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Protein prenylation is a ubiquitous covalent post-translational modification found in all eukaryotic cells, comprising of attachment of either a farnesyl or a geranylgeranyl isoprenoid. It is essential for the proper cellular activity of numerous proteins, including Ras family GTPases and heterotrimeric G-proteins. Inhibition of prenylation has been extensively investigated to suppress the activity of oncogenic Ras proteins to achieve anti-tumor activity. Here, we review the biochemistry of the prenyltransferase enzymes and numerous isoprenoid analogs synthesized to investigate various aspects of prenylation and prenyltransferases. We also give an account of the current status of the prenyltransferase inhibitors as potential therapeutics against several diseases including cancers, progeria, aging, parasitic diseases and bacterial and viral infections. Finally, we discuss recent progress in utilizing protein prenylation for site-specific protein labeling for various biotechnology applications.
Protein prenylation is a post-translational modification required for proper cellular localization and activity of many important eukaryotic proteins. Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) have been explored extensively for their antitumor activity. To assist in identifying potentially new and more useful markers for therapeutic applications, we developed a strategy that uses a combination of metabolic labeling and 2D DIGE (differential gel electrophoresis) to discover new prenylated proteins whose cellular levels are influenced by FTIs. In this approach, metabolic labeling of prenylated proteins was first carried out with an alkyne-modified isoprenoid analog, C15Alk, in the presence or absence of the FTI L-744,832. The resulting alkyne-tagged proteins were then labeled with Cy3-N3 and Cy5-N3 and subjected to 2D-DIGE. Multiple spots having altered levels of labeling in presence of the FTI were observed. Mass spectrometric analysis of some of the differentially labeled spots identified several known prenylated proteins, along with HisRS, PACN-3, GNAI-1 and GNAI-2, which are not known to be prenylated. In vitro farnesylation of a C-terminal peptide sequence derived from GNAI-1 and GNAI-2 produced a farnesylated product, suggesting GNAI-1 and GNAI-2 are potential novel farnesylated proteins. These results suggest that this new strategy could be useful for the identification of prenylated proteins whose level of post-translational modification has been modulated by the presence of an FTI. Additionally, this approach, which decreases sample complexity and thereby facilitates analysis, should be applicable to studies of other post-translational modifications as well.
Protein prenyltransferases catalyze the attachment of C15 (farnesyl) and C20 (geranylgeranyl) groups to proteins at specific sequences localized at or near the C-termini of specific proteins. Determination of the specific protein prenyltransferase substrates affected by the inhibition of these enzymes is critical for enhancing knowledge of the mechanism of such potential drugs. Here, we investigate the utility of alkyne-containing isoprenoid analogs for chemical proteomics experiments by showing that these compounds readily penetrate mammalian cells in culture and become incorporated into proteins that are normally prenylated. Derivatization via Cu(I) catalyzed click reaction with a fluorescent azide reagent allows the proteins to be visualized and their relative levels to be analyzed. Simultaneous treatment of cells with these probes and inhibitors of prenylation reveals decreases in the levels of some but not all of the labeled proteins. Two-dimensional electrophoretic separation of these labeled proteins followed by mass spectrometric analysis allowed several labeled proteins to be unambiguously identified. Docking experiments and density functional theory calculations suggest that the substrate specificity of protein farnesyl transferase may vary depending on whether azide- or alkyne-based isoprenoid analogs is employed. These results demonstrate the utility of alkyne-containing analogs for chemical proteomic applications.
An unprecedented transfer of a thiocyanate (-SCN) group from aroyl/acyl isothiocyanate to alkyl or benzylic bromide is observed in the presence of a tertiary amine. This process is most effective when the bromomethyl proton is less acidic, while the presence of a more acidic proton gives 1,3-oxathiol-2-ylidine and other related products.
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As I promised in my last post that I would come back with the review of the movie 3 Idiots. I am here and I as wrote in last post, Its a treat to watch and inspire to think out of the box.
The movie is about three friends, who think differently and are usually called Idiots. A great bunch of young guys, who you can relate with any happy go lucky one. But they know what they have to do. They think but “They think out of the box” and “Out of the Book”. They decide to do something at there own. What we all think but are not able to do due to circumstances around us.
The movie is jeweled with the great performances of the stars of the Hindi Film Industry who are well known for their work and not because of controversies around them. Amir who is known as Mr. Perfectionist, R.Madhavan who is a big Star of South Indian Films , Sharman Joshi who had shown his caliber in Rang De Basanti with Amir Khan and Boman Irani.
Rajkumar Hirani with Vidhu Vinod Chopra has come back after Munna Bhai M.B.B.S and Lage Raho Munna Bhai and they have done a great job. They have proved that one can perform well continuously.
The Movie is inspiring and ask people to follow their heart. They inspire to think differently and Follow their dreams.
Music is also very good and the song “All is well” has become a National Anthem kind of song for the youths. Wherever you go you can find people using the phrase “all is well”. Other songs are also good to hear but they are not a match for the “All is well”. Another song ” Kahan Gaya use Dhundo” is another great song with good wording and a meaning which touches the heart, is my personal favorite.
If you are going to watch the movie? Watch it without taking controversy into the account. It is a great movie.
One Line for Amir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra that “You Rock Guys”.

