What are the hopes for a Maryland bottle bill?
By Jake Thomas, Resource Recycling
Prospects for a bottle bill in Maryland are getting cloudier, as two key associations are expressing concerns about legislation that would create a beverage container deposit system in the state.
The legislation, unveiled last month, has elements similar to bottle bills in other states, attaching a nickel deposit to many common beverage containers. However, it is very different in other regards, containing a provision that makes counties responsible for redemption centers, which they can operate directly or contract out.
Recycle for Real, the website set up to support the legislation, argues that counties will benefit from being able to keep unredeemed deposits. However, this measure hasn't earned the support of the state's county governments.
"There are so many unanswered questions for us," says Robin Clark, policy analyst for the Maryland Association of Counties (MAC), which represents the state's 23 county governments, who adds that the legislation would put the state's counties in a whole new line of business of running redemption centers.
Michael Sanderson, the executive director of MAC, says that Maryland has enacted a "sizable" number of recycling mandates, and counties have made significant investments in programs aimed at recovering recyclables. He says counties have made big investments in single-stream collection systems in particular, and a bottle bill would remove valuable material from them, weakening their economic viability.
Although state lawmakers reached out to MAC early on, Sanderson says there are enough problems with the bill that prevent his organization from supporting it.
"We have invested a great deal of taxpayer money to make [existing programs work]," he says. "Something like a bottle bill would really undermine everything we've done on that front."
Sanderson says that the big problem MAC has with the proposed bottle bill is its requirement that counties operate redemption centers, which will require finding a building, hiring and paying staff, getting insurance and then hoping the business model works out. He says that some more "sparse" areas of the state might not generate enough volume of material to be viable. Although the legislation gives counties the option to contract a private company to run the redemption center, Sanderson says that if the business model isn't workable, it will attract few takers.
When asked if there any changes to the legislation that would cause MAC to shift its stance, Sanderson says that it's too speculative to say if it would ever support a bottle bill.
"There's only so much imagination you can have about how the bill would be written differently," he says.
Peter Houstle, the executive director of the Maryland Recycling Network (MRN), says that while his group is in favor of initiatives intended to improve recycling, it is leaning against this bill.
"We think there are some aspects of this bill that in terms or the goal are very admirable, but there are other aspects of the bill that are problematic," he says. "And the way the bill is structured is it will cannibalize other parts of the recycling infrastructure."
Houstle says that single-stream collection is a big part of Maryland's recycling infrastructure, and MRN shares MAC's concern that a bottle bill would undercut these programs by removing valuable material, such as aluminum, from them. MRN, says Houstle, wants a robust examination of this potential problem before the bill moves forward. Houstle also adds that each county has their own recycling collection programs in place, so it's difficult to tell how a bottle bill will affect each.
With Maryland bordering states that don't have container deposit programs, the issue of fraud needs to be accounted for, says Houstle. He also says that setting up the redemption centers will require a significant initial investment, which is a challenge in times of lean budgets. Despite his concerns with the legislation, Houstle stressed that he wants to work with lawmakers.
"When everyone says you're either for or against it, it pushes people into a corner," he says.
Calls to the sponsor of the bill — House Delegate Maggie McIntosh, D-Baltimore — were not returned by press time.


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As part of his inaugural activities this week, Gov. Deval L. Patrick is helping to dispel the myth that kids of the current generation are self-involved and generally clueless about the needs of the community.
Patrick, who takes the oath for his second term tomorrow, has identified 351 eighth-graders – one for every city and town in the commonwealth – who have made it a practice to helping out their communities by making sandwiches for the needy, tutoring kids with their homework and raising money for the programs like the Special Olympics. We believe there are many more like them.
On Saturday, the students who were nominated by principals and educators, will attend a “youth town hall” with Patrick and Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray. Then they’ll spread out across Greater Boston to participate at service projects at food banks and organizations that help the needy.
Local students participating in the event dubbed “Project 351” include Joshua J. Florence of Wilbraham; Paige V. Mastarlerz of Palmer; Reilly L. McQueston, of Williamsburg; and Fatiha A. Muhammad of Springfield.
We salute them for setting an example for their peers. And we commend their parents, teachers, churches, synagogues and mosques for instilling the virtues of community service in them.
We hope efforts like these continue and expand in the Bay State. And we hope the Patrick administration’s focus on volunteerism among youth will inaugurate a renewed commitment to community service for people of all ages.
There is much to repair in America. It can’t be fixed without volunteers of all ages.
It’s gratifying to see young people lead the charge in our state.

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After successfully having established its name as the best animation institute in the Eastern region of India, Moople institute of animation and design-a Kolkata based animation production house added another big feather in its cap by launching its very own channel for kids, Moople TV.
Moople TV is another wing of Moople(Hi-Tech Animation) and the channel is bringing forth a series called DHINCHAK DINO. It is an animated cartoon series featuring characters Neel and Pari and their Dino Kid friends Rex, Packi, Tero, Tops and Stegy. The series will see original and unique content with brand new animation, lyrics, and music.
Dedicated to the theme of learning through entertainment, DHINCHAK DINO has some beautiful and subtle rhymes made to suit the taste of children and make them familiarize with elementary learning likes names of animals and their children, identifying and naming colors and insects among others.
As a channel dedicated to the learning and entertainment for kids, it debuts on YouTube on the 14th of November which is celebrated as the Children’s Day.
