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text: Share: Comments Print March 16, 2009 at 5:00 PM Gonzaga headed to Seattle Posted by Jayda Evans West Coast Conference champs Gonzaga is headed to Seattle as a No. 12 seed playing No. 5 seed Xavier on Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Seems a little unfair since the Zags are stacked with key players from this side of the mountain, but the NCAA committee regionalized the bracket to increase ticket sales, making this a great spot for Gonzaga. There's an open practice slated for Friday at Hec Ed. I'll have more on that and "Selection Monday" in a bit. Comments

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Universal Pictures' Jurassic World - a revival/soft reboot of the Jurassic Park franchise - has become a runaway success at the box office, with the dinosaur adventure having grossed more than $1.6 billion around the globe in theaters. The film's co-writer/director Colin Trevorrow revealed that the movie was designed to serve as the first chapter in a multi-installment story arc over a year before Jurassic World opened in theaters; it didn't come as a surprise when Trevorrow was reported to be returning as as co-screenwriter (along with his go-to writing partner, Derek Connolly) on the film's sequel, for that reason.
Trevorrow won't be calling the shots on the Jurassic World sequel, as he has already been recruited by Lucasfilm to direct Star Wars: Episode IX, instead. Nonetheless, the filmmaker will continue to play a role in the direction of the Jurassic Park/World franchise, as he discussed in a recent interview - where the larger plans for a Jurassic World trilogy were also teased.
Trevorrow, speaking on the Jurassic Cast Podcast, talked about both Jurassic World and the planned sequel(s) alike, first by touching on what famous Jurassic Park quote inspired his approach on World (and what other quote will be the basis for the followup):
"Jurassic World is all based on Ian Malcolm's quote, 'You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you wanna sell it.' That to me is Jurassic World, that's why I had all the product placement, that's what it was.
"The second one, Jurassic World 2, and as we were driving we tried to find, what is the foundation? 'Dinosaurs and man, separated by 65 million years of evolution have been thrown back into the mix together. How can we know what to expect?' That's why it's exciting that the movie did well, that leaves us a lot of room to run, and it was part of this design, it had a beginning, middle, and end when we wrote the first movie. Now that the movie did well, we get to play that out."
Trevorrow has acknowledged on multiple occasions that Jurassic World's Indominus Rex - the hybrid dinosaur that breaks loose and wreaks havoc in the film - was crafted as a metaphor for the danger of commercialization gone mad; the issue of product placement was even specifically discussed by human characters in the movie, with regard to the effect it has on how the Jurassic World establishment is run. The events of Jurassic World have now seemingly left any corporate hopes for an operational dinosaur park deader than ever they were before; Trevorrow says the sequel shall build on that idea, now that it has the freedom to deviate from the typical Jurassic Park movie formula (and not by "going bigger", as he had already mentioned to us in the past):
"It will get to be a different kind of film. The audience has given us permission to a certain extent to take this to the next level, and I don't necessarily mean in scale, I feel very strongly that it's not about more dinosaurs or bigger and better dinosaurs, it's about using this as a starting point for a much larger story about our relationship with these animals and about animals in general and the dynamic created by bringing them back to life."
Among the reasons that Trevorrow has stated before regarding why he won't be directing the Jurassic World sequel is that by allowing a different helmsman to step up to bat, the followup has the potential to be all the more thematically and aesthetically unique next to Trevorrow's film. A possible candidate has yet to be reported (or even rumored) for the job yet, but they will for certain follow the road map that Trevorrow, Connolly, and the Jurassic Park/World franchise's executive producer Steven Spielberg have already partially laid out for them.
One way the Jurassic World sequel will supposedly examine that human/dinosaur dynamic is by having the dinos go "open source," as Trevorrow put it, now that they're no longer the sole property of InGen and Masrani Global, thanks in part to the actions of geneticist Henry Wu (BD Wong). Naturally, both Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) are partly to blame for that, too - if only by their association with the Jurassic World park - and Trevorrow has confirmed that this plot thread is going to be picked back up, when the characters return for the sequel:
"We know Owen is going to be in it and Claire will be in it and neither will be in the same place that we left them in this movie. Even though Claire is the one who evolves the most over the trilogy, it's her story that mirrors this changing world, Owen has s**t to deal with. The two of them opened Pandora's Box in Jurassic World and each of them are responsible for different elements of it in different ways, and I think the way that these characters are connected to the circumstances of what's happening it's different than the previous films. It's not 'Let's manufacture a way to get them somewhere,' they're embedded into it now in a way that as story tellers makes it much easier for us to keep them involved and doesn't feel as contrived."
Among the implications in Trevorrow's comments is that Claire's nephews - Zach (Nick Robinson) and Gray (Ty Simpkins) - might not be key players in the Jurassic World sequel, similar to how Jurassic Park's Tim and Lex didn't appear in The Lost World: Jurassic Park beyond a cameo. That might be best, though, as the Jurassic World subplots involving Zach and Gray are generally not among the better-received elements of Jurassic World (far from it, in fact). It might be wiser to focus more on Claire and Owen's continued development as characters as they deal with repercussions of the events in the first movie - which is exactly what Trevorrow seems to have in mind here, as it were.
NEXT: Jurassic World Blu-ray Features
Jurassic World will be made available on Blu-ray starting October 20th, 2015. The currently-untitled Jurassic World sequel opens in U.S. theaters on June 22nd, 2018.
Source: Jurassic Cast Podcast


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Lavender is an economically important medicinal herb whose growth is restricted to North Africa and Mediterranean peaks. Its role in treatment of different medical conditions has been demonstrated but some of its medicinal properties although claimed by people aren't scientifically demonstrated yet. Therefore it is not recommended to make use of lavender oil without consulting your personal practitioner.
The extracted oils from lavender are safe to be used as antiseptic and anti-inflammatory oils to treat cuts, burns and bites. Besides that, lavender extract can be used to treat several medical issues that have puzzled scientists for years such as insomnia, depression, and anxiety.
The use of lavender for making tea can also aid in relieving some of the digestive problems like upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, swelling, etc. Not only does lavender help in resolving digestive problems, it can also help us in getting rid of different types of pains such as pain due to headache, pain due to toothache, etc. The use of lavender in treating hair loss has also been suggested. Lavender oil can be applied to skin to treat different skin related issues. Due to its chemical nature, it also has the ability to ward off viruses which can get transmitted via air.


