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(TRENTON) – Baby boxes testimony and legislation, a New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care, a direct Senior Freeze property tax bill credit and ensuring job protections for Armed Forces members are among the highlights of Monday's Assembly committee hearings.
Also on tap: veterans health care transportation, sanitation vehicle safety, barring PANYNJ employees from implementing Trump's executive order, a motor vehicle emergency contact registry, a 9/11 memorial registry, encouraging municipal consolidation and pollinators protections.
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· The Assembly Women and Children Committee at 10 a.m. will hear testimony on the Baby Box program, which was developed to assist in promoting safe sleep and reducing the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
· It will then consider A-4648 (Pintor Marin/Lampitt) – Requires various State departments to provide linkages to information about infant mortality prevention devices, known as "baby boxes" on their websites. 10 a.m. Women and Children.
· A-2262 (Vainieri Huttle) – Requires DOH to develop New Jersey Report Card of Hospital Maternity Care. 10 a.m. Women and Children.
· A-4670 (Lampitt) – Provides sales and use tax exemption for sales of breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, and certain services to maintain and repair breast pumps. 10 a.m. Women and Children.
· A-4608 (Singleton/DeAngelo) – Converts senior freeze reimbursement into credit applied directly to property tax bills. 1 p.m. State and Local Government.
· A-3977 (Mazzeo/Lagana) – Provides US Armed Forces and Reserves members with protection against interference with their employment, trade or business. 10 a.m. Military and Veterans' Affairs.
· A-4145 (Andrzejczak/Land) – Requires nursing home facility operated by DMVA for veterans to provide State-funded transportation to health care services outside of facility. 10 a.m. Military and Veterans' Affairs.
· A-4452 (Downey/Houghtaling/Benson) – Requires sanitation vehicles display flashing lights in certain circumstances and imposes conditions on drivers approaching sanitation vehicles displaying flashing lights; designated as "Michael Massey's Law." 10 a.m. Transportation.
· A-4589 (Vainieri Huttle/Quijano/Wisniewski) – Prohibits PANYNJ from providing assistance for enforcement of January 27, 2017 US Executive Order banning entry into US of individuals from certain countries. 10 a.m. Transportation.
· A-4573 (Coughlin) – Requires establishment of national motor vehicle emergency contact registry. 10 a.m. Transportation.
· A-2202 (Eustace) – Authorizes special emergency appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incurred by municipalities to implement a municipal consolidation. 1 p.m. State and Local Government.
· A-3908 (Mazzeo) – Establishes 9/11 Memorial Registry. 1 p.m. State and Local Government.
· A-4460 (Jones/Mosquera) – Extends full protection of Law Against Discrimination to persons having liability for service in Armed Forces of United States; guarantees equal employment opportunity in State contracting to all veterans. 10 a.m. Military and Veterans' Affairs.
· AJR-144 (Taliaferro/Andrzejczak) – Establishes "Healthy Pollinators Task Force." 1 p.m. Agriculture and Natural Resources.
· The Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee at 1 p.m. will receive testimony regarding the mission of the American Red Cross, its role during disasters and emergency preparedness efforts. Following the public portion of the meeting, the committee will convene in closed session to be briefed by Dr. Chris Rodriguez, director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.


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East End education technology startup Buncee LLC has been acquired.
The Speonk software company was bought by Minnesota-based Capstone, a family-owned maker of educational content for the prekindergarten to middle school market.
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Marie Arturi, founder and chief executive of Buncee, said that the company's 13 employees, including eight on Long Island, had been hired by Capstone in the same or similar capacities.
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"I can't wait to see where this new journey takes us," she said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Arturi said that several Buncee employees with roots abroad returned to their home countries in Asia, though some continued working remotely.
Capstone has cut deals with Amazon.com to offer books on Alexa-enabled devices and with DC Comics to publish books based on DC characters, which include Superman and Wonder Woman.
Correction: A headline on an earlier version of this story mischaracterized PebbleGo's ownership. An earlier version of this story listed an incorrect monthly price for Buncee premium.
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As the healthcare debate has shown us, it's far, far too soon to start doing a collective Macarena atop the antiabortion grave. But a couple of news dispatches from the fringes of the "pro-life" world might (might) at least be good for a little schadenfreude.
First: the recession (or, "the recession") has not spared Operation Rescue (O.R.). As the AP reports, the Witchita-based group itself -- already roiled by infighting -- says that "it's close to shutting down unless emergency financial help arrives soon." An inelegant e-mail went out to donors Monday night asking for same. Donations to O.R. are reportedly down 30 percent, paid staff down from nine to four. President Troy Newman blames the economy, but it's probably hard to underestimate the deleterious Tiller effect; the doctor's assassination brought not-so-friendly fire from their own side, and rightly so. (Though it didn't stop O.R. -- which, we may infer, was solvent as recently as June? -- from salivating over the spoils.) Of course, the possible demise of O.R. is a heinous trade for the life of Dr. Tiller; we'd prefer both him and O.R. alive and well, if that's what it'd take.
