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If you've recently gotten involved in elections or legislative organizing, you might have been encouraged by others to go to a Democratic Caucus soon, to vote for or run as a Delegate for the Massachusetts Democratic Convention this summer.
The Convention is where the Massachusetts Democratic Party decides big things, like what its platform will be and what candidates it will run.
The Convention is attended by Elected Delegates. Delegates are elected at Democratic Caucuses. Anyone who is a registered Democrat can go to their Caucus and vote for Delegates.
Pretty cool, right? Who WOULDN'T want to be part of this Convention and all of the deciding that happens there?
Who gets to vote on these important things at the Convention? The ELECTED DELEGATES to the convention, from every town and city in Massachusetts.
Who gets to elect these delegates? Every/any REGISTERED DEMOCRATS (not independents or "unenrolled". And you need to have been registered as a Dem before 1/31/2014).
When do registered democrats get a chance to vote on delegates? At their town/ward's CAUCUS, which typically is held in February of every year.
When is the convention? 2018: Jun 1-2 in Worcester, MA. If you run for delegate, you should make sure first that you are free to go to Worcester on June 2 (when the voting is)!
How hard is it to be elected delegate? Depends on how many people run. Nominating convention years (like in 2018), there is more competition, because so much is at stake electorally (one would hope that even in non-nominating years, there would be strong demand to be a delegate, but it's unfortunately not the case).
What happens at a nominating convention? 2018 is a Nominating Convention year: we're sending delegates to the MA Dem. Convention to vote on Democratic candidates for statewide offices (Gov, Lt Gov, AG, Treas., Auditor, Sec. of State). If a Democratic candidate for any of these offices does not receive at least 15% of the Delegates' votes at the convention, he/she will NOT be included on the Primary Election ballot [good explanation of this rule at this blog]. So, the stakes are high in Nominating Convention year — and so competition is tougher during these years.
Do I have to run to participate and make an impact? NO! You can –and should– come and vote at the caucuses for the delegate-hopefuls you believe will best represent your concerns at the Convention. People who are relatively engaged in politics but aren't plugged into the party apparatus except for choosing to be "D" or "R" often do not realize that this is an important and subtantive way they can (and should) effect change. Go! Look for Progressive Needham presence and say hello! It's good to connect with others who share your values and concerns, and we can help answer questions.
Want to help elect progressive delegates? Or run yourself as a progressive delegate? The secret to 'winning' is not hard–it's simply being prepared and inviting (and ensuring they come) fellow Democrats whom you are recruiting to your candidate (or your candidacy).
This is simply COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!
(2) come to the caucus and VOTE for who you want to represent you at the Convention, (3) organize friends and other Democrats to show up at the Caucus to vote (ANY *registered* Democrat is entitled to vote at the Caucus)!!
If this is your first time thinking about running as a delegate, this might be a hard year to get elected, but it's good practice for subsequent years (and maybe you will win, with enough organizing/support from the caucus-goers!). But,even if you don't want to run, it's very important to elect DELEGATES WHO SHARE YOUR VALUES, and whom you trust to VOTE FOR CANDIDATES THAT YOU WANT TO SEE ON THE BALLOT.
Q: How can I make sure good delegates, who represent my values, are elected?
A: SHOW UP TO YOUR CAUCUS AND VOTE!
…talk about the caucuses with friends, talk to delegate candidates and BRING friends to the Caucuses, and work together to make sure your preferred delegates are elected.
If they are registered Democrats, they are entitled to vote and can vote for your candidates!
February 3, 2018, 10 AM: Needham Caucus. Newman School. It's important to be there BEFORE doors close at 10AM.


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In this paper, the electromagnetic performance of double-stator switched flux permanent magnet (DS-SFPM) machine (i.e., DS-SFPM 6/13), conventional single-stator switched flux permanent magnet (SFPM) machines having C-core and E-core stator configurations (i.e., C-core SFPM 6/13 and E-core SFPM 6/11), and partitioned-stator switched flux permanent magnet (PS-SFPM) machines having U-core, C-core and E-core stator structures (i.e., PS-SFPM 12/11, PS-SFPM 6/11 C-core and PS-SFPM 6/11 E-core, respectively) as well as double-stator topology is quantitatively compared. The compared machine parameters include: the open-circuit flux linkage and induced electromotive force (EMF) waveforms and spectra, total harmonic distortion (THD), torque-current, torque- current density, torque-copper loss, torque per magnet volume, torque density, torque ripple and cogging torque characteristics. It is worth noting that all the compared machines in this study belong to the family of flux-switching permanent magnet machines. The results reveal that although the PS-SFPM machine having 12PMs has the largest torque density amongst the other compared machines due to its high utilization of the inner space with permanent magnets (PMs); it suffers from poor ratio of torque to PM volume. This implies that it would be more expensive to produce such a machine when compared to the other analysed machines. Furthermore, the analysis also reveals that the DS-SFPM machine is characterized by high cogging torque and torque ripple compared to the other investigated machines, which may eventually lead to noise and vibration on the machine.


