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Sagarika Chakraborty’s A Calendar Too Crowded has its ups and downs; nevertheless it stands by womanhood and speaks out unflinchingly.
Review by Anne John
A Calendar Too Crowded has an interesting and unique theme. It is a collection of short stories and poems around notable days of the calendar that are dedicated to women or women’s issues. Thus we have a poem on gender selection for the Anti-Selective-Abortion Day which falls on October 25th, a story about oppression against widows for the International Widows Day on February 2nd and so on.
The characters in each story are nameless because according to the author, “No name would justify a voice which represents millions.” The stories touch upon the lives of women from various walks of life, regardless of economic or social disparity. This highlights the fact, that all women, regardless of money, education, upbringing or looks are connected with one another, by the common problems that they have to face every day.
This aspect is beautifully depicted in the story for World Breast-Feeding Day (August 1st), where a blue collar labourer and a white collar worker, both worry about being able to provide enough nourishment to their respective babies, while juggling work. While each might have different reasons to go back to work and differing support systems (or lack thereof), the story still manages to bring out the angst of every new mother at the end of her maternity leave.
Most of the stories ring true, because as women, most of us would have had similar experiences or atleast heard about such incidents. For instance, reading the June story for Anti-Eve-Teasing/Molestation Day, ‘Naked’, gives one a sense of déjà vu, as it is strikingly similar to the controversy surrounding the recent Kolkata rape victim and people’s reactions to it.
But not all stories portray women as victims. The November story for Anti-Dowry Day, ‘Living by the Double-Edged Sword’ shows us both sides of the coin of a woman’s relationship with her marital home, with its belief that, “Mothers-in-law can never be mothers. Daughters-in-law can never be daughters.”
On the other hand, I felt that the September story, ‘Knowledge Beyond The Printed Letters’, showcases a woman who is the epitome of the humble-calm-composed-ever-loving-all-satisfying-over-achieving-homemaker-and-career-woman-all-rounder superwoman stereotype! The protagonist in this story, looks after the needs of her husband, kids, in-laws with great attention to detail, yet is not ‘just a boring housewife’. She has several accomplishments to her name, but never boasts or even talks about it unless forced to. And after a long and an eventful day, she ensures that she is a dutiful wife, mother and bahu as, “…She packed his bags, ensuring that he had all that was essential for a comfortable trip, checked on her children and lovingly doted on her mother-in-law…”It made me want to roll my eyes!
Additionally I could not totally grasp the ‘An Equal Friendship’ story, which unfolds as a letter from Panchali to Krishna. Although I am aware of the broad story of the Mahabharata, I am not too familiar with the nitty-gritty of it. Therefore when Panchali compares the events of her own life to the state of women’s equality today, I could not completely comprehend though I did get the basic essence of the story.
The book uses simple and easily readable language that is at times, quite thought provoking, as in, “She asked me whether I have ever wondered why a prostitute is ashamed of what she does all her life, but the society is never ashamed of what it has done to her?” Having said that, Sagarika’s prose reads better than her poetry. The verses almost appear like lines of prose that have been forced to rhyme!
A Calendar Too Crowded is a good attempt for a debut novel. Despite having a few flaws, it indeed seems to be a promising start.
Publishers: Niyogi books
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A man at the centre of a 30-hour stand-off with Gold Coast police has appeared briefly in court charged with threatening violence.
Jamie Ross Odering, 31, appeared in the Southport Magistrates Court on Friday after giving himself up to police about 1am (AEST) on Friday.
He surrendered after a lengthy siege at an Upper Coomera house which began about 7pm (AEST) on Wednesday.
Odering had threatened to blow up gas bottles he'd stockpiled inside the Hart Street house.
He reportedly gave himself up after starting a small fire on a mattress.
Neighbours were evacuated during the stand-off.
Odering was ordered to remain in custody, and his next court appearance is scheduled for April 10.
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Everyday heroes from around the nation have completed a journey of a lifetime in support of our vision that all kids have a safe and happy childhood free from abuse and neglect.
The nine-day trek was an emotional, physical and spiritual journey along the Kokoda trail within the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea, and the 27 enthusiastic trekkers have prepared (physically and mentally!) for months.
Dr Neil Carrington, Act for Kids CEO and one of the 27 trekkers, said they have raised $258,774, which is enough to provide over 2,580 hours of therapy for children who have experienced abuse and neglect.
“By embarking on this momentous challenge, the trekkers are showing just how determined they are to promote the important work we do, and they will help us continue providing the best possible support for children and young people suffering from abuse and neglect,” Dr Carrington said.
With the journey concluding in Port Moresby on ANZAC Day, our team of trekkers had the privilege of taking part in the Dawn Service to honour the history of Kokoda, where the 1942 World War II battlefield will undoubtedly be filled with hair-raising history and emotion. Trek Leader Glenn Azar walked alongside our trekkers through the incredible history, and recounting many stories of heroism, courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice.
Dr Carrington’s father and uncle both fought for Australia during the Kokoda Track Campaign and with Dr Carrington’s father passing away recently, it makes this journey all the more poignant for him.
The Kokoda Trek is part of our ‘Trek for Kids’ initiative where we arrange unforgettable adventures that raise funds to provide free therapy and support services to children and families who have experienced or are at risk of child abuse and neglect.
Take a look their journey along the challenging Kokoda trail as they embraced the history and trekked with a mission to change children’s futures. They are so close to reaching their goal of raising $327,000, it’s not too late to donate!


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The International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference said overall attendance for the 2017 show was up from 2016 and that final numbers will be released next week.
Of the 650 registered exhibitors, only about 11 did not make it to the Tampa Convention Center for the three-day show, which ended Thursday. Although visitor traffic was a little light on Tuesday, most of the exhibitors that Trade Only spoke to said activity picked up Wednesday and that the people who attended were decision makers at their companies.
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Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) apps, such as Starbucks and Chick-fil-A, dominated the food service app category for downloads in the US during the first half of 2016, according to App Annie.
On average, app downloads in this category grew at an average annualized rate of 35% between the first half of 2014 and the first half of 2016. This growth indicates that brands are recognizing the importance of engaging with consumers beyond the in-store experience.
There are three key features that successful QSR apps share, according to the report:
- They don't take customers for granted. Brands that bombard customers with emails, or have apps that take up too much data and battery power, run the risk of negatively impacting consumers’ attitudes. Instead, brands should use the opportunity to reward users with loyalty programs, offers, and promotions.
- Seamlessly manage the interaction between the digital and physical. Businesses need to ensure that their apps seamlessly integrate with the in-store experience. For example, the order-ahead process should reduce the friction of visiting an in-store location.
