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Painful Rift Unnerves Doctors
The clash over the use of opioids to treat patients intensifies. Where law
enforcement officials see a drug pusher, many in medicine see a pioneer.
Federal prosecutors launched one of their highest-profile and most
controversial assaults in the war against prescription drug abuse recently
when they indicted Dr. William E. Hurwitz, a 57-year-old Virginia pain
Hurwitz, a Stanford University medical graduate who also has a law degree,
was depicted as a "street-corner crack dealer" by federal officials during a
court hearing last month. He remains in a Virginia jail, unable to post bail
set at $2 million.
Although medical boards have suspended Hurwitz's license three times in the
last decade and federal officials have depicted him as corrupt, the case has
evoked unexpected support from medical groups.
Hurwitz is regarded as a pioneer in pain treatment by many doctors,
academicians and medical groups, who have decried his prosecution. The case,
along with other prominent criminal prosecutions, is putting a chill on
legitimate pain treatment by doctors who fear prosecution, they say.
The Hurwitz case has exposed a deepening rift between law enforcement and
the medical community over the use of opioids in modern pain treatment.
These powerful drugs, including OxyContin, Vicodin and Dilaudid, are based
on natural or synthetic opium.
Over the last decade, a revolution in medical thinking has discarded the
idea that people should just cope with profound long-term pain, and instead
holds that they should be helped with high doses of opioids. Without such
treatment, the victims of serious disease and injury are often bedridden,
unemployable and depressed, and in some cases suicidal, doctors say.
At the same time, abuse of these drugs has soared. An estimated 6.4 million
Americans illegally used opium-based painkillers in 2001, more than the 4.1
million who used cocaine, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration. OxyContin, introduced seven years ago and hailed as
a breakthrough drug, has become the most abused pain pill in the nation.
Illegal use of opioids has been going up 27% annually, according to surveys.
Among the most recent high-profile cases is that of talk show host Rush
Limbaugh, who recently admitted he is a pain-pill addict.
Despite such abuse, national health organizations argue that serious pain is
undertreated and have criticized the Justice Department and local law
enforcement agencies for causing widespread fear among doctors that they can
not prescribe opioid painkillers, particularly OxyContin, without risking
"There is no question that doctors now fear being held liable if they
prescribe painkillers," said Dr. Michael Fleming, a practicing Louisiana
doctor and president of the 94,000-member American Academy of Family
Physicians. "We have let our members know what is going on. There is a
heightened awareness by the Drug Enforcement Administration."
A broad range of experts, including pain specialists, directors of hospice
facilities, academicians and the pharmaceuti-cal industry, have come to the
same conclusion. Even law enforcement officials agree that legitimate
doctors are spooked, although officers have sought to assure them that they
have nothing to worry about.
"What happens typically is that 99% of the physicians, who are good, decent
people, can become paranoid," said John Burke, head of a drug enforcement
task force in Ohio and vice president of the National Assn. of Drug
Diversion Investigators."This is a very touchy issue. We do not want to
impact legitimate pain patients or their physicians."
Prosecutors and investigators say doctors violate the law when they
prescribe pain pills to patients who they know, or reasonably should know,
are selling or abusing the drugs. The most flagrant cases involve doctors
who spend little time with patients, write them identical pain-pill
prescriptions and ignore repeated signs that they are attracting addicts to
their office. A patient overdose death, not evidence on its own of illegal
prescribing of pain pills, often attracts close scrutiny.
The medical use of marijuana, which received a favorable ruling last week
from the Supreme Court, is another issue on which federal prosecutors are
clashing with doctors. But with official estimates that 75 million Americans
suffer from persistent pain, opioids have a vastly more important and
accepted role in medicine.
TRYING TO CURB ABUSE
The DEA, which regulates controlled drugs such as opioids, denies that it
has ramped up prosecutions or adopted tougher investigation tactics, but
rather says it is trying to hold the line on the abuse of pain medications,
which has caused serious social and economic problems.
Pat Good, a senior official at the DEA's office of diversion control, said
the agency was focusing on doctors who ran "prescription mills" or whose
entire practices involved pain medications diverted to illegal uses. And
allegations that the agency is putting a chill on pain treatment are not
new, she said.
"We have heard that same issue for years," Good said. "Obviously, there is
an increase in abuse and an increase in our reaction to it. We have gone out
of our way ... to reassure people that legitimate practice is not the
This month, the DEA doubled its fees on doctors, pharmacies and drug makers
for controlled-substance registrations, an administrative action that will
raise an additional $60 million annually for the DEA's program to fight the
diversion of controlled drugs. The funds will provide for a modest increase
in DEA enforcement efforts, Good said.
Good said nearly 1 million doctors held DEA controlled-substance
registrations allowing them to prescribe opiates, whereas the agency had
just 400 investigators. In 2002, 68 doctors were arrested for crimes
involving controlled substances; in 2001 there were 76 arrests. The annual
number of prosecutions has ranged from 50 to 80 for years, Good said.
Critics say the official statistics vastly understate the magnitude and
growth of the prosecution efforts, because 95% of cases are plea-bargained
or handled administratively by state medical boards in collaboration with
the DEA and local law enforcement groups.
Even doctors who adhere carefully to rules can run afoul of law enforcement
agencies, according to David Brushwood, an expert on opioid legal issues and
a professor of pharmacology at the University of Florida.
"Something is terribly wrong with the way some criminal justice authorities
have begun to enforce the law against physicians and pharmacists who
prescribe and dispense high-dose opioids to treat chronic pain," he said.
"The necessary balance ... has tipped drastically in the direction of
ruthless drug control."
Brushwood, who was long regarded as a moderate voice on such legal issues,
pointed to the prosecution of
Dr. Frank Fisher. A Harvard Medical School
graduate who ran a clinic for low-income residents in Shasta County, Fisher
was charged in 1999 with murdering five of his patients, along with billing
fraud and drug dealing.
On the first day of his trial in Superior Court, the charges were dismissed,
though lesser charges are still pending. Fisher says he is financially
ruined and now lives with his father. "This is a situation that defies
common sense," he said.
Patrick Hallinan, Fisher's San Francisco attorney, said honest doctors all
over the country were being targeted by the DEA when their patients violated
the law without the doctor's knowledge. Agents are using the same tactics
against honest doctors that are used against narcotics dealers, he said.
"There isn't any doubt that these prosecutions are increasing under the Bush
administration," Hallinan said. "It is like busting a car dealer because
somebody runs off the road and kills somebody."
Rather than tip off doctors that their patients may be dealing drugs on the
street, the DEA strikes deals with the patients to testify against the
doctors, according to doctors and defense attorneys. Doctors are vulnerable
because they have no physical test to determine whether a patient is in real
pain, and they have no control over what happens after patients leave a
clinic, they add.
Jeri Hassman, a Tucson doctor indicted in March, said she was never informed
of any concerns about her practice over the last 17 years. She was charged
after an undercover sting that used a three-time convicted felon, along with
two undercover DEA agents, said Hassman's attorney Bates Butler.
But Burke, the narcotics investigator in Ohio, said most good police
departments did tip off doctors that patients were diverting drugs before
they launched investigations.
"Physicians are not targeted because of one patient but rather an
overwhelming pattern of activity," he said. "There is nothing illegal about
being duped by your patient. Everybody gets duped. The doctors we target are
well-aware they have bad patients."
Of course, not every local department adheres to such policies. Good, the
DEA official, said, "Some locals have behaved differently than the DEA
Still, even in states with progressive medical regulations, like Minnesota,
doctors are growing increasingly worried about prosecution, said Dr. Thomas
E. Elliott, director of St. Mary's Hospice in Duluth.
The prescription volume for doctors who specialize in pain treatment
(especially those with hundreds of pain patients who travel from around the
country) can create the appearance of a major illegal drug distribution
Steps doctors take to protect themselves include keeping careful medical
records, documenting that opioids are improving patients' conditions and
requiring patients to sign contracts.
Modern pain treatment can seem extreme to the uninitiated. The goal is to
provide as much opioid medication as needed to negate pain (in some cases,
dozens of pills a day). Although patients may become physically dependent and
will go through withdrawal if the drugs are suddenly stopped, they are not
addicted in the traditional sense.
A patient taking opioids for serious pain reaches a tolerance level within a
few weeks; there is no sensation of euphoria, pharmacologists and doctors
say, even though the drugs still cancel the pain.
Henry Farkas, an emergency room and hospice doctor in Elkton, Md., said he
has grown more cautious about prescribing opioids as he has heard about
prosecutions around the country.
"I worry about this more than I have in the past," Farkas said. "These
prosecutions are of good doctors who sound like they were doing the right
thing. But the government is pursuing them and charging them with being drug
Medical boards and civil juries have ruled against doctors who have failed
to adequately treat pain, particularly at the end of life, when people
sometimes go through agonizing ordeals. As a result, doctors are often
reluctant to say they will not treat pain.
Dr. Ronald Myers, who operates five clinics for low-income people in the
Mississippi Delta region, said he too had grown more reluctant about
prescribing painkillers. Myers, a Baptist minister and regional advocate for
pain treatment, says that before he writes a prescription for OxyContin or
other opioids, he requires a patient to see a pain management specialist.
"But in some cases, even if the pain management specialist recommends them,
I still won't write them because I am afraid of the DEA and the medical
board shutting me down."
HIGH DOSES ENCOURAGED
It was high-dosage treatments that Hurwitz helped to pioneer, according to
Brushwood and many others.
Hurwitz seems like an unlikely champion for the cause of pain treatment,
given his history of run-ins with authority. Before his arrest late last
month, Hurwitz had his medical license revoked once in Washington, D.C., and
twice in Virginia. His supporters blame the suspensions on the medical
establishment's efforts to block his campaign for use of high doses of
opioids to treat serious pain.
After his arrest, the Assn. of American Physicians and Surgeons, along with
the American Pain Institute, the Pain Relief Network and the National
Foundation for the Treatment of Pain condemned the prosecution at a news
"It seems to us that the DEA has shifted its focus from street thugs to
doctors, because doctors are easier targets," said Kathryn Serkes, a policy
executive at the association of physicians and surgeons. The group now
flatly advises its doctors not to prescribe opioids.
The American Medical Assn. has not weighed in on the Hurwitz case, but last
July fired a warning shot by posting on its Web site a statement that it
"wants no doctor harassment over pain medication" and pledging to take the
case to President Bush and Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft. Good, the DEA official,
said that the AMA has not contacted the agency since making that statement.
The charges against Hurwitz depict him as a corrupt and ruthless profiteer.
His arrest is part of Operation Cotton Candy, in which federal prosecutors
have obtained convictions of more than 15 Hurwitz patients who were selling
pain pills from him on the street.
The indictment alleges that one of Hurwitz's patients died of a morphine
overdose within 33 hours of her first visit to his office. Another patient
was a pregnant woman whose baby was born with an addiction, the indictment
charged. Assistant U.S. Attys. Gene Rossi and Mark Lytle said in a bail
hearing that they had tape-recorded evidence that a patient told Hurwitz he
was dealing painkillers on the street and the doctor still wrote a
Hurwitz's attorney James Hundley said prosecutors have falsified a number of
claims, such as asserting Hurwitz earned$2 million in illegal profits. The
$2 million represented Hurwitz' gross revenues over a four-year period and
included funds needed to cover staff salaries and clinic expenses, he said.
And Hurwitz's supporters remain unshaken.
"Hurwitz is a wonderful doctor, completely dedicated to his patients," said
Ronald T. Libby, a professor at the University of North Florida who is
writing a book about the friction between law enforcement and doctors. "If
it were not safe for Hurwitz to prescribe meds, who would it be
October 20, 2003
By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer


