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Elizabeth H.S. Students Lead Campaign to Support Teens Inclusion in $15 Minimum Wage Bill
Students took action to influence final draft of legislation; attend Gov. Murphy's bill signing at The Snyder Academy
Elizabeth, N.J., February 8, 2019 – High School students from several of Elizabeth Public Schools' seven secondary education academies participated in the democratic process by actively campaigning to include teens in the $15 minimum wage legislation that Governor Phil Murphy signed into law in Elizabeth on Monday.
Make the Road New Jersey, an organization founded in 2014 to build the power of immigrant and working class communities in New Jersey to achieve dignity and justice through community organizing, legal and support services, transformative education and policy innovation took action to support the bill.
Several high school students from Elizabeth Public Schools, through the organization's Youth Power Project, used their voices to campaign and convince legislators that teens have vested interest in the minimum wage hike.
The students were invited to the bill signing, held at The Snyder Academy of Elizabethtown, whose mission is to serve the people of Elizabeth and New Jersey as a vibrant center for culture, education, history and economic and social advancement. The venue is home to Make the Road New Jersey.
Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy senior Giovana Castaneda, the Make the Road New Jersey youth leader who lead the campaign charge, opened the bill signing event by leading the audience in a "power of the people" chant and welcoming Gov. Murphy, Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, Senate President Stephen Sweeney, and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin.
"No family in New Jersey can live on our current minimum wage," said Castaneda. "As a teen worker who fought hard with young people across the state not to be left behind, I am proud that teen workers are included in the minimum wage hike. Our work has value and contributes to our families' income and allows us to save for college. "
Students Jose Analco, Jesus Hernandez, Genessey Jimenez, and Alejandro Rodriguez-Buseman of Hamilton Preparatory Academy; Jefferson-Bellatrice Lavendes and Johana Chacon of J. Christian Bollwage Finance Academy; and Edwin Amaya, Bridget Barragan, Nathaniel Cordero, Fiona Joseph, Rudy Joseph, Xenia Rivas, Natalie Roman, and Angie Ruiz of Elizabeth High School – Frank J. Cicarell Academy were also key contributors in advocating for the $15 minimum wage legislation.
Among their contributions was an article written by Ruiz that was featured in NorthJersey.com in which she detailed the importance of raising the minimum wage and how it affects New Jersey working families. She also helped to make sure that New Jersey teens would be included in the minimum wage raise.
"I'm not the only young person in New Jersey who is working to help put food on their family's table. Teens from working class families contribute on average 18 percent of family income. For families of color, teens' wages comprise even more of our household income, according to a study from the National Employment Law Project," Ruiz wrote in the article.
"That's why I just don't understand when legislators want to carve out teen workers from the minimum wage. They say we are working to pay for movie tickets or buy clothes at the mall. That couldn't be further from the truth."
The bill signed by Gov. Murphy will gradually raise the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024. New Jersey teens under 18, who were once likely to be excluded from the wage hike, are now scheduled to also reach the $15 hourly wage in 2024.
"Providing our students with an excellent, comprehensive education includes equipping our students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed both in college and career opportunities as well as life circumstances," stated Elizabeth Public Schools Superintendent Olga Hugelmeyer. "The initiative taken by these students and the courage they showed in using their voice to persuade government officials that they were deserving of being included in the minimum wage increase is very inspiring."
"I am so proud of our students for taking such an active role throughout the process in which our elected leaders shaped the $15 minimum wage bill that Governor Murphy just signed into law," said Elizabeth Board of Education President Stephanie Goncalves. "Many of our students help their families to make ends meet by working a job. Their efforts in effecting change were vital to ensuring that teens of working class families would be heard and supported through this wage increase bill instead of potentially being left behind as initially expected."


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Tzatziki is an awesome Middle Eastern mezze that compliments many dishes. It's a fragrant and luscious dip-slash-condiment-slash-sauce. The Greeks put it on lamb gyros (not kosher, but tasty!). I usually serve it with meatless meals or as an accompaniment to fish. Tzatziki goes great with flatbread, pita bread, falafel, grilled veggies, stuffed grape leaves, grilled fish, or as a fresh vegetable dip. There are many, many more possibilities. It adds a lot of flavor to whatever you put it on, and it's really healthy too! Healthy and yummy? You bet!
Tzatziki is often served with a sort of soupy texture– runny, if you will. That's not the way I like it. Nope, I need a tzatziki with texture… something so thick and rich that you can eat it with a fork. What the secret to creating the perfect tzatziki texture? Strained yogurt! In yesterday's blog, I shared the technique of how to strain yogurt to make thickened Greek yogurt and labneh. You'll use the technique when you make this tzatizi. See? There's a method to my madness. 🙂
I usually start the process with Greek yogurt, since it takes less time to strain than regular yogurt. If you've got the time, you can use plain yogurt, but you'll need to strain it for 14-15 hours to get the thickened texture you'll need for my tzatziki.
Make sure you use fresh herbs and lemon juice. I like using Persian cucumbers (the small, thin ones) in this dish because they have a nice flavor and they don't have many seeds. If you can't find Persian cucumbers, you may substitute English cucumbers—those are the long thin ones wrapped tightly in plastic. Avoid using regular fat cucumbers, they are coated with wax and prone to bitterness. Nobody wants a bitter tzatziki. Finally, if you're a garlic fiend you can totally add more than the recipe calls for. I'm sensitive to garlic, so I don't add very much, but this dip could easily stand 2 more cloves.
This dish is vegetarian, gluten free, heart healthy, high protein, low carb, lowfat, and totally delicious. Enjoy!
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How to make thick, rich tzatziki with strained yogurt, cucumber, dill, mint, lemon juice and garlic. Kosher, dairy, gluten free.
- 1 1/2 cups plain lowfat Greek yogurt
- 1 lb Persian or English cucumbers, peeled and seeded
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp fresh chopped mint or dill
- 1 clove garlic, crushed (or more to taste)
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice (or more to taste)
- 1/4 tsp salt (or more to taste)
- Fresh mint sprig for garnish (optional)
Recipe Notes
You will also need: Cheesecloth or clean dishtowel, colander, bowl
Strain the Greek yogurt for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator. If you'd prefer to use plain yogurt and not Greek, you'll need to strain it for 14-15 hours to get the right consistency. If you don't know how to strain yogurt, you can find instructions here: How to Strain Yogurt
Pulse the cucumbers in the food processor or hand chop to desired texture. I like them chopped small, but not minced. Bigger chunks will result in chunkier tzatziki. It's a matter of preference. You can also grate them, if you prefer.
Cut out an 18-inch rectangle of cheesecloth and fold into two layers. Place chopped cucumbers in the center of the double-layered cloth. Gather up the cheesecloth and twist at the top to form a bundle. Squeeze the bundle several times over the sink, twisting the bundle tightly to get rid of as much liquid as possible. If you don't have cheesecloth, use a thin dishtowel instead.
Place strained yogurt in a medium mixing bowl.
Add the drained cucumber pieces from the cheesecloth to the bowl along with the olive oil, chopped fresh mint or dill, crushed garlic, lemon juice, and salt.
Use a fork or whisk to blend the ingredients together. Taste the tzatziki; add more garlic, lemon juice, or salt to taste if desired. Serve cold. Store in the refrigerator.

