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This is a very nice trailer. I drove this trailer for a couple hundred miles and I found it drove really nice. This trailer is a little on large size, but it is not to hard to handle. The detailing on the tractor is really nice.
It was almost to the point where you would just want to climb in and drive it off the trailer.
The only problem I had with this trailer, is the availability of this load. It would only show up in the job market once in a while.
When I would look for it in the job market with my own truck, it would show up in a city hundreds of miles away.
So when I went to try it is quick jobs, I found one. I took that load and that was it, there were no more to be found.
I think that there must be a way to bring out into the job market a little more then just once.
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This 2-day course introduces students familiar with writing HTML to the new elements and attributes of HTML5 before moving into the web application scripting APIs. The course begins by introducing where HTML5 came from and what it is. It discusses how to use the new elements and attributes as well as how to detect if the browser supports them. The course then moves into new form input types and attributes before covering the audio/video tags. A deeper look into the Canvas element follows, and then the Geolocation API, new local data storage options that could make cookies obsolete, and finally new communications APIs that will greatly enhance online web applications.
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Every winter we see listings for maple sugaring tours, and every year we seem to be busy or forget to go. This year we finally went. What will you learn on a maple sugaring tour? A lot!
We went to the Great Swamp in New Jersey for our education. They were offering two sessions on a weekend afternoon – for $3/person (though no one asked for or collected money – and we checked in at the outdoor education center desk).
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At Upfield our purpose is clear: we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that's free from plastic. We've got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We've been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we're only just getting started.
Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.
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According to new research, the mobile app markets are dominated by games.
Midia research, created a new report looking at the global app markets, discovered that out of the top 700 grossing apps, 84.9% are games. Social networking came next with a paltry 4.1%, then dating with 3.9% and navigation and travel accounting for only 2.3%.
The report notes that the free-to-play business model has expanded the market hugely and is one of the reasons for the dominance of games within the stores, as other app types have yet to utilise the model as effectively as games.
To create the report, Midia took a snapshot 50 top grossing apps on Apple's App Store and Android's Google Play store in May 2014. The researchers looked at the UK, US, Canadian, German, French, Spanish and Italian markets, then examined trends in the 700 apps it found.
The report outlines the challenges facing developers working on mobile games. To begin with, there are over 1m apps on both the Apple App Store and Google Play.
The report concludes the mobile apps market is a "superstar economy" dominated by a small number of companies – particularly those making freemium games. Just 50 companies account for 81% of these top grossing apps across both stores. On Apple's store, 105 companies account for the 350 top grossing apps, while on Google Play, only 81 companies make up the list.
The report also notes a self-perpetuating cycle at work, explaining that with freemium games so lucrative, their publishers can afford to outspend other app genres to keep them at the top of the charts.
It's not good news for the UK games market. The US, Sweden and Japan collectively account for 61% of the top grossing apps studied for the report. 75% of the Swedish apps were made by Candy Crush Saga developer King, with Mojang's Minecraft also making a significant contribution.
Finnish developer Supercell spends a reported $1m a day on app marketing and generates $5m a day in revenue. "These dynamics further bias the market to those with the deepest pockets," suggests the report.
Supercell said in February that it made $892m of revenues from just two smartphone and tablet games in 2013. Meanwhile, King's filing to go public the same month revealed that its 2013 revenues were just under $1.9bn.
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Note from BW of Brazil: The state of Bahia leaves quite an impression on first time visitors from the African Diaspora for a number of reasons. The historical architecture, the historically important locations, the cultural aspects and the black population itself being some of the reasons I became enthralled with the state for a number of years. Unfortunately, Bahia also has a side that can also be very depressing. I for one don't see it as coincidence that Bahia has the largest population of African descendants in the country and also has such active death squads and extermination groups that eliminate an enormous number of young black people every year.
Another thing that anyone who is interested in race relations will notice about Brazil is the fact that it has such little black political representation. I remember back in the late 1990s, Raça Brasil magazine ran a story entitled "Apartheid Baiano", meaning 'Bahian apartheid', to bring light to the fact that Bahia has such a large population of black people that is being ruled by a white minority. This apartheid can also be noted in the demographics of the neighborhoods of its largest and capital city, Salvador, in which you see the white minority being the majority of the more upper crust neighborhoods while non-whites make up the vast majority of the poorer neighborhoods.
But politically speaking, perhaps the most glaring example of the lack of political power Afro-Brazilians have in the capital city that has been nicknamed "Black Rome" is the fact that it has only had one black mayor in its history. Evaldo Brito was the mayor of the city for only an eight-month period from August 1978 to March of 1979, a so-called "prefeito biônico" meaning he was selected rather than elected by the population.
In recent years the clamor for more black political representation has been bubbling up among residents of the city and it has led to a sort of recognition on the part of the white power structure that perhaps they should include some black faces in their campaigns as running mates. In the 2012 mayoral race, for example, three candidates entered the race with blacks as their representatives for vice-mayor. Mário Kertész of the PMDB party had Nestor Neto, the PT's Nélson Pelegrino had Olívia Santana and ACM Neto of the DEM chose Célia Sacramento.
In another interesting development, in the 2016 mayoral race, we saw fair-skinned/white/nearly white candidates attempting to appeal to the black masses by defining themselves as "pardos", meaning "brown" or "mixed".
But these developments, regardless of whether the power structure blatantly puts forth all white candidates or attempts to appease the black masses by implementing the aforementioned tactics, cannot circumvent the obvious question: Does electing black politicians really change the situation of the black masses? Well, perhaps the Evaldo Brito appointment will answer that question.
Sponsored by arguably the most powerful man in the state of Bahia at the time, Antônio Carlos Magalhães, Brito may have been black but his candidacy had no intention of reaching out to the progressive sectors of Salvador's population but instead upholding the conservative nature of the state's political structure. And whether it was 40-50 years ago that we speak of, the situation invariably changes very little.
Often times, when we have black political figures that appear as running mates, they simply represent mere symbols rather than real change in the political trajectory. And upholding this practice often times are the black masses who are happy just to see representatives who look like them. As well-known Bahian political activist Hamilton Borges put it:
"On the one hand, it may seem like an advance (such quantity of candidates), but on the other, we see that most of them are as vice, serving as only accessories of the image of the white."
Speaking on that same 2012 election, of which Santana was a candidate for vice-mayor, Lázaro Cunha, project director of the Instituto Cultural Steve Biko (Steve Biko Cultural Institute) in Salvador, the presence of black candidates on the mayoral tickets did reveal a certain discomfort of presenting 100% white slate candidates in a city with a black majority. The very fact that white politicians feel the need to at least present an image of more diversity shows that there is a growing consciousness of regular citizens in terms of understanding the importance of race and representation in many important areas of society.
