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White Women Accuse Webster Police Of Police Brutality Towards Black Men Despite Police Chief Who Appeased BLM Last Year By Laying Face Down Protest
Last June Webster Police Chief Michael Shaw attempted to please protesters at a BLM rally by laying face down with his hands behind his back for 8 minutes while a mob told him "it's not enough, but it's a start," in an attempt to appease them.
In an incredibly powerful moment, Police Chief Michael Shaw, urged by chanting, joins the crowd laying face down on the pavement @telegramdotcom pic.twitter.com/nkuDPeODzo
— Ashley Green (@agreenphotog) June 6, 2020
Apparently that good will has been forgotten though by this woman.
Her name is Addison Brown, and yesterday she posted in a local Facebook group that she witnessed the Webster Police beating the crap out of a black Muslim woman for no reason except to be racist!
The post didn't last long because the owner of Webster House of Pizza chimed in to alert the mob that this was indeed fake news.
Wiktoria Mankowska was reminded that the cops in Webster were "pro BLM" because of the actions taken by Chief Shaw in order to make a BLM rally all about him, but she was not impressed because of what WPD allegedly did to her boyfriend.
According to Krakow Cracker here, her boyfriend was arrested and slammed to the ground after being pulled over for no reason! He's never broken the law before.
Ever. If you can't trust a grown man in dog filter then who can you trust?
The lesson here is that kissing BLM's ass is pointless, and any sign of good will the cops offer towards BLM will be forgotten by ratchets the moment a cop holds them accountable for doing something shitty. Maybe people like Chief Shaw should stop trying to please people who want his job abolished because they believe his officers are subhuman trash.
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I've really no great admiration for Ken Livingstone but suddenly I do have a little sympathy for him. Before British entrepreneur Lord Alan Sugar or anyone else lining up in the politically correct and outraged queue formed in a sudden media storm condemns the Labour politician for 'antisemitism', he and they may want to examine at least some historical research and evidence from the Shoah Resource Centre, that is The International School for Holocaust Studies, which, in its paper on 'The Transfer Agreement and the Boycott Movement' asserts in its introduction:
In the summer of 1933, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the German Zionist Federation, and the German Economics Ministry drafted a plan meant to allow German Jews emigrating to Palestine to retain some of the value of their property in Germany by purchasing German goods for the Yishuv, which would redeem them in Palestine local currency. This scheme, known as the Transfer Agreement or Ha'avarah, met the needs of all interested parties: German Jews, the German economy, and the Mandatory Government and the Yishuv in Palestine. The Transfer Agreement has been the subject of ramified research literature.
Many Jews were critical of the Agreement from the very outset. The negotiations between the Zionist movement and official representatives of Nazi Germany evoked much wrath. In retrospect, and in view of what we know about the annihilation of European Jewry, these relations between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany seem especially problematic. Even then, however, the negotiations and the agreement they spawnedwere profoundly controversial in broad Jewish circles. For this reason, until 1935 the Jewish Agency masked its role in the Agreement and attempted to pass it off as an economic agreement between private parties.
And which concludes...
The Jewish boycott against Nazi Germany waned over the years and slipped off the public agenda as Nazi Germany consolidated its economic and international status. The German-Polish non-aggression treaty vitiated anti-German initiatives in Poland, and in the economic treaty between the two countries in November 1935, Germany obtained a Polish commitment to take action against the anti-German boycott committees in Poland.
The Transfer Agreement remained in effect throughout these years, although difficulties in implementing it emerged. The root of these difficulties was the inability of the fledgling economy of Palestine to absorb Jewish capital in the form of goods. Consequently, an attempt was made to expand the sphere of trade from Palestine to the entire Middle East. This gambit ran up against many obstacles, including the anti-Jewish boycott in the relevant countries. Despite efforts to expand the scale of the boycott, many German Jews did not succeed in making use of the capital that they had freed under the Transfer Agreement. An accord similar to the Transfer Agreement, known as the Clearing Agreement, was worked out between the Jewish Agency and the Polish Government in the second half of 1936 and signed in March 1937.
Its purpose was to enable Jewish emigrants from Poland to transfer their assets to Palestine despite Polish currency laws by purchasing Polish goods. Unlike the Transfer Agreement, the "clearing" was supposed to be reciprocal, i.e., to create the possibility of transfers of capital and goods from Poland to Palestine and vice versa. The path to this agreement was complicated, because the Jewish Agency had to protect itself against Polish demands to dictate policy, through the agreement, in the distribution of immigration certificates. Additional difficulties stemmed from internal struggles on the Jewish side. The Revisionists, after having formed a broad front in opposition to the Transfer Agreement when it was being drafted, evinced great interest in the Clearing Agreement and attempted to conclude separate arrangements that would circumvent the Jewish Agency, from which they had seceded by this time. The Clearing Agreement began to coalesce as the condition of Polish Jewry deteriorated and debates on "evacuation" became more frequent. Gruenbaum led the negotiations on behalf of the Jewish Agency, thereby implementing his gloomy prophecy concerning "flight and organized exodus." These subsequent developments in Poland thus proved the sorrowful impotence of the boycott movement in contrast to the practicality of Zionist formula.
Translated by Naftali Greenwood
Source: Yad Vashem Studies
Vol. XXVI, Jerusalem 1998, pp 129-172
The Transfer Agreement and the Boycott Movement:
A Jewish Dilemma on the Eve of the Holocaust
Yf'aat Weiss
Thoroughly interesting and moving, thought-provoking and now clearly...
Is the Holocaust Remembrance Center an 'apologist for Hitler' as well Ken Livingstone then?
Is this Jewish Historian, Edwin Black, who wrote a book entitled 'The Transfer Agreement' also wrote a book entitled 'IBM and the Holocaust' on that prominent company's role in the genocide of Jews, also an 'apologist for Hitler'?
I'll let the 'antisemitic' Jewish historian fill you in.
Is this Jewish Historian, Edwin Black, who wrote a book entitled 'The Transfer Agreement' also wrote a book entitled 'IBM and the Holocaust' on that prominent company's role in the genocide of Jews, also an 'apologist for Hitler'?
Or is the historical truth just 'antisemitic' and offensive?
The idea that 'Hitler founded Israel' is plain wrong. The idea that - for reasons quite different to the Zionist movement - he tried to establish a homeland for the Jews in the place then known as Palestine is the subject of much historical enquiry, from which some incontrovertible facts have emerged.
I'll let the 'antisemitic' Jewish historian fill you in.

