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Winter Fun in Highlands | Highlands PAC
Issue: Winter 2022 | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC, Featured Arts & Culture
The Highlands Performing Arts Center has laced this winter with plenty of surprises to add sound and color to your mental landscape. Tickets for all events are available at HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
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The MET, Live Via Satellite | Highlands PAC
Issue: 2021/12 – December | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
The MET Opera returns to Highlands Performing Arts Center with a pair of productions – Eurydice on December 4; and Cendrillon on January 1. For tickets or more information, visit HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
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The Bluegrass Dream Team: Highlands PAC
Issue: 2021/11 – November | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
Bluegrass innovators Sideline will perform at Highlands Performing Arts Center at 7:30 P.M. Friday, November 26. For tickets or more information, visit HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
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A Holiday Season Yule Love: Highlands Playhouse
Issue: 2021/11 – November | by Donna Rhodes in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC, What to do in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
Highlands Playhouse delivers its characteristic panache and excitement as the Plateau's autumn shades into the Holiday Season.
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National Theatre Returns: Highlands PAC
Issue: 2021/11 – November | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Featured What to Do in Highlands and Cashiers NC, What to do in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
Highlands Performing Arts Center marks the return of The National Theatre of London to local audiences with a pair of encore performances. Highlands PAC is located at 507 Chestnut Street. For more information, call (828) 526-9047.
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National Theatre Returns
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The MET is back | Highlands Performing Arts Center
Issue: 2021/10 – October | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
The Metropolitan Opera is back on the playbill at Highlands Performing Arts Center. The PAC is located at 507 Chestnut Street.
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Beautiful Noise | Highlands PAC
Issue: 2021/09 – September | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
The concerts offered at Highlands Performing Arts for the month allow audiences to feel, truly feel, the music.
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Comedy Comes to PAC
Issue: 2021/08 – August | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
A raucous play explores the things we love, the things that drive us bonkers about the opposite sex; and the music of Neil Diamond is on the horizon. For tickets or more information, visit HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
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Summertime & We're Here!
Issue: 2021/07 – July | by Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC in Arts in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC
Men are from Mars/Women are from Venus: LIVE, set for August 14, brings a measure of frisky fun to the Plateau; while Neil Zirconia offers A Beautiful Noise on September 17. For tickets and more information, visit HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
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The Met Live in HD, Rigoletto | Highlands PAC
January 29, 2022 /
Bartlett Sher's bold new take on Verdi's timeless tragedy arrives in cinemas. The Tony Award–winning director resets the opera's action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber, themselves boasting a combined 11 Tony Awards.
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The Met Live in HD, Cinderella | Highlands PAC
The MET Opera returns to Highlands Performing Arts Center with Cendrillon on January 1. For tickets or more information, visit HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
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Highlands PAC: The Met Live in HD, Eurydice
The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld, has inspired composers since opera's earliest days.
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At Highlands PAC: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
At 1:00 P.M. Saturday, November 20, it's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
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The National Theatre of London: Follies at Highlands PAC
At 1:00 P.M. Saturday, November 6, join us for Follies starring Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton.
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The Great Pandemic | Highlands-Cashiers Players
Highlands-Cashiers Players offers The Great Pandemic at Highlands Performing Arts Center October 14-17 and October 21-24, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2:30 PM.
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Met Live Via Satellite: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's adaptation of Charles M. Blow's moving memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones – Live via Satellite, Saturday, October 23 beginning at 12:55 P.M.
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Met Live Via Satellite: Boris Godunov
The Metropolitan Opera is reopening their doors. On Saturday, October 9, the MET will present Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky Live via Satellite.
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28th Annual Bel Canto Recital
The 28th Annual Bel Canto Recital had to be postponed a year but e are back and better than ever with a great line up of four performers. They will be Kara Shay Thompson, soprano; Mary Phiillips, mezzo soprano; Jonathan Burton, tenor; Todd Thomas, baritone and as always, our "orchestra," Dr. Stephen Dubberly, who has been with Bel Canto since its inception.
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Met at Highlands PAC: Rigoletto
Michael Mayer's acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of Verdi's masterpiece in 1960 Las Vegas—a neon-lit world ruled by money and ruthless, powerful men. Piotr Beczala is the Duke, a popular entertainer and casino owner who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Željko Lucic sings Rigoletto, his sidekick and comedian, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's innocent daughter, Gilda. When she is seduced by the Duke, Rigoletto sets out on a tragic course of murderous revenge. Štefan Kocán is the assassin Sparafucile and Michele Mariotti conducts.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – This year marks the 80th anniversary of Batman's first appearance and to celebrate, Warner Bros. is bringing an iconic interpretation of the character back to the big screen.
Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy (2005's Batman Begins, 2008's The Dark Knight and 2012's The Dark Knight Rises) will screen in five cities, including Indianapolis.
During their initial release, the films made a combined $2.5 billion at the box office. The re-release will include 70mm IMAX prints of the movies.
The IMAX Theater at the Indiana State Museum will host its screenings on April 20. And you'd better be prepared to sit because the runtime is expected to be about eight hours.
The screenings kick off on March 30 at the AMC Universal Citywalk 19 IMAX in Hollywood on March 30. Director Christopher Nolan will hold a Q&A session that will be played at subsequent showings.
You can learn more about the screenings here. Tickets go on sale Wednesday at 12 p.m. Eastern.


Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul fields a question during the first Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena on Aug. 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) tax plan is impossible to take seriously. The Republican presidential candidate intends to eliminate the deficit, approve trillions of dollars in new tax breaks, and impose a regressive flat-tax system, all at the same time. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
WALLACE: [T]alking about the Tax Foundation and what they say. Under your plan, a family making from $50,000 to $75,000 a year would get a 3 percent rise in income. Sounds pretty good. But a family making more than $1 million a year would get a 13 percent rise in income. Question, doesn't your plan massively increase income inequality?
PAUL: Well, the thing is income inequality is due to some people working harder and selling more things. If people voluntarily buy more of your stuff, you'll have more money. And it's a fallacious notion to say, 'Oh, rich people get more money back in a tax cut.' If you cut taxes 10 percent, 10 percent of $1 million is more than 10 percent of $1,000. So, obviously, people who paid more in taxes will get more back.
The Democratic National Committee liked the exchange so much, the party quickly posted a video of it online.
And it's not hard to understand why. Let's unwrap this a bit.
First, I don't think Rand Paul fully understands what "fallacious notion" means.
Second, and more important, is the fact that the Republican senator seems to think income inequality isn't driven by public policy, but rather, is just a natural economic occurrence. Some Americans "work harder" and sell more stuff, therefore they have more money than everyone else. See how easy it is to understand economics?
And finally, the GOP presidential hopeful remains committed to the idea that economic vitality is built on a foundation of giving rich people tax breaks, which will eventually lead to prosperity trickling down to everyone else. The failure of this model in practice has apparently done little to shake Rand Paul's confidence in the theory.
My follow-up question for the senator is straightforward enough: after President Obama raised taxes on the wealthy, U.S. job creation reached a 15-year high. How do you explain that?


After a hike at Mount Royal with the boys, comfort food is never a bad option, especially during this freezing weather.
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Without the Whistle Blown: The Dangers of Complacency
by / on behalf of the firm | Sep 19, 2014 | Whistle Blowing
Shortly after a deadly incident along local Interstate 17 in North Phoenix, a whistleblower has come forward and alleged an accident was 'bound to happen'.
The rollover accident that occurred earlier in August involved a tanker truck, shutting down parts of the highway for several hours as crews raced to remove hot asphalt oil from the crash. One whistleblower claims the accident, which claimed the life of the tanker truck driver, might have been avoided altogether.
Preliminary investigators reported driver fatigue was likely the cause of the crash. Witnesses in the area noted the truck was swerving along the road moments before the fatal incident. Investigators found various road signs the driver had knocked down before ultimately crashing into a pole.
A coworker from Cactus Transport who personally knew the tanker truck driver told reporters, "The first thing that went through my mind was it was bound to happen. It was coming any day." The man went on to claim that from the moment he began working for the company, he was pressured to work beyond legal restraints and through break periods.
The whistleblower went on to add, "It's very dangerous to have people that tired working around that kind of stuff. The hours that they give these guys, they don't give them rest time. They want them to stop one job, get ready to go to the next and work all that day without any kind of breaks or rests."
Incidents like what occurred on Interstate 17 are important reminders why whistleblowers need to exist. Many of these individuals fear stepping forward will result in their own detriment, reporting that threatens their very livelihood.
Preventable accidents force the question, Are we doing enough to encourage whistleblowers? Fostering a more positive stance on whistleblowers could prevent tragic fatalities and improve work conditions.
Original story reported by AZ Family.

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The [email protected] High School (KWHS) Global Young Leaders Academy – Finance is the latest addition to the successful KWHS summer program. An alternative to the existing GYLA sessions that teach business and entrepreneurship, this latest module launched in 2019 provides current high school students from around the globe with a two-week summer experience at Wharton focusing on finance and investment.
With the guidance of Wharton faculty and Ph.D. students, participants will explore all aspects of finance, from the time value of money and corporate finance to ethics and investment decision-making. Students will trade on Wharton's Online Trading & Investment Simulator — using real-world market data without risking real money — and develop and deliver a team-based investment project. In addition to rigorous coursework, GYLA students collaborate closely in smaller teams, experience campus life, develop relationships with classmates from around the world, and discover Philadelphia and other local destinations.
[email protected] High School (KWHS) — is an online resource located at kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu with the mission to provide high school students and educators around the world with a deeper understanding of business and personal finance and to equip them with the skills to excel in the global marketplace. We are part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a world leader in business education.
The Wharton School is the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university located in Philadelphia. Wharton was established in 1881 and was the first business school in the United States. Currently, U.S. News & World Report ranks Wharton's undergraduate program #1, regarding it as one of the world's top institutions for business education.
International Experience. About 80% of students come from around the world to join this program each summer. Every year we hear how much students enjoy meeting people from all over the country and the world and how it opened their eyes to different parts of the globe.
Field Trips. Students enjoy field trips to Philadelphia scenic spots, King of Prussia Mall and Six Flags Theme Park.
High school students with demonstrated academic accomplishments and a strong interest in finance are welcome to apply. Students should have some prior knowledge in economics and business. Students must be at least 15 years of age upon the program start date — no exceptions will be made.
A completed online application. APPLY NOW.
Proof of English proficiency. A minimum TOEFL score of 100 is recommended.
A completed and signed teacher recommendation form.
Why do you want to apply to this program? What sparks your interest in finance? Be sure to use examples to illustrate your answer.
Describe a problem you've solved or a problem you would like to solve. Why was or is solving that problem important to you?
*The admission process for the program is completely independent to that of Penn or Wharton. Participation in the KWHS Global Young Leaders Academy does NOT guarantee admission into Penn or Wharton.
The application deadline is April 30 for all applicants. However, we review applications on a rolling basis and decisions are usually released within 14-20 business days after a full application is submitted.
Crucial skills for future careers in global leadership — and the keys to becoming an engaged global citizen. Real-life simulations, lectures by international leaders and trips to DC and NYC.
Sponsored by Yale, the summer academy is an immersive academic experience in social entrepreneurship for high school students in an Ivy League setting.