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This article first appeared on the "Let's feel Slovenia" blog.
Most political revolutions produce their own heroes, from Poland's Lech Wałęsa to the Czech "poet president" Václav Havel. In this exclusive group, few have travelled further ideologically than Slovenia's Milan Kučan. Once a high-ranking Communist, he led his country into independence after having become its first democratically elected president. A political realist, on the eve of Slovenian independence he declared that "tonight, dreams are allowed," only to quickly note that "tomorrow is a new day" on which the work of building a new nation would begin in earnest.
Before Yugoslavia fell apart in the early 1990s amongst war and genocide, the soft-spoken Kučan led a relatively conformist life. Born in 1941 in the small town of Križevci, he quickly rose through the ranks of the Communist Party. He became speaker of the Slovenian Assembly and the state's representative to the central party leadership in Belgrade from 1982 to 1986. After his return to his native Slovenia, the changes affecting Yugoslavia during the 1980's after Tito's death changed Kučan's political outlook dramatically.
While Serbia continued to refuse democratic reforms in Yugoslavia, Kučan not only oversaw the creation of small businesses but also allowed the formation of an unofficial opposition in his one-party republic. As early as 1988, when Serbia's Slobodan Miloševic used nationalism as a political tool to foster his own political ambitions, Time magazine noted that Kučan called Serbia out for "deliberately fanning nationalist passions."
In mid-1991, Slovenia joined Croatia and threatened to break away if Serbia did not agree to a federation of sovereign states. By that point, Slovenia had already held its first multiparty elections in which Kučan won as the Communist candidate for president despite his party's trouncing in the parliamentary elections. He was one of the first and certainly the most respected of Slovenia's leaders to call for independence, responding to international critics that Yugoslavia was already falling apart anyways: "Whenever foreign partners try to convince me that I should stay within Yugoslavia, I offer them the opportunity to trade places with us."
After a referendum in which almost nine out of then Slovenes opted for cutting ties with Belgrade, it fell to Kučan to steer Slovenia to independence and gain recognition for the new country. His task was complicated by a raging Serbia which vowed to militarily prevent Yugoslavia from falling apart.
It was Milan Kučan's speech on the eve of independence that came to define his country's way to independence. He did not just address his fellow countrymen, rightly warning them of tough times ahead (while Slovenia was not at the center of the Balkans wars during the 1990's, it was still affected). In a speech remarkable for its eloquence, he also called for the support of Slovenia's independence by the rest of the world.
In a surprising act of leadership, and largely as a result of Kučan's careful and moderate leadership, Germany was one of the first countries to formally recognize Slovenia. Miloševic understood Kučan's importance in the collapse of Yugoslavia, and remained bitter about the role his former comrade played. When he finally faced justice at the criminal court in The Hague in 2003, the former Serbian president told Kučan in an almost comical distortion of reality, "You opted for violence, you personally played the decisive role."
Kučan stepped down in 2002, having easily been reelected five years earlier when he ran as an independent. Now a well-respected elder statesman, he remains both popular and active in Slovenian politics (as opposed to, say, the now largely unpopular Wałęsa). For a long time, he and his country remained a calm rarity among the often heated political upheavals in Central Europe. Milan Kučan will rightly be remembered as the man who led his country into independence when the circumstances were right and Slovenians ready to take the risk.


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Donald Kenneth Anderson Official War Artist (1920-2009)
In the early 1980s, Hugh Halliday, a former Curator of War Art at the Canadian War Museum, wrote an extensive account on Donald Anderson's wartime career. It was based on research he uncovered following correspondence and conversations with the artist, whom he had recently located. The article was never published and exists in typewritten and hand-edited form in the Canadian War Museum's (CWM) artist file for Anderson.1 The edits appear to be in response to Anderson's own comments on the piece. This document forms the substance of this obituary for Canada's last surviving Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) official Second World War artist.


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Knowing time of day when inspections are likely to occur can help fleets reroute trucks
While the industry continues to argue of the value of electronic logging devices (ELDs), it turns out that some of the data they generate can be very useful to carriers and their drivers. Keep Truckin has compiled some of the data its ELDs have collected and done a deeper dive, coming up with valuable insights into roadside inspections, of all things.
The company has segmented the data into four categories – Level 1 inspections by cargo types; how violations vary by state; most common types of violations; and time duration in which most inspections happen.
"Nobody actually notices it, but the fact is that certain cargo types do get a lot more Level-1 inspections," explains Shoaib Makani, CEO and founder. "There can be many factors at play, but we analyzed all data from 2016, and a few categories kept coming on top. We hope fleets can use this information to maintain smoother operations and prepare their vehicles for Level-1 inspections."
Drivers working in driveaway-towaway operations face the most Level-1 inspections, the company said, while those hauling coal, coke, and livestock face the least. The top five cargos that receive the most Level-1 inspections are: driveaway/towaway, fresh produce, chemicals, household goods, general freight.
Many carriers also know that violations vary by state. It's one of the complaints that led the American Transportation Research Institute to study the issue and issue a 100-page report in 2014. That report found that disparate enforcement creates an uneven playing field for carriers.
"Despite the uniformity of the Safety Measurement System (SMS) in its calculation of BASIC scores, the intensity and focus of enforcement activities is largely at the discretion of each state," the report said. "This has resulted in 50 or more different enforcement programs and strategies that are used to populate a uniform score (within each BASIC) of nationwide performance."
What Keep Truckin has found is that states such as Connecticut, Idaho and Louisiana see the highest number of hours of service violations while Mississippi, South Dakota and Massachusetts see the least.
"Violations are a big problem for fleets and CMV drivers. With our data, we found that different states may have varying degrees of strictness," Makani notes. "And if you are operating in states like Connecticut, Idaho, and Louisiana, you need to be more vigilant. Having proper tracking systems and electronic logs in place can help fleets and drivers prevent violations."
For fleets, perhaps the most insightful nugget is the timeframe of inspections. Keep Truckin has determined that more than 50% of inspections happen in a six-hour time window. That window can vary by region, but if carriers can identify when those inspections happen and route trucks accordingly, they could lessen their chance of a time-consuming inspection.
To illustrate its point, Keep Truckin notes locations in Kansas. In Johnson County, 78.6% of inspections occur between the hours of 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., however, in Belleville, KS, 80% of inspections take place between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. and in Sedgwick County, 53% of inspections are between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.
Of course, going beyond the time of day, Keep Truckin also provides the most common inspections. These include:
- All mandatory lamps should be capable of being operated at all times (704,167 violations)
- Parts and accessories must be in safe and proper operating condition at all times (293,118 violations)
- Every commercial motor vehicle must be operated in accordance with the laws, ordinances and regulations of the jurisdictions in which it is being operated (190,337)
- The motor vehicle should be free of oil and grease leaks (189,981)
- The pushrod stroke must not be greater than the values specified (181,320)
Obviously, the key to maintaining strong safety scores is not to have violations. But, according to Keep Truckin, knowing what violations are most common and trying to identify when inspections are most likely to take place can help reduce the number of times a fleet's trucks face inspections.


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Returns information about all available Trusted Advisor checks, including name, ID, category, description, and metadata. You must specify a language code; English ("en") and Japanese ("ja") are currently supported. The response contains a TrustedAdvisorCheckDescription for each check. The region must be set to us-east-1.
Request Syntax
{ "language": "
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Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- language
The ISO 639-1 code for the language in which AWS provides support. AWS Support currently supports English ("en") and Japanese ("ja"). Language parameters must be passed explicitly for operations that take them.
Type: String
Response Syntax
{ "checks": [ { "category": "string", "description": "string", "id": "string", "metadata": [ "string" ], "name": "string" } ] }
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
- checks
Information about all available Trusted Advisor checks.
Type: Array of TrustedAdvisorCheckDescription objects
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- InternalServerError
An internal server error occurred.
HTTP Status Code: 500
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:


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EUR USD, "Euro vs. US Dollar"
At the H4 chart, the EUR/USD pair is trading close to the 5/8 level. The price is expected to rebound from it and then resume growing towards the resistance at the 8/8 one (1.1962).
As we can see at the H1 chart, the price may break the 3/8 level and start forming a new ascending impulse with the first target at the 5/8 level. The main upside target is at 1.1962).
At the M15 chart, the pair may break the upside line of the VoltyChannel indicator and, as a result, continue moving upwards to reach 1.1962.
GBP USD, "Great Britain Pound vs US Dollar"
At the H4 chart, the GBP/USD pair is trading inside the "overbought zone". If the price breaks the 8/8 level, the instrument will continue falling towards the 5/8 one.
Unlike the H4 chart, here the pair is expected to move upwards. Right now, the price is consolidating. If later the pair breaks the 5/8 level, it may grow towards the resistance at the 8/8 one; if the 3/8 level – continue moving downwards to reach the support at the 0/8 one.
RoboForex Analytical Department
Forecasts presented in this section only reflect the author's private opinion and should not be considered as guidance for trading. RoboForex bears no responsibility for trading results based on trading recommendations described in these analytical reviews.