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FSANZ looking to change infant formula Food Standards requirements
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking comments on its proposed approach to revising infant formula requirements in the Food Standards Code.
FSANZ Chief Executive Officer Mr Steve McCutcheon said although breastfeeding is the recommended way to feed a baby, a safe and nutritious substitute for breast milk is needed for babies who are not breastfed.
“FSANZ is looking at clarifying some standards, bringing them up-to-date with the latest scientific evidence and aligning with international regulations,” McCutcheon said.
“This paper covers a range of issues including composition, safety and food technology and labelling,” McCutcheon stated.
Members of the community, government agencies, public health professionals and industry are all invited to make comment on the proposal.
After assessing submissions on this consultation paper, FSANZ expects to prepare a call for submissions for public release.
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I woke up and immediately knew something was different. I knew it was my birthday but it wasn't that, I felt more alive, like my skin was buzzing with energy.
I hopped out of bed with surprising grace and trudged into my bathroom, picking up my towel on the way. I jumped in the shower and relaxed as the warm water soothed my aching muscles. After a few minutes I turned off the water, got out and wrapped my towel around me.
I picked my hairbrush up from the counter and prepared to tame my usual wild mane of hair.
I was shocked when I looked in the mirror.
My hair was perfect, not a hair out of place. It was in loose curls and ended at my waist, it had got a few shades lighter but I knew no one would notice this, yet somehow I could. My eyes seemed to be working better, everything was so clear, I could see all the tiny specks of dust floating through the air, mixed with the minute water droplets.
I continued to observe my face, my skin was perfectly smooth and my nose was now small and curved, my lips were fuller and red and by eyes, they were still brown but in the light they shined all the colours in the rainbow. I was speechless.
Did one of you do this!? I screamed after a minute.
Nope.. My dad replied hastily
But.. There's something else! Don't hide it! I yelled back.
Erm, well erm, go to breakfast! Your going to be late! Got to go bye! He said quickly.
I sighed and walked over to my wardrobe, I grabbed out some ripped denim jeans and the orange 'camp Half-Blood' T-shirt.
I put my sword in my pocket, making sure the lid was on properly, I wouldn't want it changing forms during breakfast.
I ran over to the breakfast tent and was met by a creepy silence, the were all going to 'surprise' me. Great.
I stepped inside and was blasted by a shower of confetti and shouts of people wishing my a happy birthday. They had decorated the tent beautifully though, I couldn't lie. There were gold streamers hanging from the roof with silver ones lining the tables, bunches of balloons were dotted around as everyone went to sit at there tables or give me a gift.
Annabeth gave me a friendship bracelet made out of petrified leaves, I know what your thinking, 'eww what kind of gift is that' but were not allowed out of camp, unless its a quest and these were the leaves from the silver willow, they were an amazing silver colour and went rock hard when petrified.
Clarisse gave me a dagger, Percy a new sketch book, Zoey and Chloe gave me a lovely dress that was white with pink floral affect printed on it. It was strapless and ended just above my knees.
After that I went and got some food, I saw Mr D watching me from his table but ignored it, I often caught him staring at me.
I sat down at the Zeus table where all my friends already were eating, they all looked up and smiled as I slid into my seat.
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All of the money raised from the weekend will go to the Bristol Anarchist Black Cross, a group that focuses on prisoner support as well as forwarding campaigns for prison abolition. So as well as supporting individual prisoners we will also give some of the money to groups in the UK and abroad that are involved in similar struggles.
Info about some of the people/groups we have supported in the past or plan to give money to from the tattoo circus:
Taylor is a transmasc prisoner who has served over 10 years in prison as part of an indeterminate sentence which has effectively created a life sentence for minor crimes. Both before and after being imprisoned, he has been subject to years of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. The long-term imprisonment with no end-date has slowly destroyed Taylor’s mental health. He has attempted suicide multiple times, including slitting his own throat and taking an overdose that led him to being in a coma.
Find out more about Taylor: https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/free-taylor/
Kevan Thakrar is an IWW member and miscarriage of justice who has served over a decade in prison. Kevan has been fighting for his life as a miscarriage of justice for the past 11 years, and has worked tirelessly to shed light on the corruption and abuse that happens in British prisons as well as helping other prisoners stand up for their rights.
For more info on Kev’s case: http://justiceforkevan.org/
Smash IPP is a collective of people fighting for the release of IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) prisoners, and the abolition of life licenses. Many members have friends and family who are locked up with indefinite sentences. This uncertainty has a tremendous impact on the health of loved ones and communities. The group supports IPP prisoners emotionally and legally, as well as supporting friends and loved ones of IPPs. They also raise awareness and educate people about IPP sentences, and empowering them to take action. They campaign both for individual prisoners and for IPPs collectively.
Find out More: http://smashipp.noflag.org.uk/about-smash-ipp/
Activist Court Aid Brigade (ACAB)
Drawing together a wide range of people active on the far left, ACAB supports defendants facing prosecution for their alleged involvement in struggles for collective liberation and the destruction of capital, as they navigate the intimidatingly complex English legal system. They organise defendants’ meetings; provide guidance on charges and possible defences; assist in the construction of cases, whether or not the defendant is represented by a solicitor; provide physical and emotional support during the course of proceedings, as well as producing useful resources such as updated versions of ‘No Comment: The Defendant’s Guide to Arrest’ and the android app ‘Bustcard.’
International ABC groups:
There are Anarchist Black Cross groups all over the world and we recognise that it is a lot more difficult for groups in less affluent countries to raise money, and that a lot of the affluence in this country is based on its colonial policies/history. Other countries also have to deal with severe repression from the state and so we regularly support other ABC/anti oppression groups in other countries around the world.
The international anarchist defence fund is a structure that provides financial support to anarchists around the world who are persecuted or find themselves in a difficult life situation because of their political ideas or activities.
More info: https://afund.antirep.net/
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Dr Lisa Wedding honoured with prestigious Royal Geographical Society award
Worcester's Fellow and Tutor in Geography, Dr Lisa Wedding, is the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) Cuthbert Peek Award. The Cuthbert Peek Award recognises “those advancing geographical knowledge of human impact on the environment through the application of contemporary methods” and is part of a series of annual awards from the RGS that recognise extraordinary achievement in the field of geography.
At Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, Dr Wedding is the Principal Investigator of the Oxford Seascape Ecology Lab and an Associate Professor in Physical Geography. Her research seeks to advance the theoretical foundation in the emerging field of seascape ecology and develop novel techniques to map and model change in the ocean. The Cuthbert Peek Award recognises her significant contributions to advancing contemporary methods for marine environmental remote sensing in the past 15 years.
Speaking about this honour, Dr Wedding said: "I am honoured to receive the RGS Cuthbert Peek Award. This recognition is shared with all of my colleagues that have worked towards advancing our research applications to support marine management and conservation. Working together has allowed for us to bring the diverse perspectives needed to develop novel techniques to address complex marine environmental problems."
These prestigious awards and medals recognise excellence in geographical research, fieldwork, teaching and public engagement, and are awarded by the RGS (with IBG), founded in 1830 for "the advancement of geographical science". They are presented annually to individuals who have made outstanding achievements and recent recipients include Worcester's own Professor Heather Viles, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Head (Research) in the Social Sciences Division. On 5th June, Dr Wedding will be attending the RGS’s annual celebration day in London, where she will be presented with this award by the Royal Geographic Society’s President alongside 22 other outstanding contributors.

