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For Immediate Release, October 7, 2009
Contact: Rebecca Noblin, (907) 274-1110
Alaska Sea Otters Gain Habitat Protection
5,855 Square Miles in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Designated as Critical Habitat
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 5,855 square miles of nearshore waters along the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, and Alaska Peninsula as critical habitat for threatened sea otters in southwest Alaska. Today's action comes under court order resulting from a lawsuit against the Service by the Center for Biological Diversity.
"Critical habitat has a proven record of aiding the recovery of endangered species," said Rebecca Noblin, a staff attorney with the Center in Anchorage. "We are pleased that habitat for threatened Alaska sea otters will finally be protected. With the habitat protections of the Endangered Species Act now extended to sea otters in Alaska, this iconic species has a fighting chance of recovery."
In August 2000, the Center petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service – the Interior Department agency charged with protecting the nation's wildlife – to protect sea otters in southwest Alaska under the Endangered Species Act. Two lawsuits and five years later, in August 2005, sea otters in this region finally received protections provided by the Act, following population declines of up to 90 percent in many areas.
Fewer than 40,000 otters were estimated to exist in southwestern Alaska in 2005, down from more than 100,000 in the 1970s. Declines are most pronounced in the Aleutian Islands, where the population has dropped from more than 70,000 to fewer than 10,000 animals. The exact cause of the decline remains a mystery, but scientists have speculated that increased predation by killer whales may be a factor. Sea otters in the area are also threatened by proposals to open Bristol Bay in the Bering Sea to oil development, along with changes to the ecosystem brought about by global warming and overfishing.
The Endangered Species Act requires that critical habitat be designated when a species is listed. In December 2006, the Center filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Washington, D.C., challenging the Bush administration's refusal to designate such habitat for sea otters, and in April 2007 the Center reached an agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Under the terms of the agreement, critical habitat for the otter had to be finalized by October 2009.
Today's habitat designation includes all nearshore waters in the current range of the southwest Alaska population of the sea otter within 100 meters of mean high tide, waters less than two meters in depth, and kelp forests in waters less than 20 meters deep. In total, the areas making up the critical habitat equate to 5,855 square miles. While today's designation includes critical areas for the sea otter, it fails to protect deeper waters and areas further from shore that the otter also needs to recover.
"While today's habitat designation is an important step in preventing the extinction of sea otters in southwest Alaska, we still must do much more to ensure their eventual recovery, including protecting offshore habitat and eliminating the threat of oil development in Bristol Bay," said Noblin.
Congress has emphasized the importance of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act by stating that "the ultimate effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act will depend on the designation of critical habitat." Recent studies have shown that species with critical habitat are twice as likely to be recovering than species without. Despite the importance of habitat protection, the Bush administration vigorously opposed critical habitat designation for most species, designating such habitat only as a result of litigation.
The Interior Department has proposed opening up areas in the Bering Sea near Bristol Bay to offshore oil and gas development, but such development in Bristol Bay would be devastating for sea otters. Because they rely on their fur as insulation against the cold, sea otters are extremely vulnerable to oil spills. As many as 1,000 sea otters died from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. More recently, the Selendang Ayu oil spill in the Aleutian Islands in December 2004 killed numerous individuals in this vulnerable sea otter population.
The Endangered Species Act requires all federal agencies – including the Minerals Management Service, which manages offshore oil leasing – to ensure that their activities do not destroy or adversely modify that habitat. The critical habitat designation will be published in tomorrow's Federal Register.
More information on the sea otter is available on the Center for Biological Diversity's website at www.biologicaldiversity.org.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with 225,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild lands. Its Alaska office is located in Anchorage.
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Playoffs begin tonight (Feb. 22) as the Vikes host the Manitoba Bisons (14-8) in the Canada West quarterfinals, a best-of-three series starting at 7 p.m. The series continues tomorrow at 7 p.m. and, if needed, 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24.
The No. 10-ranked Vikes women (16-6) start their playoff series against No. 2-ranked Regina (19-3). The best-of-three series runs tonight, Saturday and Sunday.
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Richard Newcomb, an expert at event planning, shares how Lutheran Social Services Community Care Centers more than met their expectations in their latest fundraiser by using walkathon software.
DoJiggy: Tell us about your cause.
Richard: I've been organizing golf tournaments for 22 years for large corporations, non profit organizations, and churches. I contact the organizations and offer my expertise in tournament planning as a means of raising money for the charity of their choice. Most organizations are ecstatic about having this opportunity, as they often do not have event planning for this purpose.
I have recently been targeting agencies that represent sports celebrities. These individuals often are looking for a way to publicly promote the charitable causes they support, and tournaments are a great way to do so.
What kind of special event fundraising do you do to support your mission?
We have walk-a-thons, phone-a-thons, Cajun dinner fundraisers and golf tournaments. With DoJiggy, we have hosted several walk-a-thons.
Walk us through the planning process.
We rally the support of our area advisory council several months in advance. We solicit volunteers to help support our efforts to market and promote the event. We design, print and e-mail flyers, posters and announcements to area churches and previous participants.
Did you reach out to local sponsors?
Just one sponsor: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. They donated $2,000 to our cause.
Did you do any advertising to get participants?
We sent out posters, flyers and e-mails to area churches and members to spread the word and sign up participants.
How did DoJiggy help in the organizing of your event?
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Tell us about your success… How many participants? How much did you raise? Did you accomplish your goals?
Thanks to DoJiggy's amazingly affordable internet based package, we were able to more than double our number of participants this year. We had 59 website participants, plus about 20 "traditional method" (envelopes and checks) participants. Last year we raised $7,500 and this year, we were able to raise over $28,000! Our donations per participant were double the previous year.
We set a VERY lofty goal of $30,000, because we believed in the DoJiggy product, and we achieved that goal with the addition of the $2,000 sponsor donation!
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Have faith in the DoJiggy product to work for you. Some event participants will be reluctant to embrace new technology (internet based) for your fundraising. Find the people who are excited about it and get them pumped up. They will lead by example and the others will follow. In addition, having a strong marketing minded individual head up the effort is invaluable. Just having a website will not guarantee success. You and your volunteer team need to drive traffic to the site.
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You're not seeing things… Alabama's senior U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby really did find himself in the company of rock star legend Bono, of the famed band U2 this week.
Thank you to Bono for stopping by the office yesterday! Enjoyed discussing various issues and hearing about all of the good work he is doing around the world. @U2 pic.twitter.com/WcPWC0vsZV
— Richard Shelby (@SenShelby) June 20, 2018
On Wednesday Shelby tweeted a photo of himself and the U2 frontman in his office.
According to the Associated Press, Bono was visiting Capitol Hill Tuesday — after playing two sold-out shows over the weekend in the nation's capital — "to thank Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress for funding international development programs. He's the co-founder of The One Campaign, which advocates for ending extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa."
Shelby didn't disclose what the two discussed during the sit down, tweeting only, "Enjoyed discussing various issues and hearing about all the good work he is doing around the world."
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YAIAA girls' lacrosse lookahead
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Here's a look at what the Rams and the YAIAA might have to look forward to in 2014:
1. Kennard-Dale (23-3, 10-0 in 2013): It will be a strong junior class for Kennard-Dale, as leading scorer Morgan Day will be back, along with Lyndsey Duty. The two should give the Rams an unmatched one-two scoring punch. They'll also have a seasoned goalie, as Emily Deaver spelled All-YAIAA goalie Alana Pietra at times. Deaver will be tested again, as the Rams also must replace standout defender Abi Pietra.
