Dr. Gary Slutkin is currently a professor of epidemiology and international health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has spent a decade in Africa fighting tuberculosis, cholera and other contagious diseases. He studied the patterns that diseases follow and created a solution to reverse their paths.
In 2013, Slutkin gave a TED Talk about using the same strategy used to fight infectious diseases and applying it to the patterns of violence, specifically gun violence, that are seen in urban areas in the United States. His strategy has been adopted by cities such as Chicago, New York City and Baltimore and could now be coming to Greensboro.
Officially known as Cure Violence, the program started in 2000 after Slutkin returned to the United States and noticed a pattern of concentrated deaths caused by gun violence in specific neighborhoods. The model was first implemented in the neighborhood of West Garfield Park, one of the most violent areas in Chicago, and resulted in a 67 percent decrease in shootings in its first year.
The model works by "activating voices and resources throughout our comprehensive health system and establishing violence prevention as a health sector responsibility and imperative," according to Cure Violence's website.
By engaging community leaders, identifying appropriate community and hospital response partners, re-examining the gun violence data, training credible workers and implementing the program with technical assistance, Cure Violence has seen dramatic change. The aim is to interrupt the transmission of violence, reduce the risk for those who are most likely to have involvement in violence and change community norms.
Last Monday, local officials and community leaders of Greensboro and Guilford County met in the Melvin Municipal Office to speak with Lori Toscano, the executive director of US programs for Cure Violence. Originally, Greensboro City Council members Goldie Wells, Sharon Hightower and Michelle Kennedy, along with community leader CJ Brinson, met on March 1 to discuss the possibility of bringing Cure Violence to Greensboro.
A few weeks later, the supporting group has added three more city council members, Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott and Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston, as well as other community members. The program is not yet set in stone as funding needs to be set up, but Cure Violence is planning to be implemented in Greensboro and High Point.
Promising eagerness was seen by both council members and city leaders after the meeting, with possible progress in planning implementation already being made.
In 2017, there were 64 violent deaths in Greensboro, according to the Greensboro Police Department, compared to 46 in 2016. Cure Violence could spark a real change in the Greensboro and Guilford County community and be an effective effort to avoid increasing statistics.


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Q: AZURE SAML / MS AD dual SSO integration with Wildfly I was searching for a while for an answer or a documentation without success for the following,
could we configure  wildfly 20+ with two SSO providers? for example primary with MS AD and secodary as cloud SAML Azure? is this setup feasible?
Any one has experience with this configuration an has documentation or online ref for that?
i ve tried to check in jboss official doc, but it seems nothing about this is there.

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The Cyprus Department of Meteorology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment is mainly responsible for matters related to the weather and climate of Cyprus. The Department is providing services and information relevant to the weather and climate aiming the wellbeing of the people of Cyrpus and the protection of their life and property.
For the achievment of the above objectives, the Department of Meteorology collects and uses the meteorological information over the Cyprus domain effectively and properly and shares this information with other National Meteorologaical Services and the World Meteodrological Organization (WMO).


adieu, set out for Krim.
exercise their horses in the Bois de Boulogne.
"I suppose he has Arab blood in him,"
with linseed, for he hasn't a tooth left."
who can afford himself a caprice like this."
just drop behind, sir, and never notice me."
would deign to remember an old acquaintance.
at Schaffhausen, or our last at Bregenz."
error after you have recognised it to be such."
and not included in the Gotha Almanack.
quitted it since that day.
THE END OF A DAY'S RIDE: A LIFE'S ROMANCE.
Will read on THURSDAY EVENING, March 28th, at ST.
THE END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.