In an event at the gala launch of the channel, celebrity actors Dev and Koel Mullick graced the occasion along with students from various school children from Kolkata schools who put up a beautiful show and shared the spotlight with the superstars!!!! The event was hosted by RJ Ginia from Fever FM and RJ Arpita from Siti Channels.
It was a wonderful setting in the lush and spacious campus of Moople(Hi-Tech Animation) at Topsia.
Moople TV initially plans to broadcast its content in Bengali but it will soon be followed by broadcasts in Hindi and other regional languages of India.
Directors of the firm Mr. Subrata Roy, Mr. Prashant Chopra and Mr. Anurag Chirimar said they are set to invest a lump sum for the creation of more content in Moople TV. They have taken this venture as a big challenge and plan to come with a Bengali Satellite Cartoon Channel within the next two years catering to the Bengali population not only in India but Bangladesh and other countries also where there is a significant presence of the Bengali population.
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US President Joe Biden revealed on Monday the first full-color image taken by the James Webb space telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space. “Today is a historic day,” said Biden, during a ceremony at the White House on Monday evening. “These images are going to remind the world that America can do big things. And they’ll remind the American people, especially our children, that there’s nothing beyond our capacity – nothing beyond our capacity.”
The first images from the space telescope were scheduled to be revealed on Tuesday at 4.30pm (GMT), a time that was agreed upon by the US, European and Canadian agencies involved in the project. But NASA announced unilaterally that Biden would present one of the first images at the Monday press conference.
The image released Monday is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date, according to NASA. It shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The gravitational pull of this cluster warps space and time and acts as a lens that magnifies the light from the more distant galaxies behind it. The image proves that the space telescope is capable of achieving one of its main goals: to see farther into the universe than any other telescope and capture the light from the first stars born after the Big Bang, the explosion that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.
“We are looking back more than 13 billion years,” said Bill Nelson, administrator of NASA, at the press conference, adding that the space agency is able to look back around 13.5 billion years.
The image shows thousands of galaxies, including some of the faintest and farthest ones ever observed in the infrared. All of them are contained in a section of the night sky that is equivalent to the size of a grain of sand. This segment belongs to the Sculptor constellation, only visible from the southern hemisphere. The snapshot was taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the only one of the four on board the telescope that has been developed entirely by US institutions.
The number of galaxies that appear in the photo is overwhelming. The bright spots in the image are not stars, but rather galaxies made up of billions of stars. What’s more, the photo shows the cluster as it appeared nearly five billion years ago, meaning it is likely that many of the objects no longer exist.
The colors in the image are synthetic. Telescopes record images in black and white, through colored filters. Combining several shots of the same field obtained at different wavelengths, it is possible to show what they would have looked like to the human eye, although the color palette will always be, to some degree, artificial, since much of the light in the infrared is invisible. In the case of the first image from the James Webb, six filters have been used: two in different shades of blue, two in green and two in red.
To collect enough light, the space telescope’s mirror had to remain pointed at the same region of the sky for more than 12 hours. By way of comparison, the Hubble space telescope needed more than 200 hours, over many sessions and several months.
The James Webb telescope is one of the largest scientific projects in history, both in scale and cost – $10 billion. It also took three decades to design, build and launch.
At the moment, the observatory is orbiting around the Sun at the second Lagrange Point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The observatory is specialized in capturing infrared light – invisible to human eyes – which is emitted by distant objects. What’s more, it is the first space telescope that can see through dust clouds and capture the stars behind them. Thanks to the James Webb and other existing space telescopes, such as Hubble and Chandra, scientists will be able to observe the cosmos in unprecedented detail.
The release of the image is a preview of a series of high-resolution color pictures from the James Webb that will be released by NASA on Tuesday at 4.30pm (GMT).
The images from the space telescope are set to show the following:
The Carina Nebula. Located 7,600 light-years from Earth, it is the brightest known nebula.
WASP-96b. This giant planet – somewhat larger than Jupiter – is 1,150 light-years away from Earth. If a year on Earth is 365 days, the time it takes for the planet to complete an orbit around the Sun, WASP-96b is so close to its sun that each year lasts just three and a half days.
NGC 3132. This huge, expanding cloud of gas surrounds a dying star 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is also known as the Southern Ring Nebula, and is only visible from the southern hemisphere.
Stephan’s Quintet. This is the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. Stephan’s Quintent was discovered in 1877 by the French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan. The group is about 300 million light-years away from Earth.
SMACS 0723. The force of gravity exerted around a nearby galaxy can work like a magnifying glass, amplifying the light of much more distant galaxies behind it. The James Webb will capture this phenomenon to show that these astronomical lenses can be used to study very distant objects.


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It is no longer news that the Federal High Court in Osogbo has turned down the bail application of a former lecturer with the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof Richard Akindele.
Prof Richard Akindele was dragged before the court for allegedly demanding sex to upgrade the scores of one of his students, Monica Osagie.
The court rejected the bail application, which Akindele filed through his lawyer, Francis Omotoso, after the prosecuting counsel for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Kehinde Ayantoye, opposed the application.
The judge, Justice Onyetenu expressed that the allegations raised were weighty and ordered the prosecutor to produce the tape in which Akindele was caught allegedly chanting incantations in court on the next hearing date.
The case was adjourned till December 17, 2018.


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Living in Brooklyn and being a part of a diverse school community such as Crayon Power is a good foundation to ensure early introduction to different races and cultures. This is key when it comes to building empathy, and raising anti-racist kids. But it's not enough. Intentional conversations are critical. These books help give your kids the tools to understand different races and they also open the doors for the consistent, crucial conversations we all need to be having.
