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Before viewing "Concerning Emancipation," read and view the following materials. They represent a selection made by the professor based on the readings available to the onscreen teachers. For additional primary source readings, go to Resources.
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Primary Sources: Documents
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First Debate, August 21, 1858
Fourth Debate, September 18, 1858
Seven 1858 campaign debates between Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and challenger Abraham Lincoln focus on the question of whether slavery should be extended to the territories.
Appeal to Border State Representatives for Compensated Emancipation, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1862
President Lincoln proposes a plan for gradual, compensated emancipation in the slave states that have remained loyal to the Union.
Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, D.C., August, 14, 1862
President Lincoln discusses plans to colonize freedmen and -women to lands outside the United States.
An Appeal from the Colored Men of Philadelphia to the President of the United States, August 1862
Prominent African American citizens reply to Lincoln's "Address on Colonization."
Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
President Lincoln responds to the editor of the New York Tribune, who publicly criticized him for failing to free all slaves who escaped to the Union Army.
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862
In this proclamation, Lincoln declares that unless rebellious states return to the Union by January 1, slaves in those states will be emancipated.
Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Lincoln fulfills the promise of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and declares all slaves in rebel states free.
Letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
In a letter to be read to a mass meeting of loyal Union men, Lincoln addresses the anger and frustration that many Unionists feel over the Emancipation Proclamation and the length of the war.
Frederick Douglass' "How to End the War," May 1861
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass echoes the sentiments of most of his fellow African Americans who, from the beginning of the war, have advocated general emancipation and their right to join the armed forces.
Letter from John J. Cheatham, May 4, 1861
An educated, white male from Georgia writes to the Confederate Secretary of War, portraying some of the concerns Southern whites have about slaves during the Civil War.
Letter from Major George E. Waring, Jr., December 19, 1861
A Union regimental commander writes about enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act with regard to runaway slaves behind Army lines in the border states.
Letter from General Benjamin F. Butler, May 27, 1861
The Union commander of Fortress Monroe in Virginia writes to his superiors, inquiring as to what should be done about slaves who have escaped to the Union Army camp.
Letter from John Boston, January 12, 1862
A runaway slave who takes shelter with a New York regiment of the Union army writes to his wife, Elizabeth, who had remained in Maryland.
Letter from Hannah Johnson, July 31, 1863
The mother of an African American soldier in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry writes to President Lincoln to appeal for equal treatment of African American soldiers taken as prisoners of war.
Letter from Corporal James Henry Gooding, September 28, 1863
A freeborn corporal of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry writes to President Lincoln, protesting the unequal pay of African American soldiers in the Union Army.
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Gordon Cotton photo
Taken during the Civil War, this photograph is of a slave named Gordon who took advantage of the dislocations of war to run away from a Mississippi plantation and into Union lines. An assistant surgeon general took his photograph and circulated it as evidence of the barbarity and cruelty of the slaveholding class. The image also appeared in Harper's Weekly magazine, where it was used as a recruitment poster to enlist African American soldiers.
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Lincoln Freedmen Memorial
This statue was commissioned by emancipated African Americans as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. It was sculpted by Thomas Ball and dedicated in 1876 in Washington, D.C., by Frederick Douglass. A replica of the statue requested by Massachusetts legislator Moses Kimball was dedicated in 1879 in Boston. The statue was based on a picture of Archer Alexander, the last slave captured in Missouri under the fugitive slave law, and was supposed to be a depiction of the slave breaking his own chains, an agent of his own deliverance. Many people, however, including Frederick Douglass, saw it differently: The African American man was kneeling, a supplicant for his freedom, and his face showed no apparent appreciation of his new dignified position in society. Speaking at the unveiling of the statue, Douglass gave Lincoln credit for his achievements, but remarked that the statue was a white man's monument to a white man's president.
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The Pro’s Kit: Corrine Malcolm
In our new Prokit series, we go behind the scenes with some of the world’s best. Each interview covers the nuts and bolts of how they do what they do — favorite gizmos, gadgets, gear; what they read, watch and listen to; and the hacks and habits behind their mental and physical health.
Today we talk with ultra runner Corrine Malcom. Corrine hit the running scene in 2016 after a competitive cross country ski racing career, and quickly made her mark as a science writer, coach, exercise physiologist and athlete. She’s a 2X top ten Western States finisher, placed 4th at TDS at UTMB, and most recently set the women’s supported FKT on the 171 mile Tahoe Rim Trail in a time of 44 hours and 51 minutes. ⚡
Currently I’m reading Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean, I have a mild obsession with forest/wild land fires.
I grew up in an NPR household and rarely listen to music on the run, so you can find me laughing on my runs to WaitWait Don’t Tell Me, or listening to some mix of Fresh Air, RadioLab, 99% Invisible, and a runners favorite podcast The Morning Shakeout with @mariofraioli.
I may or may not be rewatching Parks and Rec.
Go-to apps, gizmos and gadgets
Have we talked about how good battery life has gotten on GPS watches in the last 5 years!? Additional hack is I turn off the optical HR monitor because it’s not very accurate and it means I get even more life out of each charge (like 45 hours of running around the Tahoe Rim Trail, good!). I’m a fan of Strava, and spend a little too much time on Instagram.
Nutrition and Hydration: What’s your strategy before, during and after a big run?
My resolution for 2020 was doing a better job at getting in post training nutrition, specifically utilizing a protein recovery drink. I managed to drink a lot of Gu Roctane recovery drink this past year and I think it helped me train more than I ever have as a runner.
Generally, I don’t stress about on the run nutrition if I’m out for less than two hours, if I’m out for longer I aim to get in ~200 calories an hour, and if I’m prepping for a long race I’ll up that on long runs to train my stomach for race day. I never train fasted, unless I’m truly just going out for a shakeout run, because as a female I’ve found it’s not as advantageous and as an ultra runner calorie deficits from long days often roll over to easier days so it’s worth getting in the extra food where I can.
Nutrition: Anything unique about your philosophy?
There are no bad foods, there are no bad calories, there are no cheat days (they’re are just days, it is just food), there is no one way to eat. I try to eat intuitively, listening to my body, so there is a lot of variety in my day to day nutritional strategy.
Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch, which isn’t good or bad. Bring me your almond croissants!
Mind: Is there anything you do for mindfulness or to maintain your mental health?
I’ve always written a lot, but as I’ve done more and more writing for work I’ve done less and less personal writing over the past couple of years. With the new year I’ve started free writing and journaling again, building new habits which I am loving.
Sleep rituals or habits? Do you nap?
I’m not a napper, although sometimes I take a “lie down” where I put my legs up against the wall and just reset for 10-20minutes. I try to get 8-9 hours a night, when I’m on a deadline this falls apart. I used to get away with it, but maybe it’s turning 30, I now notice a HUGE difference in how I feel when I’m not sleeping enough.
Strength and Mobility: How much, how often and what type?
I come from a cross country ski background so I can pool shark you with my odd ability to do bar and ring dips, it’s uncanny! When I retired from skiing strength fell to the wayside, and I got away with that for several years… I’ve noticed over the last year or so that I’ve needed to do more of that work again, and I’m really enjoying it. During the pandemic I bought my own Olympic weight lifting set and I try to lift heavy things 2 times a week and do mobility work in small doses every day. I’m not very stretchy, like I failed the sit and reach in middle school, so I focus mostly on functional mobility movements.
Recovery: Do you have a specific strategy, or health metrics you watch?
I like to keep my easy days really easy and I almost always take a complete rest day every week aside from walking my dog.
Anything surprising about your approach to training, mindset, nutrition or life that you might not have mentioned?
I had to retire from ski racing because I had career ending overtraining, but I learned a lot from that experience. My relationship with exercise is completely altered, in all the best ways.
Can you share who’s in your crew?
I’m fortunate to have a really amazing support system in place, this includes my coach, Adam St.Pierre, and my family and friends who buy into all my terrible best bad ideas! Locally in SF I’m supported by good friend and body wizard Hal of Mt Tam Sport and Spine, and in large part thanks to the pandemic (which pushed gyms to produce home workouts) I get a lot of strength workouts from Mike Wolfe’s team at The Mountain Project in Bozeman Montana.
Gear: Favorite items in your Kit?