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Now that it’s December, Miffy can’t help but daydream of reindeer, unwrapping presents and all of her favorite holiday sweet treats. She thinks Christmastime truly is the most wonderful time of the year! Miffy loves to play games with her friends and family to get into the spirit of the season. You can play one of her favorite games below with your loved ones too!
Holiday Guess Who?
This Christmas Game is a fun game to play with the whole family that requires very little time to set up. It’s a game that will keep everyone guessing, “Who am I?”.
- Santa Hats for each player
- Double-Sided Tape
- Index Cards
- Timer (a phone timer works, or you can use a sand timer)
- Write down Christmas related items, names, shows or movies on index cards.
- To make the game easier, separate them into piles with different themes – like movies in one pile, characters from movies on another, animated characters, songs, religious, animals, objects.
- You could make it more challenging by just lumping them all together.
- Have double-sided tape handy for sticking the cards onto players’ hats.
- Have players’ sit at a table, or on the floor in a circle – as long as players can face each other.
- Pass out cards – face down to each player.
- Each player, without looking at the front of their cards, should pick them up and place them using double-stick tape on their Santa Hat.
- When it’s their turn, the player should set the timer for 1 minute.
- Players can ask everyone else who is playing to answer their questions to help them identify the word taped to their hat. Players in the one minute they have can ask each of the other players a single question. If the minute has not run out and they have asked everyone at the table a question, they can keep going around to each player until the minute is up.
- The answers can only be “yes”, “no”, “could be”, or “I don’t know” answers.
- They cannot ask “Who am I?”
- Examples – “Am I a person?, Am I an object?, Am I green?, Am I a movie title?, Can I fit into a pocket?, Can I fly?, Do I have four legs?, Do I have fur?”
- At any point during their turn, the player can guess who or what they have on their head, but if they are wrong, the turn is up, and it goes to the next player.
- The individual who guesses the most correctly wins!

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text: While only 18 years old, Haifa high-schooler Shani Tal has an impressive resumé of countries visited. Tal, who is clearly mature beyond her years, hasn’t been using her sporadic school vacations for lying on exotic beaches or partying in hip nightclubs. Rather, she has been dedicating most of her free time to the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (healing the world) – trying to make the world a better place for all people.Tal, who has volunteered with Jewish organizations to work with youth in Hungary, Ukraine and the United States, was exploring volunteer opportunities to help the children of Africa when she discovered the Tel Aviv-based organization known as Brit Olam – The International Israeli-Jewish Volunteer Movement.Founded in 2005, the mission of Brit Olam (meaning “world alliance”) according to its executive director Na’ama Shilo, is “to improve the humanitarian situation of populations in need around the world.” Shilo says that the organization “focuses on four specific fields where it tries to advance quality of life for those in need including: medicine, education, art and agriculture.”One of the organization’s most prominent accomplishments is partnering in the establishment of the Uganda Muse high school in the village of Namulanda, Uganda, located between Entebbe and the capital city of Kampala near the source of the Nile River.This unique school offers innovative educational and therapeutic activities based on the arts to serve the area’s disadvantaged or orphaned teenagers.After learning about Uganda Muse, Tal approached Shilo with the idea of sending a group of like-minded Israeli teens to partake in a mission to Uganda to work with the youth at the school to build a sustainable program, which would improve the quality of life for the local population in the village.SO LAST December, a diverse group of seven high-school female students from all over Israel, along with three Brit Olam counselors, traveled to Uganda on a two-week mission with the hopes of making a difference. Ilanit Cohen, 24, a first-year law student at Bar-Ilan University who several years ago spent a month and a half volunteering in Uganda with Brit Olam following her army service – working mainly with victims of disease and poverty – jumped at the opportunity to go back, but this time as a counselor and as part of a delegation.With prior Ugandan experience under her belt, Cohen assisted in recruiting and leading the preparatory sessions for the seven hand-picked high-school volunteers.She says the group spent weekends together to prepare focusing on the cultural differences they would encounter and discussing the concepts of tolerance as well as tikkun olam.“The goal of our mission was twofold,” says Cohen. “First, we wanted to work hand in hand with the Ugandan teens to come up with a volunteerbased project they could run on their own, without the influence of Western society.” She explains that “growing up, the teens in Africa are given the message that because they are African and because of the color of their skin, they can’t advance in life. We wanted to show these kids that they can make a difference in society and make a change for the better on their own.“Secondly,” says Cohen, “we wanted to work with our partners to create a sustainable project. We didn’t want this to be a one-time undertaking [that would fizzle out] once we left. As the old adage says, better to teach a man how to fish instead of giving him a fish – or in other words, we wanted to show them how they can contribute too.”So during their first week in Uganda the seven Israeli teens along with about 30 Ugandan teens from Muse spent time getting to know each other on both a personal and a cultural level.The Israelis taught their counterparts about Shabbat and holidays, while the Ugandans introduced them to their villages’ norms and mores.Then the mixed group got down to business: coming up with a long-term project to benefit lives in their community. “What we focused on,” says Cohen, “was thinking of a local problem and building the tools to work on possible solutions.”The greatest accomplishment during that first week, she says, “was seeing how the Ugandan teens developed the confidence to express themselves.” Cohen says that these kids grow up in a society where they are rarely given the opportunity for self-expression. In a school setting for example, they are taught material and are told to “just spit it back.”After exploring numerous project proposals, the group agreed on implementing a program in which single mothers with very little education and minimal sources of income would come to the school on a regular basis to receive tutoring from the high school students in English, and in several forms of design including fashion design, sewing, and jewelry making.While certainly not professional teachers, according to Cohen, “the Muse students know English on a highschool level, while some of these mothers don’t even know their ABCs. In addition, the hope was that with the development of new design skills these women could have a better chance of securing a more steady income.”GABRIELLA RUBIN, a 12th-grader from Tel Aviv who was also on the mission and has spent time as a volunteer working with at-risk youth in Thailand and Vietnam, was proud of the “sustainability” of the project. “When I was in Vietnam we would work on short-term projects that, while beneficial, were only for a few hours. But on this mission, we built something that could make a difference long after we left.”And it seems that Rubin’s desire to make a long-term impact has borne fruit.Back in Israel now several months later, Cohen says that she has been updated regularly by her Ugandan counterparts. According to the reports, at least 20 single mothers attend the language and skills sessions at the school twice a week for several hours each time. She believes the fact that this is an ongoing project with regular participation makes their mission a great success.Shilo feels that while the project greatly benefited the Ugandan single mothers as well as the local teens, the Israeli delegation got a lot out of the mission as well.“Firstly,” she says, “this was an important lesson for our participants to learn how people from other cultures live. It also taught them a great deal about learning to appreciate and make do with what you have. In addition, by forming a cultural dialogue with Ugandan children who are the same age, together they learned the power of volunteerism.”Shilo says that there has always been a debate in the non-profit world in Israel about whether the focus of an organization should be on improving the quality of life for those in your own community or reaching out to others in need.But, she adds, “there are many worthy amutot [non-profit organizations] that do important work, here in Israel on a local level, but not a lot that focus on working toward ‘tikkun olam’ within other communities.” Not only this, she says, “but we see ourselves as ambassadors for Israel, showing the beauty of the Israeli people in countries all over the world.”Cohen adds that she feels that the strength the Israeli teens gained from this trip while helping those who are so different from them “will translate into the girls’ looking for volunteer opportunities to improve their own communities in Israel as well.”Tal herself is probably the best example of translating service abroad into service at home, as upon graduation this summer, she plans on spending time volunteering with the Ayalim Association, whose mission is to promote community building and social development in Israel’s periphery, in the Negev and Galilee.Tal says that she definitely wants to go back to Africa to spend more time volunteering there. She might have that chance, as Shilo says would like to send a group of Brit Olam volunteers on an annual mission to Uganda, thanks to the group’s successful maiden initiative.