Here are a few book lists I think are useful to help to expand your libraries. (Bookshop.org is a great portal to support independent bookstores over Amazon.)

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You also need to check the payment options the center offers to know the coverage of your insurance.
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Level of health complications. A rehab center should have well-trained personnel and doctors who are knowledgeable in monitoring people whose health is already at risk due to excessive usage of drugs and alcohol.
There may also people who have other terminal illnesses that should be treated as well aside from being associated with drugs. Therefore, you need to have a center that caters other conditions and focused on treating other illness especially when they are already severe.
Type of Rehabilitation programs. It is the best move to choose a rehab center who offers a specific program that suits the need of the patient. Some may even offer therapy sessions in addition to these programs to ensure fast recovery of the patient. The program should match to the problem of the patient for him to have a specific recovery plan. You also need to check state funded drug rehab programs as they could fit your needs.
Gender. There is a treatment that does not work for people with different gender since they have different personalities. The same goes for patients who are from LGBTQ class. There are already LGBTQ- friendly centers who specifically offer a program specifically for them which also match with the type of environment and personality they have. A rehab center should deal with special needs that suit to their mentality in mind due to the traumatic experience they encountered. This way, you will target the best Drug Addiction Treatment Centers Georgia. In addition to the above factors, you should be considering the reputation of the center especially if you are using Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator.
6 Tips for Finding Strength in Drug Addiction Rehab Programs
Be kind to yourself. In the past, you’ve likely beaten yourself up over misdeeds you’ve committed under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but it’s important to realize that those feelings are perfectly normal and happen to almost everyone in early recovery. It’s OK if you don’t succeed at the first try in everything you attempt.
Acknowledge achievements, big or small. Recovery is a building-block process and no success is too small to be counted. Recognizing each achievement can help build and maintain morale throughout treatment.
Remember that mistakes and failures happen. Everyone makes mistakes and each person moves through recovery at their own pace. There will be set backs but they aren’t the end of the world. Each day presents a new opportunity to learn.
Shift your outlook on life. Try to begin each day with a positive outlook. You have the power to decide what you’re going to think about first. For example, you can dwell on the feeling of having made less progress than you wanted the day before, or you can, make the conscious choice to accept what happened as part of the process and continue to move forward today.
Avoid making comparisons. Each person’s struggle with addiction is unique. Although your situation may be similar to someone else’s, everyone heals at their own pace. That is very true especially if you want to go after Holistic Addiction Treatment.
Ask for help. At some point or another everyone needs a little extra help. Asking for assistance enables you to broaden your horizons and gives you a chance to grow on your path to recovery.
Many things such as public stigma, misconception, and intolerance, can make it difficult for people struggling with substance abuse to get the help they need and deserve. But despite potential roadblocks, using these tips can help an addicted person maintain the strength they need to persevere through treatment and flourish in recovery. If you consider the above tips, you will for sure land at the best Drug Addiction Treatment Centers Georgia.
Listen to the suggestions from us. We specialize in teaching alcoholics how to live without alcohol. We have vast amount of knowledge and guidance based upon what has worked for clients and what has not worked. Be mindful of what we say and take it to heart. We want you to stay clean after leaving treatment, and we offer tangible, good advice.
Do not enable them by giving them money, driving them to get the drugs, by ‘looking the other way’ as they do the drugs, etc. This is just as bad as going and purchasing the drugs for them and shoving them down their throat, up their nose, in their arm, etc.
Get Lots of Rest. Many people feel the urge to binge on marijuana and alcohol before they enter treatment knowing that they are about to begin a phase of abstinence of undetermined length. It is recommended that you resist this urge. Giving in to the temptation means that you will be tired, cranky and ill when you travel to your marijuana rehab and go through intake. It may also mean that you forget to do important things before you go. Instead, opt for lots of rest and spend time with those who you will miss while you’re gone.
Work or donate some of your time – being productive at your job or giving back to a cause you believe it will do wonders for your self-esteem. Making a positive contribution at work or for others will give you a wonderful sense of accomplishment and pride.
Distractions and Replacement – If a stressful situation can’t be avoided, distractions are a great way to overcome urges. Create a list of healthy distractions that you can refer to if a craving is overwhelming so you don’t have to think too much. Distractions can be anything from a brisk walk or run, swimming laps, calling a friend, reading a book or cleaning. Choosing an exercise, offers the added bonus from a boost of endorphins, which will help to reduce the stress and anxiety you may be feeling. Practice mindful meditation to find a peaceful resolution. Visualize yourself going through the motions of your distraction to help you to get started. This will ease any anxiety and fear that can trigger cravings. Keep a positive attitude, and understand that with practice, healthy habits will override negative ones.
Take it one day at a time – recovery is a process, not a destination. Do not let thoughts of use or old habits get the best of you. Learn techniques to overcome any negative thoughts and feelings
Remember the pain is only temporary. One thing to remember is that the pain is only temporary. It will go away. It won’t last forever. This can be an impacting mental tool for you when the physical pain of withdrawal is at its most severe.
Those nervous about this may want to inquire cautiously to get a feel for how your care team reacts to the topic of medical cannabis. It’s also important to engage in a conversation about their concerns, as they are likely pertinent to the safety of a child or infant.