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The second tidbit is perhaps more schaden than freude. At very least, it's shameless. As Eleanor Bader reports at RHRealityCheck, anti-choice forces have boycotted Susan G. Komen's Race for the Cure (SKG), the largest breast cancer charity in the world and the leader in the fight against the disease. (The boycott is not brand-new, as the post implies, but it does seem to be heating up.) Antiabortion activists have called SKG a "menace to women," Bader reports, which, obviously, is like calling basil a menace to linguine. Their beef: Advocates for women with breast cancer don't warn women about "the abortion/breast cancer connection." Which, of course, is because there is no such thing. Not that the facts have stopped people like Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, from saying things like, "Women suffer tremendously when 'breast cancer awareness groups' keep us in the dark about breast physiology, especially when millions unwittingly damage their health by choosing abortion." (Or Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., from publishing reprehensible "studies" like this new one in the non-peer-reviewed Linacre Quarterly, which -- where shall I start? -- provides no actual data and no real explanation for why mothers get breast cancer or miscarriages don't seem to be a problem or ... feh. We're not going to dignify it with a rebuttal.)
The Komen haters have also (long) trotted out the association between Komen and Planned Parenthood -- which, to the radically antiabortion, is basically the Death Star. Diabolically enough, some Komen affiliates provide grants to local Planned Parenthood clinics, supporting -- exclusively -- breast cancer screening and educational programming for un- and under-insured women.
Silly as it all sounds, Bader reports that Komen staff "have had to respond to anti-choice criticism" -- instead of to, say, breast cancer -- "and recently hired two Catholic ethicists to rebut Diocesan efforts to stop the faithful from supporting SKG." Your donations at work!
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One year on from the pro-democracy protests that brought Hong Kong to a standstill, organisers admit that China's Communist leadership shows no sign of budging on reform, but a spark could reignite the movement.
Universal suffrage, under the International Covenant, means that there are express rights to elect or be elected. There is no express right to nominate.
Traffic has returned to key roads in Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mongkok once occupied by tens of thousands of people for 79 days, calling for fully free elections.
Frustration stalks the so-called umbrella movement, a loose collective that took to the streets after Beijing said it alone would choose candidates standing for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2017.
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"It looks like Beijing won, but the cost was that you have a much more politically engaged population, which is not at all what they wanted," Hong Kong University assistant professor Yvonne Chiu said.
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After nearly 150 years of British control of Hong Kong island and the New Territories, the lapsing of Britain's 99-year lease of the Kowloon peninsula from China was approaching, drawing jitters from the very businesslike leaders of Hong Kong.
If the New Territories — by then long established as the world's manufacturing hub — were to revert back to China, what would that look like for the hyper-industrialist Cantonese under the Communists?
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed by the leaders of both China and Britain in 1984, laid out the formula for the return of the whole of British Hong Kong at the lapse of the 99-year lease on July 1, 1997.
'One country, two systems' was its mantra, with British capitalism and laws enshrined for a period of 50 years from 1997's 'handover', including an undated promise of universal suffrage — all protected by a so-called Basic Law.
China subsequently promised universal suffrage by 2017 to choose the city's leader, the chief executive.
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"Their final announcement ... that a small committee of screened people would then approve two or three candidates to stand in 2017 seemed like the weakest of weak outcomes.
"While not in violation of the Basic Law, it certainly showed little imagination and a Beijing leadership that prizes control over everything else."
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As the world watched on in horror, the Chinese military brutally cracked down on student protesters on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing just eight years out from handover.
A million Hong Kong residents — a fifth of its total population at the time — took to the streets in May, donating money and tents in support of the students' aims.
Sir Percy Cradock was a UK foreign policy advisor and the architect of British policy in keeping China on side in the lead-up to handover.
"We had to somehow balance our condemnation of the barbarities of Tiananmen with the need to go on talking quietly, sensibly, with Peking, in the interests of Hong Kong," he told Four Corners in 1997.
"I recall that Jiang Zemin took me to the window of the Great Hall of the People, pointed out to the square and said 'there were the tents and they were put up with Hong Kong money', and I couldn't deny it. It was a fact."
Beijing's successful crackdown had hardened its resolve against the democracy movement in Hong Kong.
Tens of thousands of people annually began to flee leading up to handover, and for those who stayed, every year, massive demonstrations rose on the anniversary of Tiananmen.
July 1, 1997
As walls of rain came down, the Chinese flag was hoisted and Hong Kong's incessant fireworks began.
"The people of Hong Kong had good reason to believe that democracy was guaranteed," said the ABC's Sally Neighbour in 1997.
"The Joint Declaration said the legislature, until then appointed, would be constituted by elections and would have the power to hold the government accountable."
But as former governor Chris Patten told the UK Select Committee in November 2014: while the argument for democracy was not "specifically addressed in the Joint Declaration", the implication and the understanding of British officials during negotiations between 1984 and 1997 was that "things would move in that direction".
Veteran legislative councillor Martin Lee told Four Corners: "I think the sun will go down in shame on the 30th June 1997 over the way a British government has sold us down the river."
John Walden, Hong Kong's former director of home affairs, said: "We have in the end handed over a free people to a despotic Communist regime."
But as its citizenry awoke on July 1, 1997, there was no outward appearance of change — apart from the unnerving lines of People's Liberation Army (PLA) troop vehicles moving through the streets to take over security responsibilities for the former British outpost.
They have remained in barracks.
In 1997, at handover, future student leader Joshua Wong was less than one year old.
Anti-subversion act mothballed
July 1, 2003
Just six years after handover, half a million marchers questioned if 'one country two systems' was going to last the 50 years.
The cause of the fear was anti-subversion law Article 23 and its possible enactment in the Basic Law, prohibiting "any act of treason, secession, sedition, or subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets".
