The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 2, 2000 - 3
A 12-hour sit-in at Oregon State
University ended Friday with five
Three university students and two
local residents arrested by the Oregon
State Police were protesting a small-
animal surgery class held at the
school's College of Veterinary Medi-
College officials said the class
uses shelter animals already sched-
uled for euthanasia. The protesters
claimed the college does not know
many of the animals' previous loca-
The protesters are charged with
criminal trespassing and were
removed by police.
Three students left the demonstra-
tion upon police request and were not
* Those arrested were detained and
Texas Tech faculty
may take over
A Texas Tech University official
recently proposed that the universi-
oty's student publications be con-
trolled by the mass communication
The student publications, includ-
ing The University Daily and
KTXT-TV are currently indepen-
Jerry Hudson, chairman of the
university's mass communications
department, said faculty should
hold the highest positions possible
*of authority within the publica-
Hudson's proposal stipulates that
the college newspaper's reporters
would be culled from a reporting
The newspaper's editor in chief
would teach the class.
University officials are sched-
uled to discuss the suggestion
*The University Daily Editor in
Chief Wayne Hodgins said faculty-
controlled news would be censorship
and he adamantly opposes the propos-
A fourth student was arrested
last week in connection to a
December fraternity fire at Dart-
Damien Williams was charged with
Three other students were previous-
ly arrested and charged with criminal
The charges stem after the group
allegedly broke into the Chi Gamma
Epsilon fraternity Dec. 9.
* The students allegedly poured
citronella oil on a table and ignited
Williams faces up to S4,000 in fines
and as many as 15 years in prison for
the felony charge.
The other students, Ross Fender-
son, David Lopez and Brandon Pur-
cell, face up to $2,000 in fines, a year
in a correctional facility and restitu-
ion for damages.
The fire caused roughly $6,400 in
iissouri loses 3
students in auto
Three University of Missouri
students died in a two-day span
this past week in separate car acci-
j ents. -
Junior Amy Elizabeth Jones was
pronounced dead Thursday after she
lost control while driving and her car
Junior Vivian Gramlich and fresh-
man Erin Grabowski died Friday after
a heavy winter storm.
A memorial service for the students
took place yesterday.
The Missouri Students Associa-
tion'and the university's police
department plan to inform students
throughout the week of winter
weather and current driving dan-
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Robert Gold from U- Wire reports.
s reeals college financing plan
By Jeremy W. Peters
Daily Staff Reportcr
With the need for an education becoming
increasingly important for those wishing to enter
the work force, lawmakers in Lansing are debat-
ing ways the state can make college a viable
option for those of low and middle income levels.
At a press conference yesterday, Lt. Gov. Dick
Posthumus presented his multi-faceted plan
designed at making higher education more
affordable for Michigan families.
"This is really going to help families out and
make college more affordable." said Susan Shafer,
deputy press secretary for Gov. John Engler.
The first part of Posthumus' proposal is the
creation of the Post-secondary Access Student
Scholarship, or PASS. The scholarship would
provide complete funding for community college
tuiion to those wth an annual family income of
less than 540,00.
In order to receive funding for both years of
community college, students would.have to meet
basic score requirements on the Michigan Educa-
tional Assessment Program test.
Those who do not meet the requirements would
have one year of assistance guaranteed but would
have to maintain a good academic standing in order
to receive a scholarship for the second year.
Posthumus' community college tuition assis-
tance proposal is being met with cfiticism by
Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith (D-Salem Twp.), who
is proposing a plan of her own to assist families
having trouble financing higher education.
Smith's plan, the Higher Education Learning
Promotion, would cover students from families
with incomes of up to $50,000 for single tax fil-
ers and $100,000 for joint-filing families.
"he lieutenant governors program does not
affc t those in the mddle incomv un e' Smith
Smith s HELP proposal t a png tag of 56
million, is significantly more expensive than
Posthumus' $10 million scholarship program.
The price of HELP, supporters of PASS say, will
cut into the tax cut the Engler administration has
promised Michigan residents.
"We feel that we have already promised this
money to the taxpayers and we feel they deserve
it. Sen. Smith is proposing to use the taxpayer's
money for her program," Shafer said.
Still, Smith maintains that funding for her plan
is available in the bud get surplus, which is
expected to be about 5420 million this year.
"If you want to nickel-and-dime your way to a
solution, the lieutenant governor's plan is fine. If
you want a real solution, then you have to look at
my plan," Srhith said.
Another aspect of Posthumus' college financ-
ing plan presented yesterday is the institution of a
Mihigan education savings plan that would pro-
vide incentives for families to save money for
college by offering state tax deductions and
"A Michigan education savings plan will
encourage families to save before their student
goes off to school rather than having to borrow
once the student gets to campus" Posthumus said
in a written statement.
Smith said she was not opposed to this aspect
of Posthumus' plan, although she said she feels it
would only benefit wealthy families.
"There are a couple of good aspects of his pro-
grams. But basically they have created an oppor-
tunity for people making a lot of money to put
aside money for education,' Smith said.
Sleeping on the job
ranks third in number
of Peace Corps volunteers.
By Eddie Ahn
For the Daily,
In the spirit of volunteering, the
University has jumped two spots from
fifth place to third in terms of the num-
ber of graduates volunteering for the
"Michigan is very good at impressing
on people the importance of the multi-
cultural diversity involved with the
Peace Corps," said Peace Corps Cam-
pus Representative Nancy Parachini,
who served with Peace Corps in Niger.
"Being third speaks to the dedica-
tion of U of M students, she said.
The University is only surpassed by
the University of Wisconsin at Madi-
son, which had the highest number of
graduates in the program, and the Uni-
versity of Colorado at Boulder.
Graduates who enter the Peace
Corps travel far and wide to aid devel-
opment in regions of the world where
help is needed in "business, agricul-
ture, environment, teaching and com-
munity development," Parachini said,
Typical volunteer moves into a local
community and usually does not work
with other volunteers, said Kevin
Burns, who served in Paraguay from
1991 to 1995.
Instead they are knee-deep in various
projects with the local people, he said.
"The Peace Corps offers prospective
gr'aduates a chance to learn another
culture, to grow personally and to help
others,' Burns said.
While in Paraguay, Burns worked to
improve agricultural techniques in the
Afte 1 returning to the United
States, urns obtained a masters
degrei International Management,
and i bw a public affairs specialist
with t4Yeace Corps in the Minneso-
ta Reg .
Cur.,tly there are more than 7,000
Peace 'ps volunteers in 78 countries
around tie world.
Peace Corps spokesman Brendan
Daly said he attributes this number of
volunteers to a "spirit of service, sense
of commitment, spirit of adventure and
the de're to live as the local people do."
Daly said there is "a deep tradition of
service at the University of Michigan."
The iistory of the Peace Corps is
rooted in the University since then-
presidential candidate John F.
Kennedy made a late-night speech on
the steps of the Michigan Union in
1960 asking University students to
volunteer their time and services to,
make a difference in the world.
The reaction by University students.
was swift and potent, and within weeks,
a petition signed by 1,000 students
reached Washington, D.C., and the
Peace Corps was formally established..
Since its inception, the Peace Corps
has sent more than 150,000 volunteer
overseas to about 130 countries.
Burns said college towns are instru
mental in generating volunteers for the
Peace Corps, citing the University of
Wisconsin at Madison as an example.
"Madison is a small town, yet they
are very service oriented," Burns said;
adding that the school is noted for
employing 50 to 60 returning Peace
A Peace Corps information session is
scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. in
Room 9 of the International Center, or
interested students can visit the organiza-
tion's Website at wwwpeacecorps.gov.
School of Education junior Caroly Jones takes a nap in East Hall before her
women's studies literature class yesterday.
MSA resoves to
ACLU suit 9alls partial-birth
abortion bay unconstitutional
DETROIT (AP) - The American Civil Liberties
Union of Michigan and Planned Parenthood find a fed-
eral lawsuit yesterday claiming a state law tkat would
make certain abortions illegal is vague and could apply
to all abortions.
The "Infant Protection Act," which is scheduled to go
into effect March 10, would make it a felony for a doctor to
kill a fetus that has been partially removed from the moth-
er's body and either breathes, moves or has a heartbeat.
"Unlike many other initiatives from anti-choice crusaders
which have been directed at gradually eroding away abor-
tion rights, this law attempts through restriction to strike at
the very heart of Roe vs. Wade, said Kary Moss, executive
director for ACLU Michigan.
The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Joel Gougeon
(R-Bay City), passed in June. It would allow the proce-
dure - often known as a partial-birth abortion - only
when the life of the mother is in danger. In other cases,
doctors would face up to life in prison and a $50,000
"I guess my comment is here we go again," Gougeon
said. "We're just trying to protect children and at every turn
we've been challenged to do that:'
The lawsuit, which names Attorney General Jennifer
Granholm and Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney John
O'Hair as defendants, argues that the bill is unconstitutional
because it places an undo burden on the rights of women to
choose abortion prior to fetal viability, doesn't adequately
protect the lives of pregnant women, and fails to give doc-
tors fair warning of what actions are prohibited.
"We have not seen the lawsuit as of yet," Granholm's
spokesman Chris De Witt said. "Once we see it, we will
actively defend the constitutionality of the statute:'
The law prevents physicians from acting according to the
best medical judgment without fear of legal penalty, said
Mark Evans, plaintiff and vice chairman of obstetrics and
gynecology at Wayne State University.
He also said the bill would end Wayne State University's
fetal therapy program, a program that attempts to repair
birth defects of babies while in the mother's womb.
By Lisa Koivu
Daily Staff Reporter
In a change from recent trends, the
Michigan Student Assembly convened
for only a half an hour last night at its
weekly meeting in the Michigan Union.
Although the meeting was short, the
assembly passed a resolution to reverse
a decline in minority enrollment at the
University. According to the resolution,
the Minority Affairs Commission "will
work with the Office of Admissions to
create strategies to improve outreach
and retention programs."
Minority Affairs Commission Chair-
woman Erika Dowdell said although
minority enrollment at the University
has been dropping since 1995, people
are just now starting to address the
"It is my job to bring publicity to this
problem and to make suggestions to the
Office of Admissions," Dowdell said.
Peace and Justice Commission co-
Chairwoman Jessica Curtin said she
"Minority enrollment hasn't always
been this low. We are demanding that
the University accurately represent the
state of Michigan as well as the U.S.,"
Curtin said, adding that "it is clear that
the University is scaling back their affir-
mative action policies in face of the law-
suits, and students must step up to
defend the policy."
Dowdell said the number of minority
students admitted to the University must
begin to rise.