Do That. It’s enough work to take the time to discuss in detail what exactly is going to be expected of you by your family and friends, but now you have to actually follow through on it. You beat the habit of drinking or using drugs, and now is the time to change your other habits in terms of how you relate to people, how you handle your obligations, what you do for them and more. The people you spoke with may have been duly impressed that you were interested in what they thought and wanted to take their expectations into consideration, but what will really impress them, and help you cement stable relationships, is if you follow through on what you said you would do, now and in the long term.
Offer the opiate addict the opportunity to change. This principle allows family and friends to begin positive enabling.
Don’t give up if an intervention fails the first time. Sometimes, an alcoholic simply isn’t ready to quit drinking. Staging an intervention, however, is a great way to let them know that you care about them and hope that they seek treatment.
Commit to the program. This is the only opportunity many people will have to spend time away from “real life” to focus on themselves, their growth and their healing without the distractions of work, relationships, family and other obligations. Your time in rehab is a tiny fraction of your life, so commit to follow through with it.
Be honest, direct, and transparent. It’s important to keep in mind that asking about medical cannabis or admitting to a doctor that you consume the herb is not illegal. In fact, doctors are legally obligated to keep your communications confidential. This means that it’s safe to be open and honest about why you’re using medical cannabis, what you hope to achieve, and why you think it might help.
You need to be willing to get help for recovery. It must be something that you desire to do.
Surround yourself with positive people. Think how badly you feel when you’re in the presence of someone who’s constantly harping about how awful things are, or who always puts down others’ efforts or ideas. Now think about how much better you feel when you’re with people who are excited and enthusiastic about life, tackling challenges and turning them into opportunities, sharing what techniques and tips they’ve had success with, and, in general, are caring, supportive and encouraging. While we can’t choose our families and some of our friends and acquaintances may not exactly fall into the category of positive people, we can choose to make new friends and spend time with people who are more upbeat and optimistic about life. By surrounding ourselves with positive people, we are lifted and encouraged by their example and their contagious good-will. Like-minded people make us feel better because we share goals and ideas. This is another plus when you’re trying to improve your self-esteem after drug rehab.
reatment to undergo that will eradicate or control it. These diseases are capable of causing death, and so is addiction. There is no cure and no guarantee of complete recovery. A cancer patient may find years of remission, a diabetic may live a relatively normal life. There is no medical treatment that can control the disease of addiction. Medications and treatment can help, but it’s like a war with many battles, there may be a “cease fire” but you have to always be on guard and ready to fight for victory.
Ask Questions. Marijuana rehab is not a passive experience. You are not expected to clone yourself and simply absorb the dictates of the rehab regime. Those who get the most out of marijuana rehab ask questions. Ask questions before you choose the right marijuana addiction treatment for you. Ask questions during your intake appointment about what to expect. Ask questions of your therapist, in group session, in classes. Asking questions is the only way to learn and grow in your recovery.
Use the techniques you learned in treatment. You will have learned skills for dealing with peer pressure and triggers while you were in treatment. Use these and any other skills you learned to help you when you end up in situations that are tempting. You have practiced, and now you need to do what is best for you. If you feel that you need more help with coping, call us or your aftercare counselor. Rehab is not a quick fix because recovery takes time. Seeking and being dedicated to aftercare therapy is one of the best things you can do to remain clean. Talking to family and developing a support system will also help with your journey. No single suggestion can insure you will always stay clean, but an individualized mix of the suggestions plus what you have learned from treatment can give you valuable tools for a great life.
Improve your diet – in addition to exercise, eating right is another key ingredient to a successful recovery. Whether you get help or do it on your own, improvements in diet will make you healthier mentally and physically.
Catch the alcoholic off-guard, which will give him or her little time to come up with excuses or justifications for their drinking. Timing of an intervention may be best after their drinking has caused a serious problem in their life, since they may be more willing to listen at this time.
Go for a walk. Getting outside and simply going for a walk can do wonders if you are having a particularly rough time. Yes, it can certainly be difficult to pull yourself off of the couch or out of bed, but a good walk can completely recharge your mental and emotional state. Combine walking with deep breathing and focus on being present. Notice the little things in your surroundings. Don’t worry about the future or the past.
Recognize Your Triggers – This might seem like a simple task, but because triggers can be absolutely anything, it’s important to give thoughtful consideration to people, places, social situations and any feelings that normally bring about a desire to use alcohol or drugs. Over time, many people in recovery discover triggers that they weren’t even aware of. Learning what your triggers are and developing the ability to recognize them ahead of time will help to offset the difficulties of cravings.
One of the best times to offer help (in the form of treatment/rehabilitation) is when an opiate addict faces legal consequences. These situations can be a wake-up call and hasten an opiate addict’s decision to change.
Get Enough Rest. Whatever your sleep schedule was while you were addicted, it was in all likelihood not one that was conducive to good physical and mental health. Sleeping all day and staying up all night, sleeping off and on through the night, going days on end without sleep and then crashing — these are only a few common examples of the kinds of schedules which characterize “rest” for an addict. You might be surprised to see what a difference it can make to get yourself into a rhythm of sleeping for eight hours every night. It can translate to higher energy levels, a far better mood, sharper mental alertness, less illness and more.
Understand that addiction is a disease. This concept was very hard for me to come to terms with. I thought, “Of course addiction is not a disease! My son got himself into this mess!”. Calling it a disease seemed like excusing it as something that chooses a person, like cancer or diabetes. Addiction is a choice you make for yourself right? Not so. It’s a choice to try the drugs, but it’s not a choice to become addicted. Many people use drugs recreationally, and although illegal, they maintain their “normal” lives. Unfortunately heroin is so highly addictive that you can become addicted after as little as ONE use. Once you have the disease it becomes all consuming and your life revolves around getting the money for the drugs, getting the drugs, using the drugs all while not getting caught. Then when the drugs are used up, the process starts itself over day after day, after day. So there are similarities to cancer or diabetes in that it’s not a deliberate choice one makes.

