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The Texans partnership with the Houston Food Bank is an important element in our mission to be Champions for Youth. The focus of the partnership is on Houston Food Bank programs that provide support to children, including Huddle Against Hunger presented by Kroger, Backpack Buddy and Kids Café. The partnership with the Houston Food Bank provides opportunities for players, Cheerleaders, staff and fans to give back to the 18 counties the Houston Food Bank serves.
Huddle Against Hunger presented by Kroger
The Huddle Against Hunger program helps teach empathy and understanding around hunger to students in elementary, middle and high school. The free digital curriculum is available for teachers and parents to download from the Houston Food Bank website and includes activities, recipes and ways for students to fight hunger in their community. The Texans, Kroger and the Houston Food Bank kicked off the program by surprising one deserving Huddle Against Hunger teacher in Aldine ISD with groceries for a year valued at $6,000. More than 2,000 students have taken part in the program since its launch in 2019.
Kickoff Week Presented by Mattress Firm
As a part of Kickoff Week presented by Mattress Firm, the Texans made a special stop at the Houston Food Bank to celebrate. The Texans themed double-decker bus stopped outside the Houston Food Bank, and TORO, Cheerleaders, Deep Steel Thunder Band members and Legend Cecil Shorts III visited with volunteers to thank them for giving back during this difficult time.
The Texans are proud to support Kids Café, a Houston Food Bank program that feeds children in after-school enrichment programs, including at Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston locations across the city. Each day, fresh, hot meals and snacks are served to kids, many of whom may not otherwise receive evening meals.
Hunger Action Month Presented by Whataburger
Whataburger and the Texans teamed up for the fifth year in a row to support the Houston Food Bank, encouraging fans to visit one of 146 Houston-area Whataburger locations to donate to the Houston Food Bank in exchange for a Whataburger coupon. The Texans and Whataburger launched the fundraiser by providing breakfast for 150 Houston Food Bank staff and volunteers. Over the three weeks of the campaign, Texans fans raised an astonishing $142,407, which was celebrated at a check presentation and drive-thru food distribution event at Gulf Coast Community Service Association, a Houston Food Bank agency.
The Foundation is a proud supporter of Backpack Buddy, a Houston Food Bank program that provides backpacks full of healthy food every Friday to students who might otherwise be without food during the weekend. Inside the backpacks are nutrient-rich food and an insert from the Texans with health tips written by the team nutritionist. This year, the Backpack Buddy program distributed 412,591 backpacks at 788 schools or sites.
Souper Bowl of Caring
The Souper Bowl of Caring is a national initiative started in 1990 to help communities unite in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl to fight hunger and poverty. Under the leadership of the Texans late Founder, Senior Chairman and CEO Robert C. McNair and his wife, Co-Founder and Senior Chair Janice S. McNair, the Texans were the first NFL team to support the cause. The Foundation contributed $10,000 to support the initiative.
The Texans provided a $100,000 match to support the Houston Food Bank's Giving Tuesday virtual fundraising campaign. In 2020, the Houston Food Bank raised $644,000 on Giving Tuesday, setting a new record for the Houston Food Bank.


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BES (Beats Eats Sneaks) presents a hip hop experience celebrating the release of The Don and Eye from The Musalini and 9th Wonder! Hailing from the Bronx, NY, The Musalini tapped Grammy nominated producer and Jamla Records head honcho, 9th Wonder (Raleigh, NC) for this anticipated collaboration.
April 23rd – Doors open at 7p, Show at 8p $25 online (in Advance) & $35 day of the show and at the door.
VIP: $50 – Access to VIP section with artist meet and great, and a drink ticket.
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Today with growing processes of globalization geopolitical and economic role of Arctic region in the world is also constantly growing. The Arctic region is becoming the center of building a new system of global and regional security, which also contributes to the growing interest of States in the development of this region, and leads to the expansion of active economic activity.The increasing development of the Arctic raises concerns among States about the preservation of its fragile Arctic ecosystems. According to the results of a detailed diagnostic analysis of the current state and forecast of possible environmental changes in the Arctic region radioactive pollution and deterioration of surface and underground water quality in the coastal territories of Arctic were identified as priority environmental problems.
In my work, I would like to talk about the current state of the Arctic region (Russia), as well as about international projects to combat radioactive pollution, and promising areas of cooperation in this area. I also want to show that even in the current crisis in Russia's relations with the West, international cooperation in the field of environmental protection and research on the main causes of environmental challenges continues today in the Arctic region.
Arctic is a unique region of our planet and which has a great impact on every country of our planet: The north and south poles play a vital role in regulating the Earth’s climate — acting as our cooling system and the Arctic Ocean, We must protect it now.


