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The VP Monthly #5: February 2019
Virtue Poker
The Virtue Poker team has made significant strides toward our Beta release. There is a lot that's new, and we are happy to announce that we will be shipping the Beta release, with a lot of new features, in the next few weeks. More on this in a bit.
Please note that we assume you have read our previous updates. The last two significant updates we did were in the VP Monthly Update #3 and the VP Monthly Update #4, which are recommended reading before going forward.
The biggest challenge of any development effort is creating a functional product — that is, a version of the product that has all of the base functionality hooked up. We had a rudimentary functional application when we did our first Alpha release back in May — in fact, that first Alpha release surprised us with its robustness. Alpha releases are typically functional but buggy, but we were able to showcase our first Alpha release at the Ethereal Conference in Brooklyn without a single crash.
That version and our next two releases allowed poker hands to be played properly and (usually) to completion, but a lot of the functionality that makes Virtue Poker unique wasn't yet implemented. In addition, some components that are critical for launch were not yet integrated.
In our December Alpha v3 release, we released a Justice for the first time. While we intentionally made that release very low-key, it was a monumental event in the history of Virtue Poker. We have continued to improve the Justice functionality, and are excited the Justice implementation works properly.
The Dev Team's primary goals now that the critical base components are complete are:
Addition of Sit & Go tournaments. While this game type had product specifications built well over a year ago, we held off final development until we were comfortable that the base functionality of the platform was stable. The Dev Team has begun the buildout of this functionality, which we expect to be in the second Beta release.
Implementation of Cashier functionality. Up to now, we have done most of the Cashier functions manually, which consisted almost entirely of one-way transactions (giving VPPs and ETH to players). This new functionality includes the ability to deposit and withdraw VPP and ETH, and enables creation of a fixed source of funds (a security and anti-money-laundering regulatory requirement). We now have a fully-functional Cashier implemented, allowing players to easily move funds from their external Ethereum wallets onto the platform.
Implementation of Game Security methods. Our Game Security team has been building up the technical infrastructure for storing and analyzing game data. The team has now fully implemented the real-time collection of in-game events, as well as sidechain and Ethereum blockchain transactions to and from wallets. The team is now actively working on anti-money laundering measures, as well as detection and reporting frameworks for detecting cheating within the game.
Addition of auto-update. In past versions, Alpha testers had to download and install a new client every time we made changes. To prepare the client for production release, we have implemented the auto-update process. The client now asks the server if it has the correct version; if there is a mismatch, the update downloads/installs automatically.
Implementation of seamless data replication to regulators. To comply with the terms of our Malta Gaming License Agreement, we have aligned with a data center operator in Malta. The Game Security team has developed a process for seamlessly replicating the required production data to our operator location, providing regulators with the required oversight into our data and ensuring that we are fully compliant when we launch.
The upcoming Beta release, which we expect to ship by mid-April, will include all of the above improvements except Sit & Go tournaments, which will be implemented shortly after this release. It also includes:
improved betting action buttons
timeout improvements
Justice updates, including stability and deployment improvements
new player registration service
Our strategy is to be the first regulated blockchain based online poker platform. One of our biggest near-term hurdles is obtaining an operator license from one of the primary online gaming regulatory authorities. As indicated in previous updates, we have chosen Malta as the first jurisdiction to which we are applying for an operator license. We expected to submit this application in February, but were delayed by some changes in the technology that required us to modify the submission. We are submitting our application this week.
As we edged closer to release, we realized that it was time to reorganize into functional teams that focus on getting the product out the door. This reorganization, in the works for several months, has now been implemented, so we are well-positioned to begin the final development process. We have added one more developer to the team, which rounds out the Dev Team and is likely the last developer staff we will add before our mainnet release.
The Marketing team has been working on promotions for the upcoming Beta release and our presence at the Ethereal Conference in Brooklyn in May, a key press event for Virtue Poker. We are also focusing on the Ethereum mainnet launch plan.
Token Listing/Trading Capability
Because Virtue Poker intends to operate only in licensed and regulated markets, it is critical to our long-term strategy that we act responsibly and within accepted guidelines for legal and regulated online gambling sites. The fact that Virtue Poker is blockchain-based doesn't exempt us from regulation.
Our strategy is to work together with regulators who are interested in licensing this new technology, with the goal of creating a new standard for how online gaming sites operate. We feel this is the optimal approach versus launching in black or gray markets without regulation, creating distrust for blockchain-based gaming.
We are beginning conversations with our partners and advisors regarding the best strategic approach to launching our token. However, to be clear: we will only list our token when it has utility within the platform.
Those of you who have been involved in development projects, especially for leading-edge technologies, know that predicting release dates with software is a difficult task. We are working with a new technology that hasn't been used previously in production software. We understand that delays are frustrating, but luckily the most difficult development hurdles are past us, and we are excited to ship the first production version of the software later this year.
We have an extraordinary team doing extraordinary work; we ask that you stick with us and be patient while we complete the work to make Virtue Poker a world-leading poker product.
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The pillaging of the Reich appears Unstoppable
By Mike on July 30, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )
Two great bronze horses sculpted by Josef Thorak for Adolf Hitler's New Reich Chancellery that were abandoned on a Soviet military base in East Germany will become American-German government property after a legal settlement with the collector who acquired them, according to the German culture ministry.
Under the terms of the agreement the collector, Rainer Wolf of Bad Dürkheim near Mannheim will retain other National Socialist sculptures that were seized by state police on his properties in 2015. These include two larger-than-life portrayals of great male statues by Arno Breker and two female figures sculpted by Fritz Klimsch. Without giving details, the government said in the statement that it plans to exhibit the monumental horses by Josef Thorak.
'There is not much left of the Reich Chancellery, which featured very prominently during the National Socialist period (1933-1945). The chancellery was reduced to rubble first by saturation bombing by the USAAF/RAF, then shelling by the Red Army followed by looting by the Allied armies after the German armed forces (not the government) capitulated on May 8, 1945.
Stephan Klingen, an art historian at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich says. 'These horses belong in a museum, not in the cellar of a private collector. It is better that we can see them.'
The rubble of the Reich Chancellery, built for Adolf Hitler by his chief architect Albert Speer that survived was demolished by the Soviet occupiers. Yet, regarded by many as the finest architectural triumph in the history of Europe the Reich Chancellery had no military purpose of value being simply government administrative offices.
Josef Thorak
Thorak's horses were discovered by a West German art historian on a disused former Reich sports field at the Soviet base at Eberswalde, near Berlin, in 1988. Wolf found out about them after the scholar wrote an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, according to German media reports dating from 2015.
With the help of middlemen, he acquired the sculptures from the Soviet military authorities, German media reported at the time of the seizure. They were smuggled out of East Germany in pieces, disguised as scrap metal, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After Berlin's state police seized the sculptures in 2015 on suspicion that Wolf was harbouring stolen goods, the government claimed ownership. But Wolf, a collector of Reich memorabilia, insisted his purchase was legally valid. The agreement announced on 26 July ends a legal dispute dating back to the seizure six years ago. Source
Related books: Sculptures of the Third Reich: Arno Breker and Reich Sculptors, Volume I , Sculptures of the Third Reich: Josef Thorak and Reich Sculptors, Volume II, Sculptures of the Third Reich: Porcelain and Reich Sculptors Volume III, Art of Adolf Hitler: Ultimate Album of the Fuhrer's Artworks, The Red Brigands, Ransacking the Reich by Michael Walsh.
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MICHAEL WALSH is an Irish British-born journalist. His 70 books include best-selling historical books THE ALL LIES INVASION, MY LAST TESTAMENT LET GOD JUDGE ME, WITNESS TO HISTORY, TESTIGO DE LA HISTORIA: HISTORIA SIN CENSURA (SPANISH EDITION), REICH AND WRONG, HEROES HANG WHEN TRAITORS TRIUMPH , HEROES OF THE REICH, THE HOLY BOOK of ADOLF HITLER, THE FUHRER'S PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE , FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SPEAK, MEGACAUST, THE RED BRIGANDS, RANSACKING THE REICH, SCULPTURES OF THE THIRD RIECH: ARNO BREKER AND REICH SCULPTORS , SCULPTURES OF THE THIRD REICH VOLUME III Porcelain and Reich Sculptors, and DEATH OF A CITY.
MICHAEL WALSH is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. His 70 books include best-selling RHODESIA'S DEATH EUROPE'S FUNERAL, AFRICA'S KILLING FIELDS, THE LAST GLADIATORS, A Leopard in Liverpool, RISE OF THE SUN WHEEL, EUROPE ARISE, FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SPEAK, THE ALL LIES INVASION, INSPIRE A NATION Volume I, INSPIRE A NATION Volume II, and many other book titles. These illustrated best-selling books are essential for the libraries of informed readers. Click REAL HISTORY.
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Art related books: Sculptures of the Third Reich: Arno Breker and Reich Sculptors, Volume I , Sculptures of the Third Reich: Josef Thorak and Reich Sculptors, Volume II, Sculptures of the Third Reich: Porcelain and Reich Sculptors Volume III, Art of Adolf Hitler: Ultimate Album of the Fuhrer's Artworks, The Red Brigands, Ransacking the Reich by Michael Walsh.
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Prof. Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy: Informal, Democratic Structures and the Central Political Power
Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy (Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) participated in the international conference "Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism", March 6-8, 2020. He gave a paper with the title: "Informal, Democratic Structures and the Control of the Central Political Power".
According to the hypothesis of Pozsár-Szentmiklósy's paper, a number of legal institutions have primary functions which are not explicitly related to the system of the separation of powers but have a significant (secondary) impact on the relations of state organs. Certain tools of direct democracy, internal limits of the legislative power, the application of certain doctrines developed in constitutional interpretation, as well as the judicial enforcement of political rights can limit the sphere of action of state powers, especially the majoritarian political power. The effect of these legal institutions can be considered as 'informal structures of democracy', or 'invisible checks and balances'. This paper combines the theoretical analysis of the impact of these structures on the functioning of a democratic state, as well the related practice from transitional democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. Pozsár-Szentmiklósy notes that these findings may contribute to a more a comprehensive approach to the classic debates on democracy.
During the conference, Dr. Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy also participated in the video series on Populism and Democracy and accepted the invitation to respond to a bold question: "What are the greatest challenges that populism poses to democracy?".
In the video, Pozsar-Szentmiklosy notes that populism poses a paradox. This paradox is given by the fact that at a general level, populism calls for the participation of the people in all the decisions that are important for the society. But on the other hand, it does not promote the real participation of the people, as populists simplify the most important questions of society and the procedures that would allow people to be informed and speak freely "are not as fair as they should be".
