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Last week, CAWNY revisited having our monthly meetings that will be held every final Friday of the month. Folks gathering for justice in the fields of civic engagement and education is a beautiful sight to see.
I see the path toward building power with everyone in this room. It's my hope you'll join us for our next on on October 27th. As someone said at our meeting, "It's so invigorating and hopeful when a room full of like minded individuals come together." Let's build. Bring your friends!
Part of what was discussed was one way in which to resist and come together as a collective to tell our neighbors to vote NO on the Constitutional Convention. Citizen Action has joined a coalition of groups that say #NoConCon! Details on those efforts TBA.
October 9 – Citizen Action is doing a training with the Stronger Together Network at 3PM in the downtown library.
October 10 – The Citizen Action Education Committee will meet at 49 Virginia Place at 6PM.
October 14 – Citizen Action and its community partners are coming together to host the Anti-Gentrification Summit and how all of our work is intersectional in nature. Public education is very much affected by climate change and other issue areas that we fight for. Register here to attend. Saturday October 14, 9AM – 4PM.
Reminder! Citizen Action will continue to let our neighbors know about Vanessa Glushefski – help us get her elected! Like Obama told us, grab a clipboard and get to work. That definitely means our local politics! We're going out this Thursday 5:30-8:00. And of course, we will have people on hand to help train you for your time on the door.
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The Erie Housing Authority Board, at its October 26 meeting, passed a resolution recognizing "every month" as affordable housing month.In past years, the Authority, along with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, (HUD), had recognized one month a year -- October -- as "Affordable Housing Month."
"But that seems to be like thinking families who need help need it only one month a year, " said John E. Horan, executive director of the Erie Housing Authority. "The economic recession and jobless recovery is hitting people hard every day and every month, causing more and more families to need affordable housing all year around."
Therefore, he said, the Authority Board passed a resolution recognizing every month as affordable housing month, committing the Authority to maximize the reduced housing funds available from the federal government "to assure that we provide safe and affordable housing to as many needy Erie Citizens as possible." The Authority provides affordable housing to 2,948 families, but its waiting list still contains more than 2,000 families in need of affordable housing.The Board resolved that the Authority will contact local, state, and federal elected officials to convey the urgent need to restore funding of affordable housing to a "more realistic level," Horan said, "A level that will allow us to provide more housing assistance and maintain our housing inventory."According to HUD, those in need of affordable housing are: "Families who pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing are considered cost burdened and may have difficulty affording necessities such as food, clothing, transportation and medical care.""An estimated 12 million renter and homeowner now pay more than 50 percent of their annual incomes for housing," HUD states. "A family with one full-time worker earning the minimum wage cannot afford the local fair-market rent for a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States." "We have to do more," Horan said.

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Regular blog entries resume February 1st.
Thanks for being patient during my extended quiet period. I'm using the time to get ahead of 7 classes worth of 2016 curriculum.
I'm hoping for a less harried year ahead with projects in the can and the ability to abide by a more normal work schedule. I don't usually make New Year's resolutions but working 12-14 hour days to simply keep my head above water was really starting to take it's toll.
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I've been hard at work using more stash and this time I set my sights on my fingering weight. While it would be incredible to make socks and shawls with all of this yarn…
I crunched the numbers and realized that as I accumulate more and more shawl and sock yarn, I need to allot that much more time to knitting said yarn. Makes sense, right? However, the number of people I'd actually knit socks for fluctuates between 3 and 1 depending on my mood and the number of times I wear a shawl per week is less than once…
so… what to do with all of that sock and shawl yarn?!
With birthdays coming up for my kiddo's buddies, I decided to knit up a few of my Basic Children's Ponchos using doubled fingering as a worsted weight. Doubling the yarn means the projects go a bit more quickly AND I get to ply colors and play a bit with fading colors and creating a really custom look.
Poncho #1:
Here's the before photo, as I was planning what colors to use.
Here's this sweet little poncho, finished!
Poncho #2:
Here's the before photo, as I was planning what colors to use.
Here's the amazing rainbow poncho, finished!!
I adjusted my original pattern because these ponchos are intended for toddlers rather than children:
- I used a size 8 needle instead of a 9 to make the poncho a little smaller.
- I wanted the neck to fit a little more snugly, so I cast on 68 instead of 72 and worked the rolled neck. After the purl round, I increased to the 72 and placed my markers according to the pattern.
- The ponchos were worked to about 13" for the 2-year olds.
- I held fingering weight double stranded, as mentioned above. To keep the ponchos from looking too striped (I wanted more of an ombré look), I would only switch out one strand of yarn at a time. Let's say I was knitting with two strands of color A. I would work that up and then cut one strand out and add one strand of color B. Then I used A & B held together. When I was ready to change, I cut color A and added in a second strand of color B.
Working the colors this way allowed me to use every last drop of the smaller balls, it also meant I didn't have to weave in four tails in one spot. I'd only have two tails – one from the color that was cut and one from the color that was added in. The color that didn't change didn't need to be cut. Save yourself a little work!!
Sometimes my color shifts worked in this way:
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Stay tuned to see an EASY PEASY cowl that uses the same color shifting techniques with double stranded fingering weight AND the very cozy hats I've been knitting up on my knitting machine with fingering weight yarn.


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Mousesports announced its new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster Thursday.
The final CS:GO roster includes mousesports veterans Finn "Karrigan" Andersen, Chris "ChrisJ" de Jong, and Robin "ropz" Kool alongside newcomers Özgür "woxic" Eker and David "frozen" Cernansky.
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The Bishop Hendricken football team edged host Cranston East 49-29 at Cranston Stadium on Friday night.
After falling behind 35-15 in the third quarter, the Bolts would come back and narrow the Hendricken lead to just six points with 6:12 remaining in the game when Robenson Antoine hauled in a 6-yard touchdown.