I’m really excited about the shoes we’ve been testing from Adidas Terrex that are coming to market this spring! I’m all about 6-inch crew socks. Additionally I’m a big fan of bringing along alternative fuel if I’m not in race prep, like snickers bars, pecan pie, pancakes, etc. Although I’m a runner by trade right now you’ll also find me out and about on my pretty purple Sklar.
Your go-to shoe for each discipline, and any insights on how you think about shoe choice?
So I think shoes definitely have purpose, I don’t really need a quiver killer, dependent on what kind of terrain I’m on or the workout I’m doing. Just like tire tread on your gravel or mountain bike, lug size on the bottom of your running shoes serve a purpose. Added traction, shedding mud, small lugs in specific patterns designed for running fast but not washing out on a quick downhill switch back. That means my shoe pile can sometimes be quite large, and picking a favorite is like picking a favorite child, supposedly impossible.
Are you partnered with any brands or causes as a sponsored athlete or ambassador?
Adidas Terrex, Gu, InsideTracker.
Corrine talks with @hillygoat about her Tahoe Rim Trail Women’s Supported FKT
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The Jacques-Cartier Region Christmas Market
Over fifteen producers, artists and craftspeople from the region will be at this Christmas market. Music, Christmas lights, entertainment, shows, workshops and outdoor recreational activities.
December 6 to 8, 2019 Everyday - All Day
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You hear talk about how people in our community are socially excluded but do you really understand what it actually means for our residents?
An example of this is what can happen when people suffer a range of linked problems, such as unemployment, low income, ill health, bad housing or even family breakdown. This, in turn can lead to further difficulties such as the negative impact on people’s well-being, children’s schooling or general family life. That’s why the Trust is taking the lead in making a ‘change’ to people’s lives, ‘NOW’.
So we have linked up with a Social Enterprise project in London called Eco-Computer Scheme who recycle computers and sell these to low income families. This work is undertaken by unemployed volunteers that learn a new skill and the profits are then ploughed back into training others. It also prevents the computers ending up in landfill sites. By using a small amount of money from our Better Communities Fund, our Financial Inclusion Officer, Nazma Abdul-Karim, was able to secure 25 computers for our tenants and leaseholders.
We ran a competition in our residents’ newsletter (Gateway News) and via text messaging. It attracted a huge amount of interest for a ‘free computer’ which included 12 months warranty and support from Eco-Computer Systems.
We had our winners’ event at Gateway House last week. Gavin Dunn, the Director of the project raised the benefits of having a computer in the home such as access to shopping or utility deals, help with children’s schoolwork and generally being able to stay in touch with friends and family.
I just love seeing a smile on people’s faces whether it be children or adults and the winners were so delighted (some of these included residents from our sheltered schemes) who had arranged for their sons or grandchildren to come around that same evening to connect the computer up for them.
I was of course on hand to offer my incredible expertise and the odd tip or two to help them start surfing the net.
It is these small changes to people’s lives that break down barriers and help people to achieve their full potential for the future and help make their lives that little bit easier.
To find out more information about the Eco-Computer Scheme or anything else happening at the Trust, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Air raid warden relays war experience to children
PUBLISHED: 14:00 19 October 2011
A FORMER World War Two air raid warden visited Ashcombe Primary School to teach children about safety procedures during the war.
Bob Gibbons, from Weston, visited two year five classes and gave them a talk about what it was like to live through air raids.
All 60 children aged nine-10-years-old dressed up as evacuees and were shown an old newspaper from the era about the Nazi bombing raids.
Teacher Stuart Goodhand said the children have been singing old war songs like ‘run rabbit’ and ‘the Lambeth walk’ since the visit.
They have also done follow-up work on the history and will be visiting a war museum in Swindon next week.
Mr Goodhand said: “They gained a lot of experience from the visit. It is important they understand a lot of different aspects of the war.”

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Fort Eustis would get a new pier and a field operations facility. Langley Air Force Base would get an $8.3 million dormitory and two new buildings to house future F-22 Raptors, the new Air Force fighter jet that is expected to be based at Langley.
The Navy Reserve would get a $2.1 million administrative building to replace trailers at Cheatham Annex.
Newport News Shipbuilding, as expected, would benefit from two major items in the Navy's budget: $1.1 billion to refuel the Norfolk-based USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and $1.6 billion to complete funding for the fourth Virginia-class submarine.
The Navy budget also includes $684 million in advance money for future submarines.
ALLEN'S SEAT SPARED.
The Democratic takeover of the U.S. Senate last month had posed a risk for Sen. George F. Allen, R-Va.. The freshman Republican could have lost his prized seat on the Senate Commerce Committee. The new chairman, Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., had talked about creating a new Democratic majority on the panel by eliminating a Republican, which most likely would have been Allen.
But in announcing a reorganization agreement just before the Independence Day recess, Democrats said they would create majorities on all committees by adding Democrats, not by eliminating any Republicans. So Allen will keep his seat.
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H.S. Wrestling: Murphy, Cougars claim third straight North 1, Group 1 title with crushing of Lenape Valley
By ANTHONY SPAULDING
HAMPTON — Tom Murphy has been contributing mightily for the Kittatinny wrestling team for the past year and a half.
Before entering the Cougars' North 1, Group 1 final match against Lenape Valley on Friday night at Kittatinny High School, the Kittatinny sophomore had posted a career record of 48-20, with 27 of his wins coming this season.
Murphy added his biggest victory yet for the Cougars against the Patriots. He pinned one of Lenape Valley's top grapplers in 138-pound senior Matt Benvenuto in 45 seconds to start a string of nine victories and help send Kittatinny on its way to a 58-7 win, a third straight sectional title and a spot in the State Group 1 Championships on Sunday at the Pine Belt Arena on the Campus of Toms River North High School.
"I'm on cloud 9 right now," Murphy said. "Coming off my match, I just feel so good to give us the three-peat. This is probably one of the biggest wins of my career."
Murphy gave the Cougars, now 18-time sectional champions, the opportunity to face Hanover Park in the Group 1 semifinals, which start at 12:30 p.m. If they beat Hanover Park, they will go for their ninth State Group title against the winner between reigning Group 1 champ Bound Brook and South Jersey powerhouse Paulsboro in the final at 6 p.m.
Murphy managed to do this while avenging a loss to Benvenuto, a two-time District 2 champion and three-time Region 1 qualifier that just guided his Patriots to wins over sixth-seeded Wallkill Valley and second-seeded Emerson Park-Ridge in the last four days to get to face Kittatinny. Benvenuto beat Murphy, 6-5, in the semifinals of the Hunterdon Warren Sussex tournament on Jan. 11.
"I lost to him in HWS and I got down on myself, saying ‘I shouldn't have lost," Murphy said. "And coming into the match, everyone was saying, ‘You got Benvenuto.' I said, ‘I don't care. I'm not losing.'"
With the Cougars leading, 12-7, Murphy looked like he was going to be in for possibly a long match with Benvenuto after the Patriot took him down in the first 10 seconds of the match to grab a 2-0 lead.
"In the heat of the match, I was like, ‘Oh no! I'm already down 2-0.'" Murphy said.
But, Murphy managed to get away from Benvenuto, put him in a "bear-hug" type move and pushed him onto his back. From there, Murphy did whatever he could to flatten Benvenuto so the referee could slap the mat for a pin that caused the Cougars and the home crowd to erupt in celebration and give Kittatinny an 18-7 lead.
"When the ref slapped the mat, I just froze for a second," Murphy said of how shocked he was about decking Benvenuto in that time. "Then I gave a little fist-pump and was like, ‘Yeah!' I was so pumped."
The Cougars were really ecstatic about Murphy's pin.
"The match wasn't clinched at that point, but boy it just really changed the whole atmosphere," Kittatinny coach John Gill said. "When you're doing your pre-match, guessing-the-score work, we are often putting Tom down as a win, but never against a kid tonight that he just lost to at the Hunterdon Warren Sussex tournament.
"It was just a great surprise. It made him look seasoned."
Murphy's win inspired some other Cougars like Connor Zandarski and David Popek to get revenge wins.