But white supremacy always remains two steps ahead of the game. In this case, if placing a few black faces in the halls of power will appease the masses while not structurally changing its strangle hold on control, so be it. And we've seen this same game play out time and time again for decades, particularly in a country like the United States where the black population faces a similar exclusion from the power structure.
And speaking of the United States, we should consider one glaring figure that perhaps drives my point home more than anything else. In 1964, there were only 100 elected black elected officials in the whole country. By 1978, that total had reached 4,300. In fact, between 1970 and 2010, black elected officials in that country rose from 1,500 to more than 10,000. Among these elected officials included several black mayors of small and large cities, black governors and members of city councils. But even with these political advances, in little more than 30 years between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of first few years of the 1990s, poor whites in the US declined by 4 million while the numbers of poor blacks increased by nearly 700,000. So much for equating political representation with economic advances for minority groups.
With this in mind, I stress that although it's great to see Santana elected to Bahia's state Assembly, economic and political power in Bahia still remains in the hands of the white power structure and history tells us that having more black representation in these situations usually leads to very little change. Perhaps reviewing what the most celebrated and recognized black symbol of the push for integration wrote over five decades ago will remind us of this:
"Although popular Negro leaders are now emerging, most of them are still selected by white leadership, elevated to positions, supplied with resources and inevitably subjected to white control. The masses of Negros are suspicious toward this manufactured leader. We have to create leaders that have virtues that we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles that we can applaud. We have to refuse crumbs from the big city machine, and demand a fair share of the loaf." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Olívia Santana, the 1st black state congresswoman from Bahia, wants to 'widen the door' of power
By Andréa Martinelli
At 51, she won more than 57,000 votes and will be the first black woman to occupy one of the 63 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Bahia.
The state with the largest number of people declaring themselves black or brown had never elected a black woman to the Assembly.
More than 80% of the population of Bahia is declares itself preto (black) or pardo (brown), but only starting in 2019 will the State Legislative Assembly have a black woman occupying one of its 63 seats.
Professor Olívia Santana (PCdoB), the daughter of a maid and a carpenter and with a trajectory of more than 30 years in the universe of politics, was elected deputada estadual (state deputy or congresswoman) with more than 57 thousand votes on October 7 and defines her victory as "a very magical moment."
"We managed to cast my name and there will be a black woman in the assembly, yes," Santana said in an interview with HuffPost Brasil.
In the last IBGE Census of 2010, about 80.2% of the population of Bahia declared themselves to be preta or parda. Today, the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (Alba) has only 2 representatives who identify themselves as black: Pastor Sargento Isidório (Avante) and Zé Raimundo (PT), according to data from the Tribunal Superior Electoral (Superior Electoral Court) (TSE).
"Although a lot of people receive this joyfully, 'wow, the first black woman to come to the assembly,' I think we have to have a vision of how shocking it is in a state like ours," she says.
For Santana, 51, what explains the late election of a black woman to the Assembly precisely in the blackest state of Brazil is that "the population was historically educated to think that spaces of power, like politics, belong exclusively to men." According to data from the TSE, women represent only 11% of the vacancies in the current composition of Alba.
"I think I need to use my presence to widen the door, you know? Get other black women to believe. Let them look and say, 'If Olivia got there, I can too,'" she says. For her, it is necessary to "deconstruct this idea that it is commonplace for the black woman to be that of the domestic worker, the manual worker, underemployed, being behind the scenes, always serving."
A decade as a city councilor
A black woman, a feminist, Santana has worked as a servant and a lunch server in the past. A militant of the black movement for more than 30 years, in 2019 the teacher will take office as state deputy after 3 frustrating attempts to be elected for the position: in 2002, 2010 and 2014.
However, Santana's involvement with politics began in 1988, when she was president of the Diretório Acadêmico de Pedagogia (Academic Directory of Pedagogy) – a specialty in which she graduated – and secretary of Education and Culture of the Central Directory of Students of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Since then, she has held the positions of Secretary of Education and Culture of Salvador and Secretary of Labor in the state government. She was also a city councilor for 10 years.
Santana, who has also headed the Secretariat for Policies for Women under the government of Rui Costa (PT), says that actions to reduce levels of violence against women in the state and also female empowerment will be priorities in her mandate – besides watching over black youth. "Today the agenda of violence against women, blacks and poor people is set. And my fight is anti-racist. Feminism and the fight for human rights come with me through the front door of the Assembly," she says.
For the future congresswoman, "there is no emancipation of women, blacks and the poor, without economic empowerment" of each. She states that many of the projects that will be presented by her will have to do with the so-called solidarity economy. "We have to have creative ways to create jobs. But not only that, it is a matter of valuing the entrepreneurial capacity of the population."
Black women and black men in the space of power
In these elections, Brazil advanced in the representation of women. In addition to the election of Olívia Santana in Bahia, there was an increase in the female counterparts in the lower house, the election of the first trans state deputy in São Paulo and the first indigenous woman to the Legislative, as well as the victory in the allied ballot boxes of councilwoman Marielle Franco, murdered in March of 2018, such as Mônica Francisco and Talíria Petrone.
For Santana, the result is positive, but more is needed. "Democracy will never be full if it does not have the diversity of the people reflected in the structures, and this necessarily passes through black women and black men sharing spaces of power," she says. "I assume the position with a huge responsibility and also with what Paulo Freire taught us: we cannot lose our capacity of astonishment. If it's not like this, we don't change reality."
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"In order to be both effective and equitable, REDD+ will require large areas of land with clear tenure arrangements. Yet many developing countries suffer from conflicts over land ownership and continue to exclude local communities from land use decisions. How will REDD+ impact peace and security in these countries?"
The question is from a new report titled, "Missing the Poorest for the Trees? REDD+ and the Links between Forestry, Resilience and Peacebuilding", written by four students at the London School of Economics: Tobias Dorr, Adriaan Heskamp, Ian Madison and Katherine Reichel. The report can be downloaded here.
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Forestry for Life was a forest carbon trading company set up in 2009 with the aim of raising US$5 billion by 2013. The plan failed dramatically, and this year the company's founder and director, Matthew Ames, appeared at the Old Bailey, charged with fraud.
In March 2011, two of Ames' companies, the Investor Club and Forestry for Life, went into liquidation, owing investors £1.2 million. That figure could have been way higher. The company had offices in the UK, Dubai and Hong Kong, according to its website.
Before it all went pear-shaped, Matthew Ames managed to recruit several high profile people to Forestry for Life. In October 2010 James Middleton, the brother of Kate Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge), was photographed representing Forestry for Life at a carbon trading exhibition in London.
