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That means there have to be simply as many, if not many more, success tales around Filipino brides as there are horror tales. You’ve heard all concerning the guys getting scammed by Pinay ladies, however that’s the exception somewhat than the rule. Traditional values are crucial to her – you’re not going to search out very many liberally minded Filipinas in the nation.
These Asian brides came from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China and South Korea. The phenomenon of marrying women from different Asian nations later spread to urban parts of Japan as nicely.


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As millions of students return to virtual classrooms after the holidays, new research reveals how the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted learning and skills retention nationwide that experts say could take years to overcome.
In a nod to the concerns, President-elect Joe Biden on Friday said rapid vaccination of teachers and students would be a critical priority in his first 100 days in an effort to reopen most of the nation's public schools for in-person learning by May.


DAVAO CITY’s agriculture office is sourcing durian from neighboring provinces to augment supply for the expected influx of tourists in August as the Kadayawan returns as a face-to-face festival.
This year’s harvest of the city’s iconic fruit has so far been just about a fifth of the average 15,000 metric tons (MT) in the past three years.
Edgardo A. Haspe, head of the city agriculturist’s office, attributed the supply deficit to unusual weather patterns with the changing global climate, which affect the fruit-bearing cycle of trees.
“Right now, our climate is not cooperating. In previous years like in 2020, we had abundant harvest during Kadayawan but we did not have face-to-face celebrations due to the pandemic, but now we have a face-to-face celebration but sad to say we don’t have enough harvest,” Mr. Haspe said during the I-Speak media forum last week.
The Kadayawan — which used to be known as the Apo Duwaling Festival, for Mt. Apo, durian, and the waling-waling orchid (Vanda sanderiana) — is a celebration of the city’s natural bounty and timed for the traditional peak of the harvest season.
“We still have banana, mango but usually durian is brought to tourists in Davao City,” Mr. Haspe said.
Davao City Councilor Al Ryan S. Alejandre, spokesperson for the Kadayawan executive committee, said the committee has recommended setting up a dedicated space in one of the parks where fruit producers and vendors can directly sell fresh goods.
“It’s one of the things we boast about every Kadayawan. Good harvest and cheap fruit,” Mr. Alejandre said.
Durian consolidators from other localities in the Davao Region and parts of nearby Cotabato province are already preparing to bring in supply to Davao City.
Mr. Haspe said that the average annual harvest of durian in the city had been 12,000 MT. In the past three years, production was higher at 15,485 MT in 2019, over 17,000 MT in 2020, and 12,930 MT in 2021.
In the first half of this year, the harvest was only 3,000 MT.
There is still some fruit waiting to be picked in upland areas, but these are insufficient for the projected demand during the festival.
Durian farms occupied 3,389 hectares last year from 3,222 hectares in 2019, according to Mr. Haspe.
At the same time, processing activities have also expanded.
“Our durian processors here in the city are increasing… and they come to our office to ask where they can find supply,” he said. — Maya M. Padillo


They say any publicity is good publicity, and we suppose that theory will be tested by Democratic congressional candidate Levi Tillemann, who is trying to put himself in a good position for the upcoming primaries in Colorado. Tillemann just released an official campaign ad that shows him pepper spraying himself in the eyes…because of school shootings, or something.
Yes, the ad is meant to demonstrate Tillemann’s advocacy for schools to equip themselves with various shooting deterrents that do not include the only proven deterrent: Guns. Instead, he believes that schools should buy cans of pepper spray to ward off semi-automatic rifle-wielding assailants.
“I’m calling on Congress to stop talking past each other and try something new,” Tilleman says in the ad. “Empower schools and teachers with non-lethal self-defense tools, like this can of pepper spray. Pepper spray doesn’t cost much and it can be safely stored in a break glass in case of emergency cabinet. But it’s powerful and won’t accidentally kill a kid. Trust me, this will stop anybody in their tracks.”
He could have left it at that, but apparently he didn’t believe viewers WOULD actually trust him, so he did the only thing a reasonable politician would do at this point: Sprayed himself right in the face. The ad cuts to him trying to wash the spray off with water.
“It’s incredibly painful,” he says in the most hilarious part of the clip. “Now I can’t see anything…wow, that’s intense.”
Tillemann sees gun control as his winning issue, and he has turned his Colorado campaign into a referendum on the matter. The former Obama administration official said on his website that pepper spray “should be made widely available as quickly as possible” so that teachers and other school administrators can fight back against the next shooter.
Tillemann is not the establishment-backed candidate in the race and stands little chance of winning the nomination. Even so, his cartoonish proposals have found mainstream acceptance on the left before. Not that they were influenced by Tillemann himself, but gun control loonies often advocate weapons of defense ranging from baseball bats to cans of Raid so they don’t have to admit the obvious: That if you go into a gunfight with something less than a gun, you’re at a huge, and potentially fatal, disadvantage.
But hey, if it means we can look forward to seeing Nancy Pelosi spray herself in the eyes with a can of wasp killer, we’re all about it.


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“Live Upon a Blackstar” is the first live album from the American electronic-rock artist/producer , Celldweller. It has been released in 2012, it includes a Live DVD/Blu-ray with footages taken in the US, Russian, Japanese and Canadian live shows. The full backing videos from the shows are also included on the DVD in High Definition along with “tour diaries, 2 Celldweller music videos and more”. “Live Upon a Blackstar” is also accompanied by an audio-only CD and digital release.
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11. Switchback (Live) 8:15
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Celldweller recently released a brand new single, ‘Electric Eye.’ This drum & bass track, full of chugging guitar stabs, aggressive synths and intense/melodic vocal hooks, showcases Klayton’s (Celldweller/Circle Of Dust) inimitable multi-genre sound. The video can be seen here.

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On our last few hours before leaving Spain, there was still enough time to make one last hurrah and go on a day trip outside Madrid. After some discussion, two places became part of the agenda – first stop, El Escorial. On a sleepy van packed with luggage, our party of four dozed through most of the one hour trip to where Felipe II, the king the Philippines was named after, and many of his fellow Spanish monarchs were buried.
Sad to say, similar to the Prado Museum, the good people at the monastery / palace / royal mausoleum didn’t allow us to photograph anything but the exterior. Not that I would want to take a photo of the row upon row of kings and other royal kin lying in the very creepy underground crypt anyway. My wild imagination was playing enough games in my head to tempt the spirits by taking their photos for posterity. It would have been nice though to keep a record of other things I found worth remembering. Since we were on a tight schedule, we ended up zipping through the entire building in less than an hour quite possibly missing out on a lot of details in the process. While a chance to come back would be welcome, I’ll have to beg off until they become a little friendlier to us aspiring documentarians.

