Quick. Were there any black characters on “Friends,” anyone?
If so, they were background players. And not to single out a favorite comedy series, it was and is among the majority of television shows whose core Caucasian-ness is an attribute, rightly or wrongly.
Diversity is an issue that has long simmered on the back burner and intermittently moves to the front, as in these early days of summer that have brought a raft of criticism leveled at several showrunners for the all white-ness of their casts.
Specifically, Lena Dunham, whose “Girls” on HBO has been compared to the pay cabler’s vaunted “Sex and the City,” and Amy Sherman-Palladino (ABC Family’s “Bunheads”) have come under fire for being purveyors of white bread.
Dunham foresaw before her freshman series aired that it would be perceived as another show whose world did not include people of color. “When I get a tweet from a girl who’s like, ‘I’d love to watch the show, but I wish there were more women of color.’ You know what? I do, too, and if we have the opportunity to do a second season, I’ll address that,” she had said in an interview with The Huffington Post.
There is definitely going to be a second season, and Dunham followed through by reportedly adding a black cast member to her acclaimed series, although Donald Glover’s casting is apparently still unofficial.
Meanwhile, Palladino initially said she did not want to get into what she called a “pissing match” with “fellow” female showrunner Shonda Rhimes, who criticized her on Twitter for the lack of any people of color on the new program about young ballerinas.
For those of you who missed it, Sherman-Palladino, best known for creating “Gilmore Girls,” said in an interview that she didn’t have a big budget for casting, was under a great deal of time pressure to cast the pilot and that she felt unsupported by other women in the industry.
Read between the lines: she was referring specifically to Rhimes, after pointing out the latter’s success with multiple shows including “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice” and “Scandal.”
“I don’t do message shows. I don’t give a shit who you learn your life from. Someone said, ‘Oh god, I hope we don’t see the eating disorder show. You won’t because I don’t give a flying f— about that,” Sherman-Palladino was quoted as saying, perhaps adding fuel to the fire but also planting her firmly on the shortlist of people in Hollywood who say what they really think.
The lack of diversity accusation cannot be leveled at Oxygen’s “The Glee Project,” currently in the midst of its second season. For those who haven’t caught it yet, the program features contestants vying for a seven-episode guest spot arc on Fox’s “Glee” under the tutelage of its creator, Ryan Murphy, and other mentors including casting director Robert Ulrich, choreographer Zach Woodlee and vocal producer Nikki Anders.
The 14 contenders, currently down to nine, are culled through intensive rounds of workshops, singing, dancing and acting-based assignments as the creative forces of “Glee,” including guest mentors like Lea Michele and Kevin McHale, make judgments on who has what it takes to be one of the next new faces on the award-winning show.
Many of those faces are of color. One of contestants recently eliminated, Tyler Ford, epitomized several shades of census with his ethnicity: half black, half white, Jewish and transgender, and was considered by many to be an inspiration because of his diverse background.
To its credit, “The Glee Project” not only spotlights ethnic diversity, but also disability, with one of this season’s contestants confined to a wheelchair and another who is blind. Another aspirant has been diagnosed with severe ADHD and low-spectral autism.
Each episode has a theme, ranging from the initial episode’s “Individuality” to the recent “Vulnerability,” during which Oxygen aired an anti-bullying PSA starring “Glee’s” Cory Monteith as part of an ongoing partnership with The Bully Project, an organization dedicated to ending bullying.
In a similar show of commitment, this reality competition show seems dedicated to busting some stereotypes and giving opportunities to people who because of their disabilities may have been shoved to the margins of society.
Perhaps one of its talented performers could also join the cast of “Bunheads.”
(“The Glee Project” airs Tuesdays on Oxygen at 10pm ET/PT)


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The third season of Bigg Boss Malayalam got suspended temporarily after Tamil Nadu authorities sealed the EVP Film City in Chennai where shooting was ongoing. The sealing of Bigg Boss house comes in the wake of six members attached to the show’s technical crew testing positive for Coronavirus infection.
Shooting schedules of the third season of the reality show, which enjoys very high popularity in neighbouring Kerala, where show host Mohanlal is a superstar, had continued unabated for 95 consecutive days till the government action. The reality show was well into the season when the Tamil Nadu government enforced a complete lockdown from 10 May and imposed a complete ban on film and television shootings. The sealing of Bigg Boss’ house came with only five days remaining for the climax of the reality show that had already aired 95consecutive days of content.
A team led by Thiruvallur Revenue Divisional Officer Preethi Parkavi reached the Bigg Boss Malayalam set and sealed it for allegedly flouting Covid norms. After sealing the Bigg Boss house, authorities assessed and then imposed a fine of Rs. one lakh on the show organizers.
Parkavi revealed that the organizers continued film shooting despite the decision by the Film Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI) of halting all shooting and related activity in Tamil Nadu. A case was registered against organizers of the show under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 , an act that allows for blanket powers to government authorities in the wake of a national disaster (the COVID-19 pandemic in this case) for violation of government guidelines. The show’s third season contestants were shifted to a nearby hotel.
Although the six people who tested positive for the virus were not directly in contact with the contestants of the show, they are believed to have had direct interactions with other members of the production crew. All the six infected technicians have been quarantined since the sealing. An official release from the channel airing the show stated that it would resume airing the episodes once the pandemic situation begins to improve.

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Ahead of his third album listening party, rapper and designer, Kanye West has asked a judge to legally change his name to Ye with no middle or last name attached.
Not too long after his divorce from Kim Kardashian, he filed legal documents in Los Angeles to change his name from Kanye Omari West.
The artist has gone by many names in his professional career, but now, he wants to officially be known as “Ye.”
According to Aug. 11 court documents obtained by E! News, the rapper filed a request to change his name from Kanye Omari West to just “Ye”. He stated in the filing that he wants to make the change for “personal reasons.”
The new name was first revealed in 2018 ahead of an appearance on Saturday Night Live when he tweeted, “The being formally known as Kanye West…I am YE.”
At the time, he said in an interview that the moniker which was billed as an album name has a deeper spiritual meaning.
He said, “I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible, it means ‘you.’ So, I’m you, I’m us, it’s us. It went from Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye — just being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confusion, everything. The album is more of a reflection of who we are.”