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Beto O’Rourke makes campaign stop in Lubbock, talks public education, healthcare, jobs
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Beto O’Rourke made his second campaign stop in Lubbock at The Garden late Sunday morning.
The Democratic candidate for governor, sporting a red Texas Tech hat, spoke to a crowd of about 100 people at 11:30 a.m. in downtown Lubbock.
“We’re going everywhere, listening to everyone, talking to everyone, making sure no one is written off and no one is taken for granted. This moment calls for all of us,” O’Rourke opened. “We don’t care - no me importa - if you’re Republican. If you’re a Republican and you’re here, you are welcome. Democrats, we want to see you as well. Independents, we need more of you in our lives right now. All of us in Texas are welcome to be here because all of us in Texas are needed to get this state on the right track.”
O’Rourke spoke on a wide range of topics, arguing the three biggest issues facing Texans today are jobs, education and health care.
“The issues that bring us together, I would argue, are far greater and stronger and more powerful than anything that might divide us at this moment in this highly polarized, fractured state where we’re having a hard time listening to each other. Seeing the best in one another. Trusting each other so we can get back to the big things,” O’Rourke said.
On public education
O’Rourke said public educators are overworked and underpaid, and argued on top of that, they are under attack from the state government. He also said he would prioritize teacher retention by increasing the salary for public educators and cancelling the STAAR test, getting an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the crowd, which included several public educators.
“Seven out of 10 fourth-graders are not able to read at grade level in the state of Texas. 70 percent,” O’Rourke said. “That cannot be a reflection on those teachers or those kids or those parents or us as Texans. That has to be something else. And when I get into the data, I find this: The average educator in the city of Lubbock is underpaid by $14,000 a year against the average educator nationally... Why not pay teachers their true value and worth right here in the state of Texas?”
“We live in the least-insured state in the United States of America,” O’Rourke said. “That means far too many are literally dying of diabetes, of curable cancers, of the flu in the year of our Lord 2022, in the wealthiest, most powerful, most medically advanced country the world has ever known. It’s unconscionable, it’s immoral.”
According to the Texas Medical Association, O’Rourke is correct in his claim that Texas is the least-insured state in the nation. Nearly four and a half million Texans do not have health insurance, at rates almost twice the national average.
O’Rourke also argued that Texas’s refusal to expand Medicaid in the state is closing rural hospitals, leaving millions of Texas without insurance or easy access to medical care.
O’Rourke attacked Abbott over his failure to address vulnerabilities in the electric grid prior to last year’s winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, resulting in at least 100 deaths, according to the AP. O’Rourke questioned Abbott’s connections to electric companies and utility providers that recorded large profits during the storm.
“If that is not corruption, I don’t know what is. He’s taking $1 million campaign contributions from the same people who stole this money from the state of Texas,” O’Rourke said, referencing the additional taxes imposed on electric bills as a result of the winter storm.
O’Rourke also emphasized the need for renewable energy production in Texas amidst record-high gas prices. He argued that expansion of current oil and gas jobs in the state in combination with ramping up production from sources like wind and solar will help the state, and the nation overall, become energy independent.
“We clearly want to keep the oil and gas jobs we have here right now. And we want to expand them,” O’Rourke said. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes the case clear that we need to have energy independence in America... There’s one state that has the unique capacity to do that, and that is Texas. So let’s protect and expand oil and gas jobs in the state of Texas, but let us also make sure that we expand energy resources that are renewable. Wind, solar, geothermal, hydrogen - those are ours to lead on right here in the state of Texas.”
O’Rourke then answered questions from the crowd on topics ranging from border security, mental health care, environmental safety, voting rights, gerrymandering and term limits, marijuana legalization and LGBTQ+ issues.
On border security
O’Rourke acknowledged the challenges at the nation’s southern border, saying he wants to address issues like illegal drug trafficking and human smuggling, but harshly criticized Abbott’s activation of the Texas National Guard, describing the operation as “political theater” and “a solution in search of a problem.”
While he did not say what he would do differently to address drug trafficking and illegal immigration, O’Rourke made the case that making it easier for people to come to the country and gain legal citizenship would reduce the amount of people attempting to cross the border illegally.
On the Second Amendment
O’Rourke came under heavy scrutiny during his short-lived stint campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 when he advocated for mandatory buyback programs for weapons such as AR-15s and AK-47s. He has attempted to walk back those comments, saying that he wants to protect the Second Amendment but called for “common sense” legislation that would aim to reduce gun violence.
“Where do we find common ground on the Second Amendment? Let’s make sure we protect your right to have firearms, but we do a better job of protecting the lives of the people in our community,” O’Rourke said. “So universal background checks, which means if you buy a firearm in the state of Texas, there’s going to be some vetting to make sure you’re not going to harm yourself or someone else in your community. I know gun owners and non-gun owners alike can get behind that one. That’s a place to start.”