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For Derrick Ashong (pictured above), the chance to talk face to face with the former neighborhood watchman was an opportunity he could not pass up.
The Fusion TV reporter, who is black, revealed his motivation for interviewing Zimmerman in a recent editorial. According to Ashong, the purpose behind talking one-on-one with Zimmerman in person was to assess for himself the man that many people despise.
“I interviewed George Zimmerman for the same reasons journalists have interviewed Charles Manson, that Barbara Walters interviewed Muammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro,” Ashong wrote. “I sat down across from him and politely asked the questions I wanted answers to. And maybe I simply wanted to look in the eyes of the killer and see if I could perceive an ounce of remorse. I found none. Instead, I saw a man convinced that indeed, he is the victim. And, perhaps, even a hero.”
In addition to his reason for interviewing Zimmerman, Ashong came clean regarding his feelings about Zimmerman during the talk.
“I believe Zimmerman got away with murder, aided and abetted by a justice system that does not have equal regard for the lives of black and minority youth, and further empowered by self-defense laws that have given citizens of certain states an effective license to kill their neighbors, provided those neighbors are young, black and preferably unarmed,” he said.


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Julie Richard grew up in Shediac, New Brunswick, and was valedictorian of her graduating class. Completing a B.A. in Political Science with Specialisation in International Relations at the University of New Brunswick and at the University of Wales in Swansea (UK) in 2001, Julie ranked first in her program earning her many scholarships and prizes including the Paul Frederick Graham Memorial Prize.
Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, Julie taught English in Hong Kong, and worked as a camp counsellor in upstate New York. Julie also worked as a member of the communications & legal team for the Official Opposition in the provincial legislature before attending law school in French at l’Université de Moncton.
While in Law School, Julie participated in the National Laskin Moot Competition in Constitutional Law, with her team placing 1st in the country in the factum writing division, and 3rd overall. Furthermore, in her final year of law school, she was 1 of 3 law students in Canada to be awarded the Tom Wilcox Prize in Insurance Law.
In 2006, Julie graduated from law school and was selected to article at Stewart McKelvey in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she was admitted to the New Brunswick Bar the following year. While practising law in New Brunswick, Julie worked for the Office of the Attorney General as one of only two constitutional law lawyers, specializing in Aboriginal Law. Julie worked extensively on cases and issues involving the duty to consult First Nations and the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms, while also advising the Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat in her role.
After relocating, Julie opened a practice in Kirkland Lake, Ontario on July 26th, 2010 as a sole practitioner. In 2016, long-time student and associate, Emilie Chamaillard became a partner and the firm continued on as Richard & Chamaillard Law.
Julie continues to proudly raise her daughters in Kirkland Lake where she chairs the Kirkland Lake Festivals Committee, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kirkland Lake Golf Club, and sits on the provincial panel for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.
In 2020, Julie received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Osgoode Law School (Toronto), with a concentration in Dispute Resolution. Julie is a member of Mediators Beyond Borders International, the ADR Institute of Ontario, and the ADR Institute of Canada.
In addition to representing children in child protection and custody matters, her practice areas include civil litigation, commercial law, labour and employment law, estates litigation and real estate.
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‘Democratic’ in my previous post’s question: “What is the purpose of our democratic society’s tax system?” – means it leads to a fair outcome. That post explores public opinion about tax fairness. But what do we mean by a fair outcome? Taxes are only the means; what about the end, a fair economic structure? We now explore the previous post’s final question: “How should society’s wealth be distributed? What do we actually want?”
Determining how to answer such questions was the life work of US political philosopher John Rawls. His aim was to see how to establish the legitimate use of political power in a democracy; how a society with diverse worldviews can unify for action. He developed a method (the “original position”) to proceed from our deepest ideas about justice to reach real agreement. It works when people imagine themselves entering society in a fair position and answer using only factors their intuition considers fundamental. Phrasing the questions is critically important. Politicians typically phrase them not to promote agreement but amplify differences.
Professors Norton and Ariely used Rawls’ method to survey (see their Report and an Interview with Ariely) a random sample of 5,500 Americans to explore how we want society’s wealth to be distributed. They used pairs of pie charts depicting the distribution of wealth from richest to poorest groups among pairs of nations. They asked respondents which nation of each pair they would rather join: ‘In considering this question, imagine that if you joined this nation, you would be randomly assigned to a place in the distribution, so you could end up anywhere in this distribution, from the very richest to the very poorest.’’
The pie charts shown to respondents were not labeled. One showed the existing distribution of wealth in the USA. One showed all groups having exactly the same. The third showed another real world case, the distribution of income in Sweden. They chose that because it is quite different from the others (income in Sweden is distributed relatively equally but wealth is not).
Presented with the pair of charts representing Sweden and the USA, nine out of ten respondents (92%) preferred the Swedish distribution. The results were consistent across gender, political and economic divides: females 93% vs males 91%, Republicans 90% vs Democrats 93%, income less than $50,000 92% vs $50,001–$100,000 92% vs more than $100,000 89%. There was a slight preference (51% to 49%) for the Sweden distribution over the equal distribution when they were compared directly and a somewhat larger preference when the choices were Sweden or US (92% vs 8%) than when they were equal or US ( 77% to 23%).
Those answers are provocative; a huge majority of Americans appears to want a society with a relatively equal distribution of wealth. But the question is abstract so Norton and Ariely tested the result. Respondents were next asked what percent of wealth they believe is owned by each of the five economic groups in the United States, and what each ideally should own. They were given the following definition: ‘‘Wealth, also known as net worth, is defined as the total value of everything someone owns minus any debt that he or she owes. A person’s net worth includes his or her bank account savings plus the value of other things such as property, stocks, bonds, art, collections, etc., minus the value of things like loans and mortgages.’’
The second set of answers is equally provocative, is consistent with the first, and is also consistent with my previous post’s findings about clarity. Respondents vastly underestimated the actual level of wealth inequality in the US. They said the wealthiest fifth of Americans holds about 59% of the wealth. They actually have almost 84%. They own fully a quarter more of the total than respondents imagine.
Consistent with the pie chart answers, respondents constructed ideal wealth distributions far more equitable than their estimates of the actual. They want the top fifth to own not 59% of society’s wealth but roughly half that amount, i.e., 32% of the total. They redistributed what they feel is too much from the top fifth to the bottom three, leaving the second group unchanged, making the third about the same as the second, and more than tripling the share of the poorest group. As with the first question, the answers were highly consistent across gender, political and income groups.
So, despite great disagreements over policies that affect wealth distribution, e.g., tax and welfare, a great majority of us appears to believe wealth should be distributed far more equally than we imagine it is, and we imagine it is distributed much more equally than the reality.
We have extraordinarily mistaken beliefs about the actual level of wealth inequality, and we probably have equally mistaken beliefs about our opportunity to move up in wealth. Incomes of the lower 80% of the population have been dropping for the past three decades. Only the top 1% has seen real growth in income.
Furthermore, in the most recent three years the wealthiest 7% has enjoyed a 28% increase in their net worth, driven largely by the Fed’s successful efforts to boost the stock market, while the lower 93%, whose primary asset, if they have any at all, is typically the equity in their house, has suffered a further 4% loss in wealth. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports that among all 34 OECD nations, only Turkey, Mexico and Chile distribute their society’s wealth more unequally than we do.
Extreme inequality results when political power based on wealth shapes government policy. That is the norm in autocracies. It can also happen in a democracy. Income inequality in Tsarist Russia was not so severe as ours is now.
Is the relatively equal distribution preferred by Norton and Ariely’s respondents optimal? My guess is we would generate more overall wealth with somewhat greater incentives. That would be good to know but we already do know our existing distribution is far from most Americans want. And history tells us that when income from work goes disproportionately and increasingly to the already wealthy as ours does now, it can only, as my mom always said, end in tears.
I hope we will not wait for a revolution but take democratic action to better distribute the wealth our society generates. I will explore changes to make that more likely in future posts about governance. But first, I will explore changes that would make our tax system better fit its purpose.

