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The Bidenharris Administration Is Selling Americans a LOT of Guns
Courtesy NSSF
Lots of learned media members and assorted Twitterati have opined that the Bidenharris administration is nothing more than a third Obama administration. Or perhaps Obama on steroids. Whatever. After only a couple of weeks on the job, it looks like one area in which President Grampy McUnity will completely outshine his old boss in is motivating Americans to buy even more firearms than the putative Greatest Gun Salesman In History ever did.
So much for the bogus theory that Obama's race scared people into arming up.
It's not hard to figure why Biden is selling guns as fast as Budweisers at a July baseball game, considering he came into office pledging to enact the most ambitious anti-gun agenda in the history. The thing is, Americans are kinda funny that way. Tell them that they can't — or soon won't be able to — do something and it tends to make us want to do that thing even more. If only to raise a long, proud middle finger at the anxious rights-abrogating politicians behind the restrictions.
So that's how we got January's whopping total of over 4.3 million background checks performed by the FBI…the largest monthly total ever. By a good margin.
Courtesy FBI
The NSSF's Mark Oliva had some thoughts on the meaning of it all . . .
It can't be discounted that many of these background checks for the purchase of a firearm are attributed to threats by the Biden administration to enact the most radical and far-reaching gun control agenda ever proposed. Americans are continuing to purchase firearms at a blistering pace. That's undoubtedly connected to President Joe Biden's plans to attack the firearm industry by undoing and rewriting regulations and executive actions to target the firearm industry, which started with freezing the publication of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's "Fair Access" banking rule.
The Biden administration interfered with an independent government agency to further an agenda and perpetuate the illegal Operation Choke Point by farming it out to corporate banks. That was just the opening salvo.
President Biden promised to pursue the repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), weaponize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to revoke licenses for minor clerical errors and ban entire classes of firearms from lawful ownership and tax or seize modern sporting rifles (MSRs), or AR-15 style rifles, and magazines in a scheme that would cost those owners an estimated $34 billion for the privilege to own what they already lawfully own.
The Biden administration has yet to put forth a single proposal to tackle the crime, lawlessness, rioting and looting that has plagued this nation for the year.
January's NICS figures clearly spell out that the demand of law-abiding Americans to purchase firearms isn't abating. It is growing. Three of the top 10 weeks and one top 10 single day for the highest number of FBI NICS background checks occurred in January. Taken into context that all but one of the top 10 weeks and four other top 10 single-day records occurred during the 2020, when 21 million background checks were conducted, these are a jaw-dropping figures to start the New Year. Americans are claiming their Second Amendment rights to provide for their own safety in record numbers.
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Dennis Sumner February 2, 2021 At 08:41
I'm sure YOU all know this, but this is indeed Obummer's third term. It was always meant to be, they just needed a "name" to run to the White House! And Barry O. is gonna do his utmost to make sure we all pay for destroying his "legacy"!
Craig in IA February 2, 2021 At 09:52
"And Barry O. …"
That would be Barry S. Just a reminder.
David Walters February 2, 2021 At 08:50
I had plenty of guns before the election along with many thousands of rounds of ammo sprinkled among the many calibers I had.
Now, I simply can't find any of those guns or ammo anymore as all that's in my home now is a BB gun and a pellet pistol and only one BB or pellet as ammo.
Southern Cross February 2, 2021 At 16:27
Just ammunition I can't reload (.22LR) and primers.
Debbie W. February 2, 2021 At 08:56
To all of those who sat in their ivory towers and held hands with democRats and the marxist media to bash POTUS DJT, the NRA and anyone else that upset your spoiled brat sensitivity YOUR stupidity helped usher in biden and the ho. Those thousands of pipeline/wall jobs that were lost your incompetent politically inept behinds contributed to all of it. Anything the democRat Party says or does you bozos have stock in it. And if you do not like hearing the truth about yourselves…Dial 1-800.eat-poop.
Bobeus February 2, 2021 At 18:46
You're being too nice. They should dial 1-800-eat-shit-extension die
Random thoughts:
"President Grampy McUnity". I'm sorry, but that is an affront to those of us with Celtic ancestry — racist.
With that out of the way these numbers are truly amazing given the lack of firearms and ammo at most retailers.
I have read that some Democrats have begun to realize that their extreme and at times unconstitutional gun control stands are not helping them in red America.
Gene February 2, 2021 At 09:11
The marxists in charge feel as if they don't need the red state votes as long as they can manufacture votes to elections
As long as this 50-50 too close to call media format continues then the easier it is for the Rat Party to cook the books remains. Unless the base of the Republican Party expands then it will continue. To do that means taking the racist hat off the Party of Lincoln and putting it back on the heads of its rightful democRat Party owners. Of course when you have pathetic bigots coming on forums like this and making wagers whether or not the perp is Black then do not expect election numbers to change.
If the finger pointing democRat Party is so concerned about racism then why doesn't the democRat Party prove it by making democRat Party Reparations for their long, long history of diabolical race based atrocities? Perhaps if someone in congress had the balls to corner the Rat Party and demand Reparations direct from the democRat Party America would know who is who and things would change for the better.
The printing presses will be running overtime in the election period.
LarryinTX February 2, 2021 At 12:39
Yeah, this idea seems sketchy to me, given that all firearms in the country were sold months ago. Maybe manufacturers saw this coming and jacked up production just to please Joe and the Ho. I wonder if anyone has suggested to the two of them, there's a chance all these people buying guns immediately after Joe promised to take them away, may not be planning to give them up. As in, why would I buy it, just to waste money?
Bigfoot of Borg February 2, 2021 At 09:06
I've got my eye on a few things I want but can't find them anywhere, I'm thinking something in a double stack .45.
Oh well, it never hurts to be sitting on a little cash instead. It's not like I'm too bad off with what I already had but I was eager to check something else off the wishlist and there is always room for a few more boxes of ammo.
Green Mtn. Boy February 2, 2021 At 09:15
Happens when anti freedom & liberty Marxist's are in power.
Liberty dies with an applause.
Jimmy Beam February 2, 2021 At 09:17
All I can say is: Out – f*ing – standing!
GunnyGene February 2, 2021 At 09:29
2021 is shaping up to be a fun year. 🙂
20 certainly was. 21 is shaping up to be more of the same.
"more of the lame"?
Wiregrass February 2, 2021 At 09:45
I went with my son to help him make his first gun purchase ever. He decided on a CZ 2075 RAMI. There wasn't a whole lot of stock from manufacturers I am familiar with. Lots of Turkish imports were on display. I would have liked for him to start with something full size, but with the extended grip on the RAMI, I think he did alright.
Shawn February 2, 2021 At 12:19
I've noticed that too. There are a lot of Turkish imports nowadays. You saw them this time last year but not at the sheer volume that you do now. It could not be the Turks are the only ones that can actually keep up production or people are not inclined to buy them and just see them more often because everything else is gone.