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It's no news that Malaysia's tourism sector was hit hard last year, and is only now beginning to recover. Zhexi and Yongzhi were two such employees who also felt its impact, losing their jobs as hotel chefs during the pandemic.
But this setback didn't keep them down for long. With RM10K, they set up a small omakase experience in a 300 sq. ft space on February 20, 2021. They called it Eat and Cook.
At the time, it could only cater to 12 customers in a day, 6 for lunch, and 6 for dinner.
As neither Zhexi nor Yongzhi knew how to do marketing for their brand, they sought advice from their best friends Steve and Harry, who today serve as their current director and partner, respectively.
Together, the 4 of them were able to drive up awareness and traffic to the store, and seeing the traction they had gained so far, they decided it was time to expand.
Now located in Bukit Jalil City, they're able to serve up to 30 pax a night.
An omakase of Malaysian memories
"The name of our restaurant sums up what we're about. You enter with an appetite to eat and our chefs will decide what to cook for you—right in front of you," Steve and Zhexi repeated their philosophy to Vulcan Post in an interview.
While Malaysia doesn't lack omakase options, there's a slight difference in Eat and Cook's omakase branding.
When you think "omakase", you'd usually think about Japanese cuisine, and rightfully so, as that is where the concept originated from.
However, for Zhexi, Yongzhi, and Steve, all of whom graduated from the same culinary arts school, what they wanted to take from omakase was mainly the mystery of the menu.
Then they focused on using locally-sourced ingredients for their dishes.
"We found that our homeland ingredients are neglected by our people and actually we do have very great produce like our herbs, seafood, and also spices from our local farmers which are from Cameron Highlands, Pantai Remis, Sabah, etc.," Steve and Zhexi said.
"When we serve customers, we also will share [with them] how we cook, what local ingredients we are using to create the dish, and also what is the flavour [of it] that we grow up [with] as a Malaysian."
The duo gave an example of a familiar dish they had transformed. Assam laksa is usually served with thick noodles and a rich mackerel broth, but at Eat and Cook, the noodles are replaced by tuna strips and the broth is changed to a light foam.
"People may not know [what it is when] looking at it, but when they taste it they will immediately [recognise] the flavour of the dish," Steve and Zhexi said.
In a sense, you could say that their omakase theme is built on reigniting memories Malaysians have with their favourite food through reimagined and transformed dishes.
Pivoting in the midst of a lockdown
Just over a month after opening, Eat and Cook actually had to close its doors when the government announced the COVID-19 lockdown.
"It really hurt badly because every month we do not have enough sales to cover the expenses of the restaurant, because we didn't [lay off] any of our employees," the duo shared.
"But thank god, once we opened the restaurant, most of our customers supported us so we are able to get back on track."
Though they weren't able to serve customers omakase during the lockdown, the Eat and Cook team didn't mope around.
They got to work changing their food from fine dining to a variety of other styles such as barbeque, a Don (rice bowl dish) menu, and a Home Chef Series meal kit for fans to cook up their own 3-course set for 2 pax at home.
Since reopening, Eat and Cook has returned fully to omakase fine dining. According to the team, business is booming—they're always fully booked, and most guests have to book a slot 1.5 months in advance.
Eat and Cook changes its menu every 3-4 months based on the season, and for the current one, it's serving an 11-course menu that costs RM398++.
On their website, you can usually find a menu that outlines the ingredients you'll be enjoying, but you'll have no idea what creative forms these dishes will take in the spirit of omakase.
Teamwork makes the dream work
Amidst strong fan support, Eat and Cook hasn't forgotten the people who matter most: its own team. It prides itself on fostering a good team culture, and even highlights team members on its social media to give fans a personal understanding of the people behind their food.
"We would like to expand our F&B group so all of the staff have the opportunity to lead, to experience, explore their creativity, and also become one of the shareholders," Steve and Zhexi expressed.
"We do believe a good commission system is also very important in an organisation because it motivates the employees and makes them more productive, and they will feel the company is part of them as well."
With the right team, they're aiming to become one of the best restaurants in KL and to get recognised by Asia's 50 Best Restaurants to increase brand visibility.
Already thinking ahead, Steve and Zhexi believe that this would enable them to recruit elite talents as well as start new brands.
Each brand would carry different concepts, but the team will continue to target medium to high-range customers.
Featured Image Credit: Eat and Cook


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Avril on Lions QB Stafford: 'He can launch the ball'
SEATTLE -- If there's anyone on the Seahawks who understands Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, it's Cliff Avril.
Avril was drafted by the Lions in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft. A year later, Stafford was picked.
Avril said Wednesday he - and everyone else on the Lions - immediately recognized the quarterback's physical abilities.
"He can launch the ball," Avril said at a Seahawks press conference. "I've seen that from day one."
But it's the way the quarterback has grown since Avril left the Lions in 2013 that has most-recently impressed the defensive end. His growth into a mature, calculated quarterback who knows how to harness his physical prowess is something to take note of, Avril said.
"He's taken control of the offense," Avril said. "He's making plays veteran players should make."
Avril isn't the only Seahawks player to take note of Stafford's abilities. On Wednesday, Bobby Wagner spoke with PFT Live, saying Stafford's running game has also blossomed in the past few years.
"You know, he's very confident," Wagner told PFT Live. "Throws the ball really, really well. I think the thing that people sleep on the most is his running ability."
Wagner went on to say the Hawks plan to guard against the run, especially since the 6'3" quarterback is not afraid to take a hit.
"There's not too many quarterbacks who are going to lower the shoulder but we respect it, and we're ready for it," Wagner told PFT Live.


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The decision to shift focus in your clinical research site to a different medical indication can be influenced by myriad factors. Perhaps you are no longer seeing the volume of studies you previously saw in your area of expertise. Maybe your patient population has changed and you must adapt to meet their needs. It could just be that it's time to apply your skills and resources to something new.
"Clinical operations work is multi-faceted, required individuals to have knowledge and experience in both research and business." 1
Whatever the reason, here are some guidelines for attaining a study in a new indication
Leverage your relationships.
Review your local professional and personal contacts. Do any of these contacts have a practice in a different therapeutic area than you? If so, connecting with these contacts could be a great strategic approach to branch out into a new indication, simply by association. Initiate contact and start having conversations. Ask questions about the studies they have conducted, equipment needs, patient populations, etc. Capitalizing on these established relationships can help you create a referral network for future protocols. Think about these relationships when you are completing a feasibility questionnaire for a study outside of your usual therapeutic area and be sure to showcase all potential patient access. Additionally, contacts who are referring physicians can act as sub-Is for your site, and, as a result, grant you access to studies you may not have been qualified for before.
Conduct observational studies.
While observational studies are not necessarily revenue-drivers, they are great "filler" studies to work on during slower times. These studies provide you with an opportunity to introduce and establish yourself with large sponsors and CROs, and to break into a new therapeutic area. If you have access to the appropriate patient population for an observational study, and if it will not cost you anything to conduct and manage, it is worth considering. An observational study can be added to your CV to showcase your experience, and demonstrate to sponsors and CROs that your site has the capacity to run trials in a variety of indications.
Keep an open mind.
Think outside of the box when considering whether or not to take on a new study. A study you may have declined at first glance may be perfectly accessible if you are able to negotiate a better advertising budget or are able to utilize recruitment support. Think of the reasons why you wanted to decline the study in the first place, then determine possible solutions for those problems. Are the solutions feasible? Do you need to do something as simple as hiring a recruitment coordinator for the study? Do you need to utilize a call center to assist with patient pre-screening and retention? Maybe you already have a recruitment coordinator and need to allocate money within the budget for more traditional advertising, instead. If the solutions seem within reach, taking on the study might be worth serious consideration.
Be strategic.
During this process, leverage not only your previous clinical research experience, but also the patient populations you may have access to that are not in your typical line of focus. For example, if you have historically been exclusively dedicated to endocrinology studies, but are located in a climate that gives you easy access to patients with sun damage, you should consider expanding your therapeutic areas to include dermatology. Additionally, many therapeutic areas have overlapping indications. Think about the symptoms your patients are experiencing, not just the specific illness itself (i.e. diabetes and foot ulcers; women's health and urology; psychiatry and pain; women's health and migraines) and aim for studies that address those symptoms.
Consider rebranding.
Over the years of working with a multitude of research sites in various therapeutic areas, we have noticed that many sponsors and CROs will automatically remove a site from consideration based solely on their name. Your site's name may be pigeon-holing you in ways that you are unaware of, holding you back from new opportunities before you even get a chance to present your experience and patient access. For example, if you have mainly focused on neurology studies but want to break into new therapeutic areas, you may want to consider condensing your site name from "Brain Behavior of Houston" to "BB of Houston" to reduce sponsor bias.
Develop a roadmap.
No matter the reason why you want to expand the indications your site works with, you need a plan for how you are going to do it. Mallory Thomas, our Director of Site Relations, is an expert in breaking sites into new therapeutic areas. She has specific advice for her sites: "Develop and implement a plan for what is needed for each new indication you want to branch into. Do you need raters? Any specific equipment? Injectors? Once you lay out what is needed and have checked off all boxes, it is easier to approach new protocols. Use other sites who are already skilled at these types of studies for support." Thinking critically about each and every detail of what is needed for a study in a new indication will set you up for success. Knowing ahead of time what will be required of you, and planning so that you will be able to implement and follow through on what is needed, will show sponsors that you are prepared and increase the likelihood that you will be selected for a study.
There are many ways to leverage your site's experiences and capabilities that will assist with breaking into a new indication.


