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By Linda Looney-Bond
A Hampton man accused of shooting a Clayton County police officer, who responded to an alleged domestic dispute earlier this year, pleaded not guilty Monday in Clayton County Superior Court.
Gerald Lewis Benn, through his court-appointed attorney, Peter Simmons, pleaded not guilty to the shooting of Officer Yolanda Shumaker, according to Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson.
Simmons could not be reached for comment Monday.
Benn is charged with aggravated battery on a peace officer, aggravated assault on a peace officer, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, robbery, criminal damage to property, and fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, according to court records.
The robbery charge stems from an accusation that Benn snatched a diamond, engagement ring off of the finger of his fiancé. Police say the taking of the ring is allegedly what started the domestic dispute.
Police credit a bullet-resistant vest with saving Shumaker's life during the shooting that took place Feb. 27, at 1258 Pebble Beach Lane in Hampton.
Benn's trial is on the court calendar for the July 20, before Superior Court Judge Matthew Simmons, the district attorney said.


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With its prominent use of CGI and helter-skelter mash-ups of fairy tales from across the literary spectrum, ABC's new fantasy-based drama "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" is like a "psychedelic romance," said writer and co-creator Edward Kitsis during the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills on Sunday.
A spinoff of the 2011 ABC show "Once Upon a Time," which was also created by Kitsis and "Wonderland" co-creator Adam Horowitz, this new show finds the famous Alice (Sophie Lowe) stuck in a mental institute after tales of her time spent down the proverbial rabbit hole strike her father as insane.
Only in "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" the rabbit hole of lore is populated by all sorts of characters that aren't found in Lewis Carroll's famous yarn. Alice's love interest, for example, is a genie named Cyrus (Peter Gadiot). It's her passion for him that drives her to break out of the asylum in hopes of finding him again in the rabbit hole. (The white rabbit she follows is played by John Lithgow.)
"We're still kids playing with our GI Joe's and mashing them up with our other action figures," said Kitsis with full-on nerdy fanboy verve, adding: "Darth Vader, I will kill you Spock."

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Small boats, their reflexions and clouds above Akaroa Harbour on the Banks Peninsula illuminated by warm morning light. Akaroa is in eastern Canterbury on the south island of New Zealand. This photo was taken in the morning of a cloudy day in November of 2008. This photo was taken with a digital camera.

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Bette Davis wasn't talking about the U.S. stock market when she uttered "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" in the 1950 classic film "All About Eve," but the metaphor is certainly apt.
The Dow Jones industrials, the index that for many investors symbolizes the stock market, tumbled 470 points today as traders reacted to worries about a slowdown in China's economy and concerns about the timing of the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates. That was a 2.84 percent plunge, landing the blue-chip index at 16,058.
The Nasdaq composite plummeted 141 points, wiping out its gains for the year. That marked a 2.94 percent drop, putting the tech-heavy index at 4,636 at day's end. The S&P 500, the index most professional money managers follow, dropped 58 points, or 2.95 percent, to close at 1,914.
According to Edward Jones investment strategist Kate Warne, investors should expect more of the same.
"We're much more likely to keep seeing triple-digit moves in the Dow because of the level the Dow is at," she told CBS MoneyWatch. "While investors all remember when the Dow was at 8,000. With the Dow at 16,000 or so, we are much more likely to see triple-digit point moves both up and down. It's hard to stomach large point moves, but putting it in perspective is important."
In fact, many experts consider the market's latest gyrations to be normal and note that the recent lack of wild price moves was atypical. In a blog post published on his company's website, Vanguard chief investment officer Tim Buckley argued that stock markets usually experience a drop of 10 percent or more, dubbed a "correction" on Wall Street, every 18 months. But the last correction in U.S. stocks occurred in October 2011.
That's why Buckley is among those urging investors not to act rashly because of recent price moves. "You need discipline to stick with a well-established long-term investment plan and courage to endure short-term volatility," Buckley wrote.
Indeed, many individual investors appear to be taking the current wild ride in stride. Edward Jones reports an increase in calls from investors in the past two weeks, but Warne noted that most have come from investors seeking additional information and don't indicate any panic.
Vanguard also experienced what it considered to be a "manageable" spike in customer calls, similar to what it sees during the height of tax season, said Linda Wolohan, a company spokeswoman. And Ameriprise Financial spokesman Chris Reese said, "Ameriprise did see a spike in client activity and a majority of that activity was buying."
"This is a situation where you don't want to let your emotions get the best of you. Instead look for bargains that may appear," Craig Brimhall, vice president of Wealth Strategies for Ameriprise, said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch. "Although the recent market conditions may put a dent in consumer confidence, they are certainly not cause for panic and shouldn't be unexpected considering the run we've had."
Indeed, investors have several reasons to keep an even keel. First, U.S. growth was a stronger-than-expected 3.7 percent in the second quarter, though the consensus sees it moderating to a 2.7 percent increase in the second half. Still, that's well-above the 0.3 percent increase seen in the eurozone and the 0.4 percent contraction in Japan.
U.S. unemployment has fallen steadily in recent years and was 5.3 percent in July. Friday's jobs report is expected to show an small rise to 5.4 percent in August, but forecasters see joblessness falling to 5.1 percent by year-end.
Taking an even longer-term view, many experts caution investors against abandoning the market. The average annual gain on stocks has been between 7 percent and 9 percent since World War II, far better than other classes of investments.
LPL Financial is even sticking with its call for a healthy rise in stock values for this year. "We reiterate our forecast for stocks to produce mid- to high-single-digit returns in 2015," said Burt White, chief investment officer, in a statement.
Among the potentially supportive factors LPL cites are: "1) better growth in Europe and Japan (along with the potential for more stimulus), 2) low interest rates that make bonds relatively less attractive than stocks, 3) a Federal Reserve (Fed) that may keep rates "lower for longer," 4) low but stable oil prices, 5) historically strong fourth quarter seasonality, and 6) price-to-earnings multiples that have fallen to long-term average levels."
Still, that doesn't mean it'll be anything like a smooth ride from here, so keep that seat belt fastened.
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In this chapter, we focus particularly on the mediating role of the university, in close connection with vocational institutions and informal community actors, in developing an inclusive approach to vocational education and training (VET) through an expanded social ecosystem for skills model. Here we draw upon lessons learnt from the Alice and Gulu cases on community-based approaches to establishing an expanded skills ecosystem approach to VET in Africa. The main question guiding this chapter relates to the possible mediating role of the university to enhance a regional expanded ecosystem for supporting quality vocational education that is also relevant to its context, including emergent possibilities to build skills and livelihoods linked to just transitions.
Universities are not VET centres as conventionally understood, but they can contribute to VET in various ways. Most often, universities are identified as contributing to the qualifications and training of VET educators. In this chapter, we take a different angle and consider the role of engaged research and community engagement as two approaches that can contribute to the advancement of an expanded social ecosystem model with positive benefits for VET institutions. Drawing on insights gained in the earlier chapters of this book requires us to take into account several important realities as previously discussed, as well as key ingredients for the development of a regional skills ecosystem of vocational education, as demonstrated by the two cases considered in this chapter.
First, in terms of existing realities in many rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa, we need to take account of the legacies of colonial and apartheid policies and marginalizations that have left many people struggling without adequate income in the formal economy. As we have already noted, people tend to rely heavily on the land and natural resources and engage in subsistence farming with little or no value chain development. As we detailed in Chapter 3, coupled to this, people experience environmental degradation, educational exclusion and marginalization. These affect everybody but most especially women and youths in the rural areas. The legacies of apartheid in South Africa and the violent conflict era in Uganda still have a tremendous impact on the lives of people across generations, including on their VET systems (Rampedi, 2003; Angucia, 2010; Angucia and Amone-P’Olak, 2010; Openjuru, 2010; Kraak et al, 2016; Lotz-Sisitka et al, 2016, 2021; Van der Linden et al, 2020).
