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Of late, the Forward seems to be on an ongoing quest to find new ways to surpass previous lows. Just recently, the magazine was caught gaslighting readers with the claim that the phrase, “‘From the River to the Sea’ doesn’t mean what you think it means.” Now, the magazine has gone further and printed an opinion piece endorsing housing discrimination against Jews. (“Palestinians Are Right To Outlaw Selling Land To Settlers,” January 4, 2019.)
The author, Code Pink activist Ariel Gold, recently embarrassed herself in an appearance on FOX News when she claimed that “we have white nationalism in the Senate.” Pressed for an example of a white nationalist Senator, she named Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King. (While she later clarified that she meant Representative Steve King, he is not a Senator.) Previously, Gold has come under fire for bringing anti-Israel agitator Bassem Tamimi to a third grade classroom in Ithaca, New York, to inspire eight-year old children to become “freedom fighters for Palestine.” She can also be seen in video posted on the Legal Insurrection blog calling for an intifada, and chanting “hey hey, ho ho, Zionists have got to go.” Yet, for the Forward’s editorial staff, such extreme displays did not disqualify Gold. Instead, the publication gave Gold another platform.
Organized housing discrimination based on race or ethnicity was banned in the US in 1948, and rightly so. Gold, however, seizes on a contested property transaction in which all parties had access to the Israeli courts in order to justify the Palestinian Authority’s recent arrests of individuals who sold land to Jews.
Gold writes that,
More settler homes, especially inside flashpoint cities like Hebron and East Jerusalem, inevitably mean more checkpoints, more soldiers, more closed military zones, and more violence. With each home occupied by settlers, Israelis and Palestinians move further away from peace, further from a solution, and the occupation is entrenched, along with the Apartheid-like conditions in the West Bank that grant Israeli Jews citizenship but not Palestinians.
So when Palestinians sell their homes to Israeli Jews, they are harming their fellow Palestinians in a very real way.
This specious argument ignores the fact that these checkpoints and soldiers are a result of the terrorism and violence that the Palestinian Authority government both incites and pays for. It also ignores that terrorism pre-dated the Israeli military presence in the West Bank. If a Jewish minority could live in peace in the West Bank, free from terrorism, there would be no need for these checkpoints or soldiers. Gold’s argument ignores Palestinian intolerance, blames the victims of violence for defending themselves, and demands segregation as a response to terror.
Gold forgets an important parallel from American history. When African Americans integrated US schools, they, too, faced immense hostility. Ruby Bridges required protection from federal marshals when she desegregated a New Orleans elementary school in 1960. The US government understood that its role was to protect the civil rights of the minority, not to reward the intolerant by giving in to their demands and effectively allowing mob rule.
Gold also ignores that Hebron (the location of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which she calls a “heavily occupied West Bank city”) and eastern Jerusalem historically had large Jewish populations. Hebron was ethnically cleansed of Jews by the British after a vicious pogrom in 1929 by Hebron’s Arabs and further riots in 1936. Eastern Jerusalem was ethnically cleansed of Jews by the Jordanians in 1948. Today in the West Bank and Jerusalem, just as in the US in an earlier era, a military or law enforcement presence is needed to protect those returning to these areas because of the intolerance and terror that continues to be directed towards them.
Nor does Gold seem to have a clear sense of her own end-goal for the area. On the one hand, she complains of “Apartheid-like conditions in the West Bank that grant Israeli Jews citizenship but not Palestinians.” Asking for Israeli citizenship rights for West Bank Palestinians is, in effect, a call for a single, binational state. Yet, Gold cannot countenance Jews and Arabs living side by side. Does she believe in coexistence, or not? Perhaps the answer is revealed when she writes,
[I]t’s not because their buyers are Jews that these Palestinians are being penalized for selling land, but because their existence in the West Bank is part of a larger political conflict that has terrible, tragic effects on other Palestinians.
If Palestinians could coexist with a Jewish minority in a future state, there would be no “terrible tragic effects.” Gold, however, is troubled by the Jews’ “existence” in the West Bank.
In Gold’s worldview, everything bad that happens to Palestinians seems to be the fault of Israel. While she pays lip service to PA human rights abuses against Palestinian people, she somehow manages to blame even this on Israel: “At the end of the day, the corruption of the PA, and the injustice it metes out against Palestinians, are enabled and exacerbated by the Israeli occupation.” The internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism includes, “accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by … non-Jews.”
Gold implies that Israel is to blame for the fact that Israeli Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem don’t have Israeli citizenship, despite the fact that citizenship is available to them if they apply for it. Gold asserts that, “since 1967, Israel has revoked the residency of 14,595 Palestinian Jerusalemites.” But even the Human Rights Watch report from which Gold appears to have gotten this figure (she doesn’t name her source) notes that Israeli authorities justified these revocations on the grounds that the individuals were either no longer living there, or were suspected of being involved in terror activities, or had family members suspected of being involved in terror activities. The same report also acknowledges, “A path to citizenship exists for Palestinian Jerusalemite permanent residents, but the vast majority chose not to pursue it….”
Let’s not pretend, as [US Ambassador David] Friedman wishes us to, that [Palestinian American Jerusalem resident Issam] Akel has been sentenced [by the PA] for an inconsequential attempt to sell his home to an Israeli Jew in the pursuit of peace and coexistence. The sale would have placed another fanatical settler family in a prime East Jerusalem location at heart of the conflict. And his motivation was clearly to escape the punishing occupation of East Jerusalem Palestinians.
As we are rightfully shocked at the length of Akel’s jail sentence, let’s also not forget — especially in this time of Israeli elections — that it’s Israel that ultimately holds the keys.
It’s unclear how Gold knows what Akel’s motivation was, or whether his buyers were “fanatical.” Most property sales have as their motivation the simple goal of receiving financial gain for property that is no longer desirable to the seller. More bizarre is her assertion that Israel “holds the keys” to Akel’s jail sentence – yet again, blaming Israel for the actions of the Palestinian Authority.
The fact that the Forward would lend its platform to someone like Gold raises eyebrows. But even when the publication prints pieces from authors with relative stature the content can be outlandish. One example is a recent missive by Peter Beinart. (“Young Anti-Zionists: Be Uncomfortable, Like I Am With My Zionism,” December 26, 2018.) “If you’re going to be an anti-Zionist, be a good one,” the letter instructed young people. Imagine he’d written to Shaun King Senator Steve King Rep. Steve King, “If you’re going to be a racist, be a good one.” Such a line would never see the light of day in any reputable publication.
As noted above, CAMERA previously critiqued another Forward opinion piece that attempted to gaslight readers with the false claim that the call to replace Israel with an Arab majority state is a peaceful one. Unfortunately, the response of the Forward’s opinion editor was to ignore CAMERA’s substantive critique and instead deflect by calling the organization racist on Twitter, essentially demanding that her author, a tenure-track professor at the University of Arizona, be granted immunity from criticism due to her gender and ethnicity. We can only hope that this time she will consider the substance of what we have to say.

