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Atralin Gel for Wrinkles
Retinoids are one of the best products when it comes to skin care. In fact, this type of skin care product is in a class by itself when compared to the numerous unproven wrinkle erasers on the market.
What other formulas have decades of studies showing that the formula actually reduces wrinkles? None that I can think of! What I can tell you is that there are many products on the market that promise amazing results; however, these products cost a lot of money. These products are often advertised in health and style magazines hoping to grab the attention of middle-aged successful women who are eager to look younger no matter the cost.
These miracle creams are no more than snake oils of the past. They promise that they will restore youth, plump the skin and remove all traces of aging. Women are falling for these schemes no matter what the price tag is, as long as their wrinkles can be permanently erased.
Then, hundreds of dollars later, the woman's wrinkles remain and the woman buys the next product that promises results. I sit shaking my head in disbelief and amazement that women are so desperate to look young that they waste thousands of dollars on products that simply do not work. These women dream of a wrinkle-free future.
Why are women wasting money on these products, when there is a formula that actually works? First women may not know that retinoids do actually work. Secondly, these companies may be using marketing gimmicks and tricks to fool unsuspecting, desperate women into buying into the dream of youth in a bottle.
To find out what really works. I did some research on retinoids before I took the plunge into experimenting and using retinoids on myself.
What are Retinoids?
The first thing I wanted to learn was what are retinoids. Retinoids are chemical compounds that are related to vitamin A. Retinoids can be absorbed from food. The most common retinoid rich foods are animal proteins. These provide the body with retinyl esters. The body then hydrolyzes retinyl esters into retinol. Retinol, tretinoin, alitretinoin, retinal, and isotretinoin are known as first-generation retinoids. Second generation forms of retinoids are etretinate and acitretin. Finally, third generation retinoids include tazarotene, adapalene and bexarotene.
Originally, the FDA only approved topical retinoids for the treatment of acne. However, it was soon discovered that topical retinoids improved the skin in a number of ways. Currently, there are three retinoids available by prescription. These include tretinoin (Retin-A, Renova, Avita, Atralin and Retin-A Micro), tazarotene (Tazorac and Avage) and adapalene (Differin). In addition to prescription formulas, there are a variety of over the counter topical retinol creams available. These formulas are less potent than the prescription creams.
How do retinoids work?
One way that retinoids work is by increasing the thickness of the skin. Retinoids thin the outermost flexible, strong and dry layer of skin called the stratum corneum. However, retinoids thicken the epidermis and the dermis located underneath. This results in skin that is more youthful and wrinkle free.
Retinoids are powerful exfoliators. These formulas help remove the dead skin cells located on the surface of the skin. Additionally, retinoids help increase the turnover rate of keratinocytes. Keratinocytes are the major cells found in the epidermis. They help cells move from the lower basal layer to the epidermis. When keratinocytes are formed in the basal layer, the top layer of cells is exfoliated naturally. Retinoids speed up the process to help rid the skin from old cells that make you look older. When old cells are removed, new healthier cells are exposed, which help you look more radiant and youthful.
Retinoids also increase hyaluronic acid production and collagen. Hyaluronic acid and collagen help hydrate the skin and give it a firmer appearance. Additionally, retinoids stimulate dermal fibroblasts. Dermal fibroblasts are cells that make up the framework of tissues within the body and replaces disorganized fibers of collagen with organized new fibres. Finally, angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels in the body. These new blood vessels improve the blood flow and are what cause that beautiful rosy glow that is reported by those who use tretinoin.
How can retinoids improve my skin?
After reading all the technical jargon, you may be wondering how retinoids can improve your skin. Retinoids can be used to treat acne, improve wound healing and dramatically decrease the signs of aging.
Participants who had been using 0.05 percent tretinoin for 6 months were asked to complete a self-assessment. Of those questioned, 83 percent stated that their skin had improved. With continued use, retinoid can erase both fine lines and deep wrinkles as the dermis and epidermis thicken. It should be noted that the effects were not just cosmetic in nature. Retinoid actually changes the underlying structure of the skin and actually repairs it.
How Should I Use Retinoids?
Prescription retinoids are available in several strengths, including 0.025 percent, 0.05 percent and 0.1 percent. Retinoids can cause skin irritation, especially during the first six weeks. Therefore, it can take some time to get used to prescription strength retinoids. The most common symptoms include itching, burning, redness, exfoliation and stinging. However, it should be noted that even the highest formulation are well tolerated. Even with years of continued use, there have been no reports of skin abnormalities. This means it is safe for long-term use.
Many people begin using the 0.05 percent formula. If it is irritating, they can switch to the weaker 0.025 percent formula. For those with sensitive skin, I recommend starting with the 0.025 percent formula and gradually moving to stronger formulas. Or, if you prefer, try using the product twice a week or every other day for a few weeks. Then, once you skin has become accustomed to retinoids, you can begin using daily.
Many studies have shown that 0.05 percent tretinoin has provided good results; however, stronger formulas may be more effective. Retinol in this strength generally causes minimal irritation; however, it also produces weaker results. One study suggests that isotretinoin, which can be taken orally or used as a topical gel, may be more harmful than tretinoin. Retinoid gels tend to be stronger than creams. This means that a 0.05 percent gel may cause more irritation, yet be more effective than a 0.05 percent cream.
The best time to apply retinoids is late in the evening or at night. Some believe retinoids can increase your susceptibility to photodamage; however, I have not found any evidence to support this. However, retinoids degrade in sunlight. So, it is best to apply at nighttime. Finally, for best results and to help avoid irritation, wait at least 15 to 20 minutes after washing your face before you apply a retinoid topical cream or gel.


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Communications providers ordered to assist government efforts to monitor foreigners abroad may bring court challenges if the government proceeds with surveillance without Congress renewing the underlying law, former intelligence officials told Bloomberg Law.
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities, including the National Security Agency and the FBI, rely on the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) Section 702 to conduct surveillance on communication data of foreigners outside of the U.S. But the authorization ends Dec. 31, and Congress hasn't reached an agreement to permanently extend the program, reauthorize it with a sunset provision, or enact a stopgap measure to keep the program going for a short time while debate continues.
