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Caring for your aging parents is a new experience for many, and one that can be difficult while maintaining your own family and work responsibilities. When an older relative is alone, you worry more and can experience a lot of guilt for not being there to keep them company.
Active Home Care provides companion and homemaker care services in North Miami and the surrounding region. Helping families care for their loved ones in Miami, Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Aventura, North Miami, Bal Harbour, Cutler Bay, Pinecrest, North Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Key Biscayne and Surfside, Active Home Care can keep your loved one company and be there to watch out for them.
Active Home Care Companion Care Services
Although your loved one can live independently, you still worry about something happening. After raising a family, an older person can get lonely in an empty house and you want to ensure a good quality of life. When you cannot be there to perform daily tasks with your loved one, bringing in companion care can ensure they're happy and healthy.
Companion care services from Active Home Care can include assisting with personal care, housework, errands and more. If your loved one is an avid gardener, you probably cannot convince her to stay indoors. Companion care services can include taking her out into the garden and working alongside her. She can continue to maintain her pride in her gardens while you can rest easy knowing she's not doing it all alone.
Companion services can include any activities your loved one is passionate about. They can go for walks in the park, attend weekly yoga classes, go shopping at the mall and eat out once a week. Your loved one will have someone to share these activities with and you will know someone is there to suggest a break, remind them of medication, be sure they eat a nutritious meal and generally watch out for them.
Homemaker Services in Aventura & Miami, Florida
Homemakers services are usually for older adults living alone who might be a little less active. They can include housekeeping, meal preparation and all of the activities usually associated with running a household. When you live alone, these tasks are a bit easier — but as you age, keeping up can become more difficult.
Homemaker care services might include running errands or taking trips to the grocery store. They can help your loved one oversee maintenance workers and other contractors who might be called in to help with home maintenance and repair. You will have peace of mind knowing that your loved one is not home alone when contractors visit the house to do home repairs.
Preparing meals for the family might be enjoyable, but cooking alone can be a chore. Many seniors suffer from poor nutrition because they don't want to go through the trouble of preparing a meal for one. With companion services, meal preparation can be fun again and eating can be a social time.
Active Home Care: Senior Companion Care Services in Miami-Dade County
When it comes to companion care services you can count on, Active Home Care is here to provide everything your loved one needs to live a wholesome, happier, healthier life. As a compassionate nurse registry here to match clients with their perfect caregivers, we go above and beyond in our efforts to provide your elderly loved one with convenience, comfort, care and a better quality of life.
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It's Easy to Eat Local… I simply love shopping at local farmers' markets every week, so that I can incorporate much local product, produce and
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I am delighted to be sharing with you today a half dozen wonderful ways you can eat local, simply by opening a box, bottle package
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Seven Inexpensive Ways to Retain Employees and Prevent Costly TurnoversJune 1st, 2018
Employee retention is a top priority for companies because the effects of turnover can be costly, from lost productivity to spending money on finding replacements. Putting the effort into keeping your employees happy and engaged can have a significant return on the investment of time and effort – and it doesn't require a large budget! Here are seven inexpensive ways to retain employees and prevent costly turnovers:
Celebrate Special Occasions
Acknowledging milestones for your employees, whether personal (such as birthdays) or professional (like work anniversaries), can go a long way to making your employees feel cared about. A simple card or small gift is inexpensive but can pay off by reducing turnover.
Offer Additional Time Off
You may not be able to offer raises or bonuses, but time off can be just as much as a desired perk. Whether you offer extra paid days off as incentives or rewards, or even just occasionally let employees leave early (especially during an especially desirable time, like before a weekend or holiday), it won't cost much upfront and may make employees more inclined to stay.
Recognize Them Publicly
Expressing your appreciation for a job well-done publicly is free, quick, and simple – and yet many leaders forgo it and wind up losing top performers. Employees work to get a paycheck, but they still desire to be recognized for their value and effort, rather than treated like they are disposable.
Give Helpful Feedback
Turnover is often the result of employees getting frustrated with a lack of direction and clear expectations. This is easily avoidable by making it a priority to give helpful feedback to your employees. They'll know exactly where they stand and where to focus their efforts.
Offer Professional Development Opportunities
Show that you're invested in your employees' long-term success by providing opportunities for professional development. If employees know they are getting valuable training and experience, they are more likely to remain committed to your organization since there's room for them to grow.
Schedule Regular Face-to-Face Time
There's a common saying that "employees don't leave jobs, they leave managers." If you want to retain your best workers, nurture the professional relationship through consistent face-to-face interactions, such as regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings. Beyond receiving progress updates on their workloads, it's also the perfect opportunity to assess their job satisfaction and deal with any issues before it's too late.
Provide Treats
Surprising your team with free bagels and coffee, catering a lunch, or bringing in other treats is a simple, low-cost way to break up the monotony of the workday and bring a little fun to your employees' days. It's a small gesture to show your appreciation for their work, but it won't go unnoticed.
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Linen and towels are provided and the beds made up for your arrival. Beach towels are not provided. Our accommodation in Cornwall is located right next to the beach so that you can walk down and leave your car on site throughout your stay.
The accommodation at Trumpers really is a home from home, a place where you can relax with all the home comforts that you need after a day on the beach or having explored other parts of Cornwall. Enjoy a BBQ on a warm evening or TV with the family.
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text: Mr Saurat is an Economist and a Lawyer. He obtained a Degree in Economics from the School of Economics of the University of Valencia and also a MD in Law by the European University of Madrid (UEM). He completed his studies in Business Management at the ESADE Business School. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. He joined Arthur Andersen (later Deloitte) in 1987 and worked in the Audit and in the Tax & Legal Divisions. In 1997 he joined Garrigues (the leading Spanish law firm) and worked as a tax consultant. In 2000, he joined IVI. He has played a key role in the success of IVI from the business point of view. He currently holds the position of CEO and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Group and also a member of the Board of IVI Foundation. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with several schools teaching in programs related to business matters. Click here to view the agenda: https://wp.me/a3WIm0-6NV


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You scratch it when it itches. You scratch it when you brush it, and you will pull it when you style your hair. It's your scalp, and it needs as much attention as your hair. If your scalp is dry or unhealthy, it reflects in your hair, making it either dull and dry, or oily.
When you shampoo and condition your hair, it's clean, a little too clean in some instances, making your scalp work overtime to make the sebum, or natural oil, to keep itself moisturized. This can lead to hair looking oily just 24 hours after you have washed it. There are 12 oils to reset the balance to your scalp.
1 – Carrot Seed (Daucus carota)
This is also known as wild carrot. It helps to revitalize the scalp.
2 – Cedarwood (Cedrus atlantica)
This is an essential oil that can help treat dandruff and also promote hair growth. Do not use this oil if pregnant. Chamomile, Roman (Chamaemelum nobile) This is a great essential oil for all skin conditions form head to toe. It helps promote healthy hair and scalp.
3 – Clary Sage (Salvia sclarea)
This essential oil is often used to help thinning hair, promote a healthy scalp, fight dandruff, and control oils produced from the sabaceous gland. Do not use if pregnant. It doesn't mix when if you use before you drink alcohol.