After Nick Romyns followed Murphy with a 10-1 major decision win against Michael Naranjo at 145, Zandarski pulled out an 8-6 win in sudden victory against Dominic LaBell at 152. Zandarski was happy to edge LaBell, who he dropped a 6-2 decision on Dec. 19, 2012 during the Cougar' NJAC Freedom Division opener at Lenape Valley and trailed, 6-4, with 1:00 left in the third period before tying him with a takedown six seconds later and then won on a takedown in the first 14 seconds of overtime.
"I lost to him earlier in the season," said Zandarski, who made it a 25-7 match at that point with his win. "But I came out this time and was not going to go down this easy. Luckily for me, I came out on top."
In the next bout, Popek managed to beat Joey LaBell at 160 by a 3-2 decision to avenge his 6-3 loss he suffered from the sophomore Patriot during the same dual on Dec. 19. More importantly, it put the Cougars up, 28-7.
Then after a 6-0 decision from Kieran Gerrity at 170, the Cougars clinched the match at 182 where Dylan Wunder decked Sam Palumbo in 59 seconds to make it a 37-7 contest with four bouts left. Gill was proud to see his Cougars, who also got wins from Jake Brook (195), Garrett Armstrong (220) and Tom Smith (285), improve this time despite handing the Patriots, 54-18, earlier in the season.
"You look for kids to get payback," Gill said. "Connor Zandarski is improving, Tom Smith is improving, David Popek is improving. That's what you coach for."
More importantly, he was glad his Cougars could get that third straight opportunity at winning that ninth State Group title. Last year, the Cougars lost, 34-32 to Bound Brook in the semifinals after squandering a 32-22 lead by giving up pins in the final two bouts.
"All of our sites are on 12:30," Gill said. "We got to take care of (that) business first. We want to get to the finals. We want the opportunity."
As for Lenape Valley, it could not bring home its fifth sectional title in school history and first since 2009. Patriots coach Doug Vetter was upset about the loss, but tried to give his grapplers credit for getting to the final after going 8-14 this year mostly without a full lineup until last Monday when they beat Wallkill Valley, 62-7, in the first round and on Wednesday against Emerson-Park Ridge, which they beat, 39-23.
"We wrestled 19 of our 22 matches pretty much discombobulated," Vetter said. "Only on Monday, we were able to wrestle as a full team and then again on Wednesday. I was proud of the way the boys showed perseverance. I was proud of the way the boys earned the right to get into the tournament and get to the final. Unfortunately, tonight was not our night."
Kittatinny 58, Lenape Valley 7
106: Jake Van Wingerden (K) pin. Zach Merkey, 0:53
113: Christian Silva (K) won by forfeit
120: Peter Lipari (LV) dec. Nick Klinger, 7-2
126: Austin Scrivani (K) pin. Aaron Arzon, 2:45
132: Glenn Haines (LV) maj. dec. Kevin Jellinek, 11-3
138: Tom Murphy (K) dec. Matt Benvenuto, 0:45
145: Nick Romyns (K) maj. dec. Michael Naranjo, 10-1
152: Connor Zandarski (K) dec. Dominic LaBell, 8-6 (s.v.)
160: David Popek (K) dec. Joey LaBell, 3-2
170: Kieran Gerrity (K) dec. D.J. Barrett, 6-0
182: Dylan Wunder (K) pin. Sam Palumbo, 0:59
195: Jake Brook (K) pin. Kristian Barrett, 5:28
220: Garrett Armstrong (K) pin. Dante James, 3:32
285: Tom Smith (K) dec. Bobby Sperling, 5-2
Team records: Lenape Valley 8-14, Kittatinny 21-2


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Love is like water. It has to flow.
Many times we get terrified of love. Of our own feelings. We’re scared that the rush would overwhelm us and break the dam that holds us safe together.
The truth is, it’s safe to love.
Love only becomes overbearing when we block its natural flow. When we really wanna embrace someone but instead we choose to turn our back on them. When we really wanna forgive and liberate our heart but we choose to face more daggers instead. When we really wanna look someone in the eyes and melt into them but instead we avert our gaze, we pretend like we don’t care.
Love only hurts us when we’re blocked. When love cannot flow smoothly into all our crevices; into all the cracks that are hurting, lonely, afraid. Love has to run free. Love has to take the shape of our own Body. Soul. Mind. In fact, it’s love that has shaped this earth and everything that we see.
Love connects us. We’re here only because of love. Love is only here because of us. Love. Love. There’s nothing else to do but to love.
Love has to be expressed. Love demands to be expressed. Everywhere we look. Everywhere we go. Where there is light. Where there is none. Love has to find a way. Love has to stay.
Let love flow through you. Let it bathe you. Let it purify you. Love. Don’t be afraid to love. Let love change you.
*We can only grow in the most profound ways through love.
Sometimes we let our need for labels limit how we live and experience love.
Shouldn’t it be enough that we are loved by each single creation in its/her/his own special way?
Let’s open ourselves to receive the kind of love we’re given. Give what we can in return as well.
Accept the love that is given to you, in whatever shape or form it appears. Temper your tendency to control it, to put a leash around it, to hang a name tag on it. Let it guide you in exploring yourself, in expanding your perspective on what is possible, on what is real.
Life can get tough, but the Universe doesn’t leave us alone in our journey. The Universe understands that while we need to go through our own path to learn what we set out to learn and accomplish, we also need not forget who we really are.
In my life, I’ve always had those beings who remind of me of my natural tenderness – humans, animals, nature,. Tthey hold my hand, smile at me, persistently ask me to play and have fun, to sit and relax, to listen to my heart. Many times, I’ve learned to build up a shell around my heart as a way of protecting myself, and many times when the need for it subsides, these beings always do their work of breaking it up either piece-by-piece or in one blow.
It took a while for me to connect the dots and see the meaning in these relationships, and the presence of these beings in my life. Many times I’ve thought how undeserving I was of their love. But maybe, my human mind just can’t fathom the unconditionality of pure love. And maybe we are also part of this pure love even though it’s difficult to feel that way in our human form with all our complexities and struggles.
Nevertheless I am thankful beyond words can express. The Universe has always been unfailing in sending me all the help and love that I need.
It depends on our commitment
to expand our capacity to feel
how the world unfolds.
Richness surrounds us, and can never contain itself
we just need to open ourselves fully
to participate in this spontaneous
yet orchestrated overflow.
*An ode to my feisty, tender feline friend, Cool-aid; who has melted my heart back to its normal state. She reminded me that we only really have what’s in our heart. The rest are illusory.
“We accept the love we think we deserve”, says the famous quote.
I say, “We shape the ones we love. We ochestrate how we are loved.”
I think this is more accurate. We are more powerful than we claim ourselves to be.
I don’t think Source brought all things to existence merely to know itself and expand. *As I was stroking my furry bestfriend’s head, Munchkin, I knew that Source created everything ultimately because of love.
No, not to learn how to love itself, neither to love out of generosity. But to love that which is a part of itself but also outside of itself. To love without purpose other than the experience of loving. To experience love in its many different forms. To deepen our capacity for love.
Because having the opportunity to love is worth creating universes/multiverses for. It’s so good there’s nothing like it. It’s worth going through eternity for.
*I wrote this post with Munchkin beside me 🙂
When it seems as though life wants to break us down – the truth is, life wants us to break free. To crack open. To release our grip from the edge. To let go of the only thing that has supported our existence so far – the illusion of control.
When it feels like life has grabbed all that’s left of us and we end up feeling powerless to stand up again and proceed – life is actually just teaching us how to trust, how to open our hearts fully and how to accept more help, more grace, more love.
Excluding mental illness, if you haven’t been obsessed with anything, you haven’t found something to really care about yet.
If you haven’t felt anguish just with the thought of failing at something, you haven’t really loved yet.
Only the crazy ones are capable of lifting something that matters off the ground. Only the crazy ones have ever done it.
Only the crazy ones extend the limits of their humanity. Only the crazy ones transform the essence of their divinity.
Only those who are crazy enough to create or dismantle the world order have pushed/are pushing this planet forward. If you haven’t been part of the crazy ones you haven’t fully lived.
Life only matters because of death.
One has to go through death first to be with eternity.
We only savor what we have because we can lose it; because we know how it’s like to live without it.
We should ponder over death more often. In fact, it should be a part of our daily routine. Not out of anxiety or drama but out of self-awareness and a deep connection with our inner and outer landscapes.
