My first year as a teacher is beginning this year at Southwest Middle School in the art room. As a first year teacher, I have a lot to figure out and learn, but so do our students so I am excited to learn and grow this year with them!
I grew up in a small farming town in Kansas with an abundance of curiosity and love of creating anything I could get my hands on. The small size allowed me to be involved in every kind of school activity and sport, as well as how to form and build relationships with many types of people. Rural areas have very little money, but despite that I had teachers that still stand out to me as adaptable, exceptional, and effective. All of these characteristics inspired me to become a teacher myself and I hope to embody and carry with me as an educator.
When I left for college, I knew I wanted to teach others the joy of creation and discovery and tried to learn all I might have missed by studying art and design at the University of Kansas for my undergraduate degree. Living in the flourishing community of Lawrence, Kansas during my undergraduate studies, as well as during my Master's in Education through Pittsburg State University, furthered my belief that art is not only a necessary part of education but of one's whole life and learning and community.


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Why 'Janus' Figures to Juice Income Inequality in America
Any court ruling that limits how effectively unions can bargain on behalf of workers, even mainstream economists now recognize, concentrates wealth at our economic summit.
The U.S. Supreme Court's just-announced decision in the Janus case surprised no one who pays attention to America's highest judicial panel. Every analyst following the case expected the Supremes to rule against America's public sector unions. And that's exactly what the high court — by a 5-4 margin — did.
The impact from this decision? That will surprise no one who pays attention to how modern economies work: The Supreme Court's decision in Janus will leave the United States still more unequal.
The five justices who decided Janus never, of course, mentioned anything about inequality in their ruling that public sector unions cannot collect representational fees from the nonmembers they are legally required to represent. The Janus majority justices talked instead about protecting First Amendment rights. But that lofty philosophizing merely served as a convenient cover for our right wing's continuing assault on the basic human right to justice on the job.
This assault — an effort bankrolled over the years by a relentless gang of fiercely anti-union deep pockets — has been remarkably effective.
Back in the 1950s, over a third of America's workers belonged to unions. And that statistic underplayed the actual extent of the nation's trade union presence. In the private sector, outside the South, unions represented over half the workforce in the decades right after World War II.
The workers unions didn't represent in those years directly benefited from this heavy trade union "density." Nonunion employers simply couldn't hire and keep workers unless they improved what they had to offer in pay and benefits.
The Janus decision
The stakes for working people
The business pushback against this union influence stated picking up considerable momentum in the 1970s, then achieved critical mass in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan in the White House.
In 1981, Reagan fired and permanently replaced striking air traffic controllers. Two major private sector employers, Phelps Dodge and International Paper, would soon follow Reagan's example with their own striking unions. Other employers quickly took note.
This willingness to replace striking workers, historian Joseph McCartin has written, would reshape "the world of the modern workplace." Strikes would now almost totally disappear from American labor relations. Strikes had given workers leverage. Without them, unions simply couldn't effectively "pressure employers to increase wages as productivity rises."
Other assaults on worker rights aggravated labor's growing marginality in America's workplaces. The nation's labor laws — statutes meant to protect workers' right to join a union and bargain collectively with their employer — essentially became a dead letter. Employers who violated these statutes seldom faced any significant or timely legal liability.
The assaults took a toll. By 1983, union membership had dropped to 20.1 percent of America's nonsupervisory workforce. In 2017, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier this year, only 10.7 percent of the nation's employees carried union cards.
And these stats overplay the actual extent — in the private sector — of the trade union presence in 21st-century American life. In the mid-20th century, most all union members worked in the private sector. Today union members make up 34.4 percent of the public sector workforce and only 6.5 percent of workers in the private sector.
Nine states now have overall union member rates under 5 percent. In other words, over vast swatches of the American economic landscape, unions today barely exist at all.
After Janus
The choices unions face
What does exist in the United States today: a level of income and wealth inequality not seen since the 1920s, another era of minimal union influence. The history of America's past century paints a vividly clear picture: Inequality in America has increased in the years when unions have been at their weakest and decreased in the years when unions have been at their strongest.
Mainstream economists have been slow to acknowledge that connection. The conventional economic wisdom has blamed our contemporary inequality on irreversible trends like advancing technologies and globalization. But more recent mainstream research has emphasized how crucial a role union density plays in income and wealth distribution.
Researchers from the International Monetary Fund have examined the economic experiences of 20 developed nations between 1980 and 2010. Most all of these nations showed a declining union presence over the course of these years, with that decline severe in some nations — like the United States — and much less severe in others.
The researchers — Florence Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron — found declining union density "strongly associated" with the growing share of national income going, within each nation, to the richest 10 percent of the population.
"The decline in union density," this IMF research indicates, "explains about 40 percent of the average increase in the top 10 percent of income share in our sample countries."
Part of that growing income share of the already affluent reflects the lower wages of workers in nonunion workplaces. The de-unionization that "weakens earnings of middle- and low-income workers," the IMF researchers explain, "necessarily increases" the income share of corporate executives and shareholders.
Another part of that growing top 10 percent income share reflects the loss of influence over basic public policy decisions that average wage earners wield when unions grow weaker. That shrinking influence leaves "dominant groups," the IMF researchers observe, better able to "control the economic and political system in their favor."
Other global economic bodies — like the OECD, the official economic research agency of the developed world — have concluded that our current high levels of inequality do no society any good.
"By not addressing inequality," as OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has pronounced, "governments are cutting into the social fabric of their countries and hurting their long-term economic growth."
Last year, trade union leaders from around the world descended on an OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris to make the case that significant progress against inequality will only come when workers have the bargaining power to "benefit from structural and technological change."
The U.S. Supreme Court has totally ignored that union warning with its Janus decision. Come to think of it, the U.S. Supreme Court has totally ignored growing economic inequality. The rest of us? We can't afford to.
Sam Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org. His just-published latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage. His 2012 book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970, tells the story of 20th-century efforts to cap the income and power of America's richest. Follow him at @Too_Much_Online
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After it, Yahoo will request a permission to access your files in Google Drive, get the information about you, and see your email address. Grant the access by clicking on the blue "Allow" button. Grant the access by clicking on the blue "Allow" button.
Now that you have your Mail app setup in Windows 10, all you have to do is open the Calendar and People apps to see your Google calendars and Google contacts. By default, all calendars should be checked, but you expand out Gmail and manually select or deselect the calendars you want to view.
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[Gamasutra recently published a feature article by John Andersen about the difficulty of defending games from 'cloning'. Several readers followed up by asking questions on whether and how game concepts are legally protected, so we asked game IP lawyer Gregory Boyd to comment from a legal perspective.
On October 24, 2006, Gamasutra published a feature article by John Andersen about the difficulty of defending games, particularly foreign games, from cloning. This short follow-up article is meant to expand on some of the legal concepts Mr. Andersen mentioned. It is true that defending games from cloning can be a difficult task, but knowing the basic tools that publishers and developers have in the toolbox is a big step toward protecting your games from cloning.
Games are made of ideas and the protection of ideas lies squarely in the realm of intellectual property law, usually abbreviated IP. Under the larger heading of IP, game companies have access to trade secrets, trademarks, patents, and copyright law. All of these forms of IP are useful in game development, but they vary in cost, complexity of registration, and coverage. This short article will focus primarily on copyright after a brief summary of the other forms of protection.
Trade secrets are inexpensive to implement and have broad coverage, but once the secret gets out the IP protection may be doomed. Trademarks can protect company names and the titles or slogans attached to successful games. The registration is relatively easy and inexpensive, the protection is long, but the coverage is for fairly narrow subject matter.
Patents can protect certain software implementations, gameplay mechanics, and hardware. However, patents are expensive and complicated to register, but a detailed description of these IP types is beyond the scope of this article.
The most powerful tool in the box to protect games from cloning is probably copyright. Copyright is easy to conjure, long lasting, broad covering, and has very sharp teeth.
Copyright is easy to invoke because it attaches to a work as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium. Translated from legal-speak into English, that means that copyright attaches as soon as a work is �made.� In the U.S., registration is necessary for litigation purposes, but the protection attaches to the work even without the registration. Registration is still a good idea for potential litigation purposes and because it places others on notice that your game company owns the copyright. The registration is cheap (about $45) and involves completing a very simple form that can be downloaded from the Copyright Office at http://www.copyright.gov/. In addition there are pages of helpful information about copyright contained on this site including phone numbers to call for assistance.
Copyright is long. Copyright protection currently expires 95 years after publication of the work or 125 years after creation of the work. This is a very long time by any standard. It is so long that it is effectively forever. By that, I mean two things. First, copyright lasts longer than any game developer has ever lived after making a game. Second, copyright lasts longer than any game company has been in existence. Even Pac-Man will not fall outside of copyright and into the public domain until about 2060.
Copyright is also so broad that it covers almost every aspect of modern games. Copyright can cover code, music, storylines, manuals, box art, characters, and the game product as a whole. To be clear, copyright covers the fixed expression of ideas in a tangible medium. This does not mean that copyright protects the ideas themselves, but copyright does protect the form those ideas take when expressed.
Merely cloning the concept behind a game is not enough to violate copyright protection, but when a clone copies how a game actually looks on the screen or how the code is written, then the line is crossed into copyright violation. However, this is often a fine distinction because in practice the closer one comes to copying a concept, the closer one moves toward the copyrighted expression. Copying a concept perfectly almost inevitably results in copying the expression.
Copyright also has teeth. Copyright has tough enforcement provisions that can include money damages, stopping infringing activity, and destroying the pirated material. Even prison time is a possible punishment. The penalties depends on whether civil, criminal, or both types of copyright remedies are pursued.
In the last few years, forums have buzzed with talk that Nintendo patents are expiring and it is now �legal� to make Nintendo consoles and games. I do not believe that this is the case, because games and consoles are protected by other IP types that last much longer than patents [Boyd has written on this subject for Gamasutra before].
In summary, IP is capable of protecting games from cloning. When working against a cloned game, it is critical that game companies know which IP tools to use and when to use them. To echo the excellent point in Mr. Anderson�s article, it is critical that game companies keep good records of IP ownership and registration to make the chain of title clear. A clear chain of title makes enforcement much easier. If caught in the act, most companies tend to comply with simple cease and desist letters. The potential negative consequences associated with IP infringement, particularly copyright infringement, is usually enough to motivate them to remove the offending game clone.
As the company that was accused of ripping off IP from the hapless Japanese developer Mitchell Corporation in the recent Soapbox feature "Ripping off Japan," we thought it was quite ironic to find the artwork from our game Zuma used in the screenshots accompanying the feature "A 2D Render Base Using Policy Based Design" by Zhaolin Feng.
The game featured by Zhaolin Feng is clearly one of the hundreds of Zuma-clones that proliferate in China, where the cloning of Western (and Japanese) games is far more prolific and far more more egregious than anything seen in the US.
Are we upset? Not really - we realize that IP protection in China is still in its infancy, but things are gradually improving, and we choose to fight not by filing lawsuits but by bringing our own games to China directly ourselves and competing in the marketplace. Ultimately we believe our high quality bar and original designs will triumph over low-budget and uninspired "clones".
That is perhaps what is frustrating about the comparisons of Zuma and Puzzloop. Go play both games (Puzzloop is widely available on the DS as Magnetica, developed and published by Mitchell) and then ask whether Zuma is a clone of Puzzloop (in the same way that many of our games have been directly cloned, or the Flash-based Space Invaders clone cited in the article), or a game inspired by a mechanic that adds significant innovations and results in ultimately a new game. Was Half-Life a clone of Doom?


