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5 Music Teachers Share The Transformative Power Of Music Education
Music education draws passionate instructors — who are often multi-disciplinary musicians themselves — into a rewarding field. Five music teachers detail the importance of and challenges around music education, as well as opportunities for innovation.
For centuries, music education has been noted for positively increasing students’ greater holistic learning and lifestyle outcomes, yet music education across the United States in public and private settings has faced a stark decline in the past several decades.
Bearing witness to this, a new wave of music entrepreneurs, performers, content creators and instructors are taking the music education space by storm. These instructors are leveraging various forms of technology and their personal social platforms to tell inspiring stories about their journeys and share their best practices within the field. Their work has inspired a new wave of learning in-person, virtually and through hybrid methods.
Below, five artists-turned-educators discuss their inspiration for becoming teachers, the importance of music education, challenges they have witnessed within the field, and innovative ways that music education can evolve in the future.
Darlene Machacon: Elementary general music teacher, choir director, podcaster
Practicing: 20+ years
Teaching: 10+ years
Instruments: Piano, general music, choir
Location: Garden Grove, CA
Darlene Machacon was inspired to teach music by the train scene in the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: "The film composer scored a beautiful musical moment that instantly inspired me to want to make music for the rest of my life," she told GRAMMY.com. Today, she teaches elementary general music for kindergarten through sixth grade, and directs fifth and six grade choir.
Machacon believes "music is essential because it is all around us," and aims to dismantle the idea that music education is limited to learning how to read traditional notation. "Our youth deserve music education that connects them to what they experience outside classroom walls and challenges them to make a positive impact in their communities," Machacon says.
While this journey has been enjoyable, Machacon notes that music educators are often expected to work beyond contract hours and experience a lack of work-life balance. They often take on larger class sizes, earn lower pay and encounter the perception that music is not a "real" subject. Despite these challenges, Machacon sees a shift in elementary general music classes away from "singing from old school textbooks and reading notes" to creating immediate and relevant connections to keep students interested outside of school performance ensembles.
These connections could include opportunities to play in rock and pop bands, Machacon suggested. While classes for music production and design could pave the way for sound designers, music producers, video music creators and their peers.
Ian Levy: Assistant professor, hip-hop scholar
Practicing: 20+ years
Teaching: 10 years
Instruments: Trumpet, emcee
Location: New York, NY
Ian Levy recalls being introduced to hip-hop and emceeing as a tool for self-expression and emotional development in college. He then turned to hip-hop-based interventions as a school counselor, using lyric writing, recording and performing as therapeutic tools. In youth-created recording studios, Levy’s students share emotional experiences and systemic injustices by writing and releasing songs, and creating album artwork and music videos.
And while this work creates a culturally sustaining counseling service, helping youth develop stress coping skills and emotional self-awareness, Levy's methodology has often come into question. Some faculty perceive these courses as the students "just having fun."
"Education tries to define how youth should sound and develop, often in misalignment with who they truly are," Levy says in rebuttal. "A challenge for hip-hop in school counseling is supporting youth in trusting their ways of knowing and being able to live authentically in a world that limits self-actualization."
In the long run, Levy believes music education must transcend beyond purely teaching music and be leveraged as a counseling and teaching tool in various subject matter classrooms.
Ashley Keiko, Music school owner, performing/recording artist
Practicing: 20+ years
Teaching: 15+ years
Instruments: Piano, saxophone, flute
Location: Queens, NY
Ashley Keiko ventured into music at the behest of her parents, educators who owned a martial arts studio. Keiko was heavily involved in the studio and, one day, her mother encouraged her to provide piano lessons to a student. Word spread quickly, and Keiko's student population increased. By age 25, Keiko owned and ran her own school, Keiko Studios in Jamaica, New York.
Keiko's work has evolved dramatically over the years. "For many years I taught private piano/saxophone lessons to students of all ages and recalled being hands-on with my teaching style at countless schools, concert and jazz bands, general music ed, choir and more," she says. "Now, I oversee 14 instructors with over 130 students and focus on big picture projects."
Yet Keiko is challenged by the lack of others understanding the value of music educators' time and music education as a whole. She hopes that having more conversations about music education will change its perceived value. She finds resolve through creative means, incorporating more accessible technology into the music education experience. With countless music websites, apps, and software, Keiko believes the learning process for students can be more enjoyable and productive.
Brandon Toews, Content Director at Drumeo
Practicing: 15+ years
Teaching: 5+ years
Instruments: Drums, percussion
Location: Abbotsford, British Columbia
Brandon Toews' private music instructors inspired him to branch into music education. When he began working for an online drum education company, Drumeo in 2014, Toews witnessed the exponential global impact music education could have at scale. For the past seven years, Toews has filmed educational content for Drumeo, working with many of the world’s top drummers including Dennis Chambers, Simon Phillips, Jay Weinberg, Hannah Welton and Steve Smith.
While he believes that "music education is key in creating more musicians around the world and helping them find their unique voices," Toews has been challenged to create content that serves and connects those with different learning styles.
Each of Drumeo's approximately 30,000 students learns differently, he notes. To this end, the platform utilizes "step-by-step video courses to conceptual videos focused on creativity and musicality, or digital tools and technology for practicing exercises with notation."
Toews finds that music education can be innovative by becoming more engaging, fun and increasing the practice tools and applications available for musicians. "Information is so widely available, but effective practice tools are still few and far between," he says.
Kate Warren, Freelance performer, educator
Practicing: 15 years
Teaching: 4 years
Instruments: French Horn, trumpet
Location: New Haven, CT
"Growing up, regular lessons were not something my family could afford," Kate Warren says. "Because of that, anything I learned outside of the classroom came from pedagogy books, blog posts, podcasts, and YouTube." Using those resources increased her interest in giving back to the field.
To date, Warren has maintained a private studio, written a book on french horn pedagogy, run a music-education focused social media page and taught marching band. Her most recent project is a beginner french horn video series for students through a partnership with instrument manufacturers Conn & Selmer.
Warren has found that music education can provide students with "healthy outlets, lifelong friendships, and critical life skills." However, she’s witnessed that gender representation is still an issue in music — especially in brass playing.
To provide an informed solution she is conducting research to help institutions diversify their hiring processes. Warren has also found social media to be influential in changing the way young people interact with and seek learning experiences by disseminating creators’ knowledge and experiences more freely.
Kent Knappenberger To Receive Inaugural Music Educator Award
New York music teacher and choir director to be honored at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception during GRAMMY Week
Kent Knappenberger of Westfield Academy and Central School in Westfield, N.Y., has been announced as the recipient of the first annual Music Educator Award presented by The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation.
A total of nine music teachers from nine cities across seven states are finalists for the award. In total, more than 30,000 initial nominations were submitted from all 50 states. The nine finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and the schools of all 10 finalists also will receive matching grants.
"I am extremely humbled and honored to be the recipient of the first-ever Music Educator Award," said Knappenberger. "I believe that this award has already been and will continue to be a tremendous encouragement to all music educators. Besides the attention it has brought to many fine teachers, it brings attention to the importance of music education in general."
"The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation created this award to highlight the extraordinary influence of music teachers on their students in and beyond the classroom," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of the GRAMMY Foundation and The Recording Academy. "Many musicians would not be expressing their gift for creativity had it not been for the dedication and encouragement of a music teacher who inspired them to pursue a professional career."
Knappenberger has been a music teacher and choir director at Westfield Academy and Central School for 25 years. He holds a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a master's degree in music education, harp performance and literature from Eastman School of Music, and is a member of the National Education Association. Knappenberger has taken his passion for teaching abroad by serving as a volunteer music teacher at the Ana Gonzaga Methodist Institute in Rio de Janeiro. He currently resides in Westfield with his wife and children.
The Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. Each year, one recipient will be selected from 10 finalists, and will be recognized for his/her remarkable impact on students' lives.
Knappenberger will be flown to Los Angeles to accept the award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception on Jan. 25, attend the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony, and receive a $10,000 honorarium.
Applications for the second annual Music Educator Award are currently online at GRAMMYMusicTeacher.com. The deadline to nominate a teacher is March 31. The application process will be adjusted each year to allow the broad array of effective teaching styles and methods used in the discipline to be recognized and awarded.
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Red Bull Music Academy Closes, Shares Over Two Decades Of Lectures
You can now watch lectures from GRAMMY winners D' Angelo, Questlove, Bootsy Collins and others on Red Bull Music Academy's online archive
Yesterday, Oct. 31, the Red Bull Music Academy officially ended after hosting 21 years of lectures, showcases, concerts and content with forward-thinking artists across the globe. Now, all of their content—over 500 lectures, as well as deep-dive features, interviews and other videos—is available for free on their website.
The archive showcases the extensive content library organized by categories like "Chicago: House and hip-hop, footwork and Frankie Knuckles: Examining the abundance of talent born and bred in the Windy City." Here you can find a feature examining the influence of Chicago and Detroit's underground house scenes on current-day techno, as well as Chicago house legend Larry Heard's 2018 RBMA lecture.
Other archive categories include "Beat-Making: The stories behind our favorite beats and beat-makers," "Afrofuturism: Reimagining black history and exploring black features in music" and "DIY: Stories and lectures showcasing resourceful creativity."
The company will continue to offer music programming and events in a more decentralized, locally focused fashion with their Red Bull Music arm. Back in April, they announced their plan to discontinuing RBMA and Red Bull Radio and split with Yadastar, the creative and marketing agency that led the two programs.
Launched back in 1998, RBMA tapped hundreds of emerging and established avant-garde musicians, producers and more to share their music, stories and knowledge, giving them a well-regarded platform to connect with other creatives and fans.
The main event was the annual "Academy," where "artists from around the world came together in a different host city to learn from musical luminaries—and each other—and collaborate in custom-built studios," according to the website. In addition to the annual event, RBMA hosted their own festivals, stages at other events, club nights, workshops and Red Bull Radio.
As Pitchfork pointed out, "acts including Flying Lotus, SOPHIE, Objekt and Nina Kraviz benefitted to various degrees from a broad infrastructure that included international concerts and festivals as well as access to high-end equipment and studios."
You can visit redbullmusicacademy.com to dive into the archive.
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The Loog Fest Livestream Is Here To Get Your Kids Playing Guitar & Staying Creative During Quarantine
Beginning this weekend and continuing through June, Loog Guitars will be sharing free lessons, live music and other fun content for kids, from Darryl Jones of the Rolling Stones, Fabi Reyna, Lucky Díaz, Chris Ballew of Caspar Babypants and others
Loog Guitars, creators of the innovative three-string guitar designed to teach kids how to play, are launching a star-studded, educational and fun livestream festival for kids. Loog Fest, as the company describes it, will be made up of "concerts, music lessons, science projects, cartoons, interviews and simply random interesting stuff… [led by] designers, musicians, teachers, guitar people."
The family friendly party launches this weekend with music from Nashville's "cosmic country" guitarist Daniel Donato on Saturday and a Q&A with three-string guitarist Chris Ballew of GRAMMY-nominated children's music group Caspar Babypants on Sunday.
Each livestream event will each feature guitar-related content from a musician/creative and be held twice per weekend for all of May and June. Saturday sessions will be held at 5:30 PM EST and Sundays will be at 4:00 PM EST, all on Loog Guitar's Instagram, offering kids and their parents something exciting to enjoy together during quarantine.
Other guests include legendary Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones, "kindie" artist Lucky Díaz, alt musician and She Shreds magazine founder Fabi Reyna and 2018 GRAMMY Music Educator Award winner Melissa Salguero.
Jake Johnson will offer a lesson on recording music on an iPad, Rebecca Feynberg will teach electronic music production for kids, Dave Sharp will demonstrate experiments that explore the science of music and iconic designer Paul Frank will share a D.I.Y. guitar strap tutorial.
All of the playful content will be livestreamed on IGTV via Loog's account—the latest updates for who is up next will be found there as well.
Linda Perry To Be Honored At 2019 GRAMMY Museum Gala
Get ready for 'Linda Perry & Friends: A Night At The GRAMMY Museum' 2019 gala benefiting music education
The GRAMMY Museum has announced Linda Perry as the special honoree for their annual gala. The accomplished songwriter, producer and activist will take center stage at Linda Perry & Friends: A Night At The GRAMMY Museum on Saturday, Jun. 29 at the GRAMMY Museum and The Novo at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
Perry will be recognized for her considerable creative accomplisments as a music producer and songwriter, as well as her longtime support of a number of charitable causes through We Are Hear, her combination record label, publishing house, management company and production entity she launched with multiplatinum producer Kerry Brown in 2017, which recently raised $1 million for Woolsey Fire recovery with their One Love Malibu Festival benefit concert. Perry also recently participated in GRAMMYs On The Hill, where she joined a group of GRAMMY winners and nominees in meeting with lawmakers in our nation's capitol to discuss policy and issues impacting the livlihood of music creators.
"Linda Perry is one of the greatest influences on modern pop music, having worked with some of the most successful artists of this generation, which is why we are incredibly grateful to be able to honor her at Linda Perry & Friends: A Night at the GRAMMY Museum," said Michael Sticka, Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum. "She has been deeply influential as both a songwriter and producer, showcasing the legacy one can create not only on stage, but behind the scenes, and is an exemplary artist for the students in our music education programs to look up to."
An inductee of the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, Perry has worked with such as P!nk, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, and Adele, and was also nominated last year for the GRAMMY Award for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical, making her the first woman in 15 years to receive a nod in the category.
"I am excited and honored to be a part of Linda Perry & Friends: A Night at the GRAMMY Museum," said Perry. "It's even more special knowing the gala benefits music education, something I'm incredibly passionate about. I can't wait to celebrate with some of the great artists I've had the pleasure of working with during my career."
We’re excited to announce our 2019 gala "Linda Perry & Friends: A Night at the GRAMMY Museum" on Jun. 29 in LA! Proceeds from the benefit will provide essential support for our music education and preservation initiatives https://t.co/odTK6PRDuj— GRAMMY Museum (@GRAMMYMuseum) April 23, 2019
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The gala event will commence with a reception that takes over all four floors of the GRAMMY Museum and a silent auciton, offering guests a chance to bid on luxury items, VIP experiences, and one-of-a-kind celebrity memorabilia, all for a the good cause of raising funds for music education. Following the reception and silent auction, the festivities will move over to the Novo for the gala dinner, a live auction and a tribute concert featuring renowned musicians and the award presentation.
Proceeds from the event will provide essential support for the GRAMMY Museum Foundaion, a nonprofit dedicated to music education and preservation initiatives. For information on sponsorship and ticketing, please contact:firstname.lastname@example.org.


FFFAIF Members Johan Durnez and Anny de Decker travelled from Belgium to Fromelles for the service for the interment of the first of the 250 Australian and British soldiers in the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery at 11 a.m. 30th January, 2010. FFFAIF member Carole Laignel, who is also Secretary, Fromelles Museum (Fromelles Weppes Terre de Mémoire 1914-1918), has also sent a report that may be seen in RECENT NEWS Item: Fromelles Service.
Johan’s account of the service follows.
Hello dear friends
When I looked outside the window this morning, 7 am, everything looked still dark (of course – it’s still Winter after all) but also ok. I mean: no snow and the street looked safe (no slippery conditions.) A quarter of an hour later… snow, snow, snow! And in less than no time we had again a white Waregem.
