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Putin says demands for rerun of poll will not be granted
VLADIMIR Putin belittled Russia's protest movement yesterday in his first comments since an estimated 80,000 people turned out on Christmas Eve, calling for a rerun of parliamentary elections.
The Russian prime minister attacked his opponents, saying: "The elections are over. The parliament has started its work and a speaker is elected. The state Duma (legislative assembly) is working. There can be no talk of any review."
Russia has been rocked by the largest anti-government protests since the 1990s after the elections on December 4, in which Mr Putin's United Russia party barely retained its majority in a vote blighted by allegations of ballot-rigging.
The protests have cast a shadow over Mr Putin's plan to return to the presidency -- after a four-year break -- at elections to be held in March.
Mr Putin criticised the opposition for allegedly lacking clear aims or leaders, saying: "I have difficulty imagining who from their ranks could do concrete work for the development of our state."
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Sergei Shoigu, the emergency situations minister and another Putin ally, compared the situation to the constitutional crisis of 1993, which ended with Boris Yeltsin sending tanks to shell parliament.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Marquette County, Michigan
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marquette County, Michigan.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.[a]
There are 39 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
|[b]||Name on the Register||Image||Date listed[c]||Location||City or town||Description|
|1||Arch and Ridge Streets Historic District||June 18, 1980
|Arch and Ridge streets from Front Street to Lake Superior||Marquette||The Historic District includes spectacular residences built for some of the leading citizens of Marquette, as well as more modest houses for white- and blue-collar workers. The district dates from 1867, when Peter White built the first house on the Ridge. Most of the construction in the district took place over the next 35 years as other leading citizens of Marquette followed White's lead, including pioneer businessman and industrialist Hiram A. Burt, Charles H. Call, Daniel Merritt, Andrew Ripka, David Murray, Josiah Reynolds, Frank Bennett Spear, and James Jopling.|
|2||Big Bay Point Light Station||October 12, 1988
|3 Lighthouse Road||Big Bay||The Big Bay Point Light stands on a tall bluff over a rocky point northwest of Marquette. The light went into service in 1896. It is the only operational lighthouse to include a bed and breakfast.|
|3||Braastad–Gossard Building||December 29, 2015
|308 Cleveland Avenue||Ishpeming||This building was constructed in two parts in 1888 and 1903 for Frederick Braastad's department store. It later served as a factory for the H. W. Gossard Company, manufacturer of corsets and brassieres.|
|4||Call House||January 13, 1972
|450 E. Ridge Street||Marquette||The Call House was designed and built in 1867 for Henry R. Mather, first president of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company. The house is a particularly noteworthy example of Gothic Revival architecture, and was later used by U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Shiras Jr. as a summer home.|
|5||Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3||May 2, 2007
|601 Division Street||Ishpeming||The Cleveland Mine was the second iron mine opened on the Marquette Iron Range after the Jackson Mine. The first portion of this engine house was built in 1880–1882, and served as the mine's primary hoist engine house until the ore was depleted in the early 1890s. The Cleveland Mine was eventually merged with other iron companies in the area, including the Jackson Mine and the Iron Cliffs Mine, to form the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company.|
|6||Cliffs Shaft Mine||July 17, 1992
|Euclid Street between Lakeshore Drive and Spruce Street||Ishpeming||The Cliffs Shaft Mine operated on this site for a total of 99 years, closing in 1967. The site is now a museum.|
|7||Coaster II||September 28, 1989
|Far western end of the Main Pier at Mattson Lower Harbor Park, off Harbor Drive||Marquette||The Coaster II was designed by naval architect Murray Peterson as his personal yacht; the second of three he built—designated Coaster, Coaster II, and Coaster III—to replicate late 19th-century coasting schooners. Built in 1933, the ship was located in multiple places over the years; in 2007 Niko Economides purchased the Coaster II and moved it to Marquette.|
|8||Sam Cohodas Lodge||April 4, 1991
|Off US 41/M-28 at the eastern end of Lake Michigamme, Michigamme Township||Champion||The Sam Cohodas Lodge was built for Sam Cohodas, the head of a large and successful fruit and produce wholesale firm, in 1934–35. The lodge, built from locally sourced material, in significant as a distinctive example of a large-scale, vernacular rustic log resort architecture constructed in the early 20th century. It is one of the largest log structures in Michigan which does not use an independent superstructure for support.|
|9||County Road 557–West Branch Escanaba River Bridge||December 17, 1999
|County Road 557 over the West Branch of the Escanaba River||Wells Township||The County Road 557–West Branch Escanaba River Bridge, constructed in 1928, is one of the first truly long steel stringer bridges constructed in the state. Recent improvements in the manufacture of rolled I-beams enabled lengthier spans to be constructed. The outside of the stringers are encased in concrete, giving the bridge the appearance af an all-concrete construction.|
|10||Granite Island Light Station||August 4, 1983
|12 mi (19 km) north of Marquette on Granite Island||Marquette||The Granite Island Light was built in 1868 and commissioned in 1869. It is one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on Lake Superior.|
|11||Granot Loma||April 4, 1991
|County Road 550 on the Lake Superior shore north of Thoneys Point, Powell Township||Marquette||Granot Loma is a lodge constructed by Louis Graveraet Kaufman in the tradition of the Adirondack camps of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The estate includes 5,180 acres of woodland located along the Lake Superior shore; the lodge is built of logs over a steel frame and includes a 60-foot long greatroom and 26 bedrooms.|
|12||Gwinn Model Town Historic District||June 24, 2002
|Including most of the original plat of Gwinn and surrounding greenbelt||Forsyth Township||In 1906, the president of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, William Gwinn Mather, commissioned the well-known Boston landscape designer Warren H. Manning to design a residential community to support the mining operations. Manning designed a "model town," emphasizing Gwinn’s connection to the surrounding environment by preserving many of the existing trees and planting new ones.|
|13||Harlow Block||March 24, 1983
|100 West Washington Street||Marquette||The Harlow Block, built in an Italianate style, exemplifies late nineteenth century vernacular commercial architecture. It was constructed by one of Marquette's first settlers, Amos R. Harlow, in 1887 as a real estate investment.|
|14||Holy Family Orphanage||October 5, 2015
|600 Altamont Street||Marquette|
|15||Huron Islands Lighthouse||September 2, 1975
|Northwest of Big Bay in Lake Superior||Big Bay||In 1867, Congress appropriated $17,000 for a lighthouse located in the Huron Islands. The survey crew chose the highest point on Lighthouse Island, the westernmost of the group as the location for the light. With the exception of 205 feet (62 m) Grand Island North Light, this is the highest focal plane in the western Great Lakes. The lighthouse was constructed in 1868, and is a duplicate of the one built at the same time on nearby Granite Island.|
|16||Ishpeming Municipal Building||July 9, 1981
|100 East Division Street||Ishpeming||The City Hall in Ishpeming was built during the boom iron-mining years, constructed from 1889 to 1891 using a design by Milwaukee architect Demetrius F. Charlton. It is a two-story, rectangular structure built of Portage Entry sandstone with a rounded entry arch, decorative sandstone sills and lintels above and below the windows, and a decorative beltcourse between the floors.|
|17||Jackson Iron Company Site||May 30, 1975
|North of Negaunee limits off County Road 492||Negaunee||The Jackson Iron Company Site, also known as the Carp River Forge, was the first forge constructed in northern Michigan, constructed in 1847–1848. The Carp River forge proved to be financially unprofitable, due in large part to the difficulties of transporting both iron ore and forge supplies to the forge site and the forge was closed for good and abandoned in 1854, having made "little iron and no money."|
|18||Jackson Mine||September 3, 1971
|West of Negaunee||Negaunee||The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine, the first mine in the Lake Superior region. The Jackson Mining Company was organized in Jackson, Michigan in 1845; the first substantial ore removal came in 1847. Although initial work was unrewarding, by 1861 the company was financially stable, and was the foundation of the coty of Negaunee.|
|19||Longyear Building||July 1, 2004
|210 North Front Street||Marquette||The Longyear Building is a commercial structure built in 1916.|
|20||Longyear Hall of Pedagogy-Northern Michigan University||April 3, 1980
|Presque Isle Avenue||Marquette||Longyear Hall was originally built in 1899, and rebuilt after a fire in 1907. I t was the first location of Northern Normal School, now Northern Michigan University. Longyear Hall was demolished in 1993.|
|21||Old M-95–Michigamme River Bridge||December 17, 1999
|Old M-95 over the Michigamme River||Republic Township||This bridge was built in 1910, and although modest in scale and design, it is technologically and historically significant as an embodiment of local bridge design before state standardization. It spans the Michigamme River on an abandoned roadway (now used as a private road) that was once M-95, immediately west of the current highway.|
|22||Marquette and Western Railroad Negaunee Freight Depot||July 2, 2008
|420 Rail Street||Negaunee||This Negaunee depot was built in 1884 by the Marquette and Western Railroad as a freight and passenger depot. After only a year of service, the entire line was bought by a competitor, the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad. The structure was used as the main freight and passenger depot in Negaunee until it was replaced with a newer structure in 1922.|
|23||Marquette City Hall||April 11, 1975
|204 Washington Street||Marquette||The Marquette City Hall was built in the early 1890s; the demand for bricks and sandstone was enough that the local economy was bolstered through the economic depression that lingered at that time. The city used the building until 1977, when it was sold to a private developer who refurbished it into professional offices.|
|24||Marquette County Courthouse||March 29, 1978
|400 South 3rd Street||Marquette||Built 1902–1904. The courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder, starring Jimmy Stewart, was filmed on location here and throughout the Marquette area.|
|25||Marquette Harbor Light Station||July 19, 1984
|Marquette Harbor||Marquette||The existing structure was completed in 1865, replacing a previous lighthouse that had deteriorated. The lighthouse has been operated by the United States Coast Guard since 1891, and is now open for tours.|
|26||Mather Inn||December 20, 1978
|107 Canda Street||Ishpeming||Realizing the benefit of having a first-class hotel, William G. Mather, president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, financed the construction of the Mather Inn after the 1928 destruction of an earlier hotel. Mather hired Boston architect James H. Ritchie to design the building and turned to Warren H. Manning, a longtime associate, to design the grounds. The hotel is considered to be an excellent example of the work of both men.|
|27||Midgaard||June 25, 2013
|Middle Island Point||Marquette||Midgaard, also known as the Lautner Cottage, is a chalet style log cabin constructed by John and Vida Lautner. Their then-12-year-old son John Lautner helped construct the cabin; the younger Lautner would later become an influential architect.|
|28||Negaunee Fire Station||July 14, 2004
|200 South Pioneer Avenue||Negaunee||Built in 1910, this fire house is still used as the headquarters of Negaunee's Volunteer Fire Department.|
|29||Negaunee State Bank Building||April 13, 1995
|331 Iron Street||Negaunee||The Negaunee State Bank Building is a two-story structure with a triangular footprint. It was built in 1912 on the site of an earlier bank building destroyed by fire. The building housed the Negaunee State Bank until 1933, when the bank failed during the Great Depression.|
|30||Park Hotel and Cabins||September 4, 2013
|11137 County Road LLK||Republic||The Park Hotel and Cabins were constructed in 1943-46 by John Consul. The hotel is a two-story log structure; in addition the property contains 15 cut stone cabins.|
|31||Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Light||June 7, 2016
|Lake Superior, on breakwater at northeast side of Presque Isle Harbor||Marquette||The Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Light was established in 1941 and is located in the City of Marquette, Michigan. Located at the end of a breakwater, it is an operating aid to navigation marking the entry to Presque Isle Harbor. The light is approximately 55 feet tall from the water's surface to the top of the light. Its design reflects Modern Movement Streamlined Moderne styling.|
|32||St. Peter Cathedral||May 30, 2012
|311 West Baraga Avenue||Marquette||An 1864 church on this site was dedicated by Bishop Frederic Baraga. That church was destroyed by fire on October 2, 1879, and this church was built in 1881–90. A catastrophic 1935 fire destroyed everything except the sandstone walls, but the cathedral was completely rebuilt.|
|33||Savings Bank Building||September 13, 1978
|101 South Front Street||Marquette||Built by Louis G. Kaufman, original co-owner/financier of the Empire State Building. It was designed by the architectural firm of Barber and Barber and built in 1892 by Noble and Benson for a cost of $174,000. The bank building is known for its landmark copper-clad clock tower and ornate stonework.|
|34||Stannard Rock Lighthouse||March 30, 1973
|Off the Keweenaw Peninsula||Lake Superior||The Stannard Rock Light is built on an isolated rocky shoal located 45 miles north of Marquette in Lake Superior. It was constructed between 1877–1883 at the then-high cost of $305,000.|
|35||Sundberg Block||April 20, 2011
|517–523 Iron Street||Negaunee||Built by Charles Sundberg in 1890, this late Victorian commercial block was a focus of downtown Negaunee for years. It housed commercial enterprises, including Negaunee's first movie theatre, and was later used as a manufacturing facility and then a community center. The building was demolished in November 2016.|
|36||State House of Correction and Branch Prison||November 23, 1977
|Off US 41/M-28||Marquette||Opened in 1889, it was renowned for its remote location and difficult, high-risk prisoners. Imposing sandstone edifice overlooking Lake Superior, notable for its architecture and landscaped gardens.|
|37||Trunk Line Bridge No. 1||December 17, 1999
|Old US 41/M-28 over the Peshekee River||Michigamme Township||Trunk Line Bridge No. 1 was the first bridge designed by Michigan Department of Transportation. The bridge was built in 1914 in response to the 1913 State Trunk Line Act passed by the Michigan Legislature. The bridge used to carry US 41/M-28 across the Pesheskee River near the river's mouth at Lake Michigamme, but has since been abandoned.|
|38||Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building||May 15, 1980
|Meeske Street and US 41/M-28||Marquette||Also known as the Charles Meeske House, this structure served as the home and office of brewer Charles Meeske, secretary-treasurer and later president of the Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building. The building, a vernacular two-story rectangular Romanesque Revival structure built of variegated rough-cut sandstone, is the single structure remaining from the 1894 brewing company complex.|
|39||Vista Theater||July 22, 2005
|218 Iron Street||Negaunee||The Vista Theater was built by Negaunee businessman Jafet Rytkonen. Rytkonen was a partner in the Star, another Negaunee theater, but desired a larger and grander theatre than the Star was. In 1926, Rytkonen hired architect David E. Anderson to design the Vista; the new theatre opened on September 20, 1926. Rytkonen ran the theatre until his retirement in 1950, after which his son, William, and son-in-law, Peter Ghiardi, took over management of the Vista, which remained in operation until 1972.|
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Michigan
- List of Michigan State Historic Sites in Marquette County, Michigan
- The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
- Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on November 8, 2019.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
- Economic Research Service. "Marquette County Courthouse (Built 1902–1904), Marquette, Michigan". County Courthouse Photos. US Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
- "50th Anniversary of Anatomy of a Murder Celebration". Northern Michigan University. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
- "Marquette Maritime Museum". Marquette Maritime Museum. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
- The NRIS lists Midgaard's location as "Address Restricted," but numerous other sources list the general location or exact address. The geo-coordinates given are approximate.
- "Stannard Rock, MI". LighthouseFriends.com. Archived from the original on September 25, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
- Hunt, Mary; Hunt, Don (2011). "Marquette: Marquette Branch Prison". Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Albion: Midwest Guides. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
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The highly anticipated 50th all-time meeting between men’s lacrosse heavyweights Johns Hopkins and Syracuse was colored Columbia Blue on Saturday as the second-ranked Blue Jays used a 4-0 run to turn a 6-4 lead into a 10-4 advantage that the Orange never seriously threatened before falling 11-7 before 5,970 sun-drenched fans at Homewood Field. The win runs Hopkins’ home winning streak to 11, it’s regular season winning streak to 14 and its record this season to 7-0. Syracuse had its five-game winning streak against the Blue Jays snapped and slips to 3-2.
After sprinting out to leads to 4-1, 5-2 and 6-3, the Blue Jays led just 6-4 late in the second quarter after the third of Derek Maltz’s three first-half goals with 3:29 remaining before the half.
Playing for the first time in more than two weeks, freshman Wells Stanwick pushed the lead back to three as he converted from the slot off a nifty feed from sophomore Brandon Benn with 2:42 remaining in the second quarter. The goal ignited the game-turning run, which saw the Blue Jays outscore Syracuse 4-0 over a 20-minute span that bridged the second and fourth quarters.