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Shadow Gangs (PC) review
"Shinobi cast a long shadow"
Shadow Gangs wants so badly to be a game that I want so badly to have: a new Shinobi game. And not the somersaulting, rainbow shot-making, wall-jumping Revenge of Shinobi, or Shinobi III variety either; the stripped down, hardcore, one-hit-and-you're-dead original Shinobi and its underappreciated follow up, Shadow Dancer. And the thing is, this game nearly achieves its lofty goal on the strength of being such a pretty (I don't love the hand-drawn look, but boy is it pretty), hard rocking, and carefully copied update. But then it doesn't, because while crafting their facsimile, the developers failed to make it fun.
All of the classic Shinobi conventions are here, and I mean all of them. Your hero, Dan, will saunter through side-scrolling environs, tossing shurikens to kill common thugs and ninja alike from a distance -- whipping out a gun when he's powered up -- and he'll kick and katana-slice foes when up close. Dan can do a high jump to reach a second tier of the screen if available -- from a train platform to atop the train, for example -- and, actually, in this game, some stages feature as many as five such tiers. Gunmen literally lie in wait on the wrong side of crates or other obstacles, demanding perfect timing for you to hop over and kill them between bullets.
Hostages are tied to pillars and await rescuing, often behind those hulking bastards that every Shinobi fan hated -- you know the ones, who flung boomerang blades either high or low, making it difficult to get in close. All of this should sound very familiar. Hell, Shadow Gangs even offers those nearly impossible first-person perspective bonus rounds, which asked you to toss shurikens at ninjas who slid back-and-forth as in a shooting gallery. Miss one or two, and it would be round over. Except here, there are plenty more ninjas, you need only miss one for instant failure, and fading in and out of your embarrassing performance goes on too long.
And so I guess that bonus round example can serve as a microcosm of the entire, mostly miserable experience. Shadow Gangs wants to be Shinobi and it wants to be hardcore so bad, it doesn't seem to even care or notice that it's not being enjoyable. I went back and replayed those old titles which acted as inspiration, in the interest of being fair to this new one. The classics absolutely relied on rote memorization -- you had to know where enemies were and what they could do, and your margin for error was slim, but the margins were there, and rather importantly: the levels were small.
Shadow Gangs further reduces those margins, and gives us long, repetitive, bloated stages to inch our way through. The developers tried to mitigate this by providing a checkpoint here and there, but it's just not enough. Playing on "easy" (aka Rising Ninja) allows you to take three hits before dying, and provides a whopping seven lives. And it's still not enough. I'll be clear: all of these band-aids were sufficient to see me through to the end, but none of it was enough for me to have a good time doing so.
Progress is made on the backs of countless deaths and restarts, as you constantly work at pushing deeper into long levels where you must be perfect as you're besieged by deadly enemies who often appear from a wisp of smoke in your midst. And as dispatching them takes good timing, moving quickly as though you might speedrun the affair, leads to foes attacking in large groups that usually cannot be outrun, and are not put down easily. Every level has three stages within -- with the third as the one where the boss hangs out -- and needing to continue on stage three puts you back at stage one. The menu's level select permits you to keep trying that level that's kicking your behind until you figure it out or until the last drop of already meager enjoyment on offer has run dry.
And so despite its high production value for a game like this, I don't see how I could recommend Shadow Gangs -- perhaps to old school sadists? Regular, run-of-the-mill retro gamers definitely need not apply. Your idea of fun must include traversing several minutes-long stages which you must have thoroughly memorized, with the spectre of death and restarting over your shoulder all throughout. Despite what the developers of this game might think, that wasn't Master System Shinobi, nor was it Genesis Shadow Dancer -- two games with short, hard levels (hell, the former even gives you a life bar!). Tragically, my search for a truly worthy follow up to their legacy must continue.
Staff review by Marc Golding (April 10, 2020)
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Q: Does Boost/Python have a make_array method? I'd like to return to Python the results of my computations in a ndarray object. I know there is a make_tuple method so I figure there might be something similar for arrays though I can't find it.
Edit - I guess I can create the array in python, pass it as an extra parameter and modify it to hold the values. Would be better to use a return value though.

A: Try boost::python::numeric::array:
 http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/python/doc/v2/numeric.html#array-spec
Numeric is the former name of NumPy. It's possible that this wrapper still works with NumPy. Boost::Python seems to be notorious for having out of date documentation.