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We're cautious about toys for our cats, and so like to make our own catnip toys. This way, we can choose organic catnip and use up scraps of 100% cotton fabric. We made these little heart-shaped catnip mice out of charm pack squares, but they're a purrfect way to use any scraps of fabric. We're pretty sure any cats will love them since we had oodles of feline assistance and product testing during their construction.
This finished pillow may look complex, but the steps are... as the name promises: Extra Easy. If you are learning to sew yourself or teaching someone else, this is a great first project. We spend extra time going over tools and techniques, and you'll find links to other articles that can move you further along the learning curve. In this one tutorial we explain topstitching, machine gathering, and how to make a skinny tie.
Little stuff? Zip it up! A zippered pouch is always handy, whether as part of a matched set as we’ve done here or on its own to hold whatever small necessities you need to carry. We offer a free pattern download that allows you to cut a perfect curve and gives you the needed markings for the darts at the bottom. These darts add a bit of extra fullness that allows the pouch to expand to hold more and larger items.
Handle with care! When you’re on-the-go and need your trusty laptop by your side, it’s important to keep it protected. The panels and pockets of our device case are layered with foam to create a soft yet study carrier. This folio is part of our Monogrammed Travel Trio. Make one or make them all. It’s a great way to travel smart and stylishly.
Our trio of travel necessities can be made as a matched set or you can create each one individually. We combined the Janome Skyline S7 for sewing with the embroidery-only Janome Memory Craft 500E to add a stylish initial to each piece. Start off your set with this roomy, hold-everything tote. We chose two coordinating canvas prints by Sevenberry for Robert Kaufman Fabrics in tones of oatmeal and rose – a color combination that works year ‘round.
These sweet little sachets take such a tiny bit of fabric, you could easily make a basket of them from just a couple eighth yard cuts of fabric. Or, dip into your scrap stash for a few of your favorite little leftovers. Our samples are filled with epsom salts scented with essential oil. Fast, easy and economical all around. And, of course, they are also pretty as a picture... especially with a decorative ribbon hanger. Is that the sweet smell of gift-giving success?!
Snaps are one of our favorite closures. They're small yet sturdy, like a cute little Corgi dog. But there's not always a lot of variety from which to choose. You can usually find nickel or brass, and the Western favorite: pretty pearl head snaps, every once in awhile, maybe a rhinestone alternative. But that's where the decorative options usually ended. So when Babyville snaps hit the market a few years ago, their bright colors and cute cover designs were an instant hit. They were immediately snapped up for their decorative flair. We've used them on several Sew4Home projects, and now we have a full tutorial dedicated to showing you just how easy they are to insert.
This one tutorial gives you all the basics you need to create the first of what will likely be many, many zipper pouches. Even if the mere mention of a zipper gives you the heebie-jeebies, there’s no better way to calm those fears than to master the Classic Zipper Pouch. We added a custom metal fob, using a simple metal stamping kit, which is a fun extra that really personalizes the final look.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – With coins in short supply, Wawa stores across the country have started asking customers to use exact change while paying for items, 6ABC reported Thursday.
“Like many other businesses around the country, Wawa stores have been affected by the shortage of coins nationwide, as reported by the Federal Reserve,” a company representative told the news station.
The convenience store chain started posting signs in its stores Thursday, urging customers to have correct change or to use their debit or credit cards of the Wawa app instead.
The plea comes after the Federal Reserve announced a nationwide coin shortage, saying shutdown orders have significantly disrupted the supply chain and normal circulation for quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
“In the past few months, coin deposits from depository institutions to the Federal Reserve have declined significantly and the U.S. Mint’s production of coin also decreased due to measures put in place to protect its employees. Federal Reserve coin orders from depository institutions have begun to increase as regions reopen, resulting in the Federal Reserve’s coin inventory being reduced to below normal levels,” the central bank said in a statement.
Wawa is letting customers round up purchases to the nearest dollar so they can donate to local charities through The Wawa Foundation. The chain says 100% of all donations will go to charity.
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Baltimore has launched one of the most ambitious programs in Maryland and the nation to collect recyclable paper at the front curb in every neighborhood. But the city trucks rolling past many a Baltimore row house find only a few lonely bundles.
The problem? City Hall has kept recycling a secret.
"They have this great citywide service that no one knows about," said Dan Jerrems, head of the Maryland Recycling Coalition, a citizens group.
The percentage of residential trash being recycled is still small -- about 2 percent overall, although the proportion rises to 30 percent in some neighborhoods.
Right now in every neighborhood in Baltimore, the city will pick up almost any kind of paper that enters the average house: old newspapers, telephone books, cardboard, junk mail, catalogs, books, computer paper and cereal boxes without the liner to name a few.
And beginning in January, the city will phase in a program of collecting glass, plastic, aluminum, and tin cans.
Pushed by a corps of avid volunteer recyclers, Baltimore has been transformed in 18 months from a city with practically no recycling to a city that will offer everything but composting of green beans and chicken bones by this spring -- and at a savings to taxpayers.
Some cities go at it slowly, prodding their citizens with educational programs for schoolchildren, billboard announcements and promotions on radio and television.
The first information many Baltimore residents got about recycling was a confusing sheet of paper last summer that didn't reach everyone. This week, City Councilman Wilbur E. "Bill" Cunningham introduced a strongly worded resolution that complained about the lack of public education and overall management of the recycling program.
"One of my concerns is this dramatic leapfrog into recycling," said 3rd District Councilman Joseph T. "Jody" Landers III.
"We have a lot more education and promotion to do."
City officials tried to make the brochure clearer, but they blundered once again by having some of them passed out
shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday, when trash and recyclables aren't collected.
Other public education efforts under way include hiring an advertising firm, lining up volunteers in each neighborhood to pass out information and teaching city schoolchildren to recycle, said George G. Balog, chief of the Division of Solid Waste.
Recycling began in Baltimore in 1989 when volunteers opened Saturday and Sunday drop-off centers where residents could bring their recyclables.
In some cases, the centers were inundated with material, and overworked volunteers pushed the city for curbside collection.
When curbside collection began, the centers started closing down. "The thing we are afraid of is that all the momentum that has built up to do this will be squandered," said Philip Hildebrandt, coordinator of a drop-off center at Hollins Market that will remain open on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. until the city offers curbside collection of all recyclables in every neighborhood.
In about a month, Baltimore will begin a more complicated recycling program, asking residents to buy clear blue bags at the grocery store -- similar to the green trash bags many people already purchase -- to use for recycling bottles and cans. On the second trash collection day of the week, residents will put out on the front curb either recyclable jars, cans and jugs in the blue bags or on alternating weeks, paper.
The curbside program is not available to residents whose garbage is not collected by city trash trucks, such as people who live in large apartment buildings.
Despite the missteps, Baltimore will be one of a handful of major U.S. cities offering such a comprehensive recycling program, according to the Institute of Local Self-Reliance, a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based research and technical assistance group that has made a survey of recycling programs.
In addition, Baltimore will offer more people curbside recycling than any other jurisdiction in Maryland, including its wealthier neighbor, Baltimore County, which is only planning to collect yard waste and paper on front curbs by 1994.
Baltimore's goal is to exceed the state requirement for 20 percent of its trash to be recycled by 1994. While committed to reach 27 percent in two years, city officials say they hope to reach 40 percent.
Curbside recycling programs have been launched in most other suburban counties, but they don't include as many materials or as large a percentage of households as Baltimore will.
About 28,000 households, or about 40 percent, in Howard County and 25,300 households, or about 30 percent, in Anne Arundel County now have curbside collection of some recyclables. Carroll County will begin collecting recyclables for all 43,000 households beginning in July, and Harford County also is planning a curbside program.

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Offshore drilling is fueling our ever-worsening climate crisis and threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans who rely on a clean, healthy ocean.
Time and time again when we are faced with human-caused disasters, like the oil spill off the coast of California, we are told by those responsible that oil spills are rare occurrences. This spill was a tragic confirmation of what we know far too well – offshore drilling is dirty and dangerous, and when they drill, they spill. No operator can guarantee there won’t be a disaster.
The oil currently washing onto our beaches is the unfortunate yet inevitable result of offshore drilling. A major spill of toxic oil – much of which remains in the ocean and will never be removed – is choking the life out of our ocean as we speak. From exploration, to drilling, to extraction, to transportation, offshore drilling threatens disaster at every stage. In fact, between 2007 and 2018, there were over 7,000 oil spills in federal waters, an average of about two every day.
We cannot afford to wait.
Now is our chance to permanently protect our oceans and coasts from new dirty and dangerous offshore drilling once and for all.
Tell Congress and President Biden: Act on climate change, stop selling off our oceans to the highest bidder, and permanently end new offshore drilling.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a federal agency, has designated the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs as its interim state humanities partner.
The National Endowment for the Humanities selected the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs for this role in recognition of the department’s strong commitment to serving the people of Iowa through the humanities and effective stewardship of federal funds through its ongoing work with the NEH and other federal agencies.
“Our department is honored to be chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to help cultivate the humanities in Iowa for the years to come,” said Chris Kramer, director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. “Iowa is recognized as a culturally vibrant state, and this new partnership accelerates that momentum.”
The addition of the humanities enhances the department’s cultural portfolio, which already includes the arts, film and media, history and historic preservation. The department’s new role as Iowa’s interim state humanities partner will be shaped by leadership and staff across its three divisions: the Iowa Arts Council; State Historical Society of Iowa, which includes the State Historic Preservation Office; and Produce Iowa, the state office of film and media production.
The department already maintains several long-standing partnerships with other federal agencies. Currently, the Iowa Arts Council is the official state arts agency and distributes federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Further, the State Historic Preservation Office receives federal funding from and works extensively with the National Park Service and U.S. Department of the Interior to oversee the National Register of Historic Places, as well as state and federal Historic Preservation Tax Credit programs.
In 2020, the NEH selected the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs to distribute more than $600,000 to Iowa humanities organizations. The funding came from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as well as remaining state partnership funds from fiscal year 2020.
The NEH also awarded the department a planning grant to prepare for its new role as the interim state humanities partner. Over the next year, the department will work with constituents and stakeholders to serve and strengthen the humanities and culture across Iowa.
Iowa organizations can apply now for Cultural Leadership Partner grants and Iowa Arts & Culture Resilience grants that are supported, in part, by funding from the NEH. The department also plans to establish a new Humanities Project Grant program to support humanities activities across the state. Applications for the new grant will open in August. The department also will develop humanities programming that fosters discussion and promotes civic education.
Across its divisions and cultural portfolio, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs serves as an economic driver and a catalyst for Iowa’s creative economy, which includes more than 42,000 Iowans working in more than 5,000 arts, cultural and creative businesses. The department carries out its mission to build and sustain culturally vibrant communities by supporting education related to the arts, social studies and Iowa history; building the skills of Iowa’s arts, heritage and cultural leaders; and helping communities across the state become more attractive places to work, live and raise a family.
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and its three divisions – the Iowa Arts Council, Produce Iowa - State Office of Media Production and the State Historical Society of Iowa – empower Iowa to build and sustain culturally vibrant communities by connecting Iowans to the people, places and points of pride that define our state. The department’s work enables Iowa to be recognized as a state that fosters creativity and serves as a catalyst for innovation where the stories of Iowa are preserved and communicated to connect past, present and future generations.