Regardless of the congressional outcome, the U.S. government will be able to temporarily continue Section 702 communications surveillance under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA Court, order, Brian Hale, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told Bloomberg Law Dec. 7.
The government can rely on a FISA Court order from April 2017 that approved the use of Section 702 for one year, Susan Hennessey, fellow of governance studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington and former attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the NSA, told Bloomberg Law Dec. 7. That would allow ongoing investigations to continue through April 2018 and even add new targets for surveillance under existing authorizations, she said. However, the government couldn't seek completely new authorizations to expand surveillance, she said.
The general uncertainty of the situation may lead to court challenges from email and internet service providers, such as Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Microsoft Corp., and AT&T Inc., which are routinely served with surveillance orders under Section 702, former intelligence officials said.
"Once the underlying statute lapses, service providers will likely seek to challenge orders to produce communications data," Hennessey said. Although "the legal question is more or less settled in the government's favor," it would allow "for a service provider to mount a legal challenge that could have short term practical implications."
Communications providers might seek the FISA Court's opinion on the validity of specific disclosure requests from the government, delaying the investigation process.
"The government's theory on FISA Section 702 authority after Jan. 1 hasn't been proved or tested in court," Robert Litt, national security of counsel at Morrison and Foerster LLP in Washington and former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence, told Bloomberg Law Dec. 7. Given the uncertainty, Congress may be willing to pass a temporary reauthorization to buy additional time to resolve the debate over whether to make the law permanent or otherwise change the existing statute, he said.
There are a slew of FISA Section 702 reauthorization bills in the House and Senate. The leading contenders are companion bills from the House and Senate Intelligence committees, and companion bills from the House and Senate Judiciary committees.
The Intelligence bills are the most likely avenue for FISA Section 702 reauthorization, Hennessey said. They come closer to a clean reauthorization—making the law permanent without other substantive changes— because they only include minor changes, she said.
But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) hopes to add further privacy and civil liberties oversight protections to the bill.
The White House and the intelligence community have pushed for a clean reauthorization.
A U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter said a clean reauthorization is preferable but none of the leading House or Senate reauthorization bills offer that option without a sunset provision. The intelligence community is working with Congress on a solution that will maintain the law's utility while ensuring confidence in privacy protections, the official said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray echoed these sentiments during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Dec. 7. Congress must "not rebuild walls that existed before 9/11" and pass a clean reauthorization bill, he testified.
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As I sit here on this Tuesday morning and listen to Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman on the latest episode of Hollywood Babble On, I realize that Kevin has been a huge inspiration and given my countless hours of prime entertainment. From the first time I watched "Clerks" up until his talk about "Clerks III" and "Tusk," I have not found someone in the field of entertainment who has entertained me as much as Kevin Smith.
Although he has created many different characters in his movies, the two who are most memorable to me are of course Jay and Silent Bob. They are the one constant throughout the View Askew-verse that bridges the movies together. Although the characters are sometimes seen as one dimensional, there are moments in the films where they show a depth to their characters. Such as Silent Bob's speech to Holden in "Chasing Amy."
Kevin Smith doesn't get all the respect he deserves in Hollywood and I dread the day when he finally does stop making movies but having Kevin doing so much work with pod casts does at least guarantee that his creative genius and his ability to make me laugh will still be available in some form.
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The Dark Knight. Wow. Just… wow. It's amazing. It's the best Batman film ever, the best superhero film ever, and it's one of the best crime films I've seen to date. It's just freaking brilliant. Ledger as The Joker was terrifically terrifying, hilarious and astounding. I've seen the film twice now, and the second time around I spent ages just staring at his face trying to find Heath Ledger in there – but all I could see was The Joker.
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Special Topic: Disabled people's challenges in Africa
In commemoration of African Decade of Persons with Disabilities which started in 1999, a training for African disabled persons called "Mainstreaming and Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities, has been offered in Japan by JICA since 2002. CAPEDS, Committee for Assisting and Promoting Education for the Disabled in Sudan, was formed by visually disabled Sudanese in Japan last March, which represents a start of addressing issues on African disabled persons in Japan. This issue, in response to these trends, presents discussion among four disabled persons (their opinions at the round-table talk) and efforts by African organizations of disabled persons.
p.3-8 Round table: Visually-disabled persons talk about their study at higher education institutions in Sudan and Japan.
Participants: Mohamed Omer Abdin , AOKI Shintaro , FUKUCHI Kentaro , HOSHIKA Ryouji
Thee round-table talk among four visually-disabled persons where one Sudanese and three Japanese studying at Japanese higher education institutions considered the significance of disabled persons' studying at a higher education institution and its challenges through talking about their own experiences.
p.9 Information-access technology for visually disabled persons written by SAITO Ryouichiro
p.9 The present state of disabled persons in Rwanda after the conflict written by SODA Natsuki
p.10-11 African Decade of Persons with Disabilities written by NAKANISHI Yukiko
NAKANISHI Yukiko concerned with matters of disabled persons in Asia through activities at DPI make a comment on the process of forming African Decade of Persons with Disabilities and its further development.
p.12-14 Support of African decade of persons with disabilities from Japan written by MIYAMOTO Taisuke
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p.15 What is Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International Excerpt from a leaflet of Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International.
p.16-17 On the spot in Africa: Rwanda written by KATO Etsuko
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p.18-23 Contribution: The series of "Seeing, Making, Learning Osharena Africa" completed written by SHIRATORI Kurumi
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p.24-25 Book Review: "Witness to AIDS" written by MERA Akiko
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Mathieu Mahiques and Philippe Labaste, CEV Laboratory, France
Location: Regency Ballroom
In DGAC, thanks to our in-flight / ground measurements correlation, NAVAIDS Flight Inspection measurements are performed out once a year (even ILS). (We will make a quick presentation of our in-flight / ground correlation)
Should we have to replace all the measurements, by measurements with drone?