"A decline in affirmative action and
consequently a drop in minority enroll-
ment is criminal," Dowdell said.
Upcoming events aimed at increasing'
the number of minority students at the
University include a press conference
today at noon on the steps of the Michi-
gan Union and a petition drive. The
petitions will be presented to the admin-
istration on the National Day of Action
later this month.
MSA President Bram Elias said this
is an important issue for the assembly.
"This is the latest step in a long
process. After making sure that the
administration was willing to work with
us, we decided to move forward with the
resolution. But, this is just the start to
what we hope will be a year long rela-
tionship with the administration;' Elias
"We will be working to recruit and
retain students of color at the Universi-
ty," he said.
Dowdell thanked the assembly for
passing the resolution.
"This University prides itself on its
diversity and it should represent that.
Thank you for acknowledging some-
thing is wrong she said.
MSA also named Engineering senior
Alok Agrawal director for the MSA
presidential elections, scheduled to take
place March 22 and 23.
On a lighter note, Elias gave up being
MSAs president for the evening, and
Vice President Andy Coulouris took
"Ever since last year, Andy and I
have talked about how easy it would be
for us to flip positions. He proved
tonight that he's better than I am," Elias
Coulouris said it was a good experi-
ence for him.
"It was a lot of fun. I've spent all year
doing the leg work that is necessary for
the meeting to run smoothly. It was fun
to be the actual person guiding the
meeting," Coulouris said. "I can see
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The YYYs -- singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase -- have just released their full-length debut, Fever to Tell, a caterwauling record that oscillates between sleazy raunch and inspired art-rock. Zinner and Chase stake their claim as a dexterous twosome filling songs with sassy rhythms and guitar licks that range from bluesy wail to just plain corrosive. As with the Stripes and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who needs a bass to kick the listener in the nuts?
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Winter scores 1,000 career points
Gladwin was the latest victim for the Clare girls basketball team, as the Lady Pioneers topped the visiting Lady Flying G’s 61-35 in Jack Pine Conference play Tuesday night.
“I really felt as the game went on we wore them down a bit,” Clare head coach Matt Rodenbo said. “Gladwin has athletes and competed hard but we stuck to the game plan and eventually took control of the game.”
Clare led 15-10 after the first quarter and extended its lead to 31-18 at the half. A big 21-4 edge for the Pioneers in the third quarter put the game out of reach, with Gladwin outscoring Clare 13-9 in the fourth.
“Melissa Benchley is a demon on defense,” Rodenbo said. She is a lockdown defensive player and is a big key to our success. I like what Ashley Petree did on the offensive end tonight and she was tough and physical on the boards.”
Lindsay Winter led Clare with 28 points in the win, finishing the game with 1000 career points. Petree added 12 points and five rebounds.
On Saturday, the Lady Pioneers picked up a non-league win over Beal City, 64-29 at Central Michigan University.
“I was pleased with the way we shot in that environment,” Rodenbo said. “It is a little tougher to make shots in that big arena. We are playing good team basketball right now. Courtney English got in a little foul trouble early and Alex Stark gave us a nice lift off the bench and coming in and scoring 11 points in the first half.”
Clare led 23-9 after the first and took a commanding 42-13 lead at the half, before extending that to 58-19 entering the fourth.
Winter had 26 points and 10 rebounds, English had 12 points and Stark added 11.
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Martha's Mission to make sure rough sleepers get a present this year takes to the streets of Northampton
For one little girl, the Christmas season means it's time to get out and do her bit to help Northampton's homeless however she can.
Last year, the Chronicle and Echo shared the story of seven-year-old Martha Culley, who wanted nothing more than to make sure Northampton's homeless sleepers also got a present for Christmas.
It led her to launch 'Martha's Mission', where she raised funds to donate more than 50 backpacks to the Northampton Hope Centre each filled with a hat, gloves, a blanket, water, wet wipes, a protein bar, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste and a £5 vouchers for Greggs.
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Martha told the Chronicle and Echo: "It made me really happy for everyone because they don't really get much stuff.
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Mum Lou Culley said: "In many ways it was a lot better for her to hand over the backpacks herself and speak to who it goes to help.
"I'm incredibly proud of her. She always says she wants to do more. I know as she gets older she's going to want to do more things like this herself.
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Cindy Jakubowski, RN, Manager at Avera Medical Group joins us this morning.
Alex Willford, Administrator at the Arbor Care Center in O’Neill joins us with an update on happenings at the Arbor Care Center.
Jacey Napier, Market President, at Great Plains State Bank in O’Neill talks about some great things going on at GPS Bank.
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Discussion in 'Pesticide & Herbicide Application' started by JACIRR, Jun 9, 2013.
If it rains at 5 am Stops by 6 am and there no wind I'm spraying as long there is no standing water
Interesting topic. I have sprayed insecticides and wetting agents in the rain too many times to count. It is miserable and tiring work but once you reach the point where you need one of those products you're just grateful to have ideal weather to make the application.
For fungicides on golf courses we used to remove the dew before we sprayed. For systemic fungicides we were more concerned with current disease pressure and/or maintaining the correct spray interval than we were with rain. Sometimes the financially difficult decision to spray despite a high probability of rain was made because we knew that failing to spray would not work.
Like many people who post here, most of what I spray these days are herbicides. That said, spraying is a small part of what I do - 10-15 days a year is all I do. Scheduling is tough for some places I work because they are in use during nearly all daylight hours. Most athletic fields I work on have a range of dates, usually 7-10 days sometime during the appropriate time of year, that they are not in use when I can spray herbicides. Almost every spraying job I do has to be rescheduled at least once. Last week was a pleasant exception where I was able to cover 30 acres in one loacation over two consecutive long days.
If I could choose my ideal conditions for spraying herbicides it would be: grass was not terribly drought stressed already and we got a little rain (around 1/4") overnight before I sprayed, almost no wind and out of the east if I could choose, bright sun and high 70s for 2-8 hours after I finish, and a little more rain 6-24 hours after I finish. I have sprayed in the dark late at night and had as much as a half inch of rain 2 hrs after I finished and still had great results. Wind concerns me and causes delays more often than rain for me.
Interesting topic for sure.
I'm spraying tomorow. I'll have these ideal conditions and have been waiting on the perfect day. I'll have light north west winds though which for my lot 1.3 acres is actually ideal, I don't want any drift toward my house.
How soon can you spray after rain or sprinkling? Good question. Is anybody willing to try it and see?
Well maybe I can. But no weeds in my yard. And no irrigation on local vacant lots.
Its perfectly ok to spray after a rain, no different than a morning with a heavy dew. It also depends on what type of chemical that you are applying, but a typical 2-4-d based product needs to dry on the plant.
I'll give it a shot. Today I ran 5 minutes water per zone on my own yard. There are 11 zones active on my controller and I began spraying when the 6th one came on around 2:15 pm. I finished spraying just after 3:30. At 8:15 tonight I started another 5-minute set.
Application was 3-way plus Tenacity. Sunny, 80 degrees (seemed much hotter to me), light wind out of northeast. Some boom work and some hose and gun. Plan is to repeat the Tenacity in 2 weeks.
You should shut the sprinkler off for a day after you sprayed
I am testing the water before, after, or both topic here.
Usually on my own yard I water a short set (longer than the 5 min here) around 12 hrs after an herbicide application anyway depending on temperature and amount of sunshine.
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The system has been used extensively for suspended access work by rope access technicians, as it meets the requirements of both abseil and fall protection standards. The system includes a free-flowing carriage that is capable of navigating corners and contours in a building or structure to provide complete flexibility for the end-user.
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Builders redeveloping a former wasteland on the north-eastern outskirts of Rome unearthed a second century AD necropolis containing several sealed sarcophagi. Local historians and archaeologists were aware of the existence of a Roman villa in Via di Tor Cervara, which runs along the Aniene river, because of scattered ruins. However, the discovery of the graveyard came as a complete surprise. It is thought to be the sacred burial site of a well-to-do Roman family, who resided in the nearby villa. The site comprises a Roman road, a two-metre deep pool carved out of the rock, and two underground hypogea, one of which contains the six marble caskets in a series of niches. One large sarcophagus is of the Etruscan style with a carved representation of the deceased couple on the lid, while another miniature casket was made for a child. The stonework has suffered because of the acidity of the soil, but the sealed state of the sarcophagi more than makes up for it. Archaeologists rarely find sealed burial caskets from antiquity because of grave robbers. In the next few months specialists will open the caskets one by one, examining them for evidence to help reconstruct the familys times, customs and personal lives.
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By placing in the semi-finals of Paris Čilić secured his position in the final Masters tournament to be played in London from 13 to 20 November, while also climbing to seventh place in the ATP rankings which is his best career position
The premier Croatian tennis player Marin Čilić failed in his attempt to enter the final of the ATP Masters 1000 series tour in Paris, losing to America John Isner with 6-4, 6-3 after an hour and 11 minutes of play. This was their seventh matchup and the first win for the American. The loss comes a day after his first win over first-seeded player, Serbian Novak Đoković, in his 15th attempt, Jutarnji List reported on November 5, 2016.
Isner made excellent serves the entire match and brilliantly returned Čilić’s serves, while Čilić was nowhere near his performance in Basel last week and previous matches in Paris. Already in the first game Čilić had to face three break points, but made his way out of each with a great service. Unfortunately, in the ninth game his service did not help in an unenviable position.
In the fourth game of the second set Čilić made three excellent returns and gained his only break point in the match, to which Isner answered with three consecutive aces and got away from the situation. Čilić’s concentration fell in the end, at 3-3 he allowed Isner to gain three break points and use the third, going on to lose his service again at 3-5, losing the match as well.
By placing in the semi-finals of Paris Čilić secured his position in the final Masters tournament to be played in London from 13 to 20 November, while also climbing to seventh place in the ATP rankings which is his best career position.
Isner will play on Sunday against the better player in the match between British Andy Murray and Canadian Miloš Raonić. In case Murray wins he would for the first time in his career secure the top ranking on the ATP scale.