Other policies he proposed were safe storage laws, aimed at preventing children from accessing firearms and either accidentally or intentionally harming themselves or others, and extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws, which would take firearms away from a person deemed to be a risk to themselves or others.
O’Rourke also blasted Texas’s new permitless carry policy, signed into law last year by Gov. Abbott.
“What the governor did last year, by signing permitless carry into law, is not in keeping with the best traditions of responsible gun ownership in Texas,” O’Rourke said. “Listen, I support a license to carry program... But allowing anyone to carry a loaded weapon in public when more cops have been gunned down in the state of Texas than in any other state, it’s why police and sheriffs argued with the governor, pleaded with him, ‘Please do not sign this into law. It’s going to make our job harder, it’s going to make life as a cop deadlier, and it’s going to make it more difficult to protect the people that we serve in our communities.’ He turned his back on them and did it nonetheless.”
The final question of the event came from a young man who said he agreed with O’Rourke on many of the issues discussed, but that he was not ready to “vote his guns away.”
O’Rourke responded by saying he wants to protect the Second Amendment, but that just like other constitutionally protected rights, it is not unlimited.
“It’s a matter of where we draw that line,” O’Rourke said. “You and I see the line in different places, and I respect where you want to draw the line and maybe you understand where I want to draw the line. The beauty of this form of government is that neither you nor I can impose our will on anyone else. It’s going to require consensus, debate and dialogue until finally we come to something that is better than what exists today.”
On higher education
The Permanent University Fund (PUF) has come under scrutiny in recent months, leading many to call upon Gov. Abbott (or a potential Gov. O’Rourke) to amend the fund. The PUF provides funding to the University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems using oil and gas money from West Texas, despite West Texas schools like Texas Tech being excluded from the fund.
Gov. Abbott has declined to endorse changing the PUF, saying that it would require passing a constitutional amendment since the money comes from land allocated in the state constitution. Abbott said instead, he would attempt to secure a $1 billion endowment for Texas Tech.
READ MORE: Gov. Abbott makes campaign stop in Lubbock
O’Rourke, however, heartily supported amending the PUF to include other university systems.
“I really do think we need to make fundamental reforms to how public education is funded in the state of Texas,” O’Rourke said. “UT has the largest endowment of any public university in the United States of America. And we’re proud of UT, we want them to be successful, but we want more of that wealth to stay in West Texas - and not a one-time deal, but we want that permanently to be the case. When we do that, more young people in West Texas and the Panhandle can afford higher education.”
O’Rourke closed out the event by making the case that he is better suited to get the things done that the majority of Texans support, such as supporting jobs and innovation in the state, investing in public education and improving the quality and access to healthcare.
“I served in the United States Congress for six years, every year as a member of the minority. The only way I was ever going to get anything done was by finding common ground, consensus, and - I know this is a dirty word in America right now but - compromise,” O’Rourke said. “...So we can find a way to get the job done, even if we think there isn’t a lot of agreement mutually between us. Those three items I started with - jobs, great schools and the ability to see a doctor - I know that most Texans agree with them.”
The Texas gubernatorial election will take place on Nov. 8, 2022.
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Heidi Klum stopped by the salon Friday afternoon, but she'll be even more done up this Thursday when she hosts the Victoria's Secret Holiday fashion show. It won't air for a few weeks, but the pink carpet is back in NYC this year. Before heading East, Heidi enjoyed yesterday afternoon with children Leni, Henry, and Johan front row at the Yo Gabba Gabba show in LA. While the supermodel joins her fellow angels — including anticipated new additions! — Project Runway is wrapping up later this week, check out Buzz's poll to vote for your favorite season-six designer.
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Eleni Mandell explores the joys and trials of being a mother to young twins with the help of Nick Lowe’s crack backing band and producer Neil Brockbank on her new album 'Let's Fly a Kite,' out January 28 on Yep Roc Records. Her second for Yep Roc, the album sees a standard-bearer of the L.A. singer-songwriter scene offer a window into her new parental role through characteristically wry lyrics, noirish vocals and sunny, orchestral-pop arrangements. The two-steps, waltzes and weepers on 'Let's Fly a Kite' take inspiration from years past, but here Mandell is a thoroughly modern woman.
Eleni signed to Yep Roc for 2012's 'I Can See the Future,' which was produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, The Strokes). She's been compared to Chrissie Hynde and PJ Harvey by Spin, early Elvis Costello by Rolling Stone, and Joni Mitchell by Paste; as The Los Angeles Times puts it, Mandell is "gifted with a voice that's as smoky and coolly moderate as a chanteuse secreting a pearl-handled revolver beneath her dress in a noir novel."
This sampler features tracks from “I Can See The Future” and her upcoming album, “Let’s Fly a Kite.”