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Uses of Seropram:
Seropram is used to treat depression. Seropram is in a class of antidepressants (mood elevators) called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). It works by increasing the amount of a certain natural substance in the brain.
This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
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- Problems ejaculating
- Dry mouth
- Changes in appetite or weight
How to Take Seropram:
Take this medicine as directed. Do not stop taking this medicine abruptly without consulting with your doctor.
What to do if you take Overdose of Seropram?
Seek medical attention immediately. For non emergencies, contact your local or regional poison control center.
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Take your next dose as soon as you remember. If it is time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one.
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Keep this medication in the container it came in, tightly closed, and out of the reach of children. Store it at room temperature and away from excess heat and moisture (not in the bathroom). Throw away any medication that is outdated or no longer needed. Talk to your pharmacist about the proper disposal of your medication.
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Senate and House leaders urge Pompeo to cut military aid to Azerbaijan, sanction Turkey
Key Senate and House leaders, joined by over sixty of their colleagues, have called on Secretary of State Pompeo to take decisive action in condemning the Azerbaijan and Turkey-led offensive against Armenia and Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), urging sanctions on military and security assistance, as Presidents Aliyev and Erdogan escalate their attacks on civilian populations across the region, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
“Armenian Americans and our allies in Congress demand a stop to the killing, sanctions on Turkey, and an immediate cut-off of U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan,” said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. “Erdogan and Aliyev – two dictators conspiring to complete the work of 1915 – need to be held accountable now.”
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Democrat Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was joined by Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and nine colleagues in sending a strongly worded letter to Secretary of State Pompeo, calling for the immediate end to U.S. security assistance to Azerbaijan and calling on the Trump Administration to immediately engage with Turkey President Erdogan to disengage from the conflict. “If Turkey is unwilling to step back from active engagement in the conflict, then the State Department should immediately suspend all sales and transfers of military equipment to Ankara,” note the Senators.
“Given the possibility that this conflict could engulf the region and draw in other external actors, it is imperative that the U.S. use its diplomatic leverage to bring about an immediate cease fire,” explained the Senators. “We appreciate the engagement by National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, Deputy Secretary Stephen Biegun, and Minsk Group Co-Chair Andrew Schofer, but the circumstances call for more senior-level U.S. engagement before the conflict escalates further.”
Joining Senators Menendez and Democratic Leader Schumer in cosigning the letter were Senators Corey Booker (D-NJ), Robert Casey (D-PA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Ed Markey (D-MA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
Separately, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID), was joined by U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) in issuing a statement noting that “the rapid escalation of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region is extremely worrying. Sadly, over the past five days, both sides have faced needless casualties. All regional powers involved in the conflict must end their aggressive and escalatory actions, and channel their efforts into bringing all parties to the negotiating table. The risk this violence poses to the people of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the wider Caucasus region is too great.” The statement goes on to call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to continue working with the “Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Minsk Group to negotiate a peaceful end to this decades-long disagreement.”
Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone and Jackie Speier, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff and Ranking Republican Devin Nunes (R-CA) and 45 House colleagues called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to take decisive U.S. government action to condemn Azerbaijan’s unprovoked aggression, take steps to block U.S. aid to the Aliyev regime, demand greater cease-fire monitoring along the line of contact, and call out Turkey’s “detrimental” role in Azerbaijan’s recent attacks.
“We write to express our deep concern with Azerbaijan’s renewed aggression against Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and the rising possibility of a wider conflict with Armenia. We ask that the Administration use all available diplomatic tools to reduce tensions, end the fighting, and restrain Azerbaijan from further offensive actions,” stated the House members. “In our view, this new round of fighting represents further evidence that the U.S. policy of equivalence between Armenia and Azerbaijan has failed. For far too long, the United States and other members of the Minsk Group have drawn a false equivalence between Armenia and Azerbaijan, even as the latter threatens war and refuses to agree to monitoring along the line of contact.”
Joining Representatives Pallone, Speier, Schiff, and Nunes in cosigning the House letter to Secretary Pompeo are Representatives: Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Lou Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), TJ Cox (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Mike Garcia (R-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Steve King (R-IA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), James Langevin (D-RI), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Andy Levin (D-MI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Brian Mast (R-FL), James McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), John Moolenaar (R-MI), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Linda Sanchez (D-CA), John Sarbanes (D-MD), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Dina Titus (D-NV), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
Well over 150,000 letters and 10,000 calls have already reached President Trump, former Vice-President Biden, U.S. Senators and House members through the ANCA’s dual action portals – anca.org/alert and anca.org/call – in support of zeroing out military and security aid to Azerbaijan, sanctioning Turkey for their participation in the latest attacks against Armenia and Artsakh, urging the implementation of the Royce-Engel peace proposal, which would help ensure a cease-fire through the more OSCE monitors along the line of contact and the placement of gunfire-locator systems to identify those breaking the ceasefire. Over 35 Senate and House Members have already condemned the Turkey and Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian attacks.