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Going by the first crop of results for the three months to June, it seems like earnings season has got off to a good start, helped by a favourable base effect; Q1FY18 was the pre-GST quarter and saw companies offloading stocks. But while headline numbers look good—propped up in some cases by asset sales—there is devil in the detail. To be sure, the results are not easy to read this time around, given the many one-offs and accounting changes. Which is why, extrapolating these results to conclude there is a sustainable turnaround in the offing, would be a stretch.
Larsen & Toubro's street-cheering performance, with a year-on-year margin expansion of 200 basis points (bps), for instance, must be viewed in the context of the low base and other factors, as must the revenue growth. The good news is that order inflows jumped 37% y-o-y during the quarter, but the bad news is that the ordering will continue to be dominated by the government sector because private companies aren't spending too much on capex just yet.
For a small but well-represented sample of 242 companies, net sales increased a good 17% year-on-year; however, since expenditure increased a slower 16% y-o-y, operating profit margins expanded 63 basis points allowing operating profits to grow 21%. Input cost pressures remain but are more moderate than in many of the recent quarters—the ratio of raw materials to sales was up 101 bps y-o-y. A closer look reveals several pressure points; less than exciting consumer demand and huge competitive intensity are teaming up to rob companies of pricing power as they struggle to hold on to volumes. There is a price war breaking out in the motorcycle market that threatens to hurt both Bajaj Auto and HeroMotocorp. In Q1FY19, Bajaj Auto's operating profits were below estimates, thanks to a slight deterioration in product mix and bigger discounts aimed at growing market share. The tariff war in the telecom space continues with Bharti Airtel posting poor profits.
Consumer spends are on the rise but aren't as buoyant as one might have expected with cash now back in the economy and the pain of GST easing. But, there is no doubt about a fair degree of purchasing power with some sections of the population; Maruti Suzuki's smart jump in revenues of 28% y-o-y was the result of a richer product mix and not just better volumes. Asian Paints did well, partly helped by the low base with stand-alone volumes estimated to have jumped 13-14% y-o-y in Q1FY19. It was a steady quarter from Hindustan Unilever—volumes were up about 12%, but on a flattish base—and margins rose 100 basis points y-o-y adjusting for GST, but analysts are pretty sure the momentum will taper off soon. The performance of companies in the core sector remains subdued either because demand isn't really buoyant or because fuel and other costs are hurting. Despite Ultratech's volumes growing 31% y-o-y weak realisations hurt profits. Elevated commodity prices continue to eat into margins across sectors. At Ultratech, the increase in costs meant the ebitda rose just 4% y-o-y while Maruti's ebitda, too, missed estimates as other expenses rose. Even TCS, which turned in a good quarter, was helped by the fall in the rupee. It has been a good quarter so far but not great yet.