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Specialized Treatment Programs
Vista Maria’s specialized intensive residential treatment programs for adolescent girls are operated from our 37-acre Dearborn Heights campus. All programs have access to support services including a health clinic, an on-site junior and senior high school operated by the Clara B. Ford Academy, a large cafeteria, recreational facilities, meeting rooms, a chapel, and administrative offices. We recently added two new state-of-the-art mental health buildings to address the growing need for mental health care for girls. Our campus can accommodate 165 clients at any given time. Click here to learn more.
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Community Based Programs
Vista Maria’s community-based programs provide services for high-risk girls and boys in their home communities. We offer services to the youth and their families and are dedicated to teaching personal responsibility and communication skills, providing educational assessment and planning, and helping with employment readiness. Our community-based program continuum includes:
General Foster Care
Is designed to provide month, case management services for Michigan children who have suffered abuse or neglect and are entering the system for the first time or have been moved from a more intensive program to prepare them for reunification with their birth parents or a permanent home.
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For children in the child welfare system who have more specialized needs than children in general foster care. This program helps them prepare for reunification with their birth or adoptive parents, or placement in a permanent living arrangement. Treatment Foster Care provides the same services but for deliquent youth who are supervised by Wayne County Care Management Organizations.
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For child welfare or delinquent children with severe emotional disturbances who may be exiting from a psychiatric hospital or residential program. We work with a collaborative partner to provide in-home services, training and support to the child, birth family and foster family to enable the child to thrive in the community.
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The program components offered are aimed at reducing youth and family risk factors by improving participants access to 1) mentors, 2) after-school activities which support their academic improvement, and 3) working with teens and their families to address family challenges and help them to focus on productive futures. A fourth component is directed at transitional residential services, which include structured site-based mentoring, after-school programming, counseling, as well as classroom based academic supports.
The target population for the Journey to Success program are at-risk teens currently residing in Wayne County who have not been adjudicated. The desired outcomes through these programs are:
- Improved connection to school and increased connections to caring adults.
- Decreased risk-taking behavior and contact with law enforcement.
- Avoidance of behaviors which could lead to adjudication.
Learn more about the Journey to Success programs for community-based teens and families:
Shepherd Hall Transitional Living Program
Are you homeless? Have you recently aged out of the foster care system and have no place to go? Are you between the ages of 18-24 and in need of a supportive, independent living environment? Vista Maria can help.
Vista Maria’s Shepherd Hall Transitional Living Program provides an affordable 12-18 month program
that is geared towards helping you achieve the personal and financial independence you desire in a safe,
unique environment designed to put you on the path to success. As a residence of Shepherd Hall, you
will have Vista Maria’s many educational and career-focused opportunities at your disposal including:
- Earning your high school diploma
- Creating post secondary and vocational educational plan
- Budgeting and banking
- Cooking, nutrition, life skills
- Relationship building
- Physical and mental health
- Resume and application assistance
- Support in obtaining employment
It can often feel difficult to make a step in the right direction, which is why Vista Maria is here to help.
For more information, please contact Sharon Kurc at email@example.com.
January is National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Vista Maria invites you to participate in our Turn Facts to Blue campaign.
With 100,000 children estimated to be in the sex trade industry in the United States, human trafficking generates billions of dollars. The average age of a victim is 12-14 years old (source).
Human Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others. The U.S. federal anti-trafficking law, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 defines human trafficking as:
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for sex trafficking, in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person is induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or, labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Perpetrators prey on the weak including teens that have dropped out of school, are in the foster care system or have run away from home. Human trafficking is a highly profitable and low risk crime. Traffickers target anyone, including children in their own communities. In Michigan, most times the victim is:
- A girl or a young woman
- Seen as commodities, as easy to recruit
- Cheap to maintain and readily replaceable
To educate yourself more on human trafficking visit:

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[development] Drupal's CVS policies... including 'foriegn' codein TinyMCE module?
mlhess at umich.edu
Thu May 24 22:39:01 UTC 2007
> I would like to see a Drupal-optimized TinyMCE package. It'd make it a
> lot easier on me if it had standard Drupal-related plugins already
> installed so I didn't have to do that manually for every site.
I was not going to weigh in on this, but I provided a quote to a client
several weeks ago, they made the choose to do the work themsevles in
Today I got a call from them, talking
about<http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/05/24/167223.shtml> asking me if I was
still willing to do the work. I tried to explain to them that drupal can
suffer from the same issues. (They did not really understand but that is ok
for the purpose of this email)
If we start allowing chunks of code in, I think it would end up being a
huge security issue for drupal over all.
If a site gets compromised, it won't be X module, that was a security
issue, it will be drupal that is the security issue.
just my 2 cents,
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Today let's reflect on our thoughts about exploration. The journey to see new things, find new adventures, and seek discoveries which help us better appreciate and understand the world in which we live. Social Media is filled with photographs of the explorations people go on as they travel the world. We are in awe at the courage of those, who dare go on explorations and challenge themselves to push past their fears.
But, what about the exploration within? This type of exploration doesn't require us to hop on an airplane and travel across the world. It doesn't require us to hoist our sails and face the turbulent waters of the oceans. There is no expense to the internal exploration. Yet, only the truly brave we take the challenge to explore within.
It begins with delving into the basic understanding to answer, the who, what, when, where, and why.
- Who do I desire to be?
- What am I willing to do today, to become closer to who I want to be?
- When do I want to see progress towards this goal?
- Where do I want to be in a week, month, and year?
- Why is this important to me?
Let today, be the day, we begin our exploration to finding the hidden treasures of being able to answer the questions which begin with who, what, when, where, and why.
Fears hold us back. They are usually tied to a loss. When we face our fears and explore where these fears were planted, and what we are afraid to loose, we can address the initial thoughts surrounding that particular fear.

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Reversible Destiny Lofts - Tokyo - Japan - 2005 - Shusaku Arakawa and his creative partner, poet Madeline Gins - Small apartments complex built in 2005 in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, by New York-based Japanese artist Shusaku Arakawa and his creative partner, poet Madeline Gins, that is anything but comfortable and calming. "People, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline", he insists.

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Where to start with kids helping in the kitchen or even preparing their own snacks or quick meals? It is important to include your kids in talking about food preferences, time for meal planning, grocery shopping, and food preparation. Lessening frustrations and limiting too high of expectations by both parents and their kids are key in enjoying the kitchen together.
Working in tandem to keep a well-stocked pantry/frig/freezer along with having kid friendly recipes at your fingertips will go a long way in your kids becoming awesome cooks. Plus, they will be getting in a few of those much-needed nutrients as a bonus!
Kids enjoy finger foods, things like pizza, wraps, trail mix snacks, and tasty beverages they can enjoy on the go. Make ahead foods like muffins and fruit/yogurt parfaits help make school day early mornings much brighter for all!
Finding recipes that are quick and easy to prepare and can be made when the â€œtime is rightâ€ and kids are eager to cook is important.
These recipes were all created with kids and tested in northern New Mexico school programs. They include many diverse and ethnic foods. There are simple recipes for homemade applesauce and salsa that kids will love making and eating.
Recipes are divided by age (elementary, middle, and high) to help filter skills needed. The site also offers a task by age guide for kids in the kitchen.
Numerous tasty goodies here like quesadillas, wraps, pizzas, smoothies and PB&J on a stick even!
Ideas for recipes that kids can make on their own or with little supervision) for quick meals and snacks. Taco in a bag, banana muffins, and yogurt/fruit parfaits are sure to be favorites.
Vickie James is a Registered, Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist, and Coordinator for the Food and Farm Council of Riley County and City of Manhattan.

