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Guided Warden Walks20th April 2018
Lots of wonderful interesting guided walks are available throughout the year.
Walk the Cotswold Way (Guided Walk)
Join a group led by the Voluntary Wardens walking 10 miles each month commencing May every year.
- To travel by coach from Winchcombe and walk from south to north, contact Linda on 01242 604155 or email@example.com.
- Alternatively to travel by coach from near Bath and walk from north to south, contact John on 0117 9374561 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Other guided walks taking place throughout the year
Cotswold Voluntary Wardens organise a year-round programme of walks that take place across the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, including the Cotswold Way. These walks vary in distance and difficulty and offer an interesting and often entertaining way of discovering more about our countryside and landscape.
Tailor-made Walks
As well as the guided walks programme, the Cotswold Voluntary Wardens will consider requests from groups for tailor-made walks within the Cotswolds AONB, subject to the availability of walk leaders (for more information contact Becky Smith, email@example.com, tel: 01451 862008).


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DACA is Available!
Jan. 13, 2018, Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA. Until further notice, and unless otherwise provided in this guidance, the DACA policy will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded on Sept. 5, 2017.
If you previously received DACA and your DACA expired on or after Sept. 5, 2016, you may still file your DACA request as a renewal request.
Our legal services team can help you. Call us at (360) 616-0479 or Espanol (360) 616-2722. Or EMAIL US
Martitha May, long-time Executive Director and Family Services Director at Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center, has decided to move from KIAC.
Martitha May was a co-founder of KIAC and brought expertise, a deep commitment, and a great heart to serving the immigrant community in Kitsap County. She leaves a lasting legacy in the services that KIAC Family Services provides and with the families whose lives she has touched.
KIAC will miss her and we wish her every success in her future endeavors.
To carry on the work of the Family Services Center to which Martitha has been so dedicated, KIAC will be conducting a search for her replacement in January.
KIAC Family Services will be open for its regularly scheduled hours starting on the 16th of January.
Read the letter from Republican Congress Members Supporting DACA
Talks of a March 5th deadline are misleading and wrong. The deadline is now. The repeal of DACA has created an urgent crisis. More than 11,000 Dreamers have lost their work permits and deportation protections since President Trump eliminated the DACA program on September 5th, and 122 more will continue to fall out of status every day until Congress passes a permanent legislative solution to protect them. After March 6, 2018, that number will skyrocket to roughly 1,700 Dreamers who will become priorities for deportation every single work day.
There are enough bipartisan votes from both Democrats and Republicans to protect Dreamers in both the House and Senate. Moderate Republicans in the Senate and House have said they want to get a DACA fix done before the end of this year. Senate Republican leadership and the White House have given a firm commitment to work on a "legislative solution to provide fair and permanent protections for DACA recipients."
- This follows on the more than a dozen members who called for Congress to pass legislation this year. During that press conference, Republican Congressman John Faso said that there would be over 300 votes to support legislation to protect Dreamers.
- Earlier this week, 34 House Republicans sent a letter to Speaker Ryan calling for protections for Dreamers to be passed this year. The letter was widely covered and helped demonstrate the bipartisan support for helping Dreamers.
The Dream Act has broad bipartisan public support: In poll after poll, the American public favors permanent legalization for Dreamers.
The economic benefits of passing the Dream Act are clear:
- Passing the Dream Act would add at least $281 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) over a decade, and as much as $1 trillion over a decade.
- Removing DACA-recipients (or ending DACA) would result in a loss of $460.3 billion from the national GDP over the next decade.
- Ending DACA means that between March 6th & November 6th of 2018, the U.S. will lose 300,000 jobs.
- 800 companies have called on Congress to pass legislation supporting Dreamers, including War-Mart, Target, and PepsiCo.
You helped reunite a family
You may remember that I asked for your support to help us represent people who are in immigration removal proceedings. Your support helped reunite a family on Thursday.