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Two Supreme Court cases that will redefine your digital privacy in 2018
NOTE: This post was originally published on January 16, 2018
Within the next six months, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on two cases that will determine whether the U.S. government's already extensive reach in obtaining the personal information of its, and other countries', citizens should be limited.
Both cases bring the Stored Communications Act (SCA) into contention, a law so outdated that, shockingly, the U.S. government currently doesn't need a warrant to sift through any of your old personal messages and searches online.
What is the Stored Communications Act? And how is it outdated?
The Stored Communications Act was introduced in 1986 to extend the reach of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment right, which protects the privacy of a U.S. citizen's "persons, houses, papers, and effects," to also protect those "papers and effects" online.
The SCA, therefore, requires law enforcement to obtain a search warrant before it can access the contents of any electronic communications stored by service providers (like telecoms and ISPs) in the last 180 days.
But given the speed at which such technology has evolved, the language in the law does not take into account the current machinations of cyberspace. The law came to pass over 30 years ago—before the world wide web existed—and Congress thought communications over 180 days old would be obsolete.
Now such communications are stored indefinitely, meaning any form of communication online that's over six months old (such as your texts, emails, and Facebook messages) is fair game to the government.
This major loophole in the SCA has brought two cases all the way up to the Supreme Court, regarding its application in conjunction with the Fourth Amendment.
With decisions expected by the end of June this year, ExpressVPN looks at what's on the line.
1. Carpenter v. United States
This case seeks to answer the question:
Does the government violate the Fourth Amendment when it's accessing an individual's cell phone location data without a warrant?
Arrested in 2011, Timothy Carpenter committed a series of armed robberies of smartphones in Michigan. However, he was only successfully convicted two years later after the FBI requested cell phone data with just a court order from a magistrate judge.
Over 127 days worth of records were turned over to the FBI from his cell phone company, giving prosecutors enough information not just to convict Carpenter, but also know where he slept, and whether he went to church on Sundays.
There was no warrant issued for the records, which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues violates the Fourth Amendment and makes the data collected by the FBI unconstitutional. However, the data could still be obtained without a warrant under the Storage Communications Act, given that the information was more than 180 days old.
Why this case is important to everyone
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the United States government, then not only can your cellphone's location data be acquired by law enforcement, but it will also set a precedent for other data that is available without a warrant.
If the Court finds in favor of Carpenter, then the warrantless acquisition of location data will be ruled unconstitutional, which will partially fix the loophole in the SCA.
2. Microsoft v. United States
With a warrant, is an email provider required to provide the federal government with emails even when the email records are stored exclusively outside the United States?
Microsoft's web-based email service, now called Outlook.com, stores a lot of its data in overseas data centers—one of which is located in Dublin, Ireland. Microsoft received a U.S. warrant in 2013 for a user's email communications data stored in Dublin.
While Microsoft gave the responsive communications data that was stored in the U.S., they challenged the warrant for the information stored in Dublin. The courts initially upheld the warrant, but when Microsoft appealed in 2016, it was invalidated. The U.S. Department of Justice responded with a counter-appeal to the Supreme Court, who in October 2017 agreed to hear the case.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the U.S., the U.S. government gets complete access to the information of both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens stored in U.S. company-owned data centers around the world.
For instance, a German citizen using Microsoft's Outlook could have their information stored in a data center in Germany, but the U.S. government would still have the ability to get a search warrant to look at their email communications—something that would otherwise lie outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Further complications regarding what counts as a proper search warrant would ensue, as each country almost certainly has different (and possibly contradicting) standards.
But if the Supreme Court rules to invalidate the warrant, this will protect the private stored communications of users of not just Microsoft, but other tech giants like Google and Facebook, both of whom have data centers dotted around the world.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from both sides on February 27, 2018.
Why these cases are so important for digital privacy
If either of these cases rule in favor of the U.S. government, it will provide a legal precedent for the government to obtain even more of your personal information in one of two new ways: cell phone location data after six months without a warrant, or your emails stored on a US company's server overseas.
The fact that both cases have reached the Supreme Court also calls attention to the glaring holes in the outdated and archaic SCA. The two decisions will indicate whether the erosion of our online privacy by the U.S. government will falter or persist.
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Bismarck says:
They always be groups or resistance, that understand the concept of being born free.
I being exploring VPN this is new for me but I understand why they are trying to push something so unfear and that controls everything everywere, they are afraid of the fast digital changes, the are afraid that people are not longer sleep, they are opening they eyes and understanding what being free and safe means, the world that we live in today is going to fast for old laws that there where signed back in the stone age, but the truth is that regardless of the made up laws they are trying to implement to live in your home practically, where a television set can understand your patterns and you are in camera 24 hours a day 7 days a week, that is not enough, there is something call the Constitution of the United States and once they break through that, we not longer own our lives computer analisys will robotize our future and our family and the new generation to come, understanding the why, the most common questions we first ask ourselves to try to comprehend how far and scarry thinks are nowdays and I come out with a tehory that is such a coincidence that Donal Trump, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, they are all linked to play the ultimate game, misinformation the best spionage against the american people and all this is just for a diversion to keep people blind from the truth, the full control of humanity as we know it.
They are always be a resistance, how do you win this? very easy, what if for more that you want to control my life I keep making fun of everything that you take so serious, like buying a home, what if we give full live away for free, that will break the market as we know it with out a fight, and at that point privacy it is what we say it is,banks will not longer finance you a house we give it away for free, what if you not longer go to work because you don't have to worry about the security of your family and your love ones, what is we together break the ice of health care for free health care, and a bank account is just a think o the past if we combine this we controls the feith or our lives and everything else including how much we made, we auto pay ourself with a bigger and more real rate than the miscalculated minimum abusive waige we take this unlimited taboo out of the way, they will understand in a big big way that it don't matter you want to spy on the american people, it don't matter because there is nothing else to accomplish by spying, we being fucus all this time in the wrong point, the real point of control is to use every human life from the moment is born statistically measure all he's life, if we fucus in the free world and we all work together to develop a system that by action will overrun every idea of control, take the possibility of control with free and there will live them with out anything to spy on, what for.
Aamir says:
So a person should live behind a fake identity online entirely different from his real one and keeps using a VPN to keep prying eyes away.
Arguing that you don't care about the RIGHT to PRIVACY because you have nothing to hide is NO DIFFERENT from saying you don't care about free speech because you have NOTHING to SAY. – Edward Snowden
just a person says:
Thank you for posting. Eff.org has more info on these and other cases of interest to those of us who want to protect our privacy rights. To anyone who may be scanning these notes, please give a moment's thought to the implications of unwarranted surveillance. It puts a chilling effect on our freedom of assembly, our free speech (communication of ideas) and our right to seek redress from our government. (US) 59 people are still on trial for assembling at J20 to protest Trump. They are looking at felony charges. The Government is looking at all the data they can collect in order to convict on rioting charges. The Gov wanted a list of every IP address of every person who even clicked on the J20 website. You okay with that? Get a warrant.
Although this article clearly defines what these two cases are about, it avoided to clearly define how these two cases outcome will affect VPN's in general and with specificity.
Johnny 5 says:
Hi William, thanks for reading! This article is not about VPNs, but the wider issue of a person's right to privacy.
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Chidi Njokuani (8-3) vs. Phil Dace (8-2) at RFA 4
By Bevois / August 26, 2012
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) continued their busy day of fight announcements deep into Wednesday evening with their fourth fight announcement of the day for RFA 4, which is scheduled to take place on Friday, November 2nd in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout is sure to be a fan favorite, as it will see two of Las Vegas' best strikers Chidi "Chidi Bang Bang" Njokuani (8-3) and Phil "Filthy" Dace (8-2) meet in a welterweight showdown.
Njokuani and Dace share more similarities than fans in Las Vegas. Since the two welterweights made their pro MMA debut, they have combined for a total of 11 KO/TKO victories and have become familiar names to local fans by fighting on various local cards. Their brutal kickboxing pedrigrees can easily be traced back to their mentors. Njokuani is a longtime student of "One Kick" Nick Blomgren, while Dace trains Muay Thai with Mark "The Hyena" Beecher.
Njokuani trains alongside his brother, UFC star Anthony Njokuani, at One Kick's Gym for kickboxing. He also trains at Sergio Penha's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school to supplement his devastating striking arsenal with high-level grappling instruction. Penha's influence has already helped earn Njokuani one submission win. In Njokuani's 8 career victories, he has only won once via decision. That was in his RFA debut in June.
Meanwhile, Dace hones his flashy stand-up skills across town with Mark "The Hyena" Beecher. Beecher is perhaps best known for his stint on The Ultimate Fighter 7, where he was Team Forrest's striking coach. Before teaming up with Beecher, Dace was a member of Team Tompkins under the late Shawn Tompkins. Like Njokuani, Dace also trains with one of the best Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu pracititioners in the world. Dace trains his ground game with 2007 ADCC Absolute champion Robert Drysdale.
RFA 4 is set to be headlined by a light-heavyweight showdown pitting former UFC and PRIDE star Gilbert "The Hurricane" Yvel against former UFC and ADCC star Marcio "Pe De Pano" Cruz. The co-main event will feature two former UFC lightweight stars, as Tyson Griffin meets Efrain Escudero. These fights and more will take place at the Dallas Event Center inside Texas Station Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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First image to come up from a Google Image Search for "painting"
A panel talk about drawing and a panel talk about painting in the course of two days is a treat as it seems peculiar for artists to come together and discuss their media and what it means. These events were not positioned in a defensive way, but instead as a chance to take advantage of the public dialogue space where they can work through the changing conditions and considerations of their media. These talks seemed to be about defining a medium, drawing and painting, as both 'still important' and 'newly important.' Painting will always be painting and drawing will always be drawing, but the works in both the drawing show at XPACE and the painting show at the University of Toronto Art Centre (Art Lounge) allow for a lot of bending and reconsideration.
Accompanying XPACE's current exhibition, ORDER/CHAOS (16 Oct - 13 Nov) was a delightfully relaxed panel discussion moderated by XPACE Director Derek Liddington that included Sarah Kernohan (ORDER/CHAOS artist), Dan Rocca (the curator) and Luke Painter (OCAD Faculty). The panelists briefly discussed their own work, pointing to it along the gallery walls when applicable, and quickly moved into a discussion about the history of drawing practice, the material quality of a drawing, and about the economic value of their work (in the sense of how drawing is considered or not considered as a commodity object within the art market). My own opinion about drawing is that its history describes it as preliminary intercessory kind of work; drawing is a planning and layout tool and doesn't stand alone as a end, but only as a means. I always wanted drawing to be an end-all-be-all and although I explored other avenues in art school (painting, printmaking, photography, metal work and sculpture) all of those things just led back to drawing, as I always assumed that drawing was its own project, and not in support of others. These artists in the panel were also proponents of drawing as a stand-alone practice in that exhibitions can be composed of finished drawings not intended to be anything more than what they are.
The issue of marketability did come up, from a member of the audience who (although asserting to the rest of the audience that she did not necessarily believe in this opinion, voiced it anyway...making me think that she did believe it). She stated that drawing is not considered as an independent and valuable practice because we all did it as kids and so it is therefore considered as elemental and primitive. She said that every artist wants to make work that can sell, and associations with drawing's primitive and childish qualities prevent people from taking it seriously. I can innumerate the web of problems in statements like this (like people claiming that their kid could replicate a Paul Klee or Barnett Newman), but really, all that needs to be parsed from this kind of statement is that, yeah, art practice can be easily dismissed by objective and outsider positions when it cannot be reduced to commodity exchange and capital growth (or the 'Recession').
In a recent job interview I got a peculiar question from the gallery curator/interviewer as a sort of wrap up: "I'm interested in why people work within the art field, I mean, why did you go into Art when there's no money in it?" This was at a commercial gallery, which is maybe even more confusing than addressing this same issue in a panel discussion in an artist-run centre.
The panel discussion at UTAC coincides with the exhibition Facing the Screen (4 Nov - 19 Dec) in the art lounge, curated by MVS student Bogdan Luca. Its panelists included the existing mid-career generation of Canadian painters in the GTA Monica Tap (Associate Professor, U of Guelph), Michel Daigneault (Associate Professor, York U) and Joanne Tod (Professor, U of T) with moderator Vladimir Spicanovic (Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, OCAD). The panel addressed the role of digital imagery and the computer in the lives of artists and how they currently influence artistic practice. This relationship was addressed during the XPACE drawing talk as well. Both panels agreed that the influence of digital technologies on artistic practice has been heavy and is almost fully integrated into much of their creative processes, from the use of digital cameras, to internet research, to google image searches - and of course, the internet in turn is used as a medium through which to talk about art too (re: blog).
Talks that exist to figure out how the art world and artists' practices are changing are valuable investigations, if only because they can be revisited again and again. Within the city, there are many lectures by individual artists about their work, many talks from curators relating what they think is important in art today, and from theorists and writers talking about what is being talked about. There was high attendance at both the XPACE and UTAC events, more at UTAC, possibly because of the venue's general appeal for both young and old, maybe because painting is considered more important than drawing (stretching), or maybe because UTAC is directly attached to a university on site (with XPACE once removed from OCAD). Both the curator and the moderator at the UTAC event expressed surprise at the level of attendance to almost an embarrassing degree, surprised that anyone would care and thanking everyone numerous times for expressing that care.
However few, within a city of 2.5 million, there remain some people who give a damn about what is being done and what is being said about art, regardless of whether there's no money in it (and only some free snacks). Funny that it's a surprise, even within the community itself.


