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Right after 'open' and 'unlimited' the most mis-used word or acronym in the wireless industry is 4G. HSPA+ is not 4G, LTE is not 4G and Wi-MAX most definitely is not 4G either as they are all part of the IMT-2000 family, which is 3G. Call them 3.5G, 3.9G, 3G+, 3.999G, whatever, but 4G is not correct.
But now finally the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has named the first network technology that will be part of IMT-Advanced, or, in other words, the first 4G technology. And this is 3GPP Release 10 LTE, also known as LTE-Advanced or LTE-A for short. Current deployments and activities revolve around 3GPP Release 8 LTE, which, once again, is not 4G 🙂 LTE-A is quite a number of years out and how realistic 1.2 GBit/s device classes will be in a couple of years is anyones best guess at the moment. But it's 4G 🙂


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I have worked in the accounting field for over 15 years and own an accounting and tax company called Gateway Tax & Accounting Services, Inc. My interest peaked for Real Estate while providing accounting services to a Realtor in the Kalkaska area.
I appreciate that Coldwell Banker Schmidt emphasizes servicing and not just selling. I have always worked with this mindset and I have developed many long lasting friendships and business relationships because people do not feel that they are being taken advantage of when I work with them and they know that I do everything I can to assist them.
I have always enjoyed working with a variety of people and developing relationships. Working with Coldwell Banker Schmidt allows me to assist others with the real estate process of buying or selling a home and making it a smooth transition for them.
I look forward to helping you soon!
I spent my time growing up between Flint, Michigan and Beulah, Michigan. I graduated from Benzie Central High School and attended Baker College, Davenport University and Northwestern Michigan College. In 1998, I joined the Americorps for two years and worked with a Foundation that provided housing for homeless mentally disabled people. At that time, I began to learn how to track grant monies from MSHDA , HUD and other grant resources using QuickBooks accounting software. I liked it so much that I decided to change my degree to accounting from Business Administration.
I have a wonderful little boy named Reece and we live in Interlochen, Michigan. I love to garden and spend time with my son. I am active in my community through the Interlochen Chamber of Commerce and the Friends of the Interlochen Library.
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I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. - Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
Back in 2019, I taught a workshop called "Awaken Your Inner Healer". I sincerely belief in human ability for transformation and feel an urge to share my knowledge of how powerful we are in our healing process.
The power comes from your curiosity and ability of your Inner Healer to ask two key questions. Question one: "What stands behind my symptom/disease/addiction or behavior pattern) and why do I have it?". Question two: "What can I do to shift from this situation?".
Western medicine, especially healthcare system in the US (that I faced after growing up in Europe), and big pharma are known for treating symptoms. And unfortunately, they made most people forget about their right to ask: "What can we do besides masking the symptom?".
Asking those questions can set you on a long and twisted journey to true healing and a chance to change yourself holistically - clearing the imbalances, disease, or behavior pattern in its core. So they never come back in your lifetime or are passed on to future generations.
Why are those questions powerful?
Asking "why?" opens up a sincere dialogue with yourself and allows for a thorough investigation of the cause and effect behind every symptom or behavior pattern. Unfortunately, so many people misinterpret this question and ask it from a victim's perspective: "Who did it to me or who is responsible for my sufferings?"
On the opposite side of the spectrum from the victim is a determined detective. By choosing this role, you collect the clues, untie the knots of your physical and emotional symptoms that are signal systems from your soul and physical body to notify what is wrong in your life.
There are valuable sources of information to understand what happens in your life and the spiritual meaning behind your symptoms. Multiple books are available on the subject to name a few:
Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness, by Deb Shapiro
Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman
Heal your Body by Louise Hay
The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Health and Wellness by Inna Segal
Messages from the Body: Their Psychological Meaning by Michael J. Lincoln Ph.D., FKA Narayan-Singh Khalsa
One of my favorite expert and point of reference to help you understand the value your symptoms, reconnect and understand your emotions and learn how to process trauma is Elicia Miller and her Core Emotional Healing Process and program. I found Elicia and her inspiring work back in 2017 while researching the spiritual meaning of Candida and eating disorders as part of my personal healing journey.
I immediately resonated with her signature approach, "Your Symptoms Are a Gift" and the Core Emotional Healing process became the road map to guide me through my healing process. It strengthened my gift of working with plant medicine and plant consciousness through essential oils and flower essences to heal myself and help others heal.
Essential oils used in aromatherapy influence your amygdala and hippocampus (which process emotion) but bypass your brain's higher cortical areas, the "thinking parts," plus essential oils change your nervous system biochemistry. The amygdala plays a significant role in storing and releasing emotional trauma. The most effective way to stimulate this gland is with aromatic compounds found in pure essential oils to awaken and release these memories for healing.
According to researchers in Washington using Tainio Technology, the vibrational frequency of essential oils is the highest of any natural substance known to man. Through the principle of entrainment, the oil's higher frequency will raise the vibratory quality of that individual that uses it.
Flower essences also excel in healing trauma and its effects on the mind and emotions, which causes a disruption in the energy flow and lowers our vibration. A correctly prepared flower essence contains the Qi (or Life Force) of this particular flower. This Qi carries the vibrational signature, the intelligence, and the complete holographic blueprint that has all the qualities of this plant.
As I moved through my healing process, I created new aromatic and flower essence formulas: some to ignite deep healing, some to help me see and understand, some for deep trust, courage, some for strength and support, and some to release, let go and rewire my brain.
Sacred Lotus and Maitri brought me sudden revelations and a deeper connection to my Higher Self and Inner child. I received insights and answers regarding traumatic experiences from my childhood and noticed how they influence me now. To feel and realize for yourself is invaluable, and none of the diagnosis or words of a your therapist can compare with your self-realization.
By taking Costa Rican Carambola essence (now a part of Shadow flower essence), I received a message about "emotional eating" - a term and symptom I wasn't familiar with. By healing unresolved childhood trauma with essences like Immortelle and Manzanita, I overcame years of struggling with fluctuating weight and keeping myself from binge eating by pure willpower, failing again and again.
I created Lion's Heart the next day after a full-day immersion session with Doug and Elicia Miller. I realized that I don't know how to face and interact with the world after the realizations and transformation I received, especially what I have learned about boundaries and emotional enmeshment. The plants inside Lion's Heart and Confidence supported me through the baby steps of understanding my boundaries, seeing and accepting anger as a detector of their violation. They also strengthened my voice to say "NO" when needed.
Higher Self and Dreamwork supported me in the development of intuition, taught me to trust my inner voice and guidance over the world's opinion, to recognize the voice of my heart over the voice of the mind.
Shadow helps me see the truth behind any situation, recognize the patterns and stories behind the triggers, get unstuck when I fall into resistance or my conscious mind is blocking me from moving forward due to unresolved trauma in my unconscious.
And last but not least, the Release aroma formula became my unique tool for resolving and getting rid of stuck emotions and releasing trauma on emotional and physical levels addressing pain and muscle tension.