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Bramley apples are truly beautiful. When I picture an orchard, I picture Bramley apples with their dark green skins and red blush, their knobbly shapes and impressive size. They are the kings of apples!
Usually, a recipe featuring Bramleys will only use them in puree form. What attracted me to this recipe was the sliced Bramley on top – it gives the best of both worlds. I was also impressed by the tip of beating an egg into the apple puree; it meant the tart sliced easily and didn't collapse in the way that many apple pies do.
There are a few stages to this tart but it is worth it as the result looks very impressive...and more importantly, tastes divine. The cinnamon pastry worked particularly well; you can't go wrong pairing apple with cinnamon!
I think we all do things and then suddenly realise that we wouldn't have done them in our youth. Freezing the four leftover slices of tart, I suddenly felt very grown up! Younger-me would've just eaten them regardless of whether I even wanted them – but mature-me, will appreciate having dessert on standby in the freezer!
Four of these, waiting for me in the freezer...whenever I want them. Oh the joy!
Finally, thank you to everyone who has sponsored Mr CC's 'tache growing for Movember – we are touched and heartened by the response. There is still time to make a donation and be entered into the prize draw (details can be found here). You can still sponsor Mr CC by visiting his Mo page.
For the apple puree:
4 medium Bramley apples, peeled and cored
150g Demerara sugar
2 lemons – juice only
1 egg
150g Demerara sugar
2 lemons – juice only
1 egg
For the pastry:
200g plain flour
80g unsalted butter, cold
40g caster sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 egg yolk
1-2 tablespoons cold water – I needed 2
80g unsalted butter, cold
40g caster sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 egg yolk
1-2 tablespoons cold water – I needed 2
For the apple topping:
2 medium Bramley apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
25g unsalted butter – melted
25g unsalted butter – melted
For the glaze:
8 tablespoons apricot jam
4 tablespoons water
8 tablespoons apricot jam
4 tablespoons water
To serve: thick cream
Start by making the apple puree as it needs time to cool. Chop the apples into small chunks and place in a pan along with the sugar and lemon juice. It looks a lot of sugar which is why the lemon is there to balance it out.
Bring to the boil and then lower the heat. Putting a lid on the pan will make the apple break down quicker.
Stir occasionally until you have a chunky puree. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.
When cool, stir in the beaten egg – this helps the puree thicken in the oven and ensures nice clean slices when you serve it.
Now make the pastry: Place the flour, butter, sugar and cinnamon into the food processor and blitz until you have fine crumbs. Alternatively, use the rubbing in method i.e. rubbing the butter and flour through your fingertips until the ingredients incorporate into crumbs.
Add the egg yolk and blitz again.
Add the water, a tablespoon at a time, and pulse the processor until the mixture forms wet clumps.
Tip out onto a sheet of clingfilm and – handling as little as possible – form into a ball.
Flatten into a disc, wrap in the clingfilm and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. (I made it the night before and left it in the fridge – it's fine!)
Roll out the pastry between two sheets of clingfilm. At first it will seem too crumbly but persevere and, as the pastry warms, it will behave. You will need to roll it thin to line the tin.
Take a 23cm loose bottomed flan tin and line it with the pastry. Patch as needed.
Prick the bottom several times with a fork and return to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/390°F/gas mark 6.
Line the pastry with baking paper or non stick foil, and weigh down with baking beans.
Place on a baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes.
Remove the beans and foil and return the exposed pastry case to the oven for a further 5 minutes, or until it is a light golden brown.
Leave to cool.
Spoon the puree into the pastry case and level the surface.
Arrange the sliced apples on top and then brush with the melted butter.
Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the sliced apples have an appealing caramelised brown glow to them.
As soon as you remove the tart from the oven, make the glaze: boil the jam with the water.
Brush over the baked tart and leave to cool completely.
Serve in thick slices with lashings of cream. It would also be nice served warm with vanilla ice cream.
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Maine governor defends proposed budget cuts
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Gov. Paul LePage is defending his proposed two-year budget, including revenue-sharing cuts that have already created a furor among cities and towns.
In his weekly radio address, the governor says he'd like to share more money with towns and cities, but the state simply does not have it. LePage also takes issue with opponents of his plan to temporarily suspend revenue sharing, saying their estimate of $284 million in overall losses is overblown.
The governor asserts that revenue sharing has not been fully funded for years, dating back to his predecessor, Democrat John Baldacci .
LePage acknowledges he doesn't have many popular options when it comes to balancing a budget. But he says times are tough and hard choices need to be made.


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Friday, October 31, 2008
Trick or Treat!
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I love your little "bobot". Your girls are adorable also.ReplyDelete
Have a great one! I have a house full of kids tonight - somehow I thought it'd be fun to have a party (20 kids trashing my house? I am now not so sure!!!)ReplyDelete
Happy Halloween! Have fun collecting candy!ReplyDelete
Jen :)
Happy Halloween! Have fun trick-or-treating tonight!:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 31, 2008 at 11:59 AM
happy halloween! your girls are such adorable princesses and your little bobot is very cool too! have a fun night!ReplyDelete
Happy Halloween to you!! Have a safe and happy with the kids... so cute!ReplyDelete
right back at you!! have fun tonight. i do miss those days of schelping around the neighborhood!ReplyDelete
What a darling family! I would take any of the three off your hands for, oh, let's say an hour or two. Then you MUST promise to come pick them up!! ;0)ReplyDelete
Oh, so cute! Sorry you're too far away to bring them over here!ReplyDelete
Look at those sweet princesses!! And I adore your little robot :-)ReplyDelete
Ahhhhhh yeah for princesses and their hero the tranformer :) I just love all their blue eyes!!ReplyDelete
they are gorgeous!!!! the princesses look too sweet for words... and the "bobot"! how cute!!!!ReplyDelete


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New York state budget officials have restored nearly $7 million in annual funding for spinal cord injury research after an influential lobby of paraplegics put pressure on Albany lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.
The group, New Yorkers to Cure Paralysis, had tried unsuccessfully since 2010 to restore about $8.5 million in annual state funding for the research, which they argued is required to be spent by state law. Roughly $2 million was restored last year, and Mr. Cuomo's original 2014 budget earmarked a total of $4.9 million.
The paraplegics' group spent the last several weeks lobbying state lawmakers personally, and won a crucial ally in Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle. In its final budget, which was signed into law last week, New York state officials ultimately gave the program $7.9 million, which includes $900,000 that went unspent last year. No reason for the increase was given. "It's just part of budget negotiations," said Morris Peters, a spokesman for the New York State Division of Budget.
Medical researchers hailed the funding as a way to establish New York as a national leader in neurological research. The paraplegics' group included several rehabilitation facilities, medical centers and foundations across the state.
"This funding also creates an opportunity to make important contributions to patient care and reduce health-care costs for multiple afflictions," including stroke and Parkinson's disease, said Mark Noble, professor of genetics, neurobiology and neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
The lobbying group included retired New York state trooper Paul Richter, who was shot and paralyzed in 1973 during a traffic stop in Lake Placid, N.Y.; Wall Street financier David Carmel, who was paralyzed in a 1999 diving accident in Mexico; Nancy A. Lieberman, a Manhattan corporate attorney who was paralyzed in 2007 during a skiing accident in Colorado; and Paul Francis, a former New York state budget director who is not paralyzed but had his left arm amputated below the elbow after a bout of sepsis in 2012.
