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In 2020, the combination of an acute crisis — the global pandemic — and ongoing chronic stressors, such as historical structural inequities, caused multisystem failure in the United States. In this Perspective, the authors describe recommendations to continue advancing a 2016 integrative resilience agenda to guide research and practice.
Adapting to Adversity amid a Global Pandemic
Stakeholder Insights About Progress and Next Steps for Taking Integrative Action to Build Resilient Systems
by Joie D. Acosta, Anita Chandra, Jaime Madrigano
Community Health and Well-Being,
Community Resilience,
Community-Based Participatory Research,
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),
Disaster Recovery Operations,
Emergency Preparedness,
Pandemic,
Racial Equity,
The devastating events of 2020 — including more than 500,000 deaths from coronavirus disease 2019, the highest-ever number of opioid overdose deaths in a 12-month period, and the highest levels of unemployment since 1948 — severely stressed disaster-response systems in the United States. The pandemic demonstrated what has been anticipated and studied for some time in resilience science–multisystem impacts from the combination of an acute crisis and ongoing chronic stressors, such as historical structural inequities, that have exacerbated it.
The multisystem failure of 2020 provided an important opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss what must be done to ensure that the United States is prepared for future challenges of this magnitude. In December 2020, the RAND Corporation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a virtual Resilience Roundtable of community resilience researchers and practitioners to take stock of progress on an integrative resilience agenda initially laid out in a 2016 roundtable.
In this Perspective, the authors document the recommendations that emerged from evolving resilience literature and the experiences of resilience stakeholders actively working in their communities to create change during 2020. This Perspective has three aims: to describe the evolution of the integrative resilience research agenda first developed at the 2016 roundtable; to lift up the recommendations and concerns of resilience stakeholders that were not present in the 2016 agenda; and to discuss continued gaps in meeting the earlier roundtable's recommendations for integrative resilience, highlighted by the pandemic response.
An Agenda to Advance Integrative Resilience Research and Practice
Joie D. Acosta, Anita Chandra, et al.
Research conducted by
This research was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and conducted within RAND Social and Economic Well-Being.
This publication is part of the RAND Corporation Perspective series. RAND Perspectives present expert insights on timely policy issues. All RAND Perspectives undergo peer review to ensure high standards for quality and objectivity.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/PEA1118-1
Document Number: PE-A1118-1
Series: Perspectives
Community Health and Well-Being
Disaster Recovery Operations
Acosta, Joie D., Anita Chandra, and Jaime Madrigano, Adapting to Adversity amid a Global Pandemic: Stakeholder Insights About Progress and Next Steps for Taking Integrative Action to Build Resilient Systems. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2021. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA1118-1.html.
Acosta, Joie D., Anita Chandra, and Jaime Madrigano, Adapting to Adversity amid a Global Pandemic: Stakeholder Insights About Progress and Next Steps for Taking Integrative Action to Build Resilient Systems, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, PE-A1118-1, 2021. As of January 14, 2022: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA1118-1.html


Joining the Communication Studies Department at California State University, San Bernardino, as an adjunct instructor in January 2012, Jose Rivera quickly established himself as a strong instructor, building a rapport with students, and as a willing mentor.
Jose, a first-generation college student, overcame many obstacles to get where he is today. He credits his parents as his first mentors, who taught him the value of hard work. Although lacking help with the college process, he enrolled at California State University, San Bernardino, where he had no trouble finding mentors in the Communication Studies Department. Those mentors are now his colleagues, and they continue to guide him through his professional career.
Anyone can be successful and the best way to be successful is by sharing advice. Jose hopes his students will continue to pay it forward. "The best way to thank me is to share my advice with others," he says.
Mentoring can have many benefits, but challenges do exist. Jose says, "Talented students are being lost because they lack the presence of a mentor," adding, "In order to move forward as a country, we, as professors and mentors, need to help students navigate the college system and professional world." To help solve this problem, he hopes to develop and implement a mentoring program within his department. It's another way Jose continues to "paint the picture" for his students.