In this Photoshop tutorial, we're learn how to create a mirror image effect with a photo, turning the right half of the image into a mirror reflection of the left half. You've probably seen this effect used everywhere, especially in movie posters or album covers, and as with many of Photoshop's classic and most popular photo effects, it's very easy to create.
This version of our Mirror Image Effect tutorial is for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. For Photoshop CS6 and CC (Creative Cloud) users, check out our fully updated version.
The final "mirror image" effect.
Click OK when you're done to exit out of the dialog box. A new blank document will appear on your screen.
Go to Select > All to place a selection outline around the entire image.
Go to Edit > Copy to copy the entire image into memory.
Switch over to the blank document, then go to Edit > Paste.
The photo now appears inside the new document.
The photo appears on its own layer above the Background layer.
You can close out of the original photo's document window at this point, since we no longer need to have it open.
Go to View > Fit on Screen if your image extends beyond the visible area.
Hold Shift and drag any of the corner handles to resize the image.
You can also move the image as needed to reposition it by clicking anywhere inside the Free Transform box and dragging the image around. Just don't click on the small target symbol in the center of the Free Transform box, otherwise you'll move the target symbol, not the image. When you're done, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to accept the changes and exit out of the Free Transform command.
To zoom the image back in so it once again fills up the entire document window, simply choose Fit on Screen again from the View menu just as we did a moment ago. You can also select Actual Pixels from the View menu, which will zoom the image to a full 100%. The keyboard shortcut for Actual Pixels is Ctrl+Alt+0 (Win) / Command+Option+0 (Mac).
Go to View > New Guide.
Set the Orientation to Vertical and enter 50% for the Position of the guide.
A vertical guide has been added down the exact center of the document.
Don't worry about the guide appearing in front of your image. It's there only to help us while working in Photoshop. Guides are known as "non-printing elements", which means they won't print, or appear if you save the image for the web, even if you forget to remove them when you're done.
Drag your main subject to one side of the document, using the guide as the "flip point".
Don't worry about the solid white area that's now appearing on the side of the photo. Everything on that side of the guide will be replaced with a mirrored version of what's on the other side in a moment.
Drag a selection around whichever side you want to mirror.
The selected half of the document now appears on a new layer in the Layers palette.
The small target symbol in the center of the Free Transform box.
Drag the target symbol (rotation point) to the Free Transform handle in the center of the document.
Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.
The right side of the document is now a reflected version of the left side.
Go to View > Clear Guides to remove the guide.
As I mentioned earlier, even if you forget to clear your guides when you're done working on the image, there's no need to worry because they won't print and they won't appear in the image if you save it for the web.
The final "mirror image" photo effect.
And there we have it! That's how to create a mirror image effect with Photoshop! Visit out our Photo Effects section for more Photoshop effects tutorials!


Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a very common disorder and refers to a group of conditions where there is accumulation of excess fat in the liver of people who drink little or no alcohol. The most common form of NAFLD is a non serious condition called fatty liver. In fatty liver, fat accumulates in the liver cells. Although having fat in the liver is not normal, by itself it probably does not damage the liver. A small group of people with NAFLD may have a more serious condition named non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). In NASH, fat accumulation is associated with liver cell inflammation and different degrees of scarring. NASH is a potentially serious condition that may lead to severe liver scarring and cirrhosis. Cirrhosis occurs when the liver sustains substantial damage, and the liver cells are gradually replaced by scar tissue (see figure), which results in the inability of the liver to work properly. Some patients who develop cirrhosis may eventually require a liver transplant (surgery to remove the damaged liver and replace it with a "new" liver).
The majority of individuals with NAFLD have no symptoms and a normal examination. Children may exhibit symptoms such as abdominal pain, which may be in the center or the right upper part of the abdomen, and sometimes fatigue. However, other causes of abdominal pain and fatigue should be considered. On physical examination the liver might be slightly enlarged and some children may have patchy, dark discoloration of the skin present (acanthosis nigricans) most commonly over the neck and the under arm area.
NAFLD is a very common disorder affecting and may affect as many as one in three to one in five adults and around one in ten children in the United States. Obesity is thought to be the most common cause of fatty infiltration of the liver. Some experts estimate that about two thirds of obese adults and half of obese children may have fatty liver. About 2 to 5 percent of adult Americans and up to 20 percent of those who are obese may suffer from the more severe condition NASH. The number of children who have NASH is not known. The presence of type 2 diabetes and other conditions associated with insulin resistance, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome are know risk factors for the development of fatty liver and NASH.
The diagnosis of NAFLD is usually first suspected in an overweight or obese person who is found to have mild elevations in their liver tests during a routine blood testing or incidentally detected on radiologic investigations such as abdominal ultrasound or CT scan. Some experts are now recommending that every obese child or adolescent should have these liver enzymes checked. However NAFLD can be present with normal liver blood tests. The diagnosis of NAFLD is confirmed by imaging studies, most commonly a liver ultrasound, showing accumulation of fat in the liver. Fat accumulation in the liver can also be caused by excess alcohol intake, certain medications, viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, and metabolic or inherited liver disease. These need to be excluded as causes of fatty liver disease in order to confirm the diagnosis of NAFLD. Currently, the only reliable way of telling whether a person has NASH or simple fatty liver is by a liver biopsy. In this procedure, a small needle is inserted through the skin after local anesthesia is given to obtain a small piece of the liver for microscopic evaluation. NASH is diagnosed when examination of this piece of liver under the microscope shows fatty infiltration of the liver in addition to inflammation and different degrees of scarring. If only fat is present, then the diagnosis of simple fatty liver is made. The liver biopsy provides essential information regarding the degree of scarring within the liver, which would not be apparent on a blood test, ultrasound, or an x-ray alone. Liver biopsy rarely can be associated with serious risks including bleeding and patients should discuss the risks and benefits of the procedure with their physician.
Naim Alkhouri, MD, and Marsha H. Kay, MD, FACG, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH – Updated December 2012.
Ariel E. Feldstein, MD, and Marsha H. Kay, MD, FACG, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH – Published January 2006.