Certainly not, the light-duty drone has its limitations in scope and autonomy, the regulation imposes restrictions.
However, the choice was made to study how ground inspection and flight time can be improved with a drone.
For this, DGAC has equipped a quadcopter drone with HD camera (for PAPI), and a new ILS / VOR light receiver.
Simplified calibration software has been developed to perform ILS and VOR measurements in comparison to a GPS position.
We did a study to compare during flight tests, the measurements between classic ground and flight receiver and this new light receiver.
As a result of these tests, we will present that a number of measurements are sufficiently relevant to be carried out by a lightweight drone, which could reduce the flight time and enhance flight inspection phase.
Eventually an adaptation of the UMV data flow, will allow to use the calibration software used by DGAC for flight inspection.
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Raven Roberts started a company the women of Chicago can rave about. iRavee Beauty Bar is a service and product based company that is about to change the face of the hair and eyelash industry this fall. With the launch of her new programs, Roberts tells us how being from Chicago prepared her for the business world as a woman entrepreneur.
Being a businesswoman from Chicago, what obstacles did you overcome?
I love Chicago but it's very difficult with the amount of violence that is happening in our city. As an African-American, I have had to overcome fear daily but as an African-American woman, I would say the underestimation because of my gender.
What are you studying in school? How hard is it balancing a full-time job, a business and being a full-time student?
I am studying esthetics. The balancing of my time between working full-time, attending college, and operating a business has its challenges. But who ever said success would be easy or convenient?
How long have you been into entrepreneurship?
I have been into entrepreneurship all my life. My grandfather owned and operated several businesses where my mother was employed when I was younger. I learned a lot from him during this time period, as he taught me the principles of entrepreneurship at an early age.
How did you come up with the name iRavee and what does your company sell?
The name iRavee is a collaboration of thoughts, ideas and a projection of myself, my personality and my perspective of what I believe style and beauty are. The IRavee Beauty Bar provides makeup and eyelash extension services as well as retail products such as mink strip eyelashes and virgin hair.
Being a new entrepreneur, what advice can you give to other women looking to start their own business?
My advice to young women would be to understand the products and the market that you are looking to break into. Understand that it will not be easy starting out because of the uphill battle that you will face. Don't listen to the skeptics or take no for an answer; stay focused and stay the course because perseverance is key.
Being from Chicago, how do you plan on making a difference as a young, Black, woman entrepreneur?
Coming from Chicago, which is also known as the "City of Big Shoulders" due to Carl Sandburg, the hard-working spirit has always been instilled in me. My approach is to spread a positive message to others both younger and older than myself. I know that through hard work and helping others with achieving their dreams that it can slowly turn a negative into a positive in the Chicago scene.
iRavee carries mink eyelashes also. What makes your product different from so many other eyelash companies?
The iRavee brand of mink eyelashes is constructed of a higher quality of materials made to last longer thus upholding the integrity of its shape, fullness, and luster at a price point that's more reasonable than our competitors.
As a businesswoman, what entrepreneurs do you gain inspiration from?
Well, I am definitely inspired by a variety of entrepreneurs for various reasons. However, at the top of my list would be none other than Oprah Winfrey herself. Gabrielle "CoCo" Bonheur, the founder of the Chanel brand, is another female entrepreneur that I admire. Both of these women have not only stood the test of time but they have overcome obstacles that would have pushed others to quit.


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Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green picked up a technical foul a few weeks ago during a speech at Harvard University. While he wasn't T'd up for an in-game infraction, he did make a piss-poor analogy that he hasn't been properly called out for. Let's take a closer look at his discussion at the once-revered institution for higher learning that has morphed into a liberal indoctrination station.
When asked by a student how he would respond to critics that say he should "stick to sports," Green let out a laugh.
"That's funny," he said. "People say, 'Oh athletes shouldn't speak politics.' Well, I find that funny because everyone thinks they can speak basketball."
"We spend our entire lives working on our craft and then someone will come on Twitter saying, 'Draymond, you suck,'" Green continued. "It's like, 'OK, you shot that shot thousands of times, and you know what I should be doing." Everyone feels like they can talk sports, but then when it comes to politics, everyone feels like athletes shouldn't talk."
'Oh athletes shouldn't speak politics.' Well, I find that funny because everyone thinks they can speak basketball."
Taken at face value, Green seems to have a point. Most sports fans are little more than armchair athletes. Few of us can conceptualize how much hard work and sacrifice goes in to being a professional athlete. Yet we laud and criticize their individual performance. With the advent of online access to video and 24-hour sports networks, our voices and intrusiveness has only intensified.
While it is every American's right to speak about politics. However, Draymond Green picked up a technical foul when he missed some very important distinctions:
- The vast majority of Americans can not discuss politics at our job. With so many being so easily offended in 2017, encouraging political discourse at most workplaces is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Yet, the Golden State Social Justice Warriors have been given the green light to discuss their openly liberal views without fear of the consequences that await the average worker for discussing politics at their job. We have to stick to whatever our job is when we are on the clock. It's not unfair for fans to demand that basketball players do the same.
- Basketball, like football or any other sport is an enjoyable pastime for most Americans. Many of us are passionate about the game, and that passion may, for quite some time, sustain our ability to forgive athletes who use their platforms to push political views that offends our sensibilities. But when our values are insulted repeatedly, most fans will simply refuse to continue to attend the games that we love.
Two years ago, the NFL was the predominant sport in America. However, "social justice" protests, led by players with questionable intentions, tarnished the game for many fans, and now empty stadiums are the new normal. Roger Goodell believed that the league was beyond reproach. That he could continue to feed a fan base that was mostly White and/or conservative a social justice shit sandwich and that they would continue to come back for more.
Fans have abandoned the game and they aren't coming back. Tickets have been discounted to prices not seen since the Carter administration. His catastrophic and indefensible business decision has left owners and advertisers furious. If players like LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Carmelo Anthony continue to mix social justice tainted politics with entertainment, the NBA may soon find their stadiums half empty as well.