Dustin Mead February 2, 2021 At 09:46
Just think how high that number would have been if we had enough stock of the firearms people want. My wife is waiting to buy a carry until she has a selection to choose from.
Jeff the Griz February 2, 2021 At 11:30
Most definitely. I was able to do find some cool stuff in summer 2020. 2021 has been a struggle. Wanted a 10/22 takedown for the spouse, the weeks I looked they were sold out online and I wasn't giving the local pawn shop $500 for a used one.
busybeef February 2, 2021 At 09:53
Didn't buy shit cuz everything I want is unavailable or at scalper prices.
Never mind 0 ammo online or in retail.
Never mind Federal / CCI / Remington came right out and said no primers for consumers until they satisfy their backlog of retail ammunition.
Error404 February 2, 2021 At 10:12
Hope everyone here was able to contribute to this record. Also, get your mags, holsters, and accessories while you can before people start going after those.
S R February 2, 2021 At 11:46
Mine weren't counted as I got them with my LTC. And then I lost them in a… get this … boating accident.
Also not counted were millions of private sales.
Tim February 2, 2021 At 11:57
"….that's how we got January's whopping total of over 4.3 million background checks …."
Again. You have to automatically take out 600,000 from Illinois. They like to run NICS checks on FOID holder multiple times a month. In fact I bet there are people in Illinois that have a NICS check done on them more times and there are days in a year.
Still it's a big number and it does show that theIndustry might actually be catching up. If only the ammo situation wasn't the way it is. Because right now unless you're willing to pay 300% markup the only ammo you Will have is the ammo that you have. Because right now 50 BMG is cheaper than 9 mm.
Wow. That's all I have to say about your description of IL, except to ask how many arrests have resulted from all that wild-ass excessive reliance on NICS? My guess would be right around zero, right? Also known as eyewash, cover-your-ass, smokescreen, and "it wasn't me!" I still wish I knew the annual cost for NICS.
MarkPA February 2, 2021 At 12:44
I don't understand where the goal of driving manufacturers out of business leads. How will this work?
OK, so let's suppose that the Lawful Commerce in Arms act is repealed/revised to make every manufacturer liable for the deeds of any end-user; including the possessor of a stolen gun. It's logical that the chain of liability will include every prior owner/seller (the victim of a burglary, neighbor who sold the gun to the victim, gun shop, distributor, importer/manufacturer.)
The manufacturers are in a capital-intensive business. They are the deep pockets to go after. So, they will stop selling guns to anyone who will sell them to others beyond their control. They will probably continue to sell to the military which will not likely ever re-sell them (e.g., through CMP). But they won't likely want to sell to police or police departments. Police customers sell their inventories when they change to newer models. Too great a risk. They certainly won't sell to distributors who sell to LGSs. So, that will END domestic manufacture for police and civilians.
Importing, distributing and retail are NOT so capital intensive. It is possible to run the FFL operation on a shoestring, with the capital held in a parent holding company.
So, police and retail customers will buy from LGSs, distributors and importers who make sure that they maintain shallow-enough pockets to remain relatively insulated from lawsuits.
Will lawsuits be able to go after foreign manufacturers? How will this work? Will an Austrian or Brazilian or Turkish court enforce an award against a domestic manufacturer based on an award issued by a judge in America?
What will police officers and agencies have to say about the New Weapon Order?
Could any tort lawyers weigh-in on these questions?
Simple. Companies will either downsize to a more restricted catalog or cease operating.
There was a proposal for the Sierra Match King be restricted to military and police only because it was too accurate. Sierra said if this was done they would cease production of the Match King bullet because it was civilian sales that made it viable and profitable. M&P sales were a very small percentage.
Yes, of course, DOMESTIC companies will stop producing for ANY market other than export and the US military. (I wonder how happy the Army and Marines will be to see their source of supply for small arms shrivel-up and die.)
There will be mom & pop shops that operate on shoe-string capital finishing receivers/frames and applying the mandatory maker's-mark and serial number. These domestic "manufacturers" (really more so assembly plants) will supply the civilian market.
The big players – I predict – will be FOREIGN manufacturers who enjoy reputations and economies of scale and can insulate themselves from US litigation. The remaining FFLs in the chain – importers, distributors and LGSs – will operate with negligible capital and maintain shallow pockets so that they are not worth suing.
How can this strategy achieve the goal of choking-off the lawful US market in firearms?
What is the gun-controllers' end-game? How can they succeed in crushing the lawful market in guns by imposing strict liability from criminal -> LGS -> distributor -> manufacturer? The industry will re-organize to defeat this strategy.
Ralph February 2, 2021 At 12:44
I think you mean "the Harrisbiden Administration." The ho is the boss of Joe, no?
Actually, I think there is someone else in charge of both those losers.
possum February 2, 2021 At 16:54
Ah hah , so you know too. And bet they can tell you who's going to win next election too, if they even bother to have one.
Xi Jinping.
fishydude February 2, 2021 At 13:11
Correction: Harris-Biden Administration
Hopefully I can find somebody to buy me a rem870, I'm going to the gunm place today. I've got the money, I just need somebody to fill out the paper work.
Call your local ATF office. I'm sure someone there will be happy to help.
Success, 12gauge Rem870 Supermag, $375 used. it's not as good as the one I had but it'll work.
And in case anyone wants to know a rem870 barrel chambered for 3 inch will replace the 3n1/2. Gunmshop guy didn't know if it would but I just tried it. Why do that you may ask? Because I've got a short barrel that went on the other gunm.
Man I couldn't believe this out of the way gunmshops inventory is way down, one box per customer, gunmshop guy ask a customer if he would sale any of the primers he bragged about having. Also said two gunm dealers wanted to buy all of his gunms, but at a discount. He's got a nice Browning HiPower pretty cheap. The only thing I'm wondering is are We buying high dollar paper weights? This ammo crisis ain't good.
krp February 2, 2021 At 14:02
Molon Labe!!! hope these new gun owners understand what that means as well as its proper context!!!
LastOfTheOldOnes February 2, 2021 At 14:05
As soon as B. Hussein & Michael got into power, is when I started my collection, which sadly I lost in a very unfortunate sinking incident in my boat…. 🙂
I cried all night.
NTexas February 2, 2021 At 14:59
GOOD OLD AMERICAN COMMENTS . YEP THINK TRUE , HELP SELLS IN GUN BUYING .
N WHAT , AMMO , WHATS THAT . UH . IF DO FIND AMMO WHEW THA PRICE .
UM , NEW ADD IF BUY A NEW GUN , GET FREE 500 ROUNDS WITH IT . CAN DREAM CAN I .
The no bullets for gunms is getting kinda scary. Hope We all dont wind up with high dollar paperweights. 500 rounds would probably be more valuable then the gunm they go in.
AM February 2, 2021 At 18:44
It will be more like, buy 500 rounds get a free gun.
John May February 2, 2021 At 17:52
I lost all my guns and ammo in a boating accident.
UpInArms February 2, 2021 At 20:39
I lost my boat in a shooting accident.
Were you in a glass bottomed boat and tried to shoot the fish, or was it the Boston PD SWAT team?
Pete February 3, 2021 At 10:48
My pistol purchase was not counted, since in my state a CCW negates the need for a background check.
One wonders how many others ales fell under this exemption.