- Remain focused on innovation. The best-in-class QSR apps, according to App Annie, treat being on customers’ devices as a privilege and continuously focus on improvement. This includes customizing the menu and adding new features such as in-app payments and QR code reading.
Enhancing the customer journey is key to hosting a successful QSR app. The addition of loyalty programs, mobile order-ahead, and favorite orders not only improve app engagement and spending for properties that use these features, but negatively impact competitors that do not provide them.
A separate study from app engagement platform Applause found that companies received negative reviews from consumers for not including features that their competitors used. This indicates that consumers are highly aware of cutting-edge industry features and that restaurant apps need to remain innovative to compete successfully in this space.
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) — also known as fast-casual restaurants — such as Starbucks have been turning to mobile order-ahead apps to extract higher sales, intensify customer loyalty, and heighten foot traffic.
Mobile order-ahead refers to a consumer-facing mobile payment platform that allows customers to order food remotely, pay for the items on their phone, and pick up their order at a specific restaurant location.
Leading QSRs in the U.S. are beginning to adopt these platforms at an accelerated pace and are benefiting from them. Taco Bell sees 30% higher average order values on mobile compared to in-store, and Starbucks' Mobile Order & Pay already represents 10% of total transactions at high-volume stores, directly contributing to increased company sales.
Mobile order-ahead is still in its early days, but will be a $38 billion industry by 2020, accounting for 10.7% of total QSR industry sales. This will be driven by full adoption among the top QSRs in the US, the growth of mobile commerce, QSR adoption through aggregators like Grubhub, loyalty programs, higher average order values, and new buy buttons.
Evan Bakker, research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a detailed Mobile Order-Ahead Report that profiles the companies that have proved the mobile order-ahead concept and analyzes the trends contributing to this new industry's growth.
Here are some key takeaways from the report:
- Mobile order-ahead apps — platforms that enable consumers to remotely purchase menu items for in-store restaurant pickup — are on the rise among quick-service restaurants (QSRs). We expect sales on these platforms to reach $38 billion by 2020, representing a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57%.
- Mobile order-ahead will ultimately have an additive effect on the QSR industry. Mobile ordering platforms have been proven to intensify customer loyalty, increase purchase frequency, and lift average ticket sizes through order customization and easier checkout options. This means that mobile ordering is not a simple substitution for in-store purchasing, but a channel that can enhance the lifetime value of QSR customers. This makes mobile order-ahead a critical channel contributing to the growth of the QSR industry.
- Alternative commerce solutions will help propel mobile ordering. Aggregators like Grubhub will onboard smaller fast-casual restaurants into the mobile ecosystem by offering them an existing app to integrate into, lowering the upfront costs of creating a mobile channel of their own. And in-store self-service kiosks will help popularize remote ordering and accustom users to less traditional forms of payment that don't require a cash register.
In full, the report:
- Forecasts the growth of the mobile order-ahead industry in the US from 2015 to 2020, including its share of total QSR sales.
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Chattanooga, TN – According to the police officials, when the officers arrived at the hospital, they found the man suffering from what is described as a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Unfortunately, the 44-year-old man was unable to provide them with a location of the incident.
The officers were unable to locate a crime scene because of that lack of information.
Investigators with the Violent Crimes Unit responded to conduct an investigation.
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ECA Group has been awarded a five-year contract by the French armed forces to supply consumables and spares for the French Navy’s PAP demining remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), the company announced on 12 July.
The value of the contract is over $4.5 million.
Originally delivered to the navy in 1977, the Pap mine disposal vehicles will remain in service until the mid-2020s, when they will be progressively replaced by the systems being developed under the French/UK MMCM programme.
In its latest configuration, PAP MK6 is a self-propelled ROV deployed to carry out mine warfare activities. The ROV’s robust and reliable design with high powered propulsion allows it to manoeuver in strong current and withstand harsh environmental conditions.
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Subject: [ClimateArchive] Fwd: Summary: Rainfall intensity, soil erosion and foodThis is a brief summary (draft) of an article I'm working on for
publication by the Sierra Club on: Rainfall intensity, soil erosion
Increasing rainfall intensity and soil erosion, with global warming,
will likely have catastrophic effects on world food supply and
populations of species, including humans.
Record rainfall intensity and flash flooding occurred in southern
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Intense rainfall and flash flood also occurred in southwest Wisconsin
in August of 2007. Unusually heavy runoff occurred in northeast
Minnesota in October of 2007.
I met with University of Wisconsin Professor of Physical Geography
James Knox at his Science Hall office on the Madison, WI campus on
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my career in hydrologic modeling and flood prediction at the National
Weather Service (NWS) North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC), and
I was given advice on how I might further my education in hydrology
and water resources management.
My career with NOAA NWS at NCRFC (1979-2005) was cut short by NWS
management as a result of my research and speaking about climate and
hydrologic change in the Upper Midwest. I also have education and
experience in prairie and landscape restoration. My volunteer work
has been with the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
A website showing albums on my:
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Music can soothe, heal, and unite. The song that comes to mind is “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Unlike other symphonies, this one features the human voice. Its power is discussed in the documentary “Following the Ninth” – which I hope to get the link for everyone to watch BEFORE our Sunday global virtual jam session of “Ode to Joy” in its original key. See my blogpost.
What a delight and a surprise to see the melodic counterpart to Daniel Ward’s first book “Arpeggio Meditations” — six of which serve as accompaniment to the pieces in his new book “Melodic Meditations.” Like the previous book, each piece is carefully noted and represented in both notation, tablature, chord name (diagram), fingerings for right and left hands.
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Classical guitarist and ukulele expert Paul Mansell’s “Classical Uke” contains twenty short pieces transcribed for the beginning ukulele plucker. Easy to sight read and follow, these pieces whet the appetite of any ukulele enthusiast.


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From my perspective, the hire of Mark Stoops today by UK represents a tremendous step forward for the Kentucky football program. After three weeks of searching and narrowing a list, Mitch Barnhart ended up zeroing in on Mark Stoops and finalizing a deal. The basics of the agreement were finalized on Monday evening and Stoops was announced today as the newest football leader of the Big Blue Nation. Others on KSR have written about Stoops and what he means to the program, but after talking with a number of sources close to the process, a few tidbits about the search are worth reviewing:
1. Major Facility Renovation Was Part of the Hire
Multiple sources have told me that the biggest worry that Mark Stoops had about the Kentucky job was the state of the Kentucky football facilities in comparison to the rest of the SEC and the commitment by the program to their upgrade. Barnhart assured Stoops that a major investment in UK football facilities was planned and that they were working towards a bonding request for this next Kentucky legislative session. This assurance followed meetings in the last two weeks between Barnhart and former players/football donors, detailing the types of renovations that are to be done and the requests that will be made to Frankfort. This will be a big focus over the next couple of months and was part of the sell to Mark Stoops.