Now let's take a look at the second power-generating question: "What can I do to shift from this situation?". By asking this question, you declare your involvement, willingness, and responsibility for your healing process. Then you actively engage in the process by committing to the following:
Show up for your daily physical and spiritual practice.
Connect with your intuition, listen to the signs and messages from your body, and commit to self-care to address them.
Practice Maitri: unconditional love, friendliness, and acceptance of yourself.
Research and find the healing modalities and practitioners/therapists YOU TRUST that specialize in the issue at hand on the physical, mental, spiritual, and energetical levels—in other words - attack the problem holistically, addressing your body, mind, soul, emotions, and subtle body.
Keep an open mind and heart by trying new things, theories, modalities, practitioners.
Give mental permission to spend money on yourself and your needs.
Following the recommendations and instructions of your chosen therapist. Practice discipline and doing your part of healing "homework."
Dropping deadlines and expectations for your healing process and allowing your body and soul to take their time and pace.
The question of "What can I do to shift from this situation?" can also be fully supported with natural plant remedies addressing the rising issues like:
Not feeling worthy of spending time and money on yourself with Maitri True Self Aroma, Sacred Lotus, and Confidence.
Accepting the rejected parts of yourself without judgment using Maitri or Shadow.
Acceptance of the symptom/problem/behavior or emotional response with the help of Shadow.
Overcoming shame and anger about past with Maitri, Release, Lion's Heart.
Impatience and setting deadlines for healing with Time Tamer and Impatience Bach Flower Remedy.
Lack of trust in the world and people with Connection.
Discipline to show up and do what needs to be done and support of Confidence and Lion's Heart.
Why am I telling you all this?
Because I care and I want you to get your power back through the two power questions that help address ANYTHING in your life.
The second reason is to give you an idea for healing on a budget and utilizing your own intelligence and resources to get better whenever possible.
And the third reason is to encourage you to do a self-check for co-dependency on healers and therapies for your emotional healing and spiritual growth.
Don't give your power away - you are the best and most potent healer to your Self.
MY DESIRE FOR YOU
May you get your power back by taking an active part in your healing process
May your meet any imbalance or disease with curiosity
May you feel safe and confident to be yourself
May you have the strength to face the truth
May you have the courage to seek and ask for help
May you have the will to show up and be loyal to your Self
May you always remember that you are loved and supported by Nature
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Hutchinson ruled out of Scottish Grand National
WAYNE Hutchinson has been forced to withdraw from defending his Coral Scottish Grand National title through injury.
The Swindon jockey was set to defend his title on board the Alan King-trained Godsmejudge tomorrow afternoon.
However, a fall at Towcester yesterday has left him with a damaged knee.
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In tribute to a friend, who over the weekend told me that as a young boy, he was required to play all the male roles in his little sister’s attempts to recreate Disney movies. A good brother, a great friend. This miniature LIttle Mermaid diorama. For Noah.
I’m a big fan of the Little Mermaid. I want this. Whatever this diorama is.
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While broad commodities have outperformed most major asset classes year-to-date1, the pressure of rising interest rates, a strong US dollar and fears of several large economies tipping into recession has led to a pull-back since the summer of 2022. In our Market Outlook, we argued that the current negative business cycle pressures on commodities are likely to be temporary and give way to the larger forces pushing the demand for commodities higher and constraining supply of those commodities.
Historically, commodities have been a cyclical asset class, generally declining when the business cycle turns negative. But even history illustrates that commodity prices can continue to rise long after a business cycle has turned if fundamentals are supportive. Oil price shocks in the 1970s and 80s are a case in point. Admittedly they are unusual cycles but, today, we are likely to be living in another energy price shock.
Energy price shocks continue
Since we published our Market Outlook, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and partner countries (OPEC+) has announced a large cut to oil production from November 2022, amounting to 2 million barrels per day. As we expected in our Outlook, OPEC+ reacted to the price weakness in oil after the summer and sought to raise prices of Brent oil to over US$90/barrel (prices had fallen to US$84/barrel on 26 September 2022, just over a week before the OPEC decision). They have been successful in keeping prices above US$90/barrel since that decision but have laid the groundwork for further cuts by painting a pessimistic picture on demand forecasts (giving the group an excuse to intervene in the market again). Meanwhile, the Ukraine war shows no sign of improving and natural gas supplies into Europe from Russia have fallen to a trickle. The European Union has taken various measures to try to soften the shock. However, we view several of the proposals with scepticism. For example, introducing price caps on natural gas imports could simply divert natural gas to other countries and worsen the energy shortage for the EU. Interfering with price benchmarks, such as the Title Transfer Facility (TTF), could send incorrect pricing signals and lead to overconsumption of energy resulting in additional shortages2.
Supply shortages of commodities extend beyond energy
A combination of rising energy prices and interest rates have driven many metal smelters to shutter production. High fertiliser prices (petrochemical product) are also constraining crop yields.
Looking across the commodity spectrum, all commodities have lower-than-normal levels of inventory.
Source: WisdomTree, Bloomberg. Data as of 30 September 2022. Agricultural inventories as reported by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). US Energy inventories as reported by United States Department of Energy. Industrial metals inventory refers to exchange inventory summing stocks reported by the London Metals Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Price performance using the first generic futures contracts of commodities in the Bloomberg Commodity Index.
Historical performance is not an indication of future performance and any investments may go down in value.
Base metal supply is especially low
Looking at the table above, the inventory of base metals is considerably lower than their respective 5-year averages, yet base metals have seen the largest price declines of all the commodity sub-sectors. The markets are pricing in demand weakness from an economic deceleration. However, demand has not weakened yet. On the other hand, supply is declining fast.
Let’s take the example of copper. The International Copper Study Group (ICSG)’s first forecast for 2022 copper balances (demand less supply), cast on October 2021, was for a sizeable surplus of 328 thousand tonnes. Its latest forecast (cast on 19 October 2022) is for a deficit of 328 thousand tonnes in 2022. Judging by historical revisions, their 2023 forecast of a surplus is likely to be revised down.
Their initial forecasts tended to assume no production disruptions. Yet, as we have observed this year, production disruptions can be very large.
Source: WisdomTree, International Copper Study Group (ICSG). ICSG’s latest forecast from 19 October 2022.
Forecasts are not an indicator of future performance and any investments are subject to risks and uncertainties
China’s economic deceleration is countered by policy support
China’s zero-COVID polices have slowed economic growth and, thus, its demand for commodities. That matters because China is the largest commodity consumer in the world. However, its central bank has been loosening policy and President Xi has called for an ‘all-out effort’ to increase infrastructure spending (and given local governments free rein to raise debt financing to fund these projects).
However, the future course of China’s policy will become clearer after we write this blog. At the time of writing (21 October 2022), China’s 20th Communist Party Congress is still in process and will wrap up in the coming days. Xi Jinping is poised to clinch his third five-year term in charge of the nation. We expect national security to take a greater role in policy priority than the economy.