This family's story is not unique
Aurelina came to KIAC asking for help in September. Late last year she, her husband and three children fled persecution in the form of violence, severe discrimination, and extortion in Guatemala. They had been preyed upon for ten years by a gang, suffering repeated death threats and beatings because of their Mayan heritage. Upon reaching our border they were placed in removal proceedings, meaning our government wanted to send them back. ICE arrested her husband, Cristobal, when the family went to their monthly check-in in September and took him to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma for expedited removal proceedings.
KIAC stepped in with legal assistance
As soon as we heard about this we filed to be Cristobal's legal representatives and filed for him to receive a credible fear interview to establish the veracity of his persecution. We represented him in his interview and the asylum officer validated his claim. That was just the first step. He would still have to appear before an immigration judge who would determine whether or not to deport him.
Our legal team of Ray Garrido and Lirio Webb, with help from Dr. Marsha Cutting, built Cristobal's defense case. With help from the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Cristobal and Aurelina as he leaves the Northwest Detention Center
and advocates around the country we filed a 225-page trial brief. On November 30th in a courtroom at the detention center, we argued his case for withholding of removal. The judge ruled in Cristobal's favor! His case was so strong the government decided not to appeal it, so the judge's order was final. At 4pm that day Cristobal walked out of the detention center into the arms of Aurelina. Shortly after, he was reunited with his children.
Our work for this family is not done
Because of your support we accessed training that enabled us to represent Cristobal, secure his freedom, and reunite him with his family. But our work is not done. Aurelina and their three young children are in removal proceedings and we will apply for and represent them in their asylum hearing. We won't rest until they have all been granted justice.
Currently KIAC has only one representative who can represent people in immigration court. There are so many more people who have no representation. We want to help as many as we can. We want to tell you many more stories like Cristobal's.
You can make the difference. There are so many people like Cristobal and his family who need your support. This is a time of year when we reunite with our families to celebrate holidays. So as you gather with your family, think of the Lopez's joyful reunion and those still yearning for one and give generously to KIAC to make more reunions possible. Thank you.
Read more about the Lopez family's reunion in this Kitsap Sun article:
ACTION – Stand With Detained Immigrants!
This message is from our partner at OneAmerica, Rich Stolz, Executive Director
When OneAmerica member Elizabeth first entered the Tacoma Detention Center in 2009, her heart sank. She saw an overcrowded, dirty cell filled with scared immigrants just like her – mothers, daughters, sisters and brothers. She felt outraged that a private company, the GEO Group, was profiting from their suffering.
"It was very crowded and very dirty," she said of her conditions in detention. "I felt like we were being treated like livestock. The guards used any opportunity to shout at and curse us." Elizabeth described being forced to do manual labor at the detention center for $1/day and constantly fearing being placed in solitary confinement for arbitrary reasons.
We know this isn't right. And today, we have the opportunity to fight for justice for Elizabeth and the tens of thousands of immigrants currently incarcerated in immigrant detention centers.
Act now and tell your representatives to pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act!
Sponsored by Representatives Pramilia Jayapal and Adam Smith, the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act would end the use of for-profit immigration detention centers, stop arbitrary detention quotas and provide much-needed accountability to a detention system that has routinely been accused of terrorizing and brutalizing detainees.
Elizabeth saw some of that behavior firsthand.
"One particular lady was from Canada," Elizabeth said. "She went to the guard and told the guard, 'I'm from Canada, I've been here for months, please just deport me. I can't stay here anymore.' She was put in solitary confinement. She stayed in a small cell, and she had to be taken to a shower in chains. That made us terrified to say anything. We knew we'd receive the same treatment."
Stories like Elizabeth's are why we need the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act. No one should go through what Elizabeth did, but every day, tens of thousands of immigrants do.
Please join us in calling on our representatives to pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, and help ensure that our immigration detention centers are accountable, and that no one profits from the suffering of our communities.
Take the profit out of immigration jails, say WA congress members
Immigration detention is a booming business in the U.S., mostly run by private, for-profit contractors. A new bill in Congress aims to phase out these private facilities, including the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.