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This photograph album was first compiled by Rosemary Kennedy as a birthday gift for her sister, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, in 1929, with later photographs added by Kathleen. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, "Photographs." An original handwritten inscription on the inside front cover reads, "Kathleen, From Rose happy birthday Feb. 1929," in white ink. Original captions are written in white ink and pencil in both Rosemary's and Kathleen's hand. Photographs document the family life, travels, and social activities of the Kennedy family from 1927 to 1936. In addition to Rosemary (referred to as "Rose" in original captions) and Kathleen, those pictured include their parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; their siblings, Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy, Jr., John F. "Jack" Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia "Pat" Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. "Ted/Teddy" Kennedy; their aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and her husband Joseph Francis Gargan, Sr.; governesses to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill and Elizabeth Dunn; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine "Kikoo" Conboy; family friends, Edward E. "Eddie" Moore, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings, Mary O'Keefe, Mary Veronica "Von" Rice, and Mary Frances "Sancy" Falvey; and family dogs, Buddy and Skippy. Of note are photographs of Kennedy family members and friends at the family's residences in Bronxville in New York, Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and Palm Beach in Florida; a visit to the Hippodrome Theatre in New York City, where the children posed with a baby elephant; Joseph, Sr., and Rose with actor Fred Thomson and screenwriter Frances Marion in California; and Kathleen and other campers and counselors at Sargent Camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Other locations and historic sites featured in photographs include the White House and United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C.; the National Monument to the Forefathers and Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts; the Potomac River; and George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. Original handwritten inscriptions are written in blue ink and pencil on the versos of many photographs. This photograph album contains 154 photographic prints, two photographic postcards, and one contact print of a strip of four 35mm black and white negatives.
Hyannis Port, Jean Kennedy, 1928: July
Bronxville, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Elizabeth Dunn, others, ca. 1936
1 photograph album (98 pages; 7.283 x 11.339 x 1.969 inches)
Boston Years, 1914-1927.
Copyright John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Kennedy Family Collection. Scrapbooks and albums: Kennedy children and others, 1927-1936. KFC-047-001. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Kennedy family friends
Person(s):
Bastien, Alice Cahill
Billings, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne), 1916-1981
Buddy (Dog)
Capps, Mary Veronica Rice, 1918-2012
Conboy, Katherine, 1882?-
Dunn, Elizabeth
Gargan, Agnes Fitzgerald, 1892-1936
Gargan, Joseph Francis, Sr., 1890-1946
Gravalos, Mary Evans, 1921-2006
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969
Kennedy, Kathleen, 1920-1948
Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 1890-1995
Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 1924-2006
Marion, Frances, 1888-1973
Moore, Edward E., 1877?-1953
Newman, Mary Frances, 1919-2003
Shriver, Eunice (Eunice Kennedy), 1921-2009
Skippy (Dog)
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 1928-2020
Thomson, Frederick Clifton, 1890-1928
Hippodrome Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.)
Sargent Camp (Peterborough, N.H.)
Bronxville (N.Y.)
Home of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1095 N Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida)
Home of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (294 Pondfield Road, Bronxville, New York)
Home of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (50 Marchant Avenue, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts)
Hyannis Port (Mass.)
Mount Vernon (Va.)
Palm Beach (Fla.)
Peterborough (N.H.)
Plymouth (Mass.)
United States Capitol
Washington (D.C.)
White House (Washington, D.C.)
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W&W Informatik is a German information technology company based in Ludwigsburg. It was founded in 2002 following the merge of the IT departments of all the Wüstenrot & Württembergische Group companies[i]. W&W Informatik, a subsidiary of W&W AG, is responsible for all networks, decentralized systems, architectures and computer centers within the W&W Group[ii]. W&W's network consists of 50,000 IP addresses (35,000 dynamic client IP addresses and 15,000 static IP addresses) and is continuing to grow, with 20,000 people accessing the network. Users typically connect through a local area network (LAN), but the 15,000 remote workers and 4,500 remote office locations also rely on VPN to connect. The DDI infrastructure is managed by a two-person DDI team based in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
W&W was with its previous DDI vendor for nearly 15 years. The outdated version of the solution that they were running had limited functionality, poor data consistency, and major issues handling high volumes of DDNS transactions. These limitations reduced the performance, reliability, and availability of the solution, hindering W&W's productivity. Periodically, all VOIP phones would reboot causing the solution to fail, resulting in outages of the VOIP infrastructure. W&W's network is heavily distributed across Germany and with the company's rapid growth, they must deal with the challenge of offices frequently opening and sometimes closing. Each new office requires the setup of a small network. To support this rapid growth, W&W needed to find a DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) solution that would grow with its network. Their network needs have evolved since their legacy solution was initially rolled out – the company's focus has shifted to private cloud implementation, VMWare automation and server automation – and their solution was no longer able to meet their requirements. Additionally, their previous DDI vendor did not offer the ease of upgrade and support that W&W was looking for.
Although W&W nearly went forward with another vendor's solution, they just weren't satisfied with the product. After being introduced to BlueCat, they implemented the BlueCat solutions for internal DNS, DHCP and IPAM, as well as the BlueCat VRO Plugin. W&W helped extract the necessary data from the legacy IPAM tool and BlueCat handled the entirety of the migration and a thorough database cleanse, which went very smoothly. BlueCat's approach to validating, optimizing, testing and importing the data proved very valuable to the customer. This was a major improvement over their legacy solution, where DNS and DHCP were running on separate systems, making the former upgrade processes unnecessarily complex. With BlueCat, as recently experienced, upgrades and patching are made seamless and without downtime.
BlueCat provided W&W with a centrally managed, single-vendor solution that scales with their company's rapid growth. The BlueCat solution was much more intuitive, easy to implement and offered a level of support that W&W had not seen with their legacy solution. The BlueCat architecture and consolidation of DNS/DHCP has provided better redundancy for DNS/DHCP, as well as better availability for IPAM. The BlueCat solution is also easier to patch and update, which has increased W&W's overall security posture; with their previous solution, they could only upgrade every four years when hardware was replaced, and this outdated software left their network vulnerable to malicious activity. Since implementing BlueCat, W&W has not experienced any downtime. They are benefiting from improved efficiency through a reduction in time to handle DHCP requests from 24 hours to only 15 minutes with BlueCat. They've achieved resiliency for all services in and among their data centers. The level of automation achieved with BlueCat's DDI solutions has significantly increased productivity in W&W's network. With the BlueCat API and VRO plugin, almost all of their DDI-related processes have been automated. The automation of server rollout processes has saved the company considerable amounts of time, allowing them to spend more time focusing on innovation and less time dealing with IT tickets. BlueCat's solution was also more physically suitable for W&W's data center as there are no objects in the grid and no extra appliances needed for basic functions like reporting. The BlueCat IPAM solution will meet their needs for years to come, saving them the expense and resources of needing to re-architecting the network every time there is a change.