Sullivan, A; Brown, M; (2015) Reading for pleasure and progress in vocabulary and mathematics. British Educational Research Journal , 41 (6) pp. 971-991. 10.1002/berj.3180.
This paper examines inequalities in attainment in vocabulary and mathematics at age 16 for a nationally representative cohort of people born in Britain in 1970 (the 1970 British Cohort Study). Our analytical sample is n=3, 583 cohort members who completed vocabulary and mathematics tests at age 16. We explore whether inequalities due to childhood social background are similar across the linguistic and mathematical domains, or whether they differ, and to what extent these inequalities are driven by families' social class position, parents' education and home reading resources. We examine the role of children's own reading for pleasure controlling for all these background factors. As reading can be seen as an indicator of 'cultural capital', we also test the influence of an alternative indicator of cultural capital, playing a musical instrument. Our longitudinal analysis addresses the question of the extent to which differences in attainment are determined by age 10; and which factors are linked to a growth in differentials during adolescence. We show that childhood reading is linked to substantial cognitive progress between the ages of 10 and 16, whereas playing an instrument is not. Reading is most strongly linked to progress in vocabulary, with a weaker, but still substantial link to progress in maths. Strikingly, reading for pleasure is more strongly linked than parental education to cognitive progress in adolescence.


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Joshua is in his third year at Achungo and wants to be like Michael Nyangi, the orphanage-school's founder and director.
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I thought I'd try something different for the type of stuff that I usually post (basically there is no makeup in this post), I feel like having a kinda chatty post to let you guys know whats going on in my life at the moment and a glimpse inside my 20 year old mind. I'm currently sat at the desk of my studio flat in Cambridge (which is very tidy at the moment for me) consumed by thought about pretty much everything and anything, it's just one of those days.
Over the past 2 years that I've spent at university I feel like I've become a completely different person to the quite naïve 18 year old that I was on my first day here, and I'm pretty pleased about that. The best way to describe what being at univeristy feels like to me is "it's like being an adult with the stabalisers on", and by that I mean that I have learnt to live independetly from my parents in a safe and controlled environment where I can still get help and support from them when I need it.
During the course of the last week or so I have decided to embrace all of the changes that have been or are about to be coming my way instead of trying to run away from them, and since then my outlook towards life has been much more optimistic than it had been in the weeks prior, deciding that I needed to clear out my life as there is probably so much junk just laying about that I don't even need or want anymore and is just there taking up space or reminding me of stuff that I don't wanna be reminded of. And then I went kinda crazy with the whole 'out with the old and in with the new' thing by throwing out literally everything that I haven't used in the past 6 months or just don't like anymore, and I mean everything- clothes, shoes, bags, makeup, skincare stuff, books, jewellery (cheap fashion stuff ofc), stuff from old boyfriends and just general junk that was cluttering up my room that I had no reason for keeping a second longer than I already have.
And it was the most theraputic afternoon of my life.
The satisfaction of walking into my room and it being so empty and clean was amazing. Not having to root around for the stuff I wanted anymore, or looking at stuff and thinking "why do I even still have that?" but yet never actually doing anything about it. The next morning when I woke up I still had that feeling of calm and happiness that I had the day before, and I remember thinking to myself "why didn't I do this before?" and I honestly have no idea. Maybe I was trying to hang onto the person I was before? Or maybe I am just getting old and enjoy cleaning? Idk. I now finally have the space for stuff that I actually like and feels like a better reflection of who I am as a person now, rather than the person I was at 16 or 18 years old.
This post isn't what I'd define as 'finished' but I've hit the wall of writers block, it's been a long day for me as it's the first day of the semester and investigative psychology isn't exactly a 'light' topic for a monday morning lol.


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Ett sprängämne är ett explosivämne eller en blandning av ämnen som vid antändning sönderfaller mycket hastigt, varvid heta gaser utvecklas. Stötvågen som då förmedlas till omgivningen utgör själva sprängningen, där spränggaser expanderar. Dess egenskaper gör det användbart för exempelvis bergsprängning och för militära ändamål i till exempel bomber och granater.

Terminologin rörande explosiva ämnen: alla explosiva ämnen deflagrerar (förbränns), sker förbränningen i underljudshastighet så kallas det för explosion, sker den däremot i överljudshastighet så kallas det för detonation. Tekniskt är ett sprängämne ett explosivt ämne som detonerar med hög energi och effekt. Lagstiftningen skiljer i Sverige mellan tändämnen och sprängämnen.

Många sprängämnen är uppbyggda av grundämnena kol, väte, kväve och syre. Exempel på ämnen som används i sprängämnen är nitroglycerin, trotyl och pentyl. När syret bildar kol- och väteoxider i dessa alstras energin. Det finns även sprängämnen som är uppbyggda på annat sätt, såsom blyazid som sönderfaller till bly och kväve för att energin skall frigöras.

För civil användning måste sprängämnet kombinera hög funktionssäkerhet med god laddningsbarhet och vattenbeständighet. Exempel på andra viktiga egenskaper är hanterings- och initieringståligheten, frysmotståndet och de yrkesmedicinska verkningarna. För militär användning krävs det att sprängämnet kombinerar fältmässig hanterbarhet, en stor sprängeffekt, hög funktionssäkerhet samt att lagringen är beständigt under svåra omständigheter. Det finns många stränga bestämmelser som kringgärdar handhavandet av sprängämnen. I det civila bruket av sprängämnen kan man skilja på dynamit, emulsionssprängämne, ANFO-sprängämne och vattengel- eller slurrysprängämnen.

I Sverige är Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB) den centrala förvaltningsmyndigheten för dessa varor.

Historik

Svartkrut var under många hundra år det enda egentliga sprängämnet som fanns tillgängligt. Nitroglycerin introducerades 1847 av den italienske kemisten Ascanio Sobrero. Nitroglycerin är mycket lättinitierat, och många olyckor inträffade därför, både vid tillverkning och hantering. 1866 blandade Alfred Nobel nitroglycerin med kiselgur, resultatet blev dynamit, ett mycket säkrare sprängämne. 1875 introducerade Nobel spränggelatin, ett gelformigt sprängämne som även detta är baserat på nitroglycerin, men med en inblandning av 7–8 % nitrocellulosa.

Se även
 Ammunition
 Deflagration
 Detonation
 Explosion
 Explosivämne

Referenser

Pyroteknik
Explosivämnen
Wikipedia:Basartiklar

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The challenge over at Words 2 Craft By this month is Life's better in flip flops. And the challenge over at Cards In Envy is On The Beach. I created this card using the My Monthly Hero June 2018 Kit.
I love the sand embossing powder that came with the kit (used for the beach and the greeting).
I would also like to participate in the Double Trouble Challenge – Anything (and decorate the inside).
I just want to be sitting right there enjoying the sand in my toes and all the sights! Wonderful beach scene, Anne, and so glad you shared over at Cards in Envy!
Hi Anne! What a fun card! Love that sandy embossing powder and that clever play-on-words sentiment. Thanks so much for playing along with our Words 2 Craft By flip flop challenge.
Love your beach themed card…I think I want to be sitting in one of those chairs! Thanks for joining us at Double Trouble Challenge and for decorating the inside of your card too!
Great card and thank you for telling your readers about the sand EP – I'll have to check it out! Your beach screen takes me back to the years I lived at the beach. Thank you for joining in at Double Trouble.
I love this card and I also love you decorated the inside of your card too. I must do this with mine!! Just a nice added touch! Thanks for joining us at Cards in Envy.
Love your beach scene on the front and the sentiment, and love to see the finished inside of a card and great sentiment there too. Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble and hope you follow us and check on our future fun challenges. On our Double Trouble you can get an extra chance on the random draw prize if you submit your card to Three Amigos (all about embossing for today and tomorrow only)…link to Three Amigos in our blog.


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This lovely,quaint and fun property is located a short 2 minutes drive to the beautiful safe beaches of Cowes and ten minutes walk to the centre of Cowes.
It is well appointed and features a beautiful interior comprising two living rooms furnished with large comfortable sofas, leather sofa and polished timber floorboards throughout. This home also boasts an open plan kitchen and dining, two bathrooms, one with a crows foot bath, a great entertaining deck equipped with an outdoor setting and a gas BBQ.
Additional features of this property include BRAND NEW air conditioning heater/cooler in the dining room and main lounge rooms, DVD player, and fully equipped laundry including dryer.
area very close to the centre of Cowes as is the perfect place to stay for the Moto GP accommodation Australian Grand Prix Phillip Island.