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Ugandan farmers kicked off their land for New Forests Company's carbon project
A report released yesterday by Oxfam International documents how more than 22,000 people in Uganda were evicted to make way for a carbon offset tree plantation established by a London-based firm called New Forests Company. While this is not a REDD project, it provides an early warning of how "standards" and "safeguards" can be willfully ignored.
New Forests Company (NFC) was formed in 2004. The company now has projects covering a total of 90,000 hectares in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Rwanda. Investors in the company include the Agri-Vie Agribusiness Fund, which in turn is backed by the World Bank's private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation and the European Investment Bank. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) owns about 20% of NFC and has a seat on its board. These investors have social and environmental standards to which NFC should comply.
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Can REDD save the Mabira forest in Uganda?
Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, recently announced that he would allow the destruction of 7,100 hectares of the Mabira Forest to make way for sugarcane plantations. If REDD is to mean anything in Uganda, it has to provide some sort of mechanism for preventing this sort of destruction. So far, there is no sign that this is the case.
Museveni plans to hand over 7,100 hectares of Mabira to the Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL), which is owned by the Ugandan state and Indian private investors. This isn't the first time Museveni has given the go-ahead for sugar plantations at Mabira. The last time, four years ago, peaceful protests against the president's plans turned violent. Five people were killed and several arrested. Eventually the plans were dropped.
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A perfectly wonderful job environment.Once upon a time they called me crazy. They did! They called H. A. Harmchild a madman! They said dames were too irrational to work in mines. They don't like hard work and their hands are far too soft for the terrible demands of mining, they said. Oh, those dames don't like getting dirty, they said. I said they will if I tell them there are diamonds down in those holes!
Worked like a charm. The men were off fighting the Great War, and the broads were down in the pits looking for diamonds all while carefully fetching my precious coal. And broads work for a lot less. They didn't know anything about numbers, so I paid them next to nothing.
So that's when you broads came in and kept coming in as the years passed. This arrangement has worked out for the past sixty five years. But I think it's time for a change. You skirts are getting nervier than ever, and your attempts to organize make me want to dynamite the whole mine and leave you trapped beneath the smoldering rubble. Too bad liberals these days would raise a stink.
Oh, you say that I am being unfair, that many of you work grueling hours for unfair wages. Well, see here, missy, I'm the victim in this matter. You say that I am a monster and that I like to punish people unfairly. You say that I resist progress and continue to embrace methods that are as cruel today as they were in 1907. I ask you to slander me such while hanging from a noose made out of live snakes above a vat of lye. Not so loose with your indictments now, are you?
In recent years you have demonstrated an ornery spirit that I cannot tolerate, no doubt spurred by the loud mouthed feminists of the west. In an age when orphans are once again dirt cheap, I simply will not abide insolence when I can bring in derelict children by the boxcar. In fact, I am. I've been buying up orphans from every state and I plan to put them to work. It will be like the old days again. Tiny little hands picking coal out of the rocks and sending it up for me to sell. If one of them gets injured, well, off to the pile they go. There's another bright and shiny one ready to blacken his lungs with the soot of honest living.
Oh, you're not following me, doll face? You're all fired. Why? I don't owe you an explanation, but I will give one anyway.
Chief amongst your crimes is the recent attempts to emasculate my wolves. I starve and release these flesh-hungry beasts to pick off the weak links in my mine. This includes orphans and dames who lack the dedication to fight to keep their jobs. Workers will either die by wolf, or prove themselves efficient by killing the beast and immediately getting back to work. Yet instead of coming out with mangled human limbs clenched tightly in jaw, my wolves come out with ribbons around their necks! Because of this great offense, I have had to put down half a dozen wolves.
Oh, believe me, my Cossack enforcers did not relish smashing in their heads with rocks, but it had to be done. These once great beasts cried and whimpered like little puppy dogs, robbed of their dignity and seething hatred for humanity. Robbed by you! Believe me, I admire the wolf. I admire the hate that burns in the wolf heart and envy its advanced olfactory senses, enabling it to sample the full aroma of human fear.
I purchased these wolves to teach the workers of my mine the consequences of failure. You have in turn projected your failures and weakness onto them. If you could find more coal half as good as you find compassion, you might still have a place in my employ.
But then I should expect no less from such a collection of whores. I have watched with great disdain as you have attempted to turn my mine into a brothel. Oh, you play innocent! But I see how you tempt my Cossack enforcers and the few male workers of my mine with your lurid makeup and exposed forearms. I shake my fist and tell you this: the mine provides all the makeup you need. If you aren't caked in soot, then you aren't working hard enough!
H. A. Harmchild, Age 129Just yesterday I witnessed Old Grady wiping sweat off his brow and biting down on his lucky rock in desperate attempt to suppress the wild urges you so callously invoke. A man of his lingering age should not be enticed as such, for he is liable to have a heart attack. Grady has been a loyal worker ever since I saved his life from a deranged Spaniard in the Battle of Las Guasimas. He's lived too long and hard to die in such a shameful way.
And don't think that I haven't noticed you neglecting your duties to mother the orphans I own. I bought those orphans fair and square, and it is my decision alone how they should be raised. I do not pay you to silence their cries or give them emotional support. I pay you to collect coal. The last thing those orphans need is mothering or the faint glimmer of hope leading them astray from a perfectly respectable childhood spent entirely underground.
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Sisters Caitlin Duennebier and Nicole Duennebier currently have a collaborative show at Simmons University's Trustman Gallery. Caitlin Duennebier's fantastical practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, and other media, while Nicole Duennebier, a painter last featured on HiFructose.com here, crafts work with the sensibilities of 17th-century still-life with unexpected subjects. "Love Superior, a Death Supreme" runs through March 18 at the space.
"Together, the Duennebier sisters intertwine their distinctive imagery, figures and narratives, combining their disparate styles to conjure fantastical wonderlands," the gallery says. "Love Superior, a Death Supreme will feature both their collaborative and solo work."
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When Mark Zuckerberg promised to visit all 50 US states, decided religion is important, vowed to give away 99% of his Facebook shares to charity, handed over his Facebook profile to a team of professional spinmasters, and hired former political campaign managers who had helped win three of the last five US presidential elections, many speculated that the Facebook CEO had plans to run for public office.