He stresses that the European Union (EU) also faces the challenge of populism, adding that "maybe there is much more to be done at the level of Member States", as "the populist movements and populist political problems occur at the national level". The lawyer thinks that the first and most important answer to give to these is to offer a political answer and alternatives to the people on a deliberative basis. But the EU has also some task here, as it needs to communicate with the people to explain why the European values belong to them and why these are important. Thus "building trust" is crucial – says Pozsar-Szentmiklosy – as at the country level many populist movements attack directly the European institutions.
Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (ELTE). Previously he was the director of the ELTE Bibó István College of Advanced Studies and the Rector's commissioner-general for student affairs and worked as a legal officer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an NGO working for the protection of fundamental rights and the enforcement of the rule of law.
Pozsár-Szentmiklósy's expertise is in constitution-making, constitutional reasoning, constitutional interpretation, principle of proportionality, systems of government, direct democracy, comparative constitutional law, and political rights. Most recently, he has published on issues on constitutional law in Hungary in articles including: 'Formal and Information Constitutional Amendment in Hungary' (2019) and 'The Decision of the Hungarian Court on Constitutional Identity' (2018).
You can read more about Zoltan Pozsár-Szentmiklósy's current research here.
This video is part of the CEDoD project and was produced as part of the event "Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism", which took place on 6-8 March, 2020 in Victoria, BC. CEDoD stands for "Canada Europe Dialogue on Democracy: Democratic Deficit and the Rise of Populism in Europe". This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Action of the European Union, the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Faculty of Law at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council and the University of Victoria: the Faculty of Law, the Centre for Global Studies, Vice President Research Office, Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Social Sciences. The European Union support for the production of publications does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflect the views only of the authors, and cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Motherhood Gave Her The Will to Live
A mother looks into the face of death after being stabbed by a blue marlin and experiences God for the first time.
While deep sea fishing in Panama waters there was a tug on Denise LeBlanc's line. She had joined a group of friends for a weeklong fishing excursion in Central America. Each day they rotated into different pairs and departed from the mother ship onto seven smaller boats.
It had been the end of a long, slow day for fishing. That's when a blue marlin hooked the line. Since Denise had caught one the day before, she handed the pole to her friend's husband Mike to reel in.
A fierce fighter like the marlin usually takes a couple of hours to exhaust
enough to reel in. It was late afternoon and the boat's captain wanted to get
back so he put the boat in reverse, allowing slack in the line to reel in faster. They had the still-green fish to the boat within about half an hour. The first mate estimated it to be twelve feet long and approximately six hundred pounds.
As the first mate leaned over to grab the lure, Denise could see the fish's angry eyes glare at her. Then, in a flash, the marlin catapulted up out of the water and lunged right at her. The razor sharp bill gored through her right arm, through her right breast and out of her side, literally skewering her. The enraged creature violently jerked Denise back and forth, lifting her body off the ground, as if trying to flip her back into the water.
Instinctively, she put her free hand out and it made contact with a pole and braced herself. The bill slid out and the fish slipped back into the ocean. Denise felt her life slipping away from her while Mike made a tourniquet and put pressure on her chest and arm. The mate cut the line and the captain put the boat into high gear. The captain headed to the nearest clinic, which was more than two hours away on Coiba Island--a penal colony for men.
Immersed in pain, Denise expected to die. "This is it," she thought, "I am going to die, and there is no one to take care of Michelle." Her oldest Jennifer was fifteen and independent, but Denise imagined her younger daughter nine-year old, Michelle would be lost without her.
"Damn you, God," she cried out. "You know Michelle needs me! How dare you? How could you do this to her!" In a near-death situation, most people would beg for God's mercy, but most people had not lived Denise's life. It seemed that after a life full of pain, motherhood was her only real blessing.
When she was three years old, her first memory was of her mother being taken away in a straight jacket and ended up in and out of mental institutions. Her father kept his own apartment in another town where he worked, and only visited his wife and eight kids on weekends. Eventually, she discovered that her dad was involved in the Mafia. He divorced their mother, and governesses and maids mostly raised the kids.
Since their father was prone to fits of rage, the children pleaded for the release of their mother. The nine of them then tried to survive in a three-bedroom house. Their father often had girlfriends and rarely came by, so it was Denise's mother who did her best to try and provide for the family. Often she would call their father or the local priest to beg for groceries.
When Denise was a young adult and her father survived a brain tumor, he had a conversion and finally took an interest in his children. Within a few short years, however, he died of lung cancer. Denise felt betrayed. "It took my whole life to get this man to love me and now you've taken him away from me!" she cried.
Over the next decade, Denise's life became a series of failed attempts at
love: two marriages, an abortion, miscarriage, and then the devastating loss of her beloved sister Darlene from breast cancer at age thirty-seven. It was the only sibling Denise felt close to. She sunk into depression and turned to gambling. Denise became suicidal in spite of the fact that she had two children whom she loved. "What kind of mother gambles away her children's electricity?" she asked. But thinking of her daughters, Denise realized she need to get help and do better for them.
Counseling and Gamblers' Anonymous helped, but Denise could not complete the step that required giving everything over to a Higher Power. She did not trust God to take care of her. She got back on her feet but had not included God in her recovery.
So on the boat, believing that death could soon take her from her daughters, Denise cursed God. But as she cursed, an indescribable feeling overcame her. "I was completely enveloped in a love that was more intense and at the same time gentler than anything I ever imagined," Denise said. "My anger and fear evaporated, replaced with a radiating sense of peace and trust in God. I was in His hands. Whether I lived or died, I trusted God fully. Whatever happened, my daughters would be all right. I knew God loved us and He was with me."
Her nightmare was far from over, but the powerful touch of God -- although it
lasted but a moment -- sustained her and would change her forever. There was still the two-hour boat ride to the clinic on the penal colony where lesser-sentenced prisoners roamed freely kept at bay by armed soldiers. Even returning to the states brought challenges as Denise's recovery remained at a standstill for many months. But from the moment Denise felt the love of God everything changed and his peace sustained her. "Once, it was only my motherhood that gave my life purpose and power," she said. "Now, God is at the helm."
This is an excerpt from Denise's first-person account in the collection, Amazing Grace for Mothers where this dramatic story includes Denise's harrowing and horrify trip to the penal colony and shocking medical discovery after her return home.
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New approaches to health data science training
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the University of Birmingham are working in partnership to address the national skills gap by piloting new approaches to training that will entice skilled graduates from quantitative disciplines to consider health data science
Data science and the need for diverse skills
As an emerging modern discipline, health data science requires diverse skills in mathematics, programming, and data analysis – skills commonly found in graduates with academic backgrounds in subjects such as physics, engineering, mathematics and computer science.
However, while there are some schemes to enable these disciplinary switches, they happen most often by chance or circumstance.
Research by HDR UK (The Great UK PhD Data Science Survey) identified that many graduate students received little or no training in how their skills could be applied to other disciplines, including health data science.
HDR UK and the University of Birmingham are working together to develop bespoke training courses that will provide insight into health data science for graduates in the quantitative sciences.
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"I was originally trained as an engineer and switched to health data science as part of a Centre for Doctoral Training. Most of my original course mates are no longer working in health or even in research, and my current colleagues have often entered into health data science opportunistically after completing their PhDs in other subjects and discovering the relevance of their knowledge for solving biological and health problems," Professor Christopher Yau, (Pilot Co-Director), University of Oxford and Health Data Research UK
"I moved to health data science following a PhD in Theoretical Physics following a chance conversation with an academic already working in the area. I'd never considered working in the area before this and was really surprised to discover how the skills I'd developed during my PhD mapped to problems in health data research. It's surprisingly common for those of us working in this area to have started our careers on a different path," Professor Iain Styles, (Pilot Co-Director), University of Birmingham
Health Data Immersion Weeks
Our pilot will address two very important areas in health data science:
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accessing and using real-world health data.
Intensive courses (or "immersion weeks") will provide week-long rapid but deep introductions to these topics for a target audience with a strong quantitative background. The first two scheduled events will focus on:
Experimental and Observational Methods for Health Data Science – 30 Jan to 3 Feb 2023 (more information here).
Working with Real-world Health Data (in collaboration with the PIONEER Health Data Hub) – late March 2023 (more information here).
For further information and to register your interest, please visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/hdt and if you have any questions please email dsai@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Identifying gaps and needs
The immersion weeks are being developed by subject specialists supported by a Teaching Fellow who has themselves recently bridged the disciplinary gap. Dr Ben McCanna, a Theoretical Physicist by background, is working with the experts to identify and address the gaps in implicit knowledge that are key obstacles to changing disciplines.
"I love the idea of turning learning into training and Ben providing that unique perspective on what it is like to consider these topics for the first time coming from a different background. It is difficult for incumbent scientists to recognise the difficulties caused by those initial barriers," Sarah Cadman, Programme Director for Talent and Training, Health Data Research UK
In the second of the immersion weeks, the programme will work with University Hospitals Birmingham, through the HDR UK supported PIONEER Data Hub, to give participants from across the UK the chance to experience the use of health data for themselves.
""The PIONEER Data Hub team are excited to be working with HDR UK and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI to give graduates from across the country insight into how real-world health data works ..." Liz Sapey, Director of PIONEER
Towards a National Academy for Health Data Science
Using the outcomes from the pilot, HDR UK will evaluate whether the activities can be scaled up to providing a comprehensive national offering for health data science training.
Pilot Co-Director Professor Yau says: "The EPSRC supported a network of Taught Course Centres in Mathematics over 10 years ago – groups of universities that work together to collectively provide advanced training for mathematicians – and these continue to run successfully and sustainably today. We would like to expand on this pilot scheme to do something similar for health data science."
Professor Iain Styles adds: "we are making full use of the Birmingham health data ecosystem to ensure the success of this pilot and demonstrate how other universities and organisations could become involved to expand on this project."
The need for a new approach to supporting and enabling discipline switching is clear from the difficulty recruiting into health data science roles both in academia and industry.
Dr David Wong, Lecturer in AI for Health, University of Manchester, said: "This is an exciting initiative as successful researchers in health data science require a diverse set of skills. Finding people with this range of skills is very difficult in the current climate. The Academy could help bring talent in from other areas and help identify the people needed to support world-leading health data science research. It is an initiative that I am keen to contribute to and support."
Be part of a new training future
If you are an education or training provider and would like to get involved email dsai@contacts.bham.ac.uk and to find out about forthcoming events visit the University of Birmingham website