I hope to replace the title of the site with a header image, and I hope someone can help me.
You don't want to edit the actual, physical header.php file. Instead, you want to edit the virtual template files.
Go to Appearance > Montezuma Options > Sub Templates and read the information there. Once you've read the info, then click the header.php subtemplate and you will see the virtual header file there.


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Q: Installing NVIDIA/CUDA drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 I have a new desktop machine that has an NVIDIA Quadro M2000.
I use Ubuntu 16.04, and I wanted to install the right drivers for my graphic card.
I went into "Additional drivers" and the Nouveau driver was selected.
I tried to select the proprietary NVIDIA driver, but it was automatically switching back to Nouveau after 5 seconds.
It said for the proprietary driver that I needed nvidia-367.
This package wasn't in the available packages in Synaptic.
So I downloaded cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local.deb from here (if I'm not mistaken, it's a package that contains provides other packages but without installing them ?) :
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local.deb

Then I could do
sudo apt-get install nvidia-367

After that and a restart, I could finally select the NVIDIA driver in "Additional drivers".
When I run nvidia-smi, I get the error :
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch

Here is the output of a few commands :
$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices (Ubuntu drivers)
== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:03:00.0 ==
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001430sv00001028sd00001190bc03sc00i00
driver   : nvidia-367 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia (Installed packages)
ii  bbswitch-dkms                              0.8-3ubuntu1                                  amd64        Interface for toggling the power on NVIDIA Optimus video cards
ii  libcuda1-367                               367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA CUDA runtime library
ii  nvidia-367                                 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 367.57
ii  nvidia-367-dev                             367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
ii  nvidia-opencl-icd-367                      367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii  nvidia-prime                               0.8.2                                         amd64        Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime

$ sudo lshw -numeric -C display (Hardware)
*-display
    description: VGA compatible controller
    produit: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE:1430]
    fabriquant: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE]
    identifiant matériel: 0
    information bus: pci@0000:03:00.0
    version: a1
    bits: 64 bits
    horloge: 33MHz
    fonctionnalités: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
    configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
    ressources: irq:34 mémoire:f2000000-f2ffffff mémoire:e0000000-efffffff mémoire:f0000000-f1ffffff portE/S:8000(taille=128) mémoire:f3000000-f307ffff

$ sudo find / -name 'libnvidia-ml*' (NVIDIA libraries)
/usr/lib32/nvidia-367/libnvidia-ml.so.1
/usr/lib32/nvidia-367/libnvidia-ml.so.367.57
/usr/lib32/nvidia-367/libnvidia-ml.so
/usr/lib/nvidia-367/libnvidia-ml.so.1
/usr/lib/nvidia-367/libnvidia-ml.so.367.57
/usr/lib/nvidia-367/libnvidia-ml.so
find: «/run/user/1000/gvfs»: Permission non accordée

I installed nvidia-settings, but it's a version 367.48. I didn't want more version mismatch, so i uninstalled it
Basically, my driver seems to be v367.57, but I don't know how to check for the library version (apart from libcuda1-367 which is already at 367.57).
Does someone know how to fix that problem / where to check the library version that creates the mismatch / if there is a package that I didn't install ?
Btw, one thing I find strange is that lshw doesn't give me the name of my graphic card, I don't know if that's a sign of anything...
Thank you,

A: Well, a restart seems to have done the trick...
Now nvidia-settings tells me that the driver version is 367.57, whereas it was saying 367.48 before.
nvidia-smi gives :
Tue Nov  8 17:33:27 2016
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 367.57                 Driver Version: 367.57                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro M2000        Off  | 0000:03:00.0      On |                  N/A |
| 56%   39C    P0    23W /  75W |   2103MiB /  4034MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      1210    G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                             269MiB |
|    0      2374    G   compiz                                         112MiB |
|    0      2948  C+G   /usr/local/MATLAB/R2016b/bin/glnxa64/MATLAB   1643MiB |
|    0      5024    G   ...s-passed-by-fd --v8-snapshot-passed-by-fd    74MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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This show, or at least its protagonist, doesn't stop for anything, not even sleep. That's extremely detrimental, of course, as she managed to get hit by a car among other incidents over the course of the hour and definitely wasn't operating at full capacity. I found the flashbacks shown in this episode to be among the most effective ones yet showcased on this show, mainly because it explained how Jessica and Trish became the close friends with harsh outlooks on the world that they are today. The abuse Trish's mother inflicted on her daughter had seemed purely emotional up until this point, but it's clear that it was very physical and psychological too. Trish discovering Jessica's powers and calling her a "good kind of freak" was a nice moment, and Jessica chose exactly the right time and way to show her adoptive mother what she could do. That background was especially helpful as it related to Trish bravely ingesting the red pill Will had taken to go toe-to-toe with him even with the risk of not remembering to breathe, which of course kicked in just a few minutes later. We didn't have to see Kilgrave for his presence to be felt in this hour, though Jessica had to first deal with Will and then with trying to warn the invincible friend of hers we haven't seen in a while: Luke, who is just about the best ally she could want at this point. Malcolm not doing anything when he saw that someone was in Jessica's apartment was a sad moment since his worldview and optimism has been irreparably shattered.