2. Stoops Reached Out to Kentucky and Had a Plan for UK
A source tells me that Mark Stoops was on Mitch Barnhart’s list of those he wanted to consider, but that Stoops impressed the UK AD the most by affirmatively reaching out for the job. Stoops, through representatives, made it known he was interested in the UK job and believed he could win here. Multiple sources confirm to KSR that he produced a plan as to how to make UK a winner in the SEC. I was told that those involved in the search were “blown away” by how much Stoops had put into his plan and his explanation as to why UK can compete. He said he believed there was nothing stopping UK from being competitive in the SEC and his confidence was a true selling point for the group. In addition, Stoops gave a list of 2013 football recruits that he believed he could get to come to Kentucky if hired, and noted the areas of the country that he would focus on in the future. The detail of his plan and his exuberance in getting started was potentially the greatest selling point in Stoops’ favor.
3. The Timeline of the Hire
Kentucky narrowed its initial search list down to 6 candidates by early last week. The list at the time included Butch Jones, Sonny Dykes, Mike MacIntyre, Gary Andersen, Mark Stoops and a NFL guy. UK never felt like the interest from Dykes was complete and he fell by the wayside, as did the mysterious NFL name that I was never able to confirm. The UK folks focused in on their top three candidates, Jones, Stoops and MacIntyre. As they talked to each of the three candidates, Jones expressed an interest to look at other jobs, specifically the opening at Tennessee. He was left as part of the process but Kentucky’s goal of finalizing early before other schools selected their coaches made the union incompatible. That left Kentucky with its two top candidates, MacIntyre and Stoops. Barnhart had a close connection with MacIntyre, thanks to the recommendations of mutual friends Bill Parcells and David Cutcliffe and he was impressed with the way he built up the San Jose State program. However, like the others involved in the search, Barnhart was impressed with Stoops’ plan and the energy that he brought to the process. As one source told me, “no one wanted this job more than Mark Stoops. UK didn’t need to sell it to him, he wanted to grab it and take it. And I think Barnhart really liked that a lot.” The desire to win and the eagerness for the position was ultimately what the biggest selling point. The two sides negotiated on Sunday and a finalized offer was made on Monday afternoon, which was then accepted on Tuesday morning.
4. Coaching Staff
A Florida State source told me today that Stoops was told he would have a “substantial budget” to go after his Assistant coaching staff, including a large salary for a top-of-the-line Offensive Coordinator. No decision has been made at this time on who that will be, but Stoops received assurances from Barnhart that he would have “whatever support financially he needs to succeed.” I am told Barnhart gave that promise with no equivocations and that Stoops believes he can produce a top-notch staff quickly in Lexington.
5. The Timeline in Lexington
Mark Stoops is going to coach in the ACC Championship game on Saturday and then come to Lexington on Sunday for a press conference. A final decision has yet to be made on whether he will coach in the Florida State’s bowl game. I am told that will in part depend on which game it is and the opponent that the Seminoles will be scheduled to play. If he ends up not coaching in the Bowl game, he will immediately begin work in Lexington on building a staff and recruiting for the 2013 class. If he coaches, he will split time until after the game. Kentucky has given him the ability to do either and it will ultimately be his choice.
In my view, Kentucky got a potential great one today and more importantly, showcased a desire to finally put an investment into UK football that it deserves. A lot will depend on the facility upgrade plan that goes to Frankfort in January, but if it passes as all hope, today could be the start of a new era in Kentucky football.

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Pets at shelter are beneficiaries of Girl Scouts’ volunteer efforts
Lansing Girl Scout Troop 739 wrapped up more than six months of service at the Leavenworth Animal Control Shelter last week when they dropped off their final project of the school year.
The Cadette troop of six Lansing Middle School eighth-graders made bags out of old jeans and decorated them with sayings such as "I love my pet." The bags were donated to the shelter to be used as adoption bags - when an animal is adopted from the shelter, staff and volunteers can include a starter kit of food as well as toys or blankets the animal may have used at the shelter to aid its transition to a new home.
The girls - Samantha Moreland, Elizabeth Decker, Kelsey McClelland, Katelin Gibson, Kathryn Sebes and Jennifer Simpson - came up with the idea for the bags after volunteering at Adoption Days at the shelter, which are held the second Saturday of every month.
The bags are the latest in a number of projects that the Scouts have worked on at the shelter. Adult Girl Scout member Nancy Gibson, who helps to lead the troop, said that in October, the troop met and wanted to choose one place to do all of their service projects for the year. Gibson, troop leader Mickey Sebes and assistant leader Cathy-Jo Simpson invited Andrea Marmaux to speak to the girls about the animal shelter. Marmaux is a volunteer with the Leavenworth Animal Welfare Society Inc., known as LAWS.
After hearing from Marmaux, the girls chose the shelter as the place to do their service projects.
"We just saw that they really needed help here, so we decided to help," Katelin Gibson said.
Katelin's mom, Nancy, said the girls' work at the shelter was educational and provided useful life experience.
Since October, the troop has found various ways to help at the shelter in addition to volunteering at adoption days. Some of the girls go to the shelter during the week to help bathe and groom the animals; they also play with the animals inside or outside to socialize them. In December, the girls cleaned and rearranged the bathing/grooming and storage rooms. More recently, they made blankets for the cats at the shelter. They have also donated leashes, collars and towels.
Decker and Kathryn Sebes earned their Silver Awards by working at the shelter. To earn the award, Scouts must complete leadership training, interest projects and a service project. For their service project, Decker and Sebes held bake sales and collected aluminum cans to earn money to buy four Kuranda beds, which are dog beds made of PVC pipe and a breathable fabric that elevates the dogs about 6 inches off of the concrete floor. With the leftover money they raised, they bought a light for the bathing room and pet food for the shelter. Mickey Sebes said the girls raised $260.45 through their projects. The dog beds cost about $216, she said.
Through the time and effort the girls put in at the shelter, four girls in the troop - Decker, Gibson, Sebes and Simpson - earned a Service Bar for working 25 or more hours at the shelter.
Katelin Gibson said she would continue to volunteer at the shelter throughout the summer. She said she wanted to do what she could for the animals there.
"You can't save them all, but you can try," she said.