Working on a renewed approach to VET in Sub-Saharan Africa also implies grounding the approach more adequately in skills development that can advance the huge informal economy, a recurrent argument of this book. South Africa and Uganda differ slightly here as the formal economy is substantially larger in the former, but South Africa has also excluded a focus on development of the informal economy in its formal approach to VET. Fortunately, there is recently an increasing recognition there that something must be done to include more young people in the economy through more proactive and diversified VET systems that also address some of the complex challenges faced by the sector. As we have argued earlier, the challenge will be to find useful connections between the informal, formal and solidarity economies with an awareness of the need for decent work and innovative forms of sustainable value chains that benefit the working, learning and living conditions of the rural population as well as the more formalized economic sectors. All of this must contribute to a move towards just transitions.
In terms of ingredients for a renewed VET approach, the previous chapters offer an interesting harvest concerning theoretical concepts as well as lived experiences in the four different cases highlighted in this book. We reprise and develop these here because they are critical to our consideration of the university as a mediator within the skills ecosystem.
On the micro level, we refer to the central concept of agency, understanding people’s actions not as behaviour but as intentional action of actors in their specific contexts. The concept of agency we have developed is not the
We also advance a notion of relational agency (Edwards, 2005) to strengthen collective notions of VET and how VET systems can transform. The notion of relational agency is central to the concept of an expanded skills ecosystem model, and it involves both individual as well as corporate agents (such as universities) and their practices, a point that we will elaborate further later in the chapter.
Another important issue is the reframing of the concept of work and what it means for many young people and communities (see also Chapter 9). In Chapter 7, we discussed the transition from education to work, which showed that for most young people in Africa today, transition is not a straight pathway. It has been called a ‘long and winding road’ (Powell and McGrath, 2018) and an ongoing ‘hustle’ (Thieme, 2013; Jordt Jørgensen, 2018), as we saw in Chapter 5. This is not only found in Africa but is increasingly being experienced globally as economies become more precarious under neoliberal policies, and as new technologies produce diversified forms of work, and the popularity of the gig economy gains ground. However, in most African societies, transitions as forms of hustling relate to difficulties in accessing and retaining education and learning opportunities, as well as work and livelihood prospects (Cooper et al, 2021; see also Chapter 7).
Young people are also dealing with a complex mix of roles, responsibilities and identities, for instance a combination of being a student, an entrepreneur, an employee and a family head (Jjuuko, 2021), oftentimes simultaneously. Another important issue is that the widespread mindset of considering vocational education as preparing youth just for handwork or a particular type of artisanal skill with limited status in society needs to be overcome. As Sennett formulates it, the head, heart and hand are all central elements of craftsmanship, which ‘cuts a far wider swath than skilled manual labour; it serves the computer programmer, the doctor and the artist’ (Sennett, 2006: 9).
It is also important to elevate the status of artisanal artistry, agency and craftsmanship in the sphere of the teachers and other educators. Teaching is not just technical or cognitive knowledge and skills transfer but includes, through a dialogue with students, dealing with ethical and normative issues (Blaak, 2021; Jjuuko, 2021). Chapter 6 revealed some of the challenges VET teachers have to navigate, which include the competing demands and expectations of employers, students, the formal and informal curriculum, as
As we noted in Chapter 6, new types of professional development are needed where theory and practice are much more connected, and learning and working are much more integrated, supported by joint ventures between the world of work and the world of education. We need to bring different types of knowledge and ways of acting together, for instance between the teacher at a VET college, the student in her internship period and the experiences of the daily supervisor at the workplace, and we need to consider the realities and politics of young people’s lives lived as these shape VET possibilities and experiences (Oinas et al, 2018; Swartz et al, 2021). Another key point mentioned earlier is that in an the expanded ecosystem approach in VET, skills demand analysis and the development of value chains in a specific region should feed curriculum innovation, for instance in the area of digitalization and new technologies, or in the area of specific types of agricultural development that are suited to the agroecological conditions (Jjuuko et al, 2019; Rosenberg et al, 2020; Lotz-Sisitka et al, 2021).
At the regional level, the earlier chapters have shown that a transformed VET sector cannot be built by separate actors in splendid isolation. The need for regional horizontal connectivity between VET institutions, universities, NGOs, business foundations, youth organizations and other societal actors is pivotal. Joint learning networks and communities as found in the Alice and Gulu case study sites and discussed in Chapter 5 are promising examples of that type of connectivity. It is in the formation of learning communities that relational agency (Edwards, 2005) proves to be a useful concept when attempting to understand how people can come together, however fleetingly, to interpret a problem and respond to it. As we discussed in Chapter 5, relational agency focuses more directly on the nature of the relationships that comprise a network of expertise (Edwards, 2005). This means an approach of viewing skills as residing in an individual without the other is simplistic. Learning how to work together in engaging with the world of work is a skill in its own right (Edwards, 2005). Chapter 5 offers a very interesting illustration of the relational value that learning networks can bring to rural vocational practitioners (see also Lotz-Sisitka et al, 2021).
For the understanding of the design of learning communities and the role of networks, the approach of Wenger and colleagues concerning communities of practice is another important conceptual tool (Wenger, 1998; Wenger et al, 2011). This stresses the importance of social learning of people who share a common passion, discover mutual interests and develop a joint practice. Wenger’s more recent work aligns more with the learning network concept put forward in the Alice case and with the expanded social ecosystem model as it considers diverse communities of practice learning to advance a practice within and across a wider, networked landscape of practice (Wenger-Trayner
For a transformed VET sector, as earlier discussed, boundary crossing is a key activity to reach innovative connectivity between the world of work and the world of education. The use of field theory is fruitful for a better understanding of this transformation in institutions and boundary crossing between sectors. This theory reflects a relational worldview (Lewin, 1939; Bourdieu, 1977; Friedman, 2011). Social reality is perceived spatially, viewing all actors and sectors as interdependent. Through social interactions, actors give meaning to relationships, and as interactions unfold and get patterns, fields emerge within the social space (see also Blaak, 2021). It is possible to create in partnerships new fields in or outside of your own field (Friedman et al, 2014). These new fields are called ‘enclaves’ and emerge through a process of differentiating a new field within an existing field, but with its own configuration of positions and different norms and rules of the game, an example being the agroecological learning network that formed in the Alice case as part of the Fort Cox Agriculture and Forestry Agricultural College’s (FCAFTI) programme. This seems especially true for the spaces where learning communities are functioning. Where they can operate between different sectors and create democratic space less constrained by organizational hierarchical power structures, enclaves can be innovative learning and working spaces. For instance, the community cafés in Gulu, discussed in Chapter 5, have emerging features of an enclave. This approach could be very helpful to support boundary crossing and the establishment of learning communities in VET given the necessarily transboundary nature of the field. This is also shown in the Alice case and the work of Pesanayi (2019a), who described the boundary crossing processes in establishing VET networks of this type in great detail, both in the Alice case and in South Africa more widely and Zimbabwe. His argument was that such an approach offers relational, conceptual and practical support for multiple agents in the agricultural learning system, including lecturers and students. It also supports former graduates in contexts where the state’s role fails to provide necessary support for innovation and change.
On the macro level, we discussed in earlier chapters the central role of facilitating verticalities, referring to policy and funding institutions that determine the realities in the current VET, for instance concerning curriculum reforms and financing. Unfortunately, facilitating verticalities most often means a top-down approach, typically informed and pushed by external organizations such as the World Bank and other international donor organizations and NGOs or government policy and structurally directed governance praxis (see Chapter 2). As noted in Chapter 6, curriculum
In searching for more realistic alternatives, the development of a social ecosystem for skills approach in VET will only have a chance if the relevant social actors and stakeholders become much more involved in policy formulation and policy implementation. However, this will require that they hold capability to avoid being ‘sucked in’ to the existing style of reform and policy structuring. Instead of top-down or bottom-up processes, we need a more dialectically related approach to mobilizing facilitating verticalities and bringing them into engagement with horizontal connectivities that link learning, living and work experiences in more realistic ways. In the expanded social ecosystem model, universities have a potentially interesting mediating role with powers to mobilize facilitating verticalities in ways that more closely connect with, and therefore also support, horizontally collaborative VET partners and local economies and value chains being developed in regional contexts. This is accentuated if they can form strong partnerships with VET colleges, which are core learning institutions with the specific mandate of providing VET in localized contexts.
