cities, and support for the death penalty. "I found that measures of group-based shame correspond with higher scores on the respectability politics measure and that my measure of respectability uniquely predicts black approval for a range of punitive social policies," he says. He adds, "I had them answer a battery of questions that serve as my respectability politics scale. It's one of the chief innovations of my work." Beyond its contribution to the study of African-American politics, Jefferson is confident that his measure and theoretical framework will assist other scholars looking to understand heterogeneity within other marginalized groups – particularly as it pertains to group members' treatment of the most stigmatized among them.
Garth Taylor, photo by Eva Menezes/ISR
Jefferson is also self-assured that he will be able to get at least a couple of papers out of his data and the information will additionally be explored further in a book project. This summer, he's thrilled to be relocating to Palo Alto, Calif., where he will join the faculty as an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. Before he moves he'll have the opportunity to meet retired pollster Garth Taylor, who established the Award in 2013. Taylor, who prefers meeting the recipients when they are near the end of the project, is enthusiastic with Jefferson's work thus far. "I haven't had a chance to meet Hakeem yet, though we have had some mail and email exchanges. The plan is for us to meet at one of his public presentations or his dissertation defense," he says. "What Hakeem has done so far is impressive. He is studying a rare and hard-to-reach population that is expensive to contact. He needed the money to execute a sample that would be carefully selected and large enough to pass the standards for publication in a refereed journal. This is a great use of the fellowship funds – and one I had not imagined at the beginning."
Jefferson says he has no idea what he would have done had he not won the fellowship, and it has made his life so much easier. "The award is $10,000 and I spent $8,000 on a representative sample of Black Americans from YouGov. I got a lot of great data that formed the basis of my job market paper and is central to the work of my dissertation thanks to Garth Taylor," he says. And Taylor can certainly appreciate where Jefferson is coming from. He asserts, "I got the idea of the fellowship because I could have really used something like this. It would have been a real asset at a critical time at the beginning of my career. Hakeem now has a good launching pad for his career and a future book."
In addition to his prospective book project, Jefferson is working on two papers. Also, with his colleague, Steven Moore, he recently organized a conference called, The Other America: Still Separate. Still Unequal. Jefferson says it was designed to give voice to African Americans in the United States who bear the costs of unequal systems across various domains of American life. "We were intentional in bringing together an interdisciplinary group of individuals to talk about issues related to the criminal justice system, economic inequality, education inequity, and environmental justice," he says. The event was very well-attended and was beyond anything he had imagined.
Hakeem, right, speaking with panelists Darrick Hamilton, left, and Luke Shaefer at the Other America Conference in January 2018. Photo by Michael McIntyre/ISR.
Jefferson is hopeful that his work will "help people understand the multi-faceted and complex nature of inequality and the ways that all of us – sometimes for different and somewhat complicated psychological reasons – contribute to its persistence." He is still getting messages from people who attended and were moved by the conference. With one African American undergraduate student telling Jefferson that the conference provided additional inspiration to dedicate his career to fighting injustice, and others going out of their way to tell him about the impact it has had on their thinking, it would appear that Jefferson's hopes are already coming true.
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Asbestos Exposure: Still an Issue in 2012
If you have "Asbestos" as a saved search in your Google News like I do, then you've noticed a recent increase in asbestos exposure incidents. If you haven't noticed this increase, let me show you what I'm talking about.
March 26, 2012 – News station WIVB 4 reported an incident involving children playing with asbestos at an old junior high school in Niagara Falls, NY. Parents found their children covered in dust after drawing on the sidewalk at the old South Junior High School. Upon further examination, the parents realized the kids had mistaken asbestos for chalk and were using it to create sidewalk art.
It's suspected that vandalism occurred prior to the children arriving at the old school grounds and that damaged hot-water pipes were the source for the asbestos. Licensed contractors showed up shortly after the incident to clean up the asbestos. But the parents are still worried about the health effects that might stem from the exposure. Unfortunately, only time will tell.
March 26, 2012 – Allegations of asbestos exposure occurring in Nassau Coliseum, home of the New York Islanders hockey team, surfaced in an NBC New York article.After more than a dozen complaints from workers, an investigation into asbestos exposure concerns has begun in the four-year-old arena.
Photos of an asbestos-like substance on the floor and on the walls of the boiler room have been presented as evidence.
Two longtime employees have already been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Many of their colleagues suspect the building's asbestos played a big role in their cancer development. "We've raised questions about it for years and were always told it was nothing," one worker said.
We'll be looking forward to the conclusion of the state's investigation on the matter.
March 27, 2012 – An asbestos discovery will delay a library opening in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During the demolition of the old library, officials uncovered asbestos in the building. This finding will cost them an estimated $1.3 million in asbestos abatement fees and delays to the project.
"It's one of those things that there's nothing we can do but legally take care of the matter," the library director said. "And wish that asbestos was never invented."
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March 28, 2012 – Plans to create a waste treatment facility on the grounds of an old asbestos manufacturing plant recently surfaced in Sydney, Australia. ABC Australia reported that the site of the old James Hardie asbestos plant was being considered as a location for a waste treatment facility despite the Asbestos Disease Foundation's warnings about stirring up asbestos.
One official wanted to build a housing development on the same site. As you can imagine, many were outraged at the mere thought of this happening. In this day and age, with all that we know about the dangers of asbestos, how could someone really propose such an idea?
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A Leicestershire service station has sold for nearly 20 per cent above its guide price in a £1.41m deal.
Coventry-based commercial property specialist Bromwich Hardy oversaw the deal for the Eastwoods Service Station on Ashby Road in Stapleton.
The 2.7acre site, which is fully operational, includes a shop, three-bedroom bungalow, 12,000sq ft of industrial units, offices and car wash and is licensed for haulage use for up to 20 vehicles.
Bromwich Hardy partner David Penn said he was delighted with the price achieved for the station, which sits on the A447 Ashby Road between Hinckley and Coalville, and was 17.5 per cent above the guide price.
"This was a terrific opportunity with a range of buildings, accommodation and services alongside the petrol station and shop itself and the sale price reflects that," said David.
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"The purchaser is a national specialist in the running of petrol stations and clearly saw the potential of the site to provide a long-term return on their investment. We are now working with the new owners to find a tenant or tenants for the surplus workshops and yard, which total 11,576 sq ft plus 0.83 acres."
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MILAN, Italy — May 2016 — A total of 26 Italian textile machinery manufacturers will be taking part in the forthcoming Roadshow in Iran organized by the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) and supported by the Ministry of Economic Development. The gradual elimination of international sanctions will allow Italy's textile machinery industry to recover market share lost in recent years.
The textile machinery roadshow in Iran will kick off on May 22, and until May 30, a total of 26 Italian manufacturers — of which 23 are Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) associated members — will be taking part in a series of technology symposia programmed in some of the country's major cities including Teheran, Yazd, Isfahan and Mashad. This mission, organized by the ITA and ACIMIT with the support of Ministry of Economic Development, will allow Iranian textile manufacturers to measure their know-how with some of Italy's primary producers of textile machinery, and become acquainted with the most up-to-date solutions for the different steps involved in the textile production process.
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The 'Race for the Rock' quite literally as the prize for this race contested between Picos, Lasers, Squibs and 1720s is a Granite Rock mounted on a plinth.
With a race briefing at 11am and a scheduled start time of 12 noon, participants will start from the training area inside the harbour and from there, the only mark on the course is Dalkey Island itself. We're starting early as there's a strong tide in the afternoon.
Participants must round the Island to starboard aiming back for the finish line being the Harbour mouth.
Prizes to be awarded on the PY handicap system in the club room afterwards.
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