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Substudy 4 Executive summary
Substudy 4: Pilot Study of the Costs and Outcomes of Home Care and Residential Long Term Care
by Marcus J. Hollander, Neena Chappell,
Substudy 4 was a pilot for a second, larger-scale study, Substudy 5. Both studies focus on seniors. The main goal of the studies is to document the typical costs and outcomes of care for clients in home care compared to similar clients in residential care. These studies examine whether there are differences in the formal costs of services and in the health outcomes of clients living in the community versus in long term care facilities. They also measure the informal costs of care by identifying the psychological, social, and financial burdens shouldered by family, friends, and volunteers looking after clients in the community and in facilities. Thus, Substudies 4 and 5 address the impact of home care and residential care services on both clients and their families. The principal investigators for these two substudies are Dr. Neena Chappell, Dr. Marcus Hollander, Dr. Betty Havens, Professor and Senior Scholar, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, and Dr. Carol McWilliam, Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario.
The primary purpose of Substudy 4 was to test instrumentation and determine the feasibility of data collection strategies in order to identify the final structure of the interview process and the format for the data collection tools for Substudy 5. The pilot study was designed to include more measures than were needed so as to identify those measures that were critical and workable.
The major data collection tools were: a multi-section Client Questionnaire which was used to obtain information about the client directly; a multi-section Caregiver Questionnaire which was used to obtain information from an informal caregiver about his or her experience of providing care to the client; and diaries which assessed health related expenditures for the client as well as assistance and time provided by both informal caregivers and formal service providers. For each tool, information was collected regarding: the amount of time required to complete each instrument; difficulties encountered by clients, informal caregivers, and interviewers with the measurement instruments; and difficulties encountered with obtaining participation. In general, it was noted that both the Client and Caregiver Questionnaires were too long and needed to be revised to be more manageable. As well, the diaries were often incomplete or not completed at all.
Regular teleconferences were held with the investigators and research assistants to determine which of the measures used in the pilot study would be used in Substudy 5. Instruments were revised based on the results of the interviewing process, the time required to administer the instruments, and the results of the analyses. The instruments for Substudy 5 were gradually refined and included only those items that tapped information relevant to the purposes of the study. In addition, a number of issues which could affect the conduct of Substudy 5 were identified and possible solutions were discussed.


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Toxic masculinity refers to a cultural concept of manliness that glorifies stoicism, strength, virility, and dominance, and that is socially maladaptive and harmful to mental health. One of the causes of toxic masculinity is that from a young age, men are taught to suppress their feelings in fear that showcasing them will “threaten their masculinity.” Because they fail to open up about their traumatic experiences and emotions, this not only can affect their mental health but can also lead to teenage males feeling depressed and suicidal.
Another way in which toxic masculinity affects teenage boys is their ability to create bonds with other people. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), both boys and men “prefer building connection through physical activities” rather than sitting down and talking about their personal lives due to their fear of being “less masculine.” This is why it is common to see teenage boys and men with only a few close friends. Although men have feelings and close friendships with other men, they rarely display this side of their lives because they feel as though these actions don’t fall into the category of “masculinity”.
A focus point of toxic masculinity is the idea that men should not openly display their emotions. This stems from the wrongful idea that men are supposed to always be strong, and showing emotions paints them as weak. This notion is distressing in various respects, creating a society wherein the fear of being mocked or disparaged pushes males to feel uncomfortable sharing their feelings. Subsequently, it has led to a large portion of males not having a healthy outlet for them to release their negative emotions, resulting in addictions and poor mental health.
Men are more likely than women to have an alcohol or drug problem, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. This could be attributed to mental illness, which has been found to be connected to substance addiction. Both, when left untreated, can lead to worsened conditions or self-destructive behaviors such as suicide. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention reported that, “in 2018, men died by suicide four times more often than women”.
The National Sexual Violence Research Center reports that 1 in 71 men in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives, not including unreported cases. The center also stated that more than one-quarter of male victims of rape experienced their first rape when they were 10 years of age or younger. This means that boys, who don’t yet have the tools necessary to adequately process trauma, are likely to be raped at early ages. However, it is only much later that such horrors are found, or worse, hidden away in fear of being perceived as “weak”.
American organisation 1in6 was founded in 2007 to support male sexual abuse survivors. Its name is a reminder of the stark statistic that one in six men in the US will experience sexual violence before they turn 18. Speaking to Out magazine last year, the organisation’s communications director Mr Seth Stewart underlined the need to support male survivors through their extreme reticence to speak out. “It takes men two and half times longer than women survivors to disclose,” he said. In January 2020, when a media blackout was lifted and newspapers started reporting the crimes of “Britain’s most prolific rapist”, Mr Reynhard Sinaga, what struck many was the fact that his victims were men, most of whom identified as heterosexual.
As such, it is clear that toxic masculinity indeed harms those that it “applies” to. Trying to keep up the facade, many sacrifice their expressions of emotions while compromising their own well-being and mental health. If hiding behind one’s fake exterior while brooding over the struggles to stay “manly” is what masculinity entails, then the only way to classify it would be “toxic”.

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Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 42/2020 from the Finnish Game Industry and will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out the previous post here.
News are gathered from the Play Finland group posts during the week. That is why we recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group. It also guarantees that your news will be visible in the weekly newsletter /news compilation. Play Finland is at the moment one of the main channels for sharing information inside the industry.
- 16th October Miniseminaari: Taide pelissä ja peli taiteessa (online)
- 16 October W Love Games conference (online)
- TICKETS are available now and the link is first shared to those who have signed up for W Love Games newsletter. Sign up to a newsletter here.
– Madalina-Georgiana Vladau from RedLynx!
– Bogdina Buvaeva and Lamees Ouzon from Google
– Drussila Hollanda-Grönberg from Supercell
– Salla Hiiskoski from Futureplay Games
– Sergei Panin from Remedy
– Ruth Falconer from Abertay Univesity and WIGJ
– Phylicia Koh (Play Ventures)
- 21st October Game Industry Virtual Pub Quiz by IGDA Satakunta!
- 26th October Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; Psychology of Sound Design (online)
- 28th October Games Job Fair Online
- 28th-30th October Nordic VR Forum 2020 (online)
- 4th November Elite Game Developers webinar: How Lightheart Launched And Scaled UA For Mr. Autofire
- 6th of November #XmasJKL 2020 – The Finnish Game Industry Seminar / Jyväskylä
- 23rd November Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Publishing Games in China” (online)
- 7th December Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Exergaming” (online)
- 25th January Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Founding a Game Company (in Finland), Again” (online)
- 15th February Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Building Sustainable Gaming Cultures” (online)
- 29th March Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Fostering Playful Experiences with Wearables” (online)
- March 2021(Date tbc) British Academy Games Awards
- Applications already open
- Thursday 19 November 2020 – Entries close
- Tuesday 2 March 2021 – Nominations announced
- March 2021 (Date tbc) – British Academy Games Awards
- 19th April Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Next Generation of Interactive Streaming” (online)
- 3rd May Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Art of Learning by Doing – The Great Game Jam Panel” (online)
- 19th-23rd of July GDC 2021
See also The Game Industry Events calendar
EGDF in co-operation with Slovak Game Developers Association has build gameconfguide.com for complete list of games industry events and conferences and their status.