Main questions of this chapter
The decisive tension is that universities around the world are being encouraged by governments to assume greater responsibility for economic development and to translate knowledge into products and
services for the market – whilst at the same time being tasked to work with communities in alleviating the social and economic excesses of the market. (Bourke, 2013: 499)
We will discuss the university’s mediating roles and experiences in Alice and Gulu later in the chapter. But first there is a need to probe what kind of university concept could be appropriate to facilitate these types of new partnerships with community actors, given the tension outlined by Bourke (2013). The northern orthodoxy has shifted increasingly from seeing a university as an ivory tower to a notion of a corporate knowledge institution contributing to a knowledge economy. However, is this suitable to deal with the coconstruction of local sustainable development and associated economies? This question is especially relevant with reference to the contemporary demand for bridging political economies and political ecology as environmental degradation impacts on local economies, especially agriculture. The model of a community-engaged university, as being advanced in some spheres internationally and in South Africa and Uganda, may offer a more viable framing of universities in the contexts that we consider in this book. As Green, South African Council of Higher Education chief executive officer, has noted, ‘this means that we must unbecome what we are currently to become what we need to be’ (USAf, 2021).
Engaged research and the community-engaged university
Besides the roles of teaching and community outreach, universities in Sub-Saharan Africa see an important community-oriented role for research, which has been prominently described in many of their mission statements. For instance, the mission statement of the University of Limpopo in South Africa reads: ‘A world class African university, which responds to education, research and community engagement needs through partnerships and knowledge generation – continuing a long tradition of empowerment.’ The University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania puts it thus: ‘The unrelenting pursuit of scholarly and strategic research, education, training and public service directed at attainment of equitable and sustainable socioeconomic development of Tanzania and the rest of Africa’ (see Zeelen, 2012).
At a policy level, this is referred to as a ‘scholarship of engagement’ (HEQC/CHESP, 2006; Cooper, 2011) and in some circles as ‘transdisciplinary scholarship’ (Lang et al, 2012). In this spirit, we have been concerned not just to describe and analyse existing developments in the four cases, but also to contribute by means of practice-oriented research and community engagement to transformative change of the VET sector in the service of wider just transitions.
Applied to the stimulating role for the university in the advancement of VET, these perspectives helped us move away from looking just at skills in an atomistic way, considering instead the regional use of skills in a specific location and the contexts within which skills are being demanded. This is a move away from the dominant VET approach that assumes that once skills are available then the economy will grow. However, on the contrary, under the expanded ecosystem concept, it is increasingly becoming apparent that it is the reverse that occurs, with the local economy driving skills demand (Payne, 2007). An ecosystem approach to VET, therefore, means vocational skills training driven by the current and potential skills demand in a geographical region or sector. This means that if universities are to play a mediating role in the advancement of a skills ecosystem approach, then they would need to be involved in research that is orientated towards advancing the local economy and its value chains, while also advancing the possibilities for a just transition, interpreted as inclusive sustainable development in particular regional contexts. This must be done in ways that take the local social-economic and social-ecological conditions and histories into account and that seek to move beyond current impasses in development as experienced in local or regional contexts, which may include forms of locked in ‘path dependence’ (such as reliance on industrial models of agriculture where they are often inaccessible to the majority).
Alice: Experiences with the role of two universities
In the case of Alice, two universities have been engaged with the advancement of the expanded social ecosystem model, namely the University of Fort Hare and Rhodes University. These two universities were both engaged in working with the Local Economic Development (LED) office of the Raymond Mhlaba Municipality. Both were working in support of advancing the local economy and supporting the inclusion of local communities in advancing the local economy and seeking out environmentally sustainable alternatives to unsustainable or ecological and socially degenerative praxis. Interestingly, the two universities, working mainly out of two different faculties (Agriculture at Fort Hare and Education at Rhodes), were able to support the development of a social ecosystem for skills in different ways. Their core local partner was FCAFTI. It was the three learning institutions, together with the LED office, that led the expansion and development of an expanded skills ecosystem that was able to cross boundaries between formal and informal VET programmes and processes.
The possibility for these cooperations to expand the VET skills ecosystem in the context of the local economy and environment was initiated by small-scale farmers, who were aiming to expand their production with the support of the LED office, but who found themselves struggling with water for their crops, as we have outlined in earlier chapters. They raised this concern with the LED office, and via relational agency connections between the LED office, Fort Cox and the universities, a meeting was held in which both universities joined the agricultural institute, the LED office and a number of farmers to consider this problem together. Out of this, it was decided to form a learning network, the Imvothu Bubomi Learning Network (see previous chapters), that would involve the farmers, the agricultural college and the universities in seeking out solutions to this problem.
From here, several expansive learning ‘change laboratory’ research workshops were hosted by Rhodes University following CHAT methodology, in which a formative intervention team (Engeström et al, 2014) of researchers coengaged with people’s matter of concern (or object of activity) and helped to surface contradictions within and across their activity systems (Pesanayi, 2019a and b). This catalysed a dialectical learning process in which multiple stakeholders could work together to resolve challenges that were confronting them in their activity. In this case, the initial challenge that was identified for resolution was the challenge of water for food and advancing the local economic opportunities of the farmers. Rhodes University, as mediating contributor in the expanded skills ecosystem model, was able to mobilize resources from a national organization, the Water Research Commission, to support an extended social learning and curriculum innovation programme
To strengthen initial interactions and relational agency building in the learning network, Rhodes University offered a training-of-trainers’ course that facilitated the development of an applied social learning approach to advancing farmers’ water for food practices (Lotz-Sisitka et al, 2016, 2021). The University of Fort Hare’s agricultural faculty agreed to support some of the water for food practices through their research and were also working with the LED office on researching and seeking out solutions for advancing the rural economy. This started an extensive process of ongoing engaged research where researchers from Rhodes and Fort Cox supported the expansion of the learning network’s horizontal connectivities with various processes and tools such as learning materials, a website, radio programming, social media tools and ongoing training processes, with the most recent being establishment of an electronic resource centre in the area that is being run by a group of youth in a local agricultural cooperative (Lotz-Sisitka et al, 2021; and Chapter 5). Fort Cox played a leading role throughout in terms of local meetings, radio programming, curriculum and social learning activities leadership, while the universities worked together closely in support of their local leadership role in the skills ecosystem.
Via their role as mediating support partner, Rhodes University was again able to mobilize resources from the United Nations Environment Programme to support other tools development, such as a market transformation mobile phone application that indirectly supported market connections (Durr, 2020). Moreover, efforts were made to bring other national stakeholders such as the Spar retail chain into contact with the LED office to advance the concept of a regional hub for farmers’ produce to extend the market and value chain in the area.
Not all the initiatives worked as well as planned. For instance, the Spar retail chain–LED office link up process did not lead to the anticipated regional hub, despite extensive research done by the university and the Fort Cox and farmers’ association partners to support this (Durr, 2020). This pointed to the importance of the link between research and local policy and economic system support for the actual establishment of new value propositions in the skills ecosystem, not all of which can be done by the university. In this case, it was a decision by Spar head office (a verticality that was not ultimately facilitating) that led to the regional hub not being established, as the Spar group decided to establish regional hubs in other (presumably more profitable) areas.