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STARKVILLE – There was no parade here Thursday night for Mississippi State’s most successful baseball team ever.
Who needs a march down the street when you’ve got Dudy Noble Field – the capitol building of Southeastern Conference baseball – for hosting a “Welcome Home Celebration.”
The Bulldogs, two days removed from a disappointing College World Series championship series loss to UCLA in Omaha, received an enthusiastic salute from their administration and an estimated 4,000 adoring fans, many who traveled to Nebraska to support their maroon-clad boys of spring and summer.
Banners proclaiming “2013 National Finalists” were displayed inside and outside the ballpark. Highlights from MSU’s 51-win season were played on the scoreboard screen, along with the team’s popular “Bench Mobb” rap video.
Jim Ellis, MSU’s radio voice, was the program’s host. Speakers included school president Mark Keenum, who was presented the CWS runner-up trophy by the team, athletics director Scott Stricklin, head coach John Cohen and Bulldog team captains Wes Rea and Kendall Graveman.
Thanking the fans
Rea, the sophomore first baseman who tweeted before the season MSU fans needed to make plans to go to Omaha, thanked the cowbell-clanging supporters.
“What we accomplished this year was because of y’all,” he said. “I want to say ‘Thank you’ to you guys.’’’
Cohen, a former Bulldogs player, saluted his players and the fans, too.
“The best recruiting tool we have at Mississippi State is, No. 1, these guys,” he said, pointing to his players. “No. 2, is you guys.”
Stricklin told the fans about calling Cohen prior to the season to see if the Bulldogs had a team that could make it to Omaha. Stricklin wanted to take his wife, a big tennis fan, to Wimbledon the same week of the CWS finals.
“John said, ‘Scott this is a pretty special team. I don’t know if I would purchase those tickets just yet,’’’ Stricklin said. “Next year, the last week of June, I’m going to be ready to go back to Omaha.”
MSU lost 8-0 to the Bruins in Game 2 of their best-of-three CWS championship series. UCLA won the opener, 3-1, on Monday at TD Ameritrade Park.


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Tierra Rica median real estate price is $170,944, which is less expensive than 71.6% of Texas neighborhoods and 79.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Tierra Rica is currently $2,215, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 66.1% of the neighborhoods in Texas.
Tierra Rica is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in El Paso, Texas.
Tierra Rica real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Tierra Rica neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Tierra Rica are 3.8%, which is lower than one will find in 76.3% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Tierra Rica is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
One of the really interesting characteristics about the Tierra Rica neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 1.3% of college-friendly places to live in the state of Texas.
In addition, an extraordinary 11.1% of the residents of the Tierra Rica neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
With 1.8% of employed workers living in the Tierra Rica neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 96.3% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the Tierra Rica neighborhood. A whopping 66.1% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
Did you know that the Tierra Rica neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 82.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Tierra Rica is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 68.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Tierra Rica neighborhood in El Paso are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Tierra Rica neighborhood, 33.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.2%), and 19.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Tierra Rica neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 68.5% of households. Some people also speak English (31.2%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Tierra Rica neighborhood in El Paso, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (82.9%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.4%). In addition, 21.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Tierra Rica neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.

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The automobile industry may be encountering headwinds, but General Motors (GM 1.98%) thinks that demand will remain strong for sport utility vehicles. The company announced on Friday it would be adding more than 1,200 jobs to an assembly plant near Lansing, Michigan, in an effort to beef up production of the Chevrolet Traverse and the Buick Enclave. Those additional workers will also help manufacture some Cadillac sedans.
That's a rare piece of upbeat news in an otherwise beleaguered industry. While GM's operations were initially only modestly disrupted by the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, its intricate auto parts supply chain relies significantly on factories there -- a situation that now poses an unquantifiable risk to the automaker. The Chinese government's intense efforts to contain the disease have already taken a meaningful toll: General Motors reported on Thursday its plant in Wuhan, China, would remain closed for nearly another month. GM's stock price has fallen more than 15% this week alone on fears of how the widening spread of COVID-19 could affect the company's business.
Assuming the epidemic doesn't crimp the global economy so much it stifles wages or employment, General Motors' bet on SUVs may turn out to be a savvy one. While overall automobile sales fell in 2018 and 2019, according to data from the International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, sport utility vehicles remain marketable. In January, in fact, J.D. Power says trucks and SUVs accounted for a record-breaking 72.5% of all vehicles purchased. They're even doing well in Europe, where they have not traditionally been as popular. Rising demand gave those larger vehicles a nearly 40% share of that market last year.


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The most common form of self-harm involves cutting of the skin using a sharp object, e.
The term self-mutilation is also sometimes used, although this phrase evokes connotations that some find worrisome, inaccurate, or offensive.