"One thing I am 100 percent confident of is that there is a cheaper, more humane way to treat the undocumented population in our country," said Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington).
On Tuesday, Smith and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) plan to introduce legislation that calls for an overhaul of the immigration detention system.
Currently, 90 percent of federal detention is outsourced to private contractors or local jails and the regulations vary from place to place.
"There's no accountability," Jayapal said. "There's no transparency. And people are literally making a profit off of people being put into detention. I think it's important for the public to understand that it's costing them a lot of money when there are a lot of alternatives."
The legislation calls for the Department of Homeland Security to take over ownership and operation of all detention facilities within three years.
The bill, called the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, would also create higher standards at detention centers – standards for medical care, legal services, and basic living conditions, among other things.
A recent series of detainee hunger strikes have called attention to these issues at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma and at other immigration jails around the country.
More than 350,000 people were held in detention last year, and the 2018 federal budget projects a 70 percent increase.
"The bottom line concern is that detention facilities are not regulated by the federal government in the same way that federal prisons are," Smith said.
Former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelley defended the standards while testifying to Congress in May.
"ICE detention standards are well beyond the standards that even the Federal Bureau of Prisons has in terms of prisoner housing and care," Kelly said.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson declined to comment on pending legislation, but information on the agency's website describes an ongoing rollout of new standards to all of its facilities. However, some facilities are still using standards that have not been updated since 2000.
In 2016, a Homeland Security advisory subcommittee reviewed the use of private immigration detention facilities and evaluated whether this practice should be eliminated. The report compared private facilities to those run by ICE and found private facilities are cheaper to run and necessary to meet capacity demands. However, the committee ultimately recommended a shift away from these for-profit jails.
According to the report, the average cost of a day in an ICE-run facility is $184.35 per person versus $144.23 in a privately-contracted detention facility.
Yet Jayapal said the proposed legislation would ultimately lead to cost savings, since it carves out limits on who can be detained and for how long. For example, the bill would create a category of "vulnerable persons," including pregnant women and primary caregivers, who could qualify for alternative community supervision programs instead of detention.
Smith said he's not naïve. He knows how Congress works. And he knows it's a longshot to even get a hearing on this bill, given the Trump Administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.
"It's unlikely, but we're going to put it in their face," Smith said. "We're going to keep pushing this issue because we have people here in this country who are being treated inhumanely."
More attacks on refugees
Everyday we work to help people fleeing life threatening conditions in their home countries. The administrations latest heartless policy is another example of their disregard for people in need. The message below, from the Migration Policy Institute illustrates how this policy will harm our sisters and brothers. – Ray Garrido
The Trump administration's decision to cut the fiscal 2018 refugee resettlement ceiling to the lowest level since the program was created in 1980 marks a departure from the United States' traditional leadership on refugee matters.
In a new commentary, Migration Policy Institute Senior Fellow Kathleen Newland examines the 45,000 allocation for the fiscal year that begins October 1, and the security, fiscal, and other arguments advanced to explain the cuts.
She also looks at controversial new selection criteria designed to assess refugees' likelihood of "successful assimilation and contribution to the United States." Noting that the resettlement program was created to respond to the urgent needs of those persecuted in their homelands, she writes: "The refugee program is supposed to respond to their needs, not ours."
For more on the U.S. resettlement program over its history, check out this handy data tool that shows U.S. refugee resettlement ceilings and actual admissions by year since 1980.
Ending DACA is wrong but inaction by our Congress would be even worse
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program freed hundreds of thousands of young people from the fear of being deported to countries which many of them don't remember and where they would be in danger. It also gave them the ability to work legally and get an education. I have known dozens of these young people. They all shared one characteristic – hope. They believed they were in a country that cared about them and that was willing to take steps to give them the opportunity to become contributing members. And they did. They went to school, got jobs and started careers. They engaged in their communities. They were realizing the term that has been given to them – Dreamers. Over the last four years KIAC's legal program has helped many young people realize this dream, and we've help them renew their status so they could continue this positive journey.
