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Elucidating mechanisms regulating neuronal survival and plasticity is relevant for understanding normal learning and memory as well as cognitive impairments in mental retardation, aging and Alzheimer?s. Influx of calcium ions (Ca2+) through L-type voltage-gated calcium channels (LTCCs) can influence long-term changes in synaptic plasticity and neuronal survival by turning on and off gene transcription in the nucleus. While it is known that signaling very near the site of Ca2+ influx is required for regulation of both LTCC activity and gene expression, molecular mechanisms that organize channel proximal signals and transduce them to the nucleus are largely unknown. One important pathway by which LTCC activity in neurons is regulated involves b-adrenergic receptor-mediated stimulation of cAMP production by adenylyl cyclase and activation of the kinase PKA. Previous studies in the heart suggest that efficient regulation of LTCC activity by PKA requires phosphorylation of the channel protein and localization of PKA near the channel through binding to A-kinase-anchoring proteins (AKAP). However, little is known about the roles of AKAPs or the opposing actions of protein phosphatases in neuronal LTCC regulation. In postsynaptic neurons one AKAP that may play a key role in regulating LTCC phosphorylation and signaling to transcription factors in the nucleus is AKAP79/150. Our overall hypothesis is that AKAP79/150 targets PKA and CaN to LTCCs to bi-directionally regulate channel activity and signaling to the nucleus. We will test this hypothesis in the context of a model in which anchored CaN strongly opposes cAMP-PKA regulation of the channel currents to function as a Ca2+ negative feedback mechanism. In addition, we will explore a novel role for dynamic anchoring of PKA and CaN to AKAP79/150 in these plasma membrane localized Ca2+ signaling events that also control downstream activation of NFAT and CREB transcription factors. Thus, our studies will characterize a novel molecular assembly that coordinates plasma membrane LTCC Ca2+ signaling to regulate both local and distal responses that are important in neuronal plasticity. We will use biochemical, cell biological and electrophysiological approaches in HEK-293 cells and hippocampal neurons to study AKAP79/150-LTCC regulation:
(Aim 1) Molecular and functional characterization of a direct interaction between AKAP79/150 and the LTCC CaV1.2 in neuronal channel regulation;
(Aim 2) Role of dynamic PKA and CaN anchoring to AKAP79/150 in neuronal LTCC regulation;
(Aim 3) Role of the AKAP79/150 channel-associated signaling complex in regulating neuronal LTCC excitation-transcription coupling.
Excitation induced entry of calcium ions (Ca2+) into neurons through L-type voltagegated Ca2+ channels (LTCC) influences synaptic plasticity and neuronal survival by regulating gene expression. Elucidating mechanisms regulating neuronal cell survival and plasticity is relevant for understanding normal learning and memory as well as learning deficits in mental retardation, aging and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer?s. Changes in LTCC regulated synaptic plasticity and channel modulation by protein kinase A (PKA) phosphorylation have been implicated in cognitive impairments associated with aging, and deficits in LTCC Ca2+ regulation of transcription factors involved in gene expression have been identified in Down Syndrome. Previous studies have demonstrated that highly localized signaling processes occur near the channel that are important for both channel modulation and downstream signaling to transcription factors in the nucleus. However, the molecular mechanisms that coordinate phosphorylation regulation of neuronal LTCCs and coupling to transcription factors are not well understood. The scaffold protein AKAP79/150 could help provide these functions by promoting channel phosphorylation by PKA, by providing a novel Ca2+-activated calcineurin (CaN) phosphatase negative feedback loop to oppose this regulation, and by positioning both CaN and PKA near the channel to regulate downstream transcriptional pathways. Understanding how AKAP79/150 coordinates LTCC signaling may lead to development of novel therapeutics to treat cognitive impairments.
|Dittmer, Philip J; Wild, Angela R; Dell'Acqua, Mark L et al. (2017) STIM1 Ca2+ Sensor Control of L-type Ca2+-Channel-Dependent Dendritic Spine Structural Plasticity and Nuclear Signaling. Cell Rep 19:321-334
|Dittmer, Philip J; Dell'Acqua, Mark L; Sather, William A (2014) Ca2+/calcineurin-dependent inactivation of neuronal L-type Ca2+ channels requires priming by AKAP-anchored protein kinase A. Cell Rep 7:1410-1416
|Nystoriak, Matthew A; Nieves-Cintrón, Madeline; Nygren, Patrick J et al. (2014) AKAP150 contributes to enhanced vascular tone by facilitating large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel remodeling in hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus. Circ Res 114:607-15
|Murphy, Jonathan G; Sanderson, Jennifer L; Gorski, Jessica A et al. (2014) AKAP-anchored PKA maintains neuronal L-type calcium channel activity and NFAT transcriptional signaling. Cell Rep 7:1577-1588
|Freund, Ronald K (2012) Commentary: How ethanol short-circuits the cerebellum-actions on Golgi cells in freely-moving animals. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:1837-9
|Brandao, Katherine E; Dell'Acqua, Mark L; Levinson, S Rock (2012) A-kinase anchoring protein 150 expression in a specific subset of TRPV1- and CaV 1.2-positive nociceptive rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. J Comp Neurol 520:81-99
|Li, Huiming; Pink, Matthew D; Murphy, Jonathan G et al. (2012) Balanced interactions of calcineurin with AKAP79 regulate Ca2+-calcineurin-NFAT signaling. Nat Struct Mol Biol 19:337-45
|Oliveria, Seth F; Dittmer, Philip J; Youn, Dong-ho et al. (2012) Localized calcineurin confers Ca2+-dependent inactivation on neuronal L-type Ca2+ channels. J Neurosci 32:15328-37
|Lin, Lin; Sun, Wei; Kung, Faith et al. (2011) AKAP79/150 impacts intrinsic excitability of hippocampal neurons through phospho-regulation of A-type K+ channel trafficking. J Neurosci 31:1323-32
|Sanderson, Jennifer L; Dell'Acqua, Mark L (2011) AKAP signaling complexes in regulation of excitatory synaptic plasticity. Neuroscientist 17:321-36


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Get a Little Inspiration from Famous Leadership Quotes
There are some terrific and famous leadership quotes to arouse, motivate and inspire you. Some are about great leaders, some are by great leaders and some of them are just for fun!
