The city of College Place received an award for its new well, recognizing it as one of the most innovative and effective clean water and drinking water state revolving fund projects of 2019.
The award was announced Tuesday at College Place City Council’s virtual meeting by City Administrator Mike Rizzitiello, who also shared a video of a ceremony dedicating the well to the late Robert Gordon the city engineer who died in August at 59.
Gordon spent four years of his decade with the city on the project and did not see its completion in September because of his death from a heart attack.
The city held a small ceremony dedicating Well No. 4 to him. The well replaced Well No. 1, which failed in 2016.
“The fact that it wrapped up soon after what unfortunately happened, it definitely felt appropriate that it be named in his honor with all the work he put into it,” Rizzitiello said.
The city received the Well-Planned, Affordable, Transferable, Efficient, Resilient, or Sustainable Award for this project from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Gordon had a knack for finding outside money for capital projects and writing compelling grant applications, the city administrator said.
“He was very good at writing narratives and really explaining the story and building those connections with the state agencies where we were able to get outside funding, and that’s why we’re able to do this in a very cost effective manner.”
The well, a $4.2 million water project, will serve not only the residents of College Place but also Christ Community Fellowship, where Gordon was a Sunday school teacher. The well connects the church and Liberty Christian School to the municipal water system, according to the award report.
The city hired the on-call engineering firm JUB Engineers Inc. to fill in for Gordon’s responsibilities when needed until Public Works Director Paul Hartwig retires, and the position will be refashioned into both a Public Works director and city engineer position, Rizzitiello said.


Will.i.am to Spearhead New Global Education Initiative
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:08:15
Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am is getting behind a major new global initiative to encourage American children to study in China.
Will teamed up with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the Mendez Learning Center in California on Monday as part of a 100,000 Strong Initiative event. Now, Los Angeles will join in a federal initiative to increase the number of American students studying abroad in China, and 10 high schoolers will be among the first to participate.
Will offered this piece of advice: "Go out there, collaborate, dream. Make a plan to execute, to come back home and tell your cousins, your nephews… just what you're learning. They're going to be proud of you… Let's not mess around. Let's go." Amen, Will.
Would you go study in China?


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Statue commemorates the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. This monument was moved to the front of Art Gallery in May 1930 and then to the front of State Library in 1940. The statue was presented by the Caledonian Society.
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.
On Saturday a most interesting ceremony was conducted by the South Australian Caledonian Society when the statue of Scotland's national poet (Robert Burns) was unveiled by the chief, the Hon. John Darling, M.L.C. Despite the counter attractions there was a large and representative gathering, and on the platform were gentlemen representing Caledonian societies of Melbourne, Mount Gambier, and Gawler, and last, but not least, two of Burns's descendants in the persons of Mrs. McLeellan (a grand- daughter) and Mrs Burns-Scott (a great - grand daughter).
The statue of Burns is of Angaston marble, and is erected on a pedestal of Monarto granite. On the dye is engraved " Robert Burns, 1759-1796," and the inscription on the base will be—" Presented by the South Australian Caledonian Society and unveiled by the chief, the Hon. John Darling, M.L.C. 5th May, 1894." The granite pedestal has been prepared by Messrs. Fraser and Draysey, of Waymouth Street, who have successfully placed the statue upon it.
Kapunda Herald (SA), 8 May 1894.
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1759 - 1796.
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Presented To The City of Adelaide
By The So. Aust. Caledonian Society.
And Unveiled By
The Chief. Hon. John Darling, M.L.C.
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Japanese researchers have developed a new antibody based method for rapid and reliable detection of novel coronavirus without the need for blood samples. The research results were recently published in the journal Science report.
The ineffective identification of people infected with covid-19 has seriously limited the global response to COVID-19, which is exacerbated by the high asymptomatic infection rate (16% – 38%). So far, the main test method is to collect samples by wiping the nose and throat. However, the application of this method is limited by its long detection time (4-6 hours), high cost and the requirements for professional equipment and medical personnel, especially in countries with limited resources.
After proving that interstitial fluid may be suitable for antibody detection, researchers developed an innovative method of sampling and testing. First, researchers developed biodegradable porous microneedles made of polylactic acid, which can extract interstitial fluid from human skin. Then, they constructed a paper-based immunoassay biosensor to detect covid-19 specific antibodies. By integrating these two elements, the researchers created a compact patch that can detect antibodies on site in 3 minutes.
Post time: Jul-06-2022

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Nine people have been detained by Tajikistan’s state security service over suspected contact with the perpetrators of last week’s attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said.
“Nine residents of the Vakhdat district were detained for contact with the persons who committed the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on March 22,” the agency reported, citing information from an unnamed source in Tajikistan’s special services, who said that Russian security forces were also involved in the operation to detain the suspects.
Those detained are also suspected of having connections with the Islamic State group, according to RIA Novosti.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Thursday it had detained another suspect in relation to the raid on Crocus City Hall, on suspicion of being involved in financing the attack.
It did not give further details of the suspect’s identity or alleged actions.
Russian officials previously said that 11 suspects had been arrested, including four who allegedly carried out the attack.
Those four, identified as Tajik nationals, appeared in a Moscow court on Sunday on terrorism charges and showed signs of severe beatings. One appeared to be barely conscious during the hearing.
A faction of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the massacre.
But Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have persistently claimed, without presenting evidence, that Ukraine and the West had a role in the attack.
The Investigative Committee statement said it has “confirmed data that the perpetrators of the terrorist attack received significant amounts of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine, which were used in preparing the crime”.
Ukraine denies involvement and its officials claim that Moscow is pushing the allegation as a pretext to intensify its fighting in Ukraine.


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Generally, New Year’s resolutions fall along the lines of traveling or losing weight, but the most important thing that is often forgotten by people is prioritizing their mental health. According to a recent study, more than 30% of Americans go through some kind of moderate to severe symptoms of depression and 38% of them also suffer from below-normal symptoms of anxiety. This means that one-quarter of Americans are struggling with poor mental health, thereby making it one of the biggest health factors in the nation.
If you search the web, you will get several self help articles on mental health but if you’re not big into reading, or you’re simply overwhelmed and anxious, here are a few simple steps that you can take to do on your own. This can have a massive impact on your life.
#1: Prioritize your ‘me time’
Self-help has also become a buzzword, which is for a very good reason and this is of crucial importance. Make sure you put an emphasis on you. Your first priority should be ‘me time’. Carve out time for all sorts of enjoyable activities even if it means half an hour everyday in the morning. Use this time for things like exercising and meditating. Similarly, you can take a bath in the evening or enjoy an interesting book.
#2: Self-love is important
Although there are several among us who are of the opinion that self-love is narcissistic, this is not true. You need to know that in order to be happy with your own self, it is important to practice self-love. No, this doesn’t mean that you have to keep blowing your own horn but it means telling yourself positive thoughts everyday instead of focusing on the negatives. You know the saying: keep a positive mindset. There’s a reason why everyone says it. Keeping a positive mindset is crucial.

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Norman Public Library
Every year, Pioneer visits with the City Councils of the communities where we have hometown libraries. These presentations showcase the value of Pioneer libraries in their communities and help Council members see how library resources add value to the quality of life of their citizens.
Enjoy this year’s presentation to the Norman City Council. You will find statistics about our collection as well as hear from customers who benefit from our services. The Norman Public Library is proud to be a part of the Norman community and we look forward to the opening of our new east and west side service points. View a pdf of the presentation.