Gulu: Experiences of a young university
It is important to note that the foundation of Gulu University was intended to address the challenges of the postwar situation after a conflict lasting from 1980 to 2006 (see Alava, 2018, for a description of the impact of this situation on young people). As part of its restoration strategy, in 2003, the Ugandan government established the university, which focused first on agriculture as a way of promoting quick recovery in the region. Thus, community engagement and transformation has been a high priority from the university’s beginnings.
Community university engagement has been a guiding approach for the university, an intentional relationship development between the university and its larger community (Boyer, 1996). Gulu University’s primary focus is to work with the community for their own improvement and the betterment of their daily social and economic lives. In terms of the focus of this book, this translates to a commitment to play a mediating role in developing a regional skills ecosystem.
The university works with external partners on several fronts. For example, it collaborates with the government’s Operation Wealth Creation in efforts to improve household incomes. One noteworthy activity here was the mango juice extraction from the local fruit during peak season. This demonstrated the industrial value of local mangoes, found in all homesteads, to counter the existing situation in which many are left to rot in the absence of markets. In this activity, communities gather the mangoes, which are paid for by and transported to the university for processing into mango pulp. This is then sold back to the community to improve their household nutrition, as well as to the food industry and hotels.
Gulu University is working with refugees to improve their agricultural practice and with vocational educational institutions to improve their curriculum development and delivery. It is well known for the promotion of traditional Acholi medicinal practice, welcoming traditional medicinal practitioners to do research on the efficacy of their health remedies in its laboratories in collaboration with research pharmacists. In 2021, they were working together on looking for herbal remedies for dealing with COVID-19. In addition, students work on several projects on improvement of community nutrition to address the problem of malnutrition in the community by using nutritionally improved millet, sesame and soy composite. They also work together with local communities in the development of new products and improving the marketing of existing ones.
The VET Africa 4.0 project provided an opportunity to build on this socially engaged mission and culture of the university and the experiences in the specific field of VET, supporting the existing network around the university’s UNESCO Chair in Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work. This
Examples of research activities in the VET Africa 4.0 project
To give more insight into the mediating role of the university towards a regional skills ecosystem, the following research experiences made in Gulu are relevant. In a first round of network mapping, researchers explored relationships and networks with key stakeholders, including vocational institutes, NGOs, private sector, local government and informal practitioners. It quickly became evident that the VET field in the Acholi region is disparate and chaotic. Deeper investigations, however, revealed rich networks of learning among youth in the informal spaces, as elaborated in Chapter 5. From the outset, a clear need and desire was identified for more explicit relationships and greater cooperation among stakeholders in the region. Thus, developing some enclaves of practice became a core objective of the research process, inspired by the PAR approach. Early cross-case sharing with the Alice team regarding the Amanzi for Food experience provided the Gulu researchers with a roadmap to follow. The similarities in the regional contexts of rural, agricultural-dependent areas facing particular environmental and socioeconomic challenges provided a natural synergy between the cases. Modelling, therefore, on a carefully developed community of practice in Alice led to engagement in planting the seeds for an emerging network of working, living and learning for young people.
Following two rounds of interviews and focus groups that helped to develop an understanding of the broad social ecosystem for skills in the region, a series of research engagement activities were started aimed at bringing interested people together in communities of practice to test and share potentially new practices in the vocational field. These were based on the emergent needs and challenges that were identified in the earlier rounds of research. In Chapter 5, the PAR component of the youth network and the ensuing lifelong learning cafés and radio programmes were discussed. These
Another emergent network that is worth considering here was initiated as a result of research in the formal sphere that revealed that many graduates from VET were not well prepared for real life work, and that there was a lack of resources for students to get much needed hands-on practice. This was especially apparent when it came to larger equipment such as modern cars and tractors. Therefore, it was decided to engage in a pilot virtual reality programme. Directors of several larger (public and private) VET institutes, Gulu University representatives, NGO staff, students and informal instructors decided together on a pilot programme to test the use of virtual reality in tractor driving and repair. Over a series of meetings, this small group of stakeholders developed a programme, filmed and tested it, and hosted several roundtable reflective discussions on the practical application.
At its Hoima satellite campus, Gulu University is promoting aquaculture, a new economic activity for the region yet premised on the indigenous knowledge system of fishing in rivers and lakes. The community training emphasizes practical skills development for predominantly fishing communities. It starts with an explanation of the concept of cage fish farming in the classroom to the community interest group members who will later start building the cages. Bamboo poles and nylon strings are used to construct very simple, square cages that are then mounted on floating Jerry cans. The groups then make nets, following their existing practices. These nets are then attached to the cages, which are then put in the lake and anchored by sandbags. Once ready, the cages are stocked with young fish. This is contributing both to livelihoods and nutrition in the Albertine Region.
Last but not least, the mediating role of the University became visible in the UNESCO chair conference ‘Towards meaningful education and decent work for the youth in Eastern and Southern Africa’, held in April
Discussion and insights gained
Expanded ecosystem development via relational agency
From the preceding discussion, and in reference to the expanded skills ecosystem framing, we note that considerable impact was achieved in expanding the skills ecosystems via relational partnerships with VET institutions and networks (formal and informal) to engage with and help to address local sustainable development issues. The cases discussed in this chapter show that universities have significant resources to share, especially in terms of their human capacity and knowledge coconstruction roles (education and research). They also show that universities have capacity to mobilize facilitating verticalities (for instance, policy and potential innovation funding streams) and to bring these into contact with and into a process of coresourcing horizontal connectivities. Importantly, this is not a top-down imposition of interventions, but rather a relational expansion outwards from the local context to draw in influential partners, funding, knowledge resources and potential development partners that can help with expanding the local economy as well as the knowledge and learning system. By means of these horizontal connectivities, enclaves can be developed where innovative learning processes get a chance.
As we pointed out in Chapter 4, the social ecosystem model is a conceptual framework that points to a more complex configuration of actors involved in VET and the need to bring facilitating verticalities (such as policy and national funding streams) into relationship with the horizontal connectivities and relations necessary to support VET in real world settings. In this chapter, we have shown that learning institutions, universities and vocational institutions in partnership are important mediators in the expanded social ecosystem for skills. By definition, in an ecosystem there must be interconnectedness and interaction between the different existences in that location.
If an ontological perspective grounds our conception of work (see McGrath, 2012; Lotz-Sisitka and Ramsarup, 2020; and Chapter 9), the notion of ‘demand’ shifts from being market driven only to include social justice and livelihoods-driven notions of ‘demand’, which includes work for the household (care economy), and work for the common good (ecological and social wellbeing economy), in addition to work for the state and market (public management and formal economies) (see Chapter 1). This has significant implications for VET if reconceptualized with the UNESCO (International Commission on the Futures of Education, 2021) notion of ‘education as a common good’ for the common good in view. It ushers in a new social contract for VET institutions, as proposed by the International Commission.
We have also shown that the insights into the emergence of an expanded skills ecosystem in the two case study contexts are enhanced by the concept of relational agency, which forcefully presents the social nature of skills development and utilization, as well as the social-ecological dynamics of skills demand and utilization. We note too that Wedekind (2016) has argued for relational agency and collegiality as mechanism for this within public VET institutions themselves where hierarchies in social relations tend to dominate, as they have historically also done between universities and vocational providers due mainly to social stigma and the reproduction of elites by universities. Relational agency broadens from individual action or agency and brings in the element of social action in a regional social ecosystem for skills. It challenges established hierarchical relations and allows
This approach brings a new dynamic and orientation to skills acquisition or VET in terms of not only how to work, but also learning how to work together in engaging with the world of work (Edwards, 2005). This process is supported by PAR, but also through dialogical and enquiry-based pedagogical methods of group work or social learning. During such learning processes, students’ agency and its emergence in relation to context and questions of the day is a significant outcome (Lehtonen, 2015). We saw this in the Alice case where students became active agents in supporting farmers in the local agroecological system through their engagement in codesigned productive demonstration site activity. The same is evident via the expansive learning orientation of CHAT, which advances relational agency around shared objects of activity in multi-actor settings (Engeström, 2001) and supports transformative agency (Pesanayi, 2019a).
