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Change can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Brewton Brownlow Couch, VP of Branding and Messaging at United Way of Greater Knoxville, led the audience through how they have maintained their long-standing reputation while telling the new story of what it means to be a Modern United Way.
Over the past 100 years, United Way of Greater Knoxville has “worked to understand local needs, mobilize volunteers, to raise awareness and money to meet community needs by granting money to programs that align with predetermined goals.”
A Shift in Focus
Couch first addressed why United Way of Greater Knoxville decided to join the network initiative to become the “Modern United Way.”
A concerning trend has emerged over the past ten years. The lifetime value of a workplace donor is declining. When payroll software companies take over workplace giving, instead of a United Way campaign, there is an 80% decline in payroll deductions.
While this downward trend is not unique to United Way, they knew that something needed to be done. Considering workplace giving is a valuable piece of United Way fundraising, they decided that there was a need to rebrand and change the way that they were getting donations. According to Couch, young professions “care as much, if not more, than older generations” when it comes to social responsibility and charitable giving. But nonprofits have not been talking in a way that resonates with them. The goal of United Way’s rebrand was to address this problem.
Next, Couch approached how United Way of Greater Knoxville tackled the task of transforming a 100-year-old organization.
Instead of asking the community to get involved because it is simply the right thing to do, they have started to approach it as a “strategic partner[ship] for corporate social responsibility.” They are accomplishing the same work as always but recognizing the benefits to their corporate partners.
By focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility, or the idea of integrating social and environmental concerns into business operations, companies can help the community while also improving company culture, employee engagement and retention. Turnover reduced by 57% in companies that find space for “Social Purpose as a core business strategy.”
As part of a more modern approach, United Way has adopted some new technology and software to help them reach their goals. Shared Purpose serves as an umbrella of products and resources for corporate partners. Sales Force Philanthropy Cloud is an exciting resource for corporate partners as well. This collaboration with Sales Force allows employees to set up a profile where they can donate directly to nonprofits, log their volunteer hours and so much more. Information from this software helps employers make decisions based of their employee’s civic interests.
In closing, Couch announces some collaborative opportunities that United Way of Greater Knoxville is assisting with for the community.
Couch and Amelia Everett, Program Manager at Volunteer East Tennessee and board member for American Marketing Association Knoxville, announced several upcoming service events with the audience. KnoxGives on November 8 will be a community day of service in Knox County. Big Give Knox will be on December 3. This 24-hour online giving campaign is designed to raise money and awareness the local-nonprofit community.


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I do this sometimes with my CyberSync triggers. Yes, I've actually done this on a number of occassions. I used Nikons D80 and D300, and also Nikon D300 and a chamonix 4x5. Here's how you do it. Hook a transmitter up to the hotshoe or PC port of the first camera, set the transmitter to Channel 1. Attach a receiver to the remote input of the second camera, receiver set to Channel 1. Place a second transmitter in the hotshoe of camera 2, set to Channel 2. Place receivers on your monolights, receivers set to channel 2. Now for the tricky part. Set sync on first camera to no faster than 1/60s. Set sync on second camera to any speed you want.
There is a lag between the second camera receiving the signal and processing it. That's why you must have two transmitters--so you can avoid tripping the flash and second camera at the same time. Obviously you can use any two channels you want, but they MUST be different ones.
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HUB: In a harrowing turn of events, what began as a peaceful protest against alleged changes in election results escalated into a chaotic scene on the national highway in front of the Civic Center late last night. Tragically, amidst the chaos, two lives were lost, and over ten individuals suffered injuries as a result of gunfire. The bodies of the deceased and the injured have been swiftly transported to the hospital, marking a somber chapter in the ongoing unrest.
PB21 Results Challenged
The PB21 protest, which initially aimed to voice grievances regarding purported alterations in election outcomes, quickly spiraled into a battlefield scenario, with tensions reaching a boiling point under the cover of darkness. Witnesses recount scenes of pandemonium as clashes between demonstrators and security forces erupted, transforming the once-bustling thoroughfare into a zone fraught with danger and despair.
Despite efforts to maintain order, the situation rapidly deteriorated, leaving tragedy in its wake. The loss of two lives serves as a stark reminder of the high stakes involved in political dissent, underscoring the need for a peaceful resolution amidst mounting tensions.
Authorities Grapping With Aftermath Of Violence
Authorities are currently grappling with the aftermath of the violence, striving to restore calm and ensure the safety of all citizens amidst heightened tensions. Meanwhile, the nation remains gripped by the aftermath of this devastating turn of events, with many questioning the path forward in these tumultuous times.
As the dust settles on the national highway, the echoes of last night’s turmoil linger, serving as a sobering reminder of the fragility of civil discourse in times of political strife. As investigations into the incident unfold, the nation mourns the lives lost and fervently hopes for a future where grievances can be addressed through dialogue rather than violence.

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WEST BERKELEY FENCING CLUB The renovation of the former Freight & Salvage space at 1111 Addison St. (at San Pablo) is now complete and the West Berkeley Fencing Club has launched a new schedule of classes this month. The club, which was founded by Mark Headley, offers four full sized fencing strips and two coaching strips on a compressed bamboo floor, a stretching room with fitness equipment, as well as a lounge area with a big-screen TV showing, of course, fencing. [Disclosure: West Berkeley Fencing Club advertises on Berkeleyside — and Berkeleyside readers can get 10% off their first month of classes. Click here for details.]
KNA COPY CENTRE KNA Copy Centre — the store with the historical photos of Berkeley in the windows, just down from Oaks Theatre on Solano Avenue — closed up shop at the end of December. The Kamala family who own the store posted a note on the door before Christmas to say that it was with a heavy heart they were shuttering. “We have loved being a part of the Thousand Oaks community for the past ten years,” they wrote. KNA opened in 2003. [Hat tip: Ira Serkes.]
EPOCH FRAMEWORKS Another business that is closing up for good is Epoch Frameworks at 2199 Bancroft Way (at Oxford) in downtown Berkeley. Epoch is closing simply because its owner is retiring. [Hat tip: Wendy Cohen.]
DREAM ICE CREAM Music store Rasputin on Telegraph Avenue began selling ice cream last month in its store-within-a-store, Dream. Rasputin owner Ken Sarachan fought opposition to the concept in City Hall, not least from the owners of the wildly popular ice-cream sandwich spot C.R.E.A.M. (Cookies Rule Everything Around Me) which is located directly opposite Rasputin, but eventually prevailed. (Read the full, fun-filled story.) Dream is serving organic ice cream developed by Atomic Ice Cream owner Ray Lai who already sells his ice cream at another Sarachan business, Blondie’s Pizza.) Rasputin and Dream are at 2401 Telegraph Ave.
Shop Talk is our regular column in which we post updates on Berkeley businesses. If you’re a Berkeley business with news, or a Berkeleysider who has spotted a change in your neighborhood or on your travels, shoot us an email with the details. Read previous Shop Talk columns, and check out Bites for the latest East Bay restaurant news.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo was declared official winner of April's presidential election early Tuesday, beating former Gen. Prabowo Subianto, 55.5 percent to 45.5 percent. Subianto, an authoritarian nationalist who had aligned himself with Islamic hard-liners, refused to concede, telling reporters he will "continue to make legal efforts in line with the constitution to defend the mandate of the people and the constitutional rights that were seized." Independent observers said the election appeared free and fair.
