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At first, Kari and Dustin Drees thought their home had been invaded by a peculiarly destructive thief.
The first-time homeowners, who had lived in their new suburban Atlanta home for only a week, returned from a holiday vacation late last month. When they opened the door they found a house in shambles.
Wood chippings littered the foyer like confetti. Soot soiled the living room and the couch. The wooden window frames had been gnawed.
They heard the faucet running in the kitchen and feared a burglar was hiding somewhere in the house. They called the police. Kari stayed outside with their baby, and Dustin went in to investigate. He followed the trail of soot ― until it dawned on him: It was a trail of not footprints but little paw prints, starting from the chimney and leading to nearly every room in the house.
The destruction, the couple soon learned, was the work of a wayward squirrel.
“He ran across the couch, ran through the dining room. It even went in the bathroom, somehow got in the toilet, and then went in our daughter’s room,” Dustin, 30, an employee of a venture capital company, told The Washington Post on Tuesday night. “He was just trying to figure out a way out of the house.”
The couple believes the squirrel must have fallen through the chimney before frantically trying to escape their home. It turns out that a fleeing squirrel can do a lot of damage.
They will have to replace almost every window in their house after the squirrel, in his desperate escape attempts, chewed away the paneling and in some cases poked tiny holes in the glass. He pooped on their beds and on the couch and on the counters and floors. He gnawed off the wood on the door and window frames and indoor shutters. And somehow, the couple thinks, he flicked on the kitchen faucet while apparently trying to leap for the window above the sink.
The squirrel was soon captured by animal control. But then they had to contend with their insurance company. When they called to report the freak incident, their insurance adjuster had some very bad news: The company did not cover damage inflicted by rodents.
Now, the young couple says they are left to pay out of pocket an estimated $15,000 in damage caused by a single rogue squirrel.
Kari, 27, said that the experience has left her wondering “the purpose of homeowners’ insurance,” if not to protect against a disaster like this.
“I’ve had moments of wondering why we purchased this house in the first place,” she said. “You’re supposed to have a sense of security and be protected in these types of situations, and I just feel like insurance companies find loopholes to get out of paying for things. We’re supposed to have someone on our side, and at this point, we feel like the insurance company is not on our side.”
The couple’s insurance company, Mercury Insurance, could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday night. But the company said in a statement to Georgia news outlets that the rodent caveat is clearly described in the insurance policy, adding that it’s a standard homeowners policy for most insurance companies.
“When Mercury Insurance received the claim on January 1st (last Wednesday), we sent an adjuster to the property and learned that — in fact — a squirrel had found its way into their home,” the company said in the statement, according to WSB-TV. “This was confirmed by the ‘critter catcher’ company that removed the squirrel.
“Unfortunately, damage done to a property by birds, vermin, rodents and insects is not covered,” the statement continued. “This is explicitly stated in the contract and all insurance companies we know of have similar exclusions.”
Mercury said in its statement that it would offer to pay for up to two weeks of temporary housing for the Drees family. But the couple told The Post they were unaware of the offer to pay for housing for two weeks until the company’s media statement, and are currently staying with a friend.
Kari and Dustin had moved into the cottage-style home in Buckhead, a northern suburb of Atlanta, on Dec. 16. After living in Georgia for four years, they decided to buy their first home together to put down roots, they said, especially after the birth of their daughter last year.
Just a week after moving in, they left for San Diego to spend the holidays with family. But almost immediately, the couple suspected something was wrong back home.
Somehow, the squirrel tripped the home burglary alarm.
ADT Security Systems went out to the couple’s home to investigate. The security company found no signs of forced entry, and a friend checked on the home too, finding that the doors and windows were still locked. “We just thought it had to be a software issue,” Dustin said.
Upon realizing the intruder was an animal — the droppings made that crystal clear — the couple called a critter control company. The serviceman found the squirrel quivering behind a couch pillow, before it “freaked out” and went rogue again, the couple said. “He made a little bed in there — it’s a comfy couch,” Dustin said.
They aren’t sure whether they’ll be able to keep it. The couple said that “phase one” of the cleaning ended Tuesday after workers wearing hazmat suits swarmed the house and threw “sanitation bombs” everywhere. It cost $2,000, Kari said.
Dustin said the hardest part has been understanding why the insurance company views this squirrel fiasco as being in the same boat as a rodent infestation. He said he understands why insurance may not cover typical mice or insect problems. But this seemed wildly different. “You see the commercials of the crazy things that happen, or the Allstate mayhem guy,” Dustin said. “You think these things would be covered.”
He said he wishes a raccoon had fallen down the chimney instead.


MORE than one in ten people have lied about their identity online, according to a recent study.
A report conducted by verification company Veriff found that 12 per cent of people surveyed in the UK had lied about their identity on the internet, with 15 per cent also admitting to lying about their age.
Brighton had the second-highest figure of those admitting to lying about their identity, with almost one in six (15 per cent) admitting they had done so.
Some 12 per cent of Brighton residents said they had lied about their age online, while just under five per cent said they have pretended to be someone else on the internet.
The figures come as the government develops legislation to protect children online.
The Online Safety Bill is expected to force tech companies, such as Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google, to abide by a duty of care to users, with companies facing large fines if they fail to comply.
A quarter of people surveyed in the city admitted to never monitoring their children’s activity on the internet, with almost 28 per cent saying they have never spoken to their children about online safety.
Almost over half of people surveyed in Brighton (59 per cent) said they thought tech companies are responsible for protecting children online, with more than two-thirds (68 per cent) believing that online identity verification should be a legal requirement on social media platforms .
Janer Gorohhov, co-founder of Veriff, said: “We believe that online safety for children is essential as technology advances.
“As we transition into the virtual world of the metaverse, the aim is to create a safer environment for everyone, but especially children.
“It’s interesting to see that our data reveals the high level of trust parents place in tech companies and their expectation of these companies doing all they can to keep children safe online.
“We hope to assist companies in implementing age restrictions and online identity verification where children are users – especially as we enter the more immersive future of the metaverse in gaming and social media platforms.
“These additional steps in identity verification will allow parents to feel more comfortable knowing that their children are being protected online.”


