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Friday September 24, 2021
By Lizzy Davies
A childhood encounter with a hyena inspired Hawa Jama Abdi’s first verse. Now she is part of an arts project designed to encourage women storytellers - and unite all Somalis
Zahra Abdihagi, poet and director of Somali Storytellers. Photograph: Said Fadhaye/UNDP
When Hawa Jama Abdi was eight years old, she got lost in a forest and found herself in the path of a hyena. In her place, many would have run, some would have frozen – but Jama Abdi, the blind daughter of Somali pastoralists, kept her cool, and composed her first poem. The verse ran:
I lived in fear of you, day and night
To this day, Jama Abdi does not know if the animal was deterred by the power of poetry, or perhaps a slightly less mystical force, but she emerged unscathed by the encounter. “After a while of walking with the hyena, I heard the voice of goats, far in the distance. I realised they were our goats, and I found my brother,” she says. “When I realised that [I was safe] I fell on the ground.”
It is a miracle world if I am standing in front of you, tonight
Since I am blind and cannot see anything
Come to my rescue and let your voice be my company
Eighteen years later, Jama Abdi has moved from the remote part of Somalia in which she grew up to Mogadishu, and has not had any more brushes with hyenas. But she is still writing poetry and is one of the judges in a new competition billed as the “Oscars” of Somali poetry.
The contest, which includes a category for woman poet of the year, is an attempt to showcase the vibrant tradition of Somali verse and find new voices to join venerated storytellers of previous generations. The winners will be announced at an award ceremony in Mogadishu on 21 November.
“The poem … can be used for many purposes,” says Jama Abdi. “If women use poems for awareness it can correct all the problems. So in my view, I think it’s worth investing in. I believe it’s one of the best things that can be done.”
Once called the “nation of poets”, Somalia has a rich oral storytelling history that stretches back centuries, which has often been inextricably linked with the politics of the day.
The country’s most famous living poet, Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame, known simply as Hadraawi, went to prison for five years in the 1970s after composing works critical of the then military government. In the 1980s, the late poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac, or “Gaarriye” fled the country after the then president Siad Barre threatened him – and anyone caught selling a particular poem of his on cassette tape – with death.
Poet Hawa Jama Abdi is a judge in the Somali poetry awards. Photograph: Said Fadhaye/UNDP
As Jawa Abdi says: “In Somalia, the poem is a powerful tool which you can use to defend yourself or use as a weapon for the enemy.”
Such are the political passions tied up in this that the UN Development Programme (UNDP), which is funding the poetry awards and the body behind them, the Home of Somali Poetry, has faced questions about its involvement.
But Jocelyn Mason, the UNDP Somalia resident representative, argues that art in general, rather than a divisive force, can be “a way of bringing people together”.
“The conflicts within Somalia are … caused by a range of different things. But the one thing Somalis all agree on is that poetry speaks to all of them, that Somali poetry is extremely profound and important,” he told the BBC.
Through its website, launched in August, the Home of Somali Poetry hopes to be able to offer an unprecedented archive, preserving the classics and showcasing new work from the next generation.
Another of the awards’ judges is Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, better known as Asha Lul, who left Somalia with her family at the start of the civil war in the early 90s and has since been living in the UK. Her collection The Sea-Migrations: Tahriib was critically acclaimed, and named poetry book of the year in 2017 by the Sunday Times.
Mohamud Yusuf is excited about the awards encouraging more female poets. “It’s good to show the talents of Somali women to their communities. Normally they don’t show them … but this project will help them to bring their talents out,” she says.
One woman who is already using poetry to great effect in her community is the activist Sadia Hussein, who lives in a Somali-speaking community across the border in Kenya and uses no-holds-barred verses to campaign against female genital mutilation. One poem written in Somali reads:
Before sunrise, the women dragged me to the bush like a wild animal
No one showed mercy, I burst into tears.
I bled severely.
The ground looked like a camel had been slaughtered
Zahra Abdihagi, poet and executive director of Somali Storytellers, a community organisation, says at the moment younger poets often go unacknowledged. She hopes this project will bring more diversity, in terms of age and gender.
“Whenever I hear the old voices, it’s always men; I don’t see women represented in [Somali] history or poetry,” she says. “I do believe there were female poets, but nobody ever really acknowledged them. So now I’m hoping that maybe, since we’re already making history, that women can also be part of that history as well.”

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Mackay’s boom players making it on world basketball stage
MACKAY basketballers have been paving their way onto the international circuit this month.
Mackay's Clint Steindl travelled with the Australian Boomers on Monday to finish the Sino-Australian Challenge against China.
He made his first appearance with the Boomers at the weekend, when they played China in Perth.
Meanwhile basketball superstar Mackay-born Marianna Tolo, 23, has returned from a successful first season in France and was named yesterday in the Australian Opals squad, which will take on China in three games later this month.
The Opals will face China in a three-game series on June 19, 21 and 23 in their bid to get to the 2014 FIBA Women's World Championship in Turkey.
Steindl's father, Mal has been keeping a close eye on the Boomers' performance and has the remote in hand ready to tune in when the Boomers play China for the third time today, and the fourth and final game on Friday.
The Boomers went down 61-55 to China in their first game in Perth on Friday night. However, they came back in the second game to win 85-50 on Sunday.
"Their game on Sunday was a lot better than their first and I think their offensive effort was very good," Mal Steindl said.
He said his son, who normally plays with the Cairns Taipans, is working towards trying to get into the World University Games later this year and this was certainly a step in the right direction.
"He would like to spend more time playing in Europe; going to China just gives him wider exposure, and moving from there onto the World University Games hopefully.
"We're always happy, that's his life. He sets his own goals and lives the dream."
He said his son didn't get nervous.
"He just takes it in his stride and does what he can do."