"With this funding, state leaders are fulfilling a commitment to scientists and doctors who moved to New York, in part, because of this program," Mr. Carmel said. "It will also generate hundreds of high-paying jobs and encourage more life-science companies to move to our state."
The program was started in 1998 and paid for through a surcharge on state traffic fines but it was cut by former Gov. David Paterson's administration in 2010 amid a $9.2 billion budget shortfall.
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Here's a topic you can mull over if conversation gets slow during tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner: Does Twitter infringe your copyright every time you post to it (i.e., put up a "tweet")?
Consider this:
One of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner (under 17 U.S.C. 106) is the right to display the work. A website displays content when it serves up pages to the end user. Posts to Twitter — though they're only 140 characters maximum — are arguably copyright protected works. (Set aside the question of retweeting.)
Twitter's Terms of Service, in an earnest effort to be generous and progressive, assure users that when it comes to copyright, "what's yours is yours." Elaborating on this point, the Terms of Service go on to say that "[Twitter] claim[s] no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service." In so many words, Twitter is saying "thanks but no thanks" to any copyright rights it might otherwise have over user-submitted content.
But by displaying tweets, Twitter is exercising one of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner. To do this lawfully, it has to have permission. And this permission is an intellectual property right. But didn't Twitter just tell us that it doesn't want any such right? Yes. So it has no permission. Exercise of an exclusive copyright right without permission (fair use aside) is infringement.
So should we all go out and sue Twitter for infringement? Of course not. Twitter would have a number of good defenses, which I expect may get articulated in the comments to this post. Are you really going to pay the filing fee to the Copyright Office and register the copyright in each of your tweets? You'll have to do that before you can even show up in court. And what about injunctive relief? A court order making Twitter take down your stuff would seem to defeat the whole purpose, at least a little bit.
Similar analysis from Venkat here.
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AMERICANS are brilliant. They leave some of the best comments on this blog. And they keep mentioning a beer that they like called 'Samuel Adams'. At long last, that beer has started turning up in British shops. It's great that they finally sorted out distribution in this country. But it leaves me with a problem. If I 'review' it and like it, my Sam Adams loving friends will be delighted. If I try it and hate it, then my polite and informative American readers will be somewhat irked. Still, it'll be fun to see what happens. So, for an expensive £1.19 pence, on a very fine line, here is a bottle of Samuel Adams Boston Lager.
As bottle's go, it's brown and fairly plain. For some reason, the stuff you normally read on the back-label is up on the neck label where you wouldn't normally think to look for it.
For added quirkiness, they split paragraph with the first half on the left and second half on the right of the "Samuel Adams" logo. But quirkiness is good. I like that.
It's good to read the sort of description that you normally find on an ale. About the care, attention to detail and recipe that goes back generations.
Rotating it around to read the rest, and it keeps getting better. We get the names of hops. And interesting, those aren't names I remember reading on anything I've tried so far. So extra marks for distinctive ingredients.
Then they take the risk. "No other American lager matches this rich robust and complex taste", finishing with a pretend signature from Jim Koch. The cynic in me says that that means it's only average because of the dire state of American brewing. The optimist says that there's plenty I've not tried yet, and that Samuel Adams Boston Lager must be something special. Either way. It's a brave statement.
Down on the front-label, and there's a big, traditional looking roundel.
…a label that gives me déjà vu. I've seen it before somewhere…
I think it looks good. And so does the Samuel Adams one.
"The Boston Beer Company", "Product of USA" and "America's World-Class Beer" all add to the sense that this should be good, and not mass-produced fizz.
Oddly, the small print is tucked into two flappy bits either ride of the roundel. One the left is the address of The Boston Beer Company in Boston, Massachusetts. On the other side is some recycling information for other countries and the all important vital statistics. This is an unusual 355ml bottle. Until you realise that it was designed with fluid ounces in mind, which case one of the numerous online converters brings it to 12 oz. Does that sound normal to you? The alcoholic volume is 4.8% which is unremarkable for a lager. Neither strong nor weak.
Is there a back label? Yes there is. Is it worth reading? Not really.
It is literally a list of importers. Here in Britain, the rather excellent Shepherd Neame of Kent arranged this bottle's arrival on the shop shelves.
So, what does Samuel Adams Boston Lager taste like? Will I like it as much as our friends over the pond do? For the sake of the comments at the end of this post, I sure hope so.
The fun and quirky touches keep coming. On the underside of the bottle-top, yes, the side that's inside the bottle, is a proudly displayed "#25 Brussels Gold 2000 International Award Winner". Well done chaps.
In the glass, it froths up, but the head collapses fairly sharpish into a lumpy layer. Must say, I was surprised at how dark it is. It's a kind of copper-y amber colour with an almost cream head. It looks well carbonated, but not too fizzy.
What does Samuel Adams Boston Lager smell of? First reaction was "it smells good for a lager". Almost every pilsner style lager beer I've sniffed has some variation on the malted barley formula. Very few stretch that into something distinctive, but Samuel Adams Boston Lager seems to have managed it. Unbelievable, I think it smells of hoppy spiciness and biscuit malt. Normally, you'd only read those words in a review of English ale.
What does Samuel Adams Boston Lager taste like? The first sip is a good one. A very good one in fact. Much like the smell, it's almost like drinking ale. Some people won't like that, but I do.
To elaborate a bit, because it is an ale, it still can't manage much in the flavour department. All I can pick up there is a hint of savoury malty. It's the aftertaste where Samuel Adams Boston Lager comes to life and where it makes a bold stride away from the crowd. The finish is tingly, tangy, salty, hoppy and spicy and a little bit malty. All this makes it bitter overall, but balanced and with a long and quite smooth finish.
With most of the bottle now gone, what am I enjoying about Samuel Adams Boston Lager? Thankfully, quite a lot. I love how different it is to almost every lager I've tried. That scores it serious points for distinctiveness. I love how it's a lager trying to be an ale. I like the hoppy taste that you normally have to buy an expensive bottle of ale for. I like how it looks and smells different. I like how not many people this side of the pond know about it yet. And I like what a funny size it is, sitting uncomfortably between smaller and bigger Euro bottles on the shop shelf.
What aren't I like about Samuel Adams Boston Lager? Fortunately for the comments section of the post, not that much. First, I'm burping more than usual, so it's a gassy drink. It is quite bitter and strong tasting, so I won't be getting any girls to try it any time soon. Incidentally, if you are a girl who likes Samuel Adams Boston Lager, leave your thoughts in the comments. It's also unlikely to appeal to the committed lager drinker, unless you're using this as a stepping stone to real ale. That puts it in an awkward spot between what you think of as lagers and ales. It's not as crisp and refreshing as other good lagers and not as complex and flavourful as ale. It's also rather expensive.
How can I sum up Samuel Adams Boston Lager? It is that rare thing. A lager that truly is different. One of those few that thinks it's an ale. It is better than any of the mass-produced American lagers I've tried by miles. I'm going to buy it again.