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So now we'll turn from square footage to square roots and the story of one D.C. public school, Shaw Middle School at Garnett-Patterson, located at 10th and V Streets, NW. DCPS created this school in 2008 by merging two struggling middle school programs. They hired a man named Brian Betts to become the school's new principal. Under him, Shaw Middle became a symbol of the promise of education reform, a place that challenged conventional wisdom about urban schools, and inspired teachers and students alike to succeed. But Betts was murdered in 2010, and critics say the school's unraveling in subsequent years says a lot about the larger problems within DCPS. Special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza brings us the story.
MS. KAVITHA CARDOZA
Alice Speck used to push her baby's stroller past Shaw Middle School at Garnett-Patterson in Northwest D.C.
MS. ALICE SPECK
I met this man standing outside the school, greeting students, and shaking hands with community members, and it was Principal Brian Betts.
That sound of Betts in a WAMU story from a few years ago, a Starbucks coffee cup in one hand, offering up hugs.
MR. BRIAN BETTS
You know, I know them all by name. I want to start my day by talking to them. I want them to start their day by talking to me.
Speck was intrigued. Her son wasn't even crawling yet, but Betts invited her and other parents to talk about the school.
We would have had no doubts of sending our children here.
Former DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee recruited Brian Betts from Montgomery County in 2008. Under him, Shaw Middle School became the face of the urban education reform movement, what was possible when smart, motivated adults did the right thing by poor, disenfranchised children. U.S. senators toured the halls, a Harvard professor conducted a national study there, and for journalists, it was a regular pit stop.
MS. KIMBERLY FIELDS
He just made us all motivated, and want to go to school. You really wanted to go.
That's Kimberly Fields. She was one of a group of students who persuaded school's Chancellor Rhee to add a 9th grade so they could stay at their middle school. The next year Rhee granted them a 10th grade extension. Even though Shaw's test scores dropped under Betts, with just about 30 percent of children able to read and do math on grade level, he permeated the building with a tremendous sense of purpose. So when Fields heard Betts had been shot dead in his home, it was devastating.
I started crying, and I couldn't believe that I would cry. Like, he's just my principal, it's not like he's in the family. But I was really emotional, really sad about it.
Betts had met at least one of his attackers on a sex chat line. But for the students and teachers who knew him, the manner in which he died in April 2010 was less significant than the sudden loss of their principal. So is this just a story of a star principal carrying a school? Or could DCPS have sustained Betts' vision for Shaw Middle School? Staff who worked there describe a series of missteps they say caused the school to fail. After Betts died, the assistant principal was promoted to principal, and David DeMatthews, who previously worked at DCPS Central Office, became the new assistant principal at Shaw.
MR. DAVID DEMATTHEWS
A strength of Mr. Betts was his charisma, and the way he built relationships, but the school wasn't very structured.
DeMatthews says part of the problem was that teachers were inexperienced. The vast majority had fewer than five years in the classroom. He says the new administrative team that came in after Betts' death focused on supports for students, both socially and academically.
We had an extra social worker, a mental health clinician. And then also we did some things in terms of making sure our curriculum was aligned better, making sure our teachers were co-planning together, analyzing data.
Fani Bettmann was a teacher at Shaw when Brian Betts was principal. She remembers those years differently.
MS. FANI BETTMANN
Brian was a force of nature. It was invigorating to teach under Brian's leadership.
She says Brian Betts gave teachers a lot of freedom, flexibility and a sense they were changing the world for their students. She says after he died, that spirit was crushed.
The environment that year was extremely challenging, bordering on toxic. Extremely successful, committed teachers were micro managed and disciplined.
Her colleague Nick Curwen says Betts was a mentor and after Betts' death, many teachers felt abandoned by DCPS Central Office.
MR. NICK CURWEN
No one came in to help us. How are we supposed to grieve when we're kind of shepherding and in charge of 200 and some odd students who are also grieving?
He says students began to act out.
I remember breaking up like knockdown fights in people's classrooms, actually breaking my hand in the process.
Eventually Curwen left DCPS. But he thinks DCPS should have done more for students there.
They deserved better. You know, if Shaw was supposed to be this pinnacle of what education should look like in D.C., just because Brian died, doesn't mean that everyone should have walked away from it. But I would just like to see kind of more consistency, not let's change every year when we're not seeing what we want to see.
David DeMatthews, the assistant principal the year after Brian Betts died, says for the first time the school saw a small growth in test scores. But during the 2011 school year, the second after Betts' death, the school's budget was adjusted to reflect the decision to do away with the 9th and 10th grades it had added a few years earlier. Enrollment plummeted by approximately 50 percent. And since funding is based on the number of students in a school, the budget was slashed by $2 million dollars.
We had two other assistant principals, they were cut, a special education coordinator was cut, multiple teachers, a number of people we had to let go of.
Then at the end of the 2012 school year, Betts' successor was fired. DeMatthews decided to leave.
We weren't resourced appropriately to handle the students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.
For a school to function well, students and teachers need stability, consistency and clear expectations. And with a revolving door of adults, Shaw was crumbling from within. DeMatthews says education reform shouldn't just be about holding teachers and principals accountable.
So I would want to know who in the school district is, likewise, accountable for selecting people who are not capable of running a school in an effective manner. DCPS is excellent at branding things, all this hoopla, but the Shaw story tells a story maybe of how maybe they haven't changed as much as people said they did or would.
During the 2012 school year, under a new principal, things became worse with at Shaw Middle School, with lower enrollment and increasing reports of violence. Finally, at the beginning of this year, the current DCPS chancellor, Kaya Henderson, decided to close the school. WAMU made repeated requests to speak with Henderson for this story over a period of two months, but she was not available, nor did she make any members of her staff available.
Alice Speck, the neighborhood parent who first met Brian Betts on her morning strolls, blames the lack of community outreach and constant principal turnover for the school's failure. She reads from a plaque close to where Principal Betts used to stand every morning.
It says, "In Loving Memory of Principal Brian Keith Betts." And this is a famous quote at the bottom that Brian said, "There are two types of students, students who go to Shaw and students who wish they went to Shaw."
Now, five years after Betts started at Shaw, there are neither. The school, which was a symbol of the promise of education, is shuttered. I'm Kavitha Cardoza.
These reports are part of "American Graduate, Let's Make It Happen," a public media initiative to address the dropout crisis, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
It's now time for a break, but when we get back, words of wisdom from one of our nation's most famous presidents.
MS. MICHELLE KROWL
Today at his speech everyone would have their cellphone cameras out, but in Lincoln's day we don't have a photograph of him actually giving the address. There's still so many mysteries about it.
That and more just ahead on "Metro Connection," here on WAMU 88.5.
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After a week in the archive last week I have been reading a few articles in an attempt to get a bit more into the correct mindset before writing my own. With one exception, none have been directly related to my research (there isn’t a whole lot out there as far as I can make out) but two were articles that I have been meaning to read for some time as they have been cited in many other things that I have read. The experience was enlightening, although possibly not in the ways the authors intended.
The first of these was actually a chapter in a collection of essays, Ilana Bet-El’s ‘Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War’ in Billie Melman’s Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930 (Routledge, 1998). Bet-El’s argument is that British popular memory of First World War soldiers as men is dominated by the Myth of Volunteer (her capitals) at the expense of the masculine experiences of conscripts who, in fact, made up the majority of service personnel over the course of the war. While Bet-El certainly has a point, she does fall into the trap of ascribing too much meaning to the way in which a man became a soldier, the very criticism she has of the civilian population at the time, who she sees as being out of touch with the realities of warfare. Thus the experiences of maleness in wartime as one of endurance and survival which she ascribes exclusively to conscripts surely applies as much to the experiences of volunteers once they were in the front line as to those of conscripts. She also doesn’t play entirely fair with her sources, using public propaganda posters in relation to volunteers but personal documents when discussing conscripts. This does bring new sources into the debate, but it is rather a case of comparing apples and oranges.
My notes on Bet-El’s articles are thus full of exclamation points and pointed asides about her claims, many of which I disagree with. What is encouraging, however, is the date of the article. Having wondered why she was using such a monolithic definition of masculinity (and one that tended to over-emphasize the importance sexuality, although this was clearly in response to the historiographic context she was arguing against), I went back and checked the dates and realized that almost all the more interesting and subtle analysis of masculinity and the First World War had been published after this article. So John Tosh’s discussion of domestic masculinity and its relation to adventure and, even more significant, his analysis of ‘manliness’ as opposed to ‘masculinity’, and Joanna Bourke and Michael Roper’s work on male emotions in wartime has all been published in the past decade and a half, which is before you consider the reconsiderations of war enthusiasm, recruitment and citizenship that have also appeared. That the field has developed so much, and introduced so many complex and interesting questions to the debate is very exciting and encouraging for those of us who are trying to take the work further.
Mentioning Mike Roper brings me two the second article which has been raising my blood pressure, Tracey Loughran’s ‘Shell Shock, Trauma, and the First World War: The Making of a Diagnosis and Its Histories’ in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Vol. 67, no 1, 2010, pp.94-119), which cites The Secret Battle extensively. Again, this is an article I have been meaning to read for a while and it was definitely worth the wait. I think Loughran’s argument about the need to locate understandings and diagnosis of shell shock in the wider intellectual context of the early twentieth century is spot-on and I am looking forward to her book on the subject which is tantalizingly in production. What I was less convinced by was her argument for a middle way approach between those who locate an emotional truth of the war in art and literature and what she refers to as the ‘myth and memory’ school of historians who locate that truth in ‘the widest possible range of documents, representing the widest possible range of people’, citing Dan Todman’s The Great War: Myth and Memory. I think this is a bit of a misrepresentation of the myth and memory argument which certainly isn’t about the weight of sheer numbers. It is primarily about the very thing Loughran herself is interested in, context, and providing a counter-balance to what might be described as a hegemonic understanding of the war based on a relatively small number of sources. Certain stories about the war have great prominence – the war poets, men shot at dawn, most recently men with facial injuries. Trying to tell the stories of other groups, not necessarily larger but equally relevant and representative, can be difficult, especially if those stories appear to contradict the ’emotional truths’ of the better known groups. Understanding how those particular groups came to dominate the historic narrative isn’t everything, but it can help to make the case for why stories about conscripted men or those suffering abdominal wounds or those whose psyches were resilient or adaptable enough that they didn’t display symptoms that could be defined as shell shock are also worth hearing. Yes, there must also be an ’empathetic imagining of a subject’ in order to ask ‘questions with a human meaning, which ultimately makes the practice of history worthwhile.’ But that empathy is not necessarily precluded by casting a critical eye over how particular stories come to resonate so strongly, any more than the ability to be historically accurate is precluded by the fictional form.
So, that is rather a long-winded way of me getting some first impressions and criticisms off my chest. Working on a long-term independent project, it can be difficult to find an outlet for such ideas and critiques. Articles are not, in themselves, subject to book reviews, and I cannot write full reviews for everything I read in any case. But in the absence of a reading group or seminar series in which to express my ideas, this blog must serve instead as an outlet and record. Which is, of course, the point.