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Volume 8 Contributors
Veronica Abrams
Fall 2018: Spite House
Veronica Abrams' debut short story was a 2016 Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award winner and she was a finalist for the 2018 Flexible Persona's Editors' Prize in flash fiction. Her short stories have also been published in BlazeVOX, Arcturus (from The Chicago Review Of Books), The Petigru Review, and Fall Lines: A Literary Convergence. She holds a Master's degree in Creative Arts in Learning and a Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. To read more of her work visit: veronicaabramsfiction.com.
Pearse Anderson
Spring 2019: Two Poems
Pearse Anderson is a speculative environmental author currently focusing on stories about liminal Rust Belt spaces. His writings have previously appeared in Strange Horizons, OCCULUM, and The Laurel Review's Fearsome Critters, among others. He was raised in Upstate New York and now lives further midwest. Pearse was recently an intern at Tin House Books, and previously a graduate of the Iowa Young Writer's Studio. More of Pearse's work can be found at pearseanderson.com or on his Twitter and Instagram, @pearseanderson.
Michael Bagwell
Spring 2019: Three Poems
Michael Bagwell received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence. He has work published or forthcoming in Bodega Magazine, Dark Sky Magazine, Whiskey Island, SOFTBLOW, and others. He was founding editor of El Aleph Press, lives in Austin, Texas, and is somehow a software engineer.
Stacey Balkun
Summer 2016: Stacey Balkun and Jennifer Hanks in Conversation
Winter 2019: Three Poems
Stacey Balkun is the author of Eppur Si Muove, Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak & Lost City Museum. Winner of the 2017 Women's National Book Association Poetry Prize, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018, Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, and other anthologies & journals. Chapbook Series Editor for Sundress Publications, Stacey holds an MFA from Fresno State and teaches poetry online at The Poetry Barn & The Loft. Visit her online at www.staceybalkun.com.
Devon Balwit
Fall 2017: Four Poems
Summer 2018: Poetry Book Review of Amy Strauss Friedman's The Eggshell Skull Rule
Devon Balwit writes in Portland, OR. She is a poetry editor for Minute Magazine and has six chapbooks out or forthcoming: How the Blessed Travel (Maverick Duck Press); Forms Most Marvelous (dancing girl press); In Front of the Elements (Grey Borders Books), Where You Were Going Never Was (Grey Borders Books); The Bow Must Bear the Brunt (Red Flag Poetry); and Risk Being/Complicated (self-published with the artist Lorette Luzajic). Her individual poems can be found in The Cincinnati Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Fifth Wednesday, The Stillwater Review, Rattle, Red Earth Review, The Fourth River, The Free State Review, and more.
Kelsey Barnett
Spring 2019: Arachnid-ism
Kelsey Barnett is a freelance writer and editor at UnicornWriter.com. She lives in Northern Alabama with her husband, her son and a demon that disguises itself as a cat.
Dessa Bayrock
Summer 2018: Three Poems
Dessa Bayrock lives in Ottawa with two cats and a variety of succulents, most of which are still alive. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in IDK Magazine Cotton Xenomorph, and Spy Kids Review, among others. You can find her, or at least more about her, at dessabayrock.com.
Sarah Beddow
Winter 2013: One Poem
Fall 2015: Charting the Body: Sonya Vatomsky and Sarah Beddow in Conversation
Sarah Beddow is a poet, mother, and teacher. She has written a lot of poems and essays about her body, rape culture, and abortion. Her chapbook, What's pink & shiny/what's dark & hard, was published by Porkbelly Press. Find her online at impolitelines.com.
Lana Bella
A four-time Pushcart Prize, five-time Best of the Net, & Bettering American Poetry nominee, Lana Bella is an author of three chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016), Adagio (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and Dear Suki: Letters (Platypus 2412 Mini Chapbook Series, 2016), has work featured in over 500 journals, Barzakh, EVENT, The Fortnightly Review, Ilanot Review, Midwest Quarterly, New Reader, Notre Dame Review, Sundress Publications, & Whiskey Island, among others, and Aeolian Harp Anthology, Volume 3. Lana resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps.
Ellie Black
Winter 2019: Two Poems
Ellie Black is originally from Arkansas. She currently works as a poetry reader at the Adroit Journal and an Associate Editor for Sibling Rivalry Press. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Split Lip Magazine, DIAGRAM, Crab Fat Magazine, glitterMOB, and Best New Poets 2018; she was recently a semifinalist for the Adroit Prizes in Poetry.
Annie Blake
Summer 2018: The Concubine
Spring 2019: Two Flash Fictions
Annie Blake's work has been published or is forthcoming in Metapsychosis, Grimoire Magazine, The Courtship of Winds, Spilled Milk Magazine, Boned, Gasher Journal, Anomalous Press, Visitant, Lonesome October Lit, Menacing Hedge, The Cerurove, The Wax Paper, Neologism Poetry Journal, Blakelight, Minetta Review, Hungry Chimera Magazine, The Writing Disorder, The Lark, Misfitmagazine.net/, The Furious Gazelle, Gone Lawn, Futures Trading, Cat on a Leash Review, 45th Parallel, Communion Arts Journal, Borrowed Solace, Gambling the Aisle, The RavensPerch, West Texas Literary Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Riggwelter Press, Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, The Hunger, The Slag Review, Sky Island Journal, Trampset, Anomaly Literary Journal, Haikuniverse, North of Oxford, Blue Heron Review, Mascara Literary Review, Red Savina Review, Antipodes, Uneven Floor, The Voices Project, Into the Void, Southerly, Hello Horror, Verity La, GFT Press, About Place Journal, Gravel, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Tamsin Blaxter
Tamsin is a historical linguist from Bristol and based in Cambridge. She writes about gender, history, language, outer space, etc
Chelsea Margaret Bodnar
Chelsea Margaret Bodnar leads a double life as a poet and legal secretary in Pittsburgh, PA. Her writing has appeared in Freezeray, Barrelhouse, NANO Fiction, Thin Air, and Collision. Her first chapbook, BASEMENT GEMINI, is forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press; it's a collection of poems about horror movie tropes.
Forrest Brazeal
Winter 2019: Death's Head In B Dorm
Forrest Brazeal lives and writes in rural Virginia. His speculative fiction is published or forthcoming from Daily Science Fiction, Diabolical Plots, Abyss & Apex, Who Knocks, Theme of Absence, and elsewhere. He spent several years working with juvenile detainees in upstate South Carolina. His website is forrestbrazeal.com.
JW Burns
Fall 2018: Patrilocal
JW burns lives in Florida. His poetry and fiction has been published in several journals, most recently in The Danforth Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, and IDK.
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Winter 2019: The jackals who live in our row home
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, a garbage witch living in West Philadelphia, is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, as well as a former editor of Lunch Ticket and a contributing columnist for SSG Music. Her chapbooks Tiny Thoughts for Tiny Feelings and Unicorn Tracheotomy were published by BA Press many moons ago. When not poorly playing the piano, she chronicles the many ways that she embarrasses herself at www.youlifeisnotsogreat.com.
Alex Carolan
Winter 2019: Julias
Alex Carolan is a writer based in Washington, D.C. Her work can be found in the 2017 and 2018 editions of Stylus: a Journal of Literature and Art. She is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland and its selective creative writing program, the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House. Follow her on Twitter @alexhcarolan for tweets mostly about her two cats.
Laura Christensen
Fall 2018: Asparagus (with A la Hollandaise)
Laura Christensen makes art and lives in western Massachusetts. She paints on found cabinet cards and vintage snapshots to conjure new illusions and alternative narratives. As an extension of this practice, Laura is building a book project by inviting several authors to write in response to her art. Please visit www.LauraChristensen.net
Flower Conroy
Winter 2013: Six Poems
Fall 2014: Three Poems
LGBTQ poet Flower Conroy is the author of the chapbooks Facts About Snakes & Hearts; The Awful Suicidal Swans; and Escape to Nowhere. Her poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other journals. She is the current Poet Laureate of Key West, FL.
Will Cordeiro
Summer 2018: The Museum of Ordinary Objects
Will Cordeiro has work appearing or forthcoming in Best New Poets, BOAAT, Boiler Journal, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, Nashville Review, Opossum, Poetry Northwest, Superstition Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Zone 3, and elsewhere. His two chapbooks are Never-never (White Knuckle, 2017) and Reveries and Opinions of Mr. Figure (RDP, 2016). He also co-edits the small chapbook press Eggtooth Editions. He is grateful for a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a scholarship from Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a Truman Capote Writer's Fellowship, as well as residencies from ART 342, Blue Mountain Center, Ora Lerman Trust, Petrified Forest National Park, and Risley Residential College. He received his MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He lives in Flagstaff, where he is a faculty member in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University.
Katherine Davis
Spring 2019: Four Poems
Katherine Davis earned a Ph.D. specializing in American poetry from Duke University. Her poems have previously appeared in Weber, Stepping Stones, Wild Goose Review, Convergence, Sheila-na-gig, and The Oddville Press. After working as a writer and an editor around the U.S., she recently relocated to Alberta, Canada.