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Facts don't lie – NFP
June 2, 2014 Webmedia Fiji
BY BALA DASS – NFP SPOKESMAN ON SUGAR
Cane farmers are not chattels, to be used and discarded.
Everyone can claim to be wise with the benefit of hindsight. Great leaders and politicians have in the past led and served cane farmers. They all did their best to secure a peaceful, stable and just future for cane farmers, their families and indeed the nation as a whole.
However, Government and its leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama horribly believe former politicians and indeed farmers' leaders were failures.
Ballot Paper A Nightmare For Voters
Voters throughout the country have unanimously rejected the proposed ballot paper for the 2014 general elections.
The National Federation Party has consulted voters since the promulgation of the Electoral Decree 2014 a month ago and voters have very strongly denounced the layout and composition of the ballot paper.
On 8th April the NFP wrote to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission registering the Party's concerns. We called upon the Commission to seek amendments. But the Commission has not responded to our letter.
NFP's vision for our people's future
By NFP Leader Biman Prasad
The following are excerpts from Professor Prasad's speech delivered at the NFP Convention on 29th March (continued from last week).
Creating decent jobs
Nowhere is the evidence of failure of government seen more clearly than through unemployment. Thousands of graduates, school leavers, and skilled people cannot find jobs. This is because there has been no growth in manufacturing and agriculture sector. The National Employment Centre tells us that out of 26,000 that registered as jobseekers between 2010 and 2012, only 4,000 found jobs. More recently the figure registered at the NEC has risen to 30,000 and of these 1,000 are University graduates.
NFP – Our People's Future
The following re excerpts of a speech delivered by the Leader of the National Federation Party Professor Biman Prasad at the NFP Convention at Nadi on Saturday 29th March 2014.
I do not underestimate what lies ahead of us. With much humility, a clear understanding about the scale of responsibility and excitement, I have accepted the National Federation Party's Leadership.
The weight of history, I am aware is heavy. Expectations are large. I have accepted a post previously held by some of the finest political leaders in our country, Mr Jai Ram Reddy, Mr. Harish Sharma, the formidable late Mr A D Patel and Late Mr. S.M Koya, people from whom I and so many others draw so much inspiration.
NFP will reduce VAT to 10%
The following are excerpts of the speech delivered by National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad at the NFP Convention on 29th March.
(Continued from last Saturday)
Confronting Fears
As a nation we have lived in fear over the last 7 years. Fear grips our national life. Fear of being heard by someone and reported to authorities, fear of being bullied by those in power, fear of losing jobs, fear of being victimized, fear of losing licenses, fear of being witch hunted by government agencies. Workers, farmers, taxi drivers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, civil servants, academics, journalists, business people, many NGOs have shied away from raising difficult issues because of the fear of being victimized for being critical of the government.
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How Do I Gain Administrator Access Without a Password?
Without an administrator-level account you can log onto, you can't install new software, edit the registry, or really maintain the PC in decent condition. Windows won't just tell you someone else's password, or let you change it to something you know, but there are ways.
You'll need the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. Downloading and preparing this great tool is a bit complex (see Six Downloadable Boot Discs That Could Save Your PC for more information), but it's well worth the effort. This is really one of the most useful tools around.
The program you want is Vadim Druzhin's NTPWEdit.
Vadim Druzhin's NTPWEdit will let you change passwords even if you don't know them.
Once you've booted the Ultimate, select Start, Programs, Password Tools, NTPWEdit. Vadim To change any account's password, simply click (Re)open, select an account, click Change Password, enter the password of your choice twice, click OK, Save changes, and Exit. Then reboot and enter the password.
Does the existence of such free software make you nervous? Relax. The program can't tell anyone what your current password is; just change it. No one is going to steal your account without you knowing it's been done.