- With the initial half a million Euros in donations, the Pelimetsä project has already preserved over 130 hectares (330 acres) of Finnish forest 🌿 Now is time for the second phase, and 🌳Pelimetsä 🌲 is now a part of the activities of the Finnish Game Developers’ Association. Pelimetsä invites now moreFinnish game companies to become long-term supporters❤
- Habbo Hotel celebrates it’s 20th 🎂 anniversary! (article in Finnish only)
Johanna Verhiö got rewarded for Girls Act of the Year (Vuoden tyttöteko) 🏆 developing and supporting communities for live action role play games and digital game environments for girls.
Open jobs & Recruitment:
Koukoi Games is hiring experienced programmers
- Finnish Games Career Day will be on Wed 28th October at 9:00 – 19:00 more info here
- BusinessFinland has launched a nationwide job board to advertise jobs for #English speakers in #Finland. Advertising the open positions in the portal is free of charge for the companies.
- If you are looking for talented games industry professionals in Finland for short or long term hire – please check out ever growing #GamesFactoryTalentBoard and please reach out for details! Also if you are #Talent working in games industry or willing to join the Finnish games industry feel free to apply! https://gamesfactorytalents.com
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
October application period for Finnish Cultural Foundation’s funds is on! Application period lasts until the end of October and games have been on their list for a couple of years. One could also think if games could be applied in the hospitals and other institutions, since they have their own program.
Joni-Petteri Kivistö is asking tips for creating boardgame prototypes.
Anton Tabris Kointähti needs some advice about collaborative development & Scrum
- Everyone is invited to watch Latvian Game Awards next Thursday! Simply go to Latvian Game Developers Association’s YouTube page
- XR Nation This week’s Citizen’s Spotlight: Marks & Clerk LLP
- Oceanhorn – The Adventure Video Game releases on Nintendo Switch on October 28
- EGD Podcast: How To Work With Gaming Startup Advisors
Kayo Games flies with drones in augmented reality.
Finnish Game Incubator applications are pouring in, and we’re starting to look through them! Apply now – fully remote, totally free and you’ll even get an entrepreneurship degree!Starting November 2020, apply by 23.10.2020Mentors include investors, marketing experts and CEOsFrom Tampere Game Hub, Business Tampere and AhlmanTotally free, remotely online on Discord, limited spots!

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Heremans Joins National Academy of Engineering
COLUMBUS, Ohio—From cars to computers, electrical and mechanical devices produce heat that is often wasted.
Ohio State University’s latest faculty member to join the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has made his career out of turning waste heat into something useful: electricity.
Joseph Heremans, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology, was elected to the NAE for “his discoveries in thermal energy transfer and conversion to electricity, and for the commercial devices employed in automobiles.”Joseph Heremans
“We’re delighted that Jos received this honor, and proud to know that he will contribute to the development of federal science and engineering policy at a time when alternative energy is so critical to our nation,” said David Williams, the Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State.
Heremans, who is also a professor of mechanical engineering and professor of physics at Ohio State, studies the quantum-mechanical properties of materials in order to understand the link between heat, magnetism, and electric currents at the atomic level.
He and his team are particularly interested in how the choice of atoms that make up a semiconductor influences the spins of electrons that flow through the material and the amount of heat they carry. Most recently, they were able to use what they’ve learned to amplify the voltage produced from a magnetic effect called the spin Seebeck effect—an important first step in making this technology more practical.
Ultimately, Heremans’ work could enable electronic devices that recycle waste heat into electricity. In a computer, his materials could enable heat-powered computation, or, inversely, provide active cooling. In a car, waste heat from the engine could be used to generate meaningful amounts of useful electrical power, and increase fuel economy.
“Ultimately, Heremans’ work could enable electronic devices that recycle waste heat into electricity.”
As an Academy member, Heremans will advise the federal government on issues of science and engineering. It’s a rare honor; of the 2 million practicing engineers in the United States, only 0.1 percent are members of the NAE.
Members are deemed by their peers to have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
Since the NAE was founded in 1964, 14 Ohio State engineers have become members.
Heremans now joins the ranks of: Meyer J. Benzakein, chair and Wright Brothers Institute Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering; Stuart Cooper, University Scholar Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor and C. John Easton Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Robert E. Fenton, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering; W. S. Winston Ho, University Scholar Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Robert G. Kouyoumjian, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering; William Marras, professor and Honda Endowed Chair in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, and professor of orthopaedics; Robert A. Rapp, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Paul G. Shewmon, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering; Robert H. Wagoner, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and George R. Smith Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and professor of mechanical engineering; Marvin White, professor of electrical and computer engineering; and James C. Williams, Honda Professor of Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
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As further evidence of the growing influence of Christian nationalism inside the Tea Party Patriots, several speakers are scheduled to bring the culture war to center stage at a big Massachusetts Tea Party rally later this month.
The anti-gay Patriot Day rally is one of two competing Tea Party rallies scheduled on April 15, marking a growing schism inside Massachusetts Tea Party groups between those who do and those who don't promote "social issues" like nativism and attacks on LGBT rights.
The other April 15 Tea Party event is a Tax Day rally in Worcester focusing on the budget and taxes. Ken Mandile of the Worcester Tea Party, an organizer of the rival rally, told the Boston Herald that, "Where the north of Boston and western Massachusetts groups get involved in social issues, we avoid them entirely. We see that as potentially divisive within the movement. ...I don't see it as what was the catalyst for the Tea Party movement. It was primarily the growth of the government deficits and debt."
is vice president of IREHR. He coordinates our Seattle office, directs our research efforts, and manages our online communications. He has researched, written, and organized on virtually all facets of contemporary white nationalism since 1992, and is internationally recognized for this effort. Devin is frequently quoted as an expert by print, broadcast, and online media outlets. In 2007, he was awarded a Petra Foundation fellowship. more...
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It is impossible to watch the video of Philando Castile’s last moments on earth and not feel profoundly disturbed. There is no denying the horror and injustice that this young man’s life was obliterated over a broken taillight, especially after watching Castile, seated in his car, speaking calmly and pleasantly and clearly with no intent to cause harm, being shot repeatedly by an officer who had presumably received advanced training in managing conflict without using lethal force.
And yet a jury viewed the same footage--of Castile politely stating that he has a firearm but is not pulling it out, and the officer proceeding to fire seven shots at point-blank range—and found that officer not guilty either of manslaughter or of dangerous discharge of a firearm. That jury was composed of ten white and just two black Minnesotans, many of whom had previously expressed pro-police and pro-gun views.
Under these circumstances, it is natural to question not only whether police officers are adequately trained and vetted before being given extraordinary power over life and death, and being placed routinely into volatile situations that require the ability to stay calm under duress. It is normal to wonder not only at the institutional racism that transforms innocent people into suspects—suspects without rights to due process—if their skin happens to be black. It also calls into question whether our legal system, wherein regular people with no special knowledge of the law, and whose biases, prejudices, and preconceived notions of justice reflect those of the society at large, are called upon to decide complex cases with enormous bearing on people’s lives.