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Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Teamby Rob Fleder
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Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball.
With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated magazine, offers a timeless collection of original essays by some of the most prominent contemporary writers in America — from Pete Dexter to Jane Leavy, from Roy Blount Jr. to Colum McCann — each piece focusing on one uniquely colorful subject: the fanatically adored/resoundingly despised “Bronx Bombers.”
Funny, moving, provocative, insightful appreciations and detractions — from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Derek Jeter — Damn Yankees offers twenty-four fascinating takes on the most storied franchise of baseballs Major Leagues.
Love them or hate them, the New York Yankees have been an American institution for nearly a century. With their rich history and colorful cast of characters, the Yankees never fail to inspire or provoke. In this exciting compendium, some of our most acclaimed writers — including Pete Dexter, Colum McCann, Roy Blount Jr., Dan Barry, Jane Leavy, Charles P. Pierce, J. R. Moehringer, Bill James, and many more — step up to the plate to take their cuts. The result is a collection of original essays as idiosyncratic and expansive as the team that has inspired them: ruminations on Babe Ruth's gravestone, Derek Jeter's swing, and every other subject that spans from the hilarious (the Yankee wife swap of the seventies) to the sublime (the grace of Catfish Hunter). Superbly written, deeply insightful, and full of both passion and humor, Damn Yankees is a completely fresh look at baseball's most enduring franchise.
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral is ready to show off its face-lift, while the architects and designers who worked on the three-year-project said New Yorkers and tourists will see the city’s most iconic church in a new light.
Jeffrey Murphy, a partner in Murphy Burnham and Buttrick Architects, which has been planning and conducting the project, showed off his team’s work during a tour for the media Wednesday. He said the mission was to restore the 127-year-old landmark’s original glory.
There were smaller renovation projects and changes to the church over the years, but Murphy said severe wear and tear left sections of the interior and exterior discolored and chipped away.
“If you had come here 30 years ago, you would have seen a really gritty building,” Murphy said.
Nine years ago, the New York Archdiocese contracted Murphy’s firm. The master restoration plan cost about $177 million, but major work was delayed by the financial crisis. The majority of the restoration will be complete in time for Pope Francis’ visit to the cathedral in two weeks.
These are some of the major improvements:
Facade and doors
Murphy said the team used a special micro-abrasive technology to clean the cathedral’s Gothic Revival structure. For months, they cleaned the marble to a condition not seen in decades, he said. Crews replaced broken marble in select parts of the church.
The 9,000 pound bronze doors were carefully transported to a facility where a group of preservationists gave the bronze a new shine and returned them back to the church last month.
The cathedral’s 75 stained glass windows contained so much soot and pollution the pews barely got any light.
Murphy’s team, which included an expert from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, removed 5% of the 3,700 stained glass panels for off-site cleaning and restoration and restored the remaining pieces on site. He said the crews paid very special attention to the artwork, which was done by several artists over a span of 70 years.
“We came with a very specific approach to St. Patrick’s,” he said.
The Founder’s Window, which depicts St. Patrick and is located near the altar, required extra special attention. The famous stained glass brought in a lot of light and caused some pews to heat up, according to Murphy.
The restorationists installed a transparent protective coating with UV filtering and created a system of small vestin in the panels that allows cool air to safely enter the church.
“It’s really made a difference for this section,” Murphy said.
Although the church’s interior pillars are marble, the ceiling is actually wood and painted plaster. As a result, the white ceiling was susceptible to more dirt and grime. “The ceiling was this army green [color],” Murphy said.
The restorationists used historic design plans to re-create the original color palette, and for months cleaned, repaired and re-adhered the paint.
The interior work was the toughest for parishioners and visitors, according to Monsignor Robert Ritchie, St Patrick’s rector. Large scaffolding meant that no weddings could be conducted and Masses had to go on amid the work.
“The priests learned to talk louder,” Ritchie joked.
The main piece of the cathedral needed the least amount of work, some buffering of the floors and varnishing of the wood.
However, the crews made significant changes to the wood canopy that covers the cathedra, the bishop’s chair. The chair and its protective enclosure, which date back to the cathedral’s opening, received repairs and a fresh coat of varnish and paint and were elevated to signify the cardinal’s position.
Pope Francis will sit in the seat during his visit and it will be housed in a taller, cleaner wood canopy.
“We made sure it can fit the needs of the cardinal and still had its original look and feel,” Murphy said.

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OCT 03, 2019
Blue Angels: A San Francisco Treat
As AAO 2019 approaches, consider this both an invitation as well as a “heads up” notification: The Blue Angels will be flying overhead during our meeting.
San Francisco Fleet Week, scheduled this year for Oct. 6 to 14, features the Blue Angels, entertaining big crowds and creating massive traffic jams. This year, our annual meeting is yet one additional attraction! While you are here, you and guests will delight in the Blue Angels Shows. The sky’s literally the limit!
The Blue Angels are one of the world’s premier flight demonstration squadrons, serving a specific mission “to showcase the pride and professionalism of the United States Navy and Marine Corps by inspiring a culture of excellence and service to country through flight demonstrations and community outreach.” In San Francisco, the Blue Angels attract more than a million spectators. Across the country, their shows run from March through October.
Created in 1946, the squadron once featured propeller plane F6F Hellcats. These days, six F/A Hornets fill the sky at speeds of up to 700 mph and at decibel levels that are envied even by Harley Davidson owners. The only modifications from the combat-ready models are the iconic blue and yellow paint job and replacing weapons with a tank for decorative smoke oil.
Fortunately, the repertoire for this precision team can accommodate even the unpredictable Bay Area fog, with choreographed and well-rehearsed “high,” “low” and “flat” shows. Shows in San Francisco are particularly impressive, with the bay providing the location for stunts and the hills providing ample viewing venues.
How will this impact you during your visit?
- Practice sessions will be held Thursday and Friday afternoons. Start times may vary. The roar of the jets will let you know when they start. Practice sessions are terrific for viewing, because the crowds get exponentially bigger for expanded activities on Saturday and Sunday.
- Streets in prime viewing areas along the waterfront are jam-packed on Saturday and Sunday. This will be a major issue for those of you staying near Fisherman’s Wharf. The most efficient travel mode will be walking, as shuttles will not have any special access.
- Although the location for the event is officially listed as the Marina Green, the entire northern waterfront of San Francisco is really best for viewing. By all means, if you have access to a boat, that surely would be even better! Note, if you captain the boat, there are specific channels where no boat traffic is allowed.
- Finally, there are other entertainment options for you this week. On Sunday, the annual Columbus Day parade occurs in North Beach. Where Mardi Gras parades offer doubloons as “throws,” this parade features garlic candy. Columbus and Stockton Streets are blocked off, creating more traffic snarls. The activity centered around Washington Square includes ample opportunity to feast on Italian treats.
Sadly, the likelihood of the San Francisco Giants playing in the World Series is about as remote as an opportunity for you to take a ride with the Blue Angels!
And, of course, the best activities will be in Moscone Convention Center!

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Pat Coast – Guitar, Blues, Singer/Songwriter
I am a Northwest native, and have been performing for 45 years, doing my first paying gig in 1971 at a high school dance. As an artist, my music covers lot of genres, but it is heavily shaped and influenced by several years on the road performing throughout the west, with its vast open space, sparse population, and a relaxed environment. When I play with a band (currently Bakin’ Phat) it is raw blues with guitar, bass, drums and a harmonica. When I play solo, it is a mixture of alt country, Americana, neo-folk, classics and original music. I love the challenge of stripping a song down to its basic element of an acoustic guitar and a voice, with no gimmicks or tricks.
Music is the soundtrack for the dance of life, and I cannot imagine life without it.

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Looking for a low profile bath room faucet. One handle controls only please.
My existing faucet is tall enough that when the handle is lifted up and the water is running, the over-sink cabinet door slaps it when I open the cabinet. I hate that. My google-foo has been unsuccessful. I want something that is one handle and really flat. This
is awesome but only a design concept at this point. The entire thing has to be less than 6 inches tall, even when any handles are lifted up. I swear I have seen similar faucets, which have this waterfall-type spout, but I cannot find a one now that I am looking to buy.


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A HOUSE-BUILDER with sites across Derbyshire has reported a big jump in sales thanks to the recovery in Britain’s housing market.
Barratt Developments, which has sites in Stenson Fields, Swadlincote and Chesterfield, this morning reported that total home sales grew 71% in the first six months of its financial year compared to the same period 12 months ago.
The firm said that over the six months to the end of December sales jumped to £1.27 billion, from £742.1 million.
The company and its rival housebuilders have seen demand surge on the back of a government move last year to help struggling house buyers by providing loans and guaranteeing mortgages.
Barratt said 29% of its total completions over the period used the Help to Buy scheme.
Chief executive Mark Clare said: “As a result of the continued recovery of the housing market across all regions and our £3.1 billion investment in new land over the last four years, we have been able to increase materially the number of new homes being built and our profitability.”

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Light up your life and space at home with this rustic Multicoloured Hook Shape Lamp. Featuring coloured beading for a warm ambiance and moroccan effect, with a gold rustic stand that will suit any space. Standing at 60cm tall, with a sturdy, round base, place this one on your bedside or lounge room and watch your space light up in colour. Shop Multicoloured Hook Shape Lamp online at GiftBox!

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Go Fish Seafood Co., as its name implies, excels in seafood. Despite the small size, the restaurant offers amazing foods and services at reasonable prices, thereby beating other competitors in the area. Because of that, it easily gets full. So, if you are San Jose and want to visit the spot, you’d better make a reservation or go early. It is suitable for family and business meetings.
Foods at Go Fish Seafood Co.
The restaurant has an extensive menu; the menu offers foods such as ceviches, shrimp, octopus, sauces, tuna tartar, salmon, risotto, rice, and much more. The seafood is excellently cooked with fresh ingredients.
After whetting your appetite either solid food or drinks, you can then order octopus or get salmon. Both of the dishes are unbeatable.
The tuna comes with mango and avocado. This is a blend of Asian cuisine with the local. The shrimp tacos come loaded with tasty veggies.
After getting your dishes, you can now order a craft beer; you can also enjoy yummy natural drinks.
The complimentary homemade drink, limoncello, will have your mouth watering. This dessert is well thought out; it will definitely be stuck in your memory.
Services at Go Fish Seafood Co.
The staff is professional and kind towards the clients. Since the menu is handy, the clients choose their food as soon as they arrive at the spot. As they do, the servers bring the food in a timely manner. Not only does the staff serve you dishes, they also make sure you are well treated. So, they are always around the tables checking on the clients. What’s surprising is that they offer freebies such as new flavorful drinks and dishes.