A broader definition of self-harm might also include those who inflict harm on their bodies by means of disordered eating. The older literature has used several different terms.
For this reason research in the past decades has inconsistently focused on self-harming behavior without and with suicidal intent including suicide attempts with varying definitions leading to inconsistent and unclear results.
Criteria for NSSI include five or more days of self-inflicted harm over the course of one year without suicidal intent, and the individual must have been motivated by seeking relief from a negative state, resolving an interpersonal difficulty, or achieving a positive state.
Many self-harmers are very self-conscious of their wounds and scars and feel guilty about their behaviour, leading them to go to great lengths to conceal their behaviour from others. People who self-harm are not usually seeking to end their own life; it has been suggested instead that they are using self-harm as a coping mechanism to relieve emotional pain or discomfort or as an attempt to communicate distress.
It is often seen as only a symptom of an underlying disorder,  though many people who self-harm would like this to be addressed. The key areas of disorder which exhibit an increased risk include autism spectrum disorders  borderline personality disorderbipolar disorder depression  phobias and conduct disorders.
Those diagnosed with schizophrenia have a high risk of suicide, which is particularly greater in younger patients as they may not have an insight into the serious effects that the disorder can have on their lives.
However, the link between genetics and self-harm in otherwise healthy patients is largely inconclusive.
Benzodiazepine dependence as well as benzodiazepine withdrawal is associated with self-harming behaviour in young people. There is also a positive statistical correlation between self-harm and emotional abuse.
This may sound strange. It may also be an attempt to affect others and to manipulate them in some way emotionally. This may be achieved by tricking the mind into believing that the present suffering being felt is caused by the self-harm instead of the issues they were facing previously: Those who self-harm sometimes describe feelings of emptiness or numbness anhedoniaand physical pain may be a relief from these feelings.
They may then recognise the need to function more, or have a desire to feel real again, and a decision is made to create sensation and 'wake up'. It may even be hard for some to actually initiate cutting, but they often do because they know the relief that will follow.
For some self-harmers this relief is primarily psychological while for others this feeling of relief comes from the beta endorphins released in the brain. As a coping mechanism, self-harm can become psychologically addictive because, to the self-harmer, it works; it enables them to deal with intense stress in the current moment.
The patterns sometimes created by it, such as specific time intervals between acts of self-harm, can also create a behavioural pattern that can result in a wanting or craving to fulfill thoughts of self-harm.
Some of this is environmental and some of this is due to physiological differences in responding. The sympathetic nervous system innervates e. Studies of adolescents have shown that adolescents who self-injure have greater physiological reactivity e.
Treatment[ edit ] There is considerable uncertainty about which forms of psychosocial and physical treatments of people who harm themselves are most effective.WASHINGTON — Prison-reform advocates scored a major victory Wednesday when the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill offering convicts a “second chance” in a bipartisan vote.
Self-harm is not typically suicidal behaviour, although there is the possibility that a self-inflicted injury may result in life-threatening damage. Although the person may not recognise the connection, self-harm often becomes a response to profound and overwhelming emotional pain that cannot be resolved in a more functional way.
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Mahalo to John Irwin from Dunedin, Florida for sharing this cool honu photo with us for Aloha Friday Photos. Here’s what John tells us about this photo:
There’s a beach on the north shore of Oahu aptly named Turtle Beach. Stopped there once and a bit of a crowd had gathered around this one massive 250 lb Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle. There was a volunteer there to keep people a few yards away. This little fellow was a regular beach visitor called Wooley Bully who like to bask in the sun most afternoons before slipping back into the Pacific before dusk. Wooley didn’t seem to mind all the attention, he moved his flipper occasionally but mostly he was just chilling. I remember getting a parking ticket after just a short time there but I felt it was a small price to pay.
John also shared this info about Wooley Bully.
As John mentioned, it’s important to keep a distance of 10 or more feet (3 meters) away from sea turtles to allow them their space and safety to rest. These green sea turtles are designated as threatened species.
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Victor DeMatteo flies to Mexico City in order to prove Eric Magnuson wrong. Victor DeMatteo has had terrible dreams all year long. Victor DeMatteo's poetry has been called "effusive" and "lovesome." Victor DeMatteo has spoken one poetic language for 52 years. Victor DeMatteo has read his poems aloud in New York City and Albuquerque, in London and Sydney. He can speak his language to cowboys and geologists and weather girls and they will all know that what he speaks is poetry. He can speak this in deserts or on high plains, in bayous or on salt flats. The landscape knows the language despite the language. And when Victor DeMatteo travels to Paris or Berlin or Juarez or Rio, he has others translate his words for more lines to fill yet more pages, and the intellectual or the conquistador or the Aymara appreciatively nods back, Yes, I know what that is. Victor DeMatteo has spoken the language so fluently that he barely felt the need to open to his twenty-third poem in Poetry magazine. He knew the language so well he didn't worry anything might be out of place. But as pride slowly turned the page, he found something he did not understand: A man in a magenta suit (yes, a magenta suit) and a straw hat (yes, a straw hat) prattled on in the middle of Poetry's vaunted pages, and Victor DeMatteo knew that something was on the paper, but it may as well have been streaked in horse shit because it was not his poetic language. Victor DeMatteo looked at the pages but he did not read them and he hoped none of his colleagues in the English department would ever ask his opinion of them.