Widodo also beat Subianto in the 2014 election, and Subianto lost his challenge of those results before Indonesia's Constitutional Court. About 32,000 security personnel were dispatched around Jakarta, the capital, on Tuesday in anticipation of protests from Subianto's supporters, and the Election Commission's headquarters was under heavy guard behind razor wire.
Widodo, a 57-year-old relative moderate from humble beginnings, was governor of Jakarta before winning his first five-year term. Subianto, 67, was formerly married to the daughter of longtime Indonesian dictator Suharto, and though he is closely linked to the country's traditional political elite, he ran as an outsider. Peter Weber
Indonesia held logistically challenging national elections on Wednesday, and unofficial preliminary results show President Joko Widodo on track for a second five-year term. The election was a rematch of the 2014 race, and Widodo, 57, is projected to beat 67-year-old Prabowo Subianto, a former general, by about 10 percentage points, according to "quick count" sampling from five independent polling groups. The "quick counts" have proved accurate in previous elections.
Widodo's projected victory is seen as a win for his relative moderation over Subianto's strident nationalism and fear-based rhetoric about Indonesia being weak and easy prey for China and other foreign powers. Both candidates had courted Indonesia's growing faction of religiously conservative Muslims; Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, but freedom of religious worship is enshrined in its constitution.
By any measure, the election was massive, the first time Indonesia has voted for president, parliament, and regional governments on the same day. The government set up 800,000 polling stations around the countries 17,000 islands so the 193 million eligible voters could cast their ballots for the 245,000 candidates running in various races.


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Here in Oakland we have a monthly event downtown we all affectionately call First Friday. It's when all the galleries are open late to debut the new collections, and over the years it has become quite the place to be, especially for hipsters. We like to go for the people-watching as much as the art. Parking is a pain so we decided to ride down instead, and we were invited to my favorite local bar for happy hour beforehand by my dear friend Vanessa... Needless to say we never made it downtown. We spent the whole evening at the Heart & Dagger Saloon, munching on goodies form the nearby restaurants and having a super goofy time.
Dennis always makes me laugh so hard when he takes my photo. Actually, he always cracks me up. Anywho, this is one of my favorite outfits. I tried doing my hair up, but it just wasn't working so I let it be. The dress is old from Target, the belt was on sale at Urban Outfitters for three bucks, the scarf and sweater are from my mom, as well as the sweet tights that have a subtle herringbone pattern. And the shoes are the most comfortable heels ever made, from Chelsea Crew, but I don't think they make them anymore.
You know you've got a keeper when he knows to photograph your shoes without you prompting him to.
Everyone was having whiskey sours, until I ordered my usual bloody mary. They make delicious ones there and everyone is always so surprised to see me drinking them. I don't know if they think it's only supposed to be a breakfast drink or an old lady drink but I love them. Always ask for extra green olives.
The Heart and Dagger is one of those rare bars. It's walkable from our house, they have the friendliest bartenders, great music, they let you bring in outside food and your dog (or rather, Vanessa's cutie pie Carlton), and they have a wonderful patio out back.
The bar used to be called The Serenader, and they still have the old signage on the back patio and it lights up at night. Plus they have an amazing lemon tree and I assume they use the lemons in the drinks.
Much of the discussions that night centered around giant jellyfish. Oh, and the Hello Kitty photo app. Good times.
Vanessa and Willie. Willie is quite possibly one of my favorite people to photograph; his face is so animated! There's a billion more photos on my flickr, here, if you'd like to have a look.

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Bobi Wine's Lawyer Says His Health Is 'In Dire State' Following First Court Appearance
The Ugandan artist and opposition lawmaker appeared in court on Thursday, where he was charged with "illegal possession of arms."
UPDATE 8/16/18:Bobi Wine appeared in a military court today, where his charges were reduced from treason to illegal possession of arms, though music executive and friend of Wine, Rikki Stein, tells OkayAfrica that the hotel manager where Wine was staying in Aura claims "categorically" that there were no weapons found in Wine's room.
He is being remanded in custody until next week Thursday.
According to one of Wine's lawyer, Asuman Basalirwa who was present during the arraignment,Wine had been badly beaten while in police custody and was unable to walk properly.
His other lawyer Medard Segona went into further detail about Wine's condition following his court appearance. He is quoted in the Daily Monitor as saying:
Mr Kyagulanyi's health is in dire state. He is in great pain. He can't talk, he can't walk, he sits with a lot of difficulty, his face is swollen and he cannot see because of the torture by SFC soldiers. He couldn't speak when the charges were read to him and I believe he didn't know what was going or understood the charges read to him.
According to Segona, Wine was unable to take a plea due to his condition.
Kassiano Wadri the by-election candidate who Wine was in Aura supporting, who was also arrested alongside Wine, has won the election.
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Ugandan politician and musician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been charged with treason, following a deadly clash with Ugandan police forces in Aura on Monday that left his driver dead.
There are also reports that Wine is currently in the hospital receiving treatment, reportsAfrica News.
The artist and lawmaker was arrested on Tuesday along with several other legislators and opposition supporters, following a run-In that occurred at a by-election campaign where Wine and Uganda's president Museveni were supporting opposing candidates. Police forces claimed that stones were pelted at the Presidents vehicle, causing the police to intervene with bullets and teargas.
Wine was barricaded in his hotel room for several hours on Monday before being taken into custody. Police spokesperson Josephine Angucia announced that Wine along with by-election candidate Kassiano Wadri will be charged with malicious damage to the motor vehicle belonging to the convoy of the President, unlawful possession of firearms and treason.
Authorities claim that both men were carrying heavy ammunition with them upon being arrested. Police claim to have collected "75 rounds of ammunition, 46 white tablets suspected to be drugs, Ugandan flags, red t-shirts and smartphones among other items found in the rooms of the legislators at Aura Pacific Hotel."
Wine is set to appear in court tomorrow.
Since winning a seat in parliament in 2017, Wine has been the target of harassment from the Ugandan government, but this appears to be the most serious incident thus far.
Many have expressed support for the 35-year-old MP online, stating that they believe that he has once again been unfairly targeted by Museveni, who is known to use force and violence to suppress the opposition. Supporters of Wine are demanding that he be freed immediately using the hashtags #ReleaseBobiWine and #FreeBobiWine.
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feature: Horrorthon 2012 (IFI Dublin)October 11, 2012 // 3 Comments
Halloween and the October bank holiday weekend are almost upon us again and that can only mean one thing when it comes to horror cinema in Dublin… The IFI Horrorthon is back!
Well, actually there’s a few horror events going on in cinemas around Dublin this year but given that Horrorthon has been running for… I think it’s 15 years now (?) it seems only fair to give this one some space.
Horrorthon been following the same format for a while now but for those of you who might not be familiar with it. The IFI Horrorthon is a 4.5 day horror film festival running from Thursday evening to Monday night, over the October bank holiday. So this year that’s 25th to the 29th, for the number fans out there.