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Q: Service Fabric local cluster not running I have had service fabric working but all of the sudden it has stopped working. I suspect its after the latest visual studio update.
I have reinstalled Service Fabric SDK, Visual Studio 2017 and VC++ redistributable. Deleted actual folders from the disk including C:\SfDevCluster but still no luck.

Any more idea please!!!
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Removing cluster configuration...
Unable to start fabric host service because System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot start service FabricHostSvc on computer '.'. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: An instan
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Cleaning existing certificates...
Certificates removed.
Stopping all logman sessions...
Cleaning log and data folder...

Using Cluster Data Root: C:\SfDevCluster\Data
Using Cluster Log Root: C:\SfDevCluster\Log

The generated json path is C:\Users\ChirdeepTomar\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp5F6C.tmp.json
Processing and validating cluster config.
Create node configuration succeeded
Starting service FabricHostSvc. This may take a few minutes...

Running from powershell as admin is getting stuck at that point.

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Ashley Anslum, 12, shows off her kill of squirrels. She said she enjoys being outdoors with her father, Scott Anslum.
Chloe Dupre, 9, holds up two squirrels she killed on a recent hunt. Chloe hunts with her father Scott Dupre.
Makayla Dupre, 12, shows off her first deer. She is pictured here with her father Scott Dupre.
Amanda Hankenhof, 11, the daughter of Dr. Rob Hankenhof and Angelle Hankenhof, both of New Iberia, shot the first teal of her duck hunting career during the special teal season in September. Hankenhof, a sixth-grade student at Highland Baptist Christian School, proudly poses with that day's harvest.
Girls gone wild
Fathers enjoy hunts with daughters, too
BY DON SHOOPMAN, THE DAILY IBERIAN
Nov 7, 2012 Updated Nov 7, 2012
They've been in the woods, marsh and swamp sweating or shivering, depending on the weather at the time, waiting for that shot at a duck, deer or squirrel.
They are ready at a moment's notice — heart beating wildly — to shoulder a rifle or shotgun, take aim and squeeze the trigger at the bird or animal, like every hunter who draws a breath. But you might not recognize them without their makeup on, or without their hair done up, or with them wearing camo instead of skirts, shirts and blouses.
Teche Area girls who are hunters have been in the outdoors for years and many of them have become avid outdoorswomen whose passions include fishing and boating. There have been generations of female hunters in many families ... or some who have started trends.
Ashley Anslum, 12, and Makayla Dupre, 12, both of Charenton, and Amanda Hankenhof, 11, of New Iberia, can be counted in the large number of area girls who hunt and are proud of it, as are their parents.
"Absolutely. It's something for us to do together. It's not just for boys. It's good quality time for us to spend together," Scott Dupre, 32, of Charenton, said last week as he warmed up to one of his favorite subjects. He also hunts with his 9-year-old daughter Chloe. Makayla and Chloe are students at Glencoe Charter School.
The senior enforcement agent with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries added, "I have a strong passion for hunting. For my girls to want to do it with me, I can't ask for better. Like the bumper stick says, 'Teach your kids to hunt and fish and they won't steal and deal.' I find the less time you spend with your children the more time they're going to be looking for attention somewhere else."
The bond between a father and daughter or daughters formed by taking them on a hunting trip can be as strong or stronger as a father bringing a son or sons hunting. Schedules for many girls are adjusted and readjusted for hunting and take precedence over dancing, arts and crafts, karate, Girl Scouts, soccer, cheerleading, etc.
This is a great time of the year to be a hunter, male or female, any age. Small game hunting for squirrels and rabbits has been in season for a full month. Deer hunting is in full swing. Waterfowl hunting gets under way Nov. 10 in the West Zone and brand new Coastal Zone.
The Hankenhofs, Dr. Rob Hankenhof, a New Orleans native who practices family medicine here, and his daughter Amanda Hankenhof, a sixth-grade student at Highland Baptist Christian School, plan to be duck hunting next weekend south of Marksville.
They can't wait.
"My dad can't shoot. Only us," she said, noting the hunting party for the youth hunt-only weekend probably will include younger brothers Hans Hankenhof, 9, and Caleb Hankenhof, 8.
"We're looking forward to it. I don't get to shoot. I'm sure they're thrilled about that. Usually, if they miss I back them up. I'll do the calling and I'll work the dog," Hankenhof said.
Amanda said she went on "four or five" duck hunting trips with her father last season.
"But I really didn't shoot anything because I wanted to get used to it," she said.
The approach paid off. During the special teal season in September, Amanda killed a teal with her .410-gauge shotgun and proudly held the day's harvest for a photo.
She thoroughly enjoyed the trip.
"It's interesting. I don't sit there watching television all day long. I sit in a duck blind with ducks over my head. I shoot one and the dog goes get it," Amanda said.
Angelle Hankenhof, her mother, who also lives in New Iberia, said, "I love the fact she's not in front of the television. I love the fact she's outside and active. She fishes. She hunts. She crabs. She plays soccer."
Her HBCS classmates Blair Abshire, Jacob Legnon, Rory Ronsonet and Cade Lipari also hunt ducks, said Amanda, who also plays softball and in a drumline.
Amanda and her older sister Julia Hankenhof, 15, are waiting to shoot the first deer of their hunting careers, she said. Julia, she said, is a manager for the HBCS football team and has been busy this season assisting the Lions.
Amanda used to call herself a "tomboy," her father said. But she's definitely not a tomboy, he said.
"Amanda also has that competitive edge personality ... Everything she's done from karate to band to soccer to softball, she's always been 'let me take it one step higher.' She's one of those competitively driven kids. So far it's been the same way when it comes to shooting," he said. "From the time Amanda was born, she was always a very independent child. Her mom and I used to joke she's going to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company or be a lawyer because she has that killer instinct."
Look out, ducks.
Capt. Scott Anslum, narcotics division manager and accreditation manager with the St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office, enjoys taking his daughter Ashley Anslum as much as Hankenhof likes to take his daughters and Dupre enjoys taking Makayla and Chloe, 16-year-old son Elijah Dupre and Evan Dupre, 5.
Ashley's godmother Tammy Ashley of New Iberia wholeheartedly approves.
"I'm glad her dad is a great role model. She's in arts and crafts and dancing," Ashley said, "but she can go out there hunting with her dad and brother. I'm glad the exposure is there. I think it's great she is a girl and it's great she can go out there and hang with the guys. It's not every dad that'll take a girl hunting."
Later, after thinking about it some more, she sent an email that read, "The experience and lessons that I believe hunting has taught Ashley are: patience, discipline, working on a team, safety and survival skills, listening and following instructions. She understands that hunting contributes food to the household. These lessons will benefit her thoughout her life!"
Ashley's father was hunting by himself Wednesday on the Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area when he took a break to talk about his daughter, a student at Glencoe Charter School. The 38-year-old outdoorsman recalled she killed the first deer of her career last year on a lottery hunt on the Atchafalaya Delta WMA.
Ashley wasn't as fortunate on the lottery hunt Oct. 18-19. But her reaction impressed the veteran deputy.
"We saw four does, but she wasn't able to shoot," Anslum said.
Well, she could have, but ...
"She didn't have an ethical shot. A couple of does came out the Sunday morning. One was facing her ... it wasn't a high-percentage shot. She wasn't able to get it in the scope" when it turned broadside a short while later, either, he said.
"After, she told me 'Dad, it's OK if I don't kill anything. I'm still having a great time and I'm spending time with you.' That was toward the end of the hunt and we were about to get out of the stand.
"Ummmm, I think it's great. She enjoys it a lot. It gives her an opportunity to spend time with me. She enjoys that. She likes to watch the animals, the rabbits, the other stuff. She's been tagging along with me for years, probably since the age of 5," he said.
"I enjoy hunting. I grew up hunting. My biggest thing, being in law enforcement, dealing with kids and doing talks and stuff at schools, is to keep them busy and active or somebody (else) will keep them busy and active for you," he said. "Hunting's good all around. Nothing bad can come out of it."
Anslum's close friend Scott Dupre agreed. Ashley and Makayla are best friends.
The eight-year veteran game warden fondly remembered a poule doo hunting trip they took last season at the end of the second split with the girls and sons Elijah and Evan Dupre. They got their limit.
"We would find a big flock on the water and drift into them and shoot. There were poule doo flapping all over the water," he said, noting young Evan picked the shot ducks up by the feet as they went by.
Stephanie Anslum, Ashley' mother, remembers that trip, too.
"It was crazy insane. They had like 100 birds. They were just all over the place. The kids just had a blast," she said.
That's what it's all about.
Don Shoopman is outdoors editor of The Daily Iberian.
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Kimika and Alaric are a fun-loving couple that are getting married this coming summer in home state Connecticut. I think this winter has proven to be quite a snowy one, and though they originally wanted photos lying down on a grassy hill, this couple decided to take the plunge and do a snowy engagement shoot downtown in Boston Common (did you know that it is the oldest public park in America? Recently heard that bit of information on NPR!). It was a really cold day, but these two were all smiles, enjoying their day off together posing for the camera. Kimika definitely has a spunky little attitude, and I think I captured how much Alaric adores all her spirit. I am looking forward to photographing their wedding this coming July as I know it is going to be quite the celebration!