Theresa Senato Edwards
Summer 2018: Excerpt from Wing Bones
Theresa Senato Edwards has published two full-length poetry books, one, with painter Lori Schreiner, winning The Tacenda Literary Award for Best Book, and two chapbooks. Excerpts and poems from her newest manuscript, Wing Bones, can be found in Stirring, Gargoyle, The Nervous Breakdown, Thrush Poetry Journal, Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, Miriam's Well, UCity Review, Rise Up Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Rogue Agent, and Mom Egg Review. Edwards was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, received a creative writing residency from Drop Forge & Tool, another writing residency forthcoming from Wellspring House, and is Editor in Chief of The American Poetry Journal (APJ). Her website: tsenatoedwards.wixsite.com/tsenatoedwards.
Marlin Figgins
Marlin Figgins is a student at the University of Chicago. He is from Detroit, Michigan. Marlin's work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Cotton Xenomorph.
Kelly Fordon
Fall 2018: Give and Take
Kelly Fordon's work has appeared in The Florida Review, The Kenyon Review (KRO), Rattle, and various other journals. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks. The first one, On the Street Where We Live, won the 2012 Standing Rock Chapbook Award and the latest one, The Witness, won the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for the Chapbook and was shortlisted for the Grand Prize. Her novel-in-stories, Garden for the Blind, was chosen as a Michigan Notable Book, a 2016 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, an Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist in the short story category. She teaches at the College for Creative Studies, Springfed Arts, and InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit. www.kellyfordon.com
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She's the author of five books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist's Daughter, and Field Guide to the End of the World, which won the Moon City Press Book Prize and the SFPA's Elgin Award. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her web site is www.webbish6.com.
Kristin Garth
Kristin Garth is a Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated sonnet stalker. Her poetry has stalked magazines like Glass, Yes, Five:2: One, Anti-Heroin Chic, Former Cactus, Occulum, Luna Luna, & many more. She has four chapbooks, Pink Plastic House and Good Girl Games (Maverick Duck Press), Pensacola Girls (Bone & Ink Press, Sept 2018), and Shakespeare for Sociopaths (Hedgehog Poetry Press). She has another forthcoming, Puritan U (Rhythm & Bones Press March 2019). Her full length, Candy Cigarette, is forthcoming April 2019 (The Hedgehog Poetry Press). She has a collaborative full length, A Victorian Dollhousing Ceremony, forthcoming (Rhythm & Bones Press) in June 2019. Follow her on Twitter: (@lolaandjolie), and her website (kristingarth.com).
Andrey Gritsman
Fall 2018: Two Poems
Andrey Gritsman, a native of Moscow, immigrated to the United States in 1981. He writes poetry, essays, and short stories in both languages. He authored seven volumes of poetry in Russian and five collections in English and received the 2009 Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention XXIII and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times. Poems, essays, and short stories in English have appeared or are forthcoming in more than 90 literary journals. His work has also been anthologized.
The works were translated into several European Languages. Andrey edits the international poetry magazine Interpoezia and runs the Intercultural Poetry Series at Cornelia Street Café in New York.
www.andreygritsman.com
https://www.facebook.com/agritsman
Avery M. Guess
Summer 2018: One Poem
Avery M. Guess (@averymguess) received a 2015 NEA Fellowship for Poetry. She's a Ph.D. student at USD and assistant editor for poetry at South Dakota Review. Recent publications include poems in Rogue Agent, Glass, and Rust + Moth, and creative non-fiction in Entropy and The Manifest-Station. Her chapbook, The Patient Admits, is out from dancing girl press, and her full-length collection of poetry, The Truth Is, will be published in 2019 by Black Lawrence Press.
Amorak Huey
Winter 2013: "They Wouldn't Be Poems If I Didn't Make Them": A Conversation with Laura Madeline Wiseman
Summer 2013: Four Poems
Winter 2015: Orchestrated Selves: A Two-Way Interview with W. Todd Kaneko and Amorak Huey
Amorak Huey, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, is author of the poetry collections Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank, 2018), Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015), and Boom Box (Sundress, forthcoming in 2019) as well as the chapbooks The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl, 2014) and A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly, 2016). He is also co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
Philip Ivory
Fall 2018: Miss Brompton Falls 1938
Philip Ivory studied literature at Columbia University. He lives in Tucson and teaches creative writing at Writers Studio. His fiction has appeared in Ghost Parachute, Rosette Maleficarum, The Airgonaut, Literally Stories, Devolution Z, Bewildering Stories, and elsewhere. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017 and 2018. His blog is writeyourselfsane.com.
David Jans
Fall 2018: The Scalpel File
David Jans is a CPA by trade and an emerging writer based in western Pennsylvania. His short stories have appeared in Red Fez and The Disappointed Housewife. When he's not crunching numbers or writing he can be found driving his son across state lines to soccer tournaments, hanging out with his wife and daughter, or walking his black lab, the star of T-Minus 23 with Elsie, one of his two published pieces in Red Fez.
Kyra Kaisla
Kyra Kaisla is a musician, cook, poet and cowboy. She lives in a bureaucratic no-man's-land between Canada and Germany. She has made several zines: most recently, a cookbook called Recipes for Placelessness. She is currently working on her first book, While Speed Dating, a collaboration with French poet SaintHuitre. You can get a hold of her at kyrakaisla@gmail.com.
Toshiya Kamei
Winter 2019: The Eternal Idol
Toshiya Kamei holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas. He is the translator of books by Claudia Apablaza, Liliana Blum, Carlos Bortoni, Selfa Chew, Espido Freire, and Leticia Luna.
W. Todd Kaneko
W. Todd Kaneko is the author of The Dead Wrestler Elegies (Curbside Splendor, 2014) and This Is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), and co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). His poems and prose can be seen in The Normal School, Barrelhouse, SmokeLong Quarterly, Superstition Review, The Rumpus, Best Small Fictions 2017 and 2018, and many other places. A Kundiman fellow, he is co-editor of Waxwing magazine and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University.
Robert P. Kaye
Spring 2019: The Return Desk
Robert P. Kaye's stories have appeared in Potomac Review, Hobart, Juked, Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, Beecher's, Per Contra, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere, with details available at www.RobertPKaye.com. He facilitates the Works in Progress open mic at Hugo House and is a fiction editor at Pacifica Literary Review.
Imran Khan teaches creative writing around Southern England. His work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Juked, ucity Review, The Puritan, Across the Margin, and elsewhere. Khan is a previous winner of the Thomas Hardy Award. He can be found at his Facebook page.
C. Kubasta
C. Kubasta writes poetry, prose and hybrid forms. She is the author of several poetry books, most recently Of Covenants (Whitepoint, 2017). Her fiction includes Girling (Brain Mill, 2017) and This Business of the Flesh (Apprentice House, 2018). She is active with the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and serves as Assistant Poetry editor with Brain Mill Press. Find her at www.ckubasta.com and follow her @CKubastathePoet
Rachel Lake
Rachel Lake is a writer and editor living in Astoria, Queens. Her work has previously appeared in Sundog Lit, Bodega, Spry, and elsewhere. Her most recent project is a book of fiction about addiction, kidnapping, and girlhood. There are also sharks in her book.
Suzanne Langlois
Suzanne Langlois's poems have appeared in NAILED Magazine, Cider Press Review, The Fourth River, Rust + Moth, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College. She teaches high school English in Portland, Maine.
Jessica Lao
Fall 2018: Transfiguration
Jessica Lao is a junior and Writing Fellow at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta. She is an editor for her school's literary magazine and a top nonfiction writer/Editor's Choice award winner for Teen Ink magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Blue Marble Review, Embryo, and After the Pause, in addition to being recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
Eleanor Levine
Spring 2015: The Jew Who Became a Nun
Spring 2019: Smiling Through the Cracks
Eleanor Levine's writing has appeared in more than 70 publications, including Fiction, Evergreen Review, Toronto Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Wigleaf, Barely South Review, Breakwater Review, Juked, Spoon River Poetry Review, Santa Ana River Review, HCE Review, The Dos Passos Review, Switchback, Cleaver Magazine, and BlazeVOX2018 Fall; forthcoming work in Thrice Publishing's 2019 Surrealist/Outsider Anthology and Good Works Review.
Her poetry collection, Waitress at the Red Moon Pizzeria, was published by Unsolicited Press (Portland, OR) in 2016. Eleanor's short story collection, Kissing a Tree Surgeon, was recently accepted for publication.
Aurora Linnea
aurora linnea is the author of the chapbook This Mutilated Woman's Head (Solar Luxuriance, 2014) and has had poems featured in Plinth, Gobbet, and Mannequin Haus. she can be found on the web at www.aurora-linnea.com. aurora is no longer in collusion with the predator.
