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Mosque outside Paris ordered to close amid investigation into French teacher’s beheading
Authorities in France have ordered the Grand Mosque of Pantin near Paris to close temporarily, after it shared a video railing against teacher Samuel Paty, killed in a brutal attack outside the school where he worked on Friday.
The mosque in a low-income suburb had shared a video on its Facebook page just days before the attack on Paty, in which it criticized the teacher’s choice of material during a class discussion on freedom of expression, according to French investigators.
The mosque, which has around 1,500 worshippers, will be shut on Wednesday night for six months, the Interior Ministry said.
The video shared by the mosque was posted by the father of a schoolgirl who attended the lesson in which the cartoon was shown. The father was among 15 people arrested after the killing, along with a known Islamist radical and four members of the family of the attacker, an 18-year-old man of Chechen origin who was shot dead by police near the scene.
According to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, the father and the radical had issued a fatwa against the teacher.Also on rt.com Macron calls killing of ‘beheaded’ French teacher an ‘Islamist terrorist attack’
A police source told Reuters on Tuesday that the man accused of beheading Paty had sent a text message to the father of a girl in the teacher’s class “who had complained about the images.”
The head of the Pantin mosque, M’hammed Henniche, said on Tuesday that he had shared the video out of concern for Muslim pupils being singled out in class. The school said Paty had given Muslim pupils the choice to leave the classroom during the lesson.
The mosque condemned Paty’s killing as “savagery” in a statement published on Facebook on Sunday, saying that “there’s no room for violence in our religion.” It also joined Muslim leaders, who gathered outside the school on Monday, in offering their condolences to Paty’s family.
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Kamuela Kalai and Ian Masterson were sitting on a Kaaawa beach in January when they saw what looked like a little bamboo stick jutting out of the sand. The two were just talking story when they noticed it was actually a bone.
The pair followed the protocol of calling the police, and then the state Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement, when finding iwi kupuna, or ancestral bones. It took a couple of hours before a state official could check it out. But Kalai knew then that it wouldn’t be the last time she’d have to call.
“We had no idea what was behind it, but we know that if you see one little fragment, there is probably going to be a lot more,” Kalai said.
Just a couple months later, hammering waves exposed a skull. Kalai and a group of friends committed to protecting the iwi kupuna and placed 300 sandbags to hold the shoreline in place and prevent more bones from being unveiled.
“We tried to make a barricade but … the water washed them all away,” Kalai said.
Recent heavy rains and winter’s high surf have cultural preservation experts and community members saying it’s time to consider climate change when protecting iwi kupuna. As more iwi have become uncovered by washed away shorelines and sea level rise, some are calling for more proactive management of these sacred and culturally significant sites.
Kalai has been an active community member with burial preservation since 2010 after being named a descendant of iwi kupuna found in the discovery of over 700 remains in the basement of Honolulu’s Kawaiahao Church. Almost twelve years later, her family and other descendants are still waiting for word back on a joint burial treatment plan from the church.
She moved to Kaaawa from Honolulu about a year ago and got involved with preservation efforts there after three sets of baby bones were found at a beach minutes away from her home. Kalai asked Masterson, who is a longtime resident and archaeologist from the area, to show her different spots where bones have been found. She wanted to ask them for forgiveness for what’s happening to them.
“Who wants to be washed out of their grave?” Kalai said. “There is no stopping the ocean, but there can be better coastal management.”
In a study led by Haunani Kane in 2012, a University of Hawaii team of scientists looked at northern Oahu shorelines to see which areas were threatened by chronic erosion. Using historic photos to determine shoreline change rates, they found that a number of sites with burials and cultural artifacts were in erosion hazard zones.
They concluded that “managers can use the data provided in this study to rank the vulnerability of threatened cultural features and begin developing protocol to best manage and preserve the assets.”
Chip Fletcher, a leading climate change expert and associate dean at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at University of Hawaii Manoa, said sea level rise will continue to happen for centuries to come, so making plans to relocate or manage the sites needs to happen sooner rather than later.
“If you identify the locations of these places and overlay our shoreline change modeling, you can project when erosion will threaten individual sites as early as 2030,” he said in a recent interview with Civil Beat.
A 2018 state study found that sea level rise would cost at least $19 billion in flooded land and infrastructure. With a prediction of 3.2 feet of global sea level rise by year 2100, the researchers identified nearly 550 cultural sites across the state that would be flooded.
“It’s not extremely difficult. All the tools already exist,” Fletcher said. “It’s just a matter of putting together the erosion projections with the cultural locations and deciding what the rescue plan is.”
The real challenge has been making that more of a priority for the state.
“Our kupuna could not have known how much our islands would change,” said Kai Markell, a compliance enforcement manager for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
Markell has spent over 20 years in burial preservation and used to work for the State Historic Preservation Division back in the 1990s. He knows firsthand that malama iwi kupuna — or taking care of these burials — is strenuous work.
Burial sites are classified as either previously identified, which are managed by the state’s five burial councils, or inadvertent discoveries, which are managed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and SHPD.
Markell says that to start better management, sites need to be recognized appropriately. Burials revealed by coastal erosion are usually treated as “inadvertent discoveries” as they come up, even though there have been multiple discoveries over the years in the same area.
It’s not just coastal burials. Skye Razon-Olds, who leads preservation and education efforts at Kanaka Climbers, says that discoveries mauka are more common in the last couple of years due to landslides.
“When the weather changes, our environment changes because our basalt is so sensitive,” she said.
As Hawaii experiences more periods of short, heavy rainfall — one of the effects of a changing climate — the high surface runoff increases the likelihood of landslides, scientists say.
Finding iwi kupuna happens often, and back in the ’80s and ’90s, almost daily. Whether by developments’ archeological studies or accidental discoveries by hikers and beachgoers, all findings are first reported to the police to start the process of determining the age of a find.
If remains are found to be 50 years or older, they are handled by SHPD and the burial councils.
Hawaii has five burial councils to help determine permanent placement for previously identified sites. This means keeping the iwi where they are found or moving them somewhere else in the same ahupuaa, or land division. The councils can recommend preservation plans and assist with finding lineal (genealogically proven) or cultural (location proven) descendants.
But the process can also involve multiple state departments and organizations depending on where burials are found. If they are uncovered during road work, the Department of Transportation gets involved. If they’re found on private property, the landowners are included. All of this collaboration means reporting, placement and recognition of the sites can take years.
Kalai spent most of this year urging SHPD to address the Kaaawa erosion, but has not heard back from them about any mitigation plans.
“Iwi are on the lowest rung of the state’s priorities. They don’t have enough people or enough resources to do this, so ultimately the kuleana falls on us,” Kalai said.
SHPD has been under great criticism for decades after a 2002 audit found the department had failed on multiple fronts to protect historic sites and artifacts, from untimely and inconsistent archeological reviews to its inability to ensure the safekeeping of artifacts.
First, call 911 to contact the police. They will have to determine if the remains are under 50 years old or involved in a missing persons or homicide case.
If the remains are determined to be 50 years or older, call DLNR Enforcement Hotline at (808) 692-8015 or Burials Hotline at (808) 692-8015.
To register a known burial for protection, submit this form.
This step-by-step instruction can help you to file for lineal or cultural descendancy of burials in Hawaii.
SHPD questioned the merit of the audit and said generally that it would need more resources or would have to divert resources from other programming to adhere to the audit’s suggestions.
A DLNR spokesperson said no one was available from SHPD for an interview this week.
“The biggest threat to iwi kupuna is the lack of political will and financial resources to truly care, manage and protect Hawaiian burials pursuant to the law,” Markell said.
In January, burial council leadership laid out numerous grievances with the department, claiming SHPD was not supportive enough of their efforts and criticizing it for not filling vacancies and training council members. Though they are chosen by the governor, several seats on multiple islands have been unfilled for years.
“The same complaints the burial councils have in 2021 are the same ones they had in 1998,” Markell said.
Kamana‘o Mills, chair of the Oahu Island Burial Council, said he hopes that with more information, he and his fellow council members will be better equipped to assist DLNR and SHPD in taking care of burial sites.
The council wants to know what it takes to move a road or reduce eroding sands to make a plan that best serves iwi kupuna.