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It was just a few weeks ago that this writer said this Marquette Golden Eagles basketball team would lose some games they shouldn't and win some games they shouldn't as well. Friday night's loss to the Belmont Bruins falls into the first category. Luckily for head coach Steve Wojciechowski, Monday night's contest against the IUPUI Jaguars did not.
Marquette begins to mature
The young Golden Eagles showed that they have grown in just the three days since the loss to Belmont as they were able to hold off IUPUI on Monday after overtime at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. It was never easy for Marquette, but they managed to pick up an incredibly difficult win.
Tight game throughout
The game was close wire-to-wire; neither team was every able to assert any control over the game, and neither the major conference power nor the plucky mid-major could hold a lead at halftime.
In the opening period, Marquette center Luke Fischer was the primary offensive outlet on his way to 17 points on the night. Yet, the Golden Eagles could not prevent IUPUI from scoring either, and were forced to try and rectify that situation by switching to a 2-3 zone in the second half.
Marquette makes smart switch to 2-3 zone
The zone paid immediate dividends, and Marquette's defense improved in the second half. Although the game remained tight, the Golden Eagles played far better than they had in the opening installment, lending the game the idea that their superior athleticism and size would eventually allow them to pick up the win.
Yet, the Jaguars would not go away and Marquette has yet to learn how to close out a game. Over the game's final minutes, they wasted a number of possessions and missed some crucial free throws as they allowed IUPUI to tie the game up again. With less than a minute left, the game was knotted up at 69.
Neither team can find a winning basket
Marquette came downcourt, searching for a go-ahead bucket. The ball found its way into the hands of Duane Wilson, and he drove the lane before throwing a crazy shot at the backboard which was deflected out of bounds. The Golden Eagles retained the ball, but could do nothing with it. IUPUI raced downcourt, looking to Darell Combs, the veteran guard who poured in 21 points on the night. However, Combs' shot at the buzzer was blocked by Marquette's Sandy Cohen III, sending the game to overtime.
Marquette holds on in overtime
The extra period was not a clinic in finishing. No, IUPUI managed merely two points over the final five minutes, and the Golden Eagles didn't show much scoring prowess either. Yet, freshman phenom Henry Ellenson provided some critical free throw shooting on his way to 18 points while shooting 9-12 from the line. After his free throw, Duane Wilson finished an and-one after a strong drive through the lane with merely 15 seconds on the clock. The guard made his free throw to extend the lead to 75-71, and clinch the game for Marquette.

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Designed to give readers a deep understanding of how water treatment processes actually work, Water Quality Engineering explores:
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Following the discussion of mass balances in continuous flow systems in the first part of the book, the authors explain and analyze water treatment processes in subsequent chapters by setting forth the relevant mass balance for the process, reactor geometry, and flow pattern under consideration.
With its many examples and problem sets, Water Quality Engineering is recommended as a textbook for graduate courses in physical and chemical treatment processes for water and wastewater. By drawing together the most recent research findings and industry practices, this text is also recommended for professional environmental engineers in search of a contemporary perspective on water and wastewater treatment processes.