It called for the banning of groups outlawed in mainland China on national security grounds and gave police wide search and seizure powers without a court order.
Professor Michael De Golyer from Hong Kong's Baptist University, part of a group that monitored the effects of handover, said authorities believed the timing was right "in what looks like taking advantage of the changes in the international situation after September 11 in the United States and the Bali bombing."
By early September, the much maligned secretary for security, Regina Ip, was dumped, and chief executive Tung Chee-hwa was forced to postpone the introduction of the bill indefinitely.
New security chief Ambrose Lee told the ABC's Sue Lannin: "I think the only regret is that it did not come out as satisfactory as we hoped for."
Chinese patriotism classes plan scrapped
September 8, 2012
A Hong Kong government plan to make school children take classes in Chinese patriotism is dealt an embarrassing backdown by new chief executive CY Leung a day after high school students encouraged tens of thousands onto the streets.
According to the AFP news agency, course material as part of the Patriotic Education Reform extolled the benefits of one-party rule and equated multi-party democracy to chaos.
Three students at a Hong Kong high school, including 15-year-old Joshua Wong of the recently formed Scholarism student organisation, embarked on a hunger strike against the initiative.
Mr Leung cancelled his APEC trip to address the issue.
'Democracy poll', another half-million march draws ire
July 1, 2014
An unofficial referendum run by pro-democracy groups allowed residents to choose between three options on how they want to directly elect their head of local government from 2017.
In response, Mr Leung said his government would do its "utmost" to move towards universal suffrage and stressed the need for stability after nearly 800,000 voted for full democracy.
Chinese state-run media dismissed the referendum as an "illegal farce", insisting that the proposals violate the Basic Law.
Anson Chan, Hong Kong's number two official at handover, told ABC's Radio Australia: "What little autonomy we enjoy is for Beijing to give and to take back at its pleasure."
"So it's little wonder that we in Hong Kong are extremely concerned," she said.
Days after the polls closed more than 500,000 people, according to organisers, took part in a march through Hong Kong's central business district to demand electoral freedoms on the 17th anniversary of handover.
Tens of thousands of pro-Beijing supporters gathered to protest against the civil disobedience campaign by pro-democracy activists weeks later.
In a Whatsapp message seen by Reuters, people were offered HK$350 ($45) to attend the latter rally.
Beijing rejects open nominations
August 31, 2014
"It is a precious offer from the National People's Congress Standing Committee," said chief executive CY Leung upon the release of the Chinese leadership's ruling setting the terms for the 2017 chief executive and 2020 legislative council elections.
It rejected calls for open nominations for the city's next leader.
China's state news agency Xinhua said candidates would be nominated by a "broadly representative" committee.
A vote by universal suffrage must have "institutional safeguards" to take into account "the actual need to maintain long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong", it said.
Student class boycott begins
September 22, 2014
A student class boycott coincides with a trip to Beijing by some of Hong Kong's most powerful tycoons, expected to discuss politics with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Wearing yellow ribbons, students from more than 20 universities and colleges packed into the grounds of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
"Perhaps in the near future students or other NGOs will initiate another huge wave of civil disobedience to call for genuine democracy," said the president of the Hong Kong University Students' Union, Yvonne Leung.
Confidence in "one country, two systems" is found to be the lowest it has been since the University of Hong Kong's public opinion program began tracking the issue in 1993, it said in a survey.
March on government offices
September 27, 2014
Hong Kong police charged pro-democracy protesters with pepper spray as they struggled to gain control of a key government enclave in the Asian financial hub.
The charge pushed the demonstrators back, but they did not flee.
The protesters were trying to break a police blockade shutting in the core leaders of the 'Occupy Central with Love and Peace' protest group, which threatened to shut down Hong Kong's Central financial district.
Pro-democracy lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan said three fellow legislators were among a small group of activists detained by police, including democratic leaders Albert Ho and Emily Lau.
The clashes came after CY Leung told the gathered protesters that the government would launch a new round of consultations on electoral reform shortly. No time frame was given.
Occupy Central begins
September 28, 2014
Police fire repeated volleys of tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters and baton-charged the crowd blocking a key road in the government district after official warnings against illegal demonstrations.
Police had not used tear gas in Hong Kong since 2005, and the actions were seen as the most tenacious civil disobedience since 1997.
Mr Leung pledged "resolute" and "lawful" action against the Occupy Central movement.
Organisers said as many as 80,000 people, galvanised by the arrests of student activists, thronged the streets in Admiralty district, bringing traffic to a standstill and opening up a significant flash point.
Police warned they could use greater force if the tens of thousands demonstrators did not leave the area.
Mr Leung dismissed rumours of possible military intervention from mainland China.
"Some rumours are spreading non-stop, for example, the People's Liberation Army will take action, the police have fired, etc. These rumours have no basis in fact," he said.
Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou, who was born in Hong Kong, said the Taiwanese people were paying close attention to the events and hoped Hong Kong and China could come to a mutually acceptable solution on democracy.
Banks and schools closed while some companies told employees to stay home.
Anti-Occupy violence breaks out
October 3, 2014
Scuffles between pro-democracy protesters and groups supporting Beijing broke out most violently in Mongkok, but also Causeway Bay and elsewhere in Kowloon.
Around 200 demonstrators faced off against a larger group of anti-protesters after they started to dismantle barricades in an apparent backlash against the demonstrations which have brought parts of the city to a standstill.