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OPINION: Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity
Over Memorial Day Weekend, an infuriating scene unfolded in Prospect Park. A now-viral tweet showed NYPD and NYC Parks officers setting up a sting in Prospect Park, stopping riders on e-assist bikes, including parents transporting toddlers:
Nypd has an ebike check point at prospect park this afternoon, apparently. stopped my husband on his pedal assist ebike from bringing our daughter into the park. Threatened him with a $150 fine and destroying his bike. #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/6ZgKqGSjLX
— Shay O'Reilly (@shaygabriel) May 29, 2022
According to the tweet, officers were even threatening to destroy the e-assist bikes, which are legal to ride on New York City streets, but have been banned in Prospect Park due to an arbitrary decree from the city Parks Department. This policy is discriminatory and ableist, and harmful to climate goals. Council Members Shahana Hanif, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson, whose districts border or include Prospect Park, all agree that Prospect Park needs a thoughtful policy to include e-assist bikes. I also urge Mayor Adams to right this wrong and set an e-assist policy based in fact, not fear, for Prospect Park.
The ban on e-assist bikes is something that has affected me personally. Riding my bike through Prospect Park used to be one of the greatest joys of my daily life. Yet, when the Parks Department banned e-bikes from park paths last year, it cut me off from the park — and some of the safest places to bike in the city.
Prospect Park’s bike paths are essential routes within the city’s very limited bike network, and e-assist bikes, which look and handle like traditional bicycles, already safely and legally use bike lanes throughout the city. Streets in the neighborhoods to the east and south of the park are notoriously dangerous for people biking. For many trips, Prospect Park is not only the safest bike route but the only safe route.
The ban is likely to be selectively enforced by NYPD. Take the Hudson River Greenway, for example: delivery workers have already been targeted for riding e-assist bikes along the path, despite needing safe routes to quickly complete their essential work under relentless pressure from delivery apps. The NYPD also has a history of disproportionately ticketing cyclists of color: Last year, 75 percent of tickets to bicyclists went to Black and Latino New Yorkers, who are already more likely to live in areas where the city has failed to provide safe bike infrastructure.
It’s impossible to reconcile the e-assist ban with the Parks Department’s belief that a park’s mission is to “provide an open space that is free and accessible to all.” E-assist bikes provide a lower-impact option for enjoyable physical activity, and they offer a more accessible biking option for less-experienced riders like myself. I’m not the only one embracing e-assist bikes. Council Member Hanif has said e-assist bikes made it possible for her to bike after her recent hip replacement surgery. And since Citi Bike introduced e-assist bikes, about 40 percent of all rides are now taken on an e-bike — despite the city Department of Transportation capping e-assist bikes to just 20 percent of the bike share fleet.
On an e-assist bike, the park is more accessible to everyone, including families and those who live further away. The Parks Department should be embracing the accessibility e-bikes provide instead of closing the park off to so many.
And they’re better for the environment: every e-assist bike means one less car on our congested streets and one less car polluting our air. The city should implement policies to make our city more sustainable and get people out of cars, not ones that encourage more driving.
Closing parks to e-assist bikes closes the park to so many New Yorkers — from families with children to essential workers to those with limited mobility. To correct the inequities created by this policy, Mayor Adams must direct NYC Parks to lift its ban on e-assist bikes in Prospect Park without delay.


Advancing capabilities to protect the nation often requires developing a conceptual model, building proof-of-concept prototypes, and fielding new capabilities in a user environment. To enhance this process, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has issued a formal Request For Information (RFI) on rapid prototyping capabilities in support of the DHS mission.
Rapid prototyping is defined as a technology process used in the production of models to evaluate fit and form or tooling for low volume manufacturing. S&T is interested in exploring the possibility of integrating a rapid prototype capability into S&T’s innovation cycle in order to shorten project development time and rapidly develop and field technical prototypes.
In the area of Chemical and Biological Defense, S&T’s investments in research and development include efforts to improve the understanding, technologies, and systems necessary to detect, assess and provide resiliency to protect against biological and chemical attacks. Technology areas include assessment, discovery, and interdiction capabilities; recovery processes; and the medical countermeasures against foreign animal diseases.
DHS iterates that this RFI does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) or a promise to issue an RFP, but the DHS Office of Procurement Operations (OPO) may issue a solicitation for this requirement in the coming months.
Further details are available under Solicitation Number: RFI-ST-RAPIDPROTOTYPE-13. The response deadline is February 22, 2013.


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what pets do you have
I used to have:
cats: 1 crazy (she's an old granny now) too bad she's crazy no more!!
kittens: 3 fluffyanalolita_ pepperina_ (my cat's kittens)
fish: 10 no name lol
hamsters: 2 olgalolita... (I named her lolita to remember the dead kitten) what happened to all of 'em: cats: mom's friend took her cause I got allerigies when she had her kittens kittens: mom's cousin took lolita, the second day, she died, cause she couldn't live without me (I found out last week) they didn't tell me from the begenning cause I was too sad when they all left, lol (I was 11 when they all left) fluffyana: still alive (with one of mom's friends) pepperina: with mom's aunt's grandchild, lol hamsters: olga: she was with me for a year and 7 months lolita: I got her two days after olga died, and she's still alive til' now... this is her picture... (lolita) the hamster and I'll post another one of (lolita) the kitten hbu?
oh mannn I have had a tooon is pets through out life haha. but some died and most got kidnapped. I had two baby turtles and they both died they were named Turtle and Tootie. I have 9 chuawas[however you spell it] 1 fluffy dog "Lucky" [kidnapped] 1 golden retriver mixed with chuawa also named "Lucky" [yes, kidnapped] 1 white wavy haired dog "Almond" [kidnapped also] 2 baby kittys one was named "Sushi" and the white and gold fatasss one was named "Fatty" both were kidnapped. 5 fishes that died but I have 2 beta fish that are currently alive ahahha amazingly they have survived for almost a year now hahaha. *sigh. but I probably had more but cant remember from being too tramatized from the many losses..=[ well yeah this question was fun to answer =]
I have had about 7 dogs since I was born, and now we have a baby jack russel, she is soo sweet, thats her in the picture., we also have a goldfish, a cat, an african grey parrot, and a hamster. believe it or not we used to have a pig. lol and we also had a chicken. the chicken died, and the pig had to be moved to pennywell farm when we moved house =[.
I have 1 dog: Ryder 1 cat: eugene 1 Kitten: Mugsy 1 pregnant rabbit: Lexi 3 Fish: 1 betta, 1 plectompus 1 chinese firebellied newt and I live at my boyfriends house, and altogether counting my animals there are
9 cats 4 dogs 2 rabbits 1 guinea pig
18 chickens (and more on the way in the incubator) 1 duck 1 cat 2 dogs 1 dove (orphaned 7 years ago) 2 horses an infanite number of guppies (they just keep comin) 1 rescued hermit crab and our rabbit that stays loose in the yard and doesnt run away
I have 1-dog,1-cat, 1-chicken,1-peahen and 2-horses. Well ok, the horses are part time pets (off season). The rest of the year the horses are used for teaching Western Pleasure riding.
UPDATE 1 cat~ tanya 2 dogs~Fozzie (lab) muffin (chihauauh) 9 chickens 117 guppies 1 hermit crab 1 gerbil~ pheonix 1 bird~ precious 1 rabbit 1 horse~ Roanie 1 praying mantis
4dogs Roo, Tonto, Griff, Sargent 6 cats Maisy, Moe Joe, Milly, Mac, Mator, Marly 1 parakeet Gibly and over 20 chickens
I have a cat, Daisy. A kitten, Frankee. (He's the cat in my picture.) An old dog, Romeo. And a not-so-old dog. Pedro.
1 cat Mariah 1 dog Gracie (Beagle) 20 gallon aquariam full of fish 2 birds Finchs Tessa and Natelie
1~mini long hair daschund,1 pitbull/daschund mix and 1 rescued welsh corgi I think thats what she is. and you?
we have a KITTY and 2 betta fishies >=O very very bad 'cause my cat keeps bothering them
I have 2 cats, 1 kitten, 1 dog, and 1 snake
I <3 my puppy, she is my baby
Two ferrets, a snapping turtlebaby, a dog and a fish tank full of fish.
ok, the picture didnt show up. oh well lol
We have an aquarium with three fish.
I have 1 cat and 4 kittens.
this is lolita the kitten>>
a cat named kizzy
I have 2dogs

