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Maria Trusa is a CEO at Formé Medical Center. She has been an integral part of the healthcare domain, particularly in helping members of the uninsured community in gaining access to affordable and quality healthcare.
As a child of a family dedicated to healthcare, Trusa always had a passion for the industry and has played a huge role in promoting accessible and quality healthcare among diverse individuals. In an interview with me, Trusa takes us on a journey through her formative years and the invaluable industry experience she has gained.
The calling towards healthcare
Coming from a family of physicians and nurses, Trusa always dreamed of joining the healthcare industry. She came to the United States at the age of 15 and was married at 17. Blessed with a child at age of 20, Trusa was passionate about continuing her dream of being a healthcare professional but shifted her focus from being a physician to being a medical assistant.
Her passion and dedication to the field quickly took her to the best institutions. After a few years of experience working with a dermatologist, Trusa joined a reputed medical practice in Scarsdale, New York as a medical assistant. Here, she quickly rose through the ranks, first as a manager and later as an Executive Director. During her 26 years of experience, Trusa was instrumental in growing the practice from 7 doctors to 50 doctors.
Trusa recounts that the days when healthcare was a fee-for-service with traditional plans. With the introduction of HMOs, a lot of people struggled with challenges but Trusa saw an opportunity. As difficulties started occurring for doctors in negotiating with insurance companies, Trusa was able to on-board some of the finest doctors in the industry at Scarsdale.
Starting over with a new dream‘We did not take people that really didn’t have insurance and if we did the price was something that I couldn’t bring to the people that I knew that needed help.’
As an Executive Director, Trusa was already at the top of the healthcare industry. However, she felt something was amiss. Trusa realised that the center at Scarsdale, while offering state-of-the-art healthcare, was accessible only to the wealthy.
As the center didn’t accept Medicaid insurance, a lot of people from the underserved community were left behind. Over time, this Trusa decided to change the accessibility of the healthcare system from just the wealthy to everyone. She decided to leave her position at Scarsdale and start something new that was inclusive and catered to all sections of the community at affordable rates without compromising the quality of healthcare.
Three months later, Trusa connected with Gina Cappelli who shared a similar vision and the two became business partners – a relationship that continues till today. Trusa brought in all her experience, passion and knowledge to the center and together, over the past 5 years, the two created a highly successful practice that focusses on every member of the community, especially the underserved.
Quality and compassion at Formé‘Formé is to reshape. We are reshaping the healthcare system.’
At Formé, cultural sensitivity towards patients of diverse backgrounds is given high importance. For individuals that may not be comfortable with e-mails, the electronic medical record has the ability of texting information which patients are more comfortable with. The focus is constantly on figuring out the needs of the patients and the best way to help them.
In keeping with her dream to help the uninsured, Trusa created an innovative solution at Formé termed a Medical Membership. Under this revolutionary program, for a dollar a day, $365 a year, members could get access to the urgent care unlimited.
Additionally, Trusa also negotiated with numerous doctors and specialists in the field for subsidised fees for members on the membership. Through her determination Trusa was able to create a comprehensive healthcare system for the uninsured community which also had local pharmacies helping out with a 70% discount and labs such as Quest Diagnostic chipping in with an 80% discount.
‘The Medical Membership is one of the most unique things that we have. We don’t know many people that actually have thought of this because we are so culturally sensitive that it gave us the ability to create something that really fits their needs.’
Currently, Formé has about 60 employees and witnessed a growth spurt because of the COVID situation. The center is seeing about 500 patients a day while also doing outside testing for COVID. For Trusa, this has been a momentous step as they have been able to grow the center in a way that can continue to help the community in numerous ways even after the pandemic is over.
Overcoming business challenges
For Trusa, starting a medical practice from zero was the biggest challenge. A lot of centers were already established with a large patient base. At Formé, with hardly any marketing budget and just a 1000 patients – which was the minimum needed for the center to continue, Trusa knew some quick action was required.
She credits tips learned from audible books by Grant Cardone and building strong connections within the community while being completely dedicated to the mission as her main empowering tools in building her practice. Today, the center boasts of a patient base of about 30,000 patients.
Future business plans
For Trusa, the next step is to build different satellite offices, not just throughout New York, but throughout the nation. This will help them duplicate the service they are providing to the underserved communities in New York, across the nation with California being a great place to start.
She also credits social media platforms such as LinkedIn as a great way of promoting one’s passion and business. Additionally, outreach programs, holding events in the facility, conducting seminars and working with different insurance companies have helped Formé gain the recognition it deserves from the community.
Top philosophies and core values‘I believe that we need to figure out how to be culturally sensitive, especially in a country that has so many different cultures.’
Trusa believes when it comes to healthcare, it is important to figure out how to unite healthcare and ensure the quality of service and accessibility isn’t dependent on the amount of money a patient may have. The expectation for quality healthcare needs to be raised at the typical centers that cater to most underserved communities. Instead of run-down centers, infrastructure and a streamlined process need to be an important part of every center regardless of their location. At Formé, the simple placement of chandeliers in the ceilings help give the patients a sense of service and quality that is traditionally missing.
Another thing is to treat all patients with respect and kindness. In medicine, logic and diagnosis can often come in the way of kindness. However, Trusa believes that every employee in the center – from the front desk to the doctor – should communicate with the patients in a way that is comfortable, respectful and kind.
Advice for people entering the healthcare domain
Opportunities in the healthcare field are tremendous. People getting into healthcare need to understand what part of the field excites them and find opportunities in that facet.
For instance, there’s administrative, nursing, physician’s assistant and a lot more. Ultimately, medical professionals will always be in demand. People need to figure out what their calling is, and find an opportunity that fits in with their vision.
Two key learnings
Understand the healthcare business
For Trusa, it is important to understand and study the healthcare business. Not just one facet, but everything from billing, the lab processes, a medical assistant’s aspect, reception etc. and become as diverse as possible.
Delegate to the right person
Understanding your own skills are equally important to avoid wasting time and effort on a task that is not part of your skill-set. it is better to identify the right person for the job and delegate the responsibility for maximum efficiency and growth.
Vision for the future of the healthcare domain
Changes in the healthcare domain are continuing with importance for culturally sensitive and quality healthcare becoming increasingly important. Also, changes are needed in healthcare for the uninsured community that does not have access to healthcare.
Emerging trends in healthcare‘I hear a lot more people talking about how do we reach the underserved communities and make changes so that what happened with COVID does not happen again.’
The cost of healthcare is going to continue to rise and it is important to educate people of regarding quality healthcare. As COVID has proven, we are highly susceptible to illness and in such instances the underserved communities face additional challenges. The future trend will be in setting up processes and facilities to provide better healthcare to every community and section of the population.
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A series of sit-ins and protests urging universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuels gained new strength this week, as students at the University of Montana, Vassar College, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched their own actions to combat climate change.
University is an institution society has produced to educate the young. The unique position of university includes a duty to act in a moral manner as an example.
Divestiture from an industry that is knowingly racing to maximize profits before Earth's life support systems collapse is also sound investment advise.
I still need a good explanation of how divesting from an oil company does anything if one continues to buy and burn their products? Am I missing something?
Well, yeah, you're missing most all of it, including your take on nuclear power terrorism from decrepit plants. By all means keep investing in, and defending, poison energy.......
That's a real brainy analysis professor.
Federal government needs to sponsor renewable substitutes for petroleum products. Joule Unlimited has four genetically engineered photosynthetic microbes: they all will grow in clear plastic tubes containing water and plant nutrients and some starter culture for the GE microbe for that tube, One variety makes ethanol, one gasoline, one diesel, and one kerosene (aka jet fuel for aviation). A worker does need to care for the microbe cultures, alternating between starting a new tube with water and plant nutrients including CO2 and a bit of starter culture from the old tube before it gets overcrowded and dies of overcrowding and starvation for pant nutrients, AND harvesting the product from the old tube and preparing it with water and plant nutrients to be the new tube to be inoculated with culture from what is soon to be the old tube. That is one possible way to make renewable substitutes for petroleum products. Another way would be to use electricity from renewable energy for as much of our energy needs as possible including transportation--electric buses and trucks getting power from overhead wires along fixed routes, electric trains, battery electric passenger cars and delivery vans. Maybe some of both.