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The royal couple was determined to keep their holiday in the Seychelles private and had asked all media not to print any pictures.
The British press has so far upheld the informal agreement but, more than a year after the wedding, Australian publication Woman's Day has now printed more than a dozen pictures of the couple enjoying their romantic break.
The cover picture shows the couple walking hand-in-hand along a beach, Prince William in board shorts, his wife in a black bikini.
Inside further photos include snaps of the couple in the sea, under the headline "Our Island Paradise".
It is not clear how the magazine obtained the long-lens pictures, some of which are grainy in quality.
The couple spent 10 days on the North Island in the Seychelles, staying in a private bungalow at a luxury resort.
A spokesperson from St James' Palace said: "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's honeymoon was obviously a private occasion, and we would ask people to respect their privacy."
Woman's Day told Sky News they did not wish to comment and would not be issuing a statement in response.
It is not the first time an Australian magazine has upset the royal family.
In 2008, magazine New Idea revealed details of Prince Harry's tour in Afghanistan, in breach of a global media blackout on such information.
He was eventually forced to cut short his three-month deployment in Helmand province.
New Idea said it had been unaware of the news blackout but regretted its "serious lapse of judgement".


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Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Friday, January 14, 2011
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s 2011 Hematologic Oncology Review was held Saturday, January 15 in RPCI’s Research Studies Center, Carlton Street at Elm Street, Buffalo.
This half-day Continuing Medical Education seminar was coordinated by Kelvin Lee, MD, Jacobs Family Chair in...
Monday, January 10, 2011
BUFFALO, NY - Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has become the first institution in the United States to be accredited as a Training Institute in Robot-Assisted Surgery by the Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU). The accreditation allows RPCI to participate in the SIU...
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Friday, December 17, 2010
BUFFALO, NY--Representatives from Dunkin’ Donuts today visited Roswell Park Cancer Institute to announce the success of this year’s Mug of Hope campaign. Thanks to the support of Dunkin’ Brands’ local franchisees and the support of Western New Yorkers, proceeds from the...