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A senior Iranian military commander lauded the country's experts unsparing efforts and achieving self-sufficiency in production of the needed equipment, and announced that at least 15 new air defense achievements will be unveiled in the coming days.
Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmailee made the remarks during a tour to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday.
Emphasizing full self-sufficiency of Iran's air defense in producing the required military equipment and high capabilities of Iranian experts in defense fields, Brigadier General Esmailee underlined that in the very near future a total of 15 completed defense project are scheduled to be unveiled in the coming days.
Last week, Commander of the Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that Iran plans to unveil new defense and military hardware and equipment in the coming weeks.
"Iranian Army plans to showcase its latest military accomplishments on the occasion of the 33rd Anniversary of the Islamic Republic's defense against the Iraqi invasion," Brigadier General Pourdastan said.
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Study Suggests New Function for AADC, the Enzyme Missing in AADC Deficiency
The work sheds light on AADC functions outside the brain and suggests that AADC may have anti-viral effects, opening new possibilities in anti-viral therapy.
The study, “Emerging Role of l-Dopa Decarboxylase in Flaviviridae Virus Infections,” was published in the journal Cells.
AADC deficiency is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the dopa decarboxylase (DDC) gene, which result in a reduced activity of the AADC enzyme. AADC is necessary for the production of neurotransmitters — chemical messengers used by nerve cells to communicate with each other — such as dopamine and serotonin.
Reduced activity of AADC, and consequently, reduced levels of dopamine and serotonin, trigger a variety of symptoms, including developmental delay, intellectual disability, movement disorders, muscle weakness, and problems in controlling blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature.
Apart from its presence in the nervous system, AADC has been detected in several peripheral organs, such as the liver and kidneys. However, the role of AADC outside the brain remains unknown.
A recent study showed that AADC physically interacts with PI3K enzymes — involved in cell growth, survival, and death — in nerve, kidney, and liver cells. Also, regulation of PI3K activities is often taken over by viruses as a strategy to increase viral propagation.
This evidence, as well as the known involvement of peripheral dopamine and serotonin in the process of infection of hepatitis C and dengue viruses, suggest AADC may have a role in viral infections.
Researchers in Greece set out to evaluate the potential association between AADC and infection by hepatitis C and dengue viruses. These viruses, which belong to the same virus family, also have been shown to interact with PI3K to facilitate viral propagation.
Since liver cells are targets of both viruses, the team analyzed AADC levels and AADC-PI3K interaction in liver cells infected with each virus, as well as in liver samples from patients infected with hepatitis C.
The results showed that propagation of both viruses was associated with a reduction of AADC levels and a suppression of AADC-PI3K association. Also, blocking PI3K activity resulted in a similar reduction of AADC levels.
Thus, AADC-PI3K may be “a functional complex playing a significant role in the life cycle of the virus,” the researchers wrote.
Additional analysis showed that the overproduction of AADC suppressed the propagation of both viruses, while suppression of AADC activity promoted viral propagation.
This information points to a bi-directional inverse (contrary) association between AADC and propagation of hepatitis C and dengue viruses.
“Our results unravel the importance of DDC in the intricate interaction of … dengue and hepatitis C viruses … with the host cell and opens new possibilities in defining novel therapeutic targets,” the team concluded.

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Facilitated by Jenn Cooper from Canon Australia
Join Canon Collective ambassador, Jenn Cooper, as she puts a creative twist on your average outdoor shoot.
The Canon Collective team will host a professional model in an outdoor environment and take you through working with both off camera flash and natural lighting.
Working with the incredible Broncolor lighting system and bouncing natural lighting, we will create some surreal and high fashion style portraits at the stunning Sails Port Macquarie.
Jenn will have a range of EOS cameras and a variety of lenses for you to test out and fill your portfolio with great quality imagery.
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Sails Port Macquarie – Auditorium.
There is limited parking available onsite with additional parking located close by.
1.00pm – 2.30pm
Meeting in the ground floor foyer of Sails Port Macquarie at 12.45pm.
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Limited to 20 attendees.
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CUSTOM ORDER JEWELRY
It is made of 925 fine silver made by hand in my workshop, and a beautiful green aventurine. Small green and blue amazonites have been added on the chain.
This necklace is a custom order, made around an aventurine selected in our semi-precious stone online catalog.
It is dressed in a mounting that I have well imagined at the neck of one of these Marchionesses, lying around in the corridors of Versailles during the Renaissance.
The pendant carries the drop shape green aventurine and adopts the silhouette of a symbolic butterfly whose wings are adorned with sterling silver hemispheres. To enhance this air pendant, small green and blue amazonites embellish the chain.
This necklace measures about 42 cm long.
I oxidized it in a natural way and then shined the details up. The antique effect gives a very nice touch to this bracelet. I brushed the metal to add an even more vintage aspect.
As we currently dwell in Mexico, provide a period of 3 to 6 weeks to receive your order for free with normal post service. Thank you for taking this information into account before ordering in our shop. At checkout, you will also have the option of choosing an express shipping. (please, read the complete conditions of shipping here).


A report has shown that coal-fired power plants may be allowed to run past 2025 providing they make some use of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Amber Rudd, Energy Secretary, promised in November’s ‘energy reset speech’ to remove all unabated coal generation in the next 10 years.
There was originally meant to be a consultation on the proposed cut off in spring of this year but this is still yet to take place.
An unnamed source from Whitehall is reported to have said that there are many points related to the coal industry that the consultation will address as well as gauging public opinion.
The source also said that the consultation will also outline what will happen to all coal power stations after the 2025 date and that is you choose to fit it with CCS, this will set a level which will not be permitted.
However, the government may yet choose to stop any coal generation that has any amount of carbon emissions but any discussion on this topic are still said to be purely speculative at this moment in time.
The coal forum had a meeting in February this year and the minutes of that discussion show that Andrea Leadsome, Energy Minister, is encouraging the coal industry to ‘engage in consultation’ by raising any questions or concerns they may have.
A Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) spokeswoman said that unabated coal is the most polluting and dirtiest method of electricity generation.
Due to this, she said that the government is fully committed to removing unabated coal power production by 2025 and that there is no alternative.
She said that this way made clear last year and that the department has not changed its outlook in this regard, before adding that the coal closures consultation will be outlined in the next few months.