What’s the meaning of our life without the inevitability of death? Why would it matter that we are here if we’ve always been here and always will be? If there are no risks to the chances we take? If there are no costs to loving all that we do?
Will fleeting moments remain special? Would it still matter if we choose to show up or not, if we give our best?
Circumstances don’t change. It’s us who do.
Circumstances remain the same because all probabilities co-exist at the same time – what could happen already has, already is. Our focus determines which reality we experience. Pivot a bit in a different direction and our whole perspective changes. It could even feel like a completely different world at times.
When we feel like circumstances have changed it’s because we have changed.
It’s the will and the effort that we’ve put onto ourselves that transform our life.


Wayward Sons and Inglorious Live in Glasgow
Date: 20 January 2018
Venue: O2 Academy Glasgow
Headliner: Steel Panther
When Inglorious and Wayward Sons toured together last year, I was laid up recovering from a rather large abdominal operation, so had to miss out. You could say I was (unite literally) gutted! So when I heard that they would be heading back in support of Steel Panther, I made sure that decibelROGUE was in the pit this time around.
One of the main reasons I was so keen to see Wayward Sons and Inglorious in action was both bands released awesome new albums in 2017. Wayward Sons debut album Ghosts Of Yet To Come was one of decibelROGUE’s favourite rock albums of the year, while Inglorious’ latest release, Inglorious II, went straight to the top of the UK Rock Chart back in May. So both bands had plenty of great new material that I would get to hear performed live for the first time
From a reviewing point of view, this was going to be a rather unusual evening. This was because I was only accredited to photograph the two support bands. Such is the demand to cover anything Steel Panther does, photopasses for their shows are like hen’s teeth. However, thanks to the nice people who look after Inglorious’ PR, we could at least cover them and Wayward Sons. The big bonus for me in all of this was that after Inglorious left the stage, I could put my camera gear away, grab a beer and enjoy Steel Panther. Happy days!
Wayward Sons are, as you’ll probably already know, former Little Angel Toby Jepson’s latest band. And as they launched into first song Alive, it was hard not to feel that we were seeing Jepson back where he truly belongs: on a stage, rocking out in front of a large audience. Such is the lot of support bands, many in the Glasgow audience wouldn’t have had a clue who Wayward Sons were. But Jepson has been around the block a few times before, and he wasted no time in getting the audience onside.
Saturday’s set was a 30 minute blast through some of the best bits of Ghosts Of Yet To Come. And the thing which immediately stood out for me was the sheer energy and vibrancy which drove the bands’ performance along. It’s almost as if Jepson has somehow managed to turn the clock back about three decades to recapture that raw energy and (dare I say it) youthful exuberance that made us fall in love with rock music in the first place.
This is helped in no small part by the seriously accomplished musicians Jepson surrounded himself with onstage here. Chrome Molly Bassist Nic Wastell and former Tokyo Dragons drummer Phil Martini, like Jepson, have been at the sharp end of rock music for years. And they drove this performance along at a fairly thunderous clip. Then you have the (comparatively youthful!) Sam Wood on lead guitar, who was arguably the star of the show. The former Treason Kings axeman was devastatingly impressive as he tore through one guitar solo after another.
It’s pretty difficult to pick out a single highlight of what was a fairly brief set. But what I will say is that the songs performed here sounded even better live than they do on the album. But then I guess we shouldn’t really be too surprised by that because Jepson has always had the knack of writing songs which work best when heard live. And at the end of the day isn’t that what rock music is all about?
After Wayward Sons finish this tour they will announce a UK headline tour of their own, which kicks off in April. We’ll bring you news on that as soon as it’s announced and hope to catch them when they return to Glasgow.
Setlist: Alive, Killing Time, Crush, Small Talk, Something Wrong, Until The End
I never thought I’d see the day when a rock band would come onstage to the theme from Grandstand, but that’s exactly how Inglorious made their entrance on Saturday night. The band who many feel are the future of British rock music had a stellar 2017 with the release and subsequent chart success of Inglorious II. And they wasted no time in dialling everything up to eleven with some unapologetically old-school hard rock. Now I think about it, the entrance music couldn’t have been more appropriate!
Inglorious’ set comprised songs from their first two albums, and like Wayward Sons before them was an all too brief half hour taster of what they are all about. And as they blasted into set opener Read All About It it wasn’t long before we got the first taste of Nathan James’ awesome vocal ability.
His upper range really is quite extraordinary. The way he nailed ridiculously high notes, time and time again with laser-like accuracy was astonishing. It’s one thing recording such vocals in a studio environment when you can always go again, or have some clever software tweak minor imperfections. But it’s another thing entirely to do it live. And he was flat-out awesome here.
Having a vocalist of James’ calibre gives Inglorious the ability to take pretty much any musical influence they like and run with it. You could take your pick of any of the songs performed here and find a riff here or hook there that resonates with something you may have heard on a 70’s rock album. Somebody tell me that’s a bad thing!
Again, picking one highlight from such a short set is rather difficult, but at a push I’d say that Taking The Blame highlighted everything that’s great about Inglorious. It tears along like an express train, has that 70’s hard rock vibe and features yet more awesome vocals from James.
They say you should always leave your fans wanting more. And by the time Inglorious rounded out their set with the brilliant Until I Die, the Glasgow crowd was absolutely rocking. I got the sense that they wouldn’t have cared a jot if Inglorious rocked on for a while longer. But hey, Steel Panther were up next!
Not sure what’s up next for Inglorious following this tour, but you can be assured we’ll let you know when they’ll be hitting the road again. If you love rock music, you’ll absolutely love Inglorious.
Setlist: Read All About It, Breakaway, Change IS Coming, Warning, Taking The Blame, I Don’t Need Your Loving, Holy Water, Until I Die
Wayward Sons Gallery


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We are pleased to announce the opening of our new Fetal & Pediatric Cardiology Services practice at 156 William Street (12th floor) in Lower Manhattan on February 21, 2019. The practice will be open on Thursdays from 9am-5pm and will treat children, adolescents and young adults.
If you would like to schedule an appointment or make a referral, please call us now at 212-746-3561.
At our Lower Manhattan location, our expertise includes:
- Fetal cardiology
- Fetal echocardiography
- Cardiac screening during pregnancy
- Heart murmur
- Arrhythmias and management of fetal arrhythmias
- Chest Pain
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Kawasaki Disease
- Marfan Syndrome
- Syncope (fainting)
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For more information about our services and pediatric cardiology team, visit our Pediatric Cardiology webpage.
Our Upper East Side Campus
Our Upper East Side campus at 525 East 68th Street also offers additional services including cardiothoracic surgery, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, cardiac catheterization, tilt table testing, and other care.
We are affiliated with top-ranked NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Children's Hospital.

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Mayor John Cranley and the Task Force on Immigration he convened last year announced a series of recommendations on Oct. 28 aimed at making Cincinnati the most welcoming city in the country for immigrants.
The task force announced 14 short-term, two-year goals and another nine longer-term, five-year goals designed to persuade and help immigrants settle in Cincinnati while protecting their legal rights and encouraging entrepreneurship.
“We want to be a city of growth and opportunity,” Cranley said during a news conference about the task force’s recommendations, “and we think this is the right thing to do for the economic vitality of our city.”
Among the short-term objectives the task force announced is a collaboration between the city, the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce, Children’s Hospital and other organizations on a center to welcome immigrants. That center will start out as a website while a permanent, physical facility similar to ones in Pittsburgh and Chicago is established.
The mayor said UC has committed $50,000 a year to the effort, and Cranley said he’ll be asking Cincinnati City Council to approve a similar commitment.
“This is a true collaboration,” he said, “and it’s very inspiring to see the community come together to support something we don’t have.”
Another set of short- and long-term goals will seek to ensure that immigrants are treated fairly and get their full legal rights. The task force calls for increased cultural sensitivity training for police, a deeper commitment by the city to punish violations of immigrants’ civil rights and calls for an ordinance from the city pledging to go after wage theft, a big issue for immigrant workers. Among the members of the task force is Manuel Perez, who works with the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center, which has helped lead the conversation around wage theft in Cincinnati.
Cranley declined to comment explicitly on what effect the effort could have on the undocumented immigrant population in the region, but did point out that some of the partners in the task force are working independently on measures like ID cards for undocumented immigrants. Those IDs would then be recognized by municipal offices, including the police department.