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5 Ways to Make Your Small Business Debt Collection Process Successful
We all know time is money.
Whether it’s the hours you’re putting in at work, effort you’re putting into a business, or the number of days late you are on paying insurance, it all comes back to money. Money doesn’t equal happiness, but it sure does help.
Especially as a small business owner, time and money are both very precious things to you. It can hurt your growth if people are paying off their debts in time.
Below are 5 ways to make small business debt collection processes easier. Make sure you keep reading to take a burden off your back.
1. Be Persistent, Not Annoying
Sending out reminders when collecting debts is no problem. In fact, it is suggested. Many times, people just forget they have a bill due because life can get busy.
The last thing people want is constant harassment with letters, calls, and emails. If you do all of this, some people may not pay the bill for a few days out of spite.
One of the best ways to avoid this is creating a strict schedule of reminders for each customer who is late on a bill. Trust us, we know getting the money you’re owed is nerve-wracking. Stay calm.
2. Settle for Less
While this may seem like waving the white flag of defeat to a small business, it’s better to get a little than nothing at all.
One of the main reasons people don’t pay off their debt is because they just can’t afford it. It’s probably causing them sleeping problems, and they’ll do anything just to find some sort of relief.
If they can’t pay all of it, offer to take a smaller portion for now. You can even set up a payment plan.
3. Look for a Collection Agency
Spending all of your time trying to collect a debt will take your time away from other important business matters. Hire a collection agency to free more of your time.
Not only will a collection agency help with your time, they know all rules and regulations when collecting debt. This will keep you out of trouble.
4. Create Documentation
If collecting debts becomes such a large issue that you go to court, having documentation will work in your favor.
Every single time you send a letter or speak with a customer, document the communication. Save all emails, and keep track of home visits.
It can be stressful to create documents, but there’s tons of online resources for creating document templates.
5. Stay Calm
One thing to keep in mind when owning any sort of business or property is understanding payments will come late.
When collecting debts, stay calm and handle it professionally. Customers are more likely to comply if you approach them respectfully.
Tips for Small Business Debt Collection
Owning a business can be a wonderful yet stressful thing. One of the biggest tasks is going to be small business debt collection.
If you’re a small business experiencing unpaid debt from customers, make sure to read the 5 tips above. No matter what, remain calm and handle things with a professional attitude.
If you are going through debt collection, know your rights and contact us with questions.

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After more than a year, Pa’s mask mandate ends Monday
As of Friday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine tracker confirmed that 75 percent of adult Pennsylvanians had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 59.5 percent of adult Pennsylvanians are fully vaccinated, according to CDC data.
Fully vaxxed Pennsylvanians can go mask-free, state health officials confirm
The announcement comes just hours after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance on mask wearing.
Wolf admin.: Maximum capacity for indoor and outdoor events to increase starting Monday
Starting next week, restaurants, schools and event venues can increase their indoor capacity from 25 percent maximum occupancy to 50 percent, and from 50 percent to 75 percent capacity for outdoor events.
Restaurants, gyms can go to 75 percent capacity starting April 4, Wolf says
The changes, which will take effect on April 4, allow restaurants to resume bar service and allow alcohol sales without the purchase of food, removes the curfew for alcoholic beverages at tables and increases the indoor-dining capacity to 75 percent.
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As fall COVID surge continues, Pa.’s hospitals, healthcare systems feel the strain
The department also confirmed 225 new deaths, bringing the total of COVID-related deaths in Pennsylvania to 12,235.
With vaccine on the horizon, Wolf imposes new COVID mitigation measures
“It's become clear that we need to take further action to mitigate the risk of COVID-19,” Wolf told journalists on a conference call. He announced the new COVID-19 mitigation efforts from his home, following a positive COVID test earlier this week.


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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the National Health Policy 2017 which aims to increase public healthcare expenditure to 2.5 percent of GDP with more than two-thirds of those resources going towards primary healthcare.
The policy is expected to reach healthcare to all corners of the country, particularly the underserved and underprivileged.
The last national health policy was framed in 2002.
“The policy envisages a time-bound implementation framework with clear deliverable and milestones to achieve the policy goals,” said Union heath minister JP Nadda, unveiling the National Health Policy in Lok Sabha today.
Here are ten important highlights of the National Health Policy 2017
-The policy aims to raise public healthcare expenditure to 2.5 percent of GDP from the the current 1.4 percent, with more than two-thirds of those resources going towards primary healthcare.
-The policy envisages providing a larger package of assured comprehensive primary healthcare through the 'Health and Wellness Centers'. It is a comprehensive package which includes care for major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental health, geriatric healthcare, palliative care and rehabilitative care services.
-It aims to ensure availability of 2 beds per 1000 population distributed in a manner to enable access within golden hour.
-In order to provide access and financial protection, it proposes free drugs, free diagnostics and free emergency and essential healthcare services in all public hospitals.
-The policy proposes to increase life expectancy from 67.5 to 70 years by 2025. Establish regular tracking of disability adjusted life years (DALY) Index as a measure of burden of disease and its trends by major categories by 2022.
-Reduction of total fertility rate (TFR) to 2.1 at national and sub-national level by 2025.
-Reduce mortality rate of children under 5 years of age to 23 (per 1000) by 2025 and maternal mortality rate (MMR) from current levels to 100 by 2020. Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 by 2019. Reduce neo-natal mortality to 16 and still birth rate to 'single digit' by 2025.
-To improve and strengthen the regulatory environment, the policy seeks putting in place systems for setting standards and ensuring quality of healthcare.
-The policy also looks at reforms in the existing regulatory systems both for easing manufacturing of drugs and devices to promote Make in India, as also for reforming medical education.-The policy advocates development of mid-level service providers, nurse practitioners, public health cadre to improve availability of appropriate health human resource.

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National Governors Association Policy Academy
Aligning Minnesota's Talent Pipeline to the Needs of the Economy
A collaborative effort supported by the Governor's Workforce Development Board and the National Governors Association
From 2014-2016, key state partners worked to strengthen alignment between Minnesota's education and training pipeline and the changing needs of the economy. From pre-school to postsecondary education, state agencies worked to coordinate efforts to ensure that all Minnesotans—students and adult learners alike—gain the necessary skills to compete and succeed in the global economy. This effort was supported by the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices. NGA is a bipartisan organization of the nation's governors. Minnesota was one of 14 states selected to receive a grant and technical assistance from the NGA.
Minnesota will continue this work through 2018 by focusing on partnerships which include state agencies that are State Plan partners. Another key focus is developing industry-led sector partnerships at the state, regional, and local level. NGA will continue to provide technical assistance through the duration of the policy academy.