However, Hendricken stormed back and scored a pair of touchdowns in the final six minutes to set the score to 49-29 and secure the win.
"I give Cranston East a lot of credit, I think they played a hell of a game tonight. They gave us everything they had … we responded kind of weird tonight, we responded in spurts. We needed more consistency, it was almost like they needed a little more motivation to get going," said Hendricken coach Keith Croft after the win. "East has been making plays all year and tonight they pulled within (six points), our guys came up with a few touchdowns and we were able to win the game."
Hendricken took a 28-15 lead into halftime and scored early in the third quarter on a 20-yard run by Helio Sousa to make it 35-15. East quarterback Rayven DeOliveira later rushed for a touchdown late in the third to make it 35-21.
Antoine then hauled in an interception on the Hawks' next drive and set the Bolts up at the Hendricken 36-yard line to begin the fourth quarter. Hendricken held East scoreless, but the Bolts would be able to score on their next drive on Antoine's touchdown reception.
"He's impressive, he's an impressive player. Both Robenson and Rayven played great, they're both tremendous athletes. I also thought the offensive line played great, we had some new guys in there and they did a good job against those big kids," said East head coach Tom Centore.
"He's great, he's difficult to defend. He's not big but he moves, he finds ways and hides and catches everything that's thrown to him. He's a great player," added Croft of Antoine's performance.
Hendricken would get some breathing room when quarterback Tom Comella rushed for a 14-yard touchdown to make it 42-29 with 5:21 remaining. Hendricken would recover its own onside kick, and later get a 22-yard rushing score from Evan Rinaldi to put the game out of reach for the Bolts.
"It was a matter of just realizing that if you don't make plays then you're going to get beat. There wasn't any panic but we realized that we needed to do what we had to do. Every close game helps you, every close game you learn something. You learn good things and bad things. I told the guys that we're going to have a tough week in practice, get back to some of the basics," said Croft. "There's a difference between a good team and a championship team and we're not where we need to be yet."
Israel Emmanuel got Hendricken on the board in the first quarter when he rushed for a 19-yard score to give the Hawks the 6-3 lead. East responded when Chance McKinney took a pass from Rayven DeOliveira 80 yards for the score and to give the Bolts the 9-6 lead after one.
Hendricken took the ball down the field in the opening drive of the second quarter, converting a key 4th and 9 and capped off the sequence with a 4-yard rushing touchdown from Angel Sanchez. Emmanuel later scored on a 65-yard rush to extend the Hawks lead to 20-9.
DeOliveira closed the gap a bit when he rushed for a score, but Rinaldi added a touchdown with 1:41 left in the half to make it 28-15.
Despite the loss, Centore was proud of his team's effort against one of the state's premier clubs.
"I'm very proud of them. We needed a few more stops but we did come up with some big ones. We probably should have capitalized on Robenson's interception. We picked up a lot of third downs. That is a big, physical football team and I thought we did a good job," said Centore.


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The afro is back, so are platform shoes, corduroy trousers and patched jackets. But more importantly, the bush is back - yippee!
Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, women had bush down there. It was a thick patch of fuzz that they didn't tamper with. Nor did they shave it, trim it or neat the edges. They let it be - to grow wild, uninhibited and daring with not a care in the world if the odd strand of hair poked out of the side of their underwear.
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We saw bush as a ritual passage from boyhood into becoming men and finally crossing that frontier into the unknown. Bush was different from looking at breasts. Even though we had yet to see breasts in the flesh, we had an idea about them because we 'saw' them every day. We looked at them as the girls strutted around in their blouses or swim suits and knew that some girls had big busts. Others had small ones. Some had round ones. But with bush, it was different. You couldn't imagine bush because it was not a shape or a form like breasts that you could see. Bush was almost illicit and tucked well out of sight.
Bush when we eventually got a chance to feel and delve into it, was everything and more than we thought it would be. It held a mystical aurora – almost like a first time drive through Kibaale forest in the dead of the night - all terrified and heart thumping.
Looking at bush also increased our sexual anxiety. Feeling it gave us uncontrollable palpitations. The message that bush conveyed was clear enough – that the final frontier was finally right there in front of us and beyond it, there lay nothing else but, IT – sex!
In the 80s when the afro, platform shoes and flayered trousers disappeared, so did the bush because somebody in South America declared the bush dead and shaved it all off or left a 'landing strip'.
Women with no bush, was a shocker. I was petrified. In that clumsy fumbling feel before getting undressed, when I felt around and there was no bush to feel, it was a sexual flat – almost like buying a top of the range Mercedes Benz and finding it's not equipped with air-conditioning.
No bush stifles our sexual imagination and desires. Foreplay was also limited because there was no bush for our fingers to play with. With no bush, men become mere sexual slaves to women because as soon as the underwear comes off, the sex is right there in our face with no bush to hide it and feel we have to start performing almost immediately.
Of course women have every right to decide what they want to do with their bush. But in the grooming of it, they don't put us into the equation. They ask if we think they are fat or if we like their eyebrows, nails or shoes. They ask if we like the scent of their perfume or if we find them attractive. However, they never ask us to comment or pass judgement on bush and suffice to say, some men see bush tampering as an 'infringement' of our sexual rights.
In my case, feeling bush reaffirms my belief that I am with an adult and removes any paedophilia notion and reassures me that what I am doing is legal and above board.
Kathy Lette, an outspoken writer who is a voice of contemporary feminism is my kind of woman especially when she says: "I like my pubic hair. It's like having a little pet in my pants and I say Bring Back Bush!"
She goes on to argue that full bush allows women to attract men through the aphrodisiacal scent in their body hair. "The great irony of Brazilian waxing is that pheromones - that invisible, secret, aphrodisiacal scent which attracts men and women to each other, is captured in the body's hair. So, ironically, women shave everything off are chasing away the men."