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HORIZON LINES: This series of paintings strips the landscape to its most basic element - the horizon line. These neutralize many of the elements that typically lead one to read a painting as a landscape. These pieces employ a square format as it does not suggest either the figure or landscape and rely on color expression and paint quality to express, in an abstract format, the idea of the landscape.
Some of the Horizon Line series can be easily viewed as landscape, while other pieces seem to have a flatter spatial quality and function more as pure abstraction. Ironically, one of the more abstract pieces is based very closely on observation of a field of marigolds with stripes of red and green running though the field. Other paintings contain landscape orientations but are completely derived from imagination.
ITALIAN WALLS: This series was inspired by the qualities of the walls in the cities of Italy. This interest began in Venice - specifically on a trip to the outer islands of Burano and Torcello. Some small pieces are based on Torcello's bleak, weather-scarred geography as transitional paintings leading from the Horizon Line series to the Italian Walls series.
These initial paintings led to a large series of abstractions based on the walls of Italy, using extremely heavy paint and texture. Naturally, these are not literal descriptions of walls but focus on color and surface. In some respects they are also a "nod" to western culture.

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The automatic (high-speed) polarimeter uses light-emitting diodes as the light source to avoid the trouble of frequent replacement of sodium lamps.
The instrument operation interface is large-screen LCD display, fast detection, stable and reliable. The optical rotation and sugar content can be measured at a large angle.
The number of measurements can be set, the average value is calculated, and the instrument adopts a silent design.
Built-in temperature control device with heating and cooling functions.
The temperature control test tube can be used to control the temperature of the sample.


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Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her work in photojournalism, documentary, portraiture, and advertising.
She addressed such social issues as homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution. Children were a reoccurring subject throughout much of her work. She described her approach to her subjects: “I’ve always felt that children and teenagers are not “children,” they’re small people. I look at them as little people and I either like them or I don’t like them. I also have an obsession with mental illness. And strange people who are outside the borders of society.”
It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed myself: people and objects that appear broken-down, damaged, crumbling, adrift, often make for beautiful photographs. When I lived in Sicily, my apartment was in an 18th century palace that looked like it hadn’t seen a lick of paint in 150 years, and might collapse into the street at any moment. Yet it had withstood centuries of earthquakes and was a wonderful place to live.
This photo by Ms Mark shows a Californian family who had fallen on such hard times that they had been living in their car for two years.
They all look done in, but not defeated. There’s a lot of love in this beautiful picture.

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How financially sound is your bank?
More south-central Wisconsin banks are getting higher marks and fewer are hugging the bottom in an assessment of their Dec. 31, 2014, financials by independent ratings services.
Only one bank of 73 serving the Madison area — Guaranty Bank, in the Milwaukee area — drew sub-par grades in the latest review by Bankrate.com and Bauer Financial compared with five banks a year ago, and seven banks two years ago, that were graded below average.
“It is very clear that today, Wisconsin banks are very healthy,” said Rose Oswald Poels, president and CEO of Wisconsin Bankers Association, the state’s largest financial industry trade association.
Eight financial institutions earned the highest five-star ratings from both Bankrate.com and Bauer; last year, there were 10.
Six of the eight are full-service consumer banks, primarily from smaller communities. They are: Bank of Brodhead; Bank of Lake Mills; Bank of Prairie du Sac; First National Bank at Darlington; Peoples State Bank, Prairie du Chien; and State Bank of Cazenovia.
Also earning top marks from both ratings services are Bankers Bank, Madison, which serves financial institutions, and John Deere Financial, Madison, a federal savings bank that handles Deere & Co.’s revolving credit lines.
Between the two ratings companies, quite a few area banks inched up or down a notch or two.
Bauer raised the grades for 18 banks and lowered them for three. Bankrate gave 12 banks higher scores, and lowered marks for 11 institutions.
Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate, based in North Palm Beach, Florida, cautioned not to read too much into ticks like that.
“It’s like an ‘A’ student who gets a ‘B’ on the report card. It’s not the end of the world,” he said.
The ratings services base their assessments on financial data, most of which is pulled from quarterly reports submitted to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), he said.
“A lot of the tests that we do, or benchmarks, are relative to peers among the same asset size. It may not be that the financial institution has deteriorated; it may just be that their peers demonstrated bigger improvement,” McBride said.
Better report cards
AnchorBank is moving up in the charts for the second straight year. The largest Madison-based bank scored three stars each from Bankrate (“performing”) and Bauer (“adequate”). Two years ago, when the bank was still struggling with problem loans from the recession, Anchor drew one star from Bankrate and zero stars from Bauer, the lowest marks from each. In September 2013, emerging from bankruptcy reorganization with an infusion of new capital, Anchor started moving back up in the ratings.
“While normally, we do not follow these rating agencies, we’re pleased that AnchorBank has continued to make steady progress since our recapitalization — including five quarters of consecutive positive earnings, and a healthy, growing business franchise. Now, we continue our work to bring the bank up to speed with an increasingly digital financial services landscape,” Chris Bauer, Anchor president and CEO, said.
Wisconsin River Bank, Sauk City, earned four stars (“sound”) from Bankrate, up from three (“performing”), and five stars (“superior”) from Bauer Financial, up from 3.5 stars (“good”) last year.
But the biggest improvement over last year’s ratings was for Baraboo National Bank. Both ratings services gave Baraboo National three stars, compared to the one star grade they each imposed last year.
The bank, 50 miles northwest of Madison, with roots dating back to 1857, sold four branches in three transactions last year. It ended 2014 with net income of $6.2 million, compared with a net loss of $22.1 million in 2013. Loans at least 90 days overdue made up 4.5 percent of all loans, down from 6.7 percent a year ago, and assets totaled $435.2 million as of Dec. 31, down from $632.2 million, a year earlier.
“Our finances are in good shape,” said chairman and CEO Merlin Zitzner.
He says Baraboo National Bank, with 11 remaining locations and 133 employees, could close more branches.
“We think mobile banking is the way to go so there’s an effort to reduce our exposure in brick-and-mortar and put more emphasis on mobile banking,” Zitzner said. “The 18- to 34-year-olds, they’re not coming into the bank lobbies anymore.”
The single bank serving the Madison area that is still struggling — according to the ratings services — is Guaranty Bank, based in the Milwaukee area but with several locations at local grocery stores. Guaranty drew one star from Bankrate and zero stars from Bauer, as it did a year ago.
Guaranty had net income of $141,000, as of Dec. 31, a drop from $16.5 million in earnings in 2013 after the bank sold its Shelter Mortgage division. More than 13 percent of all loans were at least 90 days overdue, down from 15.3 percent, and its total risk-based capital was 5.2 percent, down from 5.5 percent. Total risk-based capital, which signifies a bank’s reserves, is considered adequate at 8 percent or more, according to the FDIC.
No Wisconsin banks were closed by regulators in 2014.
Ratings cast limited view
Ratings services have their own proprietary ways of judging a bank’s health. For Bankrate.com, there are four main components, chief financial analyst McBride said: Capitalization, asset quality, earnings and liquidity.
Nationwide, banks have continued to improve since the Great Recession, McBride said. “The industry is still in a tough spot with regard to net interest margins but the improving economy has made loan quality much improved,” he said.
“Net interest margins are the difference between what it costs an institution to borrow money and what the institution can earn through the interest it charges consumers for loans and leases. With interest rates so low for so long, net interest margins have been the tightest in recent memory,” McBride said.
“A lot of banks and credit unions alike are champing at the bit, waiting for short-term interest rates to go up, so it breathes a little life into their net interest margins,” he said.
As for the ratings, Oswald Poels, of the Wisconsin Bankers Association, suggests viewing them with a grain of salt.
“I think you should always be cautious when you look at any rating,” she said. For one thing, only publicly available data is considered, and the data is from a few months ago.
“It is looking back in time,” she said.
“We don’t tend to put a lot of stock into particular rating agencies,” Oswald Poels said.