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Meatless Monday: Udupi Bhavan
Meet this series that shares tasty finds sans meat.
By Alice Levitt June 1, 2020
Gutthi vankaya from Udupi Bhavan (Photo by Alice Levitt)
Welcome to Meatless Monday, where I share some of my favorite flesh-free finds. Some weeks I'll focus on veggies, while other weeks, I'll share odes to animal protein in Meaty Monday posts.
This week, I tried takeout from Udupi Bhavan in Sterling. Not everything at Udupi Bhavan is Udupi cuisine, named for a city in the Tulunadu region, but most of it is from South India. And for those looking to avoid anything meaty on the menu, it is wholly vegetarian. Dosas are thought to originally come from Udupi, so the bill of fare is chock full of the papery pancakes, filled with everything from cheese to deep-fried cauliflower, but not on my table—I didn't think their delicate crispness would survive a car ride.
Instead, I tried something new to me and something I'd been missing. Two years ago in Singapore, I sampled yogurt rice for the first time in the country's Little India and fell in love. Depending on whether it's served hot or cold (my first taste was hot), it can take on the characteristics of an Indian version of risotto or a savory rice pudding. At Udupi Bhavan, it's served chilled, and made with lightly tangy homemade yogurt and dotted with cumin and mustard seeds.
I would have been perfectly happy to make a dinner of that alone, but it lent a delightful lift of cool to the new-to-me entree, gutthi vankaya. The menu identifies the dish as Hyderabadi, not Udupi, but I couldn't resist the description of tender deep-fried eggplants in gravy, especially when that sauce includes peanuts and sesame seeds. The nightshade was a little more al dente than I expected, but still soft enough to cut with a fork.
The petite, whole eggplants are cut into quarters that remain attached to the stem, allowing them to soak up the nutty sauce that's filled with chiles, but not dauntingly spicy. It's a sauce that's hard to stop eating, evidenced by how much chewy naan I used to scoop up the last bits of it that stuck to the bowl.
As a lover of alliums, I ordered a dish that didn't exclude them. But for those who are allergic or follow a Sattvic diet, it's worth noting that there is a whole section of the menu that has no garlic or onions. Next time, I might just have to try the paneer bhurji and see if I miss the garlic.
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In Q1 2018, I was the proud father of our first baby girl. The miracle happened really close to midnight on March 21, 2018. She was a healthy baby girl and my wife and I were very happy and exhausted!
After the birth, we both realized that we needed to eat. Luckily there was a store that sold sandwiches in the hospital. In a few minutes we had delicious warm sandwiches and juice to hold us over into the next day. I didn't realize at the time that someone else having the food ready for me would be such a blessing.
When we got home, we had to adjust to normal life with the baby. Part of which was cooking food for ourselves. It wasn't just the cooking part that got us – it was trying to plan out meals, and find time to go shopping. That was when my wife got the idea to try out one of these home delivery options for meals. After doing a quick check, we settled on HelloFresh – partly because the name "fresh" is in our business name.
With a new born constantly taking up our time, it was nice to have meals delivered to our home that we could cook up. With HelloFresh I liked that I could still care for my family even if I didn't have time to leave the home.
I liked feeling like the chef in the family – though I have to say that it wasn't fully because of HelloFresh. My wife and I would put on Dinner parties for Christmas and Halloween for the family and we would make our own meals.
A menu my wife Stephanie made for when we hosted Christmas 2015.
We do like cooking but after a while, it became hard to be creative – especially when you have a hungry wife and child (and puppy too!).
Sammie our puppy begging for food.
We really did like the experience of feeling like a creative chef – sharing with the family all of the interesting items we can cook up. It was fun to try out so many different recipes and keep the instructions incase we wanted to make this again in the future. I also liked that we didn't have to go out grocery shopping as much. With work and the new baby and taking care of the wife and puppy, it was a welcome relief.
We were given a gift of Blue Apron to see how it compares. I'll keep this short, Blue Apron did not impress. It felt like it was trying to be "higher class" with different and exotic meal types, but the meals were not as good as Hellofresh. In addition, the instructions were terrible. There was one where we had an instruction to "use the garlic at step 2" but then at step 5 it said "use the remaining garlic" – but nowhere in step 2 did it say to use only a portion of the garlic. So we had a meal not turn out the best due to that.
With our baby starting to sleep more, we can get more free time back, so we have started to feel that Hellofresh is more of a weight than a help. Since we can go out now with our friends and family, we felt that we had to cancel or turn down some invites as we needed to get through the Hellofresh meals before they went bad, or got old.
I did notice that after a while, the "prep" stage (which is usually only supposed to be 5 minutes) tends to go alot longer. So all of the "this meal only takes 30 minutes" never turns out to be true for us. If you are supposed to "thinly slice all of the onion" it takes time to do that.
I was so happy that I can help out our expanding family. But at this point, we are starting to feel that it's time to say good-bye to the program. We are social people so we like to cook for others and visit other's homes. Plus it is so nice to have someone else cook for a change!