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Senior Girls Basketball: 2-1 record for the exhibition season.
The Senior Girls were down in Victoria this past Saturday for back-to-back exhibition games at St. Michaels. The first game against SMUS was close, but great teamwork and zone defence helped the girls capture the win. Unfortunately, not much energy was left in their second game against the competitive Orcas Island team which resulted in a loss. The team is off to Gulf Islands Secondary School on Saltspring this afternoon (Tuesday) for their first league game.

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On Saturday, June 20th, starting at 2pm and going through sunset, a diverse lineup of
musicians, from bluegrass to jazz, classical musings to sea shanties, will play concerts
in various outdoor location around Stonington Village.
Stroll around town and enjoy the fresh sea air mixed with beautiful music, stop in to one
of our great stores or grab a bite to eat at one of the town’s delectable restaurants.
The perfect way to spend the day with your friends and family!
All concerts are open to the public and free of charge. Bring a lawn chair to enjoy the shows or enjoy the music on your feet... dancing around!
FESTIVAL LINE-UP9am-12pm: A.J. & Friends
(old timey music) FARMER'S MARKET2pm: Nordberg & Blumenreder
(acoustic rock & folk fusion) NESS2:30pm: Aymeric Dupré la Tour
3pm: A.J. & Friends (old timey music) WAYLAND'S WHARF
3:30pm Bergin O’Malley/Sing & Play Together (kids folk music) LIBRARY SQUARE
3:45pm: Mystic Middle School Jazz Band CALVARY CHURCH
4pm: Andrew Cole & The Bravo Hops (blues infused rock & roll) FISHING DOCKS
4:15pm: Women of OBesa Cantavit (vocal) LIBRARY SQUARE
4:30pm The Executive Session (Irish music) LA GRUA CENTER
4:45pm: Queen Anne’s Revenge (folk) LIBRARY SQUARE
5pm: The Ripka Duo (organ & violin) UNITED CHURCH
5:30pm Revell Carr & Friends (sea shanties) FISHING DOCKS
6pm: Cabin Fever (bluegrass) DU BOIS BEACH
6:30pm Elena Zamolodchikova (harpsichord) FACTORY
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Surrey: RCMP in Surrey arrested two young adult males during a traffic stop which led to the seizure of multiple controlled substances, prohibited weapons, and other evidence consistent with a dial-a-dope operation.
On November 8th, 2015 a Surrey RCMP General Duty officer was conducting pro-active patrols in the area of 134th Street and 92nd Avenue when they located a suspicious vehicle in the area. After initiating a traffic stop, the officer’s investigation resulted in the detention of the two occupants of the vehicle. A subsequent search revealed evidence consistent with drug trafficking including a small amount of crack cocaine and two prohibited weapons (sawed-off shotgun and bear spray). Upon arrival at the Surrey RCMP’s cellblock, a secondary search by officers revealed two separate packages of controlled substances, believed to be cocaine, concealed internally by the individuals.
The suspects, both 18 year old residents from Surrey, are facing a number of drug and weapons charges and have been released on a Recognizance of Bail hearing under strict conditions. Of note, both individuals have limited police contact and do NOT appear to have any direct links with those believed to be engaged in ongoing drug conflicts in the city.
“The arrest of these individuals demonstrates the pro-active efforts our officers are taking towards disrupting the sale of illegal drugs on our streets and the threat of violence that comes with it,” says Surrey RCMP Sergeant Paul Hayes. “Unfortunately it also highlights how young people continue to get caught up and preyed upon by those involved in the illegal drug trade and face serious risks to their health and safety as a result. The tactic of concealing controlled substances internally prior to arrest is extremely dangerous and can lead to severe medical issues and even possibly death. Further, police are trained to recognize these types of concealment.”
Anyone with further information about drug trafficking in your neighbourhood is asking to contact the Surrey RCMP’s non-emergency number at 604-599-0502 or, if they wish to remain anonymous, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPs or www.solvecrime.ca.

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September 10, 10am - 1pm, Upshur County (Central WV) Field Tour
Woods, Wildlife, and Woody Weeds: Meet & talk about your land with other women
Please let the host know if you wish to come so they can send you more specific directions.
We will walk through a small woodlot and talk about how to care for such a place, discuss options to create/maintain wildlife habitat, and discuss how to identify and control some woody shrubs. There is also some stream side habitat with alders that we can learn about. If you have an area that could use some alders, we can talk about how to propagate these shrubs.
All interested people are welcome to attend, but no dogs please. Bring your own lunch, hosts will have a cooler with water available.
Contact WV Women Owning Woodlands to register or ask questions: [email protected]


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CPM seeks revocation of AFSPA in J&K
Batting strongly for the release of detenus not involved in heinous crimes in Jammu and Kashmir, the CPM on Monday demanded gradual revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the state.
“We demand gradual revocation of AFSPA and release of detenus not involved in heinous crimes in Jammu and Kashmir,” CPM state secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said on the concluding day of two-day meet of CPM state committee here on Monday.
The two-day meet deliberated upon the political scenario of the state and passed few resolutions at the end of the meeting. Senior CPM leader Sham Prasad Kesar presided over the meeting.
During the concluding session, the committee also passed few resolutions and urged the government to take effective measures to curb corruption, he added.
Among other important issues discussed in the party meet included streamlining power supply, increase in budget allocations for agriculture sector, more job opportunities in skilled and unskilled sector, uniformity in public distribution system and assistance to refugees and migrants in Jammu.
The AFSPA allows security forces in high-risk areas to fire upon any suspect without running into the risk of having to undergo investigation.

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown on Persons with Disabilities a Rapid Assessment Report
Contributor(s): National Federation of the Disabled, Nepal, UNDP
Type: Research Report
Categories: COVID-19, Health, Organizational Documents
Keyword(s): access to information by disability, Covid-19 and Pandemic, disability in nepal, impact of lockdown on the income of people with disabilities, situation of health services that persons with disabilities, situation of stock of food and other necessary items in pandemic
Published Year: 2020
The National Federation of Disabled Nepal (NFDN) conducted a rapid assessment to assess the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic and lockdown on persons with disabilities. This assessment has tried to explore the problem issues and barriers of persons with disabilities under the situation of lockdown.