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My name is John and I live at 7K feet in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. I am an amature woodworker who is slowly starting to make a custome furniture business for myself. I do not advertise but I tend to do my sanding in my driveway to avoid filling the shop with dust and I keep getting requests for custom pieces by people that are walking the neighborhood. The more I make the more referels I get. I spend about 30% of the year in some of the worlds lovely places like the Middle East, so when I get home I spend most of my time in the shop (my wife calls it the garage) honing my WW skills. I have a wife, Jackie, son Joey, dog Gunny and cat Kramer. I started a Blog the other night so for the main reason of sharing projects with my dad. Please check it out and feel free to comment and post.


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This is a server that has taken the advantage of Bukkit and the minds of very creative people to make an awesome game for the community to play. You will rank up with the emeralds you get from sniping people or beating the challenging park-our. You can customize your class to prepare for the ultimate Sniping combat. You can go into a arrow on arrow battle on any of these three hardcore game modes:
You and your friends play in a live combat battle were you fight to the death. You get to choose and upgrade your item's as you advance in the game. The class you choose from makes it very diverse allowing you to upgrade to your liking, as there is are Primary and Secondary weapons to choose from along with perks and 2 swords(Keeping it strictly Arrows only).
Everyone on the server gets a Sniper that shoots a instant-kill object. Maps are specially designed for this special game mode as you die the instant you get shot, so we keep them nice and big. One of our most basic but beloved game modes.
You get to customize a special bow we like to call the Archer Bow. In the beginning (When you join the server), you get a plain untouched bow. Then as you progress and get emeralds you can purchase enchantment's for your bow. You also get to use this bow in the lobby for our specially designed firing range, that means when you add the enchantment to your bow you get to use that bow both in the lobby and on the battlefield. Show your power and skill in the classic battle of Archer.
The server is completely automated plus has a secure and advanced way to save player's data, so it will never get lost or corrupted. You can suggest new game modes or mini games at out website www.mcSnipe.enjin.com as we are constantly upgrading our server.
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Newcastle United have announced the signing of Valentino Lazaro on loan from Inter Milan.
"I've only heard great things about the club," Lazaro told the club's official website.
"I've had good talks with the coach so I feel very happy to be here now. Those conversations convinced me that this is the right place for me to come."
Lazaro, Newcastle's first Austrian player, will wear the No 23 jersey and could make his Premier League debut when the Magpies take on Norwich City on Saturday 1 February.

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BrightSphere Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: BSIG) announced today that it has appointed its Chief Financial Officer, Suren Rana, as its Chief Executive Officer and President effective immediately. Mr. Rana will also join the Board of Directors. Guang Yang will be stepping down as CEO, President and Chairman. In addition, the Board elected John Paulson to succeed Mr. Yang as Chairman.
John Paulson said: “Suren Rana will be leading the Company as CEO going forward. As we look to grow our assets, we have found that tailored efforts led by our Affiliates directly, rather than centralized efforts, have been the most productive. Therefore, going forward, the Company will focus its distribution and product development efforts at the Affiliate level and will cease the supplemental efforts at the corporate headquarters by transitioning them to the Affiliates. Suren will lead this targeted approach and his experience in capital and resource allocation will be an asset going forward. With a diversified group of seasoned investment managers and a majority of our business focused on quantitative and private alternative strategies, BrightSphere is well positioned for organic growth.”
Mr. Paulson further added, “On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Guang for his efforts at the Company.”
“I look forward to supporting our world-class Affiliates in growing their respective businesses. Focusing our organic growth efforts at our Affiliates will also allow us to further streamline our corporate center to be leaner and more efficient,” said Mr. Rana. “Our businesses generate strong free cash flow and we plan to deploy it to support our Affiliates’ continued growth, manage leverage and repurchase our stock, as and when appropriate, in order to maximize value for our shareholders,” Mr. Rana added.
Concurrent with Mr. Rana’s appointment, Christina Wiater will serve as BrightSphere’s Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. Ms. Wiater is currently the Company’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Ms. Wiater joined the Company in 2009 and has been a key leader of the finance team since that time. Previously Ms. Wiater worked in the assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and is also a certified public accountant.
BrightSphere is a diversified, global asset management company with approximately $204 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2019. Through its seven, majority-owned, world-class investment management Affiliates, BrightSphere offers sophisticated investors access to a wide array of leading quantitative and solutions-based, private and public market alternative, and liquid alpha strategies designed to meet a range of risk and return objectives. For more information, please visit BrightSphere’s website at www.bsig.com.

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THE NEW KING is available in English Italian Spanish and Chinese.