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Junior High School on Lockdown During Alleged Kidnapping in East New York
EAST NEW YORK — A young woman told emergency services she was being kidnapped at knifepoint just before 9 a.m. today in East New York.
Officers from the 75th Precinct responded to the incident at Grace Playground at Belmont and Jersey Avenues.
The situation caused Junior High School 292 Margaret S. Douglas to be placed on lockdown while cops searched for a suspect. NYPD and DCPI did not say if the young woman was a student at the school.
According to police sources she recanted her story. The victim was involved in a dispute with her boyfriend at the location.
It is unclear at this time if she will face charges at this time.
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NZ grown fruits like kiwi fruit, tamarillo, and feijoa once were introduced to New Zealand from China and South America.
The kiwifruit originates from China and was introduced to New Zealand in 1906. The New Zealand fruit has a history of a series of names. For New Zealand the important ones were Chinese gooseberry, a name given by New Zealander for its taste resemblance to that of a gooseberry.
China whose national fruit it is gave more attention to the nutritional value than identifying a fruit.
Commercial planting and harvesting began around 1940. Ten years later when America developed interest to import the fruit the name changed, for political reasons from Chinese gooseberry to melonettes. Alteration to this name took place for the existing high import tariffs on melons. To imply the country of import a short significant name was chosen "kiwifruit" which became the fruits industry name "kiwi". The preference of New Zealanders is kiwi fruit since kiwi birds are their national flightless bird.
The outer appearance is brown and fuzzy, roughly about the size and shape of an egg. Ideal conditions for growing are frost free warmer conditions. Commercial vines grow on sturdy trellis helping to carry their crop to a height of about 9m (30ft).
Two characteristics are important for growing these plants. First, there are male and female veins. One male plant is needed to pollinate 3 to 8 female ones. Second, the first harvest can take place after one year of planting but with aging of the vines the production of the crops reduces. Therefore they need periodic replacement.
There are about fifty other species of kiwi fruit, all of Asian origin though not all are commercially viable. The seeds of one species with more yellowish flesh was brought from India to New Zealand and cultivated to the popular golden kiwi fruit. With golden skin and less furry than their green colleagues it lives up to its name. Their taste is less acid with a sweeter tropical flavour.
We got pretty much hooked on it when we arrived. Undeterred by the higher price we ate a lot of them. Some years the price between green kiwifruits and golden kiwis evened out.
A stay in 'Te Puke in the Bay of Plenty' lets you get to know a small town that calls itself the "Kiwifruit capital of the world". A giant kiwi sculpture leads the way of a long distance with. It marks an ideal place to learn all about its history and present achievements in cultivation and marketing.
Today the fruit is valued for nutrition as well as for ingredients gained of it to create kiwi beauty care products, and liqueur.
The Tamarillo is a red or yellow fruit, which resembles a tomato. The fruit is related to the potato, capsicum, pepper and eggplant. It is a native fruit of Central and South America. Tamarillos were first introduced to New Zealand in the early 1800’s.
In the kitchen the fruit is used for hearty and sweet dishes including, pie and pastries, drinks,
a whole lot more. Other than spooning the fruit out just fresh from the tree, one of our family's special treats is a vegetarian spinach, mushroom, tamarillo lasagna.
Tamarillos grow in a warm climate. They dislike frosty weather, but usually grow through winter and spring. The fruit contains yellow flesh with black crunchy seeds.
The feijoa originates from Brazil and, was introduced to New Zealand around 1920. The smooth skin of the fruit is green. The size and shape depends on the climate. The feijoa tree is sometimes used for hedges and can grow up to 5m. The feijoa has a sweet inside with sweet jelly in the middle. It grows in warm subtropical temperatures.
The tree in our garden is every second year loaded with fruit. Much of the fruit goes during this season in daily smoothies. We also experimented with sponge cake, rice cake and cheese cake. It is also the time when many New Zealanders use their surplus fruits to make fresh feijoa lemonade, fruit leathers, jam and chutney, while some experiment with wine, liqueur and fruit schnapps. Some of these ideas are commercially picked up that product are internationally available.


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Multiple injuries reported after multi-vehicle crash in North Bend
Updated On: Dec 21 2013 07:21:49 PM EST
Several people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash in North Bend Saturday.
Police said this happened on U.S. 50 near Dubber's Drive-Through shortly before noon.
According to police, four vehicles were involved and at least two people were trapped in their cars.
Police have not said how many were taken to the hospital or what caused the crash.
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4.1 Education: Educate all members of the Society about the nature and importance of systemic change.
4.2 Systemic Change: Create and implement a systemic change focus for national, regional and local Vincentian activities.
4.3 Advocacy: Strengthen and broaden Voice of the Poor and other advocacy initiatives of the Society.
4.4 Participation: Engage those we serve living in poverty in our systemic change decision making process.
4.5 Diversity: Increase awareness of multicultural/diversity issues and build cross-cultural competencies.
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Brace yourself, ACC fans, because it’s going to be an even bumpier ride in 2011. At least half of the conference will usher in a new starting quarterback, if not more. There will be an infusion of youth. Here’s a look at who is expected to return, listed by experience: North Carolina – Bryn Renner: He played in three games this year.
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Chapter 2: Revisiting cyberfeminist theory as a tool for understanding young women’s experiences – Trevor Scott Milford
Milford suggests that we can move beyond responsibilization and better protect girls’ online privacy by troubling the dichotomies that too often structure debates about girls and technology. He revisits feminist engagement with technology issues and suggests that binary thinking — offline vs. online; risks vs. benefits; vulnerability vs. agency — has limited our theoretical capacity to challenge policies that constrain girls’ agency in the name of protecting them from harm. By maintaining the tension between poles in a fully integrated online/offline social environment that is bothliberating and constraining, we can better understand how girls experience online representations as instances of both agency and vulnerability. Milford concludes that, in this environment, agency can best be promoted by providing girls with control over the disclosure and sharing of their own images. And, since agency can only be fully experienced once we address the constraining impact of the stereotypical media representations that increasingly colonize online spaces, this approach will also help focus policy attention on ongoing, systemic patterns of discrimination and bias.

