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Let us build a strong vanguard party of the working class in honour of Cde Joe Slovo
Special Note: Happy 36th Anniversary to COSATU. Formed December 1985
The Congress of South African Trade Unions joins millions of South Africans and progressives around the world to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the passing away of the former General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Comrade Joe Slovo.
On this day, twenty-seven years ago departed one of our country's foremost revolutionary thinkers, who had led from the front in the fight to dismantle the evil apartheid regime.
It was Cde Slovo's steady and reliable leadership and exemplary that conduct made him the cherished and appreciated revolutionary that he still is. He still has a lot to offer us as we grapple with the current state of our nation and trying to formulate a response to the current challenges.
He was a true soldier and a theoretician who never succumbed to the trappings of his position. He never shied away from acknowledging and confronting the failings and inadequacies of either the revolution or revolutionaries. He did more than most in helping to lay a foundation for a socialist future in South Africa with his insightful political analysis and revolutionary conduct.
This commemoration arrives at a time when the country is amid a deep-seated and multiple crises of capitalism that has seen the nation languishing in the longest ever economic slump that began in 2009.
While COVID-19 has exacerbated this crisis, we need to acknowledge that this is a structural crisis that affects all dimensions of life. With its manifestations in the economy, energy, climate, food, water, finance, it is the utmost demonstration of the historic failure of the capitalist mode of production.
The capitalist system has not just created record unemployment, but it drives an accumulation strategy that has led to attacks on the working class, including massive cuts in wages to increase profits.
The state has responded to this depressing situation and gloomy economic reality by carrying out social downsizing and austerity attacks that have included generalised cuts in social budgets including in health and education.
In our country like anywhere else in the world, the crisis and the offensive of capital has intensified the exploitation of women. Millions of women live below the poverty threshold. Capital has coerced women into low paying jobs and vulnerable economic sectors, into casualised, contractual and feminised jobs.
It is clear for all to see with the unemployment numbers, widening inequality, and poverty level that this system cannot be mitigated by neoliberal shock therapies consisting of bailouts, tax subsidies and other incentives.
On this occasion where we remember Cde Joe Slovo, the working class needs to do an honest introspection on what has gone wrong and what needs to happen to fix and improve this dire situation for the working class.
As we work to develop a comprehensive program for 2022, a very busy political year, we need to focus on two twin priorities that will make it easier for the working class to survive this epoch and ultimately prevail.
Workers need to work to build a strong vanguard party of the working class and pay close attention to the theory of Marxism-Leninism to rebuild class consciousness. The Federation has committed itself to ensuring that the working relationship between itself and the SACP is strengthened.
The SACP of Joe Slovo both independently and through its hegemonic role in influencing mass formations and the ANC itself, has undeniably earned itself the mantle of a vanguard party of the working class in South Africa.
Our role as workers is to ensure that we work to build an SACP that is organisationally positioned to carry out the tasks of the moment. An organisationally strong SACP should be rooted amongst working class communities as primary sites of building working class power to lead a popular movement for socialism – in concrete terrains of struggles.
Let's honour Cde Joe Slovo by lifting and imitating his honest personal qualities and building a strong vanguard party of the working-class that he will be proud of.
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On the Anna Karenina Principle
(in response to Anne Skyvington's Post of the same name on her blog 'Write4publish')
The main character, Assia Wevill, in my novel Capriccio: the Haunting of Sylvia Plath, has several connections with Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', most of them hidden in the text. In the following excerpt, however, the resemblance is spelt out. Assia has more than a physical similarity to Anna, being half Russian, a woman who defied convention, and who loved obsessively. As a result, Assia was often snubbed by society, just as Anna Karenina was. The following excerpt, set in London in 1962, gives an example of this. Assia, and her husband David, have been invited to a post – Christmas gathering of London literati. Rumours abound of Assia's adulterous affair with the poet Ted Hughes:
London was enveloped in soft white snow. Assia and David had spent Christmas day quietly at home together. Ted had gone to Yorkshire to visit his family. Assia was tortured by thoughts of Sylvia accompanying him on this day of all days. David had accepted an invitation from fellow-poet Ben, and his wife Susanne.
'Merry Christmas! Come in out of the cold, you two.' Susanne welcomed them warmly at her front door, which was decorated with holly and ivy. David and Assia returned Susanne's greeting, while removing their heavy outdoor coats and galoshes. Assia wore a black velvet cloak, her pale face framed in its fur-fringed hood. The effect was as if she were cast in the title role of Anna Karenina.
Inside there was the usual crowd, most of them poets and their wives. It was one of the few occasions that spouses were included in a meeting of The Group. The wives tended to band together, as if for solidarity. Assia drifted over to the join the women, avid for any gossip.
'Well, there's one couple conspicuous by their absence,' said Jane, an inveterate gossip. 'The Hugheses were here with bells on last Boxing Day, as I remember. Sad what's happened to them, don't you think?' She addressed no one in particular. Everyone steadfastly refused to look at Assia, with the result that she felt the focus of attention.
Holding her head high, and smoothing the soft grey wool of her dress over her rounded stomach, she said brightly, 'Well, David and I spent a cosy day at home in front of a roaring fire, very happy to avoid the tiresome trappings of a family dinner.'
It was as if Assia had never spoken. The women ignored her comment, either from embarrassment or sheer malice.
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Anne Skyvington says:
You've touched on some of the surface features that are similar between Assia and Anna. I would spell them out as: beauty, both fashionistas, sensuality, impetuosity. But what about the Principle in relation to the whole text? Looking at your novel as a whole, all the characters seem to represent the AKP, each one being a destructive force: the two women are able to kill themselves when things don't work out well. And the character of Ted Hughes seems totally ignorant of his role and responsibilities in the nightmarish "families" he has helped set up. I know that you have been careful not to apportion blame to any one of the characters, which is appropriate, and fits in with this appraisal. They are all victims of the era and themselves. Also, showing the story more from Assia's point of view is interesting, because many readers will not know as much about her as they do about Sylvia (from her writings and others' writings about her.). DIna's novel is "Capriccio".
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Lightning GM Steve Yzerman said he first will try the trade route
May 25, 2012 Uncategorized 6 Comments
The Lightning, leading up to free agency, will look to trade for a No. 1 goaltender, general manager Steve Yzerman said.
"My preference," Yzerman said Thursday night, "is to go with a little bit younger guy that maybe has a little less experience that can step up and play well for us now."
As an example he mentioned Semyon Varlamov, 24, whom the Avalanche acquired last summer from the Capitals for a first- and second-round draft pick and who had a respectable 2.59 goals-against average and .913 save percentage in 53 games.
Bruins after Nash
May 24, 2012 Uncategorized 49 Comments
Trade rumors, signing your own players and major roster decisions are all in play with the NHL Draft and NHL free agency little more than a month away.
That means the rumor mill is getting worked into a deep frenzy for 27 NHL teams watching the New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings work out the whole Stanley Cup thing. There were reports out of Columbus that the Bruins are working on pulling together a deal for discontented sniper Rick Nash as he becomes the biggest trophy on the trade market this summer.
Stars looking to be active in the free agent market
This is where the big money is spent and the tears of regret flow for years. You must dabble and be aggressive at times, but you must be very careful not to lock down the wrong guy that saddles your future. The pickings are slim, but it appears the Stars are ready to shop. With the Bob Gainey hiring last week, many of the Stars brass spoke publicly about their intentions:
Stars president Jim Lites offered this: "We are without budget. As crazy as that sounds. We are restricted by only the CBA and fitting long and short term into that system…This is a different situation than we have been in for the last 4 seasons – which is we have an owner who is willing to spend and not being run by the league….We are prepared to spend what we need to spend, but we need to spend wisely."
Will Parise Cross the River?
A star winger for the Devils, Parise will be the most coveted prize of the NHL's off-season as he becomes an unrestricted free agent. His presence in the Eastern Conference Finals hints at a promising scenario for the Rangers that could play out in early July. Here's Parise, 27 years old and in the prime of his career, delivering two goals and an assist in the Devils' 4-1 series-tying victory in Monday's Game 4, and it's impossible to watch him and not wonder what he might bring to the Rangers if they were to win the bidding battle for him.
Canucks: Luongo, Schneider together forever?
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During a turn-back-the-clock, sunset run for Martin Brodeur, which began at the all-star break, the evidence has been mounting the 40-year-old is not ready to retire.
When there was a mention during Saturday's CBC broadcast of Brodeur's brother believing the goalie is coming back, it was yet another sign this won't be the end of his career.
Will the Capitals ever be able to win it all with Ovechkin?
Would you trade Alex Ovechkin if you were Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee? Or would it be over Caps owner Ted Leonsis's dead body?
Leonsis is paying Ovie $9 million for two more years, then seven years at $10 million. He loves the Russian forward. It's mutual, certainly twice a month, on payday.
But is Ovechkin ever going to lead the Capitals to the Promised Land? People who know Ovie say he now looks overwhelmed by the expectations and the series of playoff losses that are wearing him down. It doesn't look like the sheer joy of playing the game is there any longer.
Red Wings might look deeper into free-agent pool
Let's forget about Ryan Suter and Zach Parise for a moment.
Judging from the reaction of Red Wings fans, that's difficult to do considering they are the two prospective unrestricted free agents — and apparently the only ones the Red Wings care about this summer.
But suppose they remain with their teams. Or end up with someone else.
Who's next on the Red Wings radar?
Sutter right man for Oilers
Brent Sutter lost the quarter-finals at the world hockey championships Thursday afternoon.
Nine hours later – at 1 a.m. in Helsinki – you have to figure he became the next head coach of the Edmonton Oilers.
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"We're entering a new phase of our hockey club," general manager Steve Tambellini said Thursday.
Would you support the move to bigger ice?
Whats up everyone? Maybe a bit of an odd topic but Im curious to know people's thoughts.
Been watching a lot of playoffs and a bunch of the world championships. Obviously they are a bit different. The worlds teams are essentially "all star" teams while regular teams are just that.
Leafs Thoughts
Hasn't been a Leafs article in a while, so I figured give us leaf-heads something to talk about to take out minds off of the sever lack of playoffs in the land (I only say that cause I can't get Marlies games).
Milan Hejduk, Avalanche "talking"
What's going on with Milan Hejduk's situation?
Not a whole lot in tangible terms. But this much I know: there is an ongoing dialogue between him and the team still at least.
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Some have been wondering about future of Todd McLellan in San Jose. No question in my mind he'll be back with the Sharks. I would not, however, be surprised if the Sharks look to hire an experienced or veteran assistant coach.
There were rumours that Maple Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle was going to hire his own assistants but I am told now that both Scott Gordon and Greg Cronin are expected back.