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Keywords: Sovereignty; Sexuality; Indigeneity; Colonialism; Land Rights.
In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty, author J. Kehaulani Kauanui unearths one historical period, the early- to mid-nineteenth century, to explore transformations wrought by Christianity and the introduction of the Anglo-American legal system upon three spheres in the Hawaiian Islands: land, gender and sexuality. In doing so, she examines the consequences of such changes for the ways in which "contemporary sovereignty politics" in the islands have evolved (2-3). The author approaches this task with the theoretical tool of paradoxes as means to present new ideas linked to the problematic history of colonialism and sovereignty in the islands, and simultaneously to represent the concerns of the indigenous sovereignty movement in the twenty-first century. She begins by exploring tensions inherent to external (i.e. US government) efforts to represent indigenous Hawaiians as equivalent in status to American Indians in terms of prospects for political representation and engagement vis-a-vis the United States, a notion rejected by activist Mililani Trask in 2014, owing primarily to the sovereignty movement's continued engagement with the discourse of kingdom-based nationalism. The imagery and history associated with the Hawaiian monarchy's presence as an agent of international relations and of Hawaiians' relations with outsiders through the nineteenth century is revisited as it feeds into contemporary indigenous formations of nationalism and sovereignty politics.
The book is composed of four chapters, the first concerning questions of indigeneity and identity, the second matters of land and sustenance, the third questions of marriage, gender and propriety, and the fourth addresses discourses revolving around sexuality and "savagery." The book delves into the question of colonial biopolitics to discuss the arrival of liberal governance in the nineteenth century as a process wherein deviant sexualities were increasingly managed and regulated by the state as indigenous chiefs and elites worked in "tandem" with missionaries to achieve increasing sense of "racial respectability" (23). As a result of colonial processes, indigenous women experienced a "degraded gender status" as Western social norms were increasingly imposed on and internalized by Kanaka Maoli or indigenous Hawaiians.
The idea that indigenous sovereignty stems from the land itself is foregrounded in the author's discussion of indigenous sovereignty discourses, which often refer not only to historical facts and events (i.e. the fact of the monarchy) but also to indigenous constructions of sovereignty through language and ideas. Since "sovereignty" is an adopted, Western concept, indigenous political, legal and cultural terms are introducedin Kauanui's text, including the term ea (life, breath, to rise, rule, independence) (28). As a diasporic Hawaiian scholar with a specialization in anthropology and American studies, yet without an intimate knowledge of the indigenous Hawaiian language, the author's involvement in sovereignty politics since 1990 informs her methodological approach. Her 2008 study, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, predates this study, prompting the immediate question of how Paradoxes of Sovereignty, effectively published ten years later, departs from the previous book. Hawaiian Blood's emphasis on genealogy rather than land and sexuality makes it unique, while Paradoxes addresses many issues, like Christianity and colonization, that have been amply explored in other scholarly works.1 In this regard, in some places the book draws from the previous and pathbreaking work carried out by historian Patricia Grimshaw. What does make Paradoxes unique, however, is its self-professed emphasis upon "critical discourse analysis and archival research with a close examination of contemporary historical documents of Hawaiian nationalist statements and position papers" (31). Historical and contemporary articulations of Hawaiian sovereignty are, as a result, explored here side-by-side with fruitful results.
While the book examines a number of competing theoretical threads, they are tied together under the umbrella of colonialism's past and the evolution of Hawaiian statehood, with an eye to the impact of constitutionalism, political production and monarchical evolution in the decades of the mid-nineteenth century. The arrival of a more institutionalized patriarchy, through the application of Western legal norms upon indigenous ones, was one critical result of changes implemented from "above" during this era. This study is fundamentally interdisciplinary, drawing in part from a range of schools and approaches, including native studies, cultural studies and American studies, as well as anthropology and history. The examination of governance and self-determination alongside the question of gender makes this study unique. In her theoretical formulations of how indigeneity has operated in the Hawaiian context, the author points to Robert Nichol's concept of the "settler contract" as an extension of the social contract, whereby domination and hegemony of Western colonial governments over indigenous peoples was and continue to be enacted through the social contract model (53).
Chapter two examines the divergence between Western conceptions of property and the Kanaka Maoli/indigenous Hawaiian reverence for the land, as refracted through indigenous Hawaiian deities that have manifested components of the land and natural environment, inflecting it with meaning and a sense of shared spiritual literacy for centuries. Hawaiian deities effectively are "living entities with names" and are understood to literally embody the physical world (77). As this spiritual canon might be linked to the sovereignty movement, it can indicate a rejection of Western ontological modes of organization, and restore power to the notion of original occupancy as a mode of existence that is explicitly linked to a "distinct" relationship to Hawaiian lands, which resultantly continues to exist either beyond or outside of Western legal frameworks (80). Despite these ideals, the author remains sufficiently objective so as to highlight the dissonance between contemporary trends in land expropriations in the islands (81) and the specificity of desires of the sovereignty movement.
The Great Mahele, which in 1848 re-divided lands according to an imported Western model, and which was taken up pragmatically by Kamehameha III in an effort to protect his Kingdom from further foreign encroachments, alongside the 1850 Kuleana Act, are revisited to discuss the evolution of land owning patterns and property rights across the kingdom from the mid-19th century onwards. Indeed, the story of early land privatization in the Hawaiian islands has been amply documented in other works, most prominently Stuart Banner's Possessing the Pacific.2 Here, as Banner notes, accommodation to foreigners would rework the "internal politics of land tenure in the islands."3 Missionaries, as well as their offspring, were amongst those who would benefit economically from these changes (83; see also Schultz 2017).
What sets this study apart is its effective emphasis on the story of colonialism and governmentality in the islands and the body politic's transformation with time (93; 97). The indigenous population would be cut in half by epidemics over the course of 1803 through 1831; in turn, these changes would dramatically impact patterns of sustainable agriculture which predominated prior to the Great Mahele and help signal the onset and ascent of commercial monoculture throughout the islands. Oral and written deeds to the land predominated prior to the Mahele. Under this system lands were primarily awarded or bestowed from above, in a top-down fashion, following the process of kalai'aina or carving of the lands (87). Alongside this, the paradigm of kuleana (responsibility or interest) predominated. Modern capitalism's ultimate dismemberment of these prior systems, (100) is charted here in some detail, with a focus on those capitalists whose scale of ownership has implicated them more directly in contemporary indigenous sovereignty demands and legal conflicts (97-105). Moreover, the "very concept of sovereignty" is revisited through a nod to recent trends in the indigenous agricultural and ecological restoration movement (112).
The historical prosecution of adultery amongst indigenous Hawaiians is a key theme explored in the third chapter, as Western missionary norms were increasingly enforced. The institution of Christian marriage accompanied the social pressures permeating the indigenous world, and as the author successfully shows, "the missionary pursuit had an emotional element to it" (138). Owing to the advance of coverture, indigenous women were effectively displaced from politics and disenfranchised as legal actors once married. (151) The final chapter creatively considers how reforms enacted by Hawaiian chiefs reworked the "savage" sexualities that were normative amongst indigenous Kanaka Maoli to secure recognition from outsiders, adopting Western heteromonogamy as a model (159). This history of biopolitics is also impressively brought up to the present day, where discourses of "erotic autonomy" have taken precedence (192). In all, Kauanui's study constitutes a significant addition to the existing anthropological and historical scholarship that engages with events taking place in the nineteenth century in the islands, and scholarship linked to the contepmorary sovereignty movement, complementing the existing scholarship in a nuanced and commanding way. There is no doubt that this study will be of interest to scholars in the field, and its varied insights will constitute an enduring gift to the decolonization movement and its undertaking, both in the islands and more broadly amongst Indigenous communities worldwide.
1. See for example, Jennifer Thigpen, Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawaii's Pacific World, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), Joy Schultz, Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017)and Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989).
2. See Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), in particular the chapter on the Great Mahele.
3. Naomi Alisa Calnitsky, "On the Margins of Empire? Toward a History of Hawaiian Labour and Settlement in the Pacific Northwest." Journal of the Polynesian Society 126.4 (2017):420.
Works Cited:
Banner, Stuart. Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Calnitsky, Naomi Alisa. On the "margins" of empire? Toward a history of Hawaiian labour and settlement in the Pacific Northwest. Journal of the Polynesian Society 126 (4): 417-442.
Grimshaw, Patricia. Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Hawaii, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,2008.
Schultz, Joy. Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803285897/
Thigpen, Jennifer. Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawaii's Pacific World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2014.