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Drew Droege is a character. Yes, he plays a lot of characters and is known from computer screens across the world for his satirical take on Chloë Sevigny–but he, himself, is a character. He sits at his kitchen table, which frames him in a window that is lined with pop cultural monuments and representations of his work. “We’re going to take pictures of me next to pictures of myself, right?” he says with a smirk, inspiring a laugh from his audience of two. Drew is one of those performers who is not always on but always on his feet, even when sitting. He is tapped into a comedic genius that runs at a supersonic pace.
Drew grew up in Lincolnton, North Carolina, a small town outside of Charlotte. His family is full of funny people but he never considered himself to be one of them. “When I grew up, everyone in my family was really funny. My dad was really loud and boisterous and the funniest person I’ve ever met. My younger brother is hilariously funny, too. I was always the quiet one, the shy one who was reading, watching them and rolling my eyes. I was that kid.”
He liked to perform and intended to be a serious, dramatic actor. He stayed in North Carolina for college attending Wake Forrest University. “I was a theatre major and did plays–I didn’t do comedy,” he explains. “I did legitimate theatre. I wanted to be a respected actor. I tried to do a lot of drama and I would either not get cast or I would get laughs on stage and it would be horrible.”
“I resisted doing comedy for a long time because I had legitimate things to say and I’m a serious person. I realized that I enjoyed making people laugh, which I realized after my lack of dramatic acting experience,” he says. Comedy was always something in the background that he was used to. He’s naturally funny: comedy was maybe too easy.
Realizing he wanted to pursue comedy, he moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and started taking classes at the prestigious comedy theatre The Groundlings right after college. “I saw the movie Go and there was this one girl in the movie who had maybe three lines and was brilliant. I told myself that that is what I wanted to be able to do,” he said. “I went to The Groundlings, walked into the lobby, and her photo was on the wall for the Sunday Company. Her name was Melissa McCarthy and I thought, ‘I want to do whatever that Melissa does.’ She’s really a big reason why I do what I do along with people like Will Ferrell, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Coolidge, and more.”
Even though classes at The Groundlings were a bit scary and took a lot of time, Drew felt that he was among his people, that he had found his tribe in Los Angeles. In effect, The Groundlings has grounded Drew in Los Angeles. “I had friends out here, I liked the weather, and I had this weird feeling about LA that was intangible,” he noted. “I thought I would give it a try. I had no idea that I would live here for the past twelve and a half years, though.”
Drew is aware that his being in Los Angeles is slightly non-sensical since he wanted to do theatre and live performance: he was more suited for New York but ended up in the television and film town. “New York was really big, loud, and expensive at twenty two. I felt the vibe was much more casual here. To this day, I still haven’t lived in New York and I always think when I grow up that I’d live there. If I had a job, I’d move there in a heartbeat. LA is a lot easier to be creative–and there’s just more space, physically and mentally. I love the fact that I can leave this apartment and, in five minutes, I’m up in Griffith Park going for a hike.”
He finds that there is also room in Los Angeles for artists, which is something a lot of other cities don’t have. Drew can make his own identity and career in Los Angeles which he doesn’t necessarily think he could do anywhere else. LA–specifically The Groundlings, where he now teaches–helped him discover his point of view, too. “I learned [at The Groundlings] to write what makes me laugh and discovered my point of view and what I thought was ridiculous. I realized that all the characters that I do have crazy weird specific information and labels. If you look at all these photos, they’re characters I did at The Groundlings. They all involve some sort of food, drinks, name dropping, etc.”
This knowledge of what he finds funny led him to the character that has gotten him all sorts of attention: Hollywood alternative sweetheart, Chloë Sevigny. “The Chloë thing came out of reading so many interviews with so many different celebrities,” he explains. “Even in LA, when you ask someone, ‘Oh, did you have fun at the party?’ they answer, ‘Oh my god, yes! So-and-so was there!’ That didn’t answer the question of if they had fun. That didn’t tell me anything about your humanity. It was just ‘So-and-so was there and we had specialty cocktails and I was wearing Dolce & Gabbana.’ There’s nothing human there. I think that’s really funny and even more funny that people actually describe that as ‘having a good time.’ I find it funny that people are always presenting themselves in a certain way.”
“I started this Chloë thing because I looked in the mirror ten years ago and said, ‘Oh my god, I look like Chloë Sevigny,’” Drew continues. “I love her and she is an amazing actor and is so defiantly weird. I wondered what I could do with that so I did this sketch in 2002 based on those advertisements in New York that were saying to come to New York, after 9.11 happened. There were very anti-terrorism that people like Nathan Lane would do and were happy and peppy and said, ‘Everything is just wonderful here!’ I wondered what it would be like if Chloë Sevigny had an ad for New York and it was just this totally bizarre, underground thing that no one would get and would cause people in the Midwest to say, ‘New York seems terrifying and weird!’”