According to data released recently by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a pro-immigration think-tank, the foreign-born population of metro Cincinnati has contributed more than $189 million in state and municipal taxes.
Cranley says he hopes to bring ordinances associated with the task force’s recommendation to Council in the next two weeks.

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The old quandary of build versus buy is falling away as companies realize they don’t have time to assemble, test, and tune disparate pieces anymore. And they’re getting tired of the cost and complexity of integrating IT components themselves. That’s why the IT industry is graduating from an environment where customers need to integrate virtualization, networking, and cloud on their own, to one in which everything is included in a single, new-generation system. That’s true whether the IT is in their data centers or in the cloud.
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If you can’t move your data or applications to the public cloud, for privacy or data governance reasons, Oracle provide the public cloud behind your firewall with Oracle Cloud at Customer. You stay in control of your data while Oracle delivers and manages the services based on how you want to operate.
Use Oracle Cloud services for everything from data management and analytics to adopting or extending a complete software-as-a-service portfolio (SaaS). Achieve faster time to value; control over regulatory issues, data privacy, and governance; tight integration with your network security; and low latency for on-premises applications and data.
Oracle Cloud at Customer includes all operational management in the standard offering to simplify deployment. Furthermore, the ability to move workloads back and forth between cloud and on-premises is a big differentiator, and a proof point for the capabilities that the Oracle integrated technology stack delivers.
Oracle Cloud at Customer offerings include:
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Cloud At Customer is a mixed workload platform. You can run a variety of Oracle Cloud services in your Oracle Cloud at Customer environment. For example both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services that Platform Cloud Services.
For a complete list of services please refer to the following LINK
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Exadata Cloud At Customer
Exadata Cloud at Customer enables you to apply the combined power of Exadata and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure inside your own data center. You have full access to the features and capabilities of Oracle Database along with the intelligent performance and scalability of Exadata, but with Oracle owning and managing the Exadata infrastructure. You can use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console and APIs to manage Exadata Cloud at Customer like any other cloud resource, while maintaining absolute sovereignty over your data.
For a complete description of Oracle Exadata Cloud At Customer Generation 2 refer to the following LINK
Oracle Private Cloud at Customer
Oracle Private Cloud at Customer enables customers to run both Oracle and non-Oracle applications on a platform located inside their data centers, while the infrastructure is managed by Oracle cloud experts. Oracle Private Cloud at Customer systems are preconfigured according to best practices, which have been proved by many mission-critical Oracle Private Cloud Appliance installations around the world.
Oracle Private Cloud at Customer is designed for rapid and simple deployment of mission-critical applications and workloads, whether running on Linux, Oracle Solaris, or Microsoft Windows. High-performance, low-latency physical network connectivity and Oracle Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies facilitate automated provisioning of the server and storage networks. Leveraging the software-defined network fabric, customers can dynamically configure networks without having to manually re-cable connections, saving time and reducing the risk of human error. The consolidation of network connections results in up to 70 percent fewer cables and cards.
For a complete description of features and functionalities of Oracle Private Cloud At Customer refer to the following LINK
Big Data Cloud At Customer
Oracle Big Data Cloud Service is offered on Oracle Cloud, using state-of-the-art Oracle-managed data centers. You can also choose Oracle Big Data Cloud at Customer, which provides Oracle Big Data Cloud Service hosted in your data center.
An entitlement to Oracle Big Data Cloud Service gives you access to the resources of a preconfigured Oracle Big Data environment, including a complete installation of the Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Apache Spark. Use Oracle Big Data Cloud Service to capture and analyze the massive volumes of data generated by social media feeds, e-mail, web logs, photographs, smart meters, sensors, and similar devices.
For a complete description of services and functionalities of the service please refer to the following LINK
Oracle Cloud Security: A reason To move to the Cloud
Top concerns for cloud adoption are related to security. Oracle’s security solutions enable organizations to implement and manage consistent security policies across the hybrid data center. Oracle security cloud services make leading security technologies available everywhere to organizations large and small.
The IT security practices of many organizations that manage their own systems may not be strong enough to resist complex threats from malware, phishing schemes, and advanced persistent threats unleashed by malicious users, cybercriminal organizations, and state actors. The perimeter-based security controls typically implemented by organizations who manage their own security—from firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus software packages—are arguably no longer sufficient to prevent these threats.
Oracle Cloud is built around multiple layers of security and multiple levels of defense throughout the technology stack. Redundant controls provide exceptional resiliency, so if vulnerability is discovered and exploited in one layer, the unauthorized user will be confronted with another security control in the next layer. But having some of the world’s best security technology is only part of the story. Oracle aligns people, processes, and technology to offer an integrated defense-in-depth platform:
- Preventive controls designed to mitigate unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data
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- Administrative measures to address security policies, practices, and procedures
Oracle offers a variety of options to implement preventive security controls for data at rest and in transit for different cloud services, including encryption by default as part of Oracle Database Cloud Service, redaction of sensitive application-layer data, restriction of privileged-user capabilities, subsetting or masking of data in nonproduction environments, and monitoring of user activities.
For a complete list of Oracle Security Features and Compliance please refer to the following LINK
Oracle and Microsoft Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Adoption
This cloud interoperability partnership combines Oracle and Microsoft technologies to support both line of business and mission-critical applications. Customers can now migrate to the cloud or build new applications leveraging the best of Oracle Cloud including Oracle Autonomous Database, and the best of Microsoft Azure with seamless interoperability.
Enterprises have many on-premises, mission-critical applications that depend on both Oracle and Microsoft technologies. Only Oracle and Microsoft are providing a “connected cloud” technical alliance for their mutual cloud services to enable swift migration of on-premises applications, leveraging a broader range of tools, and integrated as a single unified enterprise cloud solution.
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This partnership now enables many previously impossible solutions including multi-application cloud deployment and integration, multi-layered cloud data management, cross-cloud data analysis and of course rapid migration of operations to the cloud. Here are a few of the critical customer use cases:
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- Develop cloud native, enterprise applications in Azure and Oracle Cloud, including Oracle Autonomous Database. Customers will now be able to leverage a range of cloud services from both companies to build and deploy high performance, enterprise-ready modern applications. Oracle Autonomous Database is the only self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing data management system enabling you to cut costs, reduce risk, and drive insights.
For a complete description about this feature refer to the following LINK
Oracle and Microsoft Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Adoption
Oracle and VMware have announced their collaboration to help VMWare customers run their deployments on Oracle’s cloud without rearchitecting applications or operations. With Oracle, you’re in control.
Oracle and VMware help customers move to the cloud
Migration of VMware deployments to other cloud environments requires rearchitecture and modification of tools and processes because other clouds manage a fixed VMware environment controlled by the provider. With Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, enterprise systems integrators and managed service providers can extend or migrate their VMware operations to bare metal server clusters while maintaining full control of the environment.
This partnership presents the opportunity for enterprises to easily move applications to the cloud that were previously confined to on-premise environments. Now, enterprises can leverage the security, performance, and on-demand, pay-as-you-go model of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to extend existing on-premise VMware infrastructure and investments without rearchitecting applications or retooling operations.
Oracle is the only hyper-scale cloud offering that empowers enterprises to migrate VMware vSphere environments to the cloud while retaining total control over updates, patches, and validation for all VMware components. Our joint customers can leverage the following benefits:
- Cloud flexibility: Extend your VMware deployment to a hybrid cloud environment spanning your datacenter and Oracle Cloud, or migrate VMs at your own pace to reduce your own infrastructure
- Control over your environment: Run the versions of VMware software you want, with full administrative access to the entire stack of VMware components running on bare metal cloud compute instances that you fully control. Maintain your tested and proven on-premise deployment architectures and processes.
- Control over your schedule: Update and patch on your own schedule. Fully test environment upgrades and deploy them at your own pace.
- Global reach: Leverage Oracle’s rapidly expanding global footprint to scale worldwide without establishing your own data centers.
For more informations about this capability refer to the following LINK
Oracle Data Safe: Secure your data
Oracle Data Safe is a fully-integrated Cloud service focused on the security of your data. It provides a complete and integrated set of features for protecting sensitive and regulated data in Oracle Cloud databases. Features include Security Assessment, User Assessment, Data Discovery, Data Masking, and Activity Auditing.