The road conditions ? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaangerous !!! By moments I had the impression to drive/slide on pure ice. A good training to drive without using the brakes !
We got a big load of snow in Waregem and the Ieper-Fromelles area hardly got any snow compared to where we live, but it was more than enough to make driving extremely dangerous.
We arrived at Fromelles for the start of the service there at 11 am (as you can see on the clock of the church) !
Sun and a blue sky. Temperatures ? I guess it was about 2°C but the sun made if feel lovely.
They had changed the access to Fromelles for that day to keep the traffic under control and the men of the gendarmerie along the road were very helpful. So, we were able to drive pretty close to the town centre and another gendarme showed us in which street we could park the car.
I had the feeling that everything had been organised very well and that everybody there was really helpful. If this was a try out for the big ceremony in July, I can say: very well done! As visitors we had the feeling that we were welcome and that we got the help we needed.
The service was also very well organised. The audience was not allowed on the cemetery and a cord made that everybody had to stay away from the wall that surrounds the cemetery. So, no sitting or standing on the (white top stone) of this wall. And as the cemetery is situated on a bit of a slope, everybody can see enough of the ceremony. Okay, the distance is maybe a bit far away to make pictures, but I think that many of mine turned out pretty well. What was very good: the press was kept on a safe distance and no photographer or cameraman could do anything to disturb the service. Congratulations to the organisation for that!!!
The location of the cemetery is really beautiful and peaceful.
Today, there was a thin layer of snow (made it at moments hard to make good photos as there is a contrast between the dark and the light parts of the photo) but this added to the atmosphere for this service.
At the entrance we all got a service booklet with the order of service.
I did not count the people who were attending, but there were at least a couple of hundred. And I can imagine that the road conditions made that some will have preferred to stay at home. But the atmosphere among the people was ok. You felt that those who were there wanted to pay their respects to the men who will now get their final resting places. I also noticed a large group of standard bearers of French patriotic organizations. I really felt sorry for them that they too had to stay outside the wall of the cemetery (same for the French military guard of honour). But that’s probably a decision made by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But I must say that every time that I attend a service of remembrance in France that I notice that the French always have a fine delegation of “porte drapeaux” (standard bearers) who show that the French “never forget Australia” (as the school in Villers Bretonneux says). I wished I could get such large numbers of Belgian standard bearers for the commemorations we have here in Belgium!
To tell about the service, I will tell the story by photos.
The raising of the flags. After the opening prayers, the flags were lowered to half mast.
The bearer party were officers and soldiers from the Australian Army and from the 1st BN Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
The hearse arrived with the coffin of the first soldier.
The coffin is taken out of the hearse, you see the French military guard of honour and the flags of the patriotic associations.
This is a view on the cemetery. The graves are very good visible.
The bearer party enters the cemetery.
The bearer party walking between the lined up men with arms reversed (on one side of the path a Fusilier, on the opposite side an Aussie digger.)
As you can imagine, this happened in complete silence, but what was very moving was that you heard two (or more) great tits (I mean these little birds – parus major) calling to each other.
Just like they wanted to give the sign that dead is not the end and that life goes on. Or maybe their own tribute to these men?
Then the bearer party went back to the entrance and got their headdress back.
After the prayers by the chaplains, the collects of the Australian Army and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and the exhortation, three volleys were fired.
Last Post, one minute of silence and Reveille followed.
(I think that not only the bugle but also the cheeks and lips of the poor bugler were frozen. It did not sound perfect, but I think that nobody will blame him for that.)
After that, tributes were read by the UK, Australia, France and by the War Graves Commission representatives.
End of the service – marching off of the party and dignitaries.
Photo: The Australian Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, The Hon. Alan Griffin
Photo: Royal British Legion National Chairman, Peter Cleminson walks past Guillaume Moreel holding the Australian flag, who is the grandson of Madame Marie-Paule Demassiet, the lady who owns the land at Pheasant Wood where the soldiers were buried by the German Army following the battle of 19/20 July 1916)
We signed the register (and as you can see: I was wearing my FFFAIF cap!)
And after that… time for the “verre d’amitié” (glass of the friendship)
And I can tell you: Fromelles knows what this means!!!!
If this kangaroo will appear in one of the news reports on television (they have filmed it!): this is Ozzie. [For more details on Ozzie see RECENT NEWS ITEM: Ozzie’s Digger tribute]
And some of you will of course recognize these people!!!
Photo: FFFAIF Member Johan Durnez with Rod Bedford Chairman of the RBL Somme Branch
Photo: FFFAIF Members Carole Laignel and Johan Durnez
Our thanks to Johan for his report and photos – “Well done, mate!”
The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery with services commencing on 30th January 2010.


LAS FLORES A garage fire in unincorporated Las Flores on Sunday morning caused about $450,000 in damage but spared most of the adjacent house, authorities said.
Capt. Steve Concialdi of the Orange County Fire Authority said the blaze was reported at 1:10 a.m. in the 40 block of Shea Ridge. Las Flores is a small community east of Mission Viejo.
About 40 firefighters had the fire under control by 2:11 a.m., Concialdi said. Two cars in the garage were destroyed, and two more in the driveway were damaged.
Concialdi said the residents discovered the garage fire after smelling smoke. Firefighters recommend smoke alarms in garages.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. Concialdi said it appears to be accidental.
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Nollywood actress Joke Silva is in mourning as it has just emerged that her younger sister Bisi Silva is dead.
According to reports, Bisi who founded the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), where she also happened to be the Artistic Director passed from breast cancer on Tuesday Feb. 12th. She reportedly gave up the ghost at about 3:45 p.m.
The deceased in 2007, opened before she decided on starting the Asiko International Art School in Lagos.
Before her death, Bisi organized several exhibitions in places such as Nigeria, Africa and even Europe.
May her soul rest in peace.

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IRS Sends 2.3M Further Coronavirus Stimulus Checks. Who Will Get Them
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A second round of stimulus checks might quickly land in the bank accounts of millions of People after President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion economic relief bundle on December 27. But in signing the invoice, Mr. Trump once once more known as for its $600 stimulus checks to be boosted to $2,000 per particular person. House of Representatives voted to go a invoice to increase the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000, with the bill receiving the needed two-thirds majority of the members voting to cross within the chamber. On December 28, the U.S. However the trouble's future appears dim given that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked makes an attempt to vote on the $2,000 stimulus checks accredited by the Home - but resurrected the higher payments in a new invoice that includes other gadgets on Mr. Trump's wish list, together with the repeal of Part 230, which shields social media companies from lawsuits. To make sure, millions of Individuals could use bigger checks.
The Boston Herald found that 1.2 million of the $1,200 stimulus checks stay unspent. The IRS instructed the Herald that the figures mirror "the number of people who either refused to simply accept, paid back or not cashed the stimulus checks they acquired from the IRS as a result of the CARES Act that was signed into regulation on March 27, 2020" by President Donald Trump. Republicans have advised using unspent COVID money to fund infrastructure, which Democrats strongly oppose. The information present that California leads the nation with 123,265 unspent stimulus checks, followed by Florida with 92,018 unspent checks. The IRS said these people either refused to accept, paid again, or have not cashed the check. The Herald reported on Sunday that 1.2 million people have but to spend these checks, citing information obtained from the inner Income Service (IRS). Underneath the CARES Act handed that month, most Individuals received a $1,200 stimulus check to assist ease the financial ache of the pandemic.