There are always some nuclear shills and apologists around to defend the indefensible and misrepresent the facts. Oyster Creek nuke plant is the oldest and some say "most dangerous plant in the US" The NRC approvals for more years of threats to the public is par for their role as nuke cheerleader - not a public safety watchdog!! The exact same reactor as melted down at Fukushima has had numerous serious safety issues over the years."during Hurricane Sandy, the nuclear power plants intake structure was flooded with six and a half feet of water as a result of the storm surge" - "Oyster Creek will close in 2019, 10 years earlier than planned"
The premature end of a nuke plant cancer study is highly suspect and may rise to the level of a cover-up!
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday said it has ended a yet-to-be completed study begun five years ago to assess cancer risks near U.S. nuclear facilities, including the Oyster Creek plant in Lacey Township.
"In a brief three-paragraph press the government agency said continuing the work was impractical, given the significant amount of time and resources it would have to expend, as well as its current budget constraints." Typical corruption and complicity from the NRC shills putting industry profits ahead of public safety!
You should really do your homework before you try to blow smoke up the readers bums.
Abiotic is real. Check it out! Could be as simple as carbon, heat & pressure. Good thing as we (the world) probably ran out of dino's years ago.
One more university administration integrity issue:
Your university president or her/his predecessor probably signed a document promising that the university would work with local inventors to fight climate change. Then the university realized that actually taking this action would (gasp) not make money for the university. So, being in a field where integrity is everything, they said, "#$%^& this @#$%^&!"
It's currently a felony under the Japanese state secrets act for Japanese citizens to print anything bad about Fukushima. ENENews reports massive casualties, especially cancer and horrid birth defects, in the northern half of the Japanese main island of Honshu.
My apologies, your "professional qualifications" and work history in the nuclear field clearly rise above the term shill. Nuclear plants produced power and also negative impacts/consequences, such as spent fuel with no place to safely "dispose" of it, increased breast-cancer and leukemia clusters around nuke plants and leaks from aged plants. It is suspicious the NRC ended a cancer study prematurely before completion citing costs - I suppose they consider cancer victims "less valuable" than industry profits. World-wide cancer rates may be the result of atmospheric radiation spread from nuclear activity/"accidents".
Contamination of ground water, "normal" "atmospheric release" spikes, and threats from ocean rise and earthquakes are also not mentioned. It seems clear there are "green" alternatives IF government would pour as much into development as maintaining the nuclear industry and its enormous costs.
The Fukushima disasters continue to pour contaminated water into the pacific - some estimates state 50 cubic miles of water - with no end in sight.
As far as "verifiable facts" go, I'm unsure of your criteria for "verification" - you failed to mention increased cancer rates as a result of "normal" operation of plants or the enormous costs to dismantle and restore nuke plant sites to pre-industrial condition with costs born by the industry rather than the public/taxpayers - these are serious issues that you fail to address.
It seems to me technologies more life-friendly are more beneficial and sustainable to humankind than inherently deadly, very costly methods, like nuclear, of energy production.
Empathy to who? The oil companies? The sue of fossil fuels will stop when people stop using fossil fuels.
This discussion on nuclear power is entirely off-topic, but since you started it, this is my contribution to the discussion:
Energy Source Mortality Rates; Deaths/yr/TWh
Coal – world average, 161
Coal – China, 278
Coal – USA, 15
Oil – 36
Natural Gas – 4
Biofuel/Biomass – 12
Peat – 12
Solar/rooftop – 0.44-0.83
Wind – 0.15
Hydro – world, 0.10
Hydro – world*, 1.4
Nuclear – 0.04
- Includes the 170,000 deaths from the failure of the Banquao Reservoir Dam in China in 1975
"There is a dangerous radiological threat to the West Coast of the United States that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk. It includes dangers to public health, dangers to the food supply, and dangers to future generations from long-lived radionuclides, including some of the most toxic material in the world. It is not Fukushima, it is Hanford."
If my prey is the oil company, I strike when and where my opponent is weak. Don't nip the giant around the feet, Chop Off an Arm whilst he's distracted.

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MELBA PATILLO BEALS
Melba Pattillo Beals recounted her experience at Central High School in her award winning book Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Desegregate Little Rock’s Central High School.
Dr. Beals grew up surrounded by family members who knew the importance of education. Her mother, Lois, was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the University of Arkansas in 1954. While attending all-black Horace Mann High School, Dr. Beals knew her educational opportunities were not equal to her white counterparts’ at Central High. She recalled that the soldier assigned to protect her instructed her that “In order to get through this year, you will have to become a soldier. Never let your enemy know what you are feeling.” She took the soldier’s advice, finishing the school year. Barred from returning to Central the following year when the city’s schools were closed, Dr. Beals moved to Santa Rosa, California, to live with a sponsoring family, Dr. & Mrs. George McCabe, who were members of the NAACP, for her senior year of high school.
Dr. Beals graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in journalism, and earned an MA from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, in New York, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of San Francisco. She has worked as a reporter for San Francisco’s public television station and for the Bay area’s NBC affiliate. She has written numerous articles for periodicals and is the author of White is a State of Mind, a sequel to Warriors Don’ Cry.
Dr. Beals is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Spingarn Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal, and she is a much sought after communications consultant and motivational speaker. Dr. Beals is Chair of the Communications Department at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California.
Dr. Beals is the mother of teenage identical twins, Evan and Matthew Pattillo, and an adult daughter, Kellie, a doctoral candidate in psychology. Dr. Beals and her children live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
CARLOTTA WALLS LANIER
In 1957, at age 14, Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest Little Rock Nine member to integrate Central High School. This act of courage and defiance became the catalyst for change in the American educational system. By ushering in a new order, she and her fellow warriors became ‘foot soldiers’ for freedom.
Despite her youth, Mrs. LaNier understood the impact of education in a promising future. Inspired by Rosa Parks and the desire to get the best education available, she enrolled in Central High School. Anger and violent behavior threatened their safety and motivated President Dwight D. Eisenhower to dispatch the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to protect their constitutional rights. She graduated from Little Rock Central High School in 1960 and attended Michigan State University for two years. In 1968, she graduated from the University of Northern Colorado.
Mrs. LaNier is an active supporter of her community, serving on the Board of Trustees for the University of Northern Colorado and Iliff School of Theology. She also serves as president of the Little Rock Nine Foundation and is a member of the Denver Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and the Johnson Legacy, Inc. Board of Directors.
In addition to the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal, awarded to her as a member of the Little Rock Nine, Mrs. LaNier is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Northern Colorado and an inductee in the Colorado Woman’s Hall of Fame, the Girl Scouts Women of Distinction and the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
She is author of A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School (2010).
Mrs. LaNier has pursued a successful career as a real estate broker for more than 30 years and currently operates, with son Whitney, her own company. In addition to her son, she and husband, Ira, have an adult daughter, Brooke.
After 50 years, the most dramatic images of the 1957 crisis at Little Rock Central High School remain those of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, being taunted as she walked through a hate-filled mob, on her way to school. Today, Ms. Eckford recalls how difficult it was for her parents, Oscar and Birdie, to allow her to continue the struggle to integrate the Little Rock schools.
Because all of the city’s high schools closed her senior year, Ms. Eckford moved to St Louis, where she obtained her GED. She attended Knox College in Illinois, and received her BA in History from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. While in college, Ms. Eckford became one of the first African Americans to work in a local St. Louis bank, in a non-janitorial position, and later she worked as a substitute teacher, in Little Rock public schools.
Ms. Eckford, a veteran of the U.S. Army, has also worked as a substitute teacher in Little Rock public schools, test administrator, unemployment interviewer, waitress, welfare worker, and military reporter. Along with her fellow Little Rock Nine members, she is a recipient of the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal and the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal. Together with one of her former tormenters, Ms. Eckford also received a Humanitarian award, presented by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), following their meeting 34 years after an apology. The award recognizes forgiveness and atonement. They talked to students for two years, and, together, attended a 12-week racial healing course.