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(HealthDay)—Offering cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening followed by invasive testing in the case of positive results does not result in a significant reduction in miscarriage among women with pregnancies at high risk of trisomy 21, according to a study published in the Aug. 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Valérie Malan, M.D., Ph.D., from the Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris, and colleagues compared the rates of miscarriage following invasive procedures only in the case of positive cfDNA test results versus immediate invasive testing procedures among 2,111 women with pregnancies at high risk of trisomy 21 as identified in combined screening in the first trimester. Patients were randomized to receive cfDNA testing followed by invasive procedures when test results were positive or to receive immediate invasive testing (1,034 and 1,017 women, respectively).
A total of 1,997 of the 2,051 women who were randomized completed the trial. The researchers observed no significant difference in the miscarriage rate between the groups (0.8 versus 0.8 percent; risk difference, −0.03 percent). For trisomy 21, the cfDNA detection rate was 100 percent.
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Learn Basic Photoshop Animation Techniques
In this incredible tutorial, you will learn how to animate simple to complex designs in Photoshop! Yes, AE is in the name, but Motion Graphics is the game, and Shane Dering is quite amazing at it. As a 2D animator and designer for Adult Swim, he is one of the best in the business, sharing his techniques. This is a beginner tutorial for those learning animation in Photoshop for the first time, but may be advanced for those that are used to animating in After Effects. When you are a motion designer, you should be open to exploring many different techniques in order to up your game! Photoshop comes with Adobe Creative Cloud, so if you're already a subscriber jump right in.
As a bonus, we also posted the amazing breakdown from Alex Riggs that Shane mentions above below so you can check that out as well.
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If you were to guess which three rappers would show up on the "Turn Down 4 What" remix, Juicy J, 2 Chainz, and French Montana would probably be within your first five picks. The rappers fit as well as you'd expect, bringing Jon's EDM anthem a little further into the realm of rap.
All 3 rappers understand the importance of catchiness, which is what gives their contributions the biggest payoff.
Young Thug- Eww
Young Thug has experimented with a variety of sounds, but his breakthrough records have always been club-oriented. Still, when Thugger is looking to make something in that vein, it usually comes out a little weirder than your average party song.
"Eww", from it's title alone is something only Thug could create, weaving his watery auto-tuned flows over a very minimal beat-- something of a rarity in the high hat-filled drum patterns we've become accustomed to. Like any of his other hits, the song is a grower, and as many nay-sayers as he may have, chances are they'll be yelling out "Eww Eww Eww" in the club by next month.
Meek Mill's choice of instrumental really paid off on this one. Where we're used to hearing Meek over menacing trap backdrops, the beat for "Off The Corner" is built off of a flurrying flute sample, which adds a little more color to the song, and allows Meek to really work his flow around the instrumental refrain.
Of course, the drums are still as hard as ever, and the whole package makes for one of the most memorable tracks we've heard from the rapper in a while.
Logic and Big Sean are a surprisingly effective team. While the former comes through with furious double time off the bat, Sean takes a more understated approach, beginning with a simple melody, before gradually building his flows over the course of his verse.
Logic then of course returns to close things off with yet another flurry of multi-syllabic rhymes, book-ending the track with some of his most unrelentingly technical raps.
Mac Miller- Happy
Mac Miller dropped three new songs on us at the top of the week, but "Happy" seemed to be the clear favorite. The mid-tempo soul-sampling track takes Mac somewhat out of his weirdo stoner raps and into a more conventionally celebratory space.
The classic "let the beat build" effect helps with the triumphant tone of the track, and allows Mac to escalate from a blissfully lazy first few bars into some serious double time by the song's end. With four projects on the way this year, we'll probably be seeing plenty of sides to Mac's music, and hopefully more of this.
A selection of the biggest tracks from April 21-27.
This feature highlights a hand-picked selection of some of the bigger tracks of the week. We have chosen a few of the tracks that landed within our top 10 most played, focusing on those that stood out, and left room for discussion.
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Cruise liners which have made the Clyde their home during the pandemic are set to head back to sea as the travel industry opens up again.
Three Azamara ships, which have been moored in Glasgow’s King George V Dock since June 2020, will make the journey back down the river, ready to once again take passengers around the world.
The first of the liners to leave will be Azamara Quest, which is due to set sail on Monday July 26 at 12:30pm, an hour earlier than first anticipated.
Azamara Journey and Azamara Pursuit will follow at later dates.
Hundreds of onlookers gathered on the banks of the Clyde last summer to watch the ships arrive – an unusual sight so far upriver.
Cruise operators Azamara posted on Facebook about Quest’s departure: “If you’re in Glasgow, join us along the river to wave goodbye as she sails away.”
In an interview with The Sunday Post last year, the ship’s captain Magnus Davidson, who was raised in Shetland, said: “I know and love Glasgow, but I’ve never sailed upriver here before, so that experience was memorable.
“The scenery was beautiful and for me, personally, I felt a real sense of homecoming.
“I was very surprised to see so many people. It was extremely heartwarming to see the interest in the ship sailing up the Clyde and to feel so welcomed in that way.
“There’s always been a special connection between the people of Glasgow and the sea and to see so many people lining the riverbanks, waving as we sailed upriver, was just fantastic.”
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To add on to the excitement of season ending grand slam, NIKE unveiled its US Open gears for Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams at a Nike-built, regulation-sized tennis court in the heart of NYC.
Hopefully some of you guys read the announcement earlier and headed to the event located at 23rd Street and Broadway earlier today.
Except for Sharapova, those who joined Federer, Nadal, Serena at the event were John McEnroe, Victoria Azarenka, Gael Monfils and Li Na.
According to NIKE, Federer's shirt was inspired by the subway signs of NYC, Serena's by cocktail party attire and Nadal's by the streets of NYC and its’ signature yellow taxi cabs!
To read more about the event, go to Down The Line! as he provides his take on the event.
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In 2013, the New Jersey Pinelands Commission issued a draft Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”) between the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (“BPU”) and the New Jersey Pinelands Commission ("Pinelands Commission") that would have authorized the construction of a 22-mile, 24-inch, high-pressure natural gas pipeline through 15 miles of the Pinelands Forest Management Area. This pipeline proposed by South Jersey Gas would have transported fracked natural gas to the B.L. England Plant in Cape May County. DRN members submitted letters and emails urging the Pinelands Commission to deny this harmful project. In 2017, the pipeline was approved by the Pinelands Commission despite massive public protest and the fact that it violated the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP). The CMP only permits infrastructure like gas pipelines in the Forest Management Area if it is “intended to primarily serve the needs of the Pinelands” – that is, only if needed for the towns and villages within the Pinelands (N.J.A.C. 7:50-5.23). This project did not meet that criteria. By 2019, improvements to the electric grid and changing industry economics meant that a gas-powered plant in Cape May County was no longer going to be profitable. The B.L. England owner filed papers with the court conceding it did not intend to build the power plant. The Attorney General followed up with papers saying there is now no basis for approving the SJG pipeline and the project was defeated.
Despite this victory, the Pinelands are still at risk from natural gas pipelines. In 2018, construction started on the 30-mile New Jersey Natural Gas Southern Reliability Link (SRL) pipeline that would carry natural gas through Burlington, Monmouth and Ocean counties, including portions of the Delaware River Watershed. This project runs through the sensitive preservation area of the Pinelands, but was approved because it traverses the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) military base. On June 19, 2020, HDD activity caused a release of drilling fluid into a stream and a nearby resident’s home. The slab of the affected home cracked due to hydrostatic pressure, mud flooded the home, and the building inspector condemned the building, advising the resident to leave immediately. The drilling sludge also discharged into a local stream, necessitating a cleanup. Investigations revealed multiple other incidents of HDD inadvertent returns. This led to NJDEP suspending the permit for the project and ordering construction to cease. Unfortunately, NJDEP then reinstated the permit in November 2020 after accepting NJNG’s explanation of the spills and a modified plan to move forward. As a result, this project continues to threaten the Pinelands and water quality.