I’d love to say I’ve been going for years but really I’ve just gone for a full day for the last three years, plus a few extra screening here and there. I’d actually never heard of it before then, which seems like a massive oversight on my part, but hey, what can ya do?
That’s enough introduction I reckon, so without further ado here are…
Nicola’s picks for IFI Horrorthon 2012
Antiviral opens the festival on Thursday 25th October at 7pm.
You can book tickets for Antiviral here.
Quite the coup for Horrorthon this year. Premiering at the festival is Antiviral, the directorial debut of Brandon Cronenberg. Yes, you guessed it, the son of legendary body horror director David Cronenberg. His father has taken a step away from the genre that made him famous in recent years but Brandon seems to be intent on following in his footsteps.
Antiviral takes celebrity fascination that bit further, to a clinic where star-struck fans can share the experiences of their obsession by being infected by the viruses of sick celebrities. When a woman becomes infected with a killer virus she finds herself delving into the life of superstar Hannah Geist to try and unravel the mystery around her death to save her own life.
Citadel is screening on Friday 26th October at 6.30pm
You can book tickets for Citadel here.
Home-grown talent is on show on Friday night at Horrorthon with Citadel, winner of the SXSW Midnight Audience Award and the Galway Film Fleadh Best First Irish Feature award.
Irish horror has been hit and miss over the years, Isolation is the only one I really remember being of any interest, but Citatel has garner great buzz from film festivals and has been picked up for US release with a date set for November 9th.
Ciarán Foy will be introducing the screening and participating in a Q&A after it.
American Mary is screening on Saturday 27th October at 7pm
You can book tickets for American Mary here.
One for the body shock fans. American Mary is about a medical student who becomes disillusioned with the traditional field of surgery and finds herself turn to… let’s say a more underground scene. This being a horror film I can only imagine the turns it will take…
Young Frankenstein is screening on Saturday 27th October at 11.15pm
You can book tickets for Young Frankenstein here.
Horrorthon has featured some classics over the years and this year is no exception.
Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks’ homage to the monster movies of the 1930s. After years of living down his grandfathers reputation, a young Dr. Frankenstein inherits the castle and sets about repeating his granpappy’s experiments. Mel Brooks’ stylee.
The Monster Squad is screening on Sunday 28th October at 4pm
You can book tickets for The Monster Squad here.
And another classic, this time from the ’80s! I have to admit, I haven’t seen Young Frankenstein or The Monster Squad, which is why they’re both included on this list.
Being over 30, it might be a little late for me to be visiting The Monster Squad for the first time… but then again, you’re never too old for fun right? And how can a film about a bunch of horror fan kids doing battle with Dracula and his team of movie monsters?
Sleep Tight is screening on Monday 29th October at 4.20pm
You can book tickets for Sleep Tight here.
No Horrorthon can be complete without getting to one of the foreign language horror film, particularly because they’ll probably never make it to general release in Ireland.
So there you have it. What are you planning on catching in the festival?
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The superspreaders behind high COVID-19 conspiracy theories
By DAVID KLEPPER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and BEATRICE DUPUY
Because the coronavirus unfold throughout the globe, so too did hypothesis about its origins. Maybe the virus escaped from a lab. Perhaps it was engineered as a bioweapon.
Authentic questions in regards to the virus created good situations for conspiracy theories. Within the absence of information, guesswork and propaganda flourished.
Faculty professors with no proof or coaching in virology have been touted as consultants. Nameless social media customers posed as high-level intelligence officers. And from China to Iran to Russia to the US, governments amplified claims for their very own motives.
The Related Press collaborated with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Analysis Lab on a nine-month investigation to establish the folks and organizations behind a few of the most viral misinformation in regards to the origins of the coronavirus.
Their claims have been explosive. Their proof was weak. These are the superspreaders.
WHO HE IS: A Harvard skilled regulation professor on the College of Illinois, Boyle drafted a 1989 regulation banning organic weapons and has suggested the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Palestinian Authority.
Boyle has no tutorial diploma in virology or biology however is a longstanding critic of analysis on pathogens. He has claimed Israeli intelligence was concerned within the 1993 World Commerce Middle bombing; that SARS, the swine flu and Ebola have been genetically modified; and that West Nile virus and Lyme illness escaped from a U.S. biowarfare lab. He has additionally claimed that Microsoft founder Invoice Gates “was concerned” within the unfold of Zika.
COVID CLAIM: Boyle says the coronavirus is a genetically engineered bioweapon that escaped from a high-level lab in Wuhan, China. He maintains it reveals indicators of nanotechnological tinkering and the insertion of proteins from HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. He alleges that U.S. researchers helped create it, and that hundreds of medical doctors, scientists, and elected leaders are conspiring to cover the reality.
Boyle promoted his declare in an e mail to a listing of reports organizations and private contacts on Jan. 24, 2020. That very same day, he was interviewed on a podcast referred to as “Geopolitics and Empire.” That podcast was cited by a little-known Indian web site, GreatGameIndia, and went viral, with Boyle’s feedback picked up and featured in Iranian-state TV, Russian state media, and fringe web sites within the U.S. and world wide. He’s since repeated his claims on Alex Jones’ present Infowars.
EVIDENCE? Boyle bases his argument on circumstantial proof: the presence of a Biosafety Stage 4 lab in Wuhan, the truth that different viruses have escaped from different labs previously, and his perception that governments world wide are engaged in a secret arms race over organic weapons.
Biosafety Stage 4 labs – or BSL4 labs – have the very best degree of biosafety precautions.
“It appeared to me that clearly, this got here out of the Wuhan BSL 4,” Boyle informed The Related Press, dismissing the accepted rationalization that the virus emerged from the Wuhan market as “fully preposterous.”
A World Heath Group staff concluded it was extraordinarily unlikely the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, and different consultants have mentioned the virus reveals no indicators of genetic manipulation.
WHAT IT IS: An internet site that was an early promoter of the speculation that the coronavirus was engineered.
Its Jan. 26, 2020, story on “Coronavirus bioweapon-How China Stole the Coronavirus From Canada and Weaponized It” was picked up by far-right monetary weblog Zero Hedge and shared to hundreds of social media customers earlier than it was promoted by conservative web site RedStateWatcher and obtained greater than 6 million engagements.
COVID CLAIM: GreatGameIndia claims that the virus, which has now killed greater than 2 million folks worldwide, was first discovered within the lungs of a Saudi man after which despatched to labs within the Netherlands after which Canada, the place it was stolen by Chinese language scientists. The article depends partially on hypothesis from Dany Shoham, a virologist and former lieutenant colonel in Israeli army intelligence.
Shoham was quoted discussing the likelihood that COVID is linked to bioweapon analysis in a Jan. 26, 2020, article within the conservative U.S. newspaper The Washington Occasions. In that article, Shoham was quoted saying there was no proof to assist the concept that the virus has escaped from a lab, however GreatGameIndia didn’t embrace that context in its piece.
“We do stand by our report,” mentioned web site co-founder Shelley Kasli wrote in an e mail. “In reality, just lately Canadians launched paperwork which corroborated our findings with Chinese language scientists… Numerous data continues to be categorized.”