Ms. Eckford has started to walk through the painful past in sharing some of her story. She has said that true reconciliation can occur if we honestly look back on our shared history. She believes that the lessons learned from Little Rock Central High School must continue to be shared with new generations, reminding audiences that “the dead can be buried, but not the past.” Ms. Eckford continues her interest in education by sharing her story with school groups, and challenges students to be active participants in confronting justice, rather than being passive observers.
Ms. Eckford lives in Little Rock, and is a probation officer for the First Division Circuit Court of Pulaski County.
ERNEST G. GREEN
Ernest G. Green is the Managing Director of Public Finance for Lehman Brothers in Washington, D.C. Featured in the 2006 list of Black Enterprise Magazine’s “75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street”, Mr. Green has served as senior investment banker on transactions for such key clients as the City of New York, State of New York, City of Chicago, Port of Oakland, City of Atlanta, State of Connecticut, Detroit Wayne County Airport, Denver Airport, and the Washington Metropolitan Airport Authority.
Mr. Green served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training during the Carter Administration. President Clinton appointed him to serve as Chairman of the African Development Foundation. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, appointed him Chairman of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board.
Born in Little Rock, on September 22, 1941, Mr. Green was the first African American to earn his high school diploma from Central High School. At the age of seventeen he was awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, as one of the Little Rock Nine. In 1995, he was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. Mr. Green is also a recipient of the Urban League’s Frederick Douglass Freedom Medal, and the John D. Rockefeller Public Service Award. On November 9, 1999, with the Little Rock Nine, he was presented by President Clinton with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Several books, movies and documentaries have chronicled Mr. Green and his eight classmates’ historic year at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas — the most recent being the “Ernest Green Story”, produced and distributed by the Walt Disney Corporation.
Mr. Green holds a B.S. in Social Science and Masters in Sociology from Michigan State University, and honorary doctorates from Michigan State University, Tougaloo College, and Central State University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fisk University, Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, Clark Atlanta University Board of Trustees and the African American Experience Fund Board of Trustees among other distinctions.
Mr. Green and his wife Phyllis live in Washington, D. C. He is the proud father of Adam, Jessica and McKenzie Ann.
GLORIA RAY KARLMARK
Gloria Ray Karlmark is the youngest daughter of H. C. Ray, son of a former slave, and founder of the Arkansas Agricultural Extension Service for Negroes, and Julia M. Ray, a Sociologist and a graduate of Tuskegee Institute and Philander Smith College. Mrs. Karlmark’s father was Laboratory Assistant to George Washington Carver, and received his degree in Horticulture under Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute. Mrs. Karlmark’s mother was fired when she refused to withdraw her from Little Rock Central High School in 1957-1958. When Central High School remained closed, on an order from Governor Faubus the following year, Mrs. Karlmark moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated in 1960 from the newly integrated Kansas City Central High School.
Mrs. Karlmark went on to graduate from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, after which she joined the IIT Research Institute as Assistant Mathematician on the APT IV Project (robotics, numerical control, and online technical documentation). This included work at Boeing in Seattle, McDonnell-Douglas in Santa Monica, and NASA Automation center in St. Louis.
In 1969, she and her husband took a sabbatical year following the trail of the Maya Indians from Mexico through Central America by car. Soon after, they immigrated to Sweden. In the years that followed, the Karlmark family was blessed with a son and a daughter.
Recruited to join IBM’s Nordic Laboratory, Mrs. Karlmark completed the Svenska Patent och Registreringsverket “Patent Examiner” Program in 1975, and joined IBM’s International Patent Operations as European Patent Attorney.
In 1976, she co-founded Computers in Industry, and international journal of practice and experience of computer applications in industry affiliated with UNESCO and the International Federation of Information Processing-IFIP. She served some 15 years as Editor-in-Chief.
In the years leading up to her retirement in 1994, Mrs. Karlmark also worked for Philips International in management as a specialist in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and Scotland. She and her family currently reside in Europe.
Jefferson Thomas was a track athlete at all-black Dunbar Junior High School in Little Rock when he volunteered to integrate all-white Central High School as a sophomore in 1957.
Mr. Thomas was a quiet, soft spoken, unique, and special person. He had a subtle, infectious sense of humor that served him well throughout his life. He would find that sense of humor and his LOVE for humanity severely tested by the hate and violence directed toward him by some of the white students at Central High School. Mr. Thomas graduated from Central High School in May 1960.
Mr. Thomas married in 1965 and has one child (Jefferson, Jr.), still living in Los Angeles. Mr. Thomas, Sr. was inducted into the United States Army in 1966. He returned to civilian life in the summer of 1968.
After obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Los Angeles State College, Mr. Thomas went to work as an Accounting Clerk and later, Supervisor for Mobil Oil Corporation. When Mobil Oil moved its Credit Card Operations, Mr. Thomas remained in Los Angeles, and entered Federal Service as an Accounting Clerk with the Department of Defense. The DOD relocated parts of its LA operations to Columbus, Ohio, in 1989. He sold his business and moved to Columbus.
After moving to Columbus, Mr. Thomas continued his commitment to serve the local community, Mr. Thomas took time to serve as a volunteer mentor in the Village to Child Program, co-sponsored by Ohio Dominican University.
He was a frequent speaker at numerous high schools, colleges and universities throughout the country, and an eager mentor to young people. He was the recipient of numerous awards from local and federal governmental agencies. These awards include the NAACP Spingarn Medal, and Congressional Gold Medal, this Nation’s longest-running tradition of honor, for helping make democracy work. He was especially proud of the life-size sculpture of the Little Rock Nine at the Arkansas State Capital in Little Rock, the first in the state honoring living citizens.
Jefferson Thomas retired in September 2004, after 27 years of Federal Service. He departed this life in 2010. His wife, Mary, still resides in Columbus, Ohio.
MINNIJEAN BROWN TRICKEY
Although all of the Nine experienced verbal and physical harassment during their year at Central, Brown was first suspended, and then expelled for retaliating against the daily torment. She moved to New York and lived with Drs. Kenneth B. And Mamie Clark, the African American psychologists whose social science findings played a critical role in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.
After graduating from the New Lincoln School in 1959, Mrs. Brown Trickey studied journalism at Southern Illinois University. She received a Bachelor of Social Work in Native Human Services from Laurentian University and Master of Social Work at Carleton University, in Ontario Canada.
Mrs. Brown Trickey has pursued a career committed to peacemaking, environmental issues, developing youth leadership and social justice advocacy. She served in the Clinton Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workforce Diversity at the Department of the Interior. She has taught social work at Carleton University and community colleges in Canada.
Mrs. Brown Trickey is the recipient of numerous awards for her community work for social justice, including Lifetime Achievement Tribute by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, and the International Wolf Award for contributions to racial harmony. With the Little Rock Nine, she received the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal.
She is the subject of a documentary, Journey to Little Rock: the Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey, which has received critical acclaim in international film festivals in Africa, the UK, the U.S., South America and Canada. She was featured in People Magazine, Newsweek, the Ottawa Citizen, the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Donahue, as well as on numerous other television, radio and in print media. She appeared with the Little Rock Nine on Oprah and the Today Show.
Mrs. Brown Trickey currently resides in Canada, and is the Shipley Visiting Writer for Heritage Studies at Arkansas State University. She is the mother of six children, Morning Star, Isaiah, Sol, Ethan, Spirit and Leila Trickey.
TERRENCE J. ROBERTS, Ph.D.
Terrence J. Roberts was a 15 year old junior when he entered Little Rock Central High school. Despite the daily harassment, he completed his junior year, but moved with his family to Los Angeles the following year and graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1959.
Dr. Roberts received a BA in sociology from California State University at Los Angles in 1967. This was followed by an MS in social welfare in 1970 from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970 and a Ph.D. in psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1976.
From 1975 to 1977 he was a member of the faculty at Pacific Union College, a private liberal arts college in Napa Valley, California. From 1977 to 1985 Roberts was Director of Mental Health at St. Helena Hospital and Health Center. From 1985 to 1993 he was assistant dean in the UCLA School of Social Welfare.