Hello! It's Allison from Stuckey in Second. I'm excited to share how I started doing math stations in my second grade classroom this year!
I have honestly wanted to do math centers and small group math for years and just never found the time or resources. I think this is a horrible, stupid excuse now that I have started them and realized how AWESOME it is and how EASY it is! Why didn't I do this sooner!?
Well, for one thing, (in the case of making excuses...) for the past 7 years, I had a much shorter math block scheduled into my day. This year I have started at a new school and we have 80-90 minutes for math each day. At first, when I thought of how I had "always" taught math, I didn't know what I would do with all of this time!!
I kept telling myself, as I have for years, that I love how my reading block goes. Short whole group, then teaching the bulk/meat of my lesson in small groups and having the kids rotate through workstations.
Although I feel good about my rotations and groups, I know this is a work in progress and I plan to work on being more precise and differentiating even more. I'm just proud that I have it GOING!
I copied this rotation schedule from my teaching teammate, Michelle. Genius plan. I'll tell you why later.
My four groups are lowest to highest math level. Group 1 is lowest/needs most help and Group 4 is the highest math level/most independent.
This is the same rotation, everyday.
We use Envisions math. Although I'm not a huge fan, I use it for my whole group lesson . I start my math block with whole group teaching of the lesson. I try to limit this to 15-20 minutes. I used to teach the whole thing whole group...agh! Why!?
For the rotations, I use the baseline of 12 minutes per station/rotation, but sometimes if I get through my group fast or the kids are totally getting it, some groups go longer/shorter than others. Usually if one goes a little longer and needs more help, it works out that another group is really grasping it and the times always work out. I set a timer, but for the most part, I'm just having to go past it or stop it early. It's just a basic guideline.
Group 4 is independent, so they start at the seat work and don't need much help from me. They get enough from the short whole group lesson that they can get right to work on the assignment. These would be the kids that during my LOOOONNNGGG whole group lesson in the past, they would be working ahead and bored. Now, they don't have to be bored, they can get what they need in 15-20 minutes, then get right to work without wasting any time. Sometimes it's only 10 min!
Group 1 needs the most help, so it's best to start with them, when I can give them the most time. I always figure that if I get to groups 1-3 and give them a lot of help and for some reason I can't get to group 4, then that's okay. But, that hasn't even happened yet! I have made it to every group, every day!
The other good thing about this is the order. After teacher table, they have "learned" even more from me, so they head to their seats to do the seat work that corresponds with the current day's lesson. Then after seat work is computers/iPads. SOOOOO, if need be, you can hold this over their head a little bit. If they mess around at seat work station and don't finish what they needed to, they don't go to the next station of computers, they just keep working. (It works!) This order is the same for everyone, even the highest group. Everyone has computers right after the seat work station.
I KNOW exactly what my kids know. I DID NOT KNOW that before. I may have thought I did, but I didn't. I realize how little I knew before now that I'm teaching like this! Now that I meet with 4-6 kids at a time, I know exactly which kids can regroup, which kids are having trouble, which kids forget to regroup the tens place, which kids forget to add the third number, etc. There are tons of details I can tell you right off the top of my head because they are right in my face working, not playing in their desks, staring out the window, copying their neighbor, or just trying to keep up with a smile on their face. They are right at this tiny table with me and I can see their wheels turning, I can see their mistakes and correct them instantly. I don't have to wonder who is paying attention, who is catching on, or be surprised later when someone totally bombs the test.
I also love it because it doesn't feel like I have to "use my voice" so much. I mean, I am talking just as long...but I'm not talking OVER other kids or having to use my LOUD teaching voice.
I love it because by the fourth group, I'm an expert at explaining how to do things and I can literally see the progress throughout the rotation of kids "catching on"!
I love it because I can SIT for the four groups. Lazy? Yes. Smart? Yes! It's just a more relaxed learning environment not just for me, but for everyone!
I also love it because I can look around the room and see 4-6 kids working at their seats, spread around the room, then I see 4-6 kids "plugged in" to laptops and iPads on MobyMax math, then another group playing fun math games together. Honestly, the room is QUIET!!! The only kids MAYBE talking are the ones playing math games and the ones right at my group. It's glorious!!! I'm honestly in love.
I should also add that after the rotations, I do also make time to give students a graded "Quick Check" at the end of the lesson to check their understanding for the day. I use the quick checks that are included with Envisions, but I'm sure you may have our own in place.
I hope that I have inspired someone to try a new approach next year with math stations and rotations. Just give it a try!!
This is AWESOME and so are you!!!! I am moving to second next year for the first time and I am definitely going to try this during my math time. It totally makes sense and I can't wait to plan for it and try it out. Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!!!!!!! I left feedback for the freebies as well.
Any good apps or specific games you have them play during their laptop/ipad rotation? I love this idea and would love to implement it in my classroom next year.
Love this!! I feel just like you said having to talk loud in that teacher voice!! Is the whole group a lesson from the textbook? Is the seat work like independent practice? And wondering how this would work for summer school??
Great post!! We actually used this post as we worked on our school math framework. Thanks!