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Topic: Can you burn fat without creating muscle?
June 25, 2019 / By Carin Question:
I've lost weight recently, but I ended up having muscles, and I don't want them. I still have around 5 pounds to lose, but I don't want to be muscular.
Is there any way I can change my eating habits also?
Anabella | 1 day ago
>Do NOT eat crap (like carbs and things that look obviously fat).
>You must have a GOOD breakfast (it must be your biggest meal) because it'll accelerate your metabolism.
>Eat very SMALL amounts of food SEVERAL times a day (try to have breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner), to keep your metabolism fast. (If you're constantly putting calories in your body it'll need to keep working in order to absorve the nutrients. And that's why you can't eat crap like sweets or fried stuff, to make sure your body absorve the right nutrients.)
>Breakfast must be the biggest meal and the amount of food has to decrease from then on, being dinner the smallest.
>Dinner MUST be your LAST meal. Your body does not need more energy when you go to sleep.
>Do not mix vegetables with other food that isn't vegetables. Many people don't know/forget that your body takes actually more time to digest vegetables than any other food, because vegetables are mostly cellulose and humans don't have cellulase (the enzyme that catalyzes cellulolysis (the hydrolysis of cellulose)). A slower digestion will ehnance the amount of macromolecules (protos, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids) that you're assimilating in your body, so if your mixing meat (for example) with vegetables, the digestion of each piece of food will retard one another your body is most likely to assimilate every calorie you ate.
>You have to be careful with what you mix. For example, NEVER mix potatoes with rice. (It is always better to eat different types of food separatly).
>You have to be careful with what you eat. Give priority to: fiber, grains, seeds, etc. and most fruit (except bananas (forbidden), grapes and cherries). DO NOT EAT (this is the worse): fried food and sweets (I told you this already but really there's nothing good about that. It does taste good, but healthy food can taste good too).
>Stop drinking. Alcohol is extremely caloric.
>Drink a lot of WATER (1,5 litres is good). Water is a very versatile solvent. All the reactions in cells take place in aqueous solution. Plus your body must be made of at least 70% of water, the more water you have in your body, the less room it'll leave for fat.
>You gain muscle when you work out bodybuilding. You have to work your cardio out: run, swim, play sports, anything that makes you pour sweat in order to get rid of the fat, because lifting weights and stuff doesn't make you loose weight but only converts the fat in muscle. So basically you'll just look as heavy but you'll have muscles instead of fat. So if you don't wanna gain muscle just pay attention to what you eat, drink plenty of water and work your cardio out :)
make it a point to use the steps whenever possible use the bathroom on a different floor at work take the stairs at the bus station the airport or the mall
a handful of unsalted pumpkin seeds make for a healthy mid day snack theyre rich in magnesium which helps lower blood pressure
odds are you re eating too fast try holding a conversation while having a meal so you re not gulping down more than you need to feel full
Originally Answered: How can I burn fat and not muscle?
as i am a personal trainer/fitness expert my professional opinion is that if your losing weight, via increased exercise and change of diet, your 90%-100% not losing muscle mass. My best bet is that your scales arent not accurate.
However its still possible to lose muscle mass if your calorie intake is very low, which tends to happen when your on a diet, people tend to count calories, but yet do not consume enough, you should see a nutritionist, or dietician to give to correct advise when it comes to what yous should be eating when losing weight. Even though your probably dieting, you still need to consume a good number of calories because your body works from energy thats stored in them.
People who usually diet constantly make this mistake. They minimise the amount of calories they consume which allows them to lose weight, but unfortunately, they do not lose fat, but muscle. This is a problem because muscle is the easiest way to lose weight then actual "fat"
exercise tips for burning fat, but containing muscle
*Make sure you are doing some form of heavy resistance (weight) training to maintain your muscle mass
*Try to utilise cardio training at least every other day to keep your metabolism raised at all times
*Get a good rest and recovery; not resting enough will cause fatigue and its difficult to burn energy


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Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum head back to school in the film adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The 80's TV drama made Johnny Depp a star, but gets a comedic update for 21st century audiences. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play a pair of goofball rookies chosen to uncover a dangerous new drug's source at a Los Angeles High School. Ice Cube co-stars as their profane and frustrated Captain, while Rob Riggle almost steals the film as the hard-charging phys ed teacher.
21 Jump Street is really funny with great chemistry between the leads. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum were a riot, doing the interviews in their bicycle cop outfits. Ice Cube discusses how he's gone from f**k the police in his NWA days to playing cops and roles of authority. Rob Riggle went the opposite route. He talks about his career in the Marines and how it lead to doing comedy. All together a great press day as every actor was very happy with the film. Check out our exclusive interviews.

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Drive back the long drive on Krug Rd East of Dalton you will find one of the areas best keep secrets.The secret is John Nussbaum.
For over 30 years Nussbaum’s home has been a Mecca for those involved in the dog sport of schutzhund. Twice a week members from around the state travel to the pristine training grounds to train under the watchful eye of the schutzhund master.
Schutzhund is the german word for protection dog.
“In Germany dogs must have a working title to be registered. The sport of Schutzhund is the testing process for the title. To obtain the title the dog must be trained to a high level of obedience, tracking and handler protection” Nussbaum explained. The dog of choice? The German Shepherd.
“We normally host a trial (testing) about twice per year and bring evaluators in from Germany to perform the evaluations. The dogs are awared points as they are tested so it becomes a competition about who's dog can achieve the best score".
Club members train their dogs to one of three progressively difficult levels. The testing is not easy and those who are successful can be proud of what they have accomplished“. Said Nussbaum.
“Schutzund is something I do for fun and it is not a job for me. Some guys play golf, others fish, or watch TV. I have 20-30 people come to my house and we train dogs. I enjoy helping fellow dog handlers and take personal satisfaction in their accomplishments”.
Nussbaum also works closely with law enforcement and provides assistance in keeping their K9 teams trained and ready to respond.
Nussbaum’s “day job” is auto restoration. "I started doing body work for a small shop in Doylestown and soon started my own business here at my home”.
When ask why his work focus is on restoration as opposed to more common body repair, his reply was “its more fun”.
“I like the older cars and my son Zack (who works with his father) likes them too. Nothing is better than having a job that you enjoy”
On the wall of Nussbams shop you will find photographs of some completed projects. One of the more impressive being a Rolls-Royce convertible.
"I do not advertise and do not have a website. My work comes to me via word of mouth. I like to stay low profile, and I am happy to say that I have a waiting list for my work." Nussbaum said with a smile.