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Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality
More than a quarter of Congress calls for action to stem Asian hate
by Kristine Villanueva July 21, 2020 January 28, 2022
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., is one of the more than 150 members of Congress calling on the attorney general to condemn acts of anti-Asian bias stemming from the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
This article is available for republishing. We ask that you credit our newsroom at the top with a line that says, "This article about anti-Asian racism was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom based in Washington, D.C." and link to our homepage. Photo rights not included.
More than 150 members of Congress are calling on Attorney General William Barr to publicly condemn the wave of anti-Asian bias related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The joint letter, sent July 20, cited a Center for Public Integrity/Ipsos poll that found 30 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming Asian people for the pandemic.
Senators to DOJ: Do something about the rise in Asian hate
Survey: More than 30 percent of Americans have witnessed COVID-19 bias against Asians
"We respectfully request that you, as head of the Department of Justice, forcefully condemn anti-Asian bias to send an unambiguous message to all Americans that discrimination against this community is un-American and will not be tolerated," the letter said.
The members also urged Barr to provide regular updates regarding steps that the DOJ is taking to combat anti-Asian bias.
As of June 3, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council reported 2,066 incidents of coronavirus-related discrimination. These and countless news reports have documented cases ranging from the denial of services at stores to verbal harassment and physical assaults. In March a Texas man stabbed three Asian Americans –– two of whom were children –– because he thought they were spreading COVID-19.
Despite this backlash, Asian Americans have played an integral part in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. They comprise 7 percent of the U.S. population but 17.1 percent of practicing physicians, according to the Association of American Medical Doctors, not including additional medical professionals like EMTs and nurses.
Another Public Integrity investigation was previously cited by 16 senators in a letter to the Justice Department's civil rights division in May. The Public Integrity report found that the response to coronavirus bias was far less robust than the Bush administration's handling of anti-Asian sentiment after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and during the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2002. The senators gave the Justice Department until May 15 to respond.
So far, the agency has not responded to a request to comment.
Have you experienced COVID-19 related hate? Let us know by filling out our form or reaching out to Public Integrity's audience engagement editor, Kristine Villanueva, at kvillanueva@publicintegrity.org
by Kristine Villanueva, Center for Public Integrity

More than a quarter of Congress calls for action to stem Asian hate

by Kristine Villanueva, Center for Public Integrity
July 21, 2020

This article is available for republishing. We ask that you credit our newsroom at the top with a line that says, "This article about anti-Asian racism was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom based in Washington, D.C." and link to our homepage. Photo rights not included.

More than 150 members of Congress are calling on Attorney General William Barr to publicly condemn the wave of anti-Asian bias related to the coronavirus pandemic.

The joint letter, sent July 20, cited a Center for Public Integrity/Ipsos poll that found 30 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming Asian people for the pandemic.

"We respectfully request that you, as head of the Department of Justice, forcefully condemn anti-Asian bias to send an unambiguous message to all Americans that discrimination against this community is un-American and will not be tolerated," the letter said.

The members also urged Barr to provide regular updates regarding steps that the DOJ is taking to combat anti-Asian bias.

As of June 3, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council reported 2,066 incidents of coronavirus-related discrimination. These and countless news reports have documented cases ranging from the denial of services at stores to verbal harassment and physical assaults. In March a Texas man stabbed three Asian Americans –– two of whom were children –– because he thought they were spreading COVID-19.

Despite this backlash, Asian Americans have played an integral part in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. They comprise 7 percent of the U.S. population but 17.1 percent of practicing physicians, according to the Association of American Medical Doctors, not including additional medical professionals like EMTs and nurses.

Another Public Integrity investigation was previously cited by 16 senators in a letter to the Justice Department's civil rights division in May. The Public Integrity report found that the response to coronavirus bias was far less robust than the Bush administration's handling of anti-Asian sentiment after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and during the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2002. The senators gave the Justice Department until May 15 to respond.

So far, the agency has not responded to a request to comment.

Have you experienced COVID-19 related hate? Let us know by filling out our form or reaching out to Public Integrity's audience engagement editor, Kristine Villanueva, at kvillanueva@publicintegrity.org

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


Just in 4 parts is this 2004 Pontiac vibe. This car runs and drives well motor tested car was in a wreck many good use parts call with needs.
Now parting out this 2009 Pontiac Vibe. This car has a bad 2.4 motor. Many other good used parts call with needs.


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Seven Seconds é uma websérie de drama criminal dos Estados Unidos baseada no filme russo The Major. A série foi desenvolvida por Veena Sude produzida pela Fox 21 Television Studios e teve os 10 primeiros episódios no Netflix. Gavin O'Connor servirá como o diretor e produtor executivo na série.

Elenco
 David Lyons como Mike Diangelo
 Beau Knapp como Peter Jablonski
 Regina King como Latrice Butler
 Russell Hornsby como Isaiah Butler
 Raúl Castillo como Felix Osorio
 Michael Mosleycomo Joe "Fish" Rinaldi
 Clare-Hope Ashitey como KJ Harper
 Patrick Murney como Gary Wilcox
 Zackary Momoh como Seth Butler

Webséries dos Estados Unidos de 2017
Webséries da Netflix
Webséries em língua inglesa
Webséries de drama criminal da década de 2010
Programas de televisão dos Estados Unidos que estrearam em 2018
Programas da Netflix


Iowa Wesleyan's Darby Massner, photo courtesy IW Sports Info.
Mount Pleasant – For the second time since the inception of the Student-Athlete of the Month award, Iowa Wesleyan University has a back to back recipient. The IW athletic department has named Darby Massner as January Student-Athlete of the Month for her performance throughout the month.
Darby Massner had a solid January for the Tiger women's basketball team. She averaged 17.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. Over the course of the month, Massner shot 36 percent from the field, 89.6 percent from the free throw line, and 31.7 percent from behind the arc.
Highlights from January include a 33-point, 20-rebound performance in against Blackburn College and a 32-point, 14-rebound performance against Principia College. Massner also became the all-time three-point record hold for women's basketball on January 26, 2019. After making three three-point field goals against Spalding, Massner passed the previous mark of 207 career three-point field goals made which was previously set by Ali (DeVries) Boyd from 2006-2009.
Darby Massner and the Tigers will look to finish the season strong as they have four games remaining. They will host MacMurray College on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.


A round-up of a highly successful weekend for Slough Town's teams.
As weekends go, this wasn't a bad one for Slough Town's teams.
The U12 Girls started it off with a 12-0 win in their first ever competitive game. The goals came from Ammara, Azwa and Emily and the win rocketed the team up to second place in the league table.
The Mens first team then followed up with a great win against fourth-placed Eastbourne Borough in National League South despite being reduced to 10 men after 10 minutes.
Sunday saw the U13 Boys top their league table following a 6-1 win over Thames Valley Youth. The U14s also top their table, beating Chesham Generals 5-1, with four goals from Joseph and the other from Owen. Keeping the winning run going, the U16s then beat Gerrards Cross & Fulmer 2-0 to compete the full house.
There is a long way to go, but the players can all feel confident that they can all compete in their new leagues. Well done to all of the young Rebels!