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Every Lent the Church asks three things of her members: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These are three spiritual disciplines that actually grow your faith. But often our parishioners are heard saying how they wish they had a better prayer life, or a better relationship with God, or a deeper Catholic faith – yet they do not know where to start. A few "Our Fathers" here or a Scripture reflection there – and they soon give up the effort. This year we are asking all our parishioners to join together to Give Up, Pick Up, and Offer Up the same things for Lent 2019. Through these spiritual disciplines and practices your personal faith will grow, and so will the unity of our Church community. Our prayer is that we can hold each other accountable to growing in virtue and holiness this Lenten season as parish family. [Explicación en Español]
Worship, Adoration, and a Message from special guest Katie Prejean. The night will be a powerful encounter with Jesus as our entire parish prepares to ReCenter our hearts on Christ as we begin this Lenten journey.
7:30PM – 9:00PM in Main Sanctuary
Ash Wednesday opens the Lent season and comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of penance and fasting. The practice includes the wearing of ashes on the head. The ashes symbolize the dust from which God made us. As the ashes are applied to a person's forehead, the words, "Repent and believe in the Gospel" are proclaimed.
Jesus Christ, in His abundant love and mercy, established the Sacrament of Confession, so that we as sinners can obtain forgiveness for our sins and reconcile with God and the Church. The sacrament "washes us clean," and renews us in Christ. See John 20:21-23 for more info.
5pm-9pm in Main Sanctuary
The Stations of the Cross are a 14-step Catholic devotion that commemorates Jesus Christ's Passion and Death. At each station, the individual recalls and meditates on a specific event from Christ's last day. Specific prayers are recited, then the individual or group moves to the next station until all 14 are complete. The Stations of the Cross will be prayed every Friday night during Lent in the main sanctuary.
Fridays During Lent
-7:00PM in English (Main Sanctuary)
-8:30Pm en Español (Santuario Principal)
-Living Stations of the Cross on April 12th & April 14th


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We may never know exactly how many times Melissa Ann Shephard (inset) has killed. In a criminal career that spans five decades, Shephard has sown confusion, obfuscated with layers of lies and masqueraded as a victim. The criminal justice system, unable to affix the damning labels she may deserve – serial killer, psychopath – continues to turn her loose to kill again and struggles to contain her. She has learned from her criminal mistakes and profited from her predation. Infamous as the 'Internet Black Widow,' Shephard was released Friday (March 18, 2016) from a women's prison in Nova Scotia – amid a police warning – after her latest stint behind bars, a three-and-a-half year sentence. It was imposed in 2013 after she admitting spiking drinks of her newlywed fifth husband, 74-year-old Fred Weeks, with potent tranquilizers. An attempted murder charge was dropped when Shephard pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Two of Shephard's four husbands who preceded Weeks ended up dead and another mysteriously fell ill immediately after meeting Shephard. Recent prison assessments (read what experts say, in internal documents after the jump) warn that Shephard scores high for some psychopathic traits, she is resistant to treatment and indifferent to the suffering of her victims. The only thing that has contained her lethal greed in the past 40+ years has been time behind bars and yet, the system has refused to apply the brand that could keep her locked up.
Authorities in Halifax, where Shephard will live after her release from prison, are so concerned about her presence that a public warning was issued (read full release below) on Friday, March 18 by Halifax police, including a recent photo of Shephard. Police caution that Shephard "has a "history of violent criminal convictions dating back to 1992" and she "has been assessed as being a high risk to re-offend."
Police clearly fear Shephard will strike again. Remarkable conditions have been imposed, including an order that requires her to tell police about any possible romantic relationship, cohabitation or marriage, so that officers can explain her criminal background to her potential partners. It's a luxury that four men victimized by Shephard did not have. She's also barred from using the Internet, the hunting ground where she found most of her targets.
The conditions are impossibly difficult to enforce, particularly in the case of a criminal who has been set free at the expiry of her sentence. Shephard served every day of her latest term. The opportunity to delcare her a dangerous offender (DO), a designation that could have permited authorities to keep her locked up forever, passed. A DO application is typically brought forward by the prosecution immediately after conviction but before sentencing. An application can be made up to six months after sentencing, if new information comes to light. In 2008, criminal law was tightened to provide that a habitual criminal who had committed three serious offences was, presumptively, a dangerous offender. Shephard has been convicted three times of serious, violent crimes, including manslaughter, that earned her penitentiary terms, yet no effort was made to designate her a dangerous offender. This is why police are left with the difficult task of enforcing conditions that Shephard can easily circumvent.
There's no reason to believe that Shephard, despite her age, will abide the rules or give up her predatory behaviour. In prison, she was caught hoarding medicine and fabricating stories. Expert assessments revealed that she did not respond to treatment.
"You continue to display a substantial degree of indifference … to your elderly vulnerable victims," states a December 2014 parole document.
A psychological risk assessment completed in 2014, and which employed a widely accepted test for psychopathy, the Hare PCL-R, found that Shephard's "score on Factor 1 items was notably high for traits related to psychopathy."
"The psychologist noted that your criminal history is disturbing in that it is not clearly and explicitly recorded as a pattern of violence," the record of the 2014 parole board decision states. "However, he described your behaviour as highly suspect and that your intent, if not murderous, was endangerment of life, showing wanton and reckless disregard for the lives or the safety of the men with whom you were romantically involved. He went on to caution as to the potential for volatility with respect to the management of your case." (emphasis added) After the hearing in December 2014, the board ordered Shephard kept behind bars until she had served every day of her sentence, because she was "a significant threat to your target group of elderly vulnerable men" and too dangerous for early release on parole.
While Shephard has been convicted only once of manslaughter, in the death of her second husband, family members of Shephard's third husband, Robert Friedrich, who died under suspicious circumstances and was quickly cremated, believe she poisoned him. Alex Strategos, her fourth husband, believes that Shephard spiked his food with prescription drugs in a bid to kill him and steal his life savings. The 73-year-old was hospitalized soon after meeting Shephard. They met through an online dating site. Police in Florida believed Shephard poisoned Strategos to get his assets.
"I truly do think she was either trying to incapacitate him enough to perform the crimes that she was doing, or actually end up ultimately killing him, which is what I think what would have happened to him," Pinellas Park detective Sgt. Mark Lynch has said.
Police couldn't gather enough evidence for an attempted murder charge but succeeded in convicting Shephard of seven crimes related to exploitation and defrauding a senior. She was sentenced to five years in an American prison. Her latest victim, Nova Scotian Fred Weeks, also has said that he believed she was trying to kill him.
"She was trying to kill me … there's no doubt in my mind," Weeks said, in an interview with CBC in 2013.
Shephard was released from her U.S. sentence in 2009. Within three years, she had stalked and poisoned Fred Weeks. The potent prescription drug benzodiazepine was found in his body. The same drug was found in Alex Strategos. The problem for police investigators has been connecting Shephard to the drugs found in the bodies of her victims. Tests done on Alex Strategos when he was hospitalized did not establish how much drug was in his system and police could not prove that he didn't take it himself. Shephard seems to have learned that poisoning homicides are notoriously difficult for investigators. Symptoms often mimic natural disease and because murder-by-poison is rare, it is easily overlooked.
Poisoning hasn't always been Shephard's principal criminal enterprise.
She was born in a small fishing community in New Brunswick and began her criminal career as a petty thief and cheque forger. Between 1970 and 1985, she was in and out of jail in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, accumulating roughly five years behind bars for more than 30 convictions for fraud and related crimes.
She earned her first penitentiary term after the death of her second husband, Gordon Stewart, in Nova Scotia in 1991. Shephard went to trial on a charge of second-degree murder. She claimed Stewart was an abusive alcoholic who abducted and raped her before she killed him in self defence. Evidence showed that Shephard drugged Stewart, then ran him over with a car twice on an isolated road near the Halifax airport. Forensic tests found no evidence she had been assaulted. A toxicologist testified at the trial that Stewart was so full of prescription drugs and several kinds of alcohol that he likely would have been unconscious at the time he was run over. Two shopping bags filled with prescription drugs were found in Shephard's apartment. Convicted of manslaughter, Shephard was sentenced to six years in prison. She had killed Stewart after draining his bank account and stealing his pension payments.
Her third husband, lonely widower Robert Friedrich, was dead two years after meeting Shephard. The couple were engaged three days after meeting at Friedrich's home in Bradenton, Florida, in May 2000. Five months after they wed, Friedrich called his adult children to tell them he was changing his will to leave all of his estate to Shephard. Friedrich became strangely ill soon after he married Shephard. He began falling, necessitating hospital visits and nursing home stays. Friends couldn't understand his sudden decline. He was hospitalized seven or eight times in his two years with Shephard. Records obtained later by family revealed that toxicology tests were not performed when Friedrich was hospitalized, according to a sweeping investigation of Shephard by my former colleague at The Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper, Tamsin McMahon. McMahon spent roughly a month criss-crossing North America, interviewing 30 people who knew Shephard. Her investigation included a revealing jailhouse interview with Shephard in Florida. In April 2005, the Whig published a novella-length, five-part series based on McMahon's work that exposed Shephard's many lies and the depth of her murderous greed.
On December 15, 2002, Robert Friedrich, 84, was rushed to hospital. McMahon's investigation revealed that:
Melissa had called an ambulance, saying Robert was suffering from severe stomach pains, had been going in and out of consciousness and had been up vomiting since 2 a.m. In their notes, paramedics wrote that Robert's story "completely conflicts with what [the] patient's wife is saying. Patient denies abdominal pain. Admits one nausea episode and states he slept soundly all night," the notes read.
Under [the heading] 'chief complaint,' a nurse at Manatee Memorial Hospital wrote that Robert had said: "I don't know why I'm here." His vital signs were normal, except for a racing heart. He was treated and released that day.
On Dec. 16, a day after he returned home from the hospital, Robert Friedrich died.
The death of an 84-year-old man at home in his bed hardly raised eyebrows in the retirement community. The doctor who signed the death certificate over the phone listed the cause of death as cardiac arrest.
It appears no one examined Robert's body before he was cremated.
Melissa was out shopping when her husband died.
"They gave me a prescription I had to fill for him," Shephard [told reporter McMahon]. "I went out to the drug store to get the medication and while I was away, this happened. When I got back home he was already dead in bed."
Melissa said she shook Robert and tried to perform CPR before calling 911.
"He died of natural causes," she said. "He had heart failure and he had had a stroke and cardiac arrest all at the same time. The doctor said that the cause of death was a massive heart attack. He died in bed at home and he was glad to be at home."
Friedrich's family members are convinced that Shephard poisoned Robert with prescription drugs. They found credit card receipts showing that Shephard was obtaining prescription drugs from different doctors. American police drew up six charges against Shephard for doctor shopping for illegally obtaining prescriptions from six different doctors for pain killers and benzodiazepines, a class of tranquilizers that work by slowing the central nervous system. The charges weren't filed because prosecutors said they could not prove that Shephard withheld information from the doctors she visited.
In 2005, Manatee, Fla., police opened an investigation into Friedrich's death, but it did not lead to charges. McMahon reported, in her expose:
Police spokesman Dave Bristow said that with no body and no autopsy it's unlikely that charges will ever be filed. "This is an 84-year-old man who died and had a heart condition and his body was cremated very quickly and a doctor signed a death certificate," Bristow said, in an interview. "We're doing all we can do with very limited evidence and information. We don't even know if there was any wrongdoing."
Robert Friedrich's son Dennis told McMahon: "I know my father was drugged to death. I can't prove it, but I know it."
The written records of the two most recent decisions in Shephard's case by the Parole Board of Canada: The November 2015 decision confirming the order to keep her locked up until the expiry of her sentence and, the December 2014 original detention decision:
The "High Risk Offender Notification" issued by Halifax Police on March 18, 2016:
High Risk Offender Notification
Police Media Releases – Friday, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:18pm
In accordance with the Nova Scotia Release of High Risk Offender Information Protocol, Halifax Regional Police is advising all citizens, particularly those in the Halifax Regional Municipality, that a high risk offender is residing in our community.
Melissa Ann Shephard, 80, was released from the Nova Institution for Women today, after completing a sentence for serious assaults against her intimate partners, including administering noxious things and not providing the necessities of life for which she was sentenced in June 2013. Shephard has a history of violent criminal convictions dating back to 1992 that includes a conviction for manslaughter. Shephard has been assessed as being a high risk to re-offend. Her victims have included her intimate partners consisting of elderly men.
Shephard will be on a recognizance and will be required to follow a multitude of strict conditions, some of which include:
- should she alter her appearance, she shall upon a demand by a police/peace officer, submit to having her current photograph taken
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Forced marriage in Nigeria :Nigerian child marriage, early marriage in Nigeria, causes consequences and solution
That is what men,women and children who were forcefully given in marriage by their parents go through. To many of them, they live very miserably thereafter. We are not talking about an arranged marriage where a matchmaker brings a man or a woman for someone else to get married to.
At least in this case,ones consent is given for acceptance if he or she so love the other. We are talking about a situation where a person is forcefully given in marriage either by pressure, abuse or by trick,without his wish.
Forced marriage has caused a lot of problems such as frustration, depression,hatred,mental disorder and even death. Forced marriage has never brought joy or happiness to homes and families as victims ever feel cheated. Forced marriage means denial of human Rights and freedom of choice. It is wickedness, and injurious abuse!!!