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soumyanathc	in Art of living	 June 5, 2008 522 Words
Perils of high productivity
We are often tutored to raise our productivity and be as effecient as possible. Nature works otherwise.
Let's take the case of one marvellous insect: Locust
The very name is enough to run a chill through the spine of people living on farming. It's hard not to have at least a grudging respect for the desert locust. It has survived on Earth for millions of years, thriving in the heat and aridity of the world's most inhospitable deserts. For the most part, the insect known as Schistocerca gregaria goes quietly about its inscrutable insect business, a solitary and inconspicuous brown speck concealed in clumps of widely scattered desert vegetation, subsisting on even the most noxious weeds when necessary. Each insect capable of eating its own body weight (about 2 grams, or .07 ounces) in vegetation each day, a swarm that size could consume 192 million kilograms of vegetation each day, or more than 423 million pounds. Now consider that in the last century alone, there were seven periods of numerous plagues, the longest of which lasted intermittently for 13 years.
Our admiration can only be carried so far, though, when this seemingly shy and inconspicuous insect reveals its surprising dark side. Throughout recorded human history, and surely long before, locust plagues have periodically poured forth from their arid confines and invaded areas where people live, farm, and graze their livestock.
Desert Locusts are widely found in north Africa, Deserts of Arabia and North-West India, mainly in the state of Rajasthan.
Such was the devastation caused by this insect, that in the Thar Desert is called Marwar. The word Marwar is derived from Sanskrit word 'Maruwat'. English translation of the word is "region of death".
During quiet periods, called recessions, locusts are confined to a 16-million-square-kilometer (6.2-million-square-mile) belt that extends through the Sahara Desert in northern Africa, across the Arabian Peninsula, and into northwest India.
The default state of the desert locust is to be solitary—to have a strong aversion to others of its kind. But when conditions are right (or perhaps 'wrong' would be the better word), swarms invade countries on all sides of the recession area, as far north as Spain and Russia and as far east as India and southwest Asia. As many as 60 countries can be affected. Swarms regularly cross the Red Sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and are even reported to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Caribbean. Monitoring locust habitat during recessions means monitoring a large, forbidding expanse of arid and semi-arid terrain, often in conflict-ridden, developing countries with little infrastructure or technology.
Problem with Locust is the destruction of crop. It eats the plant so effeciently that leaves no trace of any greenery, and causes most plants to die, making the entire region barren. This has been a major cause of environmental degradation.
Many historians point out the existence of coal in Marwar region. Thus clearly indicating this land which is now desert was once had thriving vegetation. Locust attack was possibly one of the cause of turning it into desert.
This goes to say: effecient exploitation is not the right thing to do.
Let's be ourselves


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I am no runner, but these are wonderful for any type of aerobic activity, as well as a gym shoe to wear while lifting. I even wear it when I know I'll be on my feet all day. I've had so many compliments on the style of this shoe, but I always tell people that the comfort is out-of-this world! I have a wider foot & this shoe fit with no issue, no discomfort at all.


The Southwest Florida sports scene saw a lot of success in 2018. There were gold medals and championship trophies collected aplenty as well as great individual and team accomplishments as stars rose to the fore.
With so much to choose from, The News-Press looked at the stories that received a lot of attention from readers on our digital and mobile platforms, the reaction they generated on social media and assessed the weight of stories and their impact on the community to narrow a list down to 10 topics. So here are the stories that had Southwest Florida buzzing over the past 12 months.
FGCU alum and Boston Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale had the privilege of throwing the first and last pitches of the World Series as Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Sale started Game 1 against Clayton Kershaw and allowed three runs in four innings. The Naples resident was then summoned out for the ninth inning in Game 5 and struck out all three Dodgers batters he faced — dropping Manny Machado, the final batter, to one knee as he feebly offered at strike three — to secure the Red Sox's 5-1 victory and clinch Boston's fourth championship in 15 seasons.
Just days after Joe Dooley ended his five-year stint as the FGCU men's basketball coach to take the top job at East Carolina, the Eagles named seven-year assistant men's basketball coach Michael Fly as the program's fourth head coach. Dooley was 114-57 in five FGCU seasons, leading the Eagles to all three of their Atlantic Sun regular-season titles and to two NCAA tournament berths. Fly joined FGCU in 2011-12 with coach Andy Enfield as a video coordinator and worked his way up to earning a chance to run the program.
Blessed with a collection of top Minnesota Twins prospects like Royce Lewis and Alex Kirilloff, the Fort Myers Miracle won their second Florida State League title by downing Daytona 3 games to 1 in the championship series.
The Florida Everblades were close to raising another banner as well, leading 2-1 in Game 7 of the Kelly Cup Finals, but the Blades fell 3-2 at Germain Arena to the Colorado Eagles, missing a chance to win a second cup in their 20th season.
Fort Myers High basketball player Destanni Henderson graduated as one of the most highly decorated high school athletes in Lee County history. After leading the Green Wave to a third straight state title, the South Carolina signee was named the 2017-18 Gatorade Florida Girls Basketball Player of the Year and 2018 Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Basketball. She was also invited to the McDonald's All-Star game and scored 11 points.
Her prom date did pretty well for himself as well as Emmitt Williams, a 6-foot-7 power forward from Lehigh who played at Oak Ridge High School, was the Class 9A Player of the Year and a finalist for the 2018 Florida Mr. Basketball Award. He helped Oak Ridge to the state title and broke LeBron James' scoring record in the 17th annual Jordan Brand Classic all-star game, scoring 44 points.
Cape Coral High graduate and South Florida's Shane McClanahan, a junior left-handed pitcher at USF, was selected 31st overall by the Tampa Rays in the 2018 MLB Draft. The Boston Red Sox selected Bishop Verot graduate and Central Florida junior right-handed pitcher Thad Ward with the 160th overall pick in the fifth round. Former Bishop Verot shortstop Blaze Alexander was selected in the 11th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks while older brother and Verot alum C.J. Alexander was taken in the 20th round by the Atlanta Braves. In addition, the Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Canterbury outfielder Giovanni DiGiacomo in the 29th round. ECS right-handed pitcher Ben Specht was then taken by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the last pick in the 40th round.
Some former Lee County high school players stood out at the next level. Maryland's Jeshaun Jones (South Fort Myers) scored touchdowns on his first three touches — a run, reception, and pass — in the Terrapins' upset of Texas. Jartavius Martin (Lehigh) had three interceptions and 42 tackles starting as a freshman for Illinois. Antwan Dixon (South Fort Myers) was named the Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Award, returning to Kent State after missing 2016-17 seasons dealing with aplastic anemia, a rare blood disorder. Kenny Banjamin (Dunbar) scored a touchdown in the Division II National Championship game, helping Valdosta State to a title. Brothers Rocky (FIU) and Shocky (Pitt), both Dunbar graduates, played roles as freshmen for their teams, which qualified for bowl games. Cole Schneider (Riverdale) started on the offensive line for undefeated UCF.
Alva native Ross Chastain got a three-race tryout driving the No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet and made the most of it. He won the pole in his first race and then took the checkered flag in his second, winning the DC Solar 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. With that showing, Ganassi signed Chastain to drive the No. 42 car for the 2019 season. In his three-start tryout, the Riverdale High graduate led 270 of 597 laps.
China Dow scored 21 points and played stingy defense as the No. 12 seed FGCU women's basketball team pulled off an upset in the Lexington Regional with an 80-70 win against fifth-seeded Missouri. It was the second NCAA tournament win for the Eagles, who made their fifth NCAA appearance in just seven eligible seasons. They lost to fourth-seeded Stanford (23-10) in the next round.
The FGCU volleyball team made its first NCAA appearance and knocked off its region's top seed UCF in five games. The Eagles couldn't advance beyond that, losing to Florida in the region final.
Lee County athletes and teams brought home a lot of gold in 2018. The Canterbury baseball (27-5) became the fourth Lee County athletic program to win three straight state crowns, joining Canterbury volleyball (2000-02), Estero High girls cross-country (2010-13) and Fort Myers girls basketball (2016-18).
ECS track star Moriah Oliveira also turned in a triple state championship day, winning the 400- and 200-meter runs and capped her day with an anchor leg run on the gold medal Class A 4x400 relay team. Four other local athletes won gold at state as SFCA's Rebekah Bergquist set a personal record in the discus en route to the Class A state title with a 44.85-meter toss and Fort Myers' Jacob Lemmon's throw of 59.87 meters bested the competition at the Class 3A state meet. Canterbury's Jessica Edwards brought home a Class 1A state championship in the 800-meter run and Estero's Hugh Brittenham won the Class 3A state 800 meters title. Canterbury's Berrick Jeanlouis defended his Class 1A state high jump title with a leap of 2.02 meters.
Fort Myers' Olivia McMurray added two wins at the FHSAA Class 3A swimming and diving championships. She won the 200-yard freestyle and with an automatic All-American time of 1:48.00 and won the 500 free in 4:47.91, another All-American time. Cape Coral's Nicole Rodriguez broke through winning gold in the 200-yard individual medley (2:06.43) at the Class 2A state championships.
Christian Minto completed a 46-0 season at 160 pounds with his second consecutive Class 2A state championship. Fort Myers' Chris Rivera (40-3) reached the top of the podium at 126 pounds in 2A.
The Florida SouthWestern men's basketball team qualified for the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I men's basketball tournament as a No. 6 seed with a first-round bye. The Bucs handled No. 11 Hutchinson for their first NJCAA tourney win but fell to third-seeded Vincennes in the quarterfinal round, finishing with a 30-3 record. Head coach Marty Richter left the team after the season to take an assistant coaching position at Drake.
The Bucs softball team won the program's third consecutive Suncoast Conference Championship, won the District G Championship and the program's second consecutive FCSAA State Championship and locked up the program's third straight berth to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament, being ranked as the No. 1 seed. The Bucs were eliminated in the second day of the tournament to end the season with a 53-5 record.