EVIDENCE? The coronavirus almost certainly first appeared in people after leaping from an animal, a World Well being Group panel introduced this month, saying an alternate concept that the virus leaked from a Chinese language lab was unlikely.
America’s high scientists have likewise concluded the virus is of pure origin, citing clues in its genome and its similarity to SARS, or extreme acute respiratory syndrome. Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia College, who has been finding out the virus since its genome was first recorded, has mentioned it’s clear that the virus was not engineered or by chance launched.
“It’s one thing that’s clearly chosen in nature,” Racaniello mentioned. “There are two examples the place the sequence tells us that people had no hand in making this virus as a result of they might not have recognized to do this stuff.”
THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALIZATION
WHAT IT IS: The Montreal-based heart publishes articles on international politics and coverage, together with a wholesome dose of conspiracy theories on vaccines and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults. It’s led by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor emeritus of economics on the College of Ottawa and a conspiracy theorist who has argued the U.S. army can management the climate.
The middle publishes authors from world wide — a lot of whom have superior baseless claims in regards to the origins of the outbreak. In February, as an example, the middle revealed an interview with Igor Nikulin suggesting the coronavirus was a U.S. bioweapon created to focus on Chinese language folks.
The middle’s web site, globalresearch.ca., “has turn into deeply enmeshed in Russia’s broader disinformation and propaganda ecosystem” by peddling anti-U.S. conspiracy theories, in accordance with a 2020 U.S. State Division report which discovered that seven of its supposed writers don’t even exist however have been created by Russian army intelligence.
COVID CLAIM: Whereas the middle has revealed a number of articles in regards to the virus, one suggesting it originated within the U.S. caught the eye of high Chinese language officers.
On March 12, Chinese language International Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian retweeted an article revealed by the middle titled: “China’s Coronavirus: A Surprising Replace. Did The Virus Originate within the US?”
“This text may be very a lot essential to every one among us,” he posted in English on Twitter. “Please learn and retweet it. COVID-19: Additional Proof that the Virus Originated within the US.”
He additionally tweeted: “It could be US military who introduced the epidemic to Wuhan. Be clear! Make public your knowledge! US owe us an evidence.”
The story by Larry Romanoff, an everyday writer on the heart, cites a number of debunked theories, together with one which members of the U.S. army introduced the virus to China in the course of the Navy World Video games in fall 2019. Romanoff concludes that it has now “been confirmed” that the virus originated from outdoors of China, regardless of scientific consensus that it did.
EVIDENCE? The World Well being Group has concluded that the coronavirus emerged in China, the place the primary instances and deaths have been reported. No proof has surfaced to counsel the virus was imported into China by the U.S.
Chossudovsky and Romanoff didn’t reply to repeated messages looking for remark. Romanoff’s biography lists him as a visiting professor at Fudan College in Shanghai, however he’s not listed among the many college’s college. The college didn’t reply to an e mail asking about Romanoff’s employment.
Romanoff’s unique article was taken down within the spring, however Zhao’s tweet stays up.
WHO IS HE? A four-time failed political candidate, Nikulin is prominently quoted in Russian state media and fringe publications within the west as a biologist and former weapons inspector in Iraq who served on a U.N. fee on organic and chemical weapons within the Nineties.
COVID CLAIM: Nikulin argues the U.S. created the virus and used it to assault China. He first voiced the idea in a Jan. 20, 2020, story by Zvezda, a state media outlet tied to the Russian army. He appeared on Russian state TV not less than 18 instances between Jan. 27, 2020, and late April of that yr.
As soon as the virus reached the U.S., Nikulin modified his concept, saying “globalists” have been utilizing the virus to depopulate the earth.
Nikulin has expressed assist for weaponizing misinformation to harm the U.S. previously. On his web site, he suggests claiming the U.S. created HIV as a approach to weaken America from inside. Russian intelligence mounted an identical Nineteen Eighties disinformation marketing campaign dubbed “Operation INFEKTION.”
“Should you show and declare… that the virus was bred in American laboratories, the American financial system will collapse beneath the onslaught of billions of lawsuits by hundreds of thousands of AIDS carriers world wide,” Nikulin wrote on his web site.
EVIDENCE? Nikulin supplied no proof to assist his assertions, and there are causes to doubt his veracity.
Former U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler, for whom Nikulin claims to have labored, mentioned he had no reminiscence of Nikulin, and that his story sounded “sloppily fabricated, and never credible.”
No U.N. information may very well be discovered to substantiate his employment.
In an change with the AP over Fb, Nikulin insisted his claims and background are correct, although he mentioned some information from U.N. work have been destroyed in an American bombing in the course of the Iraq invasion.
When informed that Butler didn’t know him, Nikulin responded “That is his opinion.”
WHO HE IS: Greg Rubini is the identify of an web conspiracy theorist who claims to have high-level contacts in intelligence and listed his location on Twitter as “categorized,” till he was kicked off the platform. His posts have been retweeted hundreds of instances by supporters of QAnon, a conspiracy concept centered on the baseless perception that Trump is waging a secret marketing campaign in opposition to enemies within the “deep state” and a secret sect of satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
COVID CLAIM: Rubini has tweeted that Dr. Anthony Fauci created the coronavirus and that it was used as a bioweapon to scale back the world’s inhabitants and undermine Trump.
EVIDENCE? Rubini’s doesn’t look like the intelligence insider that he pretends to be.
Buzzfeed tried to trace down Rubini final yr and decided it’s the alias of a 61-year-old Italian man who has labored in advertising and marketing and music promotions. A earlier model of his Twitter bio signifies he’s a fan of basic rock and the movies of Stanley Kubrick.
Makes an attempt to achieve Rubini on-line and thru enterprise contacts have been unsuccessful.
Rubini has bristled at efforts to confirm his claims. When a social media person requested: “My query to you @GregRubini is, ‘The place and what’s your proof?’ Rubini responded curtly: “And my query is: why ought to I give it to you?”
Twitter suspended Rubini’s account in November 2020 for repeated violations of its insurance policies.
WHO HE IS: A former lecturer on Islam on the College of Wisconsin-Madison, Barrett left the college amid criticism for his claims that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults have been orchestrated by folks linked to the U.S. and Israeli governments.
Barrett calls himself “knowledgeable conspiracy theorist, for need of a greater time period” and has argued authorities conspiracies have been behind the 2004 Madrid bombing, the 2005 London bombing, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the 2016 Orlando nightclub taking pictures.
COVID CLAIM: Barrett mentioned he’s “80%” certain coronavirus was created by components throughout the U.S. authorities as a bioweapon and used to assault China.
Iran was a secondary goal, he has argued. Writing for Iran’s PressTV, he mentioned the early outbreak in that nation “means that the Individuals and/or their companions the Israelis… could have intentionally attacked Iran.”
Barrett additional detailed his views throughout an interview with the AP.
“It appeared pretty apparent to me that the primary speculation one would take a look at when one thing as extraordinary as this COVID pandemic hits, is that it might be a US bio-war strike,” he mentioned.
EVIDENCE? Barrett cited reviews that the US warned its allies in November 2019 a couple of harmful virus rising from China. Barrett mentioned that’s lengthy earlier than authorities in China knew in regards to the severity of the outbreak.