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With all the recent rounds of layoffs hitting the technology sector, it may seem surprising that, in fact, jobs are still available for candidates with the right skill sets.
Tech survivors
Some bright spots remain in tech downturn for job hunters who have the right skills
According to several local recruiters, technology jobs still can be found by candidates who have strong technical backgrounds, several years experience and are willing to take positions in often very specific fields.
"The positions are defined very narrowly and require substantial depth," said Ilya Talman, president of technology recruiting firm Roy Talman & Associates Inc. in Chicago.
A cursory look at the corporate Web sites of Chicago companies like Bank One Corp., Northbrook-based Allstate Insurance Co. and Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. all show that they have current openings for information technology positions. Online job site Monster.com also lists a healthy crop of freshly posted technology jobs in Chicago and the suburbs.
However, job seekers are facing a buyer's market currently as many technology employers are downsizing and often retooling their companies. Local technology employers like Lucent Technologies Inc., Comdisco Inc., 3Com Corp. Tellabs Inc. and Motorola, all have had layoffs in recent months.
Figures released on Monday by Challenger Gray and Christmas Inc. indicate that 26,321 technology jobs were cut in July nationwide bringing the year total to 101,044. The telecommunication sector also has taken it on the chin as 44,908 layoffs were announced in July and a total of 175,350 for the year.
But not all the jobs have disappeared.
A steady flow of IT vacancies exists at all levels at Bank One, said Jeremy Farmer, Bank One senior vice president responsible for staffing and development.
"The IT area is still fairly buoyant," Mr. Farmer said. He noted that Bank One has had positions open for Java and Visual Basic programmers along with junior level posts and project manager positions. For the more senior level positions, Mr. Farmer said Bank One typically looks for specific banking sector programming or technology experience.
Recruiters have varying takes on what types of technology jobs are still in abundance. One possible trend is toward job openings right below the chief information officer (CIO) level, said David Brown, managing director and leader of the global information officers practice for executive recruiter Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. in Chicago.
Such positions, which have titles like vice president of operations or vice president of infrastructure, report to the CIO and are responsible for internal applications and infrastructure like local area networks (LANs), Mr. Brown said. These jobs are available as companies are looking to upgrade the overall quality of their personnel, he said.
Project manager and manager level jobs also are still available as companies feel it is important to have the right management mix in place, said John McNeil, vice president at placement service Harmer Associates Inc. in Chicago.
Mr. McNeil also said he has seen jobs in the areas of data warehousing and decision support, which focuses on system and software tools that can provide assistance in making operational and strategic decisions.
Software developers are not as hot a commodity as they were a year ago, and companies now are more selective in their hiring, McNeil said. A developer in the Java programming language with six months experience could find a job pretty easily last year. Now, companies are looking for four or five years of Java experience and don't want to have to train a new hire to get the person up to speed, Mr. McNeil said.
A year ago, a qualified candidate may have received three job offers in a week, but now may get only one offer in three months, Mr. Talman at Talman & Associates said. The unemployed must be patient and often less picky about the job they take, he said.
The tech candidate pool is abundant and companies are often holding out for the right person as they have to justify, now more than ever, their hires in the down market, said Michael Wyman, a principal at executive recruiter Korn/Ferry International in Chicago.
Whereas a year ago, companies may have gone ahead and hired a "B" level candidate and trained the person, many are holding out and waiting for the right person with the relevant experience they need who can start and hit the ground running, he said.
"Companies are being so careful and they are going to wait," for the best candidate, Mr. Wyman said.