But the fear of appearing illiterate was too strong. Victor DeMatteo went to his university's library, seeking any scholarly papers addressing the language presented by the man in the magenta suit. He found nothing. Victor DeMatteo grudgingly turned on his computer. He typed in what he'd seen but not read, and found that somebody else, behind his back, had created a new language he did not understand. The words first appeared slowly on the screen, then in digital reams, illuminating poetic works that "did not need to be read," bringing to life works in which the authors said the conceptual idea was more important than the final product on the page, if there even was a page. Poems consisting of nothing but every other name listed in the 1998 Minot, North Dakota phone book; poems documenting every curse word heard by a poet watching television for 24 hours on January 6, 2005; poems that were merely alphabetized transcriptions of city names found in a weathered Rand McNally atlas. These were poems that only became real at the moment that people talked about them. These were poems that needed to be spoken into existence.
Victor DeMatteo could see these words, he could nearly read them but he would not have said he read them. He would not say he'd become bilingual. He actually went to great lengths to not read what he could or could not read. He feared that giving the works any validation would only make them more real, and that his own beloved language may become obsolete.
But later that year, a colleague—who discussed these things only in secret with Victor DeMatteo—sent the lyrical poet an essay written about this new language, theorizing how the only way that poets could do anything new would be to write not for humans but for machines. Waiting for the robots to wake up and consciously read the poets' work would be the only feasible way to make it new. The essayist said the first generation to do this was already alive, perhaps already writing poems, merely waiting for the machines to loudly snore themselves from sleep. Victor DeMatteo, worried that he'd become outmoded, erased the essay from his screen. He avoided letting the idea frighten him. Poetry magazine never published another dossier of conceptual poems again. But then the colleague sent Victor DeMatteo a link to a YouTube video. Eric Magnuson was being interviewed at an academic conference in Ann Arbor: He was asked about his latest conceptual poem—a text that bypassed any need for a human audience.
In a Google search box, Magnuson had retyped the entirety of an interview between a critic and the man in the magenta suit. He Googled each sentence of the interview, one by one, and clicked on the first link that appeared—always the same unnamed website that the interview originally appeared on. Every time Magnuson clicked on the website's link, his search terms, i.e., the interview/poem, would appear on the magazine's own web platform, slowly rematerializing "on the other side of the machine."
"Okay," Magnuson said in the shaky smartphone footage, "so the magazine's webmaster is basically my only real reader, right? You know? I don't even have a copy of the poem. I deleted that shit from my search history. But let me throw down this hypothetical and let's just say that the webmaster never even bothered to look at what search terms brought readers to the magazine's website. I'm gonna pause there to let you mull that one over. Holy shit, right? You following me? Yeah. Yeah. I've written a poem that's only for the machine: The machine became my reader when I typed the text into the search box. And then, you know, the machine became my editor when it asked me 'Did you mean . . . ?' 'Did you mean . . . ?' You know how Google asks you that? And then on top of that the machine became my publisher and critic when it decided which website to send my poem to. It had way more control than I ever did. Even if the webmaster saw my poem, the machine was, like, a much closer reader. It's not skipping over any words like a human would. So that's trippy, right? It doesn't even matter if anybody else reads that shit. And actually, it doesn't matter if it's even real. As far as you know, it's only real because I'm talking about it right now. Shit's crazy."
Victor DeMatteo shifted in his chair. He shook his head, No, no, no, in gentlemanly disbelief, but then he needed to take a walk. He needed to write a poem about the spring equinox or the red-throated loon. Though he couldn't get any words on the page. He felt as if he was out of ideas. He felt that the language he'd spoken—now for 56 years—might be obsolete before he died. He went back to his desk, weighted heavily by writer's block and distracted by the computer screen. He searched for the man in the magenta suit. Dozens of news reports turned up—the man had a new project: He was printing off the entire internet. He'd asked volunteers to print out and send as much of the internet as they could to an art gallery in Mexico City. In a flurry of clicks and typed credit card numbers, Victor DeMatteo booked a flight from ORD to MEX.