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In response to The Daydreamer Challenge Day 1 …I chose to write about the beach.
Who doesn’t love the beach? It’s all about the sand
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We are actually planning our family trip to northern California this summer. A fabulous 9 nights only a mile from the beach. We will be staying in our
home on wheels camper all snug like sardines. I am sure we will smell like sardines by the time the trip is over. My husband will be rambling on about it…
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UMass Memorial Health — Community Healthlink is committed to promoting, restoring, and maintaining the physical health, mental health, and dignity of adults, children, and families in Central Massachusetts who are experiencing mental illness, addiction, or homelessness. Our services are grounded in the principles of recovery and the belief that every person has the right to choose his or her own recovery path. We use evidence-based practices and relevant state-of-the-art research aimed at improving the lives of our clients. We provide services to over 22,000 clients throughout Central Massachusetts each year: We help young children with behavioral issues learn how to get along with others. We reunite families who’ve been torn apart because of drug or alcohol addiction. We provide healthcare to homeless men and women, and help them find housing and jobs so they can live a more stable life. We help people of all ages who struggle with mental illness to regain self-esteem. We take innovative approaches to healthcare: we have integrated primary care clinics in two of our outpatient behavioral health clinics. Community Healthlink, a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, is a multi-service, private, nonprofit organization committed to promoting, maintaining and restoring the well-being and mental health of individuals and families in Central Massachusetts. Community Healthlink is proud to be the clinical partner of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Purpose: To examine the evolving roles of endovascular and open approaches in treatment of symptomatic innominate artery (IA) disease. Methods: Patients treated for symptomatic IA lesions with or without involvement of the right common carotid and/or right subclavian arteries between 1997 and 2006 were identified. Charts and diagnostic studies were retrospectively reviewed. Results: Of 18 patients treated, 8 required open reconstruction. Ten patients with high-grade focal stenosis were stented. Immediate technical and clinical success was 100% among all patients. Mean follow-up time was 25 and 27 months for endovascular and open interventions, respectively. The primary patency rates were 78% ± 14 and 80% ± 10 for endovascular and open groups, respectively. Assisted primary patency rate was 100% for both groups. There were no peri-operative mortalities or neurological events. We encountered two systemic (pulmonary) complications and one access-related complication among open and endovascular patients, respectively. Conclusion: Endovascular repair is evolving as a primary mode of therapy for focal IA lesions while open approach is reserved for more extensive disease. Patho-anatomical characteristics of a given IAlesion along with peri-operative risk assessment determine a proper surgical approach.
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Laguna Beach High School Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet Final Performance is a Sunday Matinee November 11 2018.
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is a timeless tale of jealousy, prejudice, betrayal, and true love.
Romeo and Juliet try to defy the circumstances which forbid their love, with heartbreaking results.
Set in modern day, in the fictional town of Verona, California, where the wealthy families of the two young lovers are locked in a bitter feud, the LBHS production of Romeo & Juliet will feature the work of guest director Michael Irish, a 1999 alumnus of Laguna Beach High School and the Park Avenue Players.
“Watching this story unfold over the last two months has been a distinct and unforgettable privilege and joy,” said Director Michael Irish. “These students are fiercely talented and uncommonly brave. The opportunity to share my love of Shakespeare’s works and pay forward what the LBHS Drama gave me, here in my old theater with a new generation of artists, was too priceless to let pass,” he concluded.
“Something unique and special occurs when our alumni artists collaborate with our current students,” said Laguna Beach High School and Thurston Middle School Drama Teacher and Director, Alexis Karol. She continued, “There is a certain level of trust that falls into place immediately. We’re thrilled to have Michael on-board as a guest director. As a working professional who specializes in Shakespeare and fight choreography, and an educator skilled in making the language of Shakespeare accessible to young people, I can’t imagine a better match for our production of Romeo and Juliet.”
Ticket Prices: Premium $22.00/Adults $17.00/Students$12.00
Sunday November 11 2018 at 2:30pm
Laguna Beach High School is located at 625 Park Avenue in Laguna Beach.

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Habits I am Working on:
- Eating my largest meal during the day. I LOVE dinner time but I learned our digestion works better during the day (lunch) simply because of our interal circadian clock. I’m usually not hungry during the until mid-afternoon so now I need to essentially retrain my brain to get hungry mid-day.
- No food 3 hours before sleep. I always knew eating before bed means your digestive system needs to work in overdrive, stealing from your quality sleep. I was never strict about this but due to the current state of my gut health, I’ve been trying to be super committed to this habit this month.
- Weight-Lifting. 2-3x per week. I use to be a hardcore gym-rat and had no problems staying motivated to lift. These days life is busy and I prioritize cycling so I decided to double-down on this habit. Lean muscle is the key to longevity and a good metabolism.
- Study: 4 second sprints every hour can offset negative effects of sitting for too long – This goes to show how adding micro-movements throughout the day can have significant effects on your wellbeing. I’m all about the micro-movements especially when it comes to stretching, mobility, and even lifting.
- Does skipping breakfast increase the risk of an early death? – I haven’t had breakfast regularly for 10 years (only on vacation or socially). Despite trying to eat my largest meal during the day, I will never be breakfast eater but trying to turn myself into a “big lunch” eater.
- Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in popular US fast foods – Hormone-disrupting chemicals are a colossal concern in general. it’s hard to avoid plastics and other hormone disruptors but understanding, and being aware will be your first step to living a cleaner life. Did you know that cling-wrap used to wrap your chicken breasts will transfer microplastics to the meat? We are bombarded by plastic and other toxins everywhere and it all adds up.
- If you complain about the rain in the Pacific Northwest, just be glad you’re not on ancient Earth! But seriously, next time you complain about bad weather, remember: you can’t appreciate the good times without the bad times. I learned this while living in LA— everyone seemed to take the sun for granted. Back in Vancouver, everyone is out an about once the sun pokes out from behind out clouds…sometimes even in shorts and t-shirt in the middle of winter. I always talk about the ‘sunshine after the rain‘ and the feeling that comes with it is indescribable. I definitely need to live in a place with seasons.
- Life expectancy varies by as much as 9.5 years across Metro Vancouver — I have so much to say about this article but you are the product of your environment. Of course, I think it is unfortunate that health is correlated to socioeconomic status, and wealthier people are more inclined to exercise + eat better because they have less financial worries. Not to mention that everyone around them is probably doing the same so they are thriving off the energy and influence. Consider this thought experiment: according to the laws of energy, energy attracts similar energy. If you want to improve your economical status, one very simple thing you can prioritize is to exercise and eat healthy. Not only does this improve your wellbeing, but you will become more confident, which I promise you will trickle into all aspects of your life including your finances. Being healthy and strong changes your brain, and makes you more resilient. So why not?
- This Elite Cowboy College Finally Let Women In – I’m really into learning about unconventional lifestyles.
- [Huberman Lab] Using Your Nervous System to Enhance Your Immune System – I look forward to new episodes every week! Dr. Huberman explains the connection between the adaptive & innate immune systems and nervous system, importance of having a healthy microbiome and immunity, lymphatic system drainage (I mentioned this last week!). I love how he also touchbases on how older healing techniques that have been around for centuries, such as acupuncture, breathwork, and meditation is starting to converge with modern science + medicine.
- [The Genius Life] How to Prevent and Treat Autoimmune Disease, Plus Why Lean People Should Never Fast – Fascinating discussion on all things wellness, lifestyle, fasting.
- [Be Well By Kelly] Designing An Optimal Fasting Approach with Dr. Mindy Pelz – Speaking of fasting, it is so important for women to create their wellness routine based off our menstrual cycles to improve metabolic flexibility and hormonal health. If you want to learn more about your menstrual cycle, In the Flo, is a must-read for all women.
- [Ben Greenfield Fitness] Interview with Jay Shetty (Blue Zones, Physical, Emotional, & Mental Presence, Body, Mind & Spirit Fitness, Discipline, Potent Tips For Changing Habits) – You can look fit and healthy on the outside but you can do dying on the inside. Love the reminders on going outside and grounding yourself to the earth, habit stacking, microworkouts, and setting up your environment for success. Wellness isn’t just about lifting heavy at the gym or running fast but taking care of your mental and spiritual health and living in a non-toxic environment, as well as understanding your cellular processes.
- [The Doctor’s Farmacy] 5 Signs You’re Not Healthy And How To Fix It – This is all ‘mainstream content’ if you have been in this space for a long time but a must-listen for those new to holistic healing! But remember, healing requires a balance of modern medicine + traditional healing methods.
- [The Primal Kitchen] Vegan-Turned-Omnivore Yovana Talks Fertility & Internet Fame – Yovana was a prominant vegan influencer who got caught eating fish, the extreme vegans went batshit crazy, began the cyber-bullying, and I sat back to watch the drama unfold! Just kidding. I felt terrible when it happened but I’m so happy to see where she is today. I am against conforming to any extreme “diets and lifestyles” and locking in your online reputation so your finances and health could be affected. Truth is, veganism is not for many people, and it’s scary to see so many ‘influencers’ damage their wellbeing because they have an image to maintain so they don’t lose followers. Just because people look “healthy” on the outside, doesn’t mean they are on the inside. I am all for promoting balanced lifestyles.
- “If you ever think you’re stupid I just found out that the plant I’ve been watering for three months is fake” – @ParikPatelCFA
- “Stop killing yourself over a job that will replace you in 30 minutes if you left.” – @AlpacaAurelius
- “People are the root of the issue, not money. A temporary increase in money will do nothing.” – @VogelaarVincent
- “A bidet, the most underrated item ever. Men, it will change your life, you feel cleaner and much more efficient than toilet paper. Women know this” – @Gato_Tran
- “The type of person you choose to love is a great example of where you are in your healing journey.” – @turtlebreezee – Your external world is a reflection of your internal world.
- thread on a death of a covid denier and flat-earth conspiracy theorist by @DrEricDing – it’s tragic that we laugh at his death because he obviously had mental health issues.
- Neck + shoulder pain is subsiding but I’m so scared of going back to square one so I am being super careful with my activities.
- I only take group fitness classes as a social thing because they are usually too short, and don’t find the intervals intense enough. If you were subscribed to my fitness journal way back in the day, you would know!! However I don’t have legs to do what I use to do because I choose to save them for cycling!
- I finally began cupping with acupuncture because I didn’t want marks on my back during the summer and my birthday month.
- Finalizing details to return to eternal sunshine!