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Award-winning vocalist, composer, and educator Kavita Shah’s latest album, Cape Verdean Blues, is the culmination of a diaspora’s quest to find a spiritual home. The carefully curated album of traditional Cape Verdean music is also a tribute to the charismatic and unapologetically individual artist Cesária Évora, and a love letter to her breathtaking archipelago and its welcoming people. On Cape Verdean Blues, Shah’s ethnographic research on the island of São Vicente, and her bold self-possession have enabled her to achieve a rare feat: creating a world music album that feels like a homecoming.
Shah is a global citizen and cultural interlocutor whose work involves deep engagement with the jazz tradition, while also addressing and advancing its global sensibilities. She is a lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR). Shah speaks 9 languages—she is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French—and incorporates ethnographic research into original music.
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One of the excellent aspects of the current American health care system is that most people can get immediate help if they become very ill. Not true in places like Canada or the UK, where waiting lines for crucial imaging tests can range in the several months—months that for cancer patients can mean the difference between living and dying.
I decided to do a little research on cancer survival rates, and it turns out USA is # 1. From the fact sheet put out in 07 from the National Center for Policy Analysis:
According to the survey of cancer survival rates in Europe and the United States, published recently in Lancet Oncology :
- American women have a 63 percent chance of living at least five years after a cancer diagnosis, compared to 56 percent for European women. [See Figure I.]
- American men have a five-year survival rate of 66 percent compared to only 47 percent for European men.
- Among European countries, only Sweden has an overall survival rate for men of more than 60 percent.
- For women, only three European countries (Sweden, Belgium and Switzerland) have an overall survival rate of more than 60 percent.
These figures reflect the care available to all Americans, not just those with private health coverage. Great Britain, known for its 50-year-old government-run, universal health care system, fares worse than the European average: British men have a five-year survival rate of only 45 percent; women, only 53 percent.
But what about Canada, Wesley? Canada is the ideal of single payer health care:
Canada’s system of national health insurance is often cited as a model for the United States. But an analysis of 2001 to 2003 data by June O’Neill, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, and economist David O’Neill, found that overall cancer survival rates are higher in the United States than in Canada:
- For women, the average survival rate for all cancers is 61 percent in the United States, compared to 58 percent in Canada.
- For men, the average survival rate for all cancers is 57 percent in the United States, compared to 53 percent in Canada.
Early diagnosis is the key, which gets us to the crucial screening issue:
It is often claimed that people have better access to preventive screenings in universal health care systems. But despite the large number of uninsured, cancer patients in the United States are most likely to be screened regularly, and once diagnosed, have the fastest access to treatment. For example, a Commonwealth Fund report showed that women in the United States were more likely to get a PAP test for cervical cancer every two years than women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain, where health insurance is guaranteed by the government.
* In the United States, 85 percent of women aged 25 to 64 years have regular PAP smears, compared with 58 percent in Great Britain.
* The same is true for mammograms; in the United States, 84 percent of women aged 50 to 64 years get them regularly a higher percentage than in Australia, Canada or New Zealand, and far higher than the 63 percent of British women.
This is a very important aspect of the current debate. Reform is necessary to increase access of our uninsured to these very services. But destroying what works for the vast majority of Americans to accommodate the needs of the few—when that matter could be corrected with a far less draconian approach—must not be allowed to succeed.

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As an MFR client for 12 years I was inspired by the profound relief of life-long health challenges to study with John Barnes and become an MFR therapist myself. The gift of being empowered to affect my own health has inspired me to do the same for others.
Past physical trauma and buried emotional pain caused great discomfort in my body. Through working with Greg I’ve experienced relief in both areas. His holistic approach has brought relief and healing. Greg’s innate ability along with his intense training makes him an effective MFR Therapist.
I can't speak highly enough of Greg as a human being and an MFR therapist. I've been through a series of health set backs, including cancer, in the past year. Working with Greg I now have the ability to feel my body and help in my own healing.
Fascia is another name for the three dimensional connective tissue that extends throughout the body, supporting, protecting and infusing all bodily systems down to the cellular level. The fascial system affects all bodily functions: muscular, metabolic, neurological cellular etc. Through physical or emotional trauma, inflammation, repetitive behavior or poor posture, fascia tends to tighten down protectively (as much as 2000 lbs per square inch), interrupting the body's normal functioning, causing pain, loss of function and can lead to more serious conditions. As an unbroken network running head to toe, when tension or a restriction occur somewhere in the body, like a sweater being pulled, other areas feel the tightening and may also experience pain and begin to lose mobility.

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Delve into more than 4,000 years of human settlement in the same location in Shetland.
Hop on a boat to make the memorable journey to the ‘Castle in the Sea’, seat of the chief of Clan Macneil.
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Christian Pulisic is struggling to break into the first-team.
The 23-year-old forward will enter his fourth season as a Chelsea player and has played all the five Premier League games as a substitute.
The USMNT player is apparently pushing for a loan move this summer in order to get more minutes.
U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter believes Pulisic will regain his place in the first-team very soon.
According to reports, he has been told that he will not be leaving Stamford Bridge this summer.
“I’m a guy that bets on Christian just because I’ve seen it before,” Berhalter said on Wednesday.
“He is not counted on in a way that he’d like to, and he gets on the field and he proves everyone wrong and he ends up playing. I mean that’s what he’s been doing. So I tend to believe that’s going to happen. And I think his mind is n a good spot and I think he’s going to fight for it because that’s the type of guy he is.”