The lyrical poet reasons now that if he finds Magnuson's poem among the boxes of printed pages—if he sees it with his own eyes—he may be able to save his language from not only the machines but from the conceptual poets. If the text has any poetic value whatsoever, he now writes in his notes on the 747 high over the border, I can prove that this 'poem' is just as important as the idea. The poem would remain real; the idea an abstraction. Victor DeMatteo touches down at the Benito Juárez International Airport to do no less than save his beloved language.
Victor DeMatteo enters the Mexico City art gallery. He sees hundreds of boxes exploding with white pages covered with the internet's texts and images. He sees the man in the magenta suit sitting aloft the piles like a boy king on a papyrus throne. Victor DeMatteo shyly asks, "May—may I read through these pages?" The man in the magenta suit smirks from atop the pile: "Be my guest," he says and slowly waves his hand over the papers as if showcasing only the finest Wagyu.
The lyrical poet cautiously picks up a stack of papers. He skims the lines of words, searching for anything that might be Magnuson's poem, any mention of the critic and the man in the magenta suit. He finds Twitter feeds and Wikipedia pages on Hiram Abiff and personal emails and a food blog's celery recipes and a mountain of Facebook chats between two adulterers and Akron's city council minutes and pictures from Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale and a box of comments posted to a news article on Sandy Hook conspiracy theories and Kelley Blue Book numbers for a 2012 Buick Verano with 45,000 miles and a Tumblr documenting everything eaten by a 13-year-old girl in Reno, Nevada and Google Maps from South Bend's Studebaker National Museum to Ames's Cyclone Liquors next to Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft off of South Third Street and long-dormant MySpace pages with links to long-erased Friendster pages, but Victor DeMatteo finds nothing that might be Magnuson's poem. He pushes onward through the stacks. And onward still, page after page, all while the man in the magenta suit sits atop it all and answers questions asked by the few visitors wandering through the one-room gallery today. The sunlight passes the edges of the windows. The ceiling lamps grow brighter as the streets go dark. Victor DeMatteo anxiously tears through the pages. The man in the magenta suit hops down from his piles and asks, "Would you like me to keep the lights on?" "Yes, yes," Victor DeMatteo mumbles into the texts. "Yes."
The man in the magenta suit exits.
Victor DeMatteo flips open cardboard boxes and throws reams of paper into the air and behind him. He climbs up the highest stack. He scans the words beneath him before the pages slip out from under his hands. The mound of paper slowly gives way, sending Victor DeMatteo to the floor, leaving him half-buried in the internet. Wearily shaking off the fall, he looks up at you as if he just now realizes you've been watching this entire time. He watches you watching from above, from the ceiling, or standing idly by, on the floor, or at the door, or through the window that's now dark aside from the dusty glow of a Mexico City streetlight; from wherever you've chosen to stand this long afternoon and night as Victor DeMatteo helplessly summited the sheets—paper cuts bloodying all of his fingers and both of his palms.
"How long have you been here?" he asks you, unwittingly burying himself deeper in the pages while panicking as if in quicksand. Though you don't respond. You pause for too long, wondering if he's truly talking to you but you see nobody else in the gallery, you even look back at where you've been but nobody is there. And still you don't respond. "Why haven't you said anything!?" he says, exasperated, out of breath, the sweat at his grey hairline spilling onto the pages that nearly engulf his face. He does a clumsy breast stroke to the surface, treading papers that slip from under his hands: Flimsy sheets logging Canadian Parliamentarian votes puff up into the air at his academic flailing. Many of them are now darkly smudged by Victor DeMatteo's wingtips, dotted in drying blood from his paper-cut hands, watermarked by the sweat he's shaken from his ruffled hair.
He stares at you, waiting, incredulous.
The brick-walled room is silent aside from his heavy breathing. He breathes in and out. In and out.
"Say something!" he says.
But you don't.
"Say something!" he says.
But you don't.
But you don't.


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The statement said: “The JPO’s most recent application for funding was submitted on 28 April 2011, one day before the closing date of 29 April 2011.
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The NLB said if the current application is successful, the JPO will be advised of the amount and also the budget line items they can use the grant for.
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“The JPO used to rely on private sector funding for years and with the recession the funding slowly dwindled and so the focus has shifted heavily on public sector funding. Last year 62% of our funding came from the public sector.”
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External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday announced grating of visas to eight Pakistani nationals for undergoing medical treatment in India.
Swaraj made the announcement on Twitter while responding to requests for medical visas.
“We approve medical visa for Pakistan nationals Mrs Shahbaz Bibi, Zaheerudin Babar, Wazir Khan and Irfan Ali Chandio for their liver transplant surgery in India. Pls contact Indian High Commission in Pakistan,” she tweeted.
In a series of tweets, Swaraj said, “We further approve medical visa of Pakistan nationals Mir Muhammad Shahid, Nikhil Raj, Zafarullah and Jhamat Mal for their treatment in India.”