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Friday, July 18, 2014 (Halifax, NS) – Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents and motorists that beginning on Monday, (July 21) and continuing until Friday, Aug. 22, Quinn Street will be closed between Flinn Street and Quinpool Road.
Churchill Drive will also be closed between Quinn Street and Blink Bonnie Terrace. The street closures are required in order to accommodate the installation of new water and sewer mains.
Access will be provided to local traffic only during the closures. The streets will re-open at night and on weekends.
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Well-woman visits to get recommended services – For women under 65
Preventive Screenings for Women
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- Breast cancer mammography screenings – For every 1 to 2 years for women over 40
- Cervical cancer screening
- Domestic and interpersonal violence screening and counseling – For all women
- Gestational diabetes screening – For women 24 to 28 weeks pregnant and those at high risk of developing gestational diabetes
- Hepatitis B screening – For pregnant women at their first prenatal visit
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test with the combination of a Pap smear – Every 5 years for women 30 to 65 who don’t want a Pap smear every 3 years
- Maternal depression screening – For mothers of infants at 1, 2, 4, and 6-month visits
- Osteoporosis screening – For women over age 60 depending on risk factors
- Pap test (also called a Pap smear) – Every 3 years for women 21 to 65
- Preeclampsia prevention and screening – For pregnant women with high blood pressure
- Rh incompatibility screening – For all pregnant women and follow-up testing for women at higher risk
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- Urinary tract or other infection screening
Most marketplace health plans must cover a set of preventive health services for children at no cost. Check with your plan provider to verify full coverage by a Thomas Hospitals provider.
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- Blood screening – For newborns
- Cervical dysplasia screening – For sexually active females
- Depression screening – For adolescents beginning routinely at age 12
- Developmental screening – For children under age 3
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- Obesity screening and counseling
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Last week, supposed images of the phone cropped up online, and showed its front and rear. The images matched the render shared by @OnLeaks, and also showed what appears to be a front-facing flash. The image also comes overlaid with some specs, which hint at Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor and a 5.7-inch IPS ClearBlack Display.
A few days ago, @evleaks posted a render which showed the front and back of the device. The image showcased the device in white, with a gold frame and logo. Another image, which was supposedly a press render and showed multiple variants of the device, was shared by @evleaks. The press render also showed that the phone will be available in black and white, and both variants may come with steel, gold and copper/rose gold frames.
The Lumia 850 is not the only Microsoft device to have featured in leaked renders. A few days ago, renders of the Lumia 650 appeared online. As per the render, it will have speaker slits located at the top and bottom edges of the device, and a 5-inch 720p display.
Microsoft has already unveiled three new Lumia devices running Windows 10 for Mobile, namely the Lumia 950, 950XL and 550. While the Lumia 950 and 950XL have already been released in India, Microsoft has not said when will it be launched the Lumia 550 here.
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Dear All, Every time I get hopeful, along comes an e-mail like this one from Laurie Mylroie.... Suzy -----Original Message----- From: Laurie Mylroie [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:27 PM To: Laurie Mylroie Subject: US will attack without UN, Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph US will attack Iraq 'without UN backing' By Toby Harnden January 10, 2003 America will not delay a war with Iraq until the autumn and is prepared to launch military action against Saddam Hussein without further United Nations authorisation, a senior Bush administration adviser said yesterday. Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board and a hawk whose views carry considerable weight, rejected suggestions from British ministers and senior Foreign Office officials that plans for an early war should be put on hold. Mr Perle, who is close to Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, said he did not expect the UN Security Council to reach agreement on the use of force but had little doubt that George W Bush, the US president, would press ahead regardless and lead a coalition to victory. "I'm assuming that we will not get a consensus on the Security Council but it may be possible to get it," he said. "It would be a great mistake to become dependent on it and take the view that we can't act separately. "That would be an abrogation of the president's responsibility." Mr Perle stressed that as an outside adviser he could not speak for the Bush administration. But with Mr Rumsfeld and his ally Vice-President Dick Cheney, now the driving force behind US foreign policy, his pronouncements have taken on increasing importance. Mr Perle said inspectors would not find actual weapons in the face of Iraqi concealment. "If that's the test, we're never going to find a smoking gun," said Mr Perle. He criticised Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, for his handling of the inspections. He said inspectors had mainly visited previously known sites. "They are the last place you would expect Saddam to put something," Mr Perle said. "You would have to be a complete idiot to do that. The inspectors returning to known sites makes Blix look foolish." The Swede "has a history from when he was head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Saddam built a nuclear capability right under his nose", he added. Mr Perle suggested that American patience with the UN inspections process was limited and closely linked to the military timetable that makes it very difficult to fight a war after March because of the searing heat. He said: "If there's no change in Saddam's attitude I think there'll be a reluctance to continue this without a clear indication that our patience will be rewarded by a UN Security Council consensus. "A consensus would be a useful thing and I think we'd be willing to wait a little longer to get it but not a long time." Mr Perle said America had been right to go to the UN to seek Resolution 1441, passed unanimously in November, because it "produced a consensus in support of significant demands" but the UN had only a limited role in dealing with Saddam. "The question now of course is whether the UN having done that [passed 1441] will insist that its demands be met or revert to its previous posture which was to pass resolutions but not take the actions necessary to ensure compliance with them." He expressed doubt that Tony Blair had asked or would ask Mr Bush to delay war until the autumn and accused those who sought such a delay of being opposed to ousting Saddam in any event. Although Mr Perle did not mention them, a number of US State Department diplomats are implacably opposed to war. They were encouraged by the views of the ministers and the Foreign Office, reported in The Telegraph yesterday, as well as recent comments by Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, that the chances of war were "60:40 against". Mr Perle said: "There are nations on the UN Security Council against taking military action so they will try to slow any movement towards military action." America and its allies, he insisted, already had the legal and moral justification for war. "We might be acting without a resolution from the UN authorising it but I think the administration can make a strong case that Saddam's defiance of a variety of resolutions passed previously could be understood to justify military action." _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email firstname.lastname@example.org All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk


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the foils of hamlet In his plays Shakespeare often puts the antagonists in circumstances similar to or resembling the problems of the main character or hero He does this in order to give us a clear perception of what the characters are like through contrast or similarity between them These literary experiments are called foils In Hamlet Shakespeare gives us many foils for Hamlet the main character One major foil is Ophelia Hamlet and Ophelia have both lost their fathers In the beginning of the play it seems that Hamlet is mourning too much and over reacting but when Ophelia loses her father it makes Hamlets mourning seem subtle Ophelia is very affected by her fathers death and it eventually leads to a factor in her insanity and death This changes the way we look at Hamlet and Ophelia Another foil for Hamlet is Polonius Laertes and Ophelias father Hamlet and Polonius are both very quick to speak or and lash out in excitement Both of them have made major mistakes because of this unwanted trait Hamlet has on many occasions spoken too quickly or acted out of rage or ignorance and hurt himself and others When Polonius spies on Hamlet and the Queen Hamlet thinks that it is the king who is spying behind the curtain and without knowing who it really is he stabs Polonius and kills him Polonius also has the same problem but with much tamer results Polonius usually ends up just making himself sound like a babbling fool by not thinking things out first He never really hurt anyone and his slaying by Hamlets sword makes Hamlet seem more the fool This foil gives Hamlet the image of a violent person that doesnt know how to control his emotions and in this instance he almost becomes the antagonist Hamlet also has foils that arent as close to him Like the young Fortinbras the nephew to the king of Norway Fortinbras
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The Federal government has reacted to reports about the Nigerian traders in Ghana.
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa reacted to the reports on behalf of the federal government.
Speaking on Channels Television, Erewa said the government is responding to the traders in Ghana.
Earlier, the traders have announced their desires to return home over attacks on their businesses.
She noted that the Nigerian government was not against their desires to return to the country adding that they must return to something meaningful.
However, Erewa stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has engaged his Ghanian counterpart over the issue.
Meanwhile, the Chairman said Nigerian businesses are not being attacked in Ghana because Buhari ordered the closure of Nigerian borders.
According to her, Nigeria has the option to take reciprocal actions over the treatment of Nigerian traders in Ghana.
Responding, a representative of the Nigerian community in Ghana, Isaac Ekhator said the Nigerian traders may not want to come back to Nigeria.
Ekhator advised the Minister of trade in Nigeria and other Stakeholders to find means of resolving the issues.


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Monday, October 17, 2016
Are the 2016 Chicago Cubs headed for disaster again ?
The Cubs may be headed for another disappointing playoff season. Clayton Kershaw performance reminds me of Orel Hershiser and the 1988 Dodgers team. His relief stint and 1-0 win.


People duped into housing deals urged to help police capture fraudsters
People who have been fooled into buying lands and houses are being urged to help the police successfully prosecute the fraudsters by providing statements to the investigating ranks.
Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal told the News Room recently that the ministry has received several complaints of such fraudulent deals and even though the cases are passed on to the police, the aggrieved parties have not provided the sleuths with statements.
“This is a challenge…for the police to prosecute, then they have to get written statements from persons who are willing to provide these so that they can prosecute.
“There are two recent cases that we have handed over to them (the police) but they could not advance on the matters simply because they need the statements from persons who have been robbed and duped,” Minister Croal told the News Room.
He is encouraging people to “do the right thing” and not fall prey to fraudsters.
“I want to encourage persons to do the right thing. When you’re making payments or being approached by anyone…I’ve even had complaints about people approaching to sell lands, using officers’ names and ministers’ names etc.”
He reminded that all matters relating to lands and houses can only be addressed via the Central Housing and Planning Authority and its regional offices.
“So we know some of these things take place, we get complaints from time to time. From our end, once we get those, we try to put pictures, we debar such persons from entering our facilities etc.
“But then we want to go the extra mile, we want to prosecute people but in order to do that, we’re asking for persons who have been approached, persons who are willing, to provide such statements. We’re asking for their support in this regard,” the Housing Minister contended.