Just north of the Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district on the Kowloon side of the harbour, Mongkok is the most heavily populated place on earth, hugely popular with tourists from mainland China.
ANZ economists sent out a research estimating the protests may have cost retailers $400 million in just the first few days, with retailers of luxury goods, cosmetics and consumer durables hardest hit.
Student leaders called off talks with the government after angry scuffles at the demonstrations, criticising the government and police for not protecting them.
Secretary for security Lai Tung-kwok denied police acted in concert with gangs, having arrested several people with links to the city's notorious triad criminal gangs after the attacks.
Meanwhile, the official mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist party said that authorities will not make concessions to pro-democracy protesters, and that their cause is "doomed to fail."
In a defiant front page editorial, the People's Daily newspaper said the protesters' demands for unfettered elections were "neither legal nor reasonable."
China's official military newspaper, the People's Liberation Army Daily, reported on its front page that more than 1000 troops in Hong Kong had received "political training," stressing loyalty to the Communist party.
Televised debate draws no breakthrough
October 21, 2014
Protests were now in their fourth week with no sign of a resolution, despite a scheduled meeting between government and student protest leaders that was to be broadcast live.
"This is an historic moment because it's the first time ever in Hong Kong that a group of protesters are able to sit on an equal footing with the government, to say: 'we don't agree with you, we want democracy'," said Nathan Law, a member of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS).
Ahead of the talks Mr Leung, who did not participate in the meeting, said the panel chosen to pick candidates for Hong Kong's 2017 election could be made "more democratic."
"There's room for discussion there," he told a small group of reporters.
"There's room to make the nominating committee more democratic."
Giant screens were set up in protest zones to beam the talks to demonstrators.
The government's chief negotiator Carrie Lam, who called the talks "constructive", said the government's firm position was to follow China's insistence that candidates for the city's next leadership election must be vetted by a pro-Beijing committee.
"If the students cannot accept this position, I am afraid we will continue to have different views," she said
Meanwhile, the High Court ordered demonstrators to leave protest sites which were sealed since the student-led movement began as scuffles between demonstrators and police continued.
Student leaders prevented from petitioning Beijing
November 15, 2014
Three leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students were prevented from boarding a plane to Beijing where they hoped to meet China's leaders as part of their campaign.
"Airline officials informed (the leaders) they did not have the required travel documents to get on the plane," HKFS deputy secretary-general Lester Shum said.
A Cathay Pacific spokesman told local media that Chinese authorities had told the airline the students' travel permits were invalid but did not elaborate.
Scholarism said that one of its members had already been turned back trying to cross the Chinese border, with officials saying he had taken part in "activities that jeopardise national security".
In Beijing, Chinese president Xi Jinping voiced support for Hong Kong's embattled leader and his handling of the protests, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
China "fully affirms and supports" Mr Leung's efforts to safeguard the rule of law and maintain social order, Mr Xi told Mr Leung in Beijing while attending APEC.
But the protests that drew well over 100,000 people at their peak had now dwindled to hundreds.
Occupy organisers turn themselves in
December 3, 2014
The three founding leaders of Occupy Central surrender to police for their role in democracy protests.
But after a short meeting, Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming were released without charge.
"We three urge the students to retreat, to put down deep roots in the community and transform the movement," Occupy Central leader Benny Tai said.
The announcement came after hundreds of pro-democracy protesters clashed with police the previous weekend leaving dozens injured in one of the worst nights of violence since rallies began over two months earlier.
"To surrender is not to fail, it is a silent denunciation of a heartless government," Mr Tai said.
Jean Pierre Cabestan, an expert in Chinese politics at Hong Kong Baptist University, said the Occupy movement was "in tatters".
"The trouble and one of the weaknesses of the movement is there's not much coordination between the Hong Kong Federation of Students and the pan-democrats," he told foreign correspondents in Beijing.
British politicians said also been told by the Chinese embassy they would not be allowed to enter Hong Kong as part of an inquiry into Britain's relations with its former colony and progress towards democracy.
The protests sparked a diplomatic row between London and Beijing, with China describing their planned trip to the former colony as "overtly confrontational".
Police clear Occupy site
December 11, 2014
Authorities began clearing the main protest site that choked roads into the city's finance district for more than two months.
Hundreds of police stood by in the Admiralty district next to government buildings and the Central business area as workers in construction hats used wire cutters to remove barricades erected by protesters after a court injunction.
"The movement has been an awakening process for Hong Kong. People who weren't interested in politics before are now and aren't afraid to get arrested, especially the young people," said Labour Party politician Lee Cheuk-yan as barricades were removed.
On December 15, Hong Kong's leader declared an end to the demonstrations after police cleared the last remaining protest site.
Police arrested more than a dozen protesters, including some elderly people, after they sat down and refused to move.
One protester played drums next to a cardboard cut-out of Chinese president Xi Jinping as onlookers stood by.
Status quo
June 18, 2015
In April 2015, the Hong Kong government formally announced its proposal for a new voting system, ignoring calls for a more democratic process.
Then in June, the blueprint was rejected after it failed to gain a two-thirds majority in the Legislative Council — "The starting point of another wave of democratic movement," pro-democracy legislator Alan Leong said.
It leaves Hong Kong with the same system that brought CY Leung to power.
Long-time activists like Joseph Cheng, one of the organisers of Occupy Central, thinks that China must ultimately accept the pro-democracy movement.