Official sources have denied issuing any warning. If the U.S. did know in regards to the virus that quickly, it was probably because of intelligence sources inside China, which can have recognized in regards to the virus as early as November 2019, in accordance with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
WHO HE IS: Montagnier is a world-renowned virologist who received the Nobel prize in 2008 for locating HIV.
COVID CLAIM: Throughout an April interview with the French information channel CNews, Montagnier claimed that the coronavirus didn’t originate in nature and was manipulated. Montagnier mentioned that within the course of of creating the vaccine for AIDS, somebody took the genetic materials and added it to the coronavirus. Montagnier cites a retracted paper revealed in January from Indian scientists who had mentioned they’d discovered sequences of HIV within the coronavirus. AP made a number of unsuccessful makes an attempt to contact Montagnier.
EVIDENCE: Consultants who’ve regarded on the genome sequence of the virus have mentioned it has no HIV-1 sequences. In January, Indian scientists revealed a paper on bioRXIV, a repository for scientific papers that haven’t but been peer-reviewed or revealed in a standard scientific journal. The paper mentioned that the scientists had discovered “uncanny similarity of distinctive inserts” in COVID-19 and HIV. Social media customers picked up the paper as proof that the virus was engineered. As quickly because it was revealed, the scientific neighborhood broadly debunked the paper on social media. It was later withdrawn.
SUPREME LEADER ALI KHAMENEI and HOSSEIN SALAMI
WHO THEY ARE: Khamenei is the second and present Supreme Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has the ultimate say on all issues of state, together with the financial system, army and well being divisions.
Since being elected to workplace in 1981, Khamenei has maintained his skeptical view of the U.S. as Iran’s foremost enemy. The tensions between the 2 international locations boiled over in 2018 when Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions. On the time, Khamenei remarked, “I mentioned from the primary day: Don’t belief America.”
Hossein Salami was appointed by Khamenei as commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in April 2019. He leads the nation’s paramilitary drive that oversees Iran’s ballistic missile program and responds to threats from each inside and out of doors the nation.
COVID CLAIM: Salami declared on March 5, 2020, that Iran was engaged in a struggle in opposition to a virus that could be the product of an American organic assault. On these grounds, Salami ordered a Floor Drive Organic Protection Maneuver to check the nation’s skill to fight a organic assault. Starting March 16, the Floor Drive, in shut collaboration with the Well being Ministry, started holding nationwide biodefense drills.
Khamenei was among the many first and strongest world leaders to counsel the coronavirus may very well be a organic weapon created by the U.S. Throughout his annual tackle on March 22 to hundreds of thousands of Iranians for the Persian New 12 months, Khamenei questioned why the U.S. would provide help to international locations like Iran in the event that they themselves have been struggling and accused of creating the virus.
Khamenei went on to refuse U.S. help, saying “probably (U.S.) drugs is a approach to unfold the virus extra.” Final month, he refused to just accept coronavirus vaccines manufactured in Britain and the U.S., calling them “forbidden.” The Iranian Mission to the United Nations in New York didn’t reply to a number of requests for remark.
EVIDENCE: There isn’t a proof that the U.S. created the virus or used it as a weapon to assault Iran.
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Arsenal are thought to be ready to do business with clubs for Alexis Sanchez if they receive an offer in excess of £25million this month.
The Chile international is out of contract at the end of the season and will be free to leave the Emirates if no fresh terms are signed.
Manchester City came close to signing the forward in the summer but left it too late to thrash out a deal with the Gunners rebuffed by Monaco in an attempt to sign Thomas Lemar as a replacement.
Lemar would prefer to join Liverpool and could head to Anfield if Philippe Coutinho is granted his wish of joining Barcelona during the January transfer window.
Now, the Daily Mirror are reporting that Arsenal’s stance has softened on Sanchez and a fee of more than £25million could see them part ways with their star this winter.
READ MORE: Arsenal start contract talks with Ozil
READ MORE: 10 of the likeliest January transfers
The transfer of Sanchez is expected to be impacted by Jack Wilshere and Mesut Ozil’s contract negotiations as the Gunners will not want to lose all three players ahead of next season.
Wenger said: “Of course it depends a little bit on the injuries as well and on the other hand I must say it depends on if we manage to extend the contracts of the players who are on the end of their contracts in June.
“It will depend on that as well because we will have to take the consequences of these decisions and respond to it. We are out there and look of course to do some things yes, but we will do, when is very difficult to say because it is not only on us.”
Manchester City are still keen on Sanchez and would be able to add the superstar to their squad for the latter stages of the Champions League.
An injury to Gabriel Jesus has only heightened their need for reinforcements at the Etihad as they fight on four fronts in a bid to secure an historic quadruple.

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Thursday, 15 January 2009: 8:45 AM
The Year in Science as a Marketing Tool for Libraries
Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)
National and International celebrations in science can provide useful marketing opportunities for libraries. These can range from short term events, such as Earth Day, to year-long celebrations. One example for 2009 that would be particularly useful for Atmospheric Science libraries is the Coalition on the Understanding of Science's (COPUS) year-long celebration of 2009 as the Year of Science. COPUS has created themes for each month covering a broad subject range in the sciences. The Earth & Mineral Sciences Library at Penn State is using this celebration to market the library in the following ways. In conjunction with the other science libraries at the University Park Campus we are creating a display for the lobby of the main library for the months of November and December. Each of the science libraries will provide material for displays on topics related to their subject areas. Within the Earth & Mineral Science Library we will be using the monthly themes in our weekly film series and our display at the library's entrance. The display in the main library will reach all of the students who come through the library are not in the sciences and the film series and displays in our library will give our students a greater understanding of the impact of their fields of study.

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Integrated Agriculture-aquaculture: A Primer
Food & Agriculture Org., 2001 - 149 halaman
This primer is an edited and slightly revised version of a previously published Integrated Agriculture-aquaculture (IAA) Technology Information Kit. It contains 38 contributions in seven sections, covering sociocultural, economic and environmental considerations in introducing IAA technologies, overviews and various examples of integrated farming systems including livestock-fish and rice-fish integration, as well as selected aspects of fish feeding and management, and fish breeding and nursing in IAA. The document aims to give decision-makers concerned with agriculture and rural development an overview and a basis for understanding the principles of IAA and help them decide whether to embark on IAA activities and include these in their programme portfolio. For those who work directly with farmers, the primer aims at providing good examples of IAA, but it is not intended to be a compilation of procedures to be strictly followed. Rather, the primer should help convince its readers/users that farmers can improve their livelihoods by either introducing IAA or by further developing the many IAA opportunities on their existing farms.
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Happy Wednesday! I hope you have a fantastic day! I am so excited to share today's Crock-Pot Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe with everyone!
Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken is one of our favorite meats to make in the crockpot so much so that we made an entire list of crock pot chicken recipes. LOL! It is so versatile and you can truly make a ton of different recipes with chicken.
You might also love this Crock Pot Cashew Chicken Recipe or this Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken Recipe! Both are great for dinner and leftovers if there are any left.
Back to this delicious recipe that is so perfect for family dinners!
I love filling our freezer with chicken so we always have it available to cook with.