Rating: 4.15
Have you tried Samuel Adams Boston Lager what did you think of it? Can you correct any of the mistakes that you've spotted in my 'review'? Do please leave your opinions, recommendations and places to buy, here in the comments section.


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Intelligent invoice matching automation
SAP Cash Application
Using machine learning capabilities, the SAP Cash Application software learns from accountants' past manual actions, capturing much richer detail of customer- and country-specific behavior, without the costs of manually defining detailed rules. Using SAP S/4HANA, new incoming payment and open invoice information is passed to the SAP Cloud Platform-based matching engine, and proposed matches are either automatically cleared or suggested for review by accounts receivable.
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So I have a project that asks me to make a class called CityInfo and put different methods in it to set a city, state, year, population, and area. It then calculates density and annual growth. This program does not print anything so I have to use the 'Interactions' tab in JGrasp. My other code is CityInfoApp, it gets user input for the different methods and actually prints it out. However i have a small problem, it wont compile due to some error that I have honestly no idea how to fix. Here is CityInfoApp.
public class CityInfoApp { public static void main(String[] args) { int fYear, iPop, pop; double area, den, growth; String city, state, name; CityInfo aub; Scanner stdInReader = new Scanner(System.in); // get user input for city and state System.out.print("City: "); city = stdInReader.nextLine(); System.out.print("\nState: "); state = stdInReader.nextLine(); // get user input for founded year, initial population, population System.out.print("\nYear founded: "); fYear = stdInReader.nextInt(); System.out.print("\nInitial Population: "); iPop = stdInReader.nextInt(); System.out.print("\nPopulation: "); pop = stdInReader.nextInt(); // area System.out.print("\nArea: "); area = Double.parseDouble(stdInReader.nextLine()); // in the line below, replace the blank with your name aub = new CityInfo(name); /* */ // set the year founded aub.setYear(fYear); // set the initial population aub.setInitialPopulation(iPop); // set current population aub.setPopulation(pop); //set area aub.setArea(area); // print System.out.print("City: " + city + ", " + state + " (Founded in " + fYear + ")" + "\nPopulation: " + pop + "\nArea: " + area + "\nDensity: " + aub.Density() + " people per sq mi" + "\nGrowth: " + aub.annualGrowth() + " people per yr"); } }
The line aub = new CityInfo(name);
does not work because it "cannot fin symbol" and is pointing at 'new'. What is my problem?


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Tomorrow is game day so I thought I would beat everyone to start the game chat
Looking at the Bills I think they are better then an 0-6 team. They have played some of the toughest teams in the NFL and lost close. Outside of two bad days there biggest loss is 10 points to the jags. In that span they have played the pats dolphins and ravens lost by 8 to the pats 5 to the dolphins and 3 to the ravens. They can put points on the board but they give up a TON of points. They are going to be a tough team but I think being at arrowhead the chiefs get this win 35-20 CHIEFS


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Goodbye Peyton. The Indianapolis Colts will release Peyton Manning, their star quarterback and the longtime face of the franchise, on Wednesday, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
The has been long speculated, but is a shock. Manning has played his entire career in Indianapolis after being selected first overall in the 1998 draft. He helped turn the team into a perrenial powerhouse, winning four MVP awards and the 2006 Super Bowl.
But he missed the entire 2011 season due to a neck injury, and the team would have had to pay him $28 million if he remained on the roster in late March. The Colts own the first pick in the NFL draft, and are expected to select Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.
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Manning will become an unrestricted free agent -- if he can prove he's healthy, he's sure to have plenty of suitors.


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(Phoenix, AZ – October 8, 2003) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is warning Arizona residents of an internet e-mail scam that states it is sent "by the Citibank server" to verify the Citibank Member's e-mail address. Residents throughout the state are receiving this internet e-mail message requesting verification of account information. Residents are requested to provide personal information - their email address, ATM/debit card number, PIN number.
"This is just another way for unscrupulous individuals or businesses to obtain your personal and account information," said Goddard. For more information about this hoax, please visit www.citibank.com see Consumer Alert, Beware of Fraudulent Sign On PopUps. Also, for more information regarding e-mail fraud - how not to become a victim, how to report it, etc., please click the bottom of Citibank's website entitled "about e-mail fraud."
Attorney General Terry Goddard reminds residents that if you receive an e-mail requesting personal and account information, verify the request by contacting the business and speaking directly with a business representative.
If you feel you have been a victim of this hoax, immediately:
- Contact Citibank. If you have provided any personal information in response to this e-mail hoax, contact Citibank immediately at 1-800-374-9700
- Call the credit bureaus - see https://www.azag.gov/identity-theft
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maybe some of my friends are thinking like me. I just wanna give an idea about the write the scripts. We are all day in front of the computer and its killing me to write the script. Maybe you can chage it. For example when we come to training place and and when we start the bot my char can go to town for shopping and come back without script. If its possible can you help us please.
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SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. It is a severe respiratory illness that is caused by a previously unknown type of virus. The SARS virus is a type of virus known as a coronavirus. Coronaviruses normally cause mild-to-moderate upper-respiratory illnesses such as the common cold.
SARS was first seen in Southern China in November 2002. In March 2003, the first Canadian cases were seen in people returning from Hong Kong. According to the World Health Organization, (WHO) during the 2003 outbreak, there were a total of 8098 probable SARS cases globally, including 774 deaths. Canada saw 438 probable SARS cases, with 44 deaths. Although the majority of cases were in Ontario, cases were also reported in British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. All deaths reported from SARS in Canada were in Toronto.
The main symptoms of SARS include fever (>38°C) and respiratory symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing. Other symptoms can include muscle ache, headache, sore throat, and diarrhea. Fever is usually the first symptom to appear. About 3-7 days later, a dry cough may appear. About 80% to 90% of infected people start to recover after 6 to 7 days. However, 10% to 20% of people with SARS go on to develop very severe breathing problems and may need the help of a machine to breathe.
SARS is spread through aerosolized (exhaled) droplets and body secretions from an infected person. You can come into contact with these droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Close contact increases the risk of spreading the virus and can include living in the same household, caring for an infected person, or having direct contact with infected bodily fluids and secretions. Another risk factor is travel to an area where SARS is spreading locally.
Home isolation or quarantine generally starts after exposure to SARS and continues for 10 days even if there are no symptoms present. Isolation or quarantine will limit further exposure and help to control the spread of the virus. If no symptoms develop by the end of the 10-day period, the quarantine can end. There are a few things that you can do if you are in isolation or quarantine:
- Remain at home.
- Wear and change your mask as directed.
- Do not share personal items.
- Do not have any visitors at home.
- Use proper hand-washing techniques.
- Sleep in separate bedrooms.
- Regularly monitor your health (temperature, coughing, etc.).
Generally, other family or household members are not quarantined and do not need to wear a mask. People who develop symptoms should seek medical attention as soon as possible.
People with SARS require treatment in a hospital and will generally begin treatment based on their symptoms, before the cause of the illness has been confirmed. People who are suspected of having SARS are placed in isolation to protect other patients and health care workers. There is no cure for SARS, and there is no vaccine available to protect against the illness, but research is ongoing. However, SARS can be treated with antiviral medications and supportive therapy (e.g., medications to relieve symptoms and machines to help a person breathe).