Claire Younger Martin
Fall 2018: If A Tree Falls
Claire Younger Martin was a managing editor for the literary magazine Hair Trigger, as well as the interview editor for its online counterpart, Hair Trigger 2.0. Her recent fiction can be found in Longshot Island, Hair Trigger 40, Ariel Chart, The Magnolia Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Bull & Cross. These days, you can find her holed up with a camera somewhere along Lake Michigan. See more at claireyoungermartin.com.
Mark McKain
Mark McKain's work has appeared in Agni, The Journal, Subtropics, Blue Mesa Review, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook Blue Sun was published by Aldrich Press in 2015. He teaches screenwriting and creative writing in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Marshall Moore
Winter 2019: The Trousers Had Opinions of Their Own
Marshall Moore is an American writer, academic, and publisher. He is the author of four novels and three collections of short fiction. Inhospitable, his most recent novel, was published in May 2018 by the British-Taiwanese publisher Camphor Press. He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University in the UK and teaches at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
Eileen Murphy
Fall 2018: A Review of Cutting Eyes from Ghosts, by Ariana D. Den Bleyker
Eileen Murphy lives 30 miles from Tampa with her husband and three dogs. She received her Masters degree from Columbia College, Chicago. She teaches literature/English at Polk State College in Lakeland, writes poetry, and has published book reviews in BLARB, Rain Taxi, Tinderbox, and a number of other journals. She is a staff writer for Los Angeles-based Cultural Weekly. Her website is Mishmurphy.com.
Karen Neuberg
Karen Neuberg lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent chapbook is the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre Press) and she's the associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East.
Kay Billie Oakes
Summer 2018: Two Poems
Kay lives and works as a teacher in South Texas. Aside from poetry, Kay writes fiction and just can't stop thinking about coyotes. Kay's writing can be seen in upcoming issues of >formercactus, Scalawag Magazine, and Corvus Review.
Amélie Olaiz
Amélie Olaiz was born in León and lives in Mexico City. She is the author of Piedras de Luna (2005), Aquí está tu cielo (2007), and La vida oculta en la caja de nogal (2013). Her work has been anthologized in Prohibido fumar (2008), Antología mínima del orgasmo (2009), and Three Messages and a Warning (2012), among others.
Awuor Onguru
Awuor Onguru is Kenyan, and lives in Nairobi, where she is in her Junior year at the International School of Kenya. She has not been published elsewhere (she is working on it!), but enjoys viewing her work through the Whatsapp broadcasts of her work that her mother sends to all her contacts. Her favourite pastimes include writing (go figure!) and cooking things to eat while she writes. You can visit her at awuorez.wordpress.com.
Paul Park
Fall 2018: A la Hollandaise (response to Asparagus)
Paul Park lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he teaches at Williams College. He is the author of twelve novels and three collections of stories.
Dayna Patterson
Dayna Patterson's creative work has appeared recently in Hotel Amerika, So to Speak, Western Humanities Review, and Zone 3. She is a former managing editor of Bellingham Review, the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, and the poetry editor for Exponent II Magazine. She is a co-editor (with Tyler Chadwick and Martin Pulido) of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry (Peculiar Pages, 2018). Connect with her at: www.daynapatterson.com.
Bradford Philen
Spring 2019: Father Like Lion
Bradford Philen writes and teaches high school English in the Philippines where he lives with his wife, son, and dog Bear. He is the author of the novel Autumn Falls and the short story collection Everything is Insha'Allah. His full list of publications can be found at bradfordphilen.com.
Jillian M. Phillips
Jillian M. Phillips lives & writes in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, though she still maintains her New England accent. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her work has appeared in Menacing Hedge, Nonbinary Review, The Manifest Station, other publications, and forgotten boxes in her mother's basement.
Bryan D. Price
Bryan D. Price teaches history at a community college in the suburbs of southern California where he writes about memory, time, nature, utopia, and its opposite. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Unbroken Journal, Heavy Feather Review, and DIAGRAM.
Keith Rebec
Summer 2018: The Young Girl Leaned Over the Virgin Waters
Keith Rebec currently resides in Florida. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, The Portland Review, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, Midwestern Gothic, Devil's Lake, and The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, among others. He is the editor in chief of the literary journal Pithead Chapel, and you can learn more about him at www.keithrebec.com.
R.J. Roberts
Winter 2019: Private Polarity
R.J.Roberts is a native of northeast ohio. His work has been published in The Oddville Press and Memoir Magazine. He enjoys car fires and used to enjoy the Cleveland Browns until they started winning. R.J.Roberts1@outlook.com
Kelly R. Samuels
Kelly R. Samuels is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Salt Hill, The Carolina Quarterly, Sweet Tree Review, Permafrost, and RHINO. She has a chapbook, Words Some of Us Rarely Use, being published in January by Unsolicited Press and another, Zeena / Zenobia Speaks, being released in March by Finishing Line Press.
Louisa Schnaithmann
Louisa Schnaithmann is a poet living and writing in Philadelphia who often writes about women who deserved better.
Andy Søbjerg
Summer 2018: A Heel Ahead
Andy Søbjerg writes in Aalborg, Denmark. He is a carpenter, an assistant librarian, and an Iraq veteran. He spends most of his time staring into books, mouthing every word he reads.
Scott Sweeney
Scott Sweeney has published poems in several small-press and online journals, including BlazeVOX, Sprung Formal, Borderlands, and CaKe. His work also appears in ARCANA: The Tarot Poetry Anthology (Minor Arcana Press 2015). Scott co-founded Grey Book Press, which primarily produces poetry chapbooks. His own chapbooks include Watercycle, Desperation: Poems, static, and Hot Body Contest (in collaboration with Kristine Snodgrass). Scott lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife and daughter.
Christine Taylor, a multiracial English teacher and librarian, resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey. She serves as a reader and contributing editor at OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters. Her work appears in Modern Haiku, apt, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rumpus, Eclectica, and The Paterson Literary Review among others. She can be found at www.christinetayloronline.com.
Elizabeth Vignali
Summer 2014: Five Poems
Summer 2016: Six Poems
Elizabeth Vignali is an optician and writer in the Pacific Northwest, where she coproduces the Bellingham Kitchen Sessions reading series. She is the author of Object Permanence and coauthor of Your Body A Bullet, forthcoming from Unsolicited Press. Her poems have appeared in Willow Springs, Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Tinderbox, The Literary Review, and others.
Emma Cairns Watson
Fall 2018: Two Prose Poems
Emma Cairns Watson has been a writer since the age of nine and a UCLA administrator since January. A recent graduate of Smith College, where she studied literature and neuroscience, she now coordinates lectures about Egyptology by day and gets emotional over other people's poetry by night. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse Online, Half Mystic, Okay Donkey, and Ninth Letter.
Sheila Wellehan
Sheila Wellehan's poetry has recently been featured in the Aurorean, Chiron Review, San Pedro River Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Visit her online at www.sheilawellehan.com.
Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff's work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals including Meridian, Phoebe, Third Coast, Carve, Sundog Lit, decomp, Prism Review, The Pinch, and Passages North. She teaches Creative Writing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Susan Yount
Summer 2013: Review
Winter 2017 - Fall 2018: Menacing Hedge Cover Art
Susan Yount is editor and publisher at Arsenic Lobster poetry journal and founder of Misty Publications. She works fulltime at the Associated Press. Her collages have been published in Birds Piled Loosely, Masque and Spectacle, Milk Journal, Glint Literary Review, and elsewhere. Keep up with her poetry tarot project here: susanyount.tumblr.com/poetrytarot.
Maya Jewell Zeller
Spring 2019: Field Trip
Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of the interdisciplinary collaboration (with visual artist Carrie DeBacker) Alchemy For Cells & Other Beasts (Entre Rios Books, 2017), the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press, 2015), and the poetry collection Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011). Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation as well as a Residency in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Maya teaches for Central Washington University and edits poetry for Scablands Books. "Field Trip" is from her manuscript-in-progress, A Few Nondescript Adventures of Some Consequence: A Novella in Vignettes. You can read the title story from this collection at Booth: A Journal, and another piece in Sundog Lit. Check out Maya's other work at mayajewellzeller.com, and follow her on Twitter @MayaJZeller.
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Елџин () град је у америчкој савезној држави Илиноис. По попису становништва из 2010. у њему је живело 108.188 становника.