I am buoyed that the bush is back and that I can confidently stride down Kampala Road knowing that a good number of women walking past me, are not bare or, have landing strips. They have a full wad of bush!
The Bush Is Back, is published in the November, December, January issue of Flair Magazine


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WASHINGTON—The Justice Department's inspector general is expected to criticize former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe as part of its investigation into the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday night.
McCabe, a frequent target of U.S. President Donald Trump's ire, left his position in January as the FBI's No. 2 official and is scheduled to retire later this month after more than 20 years with the bureau. He served for several months as acting director following Trump's firing last May of FBI director James Comey.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a forthcoming inspector general report, said the criticism of McCabe was expected to be in connection with a media disclosure and a question of whether proper procedures were followed in the release of information.
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Spokespeople for the Justice Department, the FBI and the inspector general declined to comment Thursday evening. McCabe did not return a phone message seeking comment.
The New York Times, which first reported the finding, said the inspector general report would conclude that McCabe had authorized FBI officials to provide information for a Wall Street Journal article in October 2016.
That article, published days after Comey notified Congress that the FBI was revisiting the Clinton investigation following the discovery of a new batch of emails, described tensions between the Justice Department and FBI over how aggressively Clinton and the Clinton Foundation should be investigated. The story described Justice Department officials as skeptical of the FBI's evidence and discouraging of an aggressive pursuit of potential financial crimes involving the Clinton Foundation.
The inspector general in January 2017 announced a wide-ranging investigation into the FBI's actions during the Clinton email investigation, which concluded without charges in 2016. Included in the review are apparent leaks to the news media during the investigation and Comey's decision to publicly announce the FBI's recommendation that Clinton not face charges over her handling of classified email in a private server, as well as his subsequent notification to Congress days before the election that new emails had been found.
Trump verbally attacked McCabe during the campaign and again as president because McCabe's wife, during a failed state Senate run, had accepted campaign contributions from the political action committee of then-Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a close Clinton ally. The FBI has said McCabe received the necessary ethics approval and was not supervising the Clinton email case at the time of the contributions. When news broke in late December that McCabe planned to retire in the spring, Trump mocked him on Twitter as "racing the clock to retire with full benefits."
Inspector General Michael Horowitz has previously said he expects the report to be released in March or April.
His office made headlines this week when Trump, in an angry tweet directed at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, erroneously suggested that the inspector general's report was late. Trump also criticized Sessions for encouraging the inspector general to investigate potential surveillance abuses by the FBI in the early stages of the Russia investigation, saying that such a probe should be handled instead by "Justice Department lawyers."


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Multiplied by Apathy/
Apathy: a lack of passion, interest and concern.
We are built to Thrive and Adapt. Despite the fact that change is challenging, we are good at it. Our human desire to continuously improve our condition, leads us to think, solve problems and create. Creating more of something, making it better, or easier have been drivers of change throughout human history.
When we can see the vision for change and we have a sense of choice and control over it, it motivates and excites us. High quality change is actually one of the ultimate engagement strategies.
People need to feel a sense of progress with change. If it is taking too long, is unclear or is not generating something more, better or easier - then change is just wearing. Change fatigue sets in. Resistance too. Apathy soon follows.
Apathy replaces resistance. People eventually don't care enough to resist. Fatigue is multiplied by Apathy.
The more Apathy there is, the harder it will be to make future changes. You will have to create enough momentum to overcome the inertia of built up an entrenched Apathy.
Here's some questions that will help create engagement about change.
Why are we changing this? Get really clear about the why. Does it sound interesting and compelling. If not it's unlikely that it will get anywhere. Would it get you out of bed in the morning? Can you explain it to others in a way that makes sense to them?
Will it create more, make life easier somehow, or be better than what we have now?
What are some quick "wins" that will give you and your people a sense of progress and control over the change?
When people are apathetic, they often get the blame. Blame is easy and takes the pressure and focus off the person doing the blaming. What if we asked ourselves,
"How can I make this situation more meaningful, engaging and important to and for the people involved?"
"How can I make this situation more meaningful, engaging and important to and for the people involved?"
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Our Week in the Forest...
Swish, Swash, Crunch!
As the autumn sunlight filters through the branches to the forest floor and our wellies our swish swash through the carpet of leaves the children enter the forest collecting treasures along the way. Horse chestnuts, sweet chestnuts (or spikey footballs as we like to call them) or a very special stone are gripped tightly by the little pairs of hands. This week, these precious gifts of autumn have then found their way into games throughout the day- from cooking pots to buried treasure or food for children's forest pets! As the week has gone on we've talked lots about the changes we've observed around us in nature and had huge fun collecting big piles of leaves which we've then thrown up in the air! This has also then prompted discussions about safe and caring play, making sure we're not throwing into our friend's face or including sticks in our mix! "Do you think this stick is too big in my pile?" one of our children turned and asked another, "Do you think it will poke someone in the eye?". They both agreed yes and dropped it down to the floor. It is these opportunities for discussion, reflection and compassion to flourish that weave their way throughout all our play, every single day in the forest.
Bug Hunters and Fact Finders!
We often look at our children in the forest and try to imagine quite what the space looks like from their eyes- the bountiful allotments at Paradise where they duck and dive during games of Hide and Seek and over at the Windmill where their eyes stretch high to the tree canopies and the forest floor offers hours of fascinating exploration. Well this week we've really noticed our children taking in the smaller details of the forest as well as the wide open spaces. Hunting for bugs is a serious business and the children crouch, lie, climb and clamber to get a closer look.