4 – Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
This oil is used to balance the skin and scalp. It helps to reduce sebum from overactive glands, and regulates the sebum production.
5 – Helichrysum (Helichrysum angustifolium)
This will help with extremely dry scalp.
6 – Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
This is an all-purpose essential oil that is good for a skin types. It is often added to shampoos and rinses for dandruff.
7 – Lemon (Citrus limon)
This helps to regulate oily skin and scalp. This can speed a sun burn if used right before going outside.
8 – Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)
This oil is used often in aromatherapy for hair care, oily hair and skin, and it is also good in treating dandruff.
9 – Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
This essential oil comes highly recommended for regulating sebum production, stimulating the scalp, helping with thinning hair, promoting hair growth, lice, and dandruff. However, it is to be avoided if you are epileptic or suffer from hypertension.
10 – Tea Tree (Melaleuca alternifolia)
This is good for treating dandruff and lice.
11 – Thyme (Thymus vulgaris)
This is another essential oil that can help treat lice. It is also good for regulating oily skin and scalp. This one is however needs to be avoided in cases of hypertension, and pregnancy.
12 – Ylang Ylang (Cananga odorata)
It helps to stimulate hair growth and makes a good ingredient for hair rinses. As you can see, there are a lot of essential oils you can tailor to your specific needs in terms of hair care. All of the hair care products you tend to buy in the store cannot do that. They are made for a general hair problem and not an individual.


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A day dealing with someone's snot other than your own makes you thankful for your husband waking up and allowing you to take a long hot UNINTERRUPTED shower. We had a good day today. I was able to convince Alicia to watch Sabrina the Teenage Witch Cartoon and she loved it. (Hopefully no more Pingu or Calliou!!)
Going to sleep praying for 8 uninterrupted hours. (PLEASE SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT LEVI, YOU AND I BOTH NEED IT)


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You can never have enough Toothettes on hand. Excellent for increasing or decreasing oral sensitivity prior to feeding, oral exercise, or speech sound production work. 20 per pack. Please note a Medical Device Alert is in force for these, please see PDF here
Vibrator & Toothettes - TalkTools
The hand-held Vibrator & Toothette provide an excellent option to promote awareness of the oral cavity and to relax 'fixing.' It is also a valuable tool for diagnosing oral sensitivity. Includes 20 Toothettes Please note a Medical Device Alert is in force for these, please see PDF here
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A smoother alternative to the standard star shaped swab, sold in packs of 10. Please note a Medical Device Alert is in force for these, please see PDF here
Tongue Tip Lat-Elev Tool Set - TalkTools
These remarkable tools teach tongue-tip lateralization, elevation and depression for improved feeding skills and speech clarity. Their design helps establish jaw stability to facilitate independent movement of the tongue tip for lateralization across midline and for elevation and depression of the tongue tip.
Straw Kit- TalkTools
An excellent supplement to traditional speech and language therapy techniques, and the best exercise available to promote tongue retraction and controlled tongue movements. The hierarchy promotes jaw-lip-tongue dissociation through twelve stages of development. Instructions included.
Liper Device
The Liper Device can be used pre and post operatively for exercises where a tongue tie is present, it can also be a useful tool in supporting the diagnosis of a tongue tie. Postoperative Active Wound Management with the Liper device has been shown to improve post- surgical outcome, therefore helping ensure normal tongue flexibility and functioning while preventing frenulum reattachment and/or scarring.
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ARK Z-Vibe Tongue tip (single)
Use ARK's Tongue Tip for the Z-Vibe® as a tongue exerciser for lateralization and elevation. Instruct the individual to place his/her tongue tip inside the hole, then gently guide the tongue up and down or left and right to establish the concept of elevation and lateralization, both of which are important oral motor skills for speech and feeding development. It can also be used as a tongue scraper for dental hygiene and oral awareness.
SMILE Program Complete - TalkTools
The SMILE (SysteMatic Intervention for Lingual Elevation) Program, developed by Robyn Merkel-Walsh, is a fun therapy program for tongue thrust remediation. This program, featuring 'Mr. Smile,' targets speech and swallowing skills in a 14-step hierarchy. WARNING! - CHOKING HAZARD Adult Supervision Required To Implement This Program.


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It's that time of the year when my favourite fair is about to take place. Since its inception in 1997, PAD, the Pavilion of Art and Design, has become the crème de la crème when it comes to showcasing 20th and 21st Century works of decorative art and design. It is now synonymous withRead More...


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This is what I woke up to on Saturday morning. The sun just rising over the eastern edge of the country, the Atlantic still as sleepy as I was.
We took a quick trip to Wilmington for two reasons: one of our favorite bands was playing there, and after a year and a half of living in North Carolina, I still had not taken Micah to the beach. So! We made a weekend of it. The first night we spent at Wrightsville Beach, so we could wake up to this view, and explore the beach. The second night was spent in historic downtown Wilmington, within a few blocks of the concert venue (and some truly delicious food and drink).
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MAGNET - The Tourniquet LP (Atlantic
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"Lovely" is the first word which always springs to mind upon listening to a Magnet CD, for Even Johansen is the master of swooning folk-pop soundscapes and lazily dreamy melodies.
We did all the bad name puns with Magnet's previous album, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing positive left to say about him this time around. From the curiously melancholic yet soaring Fall at Your Feet to the endearing quiet confidence depicted in Believe, The Tourniquet EP is breathtakingly beautiful.
Johansen's music is not dissimilar to that of the equally
stunning Ben Christophers or Duke Special in that his carefully crafted
melodic works of art are emotive, spectacular and... well, lovely.
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For details of our first LIVIT workshop, "Modern Salafism: Doctrine, Politics, Jihad", click here.
Conceptions of Violence in Modern Shi'ism
A One-Day Workshop
Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought Project
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
17th December 2012
Sunday 16th December
PM and Evening: Participants arrive
Monday 17th December:
0930 Rob Gleave (LIVIT Director): Welcome
1000 Ali-Reza Bhojani (Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham and University of Durham) "Shi'i Ethical Thought and the Regulation of Legitimate/Illegitimate force in Islam"
1040 Ori Goldberg (Tel Aviv University): "Making the Word Strange: The Nuclear Fatwa and the Violence of Discourse"
1120 Tea/Coffee
1150 Robert Riggs (University of Bridgeport): "What Constitutes Force and How is it Applied? Activism and Quietism in the Thought of Sistani and Fadlallah"
1230 Bianka Speidl (LIVIT PhD Student, University of Exeter): "Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah and the Logic of Force"
1310 Lunch
1310 Lunch
1410 Rachel Kantz Feder (Tel Aviv University): "The Use of Violence in Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr's Thought and Activism: Between Hagiography and Historiography"
1450 Sarah Elibiary (Islamic Reformulations Research Fellow, University of Exeter): "Violence incitement in Shi'i discourses: war in Iraq"
1530 Tea/Coffee
1600 Samer El-Karanshawy (University of Oxford and Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies): "From Debating the Martyrdom of Husayn to the "Logic of Resistance": Violence and Revolution in Lebanese Shi'i Thought"
1650 Robert Gleave: Closing Remarks
1700 Close
1930 Evening Meal
Tuesday 18th December
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The LIVIT project is funded by the Global Uncertainties programme of the Research Councils UK:
There is no charge for attending the workshop, but places are limited. To reserve a place contact the LIVIT project administrator, Jane Clark email@example.com


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Josephine Mauskopf has been awarded the Marilyn Dix Smith Leadership Award by ISPOR.