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Stimulus checks have been within the information since last 12 months after Congress authorised the first spherical of funds underneath the CARES Act. One very interesting fact in regards to the coronavirus stimulus checks is that if the IRS overpays you, you could not must return the distinction quantity. Another very attention-grabbing proven fact that many might not be aware of is that the stimulus checks come with an expiry date. Then again, if you happen to acquired the stimulus payment of someone who died, or for a dependent who is claimed by another person on their taxes, then you're anticipated to return the money. For instance, when you made more cash in 2020 than in 2019, and the IRS makes use of your 2019 taxes to find out your eligibility, then you definately would not be expected to return the cost. Though rather a lot has been reported about the stimulus payment, many people are nonetheless not aware of some interesting details about the coronavirus stimulus checks.


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PTSD ( post-traumatic stress disorder ) is a mental disorder that can happen to anyone, including children. In general, this condition can arise as a result of a traumatic event that you have witnessed or experienced yourself. So, is it true that this disorder can cause interference with child development?
The answer is yes. In fact, PTSD can be a trigger for long-term disorders, both in terms of physical and mental health. This trauma can interfere with a child’s growth and development, which can trigger complications such as depression, eating disorders, and anxiety disorders. Not only that, PTSD can also increase the risk of long-term diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, to stroke.
Symptoms of PTSD in Children
PTSD causes sufferers to be unable to forget the trauma they have experienced or seen. There are several events that can cause trauma, such as traffic accidents, natural disasters, criminal acts such as robbery, sexual harassment, or rape. However, this does not mean that people who remember events from childhood trauma have PTSD.
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that makes it difficult for the sufferer to forget a traumatic event that has been experienced or witnessed. At a severe level, this disorder can cause sufferers to always think negatively about themselves and their surroundings. Such thoughts can affect your outlook on life, and in the end make PTSD symptoms vulnerable to appear.
The role of parents
Fathers and mothers should be alert if their little one shows symptoms of PTSD, such as often remembering traumatic events that have been experienced or seen, having nightmares, often acting impulsively, claiming to hear voices that no one else hears, often having negative thoughts, looking hopeless, and not have an interest or enthusiasm in carrying out daily activities.
Symptoms of PTSD that worsen should be treated immediately. The goal is to relieve symptoms and prevent bad things from happening. One of them is the possibility of complications such as depression, eating disorders, or anxiety disorders. The treatment required is a combination of psychological therapy and the administration of special drugs.
If children show symptoms of PTSD, the role of parents is very important to help them recover. If this is the case, be sure to support the child in dealing with the trauma. Slowly, help your little one understand that everything has happened and should be accepted. Acting like nothing happened, or pretending to be tough doesn’t really help.
The longer it goes on, the more traumatized it will be. In addition, getting used to yourself and your child to pretend that all is well can actually trigger other mental disorders. Because, the longer the feeling of depression and fear is left buried, of course it will stick out and can be fatal.

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Winter Floral Memo Pad With Pencil
Regular price $7.99
Deep pink and green hues dress up a floral and polka dot border on this note pad. Features a coordinating pencil that's all tied together with a ribbon for easy gifting. Magnet on back allows you to hang it from your filing cabinet or fridge.
- 75 sheets of paper with pencil.
- Magnet on back of memo pad.
- 8" W x 3.75" H

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Abstract Most models of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) assume that the Earth is laterally homogeneous. However, seismic and geological observations clearly show that the Earth’s mantle is laterally heterogeneous. Previous studies of GIA with lateral heterogeneity mostly focused on its effect or sensitivity on GIA predictions, and it is not clear to what extent can lateral heterogeneity solve the misfits between GIA predictions and observations. Our aim is to search for the best 3D viscosity models that can simultaneously fit the global relative sea-level (RSL) data, the peak uplift rates (u-dot from GNSS) and peak gravity-rate-of-change (g-dot from the GRACE satellite mission) in Laurentia and Fennoscandia. However, the search is dependent on the ice and viscosity model inputs - the latter depends on the background viscosity and the seismic tomography models used. In this paper, the ICE-6G_C ice model, with Bunge & Grand’s seismic tomography model and background viscosity models close to VM5 will be assumed. A Coupled Laplace-Finite Element Method is used to compute gravitationally self-consistent sea level change with time dependent coastlines and rotational feedback in addition to changes in deformation, gravity and the state of stress. Several laterally heterogeneous models are found to fit the global sea level data better than laterally homogeneous models. Two of these laterally heterogeneous models also fit the ICE-6G_C peak g-dot and u-dot rates observed in Laurentia simultaneously. However, even with the introduction of lateral heterogeneity, no model that is able to fit the present-day g-dot and uplift rate data in Fennoscandia has been found. Therefore, either the ice history of ICE-6G_C in Fennoscandia and Barent Sea needs some modifications, or the sub-lithospheric property/non-thermal effect underneath northern Europe must be different from that underneath Laurentia. Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Lateral heterogeneity, Mantle dynamics, Seismic tomography, Laurentia, Fennoscandia © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/about_us/legal/notices)
Geophysical Journal International – Oxford University Press
Published: May 10, 2018
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Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.
|2nd Governor of Svalbard|
28 July 1933 – 1 September 1935
|Prime Minister||Johan Ludwig Mowinckel|
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|Governor of Erik the Red's Land|
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Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Helge Ingstad died at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo at the age of 101.
Helge Ingstad was the son of Olav Ingstad (1867–1958) and Olga Marie Qvam (1869–1946) in Meråker, Nord-Trøndelag. His father was municipal engineer in Tromsø and held the title of factory supervisor. He was the grandson of lawyer professor, Marcus Pløen Ingstad. Helge and his family moved to Bergen in 1915 where he attended the Bergen Katedralskole (1915–1918), and after graduating cand. jur. in 1922 he took up a practice of lawyer in Levanger.
Helge Ingstad was originally a lawyer by profession, but, ever an outdoorsman, he sold his successful law practice in Levanger and went to Canada's Northwest Territories as a trapper in 1926. For the next three years, the Norwegian travelled with the local Indian tribe known as the Caribou Eaters. After returning to Norway, he wrote the bestselling Pelsjegerliv ("Trapper Life") about his time in Canada, published in English as The Land of Feast and Famine (Knopf, 1933).
Ingstad was the governor (Sysselmann) of Erik the Red's Land in 1932–1933, when Norway annexed that eastern part of Greenland. The Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague decided that the lands belonged to Denmark, and so the official Norwegian presence had to end. Following the verdict, Ingstad was summoned by the government to the job as governor of Svalbard (Spitsbergen and the surrounding islands) — a position suiting him uniquely, considering his profession of law and his experience in Arctic living.
During his years on Svalbard, Helge Ingstad met Anne Stine Moe, nearly twenty years his junior. She had read his books from Canada and Greenland with great admiration, and developed a crush on the explorer; she wrote to him, and after some time of correspondence and dating they were engaged, and married in 1941. In 1946, the Ingstads made themselves a home near the Holmenkollen area of Norway's capital, Oslo, where they spent the rest of their lives when not travelling the world. They had one daughter, Benedicte, who became a professor in medical anthropology at the University in Oslo. From her teenage years, Benedicte accompanied her parents on their exploration journeys.
Helge Ingstad was a popular author, whose books on his visits to remote parts of the world gained him fame in Norway. From Greenland he wrote Øst for den store bre ("East of the Great Glacier"), from Svalbard he wrote Landet med de kalde kyster ("The Land With the Chilly Coasts"). He also visited the Apache Indians of northwestern Mexico, from which he wrote Apache-indianerne - jakten på den tapte stamme ("The Apaches - The Hunt for the Lost Tribe"). After World War II he stayed for a period in the Brooks Range in northern Alaska among the Nunamiut Iñupiat, and afterwards wrote Nunamiut - blant Alaskas innlandseskimoer ("Nunamiut - Inland Eskimos of Alaska").