“We get limited information, but we want to be part of the solution,” Mills said. “It’s beyond iwi kupuna; now it’s a public health and safety issue.”
Besides the physical work of investigating sites, studying bones and getting the known areas registered and marked, preservation of iwi kupuna is also spiritual work. Markell was inspired by his kupuna when early in his career, his own moe uhane, or dream, made him realize this wasn’t your typical 9-to-5 job.
“It encompasses your Hawaiian spirituality and identity in one of the most secretive aspects of our culture,” Markell said.
Native Hawaiians believed bones held a person’s mana and where they were buried was often kept secret within families. But with time and the introduction of Christianity in Hawaii, families lost that knowledge.
The location of a burial is also considered sacred because it signifies that person’s connection to the land and the place they lived. Often, those locations are not disclosed to prevent grave robbing or desecration. With respect to iwi found on coastlines, Kalai and the others are on the fence about ocean burials.
“Some people say that if Kanaloa wants to take the iwi, let the ocean take them,” Kalai said. “But if they weren’t buried in the ocean, they should stay in the aina.”
How bones are thought of and the significance of place has changed. Markell believes this is why there is a growing detachment between people and historic sites. Locals feel nostalgic when longtime eateries close, but what about heiau and iwi? What do people value now?
This is the kind of responsibility that people like Markell and Kalai want to see others take on as climate change further threatens ancient burials. In a job that feels like everyone’s kuleana, how do they teach people to care about historic cultural sites? Markell says that people first have to look at bones as a symbol of someone’s humanity.
“Bones represent a human life and you cannot underestimate the value of that human life, no matter who they are and who they mean to somebody else,” Markell said.
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Hey there! How’s your week going? Mine is just okay. My old back injury is flaring up right now. I had to teach Zumba tonight and couldn’t find a sub. My boss at the Y (who is a total sweetie by the way) came to my class and taught a few classes so I could rest. Now I’m sitting on the couch with a heating pad feeling pretty crabby!
The kohlrabi tasted like a potato! I thought it would taste more like a vegetable. The turnips tasted like a potato and a radish combined!
Then it was time for the greens. I received a bunch of chard in the CSA box but I also used the greens from the tops of the kohlrabi and the turnips because the CSA newsletter said they were edible. I washed them and chopped them.
On left we have the stems of the chard which needed to be cooked a little longer, I didn’t even know that part was edible! Then I followed this recipe which I found while looking for turnip recipes.
After boiling the greens I rinsed them to cool them down and topped them with the dressing which was absolutely delightful!
Looks kind of gross I know but I thought it was very tasty! I really like the cooked chard. They say that it is a good source of iron. I felt so healthy after eating this!
The only thing I didn’t use from the CSA box was the fennel. I still have it in the fridge but I don’t know how long it will last. I would definitely buy kohlrabi again just for something different and probably the turnips too. I also think I’ll include chard as part of my diet more often. Very easy to make and so good for you!
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U.S. startup Li3 Energy, Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Puna Lithium Corporation. Under the deal, Li3 will acquire up to an aggregate 80% interest in 123,000 acres of Chilean salar ground, including the producing Salar de Atacama which currently contains the highest economic lithium concentrations in the world.
Puna also has an option to acquire up to 85% of 90,000 acres of salar property in Argentina, in the Centenario, Rincon, Pocitos and Cauchari salars.
The transaction is expected to be finalized within the next 90 days.
Luis Saenz, Li3 Energy CEO, said in a statement, “We are extremely excited by the addition of these two substantial land packages complementing our acquisition in Big Smoky Valley, Nevada announced last week. This transaction now positions Li3 as a major strategic landholder in the Puna Plateau, which contains the largest concentrations of lithium brines in the world and is the host to over 70% of the world’s lithium reserves and production.”
Li3 Energy, Inc. is currently pursuing a business strategy in the lithium mining and energy sector in the Americas, with an initial focus on identifying and acquiring opportunities in Peru, Argentina and Chile.

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S. Korea discovers apparent Korean War remains in DMZ
SEOUL South Korea's defense ministry said Monday it has discovered four pieces of bones, believed to be those of at least one soldier killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
The bone pieces were found during an excavation and demining project that South Korea launched earlier this month on Arrowhead Ridge, a former battle site inside the DMZ that separates the two Koreas, the ministry said.
Earlier, the military found two pieces of bones during the operation.
"(The military) found one piece last Thursday, two pieces the following day and two more on Monday," the ministry said in a release, adding that some items believed to have belonged to the war dead, such as pieces of military boots, were also found at the site.
Noting that it remains unclear whether the bone pieces are from a single person, the military said it will carry out a detailed examination and DNA analysis to identify their origins.
Under the inter-Korean military accord aimed at reducing tensions and building trust, Seoul and Pyongyang had planned to carry out the joint excavation project for about six months from April.
But the North has remained unresponsive to its call to jointly launch the project as agreed, leaving the South Korean military to carry out the operation alone.
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Prince used Sequencer Plus Gold to compose this track.
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What type of store is dollar general considered to be extreme-value retailer a retailer that carries a broad variety and deep assortment, offers customer services, and is organized into distinct sections for displaying merchandise is called a(n) _____. Dollar general is a retailing company, especially extreme value oriented since its establishment in 1955, dollar general has drastically grown in 10 years, from 1955 to 1965, the company grew to 255 stores with annual sales of $258 million. Argument: the market appears to be pricing in some small level of financial deterioration for dollar general (nyse:dg), but i believe its value proposition to the brick-and-mortar retail. Dollar tree inc, is a discount retail company that provides low cost products and extreme discount deals a new round of $200 billion in tariffs on chinese goods is likely to affect dollar tree. Our mission at dollar general, our actions are guided by a simple mission: serving others for our customers, this means placing them at the center of all we do, working every day to deliver value and convenience through our more than 14,000 neighborhood general stores.
Dollar general case analysis dollar general (dg) has succeeded in becoming a prominent competitor in the extreme value retail market segment in the united states throughout the years, dg has executed key business initiatives that have led to major advantages. Dollar general reported record sales and profits last year and plans to extend the streak in 2016 with 900 stores and an even greater number in subsequent years, according to the company's new. In this section, dollar general says its stores reserve the right to limit purchase quantities to typical retail purchase quantities and to exclude resellers/dealers, which again, is in line with other retailers' policies. Extreme value retailers , edlp, convenience like family dollar and, of course, dollar general as you study the case, focus on the following: 1 carefully define dollar general's retail mix, paying particular attention to target market, merchandise mix, and location.
From 1995 to 1997, the average distance between stores and the nearest distribution center was reduced from 600 miles to just over 300 miles (c-91). Dollar general, which has evolved beyond a strictly $1 product mix to more variety and somewhat higher discounted prices, is the latest to test mobile checkout and is thought to be the first among. Dollar general corporation (dg) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the united states 2006 revenues reached $92 billion, making dg the 6th largest mass retailer in. At the low end of the spectrum today are players like dollar general, dollar tree, tj maxx and ross stores at the high end are retailers such as apple, tiffany, sephora and restoration hardware. Similarly, family dollar's acquisition of dollar tree result - ed in the creation of another powerhouse among dollar, or extreme value retailers, which now rivals dollar gener .
Dollar general and family dollar are the biggest competitors in the extreme-value dollar market there are however, 23,000 such stores in extreme value retailers who can be called direct competitors of dollar general. Dollar general corporation is an american chain of variety stores headquartered in goodlettsville, tennesseeas of july 2018, dollar general operates 15,000 stores in 45 of the 48 contiguous united states (the exceptions being three states in the northwest: idaho, montana, and washington. Dollar general case analysis 1059 words | 5 pages intuitively one might assume that dollar general, the well-known extreme-value retailer, has an established competitive advantage versus other consumer goods retailers with respect to price. Dollar general makes shopping for everyday needs simpler and hassle-free by offering a carefully edited assortment of the most popular brands at low everyday prices in small, convenient locations and online.