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Cities around Europe are beginning to come out of lockdown and reinstate access regulations. Antwerp, Gent, London and Milan have all started charging vehicles again for entering their low emission zones. These charges and restrictions will help to prevent significant increases in pollution and congestion as travel increases.
In London, health service and care home staff will still be able to claim back any congestion charges. There are plans to increase the congestion charge from £11.50 a day to £15 from 22 June, as well as to increase the operating hours from the current 7 am – 6 pm to 7 am – 10 pm. Even though some plans are still on course, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has asked the UK government to postpone the introduction of stricter safety standards for freight vehicles, which were due to be implemented on 26 October 2020, to the end of February 2021.
In France, COVID-19 caused Renault to suspend the launch of a 500 vehicle electric car fleet for the Zity e-car sharing service. Plans are now back on track, with Renault emphasising the strict hygiene and safety measures that will be put in place.
In Vienna, the Mayor, Birgit Hebein, has proposed to use parking spaces to provide extra pavement space. Restaurants and cafés will be able to use this space to cater for more clients whilst following physical distancing guidelines.
In Italy, following the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport’s recent guidelines on public transport safety, it has been mandated that only seats on public transport that are indicated as available – with the use of stickers – can be used.
The European Cyclists’ Federation has also released recommendations for safer streets, ECF recommendations for healthier and safer streets after the coronavirus pandemic. These include making cycling safe and convenient, using speed limit reductions and providing subsidy schemes for purchasing bikes.
Many cities around the world are introducing measures to make cycling and walking safer. Greece has plans to reallocate 50,000 square metres of public space to cyclists and pedestrians; Milan will transform 30 km of streets by reallocating car space to cyclists and pedestrians; Rome has approved 100 km of temporary and permanent cycle routes.
In the US, the National Association of City Transportation Officials has released their own strategies for maintaining physical distancing, Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery. Some of these include information on pavement expansions, slow streets and pop-up bike lanes.
For more in-depth information see the original articles on the following websites:
- Corona: City access regulations start to come out of lockdown;
- Corona: London road user charging schemes back in place 18 May;
- London slowly reopens with increase in Congestion Charge;
- Corona: London postpones enforcement of stricter LEZ rules for freight vehicles;
- Renault’s electric car sharing project Zity launches in Paris;
- Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery;
- Parking spaces should give way to sidewalk gardens;
- Tpl: Covid19, updated the guidelines from the MIT;
- 'Cleaner and greener': Covid-19 prompts world's cities to free public space of cars;
- ECF recommendations for healthier and safer streets after the coronavirus pandemic.
Also, see these COVID-19 related events:
- COVID-19 Webinar: Impacts on transport emissions and air quality;
- LEVITATE Webinar: The impacts of automation in urban transport;
- Rethinking mobility: Cycling for a safe COVID-19 recovery and beyond.
For a detailed list of online resources, guidance materials, and COVID-19 related transport and mobility discussions, please see links in the Eltis article Maintaining essential mobility during a pandemic.
See also the previous weekly summaries produced:
- 25 May 2020 - Weekly Summary
- 18 May 2020 - Weekly Summary
- 11 May 2020 - Weekly Summary
- 4 May 2020 - Weekly Summary
- 27 April 2020 - Weekly Summary
- 20 April 2020 - Weekly Summary
- 13 April 2020 - Weekly Summary
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About the project
The Wai Horotiu Queen Street Valley pilot aims to improve Queen Street for everyone through working with the Queen Street community to shape a more vibrant, user friendly street environment that people want to spend time in.
We are working with the community to shape the improvements, and through the feedback we have recieved so far from Aucklanders, we have developed a clear set of directions to make Queen Street more appealing, accessible and attractive. This is summarised by the five principles below:
- Peoples Experience: Creating a thriving place where people want to be
- Access: Provide universal access for all that need it while prioritising necessary trips
- Movement: Enable safe and efficient public transport and access to active modes
- Environment: Mitigate environmental impacts and deliver C40 and Auckland Climate Plan goals
- Tactical: Be smart with our decisions on the timing and location of changes so that the benefits align with, and enhance, other activities.
To find out more details on this project visit AK Have Your Say.
The Queen Street Valley Pilot will make changes to streets between December 2020 and June 2021. Being a pilot scheme, it will try out different ideas for improving Queen Street, such as tree planters, pop-up parklets, changes to private vehicle access and loading zones. The pilot will be constantly monitored to inform future interventions and, ultimately, a permanent design for Queen Street.
There are two main streams of work that will get underway early in the new year as part of the pilot, these are:
- Improvements to the streetscape, to make the street a more attractive, safe and accessible street where people want to spend time.
- Reduce private vehicle traffic on Queen Street in time for the next phase of City Rail Link Construction when Victoria Street is closed to through traffic by mid 2021. There will be a consultation held on these changes early in the new year, we will provide more details on this closer to the time.
September 2020 - June 2021
Auckland Council and Auckland Transport


UNI has had 1 case of sexual assault in that time. The players were instantly dismissed. Instantly. No questions. Not only that, they were instantly dismissed from the school, no questions.
UNI kicked their best WR off the team in 2008 the week before the playoffs because he lived in the same house as a guy that was busted for a drug ring. Cops cleared him of all potential charges. Said they had been tailing the case for months. Said there was zero involvement. He was still booted from the team for putting himself in that situation and putting UNI football in the media in a negative light.
Yeah...we are clearly very similar programs in regards to our negative press and issues.


Delta has serious staff shortages. Telephone calls from their best customers are taking up to 41 hours to answer. Now it seems they can’t get anyone to clean their lounges, so they asked various work groups, including pilots, to volunteer as cleaners in Atlanta their Sky Club lounges in Atlanta.
While the airline is mostly non-union, it surprised me to see the call go out and include Delta’s unionized pilots.
It turns out, according to airline spokesperson Drake Castaneda, that this happened by mistake and “was corrected, as this was meant for salaried employees and not frontline employees as well.” He expanded,
Just as we’ve done for years with Peach Corps employee volunteers during our busiest travel seasons, we have asked Atlanta-based, salaried employees to volunteer in our Atlanta Delta Sky Clubs to help meet the rapid, recent increases in customer volumes and ensure that our teams continuously deliver the elevated Club experiences our customers have come to expect.
No matter where a Delta employee works – whether in the operation or at headquarters – one thing consistent among all Delta people is their willingness to lend a hand. It is part of Delta’s culture and is the Delta Difference.
The U.S. faces reported unemployment of around 6%, yet job growth last month was anemic. Unemployment pays more than during normal times. For families with children whose schools have been closed for in-person learning, taking a job means paying for child care. That has made matching unemployed workers with jobs difficult.
And while $79 billion in U.S. federal government support for the airlines was supposed to ‘keep them ready for when passengers want to fly’ it didn’t actually do this. Pilots didn’t keep current with takeoffs and landings, and airlines cut costs wherever possible, whether shedding staff through nominally voluntary buyouts or by cutting off contractors. And since Sky Club cleaners work airside, that means more vetting and time to gain badge access.
Delta Sky Club Austin
While it’s possible at some level for employers to pay more to attract employees, wages are sticky downward, and employers reluctant to pay more now and lock in higher wages – against temporary constraints that should resolve themselves by fall. And that’s even if they could afford to do so with modest margins or big losses.
[…] who non-rev and took the card are stuck with the annual fee but no lounge access. Delta employees who heeded the airline’s call to volunteer cleaning the clubs can no longer even use their memberships to these […]


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The timing couldn’t be worse for the former president as he faces the prospect of having to sell property to cover a massive verdict against him.
The judge who ruled Trump's name should be taken off the ballot agreed to stay her order until the process is completed.
As much as many Chicagoans may like to see the oversize letters spelling TRUMP come off the tower at 401 N. Wabash, that’s not likely to happen anytime soon. Here's why.
A court-appointed monitor has flagged “deficiencies” in the Trump Organization’s financial reporting, including a loan tied to the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago.
Thwarted by Elections Board, voters aiming to bar Trump from Illinois primary ballot seek expedited appeal
It's an argument that could go all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court — but with the primary slated for March 19, time is short.
Members of the board concluded they did not have the jurisdiction to rule on the decision of whether Trump's role in the Jan. 6 insurrection disqualified him from the ballot.
The Texas lawyer behind that state’s six-week abortion law that allowed private citizens to seek $10,000 bounties from violators has been hired by Donald Trump for his Supreme Court bid to stay on the presidential ballot.
Trevian Kutti and Stephen Cliffgard Lee today were the final two of the 19 people accused in the indictment to turn themselves in for booking in Fulton County.
Illinois has a rare opportunity to be one of the first states to adopt the position of many conservative legal scholars and foil the ex-president's ambitions, writes Chicago tech leader Howard Tullman.
The indictment alleges Trevian Kutti and Stephen C. Lee tried to pressure a Georgia election worker to admit to claims of voter fraud made by Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election.