"We have been telling the Chinese authorities that it is not difficult at all to implement democracy in Hong Kong," Mr Cheng told ABC Radio National.
"Hong Kong people are moderate, they are pragmatic, they don't want to confront Beijing, they fully accept Chinese sovereignty.
"All they want is to be left alone to enjoy a high degree of autonomy."


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The second Rutgers gymnastics meet of the 2020 season (first at home) takes place 2:00 pm today against #6 Minnesota, Bowling Green, and Ursinus at the RAC. Free admission and parking (with registration) to all home gymnastics meets this season.
#RUGYM returns to the RAC for its home opener this Saturday, Jan. 18! The quad meet which features Minnesota, Bowling Green and Ursinus is set for a 2 PM start!
— Rutgers Gymnastics (@RUGymnastics) January 16, 2020
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Last week
The Rutgers Gymnastics team took third place in the desert last week in Arizona's quad meet. The home #21 Wildcats (195.950) earned first place in their second meet of the year, edging #12 Iowa State (195.750). Rutgers (194.250) was much closer to both those squads than to Western Michigan (191.800) who had entered the meet ranked 11th in the country.
Individually, freshman Hannah Joyner burst on the scene by winning the balance beam with a score of 9.900 and tying fellow Scarlet Knight Belle Huang for the all-around victory means (38.900). Fellow Freshman Jordyn Duffield also made her debut, recording a 9.750 on floor exercise. The third freshman to make her first college appearance was Jenna Ferguson on beam.
⚔First collegiate routine on beam? No problem! Freshman Hannah Joyner of #RUGYM scored a 9.900 in her first ever event as a Scarlet Knight! She claimed the beam title and tied for first in all-around in a quad meet at Arizona!! pic.twitter.com/r3TqdGwzTV
— Rutgers Gymnastics (@RUGymnastics) January 15, 2020
Captain Kaitlyn Hall led the way on vault (9.725). Fellow captain Shannon Farrell paced the Scarlet Knights on bars along with Huang (9.750).
Coach Umme Salim-Beasley and the rest of the coaching staff were pleasantly surprised that Rutgers did so well in their season opener, "A 194 was definitely more than we were hoping for initially." This was even more impressive so far from home against two teams who had begun their official season the week before. She told me this week, "I think they handled themselves really well. Our main focus was staying within our bubble and not getting distracted from that, taking each routine as it came and keeping that focus from the start of the competition."
What to expect
As Coach Salim-Beasley reaffirmed for me, lineups are still set on a weekly basis per performance in practice leading up to a meet. When we spoke, the lineup for Saturday's home opener had not yet been finalized, though Coach did mention that Senior Captain Farrell is someone the coaching staff is really looking forward to doing more this year. "She did a few floor routines for us last year when a few of our regulars had injuries that we had to pull them out. Shannon does have the potential to do the all-around, we are hoping we'll be able to see that happen. She wants it to happen, she's worked really hard, so hard that she was able to earn herself a scholarship this year because of it. So she's definitely someone we are hoping to get into four events this year."
Salim-Beasley mentioned the big thing for her and the coaching staff this year is "having a championship mindset." "We've been talking about in practice that every time you get up to do a routine, you need to be in that championship mindset. Everything moving forward is mental toughness, competition focus, and keeping our focus." She let me know of the team goals for the year, too, "Our ultimate goal is to go out and hit all our routines. We don't want to have to count a fall, so that is a successful gauge for us to go out and compete every weekend." "As far as postseason, we want to see our average be in the 195 range because that is typically where you are to qualify for postseason play."
One individual note to keep an eye on is that last year, Rutgers featured only one vault routine with a maximum of 10.0, but this year that has jumped to three. "That definitely does help us when our start value is higher, so that is our goal to compete at least half of the lineup with our 10.0 potential start values," Salim-Beasley said.
I want to thank Coach for her time and look forward to more positives throughout the season. Hopefully the team remains as healthy as a gymnastics team can. One thing we discussed that I didn't get into here was regarding the new practice facility. Look for more on that and the other captain, Kaitlyn Hall, in the coming weeks.
Saturday is "Princess and Superhero day", which features a giveaway of capes and tiaras to the first 200 kids in attendance.
Minnesota is ranked 6th in the country despite a heart-breaking loss at #3 Denver in their opener, 196.750-196.475. This is no aberration though since the Golden Gophers ended last year ranked 11th in the nation. They are led by superstar junior Lexy Ramler, 2019 NCAA co-Runner-Up in the All-Around (39.6625) and on the Uneven Bars (9.9375). Ramler had an amazing 39.575 in the all-around, with a 9.9+ in three events. Despite their national reputation, Minnesota only has one gymnast from the Eastern Time Zone, fellow junior Ona Looper, a 2020 Preseason Big Ten Gymnast to Watch from Bluffton, South Carolina. Looper scored a 9.8 or better in every event last week, too.
Despite falling to Eastern Michigan, Bowling Green put up a 193.325 in their first meet of 2020, well above their team average of 189.675 in 2019. The Falcons have three New Jerseyans on their team; Alex Johnston (Washington Township), Samantha Marion (Wyckoff), Tess Muir (Woodland Park). Marion (9.875) and Muir (9.775) both performed on balance beam.