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In Support of Systems Builders
Here's where Systems Builders come in: to ensure that newly reformed or reforming public defense systems successfully develop model systems by offering sustained, relevant and responsive support as public defender offices transition from a reform "achievement" (which happens in a moment, by vote of a Legislature or stroke of a pen) to the often long and grueling period of reform "implementation."
I want to write about the potential of NAPD's Systems Builders Committee. The Committee is comprised of current and retired defender leaders, public defender board and/or commission members, and system advocates representing a range of experiences and perspectives on public defense issues. Its mission is to assist leaders who are building excellent, client-centered public defense programs, through training, consultation, and collaboration.
It's an especially exciting time to be a public defender. Culture change abounds in many forms, and while I am cautious not to celebrate prematurely, there are many indications that hope is a far more reasonable sentiment than cynicism.
Among these reasons: the persistent tragedy of police violence is creating an empowered public to take video after video after video, and local incidents are receiving the national coverage they deserve. There is increased transparency in police investigations and broader recognition that fair management of these issues is essential to community welfare. These incidents and their increased media exposure have made it easier for public defenders to devote energy and resources to systemic issues like racial profiling, police credibility, and community outreach.
Advocates and organizers in Ferguson, MO are leading the charge to bring advocacy/litigation of exploitative fines & fees to the forefront. Community-oriented defense, often viewed as "peripheral" or simply unattainable, has become much more widely recognized as "fundamental."
The embrace of timekeeping by leaders across the country – and the data that methodologically sound timekeeping data analysis can produce, offers real hope for a solution to the workload crisis of public defenders, and the opportunity to bring accountability to the other agencies within justice systems who have been largely unaccountable for their resource expenditures.
The Department of Justice seems far more responsive and to be making positive, impactful statements on a range of issues. Their investment, and our continued cultivation of this relationship is a really good development. Hopefully, soon, more dollars will flow to public defender offices and the extreme disparity of federal funding to law enforcement will be adjusted, at least somewhat.
Increased use of social media, innovative methods to engage clients in participatory defense, proactive communications work are being embraced by public defender advocates who for too long have not had their voices heard, or their client's stories told.
These are just a few of the enormous opportunities for public defenders to create change in justice systems.
In Louisiana, my introduction to public defense reform started in 2004. Then, there was just a 5-person statewide public defense oversight body with such limited statutory authority that their function was almost exclusively limited to writing checks. The real oversight (in theory) took place in 41 independent district boards, and the diversity of perspective and engagement was staggering (Though a few districts had the benefit of proper, diligent oversight, most did not. In 2008, when the Louisiana Public Defender Board was staffed, a full quarter of these local boards did not even exist.)
The Louisiana reform movement was intense and multi-prong. Especially in its final 4 years before achieving legislative reform, there was lots of activity: a Legislative Task Force, multiple reports and evaluations, class-action litigation in Calcasieu Parish, lobbying efforts, an OSF-funded public education/media campaign, State Bar activism, and more. The Public Defender Act of 2007 became law on August 15, 2007 after a consensus-oriented process, dozens of drafts of legislation, and with all stakeholders at the table.
The next April, Loyola University School of Law hosted a Symposium. David Carroll, who was the Legislature's expert as it considered the Public Defender Act, said this: "As hard as it was to get here, to the passage of the Public Defender Act of 2007, the implementation that lies ahead will be infinitely harder."
A blog is no place to try to recap the history of the implementation struggles from that moment onward, but OSF did not renew its funding for the campaign in Louisiana, national interest in the class-action lawsuit in Calcasieu Parish withered, lobbying efforts redirected to other topics and Bar interest waned with new leadership. Louisiana's public defense system – perhaps assumed to have been "fixed" – would have greatly benefitted from sustained support for any number of projects – strategic planning, board training, guidance on the hiring of staff, case management system exploration, office manuals and training, professional development, performance-based budgeting support… it's a long list.
This is the exciting niche that Systems Builders will fill. It goes without saying that the opportunity to hire a new leader, restructure a system or implement a policy only begins with the authority to do so, but often times the struggle for authorization requires so much from so many, there is little left over for the stages ahead. Support for implementation is vitally important.
This year in Louisiana, 12 of the state's 42 districts face insolvency, and another 25 are projected to operate at a deficit. In fiscal year 2016, the number of insolvent districts is projected to be 25, with 8 more operating at a deficit. It has been 8 years since the passage of the Public Defender Act, and it is clear that the challenges are enormous, and will take many years to address. (You can read more about the financial projections for Louisiana public defender offices at this link.
Reflecting on my time in Louisiana, I wonder how things might have gone if the Legislative Task Force had been maintained, if funders had invested in reform implementation, if the Bar had remained an engaged partner, or if interest in litigation had continued. Certainly, too little money and a state hell-bent on maintaining its incarceration title are major factors for the continued struggle in Louisiana (among others), but I am certain that the Systems Builders Committee – either through their coaching and mentoring, or through the materials that they are developing, would have been a hugely beneficial resource to the young Louisiana Public Defender Board.
As public defender systems around the country consider change in these changing times – in places that have reached out to NAPD's Systems Builders already - like Tulsa, OK (hiring a new Chief Defender), San Antonio, TX (starting the county's first office, 8 staff and growing), or MI (implementing statewide reform), my own experience affirms that this is a much needed service with incredible potential. I wish Systems Builders had been available for advocates in Louisiana when it was taking its first steps, and I hope other systems reach out since it is available now.


Summary from Goodreads: In the second installment of William Shatner s Zero-G series, Director Samuel Lord must identify a mole sabotaging the top-secret NASA project aboard the US space station Empyrean, while also fighting a fast-replicating virus that threatens humanity.
In the year 2050, the United States sends the FBI to govern its space station, The Empyrean. Under the command of suave, eighty-year-old director Samuel Lord, the Zero-G men are in charge of investigating terrorism, crime, corruption, and espionage, keeping an eye on the rival Chinese and Russian stations as well.
Lord and his team are assisting NASA in conducting a top-secret project in the agricultural center of the Empyrean. Using microscopic robots called nanites, they plan to construct a vine that can survive in space. The vine will grow structural material for an elevator that will reach from the Empyrean to Earth. Unfortunately, a Russian spy inadvertently causes the growth to rage out of control, not only threatening the Empyrean, but the Russian space station Red Giant.
Under the guidance of Director Samuel Lord, Zero-G must not only identify the spy, but help find a way to stop the fast-replicating vine and a form of space zombie birthed by the nanites. The surprising solution takes Lord and a Russian pilot on a dangerous mission to Venus where a shocking discovery awaits."
Review: Wow! This book is jam packed full of science jargon and situations. I was a little lost in the beginning and I think that had something to do with my lack of world knowledge. I should have probably read the first book. With that being said, the story was interesting and unique. The story line moved along at a quick pace and the characters were well written and had depth. This was a good scifi read and I think I'll go back and read the first book.