While most players in the world of digital retail have felt the sting of the amazon effect, extreme discount retailers, or dollar stores, have remained mostly immune to the onslaught. Low income community is the target market for extreme value retailers like dollar general and family dollar but they also serve the rural and urban shoppers that belong to low-to-middle-income families, ethic groups and older customers with fixed incomes. Dollar general corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for over 75 years dollar general helps shoppers save time save money every day® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel. Dollar general corporation (dg) operates one of the leading retailers of extreme values in the united states 2006 revenues reached $ 92 billion, dg 6th largest retail supply in the country.
Extreme value retailers such as dollar general and family dollar have increasingly built a loyal customer base built on trust and the ability to offer a changing assortment of limited name brand merchandise offered at reduced prices customers also tend to view the smaller extreme value. Extreme values & new arrivals your hunt for fantastic items at an incredible price is over we have your favorite products in even bigger bonus sizes for an amazing value, still just $1 each. The yellow dollar general store sign is a popular symbol of value our convenient, everyday low prices model has survived and thrived through the decades the company remains true to the humble ethic of hard work and friendly customer service embodied by the founding family.


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The book was written over a long period of some fifteen to seventeen years. Both were preoccupied with the survival and development of French Canada and they gave voice to these concerns in works which brought them great popularity.
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Eighth graders Nick Anderson and Ayesha Chaudhry recreate the cover picture for Netflix Original 13 Reasons Why
Thirteen tapes. A map. And the whole student body wondering, what happened to Hannah Baker?
The tragic consequences of hurtful words is the theme of 13 Reasons Why, a novel written by Jay Asher. This book, released in 2007, recently turned into a Netflix original show, and has rapidly become one of the most watched shows by teenagers. It’s about high school student Hannah Baker who commits suicide, and leaves behind nothing but a map and 13 tapes. In each of the tapes, she talks about one reason why she took her life. The tapes are sent to the 13 people that played a part in her rationale behind committing suicide, and gave main character Clay Jensen a new perspective on life.
The show, rated TV-MA for adult material such as crude language, graphic violence, and sexual content, has caused controversy over its handling of sensitive topics such as suicide and teenage rape. As a result, Public Information Officer Tracey Carson sent an email to all the parents in the district about it. The email contained a warning about the intensity of the show, how it can affect kids, and resources about suicide prevention. Despite the show’s intended adult audiences, it has quickly become popular with teens.
Eighth grader Ayesha Chaudhry said the positive messages are definitely worth giving the show a try.
“A positive message the show gives is it really enables people to think twice about actions they implement in school and other places with their friends,” said Chaudhry. “Because people in middle school, especially adolescents, tend not to think about what they’re saying to other people before they say it. It’s a very pre-school fundamental; if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it all.”
Eighth grader Nick Anderson said the show is realistic and explains how it relates to teen life today.
“I liked the show because of how realistic it is and how many plot twists there are,” Anderson said. “How it captured what teen life is really like, and it’s not like a sitcom, [in sitcoms] it’s just the stereotypes, [in 13 Reasons Why, the show is] more detailed, it’s more true to teenager’s lives.”
Eighth grade language arts teacher Roni Carpenter has mixed feelings about the book. While she understood the positive outreach it gave to kids, one thing that got to her was how unrealistic the suicide was presented.
“I read it right after it came out and I thought it was very innovative at the time,” Carpenter said. “But it also bothered me to see suicide as some kind of revenge [and it] doesn’t seem realistic to me.”
Carpenter would know herself, as she has experienced a suicide in her family.
“Someone in my immediate family committed suicide a number of years ago,” Carpenter said. “It was nothing like what is depicted in the book. It would have taken Hannah from the book lots of time to compile the tapes she sends out, as well as an ‘I’ll show them’ attitude, wanting the 13 individuals to suffer for the harm they had done her. In my experience, the person who killed himself in my family did not want those of us left behind to feel bad in any way for his decision.”
She said that her step-father felt the same pain Hannah was going through in the novel and show.
“He felt — irrationally — that the pain he was experiencing would never go away and that those of us who cared for him would be better off without him,” Carpenter said. “His death was much more impulsive than the planning over time that was in the book… I don’t think suicide is used as revenge in real life.”
Eighth grade Rahaf Abdelaziez says that attaching a sensitive topic like suicide to a TV show, where many people would see it, was a good idea.
“These topics need to be talked about, suicide is a topic people don’t like to touch on, but it is important,” Abdelaziez said. “I think putting it through a TV show series was a pretty good idea.”
A common mistake, Chaudhry said, is confusing suicide as something you do and can be cured – it’s not that simple.
“Suicide isn’t a thing, it’s a mentality, if you’re suicidal, you live your life according to the idea that, everything would be better if I wasn’t here,” Chaudhry said. “It’s something that takes over everything in your life, and it isn’t something that comes and goes, it’s something that’s always on the back of your head.”
Carpenter said that she saw the positive intent in the story’s publication.
“I guess the point of the book was to show kids how much of an impact they have on everyone else,” said Carpenter. “Through their actions and words, and that would be a positive thing.”
Abdelaziez agrees and said how impactful the positive messages really are.
“Many individuals could be really hurting someone and damaging their self-esteem and confidence without even being aware of it, so you should really be careful when treating or talking to others in certain ways, be mindful,” Abdelaziez said. “No one deserves to take their own life, no matter how bad things seem, people still need you.”
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1,000 miles of coastline, five active volcanoes, 812 recorded species of birds and counting. Here you can leap off a 20 foot cliff, zipline through wildlife, and meet new friends while seeing the world in a new way. These are just some of the things students can experience in Costa Rica. Pura Vida.
Mason students, ranging from sixth to eighth grade, come together each June to make a difference and have fun. Students have the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica, a country known for its biodiversity and where 1.1 million people live in poverty. Sixth grade science teacher at Mason Intermediate Dale Moberly oversees the excursion, which is not a school-sponsored trip. Moberly wants to provide the chance for students to help others, as well as have fun.
“We do all kinds of things when we are in Costa Rica,” Moberly said. “We zip line, whitewater raft, visit a volcano, see lots of animals, go to the beach. We plant trees in a rainforest and visit a school where we take them paper, pencils and different school supplies. We then spend some time with them and just hang out together.”
Over the past four years, the program has grown from approximately 10 to 40 participants. Moberly plans his trips through a travel company and said that information about the trip can be found on his website and at school offices.
“I am currently planning my fifth trip for 2018,” Moberly said. “I have a website (and) papers in the front (office) at the middle school that has all kinds of information. I go through a company called Explorica, which is a travel company that only does trips for kids and students.”
In order to attend, students raise money rather than just rely completely on their parent’s wallet. Moberly said student can participate in group fundraising activities or plan their own.
“We do some group fundraisers and then they can do fundraising on their own,” Moberly said. “We have had dances, car washes, and basically anything you can think of for fundraisers.”
Moberly said he loves taking students on this once in a lifetime opportunity.
“I highly encourage anybody to go,” Moberly said. “It is awesome: I can’t say enough about it. It’s one of those opportunities that some kids never have the chance to take.The money is very reasonably priced, the food is great, the activities are awesome. The company Explorica is very dynamic–they’re awesome, as well. I just really love going and I love taking the kids.”
Eighth grader Jordan Lamm has traveled with Moberly twice. Lamm said that they collect school supplies and take them to schools. They also planted trees for The Monteverde Conservation League, a group that holds conservation efforts to help save the rainforest.
“We collected all these items in advance and we handed them out at an elementary school to all the children who were super nice and cute,” Lamm said. “We also planted trees and got to name them, so I have a tree on a side of a mountain in Costa Rica named Rafa The Tree.”
Lamm also said some of the highlights of the trip varied from jumping off a cliff to drinking fresh milk from a cow.
“I jumped off a cliff into water: it was about 20 to 30 feet,” Lamm said. “That same day I also ate pineapple from an all-natural pineapple before we went white water rafting. I also rode a horse, but I don’t like horses so that was a highlight for me. In addition to that, zip lining was really fun, we got to go over the mountain. We got to milk a cow and drink the milk. If you’ve ever wondered what straight up cow milk is like, the taste is as if you put warm milk and saltwater together.”
Lamm said throughout the activities, she was able to conquer some fears she had. Fears like heights and horses. Conquering them helped her become more adventurous.
“I’ve always been adventurous, but the trip helped me become more adventurous,” Lamm said. “I really liked the trip since I conquered some fears I had like riding a horse, and I got over my fear of heights by going on the hanging bridge over a huge valley and then jumping off the cliff.”