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Students And Faculty Stage 'Die-In' Protest In St. Mary's
December 9, 2014 Gus Merrell Administration, News, On Campus
Updated Dec. 10, 10:47 PM: Over 60 students and faculty lay on the floor in the main hallway of St. Mary's Hall Tuesday afternoon while, in the background, the voices of the University Chorale sang "Peace on Earth" in the newly opened St. Mary's Chapel. Some students sported duct tape over their mouths with the now-popular slogan "I Can't Breathe" while others simply linked hands. This particular "die-in"—as such protests related to police brutality have come to be called—was not affiliated with any organization on campus.
There were numerous reasons for the protest that participants listed: police violence against people of color and what protestors view as an inadequate response from the University. Demonstrators also mentioned the die-in was meant to challenge University policies on free speech.
"We as students are trying to have our voices heard on a few issues that we believe that the administration is not talking openly about and also in terms of censorship that is happening on campus, and the rules and the hoops that we have to jump through to actually make some sort of change on campus and actually be the activists that this University wants us to be," said Danny De Leon, A&S '15.
The majority of the protestors were not initially allowed inside of St. Mary's by officers of the Boston College Police Department because of the construction happening inside, according to a policewoman guarding the door of the chapel. A few protestors, however, had entered earlier and were already staging the die-in inside.
Students protested the university's lack of response to the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases. (Arthur Bailin / Heights Editor)
"I think it's absurd," said Zack Muzdakis, A&S '17, when asked about the police involvement. "I think we have the right to be in there just as much as any other person. It's an act of peaceful protest, it's free speech."
At least one member of Boston College faculty, history professor Deborah Levenson, was also present after she heard about the event from fliers.
"It would be great if the University said something condemning these Grand Juries that don't indict when there's so much evidence to indict," she said.
Barbara Jones, vice president for Student Affairs, pointed out that there are other avenues for students to express their concerns that did not involve disrupting the normal flow of the University.
"The University understands the students' desire to express themselves and engage with the University about issues of concern," said Jones in an email to The Heights. "We have many avenues for student expression including the opportunity to have permitted rallies and demonstrations. The disruption last night was not a permitted event. That it happened in St. Mary's, the home of the Jesuits, is completely unacceptable."
University Spokesman Jack Dunn echoed those sentiments, strongly admonishing the protesters' choice of location.
"While we understand that many within the BC community have strong feelings of anger in light of recent events in Ferguson and Staten Island, there is a strong sense of disappointment that they chose to violate sacred space by protesting in St. Mary's, the campus residence of the Jesuit community," said Dunn in an email. "St. Mary's is the Jesuits' home—it is not University space, and as a place of prayer, consolation, and hospitality for the past 95 years, it deserves to be respected."
The die-in was originally supposed to be an organized event hosted by the Black Student Forum, but due to University restrictions, the organization was not able to get a permit for their event and subsequently canceled it.
The students that showed up did so voluntarily and unaffiliated with any particular group.
"After reviewing the Code of Conduct and discussing the logistics of the demonstration as an executive board, we have decided to postpone the demonstration in order to proceed with the demonstration permit request in the manner described in the description you provided," said Black Student Forum officials to the Dean of Students Office, per Jones in an email to The Heights.
The students were ultimately allowed into St. Mary's Tuesday, because they weren't affiliated with any group and entered without interrupting the concert inside the Chapel.
"It's a simple act of protest, it's not disobedient, it's not violent, it's just protesting," said Muzdakis.
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Mike Brown says:
No evidence at all
Liberal agenda alive and well
Not about a single case
Racism in America alive and well
Krystle Jiang says:
how many people were there?? looks like only a few dozen.. UGBC ALC AHANA Caucus where you at?!?
Thomas Keenan says:
"By encouraging, or even requiring, students to take stands where they have neither the knowledge nor the intellectual training to seriously examine complex issues, teachers promote the expression of unsubstantiated opinions, the venting of uninformed emotions, and the habit of acting on those opinions and emotions, while ignoring or dismissing opposing views, without having either the intellectual equipment or the personal experience to weigh one view against another in any serious way" Thomas Sowell
This just looks like people sleeping. Not sure what 60 people lying down wasting time hopes to accomplish. These are people who want to be seen as involved and socially aware, but not considering that their actions have no impact. I hope when it comes time to take their final exams soon they don't feel like they could have used this extra time laying down in the Chapel to have actually done something meaningful.
Are you kidding me? Before I rush to judgement, can someone please tell me what the protestors hope to achieve at BC? What has BC or BCPD done wrong in this matter?
And shame on a history professor for that quote. Did she read the thousands of pages on the Michael Brown case? (I agree the Staten Island case is much harder to come to terms with). Her statement just sounds uninformed and ignorant, and she's a professor!
The protestors would be better suited studying for finals. Studying for your finals and getting decent grades would actually be meaningful, so that you can graduate, get a job, and correct whatever injustices you believe exist. The way to change the system is from within.
The protesters have probably been studying the past couple of days. Anyway the goal of a die-in like this one is not to change the system immediately, but at least to start a conversation with the rest of the Boston College community and since they got you to comment, I'd say they did their job.
This is supposed to be a protest that is committed to raising awareness of what has has been happening. BC has not made any comments on this issue and we are saddened by this. I applaud my fellow peers for taking on this protest. For your information, St. Mary's Hall IS part of Boston College's University. There may have been 60 students, but do not doubt that we can create change on this campus. It is time that we rise to the inequalities that has occurred. We will not stop fighting to have our voices heard. We, like anyone else on this campus, have the right to protest and raise our concerns of this injustice. Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Response to "JT": Dear JT, obtaining an occupation is clearly a goal of mine or else I wouldn't be here at BC in the first place. However, I will not back down on an issue that means so much to me. You are right, "The way to change the system is from within".
ChrisS says:
I stand with the BC administration.
There are rules to protesting, just as there are rules for war zones. These students violated common sense, university policies (regarding the permitting of demonstrations), and the orders of campus police officers. These students ought to be disciplined for their flagrant misdeeds. They transgressed sensible limits.
Really, these campus protests which have played out over several days should have been suppressed or channeled into some more positive actions long before they ever snowballed to this point (i.e. staging a rather morbid and disruptive unauthorized protest in the inner-sanctum of the Jesuit community during finals week). A university campus–contrary to the views of some–is not a place where you can do whatever you want, whenever you want without any real consequences.
Arlo Perez says:
I will be relying on a quote from a close friend for this, because he has said things better than I think I could.
"Service is not compartmentalized, or controlled, or contained, it is radically transformational. It must change the way you think, the way you walk, the way you breathe, the way you study, the way you dream, the way you envision your future. To allow "service" to remain compartmentalized for 10 hours a week off campus and not let it transform you is the same as Jesus coming to your door hungry and turning him away; It is to be revealed of your privilege then to shove it in the faces of those who have less than you.
If BC is to accept an honor for service and civic engagement, then it must nourish its students with a transformative service, not a compartmentalized one. So how are we doing?
—A few days ago, 60 students "died-in" in St. Mary's to bring the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown to the eye of BC students and administrators. The purpose was not only to bring the severity of our countries race issues to the awareness of this campus, this demonstration meant to show that black students feel disenfranchised and segregated on our campus. These are our fellow students coming out to our community saying that they feel wronged! But when the Black Student Forum advertised this event, the administration threatened BSF with taking their RSO status if they went through with it. When we gathered before St. Mary's anyway, the administration's response was to bar the doors, making elderly attendees of a Christmas event wait in the freezing cold alongside us while they made up excuses to legitimate preventing our entry. And during the demonstration, in which we laid peacefully and quietly in the galls, respecting walkways and fire safety protocols, BCPD took pictures of every demonstrator and threatened us with disciplinary consequences. When our fellow students came before to say they feel wronged and excluded in our campus community, the administration responded saying THEY are wrong.
—Two weeks ago, when 150 students came together at a rally to lift our voices for social justice issues on campus, the administration tried to prevent it from happening by telling us that using microphones and speakers would violate city noise rules. A few students called the city to confirm this, and the respondent laughed and said its private space, we can do as we please.
—When groups like climate justice or the social justice coalition want to become a registered student organization to bring important social justice issues to the forefront of student life, we are rejected on the grounds that our groups aren't "sustainable." Maybe if you gave us the chance to plant our roots…
—When I reached out to members of GLC to partner with the social justice coalition at the beginning of the semester, I never heard a response. It was only a few weeks ago that I learned GLC was skeptical about joining the coalition in fear of ruffling the administration's feathers and having them revoked of rights they have fought so hard to obtain. It seems that they may have been threatened before…
This is not a campus where students can speak their justice or are encouraged to be transformational servant leaders that are called to incorporate justice into all aspects of their lives, including student life. This is a campus where the administration controls student groups by holding them in fear of losing rights. This is a campus where the administration will not tolerate students lifting their voices to break the cycle of conformity and privilege ripe on this campus. This is a campus that prioritizes a contained and pristine image (roll out the grass) more than the development of its students into aware and active citizens. This is a campus where the administration hushes student requests and concerns under the table until the last ember dies because it has no room to breathe.
If an administrator is reading this, I want you to know that this is not my opinion. This is the perspective of almost every student I have met on this campus of whom social justice is a word in their vocabulary, and I am sure this is true for the students I have yet to meet. If you really want to be able to honestly tell high school applicants that this school embodies the highest degree of service, then you must stop treating your students like they are enemies. When I engage with social justice issues at this school, I feel like I am going to war. And not a war with injustice; a war with the administration and bureaucratic nonsense. I'm tired of this petty war. Why can't you see that the students you are currently trying to suppress are the very ones that are trying to be transformed by the Jesuit creed "men and women for others!" Please, I came to this school because I wanted to come to life in a student community that is passionate about social justice issues and not afraid to lead our Boston community in taking a stand against injustice. If not at a university, then where? If not a university, then who?"
Sean Keeley says:
Two things to consider based on the statements from Barb Jones and Jack Dunn:
1) Jones speaks of the "many avenues for student expression including the opportunity to have permitted rallies and demonstrations." The implication is that the protesters should have operated within University protocol and had an officially permitted demonstration. Yet as the article states, this is exactly what the original organizers of the event tried to do, and the University rejected their attempt to get a permit. To criticize the protesters for not having gone through the official process when they in fact tried to do so and were rejected seems rather disingenuous. Unless, of course, there was a valid reason for rejecting their permit, but this remains unclear to me.
2) Since when is St. Mary's Hall "not University space," as Jack Dunn claims? It's a curious claim, considering that BC just poured millions of dollars into its renovation and is planning to move the Communications and Computer Science departments along with the Woods College there. I do understand that it is primarily a Jesuit residence, but nothing about this silent daytime protest strikes me as being particularly disruptive to the Jesuits. Have any Jesuits publicly complained about the protest? I haven't heard any, but I can think of several who would have sympathy for its aims.


