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The actual number of points that an inquiry is worth is a closely guarded secret. However, it’s safe to say that only those who are “excessively” shopping for credit will be seriously damaging their scores. The moral of this story is to shop and apply for credit only when you need it and, optimally, only after you have gotten your credit and scores in good order.
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If you use the second method — and this if the first time you rehabilitated the student loan — the default associated with the loan will also be removed from your credit reports. Although the late payments associated with the loan will remain for up to seven years from the date of your first late payment, having the default removed could help your score.
In Austria, credit scoring is done as a blacklist. Consumers who did not pay bills end up on the blacklists that are held by different credit bureaus. Having an entry on the black list may result in the denial of contracts. Certain enterprises including telecom carriers use the list on a regular basis. Banks also use these lists, but rather inquire about security and income when considering loans. Beside these lists several agencies and credit bureaus provide credit scoring of consumers.
Credit scoring is used throughout the credit industry in South Africa, with the likes of banks, micro-lenders, clothing retailers, furniture retailers, specialized lenders and insurers all using credit scores. Currently all four retail credit bureau offer credit bureau scores. The data stored by the credit bureaus include both positive and negative data, increasing the predictive power of the individual scores. TransUnion (formerly ITC) offer the Empirica Score which is, as of mid-2010, in its 4th generation. The Empirica score is segmented into two suites: the account origination (AO) and account management (AM). Experian South Africa likewise has a Delphi credit score with their fourth generation about to be released (late 2010). In 2011, Compuscan released Compuscore ABC, a scoring suite which predicts the probability of customer default throughout the credit life cycle. Six years later, Compuscan introduced Compuscore PSY, a 3-digit psychometric-based credit bureau score used by lenders to make informed lending decisions on thin files or marginal declines.
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A number of years ago, before I knew better, I got myself enrolled in a credit monitoring service to get my free credit report and score. I stayed enrolled for well over a year and received nothing for my monthly fee. No updated credit reports and no more scores. Cancelling was very difficult. I had to navitage a internet and phone maze to finally reach someone who would cancel my membership. In my personal opinion, it’s a lot less hassle to get your credit reports at Annual Credit Report and just pay for your score if you really need it.
There are a lot of myths out there about credit scoring – hopefully we can help you understand FICO scoring, so you can take action to build your score. There are five major components FICO uses to determine a credit score. Fortunately, understanding the secret sauce can help you build a strong score and healthy credit report. Both a 700+ score and healthy credit report will help keep the rest of your financial life cheaper by enabling you to get lower interest rates on loans and approved for top-tier financial products.
While late credit card and mortgage payments are also starting to tick up, Zandi believes those measures “are simply returning to historical norms.” Looser underwriting and hard-hit consumers in energy patches like Texas and the Dakotas are driving some of that. But there’s a third possible explanation: The weakening predictive power of credit scores as consumers learn how to game the system.
A: It’s up to you. Because nationwide credit reporting companies get their information from different sources, the information in your report from one company may not reflect all, or the same, information in your reports from the other two companies. That’s not to say that the information in any of your reports is necessarily inaccurate; it just may be different.


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On a scorching summer day, Siyabonga Kamnqa sat down to listen to the stories of some frustrated gogos and mkhulus waiting to collect their chronic medicines at the busy All Saints Hospital in the rural town of Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. He then asked the province’s health department about its plans for getting medicines to people in rural areas.
While it is still unclear what caused the fire at the Christiana Hospital in the North West last week, residents are concerned about what this means for their health needs. Millions of rands’ worth of infrastructure upgrades were destroyed by a fire that left a big part of the hospital in ruins. Nthusang Lefafa reports.
Having to collect one’s medicines at overcrowded public sector clinics with long queues can be time-consuming, disruptive, and, these days, may expose one to a risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2. Thabo Molelekwa takes stock of South Africa’s centralised chronic medicines dispensing and distribution programme, the Department of Health’s system for allowing more people to collect their chronic medicines closer to their homes or workplaces.
By Friday, looting, rioting, and violence in parts of KwaZulu-Natal left shops and pharmacies empty and vandalised, warehouses burnt to the ground, and many lives lost. Sandile Duma and Leslie Mudzudza report on the impact on health services.
While South Africa is doing well on some of the UNAIDS HIV targets for 2020, one target we are set to miss is ensuring that 90% of people diagnosed with HIV are on antiretroviral therapy. Partly in response to this problem, the ‘Welcome back’ campaign started by Doctors without Borders aims to make it easier for people who have stopped taking treatment to restart. Tiyese Jeranji reports.
Pharmacists do much more than stand behind a counter dispensing medicine. These professionals have a key role to play in the health care system and the overall well-being of people. Tiyese Jeranji spoke to a community pharmacist and pharmacists in the public health sector to understand their role and the challenges they face.
Under COVID-19 lockdowns in South Africa and elsewhere, many public services have been interrupted, including sexual and reproductive health services. Thuthukile Mbatha considers the heavy toll these interruptions have taken on people’s lives.
Already at an increased risk of serious COVID-19 illness, older persons in poor communities face an additional set of difficulties in staying safe and healthy. Siyabonga Kamnqa spoke to older people, experts, civil society organisations and government authorities on what can be done to protect older people.
Reports of drug shortages and stock-outs across South Africa have the Department of Health in a race against the clock to ensure a supply of essential medicines. With manufacturing operations around the world still facing issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is battling to meet the demand for contraceptives, tuberculosis medicines and psychiatric medicines.
Four provinces have made positive moves to announce that patients on chronic medicines will be able to have their scripts filled for as long as three or four months in order to minimise their exposure to possible COVID-19 infection in public spaces like clinics.

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Valdese Unveils Environmentally-Friendly Performance Fabric
U.S. textile producer Valdese Weavers is launching a new line of environmentally-friendly performance fabrics that uses a proprietary yarn platform that makes it suitable for indoor or outdoor use.
Called Inside Out, the new line is treated with a plant-based, fluorine-free stain repellent that allows the fabric to resist everyday spills, the company said.
Blake Millinor, chief sales and marketing officer, said a range of multi-fiber constructions are available, noting that the proprietary fibers are enhanced with fade-resistant technology to ensure superior colorfastness.
The line is being launched at this week’s Showtime fabric fair, which runs through Wednesday in High Point, N.C.
It was developed in partnership with popular designer, artist and blogger Justina Blakeney, who will be in the Valdese showroom today to discuss the new collection.
“The Inside Out brand speaks to the bohemian lifestyle that fuels my work,” said Blakeney. “I’m an advocate for breaking down the barriers between external and internal living spaces. With Inside Out, I’ve developed creative and colorful ‘everywhere’ fabrics that transcend boundaries without giving up style.”
Because Valdese created its own performance yarns for Inside Out, it develops not only basic components but also novelty yarns that greatly expand the weave structure and hand a designer can achieve with performance fabrics.
And the company said its in-house dyeing capabilities mean unlimited color options, a must when dealing with Blakeney’s preference for wide-ranging color palettes.
“It’s no surprise that Justina’s free-spirited, bohemian vibe pairs perfectly with her new fabrics which are full of colors, patterns, flowers and plants,” said Valdese Weavers Chief Creative Officer Laura Levinson. “Shades of indigo, poppy, citrine and bright pinks all layer together to create her signature palette. Designs in the new line feature botanicals, funky geometrics, bold abstracts and whimsical birds.”