Oracle Data Safe provides the following set of features for protecting sensitive and regulated data in Oracle Cloud databases, all in a single, easy-to-use management console:
- Security Assessment helps you assess the security of your cloud database configurations. It analyzes database configurations, user accounts, and security controls, and then reports the findings with recommendations for remediation activities that follow best practices to reduce or mitigate risk.
- User Assessment helps you assess the security of your database users and identify high risk users. It reviews information about your users in the data dictionary on your target databases, and calculates a risk score for each user. For example, it evaluates the user types, how users are authenticated, the password policies assigned to each user, and how long it has been since each user has changed their password. It also provides a direct link to audit records related to each user. With this information, you can then deploy appropriate security controls and policies.
- Data Discovery helps you find sensitive data in your cloud databases. You tell Data Discovery what kind of sensitive data to search for, and it inspects the actual data in your database and its data dictionary, and then returns to you a list of sensitive columns. By default, Data Discovery can search for a wide variety of sensitive data pertaining to identification, biographic, IT, financial, healthcare, employment, and academic information.
- Data Masking provides a way for you to mask sensitive data so that the data is safe for non-production purposes. For example, organizations often need to create copies of their production data to support development and test activities. Simply copying the production data exposes sensitive data to new users. To avoid a security risk, you can use Data Masking to replace the sensitive data with realistic, but fictitious data.
- Activity Auditing lets you audit user activity on your databases so you can monitor database usage and be alerted of unusual database activities.
Learn more about Oracle Data Safe at the following LINK
Accelerate your business with Oracle Autonomous Database
Databases store critical business information and are essential for the efficient operation of modern organizations. DBAs are often overburdened with the time-consuming manual tasks of managing and maintaining databases. The demands of current workloads can lead to DBA errors, which can have a catastrophic impact on uptime, performance, and security.
For example, failing to apply a patch or security update can create vulnerabilities. Failing to apply the patch correctly can weaken or eliminate security protections altogether. If the database is not secure, the enterprise can be at risk for data breaches that can have serious financial repercussions and negatively impact a company’s reputation.
Business applications add new records to existing databases or use database information to create reports, analyze trends, or look for anomalies. This can cause databases to grow to many terabytes in size and become highly complex, making them even more difficult for DBAs to manage, secure, and tune for maximum performance. Databases that are slow-running or unavailable due to downtime can negatively impact employee productivity and frustrate customers.
The amount and velocity of data available to the enterprise is accelerating. This amplifies the need for efficient, secure database management that enhances data security, reduces downtime, improves performance, and is not vulnerable to human error. An autonomous database can achieve these objectives.
An Autonomous Database consists of two key elements that align with workload types.
- A data warehouse performs numerous functions related to business intelligence activities, and uses data that’s been prepared in advance for analysis. The data warehouse environment also manages all database lifecycle operations, can perform query scans on millions of rows, is scalable to business needs, and can be deployed in a matter of seconds.
- Transaction processing enables time-based transactional processes such as real-time analytics, personalization, and fraud detection. Transaction processing typically involves a very small number of records, is based on predefined operations, and allows for simple application development and deployment.
An Autonomous Database leverages AI and machine learning to provide full, end-to-end automation for provisioning, security, updates, availability, performance, change management, and error prevention.
In this respect, an autonomous database has specific characteristics.
- It is self-driving. All database and infrastructure management, monitoring, and tuning processes are automated. DBAs are still needed for tasks such as managing how applications connect to the a and helping developers use the in-database features and functions without their application code.
- It is self-securing Built-in capabilities protect against both external attacks and malicious internal users. This helps eliminate concerns about cyberattacks on unpatched or unencrypted databases.
- It is self-repairing. This can prevent downtime, including unplanned maintenance. An autonomous database can require fewer than 2.5 minutes of downtime per month, including patching.
For more informations about Oracle Autonomous Database use the following Link.
Oracle Autonomous Linux Highly secure. Highly reliable.
Oracle Autonomous Linux, along with the new Oracle OS Management Service, is the first and only autonomous operating environment that helps greatly reduce complexity and human error to deliver increased cost savings, security, and availability for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers, all while providing full compatibility with IBM Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Oracle Autonomous Linux executes automatic patch updates and tuning—without human interaction—improving IT staff productivity, security, and downtime. Combined with native Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services such as Oracle OS Management Service, it offers even more automation such as autoscaling, lifecycle management across pools, and monitoring. It is available with Oracle Linux Premier Support at no cost to Oracle Cloud customers. Oracle Autonomous Linux is based on Oracle Linux, which is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allowing IBM Red Hat customers to immediately start using the service with current applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Keeping operating systems patched and secure is one of the biggest operational challenges that IT organizations can face. With Oracle Autonomous Linux in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can minimize availability and security risks from missed or incorrectly applied patches. With Oracle Ksplice enabled by default, you can reduce unnecessary downtime when applying kernel patches to your systems. When deployed with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services such as Oracle OS Management Service, the automation and TCO benefits get even better with automatic provisioning, scaling, and tuning. Combined with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s other cost advantages, all of this means that most Oracle Linux workload customers can expect to have a 30 to 50 percent TCO savings over five years versus both on premise and other cloud vendors.
For more informations about Oracle Autonomous Linuxuse the following Link.


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North to Alaska
Tamaqua Elementary Principal Steven Behr assists second-grade students Emily Zuber, Anthony Martinez and Brandon Andescavage with creating clay seals during the class' distance learning session with the Alaska SeaLife Center.
There are more than 4,400 miles between Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, and Seward, Alaska, according to MapQuest.
Thanks to the technology of distance learning, that gap was bridged for students at Tamaqua Elementary School.
The Tamaqua Area School District's elementary students are participating in a distance learning project this month with the Alaska SeaLife Center, located in Seward.
Through the program, Tamaqua Area students are taking a virtual visit to a facility on the other side of the North American continent.
Steven Behr, Tamaqua Elementary principal, said that the district has had the technical capability to incorporate distance learning into its curriculum.
"We got the equipment through a grant that the I.U. (Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29) had received," said Behr.
Previously, the distance learning equipment was utilized to connect faculty meetings and classrooms between the school district's three elementary schools: Tamaqua, Rush Elementary in Hometown and West Penn Elementary, near Snyders.
"This is the next step in the progression," noted Behr.
In order to emphasize the possibilities available for distance learning, Behr search the Internet and found the Alaska SeaLife Center offered such a program.
"I was searching for a distance learning activity online, and I thought, the farther away, the better," explained Behr. "I felt that would drive home the idea of how we want to use it."
Each session with the Alaska SeaLife Center costs $160, but Tamaqua Area was able to purchase 42 sessions at $100 each, noted Behr.
The money for the distance learning sessions was earned by the students themselves, with funds raised through the Raider Run, in which the students found sponsors to support them with pledged dollars as they walked laps.
On Monday, teacher Janet Smetana's second-grade class was one at Tamaqua Elementary that took part in a one-hour session with Alaska SeaLife Center.
Using a device called a Polycom unit, which contains a camera, speaker and a microphone, the students were able to see, hear and talk to Adrienne from the SeaLife Center in real time.
Adrienne was able to point out to students where Seward was on a map of North America, then conducted a lesson on marine mammal adaptations, discussing animals such as otters, seals and steller sea lions.
Through the use of cameras at the Alaska facility, the students were able to see the sea lions and seals swimming around in their tanks as Adrienne discussed their characteristics.
Students were able to answer her questions and follow directions as to how to create their own seals out of the clay kits they were given.
The students also had a chance to ask questions as well. One asked Adrienne, who is originally from Massachusetts, what it was like in Alaska.
"There are bigger mountains, less people and more snow," she answered.
The connection with the SeaLife Center will continue throughout the month. Behr sees it as just the beginning for distance learning on the elementary level.
"I hope that our teachers will be inspired to find things that they can fit into their curriculum," he added.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Police Supt. Garry McCarthy is being ordered to answer questions in a lawsuit filed in connection with a fatal police-involved shooting.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Bob Conway reports, last June, Flint Farmer, 29, was shot and killed by Officer Gildardo Garcia, who had just responded to a domestic battery call in the West Englewood neighborhood.READ MORE: COVID-19 In Illinois: More Than 3 Million Residents Fully Vaccinated, But Cases And Hospitalizations Still Up Significantly Over Past Month
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Around 1:40 a.m. June 7, responding officers in the 6200 block of South Wolcott Avenue saw Farmer run off. Police said they ordere dhim to stop running, and he turned and pulled an object from his pocket that the officer thought was a handgun.