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Known as the slavery loophole, an exception in the Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment allows the exploitation of 800,000 prisoners in the U.S. to be paid unfairly low wages for their labor. When prison reformer, Johnny Perez was incarcerated, he made 17 cents to 36 cents per hour, reports The Guardian. The loophole forces those working in prison to receive tiny sums of money because if they refuse to do the job, the consequences may be dire. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery but included an exception for "a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." A report by the American Civil Liberties concluded that the inmate labor conditions violate fundamental human rights to life and dignity. “It’s still continuing to happen and it disproportionately impacts Black, brown and Indigenous people,” said Perez. “So long as the exception clause exists, we will always have an underclass in this society that is going to be the dumping ground for our problems and our shortcomings.”
A campaign to amend the constitution and end the exception of the 13th Amendment is being promoted by U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). The bill has 175 co-sponsors in the House, and 14 co-sponsors in the Senate. In November, voters will decide on whether to remove exception clauses from their state constitutions in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont. An abolition amendment passed in the California assembly but failed to receive a Senate vote so that it could be on the ballot.


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Dear Alfonso and CONN experts,
I cutted my .nii files so that they had progressively more volumes (e.g. the original has 300 and I analysed ROI2ROI from .nii sectioned in 100, 150, 200 and 250 volumes).
For my surprise, some ROI2ROI connections dissapeared with more volumes and appeared with less.
First I hipothesized that the reason why , say, a connection appeared with 150 volumes but not with 200, was that in 150 volumes there was more correlation between the time series and on the next 50 volumes this correlation fell. But this doesnt seem likely to happen in all 30 individuals, right?
Would you have any theoretical insight on why in more volumes some connections may vanish?
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There's nothing about this on the global PR site for Honda yet, so all we have to go by is what we can gather from Honda's Japanese and Chinese websites. We don't know anything about the battery size or range of this EV, but what we can see is that Honda (along with their Chinese partner Guangyi Honda Automobile Co., Ltd.) debuted a sharp looking new EV model for the Chinese market, and it's clearly based upon the HR-V. Interestingly, the design of the front end of this vehicle has essentially zero connection to any current Honda models.
This vehicle is said to be exclusively developed for the Chinese market, but if we were to offer any advice to Honda, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to expand those horizons and offer this EV CUV in other markets where the thirst for EVs is continuing to grow.
Update: The earliest information we could find on this referred to this as the Philosophy EV but it was also referenced as the Everus. The most recent update to http://world.honda.com is referring to it as the Everus.
Following is the text from http://world.honda.com:
Honda Exhibits World Premiere of Everus EV Concept, Concept Car of the China-exclusive EV model, at the 2018 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition (Auto China 2018)
April 25, 2018, China Corporate
BEIJING, China, April 25, 2018 - Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned Honda subsidiary in China, today announced that Honda exhibited the world premiere of the Everus EV Concept, the concept car of the China-exclusive electric vehicle (EV) model, at the 2018 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition (Auto China 2018), which began today in Beijing, China (Press days: April 25 - 26, 2018, Public days: April 29 - May 4, 2018).
The Everus EV Concept is a concept model for the first mass-production EV model Honda will introduce exclusively in China, which is currently being developed jointly by Honda Motor China Technology Co., Ltd. and GAC Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. (GAC Honda). This new EV model is scheduled to go on sale before the end of this year from the Everus brand, an original brand of GAC Honda. Moreover, Honda is planning to utilize this EV model also as a “shared EV” through the car sharing service offered by Reachstar, a car sharing company based in China, in which Honda announced last year it would make a capital investment.
Other models being exhibited at the Honda booth include the China premiere of the Accord Hybrid which is scheduled to go on sale in China in the second half of 2018 (from GAC Honda) as well as the world premiere of the Inspire Concept, the concept model of the all-new sedan model which also is scheduled to go on sale in China in the second half of 2018 (from Dongfeng Honda).
Striving to realize a carbon-free society, Honda will continue accelerating the enhancement of its lineup of electrified vehicles. In fact, Honda is planning to present more than 20 new electrified models before the end of 2025.
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Bernard Tschumi Architects design buildings, bridges, and plazas that blur the boundaries between art, society, symbol, and function. They are responsible for some of the most staggeringly original and unforgettable — and sometimes controversial — edifices and public projects, both built and imagined, in the modern world. From the 1983 high-profile urban sculptural experiment of Paris’ Parc de la Villette, to the more recent Blue residential tower watching over New York’s Lower East Side, Tschumi’s progressive vision of fractured, expressive architecture embraces new materials, vibrant color, and the element of surprise.
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BLUE Residental Tower: New York, 2004-2007
This residential mid-rise in New York’s Lower East Side presented a major design challenge: how to create an original architectural statement while simultaneously responding to the constraints of the New York City zoning code and to the developer’s commercial requirements? BLUE did not start with a theory or a formal gesture, but took the character of the site as its source, parlaying intricate zoning into angulated form, and form into a pixelated envelope that both projects an architectural statement and blends into the sky, simultaneously respecting and embracing the dynamism of the neighborhood.
Acropolis Museum: Athens, 2001-2009
The challenges of designing the new Acropolis Museum began with the responsibility of housing the most dramatic sculptures of Greek antiquity. The building’s polemical location added further layers of responsibility to the design. Located at the foot of the Acropolis, the site confronted us with sensitive archeological excavations, the presence of the contemporary city and its street grid, and the Parthenon itself, one of the most influential buildings in Western civilization. Combined with a hot climate in an earthquake region, these conditions moved us to design a simple and precise museum with the mathematical and conceptual clarity of ancient Greece.
Rouen Concert Hall and Exhibition Complex: Rouen, 1998-2001
Initiated as a civic tool capable of fostering both the economic expansion and cultural development of the Rouen district in the 21st century, this concert hall and exhibition center are well-located near the entry to Rouen, less than an hour-and-a-half by car from Paris. As seen from National Route 138, the 8,000-seat concert hall, open public space, and new 70,000-square-foot exhibition hall provide a strong contemporary image, a spark of cultural and economic rebirth placed on 70 acres of a site structured by dramatic lighting and a grid of plantings.


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Inserts are welded into the frame rails to add strength and to prevent the AlumaFrame mounting from crushing the stamped rails.
Lower control arm travel limiters and bump stops are welded to the outsides of the frame rails.
The system uses tubular upper and lower control arms rather than the stamped steel units originally used on the Mustang. The lower arms are true “A” arms rather than the strut-rod design, which allow for more precise articulation of the suspension system. It also uses modern spindles, coil-over springs & shocks, articulated sway bar ends, and a quick ratio rack and pinion steering system.


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By Genalyn Kabiling
President Duterte recently held another round of talks with Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari following his reported trip abroad.
The President shook Misuari’s hand and embraced him like a brother while welcoming him in Malacañang last Tuesday.
The Palace released photos of the President’s meeting with Misuari but has not yet provided details about the results of the meeting.
Also present in the meeting were Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Carlito Galvez Jr. and National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.
The President recently admitted that he talked to the court, the military and the police to allow Misuari to travel abroad and vouched for his return to the country. He guaranteed that Misuari would not escape and abandon his homeland.
The Sandiganbayan earlier granted Misuari’s petition to attend some meetings in the United Arab Emirates and Morocco this month. The former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor is facing separate graft and rebellion charges.
Prior to the court decision, the President met briefly with Misuari at the Palace after he revealed the “rumblings” in the MNLF about the interim government that will govern the new Bangsamoro autonomous region. It was in the same meeting where Misuari’s travel request was apparently discussed.

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Is This Gluten-Free? Food Labels For the Holiday Buffet
From a dietary perspective, my family used to be “normal.” No one had food allergies, and we all ate meat. Then suddenly everything changed. Now two family members who are gluten-free, three are diabetic, two are vegans, one has an allergy to specific fruits and several are spontaneously picky eaters (probably because they felt left out). Awesome. It’s hard to bring dishes everyone can eat to holiday gatherings, but more so, knowing who can eat what is even trickier. This year I am considering labeling all the Thanksgiving dishes, and these photographic tags are rather clever!
We checked in over at Photojojo where there’s always some photo based project happening. This time around it just happens to coincide with the dinner table. Sure there’s little card holders or other retail based labeling systems out there, but there’s just something funny about making a sign that says meat… from meat.
Sure you could just make a label on the computer, but if you’re looking to take things one step further, this creative set up is easy to make and fun to throw together. Plus, since they’re laminated, once you make them, you’ll never have to do so again. Just tuck them in a drawer and use them for dinner parties and other social events.
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The Global Partnership for Education is the only international organization focused on supporting countries' efforts to educate children from early primary school through secondary school.
Since 2002, the Global Partnership has allocated US$3.9 billion in education grants to partner developing countries
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GPE is not just about financing. More importantly, it helps all partners at the country level--developing country governments, donor governments, international organizations, civil society organizations/NGOs, and the private sector--work together to ensure that education aid is better coordinated and more effective, based on countries' own education strategies.
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The GPE Strategic Plan for 2012-2015 prioritizes greater support for education in fragile and conflict-affected nations, improving reading and numeracy for children, and increasing girls' access to education.
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- Estimation based on the increase in primary education enrollment between two consecutive school years after the country joined the partnership.
- GPE compilation based on UNESCO Institute for Statistics data.
- Estimations based on data gathered from program documents, completion reports and grant applications compiled by supervising and managing entities.
- 28.5 million is according to the EFA Global Monitoring Report list of conflict-affected countries. 74% is according to the EFA GMR list of conflict-affected countries and the World Bank list of fragile countries.