President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today attended the opening of Balakhani Industrial Park.
Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev informed the head of state of the Balakhani Industrial Park.
The head of state cut the ribbon symbolizing the opening of the Industrial Park.
President Ilham Aliyev viewed the industrial enterprises created here.
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Don't forget Dorothy... Plea for recognition for Norfolk's first woman MP
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She was one of the first women MPs, a pioneering suffragette and fearsome trade union leader.
Yet Dorothy Jewson remains largely unknown, even in her home city of Norwich.
Now, ahead of the 100th anniversary of her election to parliament, a group of campaigners are trying to do something about that.
Rosie's Plaques - an offshoot of the Common Lot theatre group - are calling for Jewson to be honoured with a heritage plaque in the city.
The campaigners want something in place by 2023, the centenary of the year Jewson became the first woman in Norfolk to be elected as an MP. Just four women had been elected before her she became one of a handful of female MPs who won seats at the 1923 election.
A pacifist and Quaker, during her life Jewson worked to raise awareness of birth control, reduce poverty and was key to the creation of many of Norwich's parks.
Despite being Norfolk's first woman MP and a major voice in the fight for women's rights, Jewson has never received a blue plaque in the city - despite groups like the Beatles getting one for having played in Norwich.
In 2019, Ms Jewson was one of a group of 'rebel women' celebrated with a Rosie's Plaque - unofficial, temporary blue plaques put up by the Common Lot.
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Maggie Wheeler, from the group, said something more permanent needed to be done to remember the pioneering politician.
"There are so many women that deserve proper recognition," she said.
"Dorothy Jewson was absolutely one of those women, there should be something to remember her. We need to keep telling her story.
"It would be great to see her commemorated on a more permanent basis."
Ms Wheeler said just 25 of around 300 blue plaques in Norwich were dedicated to women.
Following a short stint as an MP, lasting just one year, Jewson tried unsuccessfully to run for parliament twice more.
In 1927 she was elected to Norwich City Council, a position she held until 1936.
The idea of a blue plaque for Jewson was also welcomed by City Councillor Karen Davies, who said it would be a nice way to mark 100 years since she became an MP next year.
However, Ms Davies was unsure if Jewson Road, near Aylsham Road, was named after Ms Jewson.
Who was Dorothy Jewson?
Dorothy Jewson was elected 99 years ago in 1923 as a Norwich MP for the Labour Party.
Before her political career, she had been a teacher, trade union organiser and hotel maid.
She initially caused a stir in parliament after refusing to wear a hat in the chamber. She is reported to have said women were "not in parliament to discuss dress or millinery, but to do something".
Her first speech in parliament pushed for reducing the age of suffrage for women from 30 to 21. A subsequent vote was returned 288 to 72, leading the way for the Representations of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928.
During a January 1924 train strike, Dorothy refused to use the strikebreaking trains to travel back to Norwich, threatening to walk the 115 miles home.
In the end, Dorothy and another trade union official hitched rides on a brick cart, a brewer's lorry and a furniture van.
After she lost her seat at the 1924 election she continued to be a driving force in politics.
With Dora Russell, she formed the women's birth control group, an organisation pushing for the Labour Party to adopt government-funded welfare centres to provide free birth-control advice.
From 1927 to 1936 she became a councillor on Norwich City Council where she pushed for new parks to be created across the region.

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Gladiators win tournament title
GREENVILLE - Riverheads' girls basketball team pulled away late in the game to defeat Covington 45-35 Friday night to capture the championship of the Gladiator tipoff tournament.
"We came out flat initially, then stated pressing our tempo a little," Riverheads coach Tim Morris said. "It was tight until the fourth quarter."
Emma Casto paced the Gladiators with 11 points while Macey Snyder added 10.
Riverheads, now 2-0, hosts Bath County on Tuesday.


During a two-hour discussion Wednesday on the teacher quality bill, sponsor Sen. Steve Wise frequently invoked the groundbreaking work of Hillsborough County schools as leading Florida to new and better ways to evaluate and pay teachers.
That prompted Minority Leader Nan Rich, D-Weston, to point out a financial disparity: The district has $100 million from the Gates Foundation to research and implement its new system. The state, meanwhile, is poised to cut school funding.
"Why don't we wait?" Rich asked. "We have an incredible pilot going on in Hillsborough. … Why would we not wait for the results to know we have something that is working?"
But Wise, R-Jacksonville, said now is the time to lay the framework to improve teaching. "If we continue to stall and delay, there are kids who will be irreparably damaged," he said.
On Wednesday, lawmakers also filed five amendments to Senate Bill 736, the bill that aims to change teacher evaluations, contracts, pay and terms of employment. Four of the amendments were withdrawn in hopes of keeping the legislation on its fast track to Gov. Rick Scott.
But Sen. Bill Montford, a Tallahassee Democrat and retired Leon County superintendent, held firm. He proposed allowing school districts to grant three-year contracts to teachers evaluated as "effective" or "highly effective," rather than keeping them on annual contracts. Teachers who receive a poor evaluation in two years of three would not be eligible.
Montford said his amendment would give teachers some job security. But the amendment failed on a voice vote.
It "sounds reasonable," said Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice. "Yet it is consistent with what we are doing that is not working. Your amendment puts us pretty much back to current law. It's not reform, and it's not change."
The House is set to take up its version of the teacher bill today.