But Zuckerberg already holds a position of power and influence over a large constituency. Facebook has 1.79 billion monthly active users—one quarter of the world's population and more people than live in the US and China combined. And on Feb. 16, in a nearly 6,000-word long press release, Zuckerberg gave something like a state of the union address to his people. He wrote:
Our greatest opportunities are now global—like spreading prosperity and freedom, promoting peace and understanding, lifting people out of poverty, and accelerating science. Our greatest challenges also need global responses—like ending terrorism, fighting climate change, and preventing pandemics. Progress now requires humanity coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community. This is especially important right now. Facebook stands for bringing us closer together and building a global community.
The wide-ranging manifesto covers, among other things, Zuckerberg's views on building a "supportive," "safe," "informed," "civically-engaged," and "inclusive" community. He argues that Facebook groups can compensate for the the decline of some local groups like churches and clubs; that the Facebook community is in a "unique position to help prevent harm, assist during a crisis" and has "built the world's largest social infrastructure for collective action"; and that Facebook can encourage civic engagement beyond voting. He also addressed several points of controversy for Facebook, like abusive content, filter bubbles, and fake news.
To structure policies around these and other issues, Zuckerberg proposed something like a referendum:
The approach is to combine creating a large-scale democratic process to determine standards with AI to help enforce them.
The idea is to give everyone in the community options for how they would like to set the content policy for themselves. Where is your line on nudity? On violence? On graphic content? On profanity? What you decide will be your personal settings. We will periodically ask you these questions to increase participation and so you don't need to dig around to find them. For those who don't make a decision, the default will be whatever the majority of people in your region selected, like a referendum. Of course you will always be free to update your personal settings anytime.
"As the largest global community, Facebook can explore examples of how community governance might work at scale," the manifesto notes.
Reinforcing a tone of political address, Zuckerberg closed his document—after detailing Facebook's efforts on everything from natural disaster relief to free speech—by quoting president Abraham Lincoln: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, act anew."


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Affordable on-campus accommodations are available for the duration of the conference.
Dormitory or apartment style accommodation is located close to campus sessions and is available at a rate of $55.00/night, plus 13% HST (includes hot breakfast, wireless internet and parking). All prices are in Canadian dollars.
Online accommodation registration will be available beginning January 2014. Please click here: https://accommodations.laurierconferences.ca/icwip/
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This is my first Free Football Plays Review summary of my Free Play youth football blog article series on Coaching Youth Football Tips, Talk Plays and Drills at CoachParker.org. I started the free football plays series to give back to the youth football coaching community. I hope you enjoy the series as I try to post 2 or 3 new youth offensive plays each week.
I am trying to pick youth football plays that work for me and others that I have coached with or against over the last 25 youth football tackle seasons. These plays could also come from my play experience from youth Select in Spring Branch and through 6A ball in North Houston.
I hope to post some of the best youth football plays I have seen or run. These first 8 are pretty good plays. I have run many of them in some form or fashion. You can find the free youth football plays here.
Free Football Plays Review
The above 8 free football plays are
- Single Wing Spread Power Stretch Sweep Play
- Power I Fullback Blast (PIE Formation)
- Offset I Tailback ISO Dive
- Wing T Sweep Option Play
- Power I WB Sweep Option Pass Play
- T Formation Fullback Blast
- Wishbone QB Power Sweep
- Beast Double Wide Jumbo Spread Sweep Pass
All of these plays are from great youth football formations and are very popular offenses with many youth football offensive coordinators. I am sure you have seem many similar plays run within your youth football league.
Below is a summary video of the first 8 free football plays in my series. I talk about the play and what I like about the free football plays.
Free Football Plays Video Summary
The first free football plays summary includes top youth football passing plays and some of the best youth football running plays especially from the fullback position. The next free youth football play on the list to write about is a Double Pop Pass from the Inverted Wishbone formation.
If you collect all the plays you can create your own free youth football playbooks to use with your football team. That is pretty cool. Plus take a look at my How to Draw Football Plays with PowerPoint series so you can learn to make your own free plays and playbooks.
Stay tuned as I bring more free youth football plays to the community. I started the free play series since a few online said I was just trying to sell playbooks. Well for about 10 years I gave away all of my info and some wanted the playbooks packaged and organized. So, I started selling pretty playbooks too. But much of the base info I sell you should be able to skim from the my Website, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube site. Enjoy the info!!! Let me know how I can help.
You can also find more free youth football plays on my Pinterest free football plays board.
Did I choose one of your favorite free football plays? If not let me know what free play you would like to see next!
Please leave me a comment below or contact me anytime. I love talking youth football and football plays & playbooks.
Remember to Play for Fun and Winning is Funner!
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PSS: I have started a new Youtube Channel and website with my other hobby; World of Tanks. Check them out if you need a distraction during the crazy pandemic. WotNoobz.com and WotNoob.com.
~ I also want to say that there are many coaches online and in forums that are starting to almost direct copy my information from the Beast and Wildcat. Much of what I write and develop into playbooks I have run, it has been run against me, I have played it as a player etc. I can tell you when and how I came up with the information. Beware of imitators and make sure they have a history, more than 1 or 2 seasons, of running the offense they are writing about. My plays and formations are time tested and proven.


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King O Sullivan Winterfeis was held January 26-27, 2018 at the Marriot Evergreen Resort within Stone Mountain Park, Georgia. Instrumental music and vocal competitions were held Friday evening. Grades, championships, figures, specials, art, and baking competitions were held Saturday. New this year were the additional Second Chance competitions for Novice, Prizewinner, and Championship dancers. This feis is the traditional start of the new feis season for Atlanta area dancers. Sadly, due largely to the severe flu going around, attendance was lower than usual.
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Feis ATL 2017 – Grades Review
Feis ATL was held November 18, 2017, at the Renaissance Waverly Marriott, in Atlanta, GA. This feis is hosted by the Drake School of Irish Dance. Usually, this means fun, fabulous, crowded, and chaotic. Thankfully, this new venue handled the crowds and chaos beautifully. See also Venue.
VENUE: 10 out of 10
The Renaissance Waverly Marriott was a new experience for the Wilkes family. Hotel feisanna are not my favorite. This hotel convention center was a surprise. The ballrooms were large enough to handle the crowds. Music carry over was not an issue. Bathrooms were kept cleaned and stocked. Ash had a couple of options for his feis coffee, which made the feis more pleasant for the entire family. For younger siblings, there were a few entertaining options. Besides the escalators in the lobby, Feis ATL used a rented ballroom to show How to Train Your Dragon. Those staying in the hotel also had the option of a heated indoor pool.
Celtic Rose Feis 2017 – Grades Review
Celtic Rose Feis 2017 was held October 21, 2017, at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, near Emory University. The Celtic trilogy feiseanna are all hosted by the Rowena Ryan Irish Dance Academy. This feis offered several specials and cultural competitions, in addition to the regular ones. These included Gaelic spoken word, parent/child, Celtic art, soda bread, soft shoe, and hard shoe specials. This was the first feis, in a two feis weekend.