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NEW ORLEANS – A U.S. fighter pilot who mistakenly bombed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan (search) in 2002, killing four, was found guilty Tuesday of dereliction of duty and was reprimanded and docked a month's pay, or nearly $5,700.
Maj. Harry Schmidt, 38, "acted shamefully" during the episode, "exhibiting arrogance and a lack of flight discipline," Air Force Lt. Gen. Bruce Carlson wrote in the reprimand.
Schmidt, a former instructor at the Navy's "Top Gun" fighter pilot school, had blamed the bombing on the "fog of war," saying he mistook the Canadians' gunfire for an attack by Taliban (search) forces. He said his superiors never told him that the Canadians would be conducting live-fire exercises near Kandahar airport that night.
He was originally charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault, but the charges were reduced last year to dereliction of duty.
Carlson said Schmidt had become impatient waiting for permission from air controllers to attack what he believed was Taliban artillery. He was warned to "make sure it's not friendlies" before firing.
The reprimand said Schmidt should have taken evasive action rather than attack and accused him of lying about his motivation for the bombing, using "the inherent right of self-defense as an excuse to wage your own war."
Charles Gittins, Schmidt's civilian lawyer, said he is considering an appeal and repeated his claim that Schmidt was made a scapegoat for his commanders' poor planning. He said the reprimand amounted to an unfair conviction for murder.
"If what Gen. Carlson claimed were true -- that Harry used self defense as a pretext and recklessly released ordnance without legal justification -- that constitutes unpremeditated murder," Gittins said in a prepared statement.
Gittins also has said an Air Force-issued amphetamine given to pilots to help them stay awake on long missions might have impaired the pilot's judgment. However, Col. Richard Harding, a judge advocate general with the Air Force (search), said Gittins presented no evidence regarding the pills in last week's hearing.
Schmidt's mission commander, Maj. William Umbach, who was in a second F-16, also was charged with assault and manslaughter. Those charges were dismissed last summer, and he was reprimanded for "leadership failures" and allowed to retire.
The case against the two Illinois National Guardsmen has been closely watched in Canada, where many were outraged by the bombing and the two days it took President Bush to publicly apologize.
The four soldiers who died were the first Canadians killed in combat since the Korean War. Eight others were wounded.
Maureen Decaire, mother of one of the Canadians injured in the bombing, said she understands that Schmidt did not intend to cause harm, but the decision still leaves her unsatisfied.
"I would like to see him accept responsibility, which I don't think has happened," she said from Winnipeg.
Schmidt was found guilty after a closed, non-judicial hearing held last week at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The Air Force had announced last month that it would not court-martial Schmidt; he could have gotten up to six months in prison if convicted at a court-martial.
Schmidt remains in the Air National Guard but has agreed never to fly Air Force jets again.
In videotape of the mission taken from Schmidt's F-16, he can be heard telling air controllers that he and his mission commander were under attack and requesting permission to open fire with his 20 mm cannon.
"Hold fire," an air controller responded.
Four seconds later, Schmidt said: "It looks like a piece of artillery firing at us. I'm rolling in, in self-defense."
He released a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb 39 seconds after the "hold fire" order.


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There is something I remember from my childhood days and a tradition that I have carried over into my own family… the sick tray. Though the term doesn't sound very appealing, and honestly I should probably come up with a new name for it, the sweet nostalgia of it reminds me of home, and being taken care of. Certainly, being sick is never fun, and as everyone agrees, we all want our mamas when not feeling well… but this was always something my mom would do that meant so much. It was the thing I looked forward to when sick. The concept may sound strange, but it was really something that made me feel so cared for and better, and isn't that what it's all about? Now that I'm a mom myself, this is one of the traditions that I've carried on. Thankfully we don't need it all too often in our home, but for instances where we do, like my husbands recent bout with pneumonia, the sick tray is something I think about.
When Kleenex challenged me with how I can spread some love in honor of Lover's Day next month, well I knew that I needed to share that taking care of my loved ones always included a box of Kleenex brand tissue. The next time someone isn't feeling well, try creating your own tray of goodies to meet their needs and cheer them up. Ours always include a bell (to ring for help when needed), tissue, sanitizing spray (I make my own), something pretty like a flower or bit of decor, a cup of something warm (broth or tea), and then any extras or medicines needed. What else would you do to add that special touch, showing someone love while taking care of them?
Of course the new Kleenex Brand Ready to Care Collection by Betsey Johnson takes it up a whole level in style and design! Since I'm always one that's a sucker for great aesthetics, I couldn't help but create a tray that makes anyone feel better, whether sick or not! How great would it be to give a little extra love with a morning cup of coffee or late night snack on a tray? Or create your own morning tray to have near you while you get ready in the morning… that special "you" time. Or what about creating a welcome tray for a guest room when friends or family come to stay with you?
I totally have a collection of trays in my home, and now I'm inspired to leave styled trays all around spreading little bits of love and that feeling of "pick-me-up" throughout the day. Go ahead, try it… curate your trays with items you love, adding elements of texture, color and design.
Another thing that says "love" and is a genuine "pick-me-up" is leaving sweet little notes for loved ones to find. My kids are head over heels for the Kleenex Brand tissue packs from the same Betsey Johnson line, Aliyah being all about that zippered design! I usually keep a stash of these in my purses, and am always sharing with people around me (yep, I've totally got the "mama" bag!). So why not up your lovin' game and hand-write a few notes to leave for someone to find.
Full disclosure, I actually had a few of these in my bag and when I went to use a tissue I found a note. I know I'm the one that wrote it, but it still made me smile! 🙂
So what do you think, how can you spread some love for Lover's Day this year? I think I'm going to repurpose those Betsey Johnson Kleenex boxes into postcards when empty!