From the maximum number of new COVID-19 cases to the number of patients in intensive care and hospitals, all major pandemic indicators are declining in Belgium.
According to data released on Friday by the Sciensano Institute of Public Health, an average of 2,299 new COVID-19 infections were identified per day, a 35% decrease from the previous seven days and the lowest since mid-October of the previous year between May 17 and 23.
The positivity rate has now reached 17.1%, implying that one in every five tests is positive. 98.1 percent of all cases are still caused by Omicron BA.2, a highly transmissible Omicron variant.
In the same week, 7.6 COVID-19 patients died on average per day, a 24% decrease from the previous week and the lowest since early October of last year. In Belgium, the pandemic has claimed the lives of 31,727 people.
This figure includes people who died for reasons other than COVID-19 infection, while being infected, implying that the number of COVID-19-related deaths is likely overstated. Every day in Belgium, an average of 73.6 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospitals, a 20% decrease from the previous seven days.
The figure reflects the fact that the majority of people are admitted to hospitals due to the virus, rather than being admitted for another reason and then testing positive for COVID-19. In addition, 1,101 people were admitted to Belgian hospitals due to an infection, 120 fewer than on Tuesday. In contrast, the number of people in intensive care has dropped to 86, the lowest level since July of last year.
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Pikes Perk was alight with the sounds of conversation and brewing coffee while the smells of homemade pastries wafted through the air.
Megan McAndrew Cox, author of the new Young Adult “Teen Mobster” trilogy, UCCS alumnus and former reporter for The Scribe, sat at a table surrounded by friends, family and fans for a book signing.
With a mother who discouraged cable, Cox developed a love for reading at a young age. Entranced by authors like Michael Crichton and Lauren Oliver, she found herself brewing a story of her own.
The first book of her trilogy, “Accidental Mobster,” a story about a teenage boy who becomes part of a mob family, was not published when originally sent out to publishers in 2007.
Cox braved the publishing world again in 2011, and one week after her daughter’s first birthday, Bluewood Publishing offered Cox a contract for her “Teen Mobster” series.
“I was very excited,” she said. Cox added that she is a strong believer in the value of higher education and the opportunities it provides for students.
She is thankful for the contribution that UCCS and The Scribe made to her success, instilling her with a level of confidence that she says she could not have attained without her degree.
“At UCCS, I had two or three professors there that told me if you put your mind to it, you can find the opportunity. You can go and do things and go places,” Cox said.
She recalled fond memories of her time at The Scribe as a reporter, saying that although the editor was always hard on her and fellow reporters, the experience helped prepare her for the real world.
“The work ethic that you learn at school is what gets you to the next level.”
But even with a strong work ethic, getting inspired can become a frustrating obstacle for any writer.
Cox, a mother of two, an author, blogger and marathon runner, keeps herself inspired by envisioning a good scene toward the middle or the end of her story that she wants to get to or by setting a word count for herself, especially when beginning new projects.
“Some days you’re inspired, and some days you’re just doing work. But it’s always fun.”
Concerning her trilogy, Cox said that she has always loved the Young Adult genre.
“The characters [in Young Adult] are people you can understand because we have all been there,” she said.
Many people can still look back to the books that left an impression on them as teenagers. High school is a time when teenagers experience revelations about who they are in relation to the world around them. Cox hopes to be a part of that experience through her Young Adult series.
And the publishing process?
“It’s painful,” Cox said, laughing as she remembers her struggles.
She stresses the fact that you must believe in yourself if you want to become a writer – even if that means subjecting your work to criticism and possible rejection.
The outcome – that moment when you are published – makes the experience well worth the fight, she said.
“Keep your options open. Be willing to write anything and everything because you never know what will open the door,” Cox said.
The first book of her “Teen Mobster” series is on shelves, and she has already signed a contract for a new series. To contact Cox, for more information or to purchase her books, visit teenmobster.com.

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Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:34:07 GMT(image) A blaze broke out during a party in a warehouse late Friday night in Oakland, Calif., leading to many casualties. Photo: European Pressphoto Agency
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 20:09:38 GMT(image) On Saturday, 20,000 people filled a stadium in Chapeco, Brazil, despite a rainstorm, to honor members of the town’s football club who died in a plane crash earlier this week. Photo: European Pressphoto Agency
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 05:05:58 GMT(image) Beth MacLean, a portfolio manager at Pimco, explains why women sometimes get better investing results, and how she is bringing more into the business.
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In this presidential election season, when celebrities endorse candidates while talking to empty chairs, engage in political debates on Twitter and encourage the rest of us to vote via cleverly edited YouTube clips, a new university study suggests that, perhaps, they might all be better off keeping their mouths shut.
The study, to be published in an issue of the journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, suggests that the more the public knows about celebrities’ personal opinions, the less inclined we are to like the celebrities, particularly if we discover that their views differ from our own. Which, perhaps, is common sense. But thanks to this study, it’s now science.
Professors at the Universities of New Hampshire, Utah and Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University conducted the aforementioned study by staging two experiments in which college students’ responses to celebrity-related information were assessed. The key part of the study, from my perspective, was the portion that gauged reaction to a pair of movie stars who fall on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum: Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson.
Wait, Mel Gibson? The guy who once called a female police officer a name that begins with “Sugar” and ends in a word I’m not allowed to write on this Web site? The man whose explosive arguments with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva were spewed all over the Internet two years ago? Doesn’t his involvement in this scholarly endeavor nullify all of its results?
Actually, no, says Bruce Pfeiffer, one of the researchers and a professor of marketing at the University of New Hampshire.
For starters, Pfeiffer said the students were surveyed before the whole Gibson/Grigorieva mess. And as for all the other baggage Gibson brings to the table regarding alleged anti-Semitism and weird interviews with Diane Sawyer, Pfeiffer said it did not seem to affect the study participants’ generally positive view of him.
“Not only is he at the far opposite end of the political spectrum from Hanks but he is also much more controversial and polarizing,” the professor said via e-mail. “If this was taken into account, however, it did not have a large impact on his level of likability. Although his average rating was less positive than Tom Hanks, his overall evaluation was still positive.”
That is kind of mind-blowing, really. But let’s just move on.
The subjects were asked to read general statements about the careers of both Forrest Gump and Mad Max, then to peruse more specific statements about their religious and political views. (Hanks was identified as a Democrat who supports gay marriage and converted from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity when he married Rita Wilson. Gibson was characterized as a Republican who is anti-abortion and a “Traditionalist Catholic.”)
Across the board, subjects thought of both men less favorably once they read these details, but self-identified conservatives disliked Hanks even more strongly while self-ID’d liberals had the same response to Gibson. The upshot: We all think beloved actors are “just like us” until we find out they’re not, and then we don’t care for them as much.
But wait a second, plenty of celebs are involved in political causes and they still seem pretty well-liked. Pfeiffer’s response: “The bottom line is that stating a belief is fine, as long as very few people disagree with it. Taking a stand on an issue on which there is disagreement will usually result in overall harm to a celebrity’s status among some consumers.” In other words, it’s fine to tell people to vote in a nonpartisan way. But if you tell them whom to vote for, well, some people may decide they don’t want to see “Trouble With the Curve” or watch “Glee” anymore.
One sticking point in all this is social media, which looms even larger in the celebrity sphere than it did two-plus years ago, when this study was conducted. Famous people say potentially polarizing and unlikable things on Twitter all the time and, while it occasionally elicits a negative response, it doesn’t seem to have a long-term impact on their success. If it did, John Cusack and Patricia Heaton would no longer be working, and both definitely are.
Pfeiffer acknowledges that the direct online connections between fans and their idols may be changing the game somewhat, but that our response to the opinions of the rich and famous, as illustrated by his study, are pretty permanent.
“The processes we describe in our research are fundamental, and we believe that people would behave the same way in a decade,” he said.
Do you agree with this? When you hear a celebrity say something that bristles against your own personal philosophy, does it alter your perception of that star or change your mind about seeing one of his/her movies? Or does the social-media-savvy public value celeb honesty more than the notion that Hollywood icons share an identical belief system?
Please post a comment to weigh in. Your responses may be published in the Journal of Celebritological Science, if such a journal ever actually comes to exist.