text: Entertainment Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose to join AC/DC for tour Axl Rose will do double duty this year, singing for the reunited Guns N' Roses and AC/DC. Photo Credit: Getty Images / Mark Metcalfe By Glenn Gamboa email@example.com @ndmusic Updated April 17, 2016 10:06 AM Print Share fbShare Tweet Email Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose will fill in for AC/DC singer Brian Johnson so that the Aussie rockers can finish their "Rock or Bust" tour, including a date at Madison Square Garden. Johnson had to pull out of the tour in March after doctors said he risked total hearing loss if he continued. "We wish him all the best with his hearing issues and future ventures," AC/DC said in a statement. "As much as we want this tour to end as it started, we understand, respect and support Brian's decision to stop touring and save his hearing. We are dedicated to fulfilling the remainder of our touring commitments to everyone that has supported us over the years, and are fortunate that Axl Rose has kindly offered his support to help us fulfill this commitment." Rose, who broke his left foot in Guns N' Roses' first reunion concert, performed at Coachella Saturday night, seated on the throne that Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl used in his tour. The band will return to Coachella next weekend and then Rose will join AC/DC for its European dates starting on May 7 in Portugal through June 12 in Denmark. He will then join Guns N' Roses for their "Not in This Lifetime" stadium tour, which includes a stop at MetLife Stadium on July 23. AC/DC plans to reschedule the rest of its American tour following the Guns N' Roses summer tour, but whether its "Rock or Bust" tour will wrap up at Madison Square Garden remains unclear. By Glenn Gamboa email@example.com @ndmusic Glenn Gamboa is Newsday's music critic, covering entertainment news and events since 2000. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comments We're revamping our Comments section. Learn more and share your input.


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Mark Craver Poetry Award | $500
Virginia Downs Poetry Award | $500
Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Award | $500
Mary Roberts Rinehart Poetry Award | $500
Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Award | $500
Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award | $500
Alan Cheuse Nonfiction Award | $500
Alan Cheuse Fiction Award | $500
Dan Rudy Fiction Award | $500
Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Award | $500
1. Mason's Spring Writing Contests are open to all currently enrolled Mason students, graduate or undergraduate. The exceptions to this rule are the Mark Craver Poetry Contest, which is open to MFA poetry students only, and the Joseph A Lohman Poetry Contest, which stipulates that entrants must be 23 years-old or younger because winners will automatically be considered for the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award (a $1,000 prize awarded by the Academy of American Poets).
2. Students are limited to one submission per contest and must submit a different work for each contest. (A poem or a story cannot be selected as winner of more than one contest.) Previously submitted winning entries cannot be re-submitted. Please check each contest for specific guidelines, such as word/page limit.
3. Students must submit an electronic copy of each submission in PDF format. Electronic copies in another format will not be accepted.
4. Please use the following format for submission emails:
Electronic submissions should be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com and must be received by the posted deadline. The deadline for 2019 is March 20th at 12pm ET.
5. The purpose of these awards is to reward previously unrecognized work. Therefore, submissions must be previously unpublished. Submissions will be considered as "published" if they have been accepted for or have appeared in any publication, including student magazines at this or other institutions. Work currently under submission will not be considered to be "published," and is eligible for these awards.
6. At the discretion of the judges, an award may be divided between two or more writers, or, if no submission is found to be of sufficient merit, withheld.
7. An author not granted an award may apply in succeeding years, but once a writer receives an award, that writer may not apply for that same award again. Note: Receiving an honorable mention or runner-up prize in a previous year does not disqualify that student from entering the same contest again. This rule only applies to first-prize winners.
8. Award winners are contacted by email shortly before results are posted, usually in mid-April. With the permission of the writer, winning entries will be posted on the creative writing web site and the MFA listserv. All winners will be invited to participate in the English Department Honors Reception held in May.
Contest judges are selected and announced ahead of the submission deadline each year. Judges are selected and invited to participate each year by the creative writing director. In 2018, the judges were as follows:
Mark Craver Poetry Award:
Judge: Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan was born in India and raised in Zambia. He earned an MA in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Boston University. He was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (2013-14) and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library (2015-16) for work on his ongoing current project, an experimental "writing through" of the Sanskrit of Valmiki's Ramayana. Narayanan's books of poems include Universal Beach and Life and Times of Mr S. A full-length collection of his poems in Swedish translation was published in 2015 by the Stockholm-based Wahlström & Widstrand. He is co-editor of Almost Island (almostisland.com), a ten-year-old India-based journal, literary organization, and press.
Virginia Downs Poetry Award:
Judge: Emily Tuszynska
Emily Tuszynska's poems can be found in many journals, recently including The Southern Review, Water-Stone Review, Salamander, and Southern Poetry Review. Her work has been recognized with multiple Pushcart nominations, PRISM International's Earle Birney prize and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, and has been supported by residential fellowships from the Mineral School, the Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Emily is a Virginia Master Naturalist and lives in Fairfax with her husband, three children, and assorted pets.
Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Award:
Judge: Jessica Kallista
Jessica Kallista is an artist, teacher, and curator. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from George Mason University in 2002. In November 2014, she founded Olly Olly, an alternative art space, in Fairfax, Virginia. Jessica has taught collage at the Corcoran School of Arts & Design and poetry at George Mason University. She is Gallery Director of Buchanan Partners Art Gallery at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. Through her work as a collage artist, teacher, and curator Jessica seeks to disrupt the isolation of those living in suburbia and elsewhere by creating situations of surprise, play and experimentation while instigating dialogue about gender, sexuality, feminism, spirituality, embodiment, human trafficking, commodity fetishism, and interconnectivity. Jessica's work has been shown at a variety of venues including Target Gallery, GRACE, The Fridge, Tempus Projects, NoMüNoMü, Fenwick Gallery at George Mason University, Galerie Kritiku, Watergate Gallery, and the Margaret W. and Joseph L. Fisher Art Gallery.