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Why STEAM Expo?
More than just a Science Fair, the Tuolumne County STEAM Expo offers a place for students to exhibit their work alongside entertainment and learning opportunities for the entire family. We allow young minds to experience an innovative environment of hands-on science. The STEAM Expo enables students to explore their interests and talents by offering six elective categories from which students can choose: Science Fiction Writing, Scientific Illustration/Nature Notebooking, Rube Goldberg Devices, Biomimicry, Engineering Design Process, and Scientific Inquiry.
Students can compete with their projects or display them for viewing and evaluation. Collaborative groups are permitted to work on projects together, and in the non-competitive arena, whole class projects are welcomed.
In addition, we are proud to be the official county affiliate for the California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF). A sixth through twelfth-grade student's entry into the Scientific Inquiry Project category can lead to recognition as one of California's top young scientists or engineers.
The Tuolumne County STEAM Expo is designed to:
Motivate and stimulate the interests of ALL students in all grades in the STEM fields: Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics. Creativity and Art are expected to be integrated into the projects.
Recognize the achievements and efforts of students in STEM.
Identify exemplary projects that will advance to the California Science and Engineering Fair.
Stimulate interest and support of grade-level appropriate STEAM integration within our schools.
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tdunlap@tcsos.us
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2023 STEAM EXPO Handbook
TEACHERS,
If you plan on having your students participate in the 2023 STEAM Expo, please complete this form to the best of your ability.
Intent to Participate
Required Project Registration
The deadline to register projects is Friday, February 17, 2023.
6-12 grade project registration
TK-5 grade project registration
Science Inquiry & Engineering Projects
Competitive Science and Engineering Projects
All grades (non-competitive) – Whole Class or Small Groups
Sixth-Grade through High School Competitive – Individual or Small Group
Optional for any project:
Video: Create a video to explain your science fair project to judges. Please use a universally playable format like MP4. Your video may be no longer than 3 minutes. You might stand in front of a physical poster and present or record yourself speaking over slides. When designing your video, consider how you can most effectively showcase your thinking, and feel free to be creative. You can add your short video with a QR Code to your display.
Scientific Inquiry Project Abstract
Science and Engineering Fair Rubrics
Tri-Fold Board with NGSS and CCSS connections
Print Ready Science and Engineering Practices
How Science Works video courtesy of Darren Massa Glenn COE
Biomimicry (Biomimetic Design)
Sixth-Grade through High school (optional competitive)
Definition: Biomimicry is the practice of applying lessons from nature to the invention of healthier, more sustainable technologies for
humans. Have fun with this, and let your students think "outside the indoor box". Use nature to design something that helps to make the world a better place. A great place to start is by scrolling through http://asknature.org/ Innovators are full of questions. Nature has the answers. This is a non-competitive category, and students will receive a participation award for submissions if minimum requirements are met. Sixth through twelfth-grade students can choose to enter their biomimetic design projects in the Engineering category of the competitive Scientific Inquiry section. This may allow them to be eligible to advance to the California Science and Engineering Fair.
Learn more from the Biomimicry Institute and get inspiration from the Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge – Middle and High School students can also submit their projects to the Youth Design Challenge (YCD). The registration deadline for Biomimicry YCD is March 1, 2023, and the project submission deadline is April 1, 2023.
Engineering Design Project Abstract
Robotics Exhibition
Definition: A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, often by remote control. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous, or remotely controlled. The teams in the robotics category must design a robot or a robotic device that accomplishes a specific purpose. The team identifies the purpose. This is a non-competitive event, but teams will receive an award for participation if minimum requirements are met. We encourage student robotic teams or clubs to host a demonstration during the 2023 STEAM Expo on the evening of March 10, 2023.
Definition: A Rube Goldberg assembly, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883-1970). This is a non-competitive event for students in grades TK-12. Students who participate and meet the minimum requirements will receive a participation award.
There are no minimum requirements for participation. However, we encourage you to challenge your students and allow them to design and re-design their device as an individual, small group, or whole class.
High School students should be able to design a successful device that has a minimum of 10 'cause and effect' steps and uses at least three simple machines (e.g., lever, wheel and axle, pulley, incline plane, screw, wedge)
Middle School students should be able to design a successful device that has a minimum of 7 'cause and effect' steps and uses at least three simple machines (e.g., lever, wheel and axle, pulley, incline plane, screw, wedge)
Elementary School students should be able to design a successful device that has 3-5 'cause and effect' steps and uses at least two simple machines (e.g., lever, wheel and axle, pulley, incline plane, screw, wedge)
Students are welcome to also draw a simple machine cartoon.
Learn more about the Rube Goldberg competition at https://www.rubegoldberg.org/.
Scientific Illustration & Nature Journaling
All grades – non-competitive
Definition: Scientific Illustrations is a genre of drawing that captures the scientific and technological world. Scientific Illustrations can be created using pencils, colored pencils, watercolors, etc. The Guild Handbook of Science Illustration states, "As art reflects culture, scientific illustration reflects the findings of science and technology."
Definition: Nature Journaling is collecting and organizing your observations, questions, connections, and explanations on the pages of a notebook using words, pictures, and numbers. This is a non-competitive category, and students will receive a participation award for submissions if minimum requirements are met.
A Successful Science Illustration Entry Must Have The Following:
The illustration must be an original work completed by the student.
The illustration must be related to science or technology and should include detail.
Color is advisable but not required
Photographs are not accepted.
Nature journaling resources and examples can be found on this website: John Muir Laws: Nature Stewardship Through Science, Education, and Art.
California Academy of Sciences: Introduction to Scientific Sketching
The Franklin Institute Scientific Illustration: What Is It?
Science Fiction Writing
All grade levels
Grades TK-3 – Whole Class
Grades 4-12 – Individual or Pairs
Definition: Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content, such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".
PDF format is preferred, but we can handle just about any electronic document format. Document with accompanying illustrations will need to be submitted to Tricia Dunlap, tdunlap@tcsos.us, by February 24, 2023.
A Successful Science Fiction Story Entry Must Have The Following:
Minimum of one handwritten page per grade level of participant (12 font, 1.5 space if typed) except grades TK-3. (1/2 handwritten page minimum for TK-1 and one handwritten page minimum for 2-3.)
Illustrations are encouraged but are optional and can be drawn by someone other than the participant as long as credit is given.
Knowledge and understanding of the topic are conveyed
Thinking includes the creative use of ideas and imagination
The story keeps the readers' attention
Dialogue (if present) is used well and flows appropriately
Writing is organized with a clear beginning, middle, and end
Sentences are clear, spelling is accurate, and structure is grammatically correct
The use of details, adjectives, and examples is well done and appropriate
The presentation is clean and well laid out (Title page, typed/printed in 12-point font, with 1.5 line spacing if applicable)
If illustrations are used, they are appropriate and add to the story
Courtesy of Placer County STEM Expo and to use as exemplars for your students: Past Science Fiction Winners
Inspiration?
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While visiting the region of Andalusia, it is worth your time to make a detour for Gibraltar, a tiny British colony in the land of Spain. This headland, just a few kilometres off the coast of northern Africa, is the extreme edge of the Ancient Mediterranean and once corresponded as the end of the world.
Gibraltar is a strange place. People say that it is the corner of England which is nestled in the warm colours of Spain, is what it appears like while walking through the town waving the Union Jack next to palm trees and lush plants. The Rock of Gibraltar is a free port, so travelling traders can do good business, especially in the shops of Main Street (where the most famous brands can be found). The Spaniards tried several times to regain the control of the Rock, which is evident by the Great Siege Tunnels, the tunnels dug by the British in the rock to supply the guns during the Great Siege (1779-1783). If you want to know the history of Gibraltar, it would be a marvellous idea to visit the Gibraltar Museum, which houses exhibits of the military events that took place there.
A photograph is almost mandatory of the lookout point of Europe, on which stands a lighthouse. From that lighthouse on a beautiful, clear day, you see the African coast. The cave of S. Michael is trully beautiful, a magnificent natural cave, once inhabited by primitive people. It now hosts concerts and plays written by famous musicians and artists. Do not forget to climb the Rock, where you'll find a large natural reserve that is home to the Barbary macaques, the only European species of monkey in the wild residing at the Rock of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar is open all year round. Generally, the temperatures in January range from 15 to 10 degrees while July and August do not exceed 27 degrees. Birdwatchers, between July and November, can observe the migration of birds to Africa; while from January to June prey of storks can be seen returning to the north.