Ingredients needed for Slow Cooker Tikka Masala
- Garlic, minced
- Ginger, minced
- Tomato sauce
- Garam marsala
- Salt and pepper
- Heavy whipping cream
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Crock Pot Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe
- 1 lb Chicken
- ½ Onion sliced
- 1 Tablespoon Garlic minced
- 2 Tablespoon ginger minced
- 28 oz Tomato Sauce
- 1 T Garam Marsala
- 1 t Coriander
- 1 t Cumin
- 1 t paprika
- ½ t turmeric
- ¼ t Cayenne Pepper
- Salt and pepper to taste
- ¾ c Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 T Cornstarch
- Line the slow cooker insert with the liners especially made to protect the bowl
- Combine everything in the bowl, with the exception of the whipping cream and the cornstarch
- Cook on low for 7 – 8 hours.
- In the last hour of cooking, combine the cream and the cornstarch in a small bowl
- Pour into the Tikka Masala and continue to cook another hour to thicken
- Serve with rice
Recipe originally shared on April 2, 2018. Updated January 2021
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DISCHARGE MANAGEMENT UNIT
DMU offers a great advantage: during the discharge battery test it allows the power supply to loads in case of mains power outage. In fact, thanks to DMU, the battery subjected to verification remains available to the load, supplying it instantly (zero time) by means of a dedicated device.
Now, to run a battery discharge, it won’t be anymore necessary to wait for favourable plant conditions or resorts to a temporary extra battery, thus obtaining flexibility of action in total safety, in addition to a major saving of resources.
Thanks to a special connector, the unit discharge DMU allows the user to overcome the traditional system, where load banks are connected directly to the battery with clamps or lugs.
The line, which is reserved to the connection, is activated only during the test and is fitted with magnetic protection. The discharge of the battery will be activated by the operator in a simple and intuitive way. The tests will no longer require any direct contact of the battery or access to their cabinets, thus eliminating the possibility of errors, such as wrong polarity and wrong switch operations.
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On Wednesday the N.C. House passed the Racial Justice Act, despite a last-ditch effort by House Republicans to characterize the bill as a potential drain on the justice system, and a ploy to abolish the death penalty altogether.
The bill, which N.C. Indigent Defense Services estimated would save the state money in capital trial costs, would not overturn capital punishment in North Carolina. Instead, it would prevent the execution of defendants who can prove race was an underlying factor in the decision to seek, or impose, the death penalty at the time of their trial. These defendants would instead be tried, or sentenced, to life in prison without parole. The bill now moves to the Senate for concurrence, in order to resolve differences between the two chambers’ votes: the Senate version contains unrelated clauses that would ensure the resumption of the death penaltycurrently on hold in North Carolina due to legal challengeswhile the House version does not deal with the matter.
“Clearly, the House understands that race is still a factor in [capital] sentencing decisions,” Jeremy Collins, campaign coordinator for the N.C. Coalition for a Moratorium, said after the 61-53 vote, which was later adjusted to 61-54. He added: “We’re hopeful the Senate will concur.”
A day after combative debate on the House floor, including a claim by Rep. Paul Stam (R-Wake) that the bill would force prosecutors to sentence more white people, and women, to death, in order to fill racial and gender quotas, the House Minority Leader was silent. Instead, Republicans tried to convince pro-death penalty Democrats to join their side. (Three Democrats voted against the bill; no Republicans supported it.)
“For those of you who support the death penalty, and support this bill, I’d like to address my remarks to you,” Rep. Leo Daughtry (R-Johnston) said, before arguing that Racial Justice Act claims would “clog our system up to the point where we will no longer have a death penalty.”
Yet, Rep. Grier Martin (D-Wake) insisted the distinction among the bill’s supporters was moot.
“It’s entirely possible that someone supports the death penalty out of a strong sense of justice,” he said. “It is not a paradox, and in fact I think it’s entirely consistent with that same sense of justice that they also be driven to not see the death penalty implemented in a way that executes someone who is innocent, or in this case, reflects the racism that we all know still lingers in our society.”
On the point about racism, Daughtry seemed to agree. Earlier in the debate, he addressed a pending matter of concurrence between the House and Senate versions: whether defendants can present statewide statistics to make a Racial Justice Act claim. (The House version allows for statewide statistics, while the Senate version only allows for statistics within the county, judicial division or prosecutorial district where the death sentence was sought or imposed.)
“If you do use the statistics of the state, those advocates for the death penalty are going to lose, because there is evidence of racial discrimination in the state,” Daughtry said.
Rep. Rick Glazier (D-Cumberland) said he agreed with Daughtry, but had “arrived at a different conclusion.”
“The fact that someone is African American doesn’t mean they get to write a petition saying, ‘I’m African American, there’s a disproportionate of African Americans in jail [with death sentences], therefore, strike my death penalty.’ No one is making that argument, nor would it fly,” he said.
Instead, Glazier said the bill would allow defendants to present data within the context of their own trial, and argued “there’s no reason not to say that people ought to have this right.”
He added: “We do no honor to any victim of any crime by turning around and imposing the death penalty on someone because of their race.”
Yet in a rambling speech, Rep. Sarah Stevens (R-Surry) said the use of statistics would “delay and impair” capital punishment, and “is not going to to help the victims with the true emotion that’s there.”
“Nothing about the death penalty is fair. The victims had no say as to who would kill them. At the same time, we have had people who were killed when they were defending themselves. These people fall under these statistics,” she said. “We’re going to take something that is this personal, and this emotional, and turn it into something statistical.”


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Different Parenting Styles Might Lead to Conflict – Registered Social Worker, and Canadian Certified Counsellor, Chantelle Beach, explains four common parenting styles that most parents fit into, and the ways in which different parenting styles, and in turn different approaches to discipline, could lead to conflict within the marital relationship.
Parenting style can determine discipline strategies used. An authoritarian parent is more likely to use punishment, such as assigning additional chores for misbehaviour, while an authoritative parent would likely spend time explaining why the behaviour was inappropriate and decide, along with the child, what the child could do to rectify the situation. A permissive parent would try to fix the child’s ‘mistake’, and a neglectful parent would probably not even notice or acknowledge the misbehaviour.
Different discipline styles can lead to conflict among parenting partnerships. A permissive parent will spend their time covering up their child’s mistakes to avoid punishment from the authoritarian parent. An authoritative parent will bear the brunt of the disciplinarian load if the other parent has a neglectful style. This is one reason why it is so important for partners to be on the same page as parents.
Many couples do not spend time discussing how they plan to parent and discipline their children prior to becoming parents, only to discover their differences once they are in the thick of parenting. Reading books, taking parenting courses, and talking with your partner are great ways to prepare for the adventure of parenting together.
Being a parent is not an easy job, and getting stuck in a cycle of conflict with your partner over differences in parenting style only adds to the challenge. If you and your partner are struggling to be a team as parents, counselling can help you get on track.
Contact Chantelle Beach, RSW, CCC, at www.vitalsoulcounselling.com, to book an appointment if you could use some parenting support and conflict resolution now.
Routine, Routine, Routine!
Transitions are hard for children with ADHD. When you have a predictable routine, they know what to expect and they will feel more prepared.