2. Susquehannock (8-7, 5-6): The young Warriors team pushed Kennard-Dale to overtime in the regular-season finale, and many of those players will be back. Katelyn Welch and Ashley Valway, like Kennard-Dale's combo, will be juniors.
3. South Western (17-3, 10-0): The Mustangs used a freshman goalie, Laura Silver, this past season and also will return Callie Kavanaugh for her fourth and final year in the program. There will be plenty of turnover in the lineup, though. Sydney Szparaga is headed to Siena, and Jess Kopenhaver and Amy Spigelmyer also were lost to graduation. The Mustangs won four straight Division I titles with them around, but the presence of Kavanaugh and Silver should help their pursuit of a fifth straight division title.
4. York Catholic (14-5, 8-2): The Irish lose four-year player Alexis China, but she was surrounded by many who will be back for 2014. One is Jess Mazzur, who helped York Catholic get back to the YAIAA championship game for a second straight year. Lindsay Givens also was an all-star as a junior attacker in 2013.
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Human Torpedoes, X-Craft, and Midget SubmarinesUnder water craft, or weapons that fall outside the parameters of the conventional Submarine will be discussed in this section, under their country of origin.
Human Torpedoes
(d) ItalyThe Italian 2 man Torpedo was carried on the deck of a Submarine, and was 21 inches in diameter, 22 feet long with a 500 pound explosive detachable head.
The 2 propellers were battery driven, and compressed air tanks were fitted to control the depth keeping mechanism. The device was maneuvered below the target ship's keel, the warhead being attached by lines fastened to a clamp attached to each side of the ship under attack Dangling below the keel line, this warhead was usually set to explode in about 2.5 hours time.
Italy used 2 man Human torpedoes in September 1941, when they slipped into Gibraltar harbor and blew up the Tanker "Denbydale," the Cargo ship "Durham," and the Tanker "Fionashell".
The Italian Frogmen manning their human Torpedoes named their craft "Pigs." They were ridden astride by the two man crew, at a speed of only 3 knots over a range of 16 miles.
On the 18th of December 1941, three two-man Torpedoes were launched from the Italian Submarine "Sure," off Alexandria. The Royal Navy Battleships "Valiant," and "Queen Elizabeth," and a Tanker were all damaged. All the Italian Frogmen were captured. Admiral Cunningham commented "One cannot but admire the cold blooded bravery of these Italians."
The "Queen Elizabeth" was attacked a second time in May 1942, whilst she was in a floating dock at Alexandria, but all three crews were forced to abandon their craft and they were all captured.
In all, Italian attacks numbered 7. The results were 14 Allied Ships sunk or damaged.
(b) JapanBy the Spring of 1943, the Japanese had designed a Human Torpedo "Kaiten," or "Heaven Shaker." It had a speed of 40 knots and carried an enormous 3,000 pound warhead. This weapon was successfully tested in July 1944. Although it was easily detected whilst on the surface, and after submerging it left behind a most discernable wake Crews found it hard to steer, and at most, six hours was the ultimate operational time.
The Navy had no difficulty in obtaining volunteers to man this Suicide weapon. They exceeded the supply of "Kaitens." In November, 1944, three Submarines, I36, I37, and I47, each with 4 "Kaitens" carried on deck, strapped in racks, two forward, and two aft, prepared to attack U.S. ships. I37, in the Palaus, and I36, and I47 at Ulithi.
At Ulithi 3 "Kaiten" left I47, the U S Destroyer "Case" was outside the lagoon with 3 heavy Cruisers and a further 3 Destroyers enroute to Saipan.
A periscope was sighted from "Case" and it was assumed that it belonged to a Midget Submarine, this new "Kaiten" weapon still unknown to Allied forces.
"Case" was able to ram the "Midget" breaking it into two pieces. Within the lagoon chaos reigned, as the Cruiser "Mobile" made contact with what they believed to be "Midget" Submarines. Many ships opened fire, and at 0545, (5 45A.M.) the Tanker "Mississinewa" carrying fuel oil, diesel oil and a large quantity of aviation gas blew up with a tremendous roar. Later, her 5 inch magazine exploded, and she finally sank. 50 Officers and Men died. The "Kaiten" had claimed it's first victim.
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I36, had no such success. Three of her four "Kaiten" jammed within their racks, and could not be released. The fourth departed never to be heard from again.
Other attacks at Guam and Hollandia were inconclusive.
In July 1945, the U.S. Destroyer "Underhill" was despatched by a "Kaiten" killing 113 of her crew.
I58 which sank the Cruiser "Indianapolis" carried "Kaiten" on board, but her Captain, Lieutenant Commander Hasimoto reported at the courtmartial of the Commander of "lndianapolis," Captain McVay, U.S.N. that he had used conventional Torpedoes to sink her. This fact was disputed by some U.S. authorities who strongly believed that "Kaitens" were used to sink this U.S. Cruiser.
The dropping of the Atomic bombs prevented implementation of the Japanese plans to use all their "Suicide" weapons, including "Kaitens" in the final defence of their Homeland. All in all, a great deal of effort, planning, designing, building, and training "Kaiten" crews brought but a small return for their limited use.
(c) Britain`operational training for a two man Torpedo, known as a "Chariot or "Jeep," the intrepid crew were "Charioteers" and dressed in Frogman outfits.
Their name indicating that they rode the Torpedo sitting astride, one behind the other. A later version of the "Chariot" had recessed seats in tandem but the crew were still exposed to the open sea.
The torpedo rudder was controlled by means of a short joy stick which moved left or right for turning, and fore and aft to control diving or rising through the hydroplanes. A combined starter and throttle had four positions, three to move ahead and one for astern. Top speed was but a slow 3.5 knots.
Two pump levers pumped water in or out of ballast tanks, or moved water from the forward tank to the aft tank or vice versa. A final lever could open or shut the main ballast tank, and compressed air would expel this water via a valve.
The two crew, the front one known as Number 1, controlled the "Chariot." His Number 2 sitting behind him became operational on arrival at the target. Powerful hand magnets were used to position the "Chariot" after coming alongside the target submerged, and then used by the Number 2 to secure the detachable warhead to the ship's bottom.
It was planned to use "Chariots" to attack the "Tirpitz" in October 1942, whilst she was located at Trondhjemfjord in Norway. It was then reported that she had moved further South.
A fishing boat "Arthur" with a Norwegian Skipper was prepared. She would stow two "Chariots" on deck until they reached the proximity of the Norwegian coast. The "Chariots" would then be placed on tow, and "Arthur" would sail through German controls with the "Charioteers" concealed in a hollowed out "Hidey hole" in the peat cargo.
With the "Chariots" under tow and submerged, "Arthur" came alongside the German examination boat, a Control Ofticer came aboard, but the vessel passed his scrutiny. When the party was within striking distance of their objective, both "Chariots" broke away from their tow, and were lost. The "Arthur" was holed and sunk, and the crew and the "Charioteers" all landed and managed to pass into Sweden, but one of the "Chariot" team, Able Seaman Evans was badly wounded in a shoot out near the frontier. On Hitler's orders, he was later shot.