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More people living on the streets in La Crosse than ever before, according to one expert who’s been working in the field since 2005.
Kim Cable, the housing and community services director at Couleecap and the vice chair of the La Crosse County Board, spent an hour on La Crosse Talk PM this week discussing the homeless situation in the area, as the campground designation at Houska Park ends this weekend and those who have been staying there since spring have to leave.
Cable said La Crosse County had one of the largest counts across the state for unsheltered at 140, back when agencies conducted the study in July.
“Our unsheltered numbers are second only to Green Bay in the state of Wisconsin, with the exception of Dane, Racine and Milwaukee county,” Cable said. “So we’re at crisis proportions here in La Crosse.
“The numbers that we are seeing locally are unprecedented in my time doing this work. When I first started at Couleecap, we didn’t really have any people staying outdoors. We had people in local shelters, but I’ve never seen our numbers so high as they are now.”
Cable expressed her displeasure with the Houska Park plan by the city, though her alternative was simply getting people “shelter and housing.”
“I think encampments, unless they’re really run pretty strictly and there’s certain rules enforced, they’re not a safe place for people to be,” Cable said. “I think Houska is unhygienic. We’ve had people experiencing assault and there’s been some drug overdoses and things like that. So there’s really not the appropriate level of management down there to really make that an effective spring and summer spot.”
Cable also said the Houska plan doesn’t provide an environment for those in the business of helping the homeless.
“I think it’s a hard setting to try and provide services in,” she said. “Not everybody’s up when people are down there. We have an outreach team that goes down there and a street med team, and we have had community groups bringing meals and so forth, but it’s hard to do any real planning with somebody down there.
“It’s not an ideal setting to try and get somebody into a plan for housing. I mean, there’s a lot going on. There’s no privacy. It’s not an ideal way to provide services for people. I mean, it’s inhumane on some level.”
Cable was not pressed on alternatives to unsheltered people congregating in Houska. If a majority of homeless people weren’t in Houska, would they be spread out across the county — at other parks, in Hixon Forest or elsewhere? And, if so, would it be harder for services to reach them or for them to travel to these services?
Both Couleecap and the Salvation Army are 1.2-mile walks from Houska Park. The YWCA’s REACH Services and Resource Center is 1.4 miles from Houska.
Cable did say providing an encampment did encourage — to an extent — other homeless to come there.
“Well, I think that happens on some level,” she said of homeless flocking to a place like Houska. “I mean, we saw that happening at tent city by International Gardens a few years ago. People would roll into town, stop at the shelter and ask where the free campground was. So you are gonna attract some people. There’s a social network or whatever, I think that happens, that people tell people to come, and of course, that’s the dangerous part of having an encampment. It’s kind of one of those things where you build, If you build it, they will come.
On the other hand, Cable said a vast majority of people they’ve seen over the years are not new.
“I would say 90% of the people who are outdoors are people who have been in this community for years,” she said. “That’s just a ballpark guess on my part, but when we look at the numbers, the names are people who have been around for a long time, and La Crosse isn’t unlike other communities where they’ve seen homeless numbers rise during COVID. That is a nationwide phenomenon. Our numbers have risen more than other parts of the state, I’ll say.”
Also, Cable put down the notion that other communities are dropping people off in La Crosse.
“I have not heard of other communities dumping in our area,” Cable said. “I know people have mentioned that. I don’t see that happening. I’m not saying it might not have happened for one or two people, but it’s not contributing 50 new people to our community.”
With 50 more than this time last year, the plan for agencies and the county is to help get families hotel vouchers, to free up space for singles in the shelters, spending about $168,000 in leftover funding to do so. They’ve also been working on other alternatives lately.
“We’ve been working with people since September on diversion plans, helping people figure out if there’s friends or family they can go to,” Cable said, adding they’ve tried to alleviate transportation costs in those cases. “So we’re trying to get people to move on into situations that are gonna keep them safe over the winter months.”
Last year, the city of La Crosse devoted about $900,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to house people at a north side motel for winter. That’s not the plan this year.
“When Nov. 1 rolls around, I don’t know what we are gonna have for shelter space,” Cable said. “We have two shelters locally that combined, I think have about 80 beds. And if the numbers are still high, then that means somebody’s gonna be outta luck for shelter.
“Now I think the plan is to move people into existing shelter, and if the shelters are full, then my understanding is that the mayor will open up other buildings within the city, like the north side policing station and the South Side Neighborhood Center or something like that.”
Cable didn’t sound like a big fan of that plan, and also seemed to express the need for a “tough love” approach to the problem.
“In previous years, if people wanted to do some changes in their life, they would have to work with somebody to do that, and we have not empowered people to do that,” Cable said. “We’ve kind of taken care of people. We put ’em on the bus, we take ’em to the motel. In the spring time, we bring ’em back down to Houska. And there’s no expectation for any outcomes. There’s no expectation for any type of working on a housing plan. None of that.
“We haven’t expected as much of people as I think we have in the past, and that’s unfortunate because people are adults and should be empowered to make decisions about where they wanna live and how they wanna live and things like that,” Cable added. “So, I think if you take care of people and they don’t have to make any choices, they get used to that on some level. But for the past two years, it’s been kind of like that.”
Other challenges for people is the simple fact that there is a lack of options for permanent housing.
“You can only stress a service system so much and expect to get anything out of it,” Cable said. “I do think it creates other types of problems. We have a shortage of affordable housing stock here, so even if people do wanna move into an apartment, some apartments are out of reach, price wise. That’s another thing that happened during COVID. Rent prices skyrocketed.”
Cable said apartments that Couleecap has helped with have cost between $500-600 in the past and now go for $750 or more, which makes it impossible for those on fixed incomes to afford to live.
The city has tried multiple variations of combating the housing issue, but has been thwarted at every turn, whether that was multiple plans at bridge housing — buying the Chamber of Commerce building downtown or the Maple Grove Motel on the south side — to trying to purchase a former credit union building on Monitor Street for affordable housing, which was voted down by the city council this month.
Meanwhile, the county is engaged in a long-term bridge housing plan, but Cable didn’t have a clear timeline on when that would come to fruition.


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The search for a murderer on board has a group of strangers on the edge of their seats, in ‘Murder on the Orient Express’. Based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, the film takes place in 1930s Europe, with famed detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) boarding the legendary Orient Express for a small break in between cases. While on board, he meets an interesting assortment of characters. One fellow passenger, Edward Ratchett (Johnny Depp), implores Mr. Poirot to assist him while on the train as he fears for his well-being, though Poirot respectfully declines. The next morning, Ratchett is found stabbed to death. With the train halted due to snow build up on the tracks, and with the evidence and suspects piling up, Poirot finds himself diving into a case that could be his biggest and most mind-bending yet. ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is directed by Kennth Branagh, and is rated PG-13 for violence and thematic elements.
Kenneth Branagh’s modern day adaptation of this legendary crime detective novel offers a dual respect of the past and present that brings to life a special hybrid of sorts for ‘Murder on the Orient Express’. While this was a story that was written over eighty years ago, there’s plenty of artistic merit and expression of modern mastery that instills life into this third live action adaptation, holding its place amongst the vast collection of today’s whodunnits? that establish little in the way of detective procedurals. This film to me was not only a character piece in the eyes of a world renowned detective, but also a thought-provoking narrative that does beg the question if murder is ever acceptable in the most avenging of ways possible. It certainly isn’t an easy thing to cast a near two hour plot in one claustrophobic train-car, but Branagh and his talented cast spin the gears of the wheels , opening up this one setting play in the most elaborate of ways that constantly elevates the tension with each passing clue of development that poisons the air like the swanky soap operas of yesterday that we just can’t get enough of.
This is first and foremost an ensemble piece, garnering with it a collection of top name billers to add prestige to its ages old formula. Branagh pulls double duty here like the few times that he has before, and his command and essence over the character of Poirot proves that if you want something done right, you do it yourself. As this experienced detective, Branagh breathes in a quirky, yet distinguished operational aspect to his madness, establishing why he is the name that everyone turns to in the longest of longshots. Aside from Branagh, I also enjoyed the performances of Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, and Willam Dafoe as suspects aboard this train. There is a big chance that the screenwriters take in the choice to not approaching these characters as anything more than one-dimensional suspects with very little exposition or screen time dedicated to their presence, but I feel that it pays off in spades because we are meeting these characters in the same way Poirot is; as questionable suspects, so I feel that to know too much would render their mysteries silent. Nobody is ever out of place or underwhelming in their displays, and even the brief work of Johnny Depp and Judy Dench prove that no role is too small in getting across the bigger point.
While this isn’t the widest example of free-range storytelling, the film’s investigation into this mystery offers plenty of meat to chew on in keeping the audience at bay. To me, this is a film that definitely has a better second half than first, and I say that because the opening minutes are at times a bit of a chore to get through, with forced humor of the Inspector Clouseau kind being inserted. It isn’t until about twenty minutes into the movie when we’re finally aboard this elegant train that is only one day from spinning out of control. Thankfully, the film does mature along with the subject matter that it encounters, leading to second and third acts in the film that strap on gloves to get ready for to get the hands dirty. One of my only problems with this story that dates back to its literary origin, is that once we find out the one coincidence that links these people together, the answer becomes apparently obvious in where the answer is heading. This to me happens a little bit early, leaving the remaining twenty minutes of film to soak in that question of murder that I asked in this writing earlier. The ending is satisfying, but it does so in a way that could’ve twisted the set-ups differently to present this as something different for the people who have already read or seen any of the two other movie adaptations.
The ending is something that I feel will be divisive amongst audiences, but I myself felt that it was just fine considering this is my fourth engagement with these characters and plot. Knowing this story once will kind of diminish in cliffhanging circumstance what kind of returns that you will get from something that offers very few changes. If you’re seeing this story for the first time in your life, then ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ version 2017 should steer you in the right direction for thrills and seedy developments that will constantly keep you guessing. To that degree, I share an air of jealousy for this being someone’s first dive into this plot, as I feel Branagh’s touch is no doubt the quit-essential precedent for a film in this series before or after this newest chapter. Like any human detective plot with honesty, the film ends without answering all of the questions, but as is life for motives that constantly keep us guessing.
One aspect that definitely should not be understated is in the gorgeous overall cinematography that Haris Zambarloukos displays with prestige in class. This is the Titanic of rolling trains, so everything from the elegant displays of crystal silverware and cozy surroundings does wonder in setting the stage fruitfully for this limited opportunity to tag along. In addition to this, Haris and Kenneth wow us with some intoxicating establishing shots of the many parallel weather patterns and scenery that always gives us something jaw-dropping to gaze at. But to prove that he isn’t just an actor, Branagh knows precisely where to point the camera, guiding us through the many train-cars effortlessly in manipulated one take long-shots that are meant to display the immensity of this setting and mystery that at the start feel completely wide open, but are later chopped down ruthlessly, relaying that the answer is getting closer and closer to the culprit. These aspects alone remind us the rare gifts that remakes can grant us; breathtaking views, luxurious tastes, and puppeteering behind the camera that can do so much with only so little.
THE VERDICT – Kenneth Branagh offers an entertaining upgrade on nearly every aspect of this old-fashioned murder mystery, with enough bends and curves to keep this a bumpy ride frequently. While the overall mystery becomes surrounded with a cloud of convolution, the touch of craft filmmaking involving scene-stealing camera work, overrides those problems, offering a pleasant taste of a golden age of Hollywood production where this train departed from. In lesser hands, this film collapses on its tracks, but the double duty of Branagh as the captain provides enough coal in the engine to power us through.