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Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Bragdon, May (5/16/1865 - 3/21/1947), Bragdon, George Chandler (4/29/1832 - 8/7/1910), Nourse, Susan Marie (1831? - 1904), Joiner, Edith M. (7/3/1868 - 7/4/1935), Davis, Helen Alling (4/19/1871 - 4/12/1950), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Hubbell Park (Rochester, N.Y.)
Hillman, John Constantine (1865 - 1932), Bragdon, George Chandler (4/29/1832 - 8/7/1910), Bragdon, May (5/16/1865 - 3/21/1947), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Aroix, Jean Baptiste, MacArthur, Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Rogers, Mabel S. (b. 11/17/1870), Joiner, Edith M. (7/3/1868 - 7/4/1935), Gilmore, Joseph H. (b. 9/9/1863), Pedro, Diana
Hillman, John Constantine (1865 - 1932), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis', Ewers, William Vaux (b. 1871), DeGraff, William (b. 1864?), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Davis, Frances Freeman (1838? - 1915), Davis, Hamilton Clark (10/14/1864 - 2/10/1947), Cutler, James Goold (4/24/1848 - 4/21/1927), Cutler, Joseph Warren (7/13/1857 - 1934), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Behns, Humphrey, George P. (1864 - 1952), Pedro, Vagabonds
Davis, James Clement (3/16/1863 - 9/3/1951), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Bragdon, George Chandler (4/29/1832 - 8/7/1910), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Davis, Hamilton Clark (10/14/1864 - 2/10/1947), Pine Tree Inn (Ontario, Canada), Sibley's (Rochester, N.Y.), Flinch
May Bragdon Diary, August 30, 1906, p. 177
Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Harper, Martha Mathilda (9/10/1857 - 1950)
May Bragdon Diary, September 7, 1905 – September 10, 1905, p. 44
Davis, Helen Alling (4/19/1871 - 4/12/1950), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Davis', Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Frances Freeman (1838? - 1915), Davis, Lillian May (1871 - 1910), Seneca Park (Rochester, N.Y.), Flinch, Diana
May Bragdon Diary, May 1, 1901 – May 9, 1901, p. 245
Bragdon, George Chandler (4/29/1832 - 8/7/1910), Budnick, Hans, Steinhausen, Theodore D. (1874 - 1944), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946)
Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Humphrey, George P. (1864 - 1952), Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), MacArthur, Bragdon, George Chandler (4/29/1832 - 8/7/1910), Hillman, John Constantine (1865 - 1932), Rochester Orphan Asylum (Rochester, N.Y.)
May Bragdon Diary, July 23, 1899 – August 8, 1899, p. 83
Joiner, Edith M. (7/3/1868 - 7/4/1935), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Davis, Oscar B. (1833 - 1908), Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Bellamy, Charella (1865? - 2/16/1920), Hillman, John Constantine (1865 - 1932), Andrews, Benjamin P. (1857 - 1938), Clark, Edith E. (1884? - 1934), Lyceum (Rochester, N.Y.), Baker Theatre (Rochester, N.Y.), Lake Ontario, Hubbell Park (Rochester, N.Y.)
May Bragdon Diary, October 2, 1904 – October 4, 1904, p. 117
Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Davis', Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Davis, Helen Alling (4/19/1871 - 4/12/1950), Davis, Frank Allen (3/21/1873 - 6/1/1953), Davis, Lillian May (1871 - 1910), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Hutchison, Laura B. (b. 1870), Daly, Katherine Lucy (1865 - 1963), Diana
Davis', Davis, Helen Alling (4/19/1871 - 4/12/1950), Davis, Frances Freeman (1838? - 1915), Davis, Lillian May (1871 - 1910), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Millard, Ernest B. (1870 - 1941), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Hillman, Edith V. (1879? - 1923), Hillman, John Constantine (1865 - 1932), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Baker, Marie (b. 1845), Davis, Frank Allen (3/21/1873 - 6/1/1953), MacArthur, Nellie (b. 4/4/1867?), South Park (Rochester, N.Y.), Lyceum (Rochester, N.Y.)
May Bragdon Diary, March 31, 1905 – April 3, 1905, p. 180
Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Penfield, Florence (1853? - 1935), Cutler, Joseph Warren (7/13/1857 - 1934), Gilmore, Joseph H. (b. 9/9/1863), Hutchison, Laura B. (b. 1870), Joiner, Edith M. (7/3/1868 - 7/4/1935), Davis, Helen Alling (4/19/1871 - 4/12/1950), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Flinch
Wray, William Henry (1866 - 1913), Wray, Elsie Celia (b. 1864), Joiner, Edith M. (7/3/1868 - 7/4/1935), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Hutchinson, Bessie J. (1877 - 1954), Dickins, Mary Belle (9/9/1876?), McLaughlin, Florence (1877? - 1945)
Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Arnold, James Burns (1881 - 1957), Weller, Frieda (1889 - 1926?), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Rowe, Marguerite H. (1886 - 1967), Bragdon, Eugenie Julier (11/16/1870 - 11/6/1920), McLaughlin, Florence (1877? - 1945), Winans, Irene D. (4/5/1882 - 7/19/1936), Sibley's (Rochester, N.Y.), Seneca Park (Rochester, N.Y.), Autumn Chapter
Joiner, Edith M. (7/3/1868 - 7/4/1935), Rowe, Marguerite H. (1886 - 1967), Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Arnold, James Burns (1881 - 1957), Wilkinson, Edna Carrie (8/13/1872 - 1965), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Bragdon, Eugenie Julier (11/16/1870 - 11/6/1920), Upton, Carolyn (1868 - 1932), Hahnemann Hospital (Rochester, N.Y.), Sibley's (Rochester, N.Y.), Hever Hall (Rochester, N.Y.)
Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Crawford, Letitia (b. 1863?), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Davis, Frances Graham (9/9/1906 - 10/6/1983), Arnold, James Burns (1881 - 1957), Upton, Carolyn (1868 - 1932), McLaughlin, Florence (1877? - 1945), Scott, Edith A. (b. 1872?), Winans, Irene D. (4/5/1882 - 7/19/1936), Cro' Nest (Rochester, N.Y.), Sibley's (Rochester, N.Y.)
Bragdon, George Chandler (4/29/1832 - 8/7/1910), Boyce, Fred R., Boyce, John L., Bragdon, Katherine Elmina (12/30/1837 - 9/6/1920), Arnold, James Burns (1881 - 1957), Bragdon, Claude (8/1/1866 - 9/17/1946), Baker, Lura Ophelia (8/13/1870 - 1922), Davis, Charlotte Gleason (4/12/1861 - 1938), Davis, Frank Allen (3/21/1873 - 6/1/1953), Davis, Frances Graham (9/9/1906 - 10/6/1983), Davis, Zoe E. (1882 - 1958), Wray, William Henry (1866 - 1913), McLaughlin, Florence (1877? - 1945), Crawford, Letitia (b. 1863?), Sibley's (Rochester, N.Y.)