Further "Chariot" operations were undertaken in the Mediterranean, including reconnaissance of the coast of Sicily prior to the invasion, and the sinking of an Italian Cruiser at Palermo. The final operation was an attack in the harbour of La Spezia, ironically, the actual birth place of the Italian two man Torpedo.
Lieutenant Causer and Seaman Harry Smith managed to sink the 10,000 ton Italian Cruiser "Bolzano," but had to abandon their craft, and they then scrambled ashore having been at sea for over 7 hours. The two British sailors joined up with Italian guerillas, with whom they fought for 6 weeks, finally being captured by a German patrol.
It was suspected that they both were responsible for the sinking of the "Bolzano," however they both denied any involvement in that affair, maintaining they were survivors from a large British Submarine. Smith was sent to prison camps in Germany, at first to Bremen, and then to Lubeck, where he was kept in solitary confinement, whilst the Germans tried to break him down to admit that he was involved in the sinking of the "Bolzano", but he managed to stick to his claim that he survived the sinking of a large British Submarine. Smith survived the war, to be finally rescued by the invading British troops.
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Pondexter scores 31 points to lead Liberty to 90-83 win over the Dream
ATLANTA – Cappie Pondexter scored 31 points to lead the New York Liberty to a 90-83 win over the Atlanta Dream on Friday night.
With the win, New York (18-11) moved one game ahead of Atlanta (18-13) in the Eastern Conference.
Atlanta was led by Angel McCoughtry's 22 points and 21 from Erika DeSouza.
Pondexter scored 16 points in the first quarter, missing only one of her seven shots from the outside and setting the tone for New York.
Pondexter finished the game 8 of 11 from the field and 13 of 13 from the free-throw line.
Atlanta failed to stop New York even when Pondexter wasn't on the floor. With their leading scorer on the bench, the Liberty increased their lead to 31-23.
But Pondexter, the league's fourth-leading scorer, didn't get off a shot in the second quarter.
Atlanta stayed within range, trailing 44-37 at the half. But Pondexter couldn't be stopped for long.
"I came out aggressive because I knew I had to set the tone offensively," Pondexter said. "Atlanta is such a good offensive rebounding team, we were trying to do whatever we had to do to win.
Pondexter said she was particularly pleased with her performance at the free throw line.
"Someone just told me I was 13 for 13 on Friday the 13th," she said. "That's freaky. But I pride myself in making every free throw. They are, after all, free. It's in your control when you are at the line."
New York coach Anne Donovan said Pondexter did exactly what she's been coached to do — shoot when she is open, force the ball when she is guarded tightly.
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Detailing how people everywhere can make progress against the drastic environmental problems that we currently face, The Green Boat (Riverhead Books, 2013) offers the simple solution of taking small, positive and humane steps forward. Author Mary Pipher, Ph.D.—a psychologist and author of eight books—experienced a "trauma to transcendence cycle" when she learned that the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline was proposed to run through her native Nebraska Sandhills. In this excerpt from "Finding Shipmates," Pipher meets with other potential activists to discuss their environmental concerns.
The intensity of my emotions around the planned TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline required me, a reluctant activist, to become more involved. I invited my friend Brad, a soft-spoken organic gardener, and my friend Marian, from nearby Spring Creek Prairie, to my house to discuss what we could do to stop Trans-Canada from shipping tar sands sludge through our state.
We met over soup and artisan sourdough. I wanted the event to be more like a party than a meeting. I assumed that my friends were like me—too busy already and tired at the end of a workday. They would only return if they were relaxed and having fun.
We shared what little we knew about the pipeline and talked about people in our community who might be interested in joining our cause. We agreed that for our next meeting, in a week, we would invite anyone we knew who might want to jump on board.
Eight people came to that next meeting. Mitch was a young, clean-cut guy from the mayor's office. Jane, director of a political nonprofit called Bold Nebraska, had driven in from Hastings, leaving her two daughters, Kora and Maya, at home with her husband. She was a commanding, articulate woman dressed in a stylish outfit and cowboy boots. Malinda, her Lincoln assistant, arrived with yard signs and bumper stickers that said "Stop the XL Pipeline." Like all the young people that eventually joined our coalition, Malinda had plenty of enthusiasm and gumption.
Ken, a tall, skinny, tired-looking lobbyist for the Nebraska Sierra Club; Duane, the director of the Nebraska Wildlife Federation; and Tim, the director of Nebraskans for Peace, came, too. Tim had helped organize 350.org of Omaha and was working with our power districts on ways to increase the amount of clean energy we have in our state.
After introducing ourselves to each other, we began to compare notes. Jane had been talking in the kitchens of ranchers and farmers along the proposed route. She told us that TransCanada had been bullying them into selling easements. One rancher told her that the land in the Sandhills could not recover from the digging of an oil pipeline. His grandfather had plowed a furrow to stop a prairie fire a hundred years ago. Since then, every generation of his family had tried unsuccessfully to restore the land.
"The pipeline is going to destroy vital habitats," said Marian. "I'm really worried about the sandhill and whooping cranes."
Ken and Duane told us how TransCanada was working with state officials, lobbyists, the press, and public relations people to give support for the pipeline. Ken said, "I've never seen money washing around the halls of the capitol the way I have this year."
At this point in the discussion, we were all feeling a bit overwhelmed. To paraphrase my granddaughter Kate, we were starting to know too much.
Despite the fact that several of us were looking at our feet and could no longer speak, Tim jumped in with more bad news. He made the connection between tar sands development and rising CO2 levels, between our local struggles and a much larger climate catastrophe.
TransCanada had assured Nebraskans that the Keystone XL pipeline would be safe. But none of us was born yesterday. Ken recalled that in the 1980s, just before Chernobyl exploded and spewed nuclear materials around the globe, the Soviets had reported that it would be safe for at least a thousand years.
We talked for a couple of hours. We were like mosquitoes in a nudist camp—we knew what we had to do; we just weren't sure where to begin. Fortunately, with so much work, we could choose any area that interested us and plunge in. We could hardly plan fast enough.
We had all come into the meeting feeling isolated, hopeless, and disempowered. But despite the grim content of our discussion, as the night went on, we became increasingly hopeful. This seems counterintuitive, but I think I know why it happened. That night, we weren't just complaining and bemoaning our situation, we were planning ways to understand and prepare for the coming storm. And we had shipmates.
All of us were progressives who had worked for lost causes all of our lives. None of us ever seemed to vote for a candidate who won. We didn't think we'd win this battle, either. We had no money, organization, or public support. But we were not just going to lie down and surrender.
We agreed to meet again in two weeks. Most of us were foodies, so we liked the idea of biweekly potlucks with wine. No fast food, pizzas, or sandwiches for us. We decided to avoid office buildings, too. We'd meet outside for picnics or in members' homes.
We called ourselves a coalition and vowed that every meeting we would plan actions. That night, we decided that our first action would be a rally in January 2011 on the steps of our state capitol in Lincoln.
We hugged each other good-bye under the stars. Afterward, while rinsing the dishes clean, I realized I was humming. That was something I hadn't done in a long time.
From The Green Boat by Mary Pipher. Copyright 2013 by Mary Pipher. Excerpted by permission of Riverhead Books.