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British Columbia housing starts remained elevated in August despite pulling back from stellar June and July performances.
B.C. urban-area housing starts in August reached a seasonally adjusted annualized pace of 42,875 units, according to the latest Canada Mortgage Housing and Corp. data.
While down 9.1 per cent from July’s pace of 47,170 units, levels were slightly higher than in August 2020. Unsurprisingly, August’s pullback reflected declines in the highly volatile multi-family sector as detached housing starts were unchanged. Housing starts typically fluctuate due to the impacts of large apartment and townhome projects.
August’s decline owed largely to a 9 per cent decline in the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), which is unsurprising given the dominance of multi-family construction in the region. Impacts from other metros on headline numbers were nominal given relative sizes of markets, but Abbotsford-Mission starts rebounded.
(Editor’s note: In August, 1,903 housing units started construction in Vancouver CMA (which includes Surrey and Langley), comprised of 1,203 apartments, 320 townhouses and 253 single- detached houses. There were also 38 starts of semi-detached homes, usually duplex units. Of the total multi-family starts, 23 per cent were rental units.)
Starts in smaller urban areas fell dramatically by 20 per cent, which may have been due to wildfires throughout the province.
Despite the decline, 2021 housing starts have been stellar. Year-to-date growth reached 36 per cent through the first eight months of the year. While partly reflective of a soft 2020 performance, this was the strongest start to the year on record and was further amplified by rural area gains. Detached starts in urban areas rose 25 per cent, with multi-family starts up nearly 40 per cent.
Growth was broad among metro areas, with Vancouver CMA starts up 34 per cent, Victoria up 43 per cent and Kelowna up 33 per cent through August. Abbotsford-Mission starts fell 22 per cent. Smaller urban markets on net contributed to higher starts with growth of more than 40 per cent. Broad growth reflects a combination of factors, including low interest rates and pandemic drivers such as remote work and early retirements.
Demand for recreational properties likely fuelled a movement of individuals away from the large and expensive urban cores into already under-supplied suburban and smaller urban areas.
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- Bryan Yu is chief economist at Central 1 Credit Union.

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|Sometimes it is hard to believe you are going skiing.|
|A little air underneath the Aerial Tramway.|
What is it about spring skiing? For easterners, at least, I think it is the combination of being released from the death grip of winter with the fact that we can still ski. Conditions are very forgiving. Mellow, even. Everyone is relaxed, you can drink a beer on the deck afterwards, the people watching is highly entertaining and for some reason, many skiers feel compelled to wear funny hats, shorts and even t-shirts on a day that really requires a jacket and helmet. People that ski once a year come out of the woodwork with ancient equipment. Tailgate parties develop at the base of the lift and elsewhere. Lawn chairs appear in the parking lot. Everyone is having a great day. Half the people on the hill are probably impaired, one way or another (except for Sunday morning, when half the people on the hill are probably hung over). Very often, skiers will put up with pretty marginal conditions to enjoy this sacred rite. Not this time. Jay Peak delivered, with full coverage, no closed trails and amazing conditions. We skied places you don't often get to ski in early April: Green Beret; Valhalla; Powerline; Northwest Passage; Andre's Paradise and and more. On Friday, conditions were even a bit "wintry" and we found patches of powder in the woods.
|Pudd enjoys fresh tracks, in the woods, in April.|
Nice it was. So long Jay Peak, see you next season.
|More air on Green Beret.|
|Pudd sticks a Jonny Jay Jet Turn in Valhalla.|
|You have to like the first chair feeling...|
|The Lord of Powder revels with the minions looking on through the window.|
|Conditions are perfect on NWP.|
|Let the spring celebrations begin!|
|Rock on buddy: Olin Mark IVs, Burt bindings, safety straps, Lange XRs and awesome toque.|
|A very appropriate spring-skiingmobile.|
|Pudd bids adieu to Jay Peak for another season.|

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'Ted Lasso' star Brett Goldstein reveals he always wears black shirts because he doesn't want to think about clothes
Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent on "Ted Lasso," explained why he only wears black shirts and said he made the decision when he was 8 years old.
Almost two years after the second season finale was released on Apple TV+, the hit show starring Jason Sudeikis finally returns with new episodes.
'Ted Lasso' star Brett Goldstein reacts to Lizzo appearing to call him a 'big girl' in an awkward Emmys moment
Lizzo clarified while reading the joke and announcing Brett Goldstein's win at the Emmys that it came from the teleprompter and wasn't hers.
Brett Goldstein says he only had about 2 weeks to get jacked for his 'Thor: Love and Thunder' cameo and did '400 push-ups' on the day of filming
The "Ted Lasso" star told The Playlist he met virtually with Marvel Studios and had limited time to prep for his end-credits appearance as Hercules.
Brett Goldstein sent his parents to see 'Thor: Love and Thunder' but his mom nearly missed his surprise cameo because she was texting him about Russell Crowe
Brett Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly he was "very surprised" to have been tapped to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Hope you're watching what's happening to our friends in Dilworth. They face the same pressures we do as a popular inner-city neighborhood dealing with growth. But they have a wild card we don't: Light rail. Mass transit for our corridor has been put off so far in the future it likely will never happen. Unfortunately that does not relieve us of the burden of preparing for what it might bring. Look what happened Monday.
Charlotte City Council approved a rezoning that will allow a massive project on the edge of Dilworth -- despite opposition from the Dilworth Community Development Association, despite reservations (pdf) from city planners. "The vote is a test case for the kind of development the city will allow along the rail line," the Observer reported.
Anyone who follows local politics knows developers hold tremendous sway over all our elected bodies. I'm not suggesting anything untoward. The Dilworth project will increase revenues for the city, put people to work, provide housing and likely spur further development. A few neighbors and planners can't compete against that -- even in a society where the "will of the people" is supposedly sacrosanct.
This should serve as a wake-up call for Elizabeth. How do we make sure we don't get steamrolled by the city and developers in the future? We get together now, all of us, and decide what's right for our neighborhood. Let's start with a small area plan (not that it helped Dilworth in this case) and go from there. Maybe we work with our friends in surrounding neighborhoods. Democracy it won't easy. Demoracy isn't. But if we don't start acting now, it will only get harder.