The character first started on stage in town. The first incarnation was much more lo-fi and rough: she was still being defined and performed without a wig or makeup and just with Drew in jeans, heels, and “some weird, glittery top.” “I started performing as her before Big Love. Most people didn’t know who she was. The very first audience sat there in complete stone cold silence. It was dead quiet. I always knew when I did it on stage and said, ‘Good Evening, America. I’m Chloë Sevigny.’ and they laughed, I had them. They would be okay. If they didn’t laugh, there was no getting them back. They’d just sit there and say, ‘Huh? What?’ Now that she is well known, it has certainly helped. I mean, in 2002 she was still an Oscar nominee and known as that girl in Boys Don’t Cry who isn’t Hillary Swank. I was obsessed with her since Kids so it’s weird that, to this day, some people still don’t know who she is.”
“Before the videos, it had this wildly inconsistent effect,” he continues. “I haven’t really developed it a lot or made major changes. Now that they are a hit, it blows my mind because they weren’t always a hit onstage. I do think that things have shifted from this obsession with hipster culture. My videos have come of age in this period, a part of the same culture as Portlandia and Very Mary Kate. They are these hyper-literate, referential comedic entries that I’ve been perfectly timed with. When I was doing Chloë as a live performance a few years ago, people didn’t get it and thought there wasn’t a joke there. There is no obvious punchline so people didn’t get the joke of Chloë just endlessly name dropping.”
The Internet has also been huge for him, his work offline and online being equally necessary for his career. “We all know that the Internet has really changed life. We’re no longer watching just what is on TV. People are following it and, in a sense, they are saying, ‘I like that.’ Internet followers are always a smaller market than television but they are incredibly loyal because they feel like they are each the ones who discovered the video. It blows my mind how much people like it since I’ve done it for so long–and I did it because I thought it was funny.”
“It’s been really nice,” he says of his current successes. “For years, I couldn’t get hired to do anything. I was just running around with my wigs in my car trying to get someone to put me on stage.”
He does have to attribute a small part of his success to the base of his character, the real Chloë. Because she became more well known, so did he. “It has to be weird for her that this side-thing has happened in her life,” he says. “She’s had such a bizarre career–and she has this added thing atop of it. She’s done a weird indie film where she gave a blow job and she has this fashion life and she’s done these bizarre, arty performance pieces that people don’t even know about AND she’s had her own show on HBO–AND there’s this dude in LA that puts on a wig and pretends to be you. What a life!”
Drew’s performance has gotten him attention from hosting Bears In Space at Akbar to even creating a video for this year’s Outfest. It’s been adopted by the fashion community, the LGBT community, and–of course–the comedy community. He now has more opportunities and can do a lot more in general. “That character has given me wings to do other things,” he says. “I really want to do a lot of other things and, because of my popularity as Chloë, I’ve gotten my own podcast where I rant and rave as myself, bringing on friends, doing different characters, etc. I host a lot of things now and I’ve started to ask if I can host as myself. Sometimes it feels wrong to do things as Chloë because the energy is wrong. I never did stand-up and I was always very scared to do things by myself. But, this character has give me confidence and others confidence in me to do whatever.”
Drew is glad to be doing what he is doing: he’s perfectly content with where his life in performance has led. However, he does understand how semi-silly his situation is when analyzed. “Sometimes I think, ‘Yes, this is what I was meant to be doing.’ while other times I have moments where I’m thinking, ‘Really, this is happening? This is what I’m doing?’ I’ve always wanted to entertain people. I’ve always wanted to be creative for a living. But, I didn’t know specifically that it would go this way and I certainly didn’t know that this Chloë thing would happen. For me, I thought my path would be different but I love where it’s gone. It’s mine.”
Los Angeles is Drew’s home base for the time being. “I want to be open to new opportunities,” he mentions, noting that if the right opportunity came he would of course move. He’d even like to get into writing more, too. “I would love to write a movie. I think a situation like Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo with Bridesmaids inspired everyone. Those are people that I studied with at The Groundlings and put on stupid wigs with–and now they’ve made all their dreams happen. That’s really inspiring because everything is so tangible.”
“I don’t need to be a movie star,” Drew adds regarding his future. “I’ve never been excited to be the lead in anything. I want to be busy. I’ve always said that I want to be third billed in everything–but never be first. I really do not care about that. If I can have a dream career, it would be to have John C. Reilly’s career: you’re in everything, you’re doing some big movies, you’re doing Tim & Eric, you doing some weird viral things–you’re doing all sorts of things! That’s what I want to do. I want to stay open and just say yes.”
For more on Drew, give him a follow on Twitter. You can also catch him at this year’s Outfest, which starts in town July 12: he’s in July 14th’s Sassy Pants and both July 18th’s Big Breakin’ and Something Real. He’ll also be participating in an Outfest panel on July 21 entitled Queer Internet Superstars. You can also watch his Chloë videos here.