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ROBERT LEWKOWITZ, CSC, CPCA, PRESIDENT LEWKOWITZ FINANCIAL, LONDON, ONTARIO
ROBERT LEWKOWITZ
" Service, Passion & Giving Back"
A popular bar and restaurant in London, Ontario, well known for its tongue-in-cheek humor, once hung a banner over its front door saying "It is my firm belief that if you look after the profits, the customer will take care of himself." While he appreciates the joke, Robert Lewkowitz is a Financial Advisor who clearly demonstrates the opposite to be true.
Robert has been in the financial industry since 1988. He joined the Royal Bank of Canada after obtaining an Honours Degree from the University of Western Ontario. With an interest in serving clients with a personal and comprehensive approach, he completed the Canadian Securities Course in 1988 and was accredited as a Financial Planner that same year; he is now also a Certified Professional Consultant on Aging. He founded his own firm, Lewkowitz Financial Inc. in 1996.
Pittsburgh retailer Katherine Barchetti once challenged businesses to make a customer, not a sale. Focus on the customer and extraordinary client service are the foundation of the firm's philosophy and approach. "We only have one focus and that focus is you. We help you define your deepest priorities and we welcome every opportunity to take a deep dive into your life. We need to understand your values in order to offer targeted and customized advice, even if that advice is counterproductive to our own financial interests," Robert says.
Robert comes by his customer service approach honestly. His mother, Iveranda (Ivy) a Family Doctor, worked with patients until she was 81 years of age and only retired then when she was required to look after his father Walter's declining health. His mother's patient focus was later reinforced by Robert's time at Ridley College, one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious private schools. The college has earned an excellent reputation for its emphasis on the highest academic and social standards for its students. Their motto, "Terar Dum Prosim" (translation: May I be Consumed in Service), reflects this. In retrospect, Ivy epitomized this motto, and Robert is following in her footsteps in this regard.
His father's family escaped Germany, for Israel, shortly after Hitler's rise to power, and later emigrated to Brazil for work as an Electrical Engineer, where he met Ivy while she was in Medical School. They then settled in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1957 to raise their family. Robert comes by his strong work ethic honestly, having wonderful role models in his parents – for which he is eternally grateful.
These foundational values are evident in the way Robert and his team treat their clients, and in how he gives back to others who are less fortunate than himself. Clients appreciate not being looked at as a number or assets under management. "We have a personality minimum, not a dollar minimum," Robert adds.
Peter Belec, one of the firm's satisfied clients agrees. "As an older retiree with a modest portfolio, Robert and the team always treat me with the time, expertise and warmth as though I was their only client. They are extremely knowledgeable and are frequent with their communications regarding current financial and economic happenings in the country, continent, and world."
Members of the firm also spend a great deal of time on client education and look for ways to communicate for purposes other than investing. "We want to ensure our clients have enough understandable information that they can assess appropriate risk and not react emotionally to news headlines or market changes. In fact, we focus on preparing clients to take advantage of market dips, rather than panicking," Robert adds.
Robert is ably assisted by an enthusiastic and experienced team. Kim Rumford has anchored the Lewkowitz Financial team since 1993 (Kim just celebrated her 25th anniversary as an employee of the firm). After earning her diploma in Marketing and Finance from Fanshawe College in London, Kim went on to earn her Mutual Funds license and her Certified Financial (CFP) designation. Kim is responsible for the efficient administration of all transactions, transfers, payments and problem-solving.
Yvette Woods has been with the team for 16 years, and is responsible for the office operations including scheduling meetings and managing all communications. Betty Parker has been with team for 9 years. Betty is the in-house paperwork expert, ensures the accuracy of all client information for regulatory purposes and updates, and prepares all necessary documents.
"It's hard to connect to your clients from the 40th floor," Robert says. His team operates out of a comfortable heritage home in London. Client Jean Bagiere describes what it is like to work with Lewkowitz Financial. "It's like having a trustworthy older brother/sister that looks out for you. From the first time I walked through their doors I felt genuine welcome and warmth from all the staff. They work well together and it shows! I trust them completely with my financial freedom and growth."
Client Mary B. Wheatley agrees. "What I like the most, oddly enough, is all of Robert's staff, Yvette, Kim and Betty, including him. They are awesome, so friendly as well as so professional and such fun to talk to as well as being totally sincere…On the business side, we like how our funds are as safely invested as possible with our personal situation taken into account. Robert is very down to earth as well and tries to communicate on layman terms, which is greatly appreciated. We feel that he feels it is more important to do a good job for us over any profit for his business."
"Everyone at the office of Lewkowitz Financial are amazing. I feel like they are a family and I am part of it. They are all so caring and not just interested in your personal investments but are also invested in good relationships with their clients," says Joan Hodges, another happy client. "I like to think that our commitment to client service is one of the reasons Lewkowitz Financial has many three, and even four generations of the same family working with us," Robert adds.
For two consecutive years now (2017 and 2018) Lewkowitz Financial has been chosen by Consumer Choice Awards as London's top Financial Planning firm. Also in 2017, the firm was recognized as the best financial boutique in Ontario by Acquisition International Magazine. Robert is often approached by the media to give his opinion on a wide range of financial topics.
In his free time, Robert enjoys travelling and athletics. He is a marathon runner and has participated in the Boston Marathon and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He is also involved with multiple community and charitable organizations including Hope International Development Agency (https://hope-international.com/). The agency exists to improve the supply of basic human necessities for the needs of the developing world through self-help activities, and to challenge, educate and involve North Americans regarding development issues.
Robert and his wife Lori, a high school Physical Education teacher and coach, have been married for 15 years and have four children. Their oldest son Nathan, 23, is at college studying Finance. When Nathan was 18, father and son climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro together as a fund raiser for an orphanage in Moshi, Tanzania.
Their daughter Lindsay, 20, is in Northern Ontario fighting fires and their youngest daughter Marlo, 17, is at Carleton University studying Communications & Media Arts. Inheriting a passion for philanthropy, Lindsay and Marlo have done missionary work in Cambodia and recently joined Robert in Ethiopia.
Robert, Lori, and Alex will be joining HOPE again on a trip to Dominican Republic in July to oversee humanitarian projects under way. Their youngest son Alex, 10, attends Matthews Hall, a highly regarded private school in London. "We're all on this big blue marble together" Robert says, "and no one is getting out of here alive. So we might as well do as much good for our neighbours as possible. It's incumbent upon those who can, to do, serve, and give," Robert says.
Robert Lewkowitz is the President and Founder of Lewkowitz Financial and is a Partner and registered dealer representative at Equity Associates Inc. Equity Associates Inc. is a registered mutual fund dealer in select provinces.
Robert Lewkowitz, CPCA President, Lewkowitz Financial Partner, Equity Associates
lewkowitzfinancial.com
robert@lewkowitzfinancial.com
Lewkowitz Financial 602 Dufferin Avenue London, ON N6B 2A4