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A delicious blueberry granola breakfast bowl that’s vegan and gluten-free. Made with simple ingredients, this healthy breakfast bowl recipe is quick and easy to make.
This vegan granola breakfast bowl is perfect as an alternative to eating regular cereal.
Loaded with plump, fresh blueberries, soft and crunchy granola, with a hearty splash of non-dairy milk. Add banana slices to this healthy breakfast bowl for a dose of potassium.
Simple Blueberry Granola Breakfast Bowl Ingredients
Homemade Gluten-Free Granola
– If you want to skip making your own homemade granola, you can use your favorite store-bought gluten-free granola.
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This homemade granola recipe takes only 30 minutes to make, which includes baking time.
You will need the following ingredients:
Gluten-Free Rolled Oats
Light Brown Sugar
Agave Nectar or Maple Syrup
Neutral Vegetable Oil – Try Safflower Oil, Sunflower Oil or Non-GMO Canola Oil
First, preheat your oven to 300°F with your oven rack positioned in the middle for even baking.
Next, line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine the gluten-free rolled oats and sugar in a medium bowl. Stir in the vegetable oil and agave nectar (or maple syrup) until the oats are well coated.
Spread the granola along the parchment covered baking sheet.
Bake the granola for 15 minutes, stir, then continue baking for an additional 5 to 7 minutes.
Remove your granola from the oven and allow to cool slightly before serving. The granola will slightly harden as it cools.
If you like a bit of cinnamon, nuts or dried fruit with your granola, try…
Steps To Make This Vegan and Gluten-Free Granola Breakfast Bowl
This makes 1 serving.
Start off with 2 cups of fresh blueberries. Be sure to wash your berries before using.
*Tip – If you don’t have fresh blueberries, you can use thawed or frozen blueberries.
Take 1 cup of granola, pour 1/2 cup into a bowl.
Next, add the blueberries.
Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup of your granola on top of the blueberries.
Add 1/2 cup to 1 cup of plain or flavored non-dairy milk.
Top with 1 sliced banana.
Enjoy as a light breakfast or as a satisfying snack.
What To Add To Your Breakfast Bowl:
Sprinkle with Cinnamon
Add Chia Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Toasted Walnuts or Chopped Almonds
Sliced or Freeze-Dried Strawberries
Mango Chunks with Coconut Flakes – For a tropical flavor.
In place of non-dairy milk, use 1 cup of Non-Dairy Yogurt. Add more if desired.
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Blueberry Granola Breakfast Bowl (Vegan + Gluten-Free)
- 2 Cups Fresh Blueberries
- 1 Cup Granola
- 1/2 to 1 Cup Non-Dairy Milk
- 1 Banana (Sliced)
- Start off with 2 cups of fresh blueberries. Be sure to wash your berries before using.
- Take 1 cup of granola, pour 1/2 cup into a bowl.
- Next, add the blueberries.
- Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup of your granola on top of the blueberries.
- Add 1/2 cup to 1 cup of plain or flavored non-dairy milk.
- Top with 1 sliced banana.
- Enjoy as a light breakfast or as a satisfying snack.

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A crooked cop from Staten Island surrendered to authorities this morning after it was discovered he had justified working cushy overtime by writing 36 phantom tickets – some of which were issued to deceased drivers, The Post has learned.
Officer Paul Pizzuto, 40, ran the scam from March 11 to June 8, 2010, law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation revealed.
“He did it so he could get credit for work he didn’t do,” said one source.
Internal Affairs investigators ran an audit of Pizzuto’s record-keeping after he came under scrutiny for filing excessive amounts of overtime, the sources added.
Pizzuto, a 17-year veteran who spent the last six years assigned to the North Shore’s 120th Precinct in St. George, would allegedly run random checks on license plates to drum up names to fill out summonses, the sources continued.
But, the scheme fell apart when it was uncovered that he had allegedly only submitted paperwork at the precinct level – never sending the appropriate copies to the state DMV or city Department of Finance.
Another glaring discrepancy – some of the summonses Pizzuto handed in were being issued to people who had passed away, sources added.
Pizzuto was arraigned this morning during a brief appearance in Staten Island Criminal Court, where he was charged with 36 counts each of tampering with public records, offering a false instrument for filing, both felonies, falsifying business records and official misconduct, both misdemeanors. He was released without bond.
This is the second ticket scandal to rock a Staten Island stationhouse this year.
In February, Officers Stephen Gerwer, 39, and Vincent Adinolfi, 40, both assigned to the Mid-Island’s 122nd Precinct, allegedly faked 47 summonses while working from May 5 to May 20, 2010.
Brass got suspicious of a scam when the officers never appeared at court sessions where the summonses would have been adjudicated. Turns out the officers had allegedly tossed the portion of the ticket that would’ve been sent to the motorist and the DMV.
The cases against Gerwer and Adinolfi are ongoing.


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Date posted: 15 February 2012
The Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee (the Campaign) today congratulated the Federal Government on its agreement to work in partnership with Indigenous peoples on a national plan to close the gap in Indigenous life expectancy.
However, the Campaign also warned that inadequate data collection on Indigenous health still needs to be urgently addressed.
The Campaign's statements were timed to coincide with the release today of both the Prime Minister's annual Closing the gap report card and the Campaign's own 'shadow report' on the Government's progress towards meeting its targets.
Campaign co-chair Jody Broun, also the co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said the past year had seen some significant achievements and that there was cause for cautious optimism but not complacency.
She said the Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee would monitor progress of the Australian Government's Closing the gap programs throughout 2012, paying particular attention to the partnership underpinning the health equality planning process.
'The approach to this partnership must enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representatives to drive the planning effort and participate in all significant decision-making,' Ms Broun said.
She also said the Government must urgently improve its ability to measure the Indigenous life expectancy gap at more regular intervals than is currently possible, in order to get an accurate picture of its progress in meeting the Closing the gap targets.
Currently, the methodology for calculating Indigenous life expectancy relies on the Census for verification.
'It's absolutely vital that Australian governments are able to provide Indigenous life expectancy estimates at time intervals shorter than five or more years, otherwise how are we to gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of health programs to close the gap?' Ms Broun said.
Source: Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee