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Nestle has told just-food it is not pulling out of Zimbabwe, despite raising concerns it is facing unfair competition from cheap imports.
The Swiss food giant has, however, raised the alarm with the Zimbabwe government, saying state organisations were importing cereals, solid milk and coffee without paying import duty. These products were now being sold on the Zimbabwean market at cheaper prices.
Nestle's Zimbabwe arm has expressed concern about imports of rival products - and those from the company's own subsidiaries outside the country.
Nestle Zimbabwe chairman, Kumbirai Katsande, told just-food it was "difficult to estimate a figure" on how much the company had lost to the alleged smuggling syndicates.
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The problem with Millenials isn’t with Millennials.
Let me explain.
I cancelled my SiriusXM account because they give a voice to Breitbart. I will not spend my money on a service that broadcasts actual Nazis.
Anyway, I now have to listen to the radio like I’m Laura Ingalls.
Morning DJs for a local rock station asked a question for a Metallica ticket give away.
The question was “What do 61% of all Millennials say they will never do?”
The DJs started running down Millennials with unwitty cliches like “Brush their teeth” or “Wash their hair”.
It occurred to me that these douche twizzles sounded like adults of my youth talking about “dirty hippies”. No difference at all.
I am paraphrasing here, but there is a saying about learning from our mistakes. “Those who don’t motherfucking learn from goddamn history are motherfucking doomed to repeat it. ”
Are there self-involved, entitled, lazy Millennials? Of course, there are.
Also, there are self-involved, entitled, lazy Gen-Xers.
And for all that is fucking holy, there are self-involved, entitled, lazy Baby Boomers.
Regardless of generation, there are large groups of people who suck.
This is science, people. You shouldn’t argue with science.
I honestly don’t know why all the hate for the Millennial generation.
The young Millennial adults I know are kind, informed, intelligent humans. I mean, sure, there are some twat monsters, but we just talked about the science part of this, right? There have always been and will always be twat monsters. In every generation.
I am at the tail end of the Boomers, which sucks for a couple reasons.
- First, Boomers sort of equal elderly now and I am not elderly. I’m not a baby or anything, but fucking hell. Not elderly.
- Second, because a lot of Baby Boomers suck ass. Selfish, short sighted, and whiny as fuck. I saw a meme the other day about being an age where their parents struck them with a wooden spoon and therefore are, I don’t know, better? More valid? The meme implied they were hard working and had high morals because the people who were supposed to love and protect them, assaulted them with a piece of wood.
I asked a question on Twitter about why some Baby Boomers wear getting beaten by their parents as a badge of honor.
I got some heartbreaking answers. There were people who chose to not have children because of fears they would hit their own kids like they were hit to PTSD issues from being abused as children.
Then, I had people who say that the younger generations are weak and entitled and, if they had had their asses beat, they’d be better adults now. You should envision the people giving these answers with their pants hiked way up high, shaking a cane, and worrying about the state of their lawn.
It does us no good to be so afraid of our young adults.
They see life differently. They are going to choose paths we would never choose; paths that weren’t even available to us.
We have to adapt. If we can’t bring ourselves to help them find their way, then we need to step aside and allow them find their way without shaking our goddamn canes at them.
Also, younger people, we Baby Boomers might be sort of approaching elderly, but we still count.
We are still as valid. Our voices matter, our ideas matter. Not all of us need to fade away with our backward thinking and hateful rhetoric. Some of us still want to contribute and grow and change. A lot of us.
You know what, though, this sort of thing kind of pales when you consider what is happening around us.
Did you see the marches this weekend?
- I watched a young woman stand in silence for minutes while a half a million people followed suit. It was powerful.
- I watched a young woman who less than a month and a half ago was shot in both legs and got shrapnel in her eye give a speech, puke on stage, finish her speech, and then sing happy birthday to her dead friend.
- I watched an 11 year old girl speak for women of color whose stories of being gun violence victims are never front page news.
- I watched millions of people from all over the world march in support of a handful of high school students who made this happen in just a few short weeks.
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It looks as though Sony just can't catch a break these days
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launch of its PlayStation 3 from November 17 to March of 2007 along with
the announcement that an initial batch of 500,000 total units would be
available for the November 11 Japanese launch and November 17 North American
launch. The launch delay/shipment reduction is due to Sony's problems with
manufacturing blue laser diodes used by the Blu-ray drive on the PS3.
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image quality. The Blu-ray titles featured increased noise/artifacting and
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has an exciting new exhibition coming soon – British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, celebrating the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012. Over 300 British design objects highlight significant moments in the history of British design and how the country continues to nurture artistic talent and be a world leader in creativity and design.
And to celebrate this exhibition they have collaborated with Ernest Race, one of the most important figures in British post-war design, on the reissue of the Antelope Chair in its original Festival of Britain yellow – hoooo-raaaah!
The exhibition will include the furniture of Ernest Race (1913-1964) who played an enormous part in the development of contemporary British furniture design and revolutionized manufacturing processes using improvised or salvaged materials. His single most important contribution to modern furniture was his ability to balance the pre-war Modernist aesthetic with the optimism of a post-war Contemporary style, finding widespread fame at the Festival of Britain in 1951.