Here are a few of my favorite famous leadership quotes, although strictly speaking a "quote" is word for word, these may not be but I don't suppose that they are very far off.
Benjamin Disraeli arguably one of the world's greatest leaders famously said –
"I should follow the people because I am their leader am I not?"
There's a great lesson to be learned from that quote.
General George Patton had his own take on leadership when he famously said –
"You can lead me, you can follow me or you can get out of my way!"
No wonder he was known for being no nonsense George.
Aristotle was responsible for one of my all time favorite famous leadership quotes when he said –
"He who never learned how to obey cannot possibly be a good commander."
John C Maxwell has a rather simple view on leadership when he said –
"Leadership equals influence"
, a sentiment which is certainly very true.
Napoleon Bonaparte was another great historical leader with his own ideas about leadership. He also knew a thing or two about the art of delegation. He famously said –
"Whenever I give an order to a minister it is up to him to discover the means of how to carry it out."
He certainly believed in telling you what to do but not necessarily how to do it.
A little nearer to our time Andrew Carnegie wisely said –
"A man cannot make a great leader who wants to do everything himself, or who wants to get all of the credit for doing that thing."
John Quincy Adams was responsible for these wise and inspirational words -
"If what you do inspires other men to dream more, to do more, to learn more and to become more then you are truly a leader."
Nobody ever said being a great leader was easy as these words by John C Maxwell prove.
"Leaders must be near enough to others to relate to them yet far enough ahead of others to be able to motivate them."
Bill Bradley strong believed that leadership is the art of unlocking the potential of people for them to become better.
General Douglas McArthur had a very good point when he said,
"You must never give out an order which cannot be obeyed."
I wonder if Napoleon Bonaparte had thought of that!
An old Chinese Proverb informs us that,
"It is not the cry of the wild duck which leads the flock to follow and fly, but the flight of the wild duck which does so."
Let's finish with possibly one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen, Abraham Lincoln, who said quite simply,
"Whatever you are make sure that you are good at it."
I hope that these famous leadership quotes have helped to inspire you in some small way!
Thank you and May God bless you!
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"Walking celebrates our love for animals while raising the vital funds needed to ensure that every homeless animal can find a loving home," said Kelli Schry of San Diego Humane Society, noting the event's morning festivities "include a delicious pancake breakfast, a scenic two-mile walk, fun-filled doggie activities, an 'Ask a Trainer' booth and Vendor Village."
There will be hundreds of dogs and people dressed in costumes and walking to support homeless pets, as well as doggie games and activities.
The day will begin with onsite registration, a complimentary pancake breakfast and Vendor Village activities. That will be followed by a blessing of the animals at 8:30 a.m. The walk begins at 9 a.m. and will last about an hour, to be followed by Vendor Village festivities and doggie activities continuing until noon.
Event sponsors include Petco and the Petco Foundation, VCA Animal Hospitals, Hill's Pet Nutrition, PetSafe, Underground Elephant, Phil's BBQ, California Coast Credit Union, NexGard and Frontline.
Participants can sign up online at www.sdhumane.org/walk to pre-register for this event or to make an online donation.
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Since 1880, San Diego Humane Society's scope of social responsibility has gone beyond adopting animals to include offering San Diegans a wide range of programs and services that strengthen the human-animal bond, prevent cruelty/neglect, provide medical care, educate the community on the humane treatment of animals and provide safety net services for all pet families needing assistance with keeping their pets.
As one of San Diego's oldest nonprofits, San Diego Humane Society has campuses in Escondido, Oceanside and San Diego as well as adoption centers inside Petco stores.
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October 28, 2009
Because Rootbeer asked me to...The new Man-Cave!
In searching for a new name for this room BBB came up with "Supernova Lounge†in response to Stars' 70k VPP gimme for me this year thanks to me being British. So that will more than likely be it's new name once I've made it to supernova, if i don't it may be called "Fail Loungeâ€
Now I'm not going to show what this room was transformed from because, frankly it's embarrassing and only Lysistrata and anyone she's shown the pictures to is fully aware of the lurking horrors of the time…and the incredibly busto chair.
What I can do, however, is a kinda step by step guide AFTER I'd got rid of most of the crap from the room.
Long story short we had a set of mirror'ed wardrobes in this room and it hadn't been decorated in 15 years almost aside from a little paint and needed a full do-over. However removing the wardbrobes also pulled off a ton of plaster, half the coving and destroyed some of the skirting….I always hated that thing!!
The rubble left over after we'd got the wardrobes out.
Hmm maybe we were a bit firm yanking off the wallpaper? Ouch
Carpet comes up and good riddance…yeesh I got such burns from that thing.
Lining Paper is now on after we've done our best to fill in the damaged plaster on the walls but it's not perfect
Laminate floor going down and first appearance of my version of Fail-Bear, "Drink Holding Pandaâ€â€¦.this time without a drink…he's been slacking off.
Truth be told I just found it in the mirrored wardrobe obviously stuffed there many many moons ago and he was something made by my mother surprisingly…tha's not a bought one that's hand made!!
New Halogen lights replacing that horror shade
Wallpaper goes on far side of the room, the rest will be a single pattern which is a fatal mistake we won't make again…NO PATTERNS!!!
Beginning to fill room with stuff. New chairs, projector, Playstation 2 (to be upgraded to XBox 360 based on performance at the end of the year) etc.
Projector's On!! And I have CURTAINS finally!!
They're the speakers which aren't up yet but will be shortly. 500 Watt jobby…should irritate the neighbours.
Focal Point, yup it's the projector screen. What a nightmare THAT was to put in. Had to go into the loft with various lifeforms I imagine live up there now and screw in another piece of wood to screw the damn screen into.
Can't not have a rug on a laminate floor :). Goes with the rest too.
Sub me for the panda and I think we have one relaxed Boomer.
Been a lot of hard work but I'm pretty sure it's worth it. Love it at the moment and I'm pretty sure once I've got all my tech gizmo's in here it'll be even better.


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Sergio Cortes Is The Best Michael Jackson Impersonator Of All Time
Michael Jackson was well known as the King of Pop without a doubt. However, since Michael passed in 2009, there have been many Michael Jackson Impersonators out there who actually make a career out of their impersonations. Who is the best Michael Jackson impersonator of all time? The answer is definitely Sergio Cortes. He is a Spanish man who is known all over Brazil for his Michael Jackson impersonations, and he has many fans that come from all over just to see him perform.