KOMA Elektronik co-founder and experimental music composer Wouter Jaspers will host an introduction on working with [amplified] objects in sound performance.
The use of found objects in modern classical and experimental music is often connected to experiments in indeterminacy and aleatory music by such composers as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, although it has reached its ascendancy in areas of popular music as well, such as the ambient works of Brian Eno. The ambient music movement which followed Eno's lead has also made use of such sounds, with notable exponents being performers such as Future Sound of London and Autechre, and natural sounds have also been incorporated into many pieces of new-age music.
Armed with a microphones, piezo microphones, KOMA Field Kit and Field Kit FX we will find sound and amplify objects and use them in a musical context, highlighting a bunch of different techniques. At the end of the workshop we record a piece together of all the sounds we found! Attendees are requested to bring 1 or two objects to use in the workshop and a laptop with DAW to record their work (we will supply two computers).
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Head southeast on FL-551 S/S Goldenrod Rd. Turn left onto S Goldenrod Rd. Turn right. Turn left onto FL-15 S/Narcoossee Rd. Pass Lee Vista Blvd., drive just a bit further, and keep an eye out for us on the right-hand side. If you reach 528, you've gone too far.
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Drax unveils carbon capture pipeline plan as Humber hub takes shape
Drax successfully captured carbon dioxide at its power station near Goole earlier this year
Phil WinterBusiness Editor
What a carbon capture pipeline could look like in the Humber region (Image: Drax Group)
This image shows what a carbon capture and hydrogen network could look like if established in the Humber.
Industry leaders have signed a landmark partnership to explore whether a pipeline could be built through the region, with CO2 stored underneath the North Sea.
Drax Group earlier this year successfully captured carbon dioxide for the first time at its power station near Goole, and is now part of the new partnership which hopes to turn the Humber into the world's first net zero-carbon region.
Will Gardiner, Drax Group CEO, said: "The Committee on Climate Change was clear – the UK needs both bioenergy with CCS and hydrogen production at scale by 2030 to achieve a 'net zero' carbon economy.
"This partnership is committed to meeting this challenge putting Great Britain at the heart of the global energy revolution.
"With Drax's carbon negative power station, the Humber region could lead the world in new technologies that can deliver for the climate and the economy, helping to create a cleaner environment for future generations whilst creating new jobs and export opportunities for British businesses.
Will Gardiner, chief executive of Drax Group (Image: Daniel Lewis)
"We're excited to be working with National Grid Ventures and Equinor on this project - for decades the Humber has been a strategically important industrial cluster for the UK - it has the skills, industrial capability as well as offshore storage to transform itself into a cutting-edge low carbon hub."
The drawing released shows two separate pipelines running through the Humber.
One would be used to transport carbon dioxide, and would give the region's big emitters the chance to either add to it, or take CO2 out for use in industry.
LEP boss backs new carbon capture report as Humber vies to be key player
The pipeline would run into the North Sea, with the aim of storing CO2 safely.
The second pipeline would be used to create a hydrogen technology network in the Humber.
L-R Chris Rayner, founder of C-Capture, Drax Power CEO Andy Koss, Caspar Schoolderman, director of engineering at C-Captur and Carl Clayton, Drax research and innovation engineer (Image: Drax Group)
Drax Group has signed a new deal with National Grid Ventures and Equinor, in a commitment to work together to develop the plans.
It is hoped the network could be constructed in the Humber in the mid-2020s.
This is the first significant action from industry since the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recently published its Net Zero report, which found that CCUS and hydrogen technology developed in regional industrial clusters is essential if Great Britain is going to achieve a 'net zero' carbon economy by 2050.
Ground-breaking climate change report backed by top Humber voices
Jon Butterworth, chief operating officer for global transmission at National Grid Ventures, said: "We all agree that we must act now to start delivering a 'net-zero' carbon economy.
"That's why we're delighted to be working together with Equinor and Drax on a project of such great potential for the UK and the Humber region and leveraging our skills and expertise to enable this transition.
A carbon capture pilot is currently running at Drax, pictured (Image: PA)
"We have seen rapid progress in decarbonising energy through established technologies such as wind power, solar and electricity interconnectors.
"CCUS and hydrogen create a new pathway to greater decarbonisation of the energy system and provide the platform for decarbonising our other areas of our economy which will be to the benefit of current and future generations."
'Clear direction' needed to make carbon capture a success story
Drax Power Station is already capturing a tonne of carbon dioxide a day from its innovative bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot project.
If it is scaled up, it could serve as the 'anchor' for a regional CCUS network capturing millions of tonnes of carbon each year from nearby industrial emitters.
Watch: Drax's carbon capture project
A study outlining the technical, economic and societal opportunities for CCUS and hydrogen in the Humber region will be published by the partners later this year.
Irene Rummelhoff, Equinor's executive vice president for marketing, midstream and processing, said: "As a global leader in CCS and a major gas supplier to the UK for many decades, we are committed to helping shape sustainable solutions for a low carbon future.
"We are pleased to be partnering with Drax and National Grid Ventures in looking at how the Humber region can be a launch pad for wider decarbonisation in the UK economy and be an example for others to learn from.
"Globally we must see substantial decarbonisation of industry and energy in the years ahead, and we believe CCS and hydrogen must play a significant role in this."
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Call it the Jasmine Revolution, the Arab Spring or the Facebook Revolution, there's a powerful Sirocco blowing across North Africa and the Middle East.
Much of the reportage on this world-changing wind has focused on the common threads that run across the region: the youthfulness of the revolutionaries, their clever use of social media websites and their embrace (for the most part) of nonviolent protest as a political tool.
But as Yuri Kozyrev crisscrossed the region, capturing images from Libya to Egypt to Bahrain, he was just conscious of the differences encountered: the rebels in Benghazi and the protesters in Bahrain may both be fighting tyranny, but their approach and aspirations are not the same.
He came to the conclusion that each revolution must be assessed in its own context, because each had a distinctive impact. The drama of each revolution unfolded separately. Each had its own heroes, its own crises. Each therefore demands its own narrative.
In the end, the differences between them may turn to be more important than their similarities.