VENUE 7 out of 10
Hotel feis. Not my personal favorite. Crowded, chaotic. A Fire Marshall nightmare. It was also quite a challenge to reach. That being said, the Wilkes family did stay in the hotel. It was well appointed, clean, and the staff we encountered were friendly. Except when they were dealing with ballroom access bathroom problems. Or when the Georgia Tech football team event and the feis couldn't seem to work out hallway traffic difficulties. They did get chairs out of the back closets for grandparents waiting in the confusion, which was kind of them. It also appeared to be strongly encouraged by the Georgia Tech football team staff. Velvet ropes were put into use in a couple of areas. But, otherwise, the staff was friendly. Several feis attendees were seen posing for photos with the football players.
Feis Na Tara, Grades 2015 Feis Review
The, possibly, 20th anniversary Feis Na Tara was held February 27-28, 2015. The feis was held at the Marriott Atlanta Airport. This feis holds competitions on Friday night and all day Saturday. The Devil Went Down to Georgia treble reel is a popular event for all ages. These are held on Friday night. This year, the proceeds went to the Wounded Warrior fund. This feis also offers competitions in Celtic Art, Music, Vocals, Gaelic, and Baking. These are in addition to the grades, championships, and figure competitions.
Feis Na Tara, Champs 2015 Feis Review
The 20th Annual Feis Na Tara was held on Friday & Saturday, February 27th & 28th 2015 by the Mulligan School of Irish Step Dance and the Tara Dance Company, at the Marriot Atlanta Airport, in Atlanta, Georgia. This was our first trip to this feis.
I am attempting to make this a Champs review, in the hopes another reviewer who also attended will be providing a Grades Review (no pressure), but I have included some Grades notes below, just in case :)
A hotel feis, if you guys have followed for a while, you probably know how I feel about hotel feiseanna. Generally, I am not a fan, but truth be told, this one wasn't that bad for the reasons that usually irritate me about hotel feiseanna.
Feis ATL 2014 Review
Feis ATL was held November 14th and 15th of 2014, at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. This was a Drake feis, which means fun, fabulous, chaotic, and crowded. The feis offered competitions in musical instruments, vocals, Celtic art work, baking, traditional and non traditional sets, treble reels, and a Dancer of the Day award, in addition to the regular feis competition schedule.
In the tradition of fun and fabulous, this feis offered some unexpected surprises. Friday night, there was a casual Irish music session in the registration hall. On Saturday, the FROZEN princesses made appearances and lead a pre awards show sing-a-long. On Saturday night, they held a post feis luau at the hotel pool for feis attendees.
Peach State Feis Review 2014
The Peach State Feis was held May 2-3, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia. The feis was held at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North. This is the same location as last year. The feis is run by Peach State Feis Inc. Truly, this is a feis of the Drake School. Their Southern Region feisanna, typically, are run under the supervision of the talented and famous Karl Drake. New this year, is the inclusion of a Feis Fiesta, held after the Friday evening competitions. This feis has no competitor cap. It also includes many competitions for all ages and abilities. From the Gaelic language, Celtic Art, and music competitions to their treble reels and traditional set competitions, this is a feis that promises to hold something for everyone.


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EAST SIDE — The Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward with plans to expand a lakefront dump site so the agency can continue storing polluted sediment from local waterways in East Side through at least 2043.
The 43-acre site, which neighbors Calumet Park at the mouth of the Calumet River, stores sediment dredged from the river and five other federally maintained waterways in the city.
The East Side site is set to reach its current capacity by 2022. Since January 2010, the agency has explored options for continuing to store sediment once the site reaches capacity.
After more than a decade of planning, the Army Corps released its final draft plan for storing the polluted sediment July 17, in which the agency recommends the construction of a new facility on top of the existing site.
The now-recommended "vertical expansion" was not considered a viable option in the Army Corps' 2015 draft plan, but became the front-runner based on policy changes at the agency and public input, according to officials.
Numerous neighbors and park advocates oppose the agency's plans, saying the site selection process was "flawed and mismanaged" and an expanded site is ill-prepared to face rising Lake Michigan levels that badly damaged the lakefront this winter.
Southeast Side residents have gone through the wringer, fighting environmental threats from petcoke to manganese to General Iron's planned move, said Ders Anderson, Greenways Director for conservation group Openlands.
Despite the constant battles, much progress has been made recently in terms of land use, Anderson said. Old industry has been repurposed, parks have been beautified and investment near the Pullman National Monument has given the entire area a boost.
An expanded dump site flies in the face of that progress and is "certainly not going to help" attract a developer to the massive, long-dormant South Works site nearby, he said.
"Why in the world would you justify taking industrial waste and saying, 'We're going to keep it in the landfill in the middle of the neighborhood?'" Anderson said.
During a public comment period last year, Openlands joined fellow conservationists Friends of the Parks in proposing the Army Corps ship the dredged sediment to private landfills rather than expand its current site.
It's been done before. Federal and Indiana state agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps, dredged sediment from a portion of the Grand Calumet River near East Chicago, Ind. in 2014. Contaminated material was stored in the Newton County Landfill.
Landfills are "potentially viable for small-scale applications," but the Army Corps did not explore the option for its Chicago plan. Officials cited high costs and "no guarantee" that landfills would be able to maintain capacity for the sediment through the 20-year plan.
In Indiana, 360,000 cubic yards of polluted sediment were sent to landfills; the total project cost was $88.1 million. The Chicago expansion plan would store 530,000 cubic yards of polluted sediment at a total cost of $88.5 million.
A major factor in keeping expansion costs down: The dump site is on land owned by the Chicago Park District, which does not charge the Army Corps for its use.
Some neighbors are frustrated, believing the Army Corps is reneging on its commitment to return the lakefront property to the Park District once it reaches capacity.
In its report, the agency acknowledges its new plans would likely delay the creation of parkland on-site by at least 25 years. Officials maintain that the site will become open space "in perpetuity" once dredging operations cease.
"It's unjust to the neighborhoods that would've had a 30-acre park on the lake that's being taken away from them," Anderson said. Expanding Calumet Park to include river views would create one of the most "striking" public sites in the city, he said.
But it doesn't appear public outcry will make a difference.
"Public opposition to the creation of a new [dump site] does not pose a risk to [the city] providing the necessary [land access] for the project," the report reads.
The controversy over parkland is just one example of the Army Corps acknowledging residents' concerns over the expansion plan, while still recommending it over the alternatives.