Rocco Commisso is one of the most successful Italian immigrant entrepreneurs in our nation's history. His illustrious career in the cable television industry spans over 38 years. He is the Chairman and CEO of Mediacom Communications Corporation, a company he founded in 1995 to acquire and reinvigorate cable systems in the nation's underserved smaller communities. In 2000, he directed a successful initial public offering for Mediacom, paving the way for the company's dramatic growth into the nation's 5th largest cable television provider, with 4,600 employees serving almost 1.4 million customers in 22 states. He took the company private in 2011, and now Mediacom, with annual revenues in excess of $1.8 billion, is wholly-owned by Commisso and his family.
Born in Calabria, Italy, Commisso immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12. He graduated from Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx in 1967. He attended Columbia University on a full undergraduate scholarship where he earned both a BS degree in Industrial Engineering and a MBA degree from the Graduate Business School. At the Business School, he was elected president of the student body and was the recipient of the prestigious Business School Service Award.
In January 2017, Commisso purchased a majority ownership stake in the New York Cosmos and became the club's Chairman. The Cosmos are the reigning champions of the North American Soccer League and the most recognized American soccer brand in the world.


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White Hill residents feel let down by Government
- by Barbados Today	November 22, 2020
Promises made, but never kept. That was the unified cry from residents of the White Hill community in St Andrew, as they met Sunday on the anniversary of the main road into the area collapsing into a nearby gully.
After years of promises from Government about rectifying the dire situation, residents in the area say they are no longer looking for talk, but instead demand action.
One resident, Carlitha Andrews, says the situation for her area has grown from frustrating, to ridiculous, in terms of the silence from Government officials.
"We have been getting promises on promises of this road being fixed. All that we have learnt, is from what has been said in the media. No one is coming to us and telling us anything about what is going on, and we are here today to let the public know what is really going on up here," she said.
Andrews said in addition to no realistic road connection being available to residents, the lack of any form of consistent bus service has been a never ending issue, leaving the community feeling even more cut off
Andrews shared copies of a letter a sent to several departments, including the Prime Minister's Office.
"This letter was a letter that was hand delivered; there were three copies, one was made to the Prime Minister's office, one to the Ministry of Transport and Works, and one to the MP (George Payne). The one person that acknowledged that they got the letter was the MP. No one from the Prime Minister's Office responded and they were hand delivered. They have been very disrespectful to the people of White Hill, we are the forgotten lot," Andrews said.
"We were promised by the Prime Minister before this Government gained office. She would have been down here on more than one occasion on the anniversary. Since she gained office, she has not visited us and acknowledged that we still on the planet. It is not fair – when I sit down and see all the roads that they are doing, and we were promised the first order of the day was to do this road, and we still down in here," she added.
With reports circulating among social commentators over the years about all of the residents being offered the opportunity to move from the area, Andrews not only denied there was ever a talk with residents about such a move, but showed signed affidavits to cement her point.
"Another thing I need to put to rest … they say that the people in White Hill were given the opportunity to move and they did not move, which is a lie. No one ever came and knocked from house to house to ask anyone up here if they want to move. Far from that, when the other administration was in office, they [lawyers] came and they took legal fees from people up in here and never returned. These are affidavits, and these are receipts of the legal fees that they took from the people up in here and never came back. So I would like [it] to be put to rest that people were given the opportunity to move and did not move, it is a lie," she stressed. (SB)
6 Replies to "White Hill residents feel let down by Government"
E M S says:
Are you some of the people who refused to relocate when the opportunity was presented? If you are it serves you right. However, if you aren't. You have a better chance getting your wishes attend to if you are a visitor.
You look grown enough to know that people don't follow through with their promises after elections.
Continue im jim alleyne says:
Like endeavour #2 after 24their were abandoned, white hill also,who's yo blame?? Pm or MP??
A Promise to a Fool says:
Who their parliamentary representative?…. They voted for the person to do what… The person advocate on their behalf?… Well remember that when voting.. Silence now.. Silence later
lauriston applewhaite says:
These people were voting for George Payne for all the years, he would not do one damn thing for them.
Homeboy says:
Well it looks like this administration is stretched thin…. to the point where the government will have to run back to the trough for more money. Infrastructure is so important yet there is just no money … this is just the tip of the iceberg. This will be aver very long road to recovery….so sad…. but so true.
David Pilgrim says:
My concern is the state of the road stretching from shop hill through vacluse, wheeler corner, dukes bottom to dumscombe its the major artery and its in a horrible state
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Barclays' new chief executive avoided any obvious gaffes on bonuses during his parliamentary hearing, despite receiving a fairly rough ride from legislators. But Diamond failed to make a case for why big banks should escape structural change. The case for reform remains strong.
Bob Diamond, Barclays' incoming chief executive, appeared before UK lawmakers on the Treasury Select Committee on Jan. 11.