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Q: Axis title with subscript but ignore second square bracket R I am trying to add a subscript to a ggpubr graph, which I found that I can do quite easily using parse and a set of square brackets. However, the problem is that within the axis label, I have a second set of square brackets that should be in regular type. Something like this:
library(ggpubr)
cars$speed <- log10(cars$speed)
ggscatter(cars, y = "speed", x = "dist", ylab = parse(text = "log[10](speed [μm])"))

I want the base of the logarithm (10) in subscript, but not the distance measure, [μm], which should keep it's brackets and stay in normal font size.
I have tried using paste(parse(text = "log[10]"), "(speed [μm])"), parse(text = "log[10](speed \\[μm\\]") and expression, but these have not worked for me so far.

A: You could do:
ggscatter(cars, y = "speed", x = "dist", ylab =
            parse(text = "paste(log[10], \"(speed [μm])\")"))

A: Alternatively use expression...

ggscatter(cars, y = "speed", x = "dist", ylab = expression(log[10]*"(speed [µm])"))

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Hi Michelle - there are plenty of things for kids that age to do. My sister and I always enjoyed our family trips to Walt Disney World when we were in high school and college. The things we enjoyed to do changed - we were more interested in Hollywood Studios and the World Showcase at Epcot than the Magic Kingdom, but there was still so much for us to do. I'm sure they'll also enjoy the water parks and perhaps even ESPN Wide World of Sports.
As for the fourth, there's nothing to prepare for - just enjoy yourself. You are going to have a great time.


It's official! Disney+ launches November 12, 2019 and will only cost you $6.99 a month. Or you can opt to pay the annual fee of $69.99, which is roughly $5.83/month.
At the start, the streaming service will include 7,500 episodes of on and off air TV shows, 25 original series, 10 original movies, 400 library movie titles, and 100 recent theatrical releases. All 30 past seasons of The Simpsons will be exclusively available on Disney+ as well as all Marvel movies beginning with 2019's Captain Marvel.
Within the first year, Disney+ will add all Star Wars films and all Pixar films as well as much more original content.
Disney+ will be ad free and will be able to be accessed on many platforms, including disneyplus.com, game consoles, and smart TVs. Subscribers will also be able to download all content to be viewed offline.
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From U.S. Census: New Economic Indicator Database Search Available from Census Bureau. Statistics from 12 economic indicators are now easy to access and easier to use with the new economic indicator database search. With the release of the Quarterly Financial Report for retail trade, all 12 of the Census Bureau's economic indicators are accessible in this user-friendly Internet tool.
Consolidated Federal Funds Report: 2010 and Federal Aid to States for Fiscal Year 2010. Two reports provide an overview of virtually all federal spending at the national, state and county levels. The Consolidated Federal Funds Report shows spending for procurement contracts, salaries and wages, direct payments and loans, grants and insurance.
From DOC: The American Jobs Act: Cutting Payroll Taxes Supports Consumer Spending. President Obama has proposed cutting payroll taxes in half for 160 million workers next year. As the Economics and Statistics Administration has already shown, job gains combined with lower taxes equals more spending. That's why these tax cuts make sense. They help create demand to give the economy a little breathing room while it recovers. This provision will provide a tax cut of $1,500 to the typical family earning $50,000 a year.
Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Winners Announced. The Obama Administration announced the winners of the $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a multi-agency competition launched in May to support the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters.
From PIERS Transportation: Obama's Jobs Plan Means Good News for the Transportation Industry. The president proposed $50 billion in new spending on transportation systems, including state allocations for road, bridge and airport work plus more funding for intercity passenger rail upgrade. A recent Bloomberg News Survey of 34 economists concluded that President Obama's proposed jobs plan would boost the U.S. GDP 0.6 percent in 2012.
From WITA: Is U.S. Trade Policy Helping or Hurting Manufacturing? Webcast: 28-Oct-11 12:00 PM. Featuring Ambassador Susan C. Schwab Former U.S. Trade Representative and Jared Bernstein Former principal economic adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden. Moderated by Thomas Duesterberg Executive Director, Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century With Introduction by Elliot Gerson Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs and International Partnerships, The Aspen Institute.
From Tradeology (ITA): Strengthening the U.S. Economy by Strengthening Trade Relationships. "Products stamped with the words 'Made in America' are still in demand around the globe. We must seize these opportunities… the important role that exports play in strengthening the economy and supporting jobs for American workers. In fact, for every billion in goods exported abroad, more than 5500 jobs are supported here at home." Complete Miami Herald Article.
From Global Trade Alert: United States of America: Buy-American provisions in the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. The bill included one Buy-American provision. Section 608(b) concerns the acquisition of dogs that are to be used in narcotics-detection teams deployed to the northern border. It provides that, "In acquiring canine assets required under [this subsection], the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall, to the greatest extent possible, acquire canines that are bred in the United States." Who says U.S. Politics has gone to the dogs? I think they're barking up the wrong tree.