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UGI Utilities – Gas Division Wraps up Second Phase of Downtown Harrisburg Infrastructure Betterment Project; Begins Work on Phase III
22 Apr 2014
READING, PA, March 24, 2013 – UGI Utilities – Gas Division is completing work on Phase II of its downtown Harrisburg infrastructure betterment initiative this week and will immediately move to the next phase of the project.
Phase II replaced a natural gas main on North 2nd Street from State Street to Walnut Street on the east side of the road. The work began in November 2013, and took longer to complete than anticipated because of this winter's extreme cold and snowy weather. The first phase of the project was completed last summer. That phase upgraded natural gas infrastructure on North 3rd Street from Strawberry Street to North Street, as well as several adjoining streets.
Phase III of the downtown project will upgrade infrastructure in the following locations:
- The east side of North 2nd Street from North Street to State Street;
- North Street between North 2nd Street and North 3rd Street;
- Liberty Street between North 2nd Street and North 3rd Street.
In addition, construction will occur on several side streets adjoining this project. UGI expects to complete this phase of the Downtown Harrisburg project, as well as two final phases, during 2014.
Work will be performed on Phase III of the project between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, excluding holidays.
Parking will be restricted on blocks under construction during work hours, and streets may be lane restricted from 9 am. to 3 p.m. in affected blocks as necessary. Construction may also affect sidewalk access. UGI will provide alternate walkways as needed.
UGI has been in contact with residents and businesses affected by this project, and is working with are businesses to minimize disruption of their operation. Whenever appropriate, UGI will replace service lines leading to homes and businesses during the main replacement project and, in some cases, will need to gain access to these buildings.
This latest phase of the project is part of the Company's multi-year $1.2 billion infrastructure betterment initiative. UGI's 2014 infrastructure betterment plan calls for the Company to spend approximately $85.7 million to replace an additional 67 miles of cast iron and bare steel mains, in addition to completing a variety of system enhancement projects. The Downtown Harrisburg project will replace cast iron main with high-density plastic and cathodically-protected steel.
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text: Share: Comments Print December 13, 2011 at 3:52 PM Spring chinook return forecast looks decent in Oregon's Willamette River Posted by Mark Yuasa The Willamette River spring chinook return looks good in 2012. Oregon Fish and Wildlife announced today a forecast of 83,400 back to the river that runs right through the heart of downtown Portland, and generates many anglers to come out of the woodwork from the winter doldrums. Last year, 104,000 were predicted to return to the Willamette, and the actual return was 80,254. If the Willamette forecast pans out then it would rank second behind 2010 return of 110,000 springers. This comes on the heels of a very strong upriver Columbia River spring chinook return forecast of 314,200 announced yesterday, compared to a forecast last year of 198,400 and an actual return of 221,200. If the upriver spring chinook forecast comes in as predicted it would be the fourth largest return dating back to 1938. The largest occurred in 2001 with a return of about 440,000. The second largest occurred in 2002 when 335,000 upriver springers returned, and the third largest was 315,000 in 2010. The Upper Columbia spring chinook forecast in 2012 is 32,600 compared to a 22,400 forecast last year and an actual return of 16,500. For Upper Columbia wild spring chinook the forecast in 2012 is 2,800 compared to 2,000 and 2,200. The Snake River spring/summer forecast in 2012 is 168,000 compared to 91,700 last year (127,500 was actual return). The Snake River wild spring chinook is 39,000 in 2012 compared to 24,700 last year (31,600). The 2012 adult spring chinook returns for the Cowlitz, Kalama and Lewis rivers look slightly better than last year with a total forecast of 12,100 compared to 10,600 forecast in 2011 and an actual return of 6,300. The Cowlitz forecast is 8,700 (6,600 was 2011 forecast, and actual return was 4,100); Kalama, 700 (600 and 800); and Lewis, 2,700 (3,400 and 1,400). The spawning goals in the Cowlitz and Lewis are 1,250 each; and the Kalama is 500. Spring chinook fishing restrictions are likely in the Kalama and Lewis. The Cowlitz had a strong jack spring chinook return in 2011, and the Cowlitz forecast in 2012 is above the recent five-year average. Kalama returns have been down for the past three years, and the forecasts for the Lewis is slightly below the five-year average. The forecasts for spring chinook in tributaries above Bonneville Dam like the Wind River, White Salmon River and Drano Lake usually come out in late January. Fishing seasons will be decided at a Jan. 26 meeting of the Technical Advisory Compact made up of state, federal and tribal fishery managers in Oregon City, Oregon. Comments


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Apples in Winter
July 18 – July 28
By Jennifer Fawcett
Twenty-two years ago, Miriam's son, Robert, committed a horrible crime. As is tradition, Robert is granted a last meal. His request: a slice of his mother's apple pie. Now Miriam has arrived at the prison to bake it for him. Marquetta Senters stars in this beautifully written, riveting play about being a mother, being human, and how to make a really good apple pie. Rated R.