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Francine J. Harris and Kate Schapira
Monday, October 15th, 8:00 PM
The Poetry Project, New York, NY
Poet and Cave Canem fellow Harris (Allegiance) reads with poet and Publicly Complex Series co-curator Schapira (The Soft Place) at St. Mark’s Church.
This exhibition presents photographs and ephemera from the poet Jun Fujita (1888-1963). Fujita is an English-language tanka poet who published regularly in Poetry during the 1920s. The first Japanese-American photojournalist, he is responsible for the most famous photos of the Eastland disaster, the Chicago race riots of 1919, and the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, among others. This show will explore his lesser-known landscapes.


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Kurt Okraku, President of the Ghana Football Association, is confident the Black Stars will beat Aubameyang’s Gabon on Friday in their second group C game.
The four-time AFCON champions suffered a 1-0 defeat to the Moroccans as they kick off their campaign with a defeat on Monday afternoon.
Having failed to pick maximum points against the North African side, the Wafu Zone B President remains optimistic the Black Stars will return to winning ways against Gabon.
Meanwhile, captain Andre Ayew didn’t train with his teammates on Wednesday and could miss the big match on Friday.
Watch Kurt Okraku’s interview below;
GFA President, Kurt Okraku says #TeamGhana has recovered from the Morocco defeat and are ready to face #TeamGabon #3Sports #AFCON2021 pic.twitter.com/dFPqth3le7
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Is Krugman a betting man?
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First, my apologies for bouncing off Paul Krugman two days in a row. But this is a chance to see who is a better forecaster, Krugman or the hive-mind of New Zealand.
As reported over the weekend, Greek politicians have failed to form a government. They are now in ’emergency talks’ to form a government palatable to enough people to stand. Things don’t look good; new elections may have to take place. The core problem is austerity and the bail-out package the the EU.
Krugman blogs that ‘[s]ome of us have been talking it over’, and that Greece might leave the euro. More precisely, he predicts:
Greek euro exit, very possibly next month.
Wow. That’s a pretty concrete prediction.
What does iPredict say? There’s a contract for this: ‘Greece to announce before 1 January 2013 departure from the Eurozone’ (Ticker: EURODEP.GREECE.2012). It’s currently trading at $0.3452. The people trading on iPredict give Greece a 35% probability of leaving the euro by the end of the year (we’re only in May now). Krugman says ‘very possibly next month’.
Who will be right?
Wanna bet on it?


Nqobani Ndlovu | July 4, 2016
It’s a cold Sunday morning, and Nomalanga Gumede’s face and blouse are soaked with water spilling from the 20-litre bucket she carries on her head. The 45-year-old widow makes several trips to and from the borehole a few hundred metres from her garden. She fetches the precious liquid to water her vegetables.
This is her daily chore as a member of Sizimele Sodwa, or “We stand alone,” a women’s group in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo. The group grows vegetables to sell to supermarkets.
The urban farming club was formed in February 2013, and Mrs. Gumede joined in August 2014, four months after losing her job.
She lives in the densely-populated Bulawayo suburb of Sizinda. In 2014, she lost her job at National Blankets, a clothing manufacturer. She had worked there for more than a decade. Ever since, she has relied on vegetable farming.
Losing her job was devastating for Mrs. Gumede, who is supporting her four children alone, following the death of her husband in 2012.
She recalls: “I found it difficult to support my children after losing my job [and] before applying to join this [vegetable] scheme … I tried many things like selling airtime, but it all failed. I then decided to try urban gardening by joining the urban farming club [in my area].”
The women set up the self-help farming project to make a living and support their families. An NGO provided technical assistance and training to the women, who started with $500 US capital. The borehole they use was also donated.
Every week, the women supply big supermarkets with fresh vegetables like onions, carrots, tomatoes, and potatoes. Mrs. Gumede says the women sell one kilogram of onions for $1.09 US and one kilogram of tomatoes for $0.79 US.
She takes home about $200 US in a good month, after sharing the profits with five other group members.
Jane Ngwenya is a founding member of the group. She says urban market gardening has some challenges: “It is labour-intensive because we use buckets to fetch water from a borehole to water our gardens. For example, to water one bed of onions, one has to make 10 trips to the borehole.”
She adds that, though it is sometimes difficult to find a market, she has no regrets about joining the women’s farming group.
Nesisa Mpofu is the senior public relations officer for Bulawayo City Council. She says the boreholes are helping residents like those in the women’s farming club to use nearby land for farming and other activities.
Ayanda Tshuma is an agricultural expert in Bulawayo. He says urban agriculture is important to urban residents’ lives, and needs to be promoted and protected. He adds, “It is also an opportunity for enterprising residents to augment their income, and also for households to access cheaper vegetables.”
Mrs. Gumede says that urban farming is really paying off; she can now afford to send her children to school. However, she says that, although the group is grateful to the city council for the land, it is too small for their future plans. She explains, “If we can get a plot, our lives will drastically change. Our plan is to raise enough monies to be able to buy a plot—or at least rent one.”


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Broken family is the most important cause of juvenile delinquency. In fact, the break-up of the parents' relation really affects children's psychology and behavior especially in their early infancy. It is true that suffering separation in the family is a difficult experience for any young children. In addition, living with a single parent also means that children are not taken care of as fully and quickly as other children. This can result in not only emotional but also physical stress which, in turn, increases the risk of a parent-child relationship that is emotionally distant. A series of negative effects of this may follow such as children’s disappointment, disorientation, stubbornness and criminal delinquency.
Another cause of teenage deviants is domestic violence. There is a true factor that conflicts between parents cause a hurtful feeling of children. The more frequent and intense conflicts are, the more children are hurt emotionally. Because of this, they become withdrawn and depressed. Gradually, they develop mental disorder, hostility and aggression towards others outside the family. All these things are against good behavior and action. That is when criminal delinquency starts.
Lack of parental discipline and supervision also results in teenage criminals. Since they are young and inexperienced, children who are rejected and not supervised are not able to identify what is good or bad for them and quite unaware of the pitfalls they might face. Corporal punishment such as spanking and caning works sometimes. However, it cannot substitute parental moral guidance and loving... [continues]
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Beijing said Friday that talks aimed at ending the dispute would resume next week.
The People's Bank of China said the reserve requirement ratio will be lowered by 1.0 percentage point, with the stimulus going into effect later this month.
The reduction is being made in two equal stages, effective January 15 and January 25, the PBOC said.
The policy move was announced hours after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the central bank to make universal cuts of the ratio as part of Beijing's efforts to bolster economic growth having cut the RRR four times previous year.
The order from Li to the central bank, which is part of the Chinese government, showcased Beijing's willingness to go further in policy easing to keep its economic growth on track.
"It is hard to clearly understand the overall policy effect as every institution has to make their own calculations", said Ding Shuang, chief Greater China economist at Standard Chartered Bank.
Bolsonaro confirms eventual embassy move to Jerusalem
He said Brazil now seeks closer economic ties with the U.S. and that there can be military agreements between the two countries. We are aware of the intentions of the dictatorship of [Venezuelan President Nicolas] Maduro.
China predicts a GDP growth of 6.5% in 2018, compared with 6.9% in 2017.
The effectiveness of a move by China's central bank to inject up to an expected 700 billion yuan into the world's second largest but worryingly slowing economy is hard to calculate given the lack of transparency in the monetary policy, warned a chief economist.
Bank officials say the measure will unleash 800 billion yuan, or about 116 billion dollars, into the market and effectively increase loan funding sources of small and private businesses.
China International Capital Corp said that may release as much as 400 billion yuan of liquidity.
After four RRR cuts so far this year, the ratio for large banks dropped to 14.5pc in October, the lowest level since 2008. "US President Trump said in a Cabinet meeting at White House on Wednesday that US-China trade discussion "is coming along very well", while China's former vice commerce minister Wei Jianguo told Bloomberg on Thursday that the odds of a US-China trade deal are rising because both sides have a clearer sense of each other's goals and intentions", Scotiabank commented.
Lian Ping, chief economist at the Bank of Communications, said the pressure of the economic slowdown would show up in the first half of 2019 when the existing United States tariffs on US$250 billion of Chinese goods would bite deeper into the economy.