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Alzheimer's is a particularly horrible affliction. A very good friend of mine had the first symptoms of early onset Alzheimer's at age 58 by age 63, he did not know who is wife or daughter were.
He had been a remarkable man. A talented story teller with a wealth of details in his head. He moved from classroom teacher to district administration and finally to a post as the director of our entire county. Brilliant wonderful person. Now gone. His last years a haze for him and a horror for his family.
Today a research breakthrough in Alzheimer's was announced. A drug was found that reverses Alzheimer's disease in mice! Not only that but it has the potential to treat MANY other diseases including autoimmune and other immune disorders.
The mechanism of action of this ALREADY FDA APPROVED cancer drug is the key. The drug opens up improperly closed and shut down patches of DNA. The DNA can then make the proteins that can reverse Alzheimer's and potentially many many more diseases.
Wow, it's already approved! Whoopee! Let's try it out right now! That would be the reaction of the naive patient or loved one of a patient who has a catastrophic disease. But that poor naive person does not understand the Byzantine slowness of our medical approval process.
Should some doctor try using a drug like this approved medication in an "off label' way then the doctor risks losing his licence and perhaps monetary damages as well. Doctors whose first loyalty is to 'their career investment' will not risk the time and money they spent getting their career in medicine by trying to help a patient like my good friend and his family.
The FDA with its Byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations slow the translation of medical research breakthroughs to the bedside of patients for even more, not just a few years, BUT DECADES!
Our Big Pharma companies do all in their power to keep new revolutionary treatments or cheaper medicines under wraps and off the market. Nothing must be allowed to affect the tremendous profit they extract from patient's forced to only use existing meds.
A medicine like the one described in the article below that can manipulate and repair genes by fixing our DNA should be tried on a multitude of illnesses immediately upon discovery. There should be a RAPID RESPONSE, BROAD SPECTRUM clinical trial set up in a matter of a few weeks. The trial should include a few, fully informed, volunteers who have such genetic defect diseases as muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, Tay Sachs, hemophilia, and various autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crohn's, psoriasis, etc.
Those with few or no treatments like Lupus and Tay Sachs should be at the TOP of the list. Who knows which of these diseases could be treated and ended with this drug.
This kind of BROAD SPECTRUM clinical testing could answer the question of who could be helped in a matter of weeks.
But no that will not happen. This new medical breakthrough that has already gone through one decade of clinical trials to get approved for cancer will now have to go through decades more of clinical trials for each of the above mentioned diseases IF someone will fund those trials. Of course each new set of clinical trials costs about a BILLION dollars. Yes that is a BILLION with a 'B." In effect generations of patients must suffer and die while the FDA, the Big Pharma Companies and cowardly physicians watch without pity. Patients with diseases that do not affect enough people to promise huge profits may NEVER gain access as no one will pay the BILLION dollars.
Previous posts on this blog have discussed the remarkable promise of these HDAC inhibitors. These compounds have been known about for over a decade. Researchers have talked openly about their incredible potential. Patients wait desperately for a chance to use them. But still today and for the foreseeable future most potential applications to create revolutionary cures with these drugs is VERBOTEN.
Here is the article about the Alzheimer's breakthrough:
(Note: the highlighted line at the end of the article "Because this drug is already approved for cancer we hope clinical trials for Alzheimer's can start in three or four years" NOT THREE or FOUR weeks or even three or four months but THREE or FOUR YEARS!!! Why? Because of the FDA "slow down the cures" stupid rules. Imagine how many decades it would take to get to clinical trials if the F'ing DelAy had not already approved the drug for cancer!
If you are as angry and outraged about these delays as I am, please consider joining Abigail Alliance for better patient access to developmental drugs. http://abigail-alliance.org/
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Cancer drug may improve memory in Alzheimer's patients
NEW YORK - A drug now used to treat cancer may also be able to restore memory deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study conducted by scientists at Columbia University Medical Center, which appeared in the September issue of The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease: Volume 18:1.
The loss of short, day-to-day memories is often the first sign of Alzheimer's - a disease that is expected, by the year 2050, to afflict 120 million people worldwide.
"People often joke that they must have Alzheimer's because they can't remember where they put their keys, but for a person with the disease, this type of short-term memory loss is extremely debilitating," says the study's lead author, Ottavio Arancio, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and cell biology in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Arancio says that the cancer drug targets a previously unknown defect in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's.
The reason why the drug improves memory lies in the way the brain records new memories. To create new memories, the neurons in the brain must manufacture new proteins. The first step is to open up and read the DNA, which contains instructions for making the proteins.
To read the DNA, the neuron attaches a chemical reactive group to the spool around which DNA is tightly wound. "These groups, called acetyls, unwind the DNA to make it more accessible," says co-author Yitshak Francis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia. "It's like unwinding knitting wool from its spool."
This unwrapping step, the researchers found, is impaired in mice with a form of Alzheimer's disease. The mice with Alzheimer's attached about half as many acetyls to DNA as normal mice and had poorer memory.
The researchers then discovered that they could improve memory in the Alzheimer's-afflicted mice with a cancer drug from a family of compounds, called HDAC inhibitors, which increase the DNA's spool acetylation and gene transcription. The drug improved memory performance to the level found in normal mice.
"Because this type of drug has already been approved for some cancer patients," says co-author Mauro Fà, Ph.D., associate research scientist in Columbia's Taub Institute, "we hope that clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease can start in about three to four years."
"For making memories, you need transcription and protein synthesis at the cellular level. If you don't have that, you don't have memory," said Dr. Francis.
This work was supported in part by Alzheimer Disease Research Zenith Award ZEN-07-58977, National Institutes of Health Grant R01 NS049442 (to O.A.) and by United Kingdom Alzheimer's Research Trust Pilot Grant, The International Sephardic Educational Foundation (ISEF) Scholarship, The Lewis Family Trust Scholarship, The Sidney & Elizabeth Corob Charitable Trust Scholarship, the Charlotte and Yule Bogue Research Fellowships (to Y.I.F).
Authors of The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease study include: Yitshak I Francis, Mauro Fà, Haider Ashraf, Hong Zhang, Agnieszka Staniszewski, David S. Latchman and Ottavio Arancio.
The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (http://www.j-alz.com) is an international multidisciplinary journal to facilitate progress in understanding the etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, genetics, behavior, treatment and psychology of Alzheimer's disease. The journal publishes research reports, reviews, short communications, book reviews, and letters-to-the-editor. Groundbreaking research that has appeared in the journal includes novel therapeutic targets, mechanisms of disease and clinical trial outcomes. The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease has an Impact Factor of 5.101 according to Thomson Reuters' 2008 Journal Citation Reports. The Journal is published by IOS Press (http://www.iospress.nl).
The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center is a multidisciplinary group that has forged links between researchers and clinicians to uncover the causes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age-related brain diseases and discover ways to prevent and cure these diseases. It has partnered with the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia University Medical Center which was established by an endowment in 1977 to focus on diseases of the nervous system. The Center integrates traditional epidemiology with genetic analysis and clinical investigation to explore all phases of diseases of the nervous system. For more information about these centers visit: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/taub/ http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sergievsky/
Columbia University Medical Center provides international leadership in basic, pre-clinical and clinical research, in medical and health sciences education, and in patient care. The medical center trains future leaders and includes the dedicated work of many physicians, scientists, public health professionals, dentists, and nurses at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health, the College of Dental Medicine, the School of Nursing, the biomedical departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and allied research centers and institutions. Established in 1767, Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons was the first institution in the country to grant the M.D. degree and is among the most selective medical schools in the country. Columbia University Medical Center is home to the largest medical research enterprise in New York City and state and one of the largest in the United States. For more information, please visit www.cumc.columbia.edu.