An energy transition and a revitalised global infrastructure spend are likely to drive the demand for commodities significantly higher over the coming years. However, today, we are living in the down-phase of a business cycle. Even though many commodity markets are visibly tight, commodities are not sufficiently pricing the tightness. The Inflation Reduction Act in the US and the Infrastructure Bill are both strong tailwinds for commodity demand. In Europe, the sharp focus on weaning off Russian energy dependency is adding a new urgency to the energy transition, and we expect to see accelerated energy infrastructure plans take place.
As a headline, economies going into recession doesn’t inspire huge confidence in a commodity rebound. However, history does suggest that an economic slowdown combined with high inflation has been associated with positive commodity and gold performance. The energy price shock has set off a vicious circle of supply contraction from metals, fertilisers, and other energy intensive commodities. The energy transition and infrastructure led supercycle remains in play even if short-term business cycle phenomena dictate headlines today. As we emerge from this phase of the business cycle, we may find commodity markets extraordinarily tight.
1 Year to date (31/12/2021 to 21/10/2022) performance of Bloomberg Commodity Index, 13.75%; S&P 500, -22.10 &; Bloomberg Global Agg Sovereign, -27.99%; FTSE EPRA NAREIT, -31.04%. Source: Bloomberg data in total return terms
Originally Posted October 31, 2022 – Recession may be a red herring for a market fuelled by a supercycle
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If you have a frozen pipe that has burst, call Lorenz Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning right away at 417-863-1122.You also need to shut off your main water valve as quickly as possible. This is one of the most important steps to take when a frozen pipe bursts in your home. Sometimes pipes burst when cold weather hits because water expands when it freezes, exerting intense pressure on the inside of your pipes. In some cases, the internal pressure may reach up to 40,000 pounds per square inch. This often causes the pipe to crack or burst, leaking water inside your home.The sooner you can shut off the main water valve to your home, the less damage you’ll have. There are two basic things you need to know to act fast:
There are three places to check in order to find where your main shut-off is located.
In most homes the main shut-off valve will be located near a perimeter wall closest to the side of the house facing the street. Good places to check include the garage, basement or crawl space, or close to your hot water heater.
Check the inspection report you received when you first purchased your home. It will have a plumbing section that includes the location of your main shut-off valve. Some reports may include a photo or diagram.
If you’re still having trouble finding the main valve inside your home, look for the curb or street-side valve. It will be located outside under a utility box trap door at ground level near the curb. Call your water company’s emergency phone number for help. They will either tell you how to shut off the valve over the phone or dispatch a professional plumber to assist you. Never attempt to shut off the street-side valve on your own.
Once you find your shut-off valve, notice whether the handle is shaped like a knife or if it’s round like a hose faucet. This will determine the proper way to turn it off and on.
A knife valve, sometimes called a ball valve, is a straight handle that runs parallel to the pipe when open. To turn it off, simply move the handle a quarter turn so that it’s perpendicular to the pipe. The handle will only move in the direction required to open it, and it won’t move any farther than needed.
A round handle, or gate valve, looks similar to a hose faucet as already mentioned. Turn it in a clockwise direction to shut off the water. You’ll turn it counter-clockwise to turn the water back on after repairs are complete. As with any emergency, knowing what to do is the key to dealing with a frozen pipe that has burst. For prompt service, call your friends at Lorenz at 417-863-1122.


PepsiCo Kicks off Shinerama Campaign
February 6, 2012
Pepsi kicked off Acadia’s 2012 Shinerama campaign February 3 by donating $2,500. Shinerama is currently Canada’s largest post-secondary fundraiser, raising money for Cystic Fibrosis research. Acadia has been participating in Shinerama since 1964, and joins over 65 university and college campuses across Canada in the fight against Cystic Fibrosis.
Laura Harris, PepsiCo, was present at the Acadia Axemen vs. UNB Varsity Reds hockey game to present the cheque to Mike Trites, Shinerama coordinator. “PepsiCo is happy to be a part of such a great program, and was very happy to hear that Acadia did so well in 2011, winning a national award. We are proud to kick off the 2012 campaign and hope for an even more successful campaign in 2012,” said Harris.
“It is phenomenal to see the 2012 campaign already getting off to such a great start,” said Trites. “The past few years have been difficult to get Shinerama off and running, and such a great start will ensure that we build on the success of our national award-winning campaign of 2011. Pepsi’s partnership with Shinerama has been an integral part of our success, and we hope to continue this partnership in the future.”
In 2011, Acadia won the award for Canada’s most improved campaign of 2011, joining other national award winners Mount Allison, and Saint Mary’s.
The next fundraising event for Shinerama will be the Cheaton Cup, on March 24, where the Chipman Bulldogs will try to recapture the elusive Cheaton Cup from the Eaton Raiders. Tickets will be available in the weeks leading up to the Cheaton Cup from Acadia's Student Info Desk. The past two years the event has donated $2,500 to Acadia’s Shinerama campaign, and with the increasing attendance at the event the organizers are hoping to increase the donation.
Four individuals and six groups from across the province were recently presented with a minister’s award for leadership and crime prevention – and Acadia’s Callie Lathem was one of them. NovaNewsNow.com ReportLearn more… Acadia student wins provincial award for work in sexual health
When you spark the creativity of an Acadia University student, there’s no telling what may happen, especially when that student has a flair for entrepreneurship.Learn more… Real life learning: Acadia student reps his Coast big time
Canadian Interuniversity Sport and national law firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) have announced the eight nominees for the 22nd Annual BLG Awards. Acadia Hockey’s Liam Heelis is a finalist.Learn more… Acadia's Liam Heelis named BLG Nominee


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Aimed at tackling harmful alcohol use, The Responsible Trading Programme has been implemented by the South African Breweries (SAB) and other alcohol manufacturers.
The programme will address harmful alcohol consumption, responsible trading and compliance in mitigating Covid-19 transmission.
Approximately 32 000 outlets across the country will undergo an audit.
Kgosi Mogotsi, the Regional Corporate Affairs Director at SAB said: “It’s time that South African alcohol retailers lead by example. The Responsible Trading Programme (RTP) is the beginning of a new era for alcohol consumption country-wide. As SAB, we recognise the important role we play in ‘saving lives and livelihoods,’ by recognising and rewarding responsible outlets for serving as pillars within their communities.”
Mogotsi said the programme recognises alcohol traders and retailers for their efforts to encourage responsible drinking, as South Africa experiences the third wave of Covid-19 infections. Retailers will be assessed according to their level of compliance, which falls into three levels of certification, i.e. silver, gold and platinum.
“The programme is one of incentives and rewards. When taverns comply with the legal requirements of serving alcohol, they will be rewarded. When they do not comply, we will do everything we can to educate them on how to comply. We are conscious of the fact that while the RTP has been rolled out due to the pressures we’ve faced as a result of Covid-19, it is a necessary step towards a better, more accountable industry in the long run. We are honoured to play our role in supporting the initiative,” said Mogotsi.