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WHAT will you do if told that there are 8 million children missing in the world every year, according to BBCNews in a 2012 report?
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THERE is a practice in some universities abroad that lets college students get a sampling of subjects before they decide on what courses to take.
LAST Oct. 24, 2014, I used my imminently expiring airline mileage to redeem some items on the airline’s website. From experience, the items were delivered door-to-door within four to five weeks.
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LAST Saturday, May 23, 2015, radio station dyLA called up to inform me that a graduate from Cebu Doctors’ University (CDU), Mr.
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THERE was a time when I would climb the star apple tree in our residence along F. Ramos St. and I could see the north reclamation area where the fourth centennial mass was held in 1965.
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Additional Primary School P.E. funding 2013-16
The government is providing additional funding of £150 million per annum for academic years 2013 to 2016 to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools. This funding - provided jointly by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport - will be allocated to primary school head teachers. This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision of PE and sport in schools.Schools must spend the additional funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose how they do this. Government is paying each Primary school £8,000 per year lump sum + £5 per child with schools over 250 pupils. PPPS about £10,000 per year over 3 years.
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Preston Park have been awarded the Silver Quality Mark 2014/15!


Bundaberg’s Canetec has designed and manufactured a world first low emission cane harvester which will be sold internationally.
The YT4000-F is a small machine and the world's first Stage 5 emission harvester.
After months in development it was officially trialled this week ahead of delivery to Japan in mid-April.
Canetec director Cliff Fleming said the idea was developed during an international trade visit in Okinawa.
“As we investigated the market, we learnt that the biggest share of the market was in the little machines and so we came away with the idea that we should be in that market,” Cliff said.
“We've designed this harvester from ground up and it's a world first in a number of features.
“It is also important for Bundaberg that this will continue our business to be able to grow.
“We do hear of interest in a small machine like this in other places in the world, so we're very hopeful.”
Cliff said the world first cane harvester was a small, robust machine with the features and comfort of a larger machine.
“So we think that it will be a success with the operators and therefore the owners.”
World first cane harvester attracts international interest
Canetec CEO Glenn Sopper said the YT4000-F was the first use of this technology in the Southern Hemisphere.
“It's a small sized harvester that's predominantly going to be used in the Japanese market,” Glenn said.
“This is the first time we've used or built a small machine and the first time we've used a Stage 5 engine in developing a harvester.
“The Japanese [market] is going to be a big export market for this particular machine, but in advertising and doing teasers, we've had interest from from Fiji, from Taiwan and from the Philippines.”
Glenn said the world first harvester exceeded the statutory regulations for low emission harvesters in Japan and was designed and manufactured in the Bundaberg Region.
“From concept to the finished article has all been done here in Bundaberg.
“We're really excited that this is the first time this engine has been used in the Southern Hemisphere and the first stage five harvester to be used in the world.”
Cliff said following the successful trial Canetec would aim to deliver the harvester to Japan in April.
“From there … if we perform like they think we will, we’ve [been] promised more orders,” he said.
“COVID hasn’t helped us with the production of this machine, our people here have had to work around a lot of things in order to produce this machine.
“They’ve pulled it all together … we look forward to it performing well.”
- More Canetec news: Canetec harvesters show Bundaberg ingenuity


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Designed to be a complementary course to a student's weekly applied voice lessons. Provides students with a constructive and supportive environment where students will learn the discipline of singing for an audience of their peers while receiving guidance and performance critique from the instructor. Students will be strengthened in their performance skills and will grow in confidence in this specialized performance environment. Prerequisite: 2 credit hours of Applied Music: Voice.
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Prince’s Estate Releases New “Baltimore” Lyric Video
It's one of a number of recent announcements via the legendary musician's archive
It might seem like a century ago, but it’s only been five years since Prince released the song “Baltimore.” The song’s lyrics addressed the police killings of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. Shortly after its release, Prince played a concert in Baltimore dubbed the “Rally 4 Peace.” That was a running theme for Prince in May 2015; he also held a “Dance Rally 4 Peace” at Paisley Park.
At the Baltimore concert, he addressed the need for change, saying, “The system is broken. It’s going to take the young people to fix it this time.” Now, that time of fixing seems to be at hand — and serendipitously, a new video for “Baltimore” is out in the world.
At Rolling Stone, Brenna Ehrlich reports that Prince’s estate has released a lyric video for “Baltimore.” The video incorporates documentary footage from the protests that took place in Baltimore in 2015 with images from Prince’s concert there.
It’s not the only new release announced this week. Prince’s official Twitter feed also announced a new recording of the 1987 song “The Cross” by a group of musicians who played with Prince at various points in his career.
Bandmates that span all four decades of Prince's performance and recording career got together virtually for an all-star rendition of "The Cross," which they released today "as a message of hope, love and peace." https://t.co/MuHPEnUuPG Credit: @ProductionsKaj
— Prince (@prince) June 7, 2020
The video opens with a short credit: “Dedicated to Minneapolis.” If you’ve wondered how the bulk of Prince’s artistic legacy would hold up after his death, these two videos provide a solid answer.
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British firm drops appeal over British passport contract
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British firm De La Rue says it will not appeal against the government's controversial decision to choose a Franco-Dutch company to make the new blue UK passports after Brexit.
De La Rue, the current passport provider, said that it had 'considered all the options' but would not challenge the move, which will see the £490m contract handed to Gemalto, a firm headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on the French and Dutch stock exchanges.
De La Rue also confirmed that its full-year earnings would be hit by a write-off of about £4m related to the bid costs for the passport tender.
It said underlying operating profits were now forecast in the 'low to mid £60s million range', against previous expectations for between £71m to £73m.
The firm added: 'De La Rue will continue to fulfil its existing contract and assist with transition to the new supplier and is therefore expecting no impact on the group's performance in the next 18 months.'
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The Government has come under heavy fire for its decision to choose a European firm for the contract, but has claimed it will save £120m during the lifetime of the 11-and-a-half-year contract.
Shares in Basingstoke-based De La Rue fell as much as 8% after the announcement and details of the profit blow.
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De La Rue had initially vowed to appeal against the decision, with executives at the firm reportedly saying they believed Gemalto won the contract simply because it undercut its rivals.
Gemalto already produces the UK's photo driving licence. The firm – which is being acquired by French defence group Thales – has a number of sites in the UK, including factories in Heywood and Fareham.


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Apparently, Taylor Swift’s Being Sued for the Most Diva Reason Ever
September’s been a heated month for Taylor Swift. Not only did news of her apparent feud with Katy Perry make headlines for the better part of a week, now she’s on the receiving end of a lawsuit because of her alleged diva antics.
According to TMZ, the 24-year-old “Shake It Off” singer is being sued by a limo company in her new hometown of New York City. “Taylor’s company made a deal this past June with a chauffeur service to whisk her around NYC. The company made all sorts of demands, including guidelines on when the driver was allowed to talk to Taylor.”
The claim continues, “Taylor’s director of security told the chauffeur service to get two additional whips. The service obliged by leasing two, brand-spanking-new Chevy Suburban SUVs. So imagine the chauffeur’s dismay when, three weeks after making the various demands, Taylor’s people pulled the plug, leaving the limo company holding the bag on the lease.” So, the chauffeurs are now suing for the losses.
Sorry, but let’s rewind for a hot sec. The company made all sorts of demands, including guidelines on when the driver was ALLOWED to talk to Taylor. Taylor, we love you, but it might be time to get off your high horse.