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Llyr - Review
I think this band hardly needs any introduction as I'm sure most readers should be very familiar with their music.
The strange thing is that this is my first official review in years. I reviewed a previous album way back when before I switched servers and lost many of our reviews. Their discography is expansive, covering about 23 albums across a history of 20 years or so. They've also released their works on many different labels which also makes it hard to track them down for review. However, I think they've found the perfect home at Prikosnovenie
for this release. I've been a fan of this band over the years with their very unique style of music and Francesca's easily recognizable vocals. We're treated with a beautiful package and ten equally lovely tracks.
This has to be one of the best albums from this band, though I probably have said that with each release that I've picked up from them. Listeners should be more than familiar with their selections over the years on our ethereal radio show. The selections from this album match perfectly with a beautiful mix of folk, celtic, medieval, neo-classical and ethereal elements all blended perfecly together. "Sigillat" comes out as the perfect introduction to the album with it's mix of ethereal elements that build up to powerful percussion through each verse as a backdrop to Francesca's vocals and layers of whispers mixed in. A definite favorite on this album follows next with the classic Scottish folk tune "Scarborough Fair" done only as Ataraxia
can do, beginning with Francesca's a capella vocals that are slowly blended with a building array of instruments and percussion for a solid climax.
The album contains many tracks of this style with an incredible variety from dark, chanting to heavenly beautiful soundscapes that hold the listener enthralled. The title track "Llyr" is one of these which exhibits some of the most beautiful vocals over a somber guitar and other subtle instruments. "Klepsydra" is one of the more light-hearted pieces though still beautiful and ethereal, dreamy and captivating and another favorite. The album wraps up with another piece that has easily become another favorite with it's dreamy soundscapes of subtle electronics as the backdrop for the vocals which more than sung with words become their own soothing instrument. With this closing peice another great album comes to an end with few blemishes (mostly some drones that wear on the nerves on a track or two) that will mostly go unnoticed by most listeners and makes this a highly recommended album for fans of the previously noted styles of music.