News Releases
Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research, has been published. Chapter 9, coauthored by Willings Botha,
Meet researcher Naoko Ronquest, Senior Director in our HE Modeling Program.
Research just published in Value in Health compares FDA and EMA labeling for evidence based on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of new oncology treatments approved by both agencies.
Regulators and reimbursement authorities want to utilize real-world data more consistently to capture the real-world patient and clinician experience.
This paper describes study methods, challenges, and the study's progress so far.
Research addressing concerns about the rising cost of health care in the United States
Reliance on statistical significance, and the related statistic, the P-value, is a drawback. Here are alternatives.
The RTI-HS Festive Cheer Score (FCS) is at its peak!
In 2014, a head-to-head clinical trial compared the 96-week efficacy and tolerability of three HIV multi-drug combinations commonly used as initial treatment for individuals with HIV-1 infection.
ISPOR Good Practices for Outcomes Research Provide Guidance for High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries
CADASIL, or cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy, is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the NOTCH3 gene. It is a neurological degenerative disorder leading to cognitive impairment and eventually vascular dementia.
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable cancer of the bone marrow. It is the third-most-frequent blood cancer in the US, after lymphoma and leukemia. Several new therapies have recently been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of MM, including daratumumab...
Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) utilize more health care resources and face higher costs than patients who can control their condition with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). Despite the long-term proven effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), the treatment is currently...
Qualitative data on patients' experiences and perspectives typically go uncollected in clinical trial settings. Yet patients' treatment experiences offer complementary insights and context on topics such as disease management, treatment gaps, and previous treatments outside of those gathered in...
Often, drug manufacturers are faced with limited study data when developing therapies for rare diseases. To identify challenges in creating economic models, researchers at RTI Health Solutions coauthored a study that reviewed health technology assessment submissions for rare disease treatments...
Research on the impact of diabetes on quality of life often focuses on understanding the effect of specific interventions.
The PSA test is used to screen men for prostate cancer, however there is controversy around its poor sensitivity and specificity. It can lead to unnecessary biopsies and the overtreatment of low-grade cancers.
Communication of Pre-approval Information by Drug and Device Manufacturers to Payers in the US
It's no longer business as usual. We are entering a new era of capturing patients' voice in cancer drug development. It is critical to remain abreast of trends in the regulatory environment. Ari Gnanasakthy shares takeaways from FDA/ASCO workshop.
This new book serves as an essential reference for pharmacovigilance scientists and pharmacoepidemiologists searching for the appropriate study design to answer safety research questions in studies required by regulators. Two RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS) researchers are contributors.
Biopharmaceutical Innovation Has Significant Impact, According to Physicians Surveyed. A recent survey of U.S. physicians provides insight on their perceptions regarding the impact of medical innovation on outcome
Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a rare group of malignant tumors comprising more than 50 histologic subtypes that are derived from connective tissues and other cells of mesenchymal origin. They account for approximately 1% of all incident malignancies.
Understanding What Matters Most to Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers to help inform the drug development process.
The Alzheimer's Disease Patient and Caregiver Engagement (AD PACE) initiative is a first-of-its-kind collaboration among pharmaceutical companies, advocacy...
Research team members each have their own areas of expertise, which may not include experience with raw data. They all need tools they can understand to help them assess the data.


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The iFAQ - lots of questions for all your answers.
So what's this site all about?
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It's a parody of the iPhone. It pokes fun at the iPhone hype and "iPhone killer" headlines. The aim is to bring awareness to non-profit organizations fighting poverty. We love Apple and think they make amazing products, but we believe iPoor is truly more revolutionary. It's the real iPhone killer!
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So I've been blogging lately about how you can create some simple applications to use in your class rooms. I have shown you how you can use speech recognition and how you can use a skeleton to do a hover button quiz…. But what if you didn't have to make any of these applications.
I had thought about Geographers and Scientists who are constantly using things like Bing Maps and Microsoft World Wide Telescope in their lessons. What if there was a way of engaging students and getting them to come up and and use the Kinect to navigate an area.
Well there is! I had been browsing the internet looking for ways of putting the mouse course in my Kinect applications when I discovered Kinect Mouse Cursor. This is a simple program you can download and use as a mouse.
Unfortunately their aren't any instructions but it doesn't take long to figure out. You can either tick the box if you're left handed or just leave it un-ticked for your right hand. To move the mouse cursor, you simply use your hand. If you want to click, the program recognises your other hand. You just lift it up and it detects it as a click. BRILLIANT! It is a brilliant tool and you can see a clip of me using it with Bing maps.
If you would like a link to the source code, so that you can edit it and play around with it, just follow the link here. – Apologies for the jerky sound on the video, my laptop was a bit low on resources at the time with it recording and using the cursor etc..


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Stoke City completed the season in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division with a 4-1 victory over Nottingham Forest, which means they still have a chance of finishing in third place.
We talked to Stoke goalkeeper Natalie Hall, who reflected on what she feels was a good season for her side and admitted that the club is aiming for better next time around:
WSS: Well done on the result on Sunday, would you call that a good way to finish off the season?
NH: It was the perfect way to finish the season. Winning breeds confidence, which we can carry forward into next season.
WSS: Did the win at Newcastle the week before restore the team's confidence?
NH: It certainly helped! We've never lacked belief but results had gone against us for a few weeks, so getting a win at Newcastle was vital.
WSS: Can you put your finger on why the run of four defeats happened?
We've struggled with a few injuries; Laura Garside broke her leg, I've been out injured for a little while, a few girls have continued playing with knocks and that has caught up with us unfortunately. Also, in a few games, we were missing that little bit of luck that you sometimes need!
WSS: Football is a team game of course, but did the injury to Laura Garside have a particular effect?
NH: Garside is an important part of team and she has definitely been missed. It's been difficult for her watching but she's still turned up to games and given her all - even from the sideline!
WSS: Is it a little frustrating to look at Sporting Club Albion and Preston North End finishing above you, knowing you have beaten both teams this season?
NH: Of course, but both managed to beat us too so they would probably feel the same if it had been the other way round!
WSS: Third or fourth place in the league, League Cup quarter finalists, County Cup success, an FA Cup tie with Everton and a couple of appearances at the Britannia Stadium, would you say it has been a good season overall for Stoke?
NH: Yes I would. At this stage I'm looking at certain points in the season thinking 'what if' but we've made massive strides forward as a club and the future is bright for Stoke City Ladies FC. The experiences gained this season provide a platform for the club to build upon.
WSS: So are you confident that you can build on this next season and be capable of going all the way?
NH: That's certainly the aim. The club, staff and players are all ambitious and want to succeed so who knows.