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I am okay being alone; it’s not hard to do. / For other people, they can’t do it as if they were left scarred anew. / The trick is to keep your mind busy.
Mask on. / Your own protective prison / the air is stale but clean, you hope.
They did not want to disclose that I was dying. Out of respect for my family’s wishes, my cultural values and ultimately myself. But they forgot to respect my right to know, my right to choose which way to go, my right to see tomorrow and the fading of the sunset glow.
Congratulations, you finally made it! / You pushed past when you wanted to quit. / White coat in hand, smile on your face, / I’m sorry to tell you that medicine will put you in your place.
They say to be tough is to have thick skin, but I say to have thick tears. / Skin? It can collect pimples, papercuts, and pus, can be scratched, scraped, and sliced.
Take him to the ICU, / Now. / Trauma, Level 1, coming from just outside of triage.
The doctor motioned to sit, turned a chair / to face the monitor. A perfectly lovely office. / Natural light from the barren window / gathered in circles around my feet.
Blue latex feels slick against / my hands. I grip my instrument tightly, / surprised breath escaping me as / the scalpel quickly reveals
It does not grace your ears, / but you can hear it. / It does not touch your skin, / but you feel its pull. / It can’t be seen or read / but nonetheless, it guides you.
Your body lay on the table, wrapped in shrouds / while robed students gathered around, / Your body lay on the table, skin leathery and strong, / I imagined what stories it bore, what paths it traveled along.
Gloves first, then scalpel blades gathered, / instructor books and an atlas. / What yearning and churning my mind feels, / unsure what learning to expect.
After hours of struggle, noise, / knife and clamp and lung flapping wetly / like a broken bird wing in an open chest, / there is this part, the dismantling.


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Bridge to the Future
Edited by Sergei Reviakin, this is the first published monograph on the Russian artist Oleg Kudryashov (b.1932), who broke away from the aesthetic norms imposed on Russian art since the Stalinist era to follow his own artistic goals. His work, mainly in dry-point etching, with its linear structures sometimes extended into three-dimensional reliefs and constructions, is represented here in around 250 pages of reproductions and photographs, along with four short essays and a list of works.
The Bauer Brothers
Images of Nature
Franz and Ferdinand Bauer were ground-breaking 18th- and early 19th-century natural history artists. Growing up in Austria, Franz went on to work at Kew Gardens, while Ferdinand travelled to Australia. This volume includes pioneering microscopical drawings depicting plant anatomy, and newly discovered animals, such as the platypus and koala.
A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic
Originally published in 1933, this little book of witty epigrams and epitaphs by the English writer and poet Martin Armstrong (1882–1974) is illustrated with wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious (1903–1942). The subjects of the verses are 54 professionals or types, ranging from a judge to a snuff-taker and a ‘boarding-house lift man’; and each one is accompanied by its own woodcut.
Art, Craft and Conservation
Stained glass combines form and function in a unique way, and practitioners such as Steve Clare have been creating beautiful work for centuries. This book follows the historical development of the art form, but it is also a technical manual, describing in great detail the tools and techniques involved in the design, production and conservation of stained glass. There are many illustrations of both work in progress and the greatest surviving historical examples.
The Radio Times
101 Classic Covers
First published in 1923, the Radio Times sold 11 million copies a week at its peak. Over the years it has commissioned the finest illustrators and photographers to create its covers, which together can serve as a visual history of national culture. This set of postcards includes designs from the radio age to covers featuring Daleks, royal weddings and other popular events, programmes and personalities up to the present day.
Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass
in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The V&A's collection of medieval and Renaissance stained and painted glass is the largest and most comprehensive in the world. This selection of the Museum's panels spans the period 1140 to 1540 and shows the technical and artistic advances between the Romanesque and Renaissance eras, while also illuminating the beliefs and images, sacred and secular, of the medieval world. The collection is represented here by 110 plates, including full page details of important pieces, with following commentaries.

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Scott's Antarctic explorers read Alice In Wonderland on boardBreaking News
The men on board the 1901-04 Discovery expedition were forced to endure freezing temperatures, 24-hour stretches of darkness and risked cabin fever after becoming stuck in the ice.
They were hailed for their “heroic” dedication to exploration, with the scientific research into the harsh and largely untouched continent launching Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton to prominence.
It now appears the inhospitable conditions were made a little easier by the ship’s library, which included two books by children’s author Lewis Carroll.
The 1889 story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and 1901’s Through the Looking Glass are now known to have nestled among the more serious scientific and navigational tomes on the mess deck....
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Harvard University Press (2008)
In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, peopleâes material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality. In the course of providing a deep and sophisticated critique of Rawlsâes theory of justice, Cohen demonstrates that questions of distributive justice arise not only for the state but also for people in their daily lives. The right rules for the macro scale of public institutions and policies also apply, with suitable adjustments, to the micro level of individual decision-making. Cohen also charges Rawlsâes constructivism with systematically conflating the concept of justice with other concepts. Within the Rawlsian architectonic, justice is not distinguished either from other values or from optimal rules of social regulation. The elimination of those conflations brings justice closer to equality.


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Objective: To report a case of a successful pregnancy after trophectoderm biopsy and three-probe fluorescent in situ hybridization of a frozen blastocyst.
Design: Techniques and instrumentation.
Setting: A University Medical Center.
Patient(s): Infertility patient desiring trophectoderm biopsy on frozen blastocyst for preimplantation testing, from an IVF cycle at a referring IVF program.
Intervention(s): Frozen blastocysts were thawed the evening before the planned transfer. Trophectoderm biopsy was performed in the morning. The fluorescent in situ hybridization results were obtained the same day; embryo transfer was performed under ultrasound guidance.
Main outcome measurement(s): Serum betahCG and transvaginal ultrasound.
Result(s): Positive betahCG and ongoing pregnancy.
Conclusion(s): Trophectoderm biopsy can be used as a means for testing frozen blastocysts in patients with excess embryos cryopreserved on day 5 or 6 from previously preformed IVF cycles.