Dissecting a fetal pig. Converting a mousetrap into a car. Turning the story of Brer Rabbit into a talk show. Debating the merits of animal captivity.
Welcome to summer school at Belaire High School.
“When I was in school, we only dissected frogs,” said Susan Louis, a tinge of envy in her voice.
Louis is the site coordinator for the Belaire chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge. Since 1981, the organization has held summer enrichment camps at local schools for inner city children.
This year, three of the organization’s eight camps — Belaire, as well as Greenbrier Elementary and Park Forest Middle schools — have been given over for part of the day to 42 teachers-in-training who are being monitored by 15 master teachers. They are educating 200 of the children in all the summer camps. The children apply to participate and there are no academic requirements, though applications are opened up first to children already participating in Boys & Girls Club programs.
The teachers-in-training, known as practitioner teachers, are gaining certification through the alternative certification program Certification Solutions.
The master teachers all went through the program as well, which began training teachers in 2003.
“They have been hand-picked to serve in this role based upon their demonstrated teaching ability and their ability to coach and serve as an effective model for program participants,” said Jaime Finane, director of Certification Solutions.
Another 66 practitioner teachers are working in traditional summer schools in school districts outside of Baton Rouge because many don’t live in Baton Rouge, Finane said.
LRCE did a small version of this program a year ago at one school, serving 100 students and training 23 new teachers
Louis said the Boys & Girls camps have long featured educational activities, but not like this.
“This kicks it up a very big notch,” Louis said.
The summer is when programs like Certification Solutions — it’s an arm of the better known Louisiana Resource Center for Educators, which loans instructional materials and offers after-hours classes to educators throughout the state — give their new teachers a taste of what they are going to confront come the start of the new school year in August.
“I came in cold,” recalled Van Decoteau, a master teacher in social studies and one-time financial advisor whose first job was at a private school that didn’t require certification.
“It would have been worth the money to go through a program like this,” said Decoteau, who four years later did just that and is now teaching for the online Louisiana Connections Academy.
Will Robicheaux, a master teacher in science, said working with the Boys & Girls Club is preferable to sending prospective teachers to traditional summer schools. Summer schools typically focus on prepping kids to retake standardized tests or allowing them to make up courses they flunked or missed.
Robicheaux, a science teacher at Madison Preparatory Academy in Baton Rouge, said summer school teachers often rely on online instruction, leaving practitioner teachers little to do. Classes with traditional in-person instruction are run by a wide range of teachers, some offering little support, he said.
“They have the support here they would never get elsewhere,” Robicheaux said.
Jeanne Sinagra, who plans to teach biology this fall, offered another plus of working with an enrichment program as opposed to a traditional summer school.
“These kids want to be here,” she said. “They’re not forced to be here.”
Before teaching, Andrés Serna worked different fields, including spending years in radio. He describes himself as completely green. He’s long enjoyed history, his college major. Shifting from speaking on air to speaking to a group of easily bored teenagers has been a challenge.
“You have to entertain then engage, talk at their level, not too high, not too low,” he said.
The Boys & Girls Club funds its end of it with a $540,000 federal 21st Century grant for after-school programs. LRCE is covering the additional costs and raised $95,000 through corporate sponsorships and grants, money being used to pay for the 15 master teachers and for two site administrators. The six donors are The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation, The William Edwin Montan Charitable Trust, Dow, ExxonMobil, The E.J. & Marjory B. Ourso Family Foundation, and The Boo Grigsby Foundation. LRCE is hoping to double the size of the partnership in the future.
The students are in classes Monday through Thursday during the four weeks of June. Three days are spent in the classroom and the focus is on hands-on, engaging activities. There are field trips every Thursday. Trips thus far have included the USS Kidd, the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, the State Capitol and the Baton Rouge Zoo.
The master teachers map out the plan, then ask the teachers-in-training to carry it out. Throughout, the master teachers lay out the pluses and minuses of what they’re seeing, but they also have formal debriefings at the end of each day and a full Friday of teacher training at LRCE.
Mary Allen, an LRCE advisor to practitioner teachers, on Tuesday sat off to the side of a math class filling out a checklist. Her list draws from Compass, Louisiana’s teacher evaluation system. As she watched practitioner teacher Landon Braud giving an algebra lesson Tuesday, she was looking to see how coherent he was: Did he have a good introduction to hook kids in? Did he understand what he was talking about? Did he close well?
She also knew that new teachers start out tentative — “They’ve never done this before,” she said — but improve with repetition.
“By the fourth block, he’ll be much more confident and polished,” Allen said.
LaMeeka Lee just a year ago started teaching English at East Feliciana High School in Jackson. She worked as a paraprofessional and a teller for Loomis, the armored car company, before trying teaching. She urged her practitioner teachers Tuesday to work with rather than fight teenage restlessness.
“They don’t like to just sit and listen,” she said. “They want to get up and move around.”
Robicheaux said he’s not bothered that the summer classes involve near ideal conditions, different from the classes practitioner teachers will take over this fall.
“It’s better than being baptized by fire,” he said.
He said too often, teachers are told about successful teachers, but don’t get to taste success themselves before being let loose on children.
“It never goes that well,” he said. “You start your job and you feel horrible.”
Robicheaux also emphasized that the summer classes are good for the children taking them.
“We had a lot of kids who’ve come up to us and said, ‘Why can’t it be like this all the time?’” Robicheaux said.
Sinagra earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond and studied nursing. She finally came around to teaching — “I come from a long line of educators,” she said — and has already been able to recognize in her short time at Belaire the truth of what her relatives are telling her.
“They told me that it’s hard, it takes up a lot of your time but it’s really rewarding,” she said. “You can see it on their faces. The light goes on.”


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The term harm reduction refers to a public health strategy to reduce negative consequences resulting from activities such as illicit substance use and addiction. Whereas abstinence from dangerous drugs may be ideal, it’s not always realistic to expect abstinence from every addict at every stage of their addiction. Whether it’s handing out clean hypodermic needles or fentanyl test strips, administering opioids, naloxone training for overdoses, or decriminalizing substances, harm reduction looks to meet addicts where they live, rather than sweep them under the rug with an idealized version of how they should behave.
“Cars are dangerous. You put on a seatbelt — that reduces the harm,” journalist Maia Szalavitz told Dr. Josh King on the Beyond Addiction Show. “We don’t put spikes on the dashboard to get people to not have accidents. We recognize that crashes are going to happen sometimes.”
The spikes on the dashboard are symbolic of Prohibition, which has done little to prevent substance use and addiction or reduce the availability of illegal drugs. Harm reduction, on the other hand, has shown progress as a more realistic approach. Harm reduction treats addiction as a health issue rather than a crime or moral failing.
In 2001, Portugal decriminalized possession of small amounts of any substance, and implemented a public health program of harm reduction. Drug users are not charged and prosecuted, but given an addiction assessment and treatment options. This harm reduction policy ushered in a dramatic improvement in Portugal’s public health and drug problems overall.
the number of heroin users in Portugal has dropped from about 100,000 before the law to just 25,000 today. Portugal now has the lowest drug-related death rate in Western Europe, with a mortality rate a tenth of Britain’s and a fiftieth of the United States’. The number of HIV diagnoses caused by injection drug use has plummeted by more than 90 percent.https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/10/portugal-opioid
In Portugal and in the US, many addicts receive either methadone or Suboxone to treat addiction. These programs are designed to reduce harm. An addict on a minimal dose of pure opioids taken under medical supervision is safer than an addict buying unknown substances of unknown strength and possibly using dirty IV needles.
However, in these types of harm reduction programs, the patient remains addicted to opioids. And in a recent turn of events, MDs have been prescribing Suboxone to counter kratom addiction.
Kratom has shown to be an effective harm reduction tool, perhaps more effective than Suboxone or methadone, which in and of themselves can lead to miserable addictions.
Consumer testimony and studies in mice have shown kratom to be an effective tool to combat opioid physical dependency and withdrawal symptoms. Sociological studies have shown illicit drug users, after beginning kratom, engage in fewer HIV risk behaviors like using heroin or methamphetamine, using IV drugs and dirty needles, and having sex with sex workers (Swogger 2019). In another study, long-term kratom consumers in Malaysia, even those with a dependence, were found to have no impairment in social functioning (Singh 2015).
In most consumers, kratom is considered to be less addictive, easier to control, and easier to taper from and quit than opioids. Hundreds of individuals have posted to KratomScience.com detailing their experience in breaking opioid or alcohol addiction with the help of kratom.
Addiction, perhaps more than any other disease, stems from trauma and often takes years and years to heal. Chronic pain sometimes never goes away. Realistically, all people cannot be expected to be sober all the time when substances exist that remove deep psychological and physical pain. Kratom may buy opioid addicts and alcoholics the time they need to work through their issues without killing themselves. Even those who take large amounts of kratom can be productive, employed, able to maintain relationships, and generally happy. Most people who use kratom already use it as a harm reduction tool.


The Empresarios released their second full length album El Sonido Magico in November 2012, further defining their Tropicaliente sound. Since then, they have been playing shows up and down the East Coast, gaining new fans and taking their sound on the road. After giving away a string of popular remixes and edits, they were dubbed The Kings of Remixes by Afropop Worldwide and were also featured on NPR, Urb Magazine and numerous blogs.Four of the tracks from the album were recently remixed by some of the hottest producers and the results are impressive. Label bosses Fort Knox Five flipped the script on Maria Juana, turning it into a future funk, glitch heavy Latin party anthem. Originally an ode to DC bucket funk, 7th Street Groove was reworked by Omegaman with some skanked out breakbeats and a dubby groove. Salsa de Gala is remixed by All Good Funk Alliance who include their signature high tech percussion sound with a Latin tinged Nu-Disco vibe. Rounding out the release, and taking you straight to the beaches of Baja are the dubbed out reggae meets latin swing vibes found on Basement Freaks Remix of Rey de Reyes.The El Sonido Magico Remixed EP is a collection of red hot tunes for DJs to drop all spring and summer. There is truly something for every party with sounds ranging from funk, glitch and house to breaks and dub. This package also includes remix instrumentals. The Empresarios Magic Sound has been reinvented and reimagined.