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Opening last weekend on the National Mall in Wash., D.C., the African American Museum of History and Culture depicts the experience of Black people in the United States from the era of the Atlantic Slave Trade to Barack Obama's historic presidency.
The three-day opening celebration included concerts on the National Mall, ranging from Spirituals to Classical, R&B to Gospel, Hip-Hop to Jazz including Oakland's Latin Jazz band led by Bobi Cespedes, featuring John Santos.
Thousands of people attended: family groups, couples, toddlers in strollers, white-haired elders in wheelchairs and babes in arms.
Advised to begin their museum experience on the bottom floor where relics from a slave ship were displayed, they waited patiently in long lines.
The curators did more than identify the objects –ballast from the slave ship São José Paquete Africa, found off the coast of South Africa in 2010. They mounted quotes about the experience of the captives on the ships.
"Their singing was always in tears, so much that one captain threatened the women with a flogging because their mournfulness of her song was painful for his feelings." William Corbett, 1806.
The exhibits make clear that chattel slavery, the buying and selling of human beings as if they were domestic animals or furnishings, was unprecedented in human history.
Accompanied by voice overs and testimony and observances of the time, the brutality of the kidnapping and capture of Africans is uncontested as is the benefit to the slavers:
"Are we not indebted to these valuable people – the Africans – for our sugars, tobaccos, rice and rum? Malachy Postelthwayt, 1745.
Standing under the quote on the wall, "We've got to tell the unvarnished truth" by historian John Hope Franklin, Courtney Hester-Green of Washington D.C. explained that she has been a student of Black history since she was six, when her uncle gave her a Golden Legacy Series Comic Book.
Now 32, her great pleasure was "Being able to see the stories told how they should be told."
"I thought I would hold it together," Hester-Green said. "But I'm misty now. I hope the story is made real to people who haven't studied it all their lives."
Gallery after gallery, photos and artifacts show the African American experience on its own terms. It felt like nothing was left out.
Second to the slave-ship exhibit, the display of Emmett Till's casket was perhaps the most moving.
Till was 14 in 1955 when he was brutally lynched in Money, Miss., for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The killing brought international attention to the racism of the South when his mother insisted on an open casket.
Exhumed in 2005 for DNA testing on his body, the Till family had initially wanted to put his casket in a museum of their own but instead donated it to the museum.
There are life-size statues everywhere on all floors including freedom fighters of many generations and leaders in all arenas of life from art and entertainment to food, activism, entrepreneurship and sports, including one of John Carlos and Tommie Smith with fists raised and bowed heads at the 1968 Olympics.
Eight-year-old T.C. Washington of Atlanta, Ga., stared up at them, put his hand over his heart and grudgingly agreed to let his father take a photo, where he struck a pose just like them.
Not knowing what it meant, his father, Terance Washington, told him it was like what Colin Kaepernick is doing. The boy nodded and skipped on to the next gallery, where paraphernalia from the National Council of Negro Women was on display and a recorded speech by Mary McLeod Bethune was heard in the background.
"What's a Negro?" the little boy asked.
"It's good to know how far we have come," said Shay Moor of Baltimore, MD.


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Our primary reason for driving seven hundred miles through all weathers to reach Cornwall is to visit Jessie, my sole remaining aunt, who at 92 years of age is my family's supreme matriarch. The remote cottage she inhabits is far older than she is but it has been extensively adapted and is able to provide for her every need, right down to the semi-tame pheasant who conveniently comes to her back door and takes away any stale bread she has lying about.
The driveway of Jessie's home, however, was not really built with campervans in mind and at first sight it appears that the gateposts are simply too close together to allow us to pull in clear of the narrow lane. With careful manoeuvring we soon realise that we can fit Ducky's stylishly designed hind quarters through the gate with an inch to spare either side although a scraping noise tells me that in doing so our roof is making contact with an evil hedge built from coarse Cornish vegetation. With Jessie's permission I begin to cut back the offending wildlife with pruners and shears in order to permit passage for our high-sided vehicle but I soon find myself under attack from some of the sharpest and most virulent flora on this planet. It is the hawthorn that does me most damage, fighting back with every spike, until my hands and arms are bleeding and scarred and I have thorns sticking out of me here, there and everywhere. But I win in the end, if success is determined by the damage I inflict on the hedge, and we are able to pull our van off the road far enough to allow us to spend a night there.
The lane outside her house is barely wide enough for our van to squeeze along although strangely Jessie refers to it as the 'main road', which makes us wonder what the minor roads are like nearby. Everywhere the trees are flush with chirping birds which Jessie has taken it upon herself to feed from her garden. At one time or other the majority of Cornwall's garden bird population appears just outside her kitchen window and the antics of these creatures provide endless entertainment whilst washing up or cooking, such that her only complaint in life is that there is never enough time in the day to sit and watch them. Her advanced age and a good memory for detail allows her to look back to a time when the world did not operate in quite the same way as it does today, a viewpoint that is inevitably different from most of those around her. She is interested in everything and seems to welcome the opportunity to sit and talk, keeping us up till midnight when the tawny owl sings out from her birdsong clock. Sadly we take to the roads later the next day, leaving her to her birds. If she can remember my instructions on how to operate her computer she may be able to read about herself here; the Internet is one of the few things that arrived a little too late in her life for her to cope with easily.
Several days later we find ourselves on a visit to Dorset's West Bay with Peter, one of Kate's widely scattered siblings, and his wife Liz. This is a favourite haunt for them and we all need the fresh air after eating a substantial Bangladeshi meal with them the previous evening. In the interim Ducky has been fitted with a comfortable new front passenger seat, ordered some months ago and stored beneath the stairs in Peter and Liz's home in Yeovil. We dump the old, rather modified, front passenger dual seat which cramped the spine of anyone sitting on it for any length of time and Kate now luxuriates in a stately posture next to me while I negotiate yet more narrow lanes down to the coast. Dorset lanes are not simply narrow, they are deep too, chasms formed by tall banks which are a serious challenge to drive along. I try to keep as far over to the left as I can without our nearside wing mirror ploughing a furrow through the hedgerow but don't always succeed.
We like West Bay so much that we decide to stay for a night in the enormous caravan park which dominates most of the town. We check in then are directed to pitch #100 which is high up on the hillside, affording a view towards the pale East Cliff and Portland Bill beyond. Some 185 million years ago the sand was being deposited here in multi-thousand year cycles over immense periods of time, forming the layered structure that is visible today. The jury still seems to be out on what caused the whole process to repeat so often, forming the successive layers, or how they came to be separated by harder bands of calcified rock, but the view from the sea is striking, especially when the sun casts shadows on the cliff. This being the Jurassic coast it is impossible to escape the geology here; it just jumps up and bites you.
The camp site is impressive. For only a small fee we take in the view, dine in our own home, we skip the evening Country and Western show as we felt our costumes might not be up to it but sleep in total peace then get up and have an early morning swim in a warm indoor pool before heading off the next day.
Britain is about to be hit by the first equinoctial gale of the season so a quick visit to Lyme Regis to brave the wind blasting across the Cobb seems appropriate before we retire to Yeovil where Peter and Liz have the kettle on the moment we come in the door.