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Huawei Smart IDC Energy Saving Catalyst Project wins the 2021 TM Forum Sustainability Impact Award
[London, England, October 22, 2021] Recently, the project "Smart IDC–Intelligent Energy Saving for Data Centers" co-incubated by Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile won TM Forum's Catalyst Team Award for Sustainability Impact. TM Forum's Catalyst Awards celebrate the most revolutionary successes in advancing the telecoms industry, proof-of-concepts for industry standards, impact on global sustainability goals and noteworthy contributions to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry.
Smart IDC Energy Saving Catalyst Project Wins the 2021 TM Forum Sustainability Impact Award
"Congratulations on the achievements of the Smart IDC project." Adriano Poloni, the managing director of the TM Forum Review Team commented, "The Smart IDC project effectively uses technologies such as AI, big data, and digital twin. The project proposes an impactful yet feasible solution for energy saving, carbon emission reduction, and efficient utilization of water resources. This solution has been piloted in multiple carriers and data provided has verified the strong results. A comparison of effects from different stakeholders shows that the project meets expectations."
Huawei BestDC@NAIE as the Digital Service Platform of Smart IDC Energy Saving Catalyst Project
The impact of global carbon neutrality is driving the development of new 'green' considerations in the data center construction process. In this project, Huawei's Global Technical Service Dept and General Development Dept, together with the AI R&D Center of China Telecom Research Institute and the Network AI Expert Team of China Unicom Intelligent Network Innovation Center, completed the cloud-edge-end Smart IDC energy-saving solution by combining simulation, AI, big data, and the experience of many experts in the data center integration service field of Huawei. The AI energy-saving solution is applicable to mainstream large-scale data centers, such as IDCs of different cooling systems (air-cooled system, water-cooled system, and indirect evaporative cooling system). The BestDC@NAIE Digital Service Platform of Smart IDC project has been deployed and verified in data center energy-saving projects in China Telecom Guangxi and China Unicom Shanghai.
"I am pleased that we won the 2021 Sustainability Impact Award with Huawei, an important partner of China Telecom. " said Dr. Zeng Yu, head of the Smart IDC Energy Saving Team at the AI R&D Center of China Telecom Research Institute. "With the rapid development of the digital economy, China Telecom is constantly improving energy efficiency. It is of great significance to actively utilize AI, big data, and simulation capabilities to improve the operating efficiency of traditional equipment rooms and achieve green and sustainable development of data centers. We are grateful to TM Forum for choosing us as the recipient of this important award."
Gao Jingting, senior product manager of the Network AI Center of China Unicom Intelligent Network Innovation Center, stressed, " It is very meaningful to work with Huawei to explore the energy saving solutions of data centers in the context of achieving carbon neutrality. The Network AI Center has been dedicated to building a one-stop AI platform to enable our market department and network department to improve operational efficiency and reduce operation costs. Energy saving in data centers is the successful application of AI in specific scenarios. We are very grateful to TM Forum for its recognition of us. It also strengthens our determination to increase investment in AI and energy saving."
"China Mobile has deployed energy saving and emission reduction as a strategic task. " said Guo Zhibin, the project manager of the Information Technology Center of China Mobile. "As the construction and maintenance department of IT infrastructure, the Information Technology Center is dedicated to promoting research on infrastructure energy saving. The Smart IDC Catalyst project has shown us the research achievements of the industry in this regard. The experience of working with the project team is very helpful to us in further research on energy saving in data centers."
The results of the energy saving pilot programs show that the energy saving solutions based on simulation, AI, and expert experience can help medium and large IDCs save power by 10 to 15%. The development and economic benefits of this solution are impactful, especially when implemented at scale. Take a data center with 1000 cabinets of 5 kW/rack as an example. Assume that the actual operating load rate is 40%, the operating PUE is 1.57, and the electricity price is $0.093/kWh. If the load rate remains unchanged, the Smart IDC energy saving solution is expected to save 2.8 million kWh of electricity each year and the electricity cost is about $270,000, reducing 2,600 tons of carbon emission, which is equivalent to planting 110,000 trees.
Over the years, the Catalyst Team Award has been revolutionary in advancing the telecommunication industry, proof of concept for industry standards, impacting global sustainability goals, and accelerating digital transformation across the industry. Based on the concept of improving the digitalization of global data centers, Huawei provides practical technical paths based on carrier grade services, integration, and operation capabilities. Huawei is devoted to accelerating the green & energy-saving transformation of data centers, promoting sustainable development of society, and benefitting the public.