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Big and small fleeing from the geography of fear
“Central American children are crossing the border into the United States alone” fleeing “hot” lands in pursuit of “cool” places. Such daily headlines as these are causing a big stir.
But we mustn’t forget they only represent a fifth of the people
crossing that very same border seeking work, asylum and refuge, fleeing a Central America “heated up” with so many forms of violence, including sexual.
José Luis Rocha
Central Americans in search of asylum: it sounds like a front-page newspaper headline from the eighties. The peace accords that the conflicting forces signed between 1988 and 1996 appeared to have tossed the concept of refugee into the corner reserved for anachronistic junk. The “Contra” and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) opened that string of accords in Sapoá, while the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and the government of Guatemala tied it off with the “Firm and Lasting Peace Accord” whose pompous yet encouraging name stressed the rhetorical opening to an unprecedented era that would make continued talk of refuges irrelevant.
But contrary to all forecasts, asylum-seeking has returned. The expelling compulsion attributed to the market’s invisible hand is ceding importance to the visible—although unpredictable and therefore more dangerous—armed hand of the military, drug traffickers, hit men, common criminals and youth gang members.
Humanitarian alert: The refuge is the United States. Those fleeing are Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans, including children. The evidence for this tendency is overwhelming. The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) are the most conspicuous, although by no means only, actors to have noted the abrupt jump in the average annual number of unaccompanied minors detained by US immigration authorities from 6,800 in 2004-2011 to 13,000 in 2012 and more than 24,000 in 2013. A figure of between 60,000 and 90,000 is expected for this year, according to an interagency memo from a Border Patrol official quoted in The New York Times.
minors alone at the border
The arrival of undocumented minors in early June 2014 was so great it outstripped the capacity of the institutions that usually receive them. With that, the Pentagon converted the military bases of Fort Sill (Oklahoma), San Antonio Lackland (Texas) and Ventura County (California) to house 1,800 unaccompanied minors. Under pressure due to the sudden increase, President Obama called for a coordinated federal effort to address what he called an “urgent humanitarian situation.”
Between 2008 and 2013, 54% of the unaccompanied minors apprehended were Guatemalan, Honduran and Salvadoran, a percentile whose disproportionate weight is only evident when compared to the fact that these same nationalities only represented 29% of all deportees. In the 2008-2011 period the number remained relatively stable—between 4,357 and 3,933—but then shot up to 10,146 in 2012 and doubled to 20,805 in 2013.
Mexico’s National Migration Institute also registered an increase, although a much less marked one, of unaccompanied minors among the Central Americans it deported from that country, with the figure rising from 1,946 in 2009 to 5,389 in 2013. The total number of minors deported in the same period rose from 3,985 to 8,180, with 44% of them from Honduras. The weight of minors in the total number of deportees jumped from 6% to 11% and the proportion of unaccompanied minors among the total number of minors rose by 17%, from 49% to 66%. The country with the highest percentage of unaccompanied minors among its total minors is Guatemala, with 74% in 2013.
Fleeing violence? There is a correlation between the migration of minors and the polymorphous violence currently affecting Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. A USCCB report revealed that over 50% of the children from those three countries detained by the US authorities in 2010 said they were fleeing violence. The same report showed that 25% of a random sample of all minors placed in USCCB Migration and Refugee Services care between 2007 and 2011 had directly witnessed violent crimes, generally committed with firearms. This rate reached 50% among the Hondurans.
The report also mentions an increase in female migration from Guatemala to the United States, attributable to the need to escape violence, rape and torture, a tendency the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF) detected in 2009, with organized crime and youth gangs causing panic and anxiety among the under-18 population. In 2013, the USCCB conducted a new survey among detained children and sent a delegation headed by the archbishop of El Paso, Texas, to Mexico and Central America to visit migrant shelters and do interviews. The delegation found that of a total of 140 minors from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras benefited by the USCCB’s family reunification services in 2011, 41% said they had emigrated to flee from violence.
But these findings run up against a persistent insistence in Central America itself that this emigration is economic in nature. For example, an opinion survey by the Jesuits’ Reflection, Investigation and Communication Team (ERIC) in Honduras revealed that 55.1% of the young people interviewed didn’t want to emigrate, while 44.8% did. Among those who indicated a preference for emigrating abroad, the largest percentage of both females (78%) and males (82%) said the reason was “the bad economy and lack of opportunities to improve their income in the country.” A survey by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNICEF, conducted in 2010, also found that 51.7% of Guatemalans migrated to improve their economic situation, 37.2% in search of employment and only 0.6% due to violence.
Economic reasons or violence? The interesting study titled “La esperanza viaja sin visa” (Hope travels without a visa) by the Central American University of El Salvador and United Nations Population Fund reveals that Salvadorans emigrate due to “lack of opportunities for employment, a decent life or education; violence does not always appear as a direct expelling factor, but rather as a macro conditioning factor.”
This vision was partially corroborated by the Americas Barometer Insights 2014 issue dedicated to “Violence and Migration in Central America.” While it concludes that crime does appear to contribute to the migratory wave, particularly if increased numbers of people directly experience it, it also notes 2012 figures showing limited victimization levels among Hondurans (23.2%), an extremely low propensity to feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods (18.9%) and minimal intentions to migrate (11.4%).
Paradoxically, this report found victimization only (17.5%) higher in Honduras, considered the most dangerous country in Central America, than in Costa Rica, generally regarded as one of the safest but where the perception of insecurity (29.7%) is 6.5% higher than in Honduras.
On the face of it, this implausible contrast between Honduras, which in 2013 earned the sad reputation of being the most violent in the world (with 90.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants) and Costa Rica, renowned as “the Switzerland of Central America” (with 8.5 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants) suggests that Hondurans are the most irresponsibly unapprehensive people on the planet and Costa Ricans the most jumpy. A less subjective possibility is that the surveys were badly designed or, in an excessive desire for statistical representativeness, not designed to take the geography of fear into account.
Figures on the geography of fearNational perception averages are usually misleading because violence tends to have a very unequal geographical distribution within a country. Although Guatemala and El Salvador—with 39.9 and 41.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively—appear far removed from the scythe-bearing Grim Reaper hovering over Honduras, it should be borne in mind that the homicide rates in the three countries’ capitals are all very high and not so different: 116.6 in Guatemala City (2010), 102.2 in Tegucigalpa (2011) and 89.9 in San Salvador (2011). It is therefore reasonable to suppose that many Salvadorans and Guatemalans also emigrate to escape violence, and that national averages dissimulate an unequal distribution of that violence.
As for Honduras, prioritizing a territorially balanced sample in the surveys could cover up the fact that violence is concentrated in what drug trafficking-related jargon terms “hotspots.” For this reason, a sample in which San Pedro Sula, located in the northern coastal area, is considered only relative to its demographic weight and not its victimization levels and weight in the migratory flow will produce an incomplete image of the specter of violence and its influence on migrations.
For the third consecutive year, San Pedro Sula nailed its position as the world’s most violent city in 2013 with 187 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Considered Honduras’ economic capital, San Pedro Sula hit first place in 2011 with 125 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants and remained there in 2012 with an increase to 174 homicides.
Its reputation has earned it sinister headlines in internationally circulating newspapers: “San Pedro Sula convulsed with violence,” “Seven at night, the most dangerous time in San Pedro Sula,” “Central America’s kidnap capital,” “An earthly hell called San Pedro Sula,” “A city turned morgue”...
The hotspot called San Pedro Sula The population couldn’t remain indifferent to San Pedro Sula’s “heating up.” Signs of this include, for example, that 51 of the 238 Honduran migrants (21%) fed at the Kino Border Initiative’s soup kitchen in Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora between September 2013 and March 2014 were from San Pedro Sula. That is clear over-representation given that projections based on the last census indicate that only 9% of Hondurans live in that city.
There’s a correlation between this over-representation and another, according to 2005 data: 27% of the total arms registered in Honduras were located in San Pedro Sula. Yet another sign of the correlation between violence and migration explained by the geography of fear is the fact that the most Hondurans attended by the Kino Border Initiative come from the most violent departments identified by Honduran sociologist Julieta Castellanos in 2011 based on the number of murders per 100,000 inhabitants: Atlántida (149), Cortés (127), Copán (114), Colón (103), Ocotepeque y Yoro (97) and Francisco Morazán (88).
Homicide figures by sex and age Another reason national public opinion or even victimization averages require a disaggregated analysis to establish their impact on migrations is the very diverse distribution of victimization and risks by sex and age groups, which the following figures for El Salvador evidence clearly: in 2005, the general death rate per 100,000 inhabitants was 392 for males between the ages of 15 and 29 in El Salvador, compared to 84 for females of the same age range.
This difference is more pronounced when the homicide rates for that age range are examined: El Salvador’s overall homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was 62.2 for the same year, but for males it was 223 and for females only 20. In Honduras, all we know is that young men and women between the ages of 15 and 24 accounted for 25.7% of the total homicide victims in 2007.
The terror also has the face of a rapist Homicides throughout Latin America are concentrated among young people between the ages of 15 and 29, which is the same age range of those who migrate most. But that doesn’t mean that only youths or even only young men have violence-related motives for emigrating. Violence doesn’t only have the face of a hit man with a revolver in his hand. It also has the face of a rapist, very occasionally superimposed over that of a youth gang member and far more often camouflaged beneath the “protective” visage of a father, stepfather, cousin or uncle. Or else it has the face of a pimp, in which case girls and female adolescents are its most frequent victims, although it can be suspected that machismo gags any accusations from boys.
In El Salvador, most victims of abuse and commercial sexual exploitation are females aged 10-17 years old. In Honduras, a daily average of two cases of the rape of under-14s was registered in 2010 in Tegucigalpa alone. Of the cases reported the following year—as always a small proportion of those actually committed—only 31% ended up investigated by the public prosecutor. The picture for Guatemala is very similar, where a report by Médecins Sans Frontières says that 93% of rape survivors cared for in 2011 were female and 64% were 12- to 17-year-olds for whom the rape was their first sexual experience.
These are precisely the ages of the unaccompanied minors arriving in such large numbers in the USA. In other words, they are the demographic dividend in which the technocrats place such vaunted and vain hopes. And given that the Central American countries are “heating up,” they are moving away in search of “cooler” places.
My conclusion regarding the underestimation of the relationship between migration and violence is that national percentages can’t be used to weight variables being correlated with migration. Migration is a phenomenon whose actors don’t represent the national averages, but rather have a certain profile being chiseled out by the multiple faces of violence and certain opportunities.
Three different motives canWhen survey-takers armed with questionnaires containing variables that aren’t mutually exclusive press the migratory subjects themselves to exclusively identify a simplifying reason for having left their country, it puts them in a real predicament.
coexist in the same emigrant
Among the emigrants cared for by the Kino Border Initiative in a seven-month period starting in September 2013, only between 4% and 7% said they migrated due to violence. The rest focused on lack of work and family reunification. But my long one-on-one conversations with young migrants there showed me a repeated archetypal story: the plan to be reunited with a mother who has been living for years in Los Angeles or Maryland because in Guatemala or Honduras they’re more likely to get a bullet in the head like other people they knew than to get a decent job, which almost nobody they knew ever ends up with.
These three motivations—to avoid violence, find employment and reunite the family—can coexist in the same emigrant. Sometimes motives are so tightly braided they’re interwoven into a single strand, as observed by Jeremy Slack, a researcher at the University of Arizona, who often finds it nearly impossible to clearly delimit the motivations. For example extortion—the various “taxes” different groups charge back home for “protection” or other “services”—overlaps both violence and economics.
The relationship betweenWhile some downplay violence as a motivation for the migration of Central Americans, other sources corroborate the current link. Based on a survey of 404 unaccompanied 12- to 14-year-old migrants in the custody of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, the UNHCR report “Children on the run” revealed that 44% of the Hondurans said they had been threatened by or were direct victims of armed criminals, including youth gang members, cartels and thieves. The same was true for 66% of the Salvadorans who, like the 35% of Salvadorans attended by the Kino Border Initiative, could well have come from San Salvador, El Salvador’s most violent city.
violence and migration
The method UNHCR used to establish the link between violence and migration is obviously more effective than the sophisticated statistical models of Americas Barometer Insights. UNHCR gathered the testimonies of people who had already migrated rather than the perception of people still in the country expressing migratory intentions. Moreover, its design encompasses the plurality of motives for migrating.
The testimonies I heard on my tripI traveled along the Mexican-US border from Brownsville to San Diego, passing through Harlingen, McAllen and El Paso in Texas and Nogales in Arizona, as well as Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Nogales in Sonora and Tijuana in Baja California on the Mexican side. I gathered many testimonies in all these places that tell of the impact of violence on Central American migration. During visits to soup kitchens and migrant shelters, pro-bono lawyers and law offices specializing in migration, activists old and new, grassroots and grasstop organizations, priests and nuns, laypeople and public officials, I was flooded with firsthand data from both migrants and people in contact with Central Americans who had recently crossed the border fleeing violence.
Víctor Maldonado, director of the Ozanam Center in Brownsville, has seen an increase in Central Americans fleeing from recruitment by drug cartels and other dangers. Lawyer Kimi Jackson of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project in Harlingen explained that minors escape from violence in the family or seek family reunification because they’re living with uncles or grandparents who can’t protect them from youth gang members.
Homosexuals also experience persecution, although in the case of children it’s not always possible to identify that motive because “they’re really scared of talking about that.” More frequently the children were witnesses to or reported the murder of a brother or some other family member and have good reason to fear some kind of revenge.
Running from youth gangs Katie Anita Hudak, director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, has identified that at least since 2012 Central American adolescents arriving in the United States have been running from youth gangs. The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) stated in a report in June that Central Americans are fleeing torture, forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions. That echoed an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) communiqué denouncing that at least 458 Honduran children under the age of 14 died in violent circumstances in 2010-2013. It also mentioned a Casa Alianza report that 271 youths and children under the age of 23 were killed in Honduras in the first three months of 2014. Responding to these situations, El Paso’s Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services has a program to take on the cases of violence victims asking for asylum.
and drug cartels
Some organizations identify violence as a prominent driving force behind emigration from Honduras since 2009, the year of the coup against the Manuel Zelaya government. Others pinpoint 2011, when the wars among drug cartels turned more bloody in certain areas of Central America. But all agree on how difficult it is to bring asylum cases to a successful conclusion.
USA: A none-too-generous Mecca According to a 2013 UNHCR report, of the 612,700 asylum petitions registered in the 44 industrialized countries in 2013, the 88,400 requests in the United States make that country the second most sought by asylum candidates after Germany. The 25% increase in the US total for 2013 over 2012 (17,590 more requests) was due to an increase in Hondurans seeking asylum there.
for Central America asylum seekers
The report states that “About 30% of all asylum claims in the country were lodged by asylum-seekers from Mexico and Central America. Violence generated by transnational organized crime, gang-related violence and drug cartels in some parts of Central America may be among the contributing factors leading to the consistent high number of individuals from this region requesting refugee status in the United States of America.”
Rated according to its geographical dimensions with a little help from a UNHCR indicator that reflects the willingness to welcome asylum seekers, the US doesn’t seem a particularly generous or hospitable host. In 2009-2013 it received only one asylum petitioner per 1,000 inhabitants, which placed it 29th in a ranking headed by Malta with 20.2 applicants per 1,000 inhabitants and Sweden with 19.2. From the perspective of another index based on territorial dimensions, the US position doesn’t get any better: it had 28 refugees per 1,000 km², which is insignificant compared to Malta (26,351), Lebanon (12,968), Jordan (3,359), Rwanda (2,300), Holland (2,049), Pakistan (1,869), Bangladesh (1,686), Germany (1,657), Burundi (1,545), Switzerland (1,233), Luxemburg (1,114), Kenya (966), Uganda (816), Belgium (720), Serbia (649), Austria (618), England (614), Yemen (563), Ecuador (481), Togo (411), Turkey (342), Ethiopia (332), Panama (231), Sweden (208) and Norway (134), among many other countries great and small, rich and poor and with high and low population densities that have acted with greater largess, overcoming territorial, demographic or economic pressure to grant asylum.
The Central American migrants running from violence have headed toward a tree that shelters few refugees. And the backing their aspirations receive from international organizations is dangerously varied. The response to their hopes blow hot and cold. In an interview with the Univision Spanish language television network, IOM spokesperson Niurka Piñeiro said her organization promotes campaigns “to inform both the young people and their parents of the dangers and of the truth about the United States. And that means that there isn’t going to be such an amnesty.” On the other hand, UNHCR reported that 56% of the minors it interviewed require international protection.
Meanwhile, Central Americans continue arriving in the US, including an increasing number of children. In the next installment we’ll examine the chances of their hopes being satisfied and whether the violence in Central America provides a basis for their asylum demands.
José Luis Rocha is a member of envío’s editorial council and is associated with the Institute of Sociology of Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.