Roberts joined the Antioch University Los Angeles in 1993 and served as core faculty and co-chair of the Master of Arts in Psychology program until 2008.Dr. Roberts is CEO of Terrence J. Roberts & Associates, a management consultant firm devoted to fair and equitable practices. A much sought after speaker and presenter, Dr. Roberts maintains a private psychology practice and lectures and presents workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics.
Dr. Roberts is the recipient of the Spingarn Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal. He serves on the boards of the Economic Resources Center in Southern California, the Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, and the Little Rock Nine Foundation.
He is the author of the books Lessons from Little Rock (2009) and Simple, Not Easy: Reflections on Community, Social Responsibility, and Tolerance (2010).
Dr. Roberts and his wife Rita are the parents of two adult daughters and live in Pasadena, California.
THELMA MOTHERSHED WAIR
A native of Bloomberg, Texas, Thelma Mothershed Wair attended Dunbar Junior High School and Horace Mann High School, before transferring to Central High School. Despite the tumultuous experience of her junior year at Central High, she completed her course work successfully. After the city’s high schools were closed the following year, Mrs. Wair earned the necessary credits for graduation through correspondence courses, and by attending summer school in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her diploma from Central High School by mail.
Mrs. Wair graduated from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 1964, earning a degree in Home Economics Education. She earned her Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling, as well as an Administrative Certificate in Education from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. She worked in the East St. Louis school system for 28 years, including 10 as a Home Economics teacher, and 18 as a counselor for elementary career education, before retiring in 1994. Mrs. Wair has also worked at the St. Clair County Jail, Juvenile Detention Center in St. Clair County, Illinois, and was an instructor of survival skills for women at the American Red Cross Shelter for the homeless.
In addition to the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal, Mrs. Wair received numerous awards for her professional contributions and community service, including Outstanding Role Model by the East St. Louis Chapter of the Top Ladies of Distinction, and the Early Childhood Pre-Kindergarten staff of her district in East St. Louis., among others.
Mrs. Wair currently resides in Little Rock. She and her late husband Fred have one son, Scott, and two grandchildren, Brennan Dallas and Gabriel Scott.

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There are two forms of computer maintenance. These are
1. Hardware Maintenance
2. Software maintenance.
Hardware Maintenance is the maintenance of the mechanical, electrical and electronic parts of the computer. It involves all physical maintenance.
Software Maintenance: It is the maintenance, which deals with the maintenance of a set of programs, which runs on the hardware system. Software maintenance is sub-divided into two, namely:
- Program maintenance and
- Software integrally maintenance test. This ensures that the program functions effectively.


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free·dom of speech
- the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and an amendment I just happen to believe in. While I do feel that every person has the right to speak and express their opinions, I DON’T believe that same person has the right to bash others and debase them simply because they don’t share the same beliefs. We live in the age of technology where people can sit at their computers and pound away on their keyboards saying things to others that has me wondering if they would say those same things if face to face in a room where they were asked to conduct a debate. And if they could, would it be a healthy debate, or would they continue to spit out hateful words and belittling comments?
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a healthy debate, a difference of opinions, as long as it’s done diplomatically. Healthy debates are good, and can also be extremely productive. I love engaging in such conversations. But there’s nothing more frustrating than to try to have the same discussion with someone who can’t see beyond their own noses, who don’t want to hear the other persons side, or ask why they believe the way they do, who think that their ways are the only ways and their beliefs are the only ones that matter. This type of conversation will, without doubt, result in anger, name-calling, cussing, and possibly a dissolution or separation of a friendship.
I see it every single day on Facebook. I have talked to people who have said things like, “I really want to comment on that, but it’s probably best that I don’t.” Why not? You have just as much of a right to speak your mind as anyone else does. And let me tell you something people. If your differences of opinions result in a friendship or relationship ending, I would really have to question the strength of that relationship in the first place!
The biggest debate that continues on day after day….Trump. Before you start wanting to jump all over me (and feel free to do so if that’s what floats your boat – or we can debate, healthily), let me put this out there. I never was a Trump supporter – nor was I a Clinton supporter. I’ve had many debates with a number of people over why I feel the way I do. And you know what? The debates were always healthy ones – just like they should be. But I’ve not had anyone disown me over it, or throw me to the wolves because of it, or end a friendship because of it. Not only is that asinine, it’s just plain childish! While I’ll admit that it is a little annoying to see people continuously bashing him and posting fake news articles about him, it is their right to do so as an American. But I will NOT do that, nor will I call you “a special kind of stupid,” like I was called, nor will I debase you or threaten you or call you names. I also don’t let remarks like that get under my skin, because (1) I happen to know for a fact that I am NOT stupid; and (2) retaliation accomplishes nothing but bringing you more problems, more anger, more hurtful words, more arguments, and so on. It becomes a never-ending cycle of hatred and despise.
Try having a healthy debate with someone who doesn’t see eye to eye with you. LISTEN to what that person has to say. Don’t knock them down and not allow them to get back up. I’m not just talking about a political conversation. It can be about anything that interests you, a topic you feel strongly about. Let someone bend your ear – you never know what you might just learn.
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Adventure Maps The Top 100 Highest Rated. 1. Terra Restore 2 v0.3.5. 2. Soulbound v1.6. 3. The Journey for the Enchanted Crest v1.4. 4. Project Zelda [Episode 1+2] v2.2. One of the most unique traits of Minecraft is its ability to give players experiences outside of the standard vanilla world. Adventure maps are one of those experiences. Adventure maps are downloadable maps that often give players problems to solve, bosses, to fight, and a unique world to explore... Want your server here? Find out how here: Premium FAQ
Minecraft adventure maps are self-contained experiences that are less about building and more about exploring and, very often, fighting. Expect traps, puzzles, and all sorts of secrets. Adventure Maps for Minecraft 1.12.2: Here list of the 99 Adventure Maps for Minecraft 1.12.2, you can download them freely. The first map was published on 20 April 2017, last map added 68 days ago. Put all files combined, it's 3 Gb of Minecraft maps! Enjoy your game. Adventure Maps for Minecraft Versions: Vibrating screen is specially design for quarry to separate stone into different sizes. Watch City Alpha 1. Minecraft World Map – House of Traps. The series of YK is mapss A fun adventure map filled with mazes, puzzles, and of course, traps! This is the first map I’ve uploaded, so I hope you like it. Axerion 22 hours, 56 minutes ago.
Latest Adventure Maps for Minecraft: Here list of the 623 Adventure Maps for Minecraft, you can download them freely. The first map was published on 4 November 2011, last map added 2 days ago. Put all files combined, it's 19 Gb of Minecraft maps! Enjoy your game. Adventure Maps for Minecraft Versions: Adventure mode is a game mode intended for player-created maps, limiting some of the gameplay in Minecraft. In this mode, the player cannot directly destroy any blocks with any tools or place any blocks, in order to avoid spoiling adventure maps or griefing servers. Adventure mode is accessible only with commands or the game mode selector. 1 Gameplay 2 History 3 Issues 4 See also 5 References.
A story-driven Short Adventure map, for Minecraft 1.8.1 (no mods), wherein you will be able to explore the area, acquire certain items to help progress the story and talk to NPCs to figure out what is going on in the strange town you find yourself in and solve a mystery. Connect to this Minecraft 1.16.5 server using the ip play.cubecraft.net PokeZone (play.pokezone.net) Game Modes: Parkour / Towny / Pixelmon / Pixelspark / Roleplay / Economy / Survival / PvE / Adventure
Download maps for Minecraft 1.16.5 for free and enjoy your favorite game! Here you will find a lot of fresh and interesting maps for Minecraft 1.16.5. Download maps for Minecraft 1.16.5 for free and enjoy your favorite game!. Lost in the Woods: the Hospital is an adventure map. Main character need to escape from a psychiatric clinic. The. Looking for some good adventure maps to play with friends that were made somewhat recently. I'm a huge fan of the super hostile series so anything like that would be great. Will probably be playing with about 5 people, and would just like to know some of the really good ones that have been released, since I've been out of the scene for a while
Browse and download Minecraft Adventure Maps by the Planet Minecraft community. Choose the Minecraft folder and put the extracted zip files to a folder called “saves”. Now that you know how to install maps in your game, you need to get good maps to enjoy. Here are the ten most popular and best adventure maps in Minecraft. 10. PayDay 2: ENDGAME. In this map, you and four other friends can play the available seven heists. Minecraft X-Ray 3D map viewer that highlights minerals. Loads Minecraft levels as far back as Alpha, all the way through the current Anvil format. Supports user-supplied custom blocks for mod support. Forum Website Inactive Java Edition 1.5.1: Yes, BSD Java plusminus, xolotl minecraft-dungeons.com Web-based, written in CoffeeScript, uses Three.js.