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Soon after City Councilman Diego Bernal introduced the first draft of his proposed additions to San Antonio's nondiscrimination ordinance in May, conservative Christian lawyers began to scour it.
Their conclusion? That the legal protection it spelled out for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people was the nation's most ambiguous and dangerous of its kind.
The warnings became part and parcel of the opposition to it, wrapped in allegations that it would create unconstitutional “thought police” and “religious tests” against any expression critical of LGBT sexuality.
That didn't abate as Bernal revised the draft in an attempt to appease concerned religious groups, and with its passage Thursday, social conservatives are promising an all-out legal brawl.
One provision that makes San Antonio's ordinance stand out, they say, is that it bars city officials from bias in “word or deed” against protected classes when acting in their official capacity.
“This ordinance went much further than others because it still criminalizes people for using 'word or deed' to express their faith,” said Jonathan Saenz, president of the Austin-based Texas Values. “This is an overreach by government and unfortunately, the taxpayers are going to pay the price.”
A lawsuit could be expected “within weeks,” he said.
Supporters of the ordinance flatly deny that the ordinance could be used to silence the religious expression of city employees, appointees to boards and commissions and individual business owners.
“We live in a very litigious society, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are lawsuits,” Mayor Julián Castro, a key supporter and an attorney himself, said after the vote.
Religious exemptions dot the policy throughout and “religion” already was among the ordinance's protected classes.
It does not regulate speech, religion or political activity, nor does it legalize same-sex marriage or force businesses to provide same-sex benefits or separate bathrooms for transgender people, City Attorney Michael Bernard said.
In the event of a lawsuit, he said: “I'm confident that the ordinance is legally sound. Ordinances such as this have been implemented all over the state and the country, and to my knowledge, none have been struck down.”
For Allan Parker of the conservative Justice Foundation in San Antonio, the ordinance is a Pandora's box of potential discrimination claims. It lacks protections for individual businesses and allows people to “self-perceive” their sexuality, he said.
“There's a difference between law and political promises,” he said. “The hypocrisy and deception of the city is made manifest by its failure to put what they said the ordinance doesn't do into writing in the ordinance.”
Opponents spoke of deep resources at the ready of what they called the “gay lobby,” with the ordinance adding city-enabled lawsuits to boycotts, social media campaigns and other tools designed to browbeat conservative business owners into compliance.
“These tactics will be employed by people in this city even as it is repeatedly employed by others across the country,” said Natalie Hardy, an attorney and director of City Reachers, a Christian prayer ministry in San Antonio. “This entire process has been a mockery. San Antonians have lived in harmony for a long time. This ordinance brings division.”
Bernal, a civil rights attorney, negotiated with numerous opponents and rewrote parts of the ordinance to bolster religious protections, using suggested phrases from the Archdiocese of San Antonio and gaining the confidence of such high-profile evangelical leaders as Max Lucado.
One often repeated claim by opponents, that San Antonio hasn't had an LGBT discrimination problem, also could become a legal argument, said Jeff Mateer, general counsel for the Plano-based Liberty Institute.
“When you've got a statutory determination that it is burdening someone's religious beliefs, then it's incumbent on a city to show it has evidence of sexual orientation discrimination,” he said. “When legislatures pass laws, you have to have a compelling interest. They don't have it.”
Attorneys with the ACLU of Texas and the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign described the ordinance as legally sound, balancing religious liberty and free speech with deserving protections for LGBT people.
It will pass constitutional muster because religious viewpoints about sexuality are outside the scope of how businesses and individuals treat the general population, said Rebecca Robertson, legal and policy director of the ACLU of Texas.
“As a nation, we recognize that a person can't use personal religious convictions to avoid laws that would protect everybody,” Robertson said. “If I open a business, I am therefore subjecting myself to public accommodation laws. I want to pick and choose who I serve? We went through the exact same arguments during Jim Crow.”
That San Antonio's ordinance regulates city employment and not the hiring practices in the private sector makes it “not as aggressive as it could have been,” she added. “There have been other cities with similar ordinances and the sky did not fall.”
Conservative state officials, however, say the ordinance violates both the First Amendment and the Texas Constitution.
Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is running for governor, said Friday he, too, is reviewing how he could take legal action against it.
Staff Writer Josh Fechter contributed to this report from Austin.


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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - The African Union lifted its suspension of Madagascar’s membership on Monday after a new president took office following the island’s first election since a coup five years ago.
Madagascar was plunged into diplomatic isolation and donors froze direct aid worth 40 percent of the Indian Ocean island’s budget when Andry Rajoelina grabbed power with military backing in 2009.
On Saturday, Rajoelina handed the presidency to Hery Rajaonarimampianina, a former finance minister, after presidential and parliamentary elections took place in calm conditions last month.
“(The Council) decides, in view of the completion of the transition process and restoration of constitutional order ... to lift the suspension of Madagascar’s participation in the activities of the AU,” the organization’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) said in a statement.
The African Union is a pan-continental bloc made up of 54 African states whose stated objectives include promoting peace and security on the continent, protecting human rights and encouraging sustainable economic development
The PSC said it had also decided to lift “all other measures” against Madagascar and urged the international community to provide support to the nickel-producing economy.
However, international lenders may not be ready to act just yet. The World Bank told Reuters on Friday it wanted to see the formation of a new government before it would resume normal relations and give budget support.
The Malagasy authorities have not yet released official results of the legislative election, which was held on the same day as the runoff of the presidential vote on December 20.