Ursinus is a Division III program who fell in their season opener, 184.275-181.525 at SUNY Cortland last week. The Bears will surely be fired up though as this is their biggest meet of the season, the only time in 2020 they will face three Division I programs. Four New Jersey natives are featured on their roster including Taylor Cusick (Jackson), Kaylin Knapsack (Eastampton), Alex Panetta (Marlboro), and Abigail Schwerdt (Howell). A week ago, each event included at least two of the Jerseyans, maximizing with three on beam.
Good luck RU!
Next up
The women travel to #16 Michigan next Friday, January 24 at 6:30 pm for a dual meet.
For those who care about the artistry of the athletics and the uniforms, I give you the #LeoWatch. I'll leave it at that since I am not very fashionable:
Wait until you all see our next four ✨ #LeoWatch #rugym https://t.co/WLEq2mbaDm
— Rutgers Gymnastics (@RUGymnastics) January 16, 2020


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BC Ferries is in the early design stages of a new Snug Cove terminal with a draft terminal concept released a couple of weeks ago. The plan is open for community comment until Jan. 29.
The design includes a new waiting room, washroom and utility buildings as well as an expanded outdoor waiting area, covered bike storage, traffic safety measures for the reversible ferry lane, an emergency vehicle staging area, relocating the community shelter, and, 15 years out, new berth infrastructure with pedestrian walkways and possibly realignment.
The washroom and waiting room are slated for development in the near term, COVID-19 and its effect on BC Ferries' capital projects means that timing and scope is to be determined, wrote BC Ferries' manager of community engagement Darin Guenette in an email.
However, the concept doesn't currently accommodate bus drop off next to the berth — a long-sought request from islanders, especially for accessibility reasons.
"We found we must either widen into the hillside, or create a costly over-water area [more pier-like infrastructure] to give buses the room they need to turn around, to avoid conflict between buses and pedestrian traffic, and to avoid conflict between buses and vehicle traffic while loading and unloading," says the BC Ferries website. Due to the "significant challenges," of transit next to the berth, the corporation has excluded it from this plan but says it's willing to discuss options with Bowen Island Municipality, Translink and First Transit.
In the public responses to the concept plan, the most common request is for no more illuminated signage and to remove the sign that is there now.
"The [terminal development plan] engagement process has heard this concern from many so far," said Guenette. "The TDP will review this item and discuss options with the municipality for both the redevelopment plan as well as potential short term measures."


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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Iconic and ultimately uplifting holiday fare like Wonderful Life is all well and good, but Ive always found left of centre outings like Bad Santa, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night and Santas Slay to be markedly more fun.
Falling squarely in the latter end of the spectrum is the decidedly macabre and tautly atmospheric Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Call me lazy, but I think IMDb said it best:
On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there's Santa's elves, who are determined to free their leader...
Rare Exports marks the feature length debut for writer and directed Jalmari Helander, though he has been tinkering with the theme for over a decade in the form of spooky Christmas-themed short films and the like. The project has clearly been a long time gestating, and it shows. A thoroughly unique and highly sinister retelling of the Santa Claus mythology, this painstakingly crafted film paints old Saint Nick as more of a kiddy-snatching devil than a kindly gift-toting old timer, and has a damned good time doing it.
Buoyed by some excellent performances, especially those of child protagonist Omni Tommila, his grizzled father (real-life papa Jorma Tommila) and in particular a flawless turn by Peeter Jakobi, who portrays what must surely rank as the most terrifying elf in cinematic history, Rare Exports cleverly mixes black humour with just the right amount of dread. At 82 minutes (of which a full 6 are consumed by the end credits) it certainly doesnt outstay its welcome, and is a better film for it the pacing, like the performances and Helanders thoughtful cinematography, is spot on. Its an accomplished, dark and hugely enjoyable film, the sort of Christmas flick that Hollywood would never dare to make in a million years, and the perfect stocking stuffer for those with a devilish bent.
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This trail begins at the initial information board in the Carril de la Vía (55). Take the road that ascend to the area known as Puerto Rico Bajo (56).
The road becomes a lane with a chain preventing access to vehicles. Continue along this lane and about 300 metres in you will find signpost (57). Go onwards towards Puerto Rico Alto looking for the next post.
Continue along the lane and 400 metres in you will find the Fuente Nuestra Señora de la Paz spring (58) on the right. A little further up, the lane forks and you should continue on the right-hand path until you find a signpost that indicates the path that goes to the right. The road begins to climb the slope and takes you to the travertine gorge, that we see from the front; this formation is known as the Puerto Rico shelters.
The trail sharply zig zags upwards at this point until it reaches a tanker (white hut) that channels the Puerto Rico Alto spring. On the travertine gorge you will find a plateau known as Puerto Rico Alto. At this point you should see the ruins of the Casa de la Finca and an abandoned plantation of fruit trees. Here, you will find another signpost (59) that indicates the correct path to Juanar, leaving the path of Ojen to the right.
A few metres later we find the dry riverbed at the source of Puerto Rico Alto (60), continue north towards Juanar leaving the Puerto de las Pitas to the left. We continue ascending to the next signpost where the path that goes up to Casa del Guarda (61) is on the left. Continue towards Juanar.