His 1931 book, The Land of Feast or Famine, was republished by McGill University Press, in 1992, after being out of print for over forty years.
Viking settlement of North AmericaEdit
In 1960, he discovered the remains of what later proved to be a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada. It is the only known site of a Norse or Viking village in Canada, and in North America outside of Greenland. Dating to around the year 1000, L'Anse aux Meadows remains the only widely accepted instance of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and is notable for its possible connection with the attempted colony of Vinland established by Leif Ericson around the same time period or, more broadly, with Norse exploration of the Americas.
Archaeological excavation at the site was conducted in the 1960s by an international team led by archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad (Helge Ingstad's wife) and under the direction of Parks Canada of the Government of Canada in the 1970s. Following each period of excavation, the site was reburied to protect and conserve the cultural resources.
The settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows has been dated to approximately 1,000 years ago, an assessment that tallies with the relative dating of artifact and structure types. The remains of eight buildings were located. They are believed to have been constructed of sod placed over a wooden frame. Based on associated artifacts, the buildings were variously identified as dwellings or workshops. The largest dwelling measured 28.8 by 15.6 m (94 by 51 ft) and consisted of several rooms. Workshops were identified as an iron smithy containing a forge and iron slag, a carpentry workshop, which generated wood debris, and a specialized boat repair area containing worn rivets. Besides those related to iron working, carpentry, and boat repair, other artifacts found at the site consisted of common everyday Norse items, including a stone oil lamp, a whetstone, a bronze fastening pin, a bone knitting needle, and part of a spindle. The presence of the spindle and needle suggests that women were present as well as men. Food remains included butternuts, which are significant because they do not grow naturally north of New Brunswick, and their presence probably indicates the Norse inhabitants travelled farther south to obtain them. Archaeologists concluded that the site was inhabited by the Norse for a relatively short period of time.
Helge Ingstad has two geographic features in North America named after him. In Canada, a small river, Ingstad Creek, flows into Great Slave Lake. In Alaska, the 1461-meter-high Ingstad Mountain in the Brooks Range was officially approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names on 19 April 2006. The name was suggested by the Nunamiut tribe in gratitude for Ingstad's efforts on their behalf.
During the last few years of his life, he worked on categorizing and annotating the large quantity of photos and audio recordings (141 songs) he had made while living with the Nunamiut in 1950. The effort resulted in a booklet, Songs of the Nunamiut, with an accompanying CD containing the audio material. This is an extremely valuable contribution to the preservation of the Nunamiut culture, because it turned out that much of what he had gathered in the mid-20th century was now lost locally and was only preserved in his recordings.
He was an honorary member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He also held honorary doctorates at the University of Oslo, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, and at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (in 1991; previously Knight 1st class in 1965, and Commander in 1970), Knight of the Order of Vasa, and he was presented with the Norwegian Red Cross Badge of Honour for his efforts in Finnmark during World War II. He received a lifetime government grant from the Norwegian government from 1970. He was the subject of a 1981 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary The Man Who Discovered America, and subsequently appeared along with his wife in the 1984 NFB film, The Vinland Mystery. In 1986, he was presented Arts Council Norway's honor award. HNoMS Helge Ingstad (F313), the fourth of the five Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates of the Royal Norwegian Navy was named after Helge Ingstad.
The inner main-belt asteroid 8993 Ingstad, discovered by Danish astronomer Richard Martin West at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile in 1980, was named in his memory. The official naming citation was published by the MPC on 24 June 2002 (M.P.C. 46009).
The Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad Building on the St. John's Campus of Memorial University is named after him and his wife. It houses the University's Print and Mail Services.
- Ingstad, Helge; Gay-Tifft, Eugene (translator) (1992). The Land of Feast and Famine. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 0-7735-0912-7.
- Ingstad, Helge; Naomi Walford (translator) (1966). Land under the Pole Star; a voyage to the Norse settlements of Greenland and the saga of the people that vanished. St. Martins Press.
- Ingstad, Helge (1996). Oppdagelsen av det nye land. J. M. Stenersens forlag (Oslo).
- Ingstad, Helge; Ingstad, Anne Stine (2001). The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Checkmark Books. New York. ISBN 0-8160-4716-2.
- Ingstad, Helge; Groven, Eivind (transcriptions); Tveit, Sigvald (ed.) (1998). Songs of the Nunamiut. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 82-518-3778-2.
- Ingstad, Helge (1965). Vesterveg til Vinland; oppdagelsen av norrøne boplasser i Nord-Amerika. Gyldendal (Oslo).
- Ingstad, Helge (1954) Nunamiut; Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos New York: W.W. Norton
- Ingstad, Helge (1939) Apache Indianerne - Jakten på den tapte stamme (translated by Janine K. Stenehjem (2004) Apaches - the search for the lost tribe University of Nebraska Press)
- Ingstad, Helge; (1935) Ost For Den Store Bre Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo. (translated by Gay-Tifft, Eugene (1937) East of the Great Glacier Alfred A Knopf, Inc.)
- Ingstad, Helge. "Vinland Ruins Prove Vikings Found the New World." National Geographic, November 1964. Microsoft Encarta 2009. © 1993–2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- ^ "Helge Marcus Ingstad". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ a b Maud, Ralph (1981). "The Man Who Discovered America" (Documentary film (Requires Adobe Flash)). National Film Board of Canada. Montreal. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(8993) Ingstad". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (8993) Ingstad. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 674. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_7320. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- ^ Helge Marcus Ingstad Store norske leksikon
- ^ Douglas Martin (March 30, 2001). "Helge Ingstad, Discoverer of Viking Site, Is Dead at 101". The New York Times. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ Jon Gunnar Arntzen. "Ingstad". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ "Helge Ingstad, 101, Discoverer of Viking Site". Halifax Sunday Herald. April 1, 2001. Archived from the original on August 17, 2007. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ "Helge Ingstad". Norsk Polarhistorie. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ Bergljot Solberg (2014-09-28). "Anne Stine Ingstad". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
"The Land of Feast and Famine By Helge Ingstad". McGill University Press. 1992. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
The Land of Feast and Famine, originally published in 1931 and re-released by McGill-Queen's after more than forty years out-of-print, is a vivid depiction of Ingstad's adventures. He describes the native companions and fellow trappers with whom he shared both harsh and heart-warming experiences, and relates how he learned first-hand about beaver, caribou, wolf, and other wildlife.
- ^ Nydal, Reidar (1989). "A critical review of radiocarbon dating of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada". Radiocarbon. 31 (3): 976–985. doi:10.1017/S0033822200012613.
- ^ L'Anse aux Meadows Archived 2009-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada". Parks Canada. 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
- ^ "Is L'Anse aux Meadows Vinland?". L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada. Parks Canada. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-05-22. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
...Vinland was a country, not a place...
- ^ Grant Spearman (2006). "Helge Ingstad and the Nunamiut People of Alaska" (PDF). News of Norway. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ Pettigrew, William. "The Vinland Mystery" (Requires Adobe Flash). Documentary film. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ Navantia deliveries the frigate Helge Ingstad Archived 2010-10-01 at the Wayback Machine onemagazine.es
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Print and Mail Services".
- Obituary from the New York Times as it appeared in the Halifax Sunday Herald, April 1, 2001
(note that the name of Ingstad's wife, Anne Stine, is misspelled, twice, differently, in this otherwise well-written obituary)
- Concise obituary from Memorial University of Newfoundland Gazette, April 12, 2001
- The Norse discovery of America – PubMed abstract of article about the L'Anse Aux Meadows finds
- Family genealogy


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MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti) – Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov has called on Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states to join forces and fight transnational crime.