Reporting by Alain Iloniaina and Richard Lough in Nairobi; Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Gareth Jones
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I'm Devon Meves a curriculum consultant and educational content creator. I have an M.Ed in Teaching and Curriculum and a B.S. in Art Education. I taught K-6 art in public school before transitioning to museum education and then to consulting. I started U Ready, Teddy? in 2017 after becoming a mom and was looking for a creative outlet for myself and a way to share my ideas with other parents. I hope this website can help your family incorporate more creativity, learning and play in your daily lives and inspire your little ones.
- We live in an old renovated 1800s farmhouse so we are always doing some new house project
- I like to garden. We grow our own fruit + veggies but can't keep houseplants alive
- I once gave a museum tour to Joe Biden's granddaughter
- I was voted Class Thespian in my high school yearbook
- In college I was Vice President of my sorority
- I used to coach an after-school nature competition
- I was on a traveling juggling team when I was a kid
- I'm a wannabe Contemporary Art collector
I believe creativity is one of the most important skills we can nurture within our children. Anyone can be creative. Children should be given the freedom to have fun, experiment, make choices, discover and take risks. It is our job as parents, teachers and caregivers to give them the opportunities to be creative in a judgement-free environment and to surround them with love and inspiration.
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If you’re a first-time mom, the pregnancy lifestyle might be different than anything you’ve ever experienced. After all, you’re caring for yourself and a little human being. Maybe two. Maybe more. The fact is that being a healthy mom means not only being fit and eating well but also staying positive and calm throughout your nine months. Read the tips below to find out how to maintain a healthy pregnancy you can enjoy, rather than worry about.
Follow A Healthy Diet
Eating nutritious meals is key to give birth to a strong, healthy baby. You’ll need to eat extra calories and make sure that those calories come from sources like fruits and veggies, protein, dairy products, and grains.
Take The Right Vitamins
In combination with a balanced diet, your doctor might prescribe you a prenatal vitamin. These supplements are rich in important nutrients like folate, iron, and calcium, which prevent birth defects that might affect your baby’s brain.
Control Your Anxiety With Apps
It’s more than normal to get anxious about what’s going on in there. But don’t worry, you can stay calm by downloading different pregnancy tracker mobile apps. They can either be timers that count your weeks of pregnancy or simply keep you up to date on your bump’s development.
Practice Kegel Exercises
During pregnancy, your pelvic floor muscles may weaken, resulting in urinary incontinence and other issues. Those muscles, which sustain your uterus and your bladder, will benefit from successful Kegel exercises.
Find An Ob-Gyn You Trust
The M.D. you choose to accompany your pregnancy should be someone you wouldn’t mind calling whenever you need them, whether for simple questions or medical emergencies. They’re the person who’s going to be with you from your first months to the first months of your baby, so choose wisely. Keep in mind that a gynecologist is a professional who works with the female reproductive system, so you should seek an obstetrician-gynecologist if you’re pregnant. To avoid high costs from appointments and ER visits, you can find the best health insurance with iSelect.
Don’t Be Afraid To Have Sex
No, sex or orgasms won’t harm the baby in any way. If you and your partner are free from STDs, sex is actually beneficial during pregnancy since it lowers your blood pressure and contributes to better sleep.
Avoid Certain Medications
Certain antibiotics are known to cause severe disorders to a developing baby if administered during pregnancy. Other drugs such as ibuprofen should be taken in moderation. If you’re ill or in pain, always consult your doctor to know which medications are safe.
Talk To Experienced Women
Other pregnant women are the best help sources. When you attend birth classes and read pregnancy blogs, you’re learning from those who have been in your place one or multiple times. Feeling overwhelmed? Another pregnant woman’s knowledge will calm you down.
While exercising may sound crazy during pregnancy, light exercises like swimming and yoga can keep you fit, as well as manage weight gain and back problems that result from it.
Avoid Smoking And Drinking
If smoking can cause you a range of health problems, imagine the harm it will do to your baby. Smoking will put your baby in contact with dangerous chemicals, and drinking will do the same with alcohol, which your baby’s developing organs do not process well. Therefore, cigarettes and alcohol should be avoided at all costs if you don’t want to face a higher risk of miscarriage.
Keep Your Cravings At Bay
Craving junk food during pregnancy can be inevitable, but it’s not impossible to control it. You can substitute your unhealthy desires for healthier alternatives. For example, you could eat frozen yogurt instead of high fat ice creams, or substitute regular potato chips for baked sweet potato chips. Even if pregnancy isn’t your first rodeo, it’s a good idea to follow the tips above. This way, you’ll pave the way for a healthy birth and an even healthier baby.


If you find that your iPad has broken, or it has become dead, then it is important for you to not become frustrated. Yes, when you think about the amount of data that you might have lost, and it is beyond repair, then you will find it to be extremely frustrating, but there are some methods with which you will be able to restore all the data in your pipe and to stop iPad. You can take the help of the iTunes backup that goes along with another iOS device, and will be able to go for the backup. However, the method is complicated, and may not work always.
So, as we know, the iTunes backup for the iPad cannot be viewed or accessed by any person. So, if you still want to save the iPad data on your computer, you have to make use of a third-party tool, so as to extract the backup file, and extract all the data out of it.
This is actually the best way and the first tribute which will be able to rely upon the iTunes backup. So, what happens if you do not have any iTunes backup? There is another tool that will be able to directly scan the iPad that has been broken, swears to go for the proper data recovery.