Piloting the programme in taverns, these outlets will be audited to check for compliance against liquor license and Covid-19 regulations for silver certification.
Outlets that are certified silver will be visited and evaluated by mystery shoppers, who will test for compliance in refusing to sell to underage persons or to visibly intoxicated patrons. Silver certification audits have been initiated.
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Warner Music Group will be partnering with OpenSea to allow artists to engage with their fanbase through NFTs.
According to a Sept. 29 announcement, “select WMG artists” would be able to “build and extend their fan communities in web3.”
The selected artists will be given access to a new “drops product,” receive increased visibility, as well as personalized landing pages on the OpenSea website. OpenSea is also offering “dedicated support” for WMG artists, something that is not available to all content creators on the platform.
Artists selected by WMG will be given a “dedicated drop page to host limited-edition projects,” giving fans greater opportunities to engage with their favorite musicians.
Oana Ruxandra, Chief Digital Officer of WMG said,
“Fundamental to music’s DNA, is community – it’s artists and fans coming together to celebrate the music that they love. Our collaboration with OpenSea helps to facilitate these communities by unlocking Web3 tools and resources to build opportunities for artists to establish deeper engagement, access, and ownership.”
The first collection expected to be released by WMG on the OpenSea platform is in development through the UK arm of Warner Records in collaboration with Probably Nothing.
Warner Music is not a newcomer to web3 and stated that the OpenSea “collaboration marks the latest in a series of efforts to build out the music company’s expertise in the space. ”
Adam Levy from The Mint Podcast exclusively told CryptoSlate,
“From a macro perspective, this collaboration is a win simply because more capital and music will enter web3… A web3 “fan” is different from a web2 “fan” – It’s not about selling out a drop and making a buck, rather it’s about building a sustainable long-term relationship with collectors and ingraining them into the artist’s success.”
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Weighing in for the first time on the emotionally charged issue, President Barack Obama gave his blessing Friday to a Muslim group’s plans to build a mosque near ground zero in New York, saying, “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.”
In making his case for supporting the Cordoba House project, Obama, who once taught constitutional law, referred to the Constitution and the words of Thomas Jefferson.
However, the audience to whom he addressed his remarks looked strikingly different from the Founding Fathers: dozens of Muslim-American men and women in politics, government, business, academia, faith and activism, all his guests at a White House “iftar,” the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” Obama said. “That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.”
He said the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had been “a deeply traumatic event” for the nation, that emotions of opponents of the mosque project are understandable and that “we must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan. Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.”
He also said that the United States has flourished because of religious freedom.
“The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are.”
Obama had kept his opinion to himself since an Aug. 3 vote by a New York City landmarks commission paved the way for the project, an Islamic cultural center and house of worship. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs originally said it was a matter for the local community to decide.
In the days since, however critics have ramped up their rhetoric, hoping to pressure backers of the Cordoba House project to find another site. They argue that building the mosque two blocks from where al-Qaida terrorists took 2,800 lives is too insensitive and provocative.
A majority of the public agrees. A CNN poll this week found 68 percent of Americans oppose building a mosque near the World Trade Center site.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has issued tweets urging “peaceful Muslims” to oppose the project. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has questioned the intentions of the project’s leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, and his fundraising sources, and said the center would represent “a political statement of shocking arrogance and hypocrisy.”
Obama disagrees. He has pledged to Muslims that he’ll work to reduce prejudice against them in the U.S., and to distinguish between their religious beliefs and the actions of terrorist radicals.
In his speech, Obama said that al-Qaida is a “gross distortion” of Islam and said the group has killed more Muslims than people of any religion, including the Muslims who were killed on 9/11.
He added that “past eras have seen controversies about the construction of synagogues or Catholic churches. But time and again, the American people have demonstrated that we can work through these issues, stay true to our core values, and emerge stronger for it. So it must be and will be today.”
Obama isn’t the first high-profile politician to support the mosque project. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been defending the rights of the Cordoba House project’s backers since the Aug. 3 vote.
However, Bloomberg is Jewish, and presides over a city of 8 million with great religious and ethnic diversity.
Obama is a Christian, but a significant minority of Americans – roughly 1 in 10 according to Pew polling last year – continue to believe he’s a Muslim. His late father’s African lineage, his Muslim-sounding name and his years spent in Indonesia as a child may bolster the erroneous belief. In any event, this case is politically sensitive for him.
Farhana Khera, the executive director of Muslim Advocates and the National Association of Muslim Lawyers, said she appreciates Obama’s rhetoric but that his administration needs to take more actions to follow through.
“What’s happening in New York we see as part of an alarming trend of intolerance across the country with respect to mosques from Tennessee to California as well,” she said. “We’re concerned about the way in which government actions may have fed this level of intolerance.”
She’s asking Obama to rein in federal policies she says allow broad profiling of Muslim-Americans and monitoring of mosques and political activity. She also says there’s still too much confusion and concern about which Muslim charities U.S. donors can give to without fearing government reprisal.


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This year, the Ann Arbor film festival celebrates 54 years in existence. A lot can change in a half-century. Back when it began, the festival was all about exposing audiences to cutting-edge films that lacked wide distribution. These days, most large festivals, such as Cannes, Toronto, and Sundance, present themselves more as independent film supermarkets for distributors. While the offerings at the Ann Arbor Film Festival have changed over the years, it’s still very much about championing the small, arty films that crack the imagination back open.
It’s a point of pride for the fest’s executive director, Leslie Raymond, who agrees: “We are definitely in the minority. There’s a huge film market out there, and we’re outside of that whole system. One of the things that we’ve talked about internally is the way filmmakers go to a lot of those other festivals as a kind of a beginning, of finding where the wings of distribution are going to take their films. Our festival is more of a destination, especially for work that’s artist-made, experimental, avant-garde, off-the-beaten-path.”
The festival occupies a kind of sweet spot precisely because it embraces the offbeat, from cinéma vérité and observational documentaries to boundary-pushing experimental animation. And even though the Internet and on-demand video have expanded our ability to see trailblazing work, the AAFF still draws a large, engaged audience that values the festival’s commitment to the unusual.
In the last decade, the festival has comprised more feature-length films (there are a dozen such films in competition this year) and more animation. Raymond says it’s “a really great way for a broader public to connect to the festival.”
Of course, for longtime attendees, the heart of the festival is sitting down to a program of shorts. For five, 10, or 15 minutes at a time, you might be transported somewhere surprising; and if you didn’t like a film, it wouldn’t be long before it would be over. This year, there are 14 programs of 125 short films in competition, including a special evening of animated films at 9:30 p.m. Friday. What’s more, there will even be a morning of family-friendly programming, including shadow puppetry from local artist Tom Carey, starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19.