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Twenty-nine Nobel Prize winners, classical music and a "civilized" steakhouse — in Baltimore
Piano Bar at The Prime Rib in Baltimore
BALTIMORE – We are visiting "Charm City" to attend "Admitted Student Visit Day" at Johns Hopkins University, where our son is going in the fall to study biomedical engineering (the nation's top-ranked program for undergrads).
It was a non-eventful flight from Sacramento to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Southwest Airlines (which will resume nonstops on the route later this year — a big deal for Sierra Foothills dwellers like us) .
We've all been to the area before. I spent a semester in Washington, D.C., when I was a graduate journalism student at Northwestern University. Of course, that was long before Baltimore's airport was renamed to honor the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, who grew up here. We've returned since: One one occasion, our son visited D.C. for a week with his schoolmates from Mount St. Mary's Academy in Grass Valley.
This week, we've been exploring the Johns Hopkins campus north of downtown Baltimore ahead of Wednesday's all-day gathering, where students and their parents "meet and mingle with other admitted Early Decision students, learn more about academics and student life, tour campus (including residence and dining halls and other on-campus spots), and meet faculty members." I loved going to Cal (and am a lifetime member of the Alumni Association), but the private schools provide that "personal touch."
Johns "with an s" Hopkins University
The university takes its name from 19th-century Maryland philanthropist Johns Hopkins, an entrepreneur and abolitionist with Quaker roots. (His unusual first name came from his great-grandmother's surname). It is considered the nation's oldest research university.
JHU ranks among the nation's top 10 universities. It is best known for innovations in medical research, but its Peabody Institute is the nation's oldest music conservatory. Its faculty includes Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled, whom we've seen perform at In-Concert Sierra in Grass Valley.
Twenty-nine people associated with Johns Hopkins — as a faculty member, fellow, resident, or graduate — have received a Nobel Prize. Four Nobel laureates currently are on the faculty.
Sticking to the culinary theme of our FoodWineArt magazine, I scouted out some restaurants we wanted to sample. One was Woodberry Kitchen, known for its "farm to table wonderfulness." It's mission: "All of the food on our menu is sourced directly from a local farmer or fisherman. All of our wines and beers are local." It was fabulous.
Another was The Prime Rib, an old-school steakhouse. It opened in 1965 and is redolent of a Manhattan supper club, complete with tuxedoed waiters and a piano bar. The Prime Rib also has an outpost in Washington D.C., where I first learned of it in the '90s. Its motto: "The Civilized Steakhouse."
"The Good, the Bad, the Baltimore"
To be sure, Baltimore has some big urban problems. Details are best summed up here in an article by Jean Marbella, a longtime Baltimore Sun staff writer whom I used to work with at the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
But the issues are more nuanced, as Marbella's well-written and well-researched article "The good, the bad, the Baltimore: City has problems, but Trump 'got on TV and just lied' explains. It begins: "We're not really talking about rats, are we? Or rather, we're not only talking about rats."
Later in the week, we're going to visit Baltimore's inner harbor, revitalized as Harborplace by visionary developer James Rouse. "Harborplace was widely credited with bringing about the renewal of Baltimore's waterfront, and Faneuil Hall (in Boston) and the South Street Seaport (in New York) gave tourists the kind of comfortable town square in the center of unfamiliar cities that they craved," as The New York Times noted in Rouse's obit.
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Brett Steven Lebda (* 15. Januar 1982 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Eishockeyspieler, der im Verlauf seiner aktiven Karriere zwischen 1998 und 2013 unter anderem 459 Spiele für die  Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs und Columbus Blue Jackets in der National Hockey League auf der Position des Verteidigers bestritten hat. In Diensten der Detroit Red Wings, in deren Organisation er den Großteil seiner Karriere verbrachte, gewann Lebda im Jahr 2008 den Stanley Cup.

Karriere

Brett Lebda besuchte die Buffalo Grove High School für zwei Jahre. Er begann seine Karriere 2000 als er für die University of Notre Dame (Bundesstaat Indiana) in der Central Collegiate Hockey Association spielte. Nach seiner ersten Saison wurde er ins All-Rookie-Team der CCHA gewählt. Insgesamt spielte er vier Jahre für das Team und wurde 2004 in das Second Allstar-Team der Liga berufen. Während der Saison 2003/04 spielte er neben den Spielen der College-Meisterschaft auch sechs Partien für die Grand Rapids Griffins, dem Farmteam der Detroit Red Wings, in der American Hockey League.