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March 8, 2019
Softball Falls at Francis Marion
FLORENCE, S.C. – Catawba lost 4-2 to Francis Marion in softball action on Friday afternoon at the FMU Softball Stadium. Game two of the doubleheader was wiped out after four innings due to rain. FMU was leading 2-0. The Patriots are now 15-6 on the year, while the Catawba Indians are 9-6.
Francis Marion scored all four of its runs in the fourth inning to erase a 1-0 deficit. Addie May's two-run double put the Patriots on top. Angela Beccilli and Jaimie Harney came up with two-out RBI doubles to pad the lead.
Catawba got on top in the third after Grace Holland and Allie Baker led off the frame with singles. Taylor Martin brought home the run on a sacrifice fly. Jordan Dean doubled and scored on a pinch hit double by Bailey Benton in the seventh to get the Lady Indians a run closer.
The Lady Indians managed just the four hits off Katelyn Ellard (10-2). Ellard fanned 13 with just one walk in the complete game. Madison Hunter threw two and a third innings of scoreless relief for the Lady Indians. Preston Ellenberg (4-2) took the loss. She struck out five in three and two-thirds innings.
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Necessary and Proper: the Supreme Court aren't linguists
(Posted by John)
As I watch the beginnings of the Republican presidential primary season unfold, there's one mantra I've heard espoused time and again: our government is too big. With debates about spending and entitlements (not to mention the health care law) as fierce as they've been in my lifetime, the question of the appropriate role of government appears to be coming to a head in a serious way.
One clause of the Constitution, in particular, has had massive influence on this debate. That clause is the Necessary and Proper Clause. The Necessary and Proper clause says that Congress has the authority "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution [its enumerated powers]." This is basically a mandate for Congress to do the things that it needs to do in order to carry out its explicitly stated powers (e.g. levying taxes). The real debate, though, is how wide a mandate this clause actually grants. And as it turns out, answering that question depends greatly on…you guessed it, linguistics!
What's the right interpretation?
So what does necessary and proper actually mean? For most people, and particularly those keen on limiting the scope of government, it means that any act Congress wishes to justify under the Necessary and Proper clause must be both necessary and proper. The "and" requires that both conditions be satisfied in order for an act to be authorized.
This makes some sense. If I say "John and Sandeep have written posts for The Diacritics blog," I mean that both John and Sandeep write posts, not just one or the other of them. This interpretation puts severe limits on what the government can do, too: anything that is not necessary to the execution of some explicitly stated Constitutional power is prohibited. Lots of people believe this to be the correct interpretation. And for those who do, the federal government has a long history of greatly overstepping its legitimate authority.
But lets look a little closer at what this interpretation of the Necessary and Proper clause entails. What, for example, happens when there is more than one possible method by which Congress could undertake to levy taxes? If there are multiple options, any of which would suffice, precisely none of them is necessary. Thus, on the "strict and" interpretation of the Necessary and Proper clause, whenever there are multiple courses of action, Congress may not choose any of them. In my opinion, this is not a desirable outcome. It's not that Congress is never allowed to pass a law to carry out an explicitly stated power. It's that Congress may only do so when there is one option and one option alone. If this reading is to be a tenable one, some kind of work still needs to be done.
There's another legitimate, but lesser-known, interpretation of "[the authority to make] all laws necessary and proper" that doesn't suffer from the "strict and" defect. To get at it, consider the following: God loves all creatures great and small. Obviously this does not mean "God loves all creatures that are both great and small." This is a nonsense sentence. It is actually parsed something like: "God loves all creatures great and [all creatures] small," or "God loves all great creatures and all small creatures."
Why, then, is it not legitimate to read "all powers necessary and proper" to mean "all powers necessary and all powers proper"? This reading is at least plausible, and it doesn't suffer from the "strict and" problem of limiting action whenever there's a choice. This is also the reading that proponents of larger government (perhaps only implicitly) might adopt.
What the Court has said
The Supreme Court has, over the course of our nation's history, ranged across the spectrum in its reading of the clause. Unfortunately, they generally aren't the greatest of linguists, despite the fact that John Marshall's famous McCulloch v. Maryland opinion does recognize the "strict and" problem. His solution to it is, essentially, reading the word "necessary" out of the Necessary and Proper clause. He adopts a purposive understanding: for Marshall, if the underlying goal of the act was to carry out some explicitly stated power, you were probably good to go. This meant that Congress couldn't enact laws under the pretext of, say, regulating interstate commerce, but with the actual purpose of, say, prohibiting intrastate child labor. While this is not a linguistically plausible reading, it is perhaps a decent one from a policy standpoint: it avoids the "strict and" limitation on government but does try to set out some limit on federal power.
The Court has treated this reading variously since then. Up until the New Deal Era, the Court was serious about keeping the federal government out of purely intrastate commerce, for example. But as we know, for most of the 20th Century, the Necessary and Proper clause was read as an essentially unlimited federal mandate. The Court ruled that the underlying purpose of a statute no longer mattered, and that any action that, considered in the aggregate, had an affect on interstate commerce was within the scope. Whether you use a Kleenex when you sneeze, taken across the entirety of the population, without doubt affects interstate commerce, and thus could have been regulated.
Only recently has the Court begun to walk this unlimited mandate back. We'll see how their reading evolves over the course of the next decade, as the debate about government's size rages on.
In the end, whichever reading you choose is fine by me. But it will be interesting to see what those in Washington, presidential candidates and Supreme Court alike, have to say on the topic.