The latter question brings to mind my own experience on a jury, which decided a domestic violence case in which the defendant was accused of throwing his ex-girlfriend against a bookshelf, choking her, and punching her in the face repeatedly following a dispute about cleaning up after a holiday dinner. In the end, after two days of deliberations in which it happened that the members of the jury who were loudest and most comfortable dominating a conversation were those who thought the defendant was not guilty, the jury returned that verdict. It remains one of my greatest shames that I, and the single other juror who felt as I did that it is in no way acceptable to leave a woman with bruises and welts on her face, neck, and back, did not stand up to those who literally said that the bruises visible in the photos did not indicate he’d hit her hard enough to be guilty.
But ultimately, the considerations that held sway in that deliberation room were many besides the desire to serve justice. One juror had a child’s birthday party to get home to, another an elderly mother. Who was I to make them put off those obligations? I, like every other person in that room, am a flawed human with no credentials or authority to decide matters of justice. In my case, the flaw that guided my conduct is a keen sense of anxiety about imposing on other people’s time. For many of my fellow jurors of both genders, theirs was an abiding mistrust of women who allege abuse by their partners.
What about Philando Castile’s jury? It seems likely that a majority of its members shared a bias in favor of police officers. Is it also possible that they shared a bias against black people, an inability to conceive of them as completely innocent no matter how deferentially they speak to officers? Is it possible that as residents of Minnesota, and in fact of the United States at this racially charged moment in time, it is impossible to assemble a jury that is free enough from racial bias to deliver a fair verdict for yet another black man or woman killed by a cop?
South Africa abolished juries in 1969 because in the midst of apartheid, mixed-race juries were inconceivable and all-white juries were recognized as unfair. Have we reached a state of such deep societal division that jury trials no longer serve us in the United States?
There are alternatives to the jury of peers, including systems that would allow for more thorough vetting of jurors, panels of trained and willing experts rather than of laypersons present against their will, or some combination thereof. Before too many more high-profile cases result in officer acquittals that beggar the imagination, it might be time to explore them.

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Lollywood turned Bollywood Actor Veena Malik visited Hazrat Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi and prayed for her upcoming Indian movie Supermodel. Veena Malik was dressed in a black suit. She was looking strange by wearing simple and cultural shalwar kameez with dupatta.
Veena Malik offered prayers at the Nizamuddin shrine. She also offered special prayers for her father Malik Muhammad Ali Aslam, mother and sisters. After offering prayers at the Nizamuddin Dargah, Veena Malik having food at New Delhi Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah.
Veena Malik wrote on Twitter post on Thursday, 25 July: “I will go to Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (R.A) sahib tomorrow…InshaAllah will pray for all my followers and fans….May God bless us all!!!”
After visiting and offering prayers at the Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi, Veena Malik posted images on her Twitter profile and wrote: “Blessedness……supreme happiness!!! Thank you God for blessing me with everything i have desired in life….I am Blessed!!”
Veena Malik said, “I’m a very religious person and it’s a pleasure for me to break my roza at Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in this holy month of Ramadan.”
Nowadays Veena Malik are engaged some Bollywood movies. In her upcoming film Supermodel, Veena Malik plays the role of a middle class girl who reaches celebrity. The film also features Ashmit Patel and has been completely shot in Fiji.

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In Issue 01, we ran three images from the book HOPI KACHINAS which was the initial inspiration for the Maniacal Mr. Melet fashion story for LET’S PANIC. We found this little gem of a book at Atlantic Book shop in Brooklyn Heights [now closed]. The paintings, first published in 1938, are by Edwin Earle. There are so many great ones, we wanted to share a few more from the book.
A Comment by the Artist
I AM NOT an anthropologist. The paintings, while they attempt to be accurate, are in no way anatomical reconstructions of individual Kachinas. In the year that I was privileged to live at Oraibi, and on my briefer visits before and since, I thrilled to the sight and sounds of Kachinas. If the pictures reflect some of this excitement, it was my primary purpose. There are many different Kachinas, and several aspects of the same being. A portrait painter finds various moods, but he selects the one which he thinks best portrays his subject—thus did I isolate a performer, who often was doing many different things during a dance. The loneliness of Soyal in the drab and dusty plaza is very moving; the sudden staccato crash of forty rattles announces a turn of the full line of Tasap dancers, and your heart skips a beat as you thrill to their dramatic impact. Or, who can remain unmoved by the majestic Hemis Kachinas benignly shaking their rattles as they would bestow the gentle rain on a parched land? There are side dancers—as with Tasap—to embroider a lively counterpoint on the deep-throated chant. There may be clowns and Koycmsi, drummer and chorus, depending upon the demands of a particular dance.
I have seen tourists pass through a village in their restless search for the unusual: “Well, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.” You have seen nothing. An Indian dance is not to be appraised as a piece of merchandise, or as a picture, or even as theater. It must be absorbed by all the senses, unhurried with sunshine and dust and a kaleidoscopic background of Indians with great cumulus clouds piled in the Arizona sky. Every type of Kachina has its subtle personality and every dance its peculiar charm. Whatever it may do for a Hopi, it is balm for the agitated mind, if one would be receptive.
Most boys are romantics when it comes to Indians, and I had a normal youth. Reading and pictures focused my interest on the Hopi, and a summer at Oraibi brought me under the spell of Kachinas. My Indian friends urged me to see the Winter Dances, and in December of 1935 I returned to Oraibi where I rented a snug little adobe house for the next year. I watched the full cycle of dances, whenever and wherever performed.
The gathering of pictorial notes posed problems, for the Hopi did not then—and still do not—permit any drawing or photography at their ceremonial dances. If I were to live in their world, I must abide by their rules. Yet they delighted in my “picturing” and congregated, men and boys, at an invitation to correct my observations. There are many variations between the dances at the three mesas, which while important to the Hopi, were overlooked by me. From the many sketches and notes, the paintings included in this book were selected and developed.
At the time of the original publication of this volume, I was pleased to permanently record what I had experienced; as I review these works, almost thirty-five years later, I regret that many Kachinas with equal significance are not included. Kachinas are still a vital part of Hopi life, and their esoteric ritual can touch the spirit of a sympathetic viewer.
As one enthralled spectator who has been deeply moved, I ac-knowledge my debt to many Hopi friends who helped me to under-stand and record some of the beauty of their ceremonies.
– EDWIN EARLE
Derby Line, Vermont. June 1970.

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(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Larnaca, Cyprus: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri stopped off late Tuesday in Cyprus on his way back to his home country, following his surprise resignation amid an escalating regional crisis.
A statement from his press office in Beirut said Hariri flew in from Cairo to meet President Nicos Anastasiades for talks on "the latest developments in Lebanon and the region".
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Department and Producers Renew Sustainability Agreement26 April 2013
US – Renewed producer commitment to the adoption of sustainable energy options will diversify farm revenues and reduce utility operation costs.