Innovation systems and social movement building, role of community actors and universities
The case study findings also show that the expanded social ecosystem for skills concept is closely aligned with innovation systems development, which entails that new products/processes/services or new technologies be brought into social use through the activities or interactions between the actors and network of organizations, institutions and policies needed to bring those ideas, products, processes and services or technologies on to the market or into sustainable development use (such as rainwater-harvesting technologies). It is therefore about a network of institutions in all sectors for the production, diffusion and use of new and economically and socially useful knowledge and informs the policy framework within which the innovation process can take
Community engagement in theory and practice
As indicated, the role of the university in providing mediating support in the establishment of expanded social ecosystems for skills also supports recent emphasis on community engagement as a core role and pillar of higher education. The relational agency deployed among the partners in the expanded social ecosystems described in our cases show universities practising community engagement. By being a key role player in the expanded ecosystem, the university is not an ‘outsider’ that is ‘developing the community’, as can be found in some examples of community engagement practice, but rather a key contributor to the local economy, community and skills system, without losing its role as knowledge producer and educator with contributions to make at national and international levels. In fact, these contributions can be brought home into the local skills ecosystem as was the case in Alice where the university was able to mobilize national and international resources (financial, social, partnerships, technology and so on) to advance the expanded ecosystem, while developing both academic research and community activity at the same time. Like work on the advancement of the expanded skills ecosystem concept, community engagement in universities often involves partnerships and coalitions that help mobilize resources and influence systems, change relationships among partners, and serve as catalysts for changing policies, programmes and practices.
We found this to be the case in our research. In the Alice case, the students involved in the programme and the programme as a whole won awards for community engagement as a form of ‘scholarship of engagement’, showing that the role of the university in advancing skills ecosystems and skills ecosystem research praxis offers strong contributions to the community engagement and scholarship of engagement role and practice in universities. Indeed, it integrates teaching, research and community engagement and does not separate these functions out in the university, as is often the case.
Conclusion and agenda for the coming years
Our intention in this chapter was to focus on the role of formal learning institutions in the formation of the expanded skills ecosystem approach to VET and skills for sustainable development. We focused particularly on the university, as the university has a key partnering role to play in skills ecosystem development work. We have shown how three universities, working together with VET learning institutions (formal and informal) in two case study sites (Alice and Gulu), were able to mobilize significant capacity, resources and new approaches (innovations) as well as contribute to social movement building through an approach that values and develops relational agency. This also centres university contributions to community via an engaged approach to teaching, research and local sustainable development praxis, reflecting a ‘scholarship of engagement’. We have indicated the key role that universities can play, especially in helping to make verticalities more facilitating through bringing resources from national and international platforms into the local economy and skills development setting, but also to mobilize new knowledge resources and approaches to local development that can open up new VET learning opportunities. In our research, we have also shown that there is a need to reframe the notion of demand in an expanded social ecosystem for skills approach to be inclusive of productivity in the traditional industrial sense, but also of productivity and demand for social and social-ecological systems knowledge and praxis for livelihoods advancement, that is, the bringing together of work, learning and living. There is a need for further research and development of LED opportunities by university partners working with other LED partners, and for deeper and more substantive engagement with the facilitating verticalities, especially when their facilitating role fails local economies and learning processes. Universities are well placed to take up such research in interdisciplinary teams. As shown in this chapter, this aligns well with innovations system development, community engagement and engaged research, as well as knowledge sharing and coproduction roles of universities who take a scholarship of engagement seriously. This orientation also repositions universities as contributors to social movement building for sustainable development in the expanded skills ecosystem model, reducing their historical isolation from local communities.
Across the book, the concept of boundary crossing (see also Pesanayi, 2019a) has come to the fore for advancing VET in Africa if we are to meet the demand for meaningful VET that is available in both formal and more informal VET learning settings. Universities should not see themselves as divorced from the VET landscape, but rather as active contributors in partnership with VET institutions (formal and informal) to sustainable skills ecosystems. Interestingly, as this chapter was being finalized, UNESCO and the Southern African Development Community were hosting a ‘Futures

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|How To Reverse Diabetes Naturally?|
|Here are a few remedial tips to reverse and lower your blood sugar levels:|
Drink an Apple Cider Vinegar Solution:
Mix 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with 1 cup of water and drink it while having a meal. Its richness in vitamins, antioxidants and minerals can make your blood glucose level go down. Do this once day and you will see a big improvement on your condition.
Avoid Refined Sugar and High Carb Foods
Taking in natural foods and drinks that have refined sugar will make your condition worse. Eating foods that have high levels of carbohydrates will also result to higher blood sugar, because once you take them in, your body will convert them into glucose and will be absorbed by the system. Diabetics are suggested to eat the right amount of fresh fruits and vegetables each day instead of munching on stuffs with sweet contents and are high in carbohydrates.
Take in Pure Honey and Cinnamon
Pure honey and cinnamon are very well-known to the diabetic community because they are potent enough to reverse diabetes. You can use these natural gifts to sweeten your food or drink instead of using table sugar.
Add Zinc to Your Daily Diet potential
Zinc plays an important role in the production, as well as in the absorption of insulin by the body. Regularly eat foods that have zinc. You may also opt to take supplements that will help you resolve your zinc deficiency. When your body lacks zinc, your diabetes glucose level will be out of control.
Educate Yourself More
You should try to get more knowledge on your condition. As much as possible, keep on researching because science always comes up with something new about treating the disease. With our present technology, there can be a lot of new findings that could help to reverse your diabetes sugar level low. A lot of diabetic patients perish because of the lack of knowledge.
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|Reversing Diabetes with the help of supplements and herbs, the natural way. Supplements can be very effective for type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. Below I have put together a short list, some that will do you good, all depending on the severity of your problem.|
1. Fish oil starts off our list, (1,000 - 4,000 mg a day) will help lower cholesterol, reduces inflammation and improves insulin sensitivity.
2. Antioxidants, for example - Vitamins E & C are useful in reducing and balancing blood sugar.
3. Multi-Vitamins and minerals are also very useful. B-Complex vitamins are a good part in any multi-vitamin. Vitamin B-6 (50 - 150 mg a day), vitamin B12 (1000 - 3000 mcg). These vitamins are extreme ly helpful in protecting against neuropathy or nerve damage, also in reversing diabetes naturally.
4. Boost up your magnesium doses (200 - 600 mg per day) this helps with glucose metabolism, which is often out of whack in diabetics.
5. Cinnamon should be consumed by all diabetics. It really helps in lowering blood sugar and keeping it under control. One or two 500 mg tablets twice daily is the recommended dose. Use cinnamon in your crusade in reversing diabetes naturally, you will be glad you did.
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Diabetes Recipe: Tasty Cooked Greens
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
This Recipe Serves 12
2 pounds fresh, tender greens
2 teaspoons corn oil
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 1/4 cups water
1 cube reduced-sodium chicken bouillon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
Dash Tabasco sauce
- Remove stems and any yellowed leaves from greens, then rinse greens well and drain.
- Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and sauté until onion is tender.
- Add greens, water, and bouillon to the pot. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes or until greens are tender, stirring occasionally.
- Add salt, sugar, and Tabasco sauce. Toss well and simmer an additional 5 minutes. May be served with cider vinegar to bring out the best in the greens.

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Independent Migration of Ions: Kohlrausch’s Law
In 1874, Kohlrausch formulated the law of independent migration of ions based on the experimental data of conductivities of various electrolytes. This law can be stated as follows:
At infinite dilution, the dissociation of the electrolyte is complete and hence each ion makes definite contribution to the equivalent conductivity of the electrolyte irrespective of the nature of other ions associated with it.