Prevention may be the most effective means of treating SARS. Avoiding close contact with an infected person and regular and thorough hand-washing are two very important measures that can help prevent the spread of SARS.
Health Canada is no longer recommending SARS-related travel restrictions. However, it is always wise to visit your doctor or travel medicine clinic before traveling outside of Canada to assess the risks involved. You should always monitor your own health and report any signs of illness. Quarantine officers are present at many of Canada's major international airports (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, and Ottawa) and are equipped with up-to-date information on worldwide SARS information.
Health Canada continues to remain vigilant in protecting Canada against SARS. According to the Health Canada website, it is maintaining activity in key areas such as surveillance, research, laboratory diagnosis, public health and hospital infection control, travel and emergency response, and communications and public awareness.


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Whoopee! It's finally another Fashion Friday!! And today's is very near and dear to my heart – Flirty Fifties Fashion!! Not only do I love the bold styles of the 50's, but I've been absolutely enamored with all the amazing modern brides that are rocking a retro look at their wedding. From fun pops of color with a petticoat or sash to the bombshell vibes of a bold red lip and cat eye combination, today I'm rounding up my favorite ideas for a Fifties Fabulous bridal style! Throw on the Elvis and get ready to shake your hips a little as we take a trip back in time and look at the best ways to get a real fifties look on your big day! Enjoy!
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The Agency's third annual Fundamental Rights Conference (FRC) takes place this year in Brussels on 7-8 December 2010. Delivering child-friendly justice and protecting children in particularly vulnerable situations is this year's theme of the FRC 2010.
The FRC 2010 is organised in cooperation with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The conference will seek to explore avenues for State authorities to protect vulnerable children against violations of their rights, when they come into contact with State authorities.
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Okla. teen sentenced to church for fatal DUI crash
17-year-old convicted in crash that killed teen
A 17-year-old from Muskogee, Okla., has been sentenced to attend church for 10 years as part of his probation for a manslaughter conviction.
Tyler Alred was sentenced in Muskogee County District Court after pleading guilty in August to first-degree manslaughter in the December 2011 auto accident that killed 16-year-old John Luke Dum.
Alred cried while apologizing to Dum's family in court and hugged Dum's father as both began to sob.
Authorities say Alred registered 0.06 and 0.07 blood-alcohol content after the crash. The legal limit is 0.08 – but Alred's amount is considered under state law to be driving under the influence of alcohol because he's underage.
The teen's lawyer says the church requirement is unusual – but he won't challenge it. He said his client currently attends church regularly.


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A pair of mariners stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island for a week were rescued by a U.S. Navy air crew on Friday after writing "SOS" in the sand, NBC News reported.
The boaters were marooned on an island in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, on Aug. 19 with limited supplies and no emergency equipment on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement.
A Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft crew from Patrol Squadron (VP) spotted the boaters on the beach near their makeshift sign on Friday.
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@UN must help Yazidi people , please : http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/iraq/140803/islamic-state-captures-sinjar-yazidis … that's another big ethnic cleansing …
ISIS is in our opinion and I hope in your too , the worst menace to humankind since ages,
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>The Exorcist (1973) : The movie starts with opening sequence filmed in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, just below the Syrian border.
The people of Sinjar are mostly Kurdish members of the ancient Yazidi sect
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Since years We are trying to get pictures of an archaelogical site where our friend Reza took them, most of them are immortalizing Pazuzu and other ancient god-demons of Assyrian Civilization .
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Colorful corner: Pistachio house catches the eye
ADDRESS: 707 Forest Street
SIZE: 1,556 square feet
NEIGHBORHOOD: Rose Hill
CURB APPEAL: 6 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Nancy Sherman of Roy Wheeler Realty Company 951-5155
While most neighborhoods in Charlottesville have already undergone a complete revamping, a few others have stayed undisturbed (so far). Driving around the Rose Hill area, one sees little evidence of the mania that has swallowed Belmont and has Fifeville in its maw. No colossal Victorians to become pet projects for developers, no groovy bungalows for the artistic– just street after street of small, post-World War 11 ranchers waiting for the axe to fall.
The streets are wide and lazy. Intersections can be navigated with just the slightest tap to the brakes. And lo and behold, sidewalks! Whatever happened to the sidewalk? While cars and bikes have displaced feet as a mode of transportation, sidewalks still seem useful. Coming up to this house evoked a pleasant 1950s feel.
Stucco painted a shade reminiscent of Oz's Wicked Witch adds visual interest compared to the beiges so popular on newer homes these days. Adding more color to the neighborhood, a house two doors down is a striking shade of pumpkin. Here, a chain link fence surrounding the house and yard provides a sense of security and relative privacy. The wide and inviting front porch has probably seen much social action thanks to the corner location.
Inside, the front room provides a mix of promise tinged with exasperation. Shiny pine floors and new windows win the "most appealing" award. The rest should garner, at least, a "good try" nod. The original three rooms downstairs– - living, dining, and kitchen– are quite serviceable. While they're certainly not grand, one could live in them while fixing up the rest.
Acoustic tiles have dropped the ceiling to somewhere around seven feet, making anyone over six feet feel gargantuan. Plaster walls, although offering superior insulation, appear to have been erected with no awareness of right angles. But these small details give the place a funhouse effect.
Along the back, an addition expands the square footage considerably. Unfortunately, that's about the only nice thing to say about it. Grim and gloomy with paneled walls (even around the water heater), brown carpeting, a makeshift closet, and the tiniest bathroom (one visitor said the sink was so small he could only wash one hand at a time), it had us all beating a fast retreat. But it seems the work that needs to be done is only cosmetic, and this area could pretty easily become what it was intended to be: a family room and an extra bedroom.
Upstairs set off more alarms, although on closer inspection we found that most of the work that needs to be done also appears manageable. One problem: Up here, even a six-footer has to duck to avoid disaster. Two decent-sized bedrooms with similar wavy plaster walls could be spruced up quite easily. The full bathroom raises some interesting questions, as it appears the tub, toilet, and sink were all made for a first-grader. No matter, there's enough space to expand.
The corner location provides quite a bit of yard, with a garden spot and a shed. But frigid temperatures and three starving, abandoned cats wailing near the doorstep discouraged us from venturing further. Suffice to say, it looked nice– great for kids and cared-for pets.
All in all, it's a funky little homestead. It needs work, but at this price, what doesn't today? "Affordable housing" has become in Charlottesville one of those statements favored by the authorities but hard to find on the street. In many towns of similar size across the nation, this type of house could be had for a song; in Charlottesville, unfortunately, it might still be a stretch for a family of modest means.
One imagines the neighbors hoping that just such a family moves in and revives the front porch socials of days gone by.


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Tom Cruise Led High Speed Car Chase Through the West Side of Manhattan
Just two days after his daughter Suri and ex-wife Katie Holmes were involved in a minor accident, Tom Cruise, with Suri in tow, ran red lights and sped through Manhattan in an attempt to outrun paparazzi. The chase, which lasted 20 minutes, included ten cars full of paparazzi, plus six stragglers on bikes, all of whom also ran the red lights.
The New York Daily News reports that Cruise exceeded local speed limits:
The SUV hit 40 to 45 mph on 10th Ave., where the speed limit is 25 mph, and 55 to 65 on the West Side Highway, where the limit is 40 mph.