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This iOS 7 App Lets You Send Messages Without An Internet Connection
By Ben Reid | March 24th, 2014
iOS 7 has brought quite a few obvious new features, designed to have an instant impact on the functionality and usability of Apple's mobile OS. Yet, as is the case with CarPlay, for example, not everything that the Cupertino has thrown into its latest software is for its immediate benefit, and even though you probably haven't heard about it, Apple added a little something called Multipeer Connectivity Framework into the fold. The intriguing technology allows multiple devices – which needn't be connected to the Internet – to interact in a manner known as mesh networking, and by utilizing connectivity in the form of Wi-Fi networks, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, users can connect in a daisy chain-like manner, to various ends.
The early fruit of this new infrastructure take the form of FireChat, an iOS app that allows users to hold group conversations with those close by without the need for an Internet connection. There are many situations whereby this could be useful, but considering it is a fledgling technology, but it's not without its flaws.
We gave FireChat a try, and found that in terms of who you might end up talking to, the possibilities are endless, which is rather problematic in itself. Additionally, there's not a great deal of structure to the networking aspect of the app, but with further development and improvement as to the way the Multipeer framework is used, there's certainly a great deal of potential here.
One instance where mesh networking might prove invaluable is in a situation of natural or man-made disaster, whereby cellular signal and normal Wi-Fi hotspots are at a premium. By daisy chaining devices and connecting using a chat app like FireChat, subjects could establish a form of communication even when the traditional systems have been hindered, and in turn, save lives.
Of course, with all of the NSA spy stories lurking about the blogosphere of late, these kinds of systems present the possibility that users could communicate off-the-radar, without the threat of being spied upon by government agencies or otherwise. Sure, it may well be that data is logged by said bodies at a later date when an Internet connection is available, but in a day when privacy is at the forefront of concern, methods of circumventing traditional forms of communication will always be welcomed.
What do you think of this emerging form of p2p tech? Do share your thoughts below!
(Download: FireChat for iPhone on the App Store)
Be sure to check out our iPhone Apps Gallery and iPad Apps Gallery to explore more apps for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.


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IBM's Watson to teach robots social skills
in: Artificial Intelligence,communication,Robots,Science & Technology News
IBM wants to teach robots to better understand and mimic human communication by using some of the artificial-intelligence techniques that emerged from its Watson project.
During a keynote speech at a conference called RoboBusiness held in San Jose, California, this week, Robert High, chief technology officer of Watson at IBM, demonstrated some of the techniques his team is working on using a small humanoid robot.
The robot, a Nao model from the company Aldebaran, spoke with realistic intonation and made appropriate hand gestures during a conversation with High. It even exhibited a little impatience and sarcasm, miming looking at its watch, for example, when asking High to hurry up with his talk.
Speaking with MIT Technology Review after the demo, High admitted that this interaction was prerecorded, because the system doesn't always work well in noisy environments. But he said the capabilities demonstrated reflected real research. His team is using machine-learning algorithms to learn from video footage to associate appropriate gestures and intonations with different phrases. High says it is important to do this because language alone is only part of human communications.
"We augment the words with physical gestures to clarify this and that," High said. "You can bring into the [robot] interface this gesturing, this body language, the eye movement, the subtle cues that we as humans use when we communicate with one another to reinforce our understand of what we're expressing."
Robot interaction is becoming an important issue as industrial robots start moving into new settings, requiring them to work alongside people, and as companies try to develop robots for use in stores, offices, and even the home.
High added that the project was still at an early stage. "We're still experimenting, seeing what's doable and what's useful, and what will have economic interest," he said.
IBM used a range of artificial-intelligence techniques to develop Watson, which proved capable of winning the game show Jeopardy! after mining vast quantities of information and extracting meaning from the text.
That effort has evolved into a much broader project involving many more AI approaches under the umbrella term "cognitive computing". IBM has made many of the machine-learning capabilities developed through this program available to developers through an online application-programming interface.
Some robot makers are already testing these APIs as a way give their products the ability to answer queries spoken in different ways, and to look up useful information.
Image credit: Wikimedia
Article via Technology Review