“I’m excited,” Mayor Bruce Teague said at the end of the Iowa City Council’s special formal session on Tuesday night.
The almost four-and-a-half-hour meeting followed the city council’s two-hour-long normal formal meeting, and was devoted to developing a plan to address the social justice issues that have come to forefront as a result of local and national protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.
“We’re not all the way there, don’t get me wrong,” Teague said at the end of the special formal session. He added, “This is amazing.”
The city council unanimously passed a 17-point resolution that covers topics from affordable housing to police reform, and even added a new holiday to the city’s official calendar. It also approved a resolution empowering the mayor to send a letter to the Johnson County Attorney asking her to drop all charges against people involved in the protests led by the Iowa City Freedom Riders (IFR).
The resolution was drafted largely in response to a list of demands IFR published last week. At the beginning of the special session, Mayor Teague thanked Councilmember Laura Bergus for her work in drafting the resolution. Bergus is the only practicing attorney on the city council. (Councilmember Janice Weiner briefly practiced law before her career in the diplomatic service.)
The full name of the resolution indicates the width of its scope: “Resolution of Initial Council Commitments addressing the Black Lives Matter Movement and Systemic Racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police and calls for action from protesters and residents.”
In addition to the demands published by IFR, Teague said the resolution had been influenced by hundreds of emails the city has received in the past three weeks, as well as many conversations with Iowa Citians, both in person and on the phone.
The resolution calls for the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Oct. 1. The commission is intended “to bear witness to the truth of racial injustice in Iowa City and to carry out restorative justice through the collection of testimony and public hearings.” Details regarding the commission will be determined during future city council work sessions, but Mayor Teague made it clear he considers the commission to be essential in helping the city council determine policies regarding topics such as affordable housing, policing practices and increasing diversity among the city’s staff.
As part of the resolution, the city council committed to spending $1 million during the fiscal year that begins on July 1 “to promote racial equity and social justice” through, among other things, supporting the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and creating a new affordable housing plan.
While all the councilmembers were in agreement about the commission, there was some disagreement regarding the new affordable housing program.
Councilmember Mazahir Salih wanted to add wording to the resolution to make sure the plans would address the need for affordable housing downtown and in Iowa City’s core neighborhoods (which the city has previously defined as the Northside, College Green, Bowery, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Riverfront Crossings East, Riverfront Crossing West, Miller/Orchard, and Brookland/Roosevelt neighborhoods), but Councilmember Susan Mims pushed back against the idea.
Mims said she wasn’t in favor of naming downtown and the core neighborhoods in the resolution because “that is the most expensive place for providing affordable housing, because land costs are the highest. So, I guess we have to make a balance between the number units [of affordable housing] we’d like to provide and location.”
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Salih responded that the expensive nature of the real estate is “exactly why we want affordable housing there.” She added, “the core neighborhood is not only for people who have money, it’s not only for business people, it’s supposed to be for everyone.”
The language in the resolution was adjusted to say the affordable housing plan would include but not be limited to downtown and the core neighborhoods.
Another part of the resolution provoked more uncertainty than disagreement.
The resolution calls on the city to “elevate” its “commitment to racial equity and social justice and increase resources devoted to those efforts as needed.”
After some discussion of what particular actions could be taken, Bergus said, “I think the intent of our resolution tonight is to be that initial commitment. It makes sense to me that it will be broader than ultimately where we want to land. We will get the specifics, and I think we’re counting on each other and the public to hold us accountable.”
“I view it a little bit as a constitution,” she said. “Like an overarching guiding document that that will be essentially our loadstar as we work on each of these items.”
Teague added that is will be one of the issues the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will consider.
Most of the resolution focuses on police issues.
City Manager Geoff Fruin has been tasked with preparing a report on the involvement of the Iowa City Police Department in the incident on June 3, when law enforcement officers under the command of the Iowa State Patrol used flash-bang grenades and tear gas against protesters on Dubuque Street who were marching to I-80.
Fruin said he intends to ask the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to review the incident. The DCI is often used to investigate actions of local law enforcement agencies, and reviewed both shootings of suspects by ICPD officers that occurred in 2019.
The resolution calls from Fruin to deliver his report by Aug. 1.
Other parts of the resolution call for:
• a report on any military-grade equipment ICPD has
• a prohibition on “the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and flashbangs against peaceful protesters”
• a total ban on the use of chokeholds “or any other maneuver that cuts off oxygen or blood flow”
• a review of how ICPD is ensure its officers comply with its policy on the use of body cams
• requiring ICPD officers to intervene and stop any use of excessive force by another law enforcement officer and immediately report the incident to a supervisor
• ensure that ICPD hiring practices prohibit employment of anyone who committed “serious misconduct” at another law enforcement agency
• prepare a report on how the Community Police Review Board can more effectively provide oversight of ICPD
• publish online a detailed expenditure summary of the ICPD budget
• ask Iowa City’s state legislators to work on any changes in state law needed for the city to make the changes included in the resolution
But the biggest change regarding the police department was addressed in the first of the resolution’s 17 sections.
By December 15, 2020, develop a preliminary plan to restructure the Iowa City Police Department (ICPD) towards community policing, including, but not limited to, reduction of the public’s reliance on police in non-violent situations through the use of unarmed professionals, and consideration of community policing initiatives in other cities, including, but not limited to, Minneapolis, MN, Camden, NJ, Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA.
The Dec. 15 date is intended to provide enough time to develop a thorough preliminary plan, but make sure it is presented to the city council before it starts work on the ICPD’s next budget.
At the end of the special session, Councilmember Weiner said she had one addition to make to the resolution. She suggested making Juneteenth — an annual occasion commemorating the news of the abolition of slavery reaching enslaved people in Texas, the last major stronghold of the Confederacy — a city holiday. The council unanimously approved the addition.
Staring next year, Juneteenth — which is celebrated on June 19 — will be an official city holiday, replacing one of its existing holidays.
In addition to the resolution, the city council also approved a measure empowering the mayor to write a letter to the Johnson County Attorney, asking her to dismiss all outstanding charges against people who participated in the protests.
Councilmembers Pauline Taylor and Susan Mims were unsure if all the charges should be dropped, since some — including two OWIs and one charge of possession of firearms under the influence — were more serious than simple traffic violations. Salih insisted that all the charges be dropped, because she believed they were the result of the police targeting protesters.
Councilmember John Thomas said he had “gone back and forth” on whether all the charges or just some of them should be dropped. But he eventually decided the “historic moment” the city is experiencing made dropping all the charges appropriate.
Mayor Teague said he agreed, and he also pointed out that Iowa City and Johnson County frequently use a light hand when it comes to policing some infractions.
“We see it all the time for football games here,” Teague said. “There’s an acceptance of behavior that would not tolerated any other time. And of course, once the game is over, things are back to normal.”
Teague said he and other officials had been having discussions regarding safety with IFR organizers, and those conversations would continue.
All the councilmembers voted in favor of the letter, except Bergus, who abstained because voting on an issue regarding criminal charges was a potential conflict of interest for her as a practicing attorney.
By the end of the special formal meeting, the city council had addressed all the demands IFR had directed to the city. (IFR has other demands directed to the Iowa City Community School District and Gov. Kim Reynolds.)
On its Instagram page, IFR celebrated the quick action by the city council.
IFR announced on Sunday, it had no protests scheduled for either Wednesday or Thursday.


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...There is a sea of humans In unconscious daze Lost and nowhere going Affixed to tired ways
He looks to be like you But he's here to shed the light And pull you out of sleep It's what he has to do
He brings invisible fire The work of a posthuman To be observer on a fort Now, settle on his gaze His eyes are for exhuming with their posthuman blaze...
"PostHuman Blaze" is Aedyn Jak's third book, published in December, 2018. The book, with its strong futuristic component, takes on an illicit and advisory tone, giving away its downloads from the future.
by Aedyn Jak
Magic Rope, Aedyn Jak's second publication, is a book of modern gothic shorts, with a post-chapter of new poetry and eight colour ink illustrations.
Drapes: A young, ex-acrobat couple buys their first home in their dream city of Paris, but one of them begins to experience some unseen phenomena which seems to have entered the very fabric of their home. Juna Nail Salon: A group of unbecoming female colleagues hatch up a sordid plan to have a bit of fun and it might just be borderline criminal. Tainted Saint: This twisted religious tale, set in Malta, delves into the vengeful possession of a church's iconic statue, and how its demonic repercussions soon besets the whole town. Orion: Little boy Orion has struggled with night terrors all his life, much to the exhaustion of his forlorn parents, who try hard to cope with the mysterious 'visitations'. Maybe grandma Rita is one step ahead.