While in Costa Rica, Lamm said she was able to create bonds with many people of different ages.
“I made some good friends that I see in the hallways now and I’m like ‘aye’ because we just share memories or inside jokes. It really did make me really close friends with a lot of good people,” Lamm said. “So I have many new friends. I’m friends with people in all different grades like some freshmen, eighth graders, and seventh graders as well.”
After the days spent in a different setting, Lamm said that her perspective has changed after participating in a new culture.
“It has definitely changed my perspective,” Lamm said. “It has made me think more about other people especially when we took supplies to the schools. It really made me realize that people are less fortunate than me and it was really hard to see. I realized that sometimes you have to donate to people less fortunate than you because they really need it.”
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The large amount of students walking after school can sometimes make it hard to run. That is, for businesses around Mason Middle at least.
Walking to local restaraunts after school has been a popular activity for many years among Mason’s students, but sometimes the array of adolescents can be hard to manage when it comes to running a business full of them.
Culver’s manager Bret Ledford said that at the start of each school year, store managers must establish firm guidelines to curb disruptive and dangerous behavior.
“At the beginning of the school year it’s rough because we really have
to crack down on (the students) and maintain them because sometimes they’re standing on tables or doing other crazy stuff,” Ledford said. “They’re very fired up, and they talk a lot. There are some that try and run around and we have to tell them to walk because if they fall, it’s on us. They’re just pretty rambunctious.”
Mason’s Parks and Recreation Director Chrissy Avery said that she thinks the main problems occur when students aren’t aware of how their behavior affects other people.
“I think for the most part we have a great relationship with students,” Avery said. “Some of the challenges that we have are because we just have the facility with a variety of user groups anywhere from young kids, to teenage kids, to seniors, to middle-aged adults. Just making sure that teens are aware that other groups are using the facility and making sure that their behavior is good is important. We do actually have a partnership with our police department and there’s a school resource officer so usually after school will more busy the officers will do a walk-through just to make sure everything’s okay.”
Students are aware of some of the disrespectful behavior as well. Eighth grader Emma Moore said she frequently walks with friends to local businesses and has seen behavior that she does not approve of that may annoy fellow walkers as much as the managers.
“It’s one thing to have fun with your friends, but it comes to a point where they are getting really disrespectful and disturbing the other people there,” Moore said. “You don’t want to hear kids talking about drugs or screaming the F-bomb in the middle of a restaurant.”
Some restaurants, like United Dairy Farmers, may not experience the type of behavior larger businesses may get. UDF Manager-in-Training Ashley Golomski said that they don’t experience much difficulty with walkers but do sometimes need to make them aware of their surroundings.
“Most of the time they’re pretty polite. Every now and then they get a little rowdy, but they listen to us when we tell them to settle down and stop being so loud because we have other customers,” Golomski said. “They just need to remember to be a little more courteous in the establishment and make sure that they’re not cutting in line, jumping ahead of people, or just blatantly disregarding them.”
Ledford says that as long as businesses are prepared for the large amount of students and are ready to handle making all the food and managing all the space, it can be a beneficial thing to have students walk to their business.
“We plan every Friday or day they don’t have school the next day for them,” Ledford said. “It’s honestly something we prepare for every week and it’s awesome. It really helps business because walking over helps people see us as more than just food: it helps their parents see that their kids like to be here, so hopefully we get more business from them in general and it’s just been a really good thing for us.”
As well as students contributing to good business, the businesses can give right back. Avery said that having the ability for students to walk to close places is a very beneficial thing for the community.
“I think it’s great that Mason has a community that’s walkable,” Avery said. “having restaurants, a Rec Center and Park in places that students can walk to is nice because there is a safe place for students to go where they don’t need to drive. It’s much better than having to stay home and not be able to interact with friends.”
Mariah Norman | Staff Writer
No filter, no script. Just real rawness in real time.
Since the first live stream in 1993, several social media apps, like Facebook and Instagram, have added the broadcasting feature, while other apps completely specialize in it like Periscope, YouNow, and Meerkat. Today, live streaming has connected a variety of users from all across the world. Hosts will initiate the stream, and anyone around the world can choose to watch, while leaving comments that appear on the host’s screen in real time.
Seventh grader Rachel Garcia said she enjoys the carefree simplicity that livestreaming offers, and the direct interaction between viewer and host.
“I get to talk to (the viewers) and they can reply back to me,“ Garcia said. “It’s really easy when I just want to have fun and show people what I’m doing.”
Eighth grade Spanish teacher Lauren Richardson said she’s had multiple experiences with live streaming in an educational setting when needing a way to reach all of her students at once.
“I’ve livestreamed in a couple of different ways,” Richardson said. “I’ve livestreamed when I was on a class trip to Spain. I did it via Instagram to show students some of the culture and language we were using (there). And I’ve also livestreamed a review session for the Spanish 1B Midterm.”
Richardson said live streaming established a real life connection with her students, as if they were sitting right in front of her.
“I think it makes you feel a part of the experience especially when I was in Spain and I would livestream,” Richardson said. “Students would (say) ‘Oh my gosh, that’s so neat!’ and they would actually feel like they were there with me, experiencing the surroundings. And with the review livestream session, when I was taking their questions, it felt like we were in class together. It wasn’t (giving them) a review sheet, (they) learn it, (and) we’ll review it in class. It was: let me know your questions and we’ll review them as they come in.”
Eighth grader Tyler Frazier said the variety available for people interested in viewing live streams could also be a main component for their rise in popularity.
“With Instagram and Facebook Live, there’s a cool variety,” Frazier said. “There’s people that go live and just do random (things), people who talk about (topics) that you didn’t necessarily know before, and there’s even people that go out and commit crimes.”
Even celebrities participate in the trend. Eighth grader Ayesha Chaudhry said live streaming offers an opportunity for internet famous personalities to feel more human and relatable to their audience watching.
“If (someone) was a celebrity, then live streaming would do something more to interact with the people that follow (them),” Chaudhry said. “It gives (the viewers) a face to face connection and they can see (the celebrity) raw.”
Live streaming has also broken significant barriers within social media for everyday people. Frazier said it’s made the entire experience more real and relaxed for everyone enjoying it.
“(Live streaming) can be whatever you want it to be,” Frazier said. “When you post something, it’s structured and you want it to be a certain way but with a live stream, whatever happens, happens.”
Garcia said live streaming not only affects us now but could make a big impact to the future of the workforce, business, and education.
“Basically anyone can watch the livestream and I feel like that could reach and expand to more and more uses in the real world,” Garcia said.
Chaudhry said live streaming also allows us to communicate and interact in ways that have been difficult in the past.
“One of the greatest boundaries man has today is distance and livestreaming could take that down,” Chaudhry said. “It’s kind of like FaceTiming in a way, but to a bigger audience.”
But like anything on the internet, live streaming has downsides and dangers. Within the first four months of 2017, four people decided to torture a disabled person on Facebook Live, and later someone in Cleveland murdered a random elderly man off the street. With the growing popularity of “crime streaming”, people are getting more and more comfortable with the things they broadcast to the world.
Frazier said the reason for people’s recent online recklessness could be the constant need for recognition and approval from others.
“They just want attention. Or there’s even the possibility that they want to get caught for some reason,” Frazier said. “(This is) really bad because you have some (people) in the chat that’ll encourage them to keep going.”
Live streaming could also promote cyber bullying that affects people in a much more vivid way, since it’s all happening in real time. Chaudhry said people feel fearless about what they say and comment on a livestream, especially since it disappears when ended. This causes people to say hurtful things they wouldn’t usually say in person.
“(This is) sort of like the Snapchat mentality, (where people think that) unless someone screenshots it, it’s gonna go away once you end the live,” Chaudhry said.
Although live streaming can be dangerous, it’s bringing different people together from all across the world. Richardson said live streaming could be the next step in connecting people in a way that’s never been done before.
“(Live streaming) is a part of letting somebody into your world and when you do that, there’s a whole different understanding,” Richardson said. “It could help society in understanding other cultures, other languages, (and other people). I think it could break some barriers that really need to be broken.”