“Thanks to our efforts cooperation is strengthening in extradition, repatriation, evidence-gathering, and the confiscation of illegally obtained property,” Ivanov said at the meeting of high court representatives from SCO member states in Moscow, which opened on February 20 and runs through February 24.
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Ivanov said the international regulations currently under development will enable SCO member states to operate “in a more effective, coordinated manner against dangerous transnational crime,” and urged SCO members to focus on bringing their laws and legal systems into closer alignment.
“Clearly, we can only counter global challenges and threats like drug trafficking, funding for terrorism, illegal arms trading, and economic crime, by working together,” he said, at a meeting of SCO states’ supreme court representatives in Moscow.
Founded in 2001, the SCO comprises China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The organization consolidates efforts to counter terrorism and radicalization among member countries, and also works on other policy areas such as politics and trade.
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Editions of The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
The Third Wave is a book by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shockand the second in what was originally likely meant to be a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century in alcin A new addition, Revolutionary Allwas published, however, in and may be considered as a major expansion of The Third Wave.
Toffler’s book describes the transition in developed countries from Industrial Age society, which he bal the “Second Wave”, to Information Age “Third Wave” society. In the book Toffler describes three types of societies, based on the concept of ‘waves’—each wave pushes the older societies and cultures aside. You combine those things with standardizationcentralizationconcentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.
The transition from the earlier hunter-gatherer societies to the agrarian and agricultural societies is also known as the Neolithic Revolution.
This coincides with the transition from the Mesolithic era to the Neolithic era respectively, the Middle and Late Stone Age. The transition from the Paleolithic to the Mesolithic Early to Middle Stone Agein turn, largely coincides toffle the emergence of the modern Homo sapiens from earlier, related archaic human species. Nearly extinct in the present-day world, hunter-gatherer societies which one might term the “Zero Wave” societies are not recognized in Toffler’s scheme.
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None of these phases are clearly recognized in the Toffler scheme, in part due to the prevalence of the latter phase amongst present-day pre-industrial societies.
At present, there is no clear delineation of the latest transition, though sometimes the term Post-industrial societyoriginating from Daniel Bellis used, in addition to Toffler’s “Third Wave society”. The important point is that the nature of society relationships between people and political and economic structures are significantly altered by the impact of new technology.
That to some degree peoples lives are modified to serve the technology. Though the society foreseen is still emerging, with the dramatic transitions of the past two decades e. Cell PhonesInternetthe rise of non-national and super-national powers, etc. Among others, these included. Despite the forecast of the obsolescence of the order of nation-states, and the rise of super-national entities, what was not forecast was the emergence of a world political union cast in the form of the United States of Earth.
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Toffler left open both the question of what the outcome of the transformation of the structure of democracy was to entail, as well as the question of what kind of world order would supersede the order of nation-states.
This became particularly acute in the addendum War and Anti-War which raised the issue of the “Genie out of the Bottle” nuclear proliferation and the treile of the “Zone of Peace” being broken i. Though talk about another major historical watershed on a par with the Neolithic Revolution may seem premature, given that the Third Wave has only reached its crest with the advent of the Internetalvjn of the central themes of Future Shock is that history, itself, would accelerate to the point where all of the past would catch up with the present.
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December 23, 2013
Google Gets Wall Street Thinking About Robots
Last week, Google confirmed its acquisition of the robotics company Boston Dynamics and faster than you could say “Skynet!” – everyone from cable news to late-night comedians were half-mockingly proclaiming the Internet search company to be the engineers of our future dystopia hell-scape.
Currently relegated to cleaning our pools and vacuuming our carpets, robots will undoubtedly become more and more a part of our daily lives. However, when the acquisition is seen against the backdrop of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon drone announcement – the Google move currently seems to be more about the company stock price than putting a robot in every home.
Constantly playing second-fiddle to other tech giants, Bezos announced earlier in the month that Amazon is currently testing drones that would delivery products to people’s door steps. However, the logistics of such an operation seem fuzzy at best: How would the octo-copter drones avoid trees? What if somebody got their fingers chopped off by tiny spinning blades? The significant lack of detail left many serious observers scratching their heads.
While the Bezos announcement may have felt like P.T. Barnum-style publicity stunt, these stunts appear to have a real effect on the stock market. After Google announced its most recent acquisition last Friday, the stock price for iRobot soared over 17 percent on the following Tuesday – an indication that the Google robotics acquisition may have the most significant impact on your 401K.
“It really validates what is going on in the robotics industry,” Tom Ryden, chief operating officer of robotics maker VGo Communications Inc., told the Boston Globe. “Google is not going to do something small. If they are getting into this, they believe it is a large market.”
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Like Back to the Future’s flying cars and hoverboards, it’s probably safe to assume that we won’t see Google robots roaming the streets anytime soon. However, the future stock market will apparently be watching Google’s every move.
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Since 2018, Queercity Media has been assembling the Nigeria LGBT+ collection of moving images and audio materials. Our extensive and ever-growing archive chronicles life in both Nigeria and West Africa at large, including footage unseen to the public eyes due to anti-LGBT+ laws in the region.
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The Nigerian LGBT+ Museum of Arts.
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“QueerCity offers a more nuanced approach to the contemporary problems that young queer people are forced to contend with as they navigate the duality of a world where social media offers unprecedented access, but access that is tempered by the bigotry and dangers that exist for queer people in Nigeria. …., QueerCity has covered the spectrum of queer identity and seems to be going strong.“
Edwin Okolo, Ynaija 2020

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The Cosmic Dance Burning Truth is a performance art troupe based in Oregon whose mission is to provoke thought, movement and imagination, sparking the tender inner fires in all of us. They feature many different instruments in their music, including guitar, cuatro (latin guitar), didjeridu (aboriginal wind instrument), and various percussion including the cajon, tablas, doumbec, pakhawaj, and more. This music is an encapsulation of their live performances which are a sensory feast that combines 'Gypsy Fusion' stylings, dancers, environment (they often utilize fire in their performances), and thoughtful lyrics. Their original music is a simultaneous blend of introspectiveness and dance-like rhythms, summing up the meditative yet celebratory nature of their art. One wonders when listening to Burning Truth's music whether or not dancing is as reflective as meditating itself. Track 1: Shakti Awake! – A festive piece for the Hindu idea of Shakti, a manifestation (usually female) of divine energy which dynamically powers the entire universe. The guitar plays a rhythmic chord progression with overtones of hauntingly beautiful leads. Vocals invoke Shakti’s awakening while the drums call her to dance. Track 2: The Cosmic Dance - This is an almost-entirely instrumental piece that features the many different instruments of the ensemble, especially the guitar and the cajon. Indeed, this piece can be considered a summation of the entire album in its combination of introspectiveness and merriness. The only vocals that enter are a choral-like coda to the first part of the piece which leads into a dance filled with festive undertones. An accelerando showcases the gala of celebration that dance inherently brings to music (and vice versa). Track 9: Journey Back To The Void - The first instrument heard is the didjeridu, an instrument that provides a primordial ooze-like sound which properly sets up the idea of all of existence moving towards the 'void' of the title. Again it begins entirely instrumental, with only the didjeridu and percussion, and accelerates to a soft, humble finish. It is a journey to an other-wordly place. -synopsis of a review by Melson Varsovia of Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion ***
The main composer of the music on The Cosmic Dance is Terry the Troubadour. He can most often be found at festivals and fairs playing his romani inspired music in one of Burning Truth's dynamic live "Fire Dance Theater" performances. However, Terry didn't always dress up in a top hat and tails and play gypsy music for beatiful fire dancers. In his earlier years, he was content to sit around a camp fire in his jeans and fleece jacket and play his folk-rock songs for family and friends. Then, in January of 2005 he moved from the rugged mountains of Montana to the misty, magical Oregon coast where he met fire performance artist, Luminara. When Luminara first danced with her fire poi under the moon light while Terry played his guitar, they felt a resonation within. This would be the spark that would ignite Burning Truth, inspire their latest CD, The Cosmic Dance, and transform Terry's music into something truly moving.