Mary Roberts Rinehart Poetry Award:
Judge: Thea Brown
Originally from the Hudson Valley in New York, Thea Brown is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. Recent poems can be found in Bennington Review, Conjunctions, Oversound, LitHub, Prelude, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook We Are Fantastic (Petri Press 2013) and the full-length collection Think of the Danger (H_NGM_N 2016). She lives in Baltimore, where she was the 2016–2017 Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School, a 2016 Rubys Artist Project Grant awardee, and the recipient of a 2017 UCross Foundation fellowship.
Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Award:
Judge: Nate Brown
Nate Brown's stories have appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Five Chapters, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the managing editor of American Short Fiction magazine in Austin, TX, and has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Vermont Studio Center, the Ucross Foundation, and multiple work-study scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He teaches creative writing and literature at Stevenson University in Baltimore and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Alan Cheuse Nonfiction Award:
Judge: Huan Hsu
Huan Hsu is the author of The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China. As a staff writer for the Washington City Paper in Washington, DC, and the Seattle Weekly, he won two Society of Professional Journalists awards and received recognition from the Casey Foundation for Meritorious Journalism. His essays and fiction have appeared in Slate, The Guardian, The Literary Review, and Lucky Peach. He received his MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and currently lives in Amsterdam where he teaches journalism and creative writing at Amsterdam University College.
Alan Cheuse Fiction Award:
Judge: Sally Shivnan
Sally Shivnan is the author of the short story collection Piranhas & Quicksand & Love. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, Rosebud, and other journals, and she has works in translation and in audio form forthcoming from The Short Story Project. Her travel writing has been featured in many publications and websites and in anthologies including The Best American Travel Writing. She was the winner of the 2011 Travel Classics International travel writing prize and a Maryland State Arts Council grant, among other awards. She earned her MFA in fiction at GMU and teaches creative writing at University of Maryland Baltimore county (UMBC). She shares her writing and thoughts at SallyShivnan.com.
Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award:
Judge: Zach Powers
Zach Powers lives and writes in Arlington, Virginia. His debut story collection, Gravity Changes, won the BOA Short Fiction Prize and was published in 2017. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, PANK, the Tin House blog, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder of the literary arts nonprofit Seersucker Live. He led the writers' workshop at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home for eight years. His writing for television won an Emmy. Get to know him at ZachPowers.com
Dan Rudy Fiction Award:
Judge: Christopher Maier
Christopher Maier is a Washington, DC-based writer, event producer, and creative director. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in magazines including Ninth Letter, Sou'wester, Redivider, Image, CityLab, and more. He's the founder and producer of Little Salon, an arts and culture experience that's curated each month in a different home and different neighborhood, aiming to give DCers a non-pretentious dose of the amazing creative talent that surrounds them. Originally from Pennsylvania, he holds a bachelor's in English from Dickinson College and an MFA in fiction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Award:
Judge: John Copenhaver
John Copenhaver's debut novel DODGING AND BURNING will be released by Pegasus Crime on March 6th. Copenhaver has been awarded an Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities for four consecutive years. In 2015, he launched and continues to maintain a crime fiction column for the Lambda Literary website called "Blacklight." His short fiction has appeared in Glitterwolf Magazine, Roanoke Review, and Gaslight, the Lambda Emerging Voices Anthology. He won the 2015 Larry Neal Writers' award for short fiction, and was first runner-up in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest and the Narrative Magazine Winter Story Contest. He's a graduate of GMU's MFA program in fiction. He currently chairs the 7-12 English Department at Flint Hill School in Oakton, VA and lives in Washington, D.C.


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The Norfolk Family Coalition was developed to build collaboration among agencies, networks, and the broader community to find innovative solutions to improve the quality of life to the people and communities in and around Norfolk. Our collaborative is made up of community members and agencies joining together to look at how we can collaborate to make lasting change in our community. We work to address the needs of families and children in the Norfolk area that state data have identified as below state levels; to support service providers in coming together to build supports to families, children, and youth by assuring that protective factors for healthy families are in place in the Norfolk area; to build a collaborative of providers to assure that Norfolk area children are healthy, safe, ready for school, succeeding in school, supported by quality environments, and families are self sufficient. We welcome community members, agencies, and organizations to our bi-monthly meetings to discuss the needs they see and work towards a plan to address and meet the growing needs for our area. The Norfolk Family Coalition offers several initiatives for Norfolk and surrounding communities, these include Stuff the Bus, and Connected Youth.
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The Connected Youth Initiative targets youth ages 14-24 who are considered "unconnected" – either because they've aged out of the foster care system, are exiting the juvenile justice system, are homeless or near homeless, or simply lack the family supports required to transition successfully to adulthood. The goal of the Connected Youth Initiative is simple: To support unconnected young people to become self-reliant, contributing adults. For youth that lack the support of a family, the barriers to independence can seem insurmountable. Funds will used to remove those barriers, and make success attainable for this vulnerable population. We have some key partners around the table with the experience and concerns that they see facing today's unconnected youth, we are looking to form a youth council to better hear and understand their needs, concerns, and experiences. We are developing a service array that would touch on access to basic needs, medical, dental, and behavioral health, emergency and sustainable housing, education and employment, coaching and advocacy as well as building supports and relationships.
Stuff the Bus has been an ongoing effort since the early 90s in partnership between Norfolk Council for Family Empowerment (now merged with the Norfolk Family Coalition) and the Salvation Army. Each year the need increases as there are more families applying for the assistance of a new book bag filled with age appropriate school supplies. It costs an average of $60 per book bag filled with new school supplies. Stuff the Bus plans to serve at least 250 children for the 2018-2019 school year. 50% of the children in the Norfolk School District qualify for free and reduced meals. Your donation will help these students start their school year off right with basic supplies needed to succeed in their education and future success. Stuff the Bus looks to merge the gap between fitting in and feeling different for children.


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- Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
- Area(s) of Law: Criminal Procedure
- Date Filed: 06-04-2014
- Case #: A146025
- Judge(s)/Court Below: Duncan, J., for the Court; Armstrong, P.J.; & Brewer, J. pro tem.