Rewards for Completing Tasks
Many children with ADHD lack motivation, especially for undesirable or challenging tasks. Use what they love (screen time, park play, crafts) as rewards for completing necessary tasks.
"No" means "No"
All children need consistency and firm limits, but children with ADHD will take every crack in limits/consistency and create a hole, which leads to challenging behaviour.
Physical Activity-Lots and Lots
These children need an outlet for all of the energy buzzing inside their heads and bodies. Make time for this every day.
Many children with ADHD have difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep. Make sleep a priority with a regular bedtime, along with quiet activities before bed (preferably not screen time). There are many great sleep strategies/supports available.
Children with ADHD often crave sweets. The sugar gives a boost of energy, which gives these children the stimulation their brain is seeking. Unfortunately, eating lots of high sugar foods can also lead to weight gain, temper tantrums when the crash hits, dental issues, and refusal to eat nutrient rich foods.
This pandemic has been tough on all of us. The isolation, lack of social connections, and added stress can cause us to feel edgy. Working from home, our kids doing online school at home, and our social time being spent mostly at home means we are spending much more time together as families. Mostly, this is a great thing, but it might also mean conflict in the home has increased. I thought it would be timely to offer some tips for managing conflict that can reduce distress at home.
Positive Ways to Deal with Conflict:
Take a moment to think about why you are upset
Usually your feelings run a little deeper than “You are being too loud while I am in a zoom meeting!” Maybe you are feeling displaced because you don’t have adequate office space at home.
Choose one topic to discuss
When we are upset, it is easy to get carried away and bring up everything that has bothered us about that person since the beginning of time. It is much more productive to discuss and resolve the issue at hand.
No name calling!
Calling names is unproductive, may cause long-term hurt feelings, and does not resolve the problem. Focus on the problem, not the person.
Use “feeling” words
By expressing how you feel, using “I” statements, you will be taken more seriously and others will be motivated to generate a solution.
Wait your turn
Everyone deserves an opportunity to say what they want to say. A good rule of thumb is: You have 2 ears and 1 mouth, listen twice as much as you speak.
No silent treatment
This is called “stonewalling”. No problem can be resolved by refusing to engage in a discussion. It takes effort to resolve conflict, so it is important to avoid this hurtful retreat response.
Keep your voice in check
Yelling causes people to shut down and walk away. If you can take a deep breath and talk in a normal tone of voice, much more productive discussions will evolve.
Take a break
If you feel emotionally charged, take a moment by yourself before you address the issue that is upsetting you. When we address conflict while we are emotionally heated, we often say hurtful things we do not mean to say.
Infidelity, an affair, or cheating, is having sexual or emotional involvement with someone outside of a committed monogamous relationship. It causes deep emotional wounds and often leads to relationship breakdown.
With the Covid-19 pandemic causing increased stress for many people, relationships are suffering. Stress, whether shared as a couple or experienced individually, impacts relationships negatively. It causes conflict, irritability, or withdrawing. Some people turn to poor coping strategies such as substance abuse, numbing out on technology, or indulging in junk food.
Stress can lead to a decrease in relationship satisfaction, and decreased relationship satisfaction can increase the risk of infidelity.
Why do people cheat?
How does infidelity impact relationships?
How does infidelity impact the individual?
How can counselling help?
With the right intervention, some couples recover from the trauma of infidelity stronger than they were before the affair.
How is your relationship weathering the pandemic?

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The United States lost its grip on Olympic softball supremacy a decade ago when it fell to Japan in the gold-medal game in 2008. The wait to try to reclaim a place atop the podium finally is ending.
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo are two years away, but this summer marks the first on-field step in softball's return to the world's biggest sporting stage. Cut from the program after 2008, softball will be contested in Tokyo (although the sport's Olympic future beyond that is unsettled).
Six countries will compete in 2020, two fewer than in the four previous Olympics that featured softball. As host, Japan qualifies automatically. One more team will qualify at next month's WBSC World Championship in Chiba, Japan -- either the champion or the runner-up, if Japan wins the championship. The United States lost titles to its archrival in the 2012 and 2014 world championships, but it is the defending champion after winning in 2016.
The remaining four Olympic berths, two from the Americas, one from Asia and one from Europe or Africa, will be determined by additional qualifying events in 2019. So while Team USA will be heavily favored to qualify by some route, success in Japan this summer would make that process considerably less stressful and time intensive.
To that end, USA Softball chose to field two national teams this summer, a secondary roster that recently traveled to Japan for a three-game exhibition series and a primary roster that will play in the world championship. Both teams will compete in next week's USA Softball International Cup, a 13-team tournament that also includes Japan and Scrap Yard Fast Pitch, the now-independent organization that won a title as a member of National Pro Fastpitch a year ago.
This summer also marks a continued thaw in the relationship between USA Softball and NPF. In addition to many Scrap Yard players, including former Olympian Monica Abbott in her return to international competition, the American rosters include a number of NPF players, including former Olympian Kelly Kretschman and Keilani Ricketts of the USSSA Pride.
Ken Eriksen, coach of the women's national team since 2011, and Chris Sebren, the director of national teams for USA Softball, took questions from espnW about the road to 2020.
Q: You were on the Team USA coaching staff in 2002, two years out from the Athens Olympics. Are there ways that this moment, two years out from the Tokyo Olympics, feels similar or different?
Eriksen: In 2002 we had already gone through two quadrennials of financial preparation. And right now we are basically back to square one. There were no Olympics for the last 10 years, so there has been no financial support from the USOC as there was back then. So we really have started from scratch in the preparation point for 2020. So I think that part of it, the support stuff and the number of people we had back in 2002, is different now. ...
As far as the scheduling goes, also, we had more time back then to prepare because you had the financial obligation of the USOC. So it was easier when we trained in Chula Vista, California, where we had a home base to go out to. Now we really don't. Now we're depending on a lot of the commissioners through [USA Softball] or people like Scrap Yard -- organizations to supply us with practice venues and opportunities to train. It's been a little more tedious in that way.
As far as the players are concerned, we had a pool of players back in 2002 that were kind of in the system already. And right now, because we haven't had the Olympics since 2008, it's kind of been in a little bit of disarray. At the same time, we went and got some core players I felt were going to mature right around the 2015-16 time because we thought that might have been the next shot at the Olympics. And those guys actually did a great job by winning the  world championships. So right now, yeah, we do have a core of players that are at that great age of 25 to 29 years old that have experience, life experience, to make it easier to be on the field.
Q: When you talk about being at square one financially, do you see any difference between this summer compared to the last world championship in 2016?
Eriksen: No, it's kind of still the same. It's on the [national governing body] right now. And then as we go forward, moving through and continue to qualify, there is probably a little more financial support moving forward [from the USOC]. Chris Sebren and [USA Softball executive director] Craig Cress have been doing tremendous due diligence going out to Colorado Springs, talking to the USOC people, and the money is starting to get in now. But, remember, the money is starting to get in now, but it wasn't there when you were planning in December or January.
Q: Has the USOC financial support changed since the [IOC] vote in 2016?
Sebren: It has changed. Back in 2016, we really weren't getting anything at all. So it has affected our bottom line. But with that bottom line, we're also looking at more training opportunities and things like that. It has helped -- there's no question about that. And with just the direct athlete support that the USOC provides, it's helping our women within the program with their training expenses during the course of the year when we're not together.