This week we've also revisited our non-fiction bug encyclopaedias again and again finding out incredible facts. Did you know that the largest butterfly in the world has a wingspan of 30cm? Did you know that bumblebees will only sting you if they are frightened or feel threatened? And did you know that centipedes don't actually have 100 legs- they can actually have anything from between 30 to over 300! The children love to talk about these facts whilst holding the creatures gently in their hands and then running off to find a stick that is 30cm long to be their butterfly!
As our staff team grows at Wandsworth, so too do the number of children we have joining us every day. We feel incredibly privileged to work with such a fantastic bunch of children and have the families support us so strongly. We can' wait to see you all at Stay and Play next week!
Have a lovely weekend!
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This studio features an open floor plan, customized murphy bed sofa system, energy efficient appliances, granite and siltstone countertops, high ceilings, elfa closet system and large private balcony. The community features a secure residential entrance, modern lobby with large flat screen TVs, gas fireplace, and bike storage.
Ontario 17 is a new development located in Adams Morgan at the corner of Columbia Road and 17th Street. The iconic Ontario Theatre was at this location for 65 years and now will be transformed into this mix use development feature ground floor retail and and 5 stories of residential condos. Each of the 80 units will feature private outdoor balconies and floor plans will include studio, one bedroom and two bedroom configurations. The nearest Metro Station to Ontario 17 is Columbia Heights.
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With 20 percent down on $199,900 of $39,980, the mortgage amount would be $159,920. At an estimated 4 percent interest rate fixed for 30 years the gross payment would be about $1,291 per month. After tax deductions, the net payment would be about $1,100 per month. Home Owners Association fees run approximately $198 per month and have been included in this breakdown.
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Diane: Psychological care for cancer patients
When I asked my medical oncologist if she could refer me to a counselor who understood what it was like for me, a middle aged, high-strung female business executive who needed to be in control, to experience breast cancer, she couldn't help me.
Cancer. An ugly, frightening word. Of all the words in my vocabulary, it's the word I hate most. Typically, when I say the word, I precede it with an adjective that's not appropriate to print.
I had a run-in with intermediate stage breast cancer in 2015, and I am a different person now. A woman with six fewer axilla lymph nodes, a thicker head of hair and chronic lymphedema in my left hand, but I am alive and grateful. My cancer experience was, by far, the most traumatic event of my life to this point.
During my 10 months of treatment, which started off with 16 chemotherapy infusions, my emotions swerved in every imaginable direction. My support network was strong, I had a supportive husband and I had every reason to believe that I would survive the treatment and my cancer would go into remission. Which, thankfully, it did. But, I sank into a sad, bored state near the end of chemo and remained parked there until the end of treatment.
When I asked my medical oncologist if she could refer me to a counselor who understood what it was like for me, a middle aged, high-strung female business executive who needed to be in control, to experience breast cancer, she couldn't help me. She said that many licensed practitioners in the psychology field typically don't receive specialized oncology training while pursuing their degrees – they must seek it out on their own, usually at the post-doctoral level. In addition, if I could find a counselor who understood cancer, my health insurance likely would not cover their service, assuming they even accepted insurance.
Despite my grumpy, bald state and my depleted energy levels, I set out to discover why so little attention was being paid to the psychological and emotional sides of cancer. What I was discovered is that health psychology, in general, is becoming more prevalent in human-centered healthcare, but we have a long road ahead.
The National Institute of Health projects that one in two men, and one in three women, will get some form of cancer in their lifetime. This staggering statistic is what prompted me to be a catalyst for positive change. In early 2016, I founded a specialty at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver. The specialty, called the Center for Oncology Psychology Excellence, or COPE, is the first graduate-level specialty of its kind in the country.
Anxiety, depression and stress have many triggers, and cancer is just one of those triggers. But, thanks to the work of Mental Health Colorado, we are bringing attention to the benefits of addressing the psychological challenges of medical conditions.
— Diane Simard


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The Syrian Civil War ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the government of President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing the government.[104]
Date 15 March 2011 – present (6 years, 11 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location Syria (with spillovers in neighboring countries)
Status Ongoing
changes As of 1 February 2018: the Syrian Government held 55.1% of Syrian territories; SDF-held territory constituted 27.4%; 11.4% was controlled by rebel groups (including HTS); 6.1% was held by ISIL[15]
As a part of this civil war the nation has become an grave-yard with bomb blasts,chlorine gas attacks and many inncoent people have been killed including hundreds of children who are killed mercylesly.People are facing lot of problems due to this civil war they dont have food,they have to sleep on the roads and hide in the sewage holes.many children are killed without knowing the reason,they died due to starving for food.
A new report has found local men have been distributing food and other international aid in syria have been with-holding deliveries from women unless they agree to give sexual favour
"Examples were given of women or girls marrying officals for a short period of time for "sexual services" in order to recieve meals distributors asking for telephone numbers of women and girls :giving them lifts to their houses 'to take something in return ' or obtaining distributors in exchange to a visit to her home or in exchange for services ,such as spending a night with them .
The abuse was wide spread across govnerment in syria south and particularly affected vunerable women and girls and even small children.This situation can be changed by the supreme justice of all nation the United Nations and they have to save those children and poor people living with their lives in their hand
Readers are more likely to sign and support my petetion so that we can bring a change to the lifes of people of syria or even for those innocent children who were being killed mercileslly
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, by Anne Applebaum: starvation as a weapon
Soviet authorities destroyed and seized food to eliminate Ukrainian identity and independence
1932: carts laden with bread supplies sent by the Bolsheviks from a collective farm leave Alekseyevka in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. Photograph: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images
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Red Famine Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
Allen Lane
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This book centres on the horrific and formative events that occurred in Ukraine from 1932-1934 and resulted in the death of upwards of four million people in a series of politically orchestrated famines perpetrated by Soviet officials on the Ukrainian people.