Our two daughters began in the Summer Columbus Club and when our eldest daughter, now 8, needed help with her reading we started her in the Monday reading class. That was about three years ago and she is now rarely without a book. What Anne Ruane and her staff achieved for her is rare and invaluable; a genuine love for books and reading and it was all done invisibly with great patience, love and skill. The Club has a really comprehensive library and both our children skip there happily every week. I could not recommend the Club more highly.
My two boys Trevor, aged nine and Russell aged seven have been attending the Columbus Book Club since its inception. Both boys love reading and look forward to their Monday Book Club experience. The teachers help them to choose challenging books. They chat to them about the content along with the other kids in their group. They encourage them to write book reviews and of course they love the stories read to them by the visiting authors.
My daughter and son both attend Columbus Club, to say they enjoy it is an understatement. They attend on a Monday and Tuesday after school. I originally thought that this may have made their day too long this is absolutely not the case. The atmosphere at Columbus is unique, warm, friendly, kind and caring and most importantly each child moves at their own pace guided with genuine encouragement. Their approach has truly given my kids confidence and enthusiasm when it comes to reading, maths and Irish. They truly enjoy reading and the enjoyment they get from finishing one book and starting another is a joy to watch. Their confidence and understanding of maths has grown considerably. Most importantly they get their homework done!
I just wanted to thank you so much for the great time my son Finn had at the Easter and Summer Columbus Club camps this year. He did the baking club in the morning and the sports club in the afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it, so much so that he loves baking now and takes a keen interest in what I am cooking. Also the staff were extremely friendly , enthusiastic and helpful and created a lovely safe environment. I particularly liked the way the security system in place meant that no child was allowed out when camp was finished without being signed out by their parent or minder. We will definitely be back for the next mid-term break and Finn is looking forward to it very much (he says it is the best camp he has been to and he has been to lots of different ones over the years).
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We loved the Columbus Club Easter camp. Our boys (11 and 6 years of age, respectively) came home smiling every day, talking about "Animation" and "Lego". The camp was creative, fun and our children were very well looked after. We will definitely be back in June!
Both of our sons thoroughly enjoyed the animation summer camp organised by the Columbus Club – so much so that our older son asked to repeat it later the same summer. They have both asked to do another Columbus Camp this coming summer. Anne also organised a birthday party for our younger son. He wanted a medieval theme and the venue looked just fabulous when we arrived. Baz made a wonderful wizard and everyone had a great time with modelling clay and story-boards. Cian said afterwards that it was "magical".
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Trinity for Scrutiny: Council of Europe, Human Rights instruments and Citizens
Nora Wolf
Building on the tasteful piece written recently by Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, this article will endeavour to explore further why the Tromsø Convention(Norwegian International Convention on Access to Official Documents)[1], although adopted more than a decade ago, is in fact deserving of much more credit and fuss than it appears to have mustered so far.
To briefly catch everyone up, the Council of Europe (CoE) adopted in 2009 a Convention on Access to Official Documents foreseeing a general and minimal right for all to access public authorities' official documents. Having entered into force last December, this convention pioneers a uniformed standardised right to obtain official documents and thereby information from official sources. Evidently, the treaty draws on the pillar values of any and all healthy democracies that are transparency, pluralism and self-development of the individuals making up our civil societies.
Freedom of information, within which the right to access official documents is encompassed, is indeed crucial for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is essential from a somewhat 'hostile perspective' in order to oversee public bodies' conducts and uncover behaviours who clash with Human Rights and might otherwise be sanitized precisely when these call for remediation, sanction and reparation. Secondly, in a 'friendlier' outlook, it is indispensable for the purpose of feeding the public debate and thus, allowing for militant democracies, but also to strengthen legitimacy, foster public trust and endorsement of their elected government.
Lastly but perhaps most importantly, it should be pointed out that in a similar manner as the right to life, the freedom of information is in fact a key that opens, if not all, many doors embodied by other ECHR rights such as the freedom of expression and that of thought, procedural guarantees or even the freedom of assembly and association. In effect, without being adequately informed, how could one be aware of their rights and exercise them diligently? Without receiving quality information, how could one forge their convictions and gather with others to share affiliations and work towards a common goal? And without access to verified information, could one really form an educated opinion meant to be expressed freely subsequently?
In addition to being a prerequisite to the proper exercise and enjoyment of other fundamental rights, it also echoes directly with the first article of the ECHR providing for the Contracting Parties' duty to respect Human Rights – and in reality, render them available to all persons under their jurisdiction. In that sense, the CETS 205 can and should be looked at as a practical example of States fulfilling Human Rights and hence as falling squarely within the same scheme.
Another link certainly worthy of some emphasis is the one that can be made between the advent of such a Treaty and the recent recognition and growing establishment of the right to truth. The right to truth, as devised by Special Rapporteur Louis Joinet in 1996, is made up of several dimensions amongst which there is the right to know. The latter, in turn, involves a right to access archives and historical official documents in order to shed light on past events – and ultimately heal a society. Thus, just like we – the civil society – have a right to know our past so as to reconcile and repair wrongdoings, we also have a right to get acquainted with our present and perhaps prevent wrongdoings at all. Both instruments' emergence form part of a single reactive movement: the reinforcement and extension of human dignity and a renewed appreciation of individuals through greater access and involvement.
Whilst keeping these elements in mind, let us say a few words about the Convention's content and characteristics. The project is said to have been guided by the concern of identifying and generalising a core of basic compulsory provisions in a way that will "encourage the Parties to equip themselves with, maintain and reinforce domestic provisions that allow a more extensive right of access, provided that the minimum core is nonetheless implemented." Hence, this instrument does not purport to be a binding 'best practice' guide, but is rather the fruits of a (well-known) compromise resulting in the establishment of a minimum threshold likely to be accepted by the largest majority.
Say we embrace the path taken by the consultative committees and concede that realistic (aka lower) standards will amass more signatures and spread wider its application, what then of an equally realistic rapid examination of the outcome? Indeed, since its adoption in 2009, only ten countries have ratified the Convention whilst the instrument is said to merely reassert what already exists in most internal frameworks of the CoE countries.
The puzzlement does not end there: when looking closer at the contracting parties, one cannot help but notice that the 'star students' are MIA. European countries that ranked in 2018 in the top 10 of the world-wide Human Freedom Index[2] such as Switzerland (2nd), Germany (9th), Denmark (4th), or Ireland (7th) are nowhere to be found on the ratification addendum of the Convention. It is hard to imagine why such States that are already doing so well in that area would not want to lead the example and reaffirm principles that match their internal policies.
Commissioner Dunja, for her part, had highlighted that although the majority of CoE's members have already adopted freedom of information laws on the domestic level, some definite issues remain with regard to their practical enforcement. This referred to disparities in degrees of transparency depending on the public body as well as failures to meet requirements set for proactive disclosure. We may then wonder, provided those trends are correct, if – ironically – there could exist a lack of transparency on those regulations. In other words, if national laws on freedom of information already exist almost everywhere in Europe but they do not satisfy the thresholds put forward by the Convention in practice, civil society should know about it to remedy the situation.
Still, you may wonder: why is it so important that we enquire about, and ensure that, a smooth implementation is possible on the domestic or – if need be – regional level? Because although this article has managed to avoid bringing up COVID-19 so far, the current pandemic only enhances the stakes surrounding an effective freedom of information. As we all know by now, in times of emergency, rapid and impactful decisions have to be taken. These decisions are then in that sense less prone to gather strong consensus and yet more likely to concern the public given the serious nature of the decisions' object.
The year 2020 has shown that misinformation and somewhat tendentious media coverage of the pandemic's evolution was damaging enough in terms of civil discontentment and eroding our trust in the Government. But adding to that the withholding of some facts and a lack of transparency on the part of public officials is simply a recipe for disaster.
This can perhaps be better grasped when looking at the cases of France versus Sweden. Civil unrest and vocal dissents have been taking place last year against the French government, said to be lacking transparency on several issues such as shortages of equipment, rationale for measures chosen, allocation of vaccines or even the number of vaccinations. In the fall of last year, a local survey recorded that two-third of the French citizens did not trust their leaders to fight COVID efficiently. The handling of the crisis tainted with obscurity and ambiguities resulted in an unfortunate loss of popularity for President Macron and civil disobedience.
In contrast, the Sweden government remained consistent with its strong stand on, and reputation for, transparency towards its population taking roots notably in a national law favouring public scrutiny adopted in 1766. Their tradition of 'ultra-transparency' as is sometimes called is closely related to the country's culture of shared responsibility and mutual respect between State and citizens. With the national Agency for Public Health taking the lead on the crisis management by remaining very open on the data available and reasons for pursuing collective immunity survey showed in Spring 2020 that nearly 80% of the population entrusted both their health system and the national Agency. Moreover, this ought to be placed against a backdrop where even the King of Sweden did publicly air his reservations regarding the confinement-sceptic management.
Now whatever anyone thinks of the Swedish strategy a posteriori, it must be acknowledged that not only did their information and transparency handling maintain its citizens, numbers show it even did as much as increase the legitimacy of their prime minister. To top it off, Sweden is one of the first to have ratified the CETS 205.
To put it plainly: some countries' tendencies to filter information, strive to maintain composure and showcase confidence in uncertain times simply proves to be more detrimental than an approach where full transparency and efficient dissemination of available information is endorsed at the risk of revealing some inconsistencies or displaying dubiety in the process.
It is hoped that this can serve as a support for reflection around the understatement of international agreements we may take for granted such as the one 2009 Convention on Access to Official Information and the realisation that in our case, having ratified such a document could be a real game-changer in the second phase of our pandemic and rehabilitate good governance where it has been shattered.
[1]hereinafter referred to in the text as 'CETS 205'.
[2]Which, for the record, encompasses personal, civil and economic freedoms, and is based on indicators in various areas such as the rule of law, the freedom of expression and information, that of association and assembly as well as civil society.
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Vladimir Kozin
On January 25 Germany and the United States decided to provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 and Abrams tanks totaling 45 (respectively: 14 + 31). Some European countries also intend to join these supplies that could reach around 300 main battle and light tanks during this year. The Pentagon official confirmed that collected 'the armor basket' could include 300 tanks and ACV/APC during 2023. It will be 28th 'basket' of lethal military supplies of the transatlantic alliance to Ukraine that started on a massive scale in 2022.
– Unlike fascist Germany, current Germany openly declared a war against Russia on January 25. Arguing in favor of sending NATO tanks and ACV/APC to Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said EU countries were fighting a war against Russia. US and EU officials have previously gone out of their way to claim 'they were not a party to the conflict in Ukraine'.
This is a quotation from what Baerbock has stated at PACE. "And therefore, I've said already in the last days – yes, we have to do more to defend Ukraine. Yes, we have to do more also on tanks," Baerbock said during a debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on January 25. "But the most important and the crucial part is that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in Europe, because
so far from the German Government, it means that her statement is fully shared by the FRG Government we are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other."
If she has not been sacked and the Parliament.
It also means that the FRG has radically changed its foreign policy and once again is unleashing the next World War – the Third one.
It means that German tanks again will appear in Ukraine and Russia like in 1941-1945.
It also means that pro-Nazi coalition supports ultra-nationalist regime in Kiev that began its own and unprovoked aggression – initially against Donbass in April 2014, and later against Russia in October 2022.
It means that since January 25, 2023 current joint Ukrainian-NATO actions in Ukraine can be politically and juridically labelled as "a declared direct combined Ukrainian-NATO aggression against the Russian Federation".
– Russia angrily reacted to such abnormal statement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that tank supplies to Ukraine by Western countries testify their direct and growing involvement in their armed conflict. He added that the flow of western weapons to Ukraine does not help potential negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that any shipments containing weapons for Ukraine would become a lawful target for Russian forces,
The Russian Embassy in Germany for its part warned that "this extremely dangerous decision [by Berlin] shifts the Ukrainian conflict to a new level of standoff."
All five parliamentary political parties at the Russian State Duma are demanding from the highest military and political structures in the country to destroy all Ukrainian-NATO heavy weapons – not only at the front lines, but additionally and primarily near Ukrainian-NATO border as soon as such weapons cross it on land, in the air and at sea.
Such destruction will save a lot of innocent lives amongst civilians and military men.
– Moscow has also cautioned NATO and non-NATO members against supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium munitions (DUM) and with long-range weaponry capable of striking at cities deep within Russian territory.
Supplying Ukraine with DUM for western military hardware would be regarded by Moscow as the use of "dirty bombs," said Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control. Speaking at a plenary meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation in the capital of Austria Vienna, Gavrilov cautioned "western sponsors of Kiev's war machine" against encouraging "nuclear provocations and blackmail."
"We know that Leopard 2 tanks, as well as Bradley and Marder armored fighting vehicles, can use depleted uranium shells, which can contaminate terrain, just like it happened in Yugoslavia and Iraq," he said. "If Kiev were to be supplied with such munitions for the use in western heavy military hardware, we would regard it as the use of 'dirty nuclear bombs' against Russia, with all the consequences that entails."
Gavrilov also warned that Moscow will retaliate if the West were to supply Kiev with long-range weaponry to carry out strikes against Russian cities. "If Washington and NATO countries provide Kiev with weapons for striking against the cities deep inside the Russian territory and for attempting to seize our constitutionally affirmed territories, it would force Moscow to undertake harsh retaliatory actions. Do not say that we did not warn you," he remarked.
– Ex-President Donald Trump called on Joseph Biden to end 'crazy' Ukraine conflict before it leads to the use of nuclear weapons.
"First come the tanks, then come the nukes. Get this crazy war ended, now. So easy to do," Trump outlined.
Marcela Ganea
"Davos has become more of a show, it's no longer so important", concluded Liviu Muresan from Eurodefense Romania at the end of the webinar recently jointly organized by Eurodefense Romania and the Bucharest-based MEPEI think-tank. In the aftermath of the Davos World Economic Forum, 20 key-note speakers invited to examine this year's edition did not hesitate to cast a critical eye upon the outcome and some of them were very straightforward in assessing this year's WEF.
Adrian Severin, former Romanian minister of foreign affairs, gave a remarkable definition to the Davos WEF: "something between mythology and reality because politicians come to Davos to look for intellectual validation and economic support, corporatists come to look for intellectual respectability and political assets, civil activists seek kinship with the political power and financial sponsorship. They make a network of self-legitimized supra-national power that combines the characteristics of occult interest groups, influence groups that associate oligarchic cynicism with democratic hypocrisy. A group of self- proclaimed prophets, self-confirming their prophecies."
Experienced in foreign policy, Severin could identify new approaches during the Forum, so he portrayed in detail "the Davos WEF that turned from an incubator of ideas into a platform for launching messages and trial balloons, from a doctrinal workshop into a ballroom…from a political designer into a moral whistle-blower ….from a producer of doctrines into a producer of dogmas…from the champion of missionary realism into athlete of utopias ….from a platform of dialogue into a platform of war propaganda…from a believer in globalization into a promoter of globalism…from a follower of inclusion into a promoter of exclusion….Davos is at risk of losing popularity and political failure, it no longer solves problems, it either deepens the existing crisis or generates new crises ."
Severin argued that "this year's edition was significant through the absences rather than through the presences because only Olaf Scholtz was present this year out of the G7 leaders….Russia and China were absent….The president of the European Commission has become a US ventriloquist , no longer representative of the European Union that is neither Union, and no longer European…The main representatives of the US were absent. Those present discussed everything but the risk of having the world fractured into two blocks with incompatible cultural identities, with the Euro-Atlantic block increasingly weaker than the Indo-Pacific block and the Euro-African-South-American block…the discussion about green energy and other similar topics is nonsense as long as solutions are not presented."
Severin believes that the main concern should be "to stop the war in Ukraine and to normalize the dialogue between the Euro-Atlantic and the Euro-Asian blocks", especially because this year's theme was "Cooperation in a fragmented world".
The most inspirational speech was given by Antonio Gutierez, the head of United Nations Organization, who referred indeed to the fragmented world, but Severin pointed to the fact that Antonio Gutierez gave such a speech in Davos and not in the UN in New York or Geneva, a sign of the failure of the UN, which means that the UN and the OSCE must be revived.
General Corneliu Pivariu, former head of the Romanian Military Intelligence, stressed that the Davos meeting actually does not solve any problem of the world. It speaks every year about economic inequalities without solving that, doing every year nothing else than acknowledging the deepening of inequalities. For instance, according to Credit Suisse, between December 2019 and December 2021, the global wealth increased with 42 trillion USD but 26 trillion USD belonged to the 1% richest population, and 16% to the rest of 99% of the world's population. Another topic is global warming, which is also never curbed, and an Oxfam report released in November 2022 revealed that a billionaire's annual emissions of CO2 are one million times higher than a person in the 90% of the world's population.
Carlos Branco, senior analyst with the National Defense Institute in Portugal, confirmed that Davos meeting did not find solutions to the world's problems. He reminded that, in Davos, Ursula Von Der Leyen, Olaf Scholtz and other leaders spoke of the need to make Europe independent in terms of energy but they did not explain how exactly Europe will manage to provide itself commodities and raw materials, since Europe currently has 37 strategic dependencies out of which 2% from China and 3% from Russia, while the new technologies will still make Europe dependent on Asia. "The future of Europe will depend on how it will position itself in relation to the advanced technologies, Artificial Intelligence, a.s.o., but for the moment, Europe is trapped."
As an outstanding expert on Asia, Viorel Isticioaia Budura, former Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service and former Romanian ambassador in China and Japan, pointed to the absence of many G7 leaders in Davos as well as of Asian leaders, among which China, which is "the beauty and Miss Universe of the world's interdependency", and mentioned the presence of many Asian business people in Davos this year, while reminding of the importance of Asian countries and of the three high-level summits organized in Asia last year, G20, APEC and ASEAN, and of what Anthony Blinken, the US secretary of state, called "the rest of the world", namely, Asian countries that do not follow the Euro-Atlantic order but have become a significant part of the global economy. Isticioaia Budura wondered if the "re-globalization of the supply chains would be possible" and declared China "the champion and the promoter of globalization."
Michael Zinkanell director of the Austrian Institute for European and Security, Vienna, expressed his opinion that "we a living in a bipolar world dominated by the US and China while Russia has no ability to project global power, and some clear conclusions after the Davos meeting are that instability is increasing in the world, the world is becoming more and more interconnected and energy independence and decarbonisation are very important for the future". Zinkanell sees natural disasters and socio-economic risks as the main concerns for the future, but also the interactions with some authoritarian countries that are trying to lead in this new multipolar world that will allow multilateralism.
Germano Dottori, editor of the Italian Geopolitical magazine, also agreed that Davos meeting became too politicized and not too useful but he sees the prospects for the future of the world "not so bleak like a few months ago."
Flavius Caba Maria, president of MEPEI, the Bucharest-based think-tank that co-organized the webinar, expert on the MENA region, mentioned a few aspects among which that fact that the representatives of oil and gas companies were welcomed at Davos, unlike Glasgow, which is a sign that renewables cannot entirely meet the energy needs of humanity.
On the other hand, Caba Maria pointed to the BRICS countries and his remarks could be seen as complementary to the idea mentioned by several speakers that the Western institutions seem to have lost their ability to solve the global problems and to ensure economic equality.
Caba Maria emphasized that "the global South is establishing its own system of alliances, turning them into a source to transform global economy, thus creating a development alternative trend, different from the one promoted by the West, with three regional alliances looming: the African Union, the Community of Latin American States and Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Eurasia. Among all these countries, China stands out and everything that's going on in China is of utmost interest for the other countries, because it has become the world's largest economy."
Facts to keep in mind for the organizers of next Davos meetings.
Slavisha Batko Milacic
Photo: Presidency of Serbia / Dimitrije Goll
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic on January 20th had a meeting with the Western negotiating team about the solution for Kosovo. European mediator Miroslav Lajcak, American envoy Gabriel Escobar, German and French special advisers Jens Ploetner and Emmanuel Bonne as well as Italian prime minister's adviser Mario Talo once again discussed with the leaders of Serbia (and Kosovo) the plan(ultimatum) that should regulate relations between Belgrade and Pristina. Officially, the plan for a peaceful solution has not been presented to the public. However, Serbian media published the text of the plan and they clearly emphasize that it is an ultimatum from Quinta. And what is even more important, no one from the Government of Serbia denied it.
Which clearly tells us that the Government of Serbia is releasing the plan(ultimatum) as a trial balloon. However, that decision turned out to be wise, because the reactions of the citizens of Serbia to the plan were more than clear on the point of view that the plan was unacceptable. Because that agreement, among other things, requires that Serbia in practice (de facto) recognize the violent secession of its own Province that is, allow Kosovo to join the United Nations.
The plan compiled by the advisers of the leaders of the two largest democracies in Europe – French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz – represents a gross violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, the basic principles of democratic international relations, the UN Charter, and the OSCE Final Document.
The plan(ultimatum) for Kosovo, humiliates Serbia and the Serbian people by ordering that Serbia respect equality, sovereignty, territorial integrity and the so-called state symbols of Kosovo and all other countries, except it`s own sovereignty, territorial integrity and it`s internationally recognized borders confirmed by the UN, OSCE and other international organizations. Serbia is expected to cooperate in dismantling its own integrity, its own constitutional order and international reputation, so that no one could use the "Kosovo case" as a precedent for unilateral secessions, which primarily refers to Ukraine.
The fact that currently five members of the European Union (Spain, Romania, Slovakia, Greece and Cyprus) and four members of NATO do not recognize the independence of Kosovo shows how bad the acceptance of the plan would be for Serbia. The goal is also to place all responsibility for the victims and destruction on Serbia, as a victim of the NATO aggression in 1999, and to use this act to justify the aggression against Serbia, which was carried out against the international law.
Kosovo is not a frozen conflict, as claimed in the West and repeated by official Belgrade, nor it can be resolved by an ultimatum to Serbia. The best example of this is Cyprus, which was invaded by Turkey in 1974, and despite this, neither Turkey nor Cyprus (or Greece) agree to any ultimatums, nor does anyone give them. The question must be asked here, how is it possible for Quinta to issue an ultimatum to Serbia and why are the Serbian Government and the President of Serbia allowing it?!
The Serbian Government must apply new tactics
Negotiations on Kosovo with Quinta must first be conducted on essential matters. And that means, above all, the protection of the current Serbian population in Kosovo and the return of the 250,000 expelled Serbs. Regulating the status of Serbian state property in Kosovo, which was seized by the separatist government in the province. Plus, the return of stolen property to the Serbs, who were forcibly expelled from the province.
Also, bearing in mind the aggressive policy of the Kosovo separatists, who, contrary to the agreement with NATO, are sending special units to the north of the province, while perpetrating violence against the Serbs, a new strategy is needed. And this is primarily reflected in the fact that the Government of Serbia must help establish the Republika Srpska in the north of Kosovo. This means that the local Serbs would have their own police(including a special police unit), judiciary, prosecutor's office, education, health care and control over border crossings. In other words, parity would be established in the armed forces, bearing in mind that it is not realistic to expect that Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic will ever approve the sending of the Serbian Army to Kosovo. In this way, Serbia would strategically strengthen its positions and would wait for a change on the geopolitical scene of the world, until favorable conditions are created for the full return of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo to Serbia.
Otherwise, if Serbian Government agree to Kosovo's entry into the United Nations, it would mean that Kosovo could unite with Albania, about which Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti also publicly spoke about. This would than open the issue of secession from Serbia of the Presevo Valley and the geographical region of Sandzak. And what is even more important, an incredibly strong pressure to abolish Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina would begin. All of the above would have catastrophic consequences for the country of Serbia, but also for the entire Balkans.