Q: What was the rationale in fielding two USA teams this summer?
Eriksen: I can tell you it's important to have a pool of players that continue to get some type of international experience. To have a Triple-A team, that is the team that went to the Japan All-Star Series, is kind of important. We did train together so they could be on the same page with cutoffs and relays and short game and all that kind of philosophy. ... If we did have to go get somebody off that team, we could get them in and they could incorporate themselves right away into what we're doing. We're trying to stay as consistent as possible on all that stuff.
Q: Was there always a sense one would be an "A" team and one would be a "B" team?
Sebren: We were naming the world championship team first as a committee. That's who the selection committee was focused on selecting in January. Then they would name that second group of athletes that would go and participate at the Japan All-Star Series as well as the International Cup. We felt all along that the quality of athletes we have in the U.S. is sometimes going to be our best opponent to get us ready for the world championship. Obviously our goal this summer is to win the world championship and go ahead and qualify for the Olympics. Having that opportunity to have another U.S. team compete against our world championship team, we felt that could help us prepare for that event.
Q: How difficult would it be for somebody not among the 37 players currently on one of the USA rosters to make a 2020 Olympic roster, qualification willing?
Eriksen: We need to think about the process itself and the attrition that goes to finally getting to a group of 15. You can't win with all-star teams. You've got to play together for a long period of time. And whether that long period of time is 12 months or 24 months or whatever you deem it to be, you're trying to see everybody on the same page. People are like real estate. The longer you hold on to them, the more valuable they become. So the [player pool] as we go forward to the next trials may not be 64 people anymore. It might only be 32. It might only be 40. That's a decision the national-team office has to make. But right now, the experience these guys are getting ... I think the advantage goes to the players with the most experience.
I think it's also important to realize back in 2002, there were three players that were not on that world championship team -- Crystl Bustos, Kelly Kretschman and Cat Osterman. But they played on the elite team, that secondary team that was the Triple-A team, and actually beat the varsity, so to speak, in the Canada Cup to win the gold medal. ... It just goes to show you there is a tremendous amount of depth in the United States. To just go two years out with one team, I think you're cheating the opportunity for players on other teams to get a look.
Q: Does the mere fact of having Monica Abbott available make this the best pitching staff you've had since you took over?
Eriksen: It's the best potential pitching staff. If you ask me how we're going to do this year, I'll say talk to me in September. Right now, what Monica adds to your team is the ability to throw the ball very well. She hasn't pitched for USA since 2010, I believe, so getting on the same page with how we're going to attack national teams is a little different than playing the club-level ball with four, maybe, really good players instead of nine really good players on each team we face. She's trying to fit in right now with the philosophy that goes on with attacking hitters in certain situations, then trying to get on the same page with the catchers, trying to get on the same page with the infield.
Everybody knows who Monica Abbott is, but right now she fits into the socialistic aspect of Team USA. She's doing very well with that right now. I think her main objective is to get this team to the top of the podium, not just in 2018 but 2019 in the Pan-Am Games and 2020 in Tokyo. It's a whole different deal when you're dealing with the best of the best.
Q: Do you anticipate Rachel Garcia playing a similar role internationally as she does in college? Will we see her both hitting and pitching?
Eriksen: I think so. I mean, Rachel Garcia is one of the best athletes in college right now. ... Right now you have a pitching staff of four or five, so you don't have to throw every inning of every day. To me, that's a crime in itself. So with the national-team program, when you've got four pitchers or five pitchers, the distribution of innings in a short period of time lends itself to more rest and recovery. So you're getting the best of the best out of that person. So you'll see Garcia, for us, utilized in both roles.
When you get down to a roster of 15, the value of players that can do multiple positions, the value of players that can hit and play defense expands itself even more. ... You don't have the luxury to go to Triple-A and bring somebody else up. You are what you are at that point. You have to have the right combinations to make it work. I go back to 2004 and you had Amanda Freed -- she could pitch, play infield, play outfield. Tairia Flowers could catch, play first, play third. Lisa Fernandez could pitch and play third and obviously wasn't a bad hitter.
Q: The roster doesn't seem to have many pure middle infielders. Is that a reflection of what you think of Ali Aguilar, Delaney Spaulding, Kelsey Stewart -- that you're comfortable with them playing most of the innings there?
Eriksen: The one thing people don't realize is Kasey Cooper can play second, short and third. She can play first, also. You've got one guy there that is multidimensional. Then Kelsey Stewart can play third, short and second; Aguilar can play second, short, third; and Spaulding second, short and third.
Everybody sees them in college and thinks, "That guy was a shortstop," or, "That guy was a third baseman." The nice part about opening up their perspectives when they get out of college is you get coaches that challenge them at other positions. You find out that at one time, like Cooper, she was the shortstop in high school or on her travel ball team. It makes it easier to do things like that.

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A week after terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has said that he expects teams to tour Pakistan in "six to nine months". He was also confident that Pakistan would remain a co-host of the 2011 World Cup.
"I'd expect tours to start again as soon as possible. I'd give it six to nine months," Butt told BBC Radio 5 Live. "I definitely think that we will stage part of the World Cup in 2011."
Butt, however, said that he would expect the Pakistan government to guarantee visiting teams' security. "I would want us to get security to a level that would be a guarantee from my government that no such incident like this could happen again, or I will not invite anybody," he said.
"Once I have this assurance I may then invite people to come here. But this can happen anywhere. I cannot give that guarantee, but my government can. If they cannot then we will not have cricket in Pakistan at all."
ICC president David Morgan had said earlier that "it would seem the level of security was not as expected" at the time of the terrorist attack. The security measures were also criticised by the match referee Chris Broad and umpire Simon Taufel who were among those attacked.


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Colin Robinson, director of the Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation, warned there was a long way to go.“I don’t want to be alarmist, but I expect that this will take time for people to accept, and we hope the violence is minimal,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Trinidad and Tobago.The second phase of each study prompted the women to rate the sexual and romantic interest of men based on the following: described behaviour of a hypothetical dating partner (from holding hands to flirting), viewing male facial portraits, or interacting with a potential partner via a video screen.In each study, the researchers found evidence that women who were reminded of painful and disappointing experiences with their fathers subsequently perceived greater mating intent among the men.
They were able to show that being reminded of painful and disappointing experiences with one’s father caused daughters to increase their perceptions of men’s sexual interest, “a shift that is linked with greater engagement in sexual behaviour,” Del Priore said.
Significantly, reminding a woman of a time her father was absent for an event and actually growing up with a disengaged father produced similar results.
“The experiments test the effect of making salient feelings of pain, loss and disappointment related to the father on a daughter’s sexual perceptions,” Del Priore said, “and using this approach allowed us to capture psychological shifts that could help shape women’s mating behaviour.
The new research was co-authored by University of Utah psychology professor Bruce J. Hill and graduate student Randi Proffitt Leyva of the Department of Psychology at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
Del Priore noted that research has long shown relationships between a dad’s behaviour and a daughter’s sexual development, from when she becomes sexually mature to when she first engages in sexual activity.