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I have released a pre alpha version that you can download here. This is basically to give you an idea of what it is. You can also see a screen shot here (24K) (the ugly colours were selected by the user (me in this case))
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"Marc is a cornerstone of our franchise, and we are focused on getting him healthy," Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace said in the release. "Marc will be out indefinitely and a further update will be provided after the All-Star Break."
It is unknown when the injury occurred. Gasol scored 11 points in Monday night's overtime loss to the Portland Trail Blazers before leaving late in the first quarter with a right foot injury. He did not return.
After the game, Memphis coach Dave Joerger described Gasol as "just dinged up," adding that, "He's got a problem on one leg. He's got another problem on the other leg."
Gasol, who is 7-foot-1, was examined by team physicians Tuesday morning, and an MRI revealed a fracture in his right foot, the Grizzlies said.
"It's certainly not great for Marc and his family. I know he's disappointed," Joerger told The Commercial Appealon Tuesday. "It's bad for our team. This is a tight bunch of dudes. They care about each other. It hurts everybody. Marc is a guy who lays it out there for his teammates and the fans. We're going to fight, scratch and claw."
Losing Gasol is a big blow to the Grizzlies, who rank fifth in the West entering Tuesday nights' games and have made the playoffs the past five seasons.
Gasol has started all 52 games this season and is averaging 16.6 points, 7 rebounds and 1.35 blocks.
He signed a five-year contract last July after earning a starting spot in the All-Star Game last season and becoming the first Grizzlies player voted to the All-NBA first team.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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I am fascinated by the music in my school. Every morning when I head into my JHS, there is an instrumental version of Danny Boy floating ethereally in the air (I have often joked that I can tell how late I am by whether he’s dead or if the pipes are still calling). I have asked around at the school, and none of the teachers have ever heard of ‘Danny Boy’.
During cleaning time, a riff on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice plays (I like to think of the students as the little animate brooms, especially when they’re carrying the buckets to and fro). Once again, I checked with the staff and none of them have heard of Dukas or even, gasp, Fantasia.
Sports Day, although but once a year, presents a smorgasboard of new songs, plucked from myriad sources (The Pirates of the Carribean theme being played over sixty kids skipping in unison being my favourite). Some of these songs are fairly new, certainly having been composed after the school was opened, and I can’t quite imagine my stoic (but kind) Honcho-Sensei kicking back with the soundtrack albums to all the latest big summer blockbusters, looking for that one song which, to him, screams ‘Tug-o-War’. And, besides, they used the same songs last year and he only started here in April.
So, this begs the question: who picks the school’s soundtrack?
I actually asked the Headmaster of my current school, who speaks near-impeccable English, whose job it is to pick these songs. He seemed not to know…or not to want to tell me? Is it, in fact, a massive conspiracy exactly who makes the music play.
I know there are the students who do the announcements and play some music at lunch, but I have a hard time picturing them all getting together of a morning and unanimously agreeing that a ballad about the impact of war on paternal bonding in the Irish diaspora is exactly what the school needs to hear of a morning. I wonder, do they even have Danny Boy on Spotify? Maybe they were searching for ‘David Guetta’, typed in ‘D-A-‘ and then discovered a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘depressing earworm’.
As for old Dukas and his dancing brooms, I like to think that they were searching Youtube for Disney songs in other languages (you know you’ve done it) and thus came across the only Disney film which truly defies linguistic boundaries- this is how I discovered Chernabog and his terrifying adventures on Bald Mountain.
As for the Sports Day music, I think it’s obvious that Disney, around the time they acquired Star Wars, Marvel and the Statue of Liberty itself, also bought an obscure Japanese Junior High School for reasons to nefarious to print. Stage one of the experiments involve jaunty tunes to which they just happen to own the rights, blasted at high volume while students vigorously exert themselves in the midday sun. What the end goal is, no one can say, but we know it involves a sizeable portion of the Marie Byrd Land glaciers.
Or I could be wrong and maybe there’s just a very savvy and, judging by their choices of music, somewhat soulful AV club student holed up near the weird DJ booth thing behind the staffroom. Or maybe the songs were put in place long before the current staff started working at the school and they can’t be bothered to change them.
I don’t have an answer for this, by the way. I’m more of a Mycroft than a Sherlock and the amount of legwork it would take to solve this case seems to me frankly distasteful. I would rather stick to my wild theories and umbral figures, running around the school unseen, making the music play, perhaps wearing a half-face mask and fetching opera cape?