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Према попису становништва из 2010. у граду је живело 108.188 становника, што је 13.701 (14,5%) становника више него 2000. године.

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Ludolf von Sudheim (* in Osnabrück, bezeugt 1336–1341) war ein deutscher Orientpilger und Geistlicher.

Ludolf, der womöglich der Osnabrücker Familie Schilder entstammte, war Pfarrer des heute nicht mehr existierenden Pfarrdorfs Sudheim bei Lichtenau (Westfalen). Er unternahm 1336 bis 1341 eine ausgedehnte Pilgerfahrt in den Orient. Sein in zahlreichen Handschriften überlieferter lateinischer Reisebericht existiert in zwei Fassungen. Handschriften überliefern auch eine niederdeutsche und eine hochdeutsche Übersetzung.

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 Verfasserlexikon 2. Auflage
 Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli: Identité(s) d'un voyageur médiéval: Ludolf de Sudheim. In: Damien Coulon, Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (Hrsg.): Le voyage au Moyen Âge: description du monde et quête individuelle. Presses universitaires de Provence, Aix-en-Provence 2017, ISBN 979-10-320-0104-2, S. 95–104. (Französisch)

Weblinks

 Handschriftencensus
 arlima.net
 digiberichte.de mit PDF von Halm: Deutsche Reiseberichte, Nr. 2

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What Ed Sheeran can teach us about standing out from the crowd
As the festival season is properly underway, this feels like a great time to remember that the award-winning singer worked seriously hard for his musical status. He also had a tough time looking different at school, although he has turned it to his advantage in later life.
Positive or negative?
"Being ginger can seem like a bad thing when you are young", Sheeran says, "but as a musician it has been my saving grace – because if you see a ginger kid on TV and there is only one messy-haired ginger kid who plays guitar, it is very easy to find them on YouTube." The Grammy-winner may have had the last laugh but he had to dig deep emotionally to make it happen.
It's often hard to see past a tricky situation and realise that one day you'll be able to look back and see it as a moment that actually made you stronger. But it can. Just ask Ed or the other super-celebrities who turned the tables on their school bullies.
Other celebs who didn't have an easy road to fame
"I was a real nerd. I wasn't the popular one, I was one of those girls on the edge of the group. I never wore the right clothes and I had a kind of natural geekiness. I was in the school band and I think that has a bit of a stigma at the age of 13. If you'd asked me what I wanted to be, I would have said something like a librarian." Jennifer Garner
"I wasn't a heartthrob at school; I was a geek, I was into musical theatre, which isn't perceived as the coolest thing. There were guys who were 6' 1" with beards and big muscles and I was a gawky 17-year-old skinny, awkward kid. I was a late bloomer. Growing up was hell." Zac Efron
"I was a nerd in those days. Outsider, like the kid that played the clarinet in the band and in orchestra, which I did." Steven Speilberg
"I got picked on all the time. I had terrible acne, weird hair. I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art." Justin Timberlake
Published July 9, 2016 By Kevin Mincher
Categorized as Mental Health & Emotional Intelligence Tagged bullies, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Garner, Justin Timberlake, musician, nerd, school, school nerd, teenager, Zac Efron
The billion-dollar woman who beat the odds and inspired a generation
4 tips to help you make the most of this summertime


I'm still under the weather today so I'm sharing a post from Coach Ryan, PeakFAST owner and my coach/boss.
If you look, feel, and think the exact way you'd like to, it's your fault.
If you don't, it's your fault too.
You shouldn't want it any other way. When you make it your fault, you take ownership.
We do understand that there are genetic limitations as to how we look, how high our performance can get, etc.
We ignore the umbrella of things we can control.
In doing so, we rationalize and justify while using external factors to serve for blame.
The role 'victim of circumstance' feels safe. It also liberates us from the dissonance between things we want to achieve and what we actually do.
This burying your head in the sand allow us to save the admission that it's not a priority.
There is a time when fitness might not be a priority. And that's okay. But at least have the gall to call yourself out.
Even then I'd argue something could still be done.
We want two things that appear to be competing demands — like how to get fit while maintaining a healthy social life.
Ambivalence is the genesis of failure to change. You're holding two ideas separate in your head and fail to find common ground, or never try.
Chunking ambivalence into manageable steps facilitates progress. Success is reliant on the accumulation of hundreds of smaller skills.
I've seen people with fitness, business, and financial success master a narrow window of skills.
If you think a single plan or program is going to 'cure' all your challenges you're delusional, at best.
Master skills. Skills you're not good at. To learn you must get feedback about what worked and what didn't.
Remember…it doesn't have to perfect, but it has to be consistent.
It saddens me that discipline has a negative connotation.
I think most view it as either a post-hoc punishment or intentional restriction.
You eat a cookie and repent on the treadmill.
A kid acts up in public, you make them to cut their own switch when you get home (which is sick in the head).
You intend to eat no sugar ever.
Discipline is about freedom and about saying yes as much as it is saying no.
Discipline differs from motivation because, well, no body is ever motivated to do something all the time.
Discipline is just doing the damn thing before the desire is there.
Maybe you give it a shot, and before you know it things are moving and you feel the momentum.
If you want cake, it can be as simple as "not this time" or "I'll see how I feel in 5-10-20 minutes".
If you want to skip a workout, it's just trying the first 10 minutes and then lobbing the question back up to your brain to reassess.
1. Accept some fault. Whether your in great shape or less-than-ideal shape, own it.
2. Figure out what your priorities are.
3. Think of common ground. Consider and decide what you're willing to do.
4. Realize you have control and commit to practicing discipline. When you don't feel like doing the thing, just take the first small action toward it and see what happens after the initial impulse passes.
The more wins you chalk up, the better you'll get at saying "not yet". It's okay if you do want the chocolate cake 10 minutes later, but at least you made a logical choice instead of just going on a whim.
These small disruptions to our behaviors are how we can start to build new habits, new results, and new outcomes.
Lastly, I'd like to add you don't have to be strict forever. If you've lived out of balance, then you may need to live out of balance.
There isn't stagnation. We're either getting better or worse. How that's judged is a scale created by you, not us.
We help people who are on the wrong side of their fitness/health scale. Let us know how we can help!


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The Trial Court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff appealed to the Fourth Circuit.
Was the evidence produced by the plaintiff enough to raise a genuine issue of material fact, and thus, defeat the motion for summary judgment?
Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 966 states that the standard of review for summary judgment is whether there exist genuine issues of material fact. Furthermore, any doubt must be resolved in the favor of the party opposing the motion. Here, the plaintiff argued that he presented evidence that a genuine issue of material fact existed, and because of that, the case should be decided by the trier of fact.
Some of the important testimony in this case came from Robert Honold, who testified that Eagle supplied American Marine with pipe insulation and that he was in charge of phasing out the insulation which contained asbestos. Furthermore, the plaintiff had entered into evidence a letter from Fred Schuber, the President of Eagle, which indicated that their insulation products contained asbestos and it would take some time to phase those products out in favor of products without asbestos. The letter also indicates that Eagle had distributing rights for some products made by Pabco Manufacturers. The record also contained a document from Fibreboard, a manufacturer of Pabco, which noted that asbestos containing products were being phased out; it did not mention any potential health effects of asbestos. The plaintiff's wife testified in her affidavit that she worked in American Marine's accounting department, and she recalled processing invoices from Branton Insulations. Lastly, plaintiff testified that he was exposed to asbestos by working around asbestos containing products and applying insulation. Eagle argued that this was based upon circumstantial evidence, and Branton argued that the plaintiff needed to prove exactly what the corporate offices of the defendants actually knew.
Asbestos exposes are always effect the human into the lung cancer and the asbestos particle goes through the inhalation way into the blood Asbestos Register will be used to generate risk assessments and identify where there is a high risk that people will be exposed to the inhalation of asbestos fibres.
Excellent blog and this is very helpful to raise awareness against the carcinogenic asbestos..asbestos cement . keep up the great work.
I have posted about this before, but was adamant that I hate rubber stall mats.
After lots of research and lurking, I have come to realize they may be my best option.
Situation: 11X15' stall, sand/clay natural base mixed with a large river stone top layer from previous property owners. I need to bring it up about 4-6" to level and even with the stall walls. Horse would spend nights in the stall and some days (due to weather and rotational turnout with other horses due to herd dynamics). horse blankets Other stalls are simple dirt/clay floors that work well for me now, but I do have plans in the future to dig up and do "right".


No round of testing would ever be complete without the requisite 3DMark 2001SE run. Despite the controversy surrounding this synthetic benchmark among our readership, we nonetheless consider its final score a very good way of judging a card's 3D performance.
The Radeon's lead is, in a word, impressive; the generation gap between it and the GeForce4 obvious.