Now the Administration has decided to exclude Dreamers in our country and has ended the DACA program. This action will have a devastating effect on the Dreamers, their families, friends, schools, and employers. While the authority exists to undo a previous president's executive order, he could also let it continue. Instead he adds to the fear in the immigrant community by targeting hundreds of thousands of young people for deportation.
We now ask the Congress to undo this heartless act and pass legislation that will restore protection to the Dreamers and provide a way for them to become full citizens of the United States instead of living in a political limbo. There are several bills in congress addressing this.
We at the Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center stand with our immigrant sisters and brothers and in this trying time we will provide support to the dozens of Dreamers in our community to help them through this struggle.
We encourage you to contact your congressional representatives: Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell and Derek Kilmer. Encourage them to support legislation that will undo this heartless political act.
Here are their contact links:
Senator Maria Cantwell: https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/contact/email/form
Senator Patty Murray: https://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme
Congressman Derek Kilmer: https://kilmer.house.gov/contact/email-me
Ray Garrido
KIAC Legal Services Director
The End of DACA?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) condemned reported plans that the Trump Administration will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with a six-month enforcement delay. This decision would leave the lives and dreams of nearly 800,000 hardworking DACA recipients hanging from the thread of an unspecified, hoped-for legislative solution. Congress has several legislative alternatives to consider, such as the American Hope Act and the Dream Act, which have been introduced by Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress that would protect the Dreamers. The President should endorse these proposals and ensure a solution is passed before terminating the DACA program.
"Dreamers are the embodiment of the American dream. They were brought to this country as children and have made this nation their home, often contributing in powerful, meaningful ways," said Annaluisa Padilla, AILA President. She continued, "Nationwide Americans believe Dreamers should be allowed to stay, but President Trump is signaling his disregard for the voting public and exploiting the vulnerability of the Dreamer population in order to keep campaign promises. This is not, as the president promised, treating Dreamers with 'heart'; it is heartbreaking and shortsighted. The president is bowing to anti-immigrant pressures from his advisors. Congress needs to act and act now."
AILA Executive Director Benjamin Johnson added, "Year after year, Dreamers have been championed by the American public because granting legal status to these young people is not only the right thing to do, it also benefits our society and our shared prosperity. Threatening this group of aspiring Americans with deportation from the only country they know as home is reprehensible. A decision to terminate the DACA program would be an abrogation of President Trump's executive responsibilities. The time for further discussion is at an end. There is growing bipartisan support in the House and Senate for granting these young people permanent residence. Congress must move forward on legislation immediately, and in the meantime, the American public must resist every attempt to end this program."
Every immigrant deserves a lawyer
By Sarah Burr
An excerpt from a NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, May 28, 2017
"As a former immigration judge in New York, I have come to understand a difficult truth first-hand: Far and away, the greatest obstacle to administering justice in immigration proceedings is the fact that, unlike in criminal proceedings, people have no right to an attorney.
Which means that every year, across the country, thousands of immigrants — most of whom are hard-working, taxpaying, contributing members of society — face the prospect a lifetime of exile from their homes, families and livelihoods in the United States without the aid of counsel.
It is hard to overstate what an obstacle that lack of representation can be for those immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security, the agency representing the government, has attorneys prosecuting every immigration case — which is why they win, almost every time, when the immigrant has no lawyer.
Yes, judges have the obligation to aid unrepresented immigrants by explaining their rights to them and informing them of potential relief from deportation But a judge is not an advocate and cannot investigate the facts of the case, interview witnesses, assemble exhibits and research legal arguments — all of which a competent attorney does in the course of representation.
Under these circumstances, especially when taking into account frequent language barriers immigrants face, it is impossible to level the playing field where one party has no lawyer.
This situation took a dramatic turn for the better in 2011, at least here in New York City. That year I joined the steering committee of an ambitious project to improve access to justice for immigrants facing deportation in New York City. We developed a blueprint for what became the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project — the nation's first public defender system for detained immigrants.