Just by looking at Sergio Cortes, one can tell that he looks a lot like Michael Jackson. Sergio has very light skin and Michael's well-known long, dark, curly hair too. He has even made his voice resemble Michael Jackson as well. Basically, when it comes to the look of Michael Jackson, Sergio Cortes could pass as his identical twin. If Michael Jackson and Sergio Cortes stood side by side, one might even have a difficult time telling who is who because that is how wonderful Sergio is at impersonating Michael. It isn't just his sound that makes Sergio like Michael, Sergio is the real deal.
Sergio Cortes has been a long-time fan of Michael Jackson, and he began his career during his teenage years and started re-enacting all of Michael Jackson's greatest hits. Sergio studied all of Michael's choreography so that he could perfect his impersonation skills. Sergio has even studied all of Michael Jackson's videos and has since recreated the videos as well. To be a true impersonator, one must go all out to be just like that person they are imitating, and this is just what Sergio Cortes does.
As previously mentioned, Sergio Cortes does everything as similar to Michael Jackson as he can, and that includes imitating Michael's famous dance moves and theatrics. As many know, some of Michael Jackson's dance moves include the Moonwalk, the Circle Slide, the Hip Thrust and more. Sergio Cortes didn't just stop at learning how to sing like Michael Jackson or looking like him either, he even learned everything that made Michael who he was, and Sergio makes sure to give his fans a great show. Sergio has many fans across the world, and even though Sergio is an impersonator of Michael Jackson, there is no better Michael Jackson impersonator in the world than Sergio Cortes, and even Michael Jackson fans can testify this.
Sergio Cortez and The Experience Of Impersonating The Greatest Pop Icon That Ever Lived
When MJ died in 2009, the news hit the entertainment industry hard. This is because Michael hadn't only been a musician; he had been the head of a revolution in pop culture, an inventor, entertainer and an icon in every sense of the word. The worst part about the death was that he had been gearing up for his comeback tour, one that millions had already paid for in advance. This means that there were millions of people that were left with a yearning to see the star perform.
One Spanish man seems to have found a way of helping people relive their fondest moments of being in the presence of the pop idol. This is Sergio Cortez. Born and raised in Barcelona Spain, Sergio started getting interested in the work of Michael Jackson at a very tender age. The fact that he does resemble the king of pop also played a role in guiding him towards becoming the best MJ impersonator the world has seen in a while. After the death of Michael, Sergio started thinking of ways in which he could help the fans of MJ relive the experience of being in the presence of the master illusionist and entertainer.
Sergio formed a dance group that focused on rehearsing and performing MJ songs solely. Two of his brothers acted as his backup dancers. The fact that in addition to looking like Michael, he also sounded like him made his work much easier. After lots of practice and rigorous social media campaigns, Sergio started getting bookings for shows with people that wanted to see the real MJ performing.
The most amazing thing about Sergio Cortes and his performances is how well he has mastered the moves and vocals of the real MJ. As a matter of fact, people that attend his shows say that they do feel like they are once again in the presence of MJ himself. Sergio has since moved from Barcelona and settled in Brazil. Here he has a huge following of people that just want to relive the MJ experience.
Sergio spends most of his time rehearsing and improving on his stage performances. When he is not working, he will be busy promoting his act or relaxing in his private residence. The personal life of this upcoming star is as secretive as that of the pop icon himself. Sergio truly is a rising star that is fun to watch.
Sergio Cortes Has Been Able To Impress Many With His Skills
When Sergio Cortes was just a child he began to have a great deal of respect for Michael Jackson. He liked the way that the man was moving and how confident he was in himself, and Sergio Cortes wanted to be like that. And years later he was able to become just like the man as he started to impersonate him. Sergio Cortes has put a ton of work into perfecting his skills and becoming someone who looks and acts just like the singer. He wants to pay the singer an honor by doing this, and many people have come to think of him as the best Michael Jackson impersonator because of how much work he's put into doing things.
Sergio Cortes loved Michael Jackson since he was a child, and it has to feel great for him to be able to take on the legend's life and become more like him every day. It has to feel great for him to be able to offer to people a bit of Michael Jackson even after the singer has passed. Sergio Cortes has done all that he could to become great at impersonating the singer, and many people have recognized him for that. They've come to respect him for what he has done.
There aren't too many people in the world who would be able to take on the life of another and live it out as if it were their own, and the talent that Sergio Cortes has should not go unnoticed. He was able to capture the look and actions of Michael Jackson, and he has been able to impress many people through doing that. He should be respected by everyone who sees him because of just how hard he has worked to make himself into a great impersonator of the man.
Michael Jackson himself would be proud to know that Sergio Cortes was impersonating him if he were still alive to see him. Sergio Cortes has done a great job of taking on the life of the singer, and everyone who sees him will find themselves impressed by him.
Sergio Cortes Manages to Make a Living Impersonating His Idol
There are a lot of people that have become fans of MJ impersonator Sergio Cortes. He has become one of the most fascinating individuals in the world of entertainers. There are a lot of fly-by-night impersonators, but Sergio Cortes has become the ultimate entertainer. He looks like Michael Jackson and he has become someone that has this unique hold on MJ fans. He brings his "A" game to the stage, and a lot of people appreciate him for this.
There are a lot of people that just want to stand next to him and take photos with him because he looks like Michael Jackson. Cortes is really one of the most exciting entertainers in the world of impersonating. MJ was his idol, and everyone that has seen Sergio Cortes knows that he gives 110% every time that he steps on stage. This is not an accident. Cortes is able to give it all that he has because he has practiced relentlessly. He makes it look easy, but he has managed make it look easy because he has studied the path of Michael Jackson.
Between the different albums down through the years MJ has had a lot of different looks. He had a lot of different elements that would allow him to build a solid show with stage lighting and dancers. Sergio has the ability to make some fans happy because he has seen the MJ concert footage. He has duplicated what Jackson has done in videos and concerts. The fact that he is able to study and perform the moves so graciously makes Sergio one of the most prolific impersonators. There are not a lot of people that never got around to seeing MJ perform when he was alive. What Sergio gives the new generation is a chance to see someone that they missed. He has recreated what Jackson has done in concerts and this makes him a valuable resource in the entertainment industry.