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Q: Virtualbox networking for development, connecting from the host, and local network I've got an Ubuntu Virtualbox (v4.02) VM setup (running on a Windows 7 host), with SSH and Apache working on a static IP address (192.168.1.x) - but the VM itself can't talk to the outside world. I can ping addresses. but can't retrieve webpages, or talk to external DBs or a subversion repository from within the VM.
At home, I connect on a local network from another machine (by ssh, Samba and web). At the office, I just do the same into my VM from the same laptop. I can SSH to the VM from the laptop, or desktop -
I'm trying to get a single configuration where I can use the server - and have it able to talk to the outside world - by ethernet (at home), or by Wifi.
I have two bridged adaptors setup:
1/ to the wifi, address by dhcp
2/ to ethernet adaptor, and is set as a static IP in the vm
When I do an mtr yahoo.com (like traceroute), it shows my router, but beyond that, just shows '???', and stops at hop 2. I can traceroute to my desktop, from the VM on my laptop though.

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Rugby Euphoria but…..
The English rugby team slipped quietly back into the country yesterday. It was not the homecoming they wanted and will doubtless provide stark contrast with the welcome the Springbok side will receive when they land back in Johannesburg later today. Not only did the Amabokke win the world cup but they swept the board with rugby awards for the year, receiving the trophies for best team, best coach and player of the year.
They will return as conquering heroes and deservedly so but they are returning to a very troubled and divided land. The economy is lurching from crisis to crisis, political corruption is rampant and there is an epidemic of violent crime.
Nowhere is this epidemic more in evidence than in the farming community. Last month, there were twenty eight farm attacks and three farm murders, whilst one farm attack was successfully fought off. During September, there were forty six farm attacks and seven farm murders, whilst again, one attack was repulsed. Yet despite this continued reign of horror, government authorities continue to deny the existence of any problem in the farming community.
In August there were forty five farm attacks and four farm murders, whilst six attacks were successfully averted. In July, there were thirty nine farm attacks, four farm murders and four other farm attacks were fought off. In June, the figures were similar – thirty four farm attacks and six farm murders, whilst three attacks were repulsed. And in the first five months of the year there were one hundred and eighty four farm attacks and twenty farm murders.
Horrifying statistics I'm afraid yet the South African government says it is not happening! Other political leaders around the world seem to agree with them as they are all very quiet. Apart from Donald Trump in one speech, none have even referred to this attempt to destroy the South African farming community.
Yes I know these figures seem fairly minor in the general context of South African crime. After all, every year there are thousands of murders and tens of thousands of rapes. Muggings, assaults and hijackings are everyday occurrences so why should a few farm attacks matter?
For me, it is not the crimes themselves, it is the manner of them and the terror they imbue. I lived through the Rhodesian war and as a middle ranking police officer, was horrified witness to numerous farm attacks and the effects they had on farmers and their families. Most farmers live in isolated surroundings and work hard on their lands. Imagine then the terror of sudden gunfire at night and the violent confusion that follows.
I also reported covertly for the London Sunday Express for eleven years during the Zimbabwe farm invasions and yet again, I saw it all at first hand. Now it is happening in South Africa and the horrors continue while the rest of the world doesn't even raise its collective voice in a disapproving murmur. Fewer than a dozen white Zimbabwe farmers lost their lives in the farm invasions, yet almost three thousand South African farmers have suffered the same fate, many in appalling circumstances.
Even while the Springboks were celebrating their stunning victory on Sunday, a brutal farm attack was taking place near Nelspruit, not far from the Kruger National Park. Four attackers entered the homestead while an elderly couple and their son were asleep in their beds. The attackers laid into the couple with pangas (machetes) demanding money and firearms. The son who woke during the assault opened fire on the attackers, hitting one but was wounded himself in the subsequent exchange of gunfire.
The gun battle caused the attackers to flee with one of the victim's firearms whilst dragging their wounded accomplice with them. The man died as they ran and was left behind. His firearm was recovered by police.
All three victims were hospitalised while the police continue with their enquiries. I don't suppose they will arrest anyone for this though.
On 31st October, a Newcastle farmer, Anton Pitout was attacked by a mob on his farm in Normandien in the Drakensberg mountains. He was very severely assaulted with knobkerries and other objects all over his body, head and face and was lucky to survive. This is the third attack he has endured this year.
A farmer who came to his assistance was also assaulted. The attack comes on the back of a dispute with land affairs and locals over a ninety hectare portion of his farm that he offered to them so that he could continue his farming activities on the rest of the land. Inevitably perhaps, they want more.
The local police are refusing to assist, claiming as they claimed in Zimbabwe that it was 'a private matter.' The South African Police have degenerated into a rabble I'm afraid, just as they have in my native Zimbabwe.
The day before the mass assault on Pitout, two people died as a result of being tied up and tightly gagged during another attack in Mpumulanga. Both suffocated behind their gags after brutal beatings but at least the police are said to be investigating.
I have chosen the least horrific of incidents to highlight here. There are others a hundred times more violent and difficult to read about. Old folk, children, helpless housewives and sometimes house servants have been brutally assaulted and put to death in nightmarish circumstances but the world still says nothing.
So despite the general euphoria at winning the rugby world cup, the question must surely be asked, why must South African farmers who are providing food for the country continue to be attacked, murdered and tortured without getting any help from police or government?
And why are world leaders so damned quiet about the situation. Trump apart, I suppose they are all too scared of being labelled 'racist' by the Great Unwashed.
What a sad reflection it all is on Society in the twenty first century!
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President Barack Obama is sending U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez to California to help resolve a labor dispute at West Coast ports that account for almost half of U.S. cargo.
Perez will urge dockworkers and port operators to reach an agreement quickly at the bargaining table, the White House said Saturday in an e-mailed statement. Talks began in May. The negotiations cover about 20,000 union members in 29 ports including Los Angeles and Long Beach, the two biggest in the U.S. by container volume.
Congestion at the ports has hampered imports and exports, and consumers are seeing the result -- whether it's the rationing of french fries in Japan or shortages of some toys at Christmas.
"We welcome the administration's attention," Jonathan Gold, vice president for supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation, said in an e-mail. "The slowdowns, congestion and suspensions at the West Coast ports need to end now." Members of the Washington-based trade group include department stores, grocers and chain restaurants.