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The nurse calls her Aunt Phoenix. Symbolism Phoenix The phoenix is a bird that flies great distances to help people, by healing them with its tears. For example, she mistakes a scarecrow for a dancing "ghost" until she draws close enough to touch its empty sleeve. Likewise, Phoenix also travels through many perils, despite her age, to get the medicine for her grandson.
She did not give up when the thorn bush caught her skirt, or when she was nearly killed by a dog, or when she had to crawl under a barb wired fence; she kept going. A particularly tense episode occurs when she encounters a white hunter who appears friendly at first, but then makes a condescending suggestion that she is probably "going to town to see Santa Claus.
This bird is known to live for a thousand years, after which it flies to the sun city of Heliopolis, to burn to ashes and be reborn. They exchange brief words, and he thinks she is going into town to see Santa Claus.
The pedestrian lady and the clinic attendant call her grandma. The nurse enters and explains to the attendant, who the old lady is and why she is here. She waits briefly on the sidewalk. Big dead trees The words, "Big dead trees, like black men with one arm, were standing in the purple stalks of the withered cotton field.
By this time, she realizes that afternoon has already arrived. The marble cake This can be likened to all the vows and commitments made to black people at the time, regarding equal rights and freedom, which never saw the light of day.
Phoenix thanks them, rises, and begins to leave. An allegorical story that depicts differential treatment, and a love that knows no boundaries, it is truly touching. The lines, "He wear a little patch quilt and peep out holding his mouth open like a little bird.
Deceptively simple in tone and scope, the story is structured upon a journey motif that incorporates a rich texture of symbolic meaning. Her age or nearsightedness did not deter her.
The Hunter The hunter rescues Phoenix from the ditch, as she is unable to get out herself. Christian symbolism is also apparent in the narrative.
Soon, a hunter comes along and pulls her out. Since she cannot read, she needs to rely on her memory. The Pedestrian Woman This woman helps Phoenix by tying her shoelaces for her. However, nobody talks to her disrespectfully or insultingly. The reader realizes that all she went through, she did out of affection for her grandson.
His assumption that black folks will do anything to see Santa Claus is also a reference to the mindset of white people towards black people at that time. It teaches the power of selfless love, and also that there are people in the world who make sacrifices for those that they care about. The sentence says " She crawls through it carefully, so as not to get injured.
Her last line explains why she collects the two nickels; she wants to buy her grandson a pinwheel for Christmas.
Summary and Analysis A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, is a story of a fierce old woman, and of a love that knows no bounds. The town is alive with the spirit of Christmas. Because the story is completely free of authorial intrusion or explanatory commentary, the images and events that occur in the narrative remain open to a variety of reader interpretations.A Worn Path by Eudora Welty.
Home / Literature / A Worn Path / Analysis ; A Worn Path Analysis Literary Devices in A Worn Path. Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory. Come on, people. This story is about a grandmother. The only love here is the maternal love of a gram for her grandson. Nothing steamy going on here at all. On a cold December day, an elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson makes her way along a remote path, narrating the journey to herself as she goes.
She traverses. A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, is a story of a fierce old woman, and of a love that knows no bounds. This Penlighten article provides a summary and analysis of this moving story.
The following entry presents criticism on Welty's short story "A Worn Path," first published in The Atlantic Monthly in Februaryand later in A Curtain of Green, See also Eudora Welty Short Story Criticism.
"A Worn Path" is considered one of Welty's most distinguished and frequently studied works of short fiction. Analysis of a short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty.
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Armed police storm passenger jet to arrest two Somali terror suspects who had left suicide notes
SAS-trained German police commandos stormed an airliner to seize two suspects they believed were plotting a terrorist outrage.
The armed Special Action Commandos grabbed a 23-year-old Somalian, and a 24-year-old German born in Somalia, from the KLM aircraft at Cologne without shots being fired.
German authorities are still searching for terror suspects Housain Al Malla (L) and Eric Breininger (R)
German prosecutors said both were suspected members of the Islamic Jihad Union and had tickets to travel on to Pakistan from Amsterdam via Uganda.
Speculation in Germany was that police believed they were going to Pakistan to receive further terrorist training - or possibly orders for attacks on U.S. bases in the country.
However, it was unclear whether they had managed to smuggle explosives aboard Flight KL1804.
Men in black: Germany's SEK police
After they were taken away, they were made to identify their luggage, which was also seized.
Other passengers aboard the plane had to disembark and identify their baggage before they were allowed to re-board.
The plane, a turboprop-powered Fokker 50, eventually took off 40 minutes late.
The Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Germany's main law enforcement body, said the men had been under surveillance 'for many months'.
But it would not reveal why officers chose to arrest them on the plane or whether they believed the men were poised for an imminent attack.
They were named only partially, as Abdirazak B and Omar D.
Eyewitnesses said the commandos who stormed the plane were dressed from head to toe in black and wore face masks. Several surrounded the plane on the tarmac.
Some boarded through the main door, others entered through hatchways at the back opened by flight attendants.
KLM said the pilot had received permission to begin his flight and started taxiing to the runway when police cut in on an emergency channel and told him to stop.
They then boarded the aircraft and arrested the two men - who showed no resistance. Cologne-Bonn airport - it serves both cities but is nearest to Cologne - is one of Germany's busiest and home to several budget airlines which serve the UK.
Other SEK units are hunting two men linked to a group of terrorist suspects whose alleged plot to blow up American targets in Germany was foiled in 2007.
Houssain Al Malla, 23, and a German called Eric Breininger, 21, who converted to Islam, are believed to have been training at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON, February, 13. /TASS/. Brother of the former US President George W. Bush, ex-Florida governor Jeb Bush in a move to seek popularity has posted 12,000 people's personal data online by mistake, Associated Press reported.
The potential candidate for US presidency wanted to demonstrate what an open and technically skilled politician he was. Having posted online his emails covering eight years as Florida governor Jeb Bush accidentally released the interlocutors’ personal data containing names, birth dates and social security numbers.
According to experts, these data can be used by criminals for fraud purposes. “Now we have more than 12,000 individuals who are exposed to the risks of identity fraud,” the chief executive of data security firm Identity Finder, Todd Feinman, says.
By Thursday Bush’s team had removed the private information from all but a few hundred of the emails that were posted on a website on Tuesday. “We have edited every account that we have found,” Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said.
According to observers, this can undermine the politician’s image in the presidential race. Among his potential opponents there are the former State Secretary Hillary Clinton and the US vice-president Joseph Biden. The present President Barak Obama cannot stand for the presidential post as he is finishing his second – and according to the US Constitution the last possible – 4-year presidential term.
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Tilbox develops custom boxes for the 4x4electric expedition
It’s official, Tilbox is a partner of 4x4electric. Both organizations love a challenge when it comes to traveling in challenging conditions. 4x4electric will drive a regular electric car from the Netherlands to South Africa and back, charging the car with 60m² of solar panels that they lay out in a field. The founder and owner of Tilbox, Frank Tilburgs, completed the well-known Dakar rally twice. The experience of Frank and team Tilbox comes in handy to properly prepare for the never-before-completed 4x4electric expedition. The challenge for Tilbox? Being able to safely store the 60m² solar panels in the car during the 4x4electric expedition.
Tilbox, located at Valkenswaard, is the supplier for storage space between the wheels. Since 1994, the company has focused on the continued development of surface-mounted and substructure boxes for the automotive sector. Tilbox’s standard boxes were not the reason we approached this organization. We were looking for a high-quality storage system for the solar panels in the car, a protective box for the charging system, and for a tailor-made roof box for behind the roof tent.
A storage system for the solar panels
To complete our unique charging technique, we needed a high-quality storage system. The 60m2 solar panels will be loaded and unloaded many times and can not be damaged. Frank and his employees helped us with this challenge. Together they developed a custom drawer system that fits exactly in the car. A lightweight frame with 10 drawers, and 6 solar panels in each drawer. It prevents the panels from sliding and being damaged and requires minimal space. After all, there still had to be room for a spare tire, refrigerator, and all other necessities for the expedition.
A tailor-made roof box and box for the charging system
Tilbox also developed a lightweight tailor-made roof box. This fits exactly behind the rooftop tent in which the couple will sleep for a year. In total, this box creates 200 liters of extra storage space. Finally, Tilbox produced a custom box for the charging system. This box had to ventilate well, but also keep out dust. For added convenience, folding legs were developed.


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Even though Ford hasn’t said much about their upcoming electric F-150, it seems people are getting very excited about it. There’s enough interest, in fact, that Ford is significantly increasing their production plans from the original plans. According to CarScoops, Ford will boost their production numbers by around 50 percent, saying there has been “strong early interest” since the initial teaser was revealed in September.
While Ford isn’t saying how many they will build with the production increase, they will be adding 200 new jobs at the new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. It’s impressive that Ford can calculate so much new interest considering they don’t have a preorder system like they do for the all-electric Mustang Mach-E, but that may be coming after the truck’s reveal.
Ford is also prepping its other manufacturing sites for a new wave of EVs that will follow the electric F-150, Mach-E and E-Transit van, that was just revealed today. The E-Transit will be built in Kansas City, where they have invested $100 million and will add 150 full time jobs. The brand is also investing $1.35 billion into the Oakville Assembly Complex in Ontario, Canada to build EVs in 2024 specifically for the North American market.
Elsewhere, the Mach-E will be built in Cuautitlan, Mexico. Ford also announced they will build a second EV here, which will ride on a modified version of the Mach-E platform. Building them at the same plant will allow for manufacturing efficiencies and cost savings. Finally, Ford is investing $150 million to the Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Here, they will make electric motors and other EV powertrain components for vehicles like the electric Ford F-150.
With the substantial demand Ford already has for their electric F-150 and Mustang Mach-E, it looks like these major investments will pay off. Ford previously announced their EVs will be priced between $20,000 and $70,000, aiming these products at a more everyday consumer than other brands.