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Palliative Care & Hospice Education and Training Act
(PCHETA, HR 1676 & S. 693)
On June 20, 2018 the Coalition participated in the Patient Quality of Life Coalition's 5th annual Lobby Day in Washington, DC.
23 participating organizations, from 30 states, with 80 advocates, 104 hill meetings, resulted in 285 bipartisan co-sponsors in the House
Supportive Care Coalition Board members Lois Lane, Sarah Hill, Darren Henson, Bob Bergamini, and Gregg VandeKieft visited multiple house and senate offices seeking additional co-sponsorships for the bill.
As a result the PCHETA bill passed in the House on July 23, 2018!
PCHETA is now in the Senate awaiting review and vote

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Ganges River, Hindi Ganga, awesome stream of the fields of the northern Indian subcontinent. Albeit formally and additionally prevalently called the Ganga in Hindi and in other Indian dialects, universally it is known by its customary name, the Ganges. From time immemorial it has been the sacred waterway of Hinduism. For a large portion of its course it is a wide and languid stream, moving through a standout amongst the most fruitful and thickly populated areas on the planet. Notwithstanding its significance, its length of 1,560 miles (2,510 km) is moderately short contrasted and the other awesome waterways of Asia or of the world.
Ascending in the Himalayas and exhausting into the Bay of Bengal, it channels one-fourth of the domain of India, and its bowl underpins a huge number of individuals. Most of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, crosswise over which it streams, is the heartland of the locale known as Hindustan and has been the support of progressive civic establishments from the Mauryan realm of Ashoka in the third century bce to the Mughal Empire, established in the sixteenth century.
For the vast majority of its course the Ganges moves through Indian domain, despite the fact that its extensive delta in the Bengal region, which it offers with the Brahmaputra River, lies for the most part in Bangladesh. The general course of the waterway's stream is from northwest to southeast. At its delta the stream is for the most part southward.


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International Leukemia Experts Gather to Honor Wilmot Cancer Center's John Bennett, M.D.
Some of the world’s leading experts on leukemia, from both Europe and North America, will gather Saturday, June 9, for a Symposium on Myeloid Neoplasms organized to honor the many contributions to the field of John M. Bennett, M.D. The symposium will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The event will also celebrate Bennett’s 80th year and his commitment to community volunteerism for the Arts. He is a board member and avid supporter of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dr. Bennett, who last year was named recipient of the B.J. Kennedy Award and Lecture for Scientific Excellence in Geriatric Oncology by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, is widely recognized as an international expert in leukemia and a pioneer in myelodysplastic syndromes research. He was a founder of the French-American-British Cooperative Leukemia Working Group and is renowned for his research into the diagnosis and treatment of hematological malignancies. A major focus of his research was to integrate a new classification of MDS into the study of new agents that would hold promise for people suffering from this blood disorder, which often leads to leukemia.
In 2004, Bennett was honored with the Career Achievement in Clinical Hematology Award by the Celgene Corporation. He designated the award funds to establish the Carol and John Bennett Traveling Fellowship Award for talented oncology fellows or junior faculty members at the Wilmot Cancer Center who present research at national and international conferences. The funds are awarded annually to the individual presenting the best research.
Researchers and colleagues from as far away as France and Germany, as well as some from the most highly regarded U.S. institutions such as Harvard and Mayo Clinic, will be at the event to share their knowledge and honor Bennett.
“To have some of the world’s brightest minds and leading researchers on MDS come together to honor John affirms the great respect his colleagues have for him and his status as an international leader in the study and management of this disease,” said Jonathan Friedberg, M.D. chief of the division of Hematology/Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. “His early work has served as a foundation for many advances made over the past several decades and he continues to be a valued mentor to a new generation of researchers.”
Bennett is currently professor emeritus of oncology in medicine, laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). He joined the faculty of the University of Rochester as head of the division of hematology/oncology at the Highland Hospital in 1969. In 1974, he became the clinical director of the University of Rochester’s cancer center, a position he held for 20 years.
Bennett has held a number of leadership positions throughout the world, including serving as the founder and first chairman of The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation, and as a founding member of the International Society for Geriatric Oncology. He has served as editor-in-chief of Leukemia Research journal for more than 20 years and serves on the editorial boards of several additional journals. He has published more than 500 articles and chapters.
A graduate of Harvard College, Bennett earned his medical degree at Boston University and completed his residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He completed a hematology Fellowship at Tufts University/Boston City Hospital and later served as head of the morphology/cytochemistry section at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center before moving to Rochester.