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Easy Beef and Vegetable Stew is filled with tender chunks of beef, carrots, onions and potatoes to create the ultimate cold weather meal in a bowl!
Every year in January, I get the urge to make stew. Easy Beef and Vegetable Stew is the ultimate one dish meal! It is easy to make, filling and a meal everyone will love. Let's get started!
How to make the best beef stew
Advice for making the best beef stew include my #1 tip- brown the meat. This critical step adds so much flavor to the stew and only takes a few minutes! I like to use a little bit of olive oil, season the meat generously and toss in flour before browning.
The flour helps create the rich, thick stew we all love. If you have a gluten allergy, skip the flour and simply mix a tablespoon of cornstarch into some of the broth before adding to the stew (see detailed instructions in recipe notes).
What size should I cut my vegetables for stew?
I like to cut my veggies into chunks that are not too big and not too small. If the pieces are too small, they tend to cook before the meat and end up mushy. If they are cut too big, I feel like (especially the potatoes) have a tendency to overshadow the star of the stew, which should be the tender chunks of beef! I aim for chunks that are about 1-1 1/2 inches in size in stew. I mean, I don't get out the ruler, but that is my target size.
How to make flavorful stew
For rich stew, first, brown the meat and set aside, then brown the veggies in a little more olive oil. Letting the veggies have a chance to cook for a minute in the oil also gives a little extra flavor to the finished stew and more depth to the overall flavor of the dish. The secret ingredient is Worcestershire Sauce. It helps gives the stew a beautiful color and there is something magical about Worcestershire and beef together!
Boy Scout Stew
This stew recipe was one I used for years when our boys were younger. Back then, we called it "Boy Scout Stew" and I made it for many, many campouts! The kids often took the ingredients partially prepared and then cooked over the fire at scout camp. Boy Scout Stew can easily be doubled to feed a crowd! I also have made this for pioneer trek a time or two.
Make it your way…
The ingredients for Easy Beef and Vegetable Stew can be modified to include green beans, peas, corn, and mushrooms as well. I often throw in a bag of baby carrots already peeled and prepared instead of peeling and chopping carrots. I have used white, yellow, purple and sweet onions in this recipe, any type of onion will work!
If you have an Instant Pot, I love this recipe for Instant Pot Beef Stew. And I cannot eat stew without making biscuits. I always make Best Butter Biscuits or Ruth's Diner Mile High Biscuits. Both are winners with this stew recipe.
I hope you love this easy to make beef stew recipe as much as we do!
Easy Beef and Vegetable Stew
- 1.5 lbs beef brisket or chuck cut into 2 inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme or oregano or Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 3-4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion, about 2 cups cut in to chunks
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 3-4 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
- 3 cups V-8 vegetable juice cocktail or tomato juice
- 1 cup water
- 1 Knorr beef homestyle stock cups 4.6 oz each, or 2 beef bullion cubes
- 1 1/2 cups celery cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 1/2 cups carrots cut into 1-1/2 inch pieces or baby carrots, whole
- 3 medium potatoes (about 2 cups) scrubbed clean and cut into one inch cubes
Place meat in a medium bowl, season with thyme or dry herbs, salt and pepper. Toss with 1/4 cup flour.
Place the oil in a large stock pot or dutch oven. Heat to medium high.
Working in two batches, cook the meat until it is browned on all sides, when the batch is browned, remove and set aside on plate. If there is flour leftover, sprinkle it over the last batch of meat browning in the pan. Remove any remaining meat from pan, set aside.
Keeping heat on medium high, add more oil if needed. Place the onions into the pan on stove, cooking and stirring occasionally, until the onions are softened, about 5 minutes.
Reduce the heat to medium. Add the garlic and cook for about one minute.
Return the meat to the pan with the onions and garlic. Add Worcestershire sauce. Cook for about 1 minute.
Add the tomato or V-8 juice, water, beef flavoring, celery, carrots and potatoes.
Cover and simmer on low heat for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. Taste and add more seasoning if needed.
Recipe Notes
- Knorr Homestyle Stock cups are sold in the soup section of most grocery stores. They come in a package with 4 cups enclosed. I like the flavor of the Knorr brand. You may use Swanson brand liquid flavoring, regular bullion cubes, or other types of stock flavoring if desired.
- For stew, purchase beef that is a lower quality cut, such as brisket or chuck. This will produce the best result when slow cooking.
- If you have a gluten allergy, skip tossing the flour into the meat. Just go ahead and brown the meat without the flour. Follow the directions for making the stew. When adding water at the end of recipe, reserve about 1/2 cup of water and whisk in 1 tablespoon of cornstarch into water in a cup. Add to the stew mixture and stir gently. This will thicken the stew after a minute or two!
- If you want to skip using cornstarch, get out an immersion blender and place in the pan of stew. Pulse the blender in one or two spots for a second or two. The blended veggies will thicken the stew instantly.
- Slow Cooker Directions: Brown the meat in a pan on stove as directed with flour and seasonings. Place the meat into a slow cooker and add vegetables and seasonings. Make sure to scrape out the bottom of the pan into slow cooker! Add everything except the water to the slow cooker. Cook on low heat for 6-8 hours or until vegetables and meat are tender. If needed, add water.
- This recipe is easily doubled for a crowd.


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Schools throughout rural Connecticut have been shrinking or closing for years. Many districts have consolidated with neighboring towns to pool resources, in a process called regionalization.
And some schools – like Burnham School in Bridgewater – have taken a more creative approach.
Bridgewater has a population of about 1,600. It's about 10 minutes northeast of Danbury. Enrollment at Burnham has been dropping for years. At one point, there were only three kids in an entire grade there, said Teresa DeBrito, director of curriculum and assessment for the district.
"What are we really offering kids if there's only three of them in a classroom, and they stay together for six years?" Debrito said.
So they got creative. Last year, Burnham combined its six grades into essentially two classrooms. Then the marketing began.
They made a promotional video to get people to move to town. They also spent about $6,000 to send glossy, eight-page pamphlets to 5,000 homes in surrounding towns.
It worked for parent Rhei C. Gordon.
"I was looking for something different but I didn't think I could afford it," she said. She was visiting a friend who had received a pamphlet in the mail, advertising the school.
"A Montessori-type model would be more of my ideal, and then she was like, 'This might be just for you,' and I was like, 'Yes, this is just for me,'" she said.
The Gordons are one of 10 families that spent at least $2,500 to send their kids to Burnham last year. The school is among the few in the country tackling enrollment problems by charging tuition, according to Allen Pratt, executive director of the National Rural Education Association.
"Actively marketing or going after -- it's generally not that way across the U.S.," Pratt said. "It may be in pockets, but usually in your rural, remote areas there's not a lot of choices out there."
Rural schools are having to become increasingly creative to stay viable. Some are partnering with nearby bigger towns to provide vocational training. Others are offering more online classes, and some -- like Burnham -- are looking at what's called multi-aged groupings.
But among the biggest struggles for the state's 41 rural districts? Teacher shortages. It's even harder to find qualified substitutes, said Frank Olah, superintendent of schools in Hampton.
"It's difficult. Very, very difficult," Olah said. "As soon as you go long-term sub -- they have to be certified. If it's a long-term sub in art, you have to try find a person who's certified in art first. If you can't, then you have to find somebody who's just certified. So, it's very difficult."
Hampton -- population 1,800 -- is across the state from Bridgewater, about 10 minutes west of Rhode Island. The districts have the same problems, but they don't have the same resources. Half of Hampton's budget comes from state dollars. Bridgewater residents are more affluent, so they get less money from the state.
At the same time, Hampton residents last year voted not to consolidate the administrative costs of Hampton Elementary with two other schools from neighboring towns. That's because people here love local control, Olah says.
"So what does that tell ya?" Olah said. "They are willing to pay for a small Hampton Elementary School, with an administration that focuses on this school."
But at least four classrooms were empty last school year at Hampton. Others have only a handful of students.
During a conversation with Hampton School Board Chairman Rose Bisson and superintendent Olah, the topic comes up. How much is local control worth?
"We're working really hard to do our multi-age grouping, which consolidates the amount of staff we need," Bisson said. "And I think it makes sense to go in that direction, and we're not there yet. It's been a long and difficult road to change, a very basic change in the way children are educated."
Unlike at Burnham, Hampton is just beginning to experiment with these multi-age groupings. Two grades will pair up for a certain lesson, and the teachers share instructional duties. But things can get confusing when you take one class with two grades and two different teachers.
Like what happened when the third and fourth grade teachers discussed a photo project. The fourth grade teacher asks her colleague about how the third grade cites photos. At one point, they talk over each other and some students seemed confused about who to pay attention to.
Connecticut residents have often favored regionalizing upper grades, but have been hesitant to do the same thing for young kids. Also, regionalization isn't a silver bullet.
A report commissioned by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving earlier this year found that there's a balance -- regionalizing up to a certain size can work. If the school gets too big, that can also get expensive. And regionalizing usually doesn't lead to the cost savings that some people hope for, according to the report.
So it's back to being creative.
At Burnham School in Bridgewater, their advertising and marketing program seems to work. For the first time in at least a decade, there was a bump in enrollment last year. They gained two students.


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Smell the seafood with Nong Shim's Neoguri 'Seafood & Mild' flavoured instant noodles. Easy to prepare and ready in just five minutes, this noodle dish is made up of instant, ramen-style noodles, a savoury soup seasoning flavoured with different seafoods (including cuttlefish, anchovy, tuna, and prawn), and dried fish and vegetable garnishes that plump up and add texture as the noodles cook. Best of all, these noodles contain no MSG or trans fats.