Getafe have triggered the permanent option in the loan deal for Barcelona defender Marc Cucurella.
Getafe have exercised their option to purchase Cucurella from Barcelona for €6m.
The youngster has excelled on loan under Jose Bordalas during this season and the Madrid-based club were eager to tie him down long term at the fee that was agreed with the Blaugrana last summer.
There is no buy-back option for Barca in the arrangement. What Barcelona do maintain is a 40 percent sell on clause should Getafe sell Cucurella in the future.
Cucurella has gathered plenty of admirers in the Premier League, where Chelsea are keen, meaning that Getafe would not struggle to sell him at a profit in the summer, though the option of him remaining at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez is not ruled out either.


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“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” -Arabian Proverb
I recently passed the one month mark in my transition into eating a more plant-based diet, so I want to give an update. If you missed my original video about my reasons for going vegan, check that out HERE. I’d love to say that it’s been an easy process and smooth sailing the whole way. But honestly, it’s been a real struggle. I mean, I feel better overall. I feel good mentally, and my energy level is amazing!
The hardest thing has been getting used to replacing my meat with other forms of protein, like beans, tofu, and things like that. Although I can cook some beautiful meals that are actually pretty tasty, sometimes a girl just wants some meat. I have asked myself a few times whether I really want to make this change permanently. Maybe questioning myself is just a part of the process.
When I first started I wanted to focus on recipes that were vegan versions of my favorite meals. Most of those didn’t work for me. I learned really quick that I prefer original vegan dishes, if that makes sense. Basically dishes that don’t have elements that are trying to “replace” meat. (Although I’d love to find a recipe for a vegan burger that I actually like. So far no luck.) Surprisingly I’ve had no issues with kicking dairy. I thought letting go of cheese would be a problem. But I’ve been able to find some non-dairy alternatives that work great! Dairy has caused me discomfort for years. It’s never been so bad that I felt led to discuss the issue with my doctor, but it’s definitely been an issue. Replacing those has been a breeze.
One issue that I’ve had to face is the fact that I’m an emotional eater. I eat when I’m stressed, sad or frustrated. But as you might imagine, eating plant based meals and healthy snacks just don’t cut it during those moments. I want junk to satisfy that frustration. It’s such a bad habit, so lately I’ve been trying to find better ways to deal with my stress that don’t involve food.
The great part about this past month has been trying different recipes! If you watched the video you saw that I planned to do some meal prep each week. Initially I tried, but it was so much more fun to try different things every day (or every other day)! Pinterest has been a great source for vegan recipes! YouTube has been another source of great recipes and vegan grocery shopping videos! I already have a couple of YouTubers that I’m totally obsessed with! And since I love having physical cookbooks to flip through, I decided to buy Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook. Loving it! They have amazing recipes on their website as well!
So with my diet change came new ingredients, some of which I was clueless about. This is why I was so glad when I discovered Thrive Market! The idea of going into a health food store searching for items that I had no clue of even what section they would be in, was intimidating for me. Thrive Market made it so much easier to find the essentials, and more!
If you’ve never heard of Thrive Market, they are an online wholesale organic and healthy food store. What’s really cool is that every item is assigned various “values.” So if you’re on a paleo diet, need gluten-free items, or you want to only purchase from women-owned brands, Thrive Market makes it easy to find exactly what you need! They have over 70 different values that a product can be assigned! You seriously have to check it out! For myself, I choose the vegan value when I search for an item, so that only vegan options will show. I also have the option to just browse all vegan products, which is a great way to find new things!
I was browsing around a local health food store a couple of weeks ago and I ran across some of the items I purchased from Thrive Market. I was happy to confirm that those same items really did cost less at Thrive. After my first two orders, I had already paid for my annual membership in the savings I’d received by shopping with them! Yay me!
Another thing that I love about Thrive Market is that they give back! For every paid membership, they donate a membership to a family who can’t afford one, a teacher, or a vet. So your membership not only pays for itself it savings, but you’re helping another family be able to access organic, healthy, food options! That’s a win in my book! Sign up for Thrive Market today and get a free 30 day membership, 25% off your first order, plus free shipping!
Even though my family hasn’t adopted the plant-based lifestyle, I still love sneaking in vegan friendly foods for them from time-to-time. For movie night popcorn is a must, so I used some of my Thrive Market products to make some stovetop herb popcorn from Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook. This popcorn is one that the kids absolutely LOVE! Of course I can’t share the recipe from their cookbook, but you can purchase yours now from Amazon.com. I promise you won’t regret it!
So there’s been some good and some challenging times during my first month, but I’m not ready to throw in the towel. Everyday may not go perfectly, but I want to keep going, and keep learning. Because I know that this change is good for me and will serve me and the universe well in the future. And most importantly, I know that this is what I really want for myself.
The holidays are coming up! Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel! Next week I’ll be starting a series where I test recipes that I want to add to my Thanksgiving meal! Watch to see which dishes make the cut!
Have you made any major lifestyle changes? Tell me about it in the comment section below!
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Last weekend, five fraternities extended 49 bids during winter rush. The increase from last year’s 21 bids can be attributed to the lifting of Beta Alpha Omega’s suspension. Numbers aside, winter rush was “largely similar” to prior years, according to Interfraternity Council president James Burton ’17.
Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips director Doug Phipps ’17 and associate director Apoorva Dixit ’17 announced the 19-member 2017 Trips directorate last Thursday.
Around noon on Friday, Donald Trump placed his hand on a Lincoln Bible, repeated an oath and became the 45th President of the United States. About four hours later, Timothy Messen ’18 traveled to the Green to protest the new president’s administration by beginning a dialogue about flag burning and discussing the rights threatened by the president.
On the afternoon of President Donald Trump's inauguration, student demonstrators, on-lookers and counter-demonstrators gathered on the Green in anticipation of a discussion on flag burning.
This week marks the beginning of a series of mini-seminars hosted by the house communities. Each house community will offer several seminars on various topics, such as climate change, emotional intelligence and exploring autobiography through comic books.
After learning that the Winter Carnival Council would not be building the traditional snow sculpture this year, Mercedes de Guardiola ’17 reached out to fellow students to build their own sculpture, saying that she wanted to keep the tradition alive. As of press time, 100 students have expressed interest in helping and several have volunteered to lead the project.
Maribel Sanchez Souther ’96 knew that there were no shortcuts in life, that if you wanted something, you had to work for it, said her former cross country teammate and long time friend Kristin McGee ’96.
When Dartmouth students returned to campus following winter break, they discovered something missing when they sat down to eat at dining facilities across campus. The napkin dispensers, once located on each table, had disappeared without a trace, replaced with wall-mounted models.
The 555 students accepted early decision for the Dartmouth Class of 2021 are expected to form around 47 percent of the incoming class, the highest level of the past 17 years of classes. Aside from an increase in the number of applicants, Dartmouth’s early decision acceptance rate also increased from last year’s 25.6 percent to 27.8 percent.
A second report evaluating the College’s Moving Dartmouth Forward (MDF) initiative was released to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees by an external review panel mid-December.
Dartmouth intends to appeal the Hanover planning board’s decision to deny the College’s proposed indoor sports facility, according to College spokesperson Diana Lawrence. The board denied the permit in a four to one vote.
The College has denied an appeal by Daniel Ro and Sebastian Lim to reverse their expulsions for causing the Oct. 1 fire in Morton Hall.
Sebastian Lim and Daniel Ro admitted to causing the Oct. 1 fire in Morton Hall in an online petition on the Care2 petition site. In the letter, titled “Change Our Lives,” Ro and Lim apologized for their actions and asked people to sign the petition in support as the two have been expelled from the College for posing “a threat to the community at large.”
At 4 p.m. this afternoon, over 300 Dartmouth students, faculty and Upper Valley community members participated in a “Walk for Love and Justice” to protest the election of Donald Trump to the White House.
A small, impromptu camp-out on the Green has since grown into a larger demonstration of solidarity against President-elect Donald Trump. The demonstration — which was initiated by two seniors early Wednesday morning — has now attracted over 60 Dartmouth students, faculty and community members.
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On the eve of Election Day, President Barack Obama freely shared his views at a Get Out the Vote rally for Hillary Clinton, criticizing Republican nominee Donald Trump and emphasizing the need for Democratic votes up and down the ticket. The president’s comments, delivered to a packed Whittemore Center Arena at the University of New Hampshire, also highlighted the critical role of New Hampshire in the election, as the state’s voting results could tip both the U.S. Senate majority and the presidential race.
With the presidential election just one week away, a recent survey conducted by The Dartmouth found that students overwhelmingly support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Despite this near unanimity, dissatisfaction and pessimism regarding the election pervades student opinion. The survey also found a sharp split among Republicans, with Clinton, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson each pulling 25 percent from this group’s support.
After being wrapped up in a scrim for most of the fall term, Baker Bell Tower — one of the College’s most iconic buildings — has been uncovered from its full-size photograph facade. Its first-ever renovation is complete just in time for Homecoming Weekend. According to Facilities Operations and Management program manager Patrick O’Hern, the entire restoration cost approximately $5.5 million.
In a campaign stop for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Alumni Hall yesterday, former President Bill Clinton discussed economic and climate policy and criticized the divisive rhetoric of the election.