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Q: Ordinal arithmetic $3+\omega^2 = \omega^2$ Which one of the following equalities is false:
a) $2\cdot \omega = 3\cdot\omega$
b) $3+\omega+\omega^2 = \omega+3+\omega^2$
c) $\omega^2 + 3 = 3+\omega^2$
d) $12\cdot(5+\omega)=60 \cdot\omega$

I think the wrong one is c):
In a) and d) both sides are $\omega$. And for b) I found that:
$\omega^2$ can be viewed as $\{0,1,2,\dots,\omega,\omega+1,\dots,\omega\cdot 2,\omega\cdot 2+1,\omega\cdot 2+2,\dots,\omega\cdot 3, \omega\cdot 3+1,\dots\}$.
Thus in b) LHS we have $3+\omega = \omega$ and RHS $3+\omega^2=\omega^2$.
But in c) we get $\omega^2+3\not=\omega^2$.

Is that right?

A: In c) you have limit ordinal on one side of the equation and non-limit on the other side.  The ordinal sum $\alpha+\beta$ is limit if and only if $\beta$ is limit. The same is true for non-limit (successor) ordinals.
So if you have been told that exactly one of them is incorrect, this must be the one.

The other computations you have given seem to be correct.
a) You have $n\cdot \omega=\omega$ for every $n<\omega$. (This can be visualized as follows: If we replace in the usual ordering of $\omega=\{0,1,2,3,\dots\}$ each number by finitely many copies, we get an order-isomorphic set.)
b) You are correct in saying that $3+\omega=\omega$ and $3+\omega^2=\omega^2$. Then you have $\omega+\omega^2$ on both sides. This can be further simplified as
$\omega+\omega^2=1\cdot\omega+\omega\cdot \omega=(1+\omega)\cdot\omega=\omega\cdot\omega=\omega^2$.
d) $5+\omega=\omega$; so you get $12\cdot\omega=60\cdot\omega=\omega$ for the same reasons as in a).


From 1 September, visa procedures for Nepalese citizens going to Norway will be undergoing a few changes. Applications for visa and residence permits for Nepalese citizens going to Norway will be shifted from the Danish Embassy in Kathmandu to the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. The same applies for Nepalese citizens going to Iceland for up to 90 days (Schengen visa).
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The case handling time for Schengen visas is 15 days from the application is received at the Embassy in New Delhi. Please take into account that courier may take an additional 6-10 days to/from VFS in Kathmandu and the Embassy in New Delhi.
We highly recommend that you apply well in advance, at least 4 weeks prior to your planned trip. You may register your application 3 months before your trip.
If one or more persons are accompanying you, you may register your applications as a "group visa" in the Application Portal, which will save you time in the visa process. Please see Embassy information on group visa.
Make sure your group meet at VFS at the same time to hand in your applications.
For information on application procedures and contact info for VFS, please visit VFS Global Services Pvt. Ltd. homepage.
Please note that all questions regarding your application routines, regulations and status MUST be addressed to VFS.
Detailed information and step-by-step guidance can also be found on the Directorate of Immigration in Norway (UDI) homepage.
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"The U.A.E. gave us money," he said, referring to the United Arab Emirates. "Do we agree with everything they do? No, but they help us fight ISIS," referring to the so-called Islamic State.
He characterized the donations as coming from "friends" that had previously contributed to the foundation and were allowed to keep doing so under a 2008 ethics agreement with the Obama administration. But that was not the case with a $500,000 contribution from the Algerian government.
"My theory about this is, disclose everything and let people make their judgments," Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton spoke earlier with her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, as part of the Clinton Global Initiative University. Hillary Clinton did not say a word about last week's revelation that as secretary of state she sent email exclusively from a private account.
Clinton tweeted Wednesday that she has asked the State Department to release the emails, and the department has indicated it is reviewing which records are public. But because they were stored in a private server, it's impossible to know which emails, if any, were deleted or not turned over.
Republicans continued to rip Clinton on Saturday for not answering questions about her email set-up.
"Hillary Clinton has spent a week hiding from the press and voters who have serious questions about her commitment to transparency, ethics and national security," Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short said in a statement.
"The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails – the BlackBerry I carry around – all those records are available and archived, and I'm glad that Hillary's instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed," he said.
In her remarks Saturday, Clinton stuck to a theme close to her heart since she was First Lady: the rights of women and girls. Her daughter noted that women are underrepresented in leadership posts but didn't mention the presidency, focusing instead on corporate boards of directors.
Hillary Clinton made one apparent reference to the Affordable Care Act, saying "we've made a lot of progress" on making health care accessible.
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Clinton did refer to the 50-year anniversary Saturday of the civil-rights march in Selma, Alabama. She asked students to go back and watch Saturday's speeches from U.S. Rep. John Lewis and President Obama.