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As we draw to the close of another week here at the Development Beat, a week where we’ve learned about everything from the history of the American Cotton Oil Company to the 22-year path to a new community center, it’s time to sit back and reflect upon a batch of recently issued renovation permits.
The largest permits issued last week were for continued work at Charter Square, located at 555 Fayetteville Street. Since opening in June of this year, the office tower has been steadily adding more and more tenants to its growing roster. This time around it’s a law firm by the name of Polsinelli, which received two permits for the renovation of a total of 7,880 square feet of space at a cost of $1.69 million.
Turner Construction will be handling the work. And no pressure guys, you’re just building an office for a bunch of high-priced attorneys. Which means they’ve got plenty of money, and definitely wouldn’t sue if even the slightest thing went wrong with the construction!
Next up was $554,651 worth of work at the Duke Performing Arts Center at 2 E South Street in downtown Raleigh. The job will entail a ceiling replacement, as well as upgrades to the basement fire alarm systems. It’ll be completed by Bolton Construction.
The Holiday Inn Express at 3618 New Bern Avenue received a trio of renovation permits last week, each in the amount of $83,333 and each issued to Cadet Construction. The work is simply described as phases 1-3 of an interior renovation of the hotel.
Finally, two projects are going to be underway at the Crabtree Valley Mall, as $150,000 in permits were issued for Thai Bistro, and another $65,000 were issued for a “seasonal store.” Let’s be honest real quick — Halloween Stores are awesome. At least, we’re assuming that’s what the project is, although it does seem a bit late in the month for that.
As for the restaurant project — no idea. There’s no listing for a “Thai Bistro” in the current mall directory, and we have no idea what kind of food they’ll be serving. Pizza? Barbecue? With a vague name like “Thai Bistro,” your guess is as good as ours.
Although we spent a good deal of time on Monday talking about the new Lake Johnson Woodland Center, it wasn’t the only new building project to receive permits last week.
One of the other new building permits to be issued last week was for a project we first discussed more than a year ago, and concerns a new five-story, 14,316 square-foot* residential mixed-use project at 2304 Hillsborough Street.
The project was drawn up by New City Design Group, and will be built at a permitted cost of $1.34 million by D.H. Griffin Construction.
*Griffin also received three additional permits for “additions” of the third, fourth and fifth floors of this building. The value of those permits was listed at $1.875 million, and it comprised 19,822 squre feet of space.
The site was formerly home to Hot Box Pizza.
One interesting thing about this project (given the countless number residential mixed-use jobs on Hillsborough, one interesting thing is about all I can hope for) is that when it first came before the Planning Commission in September 2014, it was delayed so the developers could speak with the Citizens Advisory Council in the area.
Ted Van Dyk of New City Design Group noted at the time that he had previously attended the Wade CAC and received positive feedback on the project, and noted that no matter how the next meeting went, it would likely not affect the commission’s decision.
Commissioners went on to discuss the problem of infrequent CAC meetings holding up the rezoning process, but noted it was important to take into consideration the feedback the various CAC groups offer.
I actually thought at the time this might lead to some kind of change in the process by which projects must go through a local CAC before receiving approval by the Planning Commission, but it seems like the UDO is, once again, the catchall solution.
Because many new developments can now be approved administratively if they comply with all necessary regulations, they do not need to be presented to planning commissioners or CAC attendees.
Oh — and before I forget, this new mixed-use project at 2304 Hillsborough will have 12 residential units. In case you were curious.
Bonus fact: this site used to house a Kinkos!
The other project to receive new building permits last week was an office building at 5734 Trinity Road.
This parcel was previously occupied by a single-family home, which was torn down in early June by Taylor’d Lumber. On June 24, the project’s general contractor, Barker & Lovette, received permits to begin grading and sitework on the lot.
On October 15, Barker & Lovette were granted building shell permits for a new two-story, 24,938 square-foot building.
Barker & Lovette are a subsidiary of Barker Inc., a real estate company that has owned the property since 2002.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
A new Handee Hugo’s could be coming to North Raleigh across from Brier Creek Elementary, although its proximity to existing residential development means it will first have to be approved by City Council.
The parcel on which the project is being planned is located at 9910 Sellona Street, just south of the Brier Creek Parkway and slightly east of Aviation Parkway. SP-72-15, the site plan for the Handee Hugo’s, describes it as a gas station with an accompanying 4,750 square-foot convenience store.
As the property is located within the Neuse River Buffer and a flood hazard area, it will include underground stormwater management controls alongside the underground storage tanks required for any gas station.
The site plans actually describe the stormwater controls as a 4,00 square foot “Underground Detention Facility,” which sounds like a pretty good way of dealing with shoplifters and underage kids trying to score beer and cigarettes.
The plans were drawn up by Commercial Site Design for Bunn Brantley Enterprises. Although the property itself is owned by the investment firm Cherokee Advisers, Bunn Brantley, a design-build construction firm, will be acting as the developer. The company is responsible for the Eagles Convenience Plaza at 8710 Glenwood Avenue and the Fuel Stop at Brier Creek, located at 10250 Little Brier Creek.
They also developed a Handee Hugo’s in Apex at 1561 East Williams Street. This location also includes a Quiznos.
It is unknown at this time whether the Brier Creek location will provide any dining options beyond the usual gas station fare, although the site plans do specifically describe the project as a “Gas Station with QSR” — where QSR might stand for Quick Service Restaurant. QSR’s are those places that aren’t quite fast food — like Quiznos — and aren’t quite sit-down, traditional restaurants either.
In addition to its proximity to Brier Creek Elementary, this new Handee Hugo’s would also be located very close to the Kiddie Academy of Brier Creek and across the street from the Meadows at Brier Creek apartments and a few residential subdivisions. I don’t like to speculate too much in this space, but I image there might be a few votes against this project when it comes before City Council. But we’ll see.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
It’s Teardown Tuesday here on the Development Beat, and today we’re going to take a look at the demolition of an old warehouse at 319 S. West Street that was first built in 1920.
The building was originally home to the Southern School Supply Company, although the parcel was known then, as it is now, as a part of the American Cotton Oil Company property.
The American Cotton Oil Company, which was eventually absorbed by Unilever, was, not surprisingly, a manufacturer of products such as cotton seed oil, cotton seed cake, cotton seed meal … you get the idea. It had subsidiaries throughout the country, and one of them, the North Carolina Cotton Oil Co., was based in Raleigh.
In fact, one of the buildings that NCCOC operated out of at 406 West Davie Street was built in 1915 and is one of the oldest remaining structures in the area.
We couldn’t find out much about the Southern School Supply Company, save for an odd listing from a used book retailer located in Pennsylvania. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore out of Harrisburg has available for sale a catalog published in 1917 by “Raleigh: Southern School Supply Company” and titled “School Supplies. The Best of Everything for the School.”
Here’s the item description from the listing:
72 pages illustrated trade catalog of school desks furniture playground equipment kindergarten chairs blackboards etc. Top corner at front slightly dog-eared old fold marks includes three other sheets tucked in on company letterhead.
And it can be yours for the low-low price of $25!
In the 1980s through the early 2000s, the warehouse was home to the William Cozart furniture manufacturing company. According to an article in the Indy Weekly, Cozart Furniture “at the height of its production, employed up to 35 workers. In the early ’90s, the recession reduced the workforce by half.”
Like a number of other North Carolina furniture makers, Cozart was eventually forced in 2002 to shut down operations.
William-Cozart Inc., an antiques shop located at 320 S. Harrington Street, remains in business to this day, however. Founded in 1978, the shop specializes in Asian antiques and art.
That about wraps up our history lesson for today, although if you’ve read this far, you’re probably wondering, well, what does the future hold for what will soon be an empty lot on a dead-end street?
On February 4, 2015, the property was purchased for $900,000 by an LLC linked to HQ Raleigh, a well-regarded business incubator that hosts more than 100 startups in downtown Raleigh.
On February 9, HQ Raleigh announced its plans to expand their existing facilities at 310 S. Harrington Street, which sits adjacent to the warehouse. Folks, this is what we in the business call “burying the lede.”
I don’t feel like rewriting their press release, so here’s how HQ Raleigh described the expansion:
Less than a year after moving into the Warehouse District, HQ Raleigh co-founders Brooks Bell, Jesse Lipson, Christopher Gergen, and Jason Widen have announced plans to continue expansion in 2016.
Our founding team recently purchased the William Cozart furniture production facility at 319 West Street, located directly behind our existing space. This building, currently measuring 10,000 square feet, will be redeveloped into 30,000 to 50,000 square feet of entrepreneurial work, design, and meeting space, including offices for larger startup teams. The space is estimated to be open in Spring 2016.
In addition to getting to work out of these brand-new offices alongside hundreds of other like-minded entrepreneurs, the new tenants will also find themselves conveniently close to a number of great downtown amenities like The Pit, Boxcar Arcade, Jose and Sons Bar and Kitchen, Crank Arm Brewing Company and, eventually, Union Station.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Three months after City Council approved a construction contract for the Lake Johnson Woodland Center, and a staggering 22 years since the project was first conceived, $2.53 million in permits were issued to TCC Construction for the new facility on October 12.
In 1993, a “Park Interpretive and Community Center with a strong component for education” was recommended as part of the overall 1993 Lake Johnson Master Plan.
Lake Johnson is located in West Raleigh, north of Avent Ferry Road and west of Athens Drive. The new facility will be located at 5611 Jaguar Drive.
In 2007, voters approved a parks bond that included $2.7 million in funding for the project. Three years later, Szostak Design of Chapel Hill and HaidenStanziale of Durham (following a merger, the company was renamed to Stewart Inc. in 2012) were brought on board to begin planning and design work on the facility.
A public input process for the center was held between October 2012 and February 2013; City Council officially approved the plans in April 2013.
Construction of the facility was bid out in June 2014, but all the bids came in over budget and were rejected by City Council. It rebid again in April of this year, and in July a contract in the amount of $2,388,200 was approved by Council with TCC Construction.
The original capital improvement budget for the project was $2.6 million, although the contract with TCC required a $600,000 transfer from the budget for the Dix soccer improvements budget.
According to city documents, “The proposed Lake Johnson Center will house multipurpose space for education and community functions, interpretive display on nature and health, administration area as well as support spaces such as restrooms and storage. As proposed in the 1993 Master Plan, the center may include specific elements in support of this area of the city and provide a distinctive connection to the outdoor natural environment.”
And according to Google, “An interpretation centre, interpretive centre, or visitor interpretive centre is an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage.”
Work on the 11,430 square foot facility is expected to be complete by spring 2016.