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Learn About the Grammatical Term 'Logophile'
Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms
Logophiles love to collect words, especially rare and unusual words. (supakali/Getty Images)
A logophile is a lover of words. Also called a word lover or philologos. A related term is logomaniac, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a person who is obsessively interested in words."
From the Greek, "word" + "love"
Examples and Observations
"I am a lifelong logophile if not an out-and-out verbivore. I have a good ear and a good memory for words, it's just a kind of tic or trick, the way some lucky people can play a song by ear after hearing it once or count cards at blackjack or spot four-leaf clovers. Unusual and specialized words tend to lodge in my mind, where they hang around, often for years, until I need them. American English has an astonishingly rich vocabulary and we typically use so little of it; I think that's a shame, or maybe it would be better to say I think of it as an invitation.
"I write with two dictionaries right at my elbow . . .. I look forward to visiting my dictionaries anew every time I sit down to write. The same goes for when I'm reading and I come across an unknown word: Quaternions? Yahoo! I get to go to the dictionary!
"I know that's probably kind of freakish. I guess I am counting on the readership of freaks."
(Michael Chabon, "Questions for Michael Chabon." The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2007)
"I am a medical logophile, and in using words, I will often go to the Greek or Latin roots; doing so helps me use words more precisely."
(Robert B. Taylor, Medical Writing: A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, and Researchers, 2nd ed. Springer, 2011)
"[The] suspicion of new words, a distaste of verbal novelty, is acquired in school from dreary English teachers still in thrall to Hemingwayesque simplicities. You know their chief cliche from your own school days: always use the simple word, class! Never seek out a synonym or exotic foreign term. Thank goodness I had a father who taught the very opposite: always discover the rarest yet still correct word. By doing that, a young student accomplishes two things. You expand your vocabulary and you flummox ordained pedagogical authority, namely the dull teacher."
( Bill Casselman, Where a Dobdob Meets a Dikdik: A Word Lover's Guide to the Weirdest, Wackiest, and Wonkiest Lexical Gems. Adams Media, 2010)
The Sweetest-Sounding Words in English (1950)
"While most of the words that [columnist Frank] Colby discusses are suggested by his readers, Colby turned the tables in 1942 by asking them: What are the most euphonious English words? The top ten by popular vote: mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported the results of a new readers' poll. Mother had slipped a bit, but was still listed among the top ten. There were eight new favorites. The 1950 hit parade: melody, lullaby, mimosa, memory, mellow, mother, moonbeam, murmuring, beautiful, lanolin."
("The Press: Mimosa, Moonbeams & Memory." Time magazine, Jan. 30, 1950)
Creating Kingdoms
"A love of words comes from the work of playing around with language. We learn words by hearing them, rolling them around on our tongues and in our minds like a small child does as she learns language. A person who loves language plays with it--hears words and links them with other sounds, other meanings, and other words. The patterns and sounds of language are fascinating to the lover of words. From these connections, many poets find poems. Poetry comes as Harry Behn writes (1968) from falling in love with language. Rebecca Kai Dotlich says in 'A Kingdom of Words,' that a word may seem to be just a word, but a poet can create 'a kingdom around it.'"
(Barbara Chatton, Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language. Greenwood, 2010)
Also Known As: word lover, philologos
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The Independence Park Commission will hold its latest quarterly meeting later this week.
It's at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Truman Memorial Building, 416 W. Maple Ave. Topics planned for discussion include a director's report, recreation report, park project report and budget updates for this fiscal year and for the upcoming 2012-2013 year.