During this tragic and chaotic period, (which incidentally occurred in one of the most agriculturally productive areas of Europe) Ukraine saw not only the destruction of most of its rural and small urban communities but the systemic eradication of much of its culture, which had been in existence for hundreds if not thousands of years. This event therefore became known as the Great Ukraine Famine or the Holdomar, which loosely translates as "to kill by famine" reflecting a belief among those affected that the Soviet authorities used the destruction and seizure of crops and livestock to eliminate any sense of Ukrainian identity and independence and firmly install communist authority over this fertile and strategic region.
Subsequently, with Ukraine now once again a battleground between Russia and the West, represented by the European Union and Nato, these events find a new relevance as both these factions seek to create a buffer in Ukraine to protect their interests. Moreover, as various factions choose which side to appeal to for support in their campaign for regional power, their disputes over whether to seek support from the West or Russia are directly linked to the political fragmentation of the country after 1933 and the continued disunity between the eastern, Russian-speaking industrial region of the Donbass and the more rural Ukrainian-speaking lands around Kiev.
Set between the rise of communism after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Russian civil war and second World War, this book covers the shockingly forgotten and overlooked actions of the Soviet Union to exploit and subdue the fertile lands of Ukraine by any means possible. These actions by the Soviet Union, which are often forgotten in western Europe due to the later rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism in Germany and the subsequent catastrophic and horrendous second World War, effectively equated to a war of starvation, political division and cultural destruction by communist authorities on the vast majority of the Ukrainian peasantry, especially those unfortunate enough to be labelled as kulaks or moderately comfortable farmers who engaged in low-level capitalist trading and commercial agriculture. Moreover, the communist authorities perceived the kulaks as the theoretical enemy to the advent of a working-class communist society and the industrial development of the Soviet Union.
Seen as the breadbasket for the forthcoming socialist and industrial revolution but still an agrarian society holding onto its unique cultural heritage, which was rooted in a different Slavic language, social hierarchy, customs and religion from its Russian neighbours, the majority Russian Soviets resolved to politically transform Ukraine by dismantling it into a series of competing factions. This divide and rule policy was done through the eradication of popular Ukraine unity by turning less successful farmers and agricultural workers against their kulak neighbours and by branding these supposed class traitors by claiming they were hoarding grain to deny it to the proletariat classes in the rapidly industrialising Soviet cities.
With such an enormous scope, Anne Applebaum has been able for the most part to produce a detailed and extremely well written, accessible book for both academic and non-academic audiences. It is laden with fascinating insights and personal statements from first-hand accounts, the result no doubt of torturous and extensive research from newly opened archives inside the Soviet Union and from other previously inaccessible resources. Utilising these sources , the author is able to adequately explore the traumatic events on the ground during the manmade famine as communities became violently divided along political lines even as widespread hunger began to claim more and more victims.
Moreover, Applebaum is able to capture the various political and military factions at play in Ukraine in this period as well as the significance of events leading up the famine. These influential, complex and confusing developments included the first World War that saw a multitude of bandits and forces including German, Austro-Hungarian, White Russian, Polish, Anarchist, Ukrainian nationalists and the Red Army lay claim to Ukraine before Soviet rule was confirmed.
The author explains how to assert control over the region the Soviets first allowed moderate toleration of local customs but increasingly worked to divide the Ukrainian people against each other by playing up fears of capitalist repression before beginning a crackdown that saw their forces blacklist, execute or deport potentially threatening opponents and begin forcibly removing food from already starving peasants.
Perhaps a chapter dealing with the history of Ukraine, its culture, resources and various ethnic groups and their afflictions, would be useful as an introduction to explain the value the region had to the Soviet Union as well as its fragile political nature and complex history as a frontier zone between east and west. Additionally, it could cover in wider detail the extent to which famine hit other areas of the Soviet Union as well as the finer details of Stalin's Great Leap Forward plan to industrialise the Soviet Union. Also Stalin's other atrocities against other ethnic minorities such as his mass deportation of the Volga Germans and Chechens from their homelands to beyond the Ural Mountains could also be examined as an interesting comparison to Soviet policy in the Ukraine. Otherwise, it is an engrossing read detailing a confused and controversial period in European history with remarkable clarity.


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This week marks my evolution over the last few weeks with my Networked Learning Project. When I began this project, I had a hard time deciding what skill I was going to track my progress and growth in while only relying on the internet for resources and help. I finally decided to work on expanding my skillset with a hobby I have only made limited time for – editing my photos using Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop for me was the perfect Christmas present that I vowed to spend time with, but it isn't a program that's ready to go at the touch of a button.
When I began to consult my learning networks for help with Adobe Photoshop, I first went to my connections on Pinterest and made a board of all the resources I found. Then I turned to the resources I collected and detailed in my previous post. However, I still felt like there were other resources I needed.
This video clip highlights some of my goals with the Networked Learning Project as well as a new skill I am working on mastering with Photoshop – light! I started with one of my simple Photoshop resources, but added a free Adobe Elements action calledBoost It! from The Coffee Shop Blog.
I believe that for networked learning to provide the richest interactions, the learning needs to involve the use of communication technologies, online material and communities, along with the key role of human interaction. The Popplet I created in my entry a couple weeks ago provides examples of how my own networks support this idea. I have and thrive with online-based networks, but my largest network consist of the education professionals I ask for advice and collaborate with mainly in-personal (although of course there are asynchronous communication exchanges) Although I almost exclusively consult the internet for resources for many of my problems, I still use my human networks to dream up those questions, verify the response I am seeing online and share that information face-to-face with dialogue and in-person collaboration.