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Saturday, July 2, 2011
Imagine an artist in his studio in front of his easel, pallet in hand. He makes a few strokes with his brush, and then steps back to appraise what he has done. He approaches his easel again to brush another stroke of color onto the canvas. He stops, sets aside his paintbrush and pallet and walks over to the window to gaze out. He muses for a few moments before going back to his easel to continue his work. The painter uses color and brush to create his art. The poet is an artist as well, who uses his pen like a paintbrush to color in his words on the page the images he sees in his mind’s eye and to express his heart and soul in the form of a poem.
Poetry is one of the oldest forms of literature and by its very nature is difficult to define. It is hard to shackle poetry with a firm definition but the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge say it well: “Poetry: the best words in the best order”. Throughout the ages, whether it is sonnets written by Shakespeare, the Song of Solomon from the Bible, the snippets of the Greek poetess Sappho, or the works of the poet laureate Kay Ryan, poetry has enlightened us, entertained us, and has evoked the quintessence of our human nature.
Free verse, or freestyle poetry is what its name implies; a “free style” approach to writing .What sets this mode of writing poetry apart from other forms is that it is free from rigid rules and patterns. Within freestyle the poet can let go and be flexible as he writes his poems because he isn’t concerned with a particular rhyming scheme or line breaks; rather he can focus on the pleasure of choosing the words to convey his ideas and emotions. How fitting this free style is to open the floodgates of creativity!
A freestyle poem is born of any strong emotion whether it is anger, frustration, joy, or love. This is the core of the matter, the way to bridge the heart and mind of not only the poet but also the reader. The poem can be as radiant and buoyant or as dramatic and intense as the poet himself at any given moment. Therein lays the uniqueness of freestyle. The act of spontaneously and recklessly pouring the words onto the page without thought of correctness and without editing is the essence of this form of creativity and, I believe, an aspect of art necessary for nurturing the unique and divine nature that lives within each of us whether we are the reader or the poet.
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The Weather Has Home Insurers Running ScaredBy
The guy standing with his feet in the Florida surf is not happy. The property policy on Jim Bax's three-story beachfront home in Longboat Key was canceled, effective in May, by his insurance company, a small regional outfit. Don't ask about the other insurers in town: None wants Bax's business. "They're getting more and more cautious," Bax complains. That means, if another storm hits, he's on his own.
Bax is one of 500,000 Floridians left high and dry by insurers, which are dramatically curtailing property coverage in coastal areas. Many companies have even stopped writing policies altogether in Florida and Hawaii (table). Big insurers, finding themselves suddenly overexposed, want to hedge risks by reducing their coverage of waterside homeowners. Some are hiking prices, too, but that's a quick fix: Higher premiums now won't cover outsized losses from storms in the next few years, the insurers say. Simply put, "our exposure is unacceptable," says Dale S. Hammond, a Travelers Corp. senior vice-president.
While Florida homeowners have suffered most from the cutbacks, the problem is rapidly spreading to other regions. Rating agency A.M. Best Co. estimates that 40% of Hawaiians, or 80,000 homeowners, will lose insurance this year. And residents of the New York metropolitan area bordering Long Island Sound could be next.
BIG HOLES. The industry has no lack of reasons for cutting back. December's northeaster and the March blizzard caused billions of dollars in damage to wind-lashed homes--adding to the costs of Hurricane Andrew. The $16.5 billion in damages from that storm grossly exceeded insurers' expectations, which had been based on woefully inadequate models. In some cases, losses were underestimated by as much as 40%.
The storms ripped holes in what traditionally has been a very lucrative business. For 1992, the insurance industry paid $1.56 in claims for every $1 paid into homeowners' policies, according to Best. That has created far too big a gap to close with investment income, when interest rates are yielding an average of just 7%. Stung by its big Florida tab, State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., the nation's largest home insurer, posted a $1.2 billion loss last year.
That has sent insurers frantically revising their loss estimates for future storms to account for greater populations and higher property values. One scary finding: The damage possible in a single South Florida storm could reach $75 billion. That's almost half the $161 billion the industry has in reserve to pay all claims, including those from auto accidents and third-party liability awards.
So insurers such as Travelers are backing down. After aggressively building its share of the South Florida market to 5%, Travelers decided in the late 1980s to reduce risks by cutting back to the 2% share it holds nationwide. It didn't move fast enough: With a 3.5% share of the region's homes, the company paid out $240 million in claims from Andrew. Now, it has put into effect a limited ban on policies in the area as well as along the Long Island coast.
One solution for dispossessed homeowners: state-run associations established to handle the troubled risks. Bax, the beachfront homeowner and a small businessman, heads a state-run association formed to provide policies for abandoned Florida residents. The downside, though, is that premiums typically run 25% to 35% above comparable coverage from commercial companies. In Massachusetts, premiums in a state pool can run 60% higher than private rates.
MORE HEAT. Are insurers making the right decision? While the restrictions should lift industry profits, they have bred animosity among the very agents on whom the companies depend for business. And they have not gone unnoticed in state capitals and in Washington. In February, New Hampshire agent Eric Gustafson called the practice "redlining" before a House subcommittee.
With insurers already taking heat for high health costs in Washington, it's a bad time for that sort of publicity. The big companies say they may return to abandoned areas when regulators allow them to charge enough to justify risks--probably 40% to 50% more than current rates. But that could take as long as three years. Until then, the industry's bad-guy reputation will only worsen. And homeowners will have to hustle to find any insurance they can get.
YOU WERE IN GOOD HANDS Major property insurers are pulling out of storm-prone areas. Here's what they've done to reduce their exposure: STATE FARM The country's largest home insurer says Florida agents can write policies only to replace those that lapse. It's reviewing coverage in other Gulf states. ALLSTATE The No. 2 home insurer is allowing some Florida policies to expire and has stopped writing new policies except for its auto customers. It may do the same in New York. PRUDENTIAL On Jan. 29, it announced an 18-month moratorium on new policies in Florida and said it would review other areas. It's also not renewing some Florida policies. TRAVELERS It has stopped writing new policies in South Florida, on Long Island, and along the Connecticut coast DATA: COMPANY REPORTS
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Family art time with a plan. 5 days of magical art projects that celebrate creativity.
What you'll experience in the ArtStart Challenge
In this popular 5-day challenge you'll receive a full supply list for five days of process-based art projects that young children love. Think of it as a meal plan for creativity!
The child-tested projects are designed to foster creative thinking skills, bring joy to your home, and minimize prep work for you!
Do any of these struggles sound familiar to you? I ask because I've heard comments like these from thousands of parents...
I'm not creative. I'm not an artist or crafter and I'm a busy working mom, so coming up with ideas is tough for me.
Time. It's a real challenge to get it all in.
By the time we've cleaned up I'm loathe to start something new. The thought of cleaning up after the mess stifles my creativity.
I don't know what level my kids are at... where they will be both challenged and confident.
If you could use some time management help in the form of a curated plan, would like to tap into your own natural creativity, want art projects for a range of ages, and are in search of natural ways to connect with your child through art, then this challenge is for you.
The ArtStart Challenge is light, prep time is minimal, and it will help you connect with your child through art.
What’s involved? Over the course of five days, you will set up simple process-based art experiences for your child. In case you're wondering, side-by-side creating is welcome and adults can play, too! We call these projects ArtStarters because they help us get started with art.
If you're at all uncertain about what kind of art lessons your child will enjoy, are overwhelmed by a sea of online ideas, or feel fatigue from the juggle of parenting and the mess of art making, ArtStart will help you feel confident, relaxed, and supported on this journey.
It’s my mission to help you get comfortable setting up easy art provocations that will help you reach your creative goals. This challenge will be your (art)START!
Sign up for the challenge and you'll get:
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- Beautiful and Inspiring Art Provocations
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- Tips to help you say YES to art making at home.
- $20 coupon to use forThe Art Habit program
Your creative collaborator,
Rachelle is the founder of TinkerLab.com, author of the book TinkerLab: A Hands-on Guide for Little Inventors, and artist in residence in Palo Alto’s Cubberley Artist Studio Program (CASP). She has an Ed.M. in Education from Harvard and a BA in theater from UCLA. She has worked in costume design on movies at Warner Brothers & Universal Studios, and as an arts educator in museums around the nation including MFA Boston and The DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. In her free time, Rachelle enjoys craft nights, everything hygge, contemporary art, crafting with found materials, chai tea, and spending time with family. And she makes a decent enchilada.