Kohlrausch examined the values of Λ0m of a number of strong electrolytes with common anions or cations and found some regularity in the Λ0m values of various electrolytes. He observed that when the electrolytes were considered in pairs having one common ion the difference between the Λ0m values were constant (Table).
Table: Differences in values of Λ0m for several pairs of electrolytes with a common ion.
These observations led Kohlrausch (1875) to state that the molar conductance at infinite dilution is different for different electrolytes and is equal to the sum of the conductance of the constituent ions of the electrolytes. This is known as the Kohlrausch’s law of independent ionic migration. The law may be expressed in the form
Λ0m = λ0+ + λ0–
Where λ0+ and λ0– are called the ion conductance of the cation and anion respectively. The above equation means that each ion of an electrolyte contributes independently to the value of Λ0m at infinite dilution. For example, the molar conductance of KCl at infinite dilution is 149.86 Ω-1 cm2mol-1. The ion conductance’s of K+ and Cl– are 73.50 and 76.30 Ω-1 cm2mol-1. According to Kohlrausch law independent ionic migration,
Λ0m(KCl) = λ0K+ + λ0Cl-
= 73.50 + 76.30 Ω-1 cm2mol-1
= 149.80 Ω-1 cm2mol-1
this is in agreement with the value measured directly. The Kohlrausch’s law of independent ionic migration is useful for calculation of Λ° for weak electrolytes for which Λ0m cannot be ascertained from the plot of Λm vs √C as shown in Table.
Table: Ion conductance at 25°C
The computation is done by addition and subtraction of Λ0 values for different strong electrolysis.

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The project, called Pure Skies, saw the London studio redesign business-and economy-class cabins to be "future-proof" against potential new pandemics.
Colour-changing ink on the seat fabric could inform passengers that the cabin has just been cleaned, and unhygienic elements such as pockets would be removed from seatbacks.
"We've taken hygiene to a whole new level," said Maria Kafel-Bentkowska, PriestmanGoode's head of colour, material and finish.
"However, as the virus is invisible, we've taken into consideration passengers' needs for reassurance while boarding."
If UVC light and heat was used to clean the cabin, photochromic and thermochromic inks on fabric surfaces would react to these cleaning methods and broadcast a "message of reassurance". These would be visible during boarding and fade once passengers are seated.
Multi-coloured lighting could be used to reassure passengers. Cyan – the colour of UV light – and purple would signal the cleaning process, before changing to warmer shades of peach and yellow during the flight.
PriestmanGoode co-founder Nigel Goode told Dezeen the pandemic is a turning point for to overhauling current aviation design.
"It's not just an opportunity, it's a necessity," said Goode.
"The cabin interiors are actually one of the safest parts of the travel journey, which is in part to do with air supply and filtration, but the perception for passengers is often the opposite because it's a small, contained environment. So we need to use design to help alleviate that passenger anxiety, and make passengers feel reassured," he said.
By redesigning aeroplane cabins from the ground up PriestmanGoode hopes to improve existing inefficiencies.
"It's an opportunity to re-think some of the things that we've accepted as the norm but are not necessarily optimised for today's passengers," said Goode.
Removing in-flight entertainment screens from the backs of seats would lose a potentially germ-harbouring surface and reduce the weight of the craft – lessening fuel consumption and emissions.
"Most passengers today though have personal devices that they use to watch content, so if you can supply entertainment that users can watch through their own device, you're able to meet passenger expectations," said Goode.
The Pure Skies concept does away with the traditional class-based seating system. Business-class seats would be "rooms" and economy seats would be called "zones".
"We felt the idea of class was dated," Goode told Dezeen. "Going forward, 'business class' passengers are more likely to be people travelling for leisure who have the means for a more private, enclosed 'room'."
Changing the name economy to zone reflects the way the Pure Skies cabin is broken into small sections.
"This helps passenger anxiety," said Goode. "It highlights the fact you're travelling in small zones rather than one large cabin"
Zone seats could be priced according to things such as extra legroom.
In the Pure Skies rooms, each seat could be sectioned off with full-height curtains. Antimicrobial materials and finishes would be embedded within the surfaces and seat fabrics.
Each room would have a gesture-controlled IFE system that could be synced to the passenger's own devices to be touch-free. Redesigned seats would have minimal split lines and welded-fabric seams.
In the Pure Skies zones, dividing screens on top of seats on every other row would separate passengers. Seatback shells would have no gaps to trap dirt, and in place of literature pockets there could be removable bags or a system for passengers to clip on their own bag.
Seat-back trays would be replaced with clip-on trays added directly from the attendant's trolley. IFE screens would be removed in favour of passengers using their own devices, with options for travellers to hire one.
The chair's reclining mechanism – typically controlled with a round button on the armrest – would be set within the fabric skin of the seat, to avoid any hard-to-clean gaps.
PriestmanGoode predicts it will take at least three years to develop and certify future cabin designs.
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Most new things take a wee bit of time to get used to. Our school lunches are an example of this. The idea of a free lunch everyday is great. Lunches by Libelle (our provider) have worked really hard to provide a variety of lunches that are healthy and nutritious. However, it was fairly predictable that not everyone would like every lunch everyday - although many children do seem to really like the food. Libelle have had a few teething problems. They are working hard to overcome them.
Every child needs food for brain break (fruit or vegetables) and food for morning tea every day. I know that many of you look carefully at the lunch menu and adjust the amount of food you provide depending upon what is on the lunch menu according to what you know about your child’s food preferences. Thanks for doing this.
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The ancient art of belly dancing has been captivating party guests for years, and your event should be no exception! Their bright and beautiful costumes and flowing dance style lends a sense of mystery and culture to the atmosphere. Some belly dancers even add extra flair with bells, swords, or cymbals. Belly dancers are perfect entertainment for parties that need some worldly elegance. Search for Belly Dancers in Lincoln, Nebraska above.
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Rustic Wood Shelving and Furniture | Community Post: How To Create Rustic Farmhouse Decor At Your Home?
Ideas for family room
Farrow&Ball (Elephant's Breath & Charlston Grey): gray walls with white trim and white shelves
Homage to Farrow&Ball (Elephant's Breath & Charlston Grey
Looking for a DIY home makeover project that packs a huge punch? Turn a boring and empty alcove into a cozy reading nook with a wood plank wall.
Wood wall - would not have thought of this. I constantly bring wood in for my wood stove. This is creative...not the wood wall but the fireplace behind.
alcoves with floating shelves by Peter Murphy Carpentry, via Flickr
I like the white shelves against the blue/grey walls and white woodwork.
I'm going to build alcove shelving and cupboards into either side of the chimney breast in the sitting room. Hopefully behind the boxing in there will be an original ireplace too!


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By Ti-Hua Chang, AsAmNews Staff Writer
Recently New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that criminals think the New York Justice system is a “laughingstock,” and repeat offenders are getting out of jail and repeating the same crimes. When asked about this, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Monday responded with a lengthy discussion of the need to treat defendants according to specifics: drug addicts need treatment, while violent criminals should be incarcerated.
“Some of the public discussion now I think doesn’t have a sort of a full understanding of what, how our system operates,”Bragg said. “So some of this, we’ve scaled up but many of these programs have been in existence …in 2016 and 2015, when we were experiencing historic lows in both crime and incarceration. So those who say that those two don’t go together are uniformed.”
IMPACT OF THE RECALL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO DA
After the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin for the belief that he was too soft on crime, the progressive, reform-minded Bragg is continuing his meet and greets sessions with ethnic and local press and not mainstream press. He aims to give the public what he considers a more accurate picture of his stand on fighting crime fairly.
“…We’re doing these in part so that the readership can get the full scope of what we’re doing directly from, you know, a trusted source and maybe not another source and also directly from me not others.”