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A new report comes up about the future of Apple iTunes, folks over iDownloadBlog reports on the word of their sources that next version of iTunes 11 will get a complete new design with deep iCloud integration. We already know Apple is about to launch iCloud this fall and already working on iTunes 10.5 for testing the iCloud features in it, the report makes some sense here. We currently seen iCloud integration in iTunes but with limited support, users can purchase app on their machine using new iTunes with iCloud implementation, and the downloaded app will automatically start downloading on the other device, which uses the same Apple ID or connected within same Wi-Fi network.
Its worth note here, iDownloadBlog has currently no record in the past in leaking and reporting any news, so you can take this report as a rumor report with a grain of salt. On the other hand, sources of BGR also claims something similar to it, on which their one source says Apple will release iTunes 11 in September (may be with iPhone 5) along with iOS 5 and iCloud, and would support reading iBooks on the Mac.


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Perverse, saucy, and sly, Up in the Cellar tells the satirical story of a college student who takes revenge on his university's callous president by seducing the women in the president's life as a means of derailing the administrator's aspirations to political office. The storyline integrates myriad counterculture-era signifiers, including campus unrest, exhibitionism, experimental filmmaking, free love, the generation gap, political duplicity, underground revolutionaries, and more. So even though the film's production company, B-movie supplier American International Pictures, apparently envisioned Up in the Cellar as a quasi-sequel to the company's sexed-up 1968 flick Three in the Attic, the picture works well as a stand-alone entertainment, at least for those with a dark and dry sense of humor. For while some scenes in Up in the Cellar are outrageous, screenwriter-director Theodore J. Flicker, who scored with The President's Analyst (1967) and later co-created the sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982), never achieves out-and-out hilarity. Instead, Up in the Cellar takes the piss out of mainstream institutions while presenting a suicidal poet as an antihero.
Colin Slade (Wes Stern) attends college on a poetry scholarship until a computer program determines that his rhymes fall below the university's precise mathematical standards. Colin seeks redress with Maurice Camber (Larry Hagman), the cowboy-hat wearing college president, but Maurice proves unsympathetic. Then Colin returns home to the condemned building where he squats and watches in horror as the structure is demolished. Blaming all his difficulties on Maurice, Colin is open to suggestion when approached by a representative of Ultimate Revolution, a student group planning insurrection. Together with the UR guys, Colin makes a grand plan to kill himself by jumping from a radio tower while Maurice dedicates the tower during an opening ceremony. Yet things don't go as planned—Maurice, sensing a photo opportunity, rescues Colin. That's why Colin resolves to ruin Maurice's life by seducing the administrator's wife, daughter, and mistress. Each woman requires a different approach, so Colin adopts three new personas.
Among the many jokes embedded into this storyline is the fact that Colin is an average-looking schnook, so the idea that he drives three women wild with desire is part male wish-fulfillment and part skewering of Sexual Revolution iconography. Somehow, Flicker makes Colin seem confused and desperate instead of horny and sleazy, so Colin's relationship with Maurice's daughter, Harlene (Judy Pace), is tender—even though he draws the shy girl out of her shell by persuading her to appear in a stag reel. In fact, everything in the picture follows a consistent sort of twisted logic. The performances are mostly just adequate, with, for instance, Joan Collins adding little to the role of Maurice's astrology-addicted wife. Yet the way Stern seems perplexed by everything that's happening says something about young people trying to comprehend the true ramifications of power at the very moment they gain influence. Hagman is a hoot, presaging his Dallas days by portraying a giddily self-serving monster.
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Summer is upon us, and as the days grow longer and the mercury rises, my mind can't help but drift to the outdoors. Deadlines and other real-world responsibilities be damned; I want to throw my hair up in a ponytail, escape the hustle and bustle of city life, and feel the grass between my toes.
Camping is, of course, the most effective Rx for communing with nature. But between labor-intensive campfire meal prep and back-to-back application of DEET, I don't always want to deal with the hassle of roughing it. A happy compromise: glamping ("glamorous camping," for the uninitiated).
And at Camp Long Creek— a new 40-tent "glampsite" comprising cabins, huts, and tents in Ridgedale, Missouri — it's possible to reap all the benefits of communing with nature without giving up the amenities of a high-end hotel.
An extension to the popular wilderness resort, Big Cedar Lodge, which was opened by the founder of Bass Pro Shops in 1988, Camp Long Creek immerses guests in the densely forested landscape of the Ozark Mountains. The rustic-chic glamping accommodations are shaded in oak and dogwood trees near the banks of 43,000-acre Table Rock Lake, about five miles from the main resort.
With its white canvas "walls," king-sized canopy bed, wood floors, and fenced-in patio with outdoor soaking tub, my glamping tent (one of seven) made me feel like I was on the set of an Eddie Bauer photo shoot. Within minutes of getting settled, a wave of calm swept over me, and I knew I was in for some deep Zzz's — the kind you can only get from sleeping under a starry sky (with a layer of canvas in between, mind you).
The next morning, I left my hiking boots and hydration pack behind and, with a very un-camp-like green superfood smoothie in hand from the lodge's cafe, set off in an electric golf cart to explore the 2.5-mile Lost Canyon Cave & Nature Trail. I motored past waterfalls, caves, and across bridges hand-built by the local Amish community, delighting in the sights and sounds of my surroundings.
Back at "camp" there was plenty to do, like swimming laps in the heated infinity pool and noshing on burgers and wine slushies at the lakeside canteen. Guests also have access to the full range of amenities at Camp Long Creek: five golf courses; five outdoor pools and a lazy river; a dozen restaurants; a natural history museum; a mini golf course; and a spa, salon, and fitness center.
But my morning jaunt had whetted my appetite for adventure. So I hopped in my rental car and hit the road in the direction of Dogwood Canyon Nature Park, a 10,000-acre expanse that straddles the Missouri-Arkansas border. There, I explored springs, waterfalls, and caves, and even saw a small herd of American bison grazing on a vast pasture.
That night, I joined large groups of families and friends for the nightly sunset ceremony, which culminated with a bagpipe performance and the blasting of a civil war cannon. The tradition harked back to when the land served as hunting grounds for the Osage Indians, then as a logging site for trappers and settlers — a time when nature was an inherent part of daily life, not a place to go and escape daily life. Which makes an off-the-grid escape like Camp Long Creek, where you can pretend that the former is true, even if only for a few days, so appealing.
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Our special granddaughter, Megan and her handsome husband Joshua welcomed their son, Sean Liam (our second GREAT grandchild) into the world yesterday, October 25th. We have not received any details yet except the three pictures sent to my cell phone showing a very happy new Mama holding her baby son. Once we know more, we will share that info with you.
Salinas weather report: Cool nights and warm days. This weather is as perfect as it gets folks!
Update on son, Mike: He tells us the actual damage was a broken arm above AND below the elbow; a shattered elbow and a broken wrist. Miraculously, his shoulder and collar bone are okay. He did tear a tendon in his foot but the doctor says it is the only one (of dozens) in the foot he doesn't really need … so, so lucky! After his surgery and a couple scary days in the hospital he is home, walking in a special boot and getting around on his own power. We love you Michael, Get well soon!
As full time RVers, Phil and I vote with absentee ballots and it goes without saying (Then why am I saying it you ask?) that the outcome of this election could possibly affect our lives—big time. Phil thinks he may have given our mail service the wrong zip code for our location. If that is true, we could be in Salinas for another week waiting for the package to be returned then resent to us. November 4th is coming up fast and we are a bit apprehensive … thinking we may miss the opportunity to have our voices heard. It would not be the end of the world but it would be a big disappointment since for the first time, we are not going to cancel each other's vote. We will call our service on Monday to either confirm our fears or find out if we are just being impatient.