Notable chart news:
-This is Halsey's highest charting single without a feature
-This is the first time in 2018 that Post Malone has not been in the Top 5 (he dropped to 7)
-John Mayer is on the cover of the latest issue.
-He believes he's still relevant to music even though the music industry has changed.
What's your fave top ten song?


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Suspended particle device (SPD) switchable glazing has potential to control transmission of solar radiation in the visible range by changing its transparency from 55% to 5%. Outdoor test cell characterisation of a SPD switchable glazing offered the dynamic solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) which varied between 0.05 (when opaque) and 0.38 (when transparent). Reduction of maximum temperature rise of 11% and 15% was possible using SPD “transparent” and “opaque” state compared to same area double-glazing. Insulated test cell with water flow heat exchanger was employed to measure the cooling load reduction potential of SPD glazing while its transmission changed from “transparent” to “opaque” state. A cooling load reduction up to 6 kW h for a 0.343 m3volume test cell was possible by changing a 0.21 m × 0.28 m SPD glazing transparency from “transparent” to “opaque”. Average overall heat transfer coefficient of SPD glazing varied between 5.02 W/m2 K and 5.2 W/m2 K for two different states.
Ghosh, A., Norton, B. and Duffy, A. (2016) Behaviour of a SPD switchable glazing in an outdoor test cell with heat removal under varying weather conditions. Applied energy, Vol. 180, Oct. 2016, pp 695-706. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.029


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ENG 201 01 Summer I Presentation Assignment
· Due: , June 7, at 1:00 p.m. EST
· Length: 5-7 minutes
· Format: MLA or APA style (including in-text citations and list of Works Cited/References)
· Submit to: Moodle
· Prompt: Your presentation will focus on the author of your selected book. The goal of the presentation is to inform your audience about the author’s life and literary career. Here are some questions to consider:
What are their most important publications?
What awards have they won?
How have critics and the public received their work?
Has their work generated any controversy?
Who are their literary influences?
Incorporate multi-modal elements (handout, audio/visual clip, PowerPoint, etc.) in your presentation. It is imperative that you work on this assignment consistently throughout the term.
· When doing research to learn more about the author and text, be sure to use scholarly sources. There is information about distinguishing between scholarly and popular sources here: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/tutorial_files/scholarlyfree/. A good database to begin your research with is the Literary Reference Center Plus (access available through TU’s library website). Here is a link to the library’s website: http://www.tiffin.edu/library/.
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Telangana (Hyderabad) [India]: Telangana Health Minister C . Laxma Reddy launched a Tab with custom-made software ANMOL (ANM Online) that will enable them to go paperless while recording vital health care statistics and other records of patients.
The application and the Tab which will facilitate Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) to maintain patient data in digital format and have it automatically backed-up in a central server.
The ANMOL Tab will be distributed to all the 4,900 ANMs who are working in various parts of the state.
The authorities said that very soon representatives from UNICEF will train the ANMs to use the Tabs and software efficiently.
“The Central Government has decided to give tabs to ANM, when ANM’s reaches to villages for treatment of poor, they will upgrade all the information in the tab’s so that it reaches to the concern officials immediately. We are also giving training to ANM’s so that they can use the tabs very easily,” he said addressing the media here.
ANMs provide vital primary health care services at the village level to pregnant women, mothers and infants. Apart from this, they are also responsible to collect healthcare data of the local population. (ANI)


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11 Oct Highest Risk Flood Areas in Florida
Although they call Florida the Sunshine State, it’s a state that is highly susceptible to flooding. There are very few areas where floods can’t reach in Florida. Part of this is due to its location between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Not to mention the many lakes in the central regions of the state! No part of the state is flood-free. There are only lower risk flood areas and high-risk flood areas.
When you’re in a high-risk area in Florida, All Dry USA has got you covered. We provide a variety of services for water damage restoration as well as emergency repair services in Florida. We specialize in delivering effective services in case of floods and many other emergencies.
This is our guide to the different flood risk zones in Florida. Read on to learn how to protect you and your property from floods.
Florida Flood Zones
The Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) releases “flood maps” every year. These maps show which areas have the highest risk of flooding. In Florida, everywhere is a flood zone. The level of risk varies from area to area.
If you have a real estate agent, they may be able to tell you what your home’s risk level is for the year. Insurance providers have a Flood Insurance Rate Map, or FIRM, to help determine risks levels, so they are the most reliable way to find out your zone. The following is an outline of the different areas.
Properties in Zone A are subject to volatile rising waters. These may come from lakes, streams, rivers, or other bodies of water.
V zones include any first-row beachfront properties. These are the most hazardous of the zones. If you live in a V zone, you should ensure that the structures of your home and your belongings are located above the the Base Flood Elevation, or BFE.
FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program agree that buildings located in an A or V zone are in a Special Flood Hazard Area. All of these properties are lower than the BFE.
These properties are in minimal-risk areas. They have less than a 1% chance of flooding each year.
Homes or offices in these areas have not yet been studied in detail. The area may or may not have a risk.
Obtain Flood Insurance
The average homeowner’s insurance plan doesn’t cover damage in the case of a flood, as most people in the United States do not have to worry about this problem. Florida residents are part of the exception. You can purchase flood insurance separately. Its cost depends on how at-risk you are of a flood.
As A and V zones are the most hazardous zones in which to live, it is required that you purchase flood insurance to live there. This is according to the federal law. These are also the areas where the insurance is the most expensive. Other homes in minimal-risk areas do not require flood insurance, but it is recommended.
The National Flood Insurance Program offers insurance to anyone living in Florida. If you live in a low-risk area, the insurance is less expensive. According to the Program, a single-family home is limited to $100,000 coverage for contents and $250,000 for structural damage. Finding the right insurance for you today can help you rest easy during the next storm, knowing all your belongings are covered.
The biggest part of preventing flood damage to your home is knowing the risks you face in the first place. You can contact your real estate agent or insurance agent today to get more information for your address in Florida. Providers can calculate the cost of your insurance rates from there.
Although flood insurance is optional for many people, consider purchasing it for your home or business. That way, you can replace anything you need in case of an emergency. Uncertainty in your well being is the last thing you need when your home is flooding!