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Tennessee State Capitol. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Virginia’s governor granted clemency to Ernest Falls in 2020 on a 1986 felony conviction and restored his citizenship, paving the way for him to regain his constitutional rights.
But when Falls tried to register to vote in Tennessee, he hit a wall.
Tennessee Elections Administrator Mark Goins changed his stance and determined that Falls and other people convicted of felonies out of state must prove they meet requirements for Tennessee’s administrative voting rights restoration, including payment of court costs and restitution, according to the Campaign Legal Center.
Falls couldn’t provide that documentation on his 35-year-old court case and was denied the ability to register, even though Tennessee law says a person convicted of a felony out of state is disqualified from voting unless their civil rights have been restored in that state — as Falls’ rights were — or under Tennessee’s process, the Washington, D.C.-based civil rights advocacy group says.
Falls lost challenges in Chancery Court and the Court of Appeals, but the Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case. The Supreme Court rarely grants appeals, and the Campaign Legal Center considers the court’s decision to hear the case a “positive sign.”
“This really stands for the principle that the election administrators can’t just move the goalposts to make it more difficult for people to vote,” says Blair Bowie, senior legal counsel with the Campaign Legal Center, which is representing Falls and Artie Bledsoe in challenges. “They have to follow the contours of Tennessee law and that applies to people with felony convictions and people who don’t have felony convictions.”
For those with felony convictions, Tennessee has one of the most complicated laws and rights restoration processes in the nation. But election administrators shouldn’t be able to make decisions that make it more difficult to regain voter rights, she says.
“This is an example of a class of people that we know is significant, that should be allowed to vote under Tennessee law, as it stood unchanged since 1983, and then suddenly in 2019, the elections division decides they are going to add all these additional hurdles in front of them, and that violates the Tennessee Legislature’s will and it violates the Tennessee Constitution,” Bowie says.Final Complaint - Falls v. Goins
The League of Women Voters and a group of 20 Tennessee law professors filed amicus briefs in support of the Campaign Legal Center’s argument.
The Secretary of State’s office requested an attorney general’s opinion in March 2020 asking whether people who are ineligible to vote in Tennessee because of out-of-state felony convictions have to satisfy all outstanding debts from court costs, court-order restitution and child support obligations before they can apply for reinstatement of their voting rights. The answer was, “yes.”
Tennessee’s felon disenfranchisement provision applies to people convicted of a crime that constitutes a felony under state law, including those whose convictions occur in other states or in federal court, the opinion says.
State law makes it clear the Legislature “meant to treat all convicted felons equally and to provide a single framework governing the eligibility for re-enfranchisement of all convicted felons, regardless of the state or court in which they were convicted,” the opinion says.
The Campaign Legal Center, nevertheless, contends thousands of people in Tennessee are disenfranchised because of similar situations. Some 421,000 Tennesseans are not allowed to vote because of felony convictions, and the Black community is “disproportionately impacted,” with more than 31% of its voting age population disenfranchised, according to the Campaign Legal Center.
The organization says Goins reversed his view on the restoration of voting rights to out-of-state felons after writing a 2019 letter responding to questions.
In that letter, Goins wrote that a person with an out-of-state conviction may have voting rights restored if they can show that they’ve either been pardoned or had their citizenship restored by the governor in the state of conviction or full rights of citizenship restored in accordance with laws in the other state.
No mention is made in Goins’ letter of showing proof of court costs or other legal expenses.
It’s not surprising that Mr. Falls wouldn’t be able to find documents in a Virginia court clerk’s office showing he paid court costs. With courts switching from paper records to computerization over the last 40 years, the odds of getting paperwork from the 1980s are extremely slim.
And if he served prison time, he probably wouldn’t have had any income to pay those expenses. After years in prison, is he supposed to drop by the courthouse and drop a few hundred dollars?
Maybe the Supreme Court will show some enlightenment on this matter.
Trouble for convicts
Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and House Speaker Cameron Sexton signed truth in sentencing legislation Thursday at a Knoxville ceremony, more than a month after Gov. Bill Lee returned the bill without his signature.
At one point, lawmakers were believed to be holding up the governor’s new K-12 funding formula unless he agreed to go along with the tougher sentencing measure. Ultimately, legislative leaders reached an agreement with the governor that dropped some crimes from the list that will have to be served at 100%.
Under current sentencing guidelines, most convictions have built-in reductions. But under the new rules, most violent acts will be served at 85% to 100%.
Sexton and McNally argued the tougher guidelines will prevent criminals from getting out of prison sooner than projected and committing violent crimes again. Critics of the legislation, which takes effect July 1, say it will keep felons in prison longer than necessary, costing the state tens of millions of dollars and likely forcing the construction of more prisons.
Back where we started
The Tennessee Department of Education sent out a release this week touting the efforts of the Legislature and teachers to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic when schools shut down frequently to avoid spread of the deadly virus.
The press release came with all sorts of glowing statements and back-patting from our legislative leaders for spending millions of dollars to send students to summer camps – summer school – to return them to their glory years.
No doubt, it’s been a tough two-and-a-half years. Some kids couldn’t cope with online learning, and they’ll never get over the changes they went through in spring and fall 2020. If they lacked discipline before the pandemic, they didn’t have much hope once it hit.
Most, though, are resilient.
The state report showed students returned to pre-pandemic levels for English Language Arts proficiency in nearly every grade as more met or exceeded expectations than in 2019. Those included a 6-point gain in elementary school proficiency, the best in five years and a 6-point gain in middle school proficiency from 2021, matching pre-pandemic performance, and a 7-point gain in high school proficiency, reflecting the highest level in the last five years.
In math, elementary students saw a 4-point gain in proficiency, middle school kids made a 6-point gain in proficiency from 2021, and high schoolers made a 4-point gain in proficiency.
Of course, a big jump is expected now that kids are back in classrooms and have some semblance of consistency in their lives. Young people are fairly resilient, or should be.
Now the down side, only 36.4% of Tennessee students meet grade level expectations in English Language Arts, and only three in 10 are doing grade level work in math. Furthermore, students closed 35-55% of learning loss gaps in math, based on the latest tests. That means they’ve still got some big gaps to fill.
Hey, I’ve got an idea. Since public schools are having to work so hard to bring these kids back up to snuff, why don’t we pay to ship them out to private schools, where all the students, teachers and administrators are so much smarter than our miserable, little people in the public world.
Oops, sorry, we’re already trying to do that.
A voucher boost
The Tennessee Supreme Court this week declined to reconsider its ruling in the lawsuit against Gov. Bill Lee’s private school voucher program, enabling it to move forward once other legal questions are settled.
In May, the court ruled that the education savings account program doesn’t violate the state’s Home Rule Amendment, which prohibits legislation from singling out counties without local approval.
Under the plan, qualifying low-income students in Metro Nashville and Shelby County will be able to take state funds and enroll in private schools.
Metro and Shelby petitioned the court for a rehearing on May 31, with Metro arguing that the supremes failed to consider the fact that the school district is part of the local government, not a separate entity, which was the court’s basis for ruling against them in the first place. Never mind the fact that the Metro Nashville School Board doesn’t have the authority to levy or collect taxes to operate the school system.
“The Court has thoroughly reviewed the petition. The Court previously considered the issues raised in the petition in the course of its resolution of the appeal. The petition, therefore, is respectfully denied,” the court’s response says.
With all due respect, that doesn’t show a whole lot of respect to either Shelby County or Metro Nashville or the state Constitution. It’s also a little insulting to the people who were in the House chamber the day former Speaker Glen Casada held the vote board open for nearly 45 minutes to work the chamber and break a tie. Rep. Jason Zachary, R-Knoxville, finally came forward and agreed to vote for vouchers with the promise Knox County Schools would be removed as an ESA district. The House also removed Hamilton County Schools to make sure it could get votes from Chattanooga area representatives. Otherwise, the bill would have died. Some say it really died anyway.
We also know the ruling would have come out differently if Supreme Court Justice Connie Clark hadn’t passed away last year before the court rendered a decision. Her replacement, Justice Sarah Campbell, didn’t participate in the final ruling. But Judge Skip Frierson sat in and sided with Chief Justice Roger Page, who wrote the majority opinion that depended on a technicality to get the outcome.
Sometimes, however, you have to look at reality, not legal precedent, neither of which the court followed. If what happened in the House that day wasn’t a violation of the Home Rule provision, then what the heck was it?
We’re in the money
The state reported revenues for May hit $1.6 billion, $327.4 million more than the budget estimated and $41.8 million more than Tennessee took in last year.
That brings revenues so far this fiscal year to $2 billion more than projected, giving the state a little bit of a cushion and the Legislature more money to fritter away on out-of-state nonprofit organizations.
While legislative tight-wads will say the state needs to keep shoving money into the rainy day fund, which is at an all-time high of $1.8 billion, the question has to be asked: Are we being underspent or overtaxed? It has to be the former because Gov. Lee keeps telling us we are one of the lowest-tax states in the nation.
The Legislature put $280 million worth of tax breaks into the next fiscal year’s budget, which starts July 1, including a weekend sales tax break and month-long grocery tax cut.
It appears, though, we more than covered that amount in the month of May alone. Certainly, we need to be prepared for darker days. But for the rest of the unwashed masses, inquiring minds want to know: When are we getting our rebate?
“… What’s that sound? Everybody look, what’s going down?”
Franklin businessman Robby Starbuck asked the question on Twitter this week whether anyone else in Middle Tennessee heard loud booms each day for the last week. He said it sounded like something crashed into neighborhood roofs.
One wise guy said it could be the “sound of political prospects imploding.”
The Supreme Court ruled against Starbuck in his effort to have his name restored to the ballot in the 5th Congressional District Republican primary after a group of executive committee members from the Tennessee Republican Party gave him the boot. They said he didn’t meet the bonafide requirements.
A Chancery Court said the committee violated the Tennessee Open Meetings Act. But the Supreme Court said the Republican committee didn’t fall under the act.
Either way, he wasn’t going to win. If half the Republicans don’t like you in a four-person race, it doesn’t bode well for a win, whether you’re on the ballot or making a write-in campaign.
“Paranoia strikes deep/ Into your life it will creep”
Speaking of explosions, now-former state Rep. Rick Womick testified before a House committee in March 2013 and talked about an electromagnetic pulse bomb being detonated just outside Shelbyville.
He said the detonation, which was reported in a local newspaper, could wipe out electronic equipment in a 5-mile radius. The problem was that nobody in the world knew what the heck he was talking about. For that matter, nobody could ever figure out what Womick was talking about.
The Rockvale Republican also claimed on the House floor one day that the city of Murfreesboro was using Agenda 21, a United Nations plan designed to improve life over the next millennium, to stop a businessman from opening a barbecue joint called “Papa’s Butts.” He claimed the city was even trying to make the owner paint the building a certain color, which was part of the UN conspiracy.
As it turned out, the business owner was trying to turn his fencing company into a restaurant. To do that, he had to meet certain city requirements for parking, landscaping and restaurant seating in addition to state health department rules for sinks, stoves, etc.
Other than averting poor health from too much pork, it’s unclear how Agenda 21 would have been used to stop “Papa’s Butts.” But Womick never let the truth get in the way of a good argument.
The business owner’s name escapes me some 20 years later, but he wasn’t too pleased that the representative used him as an example on the House floor. Why? He didn’t want any more attention than he was already getting from the city planning department. And Womick’s mouth sure didn’t help.
Ab buster in the House
State Rep. Todd Warner is looking buff these days in a campaign mailer touting his conservative stands (The Tennessee Journal turned up this election fodder). I’d like to get in on the same photoshopping or exercise/diet program to trim my gut. But it would probably require swearing off IPAs, which can be almost as addictive as golf.
The Chapel Hill Republican, who is facing competition in August’s primary from Matt Fitterer and Jeff Ford, has been under FBI investigation since January 2021, two months after he won election.
It’s believed federal agents were looking into connections between his campaign and new vendors and political action committees that got into the 2020 race and eventually led to the conviction of now-former Rep. Robin Smith on fraud charges.
According to her plea agreement this year, she teamed up with Rep. Glen Casada and his former House Speaker chief of staff, Cade Cothren, to make a bunch of money off Republican lawmakers and take kickbacks. Casada and Cothren have not been charged.
But according to federal documents, Cothren set up Phoenix Solutions, a phony New Mexico-based company, to solicit business without anyone knowing it was him. He resigned in 2019 amid a racist and sexist texting scandal that helped force Casada out of the Speaker’s office, and nobody would have done business with him if they’d known it was him, according to the federal documents.
Phoenix Solutions used the same Chattanooga bulk mail postal code, 383, as the Faith Family Freedom Fund, which Cothren also ran, and Dixieland Strategies, the company tapped by Warner when he defeated incumbent Rep. Rick Tillis, a Casada political enemy, in the 2020 primary.
Warner continues to use Dixieland Strategies, saying this year, “They done me a great job.” Guess what the postal code is for his latest mailer is: 383.
“Old times there are not forgotten/ Look away, look away, look away, Dixieland.”
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Under a beautiful October sky, Brook Avenue Elementary, the Dewey Community Center and Brook Oak Neighborhood Association celebrated National Night Out 2015 on the school grounds. Thanks to the many community organizations that pitched in to help with the event, there was something for everyone to do, making the event an affair for the entire family to enjoy. The evening included free food, free vision screenings provided by the Lion’s Club, tours of fire engines and police cars, jumping houses, a disc jockey with dance music. The focus of National Night Out is to help communities join together to learn about public safety awareness and community resources so that each citizen can help make their community a safer place to live.
The Waco Trib posted:
Prosper Waco involvement also has boosted the annual National Night Out event, Molly Young, chair of Prosper Waco’s family engagement work group, said. The Dewey Center [currently under construction] normally hosted about 15 local booths and attracted between 200 and 500 people. But Young said that because of the synergy among the family engagement members, there will be more than 30 organizations at the event.
Thanks to the many participating agencies and organizations who helped with the event, donating time, skills, services or food:
- Prosper Waco
- Waco ISD Early Childhood Education
- Waco ISD Police Dept.
- Salvation Army-Booth Apts.
- Communities in Schools
- Waco ISD Restorative Discipline
- REACH Therapeutic Riding Center
- CCS Texas Workforce
- Caritas of Waco
- Nurse Family Partnership
- Klaras Center for Families
- Barron's Branch Apartments
- Heart of Texas Autism Network
- Waco Community Development Corporation
- City of Waco Solid Waste
- Mission Waco
- Family Health Care Dental
- Seniors Complete Insurance
- Waco-McLennan County Health Dept.
- City of Waco Parks and Recreation
- Parents Against Crime Coalition
- Waco Disproportionality Advisory Committee
- Fusion Dental
- Lions Club Vision Testing
- Methodist Children's' Home Family Outreach
- McLennan County Juvenile Probation
- Heritage House Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Waco ISD Community Development