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Friday, April 21, 2017 1:00 am
Senate, House make deal on budget
Bosma says compromises made on schools funding
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – Republican leaders have reached agreement on the next two-year state budget, as well as a prekindergarten expansion, though details were slim.
The tentative budget deal wasn't made public until after The Journal Gazette's deadline Thursday night. A vote could come in the Senate sometime today, but the House has a rule requiring the spending plan to be available to the public for 24 hours before a vote. That would mean final approval might be after midnight today.
House Speaker Brian Bosma said they found a way to give money to the governor for his economic priorities though “maybe not everything he wanted.”
Much of the final haggling was spent on education issues.
One is how much money goes into the funding formula to be distributed to public schools.
The Senate version gave $358 million in new funding to K-12 over two years – or about a 1.7 percent average increase for schools. That was about $85 million more than the House had provided.
Bosma said the final product met somewhere in the middle.
Another key issue was how much money was provided for expanding the pilot prekindergarten program. The House put $20 million in – $10 million more than the existing program.
But Senate Republicans balked at expanding before a longitudinal study is done on the program, which serves 1,500 kids in five pilot counties right now.
The Senate gave $16 million though $1 million of that is for a possible online program for rural communities.
“Advocates for pre-K are going to be pleased with the results,” said Sen. Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville. “Some people will regard it as a full funding of the request.”
Bosma said the funding will be “relatively close” the House budget.
Separately, a conference committee report on prekindergarten was filed for House Bill 1004. It still needs votes in both chambers.
It would allow the Family and Social Services Administration to add 15 counties with income eligibility remaining at 120 percent of the federal poverty level. But the income bar would change for the original five counties – including Allen – to 185 percent of federal poverty level if capacity is available. That would allow children from homes with higher incomes to apply but still prioritizes the most impoverished.
The original five counties can't receive less funding than the year before, according to the proposal.
A voucher tether remains in the bill. It allows a child who receives a pre-K grant to automatically move to a voucher school in kindergarten without attending public school. But that pathway is only available if the pre-K grant and voucher would be used at the same school.
Rep. Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, said it is estimated under the current program that would affect only six students.
Bosma called it “minor voucher consistency” language.


Bitmax partners Whip Media
May 7, 2020
Bitmax, the digital media management and licensing company, is now a Strategic Supply Chain Partner by Whip Media Group.
The Whip Media Group partnership will provide media companies better transparency into their content workflows to maximise revenues, reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and gain complete visibility and control over where and how television and movie titles are being distributed, both on a global scale and in real-time.
Bitmax will integrate with the Whip Media Group’s Content Value Management (CVM) platform. The CVM cloud-based solution and Bitmax’s open API-driven architecture will enable MVPD operators and other digital retailers to seamlessly add best-in-class content fulfillment that simplifies digital ordering, including bulk package management, while delivering workflow transparency and monitoring.
Jim Riley, Chief Revenue Officer, Bitmax, said: “We are excited to be an inaugural partner supporting Whip Media’s new strategic supply chain programme. This integration enables powerful tools and offers content owners and digital retailers new monetisation opportunities with consumers the world over. Bitmax customers leverage our cloud-based Maestro orchestration system to optimise TVoD, SVoD, oand live streaming revenue potential, globally. By partnering with Whip Media in this innovative programme, we are doubling down on that strategy and commitment to our clients.”
“Bitmax has been proactive and imaginative in the execution of this partnership programme with us,” added Alisa Joseph, SVP Business Strategy & Development, Whip Media Group. “We’re thrilled to partner with Bitmax and leverage the partnership to bring enhanced value to our growing list of customers.”


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While April showers bring May flowers, this spring month brings something else to the surface. The fourth month of the year serves as National Parkinson’s Awareness Month, to draw attention to this neurodegenerative disorder. The theme for this year’s awareness is “Start a Conversation,” to ensure participants are bringing this disease to the forefront and helping people get a diagnosis before it is too late.
What is Parkinson’s Disease?’
Understanding Parkinson’s disease is complicated, due to no two cases of patients have the same experiences.
The standard definition is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting mainly dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra, a particular part of the brain. Parkinson’s disease develops its symptoms slowly and varies from person to person due to how diverse the disease develops in an individual.
Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
The diversity of the disorder makes it difficult to define even the symptoms of it, but the common signs are the following:
- Bradykinesia, or slowness in movement
- Gait and balance disorder, which causes falls in elderly populations
- Limb rigidity
- Tremors, often as a pill-rolling tremor in the hands
Again, symptoms vary between patients who have Parkinson’s disease.
How to Celebrate National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
Bringing awareness to this neurodegenerative disorder is crucial in April. Even though you may not suffer with or know someone who suffers with it, it is still on you to stay informed and give more insight to others of Parkinson’s disease.
Stick with the theme
With a motto of “Start a Conversation,” you can talk about the disorder to others, so more and more people become aware of this disease. Get informed about Parkinson’s disease and don’t be afraid to share your knowledge with others.
Volunteer to help those with Parkinson’s
By getting a firsthand account of the daily life of someone with the disorder is crucial for your knowledge and understanding of Parkinson’s disease. Visit your local adult daycare to interact with individuals who have Parkinson’s to see how they communicate with others or function on their daily basis.
Sign the National Parkinson’s Awareness Month Pledge
The Parkinson’s Foundation offers a pledge for you to take to make it a point to bring awareness to this disorder. You are signing to take responsibility to share the information of Parkinson’s disease among your friends and family so more people can start seeing the symptoms sooner, rather than too late.


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Raymond A. Noe
Robert and Anne Hoyt Designated Professorship in Management & Human Resources
Professor Noe is one of the foremost academic authorities in the area of training and development. He is an author of three texts in human resource management, including Employee Training and Development, which includes a section on use of the technologies in training, and has published extensively in such publications as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Personnel Psychology.
Noe serves on the editorial boards for Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. His teaching and research in training and human resource management has been recognized by awards from the American Society for Training and Development. He was elected Fellow in The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and American Psychological Association.
He has consulted with several companies, including Strategic Interactive and General Motors Assurance Corporation, on training and development issues.
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