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Q: How to convert S3 bucket content(.csv format) into a dataframe in AWS Lambda I am trying to ingest S3 data(csv file) to RDS(MSSQL) through lambda. Sample code:
s3 = boto3.client('s3')
     if event:
        file_obj = event["Records"][0]
        bucketname = str(file_obj["s3"]["bucket"]["name"])
        csv_filename = unquote_plus(str(file_obj["s3"]["object"]["key"]))
        print("Filename: ", csv_filename)
        csv_fileObj = s3.get_object(Bucket=bucketname, Key=csv_filename)
        file_content = csv_fileObj["Body"].read().decode("utf-8").split()

I have tried put my csv contents into a list but didnt work.
 results = []
        for row in csv.DictReader(file_content):
         results.append(row.values())
        print(results)
        print(file_content)
        return {
           'statusCode': 200,
           'body': json.dumps('S3 file processed')
         }

Is there anyway I could convert "file_content" into a dataframe in Lambda? I have multiple columns to load.
Later I would follow this approach to load the data into RDS
import pyodbc
import pandas as pd
# insert data from csv file into dataframe(df).
server = 'yourservername'
database = 'AdventureWorks'
username = 'username'
password = 'yourpassword'
cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER='+server+';DATABASE='+database+';UID='+username+';PWD='+ password)
cursor = cnxn.cursor()
# Insert Dataframe into SQL Server:
for index, row in df.iterrows():
     cursor.execute("INSERT INTO HumanResources.DepartmentTest (DepartmentID,Name,GroupName) values(?,?,?)", row.DepartmentID, row.Name, row.GroupName)
cnxn.commit()
cursor.close()

Can anyone suggest how to go about it?

A: You can use io.BytesIO to get the bytes data into memory and after that use pandasread_csv to transform it into a dataframe. Note that there is some strange SSL download limit for dataframes that will lead to issue when downloading data > 2GB. That is why I have used this chunking in the code below.
import io
obj = s3.get_object(Bucket=bucketname, Key=csv_filename)
# This should prevent the 2GB download limit from a python ssl internal
chunks = (chunk for chunk in obj["Body"].iter_chunks(chunk_size=1024**3))
data = io.BytesIO(b"".join(chunks)) # This keeps everything fully in memory
df = pd.read_csv(data) # here you can provide also some necessary args and kwargs

A: It appears that your goal is to load the contents of a CSV file from Amazon S3 into SQL Server.
You could do this without using Dataframes:

*

*Loop through the Event Records (multiple can be passed-in)

*For each object:

*

*Download the object to /tmp/

*Use the Python CSVReader to loop through the contents of the file

*Generate INSERT statements to insert the data into the SQL Server table

You might also consider using aws-data-wrangler: Pandas on AWS, which is available as a Lambda Layer.


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David Corn, Mother Jones' DC bureau chief, is on twitter, and so are my colleagues Daniel Schulman, Nick Baumann, and our editor, Clara Jeffery. You can follow me here. The magazine's main account is @motherjones.


An East Tennessee pastor is challenging a state law that he claims restricts how he worships.
Andrew Hamblin is the pastor of the Tabernacle Church of God in La Follette, where he routinely handles snakes during services. The 21 year-old pastor believes his church is like any other Pentecostal church, but takes worship one step further.
"My main thing is to see lost people saved," he said. "If I could tell the world just that, but I'd love to do it under the anointment of God with two 'rattlers' in my hand!"
However, Tennessee state law prohibits anyone from owning venomous snakes - making Hamblin's practice during services illegal.
He put the issue before local leaders at the Campbell County Commission. Monday night, commissioners voted on a resolution to repeal the state law.
The resolution failed, by a 10 to two vote.
While the pastor says he was disappointed by the vote, he understands the commissioners' and public's concerns. According to his rules of service, nobody under the age of eighteen is allowed to handle the reptiles, and new members must prove their dedication to faith before they can participate in that way.
Though the resolution failed, Hamblin doesn't plan to change his form of worship anytime soon. He also promises to continue his fight to change Tennessee law.
"Our people of our faith deserve that, just like any other people of their faith deserves the right to have legal grounds to say - 'Hey, I can worship how I feel led to worship.'"