By Maryam Elkady, Natasha Jha, Meredith Turner | Staff Writers
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Seventh grader Emma Norris reads her portion of the Torah.
Sweet sixteen parties, fiestas de quinceañera, sacraments of confirmation. Teens of all ethnicities celebrate coming of age in a variety of ways. For Jewish students, it’s a bar or bat mitzvah that signals their transition into adulthood.
A bar or bat mitzvah is a celebration when a Jewish child turns thirteen and is ready to take another step in their religion (becoming a Jewish adult). Bar Mitzvahs appeared in the Middle Ages for boys, while the first bat mitzvah for girls, was held in 1922. By the 13th or 14th century, the custom of calling a boy up to the Torah (the Jewish holy book) was established as the way of recognizing entry into manhood.
Bar or bat mitzvahs are usually celebrated in ways like a party, a lunch, and a religious service. The service involves the bar or bat mitzvah, the boy or girl who is celebrating their coming of age, saying their practiced speech with a rabbi, a jewish scholar or teacher. Many things come into play when planning a bar or bat mitzvah, including, budget, invitations, and catering.
Bar and bat mitzvah means, son and daughter of the commandment. Kids who celebrate bar or bat Mitzvahs have a service in the beginning where they have to read a section of the Torah that depends on the time of year and the child.
Seventh grade coding and robotics teacher Martin Fish has planned Bar Mitzvahs for his children. He said that the Bar or Bat mitzvahs have different portions from the torah that the the child has to read depending on the season and the temple.
“It all depends on your temple or your synagogue and your Rabbi,” Fish said. “In addition, each individual bar or bat mitzvah, the child being honored, has a specific reading from the Torah, which is the first five books of the bible that they need to read. Their portion of the Torah is different depending what time of year it is and the portion that they read after that called the haftarah is also different because it changes every week.”
Preparing for a bar or bat mitzvah can take from months to years. The bar or bat mitzvah needs to be fully prepared for the time of their lives. They start off in hebrew school and learn about the basic prayers. By the time they are 13 or 14, the bar or bat mitzvah becomes ready to say their speech and lead on his or her family tree.
Seventh grader Lauren Kobalka said that she had to practice for a while before actually performing the rituals when having her bat mitzvah.
“I started preparing for my bat mitzvah four years ago,” Kobalka said.“In fourth grade I started hebrew school which is when you start learning the prayers. (I spent) nine months learning with the rabbi and learning my haftarah (plus) the stuff he needs to teach me and I will know all that, come my bat mitzvah.”
Bar or bat mitzvah planning can start early for a child depending on the size of the celebration. Most planning processes start a year in advance so the child can learn Hebrew and memorize prayers.
After the service, a bar or bat mitzvah normally has a party to celebrate their achievement in turning into an adult. The party usually has a theme that is chosen by the new adult and parents. At the party, there are different things done that reflects on the bar or bat mitzvahs childhood. Also, it shows new things that will come in the later years. The prices for the party can range from about $2,500 to $30,000.
Kobalka compared her upcoming bat mitzvah to a wedding weekend complete with planned events, family meals, and out of town guests.
“I’m really excited. (It’s) kind of like a wedding weekend,” Kobalka said. “We have a lot of out of town people. There’s a Friday night dinner and the service in the morning. Saturday night is the party (and) my theme is Lauren’s candy shop. (There will) be a green screen, a DJ, and candy. All (of) my family is coming. And then Sunday morning there is a brunch for out of town people and after the service there is a kiddush lunch for everyone.”
Seventh grader Emma Norris said there is a lot of planning and hard work put into a bar or bat Mitzvah with many different factors
For the party you have to find a place, you have to get decorations and, you have to find a D.J (if you want one). You also have to find someone who will provide food for the party. (It) usually takes 8 months of training. Once a week, you’ll see someone who helps you with your Hebrew, and they’ll teach you your Torah section. Some bat mitzvahs could be more expensive, a normal one would be (about) 10,000 dollars.
Seventh grader Emma Norris said that the Horah was a very memorable moment for her.
“I will always remember the dance called the Horah,” Norris said. “It’s (where) you dance in a circle and the person who is getting bar or bat mitzvahed is in the chair and people lift them up and down. My favorite part was the whole (celebration).”
Riley Johansen | Staff Writer
Students are educating themselves when it comes to their education.
As the end of the school year approaches and Mason Middle School’s eighth graders are deciding where those defining years will take place, some are choosing to migrate from Mason’s public school system to private schools.
Eighth grade counselor Lindsey Sweat said that students often approach her with questions about selecting the right educational path for high school.
“I hear tons about ‘is this the right path for me?’ and ‘should I take honors?’ I always tell the students, if you think it’s too much, it’s probably too much,” Sweat said. “I get stuff about the amount of honors and electives, some kids about deciding to go to private school or go to Mason, and even about extracurricular activities.”
Deciding where to go to school affects not just the student, but the family as well. Eighth grader Faye Cuasay will be attending Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (CHCA), a Christian private school, next year.
Studies show 79 percent of private high school students attend a school with a religiously based curriculum, and Cuasay said this factored into her parents’ decision about her education.
“My parents wanted me to go to a private school because they are very religious,” Cuasay said. “When they lived in the Philippines, they grew up in a very religious church and family, and they want the same type of background for me.”
Eighth grader Trevor Tiemeyer is attending Saint Xavier, a Jesuit school, starting freshman year. Tiemeyer said his brother impacted his decision on where and how he will spend his high school years.
“My brother is an alumni from (Saint Xavier) and he graduated last year, which is a reason I’d wanted to attend because he thought it was very beneficial,” Tiemeyer said. “But when my brother went to Saint X he cut off all relationships with his friends so he didn’t have any friends outside of Xavier and hockey. I have been trying to keep those relationships with my friends so I can still have some of my old friends before entering a new school year.”
While some decide to leave for private school, other students choose to stay on the public school path. Eighth grade sisters Katrina and Ainsley Scheidler are among the ones deciding to stay. Katrina Scheidler said that they feel Mason is the better choice for them, offering the same, if not better, opportunities.
“Education wise, I don’t really see much of a difference,” Katrina said. “I feel there is a better opportunity for education here, and this is where all my friends are. I feel like there are the same, or more opportunities at Mason than there is at a private school so why move?”
Ainsley Scheidler said she enjoys the size of Mason because of its ability to offer more ways to get involved in the school and create memories.
“If I want to have a choice to go to private school or Mason, I will still choose Mason because of all the clubs that you can join and be a part of something so big and beyond you,” Ainsley said. “For example, here we have Cupcake Club, and there may only be one person at a private school wanting to do it versus here there is what, two thousand kids in seventh and eighth grade? So, here probably more people will be willing to do it, and so there’s more opportunity for people to be able to have that club and be a part of something related to their school.”
Sweat said exploring your options, learning more about the decision, and being comfortable with the choice is an important key to making the best choice that will define you in the most positive way.
“I think it is (important) to explore your options,” Sweat said. “Go shadow, if you can’t decide at first, go twice, go three times, talk to kids who were there. It’s an important decision, but worse comes to worse, you can always come back, you can always go to another school if it’s not working out. I think it’s really just about exploring your options. It’s whatever is the best fit for that child. I don’t think there is a clear cut say that a private or public school is better, and I think it really just depends on the child.”


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The "2017 China Listed Medical Device Enterprise Summit Forum" - Innovation and Promotion of Domestic High-performance Medical Devices was opened in Changsha on November 17, 2017. At the same time, CAMDI signed a contract with Changsha Hi-tech Zone to build "China High-performance Medical Device Science Park" and award the park.
Li Xiaohong, vice mayor of Changsha Municipal People's Government, attended the forum and presided over the meeting. President Zhao Yixin and executive vice president Fan Xiaodong of CAMDI attended the conference. Zhou Qingnian, secretary of Hi-tech Zone Working Committee and Chen Daqing, deputy director of Management Committee participated in activities.
Zhao Yixin, president of CAMDI, delivered an opening speech at the opening ceremony. She focused on the state's support for the development of home-made high-performance medical devices and China’s promotion of the policy of pharmaceutical innovation and development. She also encouraged medical device manufacturers to make innovations and promotions and further contribute to China’s high-performance medical device products entering the domestic and international markets.