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An earthquake registering at a 6.4 magnitude struck Puerto Rico on January 7, 2020. Consequently, families are still reeling from its destruction and records state that it was the strongest earthquake in a century. The aftermath of the earthquake has been unbelievable, causing the homelessness in Puerto Rico to spike. Currently, almost 5,000 residents had to move to homeless shelters. Also, there was at least $110 million worth of damage. In addition to the damage, a mass power outage occurred as a result of the earthquake. Reports indicated that nearly all of Puerto Rico did not have access to power.
The Aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake
The last earthquake to register as strong as this one happened in October 1918. That earthquake registered at a magnitude of 7.3 and it took the lives of 116 people.
The latest earthquake has caused havoc throughout Puerto Rico. The aftermath led to 950 earthquakes and aftershocks throughout the area. This has caused even more issues for those who were already going through hardships. Moreover, these aftershocks caused people to evacuate from their homes and seek new places of shelter. Over 200 people took shelter in a nearby gym after an earthquake on Monday, January 6, 2020. However, the 6.4 magnitude earthquake damaged that building and the citizens had to evacuate again.
Homelessness in Puerto Rico After the Hurricanes
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in September 2017 placed 10,000 people in shelters all across Puerto Rico. The island is still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, as thousands are still homeless and struggling as a result of it. The total damage after Hurricane Maria was around $100 billion.
After the earthquake in early 2020, 5,000 residents remained in homeless shelters even after Puerto Rico restored power. In addition, there are still others who choose to sleep outside of their homes, in order to avoid the damage from aftershocks.
The country is planning to use tourism to get the economy back on track and reduce the alarming rate of homelessness in Puerto Rico. Ricardo Rossello and his administration are attempting to encourage visitors to continue to visit the island. They want visitors to continue to show their support for the Island as tourism is vital to recovering the economy.
IsraAID came to the rescue to provide aid for those homeless due to the damage of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Puerto Rico in early 2020. This organization has been assisting and helping around Puerto Rico since the devastation that Hurricane Maria caused in 2017. Some teams have been in Puerto Rico since the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
In early 2020, IsraAID initially went to the heart of the damage that the 6.4 magnitude earthquake caused to evaluate and determine what its first steps of assistance should be. It determined where teams should go to provide first aid, clean water, sanitation and psychological assistance.
In the case of Hurricane Maria, IsraAID and other volunteers provided food and water to over 6,000 citizens in six different communities throughout Puerto Rico. The organization set up its own mobile clinics and assisted hundreds of citizens in the poorest areas throughout Puerto Rico. Since this was one of the most catastrophic storms in history, there were a lot of mental health issues related to this event. IsraAID provided mental health treatments and psychological support and assistance to citizens.
Initially, IsraAID set out to assist and help in any way that it could. Since then, its efforts have extended into maintaining resiliency against natural disasters. The organization started working on two projects after Hurricane Maria to ensure and create resilience, working with nearby schools and creating a clean water filtration system in the remote community of El Real.
The current 6.4 magnitude earthquake caused chaos adding up to $110 million worth of damage along with increasing homelessness to 5,000 residents. Tourism could help the economy of Puerto Rico recover while Israeli nonprofit organization IsraAID has been of huge assistance to the residents of Puerto Rico. With continued support, Puerto Rico should be able to reduce its homelessness and improve its economy in the aftermath of its most recent devastating earthquakes.
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Since the level of Arctic sea ice set a new record low in 2007, significantly above-normal winter snow cover has been seen in large parts of the northern United States, northwestern and central Europe, and northern and central China. During the winters of 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, the Northern Hemisphere measured its second and third largest snow cover levels on record.
“Our study demonstrates that the decrease in Arctic sea ice area is linked to changes in the winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation,” said Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. “The circulation changes result in more frequent episodes of atmospheric blocking patterns, which lead to increased cold surges and snow over large parts of the northern continents.”
The study was published on Feb. 27, 2012 in the online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research was supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
In this study, scientists from Georgia Tech, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University expanded on previous research by combining observational data and model simulations to explore the link between unusually large snowfall amounts in the Northern Hemisphere in recent winters and diminishing Arctic sea ice.
The researchers analyzed observational data collected between 1979 and 2010 and found that a decrease in autumn Arctic sea ice of 1 million square kilometers -- the size of the surface area of Egypt -- corresponded to significantly above-normal winter snow cover in large parts of the northern United States, northwestern and central Europe, and northern and central China.
The analysis revealed two major factors that could be contributing to the unusually large snowfall in recent winters -- changes in atmospheric circulation and changes in atmospheric water vapor content -- which are both linked to diminishing Arctic sea ice. Strong warming in the Arctic through the late summer and autumn appears to be enhancing the melting of sea ice.
“We think the recent snowy winters could be caused by the retreating Arctic ice altering atmospheric circulation patterns by weakening westerly winds, increasing the amplitude of the jet stream and increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere,” explained Jiping Liu, a senior research scientist in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. “These pattern changes enhance blocking patterns that favor more frequent movement of cold air masses to middle and lower latitudes, leading to increased heavy snowfall in Europe and the Northeast and Midwest regions of the United States.”
Diminishing Arctic sea ice can cause changes in atmospheric circulation that lead to a circulation pattern that is different than the “negative phase” of the Arctic Oscillation.
In addition to analyzing observational data, the researchers also assessed the impact of the diminishing Arctic sea ice on atmospheric circulation by comparing the results of model simulations run with different sea ice distribution. They ran one experiment that assumed seasonally varying Arctic sea ice and utilized sea ice concentration data collected between 1979 and 2010. Another simulation incorporated prescribed sea ice loss in autumn and winter based on satellite-derived Arctic sea ice concentrations.
The simulations showed that diminishing Arctic sea ice induced a significant surface warming in the Arctic Ocean and Greenland/northeastern Canada, and cooling over northern North America, Europe, Siberia and eastern Asia. The models also showed above-normal winter snowfall in large parts of the northern United States, central Europe, and northern and central China.
The consistent relationships seen in the model simulations and observational data illustrate that the rapid loss of sea ice in summer and delayed recovery of sea ice in autumn modulates snow cover, winter temperature and the frequency of cold air outbreaks in northern mid-latitudes.
Huijun Wang and Mirong Song of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Radley Horton from the Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research also contributed to this work.
This project was supported by the NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study and the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Award No. ANT-0838920). The content is solely the responsibility of the principal investigators and does not necessarily represent the official views of NASA or the NSF.Research News & Publications Office
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|The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey:
came in after supper. Betty would come down and sing for them, and afterward
would coax Indian lore and woodcraft from Wetzel, or she would play checkers
with the Major. If she succeeded in winning from him, which in truth was not
often, she teased him unmercifully. When Col. Zane and the Major had settled
down to their series of games, from which nothing short of Indians could have
diverted them, Betty sat by Wetzel. The silent man of the woods, an
appellation the hunter had earned by his reticence, talked for Betty as he
would for no one else.
One night while Col. Zane, his wife and Betty were entertaining Capt. Boggs
and Major McColloch and several of Betty's girls friends, after the usual
music and singing, storytelling became the order of the evening. Little Noah
|The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen:
tomcat into the room, and began to pursue him. The frightened Canary fluttered
about in his cage; the Parrot flapped his wings, and cried, "Come, let us be
men!" The Clerk felt a mortal fright, and flew through the window, far away
over the houses and streets. At last he was forced to rest a little.
The neighboring house had a something familiar about it; a window stood open;
he flew in; it was his own room. He perched upon the table.
"Come, let us be men!" said he, involuntarily imitating the chatter of the
Parrot, and at the same moment he was again a copying-clerk; but he was
sitting in the middle of the table.
"Heaven help me!" cried he. "How did I get up here--and so buried in sleep,
too? After all, that was a very unpleasant, disagreeable dream that haunted
|The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato:
like one another, and friends to one another; and that the bad, as is often
said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves; for
they are passionate and restless, and anything which is at variance and
enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other
thing. Do you not agree?
Yes, I do.
Then, my friend, those who say that the like is friendly to the like mean
to intimate, if I rightly apprehend them, that the good only is the friend
of the good, and of him only; but that the evil never attains to any real
friendship, either with good or evil. Do you agree?
He nodded assent.


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Judge asks litigants to avail mega Lok Adalat
DLSA convener and senior civil judge Ch VS Srinivasa Rao said that the Supreme Court with an aim to render instant justice to the litigants, has made the Legal Service Authority Act in 1987.
Kurnool: District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) convener and senior civil judge Ch VS Srinivasa Rao said that the Supreme Court with an aim to render instant justice to the litigants, has made the Legal Service Authority Act in 1987. Participating as chief guest in the inauguration of Mega Lok Adalat mela and counseling organised at Kurnool Taluka police station on Friday, he said the Act would resolve the pending cases after compromising both parties.
Addressing the gathering, Srinivasa Rao hailed Superintendent of Police Siddarth Kaushal for organising mega Lok Adalat at Kurnool taluka police station. "This is the first time I am seeing such a kind of counseling mela organised in a police station," he said.
Rendering instant justice to the litigants after speaking to them and knowing their problems was indeed a good initiative, the senior civil judge said and added around 4,800 cases were pending in the court and it will take several years to come for trials.
The work burden on courts would reduce if the litigants' compromise, which is the only way to lead a happy and peaceful life, stated Ch Srinivasa Rao. Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddarth Kaushal hoped the litigants would get justice in Mega Lok Adalat. The program would be conducted once in every three months.
He appealed to the litigants and the people to know the importance of Lok Adalat and asked the legal fraternity to create awareness on Lok Adalat. He appealed to the litigants to make use of the Mega Lok Adalat and reap the benefits.


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Rev. Christina G. Kukuk was born near and raised in Ashland… Ohio. A convert to the United Church of Christ, since her ordination in 2005, she has served congregations in Ohio and Minnesota. Most recently, she ventured into “spiritual R&D” as the Gathering Pastor for a new faith community on the East Side of Cleveland. A newspaper and magazine journalist in her first (shorter) career, she edited Common Lot, the magazine for UCC women, in 2014, and continues some freelance writing and editing work. Her recent work has appeared in Belt Magazine, Bearings Online, and GEEZ magazine, and The Christian Century. She blogs occasionally at Rev. Christina Kukuk’s personal blog and tweets from Rev. Christina Kukuk’s twitter.
Christina gets her dry humor from a long line of German ancestors and her love of pie, unfortunately, from both sides. She enjoys green things, outdoor activities, and really nice fiber.
Christina is married to Adam, a musician, singer, and drum circle facilitator. Together they parent two children and struggle to enforce the family rule: “no singing at the table.”
Tege Phillips has been the church administrator position for five years, after a short stint on Church Council. Tege moved to the Rogue Valley 7 years ago from Lakeview, OR. She’s most happy at finding a home in this warm, creative, and busy congregation! Tege has two grown sons, Sean and Chris both who live in Medford.
Adam Kukuk is a musician, composer & workshop facilitator. From organ and piano to choirs and drum groups, Adam has meaningfully incorporated music ranging from Bach to Tracy Chapman in worship. Always striving to help congregations discover their resources and deepen their experience of God. Whether leading a cappella call-and-response refrains, Renaissance motets, children’s bells, homemade percussion orchestras, contemporary praise music, or rousing Evangelical organ hymns, he has one goal: to help people worship God.
Sabrina is from Taiwan and came to Ashland in 2001. She connects easily with children and loves doing childcare for the church.