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GUELPH, ON, April 23 /CNW/ - The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Secretariat today announced major new funding for the world's largest biodiversity genomics project. Paul Hebert, iBOL Scientific Director, said that four Canadian agencies have made new commitments to iBOL totaling $35 million, raising total investments by these funders to $80 million.
Building on an earlier $5 million award, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation today announced another $8.1 million over the next five years to allow expansion of the informatics platform for DNA barcode data.
"Ontario is proud to invest in game-changing research projects - like iBOL - that are being led by the greatest minds in our province," said Minister of Research and Innovation John Milloy. "Supporting this advanced work will drive the future of biodiversity and promote jobs and prosperity in Ontario."
Genome Canada's Board of Directors also gave notice on April 20 that it is extending its support for the iBOL project for another year with a second funding installment of $4.6 million. This follows the $2 million provided by Genome Canada in 2009-10 to initiate the project through its International Consortium Initiative Program.
Dr. Thomas Caskey, Chair of Genome Canada's Board of Directors, said: "Genome Canada is pleased to provide this next installment of funding for this Canadian-led project that will be of immense value not only to scientists but also in applications such as maintaining the integrity of our food supply, battling invasive alien species, and forensic sciences."
Dr. Christian Burks, President and CEO of the Ontario Genomics Institute, said: "The many international partnerships that comprise iBOL, and which are absolutely key to its success, will benefit tremendously from these funding commitments. We anticipate that the funded research and resources at the Canadian node for iBOL will be greatly leveraged by iBOL nodes in other countries that have already committed funds and research efforts to the project, and will help other potential international partners finalize their commitments to participate in iBOL."
"As the iBOL project approaches the end of its one-year preparatory phase, we look forward to official activation of this global undertaking with renewed optimism and determination," said Dr. Hebert. "We are grateful for the vision shown by our federal and provincial governments and by their science funding agencies. Their leadership is enabling an initiative that will transform humanity's relationship with other living organisms."
Dr. Hebert announced that the official activation of iBOL will be celebrated at an event in Nagoya, Japan, on October 24, 2010 during the 10th Conference of Parties (COP10) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Leaders of iBOL and the CBD Secretariat will use this occasion to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation which establishes a framework for future collaboration between the two organizations.
Meanwhile, groundbreaking for the new Centre for Biodiversity Genomics will take place this summer at the University of Guelph. This $18 million facility, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation will house the iBOL Secretariat and key infrastructure needed to support iBOL research. The new Centre, which will be the scientific hub for iBOL, is scheduled for completion in fall 2011.
Dr. Hebert also welcomed significant contributions from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which awarded $1.2 million to support new DNA barcoding research programs, and from Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), which has provided $2.2 million to enable researchers in five developing countries - Argentina, Costa Rica, Kenya, Peru and South Africa - to play key roles in iBOL.
Dr. Faustino Sineriz, Vice-President of Argentina's National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, welcomed the additional support provided by IDRC, noting that it reinforced his organization's recent decision to upgrade Argentina's participation in iBOL to a Regional Node.
Paul Skelton, Director of the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, said that the IDRC funding would make African biodiversity a much more significant part of the iBOL research program. "It will provide a major incentive for South African institutions to meet the requirements of Regional Node participation in iBOL while giving organizations and researchers from a wide range of African nations the opportunity to contribute to and benefit from IBOL," Dr. Skelton said.
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Project is a Canadian-led research alliance which spans 26 countries and brings together hundreds of leading scientists in the task of collecting specimens, obtaining their DNA barcode records and building an informatics platform to store and share this information for use in species identification and discovery. By 2015, iBOL participants will gather DNA barcode records for five million specimens representing 500,000 species, delivering a highly effective identification system for species commonly encountered by humanity and laying the foundation for subsequent progress towards a barcode reference library for all life. iBOL is a not-for-profit corporation governed by a Board of Directors. iBOL's principal funding partners within Canada are the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, the Government of Canada through Genome Canada in collaboration with the Ontario Genomics Institute, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the International Development Research Centre.
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Until now, Tesla’s Wall Connector offered exclusive features to customers of Elon Musk’s brand. Data that has just changed, after an update of this material. The aim is in particular to open this equipment a little more to owners of electric vehicles from other brands. This is so that they enjoy a better charging experience.
Thus, they will now be able to benefit from more functionalities via the Wall Connector mobile application. An update that also affects Tesla owners, to a lesser extent, since they could already access most of the new features. Here are the latter:
What’s new in the Wall Connector application update:
- Scheduled charging
- Real-time charging status
- Access to charging session history
- Remotely change scheduled charging
- Changing charging settings
A limited and automatically installed update
The firm specifies that this update is only aimed at 3rd generation Wall Connectors. This involves having equipment connected via WiFi in order to install it automatically. Others will obviously have to connect their wallbox in one way or another in order to benefit from it.
Remember that this system allows you to recharge your car in many places. This can be done from home, in a private home, in an apartment building or at your workplace. The 3rd generation Wall Connector allows charging up to 71 kilometers per hour.
If its installation is simple and rather practical, with a 7.3 meter cable, its price of 500 euros can also be affordable. After purchasing a car like this, are we really that close? It remains to be seen whether opening this system to other manufacturers will be a success with users. Even as Tesla increasingly opens its charging solutions to other brands. A radical change in the way the company operates.
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Tesla updates its mobile application linked to the 3rd generation Wall Connector. New features are emerging. This especially allows users of electric vehicles other than those of Elon Musk’s firm to benefit from it.
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Publication Date: 2000
Library Instruction: A Peer Tutoring Model.
Deese-Roberts, Susan; Keating, Kathleen
This book proposes the application of peer tutoring to library instruction, primarily in the academic library setting. Chapter 1 provides a brief historical view of library instruction and current trends that make peer tutoring a possible form of library service. Chapter 2 describes peer tutoring as currently practiced in higher education. Chapters 3 and 4 provide principles and guidelines for establishing peer tutoring programs with a focus on library instruction tutoring. Chapters 5 and 6 present a conceptual curriculum and an eight-session model for a library instruction tutoring program. Chapter 7 is composed of an analysis of experiences at the University of New Mexico General Library (UNMGL), including program improvements and future plans. Chapter 8 explores the application of the library instruction peer tutoring model to K-12 education. At the end of most chapters bibliographies of additional readings are provided. Appendices contain training materials and selected peer tutoring resources. Includes an index. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Instructional Development, Library Instruction, Library Services, Peer Teaching, Program Development, Teaching Models, Tutoring
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September 3, 2013 by Ben Bullard
A proposal before the Mobility and Transport Department of the European Commission would require all new cars sold in the European Union to be fitted with speed limiting devices that would restrain vehicles from traveling at more than 70 miles per hour.
The plan could outfit new cars with cameras that read posted speed limit signs on roadsides and relay the information to a computer, which would moderate excessive speed by applying a car’s brakes without driver control.
According to Britain’s The Telegraph, the “scheme would work either using satellites, which would communicate limits to cars automatically, or using cameras to read road signs. Drivers can be given a warning of the speed limit, or their speed could be controlled automatically under the new measures.”
Like the comical porn ban proposed before the EU earlier this year, the speed-policing plan is still in development and could face a strong headwind in some member nations. One unnamed British government source said the country’s Transport Secretary is opposed to the idea because it violates motorists’ freedoms. “This has Big Brother written all over it and is exactly the sort of thing that gets people’s backs up about Brussels.”
Brussels is the unofficial seat of most EU central operations, although the pan-European organization has no official capital.
The European Commission’s Mobility and Transport Department announced the measure as a top-down effort to do something about highway safety in member nations, though there is a wide disparity in traffic safety statistics from one country to the next. The proposal would even go so far as to retrofit older vehicles so that they, too, would comply with the forced top speed.
Safety – one of the state’s greatest weapons.