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The elves and the shoemaker play
The elves and the shoemaker story is part of the speakaboos interactive story library use the elves and the shoemaker to help inspire a love of reading. Elves and the shoemaker role-play masks - black and white - sparklebox find this pin and more on fairy tale by noraeliaramos elves and the shoemaker role-play masks - black and white (sb2428) - sparklebox see more. The elves and the shoemaker: a play for kids (showbizseries) by srikant, susan createspace independent publishing platform paperback 1494425467 special order direct from the distributor new. Come celebrate the holiday season as a classic tale gets a comic spin when the kindly old shoemaker can't pay his rent, it's elves to the rescue. The elves and the shoemaker lesson plans and worksheets from thousands of teacher-reviewed resources to help you inspire students learning. Step into the magical world of child's play fairy tales traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations and fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action.
The elves and the shoemaker [verse play] by peter bond a grimm fairytale told as a short play in verse an honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves read the complete script on the lazy bee scripts web site. Buy the elves & the shoemaker tickets from the official ticketmastercom site find the elves & the shoemaker schedule, reviews and photos. The shoemaker and his wife have nothing left to eat but two crusts of bread, and nothing to make shoes with but one piece of leather see what happens when some kindly elves make the holiday season magical interactive read more. The elves and the shoemaker is based on the classic grimm's fairy tale it's a great story for how is a puppet play different from a play performed with human actors how do you think the puppets performed the following actions: open the door, knock on the. The elves and the shoemaker is a traditional tale from the 19th century that tells the story of a poor shoemaker and the magical elves that help him to complete all his orders on time the elves and the shoemaker masks for role-play.
The elves and the shoemaker -- the musical the best-selling children's play has been musically revitalized with the playful and eclectic tunes of bill francoeur we love this upbeat, fast-paced retelling of an old favorite so much that we have two musicals based on the same script (see also. Find great deals on ebay for the elves and the shoemaker and vintage ladybird books shop with confidence. In this fanciful and charming reframing of the traditional story of the shoemaking elves, the central character is gunther, an old shoemaker war rages across europe and, somewhere in the midst of that conflict, gunther has lost his only son gunther has. Browse the elves and the shoemaker resources on teachers pay teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.
The elves and the shoemaker play
The paperback of the the elves and the shoemaker: a play for kids by susan srikant at barnes & noble free shipping on $25 or more. The elves and the shoemaker is an often copied and re-made 1806 story about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from elves the original story is the first of three fairy tales, contained as entry 39 in the german grimm's fairy tales under the common title die wichtelm nner. Indyfringe and the royal panto players' co-production of julie lyn barber's new holiday panto, the elves & the shoemaker has been selected for the inaugural production of the fringe family matinee series the performances will be at the indy eleven theatre at indyfringe, 719 e st.
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Uploading this to youtube because there's no way that facebook video can handle a 9+ minute videothe 4th() grade class of 2000 from ferderbar elementary. The elves and the shoemaker - premiered 2016 the musical play begins when a tv station is shooting a news story about shuman's shoes and such, a local. A brilliant children's musical plenty of catchy tunes, a nice clear storyline, loads of color, and several engaging characters, was how sally white in the age described the original production of the shoemaker and the elves. The elves & the toymaker december 5-20, 2015 adaptation by lani brockman music & lyrics by susan bardsley it's the holiday season and a toymaker and his wife have been working day and night to get toys ready to give to boys and girls everywhere.


Growing up in a home where music was a big part of our lives radio permanently on, listening to dad’s old school LP’s and attending many Cape Town variety shows I jumped at the opportunity to attend these legends live performance.
Air Supply returned to Cape Town after 7 years thanks to KYKNET and Bok Radio. The show took place at GrandWest Grand arena and although the turn out was not great this definitely didn’t put a dampener on the energy levels of this event.The opening act was Ricus Nel who serenaded crowds with his soothing ballads and even surprised crowds with 2english country type ballads.After a 30 min wait and the crowd starting to get abit agitated about the wait between acts without a MC or someone saying what’s happening Air Supply took the stage and the wait was forgotten.
They had audience singing, dancing and swaying along from their first song too the last.They did a wide variety of their music and even sang a brand new unreleased song called “We are here”.Next year this dynamo duo will be performing together for 40 incredible years and they haven’t stopped making incredible music.While doing one of there slower songs they both walked between the crowds and were hugging and shaking hands with people in the crowd.To see artists that humble was a refreshing sight.
In all honesty the concert wasn’t without hiccups but then again is any event really.In my opinion Air Supply is really one of the most purist forms of music these guys know how to really sing and perform without all the gimmicks we see today.