If the companies are not willing to live with the disadvantages of the very simple equipment (plate and loads) simple equipment can be build? A pneumatic cylinder mounted in a rig and with a plate on the rod can be a simple compression tester. The simple way of obtaining data is recording the air pressure. A better result is reached using a weight under the parcel.


Now you can watch Max McLean's award-winning performance of the Gospel of Mark live with newly improved special effects and lighting!
Max McLean's life work is making the Bible come alive for his audiences. Since 1983 he has performed Mark, Acts, and Genesis to millions of people on TV, radio, at theaters, colleges, and houses of worship across the cultural and religious spectrum.
Two thousand years ago, a drama unfolded that would change the course of history. Many have called it the "greatest story ever told." Now one of the great storytellers of our time presents this life-changing saga in a compelling video version of Mark's Gospel. Max McLean's powerful stage performance takes us inside the story of Jesus so we can experience the events and characters that have inspired and challenged people all over the world.
The program is perfect for group or home Bible study, churches, school libraries, and home schooling. Based on the NIV translation. Widescreen.
He did a wonderful job and followed scripture word for word. He was funny and this is a good way to learn a book of the Bible as we remember what we see at a higher percentage than what we hear or read. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being tops I give it 10.
The Gospel is to be read, seen and heard. Max brings the Bible to life. In this performance the Book of Mark becomes real, palpable, affecting. Perfect in every way.


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Joe Greenawalt: Teacher, facilitator, and CS Advocate
La Plata High School, Charles County Public Schools
How did you get started teaching Computer Science?
When I was a full time math teacher, years ago, I loved trying out new ideas and creative ways to engage students. My supervisor said that she half expected to find me standing on my head one day because she'd seen me try so many unusual things. I'm really glad that I said yes when I was offered a computer science class to teach. It's not that I had the background I needed- but I had the confidence that I could learn new things. I think that that attitude was critical to becoming a computer science teacher.
Having to learn new things has been a way of life as a CS teacher. Even after many years of teaching CS, I'm still learning new things. It's not only new content that I'm learning, but also how to share with others, and how to better support a greater variety of kids. There's also learning how to react productively, listen carefully, and help each teacher to be successful with the course and their students. This is an ongoing challenge worth staying in the field to accomplish. We need to see beyond the curriculum to see the bigger goals. Most curriculum doesn't have the quality of support needed for teachers to evaluate what students do or don't understand. The real goal is having students truly understand what it is that they are doing and why. It's a change from the mindset of earning points or grades - to creating lasting understanding. It's so much more than just doing the steps. The real goal is to open the hearts and minds of our students.
What's a challenge you've overcome?
Sometimes, something that starts out sounding like the worst sort of news can turn out to be a great opportunity. MSDE made a decision many years ago that CS would not count as a required technology education credit. The district administrators called in all the CS teachers and told us that we would need to get recertified so that we could teach other courses. They no longer saw a need for computer science teachers.
These days we get great joy from the breadth and diversity of the CS program in Charles county… but it is really only as a result of the effort to get MSDE to modify their decision from long ago and all of the work and connections we made in solving that problem. CS has grown to be so much better than it was before; it's more inclusive, more organized, and more engaging than it was when it started out. The CS program in Charles County turned into a model of something that works to share with other states.
It is a challenge to convince legislators and administrators that computer science is foundational knowledge in this world of technology, and it's also a challenge to convince students to do something unknown, or take a risk. Most students don't know enough about CS to give it a try without a strong nudge, and long before they find out what it is, they'll dismiss it as an option for them without someone to show them the value.
At the high school level, we often defer to the College Board to define what an acceptable measure of success is with the AP courses and the score reports. What does it mean to succeed in AP CS-A? Exam scores? Going on to a career in a CS-related field? These can be false indicators of success. CS is a foundational literacy, a method of problem solving, that benefits students who go into any field. An AP exam score is a picture at a moment in time when students are changing rapidly. It's important to encourage AP CS-A students to see this as a process, rather than a product. A student who gets a 2 on the AP exam- but has learned a lot in the process- has gained something of real value. If students are engaged and persist, it won't matter so much when or where they started.
We really need to define for ourselves what success is. It's a concern when people define who can and cannot succeed much too early. It's so important that the administrators recognize the value of diversity in CS all the way through the advanced levels. There needs to be a pathway with opportunities for every student. AP classes and CTE programs can both be blockades that keep students out if we are not careful. The state legislated in 2018 that CS be made available to all students, and that districts show efforts to broaden participation to under-represented groups.
What experiences do you value as a leader in CS?
Working as an AP reader for the College Board (scoring the AP exams) was a very valuable experience. It built my confidence in my competence. It also allowed me the opportunity to build strong connections with other CS teachers and faculty, and led to a great opportunity to help develop the AP CS-Principles course working with other CS enthusiasts from high schools and higher education facilities from all over the country. The computer science education community is a group that cares very much about bringing opportunities to students across the country.
Maryland was in the top 5 of states for the number of Black Women Who Passed the AP CSP Exam in 2019.
Over 350 Maryland teachers representing every school system participated in computer science professional development in summer 2020.