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During the 1860s, the brothers A.H. and W.W. Pool and the brothers W.C. and W.Z. Tillson left their homes in Michigan to go to Oil City, Pennsylvania, where an oil boom was going on. These brothers were attracted to areas of opportunity. Not only were they like-minded, they were linked by marriage, A.H. Pool having married Gertrude S. Tillson, a sister of W.C. and W.Z. Tillson.
A Brief History
by Keith Buss
In the 1870s when the luster began to go off the oil boom, these brothers started to look around for a new field of endeavor. They believied they found it in Buffalo County, Nebraska. All of them came out in October of 1876 in their own railroad car, which was put off at Kearney while they got themselves settled. W.C. Tillson entered L.R. More's bank in Kearney, while the others went north and settled along Cedar Creek, a tributary of the South Loup Rim. After a year in the bank W.C. Tillson joined them on Cedar Creek. The Pools and W.C. Tillson settled on three quarters of a section, interlocking their claims like a giant jigsaw puzzle, and proceeded to ranch and farm. Slowly, however, there was a falling out among them. It seems that W.W. Pool was becoming too much of a boomer for the others.
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In 1879 W.W. Pool want into partnership with B.F. Peck of East Bethany, New York, a well-to-do farmer, and M.F. Shreve of Bordertown, New Jmey, a dealer in coal and lime, and in 1882 he really hit the big time when, with his new partners and a group of New York City investors, the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company was formed. The formation of this company broke his business relationship with his old partners, but they still remained friends. W.C. Tillson returned to Kearney in 1882 and helped organize the Kearney National Bank. His house, Tower Hill, stood where the Kearney Country Club is today. A.H. Pool sold out and in 1883 moved to the Prairie Center area where he lived for the remainder of his life. He died in 1893, at the age of 63. W.Z. Tillson, the youngest of the four, went into ranching on his own and eventually settled northwest of Poole, where his descendants still live.
At about this same time, William S. Black and his brother-in-law, Thomas B. Mickle, came out from Burlington County, New Jersey, and with W.W. Pool, filed on a three-quarter section southeast of Poole, overlooking the South Loup. Their claims were interlocked jigsaw puzzle fashion just as before. This was to become the home base of the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company. For years Black and Mickle worked as hired hands for W.W. Pool. William S. Black proved to be an especially loyal employee. If W.W. Pool ever wanted to acquire land or obtain a loan, yet stay in the background, he could count on Black to be a dependable front man.
The Nebraska Land and Cattle Company was reorganized in 1884. The New York City investors dropped out and the new investors were R.L. Downing and Robert R. Greer of Kearney, along with the old investors, B.F. Peck, M.F. Shreve and W.W. Pool. Officers were B.F. Peck, president; R.L. Downing, vice- president and treasurer; and W.W. Pool, secretary and manager. Two days after the company was reorganized the stockholders voted to mortgage the property of the company up to $100,000 so the company could expand its holdings.
The Nebraska Land and Cattle Company was a large operation. It had some 10,000 acres of land centered around the community of Poole. The company raised, fattened and shipped an average of 1200 head of cattle a year. Many of them were Devon, for which W.W. Pool had high hopes. An average of 30 hands were employed. In 1884, $5000 in wages was paid. The company also had large tracts in mixed crops, sometimes as much as 3500 acres. In 1891, 2000 acres were put into wheat and 1500 acres into corn. The company's effect on the area in terms of buying area crops for feed and furnishing employment must haw been significant.
When the Union Pacific Railroad laid its tracks up the South Loup, Pool Siding was made a shipping point for the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company.
In the early 1890s the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company started to break up. The high hopes for the Devon cattle never materialized, prices were not good, and the hard winter of 1888 all may have contributed to it. In January of 1892 the assets of the company were divided among its creditors, R.L. Downing taking the lions share. W.W. Pool continued to use the name of the company from time to time, but after January 1892, it was only a paper company and the need for Pool Siding ceased to exist.
As early as 1891 there may have been talk of developing Pool Siding as a town site, and in 1892 it did become a town. In that year Jesse Edson and George Duncan opened a general store, R.L. Downing put up an elevator, and on June 23, 1892, George Duncan became the postmaster. In 1885 he had married Susan Pool, daughter of A.H. and Gertrude S. Pool. Although Pool Siding was successful as a town during the 1890s and became a place of commerce for the area farmers, schools and churches did not develop. They stayed out in the countryside where they had already been established. After the break-up of the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company, W. W. Pool became involved with the Buffalo County Cattle Company which he helped form in 1894. During the 1890s his land holdings began to move eastward until they were situated between Pool Siding and South Ravenna (South Ravenna being about a mile south of Ravenna). About 1896 the Union Pacific located a depot at South Ravenna and that summer W. W. Pool was the first to ship cattle from there. His oldest daughter, Ella, was appointed depot agent, and at one time William S. Black had a general store there.
During the 1890s, W.W. Pool, like so many, had financial problems. The Buffalo County Cattle Company was a failure and he had other debts. Then his health began to fail and he was driven to the point of despair. In the early morning hours of March 21, 1898, he left his Ravenna home, went to the cemetery, and there at the graves of two of his children, shot himself to death. He was 54 years old. About two weeks later, his grief-stricken widow, Eva, who was pregnant, went into premature labor and never survived. She died April 5, 1898.
This tragedy almost brought about the and of Pool Siding. One of the creditors, Vermont Savings Bank, obtained a judgment in their favor against the Pool estate. To satisfy the judgment, the townsite of Pool Siding was sold at public auction in the summer of 1900. To keep their store buildings from being sold with the land, their owners had moved them off. It seems the store owners had no title to the land their stores were standing on. The post office was discontinued on June 21, 1900. So the town did indeed die.
Like the Phoenix, however, it rose from the ashes. Later that year and in 1901 the Vermont Savings Bank sold off parcels of the town site to the store owners and the buildings were moved back. In July 1900, the post office was reopened with W.Z. Tillson as the postmaster. This time Pool Siding began to function as a fully developed town, largely made possible by the people from the Majors community located southwest of the town. Two generations of these people made it a successful little town. In 1905 a state bank was opened with S.N. Bently as president and J.C. Miller as cashier. In 1907 a Presbyterian Church was started, an off-shoot of the Majors Presbyterian Church, and District 60 school, which had been located west of town, we moved into town.
The town even received a name change. While Anna S. Sitz was postmistress in 1906, the name was changed from Pool Siding to Poole. There had been confusion about the name since the town started in 1892. The Union Pacific used the name "Poole" and the post office the name "Pool Siding." In 1906 the post office was changed to Poole to conform with the railroad name. The railroad had opened a depot in 1905, with J.C. Mahoney the depot agent.
In 1910 Poole was incorporated. The first village board consisted of C.E. Clark, J.S. Hanna, J.E. Criffield, Henry Abrams, and J. C. Mahoney. Some of the early business men of Poole were J. E. Criffield, dry goods; George Duncan, general store: William Klein, general store; T J. McConnell, hardware; B.J. Stover, blacksmith; Francis Reynolds, harness; and Wm. S. Eldridge, grain buyer.