Follow the climb without stopping, and after passing the crossroad that takes to Fuente Chumbar spring (62), the views getting bigger. On the left you can see the Juan Benitez gorge first and, behind it, pico de Juanar peak, and, on the right, you can see the Tajo Negro peak (92). Almost at the end of the climb, you will find the signpost of the path that leads to Sendero Puerto Juan Benítez mountain pass (63), you should continue towards Juanar. When you reach the Puerto Marbella mountain pass (64), there should be some signposts that indicate the ascent to the peak and 300 metres to the south, the Mirador del Macho Montés viewpoints (93).
The last stretch of the climb, and the hardest, is just 1 km and, whilst ascending in zigzag, you will see excellent views of the Juanar plains and the beach. Nothing compares to the views you will have when you reach the Cruz de Juanar (65) . From there you will have an excellent panoramic view of the surrounding mountains: Sierra de las Nieves, Sierra Canucha and, on clear days, even Sierra Nevada.


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Four spine surgeons answer tough questions on how to build and sustain a successful practice in today's changing healthcare environment.
All surgeons participating in this article are featured speakers at the Becker's 16th Annual Future of Spine + The Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference June 14-16. Click here to register.
Question: If a practice is established and relatively successful, what can be done to shake things up and promote growth?
Adam Bruggeman, MD. Texas Spine Care Center (San Antonio): Each market is different, so a detailed SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis is necessary to evaluate the individual market. That being said, healthcare is increasingly becoming local, and as such, patients are frequently going to the nearest spine surgeon as opposed to driving. Providing a closer, more convenient location for patients, even if once per week, can open up new referral patterns from physicians as well as increase the likelihood of patients coming to see you on a self-referral.
Q: Where do you see the biggest opportunities for independent physicians to build their businesses?
Stephen Hochschuler, MD. Texas Back Institute (Plano): Becker's Healthcare is a great resource. Surgeons can get their name published and thoughts out there proactively. When I started working with Becker's, I didn't know the publication's reputation. But I contributed. The leader always takes arrows in their back, but then everyone wonders what they are doing and tries to get involved. Spine Health and SpineUniverse are also great resources, especially if you're looking to grow on nickels rather than $100 bills.
Telehealth is another expandable area that allows you to cover your patients more efficiently. All the rules of telehealth are changing, so you have to learn what they are. Another area I'm looking at is pain management for spine surgeons; you need a multimodal approach to prepare the patient for pre-op and then what to expect without opioids. Finally, I'm looking at regenerative medicine for spinal procedures to address anti-inflammatory issues, which all spine surgeons should be interested in.
Q: Do you think independent physicians will be able to remain so as competition escalates in the industry?
Vladimir Sinkov, MD. New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center (Manchester): Innovative and entrepreneurial physicians who value their independence will continue to thrive and adapt to the ever-changing landscape of medicine in the U.S. If things continue as they are, however, and if the government passes more laws that are aimed at destroying private practices (such as "Obamacare"), less and less physicians are going to be willing to keep up the fight.
Ironically, the demise of private practice will not be due to competition; it will be due to the reasons listed above. Competition is actually good, and makes everyone try harder and be better at what they do. This ultimately provides better care for patients and more efficient healthcare with fewer costs. The current system is anti-competitive. It provides an unfair legal and financial advantage for non-for-profit tax-exempt large hospital systems and insurance companies.
Q: How do you expect the value equation to change the practice of spine surgery over the next decade?
Frank Phillips, MD. Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (Chicago): Bundled payments will continue to evolve with the inevitable march away from a fee-for-service model. Bundles are readily managed for spinal procedures with reproducible and predictable outcomes, such as ACDF. More complex treatments, such as surgery for advanced spinal deformity, will remain a challenge in a value based purchasing system. With increased emphasis on value and transparency, practices and practitioners' outcomes will become increasing available to the public who will become much more sophisticated healthcare shoppers.


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On neg-raising
Neg-raising occurs when asserting ¬Fp (or denying Fp) tends to communicate F¬p. For example, 'John doesn't believe that he will win' tends to communicate that John believes that he won't win.
There appears to be no consensus on why this happens. Some think ¬Fp really does entail F¬p. Others think the effect is an implicature. Still others think it's caused by a presupposition of opinionatedness or "settledness": when we talk about whether Fp holds, we presuppose that F holds either for p or for an alternative to p, denying Fp therefore commits us to F¬p.
I know little about this debate, but here are a few thoughts and observations that cast doubt on the views just mentioned.
The neg-raising effect seems to go away if, instead of simply saying ¬Fp, we say other things that entail ¬Fp. Example:
There's a lottery with 5 tickets. If John thinks that ticket #1 will win then he will buy ticket #1. If he thinks that ticket #2 will win then he will buy ticket #2. And so on up to ticket #5. As it turns out, John doesn't buy ticket #1. He also doesn't buy ticket #2, or #3, or #4. Can we infer that he buys ticket #5?
Clearly not. So 'If John thinks p then q' and 'not q' don't convey that John thinks ¬p, even though together they entail that John doesn't think p (which, by neg-raising, tends to convery that John thinks ¬p).
The observation extends beyond lottery cases. Imagine John's friend Jones is about to arrive by train, and there are 5 stations where Jones might arrive. If John thinks Jones will arrive at station i, he will go to station i. It doesn't follow that he will go to one of the stations.
In some respects, the examples are even nicer if they concern the past. For each i, assume that if Jones had thought that ticket #i would win then he would have bought it. It doesn't follow that Jones bought a ticket.