In the modern short story, everything should lead up to one "bingo moment" for the main character.
This means that the story should be organized so that everything goes toward the critical moment or away from it. Sometimes we get to the "bingo moment" and stop. One perfect example: Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," where the action consists of the townspeople making their way to the eccentric, now-deceased Emily's house, revealing bits about her background along the way, all the time moving toward the "bingo moment" when they discover one of her iron gray hairs on the pillow where she must have been sleeping next to the decomposed remains of the lover lying next to her. The sight of the hair explains everything we have learned while the townspeople were walking toward the house — Emily's purchase of rat poison years back, the terrible smell around the house soon after the murder, and so on. Every detail now makes sense as something that leads up to critical moment. Nothing is extraneous. We see the hair. Bingo! The story ends.
"A Rose for Emily" was published nearly a century ago and remains a powerful classic.
This is not to say that the story should always end at that moment of revelation. Depending on the subject matter, the story might require a bit more summing up. But not too much. The sooner it ends after the bingo moment, the more power it retains.
In addition, the "bingo moment" should be in the present time of the story, not in a flashback. In the title story of Lee Smith's collection, "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse," an otherwise happily-married housewife and mother, Sharon, has been having a clandestine affair with a local pharmacist, Raymond. Then, on a day when he comes to her house so they can watch the eclipse in her backyard and then go to her bed, they are discovered afterward by her six-year-old coming home from school. Raymond, nearly dressed, distracts the child, but the next day, when the girl asks who he was, Sharon says, "Oh, just nobody,"and suddenly realizes that is true. This is the bingo moment. The affair is over. She will always love Raymond, but she loves her family and her life more.
A lesser writer might have flashed back to the near-discovery of the affair. A lesser writer might have had her mulling over what happened yesterday and telling the reader the affair ended then. But it didn't. It ended when her semi-aware daughter asked a question she never wanted asked. It ended in the present.
Writers sometimes like to scoff at the concept of a defining bingo moment in contemporary stories, but I would argue that, in the most powerful works, they're usually there. One way to troubleshoot a story-in-progress that doesn't quite work is to look at it scene by scene, ask if each element is leading up to the bingo moment, and remove or revise any element that isn't. Then, make sure that the bingo moment is in the present of the story. This can be a valuable tool for making the work memorable, suggesting small changes that can add up to big differences in the effect the work has on the reader.


DP2606 Exchange Rates and Trade: How Important is Hysteresis in Trade?
This paper looks at the responsiveness of a country's export supply to exchange rate changes and measures its quantitative importance by breaking down export adjustments between changes in output levels by existing exporters (intensive margin) and movements due to changes in the number of exporters (extensive margin). Using data on a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms, the paper finds sunk costs hysteresis in entry and exit to be an important factor in determining export market participation, but unrelated to exchange rate uncertainty. The sunk costs of entering the market appear to be much larger than the costs of exiting the market. Finally, although hysteresis exists, its effect on the responsiveness of aggregate trade volumes to exchange rate changes is quantitatively small. A 10% home currency depreciation results in an increase in export volume due to the increase in the number of exporting firms of only 1.5% of export volume.


The Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority has scheduled public hearings for proposed new service. PDRTA is planning new or expanded service in Florence, Hartsville, Lake City, and Marion.
In Florence, PDRTA will hold public hearings at noon and 6pm on Tuesday, August 2 in the Founders Room at the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation Library, 509 S. Dargan St. and on Wednesday, August 3 in Marion at the Marion Main Library, 101 East Court St, at 6pm.
The purpose of the Florence and Marion public hearings is to inform the communities about bus Route 7. The new route, which will begin in late August, will run from Marion to Francis Marion University to downtown Florence. The Marion to Florence connection will run during the morning and late afternoon hours, stopping at FMU and other points. During the day, Route 7 will operate between downtown and FMU.
"We hope to attract FMU students who need transportation between the FMU main campus and the new Performing Arts Center," Janice Baroody, PDRTA Executive Director, said. "By having the route include early morning and late afternoon runs to and from Marion, we hope to attract workers living in Marion who work in Florence as well as FMU students living in Marion who need bus service to the main campus." The bus route will be part of the Florence Transit System and connect to other routes.
PDRTA will hold a public hearing in Hartsville at 7pm on Thursday, August 4 in the Hartsville Memorial Library at 147 W College Avenue. PDRTA has been working closely with city officials and residents for the last 18 months to develop the route. The purpose of the meeting is to unveil the route to the public and answer questions about the bus service.
On Thursday, August 11, PDRTA will hold a public hearing in Lake City at 7pm at the National Guard Armory, 135 Calhoun St. PDRTA is seeking public input on proposed fixed route bus service in Lake City.


Pacific rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) is a broadleaf evergreen shrub with grayish-brown bark. The thick leathery leaves are dark green and whorled at the tip of branches. The bell shaped flowers are light to rose pink and 2 to 4 centimeters long. They are found in large loose clusters at the end of the branches.
Common cowparsnip (Heracleum maximum) is a perennial, herbaceous plant that grows 3 to 10 feet tall. The large braod leaves are lobed, and it has thick, hairy stems. The small white flowers either have both male and female parts or have only male parts. Flowers are grouped into small clusters that are grouped into larger showier, flat-topped clusters.
Baccharis pilularis is a shrub in the Aster family that can be up to three meters tall. The leaves are toothed, oval, and sticky. Coyotebrush is dioecious, meaning each plant has flowers with either all male parts or all female parts.
Pacific Trillium (Trillium ovatum) is an erect, perennial, herbaceous plant that grows between 4 and 18 inches tall. The dark green leaves appear in whorled triads above a bare stem. The showy, white flowers change to pink or maroon with age. Flowers are bisexual (i.e. have male and female parts) and occur as single flowers with three petals, above the leaves.
This species is a deciduous perennial shrub or small tree which can reach a height of 3-7 meters. Its green leaves have serrated edges and a strong, distinctive odor. The bark is dark reddish-brown with raised pores. The fragrant creamy-white flowers are arranged into dome-shaped clusters.
Silky Beach Pea (Lathyrus littoralis) is a perennial herb with silky grey wooly leaves. It is a member of the legume family (Fabaceae). The leaves are subdivided into 4 to 8 small overlapping leaflets with small tough tendrils. The purple-pink and white flowers have prominent delicate venation. Flowers are displayed in tight clusters of 4 to 8; each flower is 15 to18 millimeters wide.


Cottages represent the heritage and culture of the glassblowers. Ornaments were proudly styled after the homes in which they lived. This new home ornament is especially designed to capture the love and charm of a new home and makes a perfect gift or keepsake.


With a new location last year, there was a learning curve for all Relayers and Volunteers! This year's Relay will be a big improvement for everyone this year!
If you are a Cancer Survivor, Care Giver, or a member of a Relay Team, you're encouraged to help "Pack The Track" by registering for the Tom Green County Relay For Life!
call the American Cancer Society office at 325-944-2500 or 1-800-ACS-2345, and they'll be glad to help!
We're proud to be a sponsor of this year's Tom Green County Relay For Life!