Recommended Version: 1.5 Download Minecraft Dropper Map: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/advpuzz-the-dropper-2-new-levels/ Cops and Robbers 4. A sort of role play prison escape game best enjoyed with friends, this map is a game of wits where two teams try to outsmart each other, but only one team can be crowned champions. Minecraft players have been creating parkour maps since the sandbox game's inception. Recently, with the release of the first snapshot for 1.15, Mojang has introduced a new type of honeycomb block that opens up many new possibilities for parkour. Minecraft Adventure Maps. Portion and parcel of Minecraft is the ability to build your map, and explore other people’s projects. But with so many maps out there, it can be challenging to wade through the below average to get the gems. If if you’re new to Minecraft, or merely want to be sure to haven’t missed some terrific maps, check out.
Minecraft Odyssey (Image credits: Minecraft Maps) Everyone loves a good story about a hero. Well, in the Minecraft Odyssey adventure map, you spawn as the hero of light. While most of these adventure maps are about exploring, solving puzzles and fighting, they will certainly guarantee to rise the adrenaline levels in your body. 1 Herobrine’s Mansion One of the most popular maps of the Halloween, Heorbrine’s Mansion was created by a very popular name. The Kingdom of the Sky adventure map for Minecraft is an exciting addition to the Minecraft universe in which game play and videos work together.When the familiar playing experience meets with the included videos, the player gets a whole new adventure!New Features The new videos, hosted on Youtube, are only part of the fun, though.. In this adventure map, new rules apply.
Top 10 Best Minecraft Adventure Maps. 1) Terra Restore 2 – Adventure Map. 2) Soul Bound – Minecraft Adventure Maps. 3) Assassin of Steve 3: Endergreddon. 4) PayDay 2: Endgame Adventure Map. 5) Metroid Bounty Hunter Map. Welcome to my tower arena, here you will face 5 bosses, 1 for each floor, you can also choose various weapon kits to fight them are you. Minecraft PE Maps 20 Mar, 2021 (Updated) The Plague is a map by Techno573 and is a Minecraft horror map working on version 1.13.2. The description for this map is “Stay away from the darkness, or he will take you”. This map is another that is designed to be played single player, with some other game settings so that you have the scariest experience possible.
New map for Minecraft 1.16.5 with puzzle and adventure elements. You were imprisoned and now you need to escape from it to freedom. Find the rescue helicopter! Adventure Creation Game Map Parkour Puzzle. The same original islands, but updated for Minecraft 1.16! Download. MrCrayfish's Town Replica - Vanilla Minecraft. Roguelike minecraft map. Download. Variety By FatalVortex. Variety by FatalVortex.
The beauty of Minecraft 1.5.2 is that you don't have to be able to create maps to enjoy the game, for there are already pre-existing maps created by the community in the form of adventure and. Zombie Apocalypse (Minecraft Adventure Map) Zombie Apocalypse is an adventure map filled with zombies, explosions and more zombies. The map took around two hours for us to complete, which included exploring secluded areas for hidden armor and items. We had to skip the “Hack a station” side quest simply because we couldn’t figure it out.
-Explore a large, open-world map with five unique dungeons, hidden treasures, and several interesting locales.-Buy custom items from several shopkeepers.-Discover every unknown corner of the world... -Fight dangerous monsters and emerge victorious!-This map is designed for 1-5 players. Up to 9 players can join. A Minecraft challenge map with 10 unique genres Download. Realm of Midgard By DrussRua. Realm of Midgard by. The Twist Labs (Remastered) is a 2-Player Coop Puzzle / Adventure Map, which brings together... Download. The Escapists MC Map Series By StormofFire2. The Escapists MC Map Series.
Minecraft is great for all intents and purposes, but one way to amp up your experience with the game is to play on an adventure map, loaded with secrets, dungeons, and all sorts of other goodies. Download Minecraft Maps. Custom maps for Minecraft is a huge world for exploration and creativity. Start your adventures not in the random generated terrain, but in a huge city or in a familiar location from another game. All of them can be destroyed, rebuilt and supplemented with their buildings. Many players prefer maps with their own plot.
Collection of the best Minecraft PE maps and game worlds for download including adventure, survival, and parkour Minecraft PE maps. Collection of the best Minecraft PE maps and game worlds for download including adventure, survival, and parkour Minecraft PE maps. Howdy, Guest Steve. Collection of the best Minecraft PE maps and game worlds for download including adventure, survival, and parkour Minecraft PE maps.
Minecraft adventure maps provide a different challenge from the usual vanilla ones. From storylines to mini-games, here are the best maps to try out for pairs of players. WHAT IS MINECRAFT MAP? Minecraft maps are custom-created worlds saved in a Minecraft game. They can be anything from an awesome role-playing adventure that takes you into an epic story to a challenging puzzle map to test your problem-solving abilities. With the Minecraft map, the possibilities are endless, the only limit is your own imagination.
Hundreds of Minecraft adventure maps to download. Experience an epic and exciting adventure in Minecraft with these custom created maps. Minecraft Maps Adventure. Avoid Security if you can & try not to kill any civilians. Good Luck! *Hint* There are multiple ways to kill each target... Creator: Bloody_Duckers: MC Version: 1.16.4: Date Added. Latest Minecraft 1.16.4 Maps . Best Minecraft Maps including minecraft adventure maps, minecraft survival maps and minecraft puzzle maps, minecraft castle . Connect to this Minecraft 1.16.5 server using the ip top.mc-blaze.com Complex Gaming (hub.mc-complex.com) Game Modes: PvE / Pixelmon / Vanilla / PvP / Prison / Mcmmo / Faction / Survival / Creative / Adventure / Skyblock / Towny
In this Minecraft Top 5, I'll be looking at the Top 5 Minecraft Adventure Maps, which has various Minecraft Maps, that I like! Please leave a LIKE if you enj... MAP VERSION: V9. MINECRAFT VERSION: 1.16. VIEWS: 57. FILE SIZE: Less than a megabyte. COMMENTS: 0. CATEGORY: 2 Players. Escape from SteamCity v1.1 (2 votes) -. 2 Players Adventure Minecraft Maps Puzzle. Nightbeat’s Find the Button! (No Ratings Yet).
Custom Minecraft maps are shared by the community to inspire, download and experience new worlds. Upload your Minecraft builds! Home Minecraft Maps 2021 Best. Login; or;. Challenge / Adventure Map. 146. 121. VIEW. IJAMinecraft 02/07/20 • posted 01/04/2021. 273.7k 42.7k 77. x 3. Skyblock 2021 (1.16.5) Other Map. 78. 67. VIEW. Locate your Minecraft adventure map's file. Using the Minecraft launcher window, do the following: Click ☰ Click Launch Options; Click the Advanced Settings switch and click OK; Click Add New; Click the Game Directory switch. Click the green arrow to the left of the 'Game directory' row. Double-click the saves folder. Look for your map's name.
The Five Best Minecraft Adventure Maps. 1. Herobrine's Mansion. Finally, the adventure map to end all adventure maps, Herobrine's Mansion has it all -- jumping puzzles, redstone logic. 2. The Tourist. 3. Deep Space Turtle Chase. 4. Zelda Adventure. 5. The Redmurk Mystery. Minecraft: Top 5 Adventure Maps of All Time! | Minecraft 1.16.5⭐⭐ BEST Minecraft Server IP: ChaosSB.com ⭐⭐Versions: Minecraft 1.16 Best Adventure Maps ↓↓... Best Minecraft Maps 1.16. Now that we know maps are amazing and can be enjoyed by anyone, there are many maps you will see on the internet, but we will tell you the latest and the best Minecraft Maps 1.16 that you should try yourself. Button Breakout. This Minecraft Maps 1.16 is a combination of puzzle and adventure.