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Spotlight: Summer Programs in NYC
After a busy and fruitful school year, Arts Horizons plunged straight into our summer arts education programs in Brooklyn, Bronx, and Staten Island. 10 AH teaching artists conducted five to six week-long residencies at various sites administered by the following community-based organizations: Moshulu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC), Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC), and United Activities Unlimited (UAU). We are pleased to recognize our longstanding partnerships with MMCC and UAU, and we are eager to continue deepening our new partnership with CPNYC. All three organizations have been doing exceptional work to provide spaces that foster educational, recreational, counseling, and/or social programs for children and young adults in New York City's outer boroughs. After school and summer programming offered by these organizations are part of the Beacon and SONYC (School's Out NYC) initiatives by the Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) in collaboration with the Administration for Child Services (ACS) and the Department of Homeless Services.
At 7 MMCC Cornerstone sites, our teaching artists provided an eclectic offering of engaging programming to elementary and middle school children ranging from Afro-Caribbean Dance with Silvana Marquina to Percussion with Larry Washington, Jewelry-Making with Ken Fury, Jazz Vocal with Pamela Hamilton, and Visual Arts with Natalie Alleyne, Yako Prodis, and Mansa Mussa. AH teaching artist Ibrahima Camara had a very busy summer as he conducted African dance and drumming residencies for all three organizations!
AH Program Coordinator Kiran Rajagopalan had the opportunity to visit two music residencies this summer – Grace Galu's songwriting program for MMCC at Fort Independence Community Center in Bronx and D. Cross's beatboxing program for CPNYC in Brooklyn. Let's take a quick peek into their classes!
Student songwriters riffing on their favorite food & activities with Grace Galu
Noted soul vocalist and vocal coach Grace Galu is a new teaching artist for Arts Horizons. Students in her songwriting classes learned all about using figurative language, counting syllables, and crafting narratives. She opened up her classes with a fun icebreaker, "Jump In, Jump Out," in which students introduce and identify themselves to the class as a "singer/dancer/gamer/etc. for the rest of their lives!" Once they were energized, Grace asked them to name their favorite food or activity – the first class eventually chose ice cream and the second class chose dance. Together, students created short, poetic phrases with adjectives to describe how ice cream and dance made them feel, and these lines were compiled into a short stanza and chorus. Grace then brought out her guitar and sung her students' songs acapella!
Kiran's second stop was at CPNYC in Brooklyn to attend a beatboxing class by longtime AH teaching artist and multidisciplinary artist D. Cross. CPNYC specializes in enrichment programing for children of incarcerated parents to "empower them to break the cycle of intergenerational involvement in the criminal justice system." The focus of D. Cross's residency was to introduce students to the basic elements of vocal percussion and music production through the creation of beats for songs. D. Cross assembled the students in a Hip-Hop cypher to facilitate improvisation and conversation through music. Students took turns beatboxing, improvising lyrics, or adding other sounds, and D. Cross layered their vocals into a cohesive beat with the help of a splicer machine!
Students freestyling in a cypher with D. Cross over their own beats
Arts Horizons was thrilled to see such active participation in the arts at MMCC, UAU, and CPNYC, and we are grateful to hear that our teaching artists' efforts were well appreciated by students, faculty, and administrators. We would also like to thank Ms. Kim Viade, Ms. Monique Newton, and Ms. Gizzelle Lopez along with all of the site directors and staff for welcoming us into their programs. We are excited to continue our collaborative work with these amazing organizations for the next academic year.
AH's Summer Arts Programs in Music & Visual Arts
For more information, please contact: Dena Malarek – Director, NYC Residencies & Special Populations (212-268-7219*108; firstname.lastname@example.com) or Kiran Rajagopalan – Program Coordinator, NYC Residencies & Special Populations (212-268-7219*113; email@example.com)
Retrospective: Arts Horizons in FY 18
Arts Horizons is entering its 40th year of providing high-quality arts education programming to children of all ages, adults, and seniors in schools and community centers throughout New York and New Jersey. The 2017-2018 school year has officially ended, and we dedicate this blog post to sharing a review of our incredible year of arts education residencies in New York City. We sincerely thank all of our partners and their dedicated team of educators and support professionals for welcoming us into their sites. We also thank their students and participants for their willingness to share their creative voices and artistic talents. Of course, none of our arts education residencies would be possible without our immensely talented and committed teaching artists. We are extremely grateful to have such an amazing roster of artists who offer such diversity of expressive mediums including: mosaics, collage-making, playwriting, African drumming, musical theater, Hip Hop, graffiti, maskmaking, storytelling, Afro-Brazilian dance, songwriting, photography, music technology, and much more!
Summer 2017 kicked off in high gear with residencies through Moshulu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) at 8 of their cornerstone sites in the Bronx and Manhattan. After a brief break in August, the fall semester promptly began with after school programs through: MMCC, Girls for Gender Equity (GGE), and Union Settlement.
Additionally, we started our in-school programs at several NYCDOE schools funded by the Arts for English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities" (Arts for ELL+SWD) grant. Through this grant, participating schools "receive funding to create new or expand existing partnerships with arts and cultural organizations with experience serving English Language Learners (ELLs) and/or Students with Disabilities (SWD)." Our visual and performing arts programs for Literacy Development and Socio-emotional Growth effectively engaged these student populations through hands-on workshops that stimulated creativity, vocabulary development, speaking, and other communication skills. We highlighted our Arts For ELL+SWD programs in a series of five posts: CIS 303X, PS 28M, Brooklyn School for Music & Theatre, Robert F. Kennedy Community High School/JHS 226Q, and PS 184M/PS 79M.
We also renewed our VSA Children's Visual Arts Discovery (VSA-VAD) programs under contract with John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the same sites we served last year: Hospital Schools @ Kings County Hospital, PS 226M @ PS 76M, PS 188X @ PS 34X, and Queens Transition Center @ High School for Law Enforcement & Public Safety.
Sadly, our fall semester ended with the closing of the Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center (LNAC) in December 2017. But we remain committed to keeping the concept of the center and famed artist Mr. Neiman alive through our work via LNAC Without Walls (LNACWoW). Located at a new central Harlem office space at The Pillars on 124th Street, LNACWoW continues our mission of offering quality arts education programs celebrating the rich history of the Harlem community. We have achieved this through expanded programming with Union Settlement and Hospital Schools alongside new partnerships with Boys and Girls Club of Harlem and the New York Public Library.
Therefore, our spring semester was even busier for us as we launched these new programs through LNACWoW and extended our in-school and after school programs through GGE, VSA-VAD, and our Arts for ELL+SWD partners. New and fruitful partnerships were also formed with South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation and Children of Promise. We were also thrilled to relaunch programs with several of our longstanding partners including: Hospital Schools, PS 46X, PS 130X, Unique People Services, and Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD).
Please stay tuned for further announcements about our 40th anniversary celebrations and our ongoing summer programs. Have a great summer, enjoy the sun, and stay cool!
We are currently seeking experienced, professional teaching artists for the 2018-2019 academic year. Please click here for more information on how to apply.
Spotlight: Summer Programs at MMCC Cornerstones
Arts Horizons is pleased to recognize our ongoing partnership with Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) and to highlight our summer arts education programs at 8 of their Cornerstone sites. MMCC is a longstanding community organization that serves more than 35,000 preschoolers, school age children, teens, adults and senior citizens in Bronx and Manhattan through free and affordable support, enrichment, education, and recreation programs. MMCC offers a wide selection of after school programming for all age groups at more than twenty sites in the two boroughs. MMCC's after school and summer programming is part of the Beacon and SONYC (School's Out NYC) initiatives by the Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) in collaboration with the Administration for Child Services (ACS) and the Department of Homeless Services.
We are thrilled that 10 AH Teaching Artists provided such an eclectic offering of engaging summer programming to elementary and middle school children at various community centers in Manhattan and the Bronx. Larry Washington, Ibrahima Camara, and Yako Prodis conducted lively percussion and music residencies at Grant and Boston Secor Cornerstones. Aaron Lazansky, Natalie Alleyne, and D. Cross taught visual arts at Pelham Parkway, Edenwald, and Parkside Cornerstones. Dawn Crandell, Dean Maitland, Ken Fury, and Silvana Marquina conducted dance and movement residencies at Fort Independence, Marble Hill, and Gun Hill Cornerstones.
AH Program Coordinator Kiran Rajagopalan had the opportunity to visit the community centers in Fort Independence, Marble Hill, Edenwald, and Boston Secor to see Dean, Ken, Ibrahima, and Natalie in action. Let's take a quick peek into their classes!
Dean Maitland is a versatile dancer and choreographer from Grenada, and he is the founder of Arts-in-Motion (A.I.M.) in Brooklyn. His highly informative dance residency at Fort Independence introduced students to various styles of dance including: West African, Afro-Caribbean, Hip Hop, Ballet, and Jazz. Dean then combined various basic movements from each dance style into a scintillating routine that students enthusiastically practiced for nearly 90 minutes!
Dean Maitland leading his class through a warm-up at Fort Independence Cornerstone
Noted break dancer, visual artist, and jewelry designer Ken Fury (founder of the Breaking Institute of the Arts) conducted a dance residency at Marble Hill which focused on the BBoying aspect of Hip Hop dance. Students learned some of the basic break dance freezes and footwork, and they choreographed a small sequence of movements to be incorporated into a final dance. Ken even asked Kiran to demonstrate and teach the students a few basic steps from Indian classical dance!
Ken coaching a student on a pose for a photograph at Marble Hill Cornerstone
An experienced teaching artist and a prolific painter, Natalie Alleyne had students create their own customized t-shirts for her visual arts residency at Edenwald Cornerstone. Students first handpainted their own designs onto blank, white T-shirts using fabric paint. On the last day of the residency, students learned how to tie-dye their painted t-shirts. Natalie shared useful tips such as adding salt in order to help the fabric take the dye along with different ways to fold up the t-shirts to create different patterns.
Natalie Alleyne assisting a student with the tie-dying process at Edenwald Cornerstone
Ibrahima Camara, a master West African drummer, singer, and dancer from Guinea, taught percussion to students at Boston Secor Cornerstone. Ibrahima had his students sit in a large drum circle, and he used a traditional call-and-response method to teach students how to tap four basic sounds on bright blue Loew's buckets using wooden drumsticks. Enrollment in Ibrahima's class had unexpectedly increased so much from the first class that there were not enough drumsticks to go around. However, students graciously shared the drumsticks with each other so that everyone had a chance to play along!
Ibrahima demonstrating a rhythm pattern to students at Boston Secor Cornerstone
Arts Horizons is thrilled to see such active participation in the arts at these MMCC Cornerstone sites, and we are grateful to hear that our teaching artists' efforts were well appreciated by students, faculty, and administrators. We would also like to thank Ms. Kim Viade and all of the Cornerstone site directors and staff for welcoming us into their programs. We are excited to continue our collaborative work with this amazing organization for the next academic year.
Spotlight: DYCD's "Beyond the Voice" with Arts Horizons
Arts Horizons is pleased to highlight and recognize our partnership with the NYC Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) for an amazing songwriting initiative for talented student musicians called "Beyond the Voice." AH Teaching Artists Baba Israel, Pamela Hamilton, Yako Prodis, Dawn Crandell, and Teaching Artist Grace Galu conducted masterclasses and professional development workshops for students participating in DYCD's "Beyond the Voice." According to DYCD's Facebook page, "Beyond the Voice" is a "competition [to] challenge youth to create a beat and sing a song dedicated to their community…and the program uses components of literacy and presentation skill building."
A student improvising various genres of music with Baba and Yako
During the last week of March and the first week of April, Pamela, Baba, and Yako conducted 1.5-hour mentoring sessions with each of the 10 participating student musicians/groups at various Beacon, Cornerstone, and SONYC afterschool sites in Queens, Bronx, and Manhattan. These sessions were dedicated to providing students with constructive feedback, critique, and guidance as they continued to work on their original songs. The participating sites in this program were: Quest Youth Organization (Bedford-Stuyvesant), Moshulu Montefiore Community Center – Evander Campus (Gun Hill), The Child Center of New York (Flushing), Long Island University – Advantage Higher Education (Downtown Brooklyn), Southern Queens Park Association (Jamaica), Greater Ridgewood Youth Council at York Early College Academy (Jamaica), Harlem Children Zone (Central Harlem), Johnson Community Center (East Harlem) and Phipps Community Development Corporation – Beacon @ IS 192 (West Farms).
After these one-on-one artist mentoring sessions, students and faculty gathered at Countee Cullen Community Center, a program of the Harlem Children's Zone, Inc. housed in PS 194M in Manhattan, on Monday, April 10, 2017 from 11:00AM to 4:00PM for a collective "mentoring day" with all of the teaching artists. "Beyond the Voice" will culminate with a student showcase scheduled for Saturday, May 20, 2017 at JCC Manhattan. AH Program Coordinator Kiran Rajagopalan had the opportunity to attend this "mentoring day" and he witnessed these students' brilliant musicianship and their eagerness to learn more about taking their art to the next level.
Baba, a noted Hip-Hop MC, began the day with a lecture-demonstration on freestyle and improvisation with the assistance of Yako, a talented music producer and multi-instrumentalist, and several students on guitar. Performance artist and dancer Dawn Crandell then conducted a movement workshop in which students were taught exercises improve their stage presence. Students were first asked to state their name and to come up with a single movement which best expresses their "current state of being." This was followed by exercises on nervous mannerisms and "what not to do on stage" that were particularly engaging and illuminating.
In the third session, students presented rough cuts of their songs for feedback and critique from the teaching artists. Baba also facilitated a discussion with each student about the creative process involved in crafting his or her song. Following lunch, soul vocalist and vocal coach Grace Galu led students through a series of vocal warm-ups that can be done quickly before rehearsal or performance. She also stressed the importance listening through exercises with harmony and a round-robin rendition of an African chant.
The reminder of the afternoon was dedicated to the teaching artists engaged in one-on-one sessions with the students in groups. Dawn worked with two students on incorporating movement into their duet performances while Pamela, a prolific jazz vocalist and violinist, worked with another student on crafting a hook for her song. Yako worked with instrumentalists on stage to tighten up several songs that had played for earlier, and Grace worked with soloists on vocal projection. Baba, as the primary organizer and facilitator, oversaw all of the groups and began setup for the final professional development session.
The mentoring day ended with Baba leading a workshop on lyric writing with figurative language, beatmaking, and music production with the assistance of Yako. This was followed by an essential, but brief professional development lecture on copywriting, royalties, promotion, and liabilities by Baba. Although scheduled to end at 4:00 PM, the session lasted until 4:20 PM with students fully engaged!
Baba & Yako freestyling for students in the opening session
Pamela working one-on-one with a student on crafting a hook