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BeLonG To Celebrates 15 Years of Life Saving Support Services at Annual Report Launch
Monday, May 28th, 2018
BeLonG To Youth Services, the national organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI+) young people today launched their Annual Report 2017, and celebrated the organisations 15th birthday.
Since 2003, the youth organisation has supported LGBTI+ young people in Dublin and soon after nationwide. In 2017, BeLonG To supported 37 LGBTI+ youth groups across Ireland connecting rural and often isolated, LGBTI+ young people with an LGBTI+ peer support group led by professional Youth Workers.
The youth organisation opened two new services in its flagship Dublin office during 2017 to further support the level of mental health challenges experienced by service users. In partnership with Pieta House, they introduced a free counselling service for LGBTI+ young people who are self-harming or thinking of suicide. ‘Monday Chats’ a weekly one on one support service was also created to offer information, advice, and support for LGBTI+ young people, parents, and professionals.
According to Irish research1, LGBTI+ young people are three times more likely to attempt suicide, and twice as likely to self-harm, compared to the general population of young people.
Last year BeLonG To also trained over 700 professionals across the fields of community development, mental health, and education breaking down barriers associated with LGBTI+ identity, educating individuals around terminology, and inspiring participants to support their LGBTI+ colleagues, friends, and community members.
Ireland’s largest anti-bullying event in second-level schools, Stand Up Awareness Week, which is run by BeLonG To reached over 150,000 students across Ireland bringing the topics of homophobic, transphobic and biphobic bullying to the fore, and offered teachers the support and training they need to address these topics in the classroom.
Speaking at the launch of the event, Minister Katherine Zappone, TD commented:
“Despite Ireland’s lead on equality there are still young members of the LGBTI+ community who feel isolated, rejected and intimidated. BelonG To offers compassion, support and solidarity. It is a vital service and as a campaigner, advocate and independent Minister I support this work.
In the coming weeks Ireland will again show leadership with our new LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy. It is the result of a consultation process which listened to over 4,000 young people – and a world first! Young voices are the loudest in demanding equality and rights. I am always proud to join them.”
Moninne Griffith, Executive Director of BeLonG To Youth Services said:
“15 years ago, Ireland was a different country for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTI+) young people. Since we opened our doors in 2003, we have transformed what it means to be an LGBTI+ young person in Ireland by offering a safe space, advice, and life-saving support for young people and by reducing stigma, isolation and fear of rejection through changing hearts and minds about sexual orientation and gender identity.
Today, we are celebrating 15 years supporting and empowering LGBTI+ young people, their families, and communities. During this time, we have shaped government policy changing the lives of the LGBTI+ community, supported those most in need, and championed the rights and inclusion of LGBTI+ young people across the country.”
Interview request: Moninne Griffith, Executive Director, BeLonG To Youth Services is available for interview. To arrange an interview, please contact Sinead Keane, BeLonG To Youth Services: 087 768 0389 or firstname.lastname@example.org
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- BeLonG To Youth Services is the national organisation supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) young people in Ireland. Since 2003, BeLonG To has worked with LGBTI+ young people to create a world where they are equal, safe and valued in the diversity of their identities and experiences. The organisation also advocates and campaigns on behalf of young LGBTI+ people, and offers a specialised LGBTI+ youth service with a focus on mental and sexual health, alongside drug and alcohol outreach.
- Download our full 2017 Annual Report here.
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WINNER OF THE WEEK: We’ll get to Jill Scott and Bon Iver in a minute, but first, let’s coronate the latest TV hit-making monarch: NBC’s The Voice, which drew 12.4 million viewers for last night’s show. Chart-wise, the immediate beneficiaries have been the mentor-judges – most obviously, Maroon 5’s Voice performance with Christina Aguilera of “Moves Like Jagger,” which hit Number Two on iTunes and in overall digital-song sales, with 213,000. Also, country singer Blake Shelton’s “Honey Bee” is at Number 10 on both iTunes and BigChampagne’s Ultimate Chart, which means plenty of YouTube and Facebook action in addition to actual digital sales. Voice finalists, too, are building serious online buzz, as BigChampagne ranks Dia Frampton’s folk-piano version of Kanye West’s “Heartless” at Number 47, hunky Javier Colon’s “Angel” is at Number 53 and Vicci Martinez’s take on Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is at Number 84. Interestingly, according to BigChampagne’s data, the finalists’ rankings are largely functions of actual sales, not just YouTube-type hype. That indicates Voice producers (and major label Universal) are doing a decent job of posting show performances quickly and building buzz on iTunes rather than allowing kids to pirate them or find them for free on streaming sites.
LOSER OF THE WEEK: Eminem’s latest side project, Bad Meets Evil, with Royce da 5’9″, sure didn’t last long in Blockbuster Land. The Hell: The Sequel EP hit Number One last week but dropped to Number Six a week later, selling just 63,000 copies, a drop of 63 percent. This is extremely bad news for us! Remember last week, when we saluted Shady and friends for blocking irritatingly angelic pipsqueak Jackie Evancho from the top slot? This week, the 11-year-old’s Dream with Me reversed the trend, leapfrogging Hell: The Sequel and clinging to Number Four with 77,000 sales (a drop of 52 percent). Why did Bad Meets Evil struggle with staying power? A clue may be on the Ultimate Chart – the latest single “Lighters” is at Number 12, but mostly due to old-school sales and radio. It scored a teensy 0.1 in the Online Watching and Listening category, and 0.002 in Fans, Friends and Followers. So let’s check the numbers. “Lighters” earned roughly 470,000 views on YouTube, compared to 7.8 million for the first single “Fast Lane.” And just 192,000 people like Bad Meets Evil’s Facebook page (compared to more than 42 million who like Eminem, but in fairness, just 71,000 like Jackie Evancho, indicating it’s possibly pre-Facebook kids who buy her records). In a perhaps related development, Shady’s tweets are extremely lame. Or maybe it’s just the song.
AND BACK TO JILL SCOTT AND BON IVER: Back in the traditional sales world, Jill Scott, the R&B queen who drifted out of music the last few years to concentrate on acting, charges to Number One with The Light of the Sun. It’s a pleasant throwback album, not just to the pillow-talking days of Marvin Gaye and Barry White, but to that promising neo-soul era of the early 2000s when it looked like D’Angelo and Lauryn Hill might become the biggest superstars in pop music. The star of HBO’s subtly hilarious The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency sold 135,000 copies, holding Bon Iver’s latest tear-in-the-beer indie-folk-rock album, Bon Iver, to a Number Two debut, with 104,000.

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A meeting to answer questions about the M-50/McDevitt Avenue bridge reconstruction project is scheduled for Thursday, March 1.
The project is planned to start in March and will reconstruct the M-50 bridge over U.S. 127. The bridge will be closed in both directions and there will be a detour posted. One lane of traffic on U.S. 127 under the bridge will be open in each direction.
MDOT officials urge the public to drop into the session any time between noon and 5 p.m. and voice any concerns and ask questions at the Jackson Transportation Service Center, 2750 N. Elm Road.


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Thursday and Friday completed my rides through the 37 mainland municipalities of Rhode Island. I had high expectations for this southern leg -- after slogging through the urban forest of our 2nd most densely populated state, the seashore tour along the south coast should be fun? Right?
The rides formed a stark contrast to my Maine experience earlier this week -- there the road, and public beaches, lined the shores. In RI, private golf courses, social clubs, and manicured lawns did -- I felt like I needed binoculars to see the ocean. Particularly touring Newport on Juneteenth, I noted the absence of people of color. I would never consider myself "woke", but it was a stark reminder of the ongoing challenges we face as a nation.
I enjoyed touring the monuments to the Battle of Newport, fought in 1778. This was the first joint operation between Americans and the French fleet led by Admiral Rochambeau (aka Admiral Rock-Paper-Scissors). The American "1st Rhode Island Regiment" was one of the first multi-racial truly AMERICAN regiments, consisting of African-Americans, Native Americans and white colonists.
Today marked the final stop on my tour through the 351 Massachusetts cities and towns -- Cuttyhunk Island, town of Gosnold -- a chain of islands off of Woods Hole, "discovered" by Benjamin Gosnold in 1608. Fun facts: #1: lowest population (pop. 75 in the 2010 census) #2: lowest # of school age children: 1 #3: HIGHEST assessed value of property per capita.
Prior to 1864, Gosnold was part of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. I ran into a Gosnold Town Council member on the ferry -- I asked him "why did Gosnold become its own town?" -- the answer -- it was and is always about the $$ -- landed rich own most of the islands as vacation homes. Schoolchildren are a town's biggest expense -- since we have none, we have minimal expenses, so our property taxes can be low. We have no crime (since no one can come to our islands). Essentially -- they are living the isolated life I saw in RI -- just to its MAX -- valuable land, but paying nothing to the common good.
Friend Elmo, who shared my previous Mass351 tour, enjoyed today's spin through Gosnold's 1 mile of paved roads (plus a few dirt tracks). A great way to wrap up this journey!
3492 miles down -- 8 to go! If you think I have an 8 mile ride planned for tomorrow -- you haven't been reading the blog!
New England Rides during this journey
Rochambeau Statue, Newport
Narragansett Bay, Sakonnet River Bridge
Sakonnet Light, Little Compton, RI
Cuttyhunk Coast Guard Station