While at a gathering in Portland, Terry heard a haunting sound that gripped his heart like two lovers in a firm embrace. It was a gypsy minor scale being played on a mandolin. 'This sound awoke something inside of me, an ancient memory perhaps,' says Terry. The gypsy scales would prove to be a perfect match for fire dance. Now, the music has evolved into a sound that is completely original and has come to be known as Gypsy Rock Fusion. Some say it sounds like flamenco, others say exotic rock. But it's more than that, drawing on Gypsy influences from Spain to Hungary and beyond. Terry the Troubadour has traced the ‘Gypsy Road’ to its’ roots, enabling him to capture the feelings and attitudes of the Romani people and their music while adding a modern context of american folk and rock. Terry plays acoustic guitar, cuatro (Latin guitar), and doumbec (Arabic style hand drum), adding lyrical and musical vocalization. Also featured on The Cosmic Dance is Luminara with powerful lead vocals on Track 4: The Circle Is Opening, and Track 8: My Beloved, and hauntingly beatiful vocalizations on Track 1: Shakti Awake!, and Track 3: Gypsy Groove. Also featured on percussion is the multi-talented hand drummer, Josh Orient, exhibiting skills on the cajon, tablas, doumbek, and pakahwaj. Performance artist, Azayam, brings soothing back up vocals on Track 5: Walkin' Down the Road, and her didjeridu as 'the primordial ooze' on Track 9:Journey Back to the Void.
featured artists on The Cosmic Dance (Luminara, Terry The Troubadour, Josh Orient, and Azayam).
Burning Truth's CD "The Cosmic Dance" is sure to take you away on a dream journey into the world of Gypsy.
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"The Cosmic Dance" by Burning Truth sounds like part of a full live experience. The music is made dynamic by the use of a number of different exotic instruments and is obviously meant to inspire dance. Many of these instruments (such as the didjeridu, tablas, and cuarto) can be heard on the title track "The Cosmic Dance" and “Journey Back to The Void.” Most of the tracks, like "Gypsy Groove," feature haunting vocals from both male and female singers, but some are simply instrumental. While this music is obviously meant for the stage (they often have fire displays in their live show) "The Cosmic Dance" will still be enriching through your home speakers as well.
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Back on the Fourth of July, after I posted a recipe for strawberry mousse pie. In that post I promised you this, ” I also tried it with pumpkin and added some spices but I’ll save that one for you until October.” October came and went. I apologize. I know you have all been waiting by the computer counting down the days. I may have missed Halloween but I am in time for Thanksgiving.
Barely Adapted from: http://www.marthastewart.com/352652/raspberry-mousse-pie
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 7 graham crackers, plus 2 or 3 for crumbling garnish
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 1/4 teaspoons powdered gelatin (from one 1/4-ounce packet)
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 cups cold heavy cream
- Coat a 9-inch square metal baking pan ( alternately an 18 inch for a double batch which is pictured below) with cooking spray and line with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on all sides.
- Arrange graham crackers in 1 layer in pan, breaking them to fit if necessary.
3. Place water in a small bowl and sprinkle with gelatin on top. Let gelatin to soften for 3 minutes.
4. In a saucepan, simmer pumpkin puree, spice mixture and 1/2 cup sugar over medium heat until bubbles form at edge. Add gelatin mixture and stir until gelatin dissolves, about 1 minute. Let cool to room temperature completely otherwise it with melt the whip cream.
5. Beat cream and 2 tablespoons sugar until firm stiff peaks form.
6. With a rubber spatula, gently fold whipped cream into cooled pumpkin mixture.
Do you know how to fold? Folding is the process of gently incorporating something light and airy, like whipped egg whites or cream, into something heavier without deflating it. Start by placing about a 1/3 of the lighter product on top of the heavier product.
Mix that in to lighten it before folding the rest in.
Then place the rest of the lighter product on top. With a rubber spatula, cut down the center of the bowl and come around the side, turning the bowl one half turn.
Bring the heavier product from the bottom and side on top of the lighter product in the middle as you come around with the spatula. Place it on top.
Repeat the process by cutting down the center, coming around the side and down the center again, while turning the bowl until only a few streaks of the lighter product can be seen.
The finished mixture should be fairly homogenous.
7. Pour over graham crackers. Smooth top, cover and refrigerate until set, about 2 hours (or up to overnight).
8. Using parchment, gently lift pie out of pan and cut into pieces with a sharp knife, cleaning it in between cuts. Top each piece with crumbled graham crackers, transfer to a serving platter.

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so is an open transfer ok? like in the early puch cylinders?
I guess so since it's never really uncoverd by the piston any deeper than where the normal ports cut off... it just would increase crankcase volume and mess a little with primary compression, but that's probobly good since if another transfer is being added than a larger carb would help out alot and that extra case volume would benifit from the larger carb... brainstorm sorry...
I guess the only real questions I have are:
Should I do something with the piston skirt? (I'm thinking not since it'll just be static metal in the case moving back and forth with an open port)
should I point the stream of the transfer at the head(squish band) or piston crown? (I'm guessing head since I'd just be tossing unburnt fuel out the exhaust with the port facing the piston) maybe two ports that point and converge streams aimed at the head to slow the velocity of it heading too fast out towards the exhaust?
I want to look at a three port cylinder that works well and see how it was aimed I guess...


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If you have recently welcomed a cat into your home or are planning to do so in the near future, you may be wondering how to ensure your garden is as safe and secure as it can be for the arrival of your new furry friend.
It can be difficult to know where to begin if you are set to become a pet owner for the first time in your life but by familiarising yourself with the following information, you can be reassured that your cat is protected from a number of external threats whilst exploring the outdoors.
Avoid harmful chemicals
If you are set to become a first-time pet owner and enjoy gardening from time to time, you must be aware of which chemicals are likely to be harmful to your cat. It may sound like an obvious point, or you may think your cat is sufficiently protected from the weedkiller or slug pellets that you have carefully applied to your garden, but kittens are curious creatures and switching to cat-friendly alternatives can provide you with much-needed peace of mind.
Build an outdoor pet enclosure
If your cat has only ever known the indoors, an outdoor pet enclosure can remind them of a familiar place whilst exploring the outdoors for the first time and protect them from the elements. If you are looking for complete peace of mind or have other pets at home, an outdoor pet enclosure from protectapet.com can allow your new furry friend to relax outdoors with a completely customisable space designed and installed to suit your garden and ensure your cat is happy and healthy at home.
Choose plants wisely
If your garden is jam-packed with plants or you are planning to earn your green fingers this year, you must be mindful when it comes to your selections and choose plants wisely to protect your cat from eating anything that may not agree with them. It may, for example, benefit you to know in advance that lilies are highly toxic to cats and when consumed can result in a costly vet bill for you and an unfortunate bout of illness for your cat.
Provide plenty of toys
If your cat tends to be playful whilst indoors, providing plenty of toys outdoors can allow it to seamlessly transition and become familiar with the different sights, sounds, and scents of your garden so it never feels scared or worried to go outdoors if and when it wants. If they appear skittish or nervous to do so, attaching their favourite toy to a piece of string can gradually coax them outdoors and keep them distracted.
If you have recently become a cat owner for the first time, you must ensure your garden is as safe and secure as it possibly can be ahead of time by avoiding harmful chemicals, building an outdoor pet enclosure, choosing plants wisely, and providing plenty of toys to increase the chances of your furry friend feeling happy and healthy inside and outside your home.