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|Title:||Cannabis Sativa Smoke Inhalation Decreases Bone Filling Around Titanium Implants: A Histomorphometric Study in Rats|
|Abstract:||Purpose: Although the harmful effect of tobacco smoking on titanium implants has been documented, no studies have investigated the effects of cannabis sativa (marijuana) smoking. Thus, this study investigated whether marijuana smoke influences bone healing around titanium implants. Materials: Thirty Wistar rats were used. After anesthesia, the tibiae surface was exposed and I screw-shaped titanium implant was placed bilaterally. The animals were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: control (n = 15) and marijuana smoke inhalation (MSI) 8 min/d (n = 15). Urine samples were obtained to detect the presence of tetrahidro-cannabinoid. After 60 days, the animals were killed. The degree of bone-to-implant contact and the bone area within the limits of the threads of the implant were measured in the cortical (zone A) and cancellous bone (zone B). Results: Tetra-hidro-cannabinoid in urine was positive only for the rates of MSI group. Intergroup analysis did differences in zone not indicate differences in zone A-cortical bone (P > 0.01), however, a negative effect of marijuana smoke (MSI group) was observed ill zone B-cancellous bone for bone-to-implant contact and bone area (Student's t test, P < 0.01) values. Conclusions: Considering the limitations of the present study, the deleterious impact of cannabis sativa smoke oil bone healing may represent a new concern for implant success/failure. (Implant Dent 2008;17:461-470)|
|Editor:||Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|
|Citation:||Implant Dentistry. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, v. 17, n. 4, n. 461, n. 470, 2008.|
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Monday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. – DISH! The Monday Night Cookbook Club. Each month patrons will choose, prepare at home, and share a DISH! From a selected cookbook. We will then gather to sample each others recipes, discuss our cooking techniques and share stories and cultures.
Monday, March 2 at 6:45 p.m. – Hooked on Books Reading Club. Discuss a book, play games and enjoy snacks! For students entering grades 4-6. On-line registration is required. Please read prior to attending the meeting.
Tuesday, March 3 at 2:00 p.m. – Nutley Parkside Apartments Outreach – Tuesday Afternoon Book Club. Book talk and Nutley Trolley History with David Wilson. Program will be held at 7 William Street in Nutley.
Tuesday, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 1:00 p.m. – Play Bridge and Mahjong. No registration required.
Tuesday, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 9:30 and 10:45 a.m. – Winter & Spring Story Times. Babygarten: Ages 0-23 mths. Children and caregivers enjoy books, rhymes and play time!
Wednesday, March 4, 11, 18, 25 at 1:00 p.m. – Wednesday Afternoon Knitters. Come share your love of knitting and crocheting with both beginning and experienced knitters. Meet fellow knitters, brush-up on your skills, and learn some new techniques. Please bring your own supplies. This group meets every Wednesday.
Wednesday, March 4, 11, 18, 25 at 10:30 a.m. – Winter & Spring Story Times. Preschool: 3-5 years old. Children and caregivers enjoy books, rhymes and play time!
Friday, March 6, 13, 20, 27 at 10:30 a.m. – Winter & Spring Story Time. Two-Year-Olds. Children and caregivers enjoy books, rhymes and play time!
Saturday, March 7 at 11:00 a.m. – Video Game Free Play. Play Nintendo Switch games on the big screen! All skills levels welcome. No registration required.
Monday, March 9 at 5:30 p.m. – Meet up with other LEGO fans, learn from a LEGO expert and do fun building projects each month! For grades K-5. No registration required.
Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 p.m. – Color and De-Stress with Vinyl Records.
Saturday, March 14 at 10:30 a.m. – Dr. Seuss Story Time – Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday this month with stories, games and crafts! No registration required. For all ages. Also, at 10:30 a.m. – Techsplorers Club. Explore technology and STEM subjects with Mr. L. Each month we’ll work on a different project: coding, building, programming and more! Open to grades 3-6. Registration is required.
Monday, March 16-20 at 2:00 a.m. – Maker’s Week – Come and enjoy special STEAM events all week long! For all ages. No registration required.
Wednesday, March 18 at 3:00 p.m. – Teen Cookie Decorating Program. No registration required. Grades 6-12.
Thursday, March 19 at 7:00 p.m. – The vitals of Life with Dr. Marco Ferrucci. Dr. Ferrucci will lead an interactive and fun discussion on the essentials to leading a healthy productive, and satisfying life.
Saturday, March 21 at 11:00 a.m. – 2020 Maker’s Day. Join us for Makers Day at the Nutley Public Library! DIY projects, crafts, and more! No registration required. Open to all ages.
Wednesday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m. – Teen Video Game Club. For grades 6-12.
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Saturday, March 28 at 11:00 a.m. – Drop-in Craft. Stop by the Children’s Room to make a craft to take home. For all ages while supplies last! No registration required. Also, at 11:00 a.m. LEGO Play time. Free play with LEGOs! For ages 5 and up. No registration required.
Saturday, March 28 at 2:00 p.m. – Enjoy a concert of standards and favorites from the Great American Songbook, a collection of the most important influential songs from the early 20th century with Carol Erickson, Vocalist. Ted Brancato, Pianist
Monday, March 30 at 6:00 p.m. – Dungeons & Dragons – Open to grades 6-8. Sign-up at Children’s Desk.
Selected Fridays at 3:15 p.m. - Origami Fridays. Join artist Nobuko Okabe and make a beautiful paper creation on select Friday afternoons. Registration is not required.
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The union chiefs holding education of 500,000 Californian schoolkids to ransom: One went straight to NBA game suite after strike announcement and is BLM member - while other supports defund the police and vowed 'no peace' until demands are met
- The radical president of Los Angeles' teachers union has led a solidarity strike
- UTLA President spoke at socialist convention and is Black Lives Matter member
- She was also accused of racism for saying only 'white wealthy parents' wanted to reopen schools
The radical president of Los Angeles' teachers union, who once said 'there is no such thing as learning loss' and attended an NBA game in a suite after announcing a solidarity strike, is among those in support of the LA schools' strikes.
Staff at Los Angeles's only public school district braved the rain to make good on their threats of a three-day strike Tuesday in hopes of obtaining better wages, shutting down the nation's second-largest school system in the process.
Educators and employees have been slammed on social media for failing families, saying they are using nearly 500,000 young people as 'leverage' in their own battle for better pay and other benefits.
SEIU99 Executive Director Max Arias has led the support staff union into the strike and insisted the strike was the 'workers' last resort', arrived at only after nearly a year of bargaining for better wages.
His union has been supported in a 'solidarity strike' by United Teachers Los Angeles and their union President Cecily Myart-Cruz, someone who has courted controversy in the past for her views on lockdowns and social justice.
Ahead of her election as president, Myart-Cruz spoke at the convention for the left-wing political group Democratic Socialists of America's 2019 convention in Atlanta, in which she stated 'I see teaching as a revolutionary act, just the way I see organizing.'
Cecily Myart-Cruz (pictured speaking at the Democratic Socialists of America Convention in 2019), the radical president of Los Angeles' teachers union, who once said 'there is no such thing as learning loss' and allegedly attended an NBA game in a suite after announcing a solidarity strike, is among those in support of the LA schools' strikes
'It's hard, it's messy and sometimes it can be too much but you can never allow fear to win. We must engage folks to take action in different ways and we must work to make every work site an anti-racist one.'