Agriculture Secretary, Thomas Vislack has said the adoption of innovative waste-to-energy projects and energy efficiency improvements on dairy farms will improve sustainability, vital in reaching the ultimate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020.
The pact, signed between US dairy farmers including representatives from the Innovation Centre for US Dairy ICUSD and the government extends an agreement signed in Copenhagen in 2009.
“We have a long and strong relationship with USDA and Secretary Vilsack, and dairy farmers and the dairy industry are very happy that USDA is entering into the next memorandum of understanding with the Innovation Centre,” said Thomas Gallagher CEO of the ICUSD. “We are all interested in sustainable agriculture and producing good food responsibly, while bolstering an important rural economy, and this new MOU lays out the road map for more improvements. That's good for dairy, good for the economy and good for consumers."
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Tenita Solanto’s journey to becoming a farmer and launching Green Panda Farms is far from traditional – but then again, her produce isn’t average either. After graduating from high school in Moore County, Tenita served in the Navy as an electronic technician working on radars and satellite systems for four-and-a-half years. The education-driven curriculum of the Navy gave her the necessary skills to land a job with IBM in Research Triangle Park. After 10 years there, Tenita set out to start her own information technology business.
The North Carolina Veteran’s Business Association supported her goal and invited her to attend an Urban Farming Seminar at the Minority Landowners Conference hosted by Fayetteville State University in 2016. Tenita’s plan was to attend the conference and help farmers use digital systems to manage their production.
Instead, she left with a new perspective on the “dying trade” and a dream to start her own urban farm.
“What I learned about urban farming is that you don’t need over 60 acres of land to do it,” Tenita says. “There are ways to farm on a small plot of land. So I started my research. I didn’t know how to grow a houseplant or anything when I first started!”
At the time, Tenita lived on a 1-acre plot of land in Raleigh. Rather than convert her backyard into a production farm, she decided to make use of her empty spare rooms. “I converted my bedrooms into a farm – racks, lights, all of it – and began experimenting with microgreens.” Tenita met her business mentor, Annette Stevenson, while networking within NCVBA. Annette encouraged Tenita to explore the niche world of microgreen farming. Don’t let their size fool you; microgreens pack a mighty punch, with more vitamins and nutrients in their leaves than some much larger plants. Most have a stem, two leaves and can be harvested after a one- to four- week growing cycle. Some microgreens taste like the full-size version.
“The broccoli microgreen has a nutty flavor, arugula gives a pepper kick, radish is spicy, and the pea shoots really taste like peas,” Tenita says. “You don’t have to cook most of the microgreens –you add it to a sandwich, salad, burger, omelet or tacos.”
After signing her first grocery store supplier, the Durham Co-op Market, Tenita realized she had outgrown her Raleigh indoor farming operation. In 2017, she applied for and received a Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA grant to purchase and restore a building in Siler City. Tenita’s wife, Christina Verwoerdt-Solanto, and family friend Pamela Lee led the charge for renovating the “run-down, shell-of-a-tin- can building.”
“It was an all-women team who did 90% of the work on the building [of Green Panda Farms],” Tenita says. “We did [the] painting, installing, insulation, wall paneling and even building. What we didn’t know, we learned. We have done everything other than installing electrical and running the plumbing lines.”
The 1,200-square-foot building is filled from floor to ceiling with more than 20 varieties of microgreens. Every morning, Tenita goes in to Green Panda Farms to tend to the plants, process midday microgreen orders and feed the fish in her aquaponics system.
Tenita grows the microgreens to order and has the ability to design custom blends based on the customer’s preferences. Folks can purchase Green Panda Farms’ produce by ordering online at greenpandafarms.com for delivery or pickup from the farm.
The Green Panda Farms’ mission is twofold: grow healthy superfoods for customers and educate the community on how they, too, can start urban farming. “Your average person does not know what a microgreen is,” Tenita says. “We want to do more outreach within the school system, spreading the knowledge that farming can be fun and cool.”
Tenita has already started the work of agricultural education by serving on the Chatham County Food Council for two years, working with early education programs, teaching veteran farm classes, partnering with NC State University to design farm kits and curriculum, and leading Cooking Matters classes with Communities in Schools of Chatham County. She currently serves on the Chatham County Agriculture Advisory Board and also plans to expand Green Panda Farms to include educational farm tours that cover three types of indoor farming: microgreens, aquaponics and hydroponics. – by Marie Muir
Field of Dreams
Emily Boynton and her husband, David Boynton, spent most of their lives in Michigan before falling in love with the “small-town sense of community they discovered in Pittsboro. In 2007, after leaving their corporate jobs behind, Emily and David decided to take the leap and buy the land that would become Fiddlehead Farm – a name inspired by the abundance of springtime fiddleheads they spotted on a visit to their newly purchased property. It was a comfortable move, given the knowledge Emily gained from having previously worked at SEEDS, a nonprofit garden school in Durham. “I learned a lot about farming and sustainable agriculture while working with [its] DIG program,” Emily says.
The farm is just over 5 acres, and Emily and David started out by harvesting vegetables and selling baked goods at local markets. As time went on, their interests drove them toward creating and “selling only value-added products [like] preserves, hot sauces, finishing salts and a few baked goods,” Emily says. Today, the bulk produce harvested from the farm are hot peppers, figs, persimmons and hardy oranges.
The couple also prioritize supporting other local farms in the area, like their neighbors, Wild Abandon Farm, whose blackberries can be found in one of Fiddlehead Farm’s jams.
“We turned our focus to [growing] things that were difficult for us to find,” Emily says. The family-owned and -operated business consists only of Emily, David, their two kids, Daniel, 14, and Willie, 11, and a helpful friend, Katie Thornburg. Both David and Emily still work full-time jobs – David at Southern Energy Management and Emily at the nonprofit Rural Advancement Foundation International–USA – and the two are experts at knowing what to grow and how to balance the many facets of farm life, from production, deliveries and shipping to acquiring produce and fruit. “It’s definitely a juggling act, but we love it.”
The Boyntons’ passion for their products – like the roasted preserves, including strawberry, one of Emily’s favorites – stems from a desire to feed their family well and to treat the Earth with respect. “We use that same love, care and very exacting standards for the food we grow, prepare and sell to the public,” Emily says. You can find Fiddlehead Farm’s products at several retailers throughout the area, including the Carrboro Farmers Market, all four Weaver Street Market locations, as well as Chatham Marketplace and Angelina’s Kitchen.
“After selling at several farmers markets over the past nine years, we’ve had the opportunity to form relationships with lots of growers,” Emily says. “If the fruit is grown organically, locally, that is always our first choice. … We use organic sugar and organic lemons in our jams. For our hot sauces and pepper jellies, we use organic vinegars. Each of our products lists the farm name or producer for the batch right on the label. That way our customers know exactly where the main ingredients came from.”