We are parked at the Salinas Elk's Lodge RV park and it is directly alongside a local golf course. We parked nose in first even though it was a stretch for the electric cord so we would have the pastoral and peaceful view out our front window. While watching the coming and going off the tee in front of us all week, we have decided that golf aficionados are a curious bunch. When it started getting daylight this morning, I realized the course was blanketed with a thick fog at ground level. Even before I could see anything there was a worker buzzing around in a golf cart and I watched his headlight bouncing around in the fog. It looked a bit ghostly actually until I figured out what it was. Then even though the fog was still thick, there were numerous golfers going past our window and I wondered how they could see where the ball flew. And, did you know there are remote controlled golf bag carriers? We have seen several this past week and at first we thought they were runaways until we saw the remote controls in the hands of the people following along behind. Why? I did play golf in a former life for several years and speaking from experience, how tough can it be to push or pull a golf bag on wheels over comparatively flat ground? Also, we often wonder how all these young people get time away from work during week days to play … as I said, a very "curious" group indeed!
While we were in Pleasanton, we went on a couple road trips with my sister and her husband. Sitting up front and navigating for brother-in-law Walt, Phil discovered some new features on their GPS navigation system Nuvi by Garmin. We tried out this new found knowledge (yes, we had failed to read the manual) on our own older model GPS, "Carmen" Garmin and have been having a great time. We now know how to program "Carmen" to AVOID highways (freeways), dirt roads, u-turns, car pool lanes, etc., etc. and she has taken us on some amazing back road trips. As the acclaimed "salad bowl" of America (BTW Yuma, AZ also makes that claim), the Salinas area (which includes the beautiful Monterey Peninsula) is a mega-agricultural area and the fields surrounding this city are full of bountiful food crops in all stages of growth. We have seen miles of grape vineyards, several kinds of lettuce, artichokes, corn for silage, kale, cabbage, fennel, tomatoes, prickly pear cactus and many crops we couldn't identify. Oh yes, and strawberries! Hundreds of acres of strawberries being harvested and planted—in October! Who knew?
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Etsy Love #1 - The Little Magpie
Like I said in the beginning, I'd like to do a quick little shout out for some of my favorite sellers on Etsy.
Here's my first installment, The Little Magpie. She has a nice little variety of items in her shop and they're very reasonably priced. Here are a couple of my favorites...
The first thing I noticed in The Little Magpie's shop was her pincushions. So cute and simple. I love that this one has a button that looks like a coffee bean.
This chainmaille bracelet is made with silver and rainbow colored aluminum rings and is great for people like me who don't do jewelry much. I prefer discreet jewelry, and pretty much will only wear bracelets or earings. So this is a great find for me. Nice work Little Magpie, good luck!


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The RSC publishes a journal and jj-partner uncovered that while they reject only 70% of the papers submitted (standard for chemistry, he says), 50% of the total number of papers are NOT sent out for peer review. Further, participating in the initial culling are people who are pretty far from being peers, as far as he can determine. E.g., they may not have doctorates in chemistry. And yet they are supposed to judge on the professional qualities of the papers, including originality, interest, in addition to qualities of competence.
Is this one of those nice cases where we can be happy that at least leading journals in our field are not that bad, or in fact might some be just that bad? E.g., are grad students sometimes sorting through our work? This is decidedly a worry for feminist philosophers, since one suspects initial culling is often not done with the author's identity unavailable, and that typically reduces the likelihood of a woman's paper being accepted.


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The Internet really is the birth of the global mind. The Internet is the light at the end of the dark tunnel. It is creating a global society. A global consciousness. We can all decide what we keep, and what we replace. The popular culture is a mass hallucination, and when we step outside of the mass hallucination, then we see the real world.
Nature loves courage. Make the commitment, and the nature will respond to that commitment by removing the impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is how the magic is done.
Half the time, we think that we are thinking, but in reality we are actually listening and responding to the environment around us. Change your environment, and your thoughts change. Go into the nature and you discover yourself.
If you do not have a plan for your own life, then you become part of somebody else's plan, and they will use you up.
We have the technological power and the engineering skills to save our nature, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end the suffering. But we lack the intellectual vision, or the courage to change our minds. We must evolve our mind from the 10 thousand years of egoistic behavior. And it is not easy.
Our global problem is not to find the answer. The problem is to face the answer, and the solutions that tell us that we were wrong. It is hard to accept to be wrong. The ego is not helping in this situation.
When you stop feeding your own ego, then you meet your own soul. The people are so distant from their own soul, that when they meet their soul, then they think that it comes from another universe. The future of humanity is in the communication with our own soul. The dreams and the powerful plants can help us with that. Nature and the plants do have the answers. We must return to the nature and start listening.
The aquarium and the plants can create the perfect combination. The fish love to live in the clean water. The plants can help to clean the water. In this wonderful video we can see one very effective aquaponic system. The fish create the waste in the water, when they eat their food. The plants can recycle the dirty water from the fish. The bacteria in the ground do help to filter out the rest of the waste, that the plants did not use for their food. The plants eat the waste from the fish. The bacteria eat the waste from the fish. The aquaponic aquarium system is created for the production of the vegetables at home.
We can feel very happy, when we grow our own food in our own garden. Many people do not have a garden. We live in expensive flats, and we do not have any garden. We buy our food from other people. The aquaponic aquarium system can help us to grow some of the food in our home. The auqponic system is very effective. The plants grow fast. It is possible to grow vegetables and flowers in the aquaponic aquarium system. There are almost no limits to this idea. Everything is possible.
Plants help us to connect to the nature. The nature can give us the answers to the problems that we have in our life. The plants can make us more healthy and more happy. The aquaponic garden can help us to connect to the power of the nature. The plants feel very happy in the aquaponic garden. The LED lamp is giving the energy to the plants, and the fish create the food that the roots of the plants eat. The aquaponic aquarium system is designed to be simple and easy. The water is running in the circle from the aquarium into the ground, where the roots of the plats help to filter the water. This aquaponic system is fully automated, there is no need to do anything special.
It is possible to create an aquaponic garden with the help of the snails, the snails do eat the algae and the bacteria in the aquarium. There is not need to feed the snails. The aquaponic aquarium with snails can be fully automatic and autonomous, if we add the solar cells onto the side of the aquaponic garden.
This is a very advanced technology. It is possible to grow a lot of food in the aquaponic garden, because the plants do grow fast. The fish love it too, because their water is much more clean. There are people who have an aquarium at home. Those people can convert their aquarium into the aquaponic garden, if they connect the water from the fish to the roots of the plants. The idea is simple, but the results are very large. The aquarium has the same problem all the time. The water can become dirty and the fish become sick.
The aquaponic aquarium can help to create a clean environment for the fish. When the water is more clean, then the owner of the aquarium can relax and enjoy the colorful fish in the aquarium. In the future, all the aquariums will be connected with the plants in the water and with the plants on top of the aquarium. This combination is perfect, and we can be very happy about this interesting, aquaponic garden.