She's seen elsewhere in the speech criticizing the 'neoliberal' Los Angeles Unified School District which she argues 'starved our schools' and claimed bosses in all walks of life 'prey on fear.'
Her union bio also shows her as a member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, the 2020 rallies of which she used to suggest there is 'no such thing as learning loss' for children who were not in school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
'Our kids didn't lose anything,' she told LA Magazine in 2021. 'It's OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.'
Her other remarks included 'reopening schools without a broader improvement of schools will be unsafe and will deepen racial and class inequalities' and 'You can recall the Governor, you can recall the school board. But how are you going to recall me?'
Myart-Cruz won re-election in 2023 on a platform that included requests for schools to take pieces of a 'Green New Deal' into their district.
Their demands included expansion of outdoor education space, tech education in green energy fields, solar panels on all district buildings, increased electric school buses and extending free public transportation for students.
She also led the union while it planned to vote on joining the 'Boycott, Divest and Sanction' movement against Israel. The vote was eventually shut down after heavy criticism.
This map shows the schools throughout the Los Angeles area closed during the strike
SEIU99 Executive Director Max Arias has led the support staff union into the strike and has insisted that the strike was the ' workers' last resort', arrived at only after nearly a year of bargaining for better wages
Myart-Cruz won re-election in 2023 on a platform that included requests for schools to take pieces of a 'Green New Deal' into their district
The teachers' union demands included expansion of outdoor education space, tech education in green energy fields, solar panels on all district buildings, increased electric school buses and extending free public transportation for students
Before becoming head of the teacher's union, Myart-Cruz attended Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, then Mount Saint Mary's, a Catholic women's college in Brentwood. She graduated in 1995, and on to Pepperdine to gain her teaching certificate - where fees now stand at $80,000-a-year.
She began her teaching career in Compton, then went to an elementary school Westwood where kids first thought she was too strict but ended up 'loving her', according to a teacher who taught next door.
She is divorced from her husband of 16 years and the pair share a ten-year-old son.
She is now dating VanCedric Williams, an elected member of the Oakland Unified School Board, according to the Los Angeles Magazine article.
The pair attended an NBA game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors with Assemblyman Matt Haney in a box suite just after declaring the solidarity strike.
Myart-Cruz (pictured far left) attended an NBA game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors with Assemblyman Matt Haney in a box suite just after declaring the solidarity strike
The unions have received backing of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America
She then went to teach at Mesa Elementary in Crenwshaw, where students and their families were less affluent - but didn't last there long, according to former colleagues.
In 2020, the former head of the union - Alex Caputo Pearl - reached his term limit and endorsed her to take over.
She stopped teaching 2014 to devote herself to the union full time and was part of the leadership team when dues were increased from $689-a-year to $917 in 2016.
She took over in February 2020 - a month before the pandemic closed schools all over America and the world.
There are 33,000 teachers in the union but only 5,000 voted in the election where she became president with 69 percent of the vote - about 3,500 votes.
Myart-Cruz has been part of efforts to lead social and racial justice movements among union members
Students and community members marched from the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex to LAUSD headquarters at a 2020 rally
Hundreds of students and community members calling for the elimination of the $70 million Los Angeles School Police Department
Earlier this year, she blamed 'white wealthy parents' for wanting to get kids back into classrooms, claiming: 'Unfortunately, the plan reverts to deeply flawed ideas in Gavin Newsom's proposal in December to offer school districts more money if they open faster.
'If you condition funding on the reopening of schools, that money will only go to white and wealthier schools that do not have the transmission rates that low income black and brown communities do.'
The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has also heavily backed and worked with the unions. Myart-Cruz spoke at its convention in 2019.
The left-wing group has already held a 'Tacos for Teachers' event on Tuesday, and several days of phone banking efforts to campaign for the unions.
Their social media feeds have been full of DSA-LA members marching the picket lines with the union members.
Most notably, Myart-Cruz has fought Gavin Newsom on his plan to reopen schools. She said that it was racist towards communities where COVID-19 was more rampant and those were typically minority or lower income communities
School workers from the Service Employees International Union Local 99 picket in West LA
They began a three day strike shutting down schools on Tuesday
School workers from the Service Employees International Union Local 99 outside of the Daniel Webster Middle School
Meanwhile, SEIU99 Executive Director Max Arias, promoted a march to Defund the Police and re-invest in schools in 2020.
At a rally on Monday, Arias led picketers in a chant of 'no justice, no peace' and said their campaign was about justice.
'It's about 65,000 education workers telling the district what it needs to do to improve the conditions of schools to ensure that every student can succeed and do what they wish in life. Listen to the voices of the people that do the work.'
He finished by saying the only thing that could stop their work was 'justice' before leading the chant.
The native of El Salvador notably has a plaque in his office stating 'it's on, motherf**kers!' according to the LA Times.
He proudly boasted of his membership: 'Once you learn you have power, it’s not easy to take it away. They’ve shut the district down!'
Now, more than 1,000 public schools are closed, and processions consisting of some 30,000 non-teaching support workers and 35,000 teachers are sprouting up across the city.
The campaign for increased pay in the wake of rampant inflation and soaring housing costs saw thousands traversing the dark, rainy morning as early as 5:00 am Tuesday to march rain ponchos and jackets.
Union members behind the strike argue that the school support staffers - such as janitors, bus drivers, and lunch workers - on average, earn just $25,000 per year, forced to live in poverty in high-priced LA. The average annual rate of pay for a cashier at Burger King, for reference, is roughly $27,000, according to Glassdoor.
Taking to the streets Monday, workers affixed signs to their umbrellas while others offered pro-union chants in the storm of protests, which had been anticipated for weeks - and come as a somewhat unfavorable outcome for the district, as well as roughly a million parents, with more than 500,000 students now set to miss school.
Maryam Qudrat has accused United Teachers Los Angeles of racial profiling her after they blamed 'white wealthy parents' for the rush to get back in classrooms
It came after Myart-Cruz, head of UTLA, slammed a reopening plan, arguing it was being driven largely by 'white wealthy parents'.
Members of Service Employees International Union Local 99 were among those marching in the cold rain Tuesday, toting signs with messages that decried the district for not adhering to their demands - which include a 30 percent pay raise.
'We've had enough of empty promises,' Arias told the outlet, flanked by school staffers and supporters of their demands. 'If LAUSD truly values and is serious about reaching an agreement, they must show workers the respect they deserve.'