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Are you working at a job you hate? Does the stress overwhelm you to the point you find it hard to breathe?
How did you get to this?
Sometimes we just need a job, any job to maintain our lifestyle or maybe we entered into it thinking it was going to be great, then reality set in. Maybe you're trapped by your experience because you specialized and now you're burned out. What can you do?
*Take chances
Granted, most of us have to have a paycheck to survive but we can apply for jobs that are outside the box.
*Take less money
Money can't buy happiness. If taking a job that makes less money means you'll also be happier with less stress and anxiety then think seriously about doing it.
*Forget about status
Who gives a crap about titles or social circles if you are miserable? Leave the BS behind and reach for authentic. You'd be surprised how fast calm comes around.
* Do something closer to home. Lessen your stress by working closer to home or even in your home. Saying goodbye to the commute is freeing.
* Brainstorm a business.
These days you can find a niche and start a business with little or nothing. Look around your community for a need that you can fill them build a business in your free time. Next thing you know you'll be saying sayonara to the job.
* Don't let fear stop you
There are lots of people out there with great ideas. The difference between those that success and those that don't is simple action. Don't be afraid to take action on your ideas.
Get out there and shake hands, post messages, get your voice out there. There are any number of books and information on the internet about networking and marketing. Become informed them go get 'em.
* Minimize your expenses and anything that is unnecessary in your life. Focus on simple action that creates quality of life not quantity. Simple . Easy.
Life less complicated starts with your work and moves in from there. Begin with where you spend most of your time and energy then focus on the rest of the details. Taking the clutter out of your life gives it value and resilience.


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Liverpool's James Milner sent off by his former teacher, now referee, Jon Moss
Little did we know when referee Jon Moss issued James Milner with a red card during Liverpool's win over Crystal Palace that the pair had a history that extended far back beyond their Premier League days.
It came to light after the incident that Moss and Milner have known each other for a long, long time as the former was actually the latter's PE teacher at junior school.
Sure enough, a photo soon emerged on social media showing Moss (left) in his role as coach of the Westbrook Lane Primary School football team with Milner (centre, holding ball) as his captain.
photo evidence Moss as coach and Milner as captain pic.twitter.com/VhhYlRWvwR— Foz (@chrisfozard) 20 January 2019
Milner was given his marching orders in the 89th minute of the match and didn't even stop to look back as Moss produced the auxiliary right-back's second yellow card of the afternoon.
Who knows, perhaps it was a grievance 20 years in the making? Perhaps Mr Moss used to force his class to run cross-country circuits in the depths of winter while they all wanted to play football instead. We may never know.
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Don Your Armor
A look at Fantasy Flight Supply's convenient sleeve guide
For over a year, Fantasy Flight Supply has offered a wide variety of board game sleeves to help enhance and protect the cards from your favorite board and card games. Available in a variety of sizes and in packages of 50, Fantasy Flight Supply board game sleeves are made of clear, 100 micron-thick, non-PVC, acid-free polypropylene plastic. This means that the sleeves are durable, difficult to tear or crease, and are free of chemicals that will corrode the cards within the sleeves. The sleeves are also designed to fit cards snugly, to make shuffling and handling easy.
With so many sleeve options available, you may not know where to start. Fortunately, Every new Fantasy Flight product offers a sleeving guide to direct fans toward the right product to fit their needs.
Many of you have already seen this symbol, either on our website or on the back of an FFG product:
These symbols are a quick way to reference how many of which type of sleeves you will need for a given product. This information encompasses all the cards included in a particular product. The colors indicate the size of the sleeve while the number indicates how many packages of that type are needed to fully sleeve the game's cards.
In the example above (from the Game Master's Vault for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay), two packs of the Standard American Board Game Sleeves (green package) and three packs of the Mini American Board Game Sleeves (yellow package) would give you enough sleeves for full protection. You can also find this helpful sleeving information in the product descriptions of each game's website.
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The Chen family
Genealogy of the Chen family
In the third year of the Xianfeng era (1853), a revolt of the Taiping formed by hundreds of thousands of people threatened their land, supported by Chen Genyun, they organized the resistance, recruiting over 10,000 men from surrounding villages, thus achieving crush the rebellion and avert the danger. Chen Zhonsheng for his ability, was surnamed Shen Shou (Hand Divine), being also reputed for its handling of the spear Yi Ping Hu Tie Tian Gan Mao.
16th Generation
18th Generation
The Prank on the "Little Ninth Uncle"
The event occurred in 1953 when Chen Zhaoxu, Chen Xiaowang's father, was in his early 40's. Although Chen Lizi was older than Chen Zhaoxu, he was of a generation younger. He would thus address the latter as "little ninth uncle." As it turned out, Chen Zhaoxu was attending a ceremony for a group of visiting Chen descendents whose forebears had left the Village a few generations ago. They had come to pay respects to their ancestral home and to re-establish their lineage. The gathering took place at the home of Chen Lizi's family, as it was one of the few houses large enough to accommodate the many guests.
Extract of the article apeared in Taiji Magazine: "carrying the burden of taiji legacy" by C. P. Ong, Ph. D.
Chen Zhaokui (1928-1981)


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Tommy Jarvis from the game "Friday the 13th: The Game"
Has 4 body groups
There is a very bad posing of the face, with original bones.
The original skeleton, renamed under the Valve bip01.
Steam workshop - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1087372418
I did not invent anything. The bare body is initially present in the game, but apparently not yet used or no longer used.
@mark2580, the_randomizer Praetorian is one of the devs of Friday the 13th. He flipped out at a player and called him a laundry-list of rude names. Very unprofessional.
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Cara went from clinical psychologist in a country town in Australia to yoga teacher living at a surf camp in Morocco and working as a coach supporting others to follow their dreams. Tune in as we talk about the ideal mindset for nomads, how to handle people who don't support your dreams and lifestyle, getting a good night's sleep, life in Morocco, and more.
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- Getting tired of traveling
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- Living and traveling in Morocco
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