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League of Legends news » The College Championship Bracket is Set!
There’s no easy street to reach the League of Legends College Championship. After months of training, communicating and coordinating schedules around class time, holiday breaks and advancing out of the Campus Series, Big Ten Network League or Wildcard Tournament, eight schools schools have advanced to the North America LCS Arena in Los Angeles to vie for the college champion crown.
We’ve set the opening round of the tournament on May 25 and it will be a blitz of college League of Legends action with four games across two stages - and two streams - to advance to the semifinals on May 26 and May 27. The final two teams will play on May 28 for the college championship title.
Four teams won Campus Series regions - Texas A&M (South), University of Toronto (East), Simon Fraser University (West) and Maryville University (North). The University of Maryland won the Big Ten Network Championship. Carnegie Mellon (East), Robert Morris (North) and University of British Columbia (West) qualified out of the Wildcard tournament.
Opening round matchups were selected at random after removing the potential for regional finalists from rematching.
All matches will be broadcast live on watch.lolesports.com and you can grab tickets for the semifinals and finals HERE.
Who do you think will take home the title this year? Let us know in the comments!


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https://northarvestbean.org/wp-content/uploads/northarvest-bean-logo.png 0 0 Red River Farm Network https://northarvestbean.org/wp-content/uploads/northarvest-bean-logo.png Red River Farm Network2019-07-26 08:57:162019-07-26 14:58:39New Market Facilitation Program Details Released
New Market Facilitation Program Details Released
Signup for the new round of USDA Market Facilitation Program payments begins Monday, July 29 and continues through December 6. The first payments will be made in early August. Farmers who produce alfalfa, barley, canola, corn, dry beans, oats, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat are eligible. The per-acre payments are based on a single county rate. MFP payments are limited to $250,000 per person or legal entity and no applicant can receive more than $500,000.
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Thomas Zinzarella ’21
27 minutes is not nearly enough time to recount the entire history of the Providence College baseball program. Figuring out how to tell the story was even more difficult. For a film class this year, I was tasked with creating a sports documentary. There was only one story I knew I wanted to tell. The story of the baseball program.
It has been 21 years now since Title IX, among other decisions, forced Providence College to cut the men’s baseball program along with the men’s tennis and golf teams. To this day, there are no signs of resurrecting them. If you walk around the campus today, remnants of the Friar program can be found in Alumni Hall. There, you can catch a glimpse of some of the trophies, or some of the players’ likenesses on the wall of the athletic hall of fame.
Baseball was once a sport for some of the most talented players in the Northeast, especially right here in Rhode Island. The first varsity sport founded on PC’s campus in 1921, the baseball team faced off with schools that many are familiar with today, such as the College of the Holy Cross, Villanova University, and more. As the character Terrence Mann said in the baseball hit movie Field of Dreams, “The one constant through the years has been baseball.” The program made it through turbulent times in the country such as the Great Depression and World War II.
One obstacle that it could not beat, however, was Title IX. Many universities and colleges in the ’90s were starting to face a problem that Providence College had just begun facing; The costs of programs were starting to escalate, and some schools’ athletics programs were not in compliance with Title IX. Many schools had met the criteria for female students, but not for female student-athletes.
In my film, ’99: The Final At-Bat, I examine more of this issue, in addition to the history behind the program and the final season that saw the Friars capture success. It features interviews from former head coach Charlie Hickey, former players such as Marc Desroches ’99, and more.
The death of the baseball program here at PC mirrors a Greek tragedy. The 1990s brought some of the team’s greatest success, with multiple Big East titles and NCAA tournament appearances, before being gutted in the fall of 1998. Competing in one last season, the Friars not only set the school record for wins, but also captured the Big East title and a spot in the NCAA tournament. There, they would fall to the No. 2 overall seed and national runner-up that year, Florida State University.
The Friars showed that blue collar work ethic that many Rhode Islanders and New Englanders pride themselves on after dropping their first game to Jacksonville University. They then roared back to win the next two games, knocking off JU, and moving on to face FSU. With a lack of PC pitching depth in the short term, Florida State defeated the Friars, but it was something that all college baseball fans could admire. At the end of the year, PC was not only the best team in New England, but Baseball America also ranked the Friars in the final top 25 at the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament.
The only thing left from the team are the stories from fans, players, and students alike who not only saw the team, but lived it. If you look around the college baseball landscape today, Boston College and the University of Connecticut have sustained success as top programs in the Northeast. But there’s a team missing from that bunch, and it just makes you wonder where PC would be in that mix.


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There is an assembly with 2 parts.
I create a drawing of any one part, I create a table and I can have the name of that part with parameter "&model_name" in the cell of that table
But, How to have the Assembly name on that part drawing.
Solved! Go to Solution.
you probably know that part does not contain information where it is used. So you have to enter assembly name manually -OR- "develop" some trick.
What we do is in each part there is a string parameter "partnoAsm" that is assigned the pertinent assembly part number. On the drawing itself, where you want to show this, you just use the normal syntax, or "&partnoAsm".
Where it gets messy is for parts that are used in multiple assemblies...
Every time you reuse that component, you have to go in and modify it to add another where used element? Sounds like a lot of wasted effort and time.
Do you use a PDM system that will track where used information for you? It makes life a lot easier.
No we don't have a PDM system. We looked at it, but the immense cost in terms of (a) buying it, (b) installing it and setting up for it, and (c) continual maintenance and upkeep didn't make any sense for a group of four engineers.
As I said in the previous message, the tricky part is if something is used in a lot of different assemblies. It's generally not a "lot of wasted effort and time".
You can create manual parameter in both parts like &Next_Assy and call this parameter in your part drawing. The thing is you need to manually enter parameter once. Or if we have only one assembly for part drawing you can use &PartnoAsm as mentioned by Kenneth.
Side note here, besides the style of having a param in the part (or a param in the drawing), if you add the assembly as a top model to the drawing, then the assembly will be loaded when the drawing is. If your assembly is big, you might not want that because your detail person is on a insufficiently powerful computer. In this case, you could wish to make a simp rep in the assembly, say NO_COMPONENTS, with all components excluded, and add 'the assembly in that rep' to the drawing instead.


Classes Begin at Missouri’s
First LEED Certified School
Missouri’s first LEED certified school opened in August for students in the North Kansas City School District. The $80-million Staley High School was designed by Hollis + Miller Architects, together with the school district and J.E. Dunn Construction Company.
Some of the sustainable design principles incorporated into Staley High School include extensive use of regionally sourced building materials (CMU, brick, steel, drywall and glass), as well as recycled steel content. Hollis + Miller designed the school to use 38 percent less water than a conventional building, and it will use 57 percent less energy than a conventional building.
Further, Daylighting is used extensively, which studies suggest helps produce higher test scores, reduce absenteeism and improve employee retention, according to the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International. Another strategy incorporated was to maximize open space and green space on the 20-plus acre campus. The team helped save three ponds on the existing site (protecting the habitat). Stormwater will be retained via the water harvested from the roof and site, which will then be stored in the pond for irrigation. This will help reduce site runoff and waste of rainwater. It also will provide a daily education opportunity for students.
Around the nation, green building principles and sustainable design solutions have become increasingly popular for school design and renovation. According the U.S. Green Building Council, nearly 100 public and private schools have been LEED certified since 2000, and another 800 are seeking certification.
Several states, including Hawaii, New Jersey and Florida, now require that new schools be more energy efficient, reduce their water usage and recycle more. The state of Ohio, which is considered a national leader in the greening of schools, has 250 new, green schools in various stages of design or construction. Officials say the state expects to save $1.4 billion in energy costs during the next 40 years through this program. MD