Later on, CAMDI signed a contract with Changsha Hi-tech Zone to build "China High-performance Medical Device Science Park" and award the park on site.

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A new study has revealed loneliness could be in your genes [Photo: Marina Shatskih via Pexels]
Sitting on the sofa sobbing into the Häagen-Daz while warbling out ‘All By Myself’? We feel you! But while you might blame a social media orientated social life, crazy work schedule and various other factors for your loneliness, science says it could have more to do with your parents.
Feeling blue is becoming quite the public health problem of late. Linked to poor physical and mental health, it can be just as good a predictor of early death as obesity. Yikes! So it’s little wonder more resources are being used to investigate the causes. And in a pretty major new study by University of California San Diego School of Medicine and published in Neuropsychopharmacology, scientists have discovered that loneliness could actually be in your DNA.
The research sought to discover what makes one person more likely than another to feel lonely, even in the same situation, and the findings reveal that loneliness appears to be a “modestly heritable” trait.
In the study researchers collected data from the Health and Retirement Study. The 10,700 participants, aged 50 and older, answered three questions that measure loneliness; How often do you feel that you lack companionship? How often do you feel left out? How often do you feel isolated from others?
All by myself! [Photo: unsplash.com via Pexels]
These questions helped separate those whose perception of isolation is dictated by circumstance, and those who are more likely to feel alone no matter the context or situation. And the results revealed that the degree of loneliness that any two people feel in the same situation may vary widely.
“For two people with the same number of close friends and family, one might see their social structure as adequate while the other doesn’t,” said Abraham Palmer, lead author of the study, a professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine. This means some of us have a “genetic predisposition to loneliness.”
But its not all doom and gloom. Even if you have inherited some sort of ‘lonely gene’, researchers claim there could be an upside to loneliness in that it may be “part of a biological warning system that has evolved to alert us of threats or damage to our social body.” In other words if you take the warning, loneliness can be a useful feeling, giving you the push you need to call or text a friend before you get sucked in even deeper.
And if you choose to ignore it, well then there’s always sitting on the sofa sobbing into the Häagen-Daz and warbling out ‘All by myself.’
How do you cope with loneliness? Let us know @YahooStyleUK

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In the publishing world, and especially in the Christian publishing market, we consider fellow writers to be friends, and we all want to help each other. The shared understanding of those long, lonely hours spent typing away to produce a book creates a bond between authors. And when we are friends, we want to share any helpful tips and tricks that we learn with everyone else. It is fine to be kind and helpful, and to pray for each other, but there are certain areas where information should be kept proprietary.
Here are a few areas to use caution:
1) Contracts and negotiations: Your publishing contract is proprietary. Do not share it with other writers, editors or publishing houses. That contract reflects an agreement between you and the publishing house and likely reflects years of work that your agent or agency has put in to negotiate important changes. This agency-negotiated contract is yours because of your ties with your agency, but those negotiations don’t belong to anyone else. Sharing a contract can create major problems for future negotiations because a publishing house will lose trust in an author or agent if word gets out about a special exception they made for one contract and then everyone starts asking for the same changes–with the same wording. It’s easily tied back to an author or agent when the change that was requested was a special request. When an agent requests changes, he or she agrees not to share contract details, but an unaware writer could create a big conflict by sharing a contract with others as well as harm the agent’s reputation. And certainly stymie that agent’s ability to negotiate with that publisher in the future.
2) Editor Requests, committee meetings and offers: Your agent will likely share with you where your project has been pitched, who has requested it, and which houses are taking it to committee or making an offer. This information is for you and your agent to know only. If you need to tell someone, tell your spouse, parents and close non-publishing-world friend and ask them to keep it a secret and to pray. Telling anyone in publishing these details could lead to a publishing house backing out of an offer or it could take away your agent’s ability to negotiate your offer. For example, if you post on Facebook that your agent received an offer for your book from Big Publishing House (even if you don’t share the amount of the offer), and Little Publishing House sees that but was prepared to make a bigger offer that Big Publishing House, Little House might back out because they mistakenly believe they can’t compete with Big House. If this wasn’t posted on Facebook, both houses would have come forward with their best offers, and you and your agent could have discussed the options and decided to go with the best publisher for you.
3) Your advance and royalties: Sharing this information is a big “no no.” Most contracts state that contractual details are not to be shared. Sharing how much you got for your advance could get you in legal trouble with your publishing house. There’s no reason to share this with anyone other than your agent, spouse, and tax accountant.
4) The inside scoop about what publishers are looking for. This one is probably the hardest because we all want to help each other, but if your agent tells you that a publishing house is looking for a certain type of book, or even if you find out yourself (perhaps at a writers’ conference), this information shouldn’t be shared with your writing friends. Telling someone else to submit to a publishing house creates competition for yourself, and in this tight publishing market, that could ruin your chance at publication. Do share information with your agent, so he or she can pitch your project to that house, but don’t take insider information out for all to see.
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I am a fiber artist, living 6 miles from Cody Wyoming, 50 miles from Yellowstone National Park, and 3 miles from Buffalo Bill Resevoir, where every morning I walk. We see everything from Grizzly Bears to the curious, sometimes loud Ravens. As an artist it is a beautiful place to be inspired.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
This will hang in my new home!!
This is one of my favorite quilts. This quilt was started probably more than 10 years ago. I had thought I would make it into a quilt for the bed but once I pulled it out to work on it, I decided it would look best as a wall quilt. The photos below are a few close ups of three of the blocks. A UFO done!

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NAGA CITY, Feb. 10 (PNA) -- Camarines Sur Vice Governor Fortunato Peña has called for a summit of stakeholders of the fishing industry in Ragay Gulf to formulate a unified fisheries ordinance (UFO) in the 12 coastal towns in Camarines Sur.
The meeting aims to propose a commercial fishing ban and the enforcement of species-specific close season in Ragay Gulf, a wide triangular body of water with an estimated fishing area of about 3,600 square kilometers and with boundaries shared by Camarines Sur, Bondoc Peninsula and Quezon.
Peña, pushing the initiative of Board Member Giovanni A. Señar, directed the provincial board’s secretariat to call for a summit of fisher folk, local policy makers and government agencies to formulate unified regulations and sanctions regarding the fisheries concerns of Ragay Gulf.
Señar, vice chair of agriculture and fisheries committee, invited resource persons from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and municipal committees on fisheries and aquatic resources for their regular session of the provincial board tomorrow to shed light on the enforcement of fisheries laws in the towns along Ragay Gulf.
He said the resource persons are expected to identify policy gaps and conflicting provisions of the municipal fisheries ordinance in each town and make recommendations for the formulation of a UFO that, he said, will serve as a framework for the formulation of fisheries ordinances of the towns along Ragay Gulf.
The provincial board member cited the Balatan municipal fisheries ordinance that allows commercial fishing up to 10.1 kilometers from the shoreline instead of the primary provision of Fisheries Code of 1998 setting 15-km distance from the shoreline as municipal fisheries.
Señar said commercial fishers effectively encroach into 4.9-km area of municipal waters, though allowed by Section 18, paragraph two, of the Fisheries Code of 1998 under the option given to municipal and city governments to enact ordinance allowing commercial fishing “within ten point one (10.1) to fifteen (15) kilometers area from the shoreline.”
Provincial Fisheries Officer Santiago Noblefranca confirmed the existence of a Balatan fisheries ordinance that allows commercial fishing 5 km inside the municipal fishing grounds.
Noblefranca said he was told the town council had realized the effect of this ordinance on municipal fishers and will revoke it.
He said there are at least 100 commercial fishing vessels operating in Ragay Gulf on the side of Camarines Sur.
Francisco Ombao, chief of Fisheries Regulatory Law Enforcement, reported that they have apprehended 35 fisheries law violators in Burias Pass along and have filed 50 cases at the prosecutors’ office and courts.
Señar explained he prefers an alternative route to unify the fisheries ordinance in Ragay Gulf which is not through usual process via the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council to the town and city councils but through the Provincial Councilors League (PCL).
Being the provincial president and regional chairman of the PCL, he said he will promote a UFO among the members of PCL in the towns along Ragay Gulf.