There are people in the United States that are trying to see Sergio Cortes live. He has a tour, but right now this show is outside of the United States. There are already a lot of performers in the United States that do Michael Jackson tributes. Sergio may be able to penetrate this market though because he looks so much like Michael Jackson. He has continued to perform and really keep the Michael Jackson legacy alive.


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On October 31st, professor Gus John delivered a research seminar entitled "Intercultural Dialogue and Mutual Respect between Europe and Islam – The challenge for Education" at the University of Birmingham. Here is the lecture in full:
Let me thank my friend and comrade Dave Gillborn for nominating me to deliver this lecture and thank the School of Education for the invitation to do so.
Professor David Gillborn is one of the few academics in this country who has courageously and consistently engaged education practitioners, policymakers and fellow academics on the issue of race, ethnicity and education in the last period, especially in this era of neo-liberalism and the marketization of schooling and education. We owe a lot to him for his clarity of vision, the incisiveness of his analysis, the relevance of his research and his perseverance in encouraging teachers, students and voluntary education projects to be bold, to think outside the box and to challenge establishment 'wisdom'. Activists for children's education rights, like myself, in communities across the country, continue to look to him for academic research evidence and policy analysis to support our perennial struggles. For me, and I dare to say it in this forum, that is an even more critical endorsement for any academic than the validation of one's peers. It therefore gives me great pleasure to be able to share some thoughts with you today to mark the start of Prof Gillborn's professorship at this university.
Let me begin with a quotation with which you are no doubt familiar:
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity, or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
I had a life experience with Britain in Grenada and Trinidad before I arrived in this country in 1964 as a theological student, to continue my life experience in Britain, having already done 2 years theology in Trinidad.
I soon became Chair of the Education Subcommittee of what was then quaintly called the Oxford Committee for Racial Integration and what today would be called the Oxford Race Equality Council. OCRI as it was called then was run by a woman who became a veteran in the anti-racist movement, the late Ann Dummett and her husband the late Professor Michael Dummett. As I engaged in the middle 1960s with the English schooling system and with academia at Oxford University, where I was a member of the African and Caribbean Students Society, I soon became convinced that Britain faced two momentous challenges. One was to determine who and what it was and what its place in global politics was as it tried to remake itself after two devastating world wars, with only two decades separating them. The second and closely related challenge was to determine how it would deal with the legacy of Empire.
There was no doubt in my mind then, and even less now, that neither of those two challenges has had any part in determining the shape, structure, orientation and practice of schooling and education in Britain. In fact, 'Race' is permanently off the radar, despite the Equality Act and the RRAA 2000 before it.
Post war migration and the active recruitment of former colonial subjects from the New Commonwealth to rebuild Britain and its service sector created demands for Britain to examine how the schooling system was dealing with the educational entitlement of its white working class population. We knew that it was only through that lens, after all, that we could see and understand how it would respond to our educational aspirations and expectations. The high aspirations we had as newcomers seemed excessive, out of place, and were dubbed 'unrealistic' in official reports. The nation certainly did not relate those expectations to all the stuff we had been fed by the colonial administration in the lands from which we came. Crucially, our aspirations and educational demands did not mirror those of the white working class who for generations had been socialised to know their place, pay due deference to their betters and not entertain ideas above their station.
Even before the schooling system under successive governments tried to understand and deliver on those demands, globalisation and the movement of people from the South to the North as economic migrants and as refugees and asylum seekers escaping armed conflict and political repression changed the social landscape in Britain over the last four decades or so. This, too, should have served as an impetus for government to restructure schooling and define its purpose. Instead, ever since the beginning of the 1960s, the trend has been for governments to adopt schooling policies in a manner that suggests that schools are catering for a white, Christian, school population with a common heritage, a uniform class and socio-economic background, espousing commonly shared values within a consensual framework.
White working class children were assumed to share the same values as those planning and delivering curriculum in schools. Curriculum was crafted as if for a white, middle class schooling system that was straining to keep all things British and white, save for the odd nod in the direction of literature in English from foreign parts to add some variety to the canon of English Literature. Social policy, education policy continued to operate in a manner that suggested that it was up to the ethnic minorities to conform and fall into line. Resistance to all that, in the form of the multicultural education movement, the antiracist movement in education, black supplementary schools and the more inclusive curriculum they developed were seen as deviations from the norm, to be tolerated at best, but not worthy of influencing 'the mainstream'.
Adjustments were made to the religious education curriculum, with an element of comparative religion providing basic knowledge of the tenets and practices of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism, as well as Christianity. Notably, little was/is done about the major traditional African religions, including that of the Yoruba people of West Africa, despite the growing size of the schooling population of West African heritage. African religion, including the Ifa Tradition which pre-dates Christianity and which even missionary bishops embraced, is still confined to the realm of ju ju, witchcraft and idolatry.
In the last decade or so, notions of cultural diversity and multiculturalism have been challenged vociferously, undergirding the growth of Islamophobia in Britain as a consequence of the 2001 disturbances in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham; the 9/11 massacre in New York, the subsequent USA/Britain initiated 'war on terror', and the July 2007 bombings on the transport system in London. You will be familiar with the concerted attempts of establishment figures such as Mr Trevor Philips and Mr David Cameron to bury multiculturalism, but for those wishing to examine the phenomenon in greater depth, I strongly recommend this wonderful collection of essays, Defending Multiculturalism, edited by Hassan Mahamdallie. The whole book serves as a useful backcloth to this lecture, but if you have time for nothing else, read the essay by Professor Tariq Modood, Multiculturalism and integration: struggling with confusions.
In the time remaining, I want to explore the need for an education system in Britain that focuses more pointedly on intercultural education and for internal dialogue within and between ethnic and religious communities, including white British ethnics, such that those communities do not become polarised while the education system continues to operate as if it is dealing with an undifferentiated mass of people whose 'diversity' is acknowledged as 'enriching Britain', while systems of oppression within and directed against those communities, not least in the schooling system, continue apace.
First, though, a few basic propositions:
…. even when it pretends that we all subscribe to 'commonly shared values'.
Let me share this quotation:
"Today, the men and women living side by side in our states and cities, in our societies, have incredibly diverse roots, are linked by heterogeneous ties of blood or place and are sceptical of ideological systems whose power of alienation has been all too amply demonstrated.