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Stormwater treatment: Semi-central turns into central
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Compact distribution shaft for two treatment systems
If two type SediPipe level treatment systems are connected in parallel, the distribution shaft is used. In addition to the two pipe connections for the treatment systems, the shaft DN 600 features a bypass as an overflow for large water volumes. The vertically aligned diffusor grill retains coarse particles in the start shaft and creates the smoothing zone in the inlet. This ensures uniform flow of polluted water into both treatment systems. The treated water merges and is subsequently discharged in the distribution target shaft which is, but for the diffusor grill, identical with the start shaft. Connection sets of different pipe lengths properly connect the distribution shafts and the treatment systems and complement the system.
Distribution pipe system – modular, flexible, unlimited applications
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Modular design – easy handling
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When I was a teenager in the early 60’s, I talked my mother into buying this sampler kit. I’m pretty sure it was offered in one of the tons of magazines we used to get. Because daddy worked in the advertising department at Phillips Petroleum, we received just about every magazine you could think of — all of them marked “sample copy.”
For some reason, it would take weeks for this stuff to make it through the mail system, so I was pretty excited when it finally arrived. The design was stamped on dark brown linen (I can’t remember if it had colored stamping or came with a chart) and included all the thread. Of course, I never finished it. I think I did one little motif and then the poor sampler sat around for months until my mother decided to finish it for me. I am famous for this technique of getting mother to finish my projects.
Later, mother and I (and all of my sisters) started doing counted cross stitch and we sort of looked down on these earlier stamped designs. I don’t understand why I thought that, because now I think they’re really cute.
Stamped Linen Sampler
Marjorie Dellasega, 1964
24″ x 24″