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Product Management is all about attention to detail and if you are an entrepreneur building that one big product, which can change the world, think of small features (sometimes, they are too small to be called features – they are mere utilities) that immensely enhances the user experience.
Here are few examples from Google which reinforces the belief that 'small is big'.
You copy a URL and paste that on Chrome's address box. Google saves you an extra click with 'Paste and Go' option. Your intent of copying and pasting the url is pretty clear – so why not help you achieve the same?
Public Google groups are open to spammers and once in a while spammers will send out 'viagra', 'earn money' email. So what do you do? Report them as spam?
And what if you want to unsubscribe from a group which has been taken over by spammers?
Gmail presents couple of options, i.e. whether you want to auto-unsubscribe from the group, report the message as spam. Again, saves one click.
Similarly, if you have multiple attachments in your email, Gmail offers 'download as zip' file – saves many clicks and is a god-send feature (which is now being copied by all other email clients).
You copy a URL and paste that on Chrome's address box. Google saves you an extra click with 'Paste and Search' option.
After all, your intent of copying and paste a text is to search for it.
Great products are built on user intent and it's not just those big feature that counts, it's those small utilities that enhances one's experience and increases the stickiness of the product. Tthere is an element of serendipity in these features, they are there when you need them (and are invisible otherwise).
What really happens during product development process is that these small features are often de-prioritized and eventually lose out to grand features – so think twice before you move them from P2 to P3 (and finally, out of the roadmap).


As you know, I love knitting. As in L O V E knitting. And since I'm designing knitwear, rarely do I get a chance to knit just for the joy, the pleasure of it. Don't get me wrong, knitting samples of my designs is fun, but sometimes… I just wanna knit something pretty I found on Ravelry.
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Q: how to convert a python slicing operation into java code I have this code line:
x and k are int.
lm is an array
lz=[f(x,lm[:j]+lm[j+1:],k) for j in range(n)]

My question is:
I want to convert the above line into Java...
I have created an lm array in Java, but I am thinking of making it an arraylist to avoid the problem of the array length.
I know that for instanse lm is [1, 4, 1, 9]. Then the output list will be:
[4, 1, 9],[1, 1, 9],[1, 4, 9],[1 ,4,1]

But I am a little bit confused about the way to implement it in Java ...
Any help is appreciated..
Thanks

A: Will that help you?
  int[] lm = new int[] {1, 4, 1, 9};
    for (int i = 0; i < lm.length; i++) {
        int[] tmp = new int[lm.length - 1];
        System.arraycopy(lm, 0, tmp, 0, i);
        System.arraycopy(lm, i + 1, tmp, i, lm.length - i - 1);

        System.out.println("tmp = " + Arrays.toString(tmp));
     }

This of course doesn't use f() as I have no way of knowing what it actually does.