"All these women and men, without exception, disregarding their different origins and nationalities, contribute to the economic and social development of the community in which they live.
"However, the democratic debate which must shape the future of these communities continues to operate within a restricted framework, seeing internal diversity solely in terms of those whose presence is legitimated by their affiliation to the cultural identity which historically founded the state in question.
"The others remain outsiders, either treated as privileged guests or as 'minorities', accepted to the extent that their identity is compatible with the degree of adaptation or 'integration' expected of them".
Etienne Grosjean (1994)
There has been a vexing debate about multiculturalism in Britain and the rest of Europe off and on since mass migration to the UK and continental Europe after the Second World War. That debate has raged more and more in the wake of the 9/11 disaster in New York in 2001, in which over 3,000 people lost their lives, and as a result of the bombing of the transport system in London in July 2005 in which 52 people were killed. Both incidents were said to be the work of Islamic extremists who set out to launch deadly attacks on the State and people of the USA and Britain respectively.
As we all know, these incidents taken separately and together, have resulted in fundamental changes in how our lives are regulated, in safety procedures governing international travel, in a so-called 'war on terror' that the USA and Britain principally have sought to wage with impunity and in the growth in the phenomenon known as Islamophobia across Europe.
Since then, of course, there have been major local incidents that have had huge international repercussions leading to loss of life, such as the Danish cartoon incident in September 2005 in which the Prophet Muhammad was depicted in newspaper editorials, and much more recently, September 2012, the film 'Innocence of Muslims' made in the United States of America which caricatured Islam. This most recent incident led to the murder of the US Ambassador to Libya and protests elsewhere in some predominantly Islamic countries. Some 23 people have since been killed in protests against the film in Pakistan alone. There is now an alleged £200,000 bounty on the head of the film maker.
Time does not allow me in this lecture to deal comprehensively with all of the above issues. Permit me, therefore, to make the following observations:
In summary, then, I would say this:
Clearly, we need to stop thinking and speaking about Islam as if we are talking about a single entity, a Faith without complexity and without myriad allegiances and interpretations; interpretations that lead some Muslims to do barbaric and ungodly deeds. We need to resist the attempt of the media, of Islamophobes or of unthinking, ordinary people to make all Muslims responsible for the conduct of some fundamentalists and extremists, or for the criminal acts of some who are followers of Islam.
Since 2005, the domestic 'war on terror' has led to the use of Stop and Search powers that have seen young Asian men, Muslim and not, stopped, searched and arrested in proportions that we used to associate only with young black men, principally African Caribbean. Yet, as a thematic review by HM Inspector of Prisons reported in 2010, 'fewer than 1% of the 10,300 Muslims in prison are there because of terrorist-related offences'.
Danny Afzal, a reformed offender who is Muslim and is working with the Prison Reform Trust, as well as on Goldsmith College's Open Book project helping former offenders into higher education, said:
The vast majority of Muslim men in prison do not hold radical, extremist views. When I went to prison I found that practicing my religion gave me discipline, structure and kept me safe. One of the biggest problems I had when I was released was that there was no proper resettlement programme in place.
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said in response to the thematic report:
The Prison Reform Trust welcomes this timely report and its recognition of the important work conducted in prisons by Muslim chaplains. Too often Muslim prisoners are seen as potential extremists in the making instead of a diverse population in need of a safe environment, individual supervision and support and proper preparation for release.
We need to remember that the history of religion, whether we are talking about the spread of Christianity, of Islam or of Judaism has been a history of fundamentalism and of barbarism. That barbarism was the hallmark of the Roman Empire and of the British Empire, no less than that of the Ottoman Empire. For many decades before Britain turned its focus on the question of fundamental Islamists on its shores, it grappled with the activities of the Irish Republican Army as the IRA sought to expel the Brits from Northern Ireland and put an end to their ostensible support for the loyalist Protestants.
I do not believe that we can successfully address issues of intercultural dialogue and mutual respect between Europe and Islam if we adopt a simplistic and non-nuanced approach to understanding manifestations of Islam in Europe and across the world. In order to adopt such an approach, we need to make a clearer distinction between:
We have a duty to defend the right of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Iraqi, Palestinian men, women and children, and all others who happen to be Muslim, to go about their daily business, including collective acts of worship anywhere in Europe, without being targeted by malevolent folk of any ethnicity simply because they are Muslim.
What certain communities have been experiencing since September 11 and the subsequent pursuit of the Taliban and Bin Laden, and since July 2005 is identical to what Muslim communities (and individuals mistakenly identified as Muslim) experienced here in Britain during two Gulf Wars and the pursuit of Saddam Hussein. Every Muslim was assumed by some to be fundamentalist, a supporter of Bin Laden, committed to the domination of the world by the forces of Islam. For that very reason, children were taunted and physically attacked, Asian businesses targeted and Mosques desecrated during the Gulf War because some people believed that all Muslims must necessarily identify with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the exploits of Saddam Hussein.
In order to stop themselves, their families or their premises becoming targets of anti-Muslim attacks, many Asian shop owners (Muslim and non-Muslim) took to flying the Union Flag outside their premises to show their allegiance to Britain and their support for 'Operation Desert Storm'. As a director of education in London in 1991, in the wake of Operation Desert Storm, I was dealing almost daily with physical attacks on Muslim students, girls wearing the veil in particular, as they made their way to or from school.
This government and the last have imposed surveillance duties upon further and higher education institutions with respect to 'the Prevent agenda' which clearly arise from the notion that all Muslim students are potentially a threat and it is therefore necessary to make them all aware that they are under the spotlight.
That said, we need to be seen to take as firm a stand in defence of the rights of women and of children from emotional and physical violation within Muslim communities themselves, as we do in opposition to Islamophobia in all its various manifestations. Above all, we need to ensure that fear of being branded Islamophobic does not deter us from affirming those rights and acting with progressive forces within Islam itself to safeguard them and give support to the vulnerable and to the excluded.