The 1920s were the high point for Poole. That decade it reached its peak population of 337. In 1924 the town installed electric lights; and in 1926 when the school house burned down, a new brick school was built. Some of the business people of in 1920s were George Duncan, general store; Alva Linsey, general store; Ross Burton, garage; Wesley Heapy, pool hall; W.E. Whitcomb, elevator; and Floyd Thompson, ice cream parlor.
The town could be a lively place sometimes, although with the Presbyterian influence, things never really got out of hand. In 1914 the Village Board banned as "indecent" the Turkey Trot and the Bunny Hop. Baseball on Sunday was looked upon with disfavor, too, but when Walter Duncan, son of George Duncan, "disappeared" on Sunday afternoons, the Duncan family, strong Presbyterians, looked the other way.
During the 1930s Poole started to go down hill. In 1933 Ravenna lost its banks and Charles E. Clark, who had joined the State Bank of Poole as cashier in 1909, was prevailed upon to move the Poole bank to Ravenna. In 1935 George Duncan, longtime merchant, died. There was still life in the town, though. Ballroom dances were held in the stone garage along the railroad tracks. After the bank moved to Ravenna, square dances were held in the vacant bank building.
In 1947 the South Loup River flooded and the bridges of the Union Pacific Railroad were washed out. Rather than rebuild the bridges, the railroad abandoned the line, which left Poole with no railroad and no depot. In 1953 the Poole Church was torn down. During the 1950's a baseball field was built, which sort of balanced things out a little for the town.
In 1966 the old anchor of Poole was destroyed when the Duncan Store burned down. Glenn Stover had run it for 25 years after the Duncans. That same year the school closed.
In 1972, after 62 years, Poole as an incorporated town was dissolved, and in 1982 the Poole post office was closed.
Today Poole is a small bedroom community, but who knows- maybe it is waiting to play Phoenix. It did it before.
Interviews with Edith Abraham, Goldie and Billie Johnson, Homer McConnell, Helen McInnis, Winona Snell, Glenn Stover, Charles Tillson; Bassett: History of Buffalo County, 1916; Pleasanton on the Loup, 1988; Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney and Phelps, Nebraska, 1890; Murray Edward Poole: History of Edward Poole and his Descendants, 1893; Mercer V. Tilson: The Tilson Genealogy, 1975; Ravenna Centennial, 1886-1986, 1986; Buffalo County Atlas, 1907; Buffalo County Courthouse records; Issues of Kearney Daily Hub and Ravenna News.
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Scenes from the selling of the tax cut:
January 2001: The White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey argues that George W. Bush's tax cut — not interest rate cuts — is the right solution to the economic slowdown, because the tax cut has a "much bigger heft." Economists are puzzled by the attempt to sell a long- term tax cut as the answer to a short- run economic slowdown, especially given the fact that most of the cuts proposed by Mr. Bush wouldn't take place until the second half of the decade. Later, when Congress passes a budget resolution authorizing $1.35 trillion in tax cuts, administration allies try to eliminate language requiring that $100 billion of that total be reserved for immediate tax breaks to stimulate the economy. They would prefer to use the money for tax breaks for high-income families, even though those breaks will not phase in fully until 2006.
March 2001: President Bush declares that "nationwide there are more than 17.4 million small-business owners and entrepreneurs who stand to benefit from dropping the top rate from 39.6 to 33 percent." A press release from the Treasury Department seems to back him up, declaring that "it is evident that at least 17.4 million small-business owners and entrepreneurs, many of whom currently pay at the 39.6 percent rate, stand to benefit from the president's tax relief plan." Economists are puzzled, since only about a million taxpayers have any income taxed at the 39.6 percent rate, and most of those are not small-business owners. Independent estimates suggest that only about 1 percent of small businesses would receive any benefit from a cut in the top rate, giving a new meaning to the term "many."
May 2001: Mr. Bush is asked what his administration plans to do in the face of high gasoline prices. "Let me say it again, see if I can be more clear," he replies. "To the Congress, who is interested in helping consumers pay high gas prices: `Pass the tax relief as quickly as possible.' We've set aside $100 billion to help consumers with high energy prices. That's the quickest way to help consumers. I am deeply concerned about consumers. I'm deeply concerned about high gas prices. To anybody who wants to figure out how to help the consumers, pass the tax relief package as quickly as possible." Economists are puzzled, since the poorest families, who are most affected by the gasoline price spike, will receive no tax cut under the Bush plan. Also, that $100 billion that Mr. Bush says he has set aside "to help consumers with high energy prices" is the short-term tax cut that his Congressional allies tried to eliminate from the budget resolution.
June 2001: Soaring electricity prices cause hardship for many families and small businesses in several parts of the United States. Mr. Bush continues to insist that there are no short-term solutions to energy problems, that the answer is to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. However, he adds that his tax relief package will help families afford electricity, or buy candles and propane lamps.
July 2001: Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in the United States, and spreads rapidly. Mr. Bush denies that the outbreak calls into question planned cuts in the Agriculture Department budget. The best answer, he argues, is broad tax relief, which will help farmers buy new animals, help consumers pay higher food prices and allow housewives to take courses in vegetarian cooking.
August 2001: Adverse weather conditions and lax pollution regulations lead to severe air-quality problems in Houston, which during Mr. Bush's governorship took the lead from Los Angeles in ozone pollution. Mr. Bush denies that the pollution is a warning sign for his production-oriented energy policy, and argues that his tax cut will help alleviate the problem, by giving families the money with which to pay for air filters, respirators and medical care.
September 2001: Critics pan the new fall television lineup, describing it as "must-avoid TV" and calling it the worst set of new programs in decades. Mr. Bush declares that he is "very concerned" about the deteriorating quality of broadcast entertainment. He urges TV viewers to support his plan for tax relief, which will provide families with money they can use to subscribe to HBO, allowing them to watch "The Sopranos."
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Best Slow Cooker – Hamilton Beach Smart Slow Cooker
An essential for today's busy families is a good quality slow cooker. The ability to spend a few minutes prepping food in the morning before going to work and having a hot, home cooked meal when you get home is priceless. If you're in the market for a slow cooker, consider the Hamilton Beach 33967 Set 'n Forget 6-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker. This is a family sized best slow cooker with a six quart capacity. The chef in the family has three cooking options to choose from: program, manual or probe. The probe feature is especially handy when cooking large cuts of meat as it uses an included thermometer probe.
It switches to automatic warming when a safe, internal temperature is reached. The slow cooker also features a digital LED control panel with a timer. A clip-on spoon is also included as is a clip-tight gasket lid. The removable stoneware is dishwasher safe as is the lid.
The Positives
Offers a 6-quart programmable slow cooker with LED digital control panel. Smart pot slow cooker has 3 automatic-cooking options with program and manual. Power-interrupt protection, clip-on spoon and clip-tight gasket lid. Dishwasher-safe stoneware and tempered-glass lid and user manual with recipes. Programmable crock pot has tempered-glass lid clean up easily by dishwasher.