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This book provides a structured methodology and scientific basis for engineering injection molds. The topics are presented in a top-down manner, beginning with introductory definitions and the big picture before proceeding to layout and detailed design of molds. The book provides very pragmatic analysis with worked examples that can be readily adapted to real-world product design applications. It will help students and practitioners to understand the inner workings of injection molds and encourage them to think outside the box in developing innovative and highly functional mold designs.
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David Knight barely spoke a word to his dad as he drove him home for the last time from hospital.
He had been released for a bank holiday weekend, to his family home in St Austell, Cornwall – a three-and-a-half hour drive from the mental health hospital in Somerset where he had been placed.
Two days into his leave, David went missing. His mother immediately sensed something was wrong.
His father, brother and sister’s search of his usual haunts had all been in vain. Meanwhile, a train stood still on a viaduct, close to their home.
‘I stayed at home in case he phoned up,’ says David’s mother, Julie Nancarrow, in an interview with the BMA just over two years on from her son’s death.
‘It was just wait, wait, wait. I felt sick to my stomach because I knew. I knew there was something wrong. That train. I knew it was something to do with David.’
Unable to stop
An inquest into David’s death the following year recorded a verdict of suicide and the evidence it heard prompted an intervention from Cornwall senior coroner Emma Carlyon that reached all the way to the Department of Health.
David, aged 29, had walked on to the train tracks and stood in front of an oncoming train, the inquest heard. Despite using emergency brakes, the driver was unable to stop.
Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke in Somerset, where he had been a patient for eight weeks, is one of many private hospitals used by the NHS when it runs out of local mental health beds, an increasingly common occurrence. It is 150 miles from David’s home, a not untypical distance for these so-called OOA or ‘out-of-area’ beds.
That the bed was outside of Cornwall, senior psychiatrists told the inquest, was ‘very likely’ to have had a bearing on his death. Cygnet Kewstoke had not informed Cornwall’s community health team that David was on leave. There’d been ‘no communication’ at all; no plan or support in place to reduce the risk of David harming himself.
While ‘misjudgement about leave’ can happen anywhere, the psychiatrists said in evidence, the use of an OOA bed had ‘increased the risk of poor communication’. Cygnet Health Care, which runs the hospital, says it has ‘worked with local NHS partners to learn from this extremely sad case’.
David was not, by far, the only patient in an OOA bed that month, that year, nor this one.
Around the time of David’s death, Cornwall had up to 40 patients in such beds. That year, across England, almost 4,800 patients were admitted to them in 2015-16, figures released to the BMA under the Freedom of Information Act shows.
David’s case was raised with health secretary Jeremy Hunt and NHS England late last year by Dr Carlyon in a ‘report to prevent future deaths’ to flag the chance of tragedies occurring under similar circumstances.
She urged a review of bed numbers in Cornwall to end the ‘routine’ use of OOA admissions. ‘I understand though that this is a national issue,’ her report tells Mr Hunt.
No suitable beds
Despite the known risks of OOA beds, the numbers are going in the wrong direction, rising 40 per cent from 4,213 in 2014-15 to 5,876 last year, BMA research shows.
In some trusts, use has rocketed: seven-, three- and two-fold respectively in Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, south London; and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the north-west.
More than half of the 44 trusts areas we examined, including Cornwall, admitted more than 100 patients to OOA beds last year.
In a few areas, the practice of dispatching patients with severe mental ill health has become the rule because the NHS has no suitable beds at all.
We’ve discovered that there are no PICU (psychiatric intensive care unit) beds for women in Barnet, Enfield, Haringey or Leicestershire, according to trusts and CCGs (clinical commissioning groups) in those areas. In Derbyshire and Derby City, there are no such beds for men or women.
‘There is a shortage of mental health beds nationally,’ a spokesperson for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust says. ‘We are working with our commissioners to see what can be done to address this issue.’
The lack of PICU beds for women in Leicestershire has been raised with the health secretary in another report to prevent future deaths.
Leicester City and south Leicestershire assistant coroner Lydia Brown told Mr Hunt last year that ‘all female patients can only be placed out of area, potentially many miles away from home and local support'.
Her warning followed an inquest into the death of Victoria Halliday, who took her own life, aged 19, in 2015, while a patient of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Leicestershire has seen the number of patients moved out of area rocket from 18, the year before Ms Halliday’s death, to 145 in 2016-17.
‘We recognise that it’s not ideal to send people away from home and family,’ a spokesperson says. ‘We have worked hard on an ongoing programme of improvements.’
East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, which funds its mental health beds, is discussing ‘the possibility’ the trust ‘may resume’ offering PICU beds for women, it says.
On the hunt
BMA consultants committee psychiatric specialty lead Andrew Molodynski says it is ‘simply shocking’ that large parts of the NHS have no PICU beds. Doctors, nurses and social workers often spend hours hunting for OOA beds, Dr Molodynski says. ‘This hunt takes us away from other severely ill patients.’
OOA admissions have opened up a ‘safety gap’ in patient care, he adds. ‘Unfamiliar hospitals and staff lack the detailed knowledge of patients, held by their doctors back home; they’re less familiar with the risks patients pose to themselves and the treatments that have worked well in the past.’
As well as the risks posed to patients, families are commonly forced to travel long distances for visits, a BMA analysis of more than 1,100 patient journeys has found. On average, visits involve a four-hour drive in a day; a six-hour trip by public transport.
Many endure much longer journeys. Patients from Somerset and Derbyshire were admitted to beds in Scotland, last year. Trusts in Kent and north London, sent patients to Darlington. The Priory in Bristol, a private hospital, took NHS patients from north Essex, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, to name but a few.
For David’s parents, a single visit involved a seven-hour roundtrip, on his father Gerald Knight’s one day off work a week, often giving them just an hour to see their son.
‘He felt safe with me or he felt safe in hospital, but when he was there, it was just a load of strangers,’ Ms Nancarrow says.
‘Coming from his home, where he stayed with his mum and dad and his family popping in, he had none of that. David asked us to stay a bit longer. He desperately wanted us to and we did. But it was such a long journey back. He was so far away, he just felt he was on his own.’
The Cornwall coroner wrote that David’s parents and his dog, Loki, a three-year old Alaskan Malamute, were ‘significant protective factors in preventing him from self-harm and recovery’, in her report, sent to Mr Hunt.
Lengthy journey times ‘made it difficult to physically and practically’ arrange leave and visits and impossible for Loki to be included in his treatment.
Ms Nancarrow says David loved his dog. ‘When he was making a fuss of Loki it was getting all the horrible things out of his head that was taking control,’ she adds. ‘He used to walk his dog 12 miles a day when he was feeling better. It used to give him a break from all the things that were going through his head.’
She traces the deterioration in her son’s mental health to the day he was hit in the face with a brick by an older boy when he was 15.
‘He was such a lovely baby, cheerful. As he got older, he was so happy,’ she says. ‘It was a good time until he was 15,’ Ms Nancarrow adds. ‘Then he became scared, wouldn’t go out on his own. He went downhill, downhill, downhill until he done what he did.’
David was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, which the coroner said was ‘exacerbated by non-compliance with prescription medication and cannabis use’, following the jury’s findings at the inquest. Ms Nancarrow doesn’t believe cannabis use contributed to his suicide.
Less supply, more demand
Mental health trusts gave a range of reasons for heavy and rising use of OOA beds, including budget and beds cuts and temporary ward closures, which allowed a culture of increasing dependency to creep in.
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust’s 151 per cent rise in use since 2014-15 is driven in part by an absence of female PICU and inpatient rehabilitation beds, a spokesperson says.
‘We strive our hardest to ensure we provide the best possible care,’ he adds. Growing financial pressure had left the trust with ‘the lowest bed base’ despite the ‘highest rate’ of people detained under the Mental Health Act in London.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust says a rise in expenditure on OOA beds from £3m to £8m between 2014-15 and 2015-16, was due to ‘bed reductions’ and ‘increased demand’.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, which doubled the number of such placements last year, hopes to improve by boosting support in the community and reducing delayed discharges.
All trusts told BMA News they had plans in place to reduce these admissions.
NHS Kernow CCG, which covers Cornwall, says it has developed an ‘action plan’ since David’s death ‘to ensure all services work together, including the police, council, acute trust, out of hours and our providers’.
‘We have also worked with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to agree an operational process should an out-of-county placement be required,’ he added.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has seen a ‘huge reduction’ in its use of OOA beds since instigating a series of steps, its clinical director Rob Bale says.
Some were unavoidable, as patients needed highly specialist care or turned up for admission, miles away from home, he adds. ‘But we absolutely recognise that sending someone acutely unwell to a hospital miles away from home has a huge effect on their and their carers’ experience.’
Senior clinical staff from wards and community teams now jointly discuss patients and bed availability in daily telephone conference calls. ‘I know on a day-to-day basis what the bed situation is and where the pressures are,’ he adds. Reducing use required a ‘culture shift’ in Oxford he says.
‘When staff saw OOA placements being used, they all used them more and more. Now we’ve got things back on track.’
Ministers believe OOA placements can be eliminated ‘entirely’ in acute mental health by April 2021, according to their Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
But there’s no national plan to reverse decades of decline in bed numbers.
The Government and NHS England have spelled out their plans to tackle the increasing reliance on OOA placements in response letters to the coroners who heard David Knight’s and Ms Halliday’s inquests.
In a letter to Cornwall’s Dr Carlyon, NHS England national medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said problems in accessing acute beds ‘are not just a reflection of the number’ but because of ‘inadequate community provision’ and disjointed working.
The then health minister Nicola Blackwood told the Leicestershire coroner, in her response, that decisions on PICU beds were down to the CCG.
Pressure on mental health beds were owing to ‘the lack of high-quality community care’ as a ‘viable alternative to hospital admission’ in some areas.
It said: ‘This has resulted in more people being admitted to hospital out of area,' adding that the Government had pledged an additional £400m to improve community care.
NHS England also last week unveiled a plan to test ‘new approaches’ to mental health services across 11 areas in England. Its first phase aims to cut the number of OOA placements by 283 across six other sites with no extra funding. It expects the pilots to pay for any extra services or local beds with the money they save.
Dr Molodynski says it is ‘naïve’ to think better community care will solve the issue of OOA beds. ‘Sometimes people just need to be somewhere safe for a bit.’
Our research findings and the ‘horror of human suffering’ caused by OOA beds should prompt a complete rethink of adult mental health policy to help stop and close the ‘care gap’ which is gaping evermore widely open, he says.
For Ms Nancarrow and Mr Knight, they hope some good might come from David’s death, even as they live with its reality every day.
As a taxi driver, his dad has a constant reminder in every fare picked up from the train station. His mum, in her handbag, carries a tasteless cutting from a local paper, showing her son’s body on the train tracks.
‘They had no right to do that, but it’s the last picture of David that I have,’ she says. ‘I think about him every day. If it would help any family, what I’ve been through, I’d do anything.’