Recently, in Britain a number of Asian men, the eldest of whom was almost 50, were given long prison sentences for their grooming and abuse of vulnerable white school girls over a long period. Some eight of them subjected those girls, the youngest of whom was 13, to months of sexual abuse, gang rape, intimidation and threats of serious physical violence. Apart from the sheer horror of what those girls suffered, the community was outraged about the fact that those men insisted that their own daughters dressed modestly and in accordance with Muslim custom, stayed away from boys and especially non-Muslim boys, while those same men paraded themselves as upright members of the Muslim community.
Notions of 'mutual respect', not just for them but for what many dubbed 'hypocritical Muslims', meaning ALL Muslims, went straight out the window.
In terms of building for the future, I want to suggest that:
Finally, in relation to the Danish cartoon affair and that recent film made in the USA I would say this:
I believe the argument about 'freedom of speech' and people's right to express awkward, blasphemous or otherwise gratuitous offensive views is a spurious one. I am sure people would not be advancing that argument if the cartoons or the film depicted the sexual abuse of young children, or other acts which civil society, never mind the law, considered morally reprehensible and an abuse of children's fundamental rights to dignity and protection from harm. The exercise of free speech, therefore, has a social and moral context which is also the context in which the media that purports to reflect public opinion and to give the public what they want actually operate.
In my book, therefore, such gratuitously offensive and self-indulgent acts have no justification, and certainly not on the grounds of defending free speech and press freedom.
That said, however, I have equally little sympathy, or time, for those who rush to the barricades and take up arms in defence of the Prophet.
If, after all these centuries and its turbulent history Islam is not mature enough to withstand the stupidity and mindless provocation of a few individuals, with or without malevolent intent then it must rest on very shaky ground indeed. Islam in Europe has endured continuity and change for at least five centuries. A…h, the Beneficent, the Merciful and the Compassionate can surely not demand that innocent people lose their lives in order that the honour of Islam be avenged and the Prophet defended, as if God and His Messenger are totally incapable of ensuring that Islam goes forward for a further 500 years, long after those zealots doing the maiming and killing have themselves passed on.
This is evidently not the first, and I am sure that it won't be the last, time that some idiot or agent provocateur sets out to lampoon the Prophet or rubbish Islam. There therefore needs to be a mature debate within Islam, in all its complexity and diversity about those acts and the predictable reactions to them.
How do schools encourage and guide a debate among Muslim students and all students on these vexing issues? Where are school students receiving the knowledge they require in order to understand the tendency among some British born Muslims to play out here in Britain conflicts involving Britain's and the USA's foreign policies and the activities that flow from them? How are schools assisting young people in understanding the distinction between the five core issues I mentioned above:
How are schools assisting all young people to understand the human values that make us fit for living in civil society and that bind us as communities, irrespective of differences of language, race, ethnicity, culture, beliefs and country of heritage?
History has taught me that absolutely nothing trumps Human Rights. It cannot be subordinated to faith or religious belief, to caste, to class, to tribal affiliation, to kinship, to national customs, or to anything else. So, how do we create and sustain a human rights culture in our schools, where these human rights standards are articulated and upheld:
International Human Rights Standards
Britain signed up to this. How does that square with the appalling record on school exclusion in our schools and the reasons, often quite pathetic, for those exclusions?
CEN, the education charity I chair, is currently dealing with a case in which a 4 year old has been permanently excluded by a Church of England primary school for 'sexually inappropriate behaviour'. The child has been kept at home so far for nearly six weeks. The school tried to get him into a pupil referral unit but the PRU refused to have him on the grounds that he is a little child and should not be excluded and expected to start his schooling career in a pupil referral unit.
What kind of a country is it that makes it legal for a school to use the power to exclude a child of that age for any conceivable reason? What sort of schooling system, what kind of Church is it that would stigmatise a small child in that manner? What sexually appropriate behaviour is the child supposed to display?
The little boy is black.
Even at his tender age, he and his parents cannot have an expectation that his school would act with common sense, discharge a duty of care and guide the child's development. On the contrary, he is starting his schooling career with a blot on his record and stereotypes heaped upon him and his family by a church school that simultaneously purports to teach Christian values. The fact remains that education law empowers the school to take such action and the Independent Appeals Panel is no longer authorised to compel the school to reinstate the child.
It is this absurd obsession with punishment that lies at the heart of this country's record for jailing the most people in Western Europe, excluding the most young people from school, having the most illiterate prison population, and all the rest of it. Is it any wonder, then, that rather than examining the systemic issues that lie beneath the eruption of violence in August 2011, all David Cameron and his government could do is show the nation and the world how tough they could be on 'sick', 'feral', 'thugs' and 'criminals'.
In my book, 'The Case for a Learner's Charter for Schools', I argue that the relentless pursuit of academic excellence as measured by test and examination results at the expense of the holistic development of young people, i.e., mind, body, spirit as well as intellect, displaces the need to equip young people with the moral compass that enables them to act intuitively and instinctively with moral purpose. In other words, acting responsibly because it is the right and just thing to do and not because the law requires it. I cannot stress enough the idiocy of placing such huge emphasis as schools do on coercive compliance and on externally imposed discipline as a brake on the exercise of individual freedom. Clearly, when the law and sanctions for breaking the law become irrelevant and cease to act as a deterrent and a constraint on human conduct, all morality is stood on its head.
This is the scenario that unfolded at Victoria Station in March 2010 when a schoolboy, Sofyen Belamouadden, was stabbed to death by a group of boys from a different school. The fact that it was 5.00pm and rush hour, the fact that hundreds of people were present and trying to get transport home, the fact that they were most likely to be seen by CCTV cameras if not by the traumatised crowd of commuters did not trigger anything in the brain of those twenty school students to prevent them slaughtering their victim so mercilessly and nonchalantly. Yes, they were (many of them) academic high fliers; yes, their school was expecting high grade 'A' level results from them; yes, their parents had high ambitions for them, but none of them seemed able to deter the others from their potentially murderous revenge attack on the boys from another school.
The social and political landscape in this country has undergone immeasurable change and the demography of Britain necessitates a fundamental rethink of who and what schooling is for. Depressingly, however, almost 50 years since I first engaged with the issue of schooling and society in Britain, I find an education system which is even more backward and is structured to reinforce divisions, compound social exclusion and fail in its duty to prepare this generation to live peaceably together and manage a future that bears the hallmark of equity, justice and inclusion.
So, what is to be done, I hear you asking?