Ombao said the ordinance will push for total prohibition of commercial fishing inside Ragay Gulf, enforcement species-specific close season to protect fish stocks and allow regeneration, and apprehension based on fish evidence rather than fishing gear.
Antonio J. Olaguer, municipal agriculture officer of Ragay town, revealed that only one midpoint is 16 km or one-km space outside the 15-km municipal waters of Ragay Gulf from a point at Barangay Pagdadamayan in Narciso town Bondoc Peninsula to Barangay Tagbac in Ragay town in Camarines Sur.
Olaguer said the Ragay government has mapped the distances between adjacent points across the waters of Ragay Gulf to mark the municipal waters, and they found out that the midpoints of four other adjacent points all showed they belong to the municipal waters.
Ragay Mayor Ricardo Aquino is open for the revision of their municipal fisheries ordinance based on whatever the provincial board would formulate.
Aquino said the municipal government has no letup in the anti-illegal fishing apprehensions within the jurisdiction of Ragay town based on the town’s resource management plan and municipal fisheries ordinance.
He said most of those apprehended for illegal fishing did not contest the charges and just pleaded guilty and pay the fine of not more than P2,500.
Fr. Gramwel Pitapit, executive director of Caritas, a church-based non-government organization with project areas and beneficiaries in the towns along the Ragay Gulf, welcomes the move to close the gulf to commercial fishing.
Pitapit is also amenable on the enforcement of close season, saying it will help regenerate the fish stocks and the fishing grounds.
Eleven of the 17 towns along Ragay Gulf are in Camarines Sur -- which included Del Gallego, Ragay, Lupi, Sipocot, Libmanan, Pasacao, San Fernando, Minalabac, Bato, Balatan and Bula.
Pitapit said the move initiated by Señar parallels with the development agenda of the fisher folk beneficiaries of their program to synchronize municipal fisheries ordinances along Ragay Gulf. (PNA) LAP/FGS/JME/CBD/


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10 Awesome Gazebo Designs
A gazebo is an isolated structure that mostly has an octagonal shape. Most likely, it is constructed in a garden but sometimes it can also be seen on parks. A gazebo has open sides with a roof on top. Its main purpose is to provide shade or shelter. It is also a great place for relaxing. Oftentimes, gazebos are used as an embellishment to a landscape.
A gazebo can sometimes bring back beautiful memories. These decorative structures are not only beautiful but they are functional too. Because of their vast popularity, gazebos can now be bought as completely assembled pre-fabricated structures. There are a lot of styles to choose from. You may select a modern one or a traditional one.
Most traditional gazebos are having a tiered roof. This can make the gazebo look more attractive and adds a perfect touch to the structure. Another element that can make a gazebo look appealing is the scalloped roof shingles. These decorative roof tiles have a classic design and add glamor to your unique structure. If you want to break away from traditional styles then you can create a unique and eye-catching design by using tree branches or antiquated barn wood.
Today we have prepared few cool gazebo designs. These are not traditional ones you see everyday, but unique design. Check them below!
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A set of 6 funny and colourful traditional Christmas food cards.
This mixed pack of cards has six different food-based designs, one of each in every pack. The foods include your favourite Christmas treats, like trifle, nuts, crackers, cheese, gingerbread and humbugs.
These fun little cards feature a print of a hand-drawn illustration and different text on each design. This set is an excellent choice for a colourful Christmas and will brighten up the Xmas post.
The inside of each card is left blank so that you can write a message of your choice. Your cards will come as a set of 6 and will include 1 each design. The cards will be accompanied by 6 recycled kraft envelopes and will be carefully packed as a bundle using a recycled kraft card band, sealed with a 'Cherry Pie Lane' sticker.
The image is printed on luxury 325gsm card and is an original illustration by Charlie.
Each card is A6 in size.


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Chained To The Prison Gates: A new perspective on protests by campaigners Pauline Campbell and Violet Van der Elst
Two women who campaigned tirelessly for penal reform after enduring personal tragedy are the subject of an enlightening new report published by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The study offers a new perspective on protests by Pauline Campbell and Violet Van der Elst – two women, divided by decades, who demonstrated outside prisons to raise awareness of injustice within the penal system.
Chained To The Prison Gates, written by Laura Topham, reveals how the women’s demonstrations attracted national media attention but came at huge personal cost, leading to criminal proceedings, illness, misery and financial ruin.
Drawing on interviews with politicians, criminologists and leading penal reformers, the report also analyses the two campaigns in detail, exploring their use of direct action and assessing their impact and effectiveness.
Pauline Campbell, a retired health lecturer from Cheshire who became a Howard League trustee, began campaigning for better conditions in women’s prisons after the death of her daughter Sarah in Styal prison in 2003. Sarah was the fourth of six women to die from self-inflicted injuries in Styal within twelve months.
When Pauline kept a vigil outside Styal in January 2004 to mark the first anniversary of Sarah’s death, it was the beginning of a long series of protests. Whenever a female prisoner died, she would demonstrate outside the prison and block vans bringing in inmates to make the point that it was not a safe place for women.
The rate of self-inflicted deaths in women’s prisons was so high in 2004 that Pauline made six protests in the first six weeks alone. Within four years, she had held 28 protests, had been arrested 15 times and charged on five occasions but never convicted.
The campaign came at a cost of her wellbeing. She barely slept, stopped eating properly, abandoned housework and ran out of money.
Pauline took her own life in May 2008. Her body was discovered near her daughter’s grave.
Violet Van der Elst, a self-made millionaire from Surrey who developed and manufactured face creams, decided to dedicate her life to the abolition of capital punishment following the death of her husband in 1934. Her protests continued into the 1940s and 1950s.
Violet’s first demonstration was in March 1935 outside Pentonville prison on the morning of the execution of Charles Malcolm Lake, who had been convicted of murder. She employed 60 men to march past the prison wearing sandwich-boards bearing the slogans ‘Stop capital punishment’ and ‘Mercy is not weakness’. She also hired a 25-strong brass band to play hymns.
Violet protested outside prisons whenever an execution occurred inside. At some demonstrations, she even hired aeroplanes to fly over prisons, trailing banners and dropping leaflets. She was frequently arrested and charged with obstruction or breach of the peace.
She retired from campaigning in the late 1950s, by then in her late seventies, due to illness and old age. She had spent most of her fortune on the campaign.
The report highlights the power of direct action to generate press coverage, while comparing the effectiveness of the two campaigns. It argues that Pauline Campbell’s campaign was empowered by being ‘based on a tangible event’ and ‘there being a concrete indication of a problem’. In contrast, Violet Van der Elst’s campaign was at odds with the national mood and ‘weakened by the absence of recent change on which to build her case’.
Laura Topham is to appear on the Radio 4 programme Woman’s Hour today (6 November 2013) to talk about the report.
Laura Topham said: “This research shows for the first time what these two incredible women achieved – and that one person really can make a difference.
“At a time when many people feel politically powerless it is remarkable to discover that government ministers were so affected by the direct action of Pauline Campbell and that it ultimately changed government policy.
“It is also important that female campaigners such as Violet Van der Elst are not forgotten by history, particularly when that lapse is due to their gender.
“Van der Elst was ridiculed and rejected by male dominated policy communities in the 1930s and I am pleased to be able to rightfully record her remarkable campaign."
Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: “From Elizabeth Fry’s time to the present day, there has been a long tradition of strong female campaigners standing up for justice and civil rights. Laura’s research offers a new insight into the lives of two extraordinary women.
“Around 4,000 women are still in prison on any given day in England and Wales, the vast majority of whom are incarcerated for non-violent offences.
“This report serves as a reminder that, despite inspirational campaigning by activists such as Pauline Campbell and Violet Van der Elst, there is still much work to be done to achieve a fair and effective justice system.”

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09-07-2011 01:23Myself (branch president at Kingston GMB) and another trade unionist have initiated this https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176382859093148 for Sunday 2pm:
A protest outside of the headquarters of News International to show disgust at the Murdoch empire, the sacked journalists, clerical staff, cleaners and admin staff who are being made to pay for the errors of a grotesque billionaire and his disgraceful editor.