The best Minecraft custom adventure maps Minecraft adventure maps come in all sizes, from giant standalone adventures to smaller quests. We've selected some of the newest and coolest here, along. This is a role that requires committed individuals who really have good experience in minecraft modding and the use of java as a programming language.. Minecraft: The Walking Dead Adventure Map Trailer - YouTube Crafting Dead: Cure Map Minecraft Project. (1.5.2 crafting dead map) Minecraft Project Crafting Dead Survival Base Minecraft Project

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I'm after some free software that is ideal for designing furniture in 3D, and if possible can be exported as applicable files for templates and measurements i.e. CAD related files such as STL so 3D printed mock ups could be made if needed and maybe something common with other 3D apps such as an OBJ file...and for technical drawings maybe PNG/JPEG/PDF.
I have already tried the following:
I found Blender doesn't have intuitive controls like you get with other 3D applications and in SketchUp it is difficult to create complex shapes such as splines.
Ideally I'm looking for something that has the ease of modelling of 3D Studio Max but with CAD like properties...and free!
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Book Review: Evans A. Adu-Gyamfi. A Toast to Fatherhood: Sons & Daughters Appreciating the Fatherly Role. Accra: Scopen Minds, 2016. 117pp. Paperback, ISBN 978-9988-2-2272-7. Review by Michael K. Okyere Asante.
I wish A Toast to Fatherhood had come at the time when I held offenses against my father; amongst other things, I had blamed him for my mum’s premature departure to her Maker. It will take me three years after my mother’s death, at a men’s conference, to forgive my father and to appreciate his role in my life.
Truth is he was not even aware I had this feeling of resentment against him. But when I understood the need to focus on the good, forgive and let go, and I saw in my own life that I was as imperfect and needed forgiveness, I wept and said to myself, “Dad, I forgive you.” That grudge nearly marred the 23-year beautiful relationship I had with my father.
This is what Evans Adu-Gyamfi’s book A Toast to Fatherhood seeks to do: to turn the hearts of children to their fathers. The book provides a solution to the fatherhood crisis we have in our nation and around the world. Many are bitter towards their fathers and have decided to focus on the negatives instead of the good. They might have been abused, neglected, rejected, provoked by their fathers, but Adu-Gymafi helps us to see a new possibility where this fatherhood crisis can be a thing of the past: focus on valuing the good of fatherhood.
While the agendum has been to turn the hearts of fathers towards their children, Adu-Gyamfi embarks on a reorientation that seeks to turn the hearts of children towards their fathers. It doesn’t always have to be fathers making the move. As Adu-Gyamfi notes, we can make the first step by being appreciative; by respecting and honouring our fathers; by learning not to berate but value the institution of fatherhood; and by choosing to be good fathers (and mothers) ourselves (Chapter 1).
In this book, the author’s definition of ‘father’ is not limited to a biological concept, but extends to anyone who plays a fatherly role in a person’s life; it can be a step-father, a father-in-law, a mentor, a foster father or even extend to religious leaders, teachers, and other people who contribute to our personal development. The author points out the importance of verbally acknowledging the role of fathers in our lives; that it takes personal initiative to do this.
The author advocates a direct, impartial and articulated appreciation, not one hidden in gifts but expressed in genuine words (Chapter 5). Fathers need to hear from their children and protégés—while they are alive—how beneficial their roles in the lives of these ones have been.
Even for those who have had bitter experiences, the author encourages: ‘I remain grateful, knowing that my “past experiences, no matter how bad, are never a total waste!”’ (p. 18), and adds, “as we look back on life we must understand that whatever relationship we had with our fathers (whether they are alive or dead) was but to teach us a lesson or two about this life” (p. 21). The author shares several examples in that respect in Chapter 4 titled “Life Lessons from My Fathers”.
The book encourages children (both young and grown) not to transfer their experiences of the past onto the institution of fatherhood, for in many respects, even though they may have been neglected by their biological fathers, disappointed by a father-figure, or heart-broken by the actions of a potential father, they should make “a toast to fatherhood” and see fatherhood as an institution and not as individuals (Chapter 2).
What kind of future will this produce? Adu-Gyamfi writes, “…the fathers of the generations to come shall be better versions of what we have currently” (p. 5). Isn’t that great news? But this means that sons and daughters will have to beat the premature desire for freedom from their fathers’ supervision, what the author has presented in Chapter 3 as the Maturity-Freedom Matrix.
The book is of high quality, the design and layout and the weaving of stories into the writing makes it a delight to read. Adu-Gyamfi, an advocate of fatherhood and care for the aged, coupled with his experiences over the years, is indubitably qualified to bring this subject to the fore. The emphasis of his call is this: “let us turn the hearts of children to their fathers”.
I recommend A Toast to Fatherhood to anyone who has a reason or is struggling to be thankful to a father-figure (biological or non-biological) in their lives.
The review was first published in the Daily Heritage newspaper, April 13, 2017, p. 6.

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In the bustling rhythm of harvest season, propylene glycol emerges as the unsung hero ensuring recently harvested fruits and vegetables stay cool during storage and packaging. Glycol chillers, powered by propylene glycol, serve as the first line of defense against spoilage. By maintaining cool temperatures, they ensure that the recently harvested fruits and vegetables retain their freshness and quality. This role might be unnoticeable until cooling systems fail or experience downtimes during the storage and packing period, resulting in the loss of entire harvests. This blow could reverberate widely, affecting both small family farms and large agricultural corporations.
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The creators of the popular meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (SHIB) have announced the details of their virtual reality project “SHIB: The Metaverse,” which includes 100,595 land plots, some of which will remain private.
- Land plots will be released in phases. The introductory stage will unlock 36,431 plots, divided into four categories: Silver Fur, Gold Tail, Platinum Paw, and Diamond Teeth and priced between 0.2 ether (ETH) to 1 ETH.
- The team has decided to use neutral cryptocurrency as a land pricing token to ensure there is no downside risk to Shiba native coins.
- “Using our Ecosystem Tokens is a risk, as we would need to dump our own tokens to cash them! And that’s far away from our plans,” developers said in the announcement published Wednesday.
- The team said it will reveal soon.
- Landowners can rename their plot while using and burning the dog-themed SHIB token.
- “We will be introducing the first special role that Shiba Inu $SHIB will play in the Metaverse,” the announcement said. Furthermore, this should start soon after land events and public sales have ended.”
- The rest of the SHIB ecosystem coins like LEASH and BONE will play a role as more phases are rolled out, developers said, adding that LEASH holders will be able to purchase lands in later stages.
- The Metaverse will be developed in Shibarium, a layer-2 solution for SHIB.
- SHIB token was flat-lined near 0.00002274 at press time. Developers hinted at a foray into the metaverse in early February.

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Every year in early May the East Anglian Traction Engine Society holds a ‘Crank Up’ near Saffron Walden. I couldn’t resist going.
True, they are not locomotives, but they smell the same. And it’s worth going just for that oily, smoky odour.
Many of the manufacturers names are familiar. Here’s a Ruston & Hornsby.
A Ruston & Hornsby locomotive would probably be pulling some industrial wagons, but this Ruston was powering a baler…
If you are into portable engines, lorries, tractors or vintage cars there is plenty to see. This colourful 1960s Foden caught my eye.
If you are in the area next May why not drop by. Smoke, sun and steam – you can’t go wrong.


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SPRINGFIELD -- The Springfield Puerto Rican Parade is just three months away and the parade committee and community members celebrated this year's honorees during the annual parade kickoff on Thursday night.
Several speakers including the 2018 Parade Grand Marshal Armando Feliciano, of the Springfield Redevelopment Authority, and State Rep. Carlos Gonzalez, D- Springfield spoke of their memories of the parade which has been celebrated in the city for three decades. The event was held at La Quinta Inn & Suites in Springfield.