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After a sad farewell to the guys of the 101st, I left Sens, France by train for Frankfurt-AN-main, Germany.
Joining the 82nd was certainly no disgrace. They had proven to be a top notch outfit throughout the world. But white scarves and gloves and white bootlaces? Who needs it? We were a very unhappy bunch of guys.
I was turned down for the trip home and [being] shuffled off to a new outfit was a really low point. So once again, I decided the hell with it all and once again became a screw up.
We had Germans doing all the dirty jobs, so there wasn't a lot they could do to punish us.
One of the favorites was to have you march up and down the company street in full combat gear. We were in such great shape that this wasn't a tough task, just wasted a lot of your free time.
Every time you messed up, like not saluting an officer they tacked on an extra day before you were discharged from the Army.
I guess that they finally figured I wouldn't live long enough to do all the extra duty they piled on me, so the commanding officer, a 1st Lieutenant called me in and tried a little psychology like, "Why not make it easier on yourself? As soon as your number comes up you'll be on your way home."


Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber - an ancient monument on Anglesey.
Close to the village of Llanddaniel Fab. This burial chamber is deservedly one of Anglesey's most important ancient monuments, and dates from circa 3000 years BC. A spiral inscription on one of the stones to the back of the mound is probably of Celtic origin.
One of Anglesey's best preserved ancient monuments, and certainly one of the most interesting, it has everything, standing stones, a henge, an inscribed stone, a mound, and an accessible burial chamber. If you visit just one of Anglesey's monuments, I would suggest you make it this one.
Originally designed and built as a circle henge with a diameter of fifty seven feet, in the late Neolithic period this was destroyed by the building of the present burial chamber. Possibly suggestive of two early different religious cultures. It has a passage of over 25 feet, leading into the actual burial chamber. Inside you come across a free standing stone pillar. The site was excavated and repaired in four years, starting in 1927.


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Crowdfunding platforms expand Canadian ties
By Georgia Graham
Kickstarter announced Thursday via Twitter that it will be opening up its crowdfunding platform for Canadian projects as of "later this summer." Previously, Canadians could only use the platform if they used a U.S.-based bank account to process pledges.
Launching an e-commerce business in other countries can be a challenge, which explains why Kickstarter has been slow to expand onto international platforms. Lately, it has been picking target areas based on community demand, such as the U.K. where it opened up project support late last year.
While there is not set opening date, according to Kickstarter representative Justin Kazmark, Canadians will be able to start building campaign pages within the next couple of weeks. Currently, a splash page (pictured) for Kickstarter allows interested Canadians to sign up for future notifications about the launch.
The news follows Indiegogo, the only site Canadians can currently use for crowdfunding, announced last week that it will strengthen its presence in Canada.
In December, Indiegogo announced local search options, French-language support and Canadian currency support. June 19, Indiegogo announced that it would further its commitment to currency support by now accepting payments in local currency via credit card, not just Paypal, for Canadian campaigns.
The Ontario Securities Commission is conducting an on-going review panel on the prospect of allowing equity-based crowdfunding. It's not currently permitted under The Securities Act to issue shares in return for investment in a project. In March, Interactive Ontario made recommendations supporting this exemption, with IO president and CEO Donald Henderson noting that this would improve access to capital for the organization's members.
Indiegogo co-founder Danae Ringelmann has consulted with the OSC on the prospect of allowing equity-based crowdfunding, according to report from ITBusiness. A consultation on the topic was held on June 11 with several groups pushing for looser regulations, including Toronto-based legal firm Wildeboer Dellelce, the latest to publicly jump on board.


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Die namibische Frauen-Cricket-Nationalmannschaft repräsentiert Namibia auf internationaler Ebene im Cricket der Frauen. Sie wird vom nationalen Verband Cricket Namibia aufgestellt. Trainer (Stand Februar 2021) ist Francois van der Merwe, Kapitän ist Irené van Zyl.

Namibias Frauen-Cricket-Nationalmannschaft zählt im Twenty20 zu den sechs stärksten Nationen in Afrika und belegt (Stand April 2022) Weltrang 21.

Geschichte
Die Frauennationalmannschaft trat erstmals 2004 durch die Teilnahme an der Twenty20-Afrikameisterschaft der Frauen in Tansania in Erscheinung. Dort unterlag das Team gegen Kenia, Uganda und den Gastgeber. Erst sieben Jahre später nahm die Mannschaft erneut bei einer Twenty20-Afrikameisterschaft der Frauen in Uganda teil und seitdem regelmäßig.

Im April 2018 erhielt die Mannschaft wie alle anderen Nationalmannschaften der Mitgliedsländer durch den International Cricket Council (ICC) den vollen Status für Twenty20.

Den ersten großen Erfolg feierte die Mannschaft 2018 beim Botswana-7s-Turnier in Botswana. Dort konnten die namibischen Frauen alle fünf Gruppenspiele, gegen den Gastgeber, Lesotho, Malawi, Mosambik und Sierra Leone gewinnen. Im Finale wurde erneut die Auswahl Sierra Leones besiegt.

Aufgrund einer Suspendierung Simbabwes konnte die namibische Frauen-Cricket-Nationalmannschaft erstmals 2019 bei einer T20-WM-Qualifikation teilnehmen, die das Team sieglos auf dem 8. Platz beendete. Dadurch wurde auch die Qualifikation für den Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 nicht erreicht.

Im April 2022 wurde das erste Drei-Nationen-Turnier auf namibischen Grund organisiert. Neben der namibischen Auswahl nahmen das Team Ugandas und die Cricket-Nation Simbabwe teil.

Internationale Wettbewerbe

Women's Cricket World Cup
 2022  – nicht qualifiziert (Qualifikation)
 2025

Women's World Twenty20
 2020  – nicht qualifiziert (Qualifikation)
 2023  – nicht qualifiziert (Qualifikation)

Andere
 Botswana-7s-Turnier 2018 in Gaborone,  – 1. Platz
 Capricorn Tri-Nations 2022 in Windhoek,  – 2. Platz

Auszeichnungen
2021: ICC Africa Women's Performance of the Year

Weblinks
 Cricket Namibia (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Namibia, Frauen
Cricket, Frauen
Nationalmannschaft, Frauen

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November 12, 2018 – Vancouver, BC – Isodiol International Inc. (CSE: ISOL) (OTCQB: ISOLF) (FSE: LB6B.F) (the "Company" or "Isodiol"), would like to update shareholders on its operations in Mexico. On October 30, 2018, regulations for CBD products were published by COFEPRIS. The regulations include that products made from hemp are industrial products that can be traded as cosmetics, supplement foods and herbal products. CBD medicines were also included in the regulations and will require clinicals and proper protocols.
Isodiol established operations in Mexico in 2017 and has since signed distribution agreements with companies specializing in the distribution of pharmaceutical products across Mexico. The Company has also developed a sales team to cover the government and private sectors for medical, veterinary, laboratory and the cosmetic sales channels. The Company anticipates sales to commence in the first quarter of 2019 and will continue to educate health professionals in the coming months on Isoderm Direct Effect Technology and its approved CBD as an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) from BSPG Labs, through seminars and associations with a focus on medical conditions including Epilepsy, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
The Company also applauds US Senator Mitch McConnell for his continued support of the Farm Bill, which is anticipated to fully legalize hemp in the United States for the first time since 1937. Hemp historically has many uses including medicines, clothing, cooking oil, soaps, lotions as well as building materials, animal bedding and biofuels. "It's interesting to think about what it could be," McConnell said. "I don't want to overstate this, I don't know whether it's going to be the next tobacco or not, but I do think it has a lot of potential," he added.
On Friday, McConnell announced that completing the work of the new farm bill is one of his top priorities when Congress reconvenes. When discussing the legalization of hemp being included in the Farm Bill, McConnell said, "If there is a Farm Bill, it will be in there, I guarantee that." The bill is also anticipated to clarify legality of derivatives such as cannabidiol, also known as CBD, from the hemp plant.