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DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWWL) -- A Dubuque man serving a life sentence for distributing heroin that resulted in a woman's death has had his conviction and sentence upheld.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the rulings on Wednesday.
Richard Parker, 49, of Dubuque was sentenced to concurrent life sentences in October 2018 following his conviction on two counts of distributing heroin, one of which resulted in an overdose death. Evidence showed Parker obtained several grams of heroin in Chicago in April 2017. On Easter Sunday, Parker brought the heroin to a home on Rhomberg Avenue in Dubuque.
Parker and several others at the home drank alcohol and smoked crack cocaine throughout the day. Parker and a woman identified as E.M. went into a back bedroom. The woman used heroin that Parker gave her and she stopped breathing.
Parker called 911 around 12:20 a.m. As first responders were attempting to save the woman's life, Parker went into another room and hid the remaining heroin in a chair, which was later found by investigators. Life-saving attempts were unsuccessful and the woman died shortly after 1:15 a.m.
Parker had numerous prior felony convictions. Amongst his prior convictions were four drug-related convictions, including three for drug distribution. Parker had been released after nearly a decade in prison just days before the incident.
"Richard Parker committed a deadly crime. The sentence affirmed by the Court of Appeals ensures he will no longer sell lethal narcotics in our community," Acting U.S. Attorney Sean Berry said.