There is a raft of measures which are urgently needed and these have to do with leadership, democratising schooling, monitoring and tackling, the 'ethnic penalty' in teaching, assessment and sanctioning of students, enhancing students' self-management skills and much more besides. I want to deal with what I see as one urgent necessity, however.
As long as 1975, the Black Parents Movement of which I was a founding member produced a manifesto statement in which we argued that:
Independent Parents Power and Independent Students Power is the key to change in education and schooling.
Parents and students need to organise themselves independently in their own interests and reclaim schooling and education. Every other stakeholder in the schooling system is organised, whether in trade unions or professional associations, except school students and parents. Some parents are able by virtue of social, cultural and financial capital to manipulate the system and make it to their advantage; the vast majority of parents are not.
School students are highly sophisticated users of the new technology and especially of social networking media. Just think what a revolution in schooling it would be if they were to empower themselves with knowledge, information, representational and campaigning skills and hold schools to account and act as a brake on the worst excesses of the likes of Michael Gove. What a revolution to find the school students of the land having debates about exclusion policies and practices, about school curriculum and assessment regimes, about youth employment, about access to higher education, about religion in education, about building the future they want in this society.
I don't know that I would see that in my lifetime, but I live in hope. I live in hope that our schooling system will not continue to select and nurture those who are 'chosen to rule', progressing to the universities and the job opportunities that will confirm them in that, while others are written off and seen as surplus to the requirements of the economy, if not a threat to civil society.
I live in hope that my grandchildren will not be fighting these same battles when they get to my age.
I live in hope that this generation will not see the 'status quo' as an option and will organise themselves to make the present leaders of state and organisers of the nation's schools, and those that will come after them, rewrite their script and come to a different settlement with this new nation.
I live in abundant hope!
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Cristian Fernandez is a thirteen year old boy from Florida who is currently awaiting trial for the murder of his two year old half-brother and the sexual abuse of his five year old half-brother. He is being tried as an adult. If he is convicted of the murder charge, he is facing a life sentence in prison. His crimes are appalling, to some unspeakable. He stole the life of a tiny baby boy and destroyed the innocence of another, leaving him a lifetime to cope with living after sexual abuse.
This was the first time I heard about Cristian. I haven't been able to get him out of my head since. All I can picture is a naked, dirty two year old boy walking the streets alone at 4am in the morning while his grandmother was getting off her face in a nearby hotel and his fourteen year old mother was nowhere to be found. It actually hurts my heart to think about it. He should have been tucked up in bed, warm and safe with a full belly and a contented look on his face.
He was born to a twelve year old mother and a 25 year old father who "sexually assaulted" her. (I'm putting "sexually assaulted" her in inverted commas here because I'm a little confused by the terminology. Maybe the law in the States is different but here in Ireland if someone forces another person to engage in non-consensual sex against their will, it's rape not sexual assault.)
Cristian's thirteen years have been full of neglect, violence, sexual abuse and extreme poverty. He didn't stand a chance. His brothers didn't stand a chance. His mother didn't stand a chance.
My thoughts also turn to the twelve year old son of Declan O'Reilly, who watched his father being shot at least three times when they were out walking on a busy city road one evening last week. O'Reilly lived a life that brought him to that fate, that moment in time, but his son is an innocent child. How does he get over that – every young boy's worst nightmare? As he gets older, how does he manage learning about the life his father lived versus how he died? What way will his life go? I hope he has strong, loving people surrounding him and protecting him right now.
The eleven year old girl and her three year old half brother who watched gangland criminal Gerard Eglinton shot to death are also scarred for life. They didn't deserve that. My heart breaks for them, for all of them.
Can we blame someone? Who do we look to to protect these innocent children?
Their parents? But what were their own lives and circumstances like?
The Government? But where does the intervention start and how far does it go?
Really, I just want to scoop them all up in my arms and tell them it's going to be okay. I would be lying and they're unlikely to believe me but what else can you say? Sorry life has been so terribly cruel to you. Sorry that you were born into this life and your world has fought against you getting the life, love, health, safety and education that you deserve. Sorry I can't wave my magic wand and fix it for you.
It is a random lottery of biology that decides what kind of life our babies are born in to. I'd like to say that it's our parents that are responsible for keeping us safe and guiding us through life until we can fend for ourselves but it's not a simple as that.
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Soviet_American | 29
Or to swallow, and not spit.
xxrogerthatxx | 19
If you're attractive he might not be too grossed out
cryssycakesx3 | 22
it's still second hand food, it's gross no matter what the person looks like...
swaggalikethat | 22
I'd say Op owes him a good tip after all that. I bet that waiter was souper pissed
dragonkisses28 | 25
If you can't swallow it you shouldn't put it in your mouth, and don't talk when your mouth is full. Didn't anyone teach you manners?
Llama_Face89 | 33
22- she could be the most attractive woman in the world but that shits still nasty.
xxrogerthatxx | 19
I said "too grossed out" not "vomit fetish". Yes I know, it's still disgusting but it might be easier to deal with coming from an attractive female.
Hopein2025 | 14
Give him a big tip
Leslygrammar | 3
OP please tell us he's not attractive Its less embarrassing.that way! This needs a follow up
By darlingdollie | 24
You should've just let it go. I don't think one more spoonful would do much justice.
Llama_Face89 | 33
Honestly if it were me puking would have been more tolerable.. Poor manners bug me.
By toxic_walrus | 15
One time I tried smiling at someone and soda came out of my nose. I feel your pain, OP.
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Smiling and swallowing and breathing at the same time. Wasn't pretty.
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She should've been at the salad bar. The soup is a trashy little hovel.
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When some of the top fashion houses of Europe and the United States—Gucci, Comme des Garcons, Louis Vuitton and Brooks Brothers—are wearing our wool, you'd think we'd do our darnedest to ensure that that wool is forever associated with the pasturelands of New Zealand.
Not so. Repeated bids by North Canterbury farmer Peter Radford to have the certification process of his top-shelf Saxon wool endorsed by the New Zealand Wool Board continue to fall on deaf ears.
Now, attempts by European wool suppliers to put low-quality 'Saxon' wool on the international market are sabotaging Radford's business selling high-quality fibre under the Saxxon and Escorial brands.
What's leaving the door wide open to such sabotage, and putting this multimillion-dollar retail market at risk, is the Wool Board's ongoing refusal to endorse the authentication of this distinctive wool.