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The concept of "new" and "old" money is hard for the average modern reader to understand. In most parts of the country, the term "nouveau riche" isn't often used, and with the onslaught of new Internet millionaires and billionaires in the last decade, the judgment is certainly no longer there. Today's America values the self-made man or woman, the "rags to riches" story. A person who makes her own fortune is smart and innovative, an entrepreneur. She's someone to be admired.
However, this was not always the case. There was a time when building one's own fortune was considered crude, and only the kind of wealth that came to this country on the Mayflower was valued. In the 1920's, the East Coast, particularly New England and New York, was a land of haves, have-nots, and have-had-since-long-before-the-haves. This is the setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby.
In Gatsby's world, the difference between old and new money is not just a theoretical divide, it's a physical one. The "old money" elite (including Daisy Buchanan, the object of Jay Gatsby's affection) live in the East Egg neighborhood, while the riff-raff nouveau riche, including Gatsby himself, are relegated to West Egg. To the uninformed observer, the two Eggs are virtually identical, but to the Eggs' respective inhabitants, differences are apparent everywhere. Whenever Gatsby visits the Buchanans in East Egg, he may as well be wearing a big red "EE" (a new kind of Scarlet Letter) on his lapel.
The social divide between Gatsby and Daisy has been the impediment to their relationship since the beginning, and when Gatsby went out to make his fortune as a young man, he did it with the dream of winning Daisy as his motivation. He does end up becoming incredibly wealthy and has the house, clothes and parties to show it. The only problem? The love of his life, Daisy, has married Tom Buchanan in the interim, and it seems that all of his work has been for naught.
Those who believe that Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a social and economic commentary, see the novel as an allegory, a cautionary tale about the dangers of the pursuit of wealth. Their interpretation of one of the most famous Great Gatsby quotes, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning – "is guided by this notion. The green light, they say, represents money, and the quote demonstrates the futility of pursuing it. There will always be someone richer; the race has no finish line.
But if that were the case; it Gatsby were just a mercenary, and Daisy a symbol of what he could achieve with his wealth, it's unlikely that Nick would like him so much. "You're worth the whole damn bunch of them put together," he tells Gatsby, despite the fact that he "thoroughly disapproved" of Gatsby's way of life. If the reader trusts Nick's judgment and believes that he really is as honest as he claims to be, his loyalty to Gatsby (loyalty to the end – Nick ends up being one of the only people to attend Gatsby's funeral) must be worth something.


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Fabrication of Epoxy Nanocomposites from Oil Palm Nano Filler: Mechanical and Morphological Properties
The aim of this research was to fabricate epoxy nanocomposites by utilizing the developed nano filler from oil palm mills agricultural wastes oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) fibers for advanced applications. Epoxy-based polymer nanocomposites were prepared by dispersing 1, 3, and 5 wt. % nano OPEFB filler by using a high speed mechanical stirrer through hand lay-up technique. The mechanical (tensile and impact) properties and morphological properties of nano OPEFB/epoxy nanocomposites were examined and compared. Morphological properties were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to look at the dispersion of the nano OPEFB filler in the epoxy matrix. The tensile and impact properties of nanocomposites increased until 3% nano filler loading, but beyond 3% they decreased. Overall mechanical properties reached maximum values for 3% loading, due to better stress transfer owing to homogenous dispersion of nano OPEFB filler within epoxy matrix. The observed results were also confirmed by SEM and TEM micrographs.
Epoxy; Oil Palm empty fruit bunch fiber; Nano filler; Nanocomposites; Mechanical properties; Morphological properties
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- Title: South Korean president faces resignation calls at huge protest rally
- Date: 12th November 2016
- Summary: CANDLELIGHT PROTEST IN PROGRESS PROTESTERS MAKING MEXICAN WAVE WITH CANDLES
- Embargoed: 27th November 2016 14:02
- Keywords: protest demonstration rally South Korea Asia government
- Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
- City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0095850E2T
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced mounting pressure to step down on Saturday (November 12) as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched in the capital to protest allegations that she let a friend meddle in state affairs.
Saturday's candlelight rally in downtown Seoul was the largest so far in a crisis engulfing Park, 64, and organisers said some 850,000 people packed streets running through the city centre including a 12-lane thoroughfare. Police estimated the crowd at 260,000.
Students, families including young couples pushing strollers and protesters in wheelchairs were among the crowd during the peaceful march, which contrasted with the violence of some previous rallies dominated by militant unions and civic groups that clashed with police.
"This bad person, who was not elected by us, has been controlling the country. I was angry because she [South Korean President Park Geun-hye] was nothing but a puppet. I am furious for all these reasons," 50-year-old protester Park Je-sang, who attended the protest with his wife, said.
"Park Geun-hye! Today! Step down! Immediately! Step down! Now!" protesters chanted a few hundred metres (yards) from the presidential Blue House.
It was the third weekend protest rally since Park's first public apology on October 25 when she admitted she had sought the advice of her friend, Choi Soon-sil.
Park's acknowledgement only served to fuel public anger and suspicion over the secret confidant, who apparently held no official government position.
Another apology by Park and an offer to work with the parliamentary opposition to form a new cabinet and relinquish some power also failed to quell the crisis, prompting opponents to say she did not grasp its severity.
Park has dismissed some of her most senior and closest advisers, and former aides have been arrested on charges of abuse of power. Choi, the friend who is believed to have been acquainted with the president since the 1970s, has been charged with abuse of power and fraud.
Members of main opposition parties joined Saturday's rally, suggesting there is growing support in parliament for action to remove her from power, although there was no formal move yet to launch impeachment proceedings.
No South Korean president has ever failed to finish their five-year term.
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We'll be running all future workshops at the Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC. Please check back for details or go to their website HERE.
MEGAGRAPHIC at Durham Arts Council
The Supergraphic Print Lab team will be installing a show at the the Durham Arts Council that opens on January 11 and ends on February 28th, 2019. The installation is called MEGAGRAPHIC and includes 140 prints of bold colorful designs organized in a grid.
Book binding workshops coming in 2019
Screen Printing and Book Binding
TBA in 2019
Instructors: Tedd Anderson and Logan Britt
Fee: $125, All materials supplied
Durham artists Tedd Anderson and Logan Britt will be teaching this workshop on creating and designing books. For the first part of the workshop Ted and Logan will let participants choose from several patterns to be used for the cover of their book. These patterns will then be screen printed by the participants. Carved linoleum stamps will also be available to use. After the designs are printed Logan and Tedd will demonstrate several non-adhesive book bindings including a folded zine structure, pamphlet binding and Japanese punch binding. participants will be able to leave with their own handmade and self-designed booklets. This is a beginner workshop. No experience necessary. All materials supplied.
For more information go to the WORKSHOPS tab above.
Next Screen Print Workshop on 10/6
See the link to the WORKSHOPS page for details about our next workshop.
Recent Activities at Super G
There's been a lot going on at the Studio since the winter. Here are some pics of recent activities.
Recent activities in the studio
We've Been Busy!
We've been busy the last few months running live screen printing events and workshops. The following are some highlights. Stay tuned for a lot more printmaking action in 2018!
Coaster printing events. Lots of possibilities. We're planning on doing a lot more in the new year! Coasters for Honeygirl Meadery event below. Designs by Robby Poore.
At the Nasher Museum.
T-shirt printing event at Duke's PricePalooza in October. 300 shirts printed!
Another workshop. Spreading the gospel of print!