This year in solidarity with the island of Puerto Rico, the people who survived Hurricane Maria and the 4,645 lives lost, the parade theme will be "Puerto Rico Vive", (Puerto Rico lives on), officials said.
There were musical performances by Raquel Maldonado, Reubben Fontanez from Funk Urban Salsa and the all-girls dancing group "Las Divas con Fuego."
The 2018 Springfield Puerto Rican Parade honorees recognized at the event included:
- Armando Feliciano, Grand Marshal
- Haydee Lamberty-Rodriguez, Madrina
- Ed Caisse, Padrino
- Raquel Maldonado "La Dama de la Voz de Oro," Cultural Ambassador
- Jafet Robles, Community Ambassador (posthumous honor)
- Springfield College volleyball star athletes and siblings Eli Gabriel, Eli Emmanuel and Alexandra Irizarry, Sports Ambassadors
- Lisha Lee Lopez, Youth Ambassador
- Firefighter Angel Caquias, Civil Service Ambassador
During the event, the Springfield Puerto Rican Parade also recognized National Puerto Rican Parade Scholarship recipients Ian Daniel Torres, Victoria Maria Zingarelli-Garcia, Karla D. Travieso, Mariah Cabrera and Lineisha Marie Rosario Hernandez.
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I’d love to tell you a story right now about all the messes and issues I went through to be able to make this recipe. But it just didn’t happen. Everything went smoothly. Added this here, added that there…and voilà, one of the most delicious pizzas I’ve ever made.
To me, toppings are usually the best part of foods. Like adding peanut butter, Greek yogurt, fruits and honey to my waffles. Or adding lots of nuts, chocolate chips and syrups to my froyo. With pizza it’s the same...only that this time I tried to keep it simple. Everything in this one is about the crust.
Go add any leftovers or yummy healthy toppings and you’ll have a delicious pizza. Ricotta, tomatoes, red onion, and arugula did a pretty good job. This is one of those recipes that I’ll definitely make many more times in my life. It’s a keeper. Go make it. Then tell me all about it. Now!
Serves 1 small pizza for 2, ready in 45 minutes
For the crust:
-1/3 cup uncooked quinoa
-1/3 cup water + 1/3 cup water
-1/2 cup whole wheat flour
-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
-1 tablespoon olive oil
-Pinch of salt
-1/3 cup ricotta
-1/2 red onion
-1 teaspoon rosemary
-A handful arugula
1. Preheat oven to 425◦F
2. In a saucepan, add quinoa, 1/3 cup water and the pinch of salt. Bring to boil and then reduce to simmer.
3. When the water evaporated and quinoa looks fluffy, remove from heat.
4. In a medium bowl add the quinoa, the rest of the water, the flours and the oil. Mix everything together with your hands. Add more water if the dough is not coming together.
5. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
6. Form a ball with the dough and put in a lightly floured surface. Shape the dough into a circle with your hands, until it’s about 1cm thick.
7. Add to baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes, flip, and bake for another 7 minutes on the other side.
1. Now your crust is ready for toppings.
2. I added the ricotta, tomatoes, red onion and rosemary (in that order) and baked it for another 10 minutes.
3. Serve the pizza and sprinkle the arugula on top. Enjoy!
Crust adapted from Food


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His style is heavily collaborative with his clients. He works hard to ensure clients feel comfortable and heard, regardless of their identity and background. He makes continual efforts to stay educated, and his passion lies with underserved populations in need of a safe place to seek counseling. His sessions are goal-oriented, strenghts-based, and he sees his role more like a Virgil to a client's Dante. His intention is to serve a gentle and informed companion on a client's personal journey.
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Clip from an event at the Institute of Politics with CNN commentators S.E. Cupp and Van Jones in conversation with IOP Director David Axelrod on the current state of politics in America. This event was part of “America in the Trump Era,” the IOP’s look at the changes - cultural, policy, media and otherwise - coming under a Trump administration.
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Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016) Reviewed by Narut Wasinpiyamongkhon
Hochschild, A. R. (2016). Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York: New Press.
Isenberg, N. (2016). White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. New York: Viking.
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This paper has recommended for the government to concentrate on operationalising the Land Commission in order to look into land disputes so as to address its challenges. The history is clear. During the war in Guinea Bissau in the seventies many people left the war zones and settled in The Gambia.
In order to rear pigs such people requested for land in the thick forest. They were granted the right to settle on such land. They clear the bushes, established their homes, farmed the land and reared small ruminants, earned income, educated their children and established normal homes in The Gambia.
Population has increased. The forests have disappeared and those villages within the thick forests are now peri-urban villages. The lands on which they were established are now diamond mines for land speculators. Those who never aspired to call it theirs are now being tempted to call such lands their ancestral properties. Courts are being resorted to, to argue on such grounds and the possibilities of evicting communities from their lands is at sight. Conflict is smouldering within the corridors of vested interest.
A Land Commission could have created a win-win situation if given total original jurisdiction to handle such complicated land disputes involving communities so that at the end of the day they could even recommend for government to compensate certain claimants to prevent displacement of populations.
We hope the government will act swiftly. A transitional administration was expected to make the life of all a little bit better. If others reap the worst they would have no love for your transitional administration. Hence the transitional administration should find ways and means of endearing itself to all sectors of the population by being their protector.


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I understand the frustration, but I want you to understand that Herpes simplex virus unlike other virus do not clear from your body. It stays in nerve roots and gets reactivated when there is imbalance. While there is no clear cut evidence of what might reactivate the virus, studies show that certain factors like physical stress, fatigue, depression, anxiety, sickness, infection, medications, surgery, sex irritation of skin, sweating, certain food, alcohol, sunlight, dryness, weather, certain creams, exercise, sedentary life, menopause, pregnancy, hormonal change and anything under the sun can reactivate the virus. Age also has a role.
In your case also you have a very active life style with healthy eating habits. But other environmental factors, age or your history of multiple surgery puts you under the risk for frequent viral reactivation. I recommend you to maintain a diary of possible things, which triggers the episode, and try reducing the exposure. However it is easier said than done. The good news is eventually the number of outbreaks will reduce. Try to continue what you do and see if you can find any possible trigger and avoid it.


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If we are to conserve the walleye fishery and protect our ecosystem, the Trent Severn Waterway (TSW) should adopt a forward-thinking approach that simulates how water naturally flows. In the 1960s, fishing tourism brought anglers from as far away as the United States. Rods were hopping, lodges overflowed, and towns like Lindsay and Bobcaygeon thrived on tourist dollars. But in the last 50 years, walleye have disappeared and so has fishing tourism. Over the last 30 years, there’s been an 80% drop in hours spent locally enjoying one of Canada’s favourite pastimes. Walleye fishing pressure on Pigeon Lake dropped from 175 000 hours in 1981 to 34 000 hours by 2013. Why? There are no walleye to catch. Exploding bluegill numbers, winter walleye poaching, lack of enforcement, and degraded spawning beds have all contributed to the problem. But the biggest harm to the walleye fishery by far has been the water itself. The health of the fishery and the environment is tied to lake levels and to how water flows. Water hasn’t moved in a fish-friendly way for decades. To make matters worse, the fall draw-down has dropped lake levels to environmentally destructive winter lows. Fish can’t survive without water. Hydraulic dams have hurt our ecosystem for 50 years, contributing to tragic walleye decline. The most important, prime historic, spawning beds in the Kawartha Lakes exist below the Lindsay and Bobcaygeon dams. These beds have been out of the water during April/May spawning season in recent years and when water is provided, it’s not the right type of water. Walleye need slow-moving, high-oxygen water to spawn, the kind provided when topwater tumbles over log dams. But that’s not the kind of water our walleye get. In the 1960s, ecologically-destructive hydraulic dams were installed along the Trent-Severn system, without a single study to predict what kind of harm they would do to the environment. Fifty years later, we’re seeing the fallout. These bottom-opening dams don’t release water in a natural way. Nature sends water downstream across the entire river, from the top. Hydraulic dams send water from the lake bottom, down only a small portion of the river, at a high-velocity too fast for walleye to navigate. Stop-log dams supported a healthy fishery for 130 years, and they could fix the damage that’s been done if the Trent-Severn Waterway would use them again. But the fish-friendly stop-log dams remain lock-tight. The Save the Walleye committee has been working to get this changed for five years unsuccessfully. Kawartha Conservation sees the potential benefits and has asked the TSW to permit a study that measures how much impact this change could have, not only on the fishery but on overall ecosystem health. The Trent-Severn Waterway has not responded. Sturgeon Lake needs this study. It has the worst water quality (phosphorus) and the least amount of natural shoreline, compared to every other lake in the Kawarthas, far below the recommended guidelines needed to maintain a resilient ecosystem and viable wildlife population. Marshes are filling in and toxic algae blooms and e-Coli incidents are growing. Other species, like white sucker, shiner minnows, frogs, snails, turtles, shad flies, mayflies, and caddisflies have declined too. Caddisflies are sensitive to water pollution and are used as bio-indicators of ecosystem health. As caddisflies disappeared, so did swallows. April and May are crucial spawning months for the decimated Kawartha walleye fishery. Without water moving over the stop-log dams to counterbalance the hydraulic current, it will likely prove to be another unsuccessful spawning season. The fragile hatchlings will get pulled into the forceful hydraulic dam release and they won’t survive.