With the sole aim to establish education consultancy sector a more respected and credible one, NAAER have consented to get their members to abide by certain norms called 'Education Consultancy Advertisement Code of Conduct 2065.
Print: Newspapers, Magazines, pamphlets, brochures, banners, hoarding boards, street signs, posters, stickers, calendars, etc. that are released or distributed in media, exhibitions, outside (streets), colleges or anywhere else.
Electronic Media: Television, Radio, FM, Cable TV, Scrolling advertisements, public announcements, CDs, DVDs etc.
Not use adjectives and superlatives such as No.1, Leader, Best, Largest, Oldest that is unauthorized and misleads the public.
guarantee, job guarantee, paid internship guarantee or any other guarantee. If advertising for internship (paid or unpaid), all details must be mentioned including name of institution, name of course, duration of internship and conditions applicable.
Not promote anything relevant to job assurance such as job search, employment arrangement, job club, 100% OJT, earn … per week (or per hour / per month) or any phrases that give similar meaning.
the basic norms of the educational consultancy practices.
100% visa, pay only after visa, no visa no fee, fee refund if visa rejected or any other words that give similar meaning directly or indirectly.
Not promote any programs related to business, travel, tourist, dependent, migration, work, but advertise only academic programs of abroad colleges, universities and institutions.
Not quote any fees for services provided by the consultancy including the foreign institutions. For example study IELTS at Rs. 25oo or study in Australia in only 2 lakhs.
Not even quote 'FREE' offer such as FREE IELTS, FREE test preparation, FREE processing, FREE visa etc in the advertisements, but can advertise FREE SEMINAR/ ASSESSMENT.
In order to stop this menace of offering freebies, members are not allowed to hold passport, citizenship, original certificates or any form of deposit including cash of students. However they are allowed to charge a fee for their services. For example when providing IELTS preparation classes or when applying to the foreign institution.
Not use offers to attract students such as air tickets, travelers' cheque, laptop, mobile phones, sim card, unlimited offers to first … students, special offers to those who come in groups, T-shirt, shoes etc granted to students, or any such offers.
Not use the logo of any program and/ or foreign associations such as AAERI etc. for which the consultancy does not have direct membership, and in case the consultancy does, it must mention the membership number while using logo and seek permission in writing from such association to use their logos in Nepal.
Not mislead the public by advertising the post of an association or branch office in any country so as to help them with visa processing or any other services.
Not use the word 'documentation' or 'one-stop solution' in any form.
When a member is organising an exhibition, members shall only advertise the names of institutions taking part in the exhibition rather than putting the names of a long list of institutions.
Also the exhibitor should not have stalls of those institutions that are not attending.
Not display the name of college/ institute/ university at the expo if the consultancy has no agreement with them (& not participating as well).
each venue. As above many students expecting to meet the institution representative are falsely lured to the event only to find no representative from the foreign institution present leaving them disappointed.
Except for USA, not promote scholarships or discounts offered by a college/ university unless the offer is promoted with full details and has informed the respective governing association 7 days prior to dispatching the advertisements.
Mention the cost details while advertising airport pickup, accommodation, food etc.
Not advertise courses saying they lead to Permanent Residency or migration. However members can use phrases like the courses are currently listed on SOL (Skill Occupation List).
Include CRICOS code while promoting an Australian institution.
Not advertise e-visa or its logo as this is not available for Nepalese students presently.
Should only enroll students who have genuine intention to study in Australia; have financial capacity to afford the course in which he/she is enrolled.


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Illuminated by moonlight, stags, hares, owls take centre stage in my new series of work started in 2016. Applying texture to the surface lends a tactile contemporary edge to my style whilst retaining a representational quality. Commissions welcomed for similar work.


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The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Through detailed exercises, exemplars, and a breakdown of the key elements and considerations of personal writing, Faulkner and Squillante provide a lively introduction and guide for writers to the art and craft of personal writing. Their conversational tone about audience, point of view, form, structure, ethics, research, and finding and making time for writing practice is a not-to-miss primer and reference. This book is appropriate for classes focused on poetry, creative nonfiction, ethnography, qualitative research, memoir, narrative inquiry, and other types of life writing, as well as individual writers honing their craft. Writing the Personal invites us all to find our stories and instructs us how to shape them for an audience and for ourselves. "Writing the Personal is the ideal book for anyone interested in exploring his or her life through writing. It is a must-read for any writer serious about deepening her understanding of craft." – Kate Hopper, author of Ready for Air and Use Your Words and co-author of Silent Running "A focus on techniques makes this a useful book to read straight through or equally to dip in and out of according to your personal tastes. However you come to the recipes offered in this clever cookbook, you're sure to enjoy the feast inside." – Stacy Holman Jones and Anne Harris, co-authors of Writing for Performance "Faulkner and Squillante seamlessly collaborate to each bring their unique and varied writing backgrounds and academic credentials to this text to create a unique and invaluable book." – Bernadette Marie Calafell, University of Denver, author of Monstrosity, Performance and Race in Contemporary Culture "Faulkner and Squillante are skillful, honest, and generous teachers of the craft." – Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life "In this innovative and inspiring book, Faulkner and Squillante offer practical advice about writing personal stories." – Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University Sandra L. Faulkner teaches, writes poetry, and researches about close relationships at Bowling Green State University in NW Ohio. Sheila Squillante is a poet and essayist living in Pittsburgh and teaching in the MFA program at Chatham University.
The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A How-to Guide for Educational Excellence (3rd ed.) presents an inspirational model for helping students achieve in today's schools. Based on years of research, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) is founded on highly successful practices developed for programs for gifted students and promotes "a rising tide lifts all ships" approach to school improvement. This guidebook shows educators step-by-step how to develop their own SEM program based on their own local resources, student population, and faculty. Instead of treating students as simply test numbers in a system, the model helps educators look at student strengths and interests and capitalize on them. The book highlights the model's fundamentals and underlying research and provides information about the model's school structures, organizational components, and service delivery. The book suggests methods for engaging and challenging identified gifted students and provides practical resources for teachers using the SEM.