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Canada out for dominance at home in stacked FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series Montreal Stop 2023
MONTREAL (Canada) - A perfect record at home so far, Canada will look to cement their spot as the winningest team this season at the FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series Montreal Stop 2023 on September 2 - 3.
Here’s what to expect in the penultimate event of the series.
Reigning champions Canada have won every Stop that has taken place in their country, and have looked unstoppable every time they’ve taken to the court. That is especially true when the Plouffe sisters grace the court, which would be the case in Montreal. They will be joined by the sharpshooting Paige Crozon and the defensive lockdown Kacie Bosch.
The physicality and connection Michelle and Katherine Plouffe brings tips them forward as the favorites whenever they compete. Add to that the scoring and perimeter presence of Bosch and Crozon, it isn’t hard to see why Canada are in position to become the team with the most stop wins this season with five. They arrived into the fold late this season, but have looked every bit of the champions they are, and with momentum on their side, they would love to keep the ball rolling up heading into Ulaanbaatar.
Though it’s just eight teams competing in the stop, competition is steep. USA U24 will take to the court again led by the duo of Hailey Van Lith and Cameron Brink. Madison Scott and Leilani Kapinus would once again compete alongside Van Lith as they did in the Nations League a couple months ago where they were pretty much undeniable. Brink and HVL were also a part of the side that challenged Canada to their limit, but just fell short in the final in Quebec. They’ll have their chance at revenge once again in Montreal.
The side that fell back amidst the heated competition between Canada and USA U24 in Quebec was Germany, who lost narrowly to the American side in the Semi-Finals. It’s been a story of almost for the Germans this season, having failed to win a stop so far. They came close in Baku, losing in the final to Düsseldorf ZOOS. They still have a spot at Ulaanbaatar and have a shot to make a real statement in Montreal with a win. It will be the trio of Svenja Brunckhorst, Sonja Greinacher and Luana Rodefeld taking to the court. They will be joined by the debuting Elisa Mevius. Despite only 19, she has had her fair share of experience in the 3x3 and looks to offer the spark Germany needs to gain momentum heading into Mongolia.
The USA will also field their primary team, led by Cierra Burdick. The scoring power of Camille Zimmerman and Caroline Littlefield will once again make them a team to be feared along with the presence of Blake Dietrick. They’ve been clinical this series, winning two stops with some incredible team-centric plays. They have the right mix of fundamental skillset and size to make them a perennial threat.
Poland are ruthless. They play lockdown defense and drain shots you didn’t think they could. They have consistently shown they can beat any team on their day, but just have fallen short from going all the way. Aldona Morawiec and Klaudia Sosnowska will lead the offensive charge alongside Marta Marcinkowska and Marta Stawicka. They have shown they’re capable of deep runs, and while many may not have them as favorites for the event, they’ll be prepared to prove why they’re just as capable as anyone else.
The speedy Romanian side will be in action in Montreal as well, having the ability to outpace their opposition and make it difficult for any side in the event. It will be the core of Ancuta Stoenescu, Anamaria Virjoghe, Andreea Mititelu and Nagy-Voica Bianca-Ioana.
Chile are another team that can shoot lights out. They have been clutch whenever they take to the court and a shooting team is one you cannot look past. It will be Catalina Abuyeres, Barbara Cousino, Fernando Cacares and Andrea Cataldo. They will be a fun team to watch out for.
It will be a fairly new-look New Zealand side as well, only Dominique Stephens and Arielle Williams having competed this season in Edmonton. They’ll be returning to action in Canada joined by Taiana Day and Olivia O’Neill.
Pool A: Canada, Poland, USA U24, New Zealand
Pool B: Germany, USA, Romania, Chile
How to watch
The action takes place in Canada on September 2- 3 and you can catch it all on the FIBA 3x3 YouTube channel and Facebook pages.