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January 26, 2021 by Meggan Cramer
Since March 2020, the Coronavirus Pandemic has been an ongoing series of unfortunate events. From social distancing to lockdowns of schools and businesses, the coronavirus has taken over our lives.
Sports are central in the lives of athletes. Sports teach social skills and development, giving a healthy way to relieve and cope with stress and everyday life problems. From Little League to National Leagues, the Coronavirus has forced athletic seasons to be canceled. According to a recent study from Stanford University and Strava, a social network of exercise enthusiasts, "22.5% of professional athletes reported feeling down or depressed on more than half of the days of the week in the period between mid-March and August of last year, while COVID-19 restrictions on athletic training and competition were in place, compared to 3.9% of athletes reporting the same struggles earlier this year before the pandemic hit. That's an increase of 477%."
It's not just professional athletes affected by the pandemic. Even though Northwood students can train with their coaches and teams nearly every day, they have had very little competition in the form of games against outside opponents. Student-athletes at Northwood are suffering. Senior Rachel Hinkley says, "I know that Covid has effected us all, but it's really hard not being able to play the sport you love. Watching others get to play while we can't breaks my heart, and while I know it's for our safety, it's really hard having to sit on the sidelines when I've been playing hockey for fifteen years. While we can't play games, I'm happy to be with my girls to keep me sane during these hard times."
Sports are a type of therapy and the bonds built by teammates are like a family's connection, which is just one of the many reasons the game is loved by Rachel and millions of other athletes in the world. Senior Ashlyn McGrath says, "not playing games makes me feel like I'm missing out on my senior year/season." Throughout your hockey career you look forward to things like your senior night. It only comes once, and for some of us, it's not coming at all."
Northwood's school psychologist, Ms. Tara Wright agrees that sports are important to the emotional well-0being of athletes. "Diminished opportunity for sports has taken a toll on student athletes' social emotional health during the pandemic," said Wright. "Athletes derive multiple benefits from sports, which affect their mental wellbeing – physical fitness, goal setting and achievement, focus and mental training, and the social benefits that come from team sports. Even with more individual achievement sports such as ski racing or ski jumping, the group training aspect provides student athletes with significant social benefits," she added.
Wright also noted that online learning exacerbates the isolation that students-athletes feel. "The Covid pandemic has left student athletes to adjust to online or hybrid learning for periods of time, reduce their ability to spend time with family and friends, and made athletic training and competitions fewer or altered to ensure social distancing," said Wright. "The teenage years are a time when students form significant bonds with their peers," she added. "While Covid has affected all teens by limiting their ability to socialize, the effect on teams has been particularly challenging."
It's safe to say this is a very challenging time for everyone, especially the student–athlete population.
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ScaleConf Colombia is a 2-day language-agnostic tech conference about scalability, distributed systems, security, machine learning, DevOps, modern software tools and practices.
Our main objective is to level up the community's knowledge, by bringing great speakers from the teams that are paving the way for a global scale in tomorrow's apps and services.
Our last event was successful beyond our expectations, with over 350 attendees, 19 awesome speakers, 14 sponsors and 2 days of exciting talks. Our next event is happening May 17 & 18, 2019!
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We are constantly looking for ways to make the web development community more inclusive, and our opportunity grant program, which covers the cost of a full ScaleConf Colombia ticket is an important part of that effort.
This scholarship is open to any person that self-identifies as part of an underpresented group in technology and is looking for an opportunity to grow.
FaunaDB is a distributed relational NoSQL, ACID-compliant database with strict serializability that does not rely on clock synchronization to maintain consistency. In this talk we are going to explore Fauna's distributed transaction protocol to realize how they do it.
Cybercriminals and security industry have been racing to defeat each other, encryption has become one of the most important tools against cybercrime and attackers found a way to turn it in their favor. In this talk we'll show you how by using DNN we're able to identify an abused web certificate.
The ability to reach consensus between hosts, whether for addressing, primary election, locking, or coordination, is a fundamental necessity of modern distributed systems. The Paxos algorithm is at the heart of how we achieve distributed consensus today and as such has been the subject of extensive research to extend and optimise the algorithm for practical distributed systems. In the talk, we revisit the underlying theory behind Paxos, weakening its original requirements and generalising the algorithm. We demonstrate that Paxos is, in fact, a single point on a broad spectrum of approaches to consensus and conclude by arguing that other points on this spectrum offer a much-improved foundation for constructing scalable, resilient and high performance distributed systems.
Autoscaling is great for user experience, supporting infrastructure failures and to keep up with your system load, implemented incorrectly could lead to cost and efficiency problems. By studying real case scenarios, participants will learn how to implement it and use ML to take it to the next level.
The sound of unavoidability: Most of the pieces that make up a Neural Network, no matter how complex or nonlinear appears to be, are based on Linear Algebra.
At Netflix, the playback license team is responsible for one of the most critical services in the playback experience. In this talk, you will learn the devops and SRE practices used by the team to ensure the service is available every time a customer hits Play around the world. I will cover how the team implements and manages traffic, continuous deployment, and moving to gRPC as the de-facto IPC protocol. I will also share my journey as a software engineer and what skills are needed on teams operating critical services.
Would you believe a team where all engineers go on-call, even a front-end web dev (me!)? This is the infrequently told story of how non-dreadful on-call can be, and the surprising positive side-effects to technical decision-making and communication when everyone is responsible for production.
When confronted with a new software project, we're all faced with the same question: How do we deploy it? These days, we are constantly bombarded with options and often have little time to make informed and technically sound decisions.
This talk will take you through my experience when faced with the same question at a highly regulated, Fortune 150 US bank, with 99.5% uptime requirements. We will go over technical and organizational constraints, the decision process, and the production rollout of the first distributed system running on containers at this bank.
You will walk away understanding that tooling trends are not always the solution and that going back to first principles is often a more sensible approach.
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The conference will be held at Complejo Ruta N, Calle 67 Nº 52-20 which is easily accessible by uber, taxi, bus and a 5 minute walk away from Universidad Metro station. There are a bunch of restaurants that are part of Ruta N's complex or a short walking distance in which you will be able to find lunch.
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Our venue RutaN is accessible from the surrounding three streets. If you arrive via Carrera 55, you will find the ramp on the left side facing the building. You enter the building through retractable wide doors and the auditorium with pull open doors. The auditorium doors are opened wide before each group of talks. RutaN has bathrooms on the first floor with accessible stalls. Our event is on the first floor. Our registration is at the table level. Our lobby area does get crowded in between breaks. Our speaker lounge is on the second floor and is accessible by elevator. There is a quiet space on the second floor. We are working on confirming a private space.
If you have a carer accompanying you, please contact us we can register them.
Our official hotel, the Diez Hotel, has a ramp on the side of the entrance and elevators to the room. The Diez Hotel has accessible rooms.
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Black community crucial in establishing Knoxville YMCA, YWCA branches | Opinion
In 1906, Cal Johnson's gift in memory of his wife was the largest ever made to the YMCA by a Black man.
Robert J. Booker
Robert J. Booker is a freelance writer and former executive director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. He may be reached at 546-1576.
The Cansler Family YMCA and the YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center have served Knoxville's Black community for more than a century. Although the YMCA was established 14 years before the YWCA, both have offered valuable activities through the years. Both have been operated by noted individuals who led them through hard times.
The original YMCA was established by former slave Cal Johnson in memory of his late wife, Alice Johnson, on May 14, 1906, on East Vine Avenue at Patton Street. It was a two-story building with a full basement. The large backyard had a tennis court and ball field. Its first secretary was Robert S. Beard Sr.
The first mention of the YWCA appeared in the Knoxville Journal on May 14, 1920. It said, "The negroes of Knoxville have launched a drive for $3,000 with which to establish a negro branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. They expect to realize the entire amount among their own race." Since Nashville and Chattanooga already had YWCA branches, girls from Austin High School made four-minute speeches in all the Black schools in support of the organization.
The Central YWCA here put $1,000 in its budget to help finance the project. A letter was sent to every responsible Black person in Knoxville, citing the work of the organization in Louisville, Kentucky; Atlanta, Georgia; Richmond, Virginia; Nashville; Chattanooga; and other places. All girls over the age of 12 were urged to join.
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During the dedication of the YMCA in 1906, Mayor Samuel Heiskell said Cal Johnson's gift "was the largest gift ever made to a YMCA by a colored man." The Journal of May 15,1906, reported the event at Market Hall and said, "It was one of the greatest meetings and concerts ever given in Knoxville by colored people." President Theodore Roosevelt, while dedicating a Black YMCA in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 28, 1908, mentioned Johnson's gift here.
By Feb. 5, 1922, the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA was well established on East Clinch Avenue at Mulvaney Street, where it occupied four rooms on the second floor of a large building. The Knoxville Tribune noted: "The two Bible classes, teeming with interest, are taught by scholars and pastors from the largest negro congregations of the city. A class in first-aid and nursing, taught by the superintendent of the Knoxville College Hospital, will receive certificates from the Red Cross Society."
There were also classes in English, Spanish, sewing, music and domestic science. The employment bureau was helping place women and girls in jobs around the city. Funds were being raised to find a more suitable building.
The YMCA during this period had ceased to exist. It had no director between 1917 and 1940. Johnson reclaimed the property and rented it to private individuals. In 1942 The Y was revived at 208 E. Vine Ave. and named for the beloved school principal Charles Warner Cansler.
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The Jan. 25, 1923, Journal reported that the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA had bought a new home on Temperance Street near the Carnegie Library. "It is said to have been bought for $3,000. Certain improvements will be made at once to convert it into suitable quarters. The first floor will be used for classrooms. The second floor will be maintained as a dormitory."
Today the YWCA is on Cruze Street and the YMCA is on Jessamine Street. They are important and valuable community assets.