While citizens are fed up, public school workers in the embattled state - which is currently mulling over a proposal that would see roughly 1.8million black Californians gifted $360,000 in 'reparations' - are equally tired with the local government, leading to the planned walkouts that were announced last week.
'Workers are fed-up with living on poverty wages and having their jobs threatened for demanding equitable pay,' Arais said in a statement last week criticizing district for not bowing to their demands of an immediate wage increase.
'Workers are fed-up with the short staffing at LAUSD - and being harassed for speaking up.'
Myart-Cruz led a March 2021 protest against California Governor Gavin Newsom's plan to reopen schools
Myart-Cruz said the union's members would not accept a rushed return to the classroom
On Wednesday, Superintendent Carvahlo decried the possibility of a strike after prolonged campus closures interrupted students' learning during the pandemic.
'What are the consequences?' Carvalho said of the possible repercussions of yet another week of closures. 'The consequences are once again learning loss, deprivation of safety and security that schools provide to our kids, deprivation of food and nutrition that many of our kids depend on.'
He added: 'I know that we focus our attention on the needs of the workforce. I need to focus my attention also primarily on the needs of our kids.'
Parents have expressed similar concerns. Local mother Yesenia Benites complained the closures will not only affect her young daughter, but her as well, as she divides her time between parenting and taking online classes at an undergrad university.
'Since I do go to college and take online classes, having to have a daughter that's here... it's gonna take my study time to do homework and all that.'
That said, the mom said she was most concerned about her daughter.
'She's going to miss being with her friends and learning,' she lamented.
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THE embattled self-exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has suggested that there might be an investigation by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission on Foreign Affairs Minister General Sibusiso Busi Moyo over a corruption emanating from 2017.
Ironically General Moyo’s wife Lois Justice Matanda-Moyo leads the Commission.
Said Prof Moyo, “There’s a reason why Minister Sibusiso Moyo is silent. He and his wife know only too well that there’s a 2017 docket on corruption allegations against him involving his alleged receipt of the proceeds of crime that were deposited in an account he holds at a major local bank in Zimbabwe.”
A ZANU PF apologist Never Maswerasei said Justice Moyo will recuse herself where there are cases to deal with her husband.
“Where Minister Moyo may be involved, the ZACC Chairperson Matanda-Moyo will simply recuse herself from the matter and allow the deputy to preside over it – just as they do at the courts. It is that simple.”
Matanda Moyo recently told journalists that he Commission will leave no stone unturned in investigating crimes relating to corruption and abuse of office.
General Moyo is on record saying he will not be arm-twisted to divorce his wife simply because she has been appointed to lead the country’s anti-graft commission.
“She is independent. She has been a judge before and she has held decisions in her own right as a professional when I am in the Executive. That has not even affected her way of dealings, and there is no ways I can divorce her.” Moyo told British media.


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The Church of St. Michael is supposed to be built in the end of the 13th century, but another theories suggest sometime between the beginning of the 12th century or in the end of the 15th century. The church replaced an earlier wooden church from around the 1000s. The church has one of the best preserved medieval interior in Finland. There are many medieval wooden sculptures decorating the interior, and the wall paintings are from the middle of the 15th century. Finstrom Church is one of the biggest churches in Aland.References:
Olargues is a good example of a French medieval town and rated as one of the most beautiful villages in France. It was occupied by the Romans, the Vandals and the Visigoths. At the end of the 11th century the Jaur valley came under the authority of the Château of the Viscount of Minerve. The following centuries saw a succession of wars and epidemics, and it was not until the 18th century that Olargues became re-established. This was due to the prosperity of local agriculture and artisanal industry.
The Pont du Diable, 'Devil's Bridge', is said to date back to 1202 and is reputed to be the scene of transactions between the people of Olargues and the devil. The old village is clustered around the belltower, which was formerly the main tower of the castle (Romanesque construction). The old shops have marble frontages and overhanging upper storeys. A museum of popular traditions and art is to be found in the stairs of the Commanderie.

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COVID hits our wallets
Last updated 1/6/2021 at 9:44am
You can learn all kinds of things from surveys, and not all of them are good.
A recent SimplyWise bi-monthly survey showed that 35% of seniors age 60 and older are willing to risk getting COVID in order to work.
Of those who are over age 50, only 27% have put any money aside recently for retirement. Nearly half could not last one month off their savings.
The number of people who plan to keep working after starting to collect Social Security benefits just keeps rising, up to 74% at the time of the survey.
Due to finances, 17% of us are considering selling our homes.
I scarcely know where to...

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FLOWER POWER and DANDELION WISHES
On Sunday, April 4th, KUNM's Radio Theater presents Flower Power: The Adventure Begins by Wil Anderson and Dandelion Wishes by Leslie Barker. In Flower Power, a shifty local tv weatherman conspires to take a magic water bottle that can make it rain, away from a little girl, in an attempt to make, rather than report on, the weather. In Dandelion Wishes, a modern take on the Cinderella story, a young girl searches for her talent while suffering at the hands of her tone-deaf stepmother and crass step-siblings. But an impulsive wish on a dandelion introduces her to her magical, brassy, Southern fairy godmother, who might just hold the key to her self-discovery.


The paper parametrically explores the design sensitivity of a fiber optic pressure sensor (FOPS), based on the potential
failure mechanisms expected in the sensor diaphragm. The product under study is a miniature FOPS that can be
embedded in, or installed on, a structure for pressure monitoring applications. The field operating conditions are defined
in terms of temperature, pressure, and vibration loading. The FOPS probe has a Fabry-Perot cavity, with the fiber tip and
a miniature diaphragm acting as the two mirrors. The cavity length changes when the diaphragm deflects under
pressure. However, due to field operating conditions, several failure mechanisms may affect the structural and optical
characteristics of the sensor, such as cracks in the diaphragm and/or high residual stresses in the optical fiber. With the
aid of finite element analysis, this article investigates conflicting design constraints due to structural failure mechanisms
in the diaphragm and elaborates on the severity of each one by parametric design sensitivity studies.
In this article, the modeling and control of enclosed sound fields using shunted piezoelectric circuit is investigated. A
spherical wave, which is generated by a noise source located in the near field, is transmitted into a rectangular enclosure
through a flexible panel. Piezoelectric patches, which are bonded symmetrically to the top and bottom surfaces of the
panel, are either shunted through electric shunt circuits, and hence acting as energy dissipaters, or used as sensors for
vibration measurements. Microphone sensors are used inside and outside the enclosure for acoustic pressure
measurements. The shunted circuits are developed such that the acoustical effects of two dominant vibration modes can
be attenuated, and this feature makes it appealing for noise control schemes for multiple tones. The numerical
predictions of the noise attenuation levels are found to be in good agreement with the corresponding experimental
In designing a controller, one way to avoid an energy spillover is to use what is called the zero spillover scheme. However, practical limitations may make such a controller impossible to realize, and one will need to implement a relaxed version of this controller called a relaxed zero spillover controller (RZSC). Here, analytical and experimental investigations into a RZSC scheme are presented. This controller has been used for active structural acoustic control (ASAC) of sound transmission into an enclosure. Noise is transmitted through the flexible boundary of the enclosure, and piezoceramic patches, mounted on the flexible boundary, are used as actuators. Polyvinylidene fluoride sensors are used on the flexible boundary and condenser microphone sensors are used inside and outside the enclosure. The stability of the chosen RZSC scheme for a single input, single output system and the extension to multiple input, multiple output systems are discussed along with other issues.