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Defendant appealed his conviction on four counts of first degree sexual abuse of his daughter, contending that the seizure of his daughter's underwear from his home by his housekeeper, which was then delivered to police, constituted a state action and was therefore an infringement on his state constitutional rights. Defendant argued that the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress the evidence obtained by the initial seizure of the underwear, and the subsequent clothing taken from the house by warrant. Defendant contended that the warrant was obtained as a direct result of the initial seizure of the underwear thereby invalidating the subsequent seizure of clothing used as evidence. The Court agreed with Defendant, stating that while a search done by a private party is not protected under the Oregon Constitution as it is not a state act, it can constitute a state act if the state is sufficiently involved. While there is no solid rule as to what is sufficient involvement, the Court concluded that, in this case, the investigator purposely delaying an in-home check to give the employee enough time to gather the underwear, which he highly suspected she would do, constituted sufficient state involvement. Convictions on Counts 1 through 4 reversed and remanded; otherwise affirmed.


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April 27, Wednesday – rainy
I should have written about this dinner at Mis Trucos earlier. Now the detail of this dinner had fated but I still remember it as very tasty and creative food. I got a dining coupon for a 6 courses tasting menu for 2 people. Before I purchased the coupon, I actually had dinner there with my friend S. The experience was great (both food and service) but the portion was small which was fine with me and S. So I wasn't sure if D would like to eat at Mis Trucos, a Mediterranean style tapas bar. I had planned a second part of the dinner in case D needed more food after.
We arrived at the small house/restaurant and told the server about our reservation (and the coupon which was noted when the reservation was made). We also told her about D's allergy and they were very careful and very accommodating to it.
We both ordered the Big block ale from Red Truck which we tried again later on at the BC Craft Beer Festival.
The first course was different for me and D. I got a crispy roll with shrimp inside and an aioli dip. I believed the roll was made from toast or bread. It's a nice light starter of the meal.
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3F King Dao Bldg, 14 Burrows St, Wanchai, Hong Kong, China | map
QQ Fitness has been a part of the Hong Kong gay sauna scene for over 10 years. This Japanese-styled sauna in Wanchai District tends to attract a mostly local Asian crowd.
Facilities include a dry sauna, steam room, dark room and a number of relaxation cabins. The sauna gets busiest in the evenings.
King Dao's name on the building is in Chinese, but the entrance is easy to spot. Look for a big lightbox with QQ Fitness logo (next to Iiba Sushi and the Japanese seafood restaurant).
nearest station : MTR: Wanchai (Exit A3)
weekday: 24 hours
weekend: 24 hours
venue: sauna (桑拿) | features: steam room, sauna, relaxing cabins, dark room (蒸汽房, 桑拿, 放松舱, 暗室) | customers: gay | attracts: All types
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gloria was superb. we fretted about the office tidying and costuming up in time for her 6.45 arrival. i was in the bathroom applying some lipstick when who should emerge from a cubicle but ms. steinem herself.
"you're gloria steinem." i said.
"i believe so." she replied.
we chuckled and i introduced myself as the one who's been communicating with her pr rep for the past ten days.
"aahhh, where are you from again?"
"wow, thank you for coming"
"oh no, thank you."
(holy fuck am i ever a loser; sometimes i really do astonish myself)
glo and i had a brief briefing in the can, interrupted only once by an awestruck woman who had followed her to our building from the campus event (stalker?) glo was pleased to hear that we wanted a casual environment in which the young people could engage comfortably with her and that this event was really about acknowledging them and uplifting them.
adam introduced chrissy g in drag as christiane amanpour. chrissy didn't veer too far off the talking points i'd prepped for her when she introduced gloria. the room was quite full (50 or so people showed up). there was anticipation in the air. gloria was lovely. we were struck by how gracious she is. she demonstrated a profound respect for the volunteers, providing some words of inspiration, then encouraging the turning of tables to hear stories and questions from the crowd. she was overwhelmingly positive, referring to herself as a "hopeaholic". she talked about where the movement has been and where we need to go, saying that the work does not stop at november 2nd, that there's so much possibility in diversity and openness to learning from other cultures. she said that intergenerational bridging is possible, and that her generation has as much to learn from young people as to teach. she said all the right things, but did any of us expect her to be that cool? did we expect her to invoke the punk voter movement, anti-flag, le tigre, and 100 black women? the questions and comments from the crowd were excellent, covering ground from organizing to electoral reform to class consciousness to mentoring to communication. gloria spoke about native teachings, the woman in every family that "nobody talks about", the ongoing stereotyping of gay men (it's really hetrosexual men who are more likely to abuse children), the lessons to be drawn from other parts of the world, and the modern reclamation of sex as power. hmmm.
gloria didn't flinch when i got all up in her face, paparazzi style, with jason's digital camera. (posting of choice pic to happen after he rolls into the office)
by the way, she looks fucking amazing. did i mention she was wearing leather pants? what a fantastic ass (shut up, we ALL commented on that, not just me). everything about her is elegant and she carries herself with tremendous grace. and she's funny. she kept talking about how she will live another 30 years to be 100. and she probably will. she's not finished yet, thank christ.
confession: i chickened out on asking her about the whole fish-and-bicycle thing, given her recent nuptuals. but maybe i'll bring it up when i get an exclusive interview with her after the election.
the trick or vote thing was frenetic but slick. our peeps got busy downstairs handing out those goodie bags to the costumed crazy people plugging state street. chrissy and her partner amy (yes chrissy, she is indeed super fly and yes, is perhaps the cooler of you two!) really got into the spirit. we didn't distribute as many as planned (don't even ask) but volunteers moved a few thousand pieces of product. and had a good time doing it, despite the chilly temp.by the way, adam walks differently when in heels (who doesn't?) - he wore the pink pair, on my advice - his sorta strut/sway is really captivating. before we headed, exhausted, over to the annual pocan/frank halloween party, austin simply hung a placard around his neck on which was written, sans finesse, "IDAHO". a few people got it. do you?
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The director and the writer of some of the most heartwarming cult classic romantic movies like Notting Hill, Love Actually and Birdget Jones's Diary, Richard Curtis is in conversation with us about romance and love. This Valentine's Day tune-in to some of his romantic movies on Valentine's Day special line-up on Sony PIX all day and Notting Hill at 8 PM.