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OCT. 18 SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO LECTURE FEATURES NANCY GRAHAM, PRESIDENT AND COO OF THE CENTRE CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP. – AN OVERVIEW OF THE SAN DIEGO SUCCESS STORY. The Oct. 18 Scottsdale Community Design Studio lecture will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library Auditorium, 3839 E. Drinkwater Blvd. and will feature Nancy Graham,President and COO of the Centre City Development Corporation, who will beproviding an overview of the San Diego success story. Nancy Graham joined CCDC in December 2005 after serving as a principal in N-K Ventures, LLC, an urban in-fill development firm that provides consulting services for cities and developers on urban redevelopment strategies. She was elected as West Palm Beach, Florida’s first strong mayor in 1991, and served until March 1999. Under her leadership, the city experienced a remarkable renaissance, especially downtown. Prior to serving as mayor, Graham practiced law for 10 years, specializing in land use, zoning, comprehensive planning andenvironmental law.
Graham’s vision and leadership have been recognized through numerous national, state and local awards, including the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ City Livability Award and the 1,000 Friends of Florida Community Steward Award for the revitalization of downtown West Palm Beach. She was listed by Newsweek as one of the top 25 mayors in the country, and has been the subject of feature stories in Working Woman Magazine and the New York Times. Governing Magazine honored her in November 1998 as one of the ten national “Public Officials of the Year.”
For more information on Scottsdale’s Community Design Studio lecture series go to: http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/bldgresources/planning/lectures.asp
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