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Find out all about Mail order Catalogue Credit limits and how Catalogue credit limits work.
What is a Catalogue Credit Limit?
When you open your home shopping mail order catalogue with a credit facility you will offered a Credit limit.
This Credit limit is the maximum amount of Credit (or money) you can owe your Catalogue company at this time.
Your Mail order catalogues credit limit is variable, which means your Catalogue company may increase your Credit limit, in rare situations your Mail order Catalogue company may freeze or even reduce your credit limit.
If you are looking to place an order with your Mail order Catalogue that is higher than the Credit limit on your Catalogue you will have 3 options.
You can use the available Credit and pay the remainder of the balance (the difference between your order total less your available Credit) by using a Debit or Credit Card.
You Could contact your Catalogue company and request a Higher credit limit, different Catalogue companies will have different policies on this, some Catalogue companies will not accept requests for Credit limit increases for example.
You could wait until your Catalogue company increases your Credit limit.
To find out how to apply for a Catalogue Credit limit increase and how to increase your chances of a Credit limit increase please read here.
You can wait until your Catalogue Credit Limit increases.
When do Catalogue companies increase credit limits?
Catalogue companies regularly review their customers Credit Limits.
Some Catalogue companies will require customers to pay on time for six months before they will consider a Credit limit increase, where as others may increase your Credit limit from the Second Catalogue Statement.
More often that not, customers who place orders with their Catalogue company will find credit limit increases faster than those who don't place orders.
Catalogue companies will often increase customers credit limits when a customer has been with them for a few months and is making payments on time.
shop from home with a home shopping catalogue with credit.
As well as the additional Credit line available, having a higher credit limit is good for your Credit rating.
This will have a positive effect on your Credit rating and by ensuring you are keeping up with your credit agreements elsewhere, overtime this will have a positive impact on your Credit rating.
That of course is only true if you are keeping up with all of your Credit Agreement repayments on time and keeping your affairs in good order.
Catalogue companies report your repayments and account behaviour back to the Credit Reference agencies monthly.
So running a Catalogues well will help improve your Credit Rating and Credit Score.
Can I ask my Catalogue for an Increase?
Some Catalogue companies do can review Credit limits manually. This means you can call your Catalogue company and speak with them, Littlewoods and Very do this for example.
However, most Catalogue companies have an in-house department who will review your account to see if you qualify for a Credit Limit increase and won't be able to process a request manually on the phone.
Can I refuse a Credit Limit increase?
Yes, Catalogues are just like most Uk financial services, they have a code of conduct which includes being responsible with Lending.
If you feel your new higher credit limit is beyond your affordability/financial means or would limit you being able to get Credit elsewhere due to the availability of Credit you can give them a call and request they reduce it back to your original limit.
Some catalogues will increase your Credit limit several times a year. Usually these Credit Limits will rise by a few hundred pounds at a time. Other Catalogue companies will offer bigger Credit limit increases at a slower pace.
It's not unusual for a Catalogue Credit limit to run into several thousands of pounds!
Will a Catalogue company Credit Check me for a Credit Limit Increase?
If you call up your Catalogue company or E-mail them asking for a Catalogue credit limit increase the chances are they will carry out a credit search. However, that being said, if you are offered a credit limit increase by a Catalogue company they are not going to carry out a Credit Search against you.
Will a Credit Limit increase be available straight away?
This will depend on your Catalogue company. Next for example offered us a new Credit limit of £3750 from our original credit limit of £100, this increase was to be offered automatically on our next statement or we could accept the new credit limit by calling in or logging into the Next website.
Other Catalogue companies apply the new credit limit instantly. This has been the case on Freemans, JD Williams and Very who have all increased our Credit limit without us having to do a thing.
Catalogue companies can also review how you are doing financially with your other financial agreements such as your pay monthly Mobile Phone contract, Credit Card, Utility bills, and any Loans etc.
Catalogue companies may be receiving a monthly feed from the Credit Reference agencies allowing them to see if you are managing your Credit well elsewhere.
If you are, they are more likely to offer you a Credit limit increase.
The Disadvantage to that of course is obvious if you are currently paying bills late.
Customers who are not keeping up with repayments on other credit agreements could see Credit limit increases limited or increases refused and even find their catalogue credit limit reduced.
Catalogue companies are happy to extend Credit when you are in a position to be able to afford the items you are buying.
No Catalogue company wants to push you into a situation that you cannot keep up with the monthly repayments.
One Catalogue company (Next) does have a Credit Limit Suspended function. If they see a major change on your Credit report that indicates your financial circumstances have changed they can Suspend your Credit limit or reduce it down every time you make a repayment.
In our own experience this is a temporary measure.
We took out Car finance and Next suspended our Credit limit for around four months, after this period was over our Credit was reinstated and our Credit limit was increased to nearly £4000.
Of course being responsible with lending isn't a bad thing, even if to a customer it is annoying.
It proves that Next use a Feed from the Credit reference agency and that helps them in their own credit making decisions.
It could be that all Catalogue companies do, so it's always worth keeping up with credit repayments elsewhere and limiting how many times you apply for credit.
Do this and keep up your repayments will stand you in good stead to getting a credit limit increase.
Some Catalogues offer you the option to BUY NOW, PAY LATER. (For Example, Buy Now, Pay 12 months later.
These deals can be a huge help to you now, but do consider making repayments each month or as often as you can to reduce the debt as quickly as you can.
These sorts of offers are a great way to pay no interest and no repayments on items you want and need.
However, if you fail to pay the full balance before the end of the buy now pay later period you will find interest is added to your debt and this will seriously increase the debt you owe.
These deals offer a great opportunity to you if you can clear the balance before the Buy Now Pay Later date, if not, consider carefully the impact of the interest and payments coming up.
How will I be notified if I am being offered a Credit limit increase?
These days most Catalogue companies will run their account online or by using the Catalogue companies mobile phone APP.
Often, Credit Limit increases are announced on your Monthly Statement. This will be followed by an email and even a text message to inform you that your credit limit has been or is about to be increased.
How Often will I get a Credit Limit increase on my Catalogue?
All Catalogue companies are different and will review credit limits at their own rate.
The JD Williams group often offer a low initial Credit Limit and we will wait to see how you manage your account for a couple of months before they consider a credit limit increase.
Some JD Williams customers may run an account very well for 12 months and still not be offered a credit limit increase.
We found Look Again, Freemans and Curvissa one of the fastest Catalogue companies to offer us credit limit increases.
Once a Catalogue company gets to know you better, they will often start to increase the Credit Limit.
Next on the other hand can increase, reduce or suspend credit limits pretty much monthly.
Once a catalogue company is confident you will make your repayments on time they will often increase Credit Limits by a few hundred pounds at a time, (again that applies if you are managing other financial agreements well).
Freemans Catalogue reviewed our Catalogues credit limit after six months, and after this period, we received several credit limit increases every few months.
Littlewoods and Very both increased our Catalogues credit limit after 8 months, these increases were pretty big too, nearly doubling our Credit limits.
After a few months it was suspended altogether and they told us it was because of information they received from a Credit Reference agency. Then our Credit limit was reduced to £100 as the restriction was removed. Three months on we received notice that our Credit Limit was going to to be increased to £3750.
So it looks as if Next will review your Credit limit every month, by taking out more credit elsewhere or making applications for credit you could find your Next Credit limit being reduced or suspended.
However, if you appear stable and are making repayments on time and not taking on too much credit elsewhere, Next are likely to be confident you can afford your repayments and are likely to offer bigger credit limits.
So our Guide to Catalogue Credit limit increases concludes. You are most likely to get Credit limit increases if you are keeping up with your monthly repayments each month. That includes all of your Credit, not just the Catalogue! Don't apply for too much credit elsewhere.
Remember Catalogue credit limits can be increased after just a few months of opening an account. But only spend what you know you can afford. Just because you have a large Catalogue credit limit, this doesn't mean you need to spend it.
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