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As schools break up for the summer, research for the 10th Post Office Travel Money Family Holiday Report has revealed that families heading to European hotspots can look forward to seeing their pounds stretch further in two-thirds of the destinations surveyed for the annual Beach Barometer cost comparison1. This found that prices for 13 family items will be up to 36 per cent cheaper than last July, although its consumer research suggests increased spending on meals and drinks and kids' beach items may wipe out some of that benefit.
After comparing costs in 15 popular European resort areas, Post Office researchers found that prices have fallen since last July in Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, the Balearic Islands, South of France and Italy. A drop in local prices and a small year-on-year rise in the value of sterling against the euro and other European currencies accounts for the increased spending power for UK holidaymakers.
A much bigger slump in the value of the Turkish lira against sterling means Marmaris has emerged as this summer's bargain buy. Prices have fallen 36 per cent to £79.81 for the barometer basket, which includes a family meal, drinks, suncream, insect repellent and beach items ranging from buckets & spades, lilos and ice-creams to pedalo and banana boat rides.
Although Sunny Beach, Bulgaria ( £83.99 ) has lost the top value Beach Barometer spot to Marmaris, prices there have fallen by 6.4 per cent and the Black Sea resort offers by far the cheapest family meal price at £33.69 for two adults and two children. This is less than half the cost in nine other destinations including Majorca, the Algarve and Ibiza.
In the Eurozone the biggest fall is in fifth-placed Corfu ( £132.04 ) where prices are down over 24.2 per cent. Families will also find Paphos ( £132.94 ) in a lot cheaper this year. A 10.4 per cent fall in barometer costs makes the Cypriot resort the sixth cheapest destination. However, Spain's Costa del Sol (£97.09) remains best value of 11 Eurozone resorts surveyed, even though prices have risen by five per cent since last summer. In third place overall in the barometer table, the Costa del Sol is the only top six destination to show a price increase.
Holidaymakers visiting Porec in Croatia ( £143.37 ) and the Algarve ( £139.19 ) will find that prices have risen significantly in both. In Porec, families can expect to pay 18.5 per cent more than last summer, while family costs have risen 12.4 per cent in the Algarve. This makes prices in the Portuguese family favourite 43 per cent higher than in the neighbouring Costa del Sol.
The biggest rise recorded was in Limassol, Cyprus where prices are up by 31 per cent. At £158.97, prices are almost 20 per cent higher than in Paphos. The Post Office found similar price variations in other countries too. In Spain, for example, prices have dropped marginally in Ibiza ( £213.13 ) but they are still 46 per cent higher than in Majorca ( £145.74 ) and over twice as high as in the Costa del Sol.
Most expensive of all for the 13 Beach Barometer items was Sorrento in southern Italy. Despite a 6.7 per cent fall, the total cost of £230.45 was over twice the price in Marmaris, Sunny Beach or the Costa del Sol.
Prices may be down in most European resorts but consumer research2 for this year's Family Holiday Report found that overspending may still rock the holiday boat. Seven-in-ten families overspent on their last overseas holiday by an average of 26 per cent ( £170 on an average budget of around £670 ) – but only six per cent plan to increase their budget this summer.
Spending on meals and drinks rose 14 per cent year-on-year to £278 while parents said that they splashed out an average of around £106 on kids' beach items, swimming gear, ice creams and water activities like pedalo and banana boat rides3.
The Post Office is the UK's leading provider of foreign currency, offering euro on demand at over 10,000 branches. Euros can also be ordered online at postoffice.co.uk for same day 'click and collect' at almost 3,000 branches as well as for home delivery or next day collection at any of the 11,600 Post Office branches. Bulgarian lev, Croatian kuna and Turkish lira are among 30 leading currencies available without pre-ordering at 1,600 larger Post Office Branches and up to 80 currencies can be pre-ordered at over 11,600 branches or online at postoffice.co.uk/travel for next day branch or home delivery.
¹ Post Office Family Holiday Beach Barometer 2018: Prices were supplied by National and Regional Tourist Offices of participating countries, except Turkey ( https://www.marmarisinfo.com ), Bulgaria ( Balkan Holidays ) and Majorca ( online research/Travelup ). A full breakdown of barometer costs can be found in the tables attached. All pricing quoted was also subject to online cross-checks. Prices in the release are rounded up or down to the nearest pound.
2 Post Office research by Populus ( 31 March-2 April 2018 ) among 2,081 UK adults found that only six per cent of families ( 560 ) will increase their holiday budget to make up for rising prices and possible falls in the value of sterling.
3 88 per cent of parents questioned in the consumer research spent an average of £164.74 on eating out; 86 per cent spent an average of £113.29 on drinks, 83 per cent spent £34.71 on ice-creams, 43 per cent spent £32.77 on water rides, 58 per cent spent £27.44 on kids' beach items and 49 per cent spent £20.57 on kids' swimming goggles and snorkelling gear.


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The shortcomings of the Nigeria Prize for Literature
The Nigeria Prize for Literature, endowed by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited is a great thing. It is an unprecedented initiative of immense benefit to Nigerian writers and the society for the appreciation of our literary culture.
I have been following the progress of the Nigeria Prize for Literature without any objection to the administration, but not impressed by the impact on the sustainable development of Nigerian literature. There is too much emphasis on the cash prize of $50,000 when the focus should be on promoting the revival of our reading culture for the intellectual development of the Nigerian society that is presently breeding philistines.
The Nigerian Prize for Literature has made the lucky winners richer, but it has failed to make us wiser, because many of the prizes winning books have not reached the majority of the Nigerian society, except the intelligentsia.
The Man Booker Prize, Orange Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Commonwealth Prize and other highly coveted literary awards increase the public appreciation of the winners and their books, but the Nigeria Prize for Literature has failed to make the winners bestsellers and becoming a bestselling author is the dream of every writer.
It looks like there is no budget for a comprehensive media plan for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, because there is no tangible publicity plan for the public appreciation of the winning books beyond the public announcements of the shortlisted authors, the winners and prize giving gala ceremonies. Everybody returns to business as usual after the events and the lucky winner of the $50, 000 prize smiles to the bank. But none of the prize winning books has become a bestseller and the author hardly goes on any book signing tour like in America, the UK or other countries where prize winning books become sought after collector's items and sell like hot cakes.
What is the use of winning a book prize, but your book is not in demand?
The fact that is; the reading culture in Nigeria is still poor after the efforts of some individuals and groups to promote reading and President Goodluck Jonathan launched a widely publicized "Bring Back the Book" campaign.
The revival of our reading culture is a challenge to the administrators of the Nigeria Prize for Literature.
How can we use the prize to revive the general appreciation of reading in Nigeria?
May I advise the administrators of the Nigeria Prize for Literature to review the budget and the media plan and consider spending more on the promotion of the prize winning books to attract the attention and appreciation of the public.
The promotion of the winning book will attract more readers and boost our reading culture.
Invite the public to vote for the shortlisted books, because such an open invitation will be a good motivation for the public appreciation of the books and will definitely boost their interest to read them.
The Nigeria Prize for Literature needs more cooperation and support of the Nigerian news media to achieve more for the overall benefit of the Nigerian society. The Guardian and other Nigerian newspapers should learn from The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian of the UK and others in America and Europe by dedicating more pages to literary appreciation such as initiating and promoting a Nigerian Bestsellers List for both fiction and non-fiction like New York Times: Best-Seller Lists, Book of the Month and other promotions that will go a long way to increase the public appreciation of the goals and objectives of the Nigeria Prize for Literature beyond the competition for the cash prize and the glitz of the ceremony.
Labels: $50, 000, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Man Booker Prize, Nigeria LNG, Nigeria Prize for Literature, Orange Prize, The New York Times Bestsellers List


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ON THURSDAY, February 27, 2014, the Finborough Arms in Earl's Court will re-open under its traditional name for the first time in thirteen years. The pub, sitting at the apex of Ifield Road and Finborough Road, is a local landmark on a busy thoroughfare.
The business is independently owned by landlord Jeff Bell, and is free from any brewery or pub company ties. The bar will feature 14 beer taps with a changing selection of great beers and farmhouse ciders from independent producers.
The pub's pristine, white-tiled beer cellar will be visible behind a glass wall, allowing customers to see how barrels are looked after and prepared for dispense. The aim is to make truly great beer and cider attractive and accessible to a wide audience.
An artist is recreating the original sign, consigned to landfill many years ago, using an image from a collectors' card issued by Whitbread Brewery – previous owners of the pub – in the 1970s. The interior is being renovated to a high standard to restore the feel of a traditional public house.
Green glazed decorative tiles form the back bar, with a traditional dark wooden counter and brass beer taps. An open fire and an upright piano sit in one corner. The large open-plan ground floor will be arranged with bench seating and small tables to encourage a convivial atmosphere, while in the cellar arched alcoves provide a more intimate space.
The Finborough Arms will benefit from its close relationship with the multi award-winning Finborough Theatre above it. The launch of the pub will coincide with press night for Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Theme starring Rachael Stirling, which has already sold out its entire run before the production has even opened.
The theatre is working closely with the new pub – which will also see the theatre's box office move to a permanent location in the pub itself.
New landlord, Jeff Bell, 34, worked as a city lawyer for a number of years, winning a reputation for himself with his beer blog and numerous freelance articles and reviews on beer and pubs. In 2009, he abandoned his legal career and entered the pub trade with the purchase of The Gunmakers Arms in Clerkenwell, EC1. Listed in all the prestigious industry publications such as The Good Beer Guide, Sawdays, Good Pub Guide and the AA Guide, The Gunmakers Arms has received rave reviews.
Monday to Thursday 5pm to 11pm.