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The woman, said to be an employee of Channel One, interrupted a live news broadcast and urged Russians not to believe Moscow propaganda about Ukraine.
15 March 2022
A woman who interrupted a live news bulletin on Russian state TV to protest against the invasion of Ukraine has been praised by a UK minister for her “huge degree of bravery”.
Foreign Office minister James Cleverly said the stunt, along with other demonstrations in Russia, was “really important” in arming those in Russia – where it has become illegal to contradict President Vladimir Putin’s narrative of the war – with the truth about the conflict.
On Monday evening, an anchor on state-controlled Channel One was speaking during a newscast when a woman appeared on camera behind her holding a sign with “No war” scrawled in English across the top and a message in Russian below it, calling on people not to believe Moscow propaganda.
An independent human rights group that monitors political arrests identified the woman as Marina Ovsyannikova.
The group, OVD-Info, posted on its website that Ms Ovsyannikova, who identified herself as an employee of the TV station, was taken into police custody.
Mr Cleverley told BBC Breakfast: “We see people protesting on the streets in Russia. We saw that protest on the Russian news programme.
“These are incredibly important.
“It shows a huge degree of bravery for those individuals to protest against what we know is an oppressive, authoritarian state, but it’s really important that the Russian people understand what is being done in their name.
“They have been systematically lied to by Vladimir Putin and it’s really important they understand the truth of what’s going on.”
Ms Ovsyannikova, who some reports have identified as an editor for Channel One, spoke out against the war in a video on OVD-Info’s website.
“What is going on now is a crime,” she said. “Russia is an aggressor country and Vladimir Putin is solely responsible for that aggression.”
Speaking in a video address early on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised Ms Ovsyannikova’s actions.
People in Russia have limited access to information from outside their country.
Internally, Russia’s state TV regularly amplifies the government line that says troops entered Ukraine to save people from “neo-Nazis” and to defend Russians from a country that was preparing to attack.
The assault on Ukraine is being characterised in Russia as a “special military operation”, with any suggestion of a war being waged against Kyiv branded as “fake news” by the Kremlin.
Moscow has also blocked social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.

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MINT named this edition NEST!, projected as a safe space for fresh artists to develop new ideas. UBIK & S/ash Gallery were transformed into studios for collaboration, innovation and artistic fine-tuning. MINT also prepared a diverse and Covid-mitigated 2-day programme, where visitors booked a time slot. We feature the artists who participated below.
Serdal Sertdemir is a Rotterdam based artist. He works at the intersection between jewellery craftsmanship and contemporary art. Serdal’s designs are raw, clean and emphasise the natural qualities of the metals he works with. His current works are made of copper, brass, silver and stones such as Cabochon and Brilliant diamond cut. Serdal also hosts Jellewey workshops where you can learn more about the metals, make your own jewel with the materials he provides or bring your own jewel to modify. Next workshop 29 AUG more info here.
Lichun Tseng is a Taiwanese artist/filmmaker based in Rotterdam. In her works, She is interested in searching for the experience of the vital dimensions of life, absorbing and partaking in it, grasping its wholeness; in which exploration and reflective contemplation are profound mental drives. She has explored this research and practice mainly through 16mm film, installation, performance, and painting. She is one of the active members of an artist-run lab, Filmwerkplaats at WORM, where she has been developed her films and supported other artists’ films with Do-it-yourself method since 2009. Her works have been shown nationally and internationally, including the New York film festival, Internation film festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and others.
Remnant from echo and shadow
16mm | optical sound | black and white | 20min | 2020
Who is moving?
How do we start, continue, and end?
It is a search, research, and a process of the unknown and the unconscious; the full and the empty; the momentary and the eternal, which explores the space between the visible and invisible in reflection and connection.
Werner van der Zwan
In this theatre piece thrown-away objects are morphed into personalities with windshield washer motors from the scrapyard. Movement and posture express their distinct characters. These characters come to life in a play where they experience desire, aggression and disability. Broken, out of fashion or simply out of place, the objects now fend for themselves.
Bart van de Dood
Is a design student currently studying at the Willem de Kooning academy in Rotterdam. He makes bold and expressive designs that address societal matters with a humorous tone.
EyeRod Collective (Davide Amato & Polly Joy Wilson)
EYEROD is a live art collective curated by theatre-makers Davide Amato and Polly Wilson. Their current work consists of testing the boundaries between compelling theatre and rituals. They want to create disruptive and meaningful experiences that shed a burning light on the cruel reality of what it means to be human through ingenious fantasies and fiction. For these reasons, the collective EYEROD, inspired by the concept of the eye, is called an opening that makes it possible to see but also to be seen, and rod: the English name for the light-sensitive cells in the eye, which allows someone to give to receive light and see in the dark.
Ramona Redskywalker & Kye James Mcdonald Middleton
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We’ve taken another step forward at Chelmer Sports Ground with the new lighting poles arising from the earthworks platform for the new cricket nets. It’s great to finally have works out of the ground!
The bulk earthworks for the nets were completed last week with over 600 tonnes of material imported to the site. New utility services for all of the new facility (including the new change rooms, cricket nets, equipment shed and irrigation infrastructure) will be installed over the remainder of this week, and the slabs for the nets and shed are scheduled to be poured by mid-August.
Design of the new change rooms is also progressing nicely with preparatory site work for the new building expected to start in September.


Thanks to a fellow blogger over at the 2nd Grade Bike Rack we were pointed to a story over at KRTV that announced that Tonbridge Power Inc has requested its stock stop trading on the Canadian market due to “pending news”. Tonbridge Power is the parent company of MATL (Montana-Alberta Tie Line) which has garnered so much attention the past year because of eminent domain issue. You may recall that the Montana Legislature reviewed several proposed eminent domain legislative actions designed to allow the construction of this line. Tonbridge stock was selling for $2.33 a share a year ago and as of the stop trading request it was at $0.25 a share.
How is all this going to shake out for the completion of this line?
Here are some news sources for what is happening with Tonbridge Power and the MATL line:
Thanks to 2nd Grade Bike Rack for pointing us to this story
KRTV News story here
Another Informative article at the Choteau Acantha


text: FOR a third occasion, Palma will be hosting a German television celebrity show at the city's bullring, this time on Saturday 13th June at 8.15pm. It is wildly rumoured that U.K. supermodel Naomi Campbell will be attending the event. More than 10 million people follow the popular Wetten, dass ...? progamme which has its equivalent in Spain in the form of Que apostamos ... Previous occasions staged at the bullring have been enormous media triumphs. With the arrival of famous faces from the world of song and cinema, the eyes of the celebrity world following will be on charismatic German presenter, Thomas Gottscharlk. Giving substance to the event this year will be Spanish opera star Placido Domingo and reportedly Naomi Campbell. Adding glamour to the occasion will be German model and TV host Michelle Hunziker, comedian Otto Waalkes and the actor Hardy Krüger, Jr. who has also made his mark in the English-speaking film world. The bullring in Palma can seat 9'000 people and tickets for the event are forecast to be around 50 euros each. It is expected that German airline Air Berlin will be profiling the event with a possible travel package for 2'500 passengers. Musical events scheduled for the occasion include appearances by Simple Minds, as well as singer and Hollywood actress Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical fame. The glittering spectacle will last two hours and this year an added attraction will be appearances by all 22 participants in the 2009 Miss Germany competition.