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I Am A Child Memphis
Keepers of 306
Freedom Award Experience 2019
Museum Directory
Board Meetings By-Laws
Four Hundred Souls
King Day
Journey to Justice
Journey to Justice Speakers
The Sit-In Harry Belafonte
Understanding White Privilege
Vanguard Book Talk
April 4th Commemoration
Remembering MLK Timeline
2019 Freedom Award
Freedom Award Media Credential
Ernesto Cortes
Putting Race on the Table
Rashad Robinson
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Ferguson Then and Now
Ruby Bridges Reading Festival
Artist Reception – SALVAGE: Reclaiming Memphis' Black Aesthetic
Accidental Courtesy
An Evening of Art & Music
MiAngel Cody
Lighting the Fires of Freedom
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask
Memphis Majic
Remaking Black Power
Alan-Curtis
A Past That Won't Rest
MR. SOUL
Election Night Watch Party
Washing Society & I Am Somebody
Stages of Revolution
Rock for Human Rights
The Rape of Recy Taylor
Storytime – Underground
MLK Soul Concert Series
Preserving Your Treasures
An Unseen Light
MLK50 Commemoration
The Poverty Forum: Memphis Since MLK
Protecting the Legacy
Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson
We Rise
The Plot to Kill King
A Question of Citizenship
Teach Us All Documentary
Whose Streets Documentary Screening
The Lynching
Small but Mighty Storytime
Unpacking Racism
Distinguished Speaker Series
Exploring the Movement
Teaching Civil Rights
50 Weeks of Action
Poverty Report 2
Take Action Give
Commemorative Brick
Freedom Award Student Forum
October 30, 2019 • 10:00am
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church
The annual Student Forum is the opening event for the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award celebration. The Forum allows students an opportunity to hear from leaders in the ongoing struggle for civil and human rights. Led by a guest student emcee, the goal is to expose youth and the community to civil and human rights leaders and to bridge the gap between everyday people and leaders. Recognizing that they began their life's journey as everyday people, these leaders tell their story on how they were able to accomplish extraordinary things because of their commitment to equality, justice and freedom.
We are also able to offer free transportation service for local school groups to attend the event. These groups constitute a large part of the audience with attendance between 2,500 and 4,000 youth and educators each year. More than 85,000 people have attended Student Forum since it began in 1991.
Keeper of the Dream Award
The Keeper of the Dream Award is a public recognition of selected youth in grades 6 – 12. The 2018 award winners are Sarah Rosenthal, Xinyi (Cindy) Tan, Timmy Becton, Jr., Cameron Jones and members of the Bridge Builders cohort, Caitlin Robinson, Lakia Coakley, Aaliyag James, Elena Matade and Aniya Mull. These students serve to help overcome issues including diversity, inclusion, education and food insecurity to provide support, leadership and empowerment to their peers and the community.
This award celebrates and recognizes the heroism of many young people who will have the amazing responsibility of safeguarding our freedom while ensuring equal rights and opportunities for others. Area students in grades 6 – 12 who have demonstrated acts of compassion, leadership, commitment and service are self-nominated or nominated by educators and community leaders.
2018 Keeper of the Dream Award Winners
This year's Keeper of the Dream Award winners are Sarah Rosenthal, Xinyi (Cindy) Tan, Timmy Becton, Jr., Cameron Jones and members of the Bridge Builders cohort, Caitlin Robinson, Lakia Coakley, Aaliyah James, Elena Matade and Aniya Mull. These students address issues including diversity, inclusion, education and food insecurity and provide support, leadership and empowerment to their peers and the community.
Timmy Becton, Jr., a senior at Frederick Douglass High School, founded GrowSmart, a non-profit organization that addresses the issue of food desserts in his community. As a passionate young man who seeks to empower his peers to be involved in the improvement of their communities, Timmy developed the innovative idea to convert restaurant food waste into fertilizer for community gardens. Through GrowSmart, Timmy has mobilized over 20 community members in collecting food waste and building community gardens, bringing a sustainable and nutritious alternative to Memphis communities that do not have access to fresh produce at neighborhood grocery stores. Timmy's efforts won him the opportunity to participate in LITE Memphis (Let's Innovate Through Education), a six-month long curriculum designed to equip African-American & Latinx students with entrepreneurial skills and build networks to create wealth. Forbe's Magazine has also selected GrowSmart as one of the 20 ideas that can change the world, and he was a finalist for the Obama Foundation Fellowship.
Cameron Jones, a senior at Marion High School, learned at an early age the importance of self-sufficiency and going after what you believe in. His experiences as a young man gave him an entrepreneurial spirit, first encouraging him to meet the needs of bus-riders in his community by creating and selling affordable solar-powered cell phone chargers that they could use on-the-go. In 2014, Cameron began volunteering for local political campaigns, handing out flyers and encouraging his fellow citizens to vote. Understanding the importance of voting to have a voice in one's community, Cameron continues to be a solid advocate for voting rights. In fact, he always has voter registration cards on hand to give out! As the grandson of a person with HIV/AIDS, and seeing firsthand how the issue disproportionately affects African American communities, Cameron has also come to understand the importance and value of medical care in economically disadvantaged communities. For the past three years, he has worked as an intern for a medical clinic in a rural town and now aspires to be an Infectious Disease Specialist. As a member of Health Occupations Students of America, Cameron won first place in the State of Arkansas for Extemporaneous Writing for his clinical research and writing skills.
Sarah Rosenthal is a seventh grader at Germantown Middle School and has taken an active role in making the world a better place through her own fundraising program called "Sarah's Hope Projects." At school, Sarah has sought to develop a better understanding of the world, and this has guided her to support both local and global charitable initiatives. Here in Memphis, "Sarah's Hope Projects" has helped to fund local programs such as Ready Shelby, Temple Israel MIFA Fund, Memphis Family Shelter, and the Shelby County Volunteer Support Committee's campaign to purchase shoes and backpacks for needy school kids. On a global level, Sarah has raised donations to purchase 17 desks for students in Malawi through the UNICEF K.I.N.D. Fund. This year, Sarah is focused on raising funds to benefit the Child Advocacy Centers and her efforts have recently generated a significant donation to the MIFA 50th Anniversary event.
Xinyi (Cindy) Tan, a senior at White Station High School, has founded two programs, one geared toward fostering diversity among students and one that moves past traditional gender boundaries in computer science. As an immigrant from China, Cindy understands how difficult it can be for kids to adjust to their new American culture. To create cultural awareness and encourage diversity, she founded Rotary Interact Club at White Station. The club hosts an event called World of Traditions, which brings students together to learn about cultures around the world. As a computer science and technology enthusiast, Cindy realized that many students in Memphis do not have access to programming classes, and that many female students felt cut off from advancing their computer skills. In response to this need, Cindy founded GirlCode, an outreach program that teaches free workshops on how to create apps using basic computing skills. Her program has received funding from the prestigious National Center for Women & Information Technology AspireIT program, and she is working to expand GirlCode to serve more students in our city.
Caitlin Robinson (Hutchison School, 12th grade), Lakia Coakley (Middle College High School, 9th grade), Aaliyah James (Overton High School, 11th grade), Elena Matade (Bellevue Middle School, 8th grade), and Aniya Mull (The Soulsville Charter School, 12th grade) are all members of the BRIDGE Builders CHANGE's Gender and Sexuality (GAS) cohort and are working to ensure LGBTQ youth in Memphis feel safe, supported, and empowered. These five young adults dedicate a minimum of six hours each week to creating lasting systemic change for Memphis' LGBTQ youth. The GAS cohort are surveying a diverse group of local youth to develop a list of criteria that spaces (for example businesses and schools) need to meet in order to be safe and welcoming. Once the criteria are determined, the cohort envisions local spaces to apply to receive a special designation indicating that they are a safe place for LGBTQ youth and meet the requirements of the program. By continuing their research and serving as youth activists, the cohort have displayed bravery, maturity, and determination in the face of individuals and businesses that are against LGBTQ rights.
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