The Negatives
Some reports of the Hamilton Beach Slow Cooker turning off at random points during the cooking process. Issues with the ceramic insert will developing cracks in the bottom of the bowl.
So What's The Scoop?
Customers providing reviews for this product online overall seemed happy with their purchase of the Hamilton Beach Slow Cooker. However, some customers did have the experience of the slow cooker turning itself off at random points during the cooking process.
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I bought my Hamilton beach cooker last year right before the holiday season. Used for thanksgiving, it saved me so much time and the digital screen was helpful. I got so much complements on how the food was delish. I'll be doing the same this year.
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"Be with me" consists of three stories of love vs solitude
Category Archives: Singapore
Army Daze
This is the bestselling coming-of-age novel by Michael Chiang, a semi-fictionalised autobiography and reminiscence of lost youth and boyhood.
Pleasure Factory
The lives of pleasure seekers and pleasure providers intertwine one night in Singapore's red light district. A series of intertwining tales involve "pleasure seekers and pleasure providers" during the course of one night in Geylang, Singapore's red-light district. There are three distinct stories, united only by the presence of characters from all the stories in a streetside eatery.
Bugis Street
Innocent and naive, the 17-year-old Lian is a maid to a rich family in Malaysia, whose sheltered existence is shattered when she is sent to work at a small hotel near Bugis Street in neighboring Singapore. Having to live with the transvestites and transexuals who make her living on the streets, Lian soon learns about another side of life.
Rice Rhapsody
Jade runs a Hainan chicken rice restaurant whilst taking care of her three sons, two of whom are openly gay and her uncertainty about which way her youngest son will go. Things take a dramatic turn when a young female French exchange student enters their lives and begins to overturn their traditional values.
15: The Movie
Fast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is the story of five Singaporian teenagers who, abandoned by the system and estranged from their parents and life in general, build their own world in which gangs, drugs, fighting, piercing, self-harm and suicide are common and brotherhood is important above all else. Presents the chaotic lives of these boys, living in the shadows of a sprawling metropolis and with only each other to rely on.


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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—Visiting Babson College scored six times over the final 17 minutes but was unable to recover from an early deficit in a 14-7 loss at Skidmore College in non-conference women's lacrosse on Saturday afternoon at Wachenheim Field.
With the loss, Babson slips to 1-1 on the year, while Skidmore opens the season at 1-0.
Senior Lexi Lenaghan (Hanover, Mass.) finished with three goals, one assist and three ground balls, while classmate Riley Buonagurio (Duxbury, Mass.) and sophomore Georgia Salvatore (Westwood, Mass.) both contributed a goal and an assist for the Beavers. First-years Coco Creedon (McKinney, Texas) and Sophia McCann (Duxbury, Mass.) each scored once and junior Taylor Herrmann (Mahwah, N.J.) picked up four ground balls and led all players with three caused turnovers in the loss.
Junior Amanda Orvis (Fairfield, Conn.) had five goals, sophomore Emily Hirsch (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) finished with three goals, nine draw controls and two caused turnovers, and classmate Shelby Boland (Barrington, R.I.) chipped in with two goals, three assists and four ground balls to lead the Thoroughbreds. Senior Anna Boogaerts (Providence, R.I.) also scored twice, while junior Caroline Kenlon (Manhasset, N.Y.) made 10 saves in the win.
Despite getting eight first-half saves from sophomore Cricket Fligor (Weston, Mass.), the Green and White trailed 9-0 at halftime. Skidmore scored four times on free-position shots over the first eight-plus minutes and got three goals from Orivs and two more from Boland and Boogaerts over the first 30 minutes.
Hirsch scored twice to make it 11-0 just over four minutes into the second half before Lenaghan got the Beavers on the board with 21:18 to play. Creedon and McCann notched the first tallies for their respective careers as part of a four-goal run that cut the deficit to 12-5 on another marker by Lenaghan with 11:50 to go in the contest.
Lenaghan set up Salvatore's goal with 4:05 remaining and completed her hat trick inside the final minute.
Fligor finished with 11 saves for the Beavers, who finished with a 24-19 edge in ground balls. The Thoroughbreds held a 17-7 edge in draw controls.
Babson returns to action on Wednesday when it hosts Bates at 5 p.m., while Skidmore takes on Utica on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
• The Beavers are 2-4 all-time against Skidmore and have dropped three straight in the all-time series.
• Lenaghan has recorded nine straight multi-goal games and has registered at least two points in each of her last 13 outings.
• Prior to Saturday, Babson had not been shutout in either the first or second half over its last 35 games dating back to March 29, 2017.


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Simon Weir, of Turf Croft Herbs, grows most of our herbs, in a small farm in the New Forest. He has been growing herbs for nearly 30 years now, and has always shied away from using chemicals and pesticides. However, since there was little interest in organic herbs until recently, it was only a few years ago that he applied for organic certification; he just sold his herbs as conventional produce. Recent interest in organic growing means Simon has changed few of his growing techniques, but they have finally been given the appreciation they deserve.
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I was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in the city and Maryland suburbs. I received all of my degrees - bachelor, doctorate and medical - from the University of Maryland. After completing my surgical training in Virginia, I was in the military for several years and served in the Middle East during Desert Storm. I joined Kaiser Permanente in Georgia and have been in the Atlanta area since.
During my graduate school studies, I was part of a neuromolecular biology laboratory. It was then I decided to become a physician and possibly pursue a career in neurosurgery. However, it was general surgery that truly caught my eye, and I am very happy with that decision.
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When I first joined Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, I was a member of our general surgery practice and cared for members with a wide range of conditions. I am now part of the Georgia Region's Breast Care Center team and have focused my practice on the management of breast disease, particularly breast cancer.
The Breast Care Center team is a cohesive group designed to quicky and efficiently diagnose and treat women with breast concerns. Our services are continually expanding and growing such that we offer a full range of image guided biopsies, surgical expertise and emotional support. I honestly believe that we are making a positive impact in breast care for our members.
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When my family first moved to the Atlanta area, we had two small children. During those years and since, I have spent as much time as I could with my children by biking, hiking, swimming and attending their many activities.
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Schools in the Fountain Valley district will not change the way they portray Islamic history to 7th-graders.
After a long, contentious meeting Thursday night, a unanimous school board declined to go further with a proposal by Fountain Valley resident Steve Jackson that they provide supplemental material to the district's 7th grade social science textbook. Jackson contends the textbook shows a "totally positive view of Islam at the expense of accuracy."
After listening to 18 speakers on the matter, board members said they felt they didn't have the authority to determine whether supplementary material, which had not been state approved, could be used in district classrooms. . .
Islamic activists have strongly objected to the supplementary materials. Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the material quoted from the Qur'an, but without context. (More)


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In a recent article in Durham's Indy Week ("Can N.C. Farmers Mistreat Their Guest Workers with Impunity?"), author Paul Blest highlighted a lawsuit brought by seven farmworkers against their employer (State Sen. Brent Jackson of Sampson County) and used it as a starting point to discuss some of the injustices that are often visited upon workers who are imported into the U.S. under the H-2 visa program. As a Student Action with Farmworkers intern with the North Carolina Justice Center this summer, I can verify the existence of many of the problems raised in the piece and have seen firsthand the impact of wage theft and improper housing on these workers.