That said, for many fans of the festival, it will be the showcases of work by established filmmakers that determine which days and which theaters they’ll be sure to hit during the week. Here’s a peek at some of the offerings.
Fans of out-there animation are in for a special treat next Thursday, when a special Penny Stamps Presents event will feature Irish-born, Los Angeles-based animator David OReilly, whose work has been honored at past Ann Arbor Film Festivals. OReilly directed the video game sequences in the Spike Jonze film Her (2013), and has even crossed platforms to create his own 2014 video game, Mountain. His work is sort of like Internet memes come to life and then swiftly cut down a la Grand Theft Auto. OReilly himself will be in attendance. Starts at 5:10 p.m. Thursday, March 17.
One of the festival's main highlights will be a retrospective of feminist trailblazer Chantal Akerman, with three of her works in the festival this year, including News From Home (1977) at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, From the East (1993) at 5 p.m. Friday, March 18, and No Home Movie (2015) at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 20. Akerman committed suicide last year, and festival director Raymond says it prompted the decision to feature her work this year.
Andrew Noren's The Lighted Field
Another of last year's experimental film casualties was Andrew Noren, a filmmaker who pioneered experimental film in the 1960s with a work entitled Kodak Ghost Poems, which later became part of a larger project called Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse. Experimental film critic J. Hoberman once called his early work "the definitive self-portrait of the male, heterosexual artist as a young boho with a movie camera." This year's program includes what Hoberman called "one of his greatest films," The Lighted Field, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16.
A contemporary experimental filmmaker with 30 years' worth of work, Jem Cohen seems a natural choice for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. With an observational style that artists such as Jonas Mekas or Chantal Akerman helped pave the way for, Cohen's work is often set out in the street, where his lens focuses on everything from pedestrians to protests to performers. His latest film, Counting, will screen at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. Some of his shorter works will screen at 9:15 p.m. Friday, March 18. Cohen will be in attendance both nights, offering a rare opportunity to see and question the filmmaker in person.
78 Letters by Grahame Weinbren
Grahame Weinbren will present an adventure in "interactive cinema." Raymond explains, "He's got 78 clips, one minute each, and the audience will direct him on how to put it all together there in the theater. Then the film will evolve with that input, with that energy, that audience participation. I think that leads to a different level of commitment from the audience." The fun begins at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, March 20, and will include three more short films.
The Event by Sergei Loznitsa
This unusual film is assembled from footage shot by eight independent documentary filmmakers showing the events that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union as they unfolded in St. Petersburg in August 1991. When it comes to "observational documentary filmmaking," this is exactly the sort of thing that puts you in the center of an event in a way international news coverage can't. As Raymond says, it offers "that counterpoint to what we get through the news channels." It screens after two shorts, starting at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20.
Out Night and Curt McDowell
This is the 15th year the fest has included a special program of films in competition with an LGBTQ theme. It will be preceded by a live drag performance by Girlz Will Be Girlz and will include work from Wrik Mead, Zia Anger, Steve Reinke, and Akosua Adoma Owusu. The gender-bending begins at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, and will include Loads by McDowell. In fact, McDowell gets a special close-up look this year. Raymond says, "He's a filmmaker who was shown in the festival's early days, up through probably the early '80s, when he passed away from AIDS." A bunch of newly restored work from McDowell will be screened, including such bawdy titles as Wieners & Buns Musical, Beaver Fever, and Stinky-Butt. That program begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17. One other piece of orientation-oriented work is Scott Northrup's "Where the Boys Are," a nine-channel video installation at the aquarium gallery at the Ann Arbor Art Center, with nine screens running loops sampled from seminal 1980s coming-of-age films.
For a full program of films and other events, including afterparties, see aafilmfest.org. Festival runs March 15-20, 2016.


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Symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, often referred to as simply lupus) can be quite different, because there are different types of lupus, and not all affected people show the same symptoms. Nevertheless, there are certain symptoms and signs commonly associated with the condition.
The signs and symptoms of lupus are sometimes described in terms of the classic triad of
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However, symptoms can affect many different parts of the body and are not the same in all patients with lupus. Symptoms also vary widely in severity among affected people.
General symptoms associated with lupus include
Weight changes can also occur. More specific symptoms include skin changes (see below), ulcers of the mouth and nose, photosensitivity (sensitivity to sunlight), and decreased circulation to the fingers and toes with cold exposure. Raynaud's phenomenon is a manifestation of this change in circulation.
The most typical skin symptom of lupus is the development of the so-called "butterfly rash" over the nose and cheeks. The rash is painless and does not itch. It may worsen with sun exposure, like other inflammatory processes associated with the disease. People with discoid lupus have involvement of only the skin. Those with this condition often have a rash over the face and scalp that can lead, with time, to scarring and hair loss (alopecia).
People with lupus can have a decrease in platelets and white blood cells, increasing the risks of bleeding and infection. Anemia may also be present. Widespread inflammation in different areas of the body can have serious consequences, including vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels, which can impair circulation and oxygen delivery), pleuritis (inflammation of the lining of the lungs), and pericarditis (inflammation of the lining sac of the heart). Pleuritis and pericarditis can result in chest pain. Other manifestations of lupus in the lung can include pleural effusion (fluid collection in the space surrounding the lungs) and interstitial lung disease. In the heart, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) can occur.
Inflammation in the kidneys due to lupus (lupus nephritis) can cause leakage of protein into the urine (proteinuria), fluid retention, high blood pressure, and even acute or chronic kidney failure. This can lead to worsening fatigue and swelling of the legs and feet.
Involvement of the brain can cause personality changes, thought disorders (psychosis), seizures, and even coma. Lupus-related nerve damage can cause numbness, tingling, and weakness of the involved body parts or extremities.
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The 2017 Audi A4 Allroad is a very great car. This car is very practical and also very luxurious. There is also a lot of extra cargo space to be found in this vehicle. One of the interesting features of this car is the off road drive mode that makes the steering effort a lot easier for people.
- An off-road drive mode decreases steering effort and softens the standard adaptive dampers to increase suspension compliance.
- The Audi’s fully realized powertrain, above-average agility, and leading-edge infotainment features make it a strong contender in a deepening field.
- The newest version of Audi’s MMI infotainment system, particularly the impressive Virtual Cockpit display, is a centerpiece.
“It’s practical but never dowdy, luxurious but not ostentatious.”


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[Watch] Travis Millard - Ghosted (Music By El-P)
The ghosts featured in this video were created, molded and cast in plastic by artist Travis Millard and the short film was edited and animated by Jim Dirschberger and directed by Theo Jemison. But the real reason that this incredibly dope video is featured on our site is due to SKoA favorite Rapper/Producer El-P created an awesome beat exclusively for this. Check out the film above and more about Travis and Mel Kadel's show at Fecal Face Dot Gallery on June 11th, 2011 at FFDG.net.