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ALBUQUERQUE HIGH'S DORAME PICKS UP 400TH CAREER WIN
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Longtime Albuquerque High girls basketball coach Doug Dorame picked up his 400th career win Wednesday night with a 67-16 victory over Rio Grande.
"It was a little overwhelming," said Dorame. Dorame first started coaching in New Mexico in 1985-86 at Cibola High School. He started his overall coaching career in Broomfield, CO as the track and cross country coach in 1981-82.
"I've been fortunate to work at both Cibola and Albuquerque High Schools. I consider them to be the two best schools in APS. I've had great principals who always supported me. I want to especially thank Linda Cink. When she moved from Cibola to AHS as principal, she brought me with her. She knew my daughter Dinee was going to attend AHS. Then Tim McCorkle gave me the opportunity to be Athletic Director at Bulldog City. It's been fun. The best part was the opportunity to coach my daughter ('08-'11) at AHS. Dinee graduated from Yale in 2015. My last daughter is a sophomore at AHS."
Here are some other high school basketball scores from Wednesday night.
Albuquerque 67, Rio Grande 16
(photo courtesy Dorame/AHS)
Cleveland 48, Atrisco Heritage 26
La Cueva 49, Eldorado 45
NMSD 40, Tierra Encantada 33
SFIS 50, St. Michael's 31
Ft. Wingate 59, Tohatchi 39
Navajo Pine 81, Ramah 28
Navajo Prep 81, Thoreau 58
Zuni 57, Crownpoint 50
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Russian taxpayers will pay 30 000 euro for police torture of a citizen from Nizhny Novgorod and inaction of the investigators
(Sergey Fartushin)
Today the European Court of Human Rights has passed another decision in relation to a complaint of our fellow-citizen, who complained about police torture and inefficient investigation of this incident at the national level. The Strasbourg judges unanimously declared that the Russian Federation has committed a number of violations of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with regards to its citizen and awarded a compensation in the amount of 30 000 euro to be paid to the applicant.
Sergey Fartushin from Sarov town of the Nizhny Novgorod region applied to the Committee Against Torture for legal assistance after the May holidays back in 2008. He complained to have been beaten up by the Chief of the Criminal Investigation of Sarov. Fartushin reported that on 5 May 2008 a criminal investigator of the Internal Affairs Department of Sarov called him and asked to attend his office for a conversation. In the appointed time he arrived at the building of the Internal Affairs Department in a car accompanied by his friends. A pass was issued for him and he went to the office where he was called to.
According to Sergey, there he met the investigator who had called him previously, and in the course of a dialogue he suggested that Sergey voluntarily confessed of ten thefts from garages. Naturally, Sergey refused. Then the police officer handcuffed him and brought him to another room, where he met with the Chief of the Criminal Investigation.
«He hit me many times in the torso area, in the face, jumped on my head with all his weight, broke my golden chain and a tee-shirt», – Fartushin described this meeting. As to the subordinate, he limited his participation in the «operative meeting» to threats and demands to «confess of everything otherwise it'll be worse». But Sergey did not want to sign anything and «take the blame on himself».
According to Sergey, he was detained for over a day in the Internal Affairs Department offices in the battered state, he was neither fed nor provided medical assistance, despite the poor state of his health: he was constantly vomiting with blood.
Only in the evening of the next day the Sergey's apprehension was formalized. He was taken to the temporary detention facility in the same Internal Affairs Department building. A part of his bodily injuries were registered in the temporary detention cell, and Fartushin was provided with medical assistance, as well. The doctor who arrived at his call helped him, but documented only the gastric ulcer.
Fartushin's wife Irina and his friend Sergey were staying near the Internal Affairs Department for the whole time. They were explained in the Internal Affairs Department that Sergey was apprehended, and later on a police officer came out of the building, gave them the car keys, explaining that they could be off, since Sergey was «apprehended for long». On the next day Irina hired a lawyer who met with the detainee and reported that the latter had a lot of scratches and bruises all over him. In the presence of a lawyer Fartushin submitted a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office against the illegal actions of the police officers. On the same day the lawyer applied to the Committee Against Torture for help. Medical examination conducted in five days time established that Fartushin had numerous scratches and bruises.
It has to be pointed out that Sergey spent seven months in the investigation cell, after that the case against him was closed due to a settlement between the parties.
Only during the first year from the moment of submittal of a complaint against his battery the Sarov investigators issued six refusals to initiate criminal proceedings which were appealed against by the lawyers of the Committee Against Torture and subsequently quashed as illegal. Having exhausted all domestic remedies, the human rights defenders, representing the interests of Mr. Fartushin, were forced to apply to the European Court of Human Rights.
Today, on 8 October 2015, the Strasbourg judges have unanimously established that the Russian Federation has committed three violations of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with regards to the applicant – of Article 3 in the part of torture prohibition and the obligation to conduct an effective official investigation, as well as of Article 5 in the part of illegal custodial restraint of Mr.Fartushin. For these violations the European Court of Human Rights awarded a compensation in the amount of 30 000 euro.
«Unfortunately, Sergey Fartushin has not lived to see the today's decision of the European Court, since last year he died in a car crash, and due to this fact it's his relatives who would get the compensation. However, it is not a substitute for initiating the investigation and instituting criminal proceedings against the guilty police officers. We shall definitely continue our work in this direction. The law-enforcement officers, who used illegal methods in their work, shall know about the unavoidability of punishment for their crimes», – lawyer of the Committee for Prevention of Torture Albert Kuznetsov comments on the situation.
According to Anton Ryzhov, who represents Sergey Fartushin in the European Court of Human Rights, the ECHR came to the conclusion that the fact of illegal violence is proved based on the accumulation of medical documentation, witnesses' testimonies and admittance of all the violations, mentioned in the complaint, by the Russian Federation itself. In addition, the refusal of the Investigative Committee of the RF to initiate the criminal case based on Mr.Fartushin application made it impossible to conduct a thorough and effective investigation, as the Convention demands. «It is rather interesting that the Court also admitted the fact of illegal custody restraint of Sergey, – added Ryzhov. – The ECHR considered it to be proven that according to the documents the applicant was apprehended only in the evening of 6 May 2008, whereas actually he was under custody restraint since 5 May when he arrived to the building of the Internal Affairs Department. This circumstance, in the opinion of judges, led to failure of Fartushin to use his right for a lawyer as well as his other rights, and eventually it all ended in torture».