The Taifa Stars captain who scored two goals for Fenerbahce as the Turkish giants defeated Fatih Karagumruk 2-1 in his full Super Lig debut on Saturday, arrived in Kampala in the late hours of Tuesday and immediately headed to the team’s residential training ahead of the build-up set for Benjamin Mkapa Stadium on Sunday.
Samatta moved to Fenerbahce on loan from Premier League side Aston Villa and had a memorable outing as he made his first start in the Turkish Super Lig at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium.
He is among the foreign-based players named in the Taifa Stars squad by coach Etienne Ndayiragije, others being Thomas Ulimwengu, who plays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Himid Mao, who plays in Egypt, Simon Msuva and Nickson Kibabage, who are based in Morocco, and Ally Msengi in South Africa.
Tanzania will be taking part in the African Nations Championship and the Burundi tactician will be using the friendly match to gauge the fitness and preparedness of his charges.
Taifa Stars will be playing Tunisia on November 11 away, before hosting them in Dar es Salaam two weeks later. The East African nation started their campaign in Group J with a 2-1 win over Equatorial Guinea before falling 2-1 away to Libya in their second game.
The Tanzania Mainland League has been active since June 13 which will be a boost to players' fitness ahead of the Burundi assignment.
Full Squad: Goalkeepers: Metacha Mnata (Yanga SC), Aishi Manula (Simba SC), David Mapigano (Azam FC).
Defenders: Shomari Kapombe, Mohamed Hussein (Simba SC), Israel Mwenda (KMC FC), Brayson David, Abdallah Sebo (Azam FC), Bakari Mwamnyeto (Yanga SC) Dickson Job (Mtibwa Sugar), Iddy Mobbi (Polisi Tanzania).
Midfielders: Jonas Mkude, Said Hamisi, Yassin Mzamiru (Simba SC), Himid Mao (ENPPI SC, Egypt), Iddy Nado, Salum Abubakar (Azam FC), Feisal Salum (Yanga SC), Ally Msengi (Stellenbosch FC, South Africa).


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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Food insecurity is all too real for many young people and their families in our area. But there is a company called MadeGood, and they want to do good. They are looking for 24 young activists to support them in the fight against food insecurity. One of them is Sophie Bernstein, she’s an ambassador to MadeGood’s Unwreck the Future campaign.
Apply at unwreckthefuture.com to make an impact on your community. You could get $1,000 of donations to help support an organization or event of your choice.


text: Various water-soluble inorganic compounds, including Na+, NH4+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl-, NO3-, PO43- and SO42- were analyzed in 130 sets of size-segregated (< 0.49, 0.49–0.95, 0.95–1.5, 1.5–3.0, 3.0–7.2, 7.2–10.0 μm) aerosol samples, collected from March 2013 to April 2014 in Guangzhou, China. SO42- was unimodally distributed and peaked at a typical droplet mode (0.49–0.95 μm). However, the distribution of NO3- significantly varied over the four seasons. It was unimodally distributed in summer and autumn, with the peak at a coarse mode (3.0–10 μm), and bimodally distributed in winter and spring, with peaks at 0.49–0.95 μm and 3.0–10 μm, respectively. The coarse-mode NO3- was mainly related to the influence of soil/dust. The additional mode during winter and spring was attributed to the formation of ammonium nitrate. Compared with clean days, polluted days favored the formation of SO42- in summer and autumn, and NO3- in winter and spring. The sulfur oxidation ratios (SOR) for < 0.49, 0.49–0.95 and 0.95–1.5 μm particles were negatively correlated with relative humidity (RH) in spring, summer and autumn, respectively. However, SOR for 0.49–3.0 μm particles was positively correlated with RH in winter, implying an important contribution from the aqueous oxidation of SO2. Further analysis shows that SO42- in < 0.49 μm particles was mainly formed through gas-phase photochemical oxidation of SO2 over the four seasons. The formation of NO3- was mainly attributed to heterogeneous reactions at 1.5–3.0 μm particles over the four seasons and homogeneous gas-phase reactions at < 0.49 μm particles in winter. Correlation analysis further shows a positive influence of biomass burning in the formation of nitrate and sulfate. The average pH of PM3 was calculated to be 2.6–5.6. Thus, the aqueous oxidation of SO2 by NO2 plays a limited role in the formation of sulfate in the atmosphere of Guangzhou.


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10 Celebrities Who Dated Their Fan And Got Married To Them
Imaging dating your favorite celebrity or having an opportunity to go on a date with your celebrity crush? Sounds impressive, right?
I can only imagine how exciting that would be. Sometimes all you need to do is be at the right place, at the right time, and that single event can change your life forever.
Some persons have been lucky to have a one-on-one meeting with their favorite celebrity, and some stars have found love with their fans.
It has led to a beautiful relationship that sometimes results in marriage, like what you are about to read.
Celebrities have unique stories on how they met the love of their lives. Although it is rare, some fans have been lucky enough to date and even marry their favorite celebrity.
Celebrities Who Dated Their Fan And Got Married To Them
- Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin
Hailey was a massive fan of Jelena (Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez) from her young age.
After the pair broke up, the model got an opportunity to meet Justin Bieber through her dad, which was the beginning of her relationship with the superstar.
The couples began dating in 2014 and had an unstable relationship until 2018 when they surprisingly made things official by getting married.
- Kim Kardashian West And Kanye West
Kanye West had always been a massive fan of Kim Kardashian before they began dating.
The rapper once drew himself beside her on the Kardashian Christmas card. After a while, he finally got to meet her, and soon they got married, having four kids together.
Their love story is indeed romantic; unfortunately, the pair are no more together.
- Jessica Alba And Cash Warren
Jessica Alba’s husband, Cash Warren, has been a massive fan of the actress for years before finally meeting her on the set of “Fantastic Four” in 2004.
Soon they began dating and eventually got married; their union is blessed with three kids.
- John Travolta And Kelly Preston
The moment Kelly Preston saw the movie poster of Grease, she had a crush on the actor, John Travolta.
Although they were both famous, Kelly was a huge fan of John and knew she would be married to him.
Her dream came through as the couple got married in 1991, and have been together till date.
- Reese Witherspoon And Jim Toth
Jim Toth was a paid fan of Reese Witherspoon as he worked for the agency that promoted her work.
That’s not to say he didn’t later become a genuine fan as he later got married to her, and they are still together to date.
- Billie Joe Armstrong And Adrienne Nesser
Adrienne Nesser was a huge Green Day fan. She met her husband at one of his concerts, being a massive fan of his work.
The pair later got married in 1994 and is still going strong today. Billie and Adrienne have two sons together.
- Patrick Dempsey And Jillian Fink
Jillian Fink was a massive fan of Patrick Dempsey, so you can imagine her excitement when he booked an appointment for a haircut from her.
Jillian knew what she wanted and didn’t hesitate to go for it. They got married in 1999 and have three children together.
- Julia Roberts And Danny Moder
Danny Moder was a massive fan of Julia Roberts. He got his opportunity while shooting “The Mexican” as the cinematographer.
The pair bonded during the filming and soon got married in 2002; they have been together to keep a relatively low profile.
- Prince William with Kate Middleton
Rumors have it that before meeting Prince William, Kate Middleton was a massive fan of the Prince.
According to the story, she went as far as having a poster of Prince William on her wall.
Luckily for her, the two later met and got married in 2011. They have three children together.
- Anne Hathaway with Adam Shulman
Adam Shulman was already a massive fan of Anne Hathaway before the meeting.
Thanks to a mutual friend, the two got acquainted, and soon they became inseparable. In 2012, Anne and Adam got married, they are still together to date.