Fingers crossed, hoping El-P releases this beat soon. He should take a page from Aesop's book and put out a nice Artist/Artist collaboration like Aesop Rock did with Jeremy Fish. But I'm just a music lover and blogger, what do I know?


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THREE AYALA-led companies and their respective foundations launched a program that promotes hygiene and proper hand washing amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
On Oct. 12, the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Foundation, Manila Water Foundation, and Ayala Foundation unveiled “Brigada ng Ayala” program at Ramon Magsaysay High School in Manila.
During the launch of the program, 10 faucet hand-washing facilities and 200 Ayala EduCare packs were turned over to the school’s staff and teachers.
According to Manila Water, the hand-washing facility has a contactless design that lets users turn on the faucet with the use of a foot pedal.
The 10 faucets are also placed one-meter apart to allow users to observe physical distancing, while signs were also placed on the facility to make sure that proper hand-washing steps are observed.
Meanwhile, the Ayala EduCare packs are hygiene kits that contain school supplies, face masks, a face shield, alcohol, and bar soaps.
The packs also contain posters that educate about measures against COVID-19 and a Manila Water Foundation children’s storybook that teaches about water access, sanitation, and hygiene.
“If we all work together – together with the communities, learners and teachers, we achieve much more. This is not just within the Ayala Group, we also welcome other partners who may be able to help,” Ayala Foundation Senior Director for Corporate Communications Cel Amores said.
The newly launched program focuses on areas dubbed “Kalusugan and Kaligtasan” led by Manila Water Foundation and “Edukalidad” by Globe Telecom.
Donations under Manila Water Foundation’s program focuses on health sanitation and disinfection, multivitamins and food supplements, and personal protective equipment, among others.
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BPI Foundation, which sponsored the hand-washing facility, is targeting to contribute to minimizing the spread of COVID-19.
“We wanted to increase awareness and show the importance of hand hygiene because during these trying times, it saves lives,” BPI Foundation Program Manager Kristine Gonzales said.
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THE cast for Ponteland Repertory Society’s latest performance will be going back to the classroom.
Teechers by John Godber has been described as an entertaining comedy play that illustrates many of the anxieties in education.
It also has a serious message.
The six cast members (Gavin Redhead, Charlotte Stone, Stephen Stokoe, Adam Thompson, Lucy Walton and Jonny Woollett) switch quickly from playing various students at Whitewalls High School to playing some of their teachers.
Former teacher Carole Davies will direct the play – it is being held in Ponteland Memorial Hall between Tuesday and Saturday, March 29 from 7.30pm each day.
She said that the rehearsals have gone very well.
Tickets are priced £8 for adults and £6 for children (the performance is not suited for under 12s).
They can be purchased online at www.pontelandrep.co.uk


Argentina's Dapper State-Terrorist
by Marta Gurvich
The Consortium magazine, August 19, 1998
Former Argentine president Jorge Rafael Videla, the 73-year-old
dapper dictator who launched the so-called Dirty War in 1976,
was arrested on June 9 for a particularly bizarre crime of state,
one that rips at the heart of human relations.
Videla, known for his English-tailored suits and his ruthless
counterinsurgency theories, stands accused of permitting -- and
concealing -- a scheme to harvest infants from pregnant women
who were kept alive in military prisons only long enough to give
According to the charges, the babies were taken from the new
mothers, sometimes by late-night Caesarean sections, and then
distributed to military families or shipped to orphanages. After
the babies were pulled away, the mothers were removed to another
site for their executions.
Yet, Argentina now is engulfed in a legal debate over whether
Videla can be judged a second time for these grotesque kidnappings.
After democracy was restored in Argentina, Videla was among the
generals convicted of human rights crimes, including "disappearances,"
tortures, murders and kidnappings. In 1985, Videla was sentenced
to life imprisonment at the military prison of Magdalena.
But, on Dec. 29, 1990, amid rumblings of another possible
military coup, President Carlos Menem pardoned Videla and other
convicted generals. Many politicians considered the pardons a
pragmatic decision of national reconciliation that sought to shut
the door on the dark history of the so-called Dirty War when the
military slaughtered from 10,000 to 30,000 Argentineans.
Relatives of the victims, however, continued to uncover evidence
that children taken from their mothers' wombs sometimes were being
raised as the adopted children of their mothers' murderers. For
15 years, a group called Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo has
been demanding the return of these kidnapped children, estimated
to number as many as 500.
After years of detective work, the Grandmothers documented
the identities of 256 missing babies. Of those, however, only
56 children were ever located and seven of them had died. Aided
by recent breakthroughs in genetic testing, the Grandmothers succeeded
in returning 31 children to their biological families. Thirteen
were raised jointly by their adoptive and biological families
and the remaining cases are bogged down in court custody battles.
The Baby Harvest
But the baby kidnappings gained a new focus last year with
developments in the case of Silvia Quintela, a leftist doctor
who attended to the sick in shanty towns around Buenos Aires.
On Jan. 17, 1977, Quintela was abducted off a Buenos Aires street
by military authorities because of her political leanings. At
the time, Quintela and her agronomist husband Abel Madariaga were
expecting their first child.
According to witnesses who later testified before a government
truth commission, Quintela was held at a military base called
Campo de Mayo, where she gave birth to a baby boy. As in similar
cases, the infant then was separated from the mother. What happened
to the boy is still not clear, but Quintela reportedly was transferred
to a nearby airfield.
There, victims were stripped naked, shackled in groups and
dragged aboard military planes. The planes then flew out over
the Rio de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean, where soldiers pushed
the victims out of the planes and into the water to drown.
After democracy was restored in 1983, Madariaga, who had fled
into exile in Sweden, returned to Argentina and searched for his
wife. He learned about her death and the birth of his son. Madariaga
came to suspect that a military doctor, Norberto Atilio Bianco,
had kidnapped the boy. Bianco had overseen Caesarean sections
performed on captured women, according to witnesses. He then allegedly
drove the new mothers to the airport.
In 1987, Madariaga demanded DNA testing of Bianco's two children,
a boy named Pablo and a girl named Carolina, both of whom were
suspected children of disappeared women. Madariaga thought Pablo
might be his son. But Bianco and his wife, Susana Wehrli, fled
Argentina to Paraguay, where they resettled with the two children.
Argentine judge Roberto Marquevich sought the Biancos' extradition,
but Paraguay balked for 10 years.
Finally, faced with demands from the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights, Paraguay relented. Bianco and Wehrli were returned
to face kidnapping charges. But the two children -- now young
adults with small children of their own -- refused to return to
Argentina or submit to DNA testing.
Though realizing they were adopted, Pablo and Carolina did
not want to know about the fate of their real mothers and did
not want to jeopardize the middle-class lives they had enjoyed
in the Bianco household. [For more details about this case, see
The Consortium, Oct. 13, 1997, or iF Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1997.]