The observation appears to be incompatible with views (such as the one proposed in Hawthorne, Rothschild, and Spectre (2016)?) on which neg-raising is semantic entailment. It also appears to be incompatible with the presupposition view. It might be compatible with an implicature view, because what's implicated by an assertion can depend on the exact words that are used.
The neg-raising effect also seems to go away if the relevant expression F is replaced by a more complicated, but equivalent, expression. Suppose to believe p is to be disposed to assent to 'p'. 'John doesn't believe that he will win' is then equivalent to 'John is disposed to assent to 'I will win'', and that doesn't convey that John is disposed to assent to 'I will not win'. This analysis of belief is of course overly simplistic, but I think the observation remains true for more complex and more credible proposals.
This also seems to cast doubt on the presuppositional view. If believing is being disposed to assent, then a presupposition that John believes either p or some alternative to p would be a presupposition that John is disposed to assent to either p or an alternative to p. And that presupposition would predict that neg-raising still occurs with the more complicated construction.
The neg-raising effect often goes away when focus is on the relevant expression F. 'John doesn't BELIEVE that he will win' doesn't suggest that John believes that he won't win.
This seems to cast doubt on views that make neg-raising a semantic entailment. (It is probably compatible with implicature and presupposition accounts.)
Sometimes, but not always, neg-raising is triggered in quantified environments. 'Nobody believes that Biden will win again' suggests that everybody believes that Biden will lose. But in German, I think, 'Niemand hofft, dass Biden verliert' ('nobody hopes that Biden loses') doesn't suggest that everyone hopes that Biden doesn't lose, even though 'Ich hoffe nicht, dass Biden verliert' ('I don't hope that Biden loses') does suggest that I hope that Biden doesn't lose.
This seems to cast doubt on semantic and presuppositional accounts.
It's tempting to think the neg-raising effect is a scalar implicature: if you know that John is unopinionated about whether he will win, you should say so, rather than assert the (literally) less informative 'he doesn't believe that he will win'. However, this assumes that 'John is unopinionated about whether he will win' is a scalar alternative to 'John doesn't believe that he will win' while 'John believes that he will not win' is not. That's odd.
My hunch is that neg-raising doesn't have any nice, rational explanation. It's a semi-conventionalisation of a processing error.
When our semantics module is tasked to compute what is communicated by ¬Fp, for some reason it is prone to mistakenly assume that F holds of either p or of an alternative to p. The mistake is so widespread that we have to take it into account even if we are not prone to making it ourselves, since we would otherwise misunderstand what other people are trying to say. That is, we will have to take care to assert ¬Fp only if we're willing to commit to F¬p, and we'll assume that other people do the same. Even speakers who don't make the mistake will therefore behave as if they do.
(Compare the widespread mistake people make when they say 'I could care less'. In some sense, this means that the speaker doesn't care – that's how it is used, and known to be used – although in another ("literal"?) sense it means the opposite.)
On this proposal, 'John doesn't believe that he will win' literally means that John lacks a relevant belief. But due to some quirk in our language faculty, some people are prone to use the sentence to express something stronger. This phenomenon is widely known, must be taken into account, and thereby reinforces itself.
In the ticket example (point 1 above), the phenomenon doesn't arise because our language faculty is not asked to compute what is said by ¬Fp. The semi-conventionalised phenomenon only pertains to utterances of '¬Fb', and closely related speech acts.
We can also expect that the "mistake" isn't made (or widely assumed to be made) when F is replaced by a more complicated but synonymous expression (point 2 above).
When we put focus on F, the mistake goes away because attention is drawn to the fact that the alternatives to Fp include not only F¬p but also various possibilities of type F'p, where F' is an alternative to F (e.g., suspension of judgement). That explains point 3.
The oddities for 'hoffen' in German (point 4), and the fact that 'hoffen' behaves differently from 'hope', are also not too surprising. Neg-raising only occurs if the "mistaken" use becomes so widespread that speakers and hearers have to factor it in. In German, the neg-raising use of 'hoffen' is common, but not very common, and it's only common for direct negations of 'hoffen'.


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I tried setting up a threshold alert in chronograf and the tickscript debug log shows the following error:
kapacitor Error: failed to evaluate WHERE expression
I looked at the WHERE expression and cannot see anything wrong with it but of course the error shows and the alert does not fire. I tried editing the expression by removing the double quotes for the field and replacing it with single quotes and the error went away but still the alert does not work.
var whereFilter = lambda: ("consumer_group" == "testIcon")
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+ Mark Labberton encourages us to gather at the feet of Jesus in humility and to rest in the truth that, before we do anything, we are blessed by God.
This was recorded at Fuller's Festival of Beginnings on September 28, 2022.
Mark Labberton is the Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair at Fuller Seminary.
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William E. Pannell discusses the topic of alienation, reflecting on 2 Corinthians 5 and the church's role in openly welcoming those who have experienced exclusion.


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The decision on a summary review followed allegations that a number of customers had their drinks spiked, blacked out and then had large sums defrauded from their credit cards. The Metropolitan Police's application to revoke the licence was not upheld. The case raised the increasingly encountered issue of drink spiking in licensed venues and the Council heard expert evidence on the prevalence of drink spiking allegations and the conflicting evidence of whether the customers had in fact had their drinks spiked or, alternatively, had simply consumed too much alcohol and blamed spiking for their condition.
FTB's Gerald Gouriet KC acted for the Metropolitan Police and Gary Grant acted for the licence holder (instructed by Luke Elford of John Gaunt solicitors).