Bragg has his work cut out for him. Some Asians on WeChat have begun a recall petition against him and Bragg is a favorite target of major conservative news organizations like Fox News and the New York Post. (In New York only the Governor can recall a district attorney).
“ …I would hope to be judged on my own record and my own background. I’m a career prosecutor who’s done these cases for 20 plus years of work to keep people safe and make our system fair…”
Today he met with Asian American reporters including AsAmNews. Bragg, the first African American to hold the office, stated that in terms of violent crime the perception that criminals were getting out of jail is wrong and only two percent of violent criminals repeat.
But Bragg said he understands the concern people felt about crime noting he has had crime hit in front of his home in Harlem.
“I had a homicide victim on my doorstep and had a shooting in front of my home just last year.”
BRAGG NOTES HOMICIDE DOWN IN NEW YORK CITY
Police statistics confirm this. Murder so far in 2022 is down, but Bragg did not mention that felony assault, burglary, robbery and grand larceny are all up. In Manhattan, robbery went up 35%.
Bragg believes a few criminals are committing most of the gun-related crimes and robberies and should be fully prosecuted.
ANTI-ASIAN HATE CRIMES HAVE FEW CONVICTIONS
A report issued by the Asian American Bar Association of New York cited that out of 233 anti-Asian hate crimes there were only 7 convictions. The head of Bragg’s Hate Crime task force, Hannah Yu, challenged the accuracy of that report noting it was based in part on media reports. She added that 6 of the convictions were in Manhattan. Yu said of the 90 open hate crime cases in Manhattan, 35 to 40 were against Asians the rest against LGBTQ, Jewish and Black communities in that order.
(The DA’s press office later said there were nine convictions city-wide and seven were in Manhattan).
ASIAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK SUPPORTS BRAGG
Interestingly, the co-executive editor of the report, Chris Kwok, told AsAmNews that Bragg has been the best District Attorney for the Asian American community ever.
“We give Bragg an A- grade and look forward to continuing to work with him.”
Bragg has requested an additional $1.6 million to expand the Hate Crimes unit growing it from the present four-person staff with assistant prosecutors rotating in, to 11 full-time staff with assistant prosecutors rotating in.
WELL-KNOWN, ALLEGED ANTI ASIAN ATTACKERS STILL IN JAIL
At the request of AsAmNews, The Manahttan DA’s office checked and found that the following are still incarcerated:
- Jarrod Powell, accused of stomping to death Yao Pan Ma
- Martial Simon, accused of killing Michelle Go by pushing her in front of subway train.
- Assamad Nash, accused of stabbing to death Christina Luna Lee.
- Steve Zajonc, accused of punching seven Asian Women as he walked downtown.
The DA’s press office added that Christian Jeffers, accused of a hammer attack against an Asian man in the subway, is also still incarcerated.
DA Bragg remains one of the few New York City elected officials to oppose building a megajail in Chinatown.
CORRECTION: In a previous edition of this story, we incorrectly quoted Bragg saying “he” meaning Mayor Adams did not have a full understanding of how the system operates. We based this on a transcript that uses artificial intelligence. Bragg actually said “the public discourse.” We regret the error.
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Prep 15 mins
Cook 45 mins
This is my Grandmother Lewis's Mac/Cheese recipe. We miss her dearly but think of her everytime "my" mother makes this. I hope you love it as much as we do.
- 2 cups macaroni
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 3 cups cheddar cheese, shredded or 3 cups Velveeta cheese
- salt & pepper
- Cook cups of macaroni; drain, cool and set aside.
- Mix together: 3 eggs, 2 cups milk, salt & pepper and 2 cups grated cheese (save 1 cup of cheese for top).
- Add macaroni to above mixture.
- Put in casserole dish and dot with butter.
- Add remaining grated cheese on top.
- Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes until bubbly.
This was so simple to make and tasted very good. I used a high end aged cheddar cheese instead of the recommended cheese, so I had to add a bit of salt to bring out the flavor but beside that this was very good. My husband agrees.
it's mac and cheese...hit the craving, but it came out very watery, even after an hour in the oven
This was really tasty, but wasn't a "creamy" Mac&Cheese ... it had a firmer texture, probably due to the eggs. I did make a few "minor" adjustments that may also have contributed to the texture - I used whole wheat macaroni and pre-cooked it to 1 min less than al dente. I used 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp pepper, and also added 1 tsp dry mustard. I mixed 1 cup 5 yr old white cheddar and 1 cup "light" aged cheddar on the inside, and put 1 cup of the light cheddar on top. I also added about a cup of thawed frozen peas/corn. If I have more time next time, I might try the method of making a roux on the stovetop first, but this recipe is very user friendly as written, and came in very handy when I needed a quick put-together make-ahead dish to leave for the babysitter to feed my kids! Thanks for posting.


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Dog Walker Hastings East Sussex (TN34): Despite the fact that we naturally all adore our dogs and think of them as one of the family, we often don't have the time to give them the care that they deserve, in particular in terms of exercising. With our active work commitments, kids to look after and social calendar to keep pace with it is not easy to fit in walking the dog, quite as often as you would like or as much as they need.
Now I reckon that you all understand that your dog needs exercising and it's beneficial that you take your dog for walks consistently, both for fitness reasons and for your dog's general health and wellness. It usually is better if you do it yourself as you are able to get quite similar health benefits as your dog, getting some essential fresh air and exercise.
Shared activities helps both parties to build a solid connection, and if you'd like to cultivate a permanent bond with your dog, this is definitely a great way to accomplish it. The unfortunate fact is however that most of us simply cannot spare the time for walking the dog, definitely not every single day, and this is one of those chores which can sometimes be postponed, or simply forgotten.
So here's where a dog walker in Hastings will be a help, giving you a regular dog walking service on a day to day basis by a reliable dog walker, taking away the stress of one of your daily tasks and allowing you more time to do demanding stuff. A dog walker will go to your house in Hastings, collect your dog and go walking for perhaps an hour or so. It might be every day, 2 or 3 times a week, or just on the days when your are otherwise engaged or have other commitments.
There are various forms of dog walking service in Hastings, a few will offer to take your dog walking on its own, while others typically take dogs out in groups of 3 or 4. If you have a certain preference in this regard, then it may be advisable to chat with a number of different dog walkers. If your pet is friendly, gregarious and gets on well with other dogs, it may be more beneficial to choose a group walking experience, however if your pet is a bit snappy, or is inclined to fight with other dogs, you should perhaps stick with one-on-one, solo walks.
Certain local Hastings dog walkers could be able to provide alternative services for pets and not only for dogs, for example they may be prepared to offer dog boarding services when you're on vacation, collect your pet and take it to the vets, provide your dog with some basic training if they are being naughty or pop along to your house daily to feed your pets. Others might even be able to offer a dog grooming service too. These services can be very useful and give a comprehensive pet care service that gives you reassurance in relation to the health, wellbeing and happiness of all of your animals and pets, while still enabling you to socialize, look after your family and work.
It is crucial however, that your own personal interactions with your dog are not entirely replaced by those of a dog walking service. This means that you should still take your dog walking whenever you can, to keep the relationship and bond strong. You need to be an important part of their exercise and training regimen to guarantee that your precious pet remains healthy, happy and loved.
Dog Walking Benefits: The benefits to your dog that will result from regular exercise and walking include: lowering of blood pressure, obesity control, decreased issues with loneliness, better mental health, increased cardiovascular fitness, stronger bones and muscles and better bonding.
How Much do Dog Walkers Charge?: As with any services, the prices charged for walking your dog may vary considerably, depending on how long the walk lasts, the type of service required, the town you live in and whether it is a group or one to one walk, but as an approximate guide you should be expecting to be charged between £10 and £15 for a 1 hour walking session with kisses and hugs thrown in for free. A 2020 UK survey found the average cost of a single dog walk to be somewhere between £10 and £11.