Q The first film you directed, Love Actually, is a universally loved film. Would you like to share something on that?
Love Actually was a very strange experience. We had a reading of the movie before we shot it and it went well and it looked as though it is a really good film. Once it was completed, we watched it and we thought it was a disaster. It was a really difficult thing to get right because when you are telling 10 stories it turns out that you might have to tell 3 themes for one and then finish one of the stories halfway through. So the movie I had done was looking as though it is going to be un-releasable hence I was so happy that it ended up good.
Q What did you have in mind while shaping up Hugh's character in Notting Hill?
Originally, I didn't want to cast Hugh because I thought it would be so much fun to cast an actor people have never seen before having an affair with Julia Roberts. But we interviewed a few people and I suddenly saw that it was going to be impossible to find anyone as good as Hugh. So I think what I was looking for that character had to with age. Four Weddings and a Funeral is about a young man and Notting Hill is about someone who had been married and got divorced and lost faith. I was trying to write a film about love when you are a bit exhausted and worried in your '30s rather than young love when you are hoping to meet the right girl in your twenties. That was on my mind when I was writing Notting Hill.
Q Which is your favorite female character among all your romantic movies and why?
I suppose because you are an Indian I can answer this because I am scared of all the actresses and I wouldn't want them to read this… I mean strangely the very thought of Rachel McAdams performance in About Time is my favourite. I think this is because, halfway through the movie she becomes a wife and a mother and I think in my other movies you just see the potential of actress but you don't really know if it's going to work out. What I loved about About Time, that it was going through the romance in the first half of the movie on how difficult it is to deal with a death. I loved how Rachel had a lot of rage in that movie.
Q Your work started out with quite hard-hitting comedy and now you're known for romantic films - how did that end up happening?
When I was young and doing sitcoms in my early years called Not the Nine O'Clock News and trying to be funny. I now realise that you are learning your craft and I think that it is quite great that all I was doing for the first 10 years of my career was trying to crack jokes and basically what happened then is that I started writing movies I wanted to write about feelings and I always try and use the joke ingredients that I gained over these years. I feel I am really lucky as sometimes you see romantic comedy movies that have no jokes in them and you think that this person has got all the feelings but he can't do the jokes as well. It was very natural for me to write about more meaningful things about family, children, love and friendship but I hope that those 10 years left me able to do some good stupid jokes. Also, I think the movies work best when they have got real feelings and also people falling over and saying funny things.
Q What have you enjoyed doing the most, writing or directing?
Actually it's neither of those, its editing. Writing is all about willingness to work; directing is all about 'Can we finish the day?' as you have got only one day to do the biggest and most important of the scenes. But with editing you have all the time in the world and in this process everything slowly gets better. It's like making a house when until you put all the drawers and the decoration it looks horrible and that is what editing does to a film and it is my favorite part.


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Operators in war of words following differing performances in network performance test
EE has hit back at Vodafone after its rival appeared to suggest a recent national network performance test by RootMetrics – in which EE finished top and Vodafone bottom – was rigged.
"What they are suggesting is particularly aggressive and we are going to respond in an equally aggressive manner," said an EE spokesperson.
The row broke out earlier this month, after RootMetrics released its annual national report, which measures overall network performance in the UK. The test covers network reliability, SMS, data speeds, coverage and call quality.
The results saw EE come out on top for every category (see page 4), with an overall "RootScore" of 84.6 out of 100.
Three came second with 73.5, O2 third with 66.5 and Vodafone, with 52.4 points. After finishing bottom in every category except one, Vodafone released
a statement requesting customers base their views on more "robust research" from "more established" firms that are "completely independent".
EE told Mobile News the comments suggested RootMetrics was not impartial and that winners EE had commissioned the report.
"It is abundantly clear Vodafone thinks the RootMetrics report was commissioned by or paid for by us,which is fundamentally not true," said an EE spokesperson. "We only pay for the right to use the RootMetrics report in our advertising – but this is standard across the industry."
Responding to EE's comments, a Vodafone spokesperson reiterated its claims against RootMetrics, but declined to comment on EE's allegations.
"We enquired extensively last year into RootMetrics' testing methodology and formed the view that it was neither as systematic nor robust as we would expect.
"We believe that RootMetrics' method of measurement can produce results that are not consistent across all operators. We raised these concerns with RootMetrics in August last year when they sought commercial support for their entry to the UK market and we declined to partner with them for these reasons."
RootMetrics chief executive Bill Moore dismissed Vodafone's allegations over its integrity and methodology, insisting it was both fair and impartial.
He said some operators considered the findings "uncomfortable" as it was the first time a report of its size and scale has been made public. "This test is completeley independent and is no way paid for or commissioned by any company. We stand by our results."


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I didn't have time to promote this video last week because I was out of town for the weekend, but I've released a new video on my second channel of me playing guitar along to Ex's and Oh's by Elle King. You'll also notice a different drum track, too. I've made a starting drum track to use for a full cover and I'm having too much fun playing guitar along with it so I decided to make a video. Check it out below!


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It was another time wasting England friendly at Wembley last night and this time the walk over opposition were Egypt. Egypt, however, are officially the best team in Africa having won the African Cup Of Nations for the last three years. For the first 30 minutes, therefore Egypt dominated the match bagging a slick goal in the 23rd minute thanks to a Zindan strike after Mattie Upson slipped on the cut up turf.
It wasn't until the 2nd half that Capello decided to shake up the match by bringing on Peter Crouch. It almost immediately proved to be the right move: from then on England took control. Firstly, with a Crouch side foot in the 56th minute, then a Shaun Wright-Phillips (also a sub) edge of the box strike and Crouch again with another side foot on the 80th minute.
The build up to the match was all about (yawn) John Terry, and whether he'd be booed or not by the England fans, but thanks to the lanky footballing skills of Peter Crouch Terry was silenced throughout.