Cruise and Suri ended up at a nearby helipad, where they boarded a helicopter that headed towards New Jersey.
No accidents or arrests were reported, but one paparazzi-filled van was pulled over by police at 10th Avenue.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
The prevalence of sexual abuse among all boys 17 and under has been variously estimated to be as low as 5 percent and as high as 16 percent.
In Close Relationship Between Player and Coach, Potential for Sexual Abuse
It was the summer before high school, and Christopher Gavagan, then 13, was preparing to leave the safe familiarity of the friends he had known during his boyhood. With a plan to excel at ice hockey, he began training on inline skates, moving through his New York City neighborhood, up and down the streets until, he said, "I turned down the wrong street."
Gavagan, now a filmmaker, was one of eight panelists who participated Friday in a discussion about young athletes who have been sexually assaulted or abused by their coaches. The panel was part of the MaleSurvivor 13th International Conference, held this year at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The conference brought together men who have been sexually abused, as well as psychologists, social workers, academics and members of the legal community.
A dour procession of stories about sexual misconduct by coaches toward their male charges has come to light in recent months. Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State, was sentenced in October to 30 to 60 years in prison on 45 counts of child molesting. Sugar Ray Leonard wrote in his autobiography last year that he was sexually molested by an Olympic boxing coach. The N.H.L. players Theo Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy were sexually abused as teenagers by their hockey coach Graham James.
The prevalence of sexual abuse among all boys 17 and under has been variously estimated to be as low as 5 percent and as high as 16 percent. For some of the millions of children who participate in sports nationwide, and their parents, sexual assault in a sports context has its own dynamic.
"Sports is a place where parents send their boys to learn skills, to learn how to be teammates and how to work together — to make boys stronger and healthier," said Dr. Howard Fradkin, author of "Joining Forces," a book about how men can heal from sexual abuse. "It's the place where we send our boys to grow up. The betrayal that occurs when abuse occurs in sports is damaging because it destroys the whole intent of what they started out to do."
When Gavagan, now 38, turned down that fateful street, and stepped briefly into the house of a man recommended as a hockey coach by a couple of female acquaintances, what greeted him, he said, was "a young boy's dream come true."
The dream Gavagan glimpsed was embodied in the trophy room of the house.
"It was everything I wanted to be right there," recalled Gavagan, who is working on a feature-length documentary on sexual abuse in youth sports, in which he interviews other sexual-abuse victims and his own attacker, against whom he has never pressed charges. In addition to the shiny relics that seemed to give testimony to the man's coaching prowess, Gavagan said, the trophy room had pictures of hockey teams the man had coached and workout equipment — the physical tools promising the chance to get bigger and stronger.
"To a skinny 13-year-old, it was like winning the lottery," Gavagan said.
Christopher Anderson, the executive director of MaleSurvivor, said sexual abuse — basically nonconsensual touching or sexual language — is devastating under any circumstance, but coach and player often have a special relationship.
"Especially as you progress higher and higher, the coach can become just as important in some ways to an athlete as the relationship with his parents might have," Anderson said. "In some cases, it's a substitute for parents."
He added: "There's also a fundamentally different power dynamic. When you're a young star, the coach can literally make or break your career as an athlete."
But caution has to extend beyond coaches who guide future Olympians, Gavagan said, noting that his coach was not of that caliber.
"The entire grooming process was so subtle," Gavagan said. "It's not like when I first went into his house that he tried to grope me."
First, Gavagan said, the coach said it was all right to curse in that house. On another visit it was fine to have a beer, which led on another day to Playboy magazine and on subsequent days to harder pornography and harder liquor. It was six months before the coach laid an explicitly sexual hand on him, Gavagan said.
"I didn't feel like a sudden red line had been crossed — the line had been blurred," Gavagan said, explaining that he avoided his parents when he returned home with liquor on his breath by telling them he was exhausted and going straight to his room. (Unlike many sexual-abuse victims, Gavagan said his parents, with whom the coach had ingratiated himself, were supportive of their son, and his was a loving family. He said that if he had approached them about the coach, they would have listened.)
Another aspect of sexual abuse in sports is the environment, which emphasizes a kind of macho ethic.
"What is most different about abuse is the sports culture itself," Fradkin said. "It is a culture that promotes teamwork and teaches boys to shrug it off. When a boy or man is abused, he risks being thrown off the team if he should speak the truth because he'll be seen as being disloyal — and weak."
At 17, after four years with his coach, Gavagan said he "aged out" of his coach's target age.
"At the time I had no idea of how it would impact my life, but the unhealthy lessons about relations, trust and the truth set a time bomb that would detonate my relationships for the next 10 years," Gavagan said.
As a word of caution, Anderson said the lesson for parents should not be that sports are dangerous.
"It should be that there are sometimes dangerous people who gravitate to sporting organizations and our safeguards aren't good enough yet to adequately protect our children," he said. "That doesn't mean that we should be pulling our kids from soccer and baseball and basketball. What it means is that parents need to be vigilant."
He added: "They need to be proactive with athletic organizations to make sure that policies are in place — such as doing criminal background checks on staff and having a procedure where young athletes can complain about inappropriate behavior — that make sure children are protected."
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Image-Line Software 20th Anniversary
We've turned 20 and to thank our customers for their support, we're giving away prizes every month for the next 5 months to December 2014. All you have to do, each month, is to post in our forums.Please note: Only people who have purchased directly from us or registered their boxed product/s can post in the forums. But wait, there's more...
FL Studio 64 Bit Released
FL Studio 64 Bit is now available. Click the image above to see the FL Studio 32 vs 64 Bit video tutorial, to read the FAQ, learn what this means for you and download the latest 32/64 Bit installer.
Deckadance Solo Beta
Deckadance Solo is in Beta testing and we would like your feedback. Deckadance Solo is a single deck from Deckadance, in FL Studio native plugin format, so you can control it from the Piano roll. The best news is that we're including Deckadance Solo with FL Studio (non demo). Click the image above to see it in action or to test the Beta.
Mac OS X VST Plugin Alpha
Gross Beat, Harmor, Maximus and Sytrus are now available, in Alpha, for OS X VST hosts. These plugins are part of the technology development required to develop the native OS X version of FL Studio. So, if you have ever asked "when will there be an Mac version of FL Studio", then we'd appreciate you testing these to help accelerate the development project.
LollieVox Sang for you
To celebrate our 20th anniversary LollieVox (Laurie Webb) sang for you. Click above to check out the pack containing 115 melodic vocal loops written by Laurie Webb, 62 melodic vocal loops written by FL Studio customers and 590 bonus one-shot samples from the original Laurie Web CD (if you own this already you get the updated content free).
What's Next? FL Studio 12...
FL Studio 12 Alpha is available from the Image-Line forum. Please grab a copy and let us know what you think of the changes so far.


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Lady Gaga, one of the most vocal celebrities when it comes to LGBT rights, recently took to Twitter to condemn Russia's anti-gay "homosexual propaganda" law, which has sparked a huge international debate over the past few weeks, MSNBC reports.
Under the vaguely worded measure, Russia's LGBT community and LGBT supporters are prohibited from holding Pride parades, giving pro-LGBT speeches, or even kissing or holding hands in public in front of minors. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the bill into law in June. Violators can be fined thousands of dollars for breaking the law, and both citizens and tourists can face jail time.