As an offshoot of the Bianco case, judge Marquevich ordered
the arrest of Videla. The judge accused the former dictator of
facilitating the snatching of Pablo and Carolina as well as four
other children. Marquevich found that Videla was aware of the
kidnappings and took part in a cover-up of the crimes. The aging
general was placed under house arrest.
In a related case, another judge, Alfredo Bagnasco, began
investigating whether the baby-snatching was part of an organized
operation and thus a premeditated crime of state. According to
a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the
Argentine military viewed the kidnappings as part of a larger
"The anguish generated in the rest of the surviving family
because of the absence of the disappeared would develop, after
a few years, into a new generation of subversive or potentially
subversive elements, thereby not permitting an effective end to
the Dirty War," the commission said in describing the army's
reasoning for kidnapping the infants of murdered women.
The kidnapping strategy conformed with the "science"
of the Argentine counterinsurgency operations. The Dirty War's
clinical anti-communist practitioners refined torture techniques,
sponsored cross-border assassinations and collaborated with organized-crime
According to government investigations, the military's intelligence
officers advanced Nazi-like methods of torture by testing the
limits of how much pain a human being could endure before dying.
The torture methods included experiments with electric shocks,
drowning, asphyxiation and sexual perversions, such as forcing
mice into a woman's vagina. Some of the implicated military officers
had trained at the U.S.-run School of the Americas.
Behind this Dirty War and its excesses stood the slight, well-dressed,
gentlemanly figure of Gen. Videla. Called "bone" or
the "pink panther" because of his slim build, Videla
emerged as a leading theorist for international anti-communist
strategies in the mid-1970s. His tactics were emulated throughout
Latin America and were defended by prominent American right-wing
politicians, including Ronald Reagan.
Videla rose to power amid Argentina's political and economic
unrest in the early-to-mid 1970s. "As many people as necessary
must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure,"
he declared in 1975 in support of a "death squad" known
as the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance. [See A Lexicon of Terror
by Marguerite Feitlowitz.]
On March 24, 1976, Videla led the military coup which ousted
the ineffective president, Isabel Peron. Though armed leftist
groups had been shattered by the time of the coup, the generals
still organized a counterinsurgency campaign to eradicate any
remnants of what they judged political subversion.
Videla called this "the process of national reorganization,"
intended to reestablish order while inculcating a permanent animosity
toward leftist thought. "The aim of the Process is the profound
transformation of consciousness," Videla announced.
Along with selective terror, Videla employed sophisticated
public relations methods. He was fascinated with techniques for
using language to manage popular perceptions of reality.
The general hosted international conferences on P.R. and awarded
a $1 million contract to the giant U.S. firm of Burson Marsteller.
Following the Burson Marsteller blueprint, the Videla government
put special emphasis on cultivating American reporters from elite
publications. "Terrorism is not the only news from Argentina,
nor is it the major news," went the optimistic P.R. message.
Since the jailings and executions of dissidents were rarely
acknowledged, Videla felt he could deny government involvement.
He often suggested that the missing Argentines were not dead,
but had slipped away to live comfortably in other countries.
"I emphatically deny that there are concentration camps
in Argentina, or military establishments in which people are held
longer than is absolutely necessary in this ... fight against
subversion," he told British journalists in 1977.
In a grander context, Videla and the other generals saw their
mission as a crusade to defend Western Civilization against international
communism. They worked closely with the Asian-based World Anti-Communist
League and its Latin American affiliate, the Confederacion Anticomunista
Latin American militaries collaborated on projects such as
the cross-border assassinations of political dissidents. Under
one project, called Operation Condor, political leaders -- centrist
and leftist alike -- were shot or bombed in Buenos Aires, Rome,
Madrid, Santiago and Washington, D.C. Operation Condor often employed
CIA-trained Cuban exiles as assassins.
In 1980, four years after the coup, the Argentine military
exported its terror tactics into neighboring Bolivia. There, Argentine
intelligence operatives helped Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie
and major drug lords mount a brutal putsch, known as the Cocaine
Coup. The bloody operation turned Bolivia into the first modern
drug state and expanded cocaine smuggling into the United States.
Videla's anything-goes anti-communism struck a responsive
chord with the Reagan administration which came to power in 1981.
President Reagan quickly reversed President Carter's condemnation
of the Argentine junta's record on human rights. Reagan's U.N.
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick even hosted the urbane Argentine
generals at an elegant state dinner.
More substantively, Reagan authorized CIA collaboration with
the Argentine intelligence service for training and arming the
Nicaraguan contras. The contras were soon implicated in human
rights atrocities and drug smuggling of their own. But the contras
benefitted from the Reagan administration's "perception management"
operation which portrayed them as "the moral equivalent of
the Founding Fathers."
In 1982, however, the Argentine military went a step too far.
Possibly deluded by its new coziness with Washington, the army
invaded the British-controlled Falkland Islands. Given the even-closer
Washington-London alliance, the Reagan administration sided with
Margaret Thatcher's government, which crushed the Argentine invaders
in a brief war.
The humiliated generals relinquished power in 1983. Then,
after democratic elections, the new president Raul Alfonsin created
a truth commission to collect evidence about the Dirty War crimes.
The grisly details shocked Argentines and the world.
Some Argentine analysts also believe that repercussions from
that violent era continue to the present, with organized crime
rampant and corruption reaching into the highest levels of the
President Menem's sister-in-law, Amira Yoma, is reportedly
under investigation in Spain for money-laundering. A reporter
investigating mob ties was burned alive. Relatives of a prosecutor
examining gold smuggling were tortured by having their faces mutilated.
Jewish targets have been bombed.
Former star DEA agent Michael Levine, who served in Argentina,
is not surprised by the latest violence. "The same militaries
and police officers that committed human rights crimes during
the coup are holding positions in the same forces," Levine
Elsewhere, foreign governments whose citizens were victims
of the Dirty War are pressing individual cases against Videla
and other former military leaders. These countries include Germany,
Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Honduras.
Yet, in Argentina, Menem's pardon may yet protect Videla and
the others from facing any significant punishment for their acts.
Menem has refused to extradite the former military leaders. He
also has dragged his heels on purging the armed forces of thousands
of officers implicated in Dirty War offenses.
So, the lingering case implicating Videla in harvesting babies
from doomed women might be the last chance for Argentina to hold
the dictator accountable -- and to come to grips with the terrible
crimes of its recent past.
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Nothing about the 2020-21 school year was easy, including finding substitute teachers in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
The school district’s pool of available substitutes shrank drastically because many regular substitutes feared contracting COVID-19 or didn’t want to deal with the challenges of virtual teaching. As a result, the district’s rate of filling absences dropped from about 75% for a normal year to 60% for the 2020-21 school year, according to Jevelyn Bonner-Reed, the chief human resources officer for the school district.
To combat that, the school board recently approved a contract with ESS, a substitute-management system that will take over the job of filling teacher absences for the coming school year. Once the new service is in place, the school district hopes to fill more than 90% of its sub requests.