Im Sommer 2004 erhielt er dann einen Vertrag bei den Red Wings, doch da die Saison 2004/05 wegen des Lockout ausfiel, absolvierte er die Saison in der AHL bei den Grand Rapids Griffins. Während der Saison 2005/06 pendelte er mehrfach zwischen der AHL und der National Hockey League und spielte sowohl für Detroit als auch für Grand Rapids.

Im Sommer 2006 wurde sein Vertrag um vier Jahre verlängert und etablierte sich während der Saison 2006/07 als Stammspieler bei den Red Wings. Er schoss fünf Tore und bereitete 13 vor und zog mit Detroit bis ins Finale der Western Conference ein. Im Juli 2010 wechselte er zu den Toronto Maple Leafs.

Am 3. Juli 2011 wurde Lebda in einem Tauschhandel gemeinsam mit Robert Slaney im Austausch für Cody Franson und Matthew Lombardi zu den Nashville Predators transferiert. Der Transfer beinhaltete auch ein Viertrunden-Wahlrecht im NHL Entry Draft 2013, das abhängig von der Anzahl der absolvierten Spiele Lombardis war. Im August 2011 wurde sein Vertrag von den Nashville Predators ausbezahlt und Lebda als Free Agent verfügbar. Er schloss sich daraufhin den Springfield Falcons aus der AHL an und war für diese bis Januar 2012 aktiv. Am 19. Januar 2012 unterzeichnete er beim Kooperationspartner der Falcons, den Columbus Blue Jackets aus der NHL, einen Einjahres-Vertrag bis zum Ende der Saison 2011/12. In seiner letzten Profispielzeit war der US-Amerikaner für die Rockford IceHogs und Binghamton Senators in der AHL tätig, bevor er im Alter von 31 Jahren seine aktive Karriere für beendet erklärte.

International
Für sein Heimatland nahm Lebda mit der U20-Nationalmannschaft der Vereinigten Staaten an der U20-Junioren-Weltmeisterschaft 2002 in Tschechien teil. Dabei kam der Abwehrspieler in allen sieben Turnierspielen der US-Amerikaner zum Einsatz und erzielte dabei zwei Treffer. Die Vereinigten Staaten beendeten das Turnier außerhalb der Medaillenränge auf dem fünften Platz.

Erfolge und Auszeichnungen
 2001: CCHA All-Rookie Team
 2004: CCHA Second All-Star Team
 2008: Stanley-Cup-Gewinn mit den Detroit Red Wings

Karrierestatistik

International
Vertrat die USA bei:
 U20-Junioren-Weltmeisterschaft 2002

Weblinks

Eishockeyspieler (Notre Dame Fighting Irish)
Eishockeyspieler (Grand Rapids Griffins, AHL)
Eishockeyspieler (Detroit Red Wings)
Eishockeyspieler (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Eishockeyspieler (Springfield Falcons)
Eishockeyspieler (Columbus Blue Jackets)
Eishockeyspieler (Rockford IceHogs, AHL)
Eishockeyspieler (Binghamton Senators)
Stanley-Cup-Sieger
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1982
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A Shallow Flight of Stairs, Robin Peck's solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, consisted of a single large scale work using all eight standard size acrylic sheets. Peck worked through many different configurations to bring the separate pieces of material together in a composition that responded to the gallery as a frame and in consideration of the way a viewer moves around the work in the exhibition space. The relation that was created by assembling the similar but slightly differing material was one that was contingent on the architecture of the gallery but with the primary concern of putting the viewer in motion. The sculpture and architecture were static and activated by the viewer's movement, which revealed subtle incremental changes in perspective caused by the differing thickness of each transparent sheet.
Robin Peck studied Art History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (1990-1991) and obtained his MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1975). As an artist, a writer, and an educator, he explores the concept of sculpture within the context of a travel narrative, through his sculptural practice. His work has been exhibited in solo shows across Canada and internationally including Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver (1993), the Or Gallery in Vancouver (1996), Gallery 25M2 in Reykjavik, Iceland (1997), Canada in New York City (2003) and Diaz Contemporary in Toronto (2006). Peck has also participated in several group exhibitions at Wynick-Tuck Gallery in Toronto (1997) and Trepanier-Baer Gallery in Calgary (1997). He has recently published SCULPTURE, A Journey to the Circumference of the Earth, Broken Jaw Press, 2004. His articles have been published in various magazines and catalogues including, 'Standard Stoppages.' Front Magazine (1992), ' White.' Boo Magazine (1996), 'The Dentist.' Canadian Art (1997), and 'Scattered Across the Floor.' C Magazine (1999). Robin Peck is currently an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Saint Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.