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What is character?
The dictionary of theRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE), defines the term of character in its sixth meaning as the “Set of qualities or circumstances of a thing, a person or a collectivity, which distinguishes them by their way of being or acting, from the others”.
On the other hand, in a broader concept forpsychology, character is theset of behavioral traits that the subject manifests throughout his life, whichis formed from birth itself, develops through experiences and is alsomolded according to circumstances.
What are the types of character?
Before describing the following classification, we must expand the conceptualization of the character termwith the inclusion of the following concepts:
- Active: Person in constant movement.
- Inactive: Passive person.
- Primary: People characterized by their impulsivity.
- Secondary: People who spend a lot of time affected.
For important authors such asRené Le Senne there are 8 types of character of a person, however, below we describe the 10 different types of character that have been identified:
People with this type of character (emotional, inactive, primary) feel intensely all the stimuli that are perceived from the outside world, which makes them very emotionally sensitive individuals.
To highlight: This character is characteristic of people with A sanguine temperament and they are very active and energetic people, giving them the characteristic of being impulsive and reacting on opportunities without mediating the consequences , acting with indiscipline and disorganization.
People with a choleric character (emotional, active, primal) are at the head of projects for which they live under constant pressure. They can become impetuous in their personal relationships, they act with improvisation without mediating the consequences of their decisions.
You should know: This type of character is based on a Choleric temperamenttag. They are impatient to finish their activities, so they do not tolerate frustration,impacting their emotional state leading to anger , they are also full of energy and have a great ability to solve problems.
A person with a sentimental character (emotional, inactive, secondary) is identified as being shy and having a broad emotional life. They prefer solitude, they are pessimistic and that psychological fear leads them to distrust others.
They are also characterized by being abstracted, reflective and with problems reconciling with their own “I”. They are very introverted and in relation to work they shy away from leadership situations, avoid conflicts and do not dare to make decisions.
Note: These people have strong traits of a melancholic temperament in their personality.
People of this passionate type character (emotional, active, secondary), are characterized by their high emotional charge and tend to cling to it until the end. They also have among their traits that they are active and independent.
To highlight: Due to their strong emotional state, they are able to maintain their emotions for a long period of time, being proud and have good leadership skills.
People with a sanguine character (non-emotional, active, primary) focus on satisfying their needs promptly,because they are active and intelligent. Due to their greatverbiage , they are extroverted and may resort to lying to manipulate people.
The phlegmatic (non-emotional, active, secondary) character type is essentially an individualist, methodical and orderly. They are individuals who adapt to various situations in any activity and for science it is the character of greatest study.
Note: They are generally introverted people and have low flexibilityto changes in the environment. Individuals with these characteristicshave the habit of thinking before acting , enjoy a balanced mood and have a Phlegmatic temperament.
This type of obsessive character is very characteristic of people with obligatory rituals in their daily activities, they show a lot of concern for day-to-day problems, making them anxious people .
Similarly, this type of character is usually perfectionist, orderly, manic and with an exaggerated need to maintain order and neatness.
To highlight: This type of character causes a type of behavioral disorder called “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” .
People with an amorphous, unemotional, inactive character or also called an apathetic, unemotional, inactive, primary character stand out for their constant lack of concern about life , they lack punctuality, they are lazy and they do not like to follow rules.
In addition, they are not planned, but in terms of interpersonal relationships they enjoy sincerity, kindness and are tolerant.
You should know: The individual with this character has slow reasoning, is irresponsible and tends to be influenced by the opinions of other people.
People with an insecure character have difficulty starting, carrying out, or completing any activity, since their insecurity encompasses their cognitive and psychological abilities, since they doubt a lot.
Note: In general they are negative, pessimistic individuals and they see the bad side of any situation.
People with a sensitive character are highly susceptible to criticism from other people, are incapable of making decisions but are highly empathetic and compassionate.
To highlight: They do not easily risk experiencing unknown situations, they work very well in a team but they do not like to take leadership.
- The character constitutes the set of behavioral traits that the subject manifests throughout his life.
- Character types are characteristics of an individual, which are acquired through learning.
- Character is formed from birth and lasts throughout our lives.
- Character types can modify the temperament of the human being.
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BRIT flick The King's Speech swept the boards at the Oscars winning four awards including Best Director for Tim Hooper, who started his career directing Byker Grove.
The London-born film-maker, who also directed episodes of the Tyneside-based soap flop Quayside, walked away with his Oscar statue at last night’s ceremony.
The award was presented by former Best Actress winner Hilary Swank and last year’s winner Kathryn Bigelow.
He described it as an “extraordinary honour” and thanked his mother who first told him about the play that became The King’s Speech.
He said: “With this tonight I honour you and the moral of the story is ‘listen to your mother’.”Related content
He also paid tribute to the film’s leading actors and the “triangle of man love that is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. I’m only here because of you guys.”
The British film was the outright winner at the 83rd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, picking up four Oscars which also included Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for David Seidler.
As he collected his award, its star Colin Firth admitted he felt his career had “just peaked”.
Firth told the audience he wanted to leave the stage before he embarrassed himself by dancing with joy.
He said: “I have a feeling my career has just peaked. My deepest thanks to the academy.
“I’m afraid I have to warn you that I’m experiencing stirrings somewhere in the upper abdominals which are threatening to form themselves into dance moves which joyous as they may be for me, it would be extremely problematic if they made it to my legs before I get off stage.”
But there was disappointment for two of the film’s stars, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, who lost out on Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor roles.
Black Swan’s leading lady Natalie Portman picked up the award for Best Actress for her role as a tortured ballerina in the dark thriller.
The tearful star, who is heavily pregnant, paid tribute to the other actresses she was up against, saying she wished “the prize tonight was to get to work with my fellow nominees”.
Veteran actor Kirk Douglas presented The Fighter’s Melissa Leo with the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the Welsh-born former Batman star Christian Bale picked up Best Supporting Actor for the same film.
Last night’s ceremony was hosted by The Devil Wear Prada actress Anne Hathaway, who had an incredible eight outfit changes, and 127 Hours star James Franco.
THE winners of the 83rd Academy Awards.
Best Film - The King’s Speech.
Best Actor - Colin Firth, The King’s Speech.
Best Supporting Actor - Christian Bale, The Fighter.
Best Actress - Natalie Portman, Black Swan.
Best Supporting Actress - Melissa Leo, The Fighter.
Best Director - Tim Hooper, The King’s Speech.
Best Documentary Feature - Inside Job.
Best Adapted Screenplay - Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network.
Best Original Screenplay - David Seidler, The King’s Speech.

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VIDEO: Tracking Tropical Disturbance 96-C, Current Forecast “Optimistic”
By Wendy Osher / Video by Meteorologist Malika Dudley
Warning Coordination Meteorologists with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center are currently monitoring a tropical disturbance in the Central north Pacific.
As of 1:46 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, Tropical Disturbance 96-C was located less than 800 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaiʻi.
Forecasters say showers and thunderstorms associated the area of low pressure have continued to pulse over the past several hours.
A tropical weather outlook issued by the agency states that “environmental conditions will remain conducive for development over the next couple of days as the low moves slowly toward the northwest.”
The agency states that the chance of the system forming into a cyclone over the next 48 hours is 70%.
“It’s not completely formed as a tropical cyclone yet, but it looks likely that we will see a tropical cyclone in this area,” said CPHC Warning Coordination Meteorologist Chris Brenchley during an interview with Maui Now Meteorologist Malika Dudley on Wednesday afternoon.
“You can see the cloud bands are already circulating in,” said Brenchley. “The general consensus of the models is that it will slowly drift north, but we don’t see it as a real imminent threat to the islands at this time.”
“As it goes north, what happens is, if it does develop as a tropical cyclone, it gets a lot of wind shear… which would start to weaken it,” said Branchley.