Police said the officer Farmer after he “aggressively came at the officer” and did not drop the object as officers ordered.
Sierra fired 16 shots at Farmer and hit him seven times, but it turned that he was not to be armed, according to the Chicago Tribune. He was only holding a cell phone.READ MORE: Preparation Work Begins In Jackson Park Ahead Of Fall Groundbreaking For Obama Presidential Center
In an October 2011 story, the Tribune reported that Farmer was lying prone on the ground when Sierra fired three shots into Farmer’s back and killed him. But the Police Department ruled the shooting justified.
Still, Farmer’s girlfriend is suing over the police shooting, and U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve has now ordered city attorneys to take depositions from Sierra, as well as Supt. McCarthy.
Farmer’s death was the third shooting involving Sierra in a period of six months.
On Jan. 7 of last year, Sierra and his partner pulled over a car that matched the description of a vehicle implicated in an earlier shooting, and the officers shot at the car and hit Pinex after he put the car into reverse and dragged them, the Tribune reported.
On March 22 of last year, Sierra and his partner responded to a call of shots fired at 59th Street and Princeton Avenue, and were confronted at gunpoint by suspect Dion Richards, 19, the Tribune reported. The officers fired at Richards and wounded him in the leg, the newspaper reported.MORE NEWS: Bell-Ringing Ceremony Honors Chicago Firefighter Edward Singleton
The Tribune quotes McCarthy as saying while the first two shootings were justified, Sierra should have been taken off the street after the third incident. That statement is what Craig Sandberg, an attorney for Farmer’s girlfriend, wants to question McCarthy about.


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Making pretend graffiti, what happens to knit gloves left on a tree, and some links to stories about video games.
Some of the cool kids in my junior high school class were into graffiti, and at times asked me to join them on their adventures. I told them the truth: “Just because I drew those big-bosomed machine gun ladies last week, doesn’t mean I’m any good at graffiti.” Also, I was a giant nerd and terrified of doing something illegal. Some of these kids were tag-designing, can-control savants, but I could never get the hang of any of that.
...which is a long-winded way to make excuses for these pieces for my Clamberville-project. I was never meant to be out there “bombing” subway trains and underpasses, but it’s fun to pretend and do two-minute throw-ups by CRAMP, FROG and the infamous BUMBO.
In sketchbook news: I made some collages. (I usually make these to cover up drawings I don’t care for.) The glove-worm started with a trash page for testing some new pens, onto which I spilled some white-out. Some more white-out was made into a little birch forest, and then I glued a blank panel over the top so I wouldn’t have to draw the tree crowns. Then I got the idea of a giant worm snaking through the trees, so I cut out some paper, glued it in there, and filled in some color. Finally I got an idea for the top panel, which became the worm’s origin story.
The other page just... happened.
Daniel Benneworth-Gray’s selection of the best movie posters from last year.
If this year’s film posters have a common thread, it’s that illustration, once sidelined in favour of Photoshop-ery, is now right back at the forefront of poster design.
Remember reading rave reviews of “Alone in the Dark” when I was 8, can’t believe it’s almost 30 years old! Loved this write-up about its conception, Jimmy Maher’s “The Digital Antiquarian” is full of these excellent stories.
Insightful essay by Daniel Horrocks.

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How to Make the Perfect PancakeShrove Tuesday (or Pancake Day as it’s perhaps better known) is just around the corner and we know better than anyone what kitchen disasters can occur when attempting to rustle up everyone’s favorite circular batter-based snack. Sometimes, getting that first pancake just right can be difficult. If that sounds like you then fear not as we’ve put together a handy guide to making the perfect pancake…
Use the right panChoosing the right cookware is imperative when making pancakes - or indeed omlettes or anything else that is mainly liquid to begin with and that requires turning/flipping. Non-stick pans are the way to go come Pancake Day. Yes, stainless steel pans are weighty and allow a nice, steady flipping action, but cleaning them post-use can be a pain, especially if you manage to burn on pancake batter. As you might have guessed, we recommend using the Cerastone 24cm Forged Frying Pan, but not just because it’s one of our creations – it has the perfect depth for pancakes; not too shallow and not too deep (50mm to be exact). This depth allows the not so adventurous to safely get a spatula underneath your pancake to turn it if attempting a flip is out of the question. The Cerastone coating also ensures that heat is distributed evenly and will prevent runny or overcooked pancakes.
Use the right heatOne of the main causes of pancake mishaps is pans and cooking vessels not being hot enough when the batter is poured in. To make a successful pancake you should ensure that the air above the pan is shimmering before you add your mix – you can test this by using a spoon to ping a bit of water onto the hot surface and seeing if it instantly scatters into a bunch of little spitting orbs. If it is the case that you’re using a stainless steel or cast iron pan instead of non-stick cookware, you’ll need to heat oil or butter until it smokes ever so slightly (but not too much as that indicates that the surface is overly hot and will burn the batter once it’s poured into the pan). It’s also a good idea to use a pastry brush to ‘paint’ the oil or butter onto the pan rather than just throwing a big dollop in there!
Perfect pancake ingredients
- 110g plain flour, sifted.
- 200ml milk mixed with 75ml cold water.
- 50g butter.
- x2 eggs.
- Pinch of salt.
- Caster sugar.
- Lemon juice.
Perfect pancake preparation
- Sift the flour and salt into a large glass mixing bowl using a sieve.
- Make a well in the centre of the flour, break the eggs into it, then begin whisking the mixture until the eggs are fully folded into the flour.
- Gradually add small quantities of the milk and water mixture whilst whisking and continue to mix until smooth.
- Melt the butter for around 30 seconds in a sauté pan. Spoon 2 tbsp of it into the batter and whisk, then pour the rest into a bowl and use it to lubricate the pan (if not using non-stick cookware).
- Get the pan really hot, then turn the heat down to medium and leave on this heat setting for around 30 seconds.
- Using a ladle, pour the batter into the hot pan in one go. A half-full ladle is enough for a 28cm frying pan but you should adjust the amount of batter according to the size of your pan.
- As the batter hits the hot pan, tip from side to side to evenly coat the pan with batter.
- Cook for around 30-40 seconds until golden brown, making sure that the batter does not stick to the pan.
- Flip the pancake over by jerking the pan with a tossing motion (use a fish slice or spatula if you’re not feeling confident) and then cook the other side for a few seconds only.
- When the pancake is cooked, use a fish slice or spatula to remove it from the pan, taking care not to burn yourself on the hot cookware.
- Place on a warm plate and sprinkle each pancake with freshly squeezed lemon juice and caster sugar, fold in half, and enjoy! If you’re feeling adventurous you can add all manner of fillings including golden syrup, peanut butter and bananas, or our Mixed Berry Jam Pancake Primer.

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It is not entirely happenstance that the founding figure of the modern gay movement, Harvey Milk, was a photographer and the owner of a camera store. In the 1970s, the simple documentation of presence, the photographic equivalent of saying “we are here,” by itself assumed a progressive political cast for a population long freighted with the demand to remain both silent and invisible. At my current age of 55, I still remember the embarrassing sting of a film store’s refusal to process pictures of my 23rd (very gay) birthday party because the printer deemed the images “indecent.”
Queers had, of course, long been photographed, generally in the context of law enforcement, scandal, spectacle or satire. But in the 1970s, there emerged a new genre of queer photography that didn’t take pains to “other” its subjects, adopting instead a position of sympathetic witness. Anthony Friedkin’s photographs -- especially his Gay Essay (1969-1973), now on exhibit at the de Young Museum in a show timed for the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots -- assume exactly such a sympathetic stance. His pictures are notably quiet, neither triumphal nor suffused with pathos. And that, paradoxically, is why they are important -- and why they were largely forgotten. In the years immediately after Stonewall, pictures of ordinary gay people leading ordinary lives were nothing short of extraordinary.