And this family, who provide a bounty of fresh, sustainable products for our community, is in it for the long haul. “We’re pretty happy with the way things are going,” Emily says. “I don’t see us leaving the farm anytime soon.” – by Megan Pociask
Seeds of Change
Chantel Johnson followed a pretty straightforward path. She graduated high school, attended Carleton College, joined AmeriCorps for two years and even got her master’s degree in social work from the University of Washington in Seattle. Then her brother, Richard “Richie” Miller, died of complications from multiple gunshot wounds in 2015.
After her brother’s death, Chantel realized she was miserable working her “cushy” 9-to-5 job; his passing gave her a heightened awareness of systemic inequality in the U.S. and a desire to become less dependent on capitalism.
“[Richie] made bad choices, but society didn’t offer him good choices,” Chantel says. “The system let us down; it was time for me to take back control of my basic needs.”
She started making her own household products, such as lotion and cleaning supplies. In 2016, Chantel took a risk and began homesteading full time. Then, unexpectedly, the Discovery Channel reached out to her with the opportunity to be cast on its “Homestead Rescue” program. In an episode titled “Homestead of Horrors,” homesteading experts visited Chantel in Bear Creek and provided her with a tiny home on wheels to easily relocate her livestock from farm to farm.
By then, the retired “city girl” from Chicago had gone country. But traveling with her homestead to the next available lot of land was exhausting and expensive – until a promising partnership arose with fellow farmer Malcolm Henry. Together, they currently tend to 500-plus meat birds, 23 pigs, egg layers, ducks and turkeys on Malcolm’s 10 acres of land in Moncure and an additional 5 acres that belong to his cousin. Malcolm has deep roots in Chatham County; his grandfather, Isaiah Taylor, served as the principal of Horton Consolidated School, now Horton Middle School, from 1944 to 1976.
“It’s the first time I’ve been able to live and work on Black-owned land,” Chantel says. “This land feels different. … Now I have an awesome farm partner who is willing to share his land with me long- term, and there are good opportunities for us in Pittsboro.”
Today, Chantel’s homestead, under the moniker Off Grid in Color, sells chicken and pork to customers online for pick up at local farmers markets including the Fearrington Farmers Market, Carrboro Farmers Market, Durham and Raleigh’s Black Farmers Market and the Salisbury/ Rowan Farmers Market. Her mission is to lead others to greater self-sufficiency through healthy food, birth coaching and community outreach.
“It’s hard to live off grid when you don’t have the resources,” Chantel says. “I want to let people know that you can do it in style … [and] to let folks of color know that they could do this.”
In addition to raising livestock, Chantel offers doula services and leads workshops and retreats on agro-wellness. Her dream is to transform Off Grid in Color into a sanctuary for health, a space where people who have suffered and experienced similar pain can come to heal.
“I used the farm to get my body, mind, soul and spirit right,” Chantel says. “Mother Earth saved me – I did visual meditations, dug my hand in the dirt, walked barefoot and learned skills that were so important to my heart.”
Chantel sees the future as one that’s more community-driven, based in helping one another for the greater good. Her theory is simple: If the community wants fresh, local food, then everyone should participate and work together to pay for it through social financing, without forcing business owners to rely on grants and loans.
For those who are interested in learning more about homesteading, sign up for Off Grid in Color’s third annual Homesteading Workshop and Retreat, set to take place Sept. 11-13. The community can also participate in Off Grid in Color’s second annual Richie’s Fall Farmer Raiser, Sept. 11 (Chantel’s birthday) through Oct. 19 (Richie’s birthday) – a fundraiser aimed at fighting racial injustice through agro-based wellness. To learn how to get involved, visit Off Grid in Color’s Facebook page. – by Marie Muir

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First, he had to deal with taking the top job in February 2020, roughly when the coronavirus pandemic first became evident. Second, he took the top chair while former CEO Bob Iger moved down the hall to become chairman of the company.
Yes, Chapek was the CEO, but his well-loved predecessor still cast a major shadow and there were even calls for him to take the top job back until the pandemic passed. That never happened and Chapek stayed the Disney CEO, steering the company through a period when its theme parks were closed, movie theaters were shuttered, and streaming services became a lot more important, but shooting content for them became difficult due to Covid.
The new boss of the House of Mouse had a lot to handle, with near-immediate calls for his replacement. He literally had to deal with problems no CEO had ever seen anything like before. He did not come through the crisis unscathed -- he was criticized for handling Scarlett Johansson's issues with her pay for "Black Widow," which eventually became a lawsuit, and how he dealt with numerous other issues.
Chapek prevailed, however, and at the end of the year, Iger's retirement became official. That made the new boss more the unquestioned leader of the company and he celebrated by sharing his priorities -- his three pillars to set the company up for success for the next 100 years -- in a memo that he shared with employees (which Variety published).
Bob Chapek's 3 Pillars for Walt Disney
Chapek's three pillars cut to the core of what he thinks has made Disney successful for so long. He focused first on "storytelling excellence."
What makes Disney so unique is that the stories we tell mean something to people. They inspire, give hope, bring us together, illuminate the world around us, and create memories. That is Disney magic, and we must continue to set the creative bar higher and higher. To that end — and in addition to all my other creative meetings — I am establishing a new standing monthly meeting with our senior creative leaders to discuss the opportunities we face as a storytelling enterprise. This will encourage collaboration, sharing of best practices, and stimulate cross-studio ideation.
During the pandemic, the Disney+ streaming service became a major driver for the company. That wasn't an accident and Iger had laid the groundwork for that success for years. Yes, the pandemic was an acceleration, but it's Chapek's second pillar, "innovation," that actually paved the way for the streaming service's massive growth.
Since Steamboat Willie, we have been the world’s foremost innovative storytellers. That must continue as technology evolves, giving our creative teams new canvases like the metaverse on which to paint. We should be especially innovative as we seek to bring stories to life in new ways — particularly if they enhance what many call our “franchise ecosystem,” which is one of the things that sets us apart.
Chapek also made it clear that the first two pillars don't matter if Disney loses sight of the third, "relentless focus on our audience."
We are a big company with many constituents and stakeholders, all of whom have a place in our decision-making. But at the end of the day, our most important guide — our North Star — is the consumer. Right now, their behavior tells us and our industry that the way they want to experience entertainment is changing — and changing fast thanks to technology and the pandemic. We must evolve with our audience, not work against them. And so we will put them at the center of every decision we make.
Disney's CEO Believes He Has all the Tools
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The CEO also lauded his ABC news division, and called ESPN, "the most trusted brand in sports," before he closed by commenting on his company's ability to entertain people who visit its properties.
"We bring people together and make magical memories that last a lifetime at our parks and on our cruise ships," he said. "We have a unique ability to impact culture and connect with people on deeply personal levels. And we have you — the best team in the business."
Daniel Kline has a long-term position in Walt Disney.


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Catholicism is paradoxical — a contradiction. It insists on Christ being the truth but it is gentle, rather than insistent in forcing belief in the truth of Christ on any person. The way some fundamentalist Catholics carry on one could be forgiven for not believing that. In the lead-up to Easter Dr Andrew Thomas Kania's examines this paradox through the Gospel story of the Woman at the Well and through some observations of Desiderius Erasmus on how to respond to Martin Luther and the Protestant reformers. Andrew's title for the essay is "Come Back To Me" (cf Ezekiel 33: 11) This essay fits so well with the style we encourage here at Catholica. It is an essay arguing against Catholic fundamentalism — an essay seeking to rediscover the essential teaching style of Jesus.