Mother Monster wrote on her Twitter on Monday and offered her support to Russia's LGBT community.
"The Russian government is criminal," she went on to say. "Oppression will be met with revolution. Russian LGBTs you are not alone. We will fight for your freedom." She later added, "Why didn't you arrest me when you had the chance, Russia? Because you didn't want answer to the world?"
Gaga's tweets come after lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, from St. Petersburg, Russia, who wrote the city's "homosexual propaganda" law, said he wants to reopen cases that accuse Lady Gaga and Madonna with "promoting sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism among minors" when they spoke out for the LGBT community during their St. Petersburg concerts last year. Milonov recently made headlines for saying that the Russian government would enforce the anti-gay law during the Winter Olympics next year, which will be held in Sochi, an announcement he made after the International Olympics Committee said the government would suspend the law during the event.
In related Gaga news, the diva has her new single, "Applause," set to drop on Aug. 19 with her full length record, "ARTPOP," out in November.Jason St. Amand


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So I'm going to attempt to get my feet wet. Again. When I tried this blogging thing, what was that, like five years ago? I had no idea I would get so sucked in. That's a bad way of looking at it. It's not like it's a drug and you want more. It doesn't happen overnight. Little by little I found myself writing more, getting people to read my writing and then before I knew it, I was posting more than once a day. I was dreaming about my next pst, writing snippets on pieces of paper. Voice recording blog posts on my phone. Then, my life with children demanded my time. I quit working full time...
Blogging was hard. Where was the time? You think that being home you'll have ALL this time to write. Sure, the ideas were there, but where was the damn time.? It was non existent. I couldn't stand sitting in front of my laptop writing a post and telling my kids to hold on, mommy was busy.
I'm going to slip back into my comfort zone and do one of the things I enjoy. One thing that lets me decompress. One place I can let the words spill out and if you judge me, oh well. If you like what I have to say, awesome! One thing for sure, it won't involve me having to discipline you, tell you to stop doing that or require me to feed you some meal or a snack.
I'm going to start writing about my newest little man. The little pumpkin that changed my world. Fill in the blanks along the way. It's not a fresh start, just going to try and pick up the pieces where I left them. I'm not even sure where that was. I guess I might even have to go back and look. I forgot too.
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"How can you possibly do this in L.A.?" people familiar with the Transition model often ask me. Even people who live here find the idea quite daunting. One local Permaculture teacher, when asked "What about LA?", literally threw up his hands in a gesture that said "It's hopeless."
Los Angeles is a mega-city. At 11 million people, we're somewhere between 8th and 15th on the list of the world's largest. We're one of the biggest population centers that have dared to actively work with the Transition model. Just for the record: it isn't categorically "hopeless."
Totnes is about .068% our size and sounds like it's quite a bit different from my "hometown." Here the concrete sidewalks of one municipality merge smoothly into the next (L.A. county is 4,083 square miles / 10,570 km2 and 88 incorporated cities). "Local" fruits and vegetables at my neighborhood farmers' market travel 125 miles to get here. Our municipal water supply journeys even further.
When I was first reading Rob Hopkins' blog, well prior to the publication of the Transition Handbook, I realized that ideas which originated in Totnes would have to be significantly adapted in order to work here. Hopkins' phrase "scaling up" tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth (kind of like Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me" documentary about the fast food industry). With our local core team I make light of the situation -- we joke about "translating from the British."
This "translation" process has meant different things at different times. Sometimes it's simply the petrol versus gasoline thing, or the different forms of government. Other times it is very much about scale and the sheer magnitude of things. Recently I have been realizing that scale drives timeline, and that our timeline here in L.A. is and will continue to evolve quite differently from the remarkably rapid pace of tiny Totnes.
A few years back, Hopkins and Totnes went nuts over nut trees. Here in L.A. we don't get sufficient chill hours to produce most nuts, but we can grow fruit. Many Southern California households -- even non-food-growing ones -- have their own lemon tree as a matter of course. Inspiring people to add tangerines and oranges has been easy.
Our Westchester group leveraged this fruit-growing bonanza into several projects. For several years, they have coordinated a group purchase of fruit trees, bringing in low-chill apricots, peaches, plums, and specially-bred apples at discounted cost. They also began a form of harvest-sharing program: from homes which have mature fruit trees they began collecting the excess fruit, offering harvesting services to seniors. Fruit is shared between volunteers with the bulk of it distributed to needy families via the local food pantry. The program has been quite popular, even among non-progressively-minded neighbors, and gained a lot of mainstreem media attention when it got started.
In another "climate translation," while the Totnes folks never seem to worry about water, for us water is among the tops of the issues we must consider for post-peak sustainability. Thus "translating" means that our Energy Descent Action Plan will include a key section which Totnes didn't need in theirs.
One of the first issues the infant Transition L.A. wrestled with was how to "localize" 4,083 square miles and 11 million people. Even our initial group of passionate Transitioners were hardly neighbors, living in farflung places throughout the greater L.A. area. Based on some comments Sophy Banks made about "belonging," we made an early policy decision that set the course for our area.
We realized that each member of our initiating group would eventually be part of a different neighborhood group. That we had come together to take the Transition training, and we needed each others' support in the early times when we were alone and getting started. But that eventually, each neighborhood in L.A. would need some sort of local group. Thus from the very start, "Transition Los Angeles" meant a city hub with lots of local groups.
But how to create those groups? People in L.A. have a cavalier attitude about distance. They think nothing of hopping in the car and driving to go to a meeting or take a class or see a film. Attendees to our events came for the topics, not necessarily based on some intangible idea of "localization." At Transition L.A. we decided to create the events at sites where people felt a sense of Belonging -- regardless of how far they drove to get there.
Our earliest sites included two churches, a yoga center, and two community gardens as gathering places. At each of the long-term locations, "securing meeting space" has been a matter of building a solid working partnership with the site. Our NELA Transition group (NorthEast LA) is renovating the landscaping for the church site that has been allowing them meeting space. In Inglewood and Rancho Palos Verdes, the initiating Transition member was simultaneously a church member (making them prime for "Transition Congregations," an idea being explored by Tina Clarke of North Carolina).
As our local groups got established, became active, and began publicizing their gatherings, they began to attract truly-local attendees for more traditional "localization." As of this writing, Transition L.A. consists of a city hub and eight active local groups/sites.
In a "town" of 11 million, we're not the only game in town. There are plenty of organizations doing their facet of what will eventually become The Great Turning. There are slow food groups, school garden groups, alternative health circles, tree-planting organizations, green business networks, homesteading bloggers, major Green festivals, and plenty of other sites that host authors, speakers, and films. "Transition" in this town isn't so much about pioneering activities, but instead a massive act of networking. (more about networking here http://transitionus.org/blog/movement-or-organization )
TLA's uniqueness is that we are focused on the triple issues of peak oil, climate change, and economic contraction. And we are proactive, focused on putting in place the solutions, the tools needed for resilience. Thus networking sometimes means sharing projects: Transition Culver City recently worked with a coalition of groups which sponsored a large bicycle ride in their neighborhood. Transition Mar Vista/Venice has provided sites for another group's Green Garden Showcase event.