Medical visa - There are many requests for medical visa from Pakistan nationals. Please submit your papers with Indian High Commission. They will examine your papers and send me a report. @IndiainPakistan— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) December 6, 2017
Swaraj has been adopting a sympathetic approach in granting medical visas to Pakistani nationals notwithstanding a strained relationship between India and Pakistan over a host of issues including cross-border terrorism.
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"From the very start of the project to its complete execution, the third-party auditors will closely monitor the work done by the contractors. Reports will be furnished by the auditors based on inspections on the lines of the existing third-party audits for road projects," said Rajiv Jalota, additional municipal commissioner (projects).
Although the system was to be introduced a year ago, the civic body is struggling to find enough firms to begin these audits. "The-re has been insufficient response to the EoIs invited up to the February 15 deadline. Thus, we have extended the deadline till February 28 for firms to send in their documents," said Jalota.
Experts, however, said it was vital for the audit reports to translate into effective measures to improve civic services. "It was necessary to further these third-party audits in departments that involve high capital expenditures. Action should be initiated by the administration to introduce systemic reforms based on the reports prepared by the external auditors," said former civic chief Subodh Kumar, who had issued orders to appoint third-party auditors to monitor road works in 2011.


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All contestants who ran in the Mount Allison Student’s Union spring election won a seat due to a very limited field of candidates. Only sixteen candidates ran for nineteen available seats on council.
The election coincided with a referendum on the continuation of MASU’s Green Investment Fund. The referendum failed to reach the two-thirds majority it needed to renew the $10 levy on students to fund environmental sustainability projects in the Tantramar region.
Some confusion was caused by the off campus councillor position elections. Six candidates stood for six seats, and unless a candidate garnered no votes at all, all would be elected.
“Because there were only six people running, when the voting system went through and gathered the optional preferential voting system, it only took the first preference,” explained MASU President Melissa O’Rourke.
Vice-President Finance and Operations Josh Outerbridge was concerned that the preferential voting system had been compromised because of the small number of candidates, and checked with Simply Voting, the online voting service, to be sure the elections were legitimate.
Incumbent arts senator Piper Riley Thompson captured eighty one per cent of the 821 votes cast, with newcomer Alexandra MacLeod winning the other nineteen per cent.
Steven Black won sixty four per cent of the votes for social science senator, with Cora Leigh MacDonald capturing the remaining thirty six per cent.
Alaa Ratmi won sixty three per cent of the science senator vote, while sitting first year councillor Daniel Murphy will take a seat as a social science senator with thirty seven per cent of the vote.
The positions of faculty councillors will see those elected sitting both on MASU council and on the university senate. Student senators have traditionally voted in a bloc at senate, so as to ensure student concerns are heard in a setting dominated by faculty and administrators.
Ian Nason was elected to the position of Board of Regents representative, with ninety one percent of those voting checking “yes.” The position will see Nason sit on both MASU council and the university Board of Regents, which concerns itself with the non-academic aspects of running the university.
James Gorman was alone in running for one of three seats for South Side councillors. He received ninety one percent of “yes” votes as well.
Jen Frail received sixty six per cent of votes for North Side councillor, while Madeline Stewart captured the remainder. A third North Side councillor will be elected the fall.
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Before the outbreak of the full-scale war against Ukraine, Bakhmut was a thriving city characterized by its lush greenery, expansive parks, and charming Soviet-era aesthetic.
Today, however, the city’s peaceful facade has been shattered as it has now become the hottest spot on the front line, witnessing fierce battles and widespread destruction.
On Thursday, April 20, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry released footage depicting the pre-war Bakhmut, a poignant reminder of the city’s former beauty and the devastating impact of the ongoing conflict.
This was Bakhmut before the terrorists decided to "liberate" it.— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 20, 2023
This beautiful city is now in ruins.
russia must be defeated so that the cancer of the "russian world" does not spread further. pic.twitter.com/iV3OCA8CoG
Bakhmut, located in eastern Ukraine, has become a powerful symbol of Ukrainian resistance as its defenders continue to hold out against Russia’s shelling and assaults by waves of Wagner mercenaries, whose commanders seem to have no regard for casualties.
Recent drone footage of Bakhmut from the air reveals the once peaceful and beautiful city transformed into a ghost town of rubble, serving as a grim testament to the senselessness of Russia’s annihilation of cities it claims to be liberating.
🏚 Бахмут. Залишки міста. Відео бійців 228 ОБтТрО— DeepState UA (@Deepstate_UA) April 19, 2023
📍 Район елеватора та вокзалу. pic.twitter.com/adrOftBqXK
This city has withstood the longest battle since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24 of last year. It testifies to the resilience and determination of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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