The weariness in Radford's voice is palpable.
"US clothing retailers just can't believe New Zealand is not prepared to protect the integrity of what they see as one of the best products they've ever had to offer their customers. They want that country stamp of approval, but the Wool Board refuses to recognise Saxon as a wool type. Until it is recognised, like Perendale or Merino, it will continue to be a victim of international piracy."
Since 1998, when Radford first approached the Wool Board with a business plan in hand, he has lobbied to have the rare Saxon wool (featured in Idealog #4) differentiated from the general merino classification. But to no avail. Because the Wool Board had contracted Merino New Zealand to market all New Zealand merino wool, it felt it could not endorse Escorial. Now, as Radford's international customers see inferior, so-called Saxon wool being offered at one-third the price of Radford's real deal, they wonder why this country seems determined not to endorse a brand sought after by the world's top fashion houses.
"In years gone by cheap Sauvignon Blanc from Chile was being passed off as New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc," Radford says. "And that was stopped. Now they talk about trying to get special niche marketing and high value products out on to the market—but it's really only talk."
Certainly the spiel is there. Addressing the Exposicion Rural in Argentina last month, Minister of Agriculture Jim Anderton said that New Zealand's response to the changing global market "is to shift more of our primary produce to high value and branded goods. Instead of trying to compete on price alone, we are trying to compete more and more by meeting demand for premium produce."
Without any appellation control to authenticate the origins of this particular premium produce, flogging of inferior wool fibre as Saxon will become an international pastime.
Contacted by Idealog, Anderton says the Government is keen to support "the kinds of value-adding developments exemplified by Mr Radford and Escorial"—hence the funding made available to Escorial through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise—but now that that New Zealand Wool Board is under the responsibility of the Wool Board Disestablishment Company (DISCO), Anderton says that he is unable to insist on any particular course of action.
"Since woolgrowers voted to deregulate the wool industry the Government's involvement has become greatly diminished and Escorial's issues are now a commercial matter between private companies."
Yet DISCO still has to report to the Minister and still has a legal responsibility to sort out any liabilities of the Wool Board. The Wool Board's reputation remains intact and its stamp of authentication is respected internationally.
But if New Zealand will not endorse a Saxon qualification and certification process, there are countries that will.
"We've got to the position of saying that if we're not going to get any assurance from New Zealand, we might as well cut ourselves adrift," says Radford. "The Australians are desperately keen. I always knew I could have gone there but I've always resisted it. This is where I live."
It seems that if New Zealand can't lay claim to Saxon, as France has laid claim to Champagne and Bordeaux under their 70-year-old Appellation of Controlled Origin rulings, we might just find that the models on the world's most-watched catwalks are wearing Saxon … of Australia.
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Manual and Website Workgroups
NYS Family Planning Provider Manual Workgroup
With the release of the Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, or QFP, and the revised Program Requirements for Title X Projects, the NYS COE is reconvening the three workgroups it previously established to inform the development of a Family Planning Provider Manuals for NYS DOH-funded sub-recipient agencies. These workgroups initially were convened in late 2011 to develop manuals that were specific to Title X project management and administration requirements in New York State, and reflected evidence-based and best practices in family planning and reproductive health service provision. The manuals still will be subdivided into three sections: Program Administration; Clinical Protocols; and Education and Outreach. The NYS COE will be reaching out to original workgroup members, but also invites others interested in contributing to this process to get involved. If you or some within your agency is interested in participating on the Program Administration, Clinical Protocols, or Education and Outreach Manual Workgroups, please reach out to Julia Sheed at email@example.com.
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While the current NYS COE website fulfills its primary purposes, the NYS COE strives for a program website that is more functional and better able to support family planning provider agencies at improving their practices, processes, and outcomes. In response, the NYS COE is recruiting members to serve on a Website Workgroup. The Website Workgroup will provide feedback to the NYS COE around what family planning providers need and want from a program website. Workgroup members will participate in two online surveys and two debrief conference calls related to the website. Workgroup members will inform the layout, design, and user experience and will serve as testers of the revamped website. If you are interested in participating on the Website Workgroup, please reach out to Julia Sheed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The 83rd All-Star Game is at Kauffman Stadium on July 10. Leading up to that game, The Star is looking back at a Midsummer Classic game every day.July 13, 1948 American League 5, National League 2 Sportsman's Park in St. Louis
The National League's first-inning homer was a mere blip for the American League on its way to victory.
After the Cardinals' Stan Musial hit a two-run shot, the National League had just five hits over the final eight innings of the game The Tigers' Hoot Evers hit a solo shot in the second to slice the lead in half. An inning later, the Indians' Lou Boudreau hit a sacrifice fly that tied the game.
The American League pulled ahead in the fourth inning when Yankees' pitcher Vic Raschi hit a two-run single off the Cubs' Johnny Schmitz and New York teammate Joe DiMaggio followed with a sacrifice fly.
Raschi not only got the victory, he also had the game-winning RBI, which may be the only time that's happened in an All-Star Game.
Joe Coleman of the Philadelphia A's got the save, while Schmitz was the losing pitcher.
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Scripture App Builder is an exciting new program that will build an Android app containing text, images and sound, so that texts can be shared with smart phone users. It is capable of building apps from texts other than Scripture, such as local stories, health information or literacy materials.
This page outlines how to use it with non-Scripture texts, and includes two short example folk-tale like books.
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DECA provisions - the Defence Enterprise Collective Agreement (DECA) includes explicit provisions enabling Indigenous members to participate in cultural activities during NAIDOC week and other ceremonial events.
Defence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Network (DATSIN) - is a body comprising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ADF personnel and Australian Public Servants employed in Defence. The network is a communication vehicle that provides informal support to its members for its members and by its members;.
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As we celebrate our 9th year of business in this great community, it's a time to reflect and look ahead, but, above all, to also say "Thank you!" Without the continuing loyalty and support of our customers, Hyundai would not be the success story it is today.
Though young and relatively unknown in 1983, Hyundai had high ambitions when it chose Canada as its first step into the North American market. It was a bold decision, but daring to dream big has always been one of the defining characteristics of our company.
While our stable of vehicles has grown over the years, one thing has remained steadfastly the same: Hyundai's capacity to delight and amaze.
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