The Antlers are an American band - originally created as a vehicle for the solo work of vocalist / guitarist / songwriter Peter Silberman, but soon thereafter growing into a collaborative group. The core band currently consists of Silberman and drummer Michael Lerner. The band has released 5 studio albums over the course of their 13 year existence - most recently 2014's Familiars, which came out on Anti-Records.
Robin Hilton @ NPR called their 2009 release Hospice "one of the most beautiful and moving works I've heard in a long, long time. Just astonishing."


Last year our Rotary Theme was Making a Difference.
At the start of the year, one million people in Honduras lacked access to safe drinking water, 1.6 million people did not have sanitation facilities and very few rural locations were treating their water to make it safe.
Anna Casalme, a student from Chino Hills, interested in pursuing an MSc in Childhood Studies from the University of Edinburgh with a focus on child and adolescent health, was seeking financial assistance to get the medical training she needed to help mothers and children.
In Tijuana, Mexico 649 people were preparing to take part in a program designed to develop mentors, and indigenous leaders to run projects, identify needs and create tailor-made programs for those needs turning a village into a community.
And I was asking each of our members the same 4 questions.
What do you like about Rotary?
What can be improved about Rotary?
What can Rotary do for you?
What can you do for Rotary?
Based on that feedback, we set one goal – to double our membership – from 17 members to 34.
In order to do that, I asked our members to commit to doing a few things for our Rotary Club.
We conducted a membership meeting at the beginning of the year and during that meeting I asked us to identify the organizations and individuals who should be a part of the Chino Rotary Club. And I got to work making sure we invited those people/organizations to our club.
Anthony Verches, President of The ESV Group, Inc.
At the beginning of the year I printed out a sheet which had all of the clubs in the local area, the times they met and encouraged our members to make up meetings at other clubs.
We have a member in our club who has 55 years of perfect attendance. When Kevin Sullivan started his streak of perfect attendance my parents were in junior high school.
But, in addition to attending our regular meetings, it's also important to attend the events that bring a bigger picture to Rotary. Gene and Louise Hernandez travel the globe attending Rotary events throughout the year. Our District also regularly puts on training events and fellowship events which help show the global impact Rotary has on the world.
CP Phan, Linda Perla, Rick Bui, Chris Foster, Dale Bright and Anthony Verches all spent time attending District events this year to bring back powerful ideas to our Rotary Club.
And lastly, while attendance is important we must remember the true mission of Rotary, service above self. Danny Bozart, who couldn't make it to several meetings, is the General Manager of a $40 million steel plant in Chino and he travels on a weekly basis. It's not possible for him to make it to every meeting, but he makes every effort to make our Wednesday meetings. In fact, last week he told me he was in another part of the United States on Wednesday, but when a meeting cancelled, he took the redeye flight to get home just so he could make our Rotary meeting.
Of all the things I think our Rotary Club can stand to improve the most, being more friendly is at the top of the list. We have some amazing people in our Rotary Club who are all volunteering their time to make a difference. As a club, we're often quick to criticize, and rarely take the time to thank each other for the work we've all done to make our communities better.
There are so many things competing for our time today that if we feel valued and appreciated, especially as volunteers, we're more likely to continue. If we feel our efforts are not valued, it's easy for us to spend our time somewhere else.
I'd also like to use this as an opportunity to thank each and every one of you for the time, effort and energy you put in to make all our lives better.
To be honest, when I joined our Chino Rotary Club, I was confused.
I thought we were a service club meaning we went out and provided service for those in need. And, after my first year in Rotary, we really didn't do much in terms of hands on activities. But, in surveying our members, I understand that that was something that used to happen a lot more often and we just moved away from it as a club.
Every member I spoke with said they enjoyed those and so, as a way to attract more members, I asked our current membership to take the responsibility of planning a hands-on service project each month.
Anthony Verches and Rick Bui organized a Chino Rotary Club team at the Love Them All Softball Tournament to help give children and adults with disabilities the opportunity to play in organized sports and participate in social outings.
Eren Cello organized an outing to the Inland Empire United Way where we toured the facility and wrote cards for terminally ill children.
In the middle of the year we instituted a mentor/mentee program with the idea to get more connected with one another. Each of our new members had the opportunity to choose a mentor from our established members.
There was no specific format or procedure to follow, other than to connect with one another and learn about each other.
Prior to this year, my Rotary moment was building a home for a needy family in Tecate, Mexico. But, I think the thing I'm most proud of this year is connecting our members with one another to do some remarkable things.
But, probably my favorite story was with Kevin Sullivan and Linda Perla. Kevin called up Linda and asked her to attend an event he was scheduled to speak at because he needed a ride. Turns out the event was The Southern California Tennis Association was hosting a Hall of Fame ceremony for Kevin's best friend, Rod Laver. Billie Jean King, Michael Chang, Tracy Austin and Pancho Gonzalez were also honored. And here was 21-year-old Linda Perla at the head table with these legends of tennis, all thanks to Kevin Sullivan and Rotary.
We raised $28,960.06 this year. We gave $2,000 to Isaiah's Rock, $500 to Make a Child Smile, $500 to the Chino Cultural Center, $1,500 to the YMCA, $500 to Big Brothers/Big Sisters, $500 to the Love Them All Foundation, $500 to Gold Star Moms, $150 to the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce's Salute to Public Safety, $250 to Together We Rise, $2,650 to CVUSD Teachers via the Debbie Wilson Teacher Mini-Grants, $2,286.62 to Every One Free, $500 to an Eagle Scout Pole Project, $500 to the Boy Scouts, $156.44 for the Crombie Allen Awards, $1,200 to TLC, $1,200 to RYLA, $750 to the Academic Decathlon Team at Don Lugo, $750 to the Dan Stover Music Contest, $625 to the 4-Way Speech Contest, $3,262.68 to the Stepping Up for Boys program, $1,050 for Anna Casalme's Global Grant, $500 for the SuperBuild project, $500 to the Rose Parade Float, $1,000 to the Honduras Water Project, $500 to the District 5300 Peace Conference, and $1,000 to the Polio Plus program totaling $30,314 distributed to the charities we support.
But, I think our biggest impact came form the things I mentioned at the beginning.
At the beginning of the year, Gene Hernandez was working on Rotary Project Hope, a program to train community leaders through engaging and replicable leadership courses. Those who attended trainings were then given the opportunity to create these leadership trainings for their communities creating a sustainable project that will impact thousands. Member Linda Perla made the trip down to Mexico with Gene to see these courses in action and said it was phenomenal.
Thanks to Melinda Robbins, Gene Hernandez, Chris Foster and Raghada Khoury, among others, Anna Casalme received a Rotary Global Grant Scholarship for $61,000 to attend the University of Edinburgh to study Childhood Studies and impact the lives of mothers and children wherever she ends up … Hopefully right back here in the Chino Valley.
And lastly, 21-year old Linda Perla took it upon herself to introduce the Honduras Water Project to our club, other clubs across the district and to our District. Thanks to contributions from our club, other clubs and the District, the Global Grant was funded for $500,000 to provide water for 31 schools in Honduras.
Members of our club helped to contribute more than $600,000 in financial support to worthy causes. Not only did we contribute with our pocket books, but we also contributed with our hands in the activities I mentioned previously.
I'm extremely proud of the work we did this year. I'm proud to be a Rotarian. And I hope you're proud of the work we did this year too.
Thank you to all our Chino Rotary club members who "Made a Difference" this year. Below is a list of the Chino Rotary Club Award Winners for 2017/2018.
To leave you with one last thought, the theme for this year is Be the Inspiration. We can create the world we live in, but we have to "inspire" others to join us as we can't do it alone.
I'm excited to pass the reigns over to Chris Foster as I know he will be the inspiration we need to make our club even better in 2018/2019. Thank you all for being a part of this journey with me. I'm truly grateful.
If you know of any other Rotary clubs who could use a better website, tell them to reach out to Zeb Welborn at Zeb@WelbornMedia.com.
The Chino Rotary Club had an amazing April as we helped to support a Honduras Water Project, hosted our Stepping Up for Boys program, gave $2,500 to Chino Valley Unified School Teachers via the Mini-Grant program, had four craft talks, Arianna Fajardo shared her experience so far with Big Brothers Big Sisters and CP Phan created an amazing video from his experience at RYLA.
Stay tuned to follow how this project develops and see Rotarians in action! Chino Rotary values our partnership with clubs, internationally and locally, to multiply the impact Rotarians can have when we work together. We are elated to further our partnerships and serve the needy worldwide!
I believe this is the third year the Chino Rotary Club has sponsored the Stepping Up for Boys program and it was a tremendous success. On April 21, more than one hundred 6th grade students attended the Stepping Up for Boys program which helps young students transition from elementary school to junior high school.
The program has been a phenomenal success. Thank you to everyone who was involved and thank you to everyone participated.
Patrick Wood – Students will engage in model rocket testing and engineering as part of a unit capstone project that teaches Conservation of Momentum and Energy, Newton's Laws of Motion, and Engineering Practices (NGSS).
Rebecca Reger & LauraLee Zuber – All third grade students will fully engage with science phenomena by participating in hands-on activities in order to deepen their understanding of grade level science standards. Students will witness the birth and development of baby chicks, butterflies, tadpoles, and ladybugs (NGSS standard 3-LS1,2,3). We have already purchased incubators and acquired fertile chicken eggs. Students will candle eggs at day 7 and day 14 to observe signs of life and movement. Then they will begin to witness signs of hatching around day 21 (peeping and pecking). They will observe the chicks as they hatch and grow into mature chickens, observing and noting heritable traits. Students will document and make models of different animal life cycles, including butterflies and tadpoles as they metamorphis into their adult stages. Throughout these lessons, students will analyze the similarities and differences between different animal species, including ladybugs. Students will design and perform experiments with magnets, including magnetic slime (NGSS standard 3-3PS2). Students will be amazed as they use magnetic forces to make a paperclip levitate or observe their magnetic slime "eating" a neodymium magnet while simultaneously learning about reactions within the slime. At this time, the state of CA has no adopted science curriculum to support the new Next Generation Science Standards. These materials will provide hands-on experiences for students with the newly adopted standards.
Jason Davis – Students will use the Lego Education MINDSTORMS EV3 Space Exploration Set to enhance and extend their understanding of robotics. By adding this set to our existing robotics program, students will simulate a mission to explore the harsh surface of Mars – right in the classroom!
Brianda Reyes – I want to integrate more hands on activities for all subjects. I want to be able to purchase or create learning activities for my students to become motivated to learn.
Chuck Pope – Each year we invite over 100 Veterans to attend an Oral History Day with th whole Junior Class. The students conduct interviews of one Veteran over a 3 hour period. They then must write a thank You Letter and an essay report on the experience.
Tracy Buss – The students have been learning about the life cycle of plants. We also researched plants and what types of fruits and vegetables will grow in our area during each season. Students have planted various winter lettuces and leaf vegetables. We want to harvest our vegetables and create recipes using our vegetables. We will then create a restaurant with the recipes. We will use the money skills we are learning in math to create a menu with prices. Students will make the food and serve it to the parents. We have already harvested and frozen butternut squash for soup and lemons for lemonade. We are going to create a soup and salad menu. The problem is that our irrigation system is in dire straights. Skateboarders damaged the sprinkler system in our garden. We have the basic irrigation system, but need to have the sprinklers repaired.
Ashley Rist – I would like to create a mobile green screen "kit" to provide our school with green screen technology. Green screens are used to super impose images into a background, and combined with additional pictures, animations, and media. The use of green screen tech is easy for teachers to use and teach the students to help them create engaging and fun 21st century technology for all elementary school students!
Paula Stow – With a Breakout EDU kit, I can turn my classroom into an academically-focused escape room and facilitate games where players use teamwork and critical thinking to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to open the locked box.