The amount of money the program will cost annually is hard to predict because it is based on the number of subs needed, which fluctuates. But Andrea Gillus, the district’s chief financial officer, told the board that it will budget $1.4 million from federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay for the program.
“We didn’t have a super high fill-rate before this so the need was already there. But it’s just been exacerbated by COVID-19,” Bonner-Reed told the school board in April when she first brought up the need for such a group.
Several other school districts have contracted out the work of hiring subs, including Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Iredell-Statesville Schools, Alamance-Burlington Schools and Rowan-Salisbury Schools.
The 900 or so people in the substitute pool will now contract through ESS. Though the pay rate will stay the same, the company will be able to offer bonuses, some benefits and enticements to maintain and increase its substitute pool.
“They will be paid more frequently than our payroll and be eligible for bonuses that we’re not able to do,” Bonner-Reed said.
Board Member Elisabeth Motsinger initially had concerns about what would happen to the two employees in human resources who help manage the sub program.
Superintendent Tricia McManus said contracting out this service will improve efficiency while freeing up the two employees on Bonner-Reed’s team who work with subs.
Those employees are expected to spend more time on employee wellness programs that could reduce the number of absences.
“This will allow them to go into schools to provide other supports,” McManus said.
Because ESS’ sole focus is recruiting and filling sub requests, Bonner-Reed said the district should be able to drastically improve the sub fill rate. ESS will focus on finding subs in Forsyth County.
During COVID, the need for more substitutes was so great that district leaders, including McManus, filled in for absentee teachers.
Bonner-Reed said the school district is committed to trying the program for three years. If it proves successful, the cost of the program will be folded into the school district’s annual budget.
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President Barack Obama’s former “Special Adviser for Green Jobs,” and liberal activist Van Jones was more controversial than usual yesterday in his demonization of conservatives, saying the Tea Party wants “to repeal the 20th century” and calling Tea Partiers “bigots.”
Van Jones attempted to rally the liberal base of the Democratic party as his charged comments closed the Taking Back the American Dream Conference Wednesday.
Van Jones said on numerous occasions that the American Right was full of “cheap patriots,” and that it is the Left that are the true, “deep patriots.”
“The deep patriots are in this room. It’s the cheap patriots at best that want to roll it back. You can’t be an anti-immigrant bigot and patriot and the same time. That is cheap patriotism,” Jones said.
“They [conservatives] want to take a wrecking ball to this country and call themselves patriots,” said Jones. “For too long we have let one side monopolize the flag. They claim to be patriots, but they hate almost everyone in America.”
Jones painted a picture of the Left as the side that championed the struggles of the middle class while the Right is trying to suppress the liberal vote, suppress economic equality, and use their perceived financial advantages to buy elections.
“Are we going to win in November? Or are we going to lose? It’s in out hands. There is no future out there that’s been written. The question is whether or not we are prepared to do what needs to be done.”
Promoting his brand of social justice by tapping into the patriotism of conservatives is a newer strategy for Jones, but not the first time he has tried to frame the debate that way recently.
Last month at a speech in Milwaukee, Jones said, “[The] Tea Party is trying to take a wrecking ball — and paint it red, white, and blue — and smash down all the things our parents did for us.”
His message yesterday was a return to his anti-Tea Party message after the annual Netroots Nation Conference two weeks ago where Jones criticized the activists for not working harder to recall Scott Walker (R-WI) after he survived his recall election earlier in the week. He also told supporters that the needed to vote for Obama even if they felt “crushed” by his broken promises because he’s still better than the Tea Party, which he claimed was trying to destroy America.
Despite minor mentions of the Tea Party at Netroots, Jones comments were more subdued than usual. But after watching is speech in Washingon, D.C. yesterday, Jones is clearly back to his usual self.
Francesca Chambers contributed to the report.

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Thirteen youth leaders of the POP Movement participated in an episode of Planet Classroom titled “SHINE a LIGHT on Protecting Our Planet”, hosted by Orb, on 18 August, 2021. They shared their personal wishes and dreams for a world post COVID-19, and explained how they saw science and art playing a role in helping us solve the climate crisis.
Priyanka Prakash from India spoke about her dream for a world post COVID-19 and said, “I wish for a world where our future generations don’t have to struggle for basic sustenance, where they have access to clean water, and breathe clean air; where a sustainable economy offers them with endless opportunities, and where science and innovation cater towards the betterment of our society.” The importance of art and science in combating the climate crisis was emphasized by Cherry Sung from South Korea, who said, “Art and science have become indispensable media for raising awareness about climate change. As complex as climate change itself is, its solutions must be deeply science-based, realistic, and just; not whimsical nor intuition-based.”
Another youth leader, Ian Ulloa from the United States, discussed the importance of community in climate action and said, “I wish people would now realize the severity of global warming and just pollution in general. I also wish that people would really begin to appreciate all life on this planet, and try to do more to help save it. We can all contribute one action at a time”
The podcast featured POP Youth Leaders Gabriela Madrid, Samuel C. Okorie, Meda Hope Malinga, Ian Ulloa, Wen Tian, Cherry Sung, Kevin Morales, Nahid Pérez, Ceferino Kreigi, Andres Barragan, Steph Evans, Prachi Shevgaonkar, and Priyanka Prakash, from multiple nations; Venezuela, Nigeria, Uganda, China, South Korea, Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, Australia, India, and US.
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Across Europe, historic cities are buckling. Mass tourism, encouraged by cash-hungry councils after the 2008 crash and fuelled by the explosion of cheap flights and online room rentals, has become a monster. The backlash, however, has begun.
Angry protests from residents in historic cities force city halls to take action. It is not always evident, however, what that action should be – or if it will work. The trade-off between the revenues and jobs generated through tourism and quality of life is a tricky one. So the idea is not discouragement but management, say city halls.
The Guardian explores mass tourism and actions taken in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Florence, Prague.


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Duff and Leone hope to save what was once a thriving $100 million lobster fishery in Connecticut by curtailing the use of pesticides. As recently as the 1990s, the lobster industry supported about about 1,200 workers, according to a release from Duff's office, but since the population of lobsters waned dramatically, as few as 15-20 lobstermen remain in business and the industry has shrunk over 90%.
Sen. Duff, who recently blogged on Patch about the decimated lobster population and the correlation to the pesticides in Long Island Sound, led the passage of new legislation. Duff, along with Sen. Carlo Leone, used the opportunity on Monday to describe their bill, as well as its importance to the shoreline's economy and the environment.
State Senator Bob Duff (D-Norwalk, Darien); Senator Carlo Leone (D-Stamford, Darien); State Rep. Terry Backer (D-Stratford); Rep. Craig Miner (R-Litchfield); Roger Frate, owner of the Darien Seafood Market and President of the West End Long Island Sound Lobster Association; and local lobstermen Tony Carlo and Mike Kalaman were expected to attend the press conference on Monday.