Whoever receives, possesses, or disposes of any money or other property, or any portion thereof, which has at any time been delivered as ransom or reward in connection with a violation of section 1201 of this title, knowing the same to be money or property which has been at any time delivered as such ransom or reward, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
A person who transports, transmits, or transfers in interstate or foreign commerce any proceeds of a kidnapping punishable under State law by imprisonment for more than 1 year, or receives, possesses, conceals, or disposes of any such proceeds after they have crossed a State or United States boundary, knowing the proceeds to have been unlawfully obtained, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, fined under this title, or both.
For purposes of this section, the term "State" has the meaning set forth in section 245(d) of this title.
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 408c–1 (June 22, 1932, ch. 271, § 4, as added Jan. 24, 1936, ch. 29, 49 Stat. 1099).
1994—Pub. L. 103–322, § 320601(b), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c).
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(L), substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $10,000".


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BBVA shows how Big Data can boost tourism in Mexico
BBVA Bancomer and the Mexico's Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR) have presented a pioneering big data application that identifies trends and productivity in the country's tourism destinations.
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The report, titled "Big Data and Tourism", was written by BBVA Data & Analytics in the bank's Center for Excellence in Data Analysis and will help Mexican authorities design public policies to boost orderly growth in the Mexican tourism industry, which accounts for 8.7% of GDP.
Marco Bressan: "Thanks to big data we can offer greater financial reassurance to our customers"
During the first stage, the project gathered information on the trends registered by 86 million national and foreign bank cardholders over a one-year period in 12 statistical areas that cover the 111 Magic Towns of Mexico and the main tourist areas in the country. Of these, 20 million are BBVA Bancomer customers. In one year, 1.5 billion transactions were made, totaling 813 billion Mexican pesos. The project was developed with strict adherence to data protection and the privacy rights of financial service users.
The massive adoption of big-data technology means that cardholders now generate regular information about their locations. BBVA Bancomer, BBVA Data & Analytics, and SECTUR then collaborated to extract and analyze massive amounts of data to understand the activity in a given area. This analysis, which was done by studying the digital footprint of the visitors, allows the bank to know, for example, that Cancun mainly attracts visitors from the United States and Argentina, while in Cozumel, Mexicans mostly spend money on restaurants and travel.
While the data came from BBVA Bancomer, the analytical tools, the results, and the statistical and geographical visualizations were provided by BBVA Data & Analytics.
The information used for this analysis comes from the activity of 100% of BBVA Bancomer's national credit and debit cardholders who visited and made offline electronic payments in 2014 and 2015, as well as the activity registered by international users who made at least one transaction in a BBVA Bancomer point-of-sale terminal in the second half of 2015. The study used anonymous data and results are expressed in aggregate terms. This is the first time this type of analysis has been performed in Mexico, where the information from the financial sector is analyzed and monitored digitally.
BBVA and SECTUR present a study about tourism activity based in big data
While the data came from BBVA Bancomer, the analytical tools, the results, and the statistical and geographical visualizations were provided by BBVA Data & Analytics. Mexico's Ministry of Tourism hired experts to interpret the statistics and prepare the study's findings. The main conclusions were:
Spending by international tourists concentrated in Playa del Carmen, an area that accounts for around 35% of the total spending by these types of visitors. National tourists spent more in Cancun and Playa del Carmen, representing around 25% and 27% of the spending during their visits, respectively.
National tourists used their credit cards mostly for trips or excursions. The international tourists used their cards mostly for entertainment.
In most of the Magic Towns analyzed, tourists spent the largest percentage of their money on restaurants, food, entertainment, and travel, while in Comitán (Chiapas), they spent a good deal on the automotive category, such as cars, accessories, and mechanics.
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In Cancun and Playa del Carmen, spending seems to be concentrated on Fridays and Saturdays and is more stable during the week. On Isla Mujeres and Cozumel, spending is concentrated in the mornings and drops off on weekdays.
The highest percentage of spending is generated by U.S. tourists, followed by visitors from Argentina.
Tourism companies can use this study's results to offer better service during peak spending hours, which is not easy to do through traditional surveys. For example, they can anticipate the movements made by visitors to islands and the spending distribution according to the time of day.
This study once again shows that monitoring tourists' actual spending is a useful tool for shaping a territory's production structure and the changes and trends that affect the tourism sector, with the ultimate goal of implementing policies that promote and improve the country's tourist destinations.
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Flagler sheriff announces two arrests after extensive, months-long manhunt
By Matt Trezza
Arrests made in deadly Flagler County shooting
Deputies say a murder mystery in Flagler County is now solved. Two people have been charged in a deadly shooting months after the crime was committed.
BUNNELL, Fla. - The Flagler County Sheriff's Office has arrested two men in a murder case that Sheriff Rick Staly described as the most extensive investigation in the modern history of his office.
Caught on camera: a shocking surveillance video in which a man fires 16 shots at a car and takes off. In the car were two men, a driver who was shot and wounded, and 25-year-old Deon O'Neal Jenkins, who died at the scene.
"The gunshots awakened people at their homes even several miles away," explained Sheriff Staly.
Staly said the brutal killing kicked-off a 15-month-long manhunt involving 2,000 hours of law enforcement investigation.
"To the family," Staly said at a news conference, "we never stopped working to obtain justice for your son, your brother, for closure for you."
Staly announced two arrests in the case: 26-year-old Marcus Avery Chamblin for the shooting, and 26-year-old Derrius Braxton Bauer, driving a getaway car. Staly said they crisscrossed the country, to Virginia, California, and back after the shooting.
"Our detectives, with the assistance of our CSI team and our newly-created digital forensics unit, our real-time crime center, the FBI, FDLE, were able to connect the dots of what started out as a true murder-mystery," Staly said.
Officers arrested Chamblin in prison where he was already being held for probation violation, and just days away from release. They put the cuffs on Bauer in Jacksonville.
"We do not believe this was a random crime," Staly said, "but instead a targeted hit, we've learned that the victim and the shooter's accomplice were familiar with each other."
Staly said both men were being held without bond and would be sent back to Flagler County to face these new charges.