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Here are a list of our Program locations by location.
All Programs are in 2 parts. You must complete Part 1 and Part 2. The second Program is one week from the first program.
Select your location, and then select from any upcoming event to register.
Broadmeadows: Drink drive behaviour change program part 1
February 5 @ 2:30 pm5:30 pmBroadmeadows, Broadmeadows Health Service
February 12 @ 2:30 pm5:30 pmBroadmeadows, Broadmeadows Health Service
April 8 @ 5:30 pm8:30 pmBroadmeadows, Broadmeadows Health Service
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June 3 @ 5:30 pm8:30 pmBroadmeadows, Broadmeadows Health Service
June 10 @ 5:30 pm8:30 pmBroadmeadows, Broadmeadows Health Service
Cheltenham: Drink drive behaviour change program part 1
February 16 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
April 26 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
May 3 @ 2:00 pm6:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
July 19 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
September 27 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
October 4 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
November 22 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pmCheltenham, 1/3 Cheltenham Scouts Group
Croydon: Drink drive behaviour change program part 1
February 2 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
March 29 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
April 5 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
June 7 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
June 14 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
August 9 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
August 16 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
October 11 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
December 13 @ 10:00 am1:00 pmCroydon Scout Hall
Dandenong: Drink drive behaviour change program part 2
January 23 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
February 27 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
March 5 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
April 9 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
April 16 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
May 14 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
June 25 @ 6:00 pm9:00 pmDandenong Neighbourhood House
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Frankston: Drink drive behaviour change program part 1
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Greensborough: Drink drive behaviour change program part 1
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Hoppers Crossing: Drink drive behaviour change program part 1
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Fast-Paced Historical Naval Thrillers — Philip K. Allan is an exciting author who comes from Watford in the United Kingdom. A few years ago he left his career as a senior manager in the motor industry, where he'd spent most of his working life, to concentrate on his novels full-time.
Philip studied the 18th-century navy as part of his history degree at London University. It ignited a lifelong passion for the era, which stretched from the age of piracy via Cook's voyages of exploration to the battles and campaigns of Nelson. A member of the Society for Nautical Research and a keen sailor, Philip now enjoys exploring the subject's unrivaled potential for storytelling through his own writing. On the one hand there is the strange, claustrophobic wooden world of the period's ships, and on the other hand there is the boundless freedom to move those ships around the globe wherever the narrative takes them.
Philip's inspiration for his Alexander Clay series comes from novelists like C. S. Forester and Patrick O'Brien. His prose is heavily influenced by O'Brien's immersive style, with its meticulously researched period language and authentic nautical detail to draw the reader into a different world. But the Alexander Clay books also bring something fresh to the genre, offering a cast of fully formed lower-deck characters along with their officers. Think Downton Abbey on a ship, with the lower deck housing the below-stairs servants.
Philip lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and his two teenage daughters. When he isn't writing, he plays golf, goes skiing, and loves to cook and entertain. Read Philip in Naval History Magazine.
Book 5 of the Alexander Clay series. Newly returned from the Battle of the Nile, Alexander Clay and the crew of the Titan are soon in action again, just when he has the strongest reason to wish to abide in England. But a powerful French naval squadron is at large in the Indian Ocean, attacking Britain's vital East India trade. Together with his friend John Sutton, he is sent as part of the Royal Navy's response. On route the Titan runs to ground a privateer preying on slave ships on the coast of West Africa, stirring up memories of the past for Able Sedgwick, Clay's coxswain. They arrive in the Indian Ocean to find that danger lurks in the blue waters and on the palm-fringed islands. Old enemies with scores to settle mean that betrayal from amongst his own side may prove the hardest challenge Clay will face, and a dead man's hand may yet undo all he has fought to win. Will the curse of the captain's nephew never cease to bedevil Clay and his friends?
Book 4 of the Alexander Clay series. In 1798, Alexander Clay and his ship, Titan, are sent to the Mediterranean to investigate the rumors of a French army and fleet under Napoleon Bonaparte. When Admiral Lord Nelson arrives from Britain with reinforcements, Clay and Titan join Nelson's fleet heading for Southern France. But on their arrival, they discover Bonaparte's fleet is gone, and Nelson, aware of the dangers of an ambitious and ruthless general, orders an all-out hunt for Bonaparte's armies before it is too late. As Titan searches for Napoleon's forces, another threat has already gained passage on the ship. After engaging and destroying a Russian Privateer, the crew capture a mysterious stranger, claiming to be an English sailor who has been serving from childhood on Barbary ships. Shortly after he joins the ship, there begins a rash of thefts followed by the murder of another sailor. With the officers baffled as to who is behind this, it falls to Able Sedgwick, the Captain's coxswain and the lower deck to solve the crime.
Book 3 of the Alexander Clay series. Newly promoted to Post Captain, Alexander Clay returns home from the Caribbean to recover from wounds sustained at the Battle of San Felipe. However, he is soon called upon by the Admiralty to take command of the frigate Titan and join the blockade of the French coast. But the Titan will be no easy command with its troubled crew that had launched a successful mutiny against its previous sadistic captain. Once aboard, Clay realizes he must confront the dangers of a fractious crew, rife with corrupt officers and disgruntled mutineers, if he is to have a united force capable of navigating the treacherous reefs of Brittany's notorious lee shore and successfully combating the French determined to break out of the blockade.
Book 2 of the Alexander Clay series. The second novel in the Alexander Clay series is set on the island of Barbados, where the temperature of the politics, prejudices, and amorous ambitions are matched only by the sweltering heat of the climate. After limping into the harbor in the crippled frigate the HMS Agrius, accompanied by his French prize, the equally battered Courageuse, Clay meets with Admiral Caldwell, the Commander in Chief of the island. The admiral is impressed enough by Clay's engagement with the French man-of-war to give him his own command on the HMS Rush and send Clay to blockade the French island of St Lucia and to support a landing by British troops to attempt to take the island from the French garrison. The crew and officers of the Rush are repeatedly threatened along the way by a singular Spanish ship, in a contest that can only end in destruction or capture. And from the ranks, comes an accusation of murder leveled against Clay by the nephew of his former captain.
Book 1 of the Alexander Clay series. 1790s Europe is embroiled in a battle for control of the sea and colonies. Tall ships navigate familiar and foreign waters, and ambitious young men without rank or status seek their futures in Naval commands. First Lieutenant Alexander Clay of HMS Agrius is self-made, clever, and ready for the new age. But the old world, dominated by patronage, retains a tight hold on advancement. Though Clay has proven himself many times over, Captain Percy Follett is determined to promote his own nephew. Before Clay finds a way to receive due credit for his exploits, he'll first need to survive them. Ill-conceived expeditions ashore, hunts for privateers in treacherous fog, and a desperate chase across the Atlantic are only some of the challenges he faces. He must endeavor to bring his ship and crew through a series of adventures stretching from the bleak coast of Flanders to the warm waters of the Caribbean. Only then might high society recognize his achievements—and allow him to ask for the hand of Lydia Browning, the woman who loves him regardless of his station.


Over the last two decades, BON JOVI has earned the respect of the music industry and the loyalty of legions of fans around the globe. They have sold over 100 Million albums worldwide and, since forming in 1984, BON JOVI has performed more than 2500 concerts in 50 countries before more than 32 million people.
The first question that might occur to you when you hear the propulsive blast of power chords, drum beats and sneering vocals that opens the title track of the new Bon Jovi album is, "This song is called 'Have a Nice Day'?" It sounds awfully raw for such a smiley-face title.
That discordant effect, of course, is intentional. "That title was the first and, ultimately, the last one I'd come to," Jon Bon Jovi says. "There's obviously a sense of irony when you say it. You can say it one way and you can take it another way."
The song sets the tone for the entire album - twelve songs about rising above adversity and staking your claim to a fair share of what the world has to offer. In other words, twelve songs centered on a theme that, in the course of a stellar career, Bon Jovi has made its own.
"Have a Nice Day" itself is a defiant response to the disappointment the singer felt after the 2004 presidential election. He had campaigned for Democratic nominee John Kerry. But in true Bon Jovi fashion, the song rises into a chorus that counsels renewed conviction in the face of setbacks, optimism against opposition, standing your moral ground regardless of the consequences: "I ain't gonna do what I don't want to/I'm gonna live my life...When the world gets in my face, I say/Have a nice day!"
For guitarist Richie Sambora, the rough-edged sound of tracks like "Have a Nice Day," "Last Man Standing" and "I Am" is a celebration of another recent societal development: The resurgence of full-on rock & roll.
"This album continues the evolution of Bon Jovi, obviously," he says, "but I had it in my head to make a big-sounding rock & roll record. I wanted to capture the essence of this band, almost like in a live setting, because that's our forte. That's where I was trying to put it. I wanted to be aggressive, really. I felt that was available to us now."
To help achieve the band's goals in the studio, Bon Jovi called in producer John Shanks, who won a Grammy for "Producer of the Year" in 2004. "He deserves that award, he's brilliant," Bon Jovi says. "We co-wrote songs together and we recorded them on the spot with a drum machine - him and Richie wailing on guitars, no drummer, no bass player, and I would sing the vocal. I'd never made a record like that before. What an experience - nothing was sacred!" Keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres, along with bassist Hugh McDonald, eventually recorded their parts, and in a matter of months, Bon Jovi regarded the album as done.
But then he changed his mind. The songwriting had come so easily that, just as he was about to turn the album in to his label at the end of last year, the singer began to worry that maybe it came too quick. "I felt like I was cheating," he recalls. "There were four songs that felt 'crafted' - and shame on me if at this point in my career I ever craft a song." Consequently, he wrote four new songs from the gut - "Novocaine," "Last Cigarette," "Story of My Life" and "Wildflower" - and tweaked the lyrics on some of the others. "Bells of Freedom," for example, started out as a "he/she kind of a thing," Bon Jovi says. "I hated it. I knew there was something more in that chorus."
The song now echoes Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" in its title and insists that "the sun still shines on one who believes." It is now exactly what he wanted it to be. "I hope that people are going to like that song," he says. "It's not meant to be a pop hit single, it's not meant to be a video. It's meant to be something that, when I play it live, the sweat is going to be legit."
Dylan, as it turns out, was also the inspiration for the hero of the blistering anthem, "Last Man Standing" -- a carnival attraction who represents the last link to a vision of rock & roll meant not merely to entertain people, but to change their lives. "Here's the last man standing/Come see, hear, feel the real thing," Bon Jovi sings.
"When Johnny Cash died, I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods," Bon Jovi says. "It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis - that's what I was thinking."
Have a Nice Day, then, is a classic Bon Jovi album - an immediately satisfying collection of songs by a band that has weathered more than two decades of trends and lived to tell the tale - and thrive. "We've always stayed true to who we were, and didn't jump on anyone else's bandwagon," he says. "It wasn't a conscious attempt to do anything, except to avoid whatever doesn't ring true and chasing anyone else's idea of success."
Richie Sambora agrees, "When Jon and I sit down to write, it inevitably sounds like us," he says. "You can't get away from that. All we had to do is be ourselves -- and step on the gas pedal as far as the sound was concerned."
JBJ sings "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night."


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