The essential lesson from Christ with the woman at the well...
In an early scene in The Gospel According to St. John, Christ is sitting alone by a well in the town of Sychar in Samaria. He is by Himself as His disciples have gone into the town to buy food. As He sits there, a Samaritan woman, who according to Eastern Christian Tradition is named Photina, comes to draw water from the well. Christ asks Photina for a drink of water, and Photina is shocked by this request; as Jesus being a Jew, should not associate with her, for Photina is a Samaritan.
This casual meeting, becomes the entry point for a conversation between the two — that has Christ reveal His knowledge of Photina's life: "Jesus said to her, 'You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.'" (John 4: 17-18, NIV) What is critical to understand in this conversation is the tone that Christ uses with Photina; He is gentle, and whereas He instructs and points out Photina's fault — He does not condemn her. This passage teaches us much about Christ's means of preaching. First, He establishes contact by showing Himself to be a person that someone as Photina would wish to speak with. In this passage, He is merely a man sitting by a well, seeking a drink of water. Photina is not confronted by a wild-eyed preacher, with fire in one fist and brimstone in the other; she sees but a man, a normal man. It is this normalcy that brings her into dialogue with Christ; Photina feels comfortable. (cf. 1 Kings 19: 11-12) Second, as part of the conversation, Christ the teacher, does not accuse Photina, but waits for her to open up to Him. Being an honest woman, she tells Christ the truth about her private life. He responds to Photina with instruction — an instruction that combined with the love he imbues in the tenor of his speech, would make her think later about the direction of her life. Christ plants the seed in Photina's mind for the Spirit to develop later. He does not hound her — but it is evident that He wishes her to question the direction of her life. He has taught her — now she must discern.
Teaching methodology from Erasmus...
In a letter written in 1521, Desiderius Erasmus speaking about how one should approach Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers, appealed for calmness. Citing Christ, St. Paul and St. Augustine, Erasmus argued that the preaching of the Kingdom of God should always be carried out, not in a threatening manner, but in a way that appealed to reason. Erasmus noted:
"It was this gentleness in teaching, this prudence in husbanding the word of God that conquered the world and made it pass under the yoke of Christ as no military force, no subtle philosophy, no eloquent rhetoric, no human violence or cunning could ever have done … A Christian, I admit, ought to be free of all pretence; but even so an occasion sometimes offers when it is right for truth to remain unspoken, and everywhere the time, the manner and the recipients of its publication are of great importance. Reliable physicians do not take refuge at the outset in their ultimate remedies; first they prepare the patient's body with less powerful drugs, and they adjust the dose to cure and not to overwhelm". (Rummel, 1990, p. 209)
In addition, Erasmus would comment in his On Education for Children, that:
"There is a good deal of truth in Isocrates' saying we learn best when we have the desire to learn; and it is from those whom we like and respect that we learn most eagerly". (Rummel, 1990, p. 89)
If we wish people to listen to what we have to say, then it is not so much the content that decides their attentiveness, but rather whether the listeners feel any emotion, association or passion for the speaker. A person will listen, if they feel that the speaker not only speaks with authority, but also with authenticity, as well as a love for the audience.
Far too often, well-meaning preachers seek to convince 'sinners' of the error of their ways, by use of threatening visions of hell, and talk of eternal damnation. Too often such threats only serve to harden the heart making the audience become yet still more recalcitrant. Such preachers fail to understand that even when Christ was tortured and being murdered; that from the very Cross, only words of love and forgiveness were issued.
The Christian message is a positive message...
The Christian message of repentance and forgiveness, that is so emphasized throughout the Great Lent, is a positive message. Christianity is uplifting; it is the religion of the Good Shepherd and the Lost Sheep; it is the religion of the Publican, the religion of the Good Thief hanging from the Cross; of the restored Peter, and the transformed Paul; it is the religion of Mary of Magdala, and the religion of St. Mary of Egypt; it is the religion of the righteous — but much more so, the religion of the ordinary man and woman who struggles to be virtuous; it is the religion of the sinner — for God reaches to the sinner with mercy, seeking them to change their ways, and to be fully restored. Christianity is a religion that is realistic; for it realizes that Saints have feet of clay, and only become Saints, through much hard work — and much Divine assistance. Christianity is the religion of the marginalized, for God came into the world, as a refugee, and left it not only as a total outcast, but worse, a criminal; it is the religion of the common man and the common woman; a religion that continues to confound the wise, as well as the materialistic. It is a religion that has offered throughout the Ages hope — a hope that even suffering has meaning, and that death has lost its sting. It is in essence the Queen of Religions — for what religion can stand higher than that which stands on the tenet, that God so loved the world that He gave His Son to become man, so that we could become God? (cf. John 3:16)
This Easter let us seek to discover Christ once again — let us find Him, or let us renew or re-confirm our love for Him; let us come back to Him with all our hearts, for He is patient, and kind, slow to anger — and full of mercy; and His love truly knows no end. (cf. 1 Corinthians 13)
Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania
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©2008-11Dr Andrew Thomas Kania


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Usually when I use these pens, I stamp an outlined image, and color them in like watercolor markers. But with this technique, you color directly onto the stamp, as if you're inking it up. What's great about this method is that you get really cool blending of the ink colors directly on the stamp!! The stamp set I used for today's card is the Holiday Sparkles set from The Alley Way Stamps.
You can watch the video below to see how it's done.
Hola and happy monday, Tanja here! I created this Card using this month's mini set Neener Neener and Cha Cha Cha.
Hi All!! Meredith here with a card that I created for a dear friend who lives far away. I used an amazing set for backgrounds called Pillow Talk. It's a fantastic set for a fun and funky graphic look. Today I've used my Distress Inks in Seedless Preserves, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean. I used good quality watercolor paper and layered each row on top of the next to create a larger variety in color. When I was done stamping, I used my Perfect Pearlized water (this is Perfect Pearls pigment powder mixed in a mini mister bottle) and sprayed the panel 5-6 times. I let it sit for about an hour to ensure it was fully dry. I then stitched the panel to the green matte and mounted it all onto a white notecard. I added my wonky stitched, hand cut, kraft banner and used the set called Delicate Doilies for my sentiment which is stamped in Hero Arts black dye ink. I used a die from Mama Elephant called Index Card for the shimmery geotags. As you can see, I've also used the Pillow Talk set to create a matching envelope! Just a little extra touch!
Hello! Lisa popping in here with a cute card that would be a great way to welcome a baby or a baby on the way! I've used some older stamp sets, including: Star of the Show, Out of This World, Got It Covered. I thought adding the stars to the ocean waves instead of the sky would add a touch of whimsy... hope you like it!
Hi everyone! Marina here! Today, I'm gonna dig out my older sets and I chose the Wigwam set!