While Transition San Fernando Valley and Transition Whittier started the time banks in their neighborhoods, NELA Transition, Transition Mar Vista/Venice, and Transition Culver City have piggybacked on local time banks in their areas which were started by other groups. Transition Mar Vista/Venice participates in a produce exchange program which was started by someone outside the Transition circle. We are people united around a concept: the great "why" we are doing this. The understanding that these practices aren't some affluent optional "green" choice. Rather they are survival, they are the future. We educate, we get people to consider multiple issues, and we broaden horizons.
As Transition L.A. looks toward creating our Energy Descent Plan, we will have to address another "translation of scale": Do we create one Plan for all 4,083 acres, all 11 million people? Or does each local group publish a separate Plan? In our meetings last August we began to consider a dual approach: some sectors (water) might dictate a region-wide response, while for other sectors (business, food) the answers will be very local.
The initiating group for Transition L.A. began in autumn 2005, just about the time that Rob and Naresh were beginning in Totnes. Thus TLA is nearly as old as TTT; it simply had a different name back then. Yet Totnes has gone on to publish their EDAP, they have gotten local government on board, they have spawned an energy company and a business consulting arm, and an astounding list of accomplishments.
As initiator of Transition L.A., I'm realizing we have spent 3 years doing something that TTT never had to do: building local groups to get myriad different neighborhoods going. Where TTT grew a steering group that was their base for getting down to business, TLA has had to set up and coordinate complete local initiatives throughout this massive city in order to develop any meaningful base. That means more decisionmakers, more people involved, many more meetings, and a much slower timeline before results begin to show. If one takes a look at the expected timeline of a Transition Initiative, we're like a CD caught in a loop: playing the opening line again and again and again. And we have many more repetitions yet to go.
It takes more time to spread the unique Transition message to 11 million ears. And it will take even longer to create the bridges into all the niche communities. On the Transition L.A. core team, we don't allow ourselves to look at this massive discrepancy of scale very often; even for us it can get depressing. We do, however, coach each other to be patient. To allow the process to unfold as it needs to. To embrace the reality that some groups will take steps forward and then regress. That it may take a long period of "mulling in place," even for an actively-meeting core group, before things pop and get easier.
Yes, it is challenging, and right now as I write this we are perhaps "in the thick of it." But when people ask if it is impossible to transition L.A., my answer always comes back to: what else would we do, quit and do nothing?
In a blog post several years back, Hopkins celebrated the percentage of Totnes citizens who had heard of TTT. At the time, in my local neighborhood perhaps a slightly smaller percentage of local citizens had heard of our initiating group -- but our "local neighborhood" is 49,000 people.
By sheer numbers, our success in name recognition is pretty amazing: The numbers of "green groups" who are collaborating with us. The numbers of schools that know about our garden(s). Simply getting one of our events posted in the massive mainstream L.A. Times. Recognition from an L.A. city councilmember (who has nearly as many constituents as a UK MOP). We celebrated when our South Bay L.A. group got their name onto a banner stretched across the main highway through their part of town. Within the context of who we are, and the place we are working, these are dramatic markers of success for an organization so young in the middle of a city so vast.
Joanne Poyourow is initiator and part of the core team at the Transition Los Angeles city hub. She blogs at Transition U.S. and Energy Bulletin. She has designed and helped build two community food gardens and is currently working on her third book, Economic Resilience: What We Can Do in our Local Communities.
Photos: Transition Mar Vista/Venice converts a lawn to food garden: Chicken Hutch Building event at Transition Culver City: Transition Whittier bicycle event: Transition San Fernando Valley repurposing old clothes ; "Transition a Lawn" project of NELA Transition


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"Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation of Smart Load Functionality in the CERTS Microgrid." 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). Pittsburgh, PA: IEEE, 2014. LBNL-1005173..
"Overview of the CERTS microgid laboratory test bed." Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System, CIGRE/IEEE PES Joint Symposium. Calgary, AB, Canada: IEEE, 2009..
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Later this evening, the United States will play England at Wembley (8pm BST/BBC1) in a friendly match between two countries who have a love-hate relationship with each other. But in this war, the battle is waged off the pitch rather than on it.
On the pitch, the competition between the two sides is waged fairly. The American players who play in the Premier League will have more of a desire to win the match so they can rub it into the faces of their English compatriots. The English players will have a lot to prove to new manager Fabio Capello, so overall the match should be entertaining to watch as long as it remains competitive. Most importantly, it'll be played in a clean manner.
Off the pitch, it's a different story. Being an American who lived in Britain for 14 years, I've experienced the complicated love-hate relationship between both countries. There are so many Anglophiles who live in the United States and love the English way of life (the football, the beer, the fish and chips, music, TV shows, movies and royalty). And there are many Brits who love the American way of life (the TV shows, movies, rap artists, fashion, fast food and gadgets such as Apple's iPod).
But right in the middle of all of this is also a relationship of hate, which isn't felt by everyone but definitely exists. It's part politics and part football. And, without a doubt, it's more fierce off the pitch than on it.
Politically speaking, George Bush's shock and awe policy in Iraq has generated a lot of negativity among people around the world which is aimed at the United States. Of course, Britain was America's biggest ally in the war against Saddam Hussein, so it shouldn't feel exonerated. But the war has created a bitter taste in the mouths of so many people worldwide.
Part of that anti-Americanism has spilled over into football and specifically the Internet — whether it's message boards, blog comments or articles by renowned journalists (Martin Samuel from The Times has been a prime target for U.S. fans because Samuel often harshly criticises U.S. football; It's this feeling of general press bias that upsets many Americans). Some of the friction between football fans in the U.S. and U.K. has been downright venomous.
The battle off the pitch between U.S. and English football fans comes down to pride. English journalists, pundits and soccer fans have, for too long, looked down their noses at U.S. football whether it's been the national squad or Major League Soccer. It's an easy target for the Brits who make jokes about the "Mickey Mouse League" and tease Americans for inventing the word soccer to label the sport we love, when most of us intelligent people know that the term originated from England not the United States.
A lot of friction from Americans is because they're sick and tired of their national team and clubs being made a joke. They feel that their country and its football teams should be respected more than they currently are, and that many of their football supporters are very well educated about the sport and not all of them fall into the trap of being stereotypical American males who are macho, dumb and eat and breathe the mindnumbingly boring NFL.
Many Americans feel that Brits are jealous of them and their way of life, that Brits are ignorant about the level of football in America and that Brits perceive themselves to be superior to Americans.
Of course, most of this is true. Whether Brits choose to admit it or not, the fact is that most people in the UK consume an American culture. Whether it's the American TV shows on British television, the fast food culture of pizza and hamburgers, the American music you listen to on Radio 1 or and the American-influenced fashion that you wear, the British culture is morphing into the United States of England every day.
This hypocrisy is what infuriates many Americans. Brits consume American culture and respect it, but Brits don't give football played by Americans the respect it deserves.
Thus sets the stage for the England against USA friendly scheduled for this evening. If you see the Americans playing with a style of zest and verve that is uncommon in friendly matches, now you know why. And if the U.S. can pull off a shock and beat England, expect to see a tirade of "I told you so" from Americans across the Internet in the days and weeks to come. This is something that American players and fans would love more than anything: To earn and receive the respect that they deserve.