Currently, all in the Mac operating system as well as the Windows operating system make use of the Wondershare Dr Fone. This is a wonderful product that will be able to help you recover all the data by extracting the iTunes backup file. You will be able to recover the data directly from the broken iPad, without coming across any kind of issues.
Recover Data From Dead iPad or Broken iPad
Step 1: The very first thing you need to do is to install the iOS Data Recovery Software – Wondershare Dr Fone and run the software.
Step 2: You need to then connect the Broken iPad or Dead iPad to your computer with the help of the USB cable. After it is detected by the software, then the interface would be able to provide you with two options. First, is to recover the data from the device, and second is to recover the iTunes backup file.
Step 3: You need to select the option of trying to scan the “iTunes backup file”, and make sure that you click the start scan process in the iPad. It will be recognised with the software, and all the following data that is to be found in the interface will be detected.
However, there is a certain method for you to enable the scanning mode.
- You need to hold down the iPad, and click on the start button.
- After that, simultaneously hold the power as well as the home button and after that click on the start button for exactly 10 seconds.
- This program will be able to count down the time spent doing so. After that, you need to release the power button, and keep holding on to the home button for more 15 seconds. After you do so, you will successfully enter the DFU mode.
Step 4: After the scan is complete, you will be able to preview the data, and extract them your computer. After that, recovery is very much simple with the help of the USB cable.
So it is really easy to recover data from dead iPad or broken iPad using this software. Do download the free trial version of iOS data recovery software to know its awesome features. If you have any query about the above steps then do let us know by commenting.


A Treasure Chest of Music: Arcelia
I first heard Arcelia, a trio from the valleys of Kent, on Brian Player’s Acoustic Café Radio Show on Wey Valley Radio. I was immediately impressed by their harmonies and the arrangement of the song I heard, and looked them up on Spotify to hear more. At the time they had just released an album, Building on the Land, which I listened to a number of times. I found the melodies sublime and the arrangements breath-taking, while the three voices each had their own unique quality and became something special when harmonising together.
The name Arcelia comes from and old Spanish word meaning “treasure chest”. It also means “altar of the sky”. They describe themselves on their website as “soulful folk harmony”, the main members being Gavin Alexander, Teresa Gallagher and Simon Foster. They are also sometimes joined by Martin Elliott on bass and Perry White on piano. Gavin plays acoustic guitar and writes all the songs, while Simon is also a member of vocal group The Flying Pickets and Teresa is also a voice artist – her credits include a reading of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House which was a Times Audio Book of the Year and radio dramas.
The trio have been compared to Crosby, Stills & Nash, America, Paul Simon and Squeeze – incidentally, they regularly tour with Squeeze’s Chris Difford. They perform regularly throughout the south of England and sometimes further afield, e.g. Shrewsbury Festival and Norfolk. They own a studio which is in a 150-year-old barn, surrounded by forest in a Kent valley. Their latest release is a five track EP Pick Up the Pieces, released in 2019, and is another fine example of their combined vocal talents and Gavin’s songwriting talent. It also includes a wonderful acapella version of the Beatles’ “Blackbird”.
I'm hoping to catch them live in the near future as I haven't yet had the opportunity to get to one of their shows.
For more information and news about Arcelia visit https://www.arcelia.co.uk


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Or, more like, Vanity Fair, Gentle Reader, which I am reading for class tonight. I love this novel, as I love most 19th-century novels (so much so, I got a degree in them!), but the reading of it is a bit hard. It’s been a tiring week, not so much with meetings but more with recovering from meetings, and playing catch up with work and sleep.
But Vanity Fair is a novel that holds a special place in my heart because I wrote one of my best dissertation chapters on it, now a book chapter in a beautiful collection. This novel makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me angry, all the good emotions one should feel when reading a book.
I love being able to read again, not just for school but for fun. It is an essential part of my life, and it had been as if a little piece of me was gone. Sounds dramatic, no? Rather! But it’s true, Friend, that I felt lost for the year and a half I couldn’t read very much.
What are you reading now?

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PROVIDENCE, RI (April 24, 2012) – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is holding a free stress management seminar during the month of May. All members of the public are invited to attend.
The event will take place on Tuesday, May 8, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Mohr Library, One Memorial Avenue, Johnston.
Life for many Rhode Islanders can often feel like a balancing act between work, home and other demands. This seminar will teach you how to strike the right balance with simple stress management techniques.
Registration is not required for this BCBSRI seminar.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is the state’s leading health insurer and covers more than 600,000 members. The company is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. For more information, visit BCBSRI.com and follow us on Twitter @BCBSRI.


METRICS project consortium partners join new initiative
While the METRICS project continues working on the dry-run campaigns, several consortium partners did join a new initiative - Robotics4EU project.
Robotics4EU project aims to contribute to the more widespread adoption of robots in Europe in the areas of healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food, and agile production.
We invite you to participate in the Robotics4EU survey.
The results of this survey will provide analytical support to the project implementation and identify the greatest challenges, bottlenecks and needs in enabling wider adoption of robotics in these areas and the uptake of the principles of responsible robotics.
We would appreciate you taking the time to complete the following survey. It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete it.
Robotics community: https://www.research.net/r/3VQ6VXL
Your responses are voluntary and will be confidential. Individual responses will not be identifiable, and all the data will be used in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation. Please feel free to share this survey among other relevant persons within (or outside of) your organization.
If you have any questions about the survey, please email us at: firstname.lastname@example.org
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