I will continue to embrace the networked learning philosophy and continue to strive for the balance of online communications with face-to-face encounters. Almost every problem I have, I turn to my learning networks for answers whether it's a question about a recipe (Pinterest), a philosophical education question (Twitter and Voxer), or a birthday gift idea (Facebook) along with talking to my husband, mom, or twin sister. The way that the digital universe has expanded it is no longer valid to rely on one singular source as the only reference point when literally hundreds of thousands of references exist on a multitude of topics.
With regards to my students, I definitely support building students' capacity for networked learning. Giving the students the tools to find and be supported by legitimate and appropriate learning networks also should be coupled with a shift in the teaching role from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side". The more I guide students towards developing essential networks for their own learning and how to facilitate their communication, the more I feel that they can develop into independent learners. In this age of interconnected knowledge, it is more important than ever that students are taught how to engage with legitimate networks for their learning and how to sift through the information they glean from these.
Even after I turn in this project, I look forward to continuing to chronicle my work mastering Photoshop, so stay tuned!


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Abolitionists taking a stand against human trafficking have a new platform where they promote their cause — the runway.
Unchained, a local organization that presents educational fashion shows detailing the life journey of a human trafficking survivor, is set to be a part of the first Fashion Meets Music Festival in Columbus Sunday.
"(Unchained) is truly a great component that we're bringing into the festival," said Melissa Dickson, FMMF spokeswoman. "What they do and what they represent, we truly support, and we are really excited to incorporate them into the show."
The Labor Day weekend fashion show will mark Unchained's sixth show since its formation in February 2013.
"(Unchained) actually started because we were all working at New Life, a church on Ohio State's campus," said Stephanie Catani, co-founder and creative director of Unchained, as well as an OSU alumna.
"Our students had gone to a conference that talked a lot about human trafficking, and they wanted to do something to really highlight the issue."
The students decided to organize a fashion show, which they presented at the Ohio Union in May 2013, Catani said.
"After the show, there were people asking (about) the next show," she said. "So that helped us to know that people actually wanted to be a part of this — that this could be something bigger than a one-time show."
The show features garments selected from an Amani Africa collection called "Sankofa," which means "looking back but moving forward," according to Unchained's website. Amani Africa sells clothing as a "fair trade sewing and economic development program for marginalized women in Africa," according to its website.
The collection was designed by Liberian designer Korto Momolu, who competed on Season 5 of Bravo's "Project Runway" and has had designs featured during New York Fashion Week, according to the Unchained website.
During the Unchained show, Momolu's designs are accompanied by a narration that leads audiences through the life stages of a human trafficking survivor, Catani said.
"These garments reflect a portion of a journey," she said. "There is a very literal correlation between the fashion and the experience — the journey — of the survivor."
Each Unchained fashion show features 22 garments and is divided onto three stages, Catani said.
"The first section of the narration and garments is called 'Innocence,' and the garments are in neutrals: gold, white and pink," she said, because Unchained relies on the symbolism of both the color and style of the garments to guide guests on an emotional journey.
"Once abuse has entered into the survivor's life, that's called 'Violation,'" she said of the second stage of the Unchained program. "'Violation' is dark reds, browns, burnt oranges and heavy black. Also, they are pretty avant-garde pieces. It is really an emotive response to the trauma."
The show concludes with the final stage, "Restoration."
"When rescue comes, there is restoration," Catani said. "And it is the brightest colors you have ever seen. It is so dramatically and drastically different from 'Violation.' It's hopeful, it's life-giving, it's vibrancy coming to life again after pain."
The Unchained team worked to accurately portray the journey by carefully researching the common themes in survivors' stories, Catani said.
"We went to the collection and organized it to really reflect the story of a survivor's journey," she said.
Catani said the issue of human trafficking is far from foriegn to the Columbus area, and she said she hopes that Unchained's story — which was inspired by a Central Ohio human trafficking survivor's journey — encourages audiences to take action against this contemporary social issue.
"I hope the audience believes there is something they can do about (human trafficking)," she said. "On the whole, people know that this is a heavy topic. And sometimes they are worried that they will walk away with a heaviness or a heavy feeling, but it is really our passion to ignite abolitionists, and to do that, we really give that very purposeful voice of rescue and restoration."
FMMF runs from Friday to Sunday. The majority of FMMF is free to attend, but packages start at $99 for one-day and $250 for three-day VIP packages. An after-party badge, good for all three days of the festival, is available for $35.
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"There are thousands of nameless, faceless attorneys who fill the top floors of many of the office buildings in every major city in the United States — there is no one like Tony Buzbee. Buzbee is a leader in his field, and is at the top of his game."Read More
Paul Bailey, owner of Sudie's restaurants, and Friendswood attorney Tony Buzbee have announced resolution of Bailey's claim related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Read More
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BP sold its Texas City refinery for $2.4 billion after making hundreds of people sick in a 15-day release of toxic chemicals that BP denied were harmful, 474 plaintiffs claim in court. Lead plaintiff Samuel Charles Boyd Jr. sued BP Products North America and refinery manager Keith Casey for more than $1 billion in punitive […]Read More
Benchmark Plaintiff, the definitive guide to America's leading plaintiff litigation firms and attorneys. Link to Chart and Article In the Sixth edition (2013) of Benchmark Litigation, the definitive guide to America's leading litigation firms and attorneys, The Buzbee Law Firm has been named "Highly Recommended" and Tony Buzbee has been named as litigation star. The […]Read More
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Lawyers for as many as 10,000 potential plaintiffs pursuing claims over BP Plc (BP/)'s 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill said their clients today will opt out or reject the company's $7.8 billion settlement reached in March. "I'm not trying to hold the settlement hostage, but there are too many technical problems" with the claims […]Read More
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Hey y'all! Here I am sitting in my apartment, belting out Aretha Franklin, and eating this plum tart. Y'all it's a great feeling! Love that Sunday evening vibe.