One of my favourite ways to use a stamp is to make my custom "patterned paper" with it. This means, I use one (or sometimes 2-3) stamps to make a full background. I really like doing this because I can take any images in any set and use it.
For today, I've heat embossed the dreamcatcher image in white in different directions. The colouring is the fun part! All I did was, I took 3 colours of Distress Ink and smooches them on to the card and then I spray (quite heavily) with water so get the colours mixing! :D


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Gordon James Ramsay, OBE (born 8 November 1966) is a British chef, television personality and restaurateur. Gordon's Shepherd's Pie recipe uses just the right amount of red wine and Worcestershire sauce to create a balanced depth of flavour! This Shepherd’s Pie recipe is inspired by the defacto Shepherd’s Pie made by Gordon Ramsay. Every time we eat this Shepherd’s Pie, it … So, nowadays, cottage pie is made with potatoes, and was in the later 1800s, but it seems that it is really the “original” dish and to quibble over which meat is used might just be older English people being pedantic (I’m not scared, Gordon!) Ingredients. Reduce the heat to low, add another dash of oil and cook […] Stay safe and healthy. Increase oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7, uncover and cook for 20 mins more, until golden and bubbling. 2 tbsp olive oil. Gordon Ramsay recipes. 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I would love to hear from my friends across the pond, and if they have a family favorite recipes or tips, but for me this was the best cottage pie I have ever had. Gardens and land surrounding Cottage Pie Barn and Shepherds Pie Barn, at Cawrence farm cottages. Gordon Ramsay Shepherd's Pie with Cheese Champ Topping Recipe l Lifestyle Most fish pie recipes require pre-cooked fish, but a nicer way is to bake it from raw and invest in a bottle of Noilly Prat - Read the full recipe here. Add the beef mince and brown, stirring with a wooden spoon to break up the mince as it browns. This recipe has been scaled down for my family of two so scale up as needed. He goes back to basics to show you how to make a classic version, but easier. What goes with Cottage Pie. Lambs kidneys and mushrooms don't take very long to cook at all, so having read a recipe by Gordon Ramsay I found he adds them both in at the end, so I did the same, marvellous idea! It features a classic sweet-tart or butter pie crust that surrounds a spiced apple blend. 3 years ago | 12K views. Vegetarian Whether it’s a warming savoury pie on a cold night or the ever-tempting and classic apple pie, get inspired by our range of pie recipes. Gordon Ramsay’s Guinness Cottage Pie Serves 2-4 depending on accompaniments. Shepherds pie. I used Chef Gordon Ramsay's recipe for shepherd's pie, simply switching out ground lamb for ground beef. Shepherds pie. Gordon Ramsay’s Guinness Cottage Pie Serves 2-4 depending on accompaniments. Oct 13, 2019 - Design, Decorating and Lifestyle. The Shepherd's Pie is hearty, delicious and simple to prepare, with savory ground lamb and vegetables topped with a cheesy potato crust. Most fish pie recipes require pre-cooked fish, but a nicer way is to bake it from raw and invest in a bottle of Noilly Prat - Read the full recipe here. I followed the recipe for everything except the green peas coz I do not have them on hand. F/Gas 5. 75. Hell's kitchen restaurant. Prepare the mashed potatoes. One of Gordon's favourite dishes to eat, now you can. gordon ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE (born 8 November 1966) is a British chef, television personality and restaurateur. Which means that all that I can think about is comfort food, including this incredibly delicious Shepherd’s Pie recipe from Gordon Ramsay.


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San Jose, Calif., Dec. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the Santa Clara County REALTORS® Foundation (SCCRF), the charitable arm of the Santa Clara County Association of REALTORS® (SCCAOR), donated turkeys and over $4,000 to Martha's Kitchen, CityTeam San Jose, and St. Joseph's Family Center. Together, these fantastic organizations feed thousands of families in our communities every single day. The SCCRF thanks all those who contributed to make these donations possible. “On a monthly basis Martha’s Kitchen provides 100,000 meals and distributes 175,000 pounds of groceries each month.” Martha’s Kitchen “believes that food is a basic human right not a luxury. It is vital that these communities have access to well balanced meals, which include proper proteins, vegetables, and carbohydrates.” CityTeam San Jose’s vision is “restoring lives and rebuilding communities through innovative programs which provide food, shelter, clothing, training, and spiritual transformation.” St. Joseph’s Family Center “Food Pantry is the oldest and largest program that St. Joseph’s operates. Low income families and individuals receive nutritious, balanced food baskets, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, that help them maintain a proper diet and physical well-being. Homeless receive nourishing and filling lunch bags daily, Monday through Friday. The Food Pantry established and supports 10 off-site pantries located in schools and agencies throughout the South County.” Martha’s Kitchen, CityTeam San Jose, and St. Joseph’s Family Center are committed to putting meals on the table for Santa Clara County families in need. The SCCRF is proud to partner with these organizations to bring much needed relief to our neighbors.
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The goal was to get valuable metrics in real time and continuously from steel melts, using fibre optic ceramic sensors. The aim was to thus provide a better process control at lower cost through better management of raw materials and energy, and less manual handling in an otherwise challenging environment. The goal was reach by in real time and continuously measuring temperature from a steel melt, using fibre optic sensor readout from the ceramic tip of the lance.
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The result is a new lance system for fibre optic reading of temperature continuously and in real time. The design also allows for other interesting measurement values. The outcome means that the probability is good for continued work to lead to the initially expected effects. In the long term, this may strengthen SMT as the world´s leading manufacturers of stainless steel and other advanced alloys. At the same time Agellis may become a leading global supplier of sensors for the direct and continuous measurement of a steel melt.
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The preliminary study involved an unprecedented study for lance systems that would meet the extreme demands that the environment puts on it. At the same time, the project partners needed to understand each other´s expertise. In addition to meetings in place, we have had telephone meetings every second week to best develop the project. This along with experiments in SMT experimental smelts has been very valuable. Difficulties have been in access to all interesting high-temperature rooms in order to test their tolerances, and long lead times when lance tips have been ordered.


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2G case: Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal urges SC to set aside court summons
The CBI had in its chargesheet filed on December 21, 2012, not named any individuals as accused in the case except Shyamal Ghosh and three companies.
“Cognisance (by a court) is a serious business. It involves loss of personal liberty. It also involves serious reputational issues,” his lawyer Harish N Salve told a bench comprising chief justice of India HL Dattu and justices Madan B Lokur and AK Sikri. “This order has to go.”
The CBI had in its chargesheet filed on December 21, 2012, not named any individuals as accused in the case except former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh and three companies.
But the special judge had summoned Mittal along with Hutchinson Max managing director Asim Ghosh and Sterling Cellular director Ravi Ruia as accused in the case as they were in “prima facie” in control of affairs at these companies.
“There is enough incriminating material… to proceed against the accused persons. I also find that at the relevant time, Sunil Mittal was chairman-cum-MD of Bharti Cellular Limited, Asim Ghosh was MD of Hutchison Max and Ravi Ruia was a director in Sterling Cellular, who used to chair board meetings,” the special court had said.