In this paper, analytical and experimental investigations conducted into the design and use of fiber-tip based Fabry-Perot sensors for control of structural acoustics are presented. Noise is transmitted into the enclosure through a flexible boundary, and the fiber-tip sensors are designed for acoustic pressure and air particle velocity measurements inside and outside the enclosure as well as panel acceleration measurements. The benefits of these sensors for realizing zero spillover control schemes and other schemes are discussed.
In designing a controller, one way to avoid energy spillover is to use what is called the zero spillover control scheme. Here, this scheme is studied for actively controlling sound fields inside an enclosure with a flexible boundary. Noise is transmitted into the enclosure through the flexible boundary, and piezoceramic patches, which are mounted on the flexible boundary, are used as actuators. Polyvinylidene fluoride sensors are used on the flexible boundary and microphone sensors are used inside and outside the enclosure. The locations of the sensors needed to construct a zero spillover controller are discussed along with other issues.


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By: Paul Elson
In ancient Greece, there was a school of philosophy that believed thatall is becoming, that destinations were merely a pause in the journey — if you will, a misunderstanding. China understands.
In the winter of 2001, twelve 40 x 60 canvas gicleés of my work were hanging in a café in NYC’s SoHo district. Unbeknownst to me, a high-ranking official from the Chinese Ministry of Culture was touring the quarter, and stopped in the café for lunch. To make a very convoluted story short, the result was that a few months later, I received an official invitation to travel and tour in China, and lecture and display my work.
Not that I would ever deny that my work is evocative, stunning, and deserving of all manner of effusive encomia, but in the interest of full disclosure, the Chinese are fascinated with all things digital, and absolutely dazzled with the concept of imagery and art as a computer product. So chances are that my work was just in the right place at the right time…
With boundless vistas devoid of human artifice, China is a vast and often barren landscape, tens of thousands of square miles at a stretch that are a long step backward into an era with which few Americans could ever empathize. From Xinjiang¹s nomadic sands that ceaselessly ebb and flow across the ancient Silk Road in the northwest deserts, to Inner Mongolia’s sweeping grasslands bending to the staccato rhythms of a Siberian wind, to the hypoxic summits of Tibet, from the remorseless winter gales on the Manchurian Plain, to the steamy, malarial littorals of the South China Sea — disappear a few klicks off what may pass as the main road in any of these areas, and mayhap, the last tour group to breeze through might well have been Genghis Kahn and his Merry Men. Which brings me to this point: if the road less traveled is what floats your sampan, China is your kinda town.
In my twenty-five years as a commercial photographer (99% location assignments), and before that, two tours in the Navy during the Southeast Asia contretemps, I have worked with a range of natives from a fetishist shaman in Togo over a meal of still-squirming larvae whose biologic existence would have enthralled a Harvard entomologist, and been cosseted by the concierge at the Ritz Hotel in Paris . But to my Western eye, China’s mark has an indelible element that will surpass all others.
Permit me a few non-sequitur observations, which I hope will serve to illustrate.
Five-star hotels may dot the landscape in Beijing, but don’t expect to do a walking tour of the city from your miniscule haven of opulence: Beijing is only slightly, and I do mean slightly, smaller than the landmass of New Jersey. And as for maps of the city — well, scale must be a concept considered delightfully gauche by Chinese cartographers… But let’s away from the confines, rather capacious confines, of Beijing.
If Adventure is what you seek, head for the hills, say, Shanghai or Tibet, and rent a car to get there. If you plan to drive yourself, I salute your Panglossian attitude. Because if you attempt a jaunt in the outback á la your college summers in Europe or serially knocking about the university haunts of the USA with a vague idea of destination and route thereto, your future is about to become thrilling.
Bear in mind the following: I am of the firm belief that in all of China, about the size of all 50 states, there are about ten places that the government would wish you to visit. No one proscribes your travel, it’s just that very, very few places are prepared to accommodate the delicate sensibilities of the occasional occidental. To wit:
1. Even if you could rent a car without a driver(which you can’t), signs in English will appear as often as Halley’s Comet; road maps may be more an indication of The Ministry of Transportation’s hopes and dreams; and as for accuracy and scale — see above. Street signs — you did memorize a few thousand logograms on the plane ride over, didn’t you?? — are still some as-yet-unhired urban planner’s fantasy. And even with a chauffeur, communications will have a clarity quotient approaching that of egg drop soup. For much of my trip, I had a driver and I was accompanied by my Chinese wife, who speaks Mandarin (the official language), Cantonese, and several dialects fluently. But somehow, things seemed to get lost, nay, annihilated in the translation, and it soon became apparent that our intended itinerary was merely a bargaining chip in the negotiations that infrastructure, distance, food, and hygiene imposed on us. Between cities, there are no hotels, and if motels exist in China, we somehow managed to travel only the roads that avoided them, especially at night and after a long and tiring day. Perhaps Somebody is letting me know that my triumphant karmic return will indeed be as a cockroach…
Additionally, if, like me, you¹re anticipating the serendipitous while out and about with your camera, you’re going to take that little squiggly line on the map and avoid the main road. Be aware that the smooth parts will be the potholes.
2. And speaking of food, I believe that the Chinese consider flavor highly overrated. Probably an evil vestige ofThe Gang of Fiveand that period of pique known asThe Cultural Revolution. But if you got a hankerin’ for chicken beaks, well, then, you¹ll be in hog heaven — if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor. Because that’s a delicacy, along with chicken feet. To the unaccustomed eye, these creative flourishes in the daily fare are at first a little unsettling, especially when smartly protruding from the stir-fried vegetable platter. And don’t look too intently at the other dishes which may slow to a stop before you on the Lazy Susan. Because in the steaming concoction in that elegant Ming soup bowl, you may find something gazing balefully back at you — in some parts of town, sheep eyes and banquets are as appreciated as pizza and Super Bowls are here.