Brian demonstrating how its done during the CenterFest Arts Festival in September. Never too young to learn.
Live poster printing at the UNC Morehead Planetarium during the August eclipse. We printed around 600 posters!
Eclipse poster designed by Matt Tauch.
We're now running OPEN screen print studio time! Come work in the shop for $10 every Sunday from 5pm – 9pm. First come first serve. Screen coating is $5 per screen. Bring your own screens, paper and ink. Squeegees, scoop coaters and other equipment supplied. Expert help available during the open studio. For more information contact us at email@example.com
UNC Creative at Super G
The folks from UNC Creative were in the studio recently brushing up on their screen print skills. Our super screen print instructor Robby Poore showed them the ropes. Hope to see more of the UNC Creative team in the future!
Vertical Screen Printing
If you're interested in learning how to do vertical screen printing, contact us. We offer personal screen printing lessons and group workshops. If you'd like to learn more about vertical screen printing check out verticalscreenprinting.com


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Today, May 4th, is "The Day Against DRM". It's a very sad day ! While I think DRM is fundamentally flawed by design we're still stuck in this extremism debate going nowhere anytime soon. Apple has sold its 1'000'000th (1 million) iPad last Friday, 28 days since its launch, 12 million apps downloaded and 1.5 million ebooks. Let's face the facts, compared to the number of signatures collected against the iPad this device is rocking its world despite the DRM issues. Basically, the user experience by far outweighs the problems. I've written an Open Letter to DefectiveByDesign.org about this here.
So, here's my proposition for today. It's a call for action: let's unite to propose a "Grassroots DRM Day", a day to co-creatively Rethink and Redesign DRM. Drop me a note if you feel like participating (I'll setup a page in case there's a critical mass of people who want to take action) (See LibrePlanet Wiki)


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Beijing-based artist Liu Bolin's work explores the relationship between the grand scale of cultural development and the place of a single individual within it. Best known for his Hiding in the City series, he has been named the "Invisible Artist" after creating a project where he has disappeared into over 100 locations in New York, California, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Russia.
As he explains in his recent TED Talk, Hiding in the City began as performance art protesting the 2005 destruction of Suo Jia Village by the Chinese government. The largest congregation of artists in Asia, Suo Jia Village was Liu Bolin's workplace and home at the time of its destruction. In Hiding in the City No. 1 Liu Bolin camouflaged himself into the ruins of his destroyed studio space.
Hiding in the City, in addition to his work in other mediums, comments on human beings' relationship to their environments (socially, culturally, ecologically, and politically). His works show how broader cultural development has been redefining the role of individuals in ways we need to examine and change before it's too late.
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Portfolio Review: Invisible Artist Liu Bolin Shares the Stories Behind His Work
All images courtesy Eli Klein Fine Art, © Liu Bolin


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Bayburin R.F., Kasprzhak A.G., Filinov N.B.
Approaches to Recruiting School Principals in Russian University Cities as a Means of Educational Quality Enhancementpp. 5–20 618
Filinkova E.B., Shulga T.I.
Teachers' Perception of Educational Leadership as a Factor of Readiness for Administrative Positionspp. 21–31 443
Bochaver A.A., Verbilovich O.E., Pavlenko K.V., Polivanova K.N., Sivak E.V.
Children's Involvement in Supplementary Education: Monitoring and Value of Education on the Part of Parentspp. 32–40 1873
Polyanina O.I., Baleva M.V., Shevkova E.V.
Evaluation of the Semantic Dynamics of Educational Space of University in the Process of Nurturing Critical Thinking in Students of Liberal Arts and Sciences Programmepp. 41–51 397
Ilyin V.A., Ilyichyova I.V., Levanova E.A., Mikhailova E.A., Pushkareva T.V.
Psychosocial Development in Schoolchildren: Creating and Testing the Monitoring Systempp. 52–60 511
Miklyaeva A.V., Bezgodova S.A., Vasileva S.V., Rumyantseva P.V., Solntseva N.V.
Academic Procrastination in the Structure of Learning Activity Styles in Studentspp. 61–69 2572
Chmelárová Z., Čonková A., Šoltés E.
Performance Anxiety in Slovak Students at Adolescent and Young Agepp. 70–79 2034
Gut Y.N., Kabardov M.K.
Neuropsychological and Social Factors of Deviant Behaviour in Adolescentspp. 80–90 1010
Bannikov G.S., Vikhristyuk O.V., Fedunina N.Y.
Applying the Technique for Screening the Risks of Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents and Young Peoplepp. 91–101 1178
Galasyuk I.N., Mitina O.V.
Parental Attitude in Families with a Special Childpp. 102–111 1128
Novikova M.A., Rean A.A.
Family Background of Child Involvement in School Bullying: Impact of Psychological and Social Characteristics of the Familypp. 112–120 1455
Оvcharova R.V.
Psychological Structure of Parental Tolerancepp. 121–129 1102
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Still A Happily Child-Free Unicorn
I was asked on Good Morning Britain this morning to talk about whether women face too much pressure to have children. It came up because Jennifer Aniston had written a magazine piece about how she is both "body shamed" and "baby shamed" when commentators obsessively wonder whether a picture of her with a bloated tummy means she is "finally" pregnant.
The nature of live morning telly is such that it's hard to get chance to say much in what's set up as a "debate" with Richard Madeley (whose randomness I love) chucking in random stories like about what happened when he asked Gaby Roslin if she was pregnant (and she didn't know she was, but she was). Also I was "Up against" the right wing commentator Ann Atkins who, though she is churchy and thinks women should have kids, was reluctant to agree that people should pester Jennifer Aniston about whether she's going to have kids.
Anyway, the thing I'd love to have said is that this narrative is a bit of a red herring. The story in which "Poor Jen" doesn't have children, and in which I sometimes still get asked why I don't/didn't want them, is by the by. So, people are rude and find it harder to get to grips with women who don't conform, nothing new there. Mothers get MUCH worse mithering about their choices- because this is all part of the wider issue of society still getting too much of a say over women's bodies and women as supposed to be both "productive" and "reproductive". It's I think, much harder to be a mother in a society that is STILL not set up so that women get a fair crack of the whip at work (gender pay gaps, no allowances for career breaks etc). In a society that stigmatises single mothers. In a society which carries on the historic patriarchy of the church in which women's roles are to be an Ideal Mother and a Productive Worker, preferably all at once. No matter how much austerity or lack of social privilege make it difficult. It's also much harder to want children and not be able to have them for biological/social/economic reasons.
Compared to that, being expected to want kids is a minor irritant. What's more destructive is that we are so rarely allowed to see and hear the narrative of the HAPPILY child-free woman. The women (AND MEN) who choose not to be parents and still do good stuff. Are still "complete". Have had a variety of different experiences which were fulfilling in different ways. I don't think it's better or worse not to have children and its too simplistic to say "But it's all down to individual choice" because there are all sorts of social factors driving this stuff (In a way you have to be able to afford to have kids- but you also have to be able to afford NOT to have kids). A New Statesman article once suggested happily child free woman are like unicorns (as in, mythical). Of course, there are LOADS of us. But we rarely get heard because we're drawn into "Poor Jen" type narratives. It also makes it difficult for parents to then talk publicly about how challenging parenting is (I'm really not convinced by Ann Atkins' assertion that she's never met anyone who regrets having children- just people who don't feel they can say so).