Local residents and advocacy groups have asked the Army Corps to treat the waste stored at the site to reduce potential pollution, but in a report officials said the treatment of contaminated sediment is "unproven" and not cost-effective.
Other common concerns address Lake Michigan's water levels and the agency's plan to continue filtering wastewater from the site and discharging it into the Calumet River. These concerns have not significantly changed the Army Corps' approach.
To these concerns, the agency responded that water levels are expected to subside from recent record highs, and that the facility's discharges into the river have always followed state regulations.
Neighbors' input should be prioritized as the Army Corps finalizes its plan, said Gina Ramirez, Midwest outreach manager for the National Resources Defense Council.
"The Southeast Side is already overwhelmed with pollution," Ramirez said. "We need long-term, sustainable solutions that make our neighborhoods more livable. This can only happen if Southeast Siders play an essential role in deciding how our community develops."
Public comment on the plan will be accepted by email through Aug. 17.
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Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Letters of 1916 project needs your help for next phase
Since it launched in 2013, the team has gathered more than 2,000 letters and uploaded nearly all of them to its public database at http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/. Many have also been transcribed (if you can help with a bit of transcription work, take a look at the Contribute section of the site).
The project is now approaching its next phase: the launch of the Letters of 1916 Digitial Edition website. This is scheduled for 3 November.
Before then, the project team needs to evaluate the functionality and usability of the new website.
Can you help? In return for an hour of your time one morning between 8 and 17 July, you will receive a sneak preview of the next stage of the project and the opportunity to provide valuable feedback to the final Letters of 1916 Digital Edition. You will be asked to complete some tasks on the new website and let the project team know what you think of it.
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The median age of the world's population is increasing because of a decline in fertility and a 20-year increase in the average life span during the second half of the 20th century (1). These factors, combined with elevated fertility in many countries during the 2 decades after World War II (i.e., the "Baby Boom"), will result in increased numbers of persons aged >65 years during 2010--2030 (2). Worldwide, the average life span is expected to extend another 10 years by 2050 (1). The growing number of older adults increases demands on the public health system and on medical and social services. Chronic diseases, which affect older adults disproportionately, contribute to disability, diminish quality of life, and increased health- and long-term--care costs. Increased life expectancy reflects, in part, the success of public health interventions (2), but public health programs must now respond to the challenges created by this achievement, including the growing burden of chronic illnesses, injuries, and disabilities and increasing concerns about future caregiving and health-care costs. This report presents data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations on U.S. and global trends in aging, including demographic and epidemiologic transitions, increasing medical and social costs related to aging, and the implications for public health.
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In 2000, the worldwide population of persons aged >65 years was an estimated 420 million, a 9.5 million increase from 1999 (2). During 2000--2030, the worldwide population aged >65 years is projected to increase by approximately 550 million to 973 million (3), increasing from 6.9% to 12.0% worldwide, from 15.5% to 24.3% in Europe, from 12.6% to 20.3% in North America, from 6.0% to 12.0% in Asia, and from 5.5% to 11.6% in Latin America and the Caribbean (2). In Sub-Saharan Africa, an area where both fertility and mortality rates are high, the proportion of persons aged >65 years is expected to remain small, increasing from an estimated 2.9% in 2000 to 3.7% in 2030 (2). The largest increases in absolute numbers of older persons will occur in developing countries*. During 2000--2030, the number of persons in developing countries aged >65 years is projected to almost triple, from approximately 249 million in 2000 to an estimated 690 million in 2030 (3), and the developing countries' share of the world's population aged >65 years is projected to increase from 59% to 71% (2). However, migration patterns could influence these projections.
The aging of the world's population is the result of two factors: declines in fertility and increases in life expectancy (2). Fertility rates declined in developing countries during the preceding 30 years and in developed countries throughout the 20th century (2). In addition, in developed countries, the largest gain ever in life expectancy at birth occurred during the 20th century, averaging 71% for females and 66% for males (2). Life expectancy at birth in developed countries now ranges from 76 to 80 years (2). Life expectancy also has increased in developing countries since 1950, although the amount of increase varied. A higher life expectancy at birth for females compared with males is almost universal. The average sex differential in 2000 was approximately 7 years in Europe and North America but less in developing countries (2).
The world has experienced a gradual demographic transition from patterns of high fertility and high mortality rates to low fertility and delayed mortality (2). The transition begins with declining infant and childhood mortality, in part because of effective public health measures (2). Lower childhood mortality contributes initially to a longer life expectancy and a younger population. Declines in fertility rates generally follow, and improvements in adult health lead to an older population. As a result of demographic transitions, the shape of the global age distribution is changing. By 1990, the age distribution in developed countries represented similar proportions of younger and older persons (Figure) (2). For developing countries, age distribution is projected to have similar proportions by 2030 (2).
The world also has experienced an epidemiologic transition in the leading causes of death, from infectious disease and acute illness to chronic disease and degenerative illness. Developed countries in North America, Europe, and the Western Pacific already have undergone this epidemiologic transition, and other countries are at different stages of progression. In 2001, the leading causes of death in developed countries, which had low child and delayed adult mortality, were primarily cardiovascular diseases and cancer, followed by respiratory diseases and injuries (6). The leading causes of death in African countries, which had high child and adult mortality, were infectious and parasitic diseases (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, malaria, childhood diseases, and diarrheal disease), respiratory infections, perinatal conditions, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and injuries (6).
The epidemiologic transition, combined with the increasing number of older persons, represents a challenge for public health. In the United States, approximately 80% of all persons aged >65 years have at least one chronic condition, and 50% have at least two (7). Diabetes, which causes excess morbidity and increased health-care costs, affects approximately one in five (18.7%) persons aged >65 years, and as the population ages, the impact of diabetes will intensify (7). The largest increases in diabetes are expected among adults aged >75 years, from 1.2 million women and 0.8 million men in 2000 to 4.4 million women and 4.2 million men in 2050 (8). As U.S. adults live longer, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease, which doubles every 5 years after age 65, also is expected to increase (7). Approximately 10% of adults aged >65 years and 47% of adults aged >85 years suffer from this degenerative and debilitating disease (7).
Chronic conditions also can lead to severe disability. For example, in the United States, arthritis affects approximately 59% of persons aged >65 years and is the leading cause of disability (9). However, some studies have shown that disability can be postponed through healthier lifestyles (10). Disability among older U.S. adults, as measured by limitations in instrumental activities of daily living, has declined since the early 1980s (11). Disability also is measured by limitations in activities of daily living (ADL), a common factor leading to the need for long-term care (11). Recent studies using ADL measures have shown varied trends in disability (11).