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Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said the decision to reduce the universal social charge (USC) is a political one, despite mounting calls for the tax to be retained. Mr Noonan was speaking at the Dáil’s new Budget Oversight Committee and restated his intention to phase out the USC by 2021.
“You [the committee] have heard many opinions, and those opinions should be valued but there are other opinions as well. Political parties have felt the USC should be reduced,” Mr Noonan said.
As reported in the Irish Examiner yesterday, the European Commission in its latest report on Ireland’s economy, warned against abolishing the USC which at its height brought in more than €4bn to the exchequer.
Many economists, trade unions and even officials in the Department of Finance have also warned against phasing out the USC.
Mr Noonan said the budget will be cautious and careful saying taxpayers “will not be throwing their hats in the air” on Budget day, which he confirmed would be October 11.
Dramatic corporation tax revenue spikes in 2014 and 2015 were caused by increased profitability of a small number of companies and some currency fluctuations affecting those firms, Gerry Howard of the Revenue Commissioners said.
During testy exchanges, Mr Noonan fresh out of hospital after contracting a facial infection, rounded on Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty, who challenged his plans to cut taxes. Mr Noonan told Mr Doherty not to be “so haughty” in his criticisms. Mr Doherty said he was well within his rights to ask questions about policies which wrecked the country, a reference to his criticisms of previous Fianna Fáil ministers.
Mr Noonan said republicans had over 30 years done their best to wreck two economies. Meanwhile, tax revenues were running at €449m ahead of target at the end of August, Mr Noonan has said.
This means the Government took in €1.7bn more in the first eight months of 2016 than it did in 2015, he said.
Mr Noonan restated that the amount of additional spending available for the Budget will be around €1bn, despite increased economic uncertainty following the Brexit vote. He said the extra money will be split on a 2:1 basis between spending increases and tax cuts.
He said he and the Government are not complacent to those external risks and said the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.
Scrapping Vat on condoms would not help reduce instances of sexually transmitted diseases, Mr Noonan said in response to questions from Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell.
Shutting down tax breaks to vulture funds could double the available ‘fiscal space’ from €1bn to €2bn for next year, the committee heard. The State could gain €10bn to €20bn if such loopholes are closed over 10 years, it was claimed.
Independent TD Stephen Donnelly posed the question to Finance Minister Michael Noonan at the committee, calling for a closing of loopholes relating to capital gains tax which such funds benefit from. Mr Donnelly said US fund Cerberus will walk away from its purchase of Nama’s Northern Ireland loan book known as Project Eagle about €2.8bn better off because of the tax breaks.
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The Photographers’ Gallery is an institution that used to exist between the cracks in London. Its home from 1971 was an innocuous shopfront, a former Lyons’ Tea Shop at 8 Great Newport Street. In 1980 it expanded into the rabbit warren-like gallery at 5 Great Newport Street, hidden away by its understated signage, with a minimally tasteful interior and a 1980s independent atmosphere.
The gallery’s new home, which opens May 19, on Ramillies Street on the northern side of Soho, is a qualitatively different proposition. It was designed by Irish architect O’Donnell + Tuomey, a practice much celebrated in its home country and now leaving its mark on London. Already under construction is its next project, the new £21.5 million student centre at the London School of Economics by the Aldwych.
The Photographers’ Gallery is a smaller project, though it was supposed to be much more elaborate that it is. O’Donnell + Tuomey was commissioned in 2005 to design an entirely new building on this site, a five-storey gallery that would have cost £16 million, but in 2008 the prospects of raising that money diminished to the point where a new strategy was needed. Instead, the existing brick-clad warehouse on Ramillies Street, which was going to be demolished to make way for the new building, was pressed into action as a space for the galleries on three floors, and attendant offices and education facilities on the others. An entirely new storey on top with a beautiful new gallery space inside was the only opportunity for the architects to make something new at the reduced £9.2 million budget: it now serves as a reminder of what might have been.
Ramillies Street is an authentic backstreet. Many will remember it as a frankly unsanitary short cut from Oxford Street to Great Marlborough Street, next to Dorothy Perkins. It is where some of Oxford Street’s big stores take their deliveries, and where a back door of the Palladium is concealed away from the milling crowds of Oxford Circus. Recently Westminster council laid some granite on the ground and some self-consciously modern terrazzo benches to try to improve this backstreet: you now see the odd confused-looking drunk wandering around this spick and span oasis of landscape design looking for his old haunt.
The design of the new Photographers’ Gallery building treats Ramillies Street with a respect it has rarely experienced before. The ground floor is almost completely dedicated to a new café, open to the street through floor-to-ceiling glass that leaves the iron frame of the building exposed. A huge ground-floor window, lined in angelim pedra timber (a sustainable hardwood), is next to the entrance, and will give passers-by a direct view into the reception area. One of the most intriguing and singular features of the building is a working camera obscura, built into the third floor, which is also focused on the surface of Ramillies Street below. The lens of the camera can be rotated to take in a 360-degree view, and visitors will be able to experiment with it, and its £7,000 lens, at their leisure.
A new staircase was carved out to serve the basement bookshop and printshop, and all of these non-gallery areas have terrazzo floors. There have been problems with this — today’s contractors are notoriously bad at pouring terrazzo — but in general, the material choices throughout are good and straightforward: terrazzo, oak floors in the galleries and beautiful timber linings for the large windows.
O’Donnell + Tuomey has seemingly tried to retain some of the properties of its original proposal while working within the considerable straitjacket of the existing building. Most significant is the high, north-facing window on the top floor gallery, altogether a moment of delight from inside. In fact, from up there, you can see a long way north along Great Titchfield Street, through what the architects describe as a “geological” fissure across Oxford Street. It’s a great moment, and along with the high ceilings of the new top floor, it’s certain this gallery will be a popular venue.
There are things, though, about the rest of the spaces that are caught between two forces: the constraints of the existing building versus the desire to make something new; the idea of a gallery for initiates versus a major public institution. The gallery on the second floor, for instance, has museum-quality climate control, installed at great expense to enable the gallery to take loans from the world’s most demanding museums. On the other hand, its proportions are not impressive, its ceiling plane uneven, and things are arranged in an unsatisfactory way that’s inevitable when you’re fitting out an old building for such an elevated purpose.
The Photographers’ Gallery has attracted some criticism of its programming in recent years: that the gallery gives too much space to conceptual photography and does not do enough to support British photographers. To me, it sounds like a storm in a teacup, factions fighting over definitions of a medium that is beyond ubiquitous in all our lives. Every creative medium has its own version of this discussion — between those who would draw professional boundaries, and others who see the field as limitless and open for negotiation. I suspect that Brett Rogers, the gallery’s director, is more interested in this being an institution that diverts the public, and is less interested in the carping of professional photographers.
It should be said, however, this new home does little to answer the question of the relevance of an institution displaying photography. Rogers is keen to point out the large HD screen installed on the ground floor, a place for the exhibition of web-based material that certainly pushes definitions of photography (presumably something that involves a camera) to its limit. The first exhibition on the screen will be a historical survey of animated gifs from the annals of the internet. Sounds like fun to me, and it’s sure to rub some professional photo-graphers up the wrong way.
One thing we should all be very grateful for, though, is the gallery’s decision to stay in Soho. Rogers admits that they could have found a much larger space in Clerkenwell or elsewhere but felt that the gallery’s audience and its heritage were in central London. As Soho voids itself of the institutions that make it what it is (Central St Martins decamping to King’s Cross, the gay club scene moving to Vauxhall), it is a relief that the Photographers’ Gallery has invested here, even if it has paid the price in terms of space. The Photographers’ Gallery makes Soho just a little more mixed, and a little more public, than it otherwise might have been.
The Photographers’ Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1 (0845 262 1618, photonet.org.uk)
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Counselor Jaime Newill named Teacher of the Year
Published 10:30 am Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Some people know the right career for them right out of high school while others discover path that best suits them later in life. Though she once dreamed of being a physical therapist, Jaime Newill of Lanett Junior High School has found her passion in counseling.
“And now I know why,” Newill said. “Because I want to be here.”
The evidence of her hard work shone through last week when Newill was honored with the Teacher of the Year award for 2022-2023.
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Newill, who began working at LJRHS this year, was stunned by the recognition. Despite her shyness, she was grateful to be chosen by her peers.
After graduating from Valley High School, Newill thought that her calling would be in physical therapy. She worked in a hospital setting as an aid and enjoyed getting to help and care for others.
However, life had something else in mind for her talents of guidance and caring. Newill and her husband had three sons, and when the last graduated to junior high, Newill decided to go back to school.
With the support of her parents, husband and children and former employer at Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), Newill earned her bachelor’s degree from Point University and her master’s degree from Cappella University.
“Definitely having that support is a big help,” Newill said. “Because I don’t think I could’ve finished school if I felt like I was letting my family down, and they never made me feel like I was letting them down in any way.”
Newill praised the team around her at Lanett Jr High. Before she began working there, she worried that she would feel isolated in her job, but she said that it couldn’t be further from the truth. One of her fondest memories at the school so far has been working on the student council fundraiser with coworker Sondra McBride.
“Anytime I have a question, they have an answer,” Newill said. “They’ve been great. This is the place you want to be as a counselor because you’ve got all support in place that you need.”
Newill’s students are at a crucial point in their academic achievement. Newill recalled a study that said by fourth or fifth grade many children have decided if they believe they can graduate high school. For Newill, it’s important that every child knows each day that they are wanted and can achieve their goals.
“It’s on those days that I feel like I’ve planted good seeds. I don’t think that I can fix anything, but I hope that I get to plant good seeds each day that I can hopefully get to see later in the future growth of them,” Newill said.
Since she has been in the couseling career path, Newill said many counselors have placed a higher focus on the emotional standing of children, rather than just academic standing. Inspired by something one of her sons told her about, Newill began putting a basket of fidget toys out for the students to use while they talked. She switches them out from time to time to see which the kids like best.
“The kids seem to love the rubik’s cube. They’ll just sit in here and twist and turn it while they’re talking,” Newill said.
Though it can be hard to juggle all the tasks throughout the day, Newill said by far the easiest part of her day is interacting with her students. She finally found an outlet for her passion for caring for others. Though she enjoyed her old job, she never felt like she was making a difference in someone’s life.
“The students all have great hearts, and it’s just so easy to talk with them. They’re the reason I wanted to be here. They’ve got great hearts,” Newill said. “It just makes your job easier when you see that.”
As a counselor, Newill follows a holistic philosophy. She believes children cannot thrive in school if their social and emotional needs aren’t met. Newill works hard to nurture both the academic and social/emotional aspect of counseling. By taking this approach, she tries to help her students understand their strengths.
“I just want students to know that it’s OK to ask for help but they have it in themselves to come up with ways to achieve what they want to achieve,” Newill said. “I want them to know that they’re wanted here and that we’re happy to see them each day.”
Newill said that she was grateful to many at Lanett Junior High for their guidance and support, such as LHS counselor YaShika Odom, WO Lance counselor Wilfred Dunne and Christy Carpenter of the Lanett City Schools central office.