© ConservativeUnderground.com > Politics > Best/Worst of DU/Discussionist > You had to know this was coming...Barack is being LYNCHED!
View Full Version : You had to know this was coming...Barack is being LYNCHED!
For real. Do not be fooled. "Typical Chicago Politician" is just code for "Scary Black Man". The qualities that the RNC and its media whores are trying to associate with Sen. Obama are 1) dishonesty 2) criminal behavior 3) hypersexuality 4) lack of patriotism 5) scariness just like our Ghost of Racism Past described to us in Part I.
One question: doesn't "Typical Chicago Politician" mean Richard Daly and his offspring? Last time I checked, they were Irish. How the poster got "scary black man" out of a bunch of Irish American ballot box stuffers is beyond me.
Or maybe it means Rezco? But wait....Rezco isn't a "scary black man."
Does anybody have a clue what the OP is talking about?
Does anybody have a clue what the OP is talking about?Don't try to make any sense out of LibTalk or it will infect you too .They generate these little conspiracy's in their little pointed heads and then they have to show the other little pointed head liberals what they figured out all by themselves !
It's like feeding turkeys, if you feed then green vegstables and grain they are sedate and happy but add a few red tomato's and they get all worked up and go nuts.
For a lot of lefties, history started yesterday afternoon. They are simply unaware of any political conditions or events that happened before The Daily Show.
For educated people and people who are political buffs, "typical Chicago politician" evokes someone who uses special interest groups (unions, racial groups) to turn out the vote in exchange for special consideration. It also reminds people of the rampant graft and fraud that fueled the Chicago political machine for well over 100 years. Then there is the added charge of cronyism and nepotism that has always been business as usual in that town.
A lack of patriotism and hypersexuality are not part of this meme although dishonesty and criminal behavior are. I don't know where the "scariness" part come in exactly.
he stikes me as a typical pol who has figured out that saying "CHANGE"
enough times might get him into the WH.
I know, it's like some kind of weird behaviorist experiment.
but a lynching kills you dead.
That poster should be tied to a chair and forced to watch news footage of real lynchings until he confesses how ignorant and disrecpectful his words are.
Oh yeah...and he wasn't a scary black man either right?
Progressivism, always on the wrong side of history. Jim Crow, Eugenics, the domestic terrorism of the 60's....I could go on and on here!
A black politician in Chicago who participates/votes in elections even though he's been dead for a quarter century.
It's a disgrace to even use the word 'Lynch' to describe Obama's woes. It is a disgrace to the real suffering of segregation and the ones who actually experienced this. I hardly think an Ivy league black man who spent most of his life in prosperity can relate. Pathetic.
Actually, this isn't so far off. Age discrimination is being used against McCain. Even comics like Jay Leno are joking about McCain having been the GOP candidate the last time the Democrats met in Denver--in 1908.
If lying were against the law, all politicians would be swinging from the end of a rope.


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North Korea leader is no longer the 'Sexiest Man Alive of 2012'
Kim Jung-un, ruler of North Korea
On Wednesday, the People's Daily online deleted a story and 55-photo slide show that named Kim Jong-un, the young, chubby ruler of North Korea, as the "Sexiest Man Alive of 2012."
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Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Sh*t That Doesn't F*ck*ng Work!
An artistic rendition of nonfunctioning dung drop
Sometimes a lemon needs to be called a lemon. At other times, megalithic electronic giants need to have a tear trotting, guffaw inducing satirical comment made about them. Thankfully the fine folks over at The Onion (America's Finest News Source) have decided to take it upon themselves to do just such a thing, leveling jaw dropping accusations at global giant SONY.
In reality, we have all had our experience with some sort of gizmo that painfully desired to be punted across the room after hours of frustration for some reason and you can simply insert the name of that manufacturer when the name SONY is mentioned.
Regardless of your view of SONY, this is one mighty funny video. However, it contains EXTREMELY intense language so be forewarned as the VIDEO is after the jump.
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Dunk Dick Tank
Cheney tells more than 200 million Americans to "throw or get the hell out of [his] sight."
The amazing mirth wizards over at The Onion, America's Finest News Source, reported on a very wishful outcome from the past 8 years of dealing with Dick.
"WASHINGTON-Organizers reported Sunday that the 44th White House Carnival was a rousing success, raising a record $800,000,066,845 for the federal government-$800 billion of which came from a dunk tank featuring former vice president Dick Cheney."
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