Things to Bear in Mind: As no qualifications or certifications are needed for dog walking in Hastings, you should be a bit thorough regarding who you opt for to walk your dog. The fact is that more or less any Tom, Dick or Harry can easily set up shop as a dog walker and begin operating that service, for that reason caution is advisable.
There might be security factors since you might be permitting access to your home so as to collect the dog or check up on your pets. A dog walker who has passed a police DBS check (formerly CRB check), will be a lot easier for you to feel reassured about. You might as well wish to find out if any prospective Hastings dog walker has a good insurance policy, to cover any accidents which involve your dog, some form of public liability insurance (PLI) would definitely be relevant.
Before you finally make your decision it's usually a great idea to allow your pet to meet up with any prospective dog walkers to ensure they get on alright.
Dog walkers are available in Hastings and also nearby in: Hollington, Pett Level, Crowhurst, St Helens, Bexhill, Silverhill, Ore, Bulverhythe, Guestling, Westfield, Icklesham, Winchelsea, Telham, St Leonards-on-Sea, and in these postcodes TN34 1PW, TN34 1SA, TN34 1TT, TN34 1GG, TN34 1YL, TN34 1UE, TN34 1JZ, TN34 1TL, TN34 1RN, TN34 1WJ. Local Hastings dog walkers will most likely have the postcode TN34 and the telephone dialling code 01424. Simply click the "quote" banner or form to get info on dog walking in your area.
The Benefits of Using a Dog Walking Service in Hastings
- A Regular Routine for Your Dog
- Your Dog Will Get Walked Come Rain or Shine
- Walking Improves Pet Health
- Less Feelings of Guilt for You
- More Socialisation for Your Pet
- Better Pet Behaviour
- Saves Time for the Owner
- Increased Stimulation
- Better Mental Health for Your Dog
- Less Stress for You
- Your Dog Can Be Walked While You Work
Current Legislation That Could Affect Dog Walkers in Hastings
- The Dog Fouling - Clean Neighbourhoods & Environment Act 2005
- The Control of Dogs Order 1992
- The Environmental Protection Act 1990
- The Dogs Protection of Livestock Act 1953
- The Countryside and Right of Way Act 2000
- The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
- The Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996
- The Animal Welfare Act 2006
- The Dangerous Dogs Act 1997 (Amendment)
Hastings Pet Related Services
There is a variety of services that can be carried out by your local Hastings dog walker including solo dog walking, cat sitting in Hastings, wedding dog chaperone, dog sitting, pet sitting in Hastings, puppy socialising, interactive dog walks, dog boarding Hastings, dog exercising, dog let-outs, house check service in Hastings, emergency dog visits Hastings, puppy visits, dog moving, small animal home visits, pet sitting, pet taxi/moving services Hastings, pet care, puppy sitting in Hastings, pet let-outs in Hastings, short dog visits in Hastings, group dog walking, dog transportation, and lots more.
Dog Walkers Near Hastings
Also: Hollington dog walkers, Icklesham dog walkers, Pett Level dog walkers, Guestling dog walkers, St Leonards-on-Sea dog walkers, Bexhill dog walkers, Telham dog walkers, Crowhurst dog walkers, Ore dog walkers, Silverhill dog walkers, Bulverhythe dog walkers, St Helens dog walkers, Westfield dog walkers, Winchelsea and more.
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Dog Walking Around Hastings
In St Helens Park Road, Bedford Road, Claremont, Tuppenney Close, The Dene, The Glebe, Croft Road, Barley Avenue, Three Oaks Lane, Churchfield, Canterbury Rise, The Cheviots, San Jose Close, Courthouse Street, St Thomass Road, Streamside Close, Cambridge Gardens, Broadlands, St Helens Court, Chick Hill, Cromer Walk, Trinity Mews, St Andrews Square, Amberstone Close, Bramble Way, Doleham Hill, Dudley Road, Badgers Way, as well as these Hastings area postcodes: TN34 1PW, TN34 1SA, TN34 1TT, TN34 1GG, TN34 1YL, TN34 1UE, TN34 1JZ, TN34 1TL, TN34 1RN, TN34 1WJ, pet owners have recently needed local dog walkers.
More Pet Services in Hastings East Sussex
Obviously, when you are searching for a dog walker in Hastings, East Sussex, you'll probably be in need of all types of different pet services and aside from pet grooming in Hastings, pet cremations in Hastings, pet care in Hastings, comfort pets in Hastings, pet photography in Hastings, dog training in Hastings, dog care in Hastings, pet sitting in Hastings, dog cremations in Hastings, puppy training in Hastings, dog grooming in Hastings, pet training in Hastings, dog photography in Hastings, mobile petting zoos in Hastings, small pet care in Hastings, and other different Hastings pet services.in Hastings, East Sussex, you could also need
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The sister of Chloe Sims, 24, is currently coupled up with 27-year-old Francesca Farago, who rose to fame on Netflix’s scandalous dating show, Too Hot to Handle.
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But what do we know about their relationship so far….
When did Demi Sims and Francesca Farago begin dating?
The pair first revealed that they were in a relationship earlier this month by sharing a snap of themselves canoodling while on holiday in Mexico.
Underneath the snaps of the duo, Demi commented: "Swipe for a kiss”. Francesca then replied: "I'm the luckiest person alive tbh“, alongside a heart-eyed emoji.
She also shared a picture of them kissing on her social media adding a single red heart for the caption. Awww!
Even Demi's ex Megan Barton Hanson couldn't handle the sweetness of the snap.
She commented: "cuties" alongside with a fire emoji.
The pair sparked romance rumours a few days prior, with Demi uploading a bikini snap with the caption: “Wild spirit, soft heart, sweet soul.”
Francesca, then commented : “You’re perfect baby.”
To this, Demi replied: “You’re mine baby,” alongside a red love heart emoji.
When did Demi Sims and Francesca Farago become official?
The pair became official on 20 January, when Demi shared footage of a romantic evening together.
Frankie arranged a surprise dinner on the beach for her new beau.
"Aw look at what she's just surprised me with," Demi shared with her 437,000 followers.
As they got nearer it became clear that the rose petals spelled out: “Girlfriend?”.
Demi was quick to accept the offer and share the news with fans at home.
"Aw I'm so happy. This is the cutest thing ever. Obviously, I said yes," she said on her story later in the evening.
They even have tattoos dedicated to each other
On a recent night out in Mexico the pair took their relationship one step further and got tattoos dedicated to each other.
Demi took to her Instagram Stories to show off a small 'F' inking on her wrist.
Meanwhile, Too Hot To Handle star Francesca got 'Demi' inked on her bottom in swirly writing.
Demi documented Francesca getting her tattoo and asked her: "Baby, how you feeling? What you gonna get tattooed on you?"
Francesca replied: "Great!" before putting her finger to her lips and not saying anymore about the inking.
Demi then told her followers that Francesca wanted to make the tattoo of her name on her bottom a bit bigger, saying: “She wants to go bigger, she's so funny!"

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Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith has made several recommendations and observations for the improvement of Carnival 2020.
His suggestions were put forward at a stakeholders’ meeting of the National Carnival Commission on Wednesday, at the Queen’s Park Savannah, where the relevant agencies operating during Carnival season were asked to give particular consideration to the following:
• The issue of members and supporters of J’ouvert bands defacing people’s properties;
• A ban on the use of glass bottles, which can be replaced by cups or cans
• Solving the issue of traffic congestion, by making Tragarete Road and Ariapita Avenue one-way on Carnival Monday and Tuesday; and
• Making the Queen’s Park Savannah two-way from Carnival Saturday to midnight on Carnival Tuesday.
Commissioner Griffith also shared concerns with officials of the Environmental Management Authority, about the noise levels in the Woodbrook district during Carnival, which negatively impact elderly persons who reside in the area- this as he pointed out that from 2:00pm on Carnival Friday to Ash Wednesday, music is blasted at high levels, much to the annoyance of property owners.