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143 days of work
If you are asking how many days he was actually a member of congress, he was elected a US senator in November 2004, and served until he was elected president in November 2008. If you are asking how many days as president he has worked with congress, he works with them on a regular basis, but he does not spend his time with all of them; in other words, unlike when he was a senator, a president does not generally spend time in the Senate or in the House of Representatives, except for giving the State of the Union address annually.
You may have heard his political opponents claiming "the president won't work with us." That is not actually true; it is a partisan complaint, and each side accuses the other of it, depending on which party is holding the White House. But every president, Mr. Obama included, spends time meeting with various congressional members, sometimes from his own party, but sometimes from the other party.
Barack Obama served as an Illinois state senator for three terms. According to newspaper reports, his constituents found him to be very available, and committed to helping his district. He then served as a U.S. senator from 2004 to 2008. By most accounts, he was very involved in his senatorial work from 2004 to 2007; but when he decided to run for president, he began spending less time in Washington DC and more time on his campaign.
768 days before he started his presidential campaign, 1416 days total.
AS FEW AS THEY CAN ...AND SEEING THAT THEY JUST BILKED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OUT OF $700 BILLION+ I'D SAY WORK ISN'T THEIR STRONG POINT.
According to an email from right wing blogger Cheri Jacobus: He logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. According to FactCheck.org: Wrong. That's not the number of days the Senate was in session. From the time Obama was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2005, until the day he announced his exploratory committee on Jan. 16, 2007, the Senate was in session 304 days, according to the Secretary of the Senate's official count. But why only count the number of days the Senate was in session? Senators work even on days when the Senate is not in session. Don't you get paid for days you go to work, even if you don't have a staff meeting that day? And why stop counting on the day Obama formed his exploratory committee? He was still a Senator at that time. Don't you get paid for days you go to work, even if you are thinking about getting another job at the time? The actual number of days that Obama was a Senator is from January 3, 2005 until he was sworn in as President January 20, 2009. That's 1478 days.
How many more days is obama in office
He was there for twenty seven years. And the word 'searve' is spelled 'serve.'
President Obama served in the Illinois State Senate, beginning in 1996; he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, and then was elected president in 2008. Thus, he has at least sixteen years of political experience.
Barack Obama missed 314 (24%) of 1300 votes since Jan 6, 2005.


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The criticism of Bishop Larry Trotter online for taking a bubble bath with his 4 year old grand daughter has caused the little girl’s mother, Javon Trotter, to react and defend her father. She had this to say:
“I’m upset, I’m hurt I can’t believe that people would re-post the picture of my innocent baby and say bad things about my father who loves my baby and all kids. He would never do anything to harm them. It’s hurtful for my whole family. I don’t understand this. It doesn’t look bad. I don’t know why people would think this way. I know my father and he would never do anything to his kids. I would have not posted the photo online…We never wanted anyone else to see it. My father is hurt as well, we’re his family. He doesn’t want people to be posting his picture all over the world.”
She also said her father and daughter had on swimming trunks and that the little girl was in the water for about three to five minutes, and she was present during the entire situation.


WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Before you can dance at the prom, you’ve got to find the right outfit.
While he searched for the right attire, Nicholas Dester had a personal stylist in the form of him mom, Tammi. She made sure her son’s bow tie was just right.
Nicholas will be sporting this teal bow tie at a big event next month. It’s an event that former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow started in 2015.
“For him to understand a night like this for kiddos like this and they don’t get invited to things like this or they feel uncomfortable at events like this is huge and I think speaks volumes for Tim Tebow,” Nicholas’ father Chris Dester said.
Tebow’s annual Night to Shine is a prom for people who sometimes get left out. For people who aren’t always included. For people with special needs, like Nicholas. This high school senior has autism and struggles with anxiety in social situations. A Night to Shine gives him an opportunity to step outside his comfort zone.
“I’m excited to be able to see a lot of autistics and people that might not be autistic but still come in and show their support for this small group of people that can flourish into something more,” Nicholas said.
Nicholas’ parents have watched him flourish. He was nonverbal for a long time. But slowly, over the years, Nicholas became more and more comfortable in his own skin. And now it’s difficult to get him to stop talking.
“When we were pulling up here, Nicholas said he was super nervous and he was anxious, which is something he deals with a lot,” Chris said. “But almost like a Hollywood star coming out of their trailer, as soon as the door opened, he got the tie on and then boom, his persona comes out.”
That’s what this event does, it is all about inclusion.
“I think that’s probably the biggest thing, when the student walks away from an event like this that they just felt included,” Chris said.
Sponsors donate everything to the Night to Shine so attendees don’t have to pay for anything. That includes the ties for the guys. And the dresses for the girls. They get to pick from a wide variety of formal wear and then once they’ve decided, they say yes to the dress.
This was the party before the party. This was the dress rehearsal. In less than a month, these special needs youngsters will be made to feel extra special at Tebow’s prom. Hundreds of thousands of students with special needs will be celebrating their special qualities at various dances all over the world.
“I feel like a lot of people overlook autism and special needs in general,” Nicholas said “So when more people like Tim Tebow with such a high standing and like a value in the community everywhere, it kind of shows that maybe these people aren’t so bad.”