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Glossary of Jewelry Terms: B
Bakelite: A trademarked name for a synthetic resin named after Belgian chemist L.H. Baekeland in 1909. Bakelite is a combination of phenol and formaldehyde, which makes for a very hard plastic.
Baguette: A narrow, rectangular-cut stone.
Bail: The connector at the top of a pendant, enabling the pendant to hang from a chain or cord.
Baroque: Bold, ornate, heavy looking ornamentation. When the term is used to describe a pearl, either real of fake, it means that the shape of the pearl is irregular.
Basse-taille: (pronounced bass-tie) This describes a technique of applying glass enamel to a metal surface that has been engraved deeply enough to hold the enamel when heated, with sides high enough to keep the enamel colors separate.
Bezel: A setting for a stone that has a collar instead of prongs to secure the stone
Blue Topaz: A topaz that is light brown or colorless when mined, but turns a vivid blue when exposed to heat. Blue topaz is an alternate birthstone for December
Bog Oak: Wood that was preserved over thousands of years in the bogs of Ireland, which was hard enough to be carved and used as jewelry; popular during Victorian times.
Book Chain: A Victorian style of chain made in gold, gold-filled and sterling silver, in which each link is a rectangular, folded piece of metal resembling a book. They were often elaborately engraved and had large lockets attached.
Box Setting: A stone enclosed in a box-shaped setting with metal edges pressed down to hold the stone in place; also referred to as a "gypsy" mounting.
Brass: An alloy made up of roughly half copper and half zinc which has a nice yellow color.
Brilliant Cut: The standard round brilliant cut consists of a total of 58 facets: 1 table, 8 bezel facets, 8 star facets and 16 upper-girdle facets on the crown; 8 pavilion facets, 16 lower-girdle facets, and usually a culet on the pavilion, or base. Although the brilliant style was devised to give maximum brilliance and fire, many stones cut in this fashion do not have ideal proportions or angles for that purpose. Modifications of the round brilliant include such fancy shapes as the marquise, half moon, pear shape and many others. See also "Round Cut".
Briolette: A pear-shaped stone that is faceted and drilled to hang like a bead.
Brooch: A large pin; an ornamental piece of jewelry with a pin and clasp to be attached to clothing. It's from the French word "broche" which means "to pierce," or an object/weapon made for piercing.
Bronze: A very dense and heavy alloy of 60% copper and 40% tin. It has a dull brown color and is not favored for jewelry because of its weight.
Brushed Finish: Brushed finish, also known as "satin" finish, is a texturing technique that can be used on metals where a series of tiny parallel lines are scratched onto the surface with a wire brush or polishing tool. The finish is semi-matte and may or may not show brushstrokes.


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Good morning, sports fans. Those of you not hiding in your ebola bunkers are no doubt basking in the thrill of victory, or cursing the gods after a crushing defeat. Despite the seemingly endless onslaught of byes, the conference schedule still offered us five showdowns to help suss out the B1G pecking order. Let's review what we learned before we get into the nitty gritty.
Ten wave tops...
1. Indiana may not be fully in the grave without Sudfeld, but Tevin Coleman cannot carry the team on his own. But damn, he is good.
2. Michigan State is still not playing a full four quarters.
3. Purdue at The U (not "Da U") was a great game besmirched by the increasingly common problem of incompetent B1G officiating.
4. For the first time in a long time, Minnesota is a team no one truly wants to play.
5. Iowa is the Iowa we know and love and hate but still love.
6. Rutgers is in real danger of not winning another conference game.
7. Northwestern is still a mystery, and they have seemingly equal chances of going 6-2 or 2-6 in conference play.
8. Abdullah gonna Abdullah. Every game.
9. J.T. Barrett is shaping up faster than anyone predicted.
10. Delany must be a genius about Maryland TV viewing habits, since no one watches the games in person.
Bonus. In the last three seasons, FBS teams who have held their opponents to fewer than 120 yards of total offense are a combined 147-2. Those two losses belong to Florida teams coached by Will Muschamp. This has nothing to do with the B1G, I just enjoy laughing at his coaching impotence.
And now for the deep dive...
Iowa at Maryland. Byrd Stadium officially holds 54,000 fans. Yesterday's attendance barely broke 48,000, and a large portion of that number appeared to be the Iowa contingent. Maryland's home field was as much Kinnick East as it was the den of the edible turtles. Sadly for Hawkeyes at home and afield, the fans were Iowa's best performance all game. We did, however, learn that Randy Edsall still has some hops (kids still say hops, right?), as he snagged a Rudock throwaway with as much aplomb as any receiver. Even though C.J. Brown once again departed the game for Maryland, albeit temporarily, the injury-wracked Terps kept up the fire. With able backup Caleb Rowe gone for the season, third-string nobody Perry Hills decided to make a name for himself with a 53-yard TD toss-and-run to Stefon Diggs. Iowa dropped this one after opening up with a nice INT and a 14-0 lead. In their next 13 offensive series, the Hawkeyes amassed 148 yards and 7 points. That's an average of 11.4 yards of offense per possession. Rudock started 7-for-7 passing, then transitioned to a more familiar 2-of-12. As many greater minds have noted, he seems to prefer throwing to running backs, slotbacks, and Randy Edsall more than his own downfield receivers. Fans were happy to point out that Iowa ended this game in the most Iowa way possible, opting for a FG from the Maryland 6-yd line on their penultimate possession. That left the Hawkeyes needing to go the length of the field to win. Kirk Ferentz is the Bernard Montgomery of the B1G. Iowa next up: Northwestern. Maryland next up: at Wisconsin.
Purdue at Minnesota. What if I told you a month ago that Purdue and Minnesota would not only be an excellent game to watch, but that Minnesota's first place spot in the B1G West would be at stake? Lunatic prophecies like that are how you end up on watch lists. Darrell Hazell has worked wonders with a Purdue team that looked to be molderin' in the grave at the outset of the season. The wild card in this game was the officiating, and by "wild" I mean "atrocious." Cobb's second quarter fumble clearly occurred after his arm hit the ground. Purdue then benefited from a no-fumble call after an obvious catch-and-run by Anthrop on the goal line, which set up a field goal. Minnesota trailed by 11 at the half, but battled back to seal the win with a 52-yard bomb off the toe of Santoso. This marks the first time under Jerry Kill that the Gophers have battled back from a deficit to win. Purdue next up: bye. Minnesota next up: at Illinois.
Rutgers at OSU. Welcome to the functional B1G, Rutgers. If you've hitched your wagon to the State University of New Jersey, this was the ugliest thing you've seen in awhile. The east coast Scarlet came to the home of the Scarlet and Gray and found very little in the way of on-field hospitality (though hopefully the off-field experience was just the opposite). Rutgers was outclassed from the word go, and the game was over by the second quarter. JT Barrett was just plain unstoppable, throwing for 261 easy yards and 3 TDs, and running for 2 more TDs. Gary Nova was just plain. No TDs and the expected INT. There isn't much else to say, other than that the VT loss looks more and more like an inexplicable anomaly of a young team. Since that loss, OSU has averaged 56 points per game, and it's possible that they could join MSU in the top ten this week. The biggest question for the Buckeyes, who are still a very, very long shot to make the playoff, may end up being what to do with Braxton Miller next season. The odds of the young man going pro after not playing a year are slim, but JT Barrett is clearly the future. I wouldn't be shocked to see Braxton follow the Russell Wilson path and take his talents elsewhere as a graduate player, NCAA rules and eligibility permitting. Rutgers next up: at Nebraska. Ohio State next up: at Penn State.
MSU at Indiana. It's hard to think of something new to say about MSU. For another week, Sparty didn't play their best at times, but when they did it was more than enough. Connor Cook had some bonehead moments. Those precious few gaffs came amidst a 332-yard/3-TD performance in which he completed 75% of his passes. The weak point for the ol' "Galaxy Defense" was the run game. Sparty allowed a season-high 213 yards on the ground. It's hard to believe Indiana gashed MSU for more rushing yards in a blowout loss than Oregon did in a solid win. That's partly explained by the lack of a Sudfeld to give Indiana much else in the way of options. Watching Langford get the last four yards to the goal line through the air in a corkscrew dive was a sight to behold. MSU and OSU is shaping up to be a real showdown. MSU next up: Little Brother. Indiana next up: bye.
Nebraska at Northwestern. Another slow start for Nebraska, amounting to a 3-point deficit at the half. Big shocker: Ameer Abdullah was the standout start for the Nebraska offense, generating 4 TDs himself as part of a 146-yd campaign. In the News of the Weird category, WR Demornay Pierson-El threw for more TDs (1) than QB Tommy Armstrong (0). The real story of the win is Nebraska's second-half defense. The Huskers surrendered 28 yards on 26 plays. That's good, and they should feel good. Northwestern looked largely ineffective after the intermission, generating a total of 3 rushing yards in the latter quarters. When they weren't running the ball poorly, Siemian was running for his life. That's bad, and they should feel bad. The real ugliness was Northwestern's uniforms, which looked like wardrobe remnants from the Evanston Renaissance Fair. Perhaps Northwestern should consider more purple tarpage to prevent more than half the stands from being red next time. At this point, I don't know what to make of Northwestern. They're just as likely to win out in the conference as they are to drop every matchup. Your guess is as good as mine. Nebraska next up: Rutgers. Northwestern next up: at Iowa.
Last week, we decried Dave Witvoet as the worst ref in the B1G. Now it seems like he's a symptom of the greater disease of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad officiating in the B1G. Notre Dame should demand B1G crews for their games. They'd have walked away with a victory last night.