We don't necessarily need people to be more tactful in how they talk about issues of parenthood and babyhood and make it taboo to ask people about their choices – we just need to hear a greater variety of stories and allow people to be honest. I'd love Jennifer Aniston to be able to come out and say "I've never had kids and I wake up every day in my lovely child-free apartment and thank my lucky stars I'm not a parent. Plus also I had a ginormous burrito for dinner and am now a bit bloated, whilst still conforming to Hollywood star standards. So don't worry about me too much- cast your attention to wider structural issues of inequality". Or, failing that, give me more than two minutes on telly and I'll say it. (I sort of did in The Price of Happiness, my Radio 4 show- still on iPlayer…).


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A prosecution witness on Monday narrated to a Federal High Court in Lagos how N851 million was allegedly deposited in tranches into First Bank accounts of two companies owned by former Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti.
Mr Taiwo Ogundein, a Relationship Manager, First Bank of Nigeria Plc., testified at the hearing of the N6.9 billion fraud and money laundering case brought against Fayose by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He was led in evidence by EFCC counsel, Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN).
Ogundein said that the sums were deposited into the accounts of a company, Still Earth Ltd. and De Privateer Ltd.
The EFCC had accused the ex-governor of procuring Still Earth Ltd. and De Privateer Ltd. to retain in their accounts aggregate sums of N851 million.
Fayose was first arraigned on Oct. 22. 2018, before Justice Mojisola Olatotegun.
He was charged alongside his company, Spotless Investment Ltd., on 11 counts bordering on fraud and money laundering.
He, however, pleaded not guilty, and was granted bail on Oct. 24, 2018, in the sum of N50 million with sureties in like sum.
The defendant was re-arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on July 2, 2019, after the case was withdrawn from Olatoregun, following EFCC's petition.
He also pleaded not guilty to the charges before Aneke, and was allowed to continue on the bail earlier granted him.
The EFCC had since opened its case before Aneke, and had led witnesses in evidence.
Ogundein told the court that he was invited by the EFCC in 2015 through his bank with respect to Still Earth, and was instructed to come along with its account opening package and statement.
According to the witness, he was asked questions at the EFCC office and he answered with a supporting document.
Prosecution counsel, Jacob's, tendered before the court a First Bank letter to the commission, which the court admitted and marked Exhibit F4.
When asked by Jacobs to describe the specific contents of the document, the witness described page one as the signature mandate and account statement of Still Earth, while the next page was a certificate of identification confirming the statement.
He told the court that on Nov. 12, 2014, Still Earth gave deposit instructions into its account totaling N34.8 million in four tranches.
He also said that on Jan. 29, 2015, and Jan. 30, 2015, the account received inflows of N40 million and N39.5 million paid by Hoff Concepts Ltd. and De Privateers Ltd. respectively.
He added that on Jan. 30, 2015, there was an outflow of N70.7 million from Still Earth to another company, Capital Field Investment and Trust Ltd.
According to him, on the same day, there were outflows of N105.7 million and N35 million to Capital Field Investment as well as an inflow of N132 million from another company, Samchase Ltd.
The witness told the court that on Feb. 11, 2015, there was an inflow of N200 million from De Privateer, while on May 13, 2016, there was an inflow of N47 million from same De Privateer.
Under cross-examination by defence counsel, Messrs Ola Olanipekun (SAN) and Olalekan Ojo (SAN), the witness told the court that he was not aware of any record of transaction involving Fayose, adding that he could not see the name of Fayose or Spotless Ltd. from Exhibit F4.
He testified that any banking procedure or transaction whether payment or deposit, must be backed by a document.
When asked whether the bank considered any of the transactions in Exhibit F4 to be illegal or suspicious, the witness said that he was not in a position to speak for the bank.
He, however, said that the bank complied with instructions of its customers, adding that any suspicious transaction would not be treated by the bank.
The court adjourned further trial of the case until Oct. 20.
The prosecution had called witnesses from some commercial banks as well as a former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro.
According to the charge, on June 17, 2014, Fayose and one Abiodun Agbele illegally took possession of N1.2 billion for purposes of funding his gubernatorial election campaign.
The EFCC alleged that the defendants out to have known that the sum formed part of crime proceeds.
Fayose was alleged to have received a cash payment of five million dollars (about N1.8 billion) from the then Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, without going through any financial institution.
He was also alleged to have retained N300 million in his account and took control of about N622 million which he reasonably ought to know formed part of crime proceeds.
Fayose was also alleged to have procured De Privateer Ltd. and Still Earth Ltd., to retain N851 million which formed part of crime proceeds.
The defendant was equally accused of illegally using about N1.6 billion to acquire property in Lagos and Abuja.
He was also alleged to have illegally used N200 million to acquire a property in Abuja in the name of his elder sister, Moji Oladeji
The alleged offences contravene the provisions of Sections 15(1), 15 (2), 15 (3), 16(2)(b), 16 (d) and 18 (c) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011.


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Saturday, January 14, 2017 … 10:27 A.M.
A primary source has alerted me that in a request to the Commission for resumes of all applicants for the interim appointment to Ken Epperson's now-open seat, only the resume of his appointment choice, "Kay" Proby-Waller, was withheld.
I cannot yet add any information about why that occurred.
Also, Shreveporter Scott Hughes has contacted me about Epperson's long (self) service on the Commission.
Hughes says Epperson did not pick a one-term "seat-warmer" due to having been term-limited out of office. Rather, he was able to stay in office for most of his adult life by serving long stints as Commissioner from two different election districts.
The information I used in my description did not provide the detail Hughes cites. The "seat warmer" practice, however, is particularly noteworthy in a key aspect of the Commission's criminal conspiracy known simply as "CPERS."
(I have not publicly detailed certain of those facts. Neither have I yet detailed how certain powerful locals,"self-anointed leaders" as I refer to them, continue to provide social, financial, legal, and political cover to guilty Caddo Commissioners.)
In 2013, Commissioners asked Caddo voters to change their term "limits" to five terms – yes, a "limit" of 20 uninterrupted years in power! Caddo voters rejected that mind-numbing attempt.
I wrote about that noxious op at the time. I explained, specifically, how Caddo Commissioners were thereby competing to join such dictators as Vladimir Putin, now-dead Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni. Here is that article:
Regardless of any of this, my point stands: Epperson has plied his twisted trade at the Commission for 20 of the past 24 years, and did so by pernicious means.
For the record, I have not confirmed the information from Mr. Hughes.
I note, too, that neither Epperson nor anyone else has contacted me for clarification / correction of anything included in yesterday's article.
© 2016 Elliott Stonecipher … ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


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But a lot of men and women are still throwing off a massive quantity of garden and kitchen waste daily without a thought as to where it is going to wind up. If you throw it at the bin, then it's very likely to end up in a landfill site and that's not what some of us should desire. If you want to buy garden waste bags, then you can contact us here.
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Thousands of kids were erased from the CoverKids and TennCare programs since 2017. About 128,000 children were purged from the CoverKids and TennCare Tennessee children's health insurance plans over a period of two years. Unless they took their kids to the doctor's office and were refused, parents had no idea it happened. TennCare and CoverKids are two government sponsored Tennessee children's health insurance programs for low-income families. As over 100 thousand kids in the state were not covered by private insurance, the number of uninsured residents of Tennessee ballooned in…Read More
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