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NSW Labor MP Jihad Dib has called out after he said his daughter was "constantly harangued" for being Muslim during a Sydney weekend soccer game.
Mr Dib, who was the first Muslim person elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly, said that when he went to pick his 15-year-old daughter up after the game she was "deeply hurt and had been crying".
He told SBS News that his daughter had been told that she "doesn't belong here" and called "disgusting".
Another player was allegedly called "ching-chong" repeatedly throughout the match.
"The worry is that it was actually from kids, at least with adults maybe it's taken a while to learn that behaviour but when it's 15-year-old kids it's not what you expect," Mr Dib said.
"Only on Saturday night I was talking to some kids at a youth leadership event and one of them came up to me and it just was heartbreaking ... he said, 'I just don't ever feel like I belong here'."
Mr Dib said the football team would be making a formal complaint.
"We're seeing in the public domain that language of division, the language of us and them and this is how it plays out," he said.
"Racism is not new ... but I certainly think it is becoming more common, and it's certainly becoming nastier.
"And you see this politically in the public space in the language some politicians are choosing to use ... and it ends up having a trickle-down effect."
The allegations come as a series of federal election candidates are in hot water for racist, Islamophobic, homophobic and sexist comments made on social media.
Liberal candidates Jeremy Hearn and Jessica Whelan, specifically, were dumped from the party after inflammatory anti-Muslim posts were revealed.
Mr Hearn, who was formerly the Liberal candidate in the Melbourne seat of Isaacs, wrote that Muslim Australians were aiming to overthrow the Australian government.
Following the revelations, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Liberal Party would be looking to improve their candidate vetting process.
Hate speech against Muslims is reportedly on the rise following earlier this year, which left 51 Islamic worshippers dead.
In the United Kingdom, said they had seen a six-fold increase in reports following the shootings.


A rubber glove jacket and paperbag shorts feature at London Fashion Week
It is a fashion conundrum to vex even the most accomplished 21st century dandy: just how should the well-dressed gentleman best accessorise a jacket made of rubber gloves? As London Fashion Week closed yesterday the answer was, impressively, even more OTT than the question. Men’s designer New Power Studio’s aforementioned jacket was jazzed up by the addition of an eight-year-old child, apparently stitched into an in-built infant compartment. What did it all mean? Don’t ask me.
This look won’t be kerchinging cash-tills in a high street near you soon. But on the last day of LFW is about new ideas — some great, some less so — not the same old same old.
The world’s most influential fashion editors — Anna Wintour, Alex Schulman, Carine


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1 In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
2 But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light." And light became.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses.
5 And he called the light, 'Day,' and the darknesses, 'Night.' And it became evening and morning, one day.
6 God also said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters."
7 And God made a firmament, and he divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament. And so it became.
8 And God called the firmament 'Heaven.' And it became evening and morning, the second day.
9 Truly God said: "Let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together into one place; and let the dry land appear." And so it became.
10 And God called the dry land, 'Earth,' and he called the gathering of the waters, 'Seas.' And God saw that it was good.
11 And he said, "Let the land spring forth green plants, both those producing seed, and fruit-bearing trees, producing fruit according to their kind, whose seed is within itself, over all the earth." And so it became.
12 And the land brought forth green plants, both those producing seed, according to their kind, and trees producing fruit, with each having its own way of sowing, according to its species. And God saw that it was good.
13 And it became evening and the morning, the third day.
14 Then God said: "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.
15 Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth." And so it became.
16 And God made two great lights: a greater light, to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with the stars.
17 And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light over all the earth,
18 and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And it became evening and morning, the fourth day.
20 And then God said, "Let the waters produce animals with a living soul, and flying creatures above the earth, under the firmament of heaven."
21 And God created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And he blessed them, saying: "Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea. And let the birds be multiplied above the land."
23 And it became evening and morning, the fifth day.
24 God also said, "Let the land produce living souls in their kind: cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species." And so it became.
25 And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle, and every animal on the land, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 And he said: "Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth."
27 And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.
28 And God blessed them, and he said, "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
29 And God said: "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth, and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to be food for you,
30 and for all the animals of the land, and for all the flying things of the air, and for everything that moves upon the earth and in which there is a living soul, so that they may have these on which to feed." And so it became.
31 And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good. And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.
The Beginning of the World
1In the beginning, when God created the earth and sky,#1:1 Or “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” “God” in this first section (1:1-2:3) is the most general word for God in the Old Testament. It is a plural form. See verse 26. 2the earth was without life and not yet useful for anything. Deep waters covered the earth, and darkness covered the water. God’s Spirit#1:2 God’s Spirit Or “A wind from God” or “A mighty wind.” was moving like a storm over the surface of the water.
The First Day—Light
3Then God said, “Let there be light!” And light began to shine.#1:1-3 Or “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. While 2 the earth had no special shape, and darkness covered the ocean, and God’s Spirit hovered over the water, 3 God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Or “When God began to create the sky and the earth, 2 while the earth was completely empty, and darkness covered the ocean, and a powerful wind blew over the water, 3 God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” 4He saw the light, and he knew that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. 5God named the light “day,” and he named the darkness “night.”
There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the first day.
The Second Day—Sky
6Then God said, “Let there be a space#1:6 space Or “firmament.” The Hebrew word can refer to a piece of metal that has been hammered into the shape of a bowl. to separate the water into two parts!” 7So God made the space and separated the water. Some of the water was above it, and some of the water was below it. 8God named that space “sky.” There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.
The Third Day—Dry Land and Plants
9Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear.” And it happened. 10God named the dry land “earth,” and he named the water that was gathered together “seas.” And God saw that this was good.
11Then God said, “Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth.” And it happened. 12The earth grew grass and plants that made grain. And it grew trees that made fruit with seeds in it. Every plant made its own kind of seeds. And God saw that this was good.
13There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the third day.
The Fourth Day—Sun, Moon, and Stars
14Then God said, “Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. They will be used for signs to show when special meetings#1:14 special meetings The Israelites used the sun and moon to decide when the months and years began. Many Israelite festivals and special meetings began at the time of the new moon or full moon. begin and to show the days and years. 15They will be in the sky to shine light on the earth.” And it happened.
16So God made the two large lights. He made the larger light to rule during the day and the smaller light to rule during the night. He also made the stars. 17God put these lights in the sky to shine on the earth. 18He put them in the sky to rule over the day and over the night. They separated the light from the darkness. And God saw that this was good.
19There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the fourth day.
The Fifth Day—Fish and Birds
20Then God said, “Let the water be filled with many living things, and let there be birds to fly in the air over the earth.” 21So God created the large sea animals.#1:21 large sea animals Or “sea monsters.” He created all the many living things in the sea and every kind of bird that flies in the air. And God saw that this was good.
22God blessed all the living things in the sea and told them to have many babies and fill the seas. And he blessed the birds on land and told them to have many more babies.
23There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the fifth day.
The Sixth Day—Land Animals and People
24Then God said, “Let the earth produce many kinds of living things. Let there be many different kinds of animals. Let there be large animals and small crawling animals of every kind. And let all these animals produce more animals.” And all these things happened.
25So God made every kind of animal. He made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling things. And God saw that this was good.
26Then God said, “Now let’s make humans#1:26 humans The Hebrew word means “man,” “people,” or the name “Adam.” It is like the word meaning “earth” or “red clay.” who will be like us.#1:26 Now let’s make … like us Or “Now let’s make humans in our image and in our likeness.” They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth.”
27So God created humans in his own image. He created them to be like himself.#1:27 So God created humans … himself Or “So God created them in his image. In the image of God he created them.” Compare Gen. 5:1, 3. He created them male and female. 28God blessed them and said to them, “Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29God said, “I am giving you all the grain bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food. 30And I am giving all the green plants to the animals. These green plants will be their food. Every animal on earth, every bird in the air, and all the little things that crawl on the earth will eat that food.” And all these things happened.
31God looked at everything he had made. And he saw that everything was very good.
There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the sixth day.
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