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What are the key principles of behavioral finance?
Explore the key principles that form the foundation of behavioral finance theory. Understand the fundamental concepts shaping decision-making processes in the field.
Behavioral finance is built on several key principles that highlight the psychological and emotional aspects of decision-making in financial markets. These principles offer insights into the ways individuals deviate from traditional rational behavior in their financial choices. Here are some key principles of behavioral finance:
Bounded Rationality: Individuals have cognitive limitations and cannot always process all available information or make perfectly rational decisions. Bounded rationality acknowledges that people use heuristics, or mental shortcuts, to simplify complex decision-making processes.
Heuristics and Biases: Heuristics are mental shortcuts that individuals use to make decisions more efficiently. However, biases can result from these heuristics, leading to systematic errors in judgment. Common biases include overconfidence, loss aversion, anchoring, and availability bias.
Loss Aversion: People tend to feel the pain of losses more strongly than the pleasure of equivalent gains. Loss aversion can lead to risk-averse behavior and influence decision-making in investment scenarios.
Overconfidence: Overconfidence bias occurs when individuals overestimate their own abilities, knowledge, or the accuracy of their predictions. This bias can lead to excessive trading, overestimation of returns, and suboptimal investment decisions.
Anchoring: Anchoring is the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered (the "anchor") when making decisions. This can lead individuals to anchor their expectations or valuations to irrelevant or arbitrary values.
Herding Behavior: Herding behavior refers to the tendency of individuals to follow the actions of the crowd. This can lead to momentum in markets, creating bubbles or crashes as investors imitate the behavior of others without independent analysis.
Prospect Theory: Developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, prospect theory suggests that individuals evaluate potential gains and losses relative to a reference point (usually the status quo). The theory explains that people are risk-averse when facing gains but risk-seeking when facing losses.
Regret Aversion: Regret aversion is the desire to avoid making decisions that might lead to feelings of regret. Investors may avoid taking risks or making decisions that could result in losses, even if the decisions are rational from a financial perspective.
Cognitive Dissonance: Cognitive dissonance occurs when individuals hold conflicting beliefs or attitudes. In finance, cognitive dissonance may lead investors to ignore information that contradicts their existing beliefs or to rationalize their decisions.
Behavioral Portfolio Theory: Behavioral portfolio theory extends traditional portfolio theory by incorporating behavioral factors into asset allocation. It recognizes that individual investors may have different risk preferences and may not always adhere to the principles of mean-variance optimization.
These principles collectively highlight the human aspects of financial decision-making, demonstrating that psychological and emotional factors play a significant role in shaping investor behavior and market outcomes. Understanding these principles can help investors, financial professionals, and policymakers develop strategies to address behavioral biases and improve decision-making processes.
Key Concepts Shaping Behavioral Finance Theory.
Several key concepts shape behavioral finance theory, illuminating how psychological biases and emotions influence our financial decisions. Here are some of the most important ones:
- Heuristics: Mental shortcuts that simplify decision-making but can lead to errors. Examples include the representativeness heuristic (judging based on similarity) and the availability heuristic (judging based on ease of recall).
- Overconfidence: Tendency to overestimate our knowledge and abilities, leading to excessive risk-taking and poor investment choices.
- Loss aversion: The pain of losses is felt more acutely than the joy of gains, leading to risk aversion, holding onto losing investments for too long, and missing out on profitable opportunities.
- Confirmation bias: Seeking information that confirms our existing beliefs and ignoring contradictory evidence, leading to poor information processing and missed investment opportunities.
- Framing effect: Presenting information in different ways can influence our decisions, even if the content remains the same.
- Fear: Can lead to panic selling, avoiding market downturns altogether, and missing out on potential long-term gains.
- Greed: Can lead to chasing hot trends, taking excessive risks, and investing in unrealistic promises of high returns.
- Regret aversion: The fear of making a wrong decision can lead to inaction, paralysis, and missed opportunities.
- Herding behavior: Tendency to follow the actions of the majority, regardless of the underlying rationale, potentially leading to bubbles and crashes.
- Mental accounting: Mentally categorizing and allocating money, which can lead to suboptimal choices and missed opportunities.
- Prospect theory: Explains how individuals make decisions under uncertainty, considering both potential value and probability of outcomes.
- Limited attention: We can only process so much information at once, making us vulnerable to manipulation and focusing on easily available but potentially irrelevant information.
Implications for Practitioners:
Understanding these concepts can help financial professionals:
- Design better financial products and services that account for cognitive biases and emotional triggers.
- Provide more effective financial advice tailored to individual needs and risk tolerance.
- Develop educational programs that promote financial literacy and awareness of psychological influences.
- Advocate for policy changes that protect consumers from predatory practices and encourage sound financial decision-making.
By acknowledging the powerful role of psychology in financial behavior, we can empower ourselves and others to make more informed and mindful choices for a brighter financial future.
This is just a brief overview of some key concepts. If you'd like to delve deeper into any specific concept, explore how it applies to a particular financial context, or discuss its implications for financial decision-making strategies, feel free to ask! I'm happy to tailor the conversation to your specific interests and questions.


For a while now, our industry has understood that AI can make us money. Advertising leaders are embracing the fact that AI, done right, can also improve human creativity. Agencies have been striving to incorporate AI into the fabric of their organizations, seeking to forge more efficient and fruitful partnerships, and to connect people in more productive and resonant ways.
The controversial catalyst
Not everyone views AI as the great enabler of human creativity. Although some industry leaders urge us to choose hope over fear on this topic, tech luminaries Elon Musk and Bill Gates have cast AI as an urgent existential threat. Musk’s crusade has driven him so far as to lobby for that anathema of entrepreneurship — government regulation, as well as to create his own open source development project as a system of checks and balances. Similarly, Stephen Hawking warns AI will soon equal and exceed intelligence in the human brain, and predicts utopia or destruction: Either the curing of disease and eradication of climate change, or the neat disposal of inconvenient humanity.
The student learns from its teacher
Most veteran AI scientists see potential doomsday scenarios as quite a ways off but note AI presents other pressing human welfare challenges. Like, how we can keep human bias and prejudice out of our algorithms. Rachel Urtasun, an AI researcher recently hired by Uber to head a high-profile, advanced technology group, champions this issue. She points out that people train networks to mirror human thought processes. And that, often, we pass on not only our powers of perception but our misconceptions as well. Recent studies show programmers do indeed embed racial and gender biases into network trainings, often in unconscious ways. Empirical evidence — from Siri’s trouble answering many questions about women’s health, to racial profiling in recruiting automation — demonstrates the dramatic susceptibility of “objective” reinforced machine learning to human prejudice and opinion.
Although there’s no turnkey fix to the AI bias problem, experts suggest an array of tactics can help avoid its introduction and counter its effects. Community policing with a feedback loop can help raise network trainers’ awareness of issues and give them guidance on how and where to correct. “Algorithmic auditing” also measures for fairness, legal discrimination, and meaning; network developers can apply these emerging techniques. And the practice of open-sourced AI — the collaborative and shared academic development of Artificial Intelligence (think Elon Musk’s OpenAI initiative) — supports the evolution of best practice standards to eliminate the seeding of bias.
All ‘AI’ is Not Created Equal
Another possible obstacle to the fulfillment of AI’s creative promise? The quality of that AI.
Architects of large scale creative community are definitely barking up the right tree. Adaptive neural networks do have the potential to compare, associate, identify and predict how various team members might best contribute. When properly constructed and directed, machine learning can effectively scale to process massive amounts of data, giving projects the potential for global impact; and provide exceptionally granular insight, drilling down into the capabilities of each community member and placing them in the ideal context to shine.
But there are some tall order prerequisites for this kind of success: a massive amount of timely data, a massive amount of computer power, and expert supervised learning. Without the data, AI cannot discern patterns and cannot learn. Without the computer power, the system lacks bandwidth to house data and make connections at the high speed needed for effectiveness.
Art is In the Machine?
With recent initiatives, global stakeholders in the advertising space seek to improve human decision-making and artistry through AI-driven collaborative communities. AI has the potential to significantly support this endeavor. But communities are made up of complexly diverse individuals. Architects must build safeguards into their systems so that dynamically goaled, AI-powered initiatives can objectively and holistically “see” each constituent —and assess their potential contribution — not process them through a web of human assumption and bias. They also must have the prerequisite resources in place to build functional AI. The better industry leaders meet these goals, the more successfully AI can support, and improve, collaborative creativity. By objectively highlighting the diverse strengths and talents of all, machines can move our projects forward in a more productive, and more uniquely human, capacity.


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Virology, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Control of COVID-19
Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
School of Public Health, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang 453003, China
Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Viruses 2020, 12(4), 372; https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040372
Received: 7 March 2020 / Revised: 25 March 2020 / Accepted: 26 March 2020 / Published: 27 March 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis of Human and Animal Coronaviruses)
The outbreak of emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) in China has been brought to global attention and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. Scientific advancements since the pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002~2003 and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012 have accelerated our understanding of the epidemiology and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 and the development of therapeutics to treat viral infection. As no specific therapeutics and vaccines are available for disease control, the epidemic of COVID-19 is posing a great threat for global public health. To provide a comprehensive summary to public health authorities and potential readers worldwide, we detail the present understanding of COVID-19 and introduce the current state of development of measures in this review.