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Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo — Peace (Tribute to Kelly Churko)
(Libra 217-039, 2016, CD)
by Peter Thelen, Published 2017-02-15
We've been reviewing pianist and composer Satoko Fujii's releases for a number of years, going back to the earliest days of the printed edition, as well as various side projects including Kaze (the internatioal quartet with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, French trumpeter Christian Pruvost, and French drummer Peter Orins, all of whom appear on this release). Even though we have covered many releases, this marks the first time we have reviewed something by Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo, her Tokyo based 15 member free jazz ensemble, with a handful of previous releases. The subtitle of Peace is Tribute to Kelly Churko, who was the Canadian born guitarist who lived in Tokyo for a decade and played on the Tokyo group's previous release Zakopane; "Peace," the third track here, at ten minutes, was written in his memory, and is a blast of full throttle free jazz. Opening the disc is the 33 minute epic "2014," which goes off in a lot of different directions over its duration, some quiet and pensive, others loud with seemingly all blowing at once (there are five saxophonists, five trumpeters and three trombonists here, along with bass and drums), and some quite experimental, but it holds together quite well. Tamura's piece "Jasper" clocks in at nine minutes and presents a beautiful and haunting melody on trumpet at the opening, with droning trombones resulting in something somewhat reminiscent of bagpipes, but eventually the whole crew joins in and it gets pretty loud, but returns to a quieter reading of the pensive opening melody again before the end. The closer, "Beguine Nummer Eins," features a memorable main melody and benefiting from a seemingly leaner concentration of instrumentation, along with numerous great solos over its six minute duration.
Filed under: New releases, 2016 releases
Related artist(s): Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura
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Powered by Frostbite, EA SPORTS FIFA 18 blurs the line between the virtual and real worlds, bringing to life the players, teams, and atmospheres that immerse you in the emotion of The World's Game. The biggest step in gameplay innovation in franchise history, FIFA 18 introduces Real Player Motion Technology, an all-new animation system which unlocks a new level of responsiveness, and player personality – now Cristiano Ronaldo and other top players feel and move exactly like they do on the real pitch.
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Fans of FIFA 17 and the addictive Journey gameplay will be pleased to hear that it's coming back for FIFA 18. With an impressive 14 million plays on FIFA 17, this immersive story mode powered by Frostbite will take us back into the mind of Alex Hunter as we transition from football fan to Premier League legend.
The newest release from FIFA begins just as the transfer window is ending, with rumours about what Alex Hunter will decide to do causing a fair few issues in his current team. Offers are rumoured to be coming in from Atlético Madrid, Bayern Munich, PSG and LA Galaxy, so it's up to you choose Alex's fate. Be careful though, as every decision, big or small, will influence your direction and every choice after that – making each game completely individual for each player.
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As part of the "Adaptive City Mobility 2" project, PEM at RWTH Aachen University will be responsible for the structure and assembly of the pilot vehicles. Solutions for the vehicle structure are to meet research objectives in the three areas as outlined below, providing suitable use cases in the areas of vehicle body paneling for adjustment concepts or interior assembly of equipment concepts.
The solutions arrived at can be implemented, tested, and validated using the pilot vehicles; at a later stage, in the vehicle production program, they can be drawn upon as "lessons learned." By focusing on solutions for small-batch series production, this sub-project shall provide an important contribution to further develop and advance electric mobility in Germany.


This interesting oval carbuncle garnet necklace was once part of a large Victorian brooch which had seen better days.
However, the central portion which is the centerpiece of this necklace was too good to lose with rich rope detail and beautiful gold border. The garnet is rich in color and shape. I had it set east to west and now hangs seamlessly from a modern fancy link 14 KT gold 16 inch chain.
The necklace is beautiful on its own or also perfect to be stacked with other chains or necklaces.
It's interesting to note that Garnet is a stone associated with physical love and relationships. Along with being a physical stone of psychic protection, It's been used for centuries by many civilizations.


David Cameron hailed a landmark deal on Friday he said gave Britain "special status" in the European Union and pledged to campaign heart and soul to stay in the EU at a deeply uncertain referendum expected in June.
The euroskeptic "Vote Leave" campaign was quick to dismiss what it called "Cameron's hollow deal" as bad for Britain.
"So now the deal is done and its up to the British people to decide," said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker - the man Cameron tried furiously to block for the top EU executive job, but who played a key role in crafting the deal.
That would to preclude any second renegotiation. Cameron was also at pains to dismiss arguments by some British euroskeptics that a "leave" vote would lead to a better deal.
Perhaps the biggest threat to his campaign could come from charismatic London mayor Boris Johnson, a euroskeptic former Brussels journalist, who has yet to disclose which side he will take in a battle that could also involve Cameron's succession.
Britain's largely euroskeptic press has depicted Cameron as begging or pleading, the Daily Mail describing him as "rattled".