So I'm telling you all now. Things are changing. Yes, it's partly the weather, but it's also going to be my life. My boyfriend and I went to Portland, Maine for our last summer weekend. What can I say? I loved it. Big shout outs go to Eventide Oyster Company and Vena's Fizz House. Those were probably my favorite places. Eventide is very well known. It's, well of course, lots of oysters, but there's also some amazing other things. 1. They have tiki drinks (You can't go wrong with a tiki drink… you just can't!) 2. the lobster roll is amazing! 3. The chips have a seaweed sprinkle on them… guys are you trying to make me cry tears…
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On Wednesday FIRs were lodged against Mayawati's ministers Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Babu Singh Kushwaha and seventeen others for their alleged involvement in the Rs.1,410.50 Crore memorial scam in Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav after taking charge in 2012, he had ordered a Lok Ayukta probe immediately and also in December 2013 he ordered for legal proceeding in the large scale irregularities in construction of memorials and parks when Mayawati was chief minister.
During an initial probe, a total of 199 persons were indicted by Lokayukta Justice (Now Retd) N K Mehrotra for fund irregularities in the construction of 14 memorials and parks in Lucknow and Noida. The Lok Ayukta had also recommended all their properties be probed for assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
This is the first time since Akhilesh instituted a commission of inquiry to investigate the alleged scams of Rs.40,000 crore by the BSP government, that FIRs have been lodged against prominent ministers in the Mayawati government.


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We had a great turnout for our 2017 State of the Advertising Industry SmarTalk.
Eighty people came out to Livingston, NJ on January 25th and heard some great insights from our distinguished panel which included James Orsini (VaynerMedia), Irene Chang Britt (Dunkin' Brands), Dave Edwards (R/GA) and Hafeez Saheed (Nickelodeon Creative Advertising). The panel was moderated by Rob Schnapp (Coyne).
Wonderful write-up about our panel by a gentleman named Conrad Winter. We love you Conrad… oh yes we do…
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July 16th. The day we started cycling all of Iceland.
The plan was simple: prepare everything the night before, wake up bright and early, grab a quick breakfast and start riding out of Reykjavik towards north.
Of course, almost none of it happened.
We woke up way too late, took way too long to shower and get all of our stuff together, got lost on our way to get coffee, came back to Nanna's apartment only to find out she had prepared the BESTEST breakfast of all time, took our sweet time eating our bodyweight in salmon and skyr and ONLY THEN, we left.
It was 2 pm already. Classic.
It took us a good 25kms of biking paths and busy roads to finally leave Reykjavik behind and withness Iceland unfold in front of our eyes. I mean, Reykjavik is beautiful and all, but we were not ready for what we started seeing : tall mountains, stretching as far as your sight can go, deep valleys, low hanging clouds and green. All the green you can imagine of.
The landscape gradually started looking like it was painted in all shades of brown, green and gold. With the sun constantly setting at the horizon, we kept on cycling, ignoring the constant traffic (it's never a great idea to start a cycling journey on a sunday afternoon) and the first signs of what we would learn to hate : headwind in Iceland.
Not even 40kms after, we found the last traces of human presence, in the form of a teeny tiny village with a gas station. Upon discovering that it was the literal LAST gas station for the next 65km (aka: last toilet, last coffee, last minimarket, last chance at getting anything we would need) we decided to call it a day, trow the tent down in a field, and record the long overdue first VLOG of this project. (if you wanna see three loud italians chewing your ear off, go ahead and watch them HERE )
Upon waking up, and while absusing of the unlimited refill coffee at the gas station (something that we would soon, as opposed to wind, learn to love immensely), we planned the route for the day and jumped on our Cinelli Hobootle Geos heading north. Destination? Glymur, formerly known as Iceland's tallest waterfall, until a glacier decided to simply sprout another one a few years ago.
Just like that. Boom. Here's a new tallest waterfall.
Must have been a tough break for good ol' Glymur.
According to the map, an easy ride: 20km to the next car only underwater tunnel, a 35km detour along the Fjord and a handful more kilometers before having to park the bikes and start hiking to the top for a good hour and a half.
We cruised along the traffic until the tunnel and as soon as we left the main road, we literally experienced ICELAND (with all capital letters) for the first time: long rolling hills, crystal clear waters, a nice breeze on a warm sunny day, and no cars almost whatsoever. We had the road for ourselves, and we took full advantage of this newly found freedom.
By 2pm, we had parked the bikes already, changed into our hiking clothes, had lunch and we were on our way to the top already.
What started looking like a boring, slow hike amidst some pointy dull looking rocks, wuickly changed into an incredible landscape, one of those ones that changes with literally every step you take. A good hour later (and after having crossed a river on a wet log, scared to death of getting all my cameras and drone gear wet), we sat at the top, and simply felt small in front of Nature.
Once all the way down, we rode the last 10-ish kilometers in a way colder, way wetter evening until we reached a farm with a campsite, had some food (The owners cooked us some DELICIOUS lamb) and pitched our tent LITERALLY among their sheeps.
Goodnight everyone, I said. "BAAAAAAAAA" the sheep replied from outside the tent. Ok, cool.
The following day was, well, our first time experiencing the full icelanding treatment. Started riding in the morning with a thin layer of mists and some much appreciated taildwind, only to see it randomly change in front of our eyes and turn into this insane stormy weather, with extremely strong side winds (I mean every word, the wind was so strong that we had to stop cycling and hold ourselves and the bikes to the ground for every wind gust. we're talking 30-40km/h winds. Sio missed his timing once and got BLOWN OFF THE ROAD into the gutter, along with his fully loaded 35+kg bike.)
Oh, and to top it all off, it was raining. No sorry, my bad: it was HAILING. Right in our face.