Laura Grissom – The following information will be distributed to the class in some way (there is a printable document included in the file). It could be a PowerPoint slide. The purpose of the background story is to just to add a fun element. If you elect to, you could even decorate the room to correspond to the zombie theme. I've even thought about making a SAW like video or recording to add a sinister feel to the experience.
A former AP student, who is disgruntled from having received a 2 on the English Language and Composition Test in 2012, has locked you all into the room you are now in and has released a virus into the ventilation system. (Here you could elect to trigger a fog machine if you have one). If you do not find the cure in approximately 50 mins (this of course can be altered depending on adding or subtracting steps), you will all turn into brain-dead, Brussel-sprout-eating zombies who will score no higher than a 1 on your upcoming test. Good luck.
Step One: Take the Gatsby AP test to obtain the combination to the key lock. (I shorted the original test (also include in the file) for time sake. Any test could work here.) I've assigned each answer a point value. I then used the added points to create a combination for my number lock (ordered from Amazon).
Step Two: Use the correct combination to unlock key (realtor) lock (somewhere in the room) in order to obtain the key.
You could of course use the key to anything in the room that locks.
Step Three: Use the key to unlock the locked cabinet/drawer that hides the combination to the locked tool box, which contains an encrypted message. The real combination is written with a black light marker and then masked by shaded pencil numbers. I've taped this clue to the bottom of my empty file cabinet drawer. The clue says "hides" and a black light flash light is in the drawer with the combination, but I'm allowing the students no other clues than that for this step.
Step Four: Use the combination (158) to unlock the tool box lock and decode a question. The answer to that question is the password to a computer file found on the classroom computer desktop. The question is written in WWI code (just the first letter of each word). You can use any combination lock/box combo.
Step Six: Use the antidotal word to unlock the word lock to obtain the cure. Please administer the cure to each student in the room to eradicate the virus and prevent it from spreading to your loved ones outside these walls. Again, good luck. The antidote could of course be anything, but I am electing to use candy.
Roseann Graff – I would like to purchase materials to create a weekly Creativity Lab in my classroom using STEM, STEAM, and Makerspace.
All of which received $250 Debbie Wilson Mini-Grants. Thank you for sharing your projects with us and making such a positive impact in the lives of youth in our community.
This month we had craft talks from Gene Hernandez, Chris Foster, Al McCombs and Rick Bui. Loved learning about the lives of these remarkable human beings. Want to know why Rotary is the best of the best? Look at these folks.
Arianna Fajardo joined Big Brothers Big Sisters during one of her first meetings attending the Chino Rotary Club. She's now been a Big Sister for over a year and her Little Sister and her decided to create a video about their experience in Big Brothers Big Sisters so far. We're so proud of Arianna for the impact she's making through the Chino Rotary Club and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
In March, the Chino Rotary Club hosted the annual Dan Stover Music Contest. We had some great contestants and identified a winner who will be moving onto the next round of the music contest. Hopefully we will see him at the District Conference.
CP Phan did a great job planning for the month of March. Thanks to CP, we were able to participate in the Sweet Cases Program by Together We Rise. Through their program we decorated duffel bags for foster kids with a teddy bear, hygiene kit and blanket.
We hosted our Meet & Greet where we met at Los Serranos Country Club. Some of us took some time to hit some golf balls while all of us discussed membership and trying to increase our membership between now and the end of the year. All of us committed to inviting a guest got every meeting from now until the end of June. Looking forward to growing Chino Rotary membership between now and the end of the fiscal year.
Lastly, we hosted our first of a series of Craft Talks. Our first craft talk went to Melinda Robbins and Jon Monroe who shared some exciting insights into how they got where they are today. We learned so much about Melinda and Jon. They both set a great precedent for the future of our Chino Rotary Club craft talks.
In April we have a lot coming up including Stepping Up for Boys, the District Conference, the Debbie Wilson Teacher Mini-Grants, more craft talks and an update on Arianna Fajardo and her little sister from the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program.
We also have a lot to celebrate as JV Cuasito and Narvee Intarachote welcomed new children into the world. Zeb Welborn and Chris Foster are not far behind with children due in July and August.
February is always the busiest month of the year for us Rotarians as we plan and execute our annual fundraising event the Chino Rotary Dinner & Auction. The Dinner & Auction helps raise fund which we use throughout the year to make a positive impact in our community. In addition, we also hosted the 4-Way Speech Contest, added two new members, and attended President's Advance and the Foundation Gala.
Our Chino Rotary Dinner & Auction was a huge success. Our goals were to double our sponsorships, attendance, donations and money raised. Although we didn't double these efforts we substantially increased all of these efforts from our 2017 Dinner & Auction.
Great work Chino Rotarians on making our Dinner & Auction a huge success.
We added two new members to the Chino Rotary Club this month. Delinia Lewis and Jon Monroe became our newest members. Delinia Lewis is the Community Resource Manager at the California Institution for Men and Jon Monroe works with the Chino Police Department.
Congratulations to Jon Monroe and Delinia Lewis on becoming members of the Chino Rotary Club.
We were excited to partner with the Rancho del Chino Rotary Club this year to host our 4-Way Speech Contest. We had an amazing speaker who will be representing us beyond our club. We're very proud to be represented by such an amazing young lady.
Chino Rotarian Dale Bright was honored at the District 5300 Foundation Gala at the Queen Mary as the Chino Rotary Foundation Member of the Year. Congratulations to Dale Bright and thank you to Melinda Robbins, Linda Perla, Rick Bui, Chris Foster and Anthony Verches for attending to show your support for Dale.
Chris and I also attended the President's Advance on the Queen Mary so we could set up a strong succession plan for the Chino Rotary Club moving forward.
Congratulations to Regina & Eric Price on becoming Rotarians yesterday. Past District Governor Gene Hernandez presided over the installation of our newest members and Rick Bui sponsored them.
Regina & Eric have a passion for service and helping others. We are excited to have them join the Chino Rotary Club.
Chino Rotarian Jeff Werner shared everything there is to know about the new tax laws for 2018.
Rick Bui helped secure a donation of 600 children's books from children's author, Anne Kruse.
Several members or our team attended the Rotary Leadership Institute in January. The District 5300 Rotary Leadership Institute trains new leaders in Rotary. Thank you to Linda Perla for getting involved in Rotary Leadership.
In an effort to be more social and participate in team building exercises, the Chino Rotary Club visited an Escape Room in Pasadena. The people at the Escape Room were very impressed with our deductive skills and although we didn't escape we had a lot of fun and got to connect with one another on a more personal level. Thank you for organizing this CP Phan.
Our Chino Rotary Dinner & Auction is only 17 days away. Please help us secure sponsorships, donations and attendees for our annual event.
In November, I spoke at the District 5300 Rotary International Peace Conference at the Huntington Library to hundreds of Rotarians on The Impacts and Uses of Social Media on Peace Building.
If you have a chance to watch the video I'd love your feedback on the talk and the insights I shared on how impactful social media is in our world today.
The Chino Rotary Club finished 2017 on a high note. During the month we selected our 2018/2019 Board of Directors, were recognized by the Chino Valley Unified School District, helped build the Rotary Tournament of Roses Parade float, and assisted Isaiah's Rock for the food giveaway and for their holiday giveaway.
Congratulations to everyone who was asked to serve on the 2018/2019 Chino Rotary Club Board of Directors.
The Chino Valley Unified School District recognized the Chino Rotary Club for all the work we did for our community in 2017. Looking forward to helping more local youth in 2018.
We helped distribute food to needy families for Isaiah's Rock on December 20 and helped them by cooking food for volunteers at their toy giveaway on December 23.
We invited the Chino Rotary Club, Chino Kiwanis, Rancho del Chino Rotary Club and Soroptimist International of the Chino Valley to attend our Holiday Luncheon on December 13. We loved spending time with other groups who are doing amazing things in the Chino Valley.
One of the coolest things about our Holiday Luncheon was having Kevin Sullivan reach out to many past-Presidents of the Chino Rotary Club to attend our Luncheon. It was great seeing these leaders who have helped impact our community in a substantial way.
Several members of the Chino Rotary Club assisted on the Rotary Tournament of Roses Parade Float. It was a lot of fun creating the float for the 2018 Tournament of Roses Parade.
The Chino Rotary Club accomplished a lot in November. We inducted nine new members, put together Blue Star Boxes for veterans, attended a Steven's Hope Luncheon, hosted a Thanksgiving event for local service clubs and sponsored a play for students at Lyle S. Briggs Fundamental School.
On November 8, the Chino Rotary Club got together to put together Blue Star Boxes for Veterans at the Chino Community Building.
during a child's extended treatment and care.
Earlier this year we gave out $5,000 via the Debbie Wilson Teacher Mini-Grant program to 15 different teachers in the Chino Valley Unified School District. One of those teachers used the funds to help put on a play at Lyle S. Briggs Fundamental School called The Magical Treehouse Night at Dawn Kids.
President Zeb Welborn and Past District Governor Gene Hernandez were invited to the Zone Institute as a representative of District 5300. Zeb is helping the District with Public Relations and Gene is attending as a Past District Governor.
Zeb Welborn, Louise Hernandez and Gene Hernandez at the Zone Institute in Reno, NV.
Our Rotary Club was fortunate enough to visit Dave, his family and Isaiah's Rock one last time before he passed and donated $2,000 to the organization. Our club worked at Isaiah's Rock on Wednesday, Oct. 11 to provide food for needy families in the Chino Valley. It's amazing how many lives Dave and Charlene King have impacted because of their kind and giving hearts.
Dale Bright, Lorraine Sacca and Melinda Robbins set up a booth at the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Expo and met lots of new potential Rotarians.
Big Brothers Big Sisters came to the Chino Rotary Club to share how they are helping make young peoples lives better by providing mentors to them. Chino Rotarian Chris Foster is on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters and Arianna Fajardo became a Big Sister last year when Big Brothers Big Sisters came to speak to our organization.
We gave $500 to help support Big Brothers Big Sisters on October 4 during our regular Chino Rotary Club meeting.
Our Meet & Greet was held at Los Serranos Country Club on October 25 where we held a putting contest, thanks to Kevin Sullivan, for a bottle of Chardonnay. Arianna's putt was the closest and she took home the bottle for her efforts.
The Chino Rotary Club did a lot of good in September. We worked the CARE Closet, attended Chino Day at the Fair and secured a Global Grant for our sponsored student, Anna Casalme to attend the University at Edinburgh in Childhood Studies for $61,000.
We started the month visiting the CARE Closet, a program run by the City of Chino and the Chino Valley Unified School District. Through the program we helped prepare clothes and supplies for homeless and needy families in the Chino Valley.
The video we shared on Facebook and YouTube received thousands of views and had dozens of people ask for the address so they could donate clothing and supplies to the CARE Closet. Thank you to Arianna for arranging the opportunity to work with the CARE Closet.
Thanks to Chris Foster, Gene Hernandez and Melinda Robbins for helping secure a Global Grant for Anna Casalme. Anna reached out to us back in February asking if we would sponsor her to be a global grant recipient. Our club agreed to offer her a scholarship of $1,050 and she was nominated to receive a Global Grant from Rotary International which she received!
Anna, a Chino Hills resident, is now attending a Masters Program in Childhood Studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. A great job by Chino Rotarians, our Rotary District 5300 and Rotary International for helping Anna get a Global Grant.
August was another busy month for the Chino Rotary Club as we worked with the Inland Empire United Way and distributed $14,400 in checks to worthy charities. Melinda Robbins spoke about human trafficking and the Rotary International Convention. And Larry Welborn spoke about Why Journalism is Important.
On August 2, Larry Welborn, my father and hero, a retired journalist for the Orange County Register came to speak to the Chino Rotary Club about Why Journalism is Important.
On August 16, the Chino Rotary Club visited the Inland Empire United Way to take a tour of their facilities. The United Way does a lot for our local community including manning the 211 call center and collecting food and clothing for needy families.
Several Rotarians stuck around to write cards for terminally ill children to help brighten their day.
We shot this video to document our visit: Chino Rotary Club Visits the Inland Empire United Way.
On August 23, Melinda Robbins shared her experience at the Rotary International Convention in Atlanta, GA where they focused on one of the biggest issues facing our world today, human trafficking.
And on August 30, we distributed $14,400 to five different local charities: Boys Republic, the Chino Rotary Club, Love Them All Foundation, Priceless Pet Rescue and The Let It Be Foundation.
© 2019 Rotary Club of Chino.