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Cuban courts sentenced opposition artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maikel Castillo, respectively, to five and nine years in prison, the Attorney General’s Office reported on Friday.
Otero Alcántara and Castillo, better known by his alias “Osorbo”, captured international attention due to the request of international organizations and the United States administration for their release under the argument that they are victims of political persecution, but the authorities defended the actions of the court alleging that the law was applied to them as to any citizen for common crimes.
According to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office published in the official media, the judges sentenced Otero Alcántara to five years as the perpetrator of the crimes of outrage against national symbols, contempt and public disorder, and “Osorbo” to nine years for attack and defamation of the institutions, among other penal figures.
The oral hearings were held on May 30 and 31, The Associated Press confirmed, and at that time the prosecutors demanded seven years for Otero Alcántara and 10 years for “Osorbo”, indicated friends of the artists.
“During the trial sessions the defendants were heard; In their presence, the testimonial, documentary and expert evidence proposed by the Prosecutor and the lawyers who represented them were practiced, ”said the text of the judicial unit.
In the same process, Félix Roque Delgado was sentenced to five years in prison and two women who were sentenced to three years of correctional work. These three people would have beaten a policeman to avoid the arrest of “Osorbo”.
Otero Alcántara, 34, became known after carrying out performances with the Cuban flag, for example in the bathroom -some considered disrespectful on the island- and for leading a movement of opposition artists called San Isidro that in 2020 starred in a demonstration that concluded with an unusual sit-in of artists in front of the Ministry of Culture.
“Osorbo”, a 39-year-old rapper, is one of the composers of a song with a strong political connotation called “Patria y Vida” that won a Latin Grammy award this year and became a kind of anthem for critics of the government. of the island after the unusual protests of July 2021. The title is a twist on the official phrase “Homeland or Death!”.
The case is not related to sanctions on the demonstrators of the protests of July 11 and 12, 2021 -in the midst of the pandemic and in the framework of a strong economic crisis, shortages and blackouts- and whose processes are under development.
Otero Alcántara was arrested before arriving at the July demonstrations and “Osorbo” has been in prison since May 2021. The crimes they are accused of occurred in April 2021.
Later, the national news on Cuban television showed the first recorded images of the process in which Otero Alcántara and “Osorbo” could be seen for a few seconds, dressed in the dark gray prison uniform and with their hair cut. There were also shots of the other defendants.
In the television report, “Osorbo” is seen standing reading a message of recognition to the court. “The room for the most part, especially the presidency of said court, has been quite professional,” he said.
Images of the brawl were also broadcast in which “Osorbo” and other people, including women, attacked and beat a police officer in the middle of the street and to the side of his patrol car.


EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of The Nation’s special issue on Barack Obama’s presidency, available in full here.
What does it mean to be progressive on education issues? Eight years ago, when President Obama came into office, this was a hotly contested question. The Democratic Party was split into two camps. On one side were union allies, researchers, and policy-makers who argued that children’s academic performance would only improve with better-trained teachers, smaller class sizes, greater access to early-childhood education, and stronger antipoverty efforts. On the other side was the bipartisan education-reform movement. Its major achievement was No Child Left Behind, the law signed by George W. Bush in 2002, which required annual standardized testing in reading and math. By 2008, this camp was loudly promoting the idea that test scores should be used to evaluate and fire teachers. The movement’s leaders were crusading school superintendents like Joel Klein in New York City and Michelle Rhee in Washington, DC, as well as philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad. They wanted to increase the number of charter schools (which are generally not unionized), and they blamed union protections and school-district policies—not family poverty—for the achievement gap between poor and middle-class kids.
Obama rose to prominence promising to bridge political divisions. When he announced in December 2008 that he would appoint Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan as his secretary of education, the president-elect seemed to be staying true to form. In Chicago, Duncan had experimented with using student test scores to determine teacher pay and which schools to shut down, angering the local teachers union. Yet he was also a big proponent of quality early-childhood education, a rare source of consensus between the traditional and reformer camps.
Once in office, Obama and Duncan funded some programs that unified groups across the progressive spectrum, such as improving the quality and size of state pre-K programs and renovating school buildings. But by and large, when it came to K–12 policy, the administration’s first six years were defined by an aggressive reform agenda that left the traditional camp, especially the teachers unions, playing defense. Only since 2014 has there been a détente in what many, myself included, termed the “teacher wars.” Grassroots activism from the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as from tens of thousands of parents who opted their children out of standardized testing, helped shift the terms of the debate. We now talk almost as much about school discipline, unequal school funding, and school segregation as we do about low test scores and teacher tenure. It’s a profound change in rhetoric.
Had Hillary Clinton been elected president, new public policy could have flowed from this shift in priorities. But instead, Donald Trump is returning to ideas about education reform that now sound stale. He has chosen Betsy DeVos, a Republican fund-raiser and school-choice philanthropist, as his secretary of education. DeVos’s passion is redirecting public-school funding to vouchers that parents can use to pay for private-school tuition—a strategy that has little track record of improving student achievement. The holistic school-improvement agenda that President Obama embraced over the past two years is now on life support.
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In March 2009, Obama appeared before the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to announce his signature education initiative, Race to the Top. “From the moment students enter a school, the most important factor in their success is not the color of their skin or the income of their parents; it’s the person standing at the front of the classroom,” he said. “Let me be clear: If a teacher is given a chance or two chances or three chances but still does not improve, there’s no excuse for that person to continue teaching.”
This rhetoric was borrowed directly from the education-reform movement, which spoke often about the supposed power of great teaching to “overcome” poverty. In fact, according to research, at least three in-school factors impact student achievement about as much as teachers do: peer demographics (students learn more in a racially and socioeconomically diverse classroom); the effectiveness of the school’s principal; and the level of funding. Out-of-school factors, like the socioeconomic status of the parents and the safety and income level of the family’s neighborhood, outweigh the impacts of all in-school factors added together.
Those nuances were not, at first, reflected in Obama’s school-reform agenda. Race to the Top told states and school districts that if they wanted a share of the $4 billion in discretionary federal dollars, they would need to evaluate teachers using “evidence of student learning” (generally, test scores). They would also need to weaken tenure protections to remove underperforming teachers; lift caps on the number of independently operated charter schools allowed to open; and “turn around” failing schools, sometimes by removing veteran teachers and principals or handing the schools over to charter operators. There were no new federal incentives for desegregating schools, or for equalizing funding between those that served rich and poor children.
“Given [that Obama] took office at the height of the recession,” says Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University, “the most surprising thing was that he didn’t acknowledge the poverty that schools were dealing with. [His administration] never said schools are overwhelmed by kids who are hungry, whose parents lost their homes, lost their jobs…. Instead, they kind of kept on the same path that Bush had been on, emphasizing standards and accountability and accelerating it by calling for more school closures, replacing teachers and principals. They seized on very simplistic solutions to complex problems.”
Amid the recession, local governments were desperate for a cash infusion from Washington. More than half of the states in the nation changed their education laws in response to Obama’s incentives. Arguably the biggest change was in the way principals evaluated teachers’ work. Previously, many teachers had received only a single, cursory classroom observation each year. New state laws required principals to observe teachers’ work more frequently. Teachers have been asked to reflect more deeply on their practice and strive to improve. There has been a revival of interest in cooperative lesson planning, in which teachers work in teams, and in peer review, in which mentor teachers coach novices. These are good things.
But Obama’s teacher-evaluation push also led to an explosion of standardized testing, in order to gather the “student data” needed to judge teachers’ work. I traveled to Colorado in the fall of 2010, where a new state law required 50 percent of every teacher’s evaluation score to be based on student-achievement data. In Harrison School District 2, a low-income, largely Latino district in Colorado Springs, children as young as 6 were taking pencil-and-paper tests in gym, art, and music. As many as 25 days per school year were spent on testing, a number that would soon become commonplace nationwide. A year later, I told Secretary Duncan at a private meeting with education writers about a physical-education test that second-graders had taken in Harrison, in which they were asked to draw a picture of two hands catching a ball. Gym teachers were being evaluated and paid according to how well 7-year-olds could do that. Duncan looked concerned and told me that the administration had never intended schools to adopt such narrow and hastily conceived testing policies.
Nonetheless, the unintended consequences of the administration’s teacher-evaluation push continued to pile up. Many school districts dealt with the lack of quality standardized tests in science, history, the arts, and the early grades by using third- through eighth-grade reading and math scores to evaluate teachers of other subjects and grade levels. The rationale was that all teachers’ efforts eventually contribute to a student’s future test scores in reading and math. Testing experts decried that practice, called “shared attribution,” as totally unscientific.
Given these absurdities, no one should have been surprised by the growth of a vibrant “opt-out” movement driven by educators and upper-middle-class parents. In July 2014, delegates to the annual conference of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, passed a resolution asking Duncan to resign, and launched a campaign to end what they called “toxic testing.” In New York in 2015, 20 percent of students opted out of the end-of-year tests tied to the new Common Core standards in English and math—another controversial priority of the education-reform movement.
The Obama administration didn’t create the Common Core. It was launched in 2008 by a bipartisan coalition of governors and philanthropists, and it had a laudable goal: to create a rigorous set of curriculum standards that could be shared across all 50 states. To support the effort, Obama invested $350 million to develop new tests tied to these standards. Many of the tests were produced by for-profit companies like Pearson.
In response, activists on the left began to echo a long-running call from the right to do away with the Common Core entirely. While the Tea Party—and later Trump—saw it as a classic example of federal overreach, the left argued that the Common Core caused stress for children while narrowing the curriculum to the questions asked on low-quality exams. Testing also came under attack after journalists and government investigators revealed evidence of standardized-test cheating in at least 40 states. The most infamous case was in Atlanta, where employees across the district corrected students’ answer sheets and then earned financial bonuses for high scores.
Finally, in the fall of 2015, the Obama administration released new guidance to the states on how to reduce and improve testing. “In too many schools, there is unnecessary testing and not enough clarity of purpose applied to the task of assessing students, consuming too much instructional time and creating undue stress for educators and students,” the Department of Education stated. “The Administration bears some of the responsibility for this, and we are committed to being part of the solution.” A few months later, Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind. ESSA continues to require annual testing in reading and math, but removes pressure for all teachers to be evaluated using student test scores. The law asks states to judge school quality in new ways, by considering student-discipline policies and whether all kids have access to advanced courses.
With new research showing that poor children who attend schools with higher per-pupil funding outperform those whose schools have less cash, Obama has also sought to influence how states and municipalities fund schools. This year, he proposed a regulation that would withhold ESSA money from states and school districts that send more local dollars to schools serving affluent children than poor ones. Congressional Republicans and many local education officials from both parties are resisting the regulation, known as “supplement, not supplant.” It is simply impossible to imagine President-elect Trump, who campaigned on the premise of local control of education, continuing Obama’s fight on this front.
Also at risk are victories in the area of college policy. In 2010, the administration pushed a major student-loan reform through Congress, removing for-profit middlemen so that the federal government provides more cost-effective loans directly to students. The administration also increased the income-based repayment of student loans and loan forgiveness for graduates who choose careers in the public interest. In the second term, Obama’s “gainful employment” rule has spelled disaster for predatory for-profit colleges. Under this regulation, for-profit colleges whose graduates are unable to find work are no longer able to accept students who rely on Pell grants. Hundreds of low-quality schools have gone out of business, and hundreds more are on life support.
The cost of college, however, has continued to skyrocket over the past eight years, even at public universities. That issue drove Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and led Hillary Clinton to propose free in-state public-college tuition for students from families earning under $125,000. Trump has spoken often about college affordability, acknowledging that “students are choking on those loans.” He has promised to cap repayments at 12.5 percent of a borrower’s income and forgive loans after 15 years—a plan very similar to the one Obama already has in place.
Even so, it’s difficult to envision Trump holding for-profit schools accountable for their dismal outcomes. After all, he paid $25 million to settle lawsuits accusing him of defrauding students enrolled in his own Trump University. More likely, he will seek to help for-profit schools reestablish their foothold while attacking traditional nonprofit institutions—those colleges most associated with the cultural “elite” he and his supporters ridicule. Trump has said that he would require wealthy universities to spend more of their endowments on student services and less on administration, or risk losing their tax-exempt status. This would do little to touch the lives of low-income students, who generally attend colleges without significant endowments.
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In August 2014, police in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who had recently graduated from a segregated high school. The Black Lives Matter movement rose to national prominence. New cell-phone videos of violent encounters between black citizens and police emerged at a rapid clip. Four months later, Obama created a task force to examine policing.
Though less noted among its victories, this police-accountability movement also helped shift the national conversation on education reform. Since the school shootings of the 1990s, the number of police officers working in schools has exploded, due in part to federal funding earmarked for hiring so-called “school resource officers.” In 1975, 1 percent of American schools reported a police officer working on campus, compared with 21 percent of schools in 2008. Schools with police officers are more likely to report students to law enforcement for ordinary infractions like student fights. Even when the police are not involved, students of color and disabled students are more likely to be suspended or expelled than white and nondisabled students who commit identical behavioral infractions. Organizations like the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center had long been working on these issues, and the Obama administration picked up the torch. In 2014, the Education and Justice departments released new guidelines on school discipline, directing states and districts to end racial disparities in their suspension rates and to use restorative-justice practices and counseling to address student misbehavior.
Duncan stepped down at the end of 2015; his successor is John King Jr., who co-founded a celebrated charter school in Boston and later served as New York State’s commissioner of education. In that job, King tussled with opt-out and Common Core protesters, but as secretary he’s championed a different set of issues. In April, he announced a program of modest federal grants for school districts that try to increase the racial and socioeconomic diversity of their classrooms. In August, he visited a magnet school in Hartford, Connecticut, to celebrate that region’s urban/suburban school-desegregation program and to support the Stronger Together Act, an effort by congressional Democrats to fund experiments in school integration. This fall, King sent a letter to schools across the country about the need for a positive mental-health approach to school discipline instead of relying on police. Sounding like an activist, he wrote that he was concerned about “the unnecessary and harmful introduction of children and young adults into a school-to-prison pipeline.”
With Republicans set to control all three branches of government, Washington will likely play no role in school-discipline reform or school desegregation. Progressive efforts on those issues will devolve entirely to states and cities. Considering Trump’s law-and-order rhetoric and support from police associations, he could even seek to expand the role of police in schools. He could also choose to end the Obama administration’s efforts to collect new types of data on racial disparities in education, such as suspension rates and bullying incidents.
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The expansion of the charter-school sector seems likely to be the most lasting of Obama’s education reforms. When the president came into office, 1.6 million American children were enrolled in charter schools; in 2014, that number was 2.5 million, or 5 percent of the public-school population. While there is no grassroots constituency for standardized testing or punitive teacher evaluations—policies that educators, parents, and students generally dislike—decent charter schools create advocates the moment they open their doors. Parents and communities fight hard for the schools in which they enroll their kids, even when those schools are flawed.
Yet the charter movement has had trouble developing a base of support beyond the families its schools serve. On November 8, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot initiative that would have expanded the number of charter schools, even though the state’s charter-school sector is among the nation’s highest- performing. And in October, the NAACP’s board of directors approved a statement opposing charter schools.
While charter schools are divisive among progressives, they will remain central to conservative policy-making. Trump’s boldest education idea is a $20 billion federal program to fund local school-choice efforts: charters, magnet schools, and private-school vouchers. He has not said exactly where this enormous amount of money—five times the size of Race to the Top—would come from, but presumably it would entail raiding Title I, the civil-rights program that, since 1965, has directed federal dollars to schools that serve large numbers of poor children.
A decade ago, I began my career as an education reporter worried that problems like segregation and unequal school funding were being ignored in favor of small-bore reforms on teacher tenure and merit pay. So I’ve welcomed the Obama administration’s shifts over the last two years. Now, under Trump, we are about to experience severe education-policy whiplash. What’s virtually certain is that a limited Trumpian agenda of school choice and confronting teachers unions will fail to close achievement gaps—after all, these policies have never been silver bullets in the past—and this will further feed notions of the public schools as failure factories. What’s more, if congressional Republicans succeed in decimating the social safety net, the resulting increase in child poverty will also negatively impact academic outcomes. On the other hand, nearly 90 percent of school funding comes from state and municipal governments. If progressive education advocacy—on desegregation, fair funding, and equal access to strong teachers and rich curriculums—is to be effective over the next several years, it will have to focus strategically on statehouses, school boards, city councils, and mayoral races.