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Walter Müller Hess (* 2. Dezember 1894 in Santiago de Chile; † März 1977 ebenda) war ein chilenischer Unternehmer und Diplomat.

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Er war der Sohn von Sara Hess King und Federico Müller Becker. Seine Schwester Hilda Müller war Kolumnistin in El Mercurio.
Sein Bruder Ricardo (* 14. April 1897) war Architekt und Leiter der chilenischen Delegation bei den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1928 in Amsterdam und 1936 in Berlin.
Er heiratete Mary Anne Sproat, sie hatten drei Kinder.

Ausbildung
Er erwarb auf dem Collegio Alemán die Hochschulreife und schloss 1917 ein Studium in Bauingenieurwesen an der Universidad de Chile ab.

Werdegang
Er war Präsident der Gaswerke von Santiago de Chile und Professor für Darstellende Geometrie an der Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften der Universität von Chile. Von 1932 bis 1935 war er Vizepräsident und von 1953 bis 1951 Präsident der Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (1883 gegründeter Industrieentwicklungsverband SOFOFA).

Am 30. Januar 1959 wurde er zum Botschafter in Washington, D.C. ernannt, wo er vom 13. Februar 1959 bis 21. Februar 1963 akkreditiert war.

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Polygamy in Arizona: The Wages of Sin
John Dougherty April 10, 2003 4:00AM
Free use of a large vehicle is a substantial benefit for the average polygamist, who has a very large family to transport.
Not only did select district employees receive free vehicles, they also got free gas, insurance and maintenance, courtesy of their public employer.
Superintendent Barlow charged more than $2,700 in gas on school district accounts in 2002 for his Ford Excursion. He also got at least $1,385 in repairs on the Excursion that were paid by the district. But because of the lax recordkeeping, it is impossible to tell how often Barlow used the vehicle for personal use.
Travel and credit card records show that Barlow typically made several trips a week to St. George, Utah, where he frequently charged up to $50 on his district credit card for food. (Barlow seems to particularly love pie; he has unpaid credit card charges to Frontier Pies for more than $230 dating back to September 2001.)
District credit cards carry a $60,000 limit, and the school board has been aware that holders are using the cards for personal expenses since at least 1999. The practice has led to the ballooning, unpaid credit card balance that topped $23,000 in late 2002.
Arizona school districts are prohibited from carrying unpaid credit card balances and incurring interest charges, says Laura Miller, accounting services manager with the state auditor general.
"They would actually need to pay off the full balance every month so they are not incurring interest and finance charges," she says.
Records show that the district's Wells Fargo credit card balance has not been paid off since March 2001, resulting in $2,800 in finance charges through November 2002.
Part of this interest expense resulted from potentially illegal personal credit card charges amassed by board president Bistline, Superintendent Alvin Barlow, business manager Jessop, assistant business manager Oliver Barlow, high school principal Lawrence Steed, school counselor Steven Barlow and elementary school principal Kimball Barlow.
Stresses Miller of the Auditor General's Office, "Personal use of district credit cards would not be an item that is allowable."
Superintendent Barlow leads the way with more than $5,000 in unpaid personal credit card expenses from May 2001 through November 2002, district records show. He tallied most of the expenses on meals and hotels. Many of the personal expenses were incurred at the Mark Twain Restaurant, in Hildale -- the only sit-down, formal dining establishment in the Colorado City area.
District business meetings are routinely conducted at the local restaurant. Credit card records show several thousand dollars in charges since March 2001, which could be a violation of state spending laws.
"That type of expenditure is something that would be a possible gift of public money," Miller says.
Before the district had the Wells Fargo account, it issued American Express credit cards that were apparently used illegally by district officials.
For example, school board president Bistline, in January 1999, put $160 in charges for a personal vacation to Caliente Hot Springs, Nevada, on his district American Express card, district officials admit. Principal Lawrence Steed charged another $176 in personal expenses on his district American Express card at the same resort a month later.
Credit card records also show school district officials purchasing tens of thousands of dollars' worth of office supplies and computer and electronic equipment in the last two years. They routinely bought hundreds of dollars of items at retail stores on single shopping trips, despite agreements with Mohave County to purchase most school supplies in bulk at a discounted rate.
Though a detailed audit beyond the scope of the Arizona Public Records Law would be required to make such a determination, several teachers have expressed concern that district materials are ending up in the FLDS' private schools. School district storage rooms are adjacent to the Darger and Broadbent buildings, the former public schools that were later turned over to the Improvement Association to become private schools.
One teacher said in a taped interview that a colleague was teaching mathematics in one of the private schools while on the public payroll.
In addition, the teacher from the 2nd Ward said, "[that FLDS teacher] was using the district's supplies and copiers to get ready for his math class."
Ironically, the district employee and FLDS member refused to fill the lingering math teacher vacancy at the public high school.
"He absolutely refused to teach any of our students because of his religious decree not to," the 2nd Ward teacher says.
There is no doubt that district employees occasionally spend time during the work day at the private schools. Superintendent Barlow was seen one afternoon driving his district vehicle to the old junior high school building to chat with private school students and play basketball during district business hours.
John Dougherty
Contact: John Dougherty
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Sue Wilson, who has been with Akron's country radio station WQMX for the past 12 years, has resigned her position as Program Director. The resignation will be effective starting June 30th.
In addition to her PD role, Wilson served as the VP of Operations for Rubber City Radio Group overseeing WAKR, WONE and The Wave in Cleveland. She spent eight years on the WQMX morning show Wynn & Wilson.
Wilson posted the news on her Facebook account on Monday (May 21).
Good luck to Sue in all of her new endeavors and thanks for all of your work in radio over the past 32 years.
Sue did a great job at WQMX. She'll definitely be missed.


The Fluke I2500-10 iFlex Probe offers to expand the current measurement range to 2500Aac on select Fluke meters. The current probe's 10" flexible coil allows simple measuring of awkward shaped and large-sized conductors - plus eases measuring wires in tight spaces. The 6' cable allows for distance from a meter making it easier to view the display readings. The iFlex current probe has a CAT IV 600V/ CAT III 1000V safety rating and a three-year warranty.


TO us here on Earth, families decorating trees, choirs singing seasonal songs and children worshipping Santa Claus are all things which have been winter customs for years and years. These traditions are something we see as perfectly normal; those who don't celebrate in a similar way are considered kill-joys.
Imagine though looking at Christmas from an objective point of view, from the view of someone who has never celebrated, or even heard of Christmas. Where would you even begin to explain the birth of Christ? And of what relevance is Santa Claus? Why are presents given? And (something which even throws me at times), what the hell is a pantomime and why is it such a big thing at Christmas!?
These are universal traditions nearly everyone celebrates, but then there are the traditions individual families practice each year.
For example, every year my family go out for Christmas day dinner. The last time I spent Christmas in my own house was when I was 9 days old and fresh out the hospital. I can imagine some people may find it shocking and even a bit depressing that I don't spend Christmas with all my loved ones in someone's house, but let me assure you it isn't. This tradition is part of my Dad's Christmas present to my Mum; she doesn't want to spend Christmas Day cooking and screaming at people to set the table and tidy up. The Christmas meal out is usually quite a calm affair (…once we get to the restaurant) and because we've been doing it for so long now, almost twenty years, it would be strange to change now.
From an objective view, Christmas could seem a bit cult-ish. And maybe it kind of is. Not that it is a criticism. Any cult where you're expected to eat your bodyweight in food and get presents suits me to the ground.