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The Powercompact series is particularly suitable for refrigerated counters in the catering field and for refrigerated display cases for pastry shops and ice cream parlors.
There are several versions available, from the single-relay version for static refrigerated units with normal temperature, with control only on the compressor, to the 5-relay version for ventilated, low temperature units, with compressor control, resistor or hot gas defrost, evaporation fans and two multi-function auxiliary outputs. Most of the models are equipped with a 2Hp relay for compressor control, a 16A relay for defrost control, an 8A relay for evaporation fans and auxiliary outputs control.
Powercompact small: the small version, which occupies only 40mm in depth inside the unit, is the perfect solution for applications where the space available for housing the control is particularly limited. Available in several versions, up to the 4-relay version with compressor controlled by means of a 30A relay.
The Powercompact series is part of the ir33 platform and therefore it shares all its features; in addition to the common setting algorithms, Powercompact has some additional features: "Direct" (cold) and "Reverse" (warm) operation with neutral zone, control of a second step regulated compressor, auxiliary evaporator control, condenser fan control, adjustment with supply and return probe with weighted average, display case/cell light control.
For control of the parameters, CAREL offers for free a simple configuration software, called Visual Parameter Manager (VPM), downloadable from: ksa.carel.com
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- Large display: powercompact is fitted with a very powerful and attractive display, featuring 3 digits plus decimal point, a plus/minus sign and an icon, simplifying the reading of the values and the operating status. The ergonomic silicon keypad allows direct access to the HACCP, light, defrost and continuous cycle functions.
- RTC: this accessory is used to log detailed data, as well as to program real time defrost cycles (rather than preset defrost intervals). The RTC ensure compliance with the HACCP standards.
- Connection terminal block: powercompact features a power terminal block for the direct connection of the loads, without the presence of the common terminal. In addition, the use of relays with changeover contacts ensures maximum flexibility in the connections to the panel. The terminal block is available with screw terminals or removable spade connectors so as to satisfy the needs of all manufacturers and installers.
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Each August, the department along with the Lansdale Festival Of The Arts Committee present the annual Lansdale Festival Of The Arts program in the beautiful setting of Memorial Park. As always, this event showcases fine artists and crafters, marionette theater for children, smooth jazz and chamber music, and plenty of tasty treats to keep you going throughout the day.
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Reported that the import and export in China in recent five years, the number of fighters are ranked fifth in the world
Data Figure: China and Pakistan jointly developed Xiaolong fighter
Global Network reporter Zhu Ying library November 10 reported that Taiwan’s” Central News Agency, “10, citing Yonhap reported that the Swedish Stockholm International Peace Research The (SIPRI) published today, “International fighter aircraft 2005-2009 transaction report” shows that the amount of South Korean imports of aircraft and number of the world’s fourth and sixth respectively.
on the amount of aircraft in terms of imports, South Korea, India, UAE, Israel, after ranking fourth in the world; and the number of imported aircraft, India 115, number one, ranked the United Arab Emirates 108 Second, the following are Israel 82, Poland 48, China 45, South Korea ranked sixth with 40.
to the report, imports of aircraft of more than 50 countries. Exporting countries to the U.S. fighter, Russia-based, a total of 11 countries. 2005-2009, the United States exported 341 in the first place. Other countries were: Russia 219, France 75, Ukraine 68, China 41.
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Educators are seeing more and more students suffering from depression, anxiety, and social phobia. The acuity of mental illness among students has sharpened, they say, and it’s striking ever younger children, though many quietly bear the stress for years before snapping. What’s behind the rise is uncertain. Theories include economic distress, dysfunctional families, absent and preoccupied busy parents, technology obsession, social media, and extraordinary pressure on kids to excel. Not all schools report an increase in mental illness, but not every school has staff attentive to each student’s well-being, nor psychologists on hand. Fortunately that is changing, as more schools train teachers, offer more counseling, and instruct students in suicide intervention.
Read the entire article here: Teen health: Depression, anxiety and social phobias rising in kids, educators say


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 83rd episode of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' at 11 am on Sunday, November 28. The live streaming of the Prime Minister's radio programme will be watched on DD News. It will be aired on the entire network of AIR and Doordarshan and also on AIR News and mobile app.“Mann Ki Baat”, is a live audio show by the Prime Minister that takes place on the last Sunday of every month.
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His Olympic success gave him a taste for gold, but Hull Boxer Luke Campbell had to settle for the bronze position in last night's final of Dancing On Ice.
The champion, with his partner Jenna Smith, was knocked out of the competition before he got to dance bolero - but said he was thrilled to be leaving with a new skill. Victoria Whittam reports.
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Every immigrant has their own story to tell: a story about the circumstances that led them to move to another country, a story about the life they’re building in that new country; The things they left behind, the things they brought with them, the things that they left behind and brought with them. And in their story, you would often find English.
One of the things I would like to focus on this year is exactly that, the place where English intersects with the immigrant experience. Many of my students are immigrants, I was an immigrant myself. There are commonalities, for sure, but each story is unique, a story worth telling and listening to. And English had – and for some of us still has – a big part in our story.
If you’d like to share your English story as an immigrant, I’d be happy to hear from you (click here – https://bit.ly/3GSp6d4). During the next months I’ll share some of your stories, answer questions you might have, and host immigrants as well as people whose work involves English and the immigrant experience.
For now, you can watch these videos where I discussed the experience of being an immigrant with guests and students:

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One of the most beneficial things you can do to maintain the health of your hair is to cover it at night. Protecting your hair from your bed sheets is important to avoid dry frizzy hair. Also the friction between your strand and cotton fibers could cause damage. Satin is a smoother fabric that will contain moisture more and avoid waking up with messy, Dry and frizzy hair.
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Use overnight to protect hair or cover hair for air drying styles (twist outs, Bantu knots etc)


“Gambling” on Education
As reported in today’s Providence Journal, thousands of Providence parents “gamble” on charter schools*:
That parents are looking for an alternative to traditional public schools is borne out by the numbers: this year, charter schools received 3,454 applicants for 559 openings. The Learning Community Charter School, in Central Falls, had 500 applications for 50 spaces while Highlander Academy, a Providence charter school, received 581 applications for 44 openings.
Time after time, when given the opportunity, parents are willing to “gamble” on sending their kids to alternative schools, particularly in urban areas. They feel they are trapped in the public school system that under performs and don’t have the financial ability to send their kids to private schools. So charter schools are their only other choice. Meanwhile, teacher union leaders protest the easing of current charter school laws as proposed by Governor Carcieri.
Removing those requirements, supporters including the governor say, would eliminate the red tape that can hamper classroom innovation. Such freedoms give charter schools greater control over budgets and personnel and allow them to attract and pay for top teaching talent.
But teachers union representatives vehemently object, contending it amounts to an end run around collective bargaining units, giving management an excuse to pay lower wages and do away with seniority protections.
“It’s wrong, it’s unfair, it’s unconscionable, it’s absolutely unnecessary and it wasn’t the deal that was struck when the original charter law was put into place,” James Parisi, a lobbyist for the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals, told the House Finance Committee in a hearing Tuesday.
They offered similar objections to the proposed Mayoral Academies, for which the the ProJo recently professed editorial support.
The union chiefs have it backwards. Schools are not set up to assure teachers money and benefits. They are set up to serve the students. But, as Rhode Island’s longstanding financial commitment to public education should suggest, parents and the public will pay high taxes to compensate teachers handsomely if those teachers give it their all and are not afraid to be paid on the basis of how good they are.