The solution is simple. It takes little effort, and it costs nothing: Use stop logs to release water. Want to help us bring back the walleye fishery? Right now, a study is being run by university researchers to gather public perspectives on the Trent-Severn Waterway. This study will identify opportunities to improve environmental conditions along the system. You can find the survey link on our Facebook page (fb.com/savethewalleye/) and on the website savethewalleye.ca, where you can read more about our goals, the work MP Jamie Schmale and MPP Laurie Scott have put into this important cause, studies that support a system-wide change to water management, and stories and photos shared by your neighbours who have seen the decades-long degradation from their docks. If you see rocks breaking the water at the spawning beds below the Lindsay or Bobcaygeon dams from mid-April to mid-May, or if you see water drop too far in winter, call the TSW at 705-750-4900. And if you see fishing violations at any time of the year, including fish kills from excessive drawdown, call the Peterborough Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry services (MNRF) office MNRF TIPS line at 1-877-847-7667 or use the online form at https://www.ontario.ca/feedback/contact-us.


New Delhi: Top wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malikkh and other grapplers who tried to head towards the new Parliament builidng in the national capital were detained on Sunday citing security reasons.
As they were being dragged and shoved into the vans, the grapplers said they did not know where they were being taken to. Bajrang Punia accused the Delhi Police and said the latter did what they could instead of arresting WFI chief and BJP chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
The wrestlers held the protest against the WFI chief alleging that Brij Bhushan sexually assaulted female coaches and athletes.
#WATCH | Delhi: Security personnel stop & detain protesting wrestlers as they try to march towards the new Parliament from their site of protest at Jantar Mantar.
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Ace wrestler Bajrang Punia was taken in a ddifferent vehicle while others including Vinesh Phogat was shoved in the bus. Talking to media, Sakshi Malikkh said she was dragged in and was manhandled as her clothes were torn as well.
Special Commissioner Depender Pathak said the matter will be taken a stock of and legal action will be taken.
He said the protestors viloated the law and order as the Section 144 was imposed there.


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The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Chief Judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, has urged judges in the FCT to embrace technology for quick dispensation of justice.
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He said this device will aid elimination of long writings by judges during proceedings and the health challenges it poses over time.
The technology is required to make work easier and more accessible in a healthy and friendly atmosphere for the judges.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 – The DC Jazz Festival® (DCJF) has just concluded an extraordinary 17th anniversary celebration, welcoming a plethora of locally, nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, as well as a wide range of jazz enthusiasts, to the nation’s capital for five days of live entertainment and humanities programs. There were a number of unforgettable moments with great masters, rising stars and emerging artists alike, from the sold-out opening ceremony to the rousing closing night dance party celebration, the 2021 DC JazzFest was marked by stellar performances across the broad stylistic spectrum of jazz and its tributaries.
The DC region’s largest and most distinct music festival, DC JazzFest is recognized by The New York Times as one of America’s great festivals, and by the JazzTimes Critic’s Poll for excellence. After a pandemic-enforced 2020 hiatus from live, in-person programming, the 2021 DC Jazz Fest opened its doors and gates to energized crowds thirsting for up-close access to musicians and the joyous sense of community that has become a DCJF hallmark. From September 1-5, DC JazzFest fans were thrilled to once again congregate amongst DC’s many venues – safely and with all due health protocols – to experience world-class jazz.
During five unprecedented days and nights, the 17th Annual DC JazzFest featured 24 shows at 10 venues with 40 artists – adding up to one exceptional festival. According to District Wharf house counts, DC JazzFest at The Wharf attracted more than 38,000 attendees, the second busiest weekend of 2021, just after July 4th.
Here are a few of the many highlights:
DC JazzFest at The Wharf:
- Two amazing days across three stages at The Wharf offered a diverse menu of artistry from across the globe including: Regina Carter; Maria Schneider Orchestra; John Scofield; Spanish Harlem Orchestra; Orrin Evans; Pedrito Martinez Group; Cyrus Chestnut; Allyn Johnson; Jenny Scheinman; Italian saxophonist Marco Pignataro; award-winning vocal ensemble Afro Blue; fast emerging artists Lakecia Benjamin, Laurin Talese, LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award winner Immanuel Wilkins, Ernest Turner Trio, EJB Quartet and The String Queens; and DMV favorites CarrKeys, Chuck Redd Quartet, and Michael Bowie Trio
- Two exclusive DCJF productions including A Grand Night for Strings (with Regina Carter, Jenny Scheinman, The String Queens and Michael Bowie Trio) and Celebrating Billy Taylor’s Centennial (with Cyrus Chestnut, Allyn Johnson, Afro Blue, and Dr. Taylor’s rhythm section: Winard Harper and Chip Jackson)
- The launch of the wildly popular DC JazzFest After Party on District Pier at The Wharf with world-renowned entertainer D-Nice
- A full weekend of stimulating and informative artist interviews, conversations and panel discussions at our Meet the Artist Tent at The Wharf.
- DCJF’s Opening Ceremony at the House of Sweden featuring the marvelous saxophonist Joshua Redman and the scintillating Swedish vocalist Sirintip Phasuk
- A heartfelt tribute to the late DC multi-instrumentalist Andrew White at Westminster Church by his longtime rhythm section: Grammy-nominated pianist and Blackbyrds founding member Kevin Toney, bassist Steve Novosel and drummer Keith Killgo, with guest saxmen Antonio Parker and Marcus Strickland
- The wide-ranging Shaun Martin Trio at The Hamilton Live
- DC’s own brilliant pianist Janelle Gill at the stunning Kreeger Museum
- DC’s ever-swinging social activist, saxophonist Herb Scott, at Capitol Hill’s traditional place for jazz, Mr. Henry’s
- Emerging saxophonist Langston Hughes ll at the renowned Phillips Collection in its centennial year.
DCJF continues to grow exponentially in both scope and international prominence, so fans are encouraged to make plans now for the 2022 DC JazzFest, currently scheduled for June 15-19, 2022.
For a link to download select photos from the 2021 DC JazzFest with photographer credits, please click here.
Stay connected to the DC Jazz Festival at www.dcjazzfest.org.


A marathon set of roadworks has temporarily closed an Accrington road for five weeks so engineers can continue laying a £2m sewer system.
United Utilities bosses are being urged by water bosses to avoid Dunny Shop Avenue, from house number 33 to the junction with Wordsworth Road.
Then, from May 11, the site will be extended to outside number 25 Dunny Shop Avenue for a further three weeks.
Pedestrians can still access the street.
A 600 cubic metres underground storage tank is being built beneath Mount Carmel High School playing fields and thousands of metres of pipes are being laid to stop homes along Wordsworth Road flooding from rainwater.