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The scandal which has overtaken Oxfam yesterday impelled Penny Mordaunt, the International Development Secretary, to declare: "If the moral leadership at the top of the organisation isn't there, we cannot have you as a partner."
She is right, but although it is easy, and even pleasurable, to condemn the grotesque misbehaviour of some Oxfam staff, that on its own will not promote moral leadership. It might well encourage the development of a bureaucracy run by timid apparatchiks whose main aim in life is to protect their own posts, and their public funding, by conveying the appearance of an irreproachable morality, while avoiding anything in the slightest bit risky, and especially anything which might result in a bad headline in The Times or The Daily Mail.
This points to a wider problem. Any reader of this article over the age of 50 will be able, without difficulty, to think of half a dozen major British charities which seemed more reputable a generation ago, and more in touch with the philanthropic impulses which led to their foundation.
In A Bridge of People: A Personal View of Oxfam's First Forty Years, published in 1983, Ben Whitaker described, in words which have now acquired a greater resonance, its modest beginnings:
"nobody at the first meeting of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief would have anticipated its future. It was far from a large gathering, and went scarcely noticed during the Second World War. Half a dozen people, having planned it in the Friends' Meeting House at Oxford, met in the Old Library of the University Church there on 5 October 1942. The minutes, written in a battered threepenny exercise book, describe its objectives as being the relief, to the extent that the law for the time being permitted, of famine and sickness arising as a result of the war. The founders included Professor Gilbert Murray, OM, the classical scholar and humanist; Rev T.R.Milford, the Vicar of the University Church, who became Chairman; Cecil Jackson-Cole, an idiosyncratic businessman who became Honorary Secretary; Dr Henry Gillett (the first of many Quakers to shape Oxfam), then Mayor of Oxford; and – completing a recognisable Oxfam mix – Sir Alan Pim, retired from the Indian Civil Service, who became Honorary Treasurer."
Their aim was to arouse public concern about the plight of starving civilians, and especially of children, in occupied Greece and Belgium. Through the Quakers, they had heard that many people were dying of hunger, partly because of the Allied blockade. The difficulty was that sending food might help the German war effort, and for that reason they were refused permission to send food to Belgium.
In Greece, however, the Greek Red Cross was still functioning, and in 1943, the Committee started to channel help to civilians through it, including the £10,700 raised in Greek Famine Relief Week in Oxford. A shop which was opened for that week to sell gifts raised another £2,300.
When many Germans were found, after the capitulation, to be near starvation, the Committee debated whether to include Germany in its relief programme. Would that put people off helping, and if the Committee gave more, would the Government give less? They decided to take those two risks and launched an urgent appeal for food and medicines for Europe "where the need is greatest".
Money and clothes continued to pour in, and in 1948, the Committee decided against closing Oxfam down just because Europe was on the road to recovery. Instead, Oxfam's objects were widened to "the relief of suffering arising as a result of war or any other cause in any part of the world", of which in succeeding decades there was to be a vast amount.
In the 75 years since 1943, Oxfam has relieved great suffering. But how different its modest beginnings, with everyone working for free to meet an immediate need, from the huge organisation, with large numbers of paid staff, which exists today.
To some extent, one has to accept such changes as unavoidable. One of the penalties of success is to become larger and richer, and no doubt new Oxfams – small charities set up to meet urgent needs – are even now being founded by anxious committees of morally engaged citizens.
But it is a great pity that so many of our most famous charities now rely so heavily on government funding. As a donor, one no longer feels the direct responsibility one once did for helping to fulfil a particular charity's purposes. If Mordaunt wants to show moral leadership, perhaps she should look at this question. Perhaps the withdrawal of public funds would be the best thing that could happen to some of these organisations, which would then have to think much more carefully how they spend their money.
And perhaps the charities themselves should value their independence more, and wonder whether public subsidies might not lead, once some great organisation's original stock of moral capital has been expended, to public indifference or even to public scorn.


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Section of Concession Road 3 North in Amherstburg closed due to downed hydro poles
Windsor police are asking the public to avoid an area of Concession Road 3 North in Amherstburg, Ont. after strong winds knocked over hydro poles Saturday morning.
According to a tweet from the Windsor Police Service, Concession Road 3 North between County Road 10 and Texas Road in Amherstburg is temporarily closed due to downed hydro poles.
Police said the downed hydro poles were caused by wind.
Nicholas Baggio, a resident who lives on Concession Road 3 North told CTV News Windsor that when he woke up Saturday morning, he saw recycling bins strewn across the lawn. Only afterwards did he see the damage to the hydro poles on the road.
He estimates that between five to eight hydro poles were damaged.
Fierce winds knocked down several hydro poles on Concession Road 3 North in Amherstburg, Ont. on Dec. 3, 2022. (Source: Nicholas Baggio)
According to Environment Canada, Windsor-Essex-Chatham-Kent is currently under a wind warning, where westerly winds of up to 90 km/h are expected in the wake of a strong cold front. The winds are expected to taper off early Saturday evening.
Police ask the public to avoid the area in the meantime.
As of 4:28 p.m., power was still out in the area and Hydro One crews continue to work in the area and assess the damage.


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Rhett Davis Appointed Small Business Advocate for Region 6
By Office of Advocacy	 On Oct 25, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rhett Davis has been named small business advocate for Region 6, representing the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
In his role, Davis will be the direct link between the region's small business owners, state and local government agencies, state legislators, small business associations and the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
"It is a great honor to advocate for the small businesses of Region 6," Davis stated. "Hard-working Americans deserve to have their voices heard, and we are listening very closely to what they have to say."
Davis has been working on behalf of small business interests in the Louisiana public policy arena throughout his professional career. He has been active in business friendly causes and campaigns in Louisiana, serving as a political consultant and coordinating state and national leadership conferences.
"Rhett Davis is a wonderful addition to our team," said Major Clark III, acting Chief Counsel for Advocacy. "Small business owners in these states have an exceptional advocate in Mr. Davis. His experience in public policy and as a small business owner will allow him to immediately start making meaningful contributions to our mission."
The Office of Advocacy's regional advocates help identify new issues and concerns of small business owners in the nation's 10 federal regions. They also monitor the impact of federal and state policies on small business at the local level. They work closely with local government officials, state officials and legislators and the chief counsel for advocacy to develop programs and policies that help, rather than hinder, small business growth.
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