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“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.” – Katharine Hepburn
It’s true. We are always quick to blame, quick to cite the past experiences as the reasons why our lives aren’t the way we wish and quick to forget the power we have to change a lot in this life.
I’ve met many angry ACOAs. They’re angry for good reason. A loved one’s addiction caused horrific things. Abuse. Neglect. The list goes on. As adult children of alcoholics, we are all screwed up with issues…and almost all of them can be traced back to stuff that happened or didn’t happen when we were children, teenagers and young adults.
I don’t know how old I was but when I first heard about Al-Anon meetings but the idea of going to a meeting enraged me. Why should I spend time going to meetings when my mother is the one with the problem?! Oh, how I wish I’d thought differently back then. It would have helped me when I really needed it. I blame myself for that. I felt I was the martyr – the holy caregiver – the loyal daughter. In reality, I was cleaning up my mother’s messes and holding the family together, preventing her from ever reaching rock bottom. In the process, I sure as hell wasn’t taking good care of myself, which hurt my sister, my dad, my friends and everyone in my life. But if you had pointed a finger at me back then, I can’t imagine how I would have reacted.
Sometimes I still feel angry, too, that my mother’s alcoholism robbed me of so many good things as a young person. I feel angry that I’ve spent most of my adult life completely preoccupied with my mother’s alcoholism. It’s really screwed up. Unfair. Addiction is to blame. People in my life are to blame.
But now I’m 33 years old. All of these terrible things happened years ago. I can continue shaking my head and replaying all of the unbelievably traumatic stuff or I can put in a bunch of work on myself and be free – or closer to freedom.
This photo with this post was taken 4.5 years ago, just before my book was released (ALMOST FIVE YEARS…unreal). That day, I distinctly remember feeling like I’d finally made it over some rugged, slippery roadblock the universe had placed in my path since childhood. From then on, I thought, I’d skate on a clear, smooth path in the land of grownup freedom. Nearly five years and a few more wrinkles later, I know that there’s no clear, smooth path. Life is unpredictable, painful and difficult. I felt very wise on that sunny day – somehow, far wiser than I do today. There are things I’m realizing that I cannot change and other things I only now seeing that I can and should change.
At some point in the ACOA journey, we have the ability to unload what we’ve carried our whole lives and if we don’t, we have no one, nothing, to blame but ourselves.
Yup, it’s incredibly hard.
Take good care of yourself.


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The Daily Mail (British) website reports today (December 17, 2011) that the creme de la creme of Southern belles have decided that Kim Kardashian has neither class nor breeding.
The National League of Junior Cotillions (NLJC) have dubbed Kardashian, 31, the "Most Ill-Mannered Person of 2011." She tops their annual list "for making a private matter public and disrespecting the institution of marriage."
NLJC National Director Elizabeth Anne Winters said, "The annual selections are based on the demonstration of dignity, honor, and respect."
On the other hand, Kate Middleton -- the Duchess of Cambridge who married Prince William of England last April -- has been named by the NLJC as the Best-Mannered Person of 2011 "for the poise and dignity with which she conducts herself in the public spotlight."


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Tzipi Livni protest tomorrow, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm
At Jumeirah Hotel, Carlton Tower, 2 Cadogan Place, London, SW1X 9PY
Israeli politician, Tzipi Livni, will be speaking at a Jewish National Fund event on the evening of Thursday 15th May . This is the day when Palestinians mourn their losses – of loved ones, land, homes and country – which began in 1948 and continue until today.
Livni was one of the architects of the Israeli attack on Gaza 2008/09 which led to the deaths of 1,417 Palestinians – 313 of them children – and injured 5,303. Tell Livni that war criminals are not welcome in Britain.

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Spoilboard - Natural Art
CNC machines use MDF as a base material for their porosity, pulling vacuum directly through the MDF, therefore clamping the material to the MDF surface. Spoilboard, another term for a sacrificial board, or base, does not matter if it gets cut into as it is designed to be used and eventually replaced. Spoilboard bits may be used for more than creating a flat surface in MDF.
This insert spoilboard, surfacing & rabbeting router bit #RC-2251 is also perfect for slabbing, and that is how I intend to use it.
This cutter is unique as it has two cutters positioned on the base (whereas other cutters I tested did not), creating a shearing action across the surface. The large 2.5″ diameter will work to flatten a large area quickly.
Once the slab of camphor laurel wood was secured, the bit handled substantial cuts. At one point the cuts were exceeding 5mm deep across the majority of the width of the bit.
Once the slab was flat, a quick sand with the Festool belt sander, then onto the ROS with 80 grit paper and finally I rubbed some Danish oil over part of the surface.
Wow! Amazing finsish, too nice to become a table so I have decided it will become a piece of natural wall art.
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The minute I read about Isagenix and its cleansing properties, I had to see its effects on people. I knew a couple who were using Isagenix and had results, so the answer was simple. I had to try it out. The guys over at Isagenix were so kind as to offer a full refund if I didn’t like the product after using it. So I gave it a test run.
The masterminds behind Isagenix set out to solve a common issue standing in the way among those who seek better health – the depletion of nutritious food. Even my sister recently complained to me over the phone, “I don’t have time anymore to cook a nutritious meal every day.” It’s definitely a common attitude. Our food seems nutritionally bankrupt (especially the foods I like) and our bodies are paying for it! But is food really that imperative to our health? Just look at the introduction of fast foods and the parallel rise in obesity and related diseases.
I didn’t want to be another statistic. I knew it was time to look outside the box.
I reviewed many cleansing nutritional products/supplements. Most only provide one or few ‘wonder’ ingredients that ‘fix all.’ Truth is there’s no “one” magic ingredient, so this made me not want to use them. I realized after researching Isagenix, their nutritious formula were exceptionally well balanced. In a world of convenience we want quality, easy maintenance and ready to go. Buying a plethora of super-food for our daily needs is most likely not something we pen into our calendars.
Isagenix is a cleansing program which fits easily into our daily routine, cleansing the body with nutrients – all on the go! Isagenix is a nutrient rich food aiding your bodies’ natural functions by cleansing the cardiovascular system and organs for optimal performance. How does an Isagenix cleanse do that? Isagenix just gives us nutritious food, and the miracle of the human body does the rest! Once again, I gave it a test run, just FYI. My mind and body never felt more ready to go, full of energy and feeling younger. And the best part is you can still eat food! It’s not a diet! I hope to see one day all my family and friends looking after their number one asset, their health.
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