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Documenting the types and extent of conservation practices in a watershed is necessary to determine their water quality impacts. A conservation practice inventory for the South Fork of the Iowa River, 85% in corn (Zea mays L.) and soybean [Glycine max L. (Merr.)] rotations, showed only 7% of cropland was managed using no-tillage. About 30% of cropland receives manure annually, prior to corn. Surface residue following soybean was usually inadequate (<30%), indicating a key management challenge. About 90% of fields with >34% highly erodible land, subject to USDA conservation compliance, indeed had erosion-control practices installed. Grassed waterways and riparian buffers were common edge-of-field practices, and highly erodible land fields near streams often had multiple practices and rotations including third crops. Yet, while most conservation practices are aimed at controlling runoff, tile drainage is the dominant hydrologic pathway. Resource management systems that address tile drainage as the primary route of nutrient loss need to be developed and encouraged. Better targeting of this pathway could include practices such as nutrient removal wetlands.
Mark D. Tomer is a soil scientist, Thomas B. Moorman is a microbiologist, and David E. James is a GIS specialist at the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa. Greg Hadish is a geographic analyst with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Des Moines, Iowa. Colleen G. Rossi is a soil scientist at the Blacklands Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Temple, Texas.
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The six-set project will see albums issued individually, on vinyl and CD, starting with "Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95)" on October 30.
Following its initial digital and streaming release this past summer, the album captures Bowie live at the Starplex Amphitheater in Dallas, TX during the US leg of the "Outside" tour.
The phrase "Ouvrez Le Chien" (translating from the French to "Open The Dog") originally appeared in the song "All The Madmen" from Bowie's 1970 record, "The Man Who Sold The World" (which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year), albeit without the z.
The singer also used the phrase for his 1993 song "Buddha Of Suburbia", once again spelling "ouvre" without a Z; it was later added when the phrase and its English translation were prominently featured in the stage set of the 1995 Outside Tour.
"Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95)" will be followed by two more live packages before Christmas, with the remaining three coming early next year; more details are expected to be announced soon.
Special limited-edition boxes for both the vinyl and CD sets will only be available via the David Bowie official store and Warner Music Group's Dig! store.
David Bowie
"Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95)"
Release date: October 30
Look Back In Anger
The Hearts Filthy Lesson
The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
Andy Warhol
Breaking Glass
The Man Who Sold The World
We Prick You
I'm Deranged
Joe The Lion
Nite Flights
Under Pressure
Teenage Wildlife
See also:
David Bowie to release The Man Who Sold The World 50th anniversary edition
David Bowie to release Young Americans 45th anniversary gold vinyl edition
David Bowie previews Paris 1999 live release with rare 1973 classic
David Bowie previews unreleased 1995 live album
Search David Bowie at hennemusic


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Batman: Detective Comics Volume 2: Arkham Knight
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After Batman's brutal battle with the Arkham Knight, things only get worse when one of his most important allies jumps into the fray, and ends up in way over their head! Damian was so certain he could succeed against the Arkham Knight where his father failed and not only was he wrong, but as it turns out, the Knight has a surprising plan for the son of Batman! But when the face behind the mask is finally revealed, we'll learn who's taken up the mantle of the Arkham Knight. What's their endgame? And what's the shocking secret that Batman never knew about a part of his life he'd taken for granted? Unravel this thrilling mystery, as Peter J. Tomasi and artist Brad Walker continue the Detective Comics saga following the historic 1,000th issue of the longest-running comic book in North America.


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The Indigenous North American Lakota community responded to the global threat of COVID-19 with four days of prayer and ceremony. On Saturday, March 21, a sacred fire was built at the powwow grounds in Eagle Butte. Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Keeper of the Sacred Pipe and a longtime URI member and friend, performed the opening prayer while the sacred fire was lit.
Read more about the ceremony, where participants practiced social distancing through four days of prayer, sacred fire, and community offerings.


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The Linda Maurer Award
Annually, the Tennessee Alliance of Support Coordinators (TASC) recognizes a Support Coordinator in each grand region of the state (East, Middle and West) who demonstrates excellence in the practice of independent support coordination (ISC) services for persons with intellectual disabilities enrolled in the state's HCBS Medicaid waiver programs. This award is established as a legacy in the memory of the late Linda Maurer, former Executive Director of Neighborhood Network, Inc.
Linda was a well-respected and admired leader among her ISC colleagues. For 13 years, Linda was instrumental in many of the important initiatives undertaken to improve and enhance ISC services for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families in Tennessee. She served in various leadership roles within TASC for many years. TASC is a stronger and more viable association as a result of Linda's contributions and leadership.
How to Make a Nomination:
Nominations for the Linda Maurer Award are accepted annually.
The nomination form may downloaded here.
The Award:
Each recipient of the Linda Maurer Award receives special recognition of
his/her work and achievements and a cash award of
$1,000 from the Tennessee Alliance of Support Coordinators.


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Making your Gatsby site a Progressive Web App
Published: April 17, 2020 | 1 min readAnother short writeup for the100 Days of Gatsby Challenges. This one involved making your Gatsby site into a Progressive Web App so your site will work well with poor internet service and if you're offline. This challenge involved using gatsby-plugin-manifest and gatsby-plugin-offline.
Much of this was covered in Tutorial Part 8 of the first challenge, so this challenge is completed.
Next up, 100 Days of Gatsby — Challenge 8.