08-07-2011 21:50On the eve of the return of the Unemployed Daytime Disco to Cardiff - Monday 11 July, 2 - 8 pm, Rockin Chair, Lower Cathedral Rd., Riverside Cardiff - activists reproduce for indymedia readers the text of a handy DIY helpsheet we've produced ;) To paraphrase Che, 'Create One, Two, Many Unemployed Disco's'!
08-07-2011 19:38Thousands of public sector workers across the West Midlands joined other unions around the country for a day of action against government proposals to increase pension contributions and retirement ages.
This morning a demonstratation of 50 kids and their parents took over the streets around Fircroft school in Tooting Bec, demanding that their local lollipop lady and man kept their jobs. The kids worked hard over a few days to make banners and placards and understood clearly the implication on their own safety of losing these essential local workers.
Local schools across London have been out in force over the last few weeks to save their lollipop ladies who are now at the front line of the cuts, being a soft target for draconian cutbacks. These people work for very little money to keep the children safe in what the councils deem dangerous spots across the boroughs. Over 30 are going in Lambeth, 45 in Wandsworth, 63 were threatened in Southwark but the kids came out on the streets and in a sudden change of heart the council backed down for another year.
Wandsworth Council will now face a sustained campaign. One of the schools parents Sadiq Kahn, the current Shadow Justice Minister, encouraged the children to keep up the pressure on the council saying that this was only the start of the campaign. The 45 Wandsworth lollipop ladies and men have been threatened with the sack in the next few weeks so the campaign is crucial and connections are being made with other local schools. Only three years ago the council decided that the traffic issues around this school were so bad that it warranted two positions, presumably the safety concerns then are the same as now. Under the Road Traffic Act 1988, local authorities have a general duty to promote road safety.
Neighbouring Lambeth council noted that it had the 1,200 accidents in a year, the third-highest rate in the capital, there the local authority is to scrap 30 crossing posts.?? Mr Prentis, the Unison union leader said the scale of the cuts being made to crossing patrols was "deeply distressing". ?"There can be no doubt that lollipop ladies and men save lives, so why are councils making these dangerous decisions?" ??Councils are suggesting using volunteers to replace them (that old Big Society one again) which is clearly not viable in the long term, with required training and insurance issues. Alternatively Wandsworth council has asked the local schools to fund the replacement lollipop ladies but of course the schools are being cut by the very same cuts
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08-07-2011 15:21Kenny Richey an innocent Scot was held on death row in Ohio for many years before
citizens achieved his release. Now there is focus on another unjust imprisonment
American Jonathan Shue: In Jail 18 Years in Ohio for An Accidental Shooting When He was 16
Ohioans Have Paid $720,000 For The Incarceration of An Innocent Man.
08-07-2011 14:55Bristol City Council are involved in a review of funding for voluntary organisations. In many cases this will mean the end of all city council funding for these services and will put the continuation of the services in jeopardy. In almost every case these are services targeted at the elderly, the vulnerable and ethnic minorities
Bristol City Council are involved in a review of funding for voluntary organisations that threatens to remove important funding from the organisations and services listed below. In many cases this will mean the end of all city council funding for these services and will put the continuation of the services in jeopardy. In almost every case these are services targeted at the elderly, the vulnerable and ethnic minorities.
Details of the organisations and services whose funding is under review can be seen on the BADACA website at http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/2011/07/07/bristol-city-council-launch-attack-on-voluntary-sector-services-for-the-elderly/ This comes at the same time as the council plans to turn 500 people out of their council-run care homes and close them along with day centres.
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08-07-2011 11:13Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come, edited by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou: an Occupied London Project, published by AK Press, 2011
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Andhra Pradesh High Court upheld that the, decision of the State government not to permit Ganesh festivities at public places by erecting pandals in view of Covid-19.
By hearing an emergency motion petition filed by the Vinayaka Chavithi Utsava Committee of Tirupati and T Omkar of Tirupati, Justice Ch Manavendranath Roy said though festivities cannot be held at public places, Ganesh idols and pandals can be set up in private places.
Omkar’s counsel K Srinivasulu contended that the police who gave permission to hold political meetings denied the same to celebrate the Ganesh festival. He urged the court to permit the installation of Ganesh idols and allow people to participate in the puja.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have asked the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government to allow Ganesh Chaturthi celebration in Andhra Pradesh this year.
V Muraleedharan opined the imposition of restrictions on Ganesh Utsav in Andhra Pradesh an insult to India’s rich traditions.
BJP has begun protests to press its demand for public festivities to be held, the party had organised a protest in Kurnool where Veerraju was detained before being released later.
Meanwhile, Srinivas has warned the BJP for provoking people against and causing communal disharmony in the state.
In response to the minister, Veerraju accused the state government of pampering minorities and discriminating against Hindus.
Meanwhile, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu has also questioned the restrictions on Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations, saying that the state government didn't have any problem in organising public functions on the occassion of Jagan Reddy's father and former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's death anniversary.


Fayette County senior point guard Maegan Barkley couldn’t hold back her emotions as she dribbled out the waning seconds of the Region 3-AAAAA championship.
Barkley had waited four years for this moment. She had spent the last 48 months of practices and games dreaming of this opportunity. More importantly, she waited alongside fellow seniors Rikkele Miller, Trinity Brown, Gabrielle Chinn, and Ozemeyi Egure for the chance to call themselves champions.
As the final seconds ticked away, it was this group of seniors that finished on the floor. The group, who led Fayette County to a 49-39 victory over Starr’s Mill, had finally reached the pinnacle of the region after years of heartbreak and pain.
“It is a blessing and a dream come true,” Barkley said. “We worked really hard every day and it paid off.”
This season, the seniors made a pact to not experience that losing feeling again. They were hungry for a region title that constantly slipped from their grasp. It had been a long road for the team that had failed to get in the winner’s circle their first three season.
In their first year, the group finished second in the region. While they made the Final Four of the state playoffs, they were still hungry for a region win. The sophomore campaign didn’t bear enough fruit as they finished 10-15 and missed out on playoff contention. Fayette would rebound with a 21-9 record last season, yet they got bounced in the semifinals of the region playoffs by McIntosh.
Each step left a brazen sensation of what could have been for the squad. The seniors ensured that the story would be different against Starr’s Mill. After narrowly defeating the Panthers twice this season, Fayette came out determined to finish what they had started.
Barkley lead all scorers with 15 points, including six points in the first quarter. She was aggressive in attacking the paint and found teammates with open passes. Her presence made it tough on Starr’s Mill as they struggled to contain her dribble penetration.
This led to Brown and Miller getting involved on the perimeter. Brown had 11 points and hit a buzzer-beater to close out the first quarter. Miller was strong from distance as she hit four 3-pointers in the game. She finished with 14 points and was the catalyst of a 13-5 run to end the first half.
Fayette took a 24-14 lead into halftime and extended the lead despite a strong game from Starr’s Mill shooting guard Alice Anne Hudson. She brought the Panthers back into the game with seven points in the third quarter.
Hudson also orchestrated an 8-0 run and finished with 18 points on the night. She was the only consistent scorer as fellow teammates Ashlyn Lally and Alyssa Angelo finished with a combined three points against the Tigers.
Without much offense, Starr’s Mill struggled to get into a rhythm and it caused them to fade late in the contest. Miller put the game away with a deep 3-pointer to seal the victory and the region title.
“This is one of their goals and we got it done,” Fayette head coach John Strickland said. “It is good for those girls to have a region title.”
The win was the eighth region title for Strickland. He was proud of his team for battling back and achieving their goals. He also praised Starr’s Mill for pushing them to the limit in each matchup.
“We had to battle all year against them and they are good,” Strickland said. “It could have gone either way. They got all those girls coming back and they will be really good.”
After the game, the Tigers celebrated with Strickland as he congratulated them on a job well done. The senior players were thankful for him helping to get them over the hump.
“It is an honor to play for him as he pushes us every single day,” Barkley said. “He pushes us past our limits and out of our comfort zone. He also makes us get stronger to work as a team. We run and work hard and it showed tonight.”
Both Fayette and Starr’s Mill will play in the Class AAAAA state tournament starting this weekend. The Tigers will face Union Grove at home on Friday. The Panthers will also be at home on Friday to face Woodland.
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