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The most rewarding aspect of our studio for our staff is the longevity of our students. We have many, many students who began at the Conservatory as toddlers, and have grown into phenomenal artists right before our eyes. Some have gone on to careers as professional dancers or dance educators; some have gone on to become doctors, lawyers or engineers. But all of them feel strongly that their time studying dance at the Conservatory has had a profound and positive influence on who they are as people.
From our students' first plie to their final bow, we support our kids for every step of their journey.
Artistic Director Stefanie M. Best
…was born in San Francisco and was encouraged in the classical arts by her mother, a Russian emigree. Stefanie furthered her ballet training at Southern Methodist University, and received a Masters Degree in Dance from the University of Houston. She also spent three years at the Houston Ballet Academy.
Upon returning to Dallas, Stefanie spent ten years dancing for Krassovska Ballet Jeunesse, under the direction of Nathalie Krassovska, former prima ballerina of the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo and the London Festival Ballet. Mdme. Krassovska worked directly with the most influential choreographers of the early 20th century, including George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin and many others.
Ms. Best was coached extensively by Mdme. Krassovska in both the Romantic and Classical styles. She has danced in The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Giselle, Paquita, Pas de Quatre, Chopiniana and Nutcracker, as well as numerous contemporary works. She also spent two seasons as a dancer with the Dallas Opera, including roles in Turandot, Un Ballo en Maschera, and Ariodante.
In 1995, Ms. Best founded the Allen Conservatory of Dance. Her students have been accepted into some of the most prestigious ballet programs in the country, many on scholarship. She has coached many dancers who placed Top 12 or Top 24 in both Junior and Senior Classical Categories at YAGP.
In 1999, Stefanie founded the Allen Civic Ballet, and functions as its President and Artistic Director. The Allen Civic Ballet is a non-profit organization, funded in part by the City of Allen and the Allen Arts Alliance. The Allen Conservatory of Dance is the Official School of The Allen Civic Ballet.
Mary Muller
…began dancing with Stefanie Best in 1995 with the Krassovska Ballet Jeunesse, and began teaching for her at the Allen Conservatory of Dance in 1999. She has a BFA in Ballet from Texas Christian University, and over 25 years of teaching experience with children and adults of all ages. She was accepted to the School of American Ballet at age 12, and received many scholarships throughout her training. She studied with Kathy Chamberlain, Jerry ByWaters Cochran, Lisa Fuscillo, Ellen Page Garrison, Nathalie Krassovska, June Nelson, Fernando Schaffenberg and others performing principal roles such as Swanilda, Black Swan, Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy, and both leading and support roles in many other ballets such as Les Sylphides, Sleeping Beauty, La Boutique Fantasque, Don Quixote, Faust, Pas de Quatre as well as many roles created specifically for her.
Linda Oustalet
…studied classical ballet from childhood through her teen years and returned as an adult to study at the Allen Conservatory of Dance and at Collin College. Linda has danced in the Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Coppelia and excerpts from Pas de Quartre, and Paquita.
Julia Hockemeyer
Julia began dancing at the age of three in Southern California, where she studied Vaganova classical ballet under the tutelage of Victor and Tatiana Kasatsky, former principal dancers of the Moscow Classical Ballet. She began studying contemporary and modern dance at the age of nine from Asuka Kondoh, who majored in dance at University of California, Irvine and competed on So You Think You Can Dance in the 2009 season. Julia has performed in ballets such as The Nutcracker, The Seven Beauties, Don Quixote, excerpts from Paquita, and excerpts from La Bayadere. She also competed alongside her peers at V&T Dance in the Youth America Grand Prix for four years, and was involved in two ensembles that progressed to the finals in New York City. She began teaching at age 17 when she was invited to choreograph for the Tallenettes at Allen High School; she would go on to teach ballet, contemporary, and hip hop for her fellow students. In 2019, Julia was accepted to the American Ballet Theater Collegiate Summer Intensive in New York City, which inspired her to pursue a career in dance. She has danced as a company member for the Allen Civic Ballet for two years, and now looks forward to teaching and choreographing alongside her fellow company members.
Viviana Lubertino
Former principal at the Ballet del Teatro Municipal de Santiago Chile.
Former ballerina with Ballet del Teatro Argentino de La Plata.
Graduated from Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon.
Richard Trimmer
…began his career at the age of 17 in Colorado under the direction of W. Lawrence Boyette and Carla Parks. Richard studied both Cecchetti and Vaganova styles under such notables as Natasha Krassovska, Igor Youskevitch, Leon Danilean, Bill Martin-Viscount, and Jutec Kasamon. He also studied Martha Graham technique under James Nearing. He has performed with companies in Denver, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Little Rock, Shreveport, Lubbock, Chattanooga and been a Guest Artist with numerous ballet companies across the country. His most notable principal roles were in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Nutcracker, La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Les Sylphides, Flower Festival, and Paquita. Mr. Trimmer has also choreographed a number of ballets and Pas de Deux.