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The castle dates from the times that the Moors occupied Lisbon, and serves as one of the most popular tourist sites in Lisbon. The reputation is well deserved, as the castle offers a great historical insight and views of Lisbon.
The site consists of the castle itself and an archaeological museum which is also contained within. The old medieval citadel is particularly impressive. Dating from the eleventh century, it becomes obvious to see how the Moors were keen to protect themselves from constant threats. The views from the top are amazing and are worth going for that reason alone on a sunny day. The museum houses some wonderful tiles, coins and artefacts from as early as the eleventh century.
Entrance fee is 7 Euros and discounts are available for certain groups such as the elderly and students.
If you are visiting Lisbon, this site is definitely worth seeing.
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For the past several years, I've tried to make Valentine's Day cards for the kids. It's not that I have anything against boxed cards, they are just so "alike". Never being one who wants to blend in with the crowd, I spend tons of time trying to find cute ideas to make for them. This year, there were SO MANY adorable cards and ideas out there, it was hard to choose....so I let the kids choose for themselves.
After spending HOURS trying to figure out how to save these into my computer, here are our Valentine's Day cards for 2011:
This is Chelsea's card. She didn't really want anything "cutesy", so I just did a simple, fun card. I added a little heart "bling" to the corner of her picture that's not showing up on the example.
I know this is not a new picture of her, but Marty and I love, love, love the expression she has in this picture. She loved it too, and that's all that really matters.
Here is Jameson's card:
I got the idea for his card from here. It does look almost exactly like her example, but I did every single thing myself...from downloading multiple fonts, to printing out black mustache's to attach to all the cards. The actual cards have a big, black mustache attached to the front so the kids can wear them once they get the card. We had so much fun making these!
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I got the idea for this card here. I love, love, love the original! It took me FOREVER to make that little monkey face, but I think he turned out pretty cute.
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I have today published the Department of Health’s second progress report in response to the recommendations of the parliamentary and health service ombudsman and the local government ombudsman in their March 2009 report “Six lives: the provision of public services to people with learning disabilities”. At the same time, I am also publishing the Government’s response to the recent “Confidential Inquiry into the premature deaths of people with learning disabilities”.
“Six Lives: Progress report on healthcare for people with learning disabilities” provides an assessment of the progress made since the previous progress report published on
The report demonstrates that more people with learning disabilities than ever before have taken up the opportunity of an annual health check which will help improve their health and enable preventive interventions to stop potential health crises. The report also sets out priority areas for further progress including:
giving greater voice and power to people with learning disabilities and their local communities to develop services for everyone, including those in vulnerable or marginalised groups; supporting the spread of personal health budgets for people with learning disability with greater integration across health and social care; ensuring that health and well-being boards have information to support them in understanding the complex needs of people with behaviour that challenges; and working with NHS England to make sure that the system continues to monitor and improve the health and care outcomes of people with learning disabilities.
The Department of Health worked with Mencap and the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) to engage with and listen to people with learning disabilities and family carers about their views and experiences of health care to find out more about where progress had been made and where more work needs to happen. Alongside the second progress report, we are publishing a summary of the outputs from that engagement event, including the results of a questionnaire about whether health care is getting better for people with a learning disability.
“Government response to the Confidential Inquiry into the premature deaths of people with learning disabilities” addresses all the inquiry’s recommendations, taking account of the changes to the health and care system which have been set in train since the Confidential Inquiry was established. The Department of Health, NHS England and other delivery partners will have an important role to play in leading change to improve access, experience and outcomes for people with learning disabilities and family carers. Specific changes include:
using the Government’s information strategy for health and care to drive improvements in the way in which we identify people with learning disabilities so that we can better respond to their needs; linking data about cause of death with other data such as the GP practice learning disability registers to better understand and respond to premature mortality among people with learning disabilities; using local mortality data on people with learning disabilities to inform Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies; using the NHS Standard Contracts to better take account of and respond to people’s needs; aiming to have a known contact for people with multiple long-term conditions to co-ordinate their care, communicate with different professionals and be involved in care planning with the individual; looking at introducing patient-held records for all people with learning disabilities who have several health conditions; looking at the Mental Capacity Act guidance, advice and training for professionals, that is available to inform decisions about people's care; and assessing with NHS England, Public Health England and other partners the costs and benefits of establishing a National Learning Disability Mortality Review Body.
For both the Six Lives progress report and the response to the confidential inquiry, we want to see a fundamental culture change so that people with learning disabilities, autism and those people with complex needs and behaviour that challenges and their family carers have the same rights as anyone else to accessing the best possible quality care and support. We expect this in turn to lead to better outcomes and fewer premature and avoidable deaths.
The Government are determined to work across the system to improve standards of care. Following events at Winterbourne View and Mid Staffordshire hospitals, we have conducted thorough investigations and delivered strong responses to enable the system change and shift in attitudes needed to support people with learning disabilities and their families.
I want to put a stop to bad practice. Good practice must be our everyday expectation and services must strive for excellence. Everyone involved in the provision of services needs greater awareness of the personal impact they can make on the health and quality of life of people with learning disabilities so that poor practice and unacceptable health inequalities can be tackled head on.
Both the report and the response have been placed in the Library. Copies are available to hon. Members from the Vote Office and to noble Lords from the Printed Paper Office. The documents are also available at:


John Nix, 33, a Lubbock native who has lived in Tyler since 2001, will run for the seat during the city council election in May. He has owned his company, Nix Construction, in Tyler, since 2001, when he and his father, Steve Nix, relocated here from Lubbock.
Nix said in a news release that he is excited about the opportunity to serve the city in a larger capacity.
“The city of Tyler has excellent leadership headed in a positive direction that will continue to strengthen our city, and I am running to encourage our current direction,” he said in a statement.
The candidate has been a commissioner on the city’s planning and zoning commission since 2010, along with other commissions and committees, including the city of Tyler code review committee, according to his news release.
He said he believes that his business experience in the service industry has given him the ability to help people from all sectors of the community understand each other and cooperate, Nix said in his release.
“I believe the city government should be managed like a business, and that we should not spend money we don’t have,” he said in his prepared statement.
Nix married Stori Hadden, a native Tylerite, in 2005, and they are expecting their first child in July.
Both Nix and his wife are active members of Grace Community Church.


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After the news yesterday of T-Mobile being issued a restraining order on iPhone sales in Germany, T-Mobile has announced that an unlocked version of the handset will be available to German customers only. Albeit, it'll set you back €999 - that's US$1,477.97 or £716.
Before you rush out and buy an unlocked handset, you might want to consider the maths. It's just £183 cheaper than the minimum cost of a U.K. iPhone and just under $400 cheaper than an American handset, including the lowest contract term for the locked handsets. Let's not also forget that you'll need some kind of SIM card and network service on top of that thousand euros. We're guessing that an unlocked French iPhone is likely going to set you back an identical figure.
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The National Water Commission is reporting that the disruption in supply being experienced in sections of Clarendon is due to high turbidity levels at its Kellits Water Facility.
It says the presence of debris has forced the suspension of operations at the plant.
Customers are being advised that the facility will be restarted as soon as conditions are favourable for water supply distribution.
Areas impacted are Kellits, Crofts Hill, Good Hope, Tait, Pedro, Rhoden Hall, Guava Ground, Hickery, Comsie, and Jericho
The commission says every effort will be made to restore water supply within the shortest possible time.
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger married last July New Castle native Ashley Harlan. The couple announced today they are expecting their first child.
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his wife, Ashley, announced today that they are expecting the birth of their first child, a baby boy.
"Ashley and I are proud to let you all know that we are expecting a baby boy later this year!" Mr. Roethlisberger posted on his official website, bigben7.com. "It is truly a blessing and we are so excited!"
Thousands of fans have sent the couple notes of congratulation since they posted the announcement. Mr. Roethlisberger's agent could not be reached for comment.
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