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The Trackrod Rally Yorkshire was held in the Scarborough area and included six special stages in the forests west of the town. These included the well known Dalby Forest stage which was driven twice, once on the Friday evening and again on the Saturday morning.
The Rally took the form of five events: the International, the BRC Challenge, the Historic Cup, the Clubman's Trophy and, of course, the Land Rover Challenge. A total of 101 cars entered the Rally, with 85 of those finishing including all five of the Armed Forces Rally Team's crews.
The Trackrod Rally was the penultimate event in the AFRT 2102 Championship. To see the BFBS TV report of the Team in action on the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire,
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Another extension for the Ol' Ball Coach
By Furano Yukihira
The Daily Magi
January 16, 2059
Mitakihara Magi head coach Tatsuya Kaname signed to a new contract extension which keeps him around until at least the 2063 season, according to athletic director Mami Tomoe via videoconference today. The contract is worth $6.1 million CAN over a period of five years.
"Our hopes lie in having a sound coach to steer this ship a few more years," Tomoe said of the new deal. "But Tatsuya is more than just a sound coach. He knows the game better than anyone at this level and he's mentored a lot of people to become great coaches themselves, including his son. So we're blessed to have him on board again and we look forward to some more great victories and achievements from the players.
In addition, offensive coordinator Raul Chaser was given a new three-year contract, which means he will be at Mitakihara through at least the 2061 season.
"I don't think they ever wanted me to go," said Coach Kaname via phone interview. "I think I get a great feeling whenenver I can change the lives of young men. I've been around this game long enough to know that I'm leaving a legacy and at the same time, I am far from finished. So I ready to help the team drive forward into the next few seasons because this team means so much to me and to the University."
The 2059 Mitakihara Magi Football Schedule is due to be released in May of this year.


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~ Latest Announcements! ~
Feb. 10, 2019 New Page #29, SDA Bible Commentary on Dan. 8 & 11
Not available on the EGW CD-ROMs or the White Estate website.
Jan. 17, 2019 Page #1 now has a link to George Vandeman narrating Earth: Theater of the Universe.
Jan. 11, 2019 Page #33, The Two 2520's or the Seven Times, has a new chart
Jan. 4, 2019 Page #93, 2018 Class notes have been updated through October
Nov. 18, 2018 Page #2, Miller's Rules is now in Russian!
Sept. 17, 2018 New Page #96, President Trump in Prophecy
Great study by Bud Alavezos!
Sept. 13, 2018 Page #1, New Slideshow!
Earth: Theater of the Universe
This picture-book was my first introduction to Bible Prophecy 43 years ago.
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Sept. 10, 2018 New Page #49, 1843 & 1850 Charts Handout
5-page intro to how important our SDA "Old Paths" are today.
June 9, 2018 Page #71, Escape from the Cities Testimonies, has a new story
April 2, 2018 New Page #52, William Miller's Dream & Notes in both English & Spanish
March 27, 2018 Page #17 Revelation 17, The Kingdoms of Bible Prophecy, 666 is now in Spanish.
March 23, 2018 Page #92 2017 Daily Class & Campmeeting Notes is complete for the year.
March 22, 2018 Page #97 Genuine SDA Pioneer 1843 & 1850 Charts shirts are available now!
February 10, 2018 New Page #86, 2010 Speaker's Notes for:
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January 30, 2018 Page # 85 2007 Idaho Meetings Speaker's Notes are available (129 pages)
January 27, 2018 Page #87, 2012 Habakkuk's Tables Speaker's Notes are available (608 pages)
January 26, 2018 Page #84, 2004 Prophecy School link has been updated with the Speaker's Notes
Sept. 14, 2015. Marriage and the Sabbath are the only two institutions we have, pre-sin, from the Garden of Eden, and EGW said they are "indissolubly linked" (ED 251) ....and therefore can't be separated. Many countries around the world (and our very own U.S. President and Supreme Court now) have approved gay marriage. The connection is that when marriage is destroyed, then the Sunday law can't be far behind!
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During the week of March 24-29, a total of twenty-five representatives from the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany transit agencies attended the Mid Manager Level Training Seminar at the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, hosted by the Eno Center for Transportation and the National Transit Institute, in partnership with the American Public Transportation Foundation.
The seminar provided managers with a broader knowledge of transportation trends and a deeper understanding of critical issues effecting transit. The seminar included panel discussions and workshops covering topics such as supervision strategies, ethics, emotional intelligence and work/life balance.
Christine Farrow, superintendent of special services said, "Attending the seminar was an outstanding experience for me. Being able to hear from others about the similar situations they face was enlightening. I also now have a heightened awareness of the numerous internal and external responsibilities that our upper management in transit face on a regular basis. Therefore, the more equipped we are as middle managers, the stronger a resource we can be for our individual teams and the organization as a whole."
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There is a debate going on across the country right now over paid sick leave. There are also a considerable amount of Americans supporting the new laws that are popping up around the issue. Should workers be provided with mandatory paid sick leave? Some cities and states have already said yes.
SyncHR's neighboring city of San Francisco was actually the first city in the country to pass an ordinance requiring employers to offer paid sick leave to their employees. They did so back in 2007, requiring that, "for every 30 hours worked, an employee accrues one hour of paid sick leave," (find additional details on the ordinance here). According to this Forbes article, and following San Francisco's lead, "in the past 12 months…New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Jersey City, New Jersey, have all required employers to offer paid sick leave benefits."
Advocates for the new laws argue it improves public health by keeping the sick at home, or at home caring for an ill family member. With employees allowed to stay home and get well, fewer workers are likely to get fired from taking the time off while sick. Giving employees the flexibility to prioritize their health and family matters also increases company loyalty. Opposing arguments, however, see mandatory paid sick leave as costly and a potential strain for businesses.
One thing is for sure, paid sick leave will continue to be a hot employee issue in 2014. As a Human Resources professional, it is important to make sure your department checks their local and state laws to ensure you are up-to-date on the latest ordinances. As an employees, be sure to check in with your Human Resources department to see about paid sick leave and to learn more.
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