It's difficult to find time to cook dinner for our families, let alone extra time to cook for our pets. However, years ago, I used to cook for my miniature dachshunds on occasion, as well as after school treats for my children. I first tried these Easy Chicken Liver Squares when my daughter was in kindergarten, and left them cooling on the stove. After returning home from school, my young daughter came upstairs to my office where I was working and declared "those cookies on the stove don't taste very good;" she insisted that I shouldn't make them again for after school treats.
Tiffany, my almost 14 year old, 8 pound dachshund always danced when I made doggie treats; she loved everyone and got so excited when we returned home from even a short time away, that she actually cried. She did not just wag her tail; she wagged her whole body. Tiffany always followed me while I was working around the house, and sat under my chair when I was at the computer. She was my most dedicated recipe taster and made sure no dish went into the dishwasher with a speck of food left on it. If children were visiting, she always licked their faces clean. While I normally post recipes for busy cooks everywhere to speed up meals, I thought, in honor of Tiffany who recently passed away, that I would post this easy 2 ingredient recipe for doggie treats. I hope some of you will find the time to bake these treats for your pets. Easy Chicken Liver Squares can be stored in the freezer in a Ziploc-type bag for a month or two.
This recipe is suitable for making into a pet birthday cake; half of the batter may be baked in each of two 8" round pans (spray well with non-stick spray and line the bottom of each pan with parchment). The batter can also be made into regular size cupcakes to serve at a canine birthday party.
Thoroughly spray a 9 x 13" glass baking dish with non-stick spray.
Place the chicken livers with juice in the food processor and process until smooth.
Add the cornbread mix and pulse a few times until just mixed (do not over mix).
Note: This recipe can also be used to make miniature cupcakes. Prepare according to the recipe, baking in well-greased miniature baking cups (about 1 tablespoon in each cup) for 10 minutes.


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