We did what we had to do: tried to stay safe on the road, got soaked, sucked it up, buckled down and tried to cover as much ground as possible. By the evening, we had done over 60km, and found another farm with a camping site in the middle of nowhere. Right when we thought we had to pitch our tent in the rain, in the soaking wet swamp they referred to as "the camping field", the owners told us we could stay in their stable-turned-dormitory for the same price. We almost cried for how joyful we were, and enjoyed a nice warm, but especially dry, night.
The next day we headed towards Stikkisholmur, a coastal town around 60km north. Except for a few hours of annoying headwind, we made good time, climbed our first proper hill among an almost lunar, moss-and-lava-stone only landscape and arrived in town before dinner.
It had only been a couple days, but it felt damn good to be among other people again!
Pitched the tent, ate a bunch of junk food at the gas station, met other cyclists and, after taking the first hot shower outside in the cold of our lives, put our heads down to work on videos, photos, vlogs and blogs on our trusty Wacom Mobile Studio Pro's
The next day, the ferry to the westfjords was awating us.
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Beijing air quality: a photo a day
365 photos of Beijing air quality
The photographer in the linked article, Zou Yi, took a picture a day at the same time and location to show 365's of BJ's air pollution. He's encouraging others to do the same in other cities. There's a link in the article to follow his weibo account.
Who's taking on Hohhot? I'm not in town now, but our previous 18th floor apartment would have had the perfect view.
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Throwback Thursday 08/01/15 - Namibian Sunset
This weeks throwback Thursday was taken in Namibia in 2013. The baobab tree here is the biggest in Namibia.
Our group was camped about 10 minutes walk from the tree and had all already had a look at it before dinner. I'd decided that I would wait until sunset and return to try getting an image of the tree with a bit of colour in the sky.
I'll tell you what, there's not many things that can make you feel as vulnerable as being alone in the Namibian bush after the sun has gone down and having just read a sign warning you to be wary of wild animals, the beer I'd taken with me didn't help either.


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Markets have had plenty to contend with. Certainly no one could accuse recent weeks of being boring. Enronitis has become the latest disease to grip investors. Nigh on 20 years of progress in the Japanese market were consigned to history when the Nikkei Dow fell below the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first time in 18 years.
And, as we paused for breath, it turned out that the Nick Leeson fan club was alive and well living in Baltimore. More of the Allied Irish Bank's US subsidiary saga has yet to unfold but it does not seem as though it was the short-term pressure to perform and underwrite those phone-number bonuses that was at fault in this instance.
It is not fanciful to mention Enron and Allied Irish Bank in the same paragraph. The complexity of financial instruments has reinforced the need to be vigilant when it comes to examining company books, whether you are an investor or a manager of the business. Event risk, as it is becoming known, looks like featuring more regularly. This will not make investors feel any more confident.
It was with a degree of relief that saw me arrive – late as ever – at Capital International's fifth client seminar in London last week.
For those not familiar with the Capital Group, it is an American fund management business, privately owned (like Fidelity, but in this case by the management), looking after more money than is decent to mention in an article directed at UK advisers.
It has a clear bias towards investing in equities. Among the things I learned last week was that it does not employ a chief investment officer and has no global overview of the market.
This, in its opinion, means it is able to avoid the big mistakes made by investment houses when they pin their hopes on wrongly anticipated economic trends.
Capital is a "bottom-up" specialist. It is a stockpicker,relying on a heavy research effort to ensure that it finds the right stocks to pick. That said, the conference chairman admitted that this is a business where, if you only make mistakes 40 per cent of the time, you are winning. Candidly, make six right decisions out of 10 in this stockmarket and you are not just winning – you are ahead of the field by a furlong.
In this country, Capital does not make its funds available to the retail market although private investors can have access to them through a number of multi-manager options. US based, it now has tentacles that encircle the globe and its views on markets are always worth hearing. Strangely, they were not as downbeat as I expected.
Take media, the focus of one of the presentations it gave. Situated at the heart of the new economy sectors, you might have thought that media had delivered value attrition over the last two years.
Yet the point was made – supported by hard evidence – that media was such a diverse area that you could have made money, providing that you rotated your portfolio between the right stocks at the right time.
As the media analyst put it, it was all about owning different stocks at different times for different reasons. Great if you can get it right but this is where the 60 per cent success ratio comes in.
This was not a week when bulls felt as though they were in much of an ascendancy so the encouragement of Capital to continue backing equities was comforting.
At the Sofa chairman's reception and at Lansons' annual post-Christmas bash, I had plenty of opportunity to exchange views with others in the industry who are all finding conditions tough at present.
The Capital media analyst said this was the worst bear market in advertising since the war. The journalists I spoke to pointed to the shrinkage of financial coverage in newspapers due to a fall of advertising spend so it was clear that she had it absolutely spot on.
But, as always, there is a ray of sunshine to be glimpsed amid the gloom. Every time the FTSE100 dips towards 5,000, buyers emerge. Figures like this can prove important psychological barriers. It could be that we are building a floor. I hope it will prove to be a springboard from which to launch the next bull market. Do not expect it to be an easy ride, though.
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Markets have had plenty to contend with. Certainly no one could accuse recent weeks of being boring. Enronitis has become the latest disease to grip investors. Nigh on 20 years of progress in the Japanese market were consigned to history when the Nikkei Dow fell below the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first time in 18 years.


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On Wednesday, June 5th, four touristic visits are proposed to the participants. Please check on the registration form the which one do you want to attend (the cost is included on your fee).
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Stroll on the Royal River and Visit of Winery
Chateau and gardens of Villandry
Chateau du Clos Luce Leonardo da Vinci
Gala dinner:
On Wednesday evening, the gala dinner will be held at the Chateau de Jallanges with fireworks sponsorised by Etienne Lacroix Group.