H-2A workers are victims of wage theft regularly. Some are not paid their contract wage, which is $10.72 per hour in 2016. Others are not paid until weeks after they have worked. Others are robbed of their hours as the following passage from Blest's article describes:
"We began to notice that the grower and supervisor would steal our wages by punching us out for anything they could—changing fields, waiting for equipment to come, or our water breaks. … Little by little, this added up, and over the season, he stole thousands of dollars from our wages."
Such a scenario is not uncommon among the workers I have visited on outreach this summer. And this is not a minor matter. North Carolina uses more temporary visas for agriculture workers, known as H-2A visas, than all other states except Florida. As the number of H-2A's increase, so does the abuse they suffer.
Improper housing is also a huge problem and something that I have witnessed when visiting farmworkers. But this is nothing new. A 2012 investigation by staff of the Center for Worker Health at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that "migrant housing in North Carolina is plagued with violations. Researchers uncovered at least four violations of housing law in each of the 183 camps they inspected for the study."
Unfortunately, these types of violations are hardly ever discovered because of the workers' need to have a secure job to send money to their families in Mexico and fear of retaliation from growers if they complain. In the Jackson case, not surprisingly, only one out of the six farmworkers who filed the law suit against Jackson Farms was contacted to return to work.
The bottom line: These are the types of mistreatment that farmworkers (both H2A workers and American workers) face that are illegal under the law, but that many growers continue to get away with. Let's hope that with more outreach to camps to increase awareness and inform people of their rights, more farmworkers will be able speak up and safely demand better their conditions in the agricultural system. For now, however, there is a long, long way to go.


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I have tremendous problems with sculptor which is continuously corrupting my CSS designs. I attach screen shots which show how sculptor continuously inserts random numbers and adds them to the layout. I marked those numbers with red arrows for clarification. I also attach the design XML file which has been inflated by insertion of the nonsensical CSS code which I never selected to be included. I have wasted hours trying to get this to work, but I'm slowly reaching the conclusion that sculptor and site assist are programs that at the very best are at BETA stage.I would appreciate immediate assistance to resolve those problems. Please don't tell me that you would open a ticket in order to hopefully resolve those problems in a future release.
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick. © John O'Sullivan, RSPB
BirdLife's work to save two key resting and feeding sites in China, used by one of the world's oddest and most appealing waterbirds is to receive support from Disney's Friends for Change initiative.
The project, 'Saving Spoony's Chinese Wetlands' will receive at least $25,000. But if children around the world decide to give it their vote, that support could rise to $50,000, or even $100,000.
Spoony – the Spoon-billed Sandpiper – is one of the rarest birds in the world. It gets its name from its spoon-shaped beak, which it uses to pick up food from the mud left uncovered when the tide goes out.
Every year it flies over 9,000 km from the Arctic tundra in Russia, where it nests, to the tropics of southern Asia, where it spends the winter. Then, in spring, it flies all the way back again.
But the bird that carries its own cutlery is in danger of having nowhere to go to eat. The tidal mudflats it depends on to rest and refuel on its incredible journey are being drained and covered with houses and factories.
Fewer and fewer Spoon-billed Sandpipers make it back to breed each year, and unless we act quickly, this tough and determined little bird could soon be gone for ever. There may be as few as 400 left, down from 2,000 just 10 years ago.
BirdLife's China Programme, the Hong Kong Birdwatching Society and friends in China, including the Wild Bird Society of Shanghai and Fujian Bird Watching Society will work at two wetlands near Shanghai, which Spoon-billed Sandpipers stop at on their way round China's coast. Gathering information about all the waterbirds that use these two wetlands will help us protect them better.
Talks, games and field trips will be organised for children at local schools, to inspire them about the values of wetlands and wildlife. Students will be encouraged to form Conservation Groups, and become the ambassadors for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, telling local people and the government that there is a bird nearby that needs their help.
Voting opened on 29th November. You can help the Spoon-billed Sandpiper with registering on the Disney website by going to one of the following links and giving Spoony your vote:
United States – http://disney.go.com/projectgreen/explorevote.html
Germany – www.disney.de/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
France – http://www.disney.fr/ensembleonchangetout/explore_and_vote.jsp
Netherlands – www.disney.nl/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Belgium – www.disney.be/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Poland – www.disney.pl/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
UK – www.disney.co.uk/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Italy – www.disney.it/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Sweden – www.disney.se/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Finland – www.disney.fi/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Norway – www.disney.no/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
Denmark – www.disney.dk/friendsforchange/explore_and_vote.jsp
"We were thrilled to receive the news that our Spoon-billed Sandpiper project had been selected for Disney's Friends for Change Initiative", said Richard Grimmett, BirdLife's Head of Conservation. "This gives us a great opportunity to tell people who live near these sites that their wetlands support a bird rarer than the Giant Panda."
In the past, Disney has provided support for a range of BirdLife projects, from saving the forest home of the Philippines Eagle, to protecting and restoring one of Sumatra's last intact areas of rainforest. "We really appreciate Disney's continued support of our species and habitat conservation programmes, together with our education, awareness and outreach work", Richard Grimmett added.
BirdLife International is coordinating a wide programme of work on Spoon-billed Sandpiper through the Preventing Extinctions Programme. For more details visit www.birdlife.org/extinction
About Disney's Friends for Change: Project Green
Disney's Friends for Change: Project Green is a multiplatform initiative that helps kids help the planet. To date, more than $2 million has been distributed to environmental charities worldwide, via the Friends for Change/iTunes initiatives, annual grants programs and Youth Service Awards. Through the program, kids can learn practical ways to help the environment, get their friends involved, track their collective impact and have the opportunity to help Disney decide how $1 million in donations to various environmental causes will be made over the course of a year.
Kids can join online at www.Disney.com/projectgreen, where they'll pledge to take simple everyday actions, such as turning off the lights and switching to reusable water bottles, and find out more about why these actions matter.
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The Constructivists
Directed by Jaimelyn Gray, auditions for THE NETHER, by Jennifer Haley, will be held on Sunday, September 8th, from 11am-2pm at the Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee.
Sims/Papa, a successful businessman, late-40s–60s
Morris, a young female detective, late-20s/Early-30s
Doyle, a middle-aged science teacher, male, 40s/50s
Iris, a shining little girl, actor able to play pre-teen
Thomas Woodnut, a fresh-face guest, late-teens–late 20s
The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination.
Actors will read sides from the script. Materials will be uploaded to theconstructivists.org on or before Tuesday, August 27th. Sides do not need to be memorized, just become as familiar as you can with the material to make active choices. Also please bring one headshot and resume with you to your audition if we have not seen you within the past year.
Rehearsals will begin mid-January, with performances running March 6-21, 2020, at a location TBD. The Constructivists invite and encourage all persons to audition, including persons of color, all gender identities, and persons with disability.To reserve a time:
Questions? email@example.com
The Underground Collaborative is located in the Grand Ave. Enter at the TJ Maxx entrance and proceed to the lower level.