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Exhibition to showcase fruits of project
The three-year on-farm research effort by the Crops Division of M.A.F sponsored by S.A.C.E.P has ended.
The research programme emphasized the introduction of new varieties for crops targeted for import substitution namely tomatoes, sweet peppers, onions, carrots and potatoes.
The programme also prioritised the improvement of the production systems for important local crops like lettuce, head cabbage, Chinese cabbage, bananas and papaya and the introduction of new crops to improve the Samoan diet such as Kang Kong.
In addition, the programme addressed important farmers’ issues including improved open field nurseries using rocks readily abundant within the farm, the enhancement of seed germination through different techniques and the management of pesticides.
A series of new technologies were also introduced in the field trials including the use of planting templates, high population densities, different planting patterns, foliar fertilization, formulation and proper quantification of fertilizer materials and the design of small drainage ditches.
Technologies were also introduced at the nursery for the production of healthy and vigorous transplant seedlings including the use of pellets, foliar fertilization and the use of improved potting mixes.
In August 2015, the Crops Division launched a first batch of technologies tested under S.A.C.E.P.
A second batch of technologies needs to be launched, including the results of onion, carrots and head cabbage trials, as well as other technologies developed by the Crops Division of MAF under S.A.C.E.P and other Projects.
The launching will provide an opportunity to share the results of the tests with the scientific community, farmers, buyers of produce and other concerned participants in the supply chain for fruits and vegetables, as well as the general public. It means the developed technologies are cleared by the Crops Division and M.A.F to be used by farmers in their fields.
For this purpose, a formal launching of the developed technologies will take place on Wednesday April 13 2016 at Tanoa Tusitala Hotel, through a Crops Division Agricultural Day consisting of exhibits, demonstrations and seminar/workshops aimed at the scientific community, farmers, buyers and other supply chain participants.
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December 2, 2016 (San Diego) - In his first deal since his suspension for submitting false records to the Boston Red Sox during pitcher Drew Pomeranz's trade, Padres general manager A.J. Preller has traded catcher Derek Norris to the Washington Nationals for pitcher Pedro Avila.
Update December 1, 2016: Lou Tejeda has taken the lead over Dan McMillan by 103 votes in the Helix Water District One race. In the Alpine Union School District race, Travis Lyons' lead over Lou Russo has shrunk to 25 votes.
The elections will be certified December 8 after all votes are tallied.
By Miriam Raftery
November 27, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) — Three weeks after the election, races in the Helix Water Board District and Alpine Union School District have tightened, with a potential for upsets once the final votes are tallied.
December 1, 2016 (La Mesa) -- Nainsook Framing (8130 La Mesa Blvd.) in La Mesa is offering art classes this holiday season. Options include oil painting, watercolor and acrylic painting classes, all-day workshops, plus the latest craze—wine and art experiences where you can sip wine, savor snacks with friends and leave with a finished painting.
December 1, 2016 (El Cajon) — A notice from the city of El Cajon today announces that a Draft Environmental Impact Report on the city’s proposed Housing Element Rezoning Program is available for public review and written comment starting December 5th through January 19th.
A community open house is set for January 5th from 6 p.m.to 7 p.m. at the El Cajon Branch Library (201 East Douglas) meeting room to discuss the project, the California Environmental Quality Act public review process and the content and findings of the draft EIR.
A Foreign Affair, by Amanda Matti (W & B Publishers, Kernersville, NC, 2016, 343 pages).
Book Review by Dennis Moore
December 1, 2016 (San Diego) - Amanda Matti, an El Cajon (San Diego) resident who served six years in the United States Navy, including a 2005 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, has written a riveting true story of romance and war; A Foreign Affair. Matti provides graphic details of her experience in a war that many in this country felt never should have been.
December 1, 2016 (Spring Valley) -- The San Diego Festival Chorus & Orchestra is celebrating its 25th anniversary season, with a Chansons de Noel Concert this Sunday.
You can hear our exclusive interview with director Tony Mostardo by clicking the audio link above, originally aired on KNSJ radio 89.1 FM. He provides some fascinating insights into the major works in the upcoming concert, as well what inspired him to start this marvelous community musical group. He also recalls the group's auspicious beginning on a date now immortalized in history: September 11, 2001, and how the terrorist attacks impacted the group on day one.
Fleeing violence in Syria, some fear homelessness in U.S.
By Rachel Williams
December 1, 2016 (El Cajon) -- Within the Villas of Embasadora, a motel in El Cajon, Syrian refugees have converted their rooms into makeshift homes where it’s cheaper for families of eight, or eleven to survive, than in San Diego’s public housing where costs have risen sharply.
December 1, 2016 (El Cajon) –El Cajon’s City Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, December 13 at 3 p.m. in Council Chambers (200 Civic Center Way) to consider extending an ordinance banning outdoor marijuana growing for the next year.
Following passage of Proposition 64, the statewide ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana including growing up to six plants per household, El Cajon’s City Council on Nov. 15 passed an emergency ordinance banning outdoor growing of marijuana plants until Dec. 30 in all zones within the city. The hearing on Dec. 31 would be on a proposal to extend that ban until Nov.14, 2017.
By Tracy DeFore, County of San Diego Communications Office
December 1, 2016 (San Diego's East County) - ‘Tis the season to dig out those boxes of decorations, blow the dust off of them and start hanging all those lights, stockings, tinsel, garland and everything else that puts you in the holiday spirit. Just make sure your pets don’t put a “bah, humbug” into your plans this time of year.
December 1, 2016 (San Diego) - 24 hours per day, seven days a week, Sheriff's Dispatchers answer emergency calls from all across San Diego County. They save lives by getting help out to those calling 9-1-1.
SDSU psychologists discover brain connections in people with autism show more symmetry between hemispheres.
December 1, 2016 (San Diego) — Divvying up tasks between the left and right hemisphere of the brain is one of the hallmarks of typical brain development. The left hemisphere, for instance, is involved in analyzing specific details of a situation, while the right hemisphere is involved in integrating all the various streams of information coming into the brain.
November 30, 2016 (Washington D.C.) — President-Elect Donald Trump’s holdings in hundreds of companies around the world, as well as his financial holdings, have raised serious concerns over potential conflicts of interest. Surprisingly, there is no law prohibiting a President from making decisions that may profit him personally, unlike laws that ban such conduct for other elected federal officials.
November 30, 2016 (La Mesa) - The La Mesa Historical Society invites you to celebrate the end of the year in style at its annual Christmas Open House on December 11 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the McKinney House, 8369 University Avenue in La Mesa.
November 30, 2016 (San Diego) -- Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Thanksgiving has come and gone. You survived another Black Friday and now we say goodbye to Cyber Monday. The next round of celebration is the Christmas holiday. Are you ready for some unique holiday music? Pacificaires celebrate their 40th year of providing choral music to the community with two upcoming concerts, including a Dec. 10 event in the College area.
November 30, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) – A potentially strong Santa Ana weather pattern will develop Thursday evening, bringing strong Santa Ana winds Thursday night through Saturday. Sustained winds of 20-30 miles per hour and gusts over 65 mph are possible in the windiest locations, including Highway 8 in San Diego County from Alpine to the Imperial County border.
November 30, 2016 (San Diego's East County) - East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
November 29, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego’s inland regions, published in other media. This week’s top “Roundup” headlines include:
November 30, 2016 (Cannonball, South Dakota) – Bitter cold and heavy snow descended at the Standing Rock Sioux encampment in Cannonball, South Dakota, where Native American activists opposing the Dakota Access pipeline have been building winter shelters.
November 30, 2016 (El Cajon) – A settlement has been reached in the case of an El Cajon couple accused of keeping a housekeeper against her will as an indentured servant.
The victim, who asked to be identified by her initials, W.M., wanted to go home to Indonesia and did not want to go through the ordeal of confronting her alleged captors in court, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. So prosecutors negotiated a plea deal.
November 29, 2016 (San Diego) -- Since 2014, 37 people owe their lives to a San Diego Sheriff’s Department program in which deputies carry and administer a lifesaving drug to people overdosing on opioids such as heroin, morphine, or oxycodone.
November 29, 2016 (Julian) - Julian Theater Company will present Charles’ Dickens “A Christmas Carol” at the Julian Town Hall on two weekends in December – December 9 through 11 and again December 15-17. This classic holiday tale reveals the transformation of Ebeneezer Scrooge, who discovers the holiday spirit after visits by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
November 30, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) - This week’s Destination East County includes a parade of lights and snow festival, a murder mystery theatre, a pottery studios tour, a holiday concert by the San Diego Festival Chorus and Orchestra, and a Christmas festival at Lions, Tigers and Bears.
Plus, we’ll tell you about coming attractions including La Mesa’s Holiday in the Village celebration, a holiday wine trail in Ramona, Victorian Christmas teas, and a production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in Julian.
So scroll down for all of these events and many more!
November 29, 2016 (Campo)- If you’ve got a hankering to own a 2,160 acre cattle ranch, you may want to mosey on out to rural Campo and saddle up to see the Star Ranch. The large property is on the market—and the owner is willing to consider offers on any of nine parcels separately or together. (View offering proposal).
A 455-unit housing development has been proposed on the site, drawing opposition from some neighbors concerned about impacts on groundwater supplies, traffic and loss of rural character. Now the owner has put the site on the market-- and is giving neighbors the first opportunity to purchase all or part of the sprawling rural property.
November 29, 2016 (San Diego) - With the Mountain West championship game looming on Saturday, San Diego State Aztecs football head coach Rocky Long, redshirt sophomore quarterback Christian Chapman, junior runningback/kick returner Rashaad Penny and senior defensive end Kyle Kelley were on hand this week to speak to the media.
November 29, 2016 (Ramona)—The motorcyclist killed Friday morning on Highway 79 in Santa Ysabel in a collision with a Prius has been identified as Victor Earhart, 70, a prominent skateboarder who inspired fans of all ages.
Sector 9, a skateboard company where Earhart worked and performed as a team writer, posted a tribute titled “Legends Never Die” that praised him as “a great ambassador for skateboarding and a legend to many. He was always down to ride skateboards rain or shine, dirt or asphalt. He was very loved by all and will be sorely missed in the skateboard community.”
Photo: Rashaad Penny (left), Donnel Pumphrey (center), Damontae Kazee (right) swept the MW awards for the second straight season. Courtesy goaztecs.com
November 29, 2016 (San Diego) - San Diego State senior Donnel Pumphrey (Las Vegas), senior Damontae Kazee (San Bernardino, Calif.) and junior Rashaad Penny (Norwalk, Calif.) have each been named players of the year by the Mountain West for the second consecutive season, the league announced today. Pumphrey was chosen as the MW Offensive Player of the Year, Kazee the MW Defensive Player of the Year and Penny the MW Special Teams Player of the Year.
November 29, 2016 (La Mesa) - The last Boulevard Stroll of the year will be held on La Mesa Blvd. on December 7 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Santa will be in the Kids Corner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (he'll be inside Nainsook Framing + Art if it's raining).