The increased number of persons aged >65 years will potentially lead to increased health-care costs. The health-care cost per capita for persons aged >65 years in the United States and other developed countries is three to five times greater than the cost for persons aged <65 years, and the rapid growth in the number of older persons, coupled with continued advances in medical technology, is expected to create upward pressure on health- and long-term--care spending (12). In 1997, the United States had the highest health-care spending per person aged >65 years ($12,100), but other developed countries also spent substantial amounts per person aged >65 years, ranging from approximately $3,600 in the United Kingdom to approximately $6,800 in Canada (13). However, the extent of spending increases will depend on other factors in addition to aging (12).
The demands associated with long-term care might pose the greatest challenge for both personal/family resources and public resources. In the United States, nursing home and home health-care expenditures doubled during 1990--2001, reaching approximately $132 billion (14); of this, public programs (i.e., Medicaid and Medicare) paid 57%, and patients or their families paid 25% (14). In addition, during 2000--2020, public financing of long-term care is projected to increase 20%--21% in the United Kingdom and the United States and 102% in Japan (15). However, these increases will be less if public health interventions decrease disability among older persons, helping them to live independently.
The projected growth in the elderly support ratio (i.e., the number of persons aged >65 years per 100 persons aged 20--64 years) also is a concern (2). If the number of working taxpayers relative to the number of older persons declines, inadequate public resources and fewer adults will be available to provide informal care to older, less able family members and friends. However, the ratio does not account for potential increases in the numbers of persons aged >65 years who continue to work and/or care for themselves.
Reported by: MR Goulding, PhD, Div of Health and Utilization Analysis, National Center for Health Statistics; ME Rogers, MPH, SM Smith, MD, Div of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC.
The anticipated increase in the number of older persons will have dramatic consequences for public health, the health-care financing and delivery systems, informal caregiving, and pension systems. Although more attention has been given to population aging projections and their implications in developed countries, greater numbers of older adults and increasing chronic disease will place further strain on resources in countries where basic public health concerns (e.g., control of infectious diseases and maternal and child health) are yet to be addressed fully.
To address the challenges posed by an aging population, public health agencies and community organizations worldwide should continue expanding their traditional scope from infectious diseases and maternal/child health to include health promotion in older adults, prevention of disability, maintenance of capacity in those with frailties and disabilities, and enhancement of quality of life. Because behaviors that place persons at risk for disease often originate early in life, the public health system should support healthy behaviors throughout a person's lifetime (16). Public health also should develop and support better methods and systems to monitor additional health outcomes that are related to older adults, such as functioning and quality of life.
CDC's Advisory Committee to the Director has identified five roles for CDC to promote health and prevent disease in older adults: 1) to provide high-quality health information and resources to public health professionals, consumers, health-care providers, and aging experts; 2) to support health-care providers and health-care organizations in prevention efforts; 3) to integrate public health prevention expertise with the aging services network; 4) to identify and implement effective prevention efforts; and 5) to monitor changes in the health of older adults. These roles will require new efforts to address the special needs of older adults and to deliver programs in communities in which older adults work, reside, and congregate. Existing public health programs will be required to examine whether they meet the needs of an aging population.
* The "developing" and "developed" country categories used in this report correspond directly to the "less developed" and "more developed" classification employed by the United Nations. Developed countries comprise all nations in Europe and North America, and Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The remaining nations are classified as developing countries. Although these categories are used commonly for comparative purposes, they no longer accurately reflect developmental differences among countries (2).


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The power of being present – when I started my yoga practice
I'm one of those people who was athletic as a teenager but then came to a roaring halt once I was out of school. I still walked a lot – but I didn't do any regular exercise or play on any teams. Twenty years later, I woke up and realized that if I wanted to remain supple and mobile I'd better get moving.
I found that I actively liked yoga and began going to a yoga studio 3-4 times a week. It felt great – I loved how yoga engaged my brain as well as my body.
Slowly it dawned on me that although I still felt physically great after practice, and my mind was engaged – I didn't like how my mind was engaged. Yoga was unleashing some strange emotions. I realized that when I was doing yoga, I felt like I was a teenager again. In school, I did a lot of gymnastics, and yoga somehow brought me right back to that place. It was not a comfortable spot. I had no wish to feel like a teenager again. And the competitiveness this unleashed in me was unpleasant. Once I realized what was going on, I was able to channel those feelings differently. Of course, having a different body from when I was a teenager helped me change my energy.
When you get on the mat, you never know what you'll find. That's the beauty of yoga – it's ever changing, because we're ever changing – and we bring different things to the mat. At the same time, yoga helps us be open and connect to what is revealed to us during our practice.


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Fashion editor Joe Zee has left his coveted position as fashion editor of American ELLE Magazine for the spot at YAHOO's new fashion adventure – Yahoo Style. While Google holds 94% of search engine traffic, Yahoo is focusing on production of its own web content. The web giant has set aside new resources by revamping its fashion pages with the launch of Yahoo Style and addition of Joe Zee to their ranks. Zee's resume also holds previous positions at Allure Magazine, W Magazine and Old Navy to name a few. (Photo above – Angelina for ELLE US by Hedi Slimane styled by Joe Zee)
The famed fashion editor has talked to FASHIONISTA and shared a few interesting advises, for quotes and some of our favorite editorials by Zee continue after the jump:
Zee's job hunting advice: "I finished school in 1992 and I remember getting all my favorite magazines and looking through all the mastheads and literally writing letters to everybody whose work I admired. I remember writing them and, you know, not being a pest because I understand not everybody is going to respond, but I wrote them from a very genuine place so it wasn't a generic cover letter. It wasn't like, 'I need this job from you,' but it was, 'I just want to write you because I really liked that story and you inspire me to do this, and I thought that was really great and I'm graduating and I love to…' — and all those things. I think that sort of connected with people better than the generic, 'I'm writing you a cover letter for this, I'm applying for a job as this,' because they must get those every day. I sent out maybe 17 letters and I got 16 job interviews. I mean, some of them didn't have jobs, some of them just wanted to meet me."
(Photo Above Elsa Hosk for American Elle by Arthur Elgort Styled by Zee)
Say yes to everything at the start of your career: "When I was an assistant at Allure, I literally sat outside the closet. My whole life, I have been Tracy Flick. You guys are too young to know, but that Reese Witherspoon movie, "Election," she would raise her hand and say 'Yes, I can do that,' and I was doing that at Allure and saying, 'Yes, I can assist on that photo shoot,' 'Yes, I can come down to this, I can do that.' And [my boss] Polly Mellen was always the first one in the office and the last one to leave and I remember I always stayed with her. And then I assisted Lori Goldstein, who was a stylist, and I remember going up to her at a Christmas party and saying, 'I love the last photo shoot you did with Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue, I want to work for you,' and she was like, 'Okay, crazy stalker, but okay.' And she's still a really good friend of mine."