But after disgorging the business end of a chicken talon at one afternoon’sAll Five Senses AdventureintoUnrecognizable Cuisine, I remind myself, with some chagrin, that true hunger for a large part of the population is a fact of the not too distant past. For all of China’s huge size (only Russia and Canada are larger), and two billion souls, the amount of arable land is small. The cultivation of food products that taste better, as opposed to number of harvests per year of a crop, is of low priority. Along with that sobering thought, note that you will also probably be introduced to flora and fauna that may be reminiscent of your high school biology dissection lab. And if PETA’s sense of fair play strikes a resonant chord, you might be well-advised to skip the folkloric nature of any country market — make that city, too.
3. If the rutted Conestoga wagon trails still visible on the arid high plains of the American West evoke a somber realization of the suffering and gritty endurance of the pioneers, chances are you’ll soon be having a more immediate empathy for their experience. In Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and other large cities that are prepared for tourists, unless you’re seeking to relive the sights, smells, and glancing approach to personal hygiene of your fellow wanderers of your youth hostel days, you will not be happy in a hotel sporting less than a three-star rating. In the outback, stars are what you¹ll find in the night sky, galaxies of them, sparkling all the way down to the horizon from lack of competition from the illumination of sparsely-lit homes and streets. But not on the plaques of the hotel entrances. And upon arrival in your room, and throughout your stay, you may also confront your imagined affinity for the Hindu belief in the sacredness of all life, as there may be ample example of it sharing your quarters. Some of it quite exotic, ravenous, and quick.
And as good Americans, some of you will be wondering about the bathroom. Be afraid, be very afraid. You will probably become acquainted with nature in ways my fastidious upbringing and puritan abhorrence of bodily functions bid me avoid. Ah, but what purpose travel, if not to broaden the mind.
I will take only a little more advantage of Michael’s generous offer of space, and your time — merely to say China was a fabulous experience. What may be my inept attempts at humorous irony interspersed with egregious exaggeration should not mislead you into thinking that I would not recommend wholeheartedly, 100%, through and through, and without hesitation a trip to this stunning land. Nor would I have missed a day. Topography that spans a gamut from 450 feet below sea level (only the Dead Sea is lower) to the highest mountains on earth; all climate zones, save the polar tundra; a friendly, curious, welcoming, gentle people, especially in those areas where most Caucasians fear to tread; vistas and moments that for me are more striking and memorable than any I’ve experienced — this is what I had before me in my six weeks.
I would be foolish to think I know any more than the slightest bit (certainly not a byte!) about China. I know, perhaps, as a drop in the thunderous cataracts of the Yellow River, a grain in the simoons that rise off the shear vastness of the western deserts, a mote on the eddying wind that soughs amid the gilded parapets of The Forbidden City. Only enough to know that the constant adventure of China is the ying that underscores it’s yang.
But I come away with discordant thoughts. China is a sentence that I can’t quite yet parse, and written on the edge of my peripheral vision. It is more a feeling of an ancient grace, that all that has been before is barely past. Perhaps, too, a glimpse of the life force in the cocoon that expels the butterfly — so vibrant, so different from what it was just yesterday. And yet hidden beneath the beauty of that fluttering lightness and awesome change, at its very cellular core, still lies the undulating, voracious slug.
The merest glimpse of China’s history limns a barbaric past, an indurate, pitiless cruelty in pursuit of empire, no less savage for the realization that that is the shadow stalking much of recorded history. It calls into question the very juxtaposition of the words "ancient civilization". But therein lies too long a stroll down too dark a path, and I only mention my musings of its past because of their very immediate effect on my thoughts today.
For always, as I think back upon this trip, with all this bantering insouciance, and my stark visions of all the broken bodies upon whichThe Great Wall was built, I sense a poignant awareness once again, as my travels so often indicate, of my incredible good fortune to be born in America, to live every day in America. To be able to return to an existence and a freedom about which nine-tenths of the world would have difficulty imagining. And too, I am reminded: so close the ravening wolves. So delicate this balance. Who will keep this America, for here, truly, here is the stuff of dreams.
And Michael, thank’s so much for letting me share a few of the moments I saw along the way.
Text and Photograph Copyright 2003 — Paul Elson
Paul Elson was born and brought up in Manhattan. During college, and before graduating as a Philosophy Major from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1967, he studied twelve months in Paris as an art student. It was in Paris that he acquired a lifelong appreciation for what he calls "discernible art" — favorite practitioners of which include Praxiteles, Brunelleschi, Rembrandt, and Seurat. After graduation from Antioch the path of Art and Philosophy led to the U.S. Navy, where Paul became an officer and a pilot. Five years later, after two tours in Vietnam where he received personal decorations for valor in combat, he was discharged from Active Duty. While flying in the Naval Reserve, he began his career as a photographer in 1975 in New York City.
Paul’s commercial photography clients include a score from the Fortune 500. He specialized in architecture, travel and food, and thoroughly enjoyed the worldwide voyages on which he was dispatched by the hotel chains, cruise lines, and travel and food magazines that are household phrases in the American lexicon.
In 1999, Paul’s path diverged from its extremely successful photographic course. With talents refined during his commercial career he developed a unique art form he calls Photo Impressionism. It involves capturing an image photographically, painting or drawing on the resultant print, re-photographing it, and then scanning it to create anIrisprint on archival watercolor paper.
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A post-hoc efficacy analysis of KEYNOTE-048 found that CPS scores were linked to immunotherapy efficacy in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS) may serve to predict whether a patient with PD-L1–expressing recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) will receive optimal benefit with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) alone vs in combination with chemotherapy or with cetuximab (Erbitux) plus chemotherapy, according to an efficacy subgroup analysis of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-048 trial (NCT02358031).1
Overall, 882 patients with recurrent or metastatic HNSCC and who had not received prior systematic therapy were enrolled in the trial. Among these participants, 128 had PD-L1 CPS less than 1 and 373 had a PD-L1 CPS between 1 and 19. Enrolled participants were randomized 1:1:1 to receive either single-agent pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, or cetuximab plus chemotherapy.
An efficacy analysis of the PD-L1 CPS less than 1 and CPS 1 to 19 subgroups were performed post hoc.
The data, which were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that patients with a PD-L1 CPS less than 1 were more likely to experience superior overall survival (OS) when receiving cetuximab plus chemotherapy vs single-agent pembrolizumab. Here, the median OS was 7.9 months with pembrolizumab vs 11.3 months cetuximab/chemotherapy (HR, 1.51; 95% CI, 0.96-2.37). However, among patients with a PD-L1 CPS between 1 and 19, the median OS was 10.8 months with pembrolizumab vs 10.1 months with the cetuximab combination (HR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.66-1.12).
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Harrington added that the findings also indicate that patients with a moderate PD-L1 score would benefit from pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy as opposed to single-agent treatment, and that these new findings could potentially change the approach to caring for this patient population.
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