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There’s a whole host of abnormalities that one can find on POCUS. Some of them do not represent an acute problem. Most of them are of a minor nature and quite common, and do not need further imaging. But in a few cases, follow-up elective imaging is required. Here’s an example.
This elderly patient presented with near-syncope. A battery of tests was ordered at triage, including liver function tests. Most of these results were abnormal, showing a significant elevation compared to three months prior, when the LFTs were within normal limits. The patient was asymptomatic with respect to any gallbladder, liver or other biliary signs or symptoms. Due to the abnormal LFTs, a POCUS scan was done. This was the scan of the patient’s gallbladder.
What do you think? Is this sludge? It could be. But with sludge, you would prefer to see a fluid level/layer in order to confirm its liquid nature. The lumen of this gallbladder is almost completely filled with solid-looking material. It could be solid sludge. But this appearance should cause one to obtain elective imaging to rule out neoplasm. That was done in this case. The elective ultrasound and CT scan did confirm that this was solid sludge. But do not let this dissuade you from obtaining elective imaging to rule out a gallbladder tumour if you see something like this on the screen.
by Sarah Shafer Dantrolene is one of the few, true “muscle relaxers”. It was discovered in 1967 and approved by the FDA in 1979. Unlike paralytic neuromuscular blockers, dantrolene works post-synaptically, at the sarcoplasmic reticulum in the myocyte. It binds to the ryanodine receptor in skeletal muscle (RYR1), preventing sarcoplasmic calcium-induced calcium release. When RYR1 […]
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Understanding the anatomy of the optic nerve and visual pathways is important for understanding how lesions in different locations will cause differential visual field defects, as illustrated below.
Once leaving the orbit via the optic canal, the optic nerves enter the middle cranial fossa. Here, the two optic nerves unite to form the optic chiasm. Within the chiasm, fibres from the medial side of each retina cross over to form right and left optic tracts. The optic tracts then pass to the lateral geniculate nuclei where they synapse. Secondary neurones subsequently pass from the lateral geniculate nucleus to the visual cortex via optic radiations. Note that when a lesion lies within the optic radiations, the maculae remain unaffected.
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'There's a lot of questions': How COVID-19 will affect college recruiting
College recruitment can be one of the most challenging parts of an athlete’s career.
A study from the NCAA showed that out of the nearly 8 million students who participate in athletics across the United States, just 480,000 go on to play at NCAA programs.
Attending tournaments and clinics, piecing together highlight reels and sending schedules to college scouts are part of a process that can be exhausting at times, but necessary to make it to the next level.
However, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in which high schools and colleges around the country have transitioned to a virtual format, the process has become even more demanding.
Not only for the athletes, but also the coaches hoping to lure players to their programs.
Recruitment plans have been thrown off course with many high schools — specifically on Delmarva — opting to postpone the fall and winter sports seasons as concerns for the pandemic still linger. The NCAA is currently in a dead period regarding recruiting in which coaches are prohibited from having face-to-face contact with college-bound athletes.
But coaches still need to prepare for the future.
'That will change the landscape'
On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Salisbury University will not participate in fall sports after their respective conferences delayed the season.
It’s a tough pill to swallow for Dawn Chamberlin,, who was set to enter her 34th year as head coach for the SU field hockey team. During her tenure, Chamberlin has compiled four national championships and 21 conference titles.
The longtime coach knows the pandemic will have a significant impact on recruiting. But as one of the top Division III programs in the country, Chamberlin hopes to take advantage of the unprecedented situation.
“Student athletes who may have been committed to D-I and D-II (programs) may get let go,” she said. “That will change the landscape. There’s also going to be a lot more club opportunities. We have a lot of great club teams here … and that may make the players better. They’re playing with athletes of the same level.”
While Chamberlin and other Division III coaches hope to bring in talent that could have played at a higher level, UMES volleyball coach Trevor Callarman still expects a large talent pool when diving into the recruiting process.
The NCAA has suspended in-person recruiting in Division I through Sept. 30 due to the virus. However, college coaches are finding new ways to interact with athletes virtually.
According to data from Next College Student Athlete, there’s been a 26% increase in emails to college coaches and scouts from potential recruits, 46% percent of coaches also said their recruiting process has been delayed due to the pandemic.
Callarman, who took over the reigns at UMES in 2018, had six international students listed on his roster for 2020. The Hawks’ volleyball program has often featured players from overseas, but COVID-19 has created concerns about those athletes’ ability to return to campus.
“Are our athletes going to be able to get back into the country?” Callarman said. “There’s a lot of questions in the air. The unpredictability is definitely changing things.”
The uncertainty could open the door for more local talent at UMES, though Callarman said his staff is always looking to add talent from Delmarva high schools.
“We think there is an advantage for us,” he said. “With the circumstances how they are, it becomes more relevant to find people from this area. I think there are a lot of people who can play Division I volleyball who just don’t get recruited.”
A spring full of activity
Many conferences have discussed the option of moving fall sports to the spring. Though specifics are still vague, it would allow teams a chance to take the field or court at some point during the 2020-21 academic year.
Spring often marks prime time recruiting for many college programs. Having to balance a season and decide which high school athletes to bring aboard could be a daunting task to some, according to Salisbury men’s soccer coach Alex Hargrove.
Potential travel, meetings with athletes and campus tours could take a backseat to the work needed to be done to ensure a victory on game day.
But for Hargrove, it’s a challenge he’s more than happy to welcome.
“We’d be leaning on our total staff; maybe more than in years past,” Hargrove said. “But at the end of the day, I’d love to worry about juggling all those things after having five months of no soccer.”
The NCAA has already announced college athletes affected by the cancellation of the 2020 spring season will be granted an additional semester of eligibility. The same is expected to transpire for players who suit up in the fall.
That means a new type of roster management for coaches, having to account for an incoming freshman class and potential seniors who wish to use their extended eligibility.
The NCAA has yet to say if roster sizes will be expanded, but coaches are already planning for more players and potentially smaller recruiting classes.
Sherman Wood, head football coach at SU, already manages a large roster, noting the competition at every position.
Wood thinks an extra year of eligibility paired with the incoming freshman class will be an advantage for his team and other programs. Given the limited starting roles, the longtime Salisbury coach said spots will need to be earned if players want to see significant playing time.
“It heightens the awareness of what we’re doing,” he said. “This makes our program even more competitive, and our current kids know and understand they need to do what they’re asked to do.”
The challenges COVID-19 brings to college recruiting won’t be limited to one area.
Coaches are devising plans and preparing their staffs for how to bring the top players to campus.
Many admit it will be an adjustment, but they hope it’s one that comes with its share of benefits.
“We’re working hard to manage the best we can,” Chamberlin said. “and to come through this a lot stronger.”


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- What does Fortune Feimsters wife do for a living?
- Who is Jacquelyn Smith?
- How did Fortune and Jax meet?
- Where did Fortune Feimster go to college?
- Who was Jaclyn Smith married to?
- Does Jaclyn Smith have grandchildren?
- Who gave birth to Tig Notaro’s twins?
- Does Tig have a child?
- Is fortune a female?
- Who are Fortune Feimster parents?
- How can I watch Leanne Morgan?
- Who is fortune on to tell the truth?
What does Fortune Feimsters wife do for a living?
Smith currently works as a teacher at the Citizens of the World school in Los Angeles. Although Fortune and Jacquelyn do not currently have any children, they do share a pomeranian rescue pooch, Biggie who served as the ring bearer when the pair tied the knot in their intimate ceremony.13 okt. 2021
Who is Jacquelyn Smith?
Houston, Texas, U.S. Jacquelyn Ellen “Jaclyn” Smith (born October 26, 1945) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is best known for her role as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie’s Angels (1976–1981), and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run.
How did Fortune and Jax meet?
“I was waiting til today to say I never thought I’d A) find someone that I wanted to marry and B) legally be allowed to. But five years ago today, the day after marriage equality passed, I went to pride in Chicago and immediately met Jax. She appeared out of nowhere and it felt like I’d known her forever.26 okt. 2020
Where did Fortune Feimster go to college?
William Peace University2002South Point High SchoolThe Groundlings
Who was Jaclyn Smith married to?
Brad Allenm. 1997Anthony B. Richmondm. 1981–1989Dennis Colem. 1978–1981Roger Davism. 1968–1975
Does Jaclyn Smith have grandchildren?
Jaclyn Smith also shares a close bond with her grandkids – Gaston’s two-year-old daughter Olivia and Spencer’s five-year-old daughter Bea. Speaking about her granddaughters, Smith revealed that the girls call her Mimi. They visit me all the time.17 dec. 2021
Who gave birth to Tig Notaro’s twins?
Double the snuggles! New mom Tig Notaro took to Twitter and Facebook on Monday to share the first up-close photo of her twin sons Max and Finn, who were born via a surrogate to Notaro and wife Stephanie Allynne on June 26. The snap shows the comedian, 45, relaxing on a bed, one son flanking either side of her.2 dec. 2020
Does Tig have a child?
Finn NotaroMax Notaro
Is fortune a female?
Fortune is Funny Stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, Fortune Feimster, is one of the busiest women working today. She first became known as a writer and panelist on E’s hit show Chelsea Lately, and then starred as a series regular on The Mindy Project for Hulu and Champions for NBC.
Who are Fortune Feimster parents?
Ginger FeimsterMike Feimster
How can I watch Leanne Morgan?
Watch Leanne Morgan: So Yummy | Prime Video.
Who is fortune on to tell the truth?
Angela Kinsey/Alyssa Edwards/Fortune Feimster/Adam Rodriguez Yanny, an extreme embalmer, and an 18 times Grammy winner.