(Keep up with Yahoo Style over at yahoo.com/style)
Print vs Web: I got up at three in the morning to get some water and I was going through my social media and was like, 'Wait, Kim [Kardashian] cut her hair?' I got my computer, I wrote the story, pulled the Instagram picture, built it and published it on the site. Because I thought if I waited until 8 a.m, it would be too late. That's sort of what the Internet trains you to be, because you can talk about news — albeit if Kim cutting her hair is news to you — in that way, whereas in a printed magazine, you couldn't. (Photo above Amanda Seyfried by Carter Smith styled by Zee)
On Print is dead mantra: When television was invented in the '50s, nobody turned to radio anymore for breaking news and radio didn't just go away. It wasn't dead, they just had to change it. It became specialized and they understood what people were coming to them for. In this sort of growing pains period that we are in right now, print will find a way to be complementary to digital. (Photo Anna Farris by Dusan Reljin styled be Joe Zee)


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Westminster prepares for flu season
It's finally flu season, and not just the football season hashtag. Students have already started feeling the yearly batch of colds and coughs. These illnesses affect every aspect of student life at Westminster. Students can take measures to prevent getting sick and getting others sick, as well as expedite recovery times.
Students suffer from a range of illnesses, but only the most severe get them out of school. That means many students go to class and risk spreading sickness among classmates. In order to protect against falling prey to a virus, students can take precautionary measures. "The most important thing to do to prevent sickness is to wash your hands, especially after coughing or sneezing," said the Department of Health. "Covering your nose and mouth when you cough is another obvious way to keep healthy."
A less obvious way to keep germs away is to not share food or drink, a concept that is seemingly common sense and yet is often discounted in the Upper School. "Try to stay home for even a bad cough or mild fever, even if you feel like you have too much work," said doctors at Piedmont Hospital. "Discard used tissues in the trash as soon as you can. Finally, see a doctor as soon as possible for a persistent cough or fever, and follow their instructions. Take medicine as prescribed and get lots of rest."
The advent of cold and flu season means parents dragging their kids to the pediatrician's office, Publix, or wherever they choose to get their flu shots. Getting a flu shot has other benefits besides just preventing the flu. The CDC estimates that 80,000 people died last year due to complications with various forms of flu, the highest death toll in 40 years. On a less serious note, taking the time to get a flu shot would prevent lost time in sick days at home later, and it would save others from sick days too. In terms of effectiveness, no flu vaccine is perfect, but the CDC assures citizens that they cannot get the flu from the vaccine.
Inevitably, fall prey to a bout of flu every year, even if football coach Danny Alexander insisted that "sickness is mental weakness."
"You only think you're sick," said Alexander "It's a mindset."
All joking aside, sometimes students simply aren't physically able to make it to school. Schoolwork piles up as they miss days of class, and a quick recovery becomes their top priority. In order to get better faster, doctors at Piedmont Hospital recommend consuming a lot of liquids, but varying them a bit. Drinking sports drinks and soups can provide some energy. Also, using vaporizers and humidifiers as well as sitting in steamy rooms will help soothe a persistent cough and an irritated throat.
Additionally, Health Magazine writer Amanda Macmillan said, "gargling several times a day with warm salt water can reduce swelling in the throat and loosen mucus, helping to flush out irritants or bacteria."
Finally, drinking tea can help soothe a sore throat. Tea made with black, green, or white leaves also contain antioxidants that can help boost the immune system and ward off another infection while fighting the current one.
For those students who can manage to make it to school without a major illness, the adjustment is staggering. Trying to manage to get all work, sports, and extracurriculars under control while getting enough rest to fight off a cold is a painful task.
"I had a little cold a couple of weeks ago," said senior Virginia Harrison "It made running cross country a lot harder and I wanted to fall asleep all day but I managed it."
Harrison said taking the PSAT with even her mild cold was an ordeal. Beyond that, running cross country required more effort and preparation to make sure she was still on the path to being 100%.
"I did have some trouble running for a day or so, but hey, when you have a cold you can't expect to be at full strength right?" said Harrison.
Nevertheless, she managed to stay on top of her work by communicating with teachers so that they were aware she was not feeling her best. Also, junior Matthew Cha had to deal with a more serious cold recently.
"I didn't wear enough layers to my morning lift and I had a rough cough for a couple of days," said Cha. "I had to drink a lot of water and I took some Tylenol but I feel like I managed my work pretty well. I didn't get behind in any classes so I'm counting that as a win."
Harrison and Cha acknowledged how hard it was to stay focused. Both stressed how making their teachers aware of what was happening made their lives a lot easier, and some teachers even gave them little reprieves in order to get back up to speed.
While flu season has just started, Westminster has yet to hit the belly of the beast. Flu season doesn't peak until around February, but students should still be vigilant in the early months of winter as well. The flu usually starts to become increasingly potent in December and retains strength through March. As such, students are urged to be especially cautious during January, as getting sick might sideline them from JanTerm opportunities.


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"I believe in transparency in government." –Speaker Jase Bolger
Last week the Snyder administration announced that Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, Speaker Jase Bolger, and Sen. Arlan Meekhof would be leading an official state trade mission to the Netherlands.
According to MLive, "The MEDC is paying for its staff members and Calley, while companies and other economic development groups will cover their own costs. Most of Bolger's and Meekhof's expenses are being covered by the West Michigan Global Initiative, with some coming from their own pockets."
So, what exactly is the West Michigan Global Initiative? The name sounds innocent enough.
Surprise! It's a front group for corporate special interests.
You can view a list of their sponsors here – it includes at least three corporations with ties to the billionaire DeVos family, several big banks, and special interest lobbying firms.
That probably explains why a multi-client lobbyist named Brendan Ringlever is traveling with Cally, Bolger, and Meekhof – a fact that the Snyder administration and Bolger's office has conveniently neglected to disclose online or to the media.
The Snyder administration and Jase Bolger talk a good game on government transparency, but apparently they don't think the rules apply to them.
Michigan taxpayers deserve to know which special interests are trying to influence our elected leaders and why. If a special interest lobbying firm is paying for any portion of this glitzy state trade mission, the Snyder administration and Bolger should disclose it immediately.
It is the height of hypocrisy for Bolger to demand greater transparency from everyone but himself – especially since Bolger is still under an active grand jury investigation for election fraud.
Michigan deserves better from our elected officials.


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