With signature red and yellow “Do Not Bag Recyclables” signage, the District of Columbia Department of Public Works (DC DPW) gets to play recycling referee to ensure the cleanest recycling stream.
Here’s the simple but effective message – leave items loose and empty, and most importantly, do not bag recyclables.
Blake Adams, manager of DC DPW’s Office of Waste Diversion, highlighted the signage – and his love for soccer – during the virtual 2022 Resource Recycling Conference (RRC) Program of the Year award ceremony in August. The virtual ceremony provided an opportunity to highlight innovative programs and connect in advance of the 2022 Resource Recycling Conference in Austin, Texas. The District earned the recognition of the Large City Program of the Year Award due to its multi-faceted contamination and recycling education campaign in collaboration with The Recycling Partnership. As a result of this work, contamination dropped from 33% in 2017 to 11% in 2021 – a remarkable achievement.
Since 2014, the District of Columbia has pursued zero waste sustainability goals. Mayor Muriel Bowser has an ambitious zero waste goal of 80% waste diversion, with Zero Waste DC leading this work. According to the District, a strong residential recycling program is critical to this plan. The Recycling Partnership has been a partner since 2017, providing two grants to help enhance the District’s residential recycling program.
“When we work together, we win together,” said Adams in reflection. “We want to build an equitable model where everyone has recycling access and understands how to recycle right. The Recycling Partnership helped us make incredible strides toward that goal, and we continue to work toward building a zero waste future.”
Leveraging Strategic Education to Move Recycling Behaviors
The District’s recycling program has advanced through the years, but like many local programs, it still faces challenges. For one, the materials recovery facility that sorts recyclables (which is outside of city limits) holds the city accountable for recycling contamination, like plastic bags or food waste (e.g., any items that cannot be sorted and collected and as such mess up the recycling stream). Contamination costs were increasing, Adams shared, which prompted action. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic compounded challenges. During the Resource Recycling Conference’s virtual award ceremony, Adams shared that in early 2020 and most of 2021, single-family household recycling and waste increased by 8-12%. That increase in material, plus the pandemic, put additional pressure on staff and city services but even so, services never ceased or scaled down. In fact, the city doubled down to address these issues, conducting The Recycling Partnership’s flagship Feet on the Street program throughout 2021.
About 702,000 residents call the District of Columbia home. DC DPW provides services to approximately 105,000 single-family households, collecting about 34,000 tons of recyclables annually. Feet on the Street, The Partnership’s recycling quality improvement program specifically targets curbside collection at single-family homes. Feet on the Street centers on real-time, personalized feedback on items placed in recycling carts. Staff will inspect carts and provide “Oops Tags” so residents know what items are accepted and which ones need to stay out of the recycling cart. As part of the strategy, residents will receive warnings and sometimes even no cart pick-ups to encourage better recycling behaviors – that’s where that red (no pick-up) and yellow (warning) signage comes into play.
Phase 1 of Feet on the Street in the District from March to May 2021 covered 17,107 households – about 16% of all single-family homes. Contamination dropped from 18% to 13% during that time. Phase 2, which ran from September to October 2021 and reached about 6,400 households, had even more significant results, decreasing contamination from 13% to 7%. These two rounds of cart tagging and educational outreach continued despite pandemic-related staffing capacity challenges, and the city incorporated geo-location mobile software so staff could be better informed on-the-ground and track household recycling data.
In 2021, the District also rolled out the “Do Not Bag Recyclables” campaign to all 105,000 single-family households, providing mailers that clearly delineated the types of recyclables accepted in the system from metal and paper to rigid plastic, and more. This was in conjunction with the launch of an interactive, digital ArcGIS story map, which provides guidance on the materials the District currently accepts in addition to transparently sharing what happens after recyclables are collected by truck.
Simultaneously with the single-family work, the District created a multifamily toolkit for property owners, managers, custodial staff, and residents. Multifamily apartment buildings, any dwelling larger than duplex and triplex housing in the city, have services through commercial providers. Since about two-thirds of all District residents live in multifamily housing, this outreach was critical to increase recycling awareness and education. The toolkit included information on multifamily recycling requirements, how to select a service vendor, how to communicate with residents, how to empower staff, videos, and more. The D.C. Department of Public Works also shared reusable recycling bags and recycling magnets so building managers could provide them to residents.
Lessons Learned to Inform Future Innovation
Even amid challenges, the District of Columbia’s recycling program achieved success. Today, the recycling rate is between 50-60%.
One of the most interesting observations, noted by Adams of the D.C. Department of Public Works’ Office of Waste Diversion, was the positive community response to the recycling contamination and outreach campaign. The community was responsive to the accountability, and it even drove somewhat of a competition to have the cleanest recycling. The city still has challenges with hard-to-recycle or bulky materials Adams shared, but there is undeniable progress and a hunger for change.
As with any recycling initiative, the work in the District of Columbia continues. Trust and transparency are still obstacles, said Adams. The Partnership’s research, most recently through its inaugural Recycling Confidence Index, shows the importance of instilling confidence in community programs so people can trust that their recycling program works and that they are confident in their own recycling habits. Investing in outreach and education is critical to build and sustain confidence, which in turn helps encourage consistent and accurate recycling behaviors. For the District that investment paid dividends. Now, the District of Columbia is looking toward 2023 when DC DPW’s Office of Waste Diversion plans to release its Zero Waste DC Plan, which will lay out a path to achieve the District’s zero waste, sustainability, and climate goals.
From tackling plastic waste to carbon emissions, many local governments have embraced the idea of environmental equity, so we can all live, work, and play in healthy, sustainable communities today and for years to come. Ready to take your community recycling program to the next level? Let’s connect and explore how your community can transform recycling and create a robust, sustainable system.
Header photo courtesy of the District of Columbia Department of Public Works


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As the National Pork Board sets its course for 2015 through 2020, the organization's strategic planning task force was recently presented an analysis of top trends in the economic and food production environment that are most likely to impact the Pork Checkoff program. The analysis is part of the National Pork Board's strategic planning initiative. The task force met for the first time in December.
"Our overarching objective is to assess the role the Pork Checkoff plays in an ever-changing world and to identify strategic opportunities for us to help move the pork industry forward," said Chris Novak, chief executive officer of the National Pork Board. "This may mean developing programs that increase consumer trust and comfort in purchasing pork.
"Consumer needs regarding food safety and transparency, and producer needs to protect the environment and provide the best possible animal care will be front and center," Novak said.
Dr. Daniel Sumner, the University of California at Davis, and Dr. Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, identified the following trends as critical to address:
- There is a marked increase in U.S. consumption of pork, which is outpacing sales of all meat products. U.S. pork consumption is at a 10-year high and only expected to increase.
- While the domestic pork market is the biggest by far for U.S. producers with 75 percent of U.S. pork production consumed domestically, Asia presents a growth market with 30-year projections of income growth and a rising middle class that demands more protein and produce.
- Productivity of the average pig farmer has increased, with pigs per litter and average market hog weights both increasing. This creates an immediate 2.6 percent increase in the amount of pork entering the market today.
- Food safety and farm practice issues will modify demand in rich countries and increasingly in middle-income countries with retailers - including foodservice firms - showing a strong interest in understanding farm practices and encouraging farmers to meet the demands of opinion leaders.
"Real per capita expenditures are very strong, with individual pork demand at its highest levels since 2004," said Meyer, who noted that the percentage growth in pork sales in the past year is the highest among all meat products, including pork, beef, poultry and lamb