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Facebook Will Reportedly Change Its Name
By Movieguide® Staff
Big tech giant Facebook is reportedly considering a name change for the parent company.
The news comes after the company has faced intense scrutiny after a whistleblower exposed multiple issues to the media and ultimately testified before Congress.
According to the Washington Examiner:
Facebook is set to announce the name change during or before the company’s annual Connect conference on Oct. 28, a company insider told the Verge. It may be part of a twofold strategy to distance the broader corporation, Facebook Inc., from the controversies over misinformation plaguing the Facebook app and expand into Mark Zuckerberg’s “metaverse” concept.
Fellow big tech giant Google did the same thing in 2015, with the parent company rebranding itself as Alphabet.
Facebook also announced this month that it was hiring 10,000 new people for the metaverse.
“As we begin the journey of bringing the metaverse to life, the need for highly specialized engineers is one of Facebook’s most pressing priorities,” Facebook executives Nick Clegg and Javier Olivan wrote in a statement.
The metaverse sounds like something out of READY PLAYER ONE, where users can attend meetings, get coffee or hang out with other users in a totally virtual space.
“Like the internet, its key feature will be its openness and interoperability. Bringing this to life will take collaboration and cooperation across companies, developers, creators and policymakers,” said Clegg and Olivan.
For now, though, social media users have scoffed at a proposed name change:
We’ve received your request to change your name. However, due to our real names policy, you will first need to fax us a copy of your court order and new driver’s license….
— Ina Fried (@inafried) October 20, 2021
New name idea for @Facebook’s rebranding next week. If you are serious about about getting ‘meta,’ call it what it really is: Big Brother. #facebook #Facebooknewname #facebookrebranding #facebookisevil
— (((Noam Benjamin Cohen))) (@NoamBCohen) October 20, 2021
— Kevin Sebastin (@WhoeverEfilecin) October 20, 2021
— Dave A.F. (@DAVE_RETT) October 20, 2021


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The liver is made up of the left lobe, right lobe, caudate lobe, and quadrate lobe. The ligaments are the falciform ligament and the coronary ligament. They are not real ligaments. Instead, they are a piece of peritoneal membrane holding the liver. The lobes of the liver are divided into 8 segments.
The liver has many functions and is a critical part of the digestive system. Did you know that the liver has more than 500 functions and can do 200 functions at the same time!? The liver makes bile, stores nutrients and performs metabolism. Bile is made by hepatocytes which are also called liver cells.


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The Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) a research organization at Syracuse University created "Quick Facts" tools to provide a user-friendly way to see the most updated data available on immigrant detention and the immigration courts. The tools include easy-to-understand data in context and provide quotable descriptions.
Data updated this week on the immigration detention system provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement held 21,519 in ICE detention according to data released on May 28, 2021.
16,166 out of 21,519—or 75.1%—held in ICE detention have no criminal record, according to data released on May 28, 2021. Many more have only minor offenses, including traffic violations.
ICE relied on detention facilities in Texas to house the most people during FY 2021, according to data released on May 28, 2021.
ICE arrested 2,847 and CBP arrested 14,788 of the 17,635 people booked into detention by ICE during April 2021.
Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia held the largest number of ICE detainees so far in FY 2021, averaging 721 per day (as of May 2021).
ICE Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs are currently monitoring 89,115 families and single individuals, according to data released on May 28, 2021.
San Francisco's area office has the highest number in ICE's Alternatives to Detention (ATD) monitoring programs, according to data released on May 28, 2021.
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Micro and Small Business Engagement in the Energy Market
Micro and Small Businesses are not getting the best out of the energy market. This was a key finding of the 2016 CMA investigation and remains the focus of concerns in both Government and the regulator.
This research, jointly funded by Ofgem and Citizens Advice, highlights ongoing challenges for these consumers in the energy market.Despite increasing satisfaction with the quality of information provided by suppliers, we have yet to see an increase in switching levels amongst micro and small businesses. This research suggests that work to provide the information needed to engage in the energy market is necessary to increase confidence in the market but has not been sufficient as a prompt to act.Micro and Small businesses need urgent reform to ensure that they are able to engage in the energy market to get the best deals.

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Optimal Operation of Kaibel Columns
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Kaibel distillation column performs the separation of 4 products in a dividing-wall arrangement. This column provides significant energy and capital savings compared to conventional arrangements. The focus in this thesis is on optimal operation and control of these columns with two operational objectives: maximizing the product purities with fixed boilup, and minimizing energy with specified product purities. The first part deals with optimal design and operation of Kaibel column both by using Vmin diagram as a shortcut tool and rigorous simulations. Throughout the thesis, it’s assumed that vapour split is a degree of freedom. It is shown that the energy saving potential may be lost if the column is operated away from its optimal point, due to disturbances. A control structure is designed based on the plant-wide control procedure by Skogestad. This is done for the case of maximizing product purities. For the second operational objective, a soft sensor is designed by reformulating the self-optimizing control method. The performance of the estimators depend on whether it is used for monitoring (open-loop) or for closed-loop control applications. In this work, estimators are derived for each case. The approach is to minimize the estimation error for expected disturbances and measurement noise. The main extension compared to previous work is to include measurement noise and to provide explicit formulae for computing the optimal static estimator. The results are compared with standard existing estimators, e.g. Partial Least Squares (PLS). One of the drawbacks of combining measurements is that measurements with slower and faster dynamics has weights with negative and positive signs and this may lead to an RHP zero. Different possibilities to overcome the inverse response problem are studied. In the end, control of Kaibel column by estimating the compositions of the light and heavy keys at the ends of the prefractionator is studied.


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The Boris Johnson government on Wednesday announced the return of the two-year post study work visa that was popular with self-financing Indian students, reversing a 2012 decision that led to a major drop of Indian students coming to the UK.
The announcement means that Indian and other international students who join a UK educational institution from the 2020-21 academic year and complete a degree course in any subject will be able to stay for two years and take up any job. The visa route was scrapped by Theresa May when she was home secretary in April 2012.
Indian students with loans used the two-year period to find work and recover some of the expenses of studying and living in the UK. May scrapped the visa route on the ground that it was too generous, along with other measures such as closing bogus colleges that were admitting international students.
Closing the visa led to the perception that the UK is less welcoming to international students, prompting a decline of Indian students from the high of 39,090 in 2010-2011 to 16,550 in 2016-17. Latest figures show Indian students numbered 21,165 in the year ending March 2019.
Johnson announced the new visa route while launching a whole genome sequencing project, which he highlighted as an example of the UK’s pioneering research and international collaboration.
“Breakthroughs of this kind wouldn’t be possible without being open to the brightest and the best from across the globe to study and work in the UK. That’s why we’re unveiling a new route for international students to unlock their potential and start their careers in the UK”, he said.
UK universities and other stakeholders have been demanding the return of the post-study visa in recent years, but May rejected it as home secretary and then as prime minister, despite research and other data showing the benefit to the UK economy from international students.
Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, the umbrella body of all UK universities, said: “This is very positive news. Evidence shows that international students bring significant positive social outcomes to the UK as well as £26 billion in economic contributions, but for too long the lack of post-study work opportunities in the UK has put us at a competitive disadvantage in attracting those students”.
“The introduction of a two-year post-study work visa is something Universities UK has long campaigned for and we strongly welcome this policy change, which will put us back where we belong as a first choice study destination. Not only will a wide range of employers now have access to talented graduates from around the world, these students hold lifelong links in the UK”.
Home secretary Priti Patel said: “The new Graduate Route will mean talented international students, whether in science and maths or technology and engineering, can study in the UK and then gain valuable work experience as they go on to build successful careers. It demonstrates our global outlook and will ensure that we continue to attract the best and brightest”.
Education secretary Gavin Williamson added: “The important contribution international students make to our country and universities is both cultural and economic. Their presence benefits Britain, which is why we’ve increased the period of time these students can remain in the UK after their studies”.