Ghosh, a US national, has since settled in Canada and has not challenged the special court order. Only Mittal and Ruia have done so. The prosecution alleges that the three companies in conspiracy with each other, Ghosh and then minister Pramod Mahajan caused excess spectrum to be allocated to the companies at 1% annual gross returns instead of 2% causing the exchequer a loss of Rs 846 crore. The companies unduly gained by that much, the CBI had said.
Opening arguments for Mittal on Wednesday, Salve urged the top court to set aside the order. Further proceedings in that case were earlier stayed on April 27, 2013, by the Supreme Court. That stay has since continued.
“This is a very curious case,” Salve said, pointing out that the second tranche of the spectrum for which the companies were singled out for prosecution were actually allocated during the tenure of former telecom minister Arun Shourie and not under Pramod Mahajan as stated in the prosecution case.
“The CBI has not named him (Shourie) in the chargesheet. He is alive. He signed the order. Surely, he must have given an answer,” Salve said. The minister has said that there was no “wrongdoing”, no “criminal intent”, Salve pointed out. “That should have the end of the case.”
“There is no question of personal conspiracy here. There can be a question of whether it (the policy decision) was right or wrong,” Salve argued. He also disputed claims that the allocation was timed to benefit the Bharti initial public offering, arguing that the IPO had already been oversubscribed a day before. Salve in his day-long arguments contended that the prosecution cannot “surmise criminal intent”.
“They can only investigate and prove,” he said, pointing out that there were differences within the CBI on whether to charge individuals in the companies and ultimately the bench monitoring the case had asked the CBI to go with what the director said in the case.
“The CBI director felt that the individuals should be left out,” he said. A “deliberate” and “conscious” decision was taken to leave out individuals. The special court cannot at this stage sit in appeal over the chargesheet in absence of any evidence against the accused, he said.
He also suggested that the special court had not interpreted the “attribution” theory correctly. The acts of the directors can be attributed to the company, but can the wrongs of the company be attributed to a director, he asked. “The special court has said that if the company is corrupt I am attributing it to you?”
The special court cannot look beyond the chargesheet at this stage, he argued. “May be at a later stage when more evidence surfaces.”He also accused the CBI of wrongly filing a corruption case in the excess spectrum case. “This is what happens when you try to hang a case on a knobbly peg. They have a problem. How can you conceive of a corruption case without involvement of any human beings,” he asked. “The case should have been dropped. Where do you draw a line in policy making?”
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HARVARD — The Worcester Chamber Music Society is set to kick start its 17th season this September, the group announced in a press release.
At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16 at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Ayer Road, the WCMS will host its “Consider the Source” concert, a program that “blends the old with the new,” according to the press release. The show is set to draw from multiple cultural backgrounds, with performances from Chinary Ung, Jessie Montgomery, Judith Weir and Antonín Dvořák.
The program is set to open with Ung’s “Child Song,” a tune heavily inspired by the folk music of his native Cambodia. Montgomery’s “Source Code,” a song with strong roots in Black American spirituals is next, while Weir’s “Three Chorales for Cello and Piano” will follow.
Dvořák’s “String Sextet,” inspired by his Bohemian roots, will conclude the program.
Though they are limited, tickets are now available for purchase, with prices ranging from $30 to $38 for adults, $10 for students and $5 for EBT or WIC recipients. Admission is free for seniors and those 17-years-old or younger.
The concert was funded, in part, by grants from the Ayer, Bolton, Harvard and Lunenburg cultural councils, which, in turn, are funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. To purchase tickets, or for more information, visit worcesterchambermusic.org, email firstname.lastname@example.org or call 508-926-8624.


Virginia's Republican state lawmakers last week took another swipe at the controversial federal Clean Power Plan, rejecting Terry McAuliffe's request for money to prepare a strategy for implementing it.
McAuliffe said he's considering ways to continue some work on the plan. And the roadblock pales in significance compared with a legal challenge aimed at overturning the policy.
The plan, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's effort to address climate change, calls for steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
It was put on hold in February by the U.S. Supreme Court while a lower court in Washington considers a challenge. Oral arguments in that case are set for June 2. Twenty-four states, 19 of them led by Republican governors, brought the challenge. They claim the plan is an unlawful federal overreach.
Virginia is officially on the other side. Attorney General Mark Herring – like McAuliffe, a Democrat – has joined a group of states backing the plan. He has said it's in the interest of Hampton Roads, in particular, to support climate change initiatives because of the growing threat of sea-level rise.
In the meantime, Virginia is among states that have been developing regulatory frameworks for putting the plan into effect.
Republican lawmakers in Virginia have tried to assert control over that process this year. Legislation backed and largely drafted by coal and other energy lobbyists – and vetoed by McAuliffe – would have required General Assembly approval for Clean Power Plan implementation. The GOP lawmakers also deleted money for it from the Department of Environmental Quality budget beginning July 1. McAuliffe submitted an amendment to restore the money, but the legislature rejected that move.
During a stop in Virginia Beach last week, the governor called the legislature's budget move "shortsighted" and said he'll "do whatever I can with my agency heads and so forth" to keep work on the plan from stopping altogether.
He said the federal policy would address "real issues with sea-level rise and climate change. It is happening, and you cannot stick your head in the sand like an ostrich and pretend that it's not happening."
Bill Hayden, a DEQ spokesman, said in a followup email this week that "we will be working with the governor to determine what options may be available."
The federal policy gives the states great leeway in how to interpret the plan, and McAuliffe hasn't indicated what approach he has in mind, should it survive the court challenge.
"I'd rather not get into it," he said last week .
Dominion Virginia Power, the state's largest utility, had made it clear, however, that it favors what's known as a "rate-based" approach, which calls for reductions in carbon emissions per megawatt hour generated.
Glen Besa, the Sierra Club's Virginia director, said this approach would enable Dominion to increase its overall carbon dioxide emissions – by as much as 60 percent, he contended, if it builds several more massive natural gas-fired power plants it's proposing.
Those plants would emit less carbon per megawatt hour generated than coal-fired plants that Dominion has been phasing out. But Dominion should be required to strive for something more than "getting more efficient at being dirty," Besa said.
The Sierra Club is advocating a "mass-based" approach that would require cuts in a utility's total emissions, even when new plants are factored in. It says Dominion would have to rely much more heavily on solar, wind and other cleaner technologies in that case.
Ann Loomis, a Dominion policy executive, said research has shown that over the long run, rate-based approaches lead to greater reductions overall in carbon emissions. She said that the gas plants Dominion proposes would allow it to reduce purchases of power from other utilities, much of which is generated by dirtier coal-fired plants.
Dominion this month filed a brief in the federal court case that has been widely interpreted as in support of the Clean Power Plan. In the brief, it argued that the plan "provides a flexible, accommodating compliance framework."
Some environmental advocates interpreted the filing as an indicator that Dominion – a major donor to McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign – believes he would implement the plan to its liking. Loomis said, however, "We're not under any impression that just because we asked for it, that's what the state is going to do."
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