LGBTQ photography has changed and developed since then, along with the political movement that gave it birth. What follows is a list of largely West Coast LGBTQ photographers from Friedkin’s moment to the present. Collectively, their work can be read as a sensitive barometer to shifts in queer social life, revealing the turbulent political weather that has pushed queer identity into forms and guises unimaginable four decades ago.
Tress and Arnold: The Dream of Escape
Arthur Tress (born 1940), a photographer from New York who has spent much of his life in California, and Steven Arnold (1943-1994), a California artist, both cultivate in very different ways a photographic sensibility that casts Friedkin’s photos into high relief. Both are slightly older than Friedkin (who was born in 1949). Neither man’s photographs aspire to either contemporary relevance or to social understanding, opting instead for a kind of dreamy, surrealist timelessness.
But while Tress’ work pulls the viewer into a dream that turns on the psychic state of the photographer’s subject, Arnold’s leads the viewer away from the subject of the photo into a larger exploration of the viewer’s subjective responses. In Tress’ “Flood Dream,” for example, a young boy appears as an image of childhood alienation. As with so many Tress images of loneliness and displacement, the work suggests the psychic toll of social difference.
Arnold’s “Dreams of Transformation,” on the other hand, stages a palpably artificial performance to invoke a camp melodrama. Like much of Arnold’s work, the photo is a tableau vivant with a kind of queer subtext. The dreaming subject is a cipher, unreadable even as to whether she’s a woman or a man in drag. Queerness is present not in the form of a particular subject encountered on the street, as in Friedkin, but as an aura that suffuses everything.
Tee Corinne and the Landscape of Womanlove
Tee Corrine (1943-2006), an influential artist based in Oregon, also resisted the impulse toward photojournalism, yet she managed to adhere to an ethic of reportage.
A pioneering photographer, art historian and advocate for a specifically lesbian visual culture, Corrine was well aware of the danger that images of women together might serve the pleasure of a heterosexual male gaze. To frustrate that unwelcome attention, she used processes like solarization and double exposure to make images that offer the outlines of women’s faces and bodies, while robbing them of the specificity required for an erotic charge. Her nudes resist the confines of conventional beauty while opening onto a seductive picture of female sexual self-determination.
Corinne is perhaps more famous as the author of The Cunt Coloring Book, which invited women to color line drawings of genitalia and to draw their own vaginas and the vaginas of their friends. In some of her photographs, she places images of vaginas seamlessly within undomesticated landscapes, implicitly gendering Mother Nature according to familiar tropes, but also suggesting a wild femaleness that cannot be tamed.
Marsha Burns: Manufacturing Masculinity
Marsha Burns (born 1945) parted ways with the mythopoetics of Corrine’s equation of femininity with nature and fecundity in a series of images of masculinized women she began making in the early 1980s.
These images anticipate photographs by artists such as Cathy Opie by a decade, especially with respect to their emphasis on the constructed nature of masculinity -- how the right accoutrement, like a cigarette or white t-shirt, can cause one gender to mutate into another. Long before theorists like Judith Butler codified this idea, Burns underscored the performative aspects of gender roles.
AIDS and the Body in Ritts and Chester
The onslaught of AIDS in the early 1980s shifted the parameters of gay male photographic possibility. The beautiful male body, once a source of unabashed pride for gay photographers, was now tinged with sadness and even made into a vector of infection by those hostile to gay rights. Herb Ritts (1952 - 2002) and Mark Chester (born 1950) offered opposite responses. Ritts was without a doubt the most celebrated commercial and fashion photographer of the 1980s. His gaze was, at the time, the most homoerotic to date in mainstream fashion and advertising, yet the prospect of actual sex is excised. His images of well-muscled men and sensuous women offer no hint of the plague that would ultimately claim the photographer’s own life.
Mark Chester chose an opposite tack. A celebrated photographer of San Francisco’s sexual underground, Chester portrays a wide range of fetishes in formally composed, often explicit works. Men and a few women of all ages, shapes and sizes populate images in which the naked body is secondary to the hardware, sexual acts and garb in which his subjects glory. At the height of the culture wars and attendant censorship dramas of 1989-1994, Chester courageously photographed playwright Robert Chesleya covered in Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions and sporting a superman suit and an erection.
Rewriting the Beauty Code: Dureau and Hujar
George Dureau (1930-2014) and Peter Hujar (1934-1987) both made the wounded, the feral, the outsider and the unconventionally beautiful the defining subjects of their work. Both were raised as Catholics -- Dureau in New Orleans and Hujar in New York -- and in their work one feels a palpable sense both of the body’s frailty and of the possibility of the flesh’s transcendence.
Dureau in particular was celebrated for his sensitive depictions of men and a few women conventionally termed disabled or disfigured. In his images these subjects are heroic, erotic or ordinary, but above all made real as individuals with interior lives.
Hujar too found beauty in what others would pass over. In his more aggressively homoerotic photos, we see an array of faces and bodies that are hardly model beautiful. Photographed by him, however, they’re unforgettable.
The queerness in both bodies of work lies not only in the gender of their favored subjects but in this act of reclamation from the margins, this rewriting of the codes of acceptable beauty.
Cathy Opie’s Queer Grandeur
One of the most celebrated photographers in the world today, California artist Cathy Opie has always made her queerness a key facet of her work. She rocketed to fame on a series of crisp, color photographs, some self-portraits, in which marginal sexual identities were treated with the grandeur, pomp and majesty of 17th-century royal portraiture.
Her frank self-revelation included a self-portrait with the word “pervert” carved in her chest in baroque script, dripping blood. In another image, a tender self-portrait breastfeeding her son, the scars of that act are still in evidence, the word still legible. With this study in contrasts, Opie manages both to embody and to comment on the age-old religious trope of the Madonna and child.
Nan Goldin’s World
Like Opie, Nan Goldin photographs herself and her social circle. But unlike Opie, this New York artist’s works operate firmly within the photojournalistic tradition of capturing a fleeting moment of particular intensity. Such moments might include a brutal self portrait after a beating delivered by a boyfriend, a man kissing his partner who has just died of AIDS or two boys in drag in a taxi out for a night on the town. Taken together, her pansexual body of work paints the broad outlines of a life lived at the sexual and social margins, now deemed worthy of grandiloquent representation. But unlike Friedkin’s or Opie’s work, her photographs are never posed; her subjects know they are going to be photographed, but they don’t know when. This sense of isolating intimate moments out of a continuum of lives lived fully gives Goldin’s work the quality of cinema verite.
Nature vs. Nurture: Aguilar and Cassils
Like Tee Corinne, Laura Aguilar (born 1959) equates the female body with nature, but Aguilar’s body is of such a scale and shape as to begin to merge with the landscape itself. Challenging the cannon of acceptable female nudity, she gives her self-portraits an enduring, timeless quality by combining her form with timeworn natural features like boulders, pools or ancient trees.
This naturalization of the female form is precisely what the artist Heather Cassils seeks to refute. Through a daily regimen of intense physical training and metabolic steroids, she has transformed her own body into an idealized, manifestly male physique.
In one celebrated performance, she punches a huge cylinder of clay with her powerful biceps in an act of creative self sculpturing in which her unquestionable physical and performative masculinity wars with what we know to be true.
In the years since Friedkin’s Gay Essay, the mere assertion of gay presence has been superseded by a photographic exploration into what that presence actually means. What are the social standards by which something is marked off as queer? In their various ways, each of the photographers here has deployed sexuality as part of that investigation.
Hardly the despised other in need of respectful representation, queer photography now stands at the vanguard of a new pictorial inquiry into how social norms, internalized, are made flesh.


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Earnest Pugh (born November 23, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter of gospel music with a five-octave vocal range. Public recognition for the artist commenced with the success of “Rain on Us” (2009) and “I Need Your Glory” (2011), and he subsequently attained the title of "Gospel Music’s Leading Man". Pugh is also the founder and president of the record label, EPM Music.
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The be well Health and Wellness Initiative is on of many initiatives of a non-profit group called the Stapleton Foundation, whose goal is to improve life in and around the Stapleton Community.
Learn more about the Foundation at http://www.stapletonfoundation.org/.
In the big picture, be well is a way to connect neighbors to neighbors along with trusted community health partners such as hospitals, healthcare providers, dentists, physical fitness experts and others who are located in or provide services to the 5 neighborhood be well Zone.
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