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Based loosely on the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll, this piece captures the fun and mystery of Alice's wonderland experiences.
Although the composer's music intentionally does not deal in specifics, we can visualize such characters as White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, Mouse, Dodo, Bill the Lizard, Cheshire Cat, and the other wonderland characters. The driving, opening music signifies that an adventure is underway. The music then gives us the feeling that there are many different encounters for Alice. Fast and driving rhythms give way to moderate speed pizzicato, then slow and dreamlike music, all making for an enchanting musical journey.
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April 27, 2002
Berkeley, CA - Stanford Women's Lacrosse (8-7 overall, 7-0 MPLL) returned to league play after splitting games on the East Coast last weekend and beat the Golden Bears 10-8 in their second contest vs. California (10-6 overall, 5-3 MPLL) this month. This victory marks the Cardinal's seventh-straight league win of the season and 15th consecutive league win under head coach Michele Uhlfelder.
Stanford opened up the game with a quick 4-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of the game and would not let up on the offensive attack for the remainder of the first half. Two goals by freshman Kelsey Twist and one each by senior Liz Britt, sophomores Abbi Hills and Jess Scott and freshman Nina Pantano, put the Cardinal ahead 6-0 going into the break. Cal couldn't seem to gain any control during the half, winning only 1 draw control and making 7 shots on goal.
Leading scorer Twist put in another goal to start the second half, giving Stanford an impressive 7-0 lead; Twist leads the team with 31 goals and 10 assists this season for 41 total points. Cal was undaunted despite the slow start and after a goal by senior Laura Kado with 24:13 to play in the game, the Bears scored another 3 consecutive goals to bring the score to 7-4 with under 10 minutes left in the game. Both teams went back-to-back with goals to close out the game, and the Cardinal stayed on top finishing the match with a 2-goal lead.
For the final game of the regular season, Stanford hosts UC Davis on Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm on Maloney Field. Following that contest the Cardinal will head to the Mountain Pacific Lacrosse League (MPLL) tournament next weekend, May 4-5, at Memorial Stadium. The Bears will face Denver at 11:00 a.m. on May 4 while Stanford will take on either Saint Mary's or UC Davis at 2:00 p.m. On Sunday May 5, the third-place match will begin at 11:00 a.m. with the championship match to follow at 2:00 p.m.
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Goalkeeping: STAN- Virginia Solomon (60 min, 8 GA); CAL- Coelho (51 min, 7 GA), Calligaro (9 min, 3 GA).
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A new voyage to the East-Indies :
by Francis Leguat and his companions. Containing their adventures in two desart islands, and an account of the most remarkable things in Maurice Island, Batavia ... and other places : adorn'd with maps and figures /
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London : printed for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, Tim. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton [and 5 others in London], 1708.
A translation of Leguat's 'Voyage et avantures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons'.
Titlepage in red and black.
With a final advertisement leaf.
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Netflix recently released new drama 13 Reasons Why to solid acclaim and probably decent audience numbers based on buzz (although the streaming service still won’t release any solid numbers so we’ll never really know). Over on the CW, Archie Comics adaptation Riverdale has settled into a fun and twisty teen show that makes great use of each of the Archie Universe characters that many viewers know and love from the more innocent and less Gossip Girl-esque comic books. Now, a big recasting move on the latter show might provide a major hint at the chances of the former getting more episodes.
According to Michael Ausiello over at TVLine, Riverdale‘s resident Reggie isn’t sticking around much longer but that doesn’t mean the character is being written off the show. Ross Butler, the young actor currently playing Archie’s rival and fellow football star, is also a regular cast member of 13 Reasons Why and because of his multiple commitments Season 1 of Riverdale couldn’t include the character in as many episodes as would have happened otherwise.
Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa explained the situation as such,
“We love what Ross did with the role of Reggie [this season], but because of his commitments to other projects, we couldn’t use him nearly as much as we would have liked. [Next season], we want more Reggie on our show — he’s Archie’s rival! — and because Ross is unavailable to come back to Riverdale, we’re looking for a new Reggie. Those are big shoes to fill, but we’re confident we can find an actor who is as funny and sexy as Ross. And of course we all wish Ross the best.”
While recasting of this sort is not unusual (Reggie is still a minor character in all the major story arcs, and as Aguirre-Sacasa says he hasn’t been utilized that much), it’s a throwaway line in the news bulletin that is really interesting. Ausiello says that the Netflix teen show is “a lock to get a Season 2 pickup.”
Since the first season was one story told to (tragic) completion, many fans probably weren’t expecting a second season to come to fruition or even be on the table at all. Some critics would rather just stick to Hannah Baker’s story and those 13 tapes…
…but at least one has a pretty good reason for Netflix to make more episodes.
Answers must be had!


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Valtronic has released a new white paper entitled ‘Why your medical microelectronics development partner needs both particulate and microbial-controlled clean rooms’.
The paper explains what microbial controlled clean rooms are and why they are beneficial to medical device manufacturers.
Microelectronics technology is increasingly ubiquitous, even within the human body, as medical researchers develop new approaches to monitoring and treating a growing array of illnesses and injuries.
A variety of implantable medical devices are now used routinely, ranging from intraocular lenses to electroencephalography (EEG) recorders and many others.
The companies that design these devices require specific capabilities and qualifications from a potential medical device manufacturer.
These requirements typically cover topics such as experience in medical device manufacturing and the types of equipment necessary to manufacture, assemble and package the product.
Other topics include parts tracking methods, employee qualifications and/or specialised training, required industry and governmental certifications.
However, as comprehensive as these requirements might appear, some of them fail to include an aspect that is critical for some categories of medical microelectronics device manufacturing: a microbial controlled clean room.
A microbial controlled clean room is important because it allows medical device manufacturers to handle the complete manufacturing process, shortening the supply line, saving time and costs.
This is accomplished by eliminating the need to ship finished devices to a third-party vendor for cleaning or packaging prior to sterilisation.
Device sterilisation alone is not enough. For microelectronic devices designed for either permanent or temporary implantation in the human body, the use of a microbial controlled clean room to control the microbial level during final device assembly and pouching is essential to avoid exposing patients to danger.
Other features of the microbial controlled clean room include:
- Minimal paper is allowed in the clean room because wood pulp fibers shed from paper are a potential source of contamination
- All component routing and tracking information is provided in electronic form
- Clean room technicians follow standardised procedures, including proper gowning procedures and use of antiseptic foam on their gloves before entering
- Technicians also follow schedules for cleaning and HEPA filter maintenance. An external auditor checks particulate counts annually. Tables, walls and floors are swabbed biweekly and residue is cultured to check for the presence of bacteria, yeasts and moulds
The clean room has various testing, assembly, and packaging equipment, including adhesive dispensing equipment for sealing devices and a helium leak tester for assessing their hermeticity.
It also has a load tester to confirm sensors are reading applied loads properly, and a heat sealer for the plastic pouches in which finished devices are packed prior to EtO sterilisation.
Valtronic operates a variety of clean room classes in its manufacturing facilities around the world, including the US, Switzerland and Morocco.
The newest one is an ISO Class 8 microbial controlled clean room located in the company’s Solon, Ohio, manufacturing facility. This clean room combines temperature, humidity and contamination controls designed to prevent particulates and microbes from making contact with implantable devices during final assembly and pouching, prior to EtO sterilisation.