Over the last three years, NYIFUP has guaranteed that every indigent immigrant who is detained and facing deportation in New York City will have a city-funded lawyer. I witnessed a sea change in the quality and quantity of legal representation in the detained court.
The success rate for immigrants represented by counsel has increased tenfold. And when immigrants have no viable claim for relief and are able to consult with an attorney, they can simply accept an order of deportation, sparing themselves extended detention and the government extra expense."
This is why KIAC Immigration Legal Services is training
KIAC partners with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to provide needed legal services to vulnerable immigrants. The Justice Department's action is a threat to all of us.
Thank you KIAC Donors
We are overwhelmed by your outpouring of support for KIAC during the Great Give
145 Donations were made to KIAC totaling $14,841
We are inspired by the strength and courage of our immigrant clients
We are inspired by you, our community of supporters, who welcome and assist them.
KIAC's programs to help immigrants overcome the multiple challenges they face depend on this support. It is more than just the financial support that keeps our programs moving. It is knowing that we have a welcoming, supporting community surrounding us.
Thank you so much for your support.
Fear and Hope
The intensity of the situation continues to weigh on our immigrant brothers and sisters. We're hearing stories of kids afraid that they will come home from school to find their parents gone, parents afraid to send their kids to school, people afraid to go to the store to buy food, people not showing up to appointments with service providers – all because of the fear that has been generated by the administration's executive orders and resulting policies.
While we can't discount those fears, we can do something to help people. Since the beginning of February we have given eight Know Your Rights and Family Preparedness workshops covering 573 attendees in Jefferson, Kitsap and Mason counties. By helping people understand their rights under our constitution, we give them some power when they are confronted by ICE. This knowledge may also help to defend them if they are placed in removal proceedings. By helping them plan, we give them some control over what will happen with their kids and assets if they are detained or deported. We don't enjoy doing these workshops but they are a necessary and important part of our advocacy.
As we do these workshops we're meeting lots of people who want to help. Groups are starting up in Jefferson, Kitsap, and Mason counties to support and advocate for their immigrant sisters and brothers. We're inspired by the response of people who want to organize around immigrant advocacy. We're meeting with these groups to help them organize and provide training and support.
We are also heartened that several groups are contacting their elected representatives to encourage them to state their support for diversity in our communities by passing Welcoming Community resolutions. It certainly seems like citizen participation is on the rise.
Five dedicated volunteers have just completed the comprehensive overview of immigration law and we expect to apply for their accreditation by the end of the month. This will greatly increase our ability to serve.
So, despite the attempts by some to drive us apart, I am seeing our community respond with energy, support and love. This is what will keep us together and get us through this challenge.
As always we need your support to continue this work. Please consider donating.
2/25/17 – Hundreds gather on the Manette bridge This is what you call Community
Thanks to the Kitsap Daily News for these photos
A KIAC Activity Update
We now have a clear idea of what life will be like for our immigrant and refugee sisters and brothers under this new administration. I'm sure you've heard about the ICE raids across the country. Closer to home reports have increased about ICE presence in our area.
Your offers of support whether through volunteering or financial donations are very much appreciated and enable us to continue our work.
Earlier this year I shared with you our planned positive steps to support and advocate for immigrants in our community. Here are some of the activities we are accomplishing.
We are building coalitions among immigrant, refugee and Muslim-serving organizations, including partnerships with labor unions, school administrators and educators, social service providers, local governments, businesses, elected allies, and progressive leaders within the LGBTQ, environmental, racial justice and women's movements. Some examples are our partnership with Goodwill. We'll conduct Know Your Rights workshops and legal clinics for their students beginning in March. We're partnering with the YWCA to promote social justice here in our community. And we started working with Jefferson County's new Immigrant Rights Group to support their advocacy activities.
Our Family Services and Legal Services staff and volunteers are conducting Know Your Rights presentations in schools, churches, and community centers throughout Thurston, Mason, Kitsap, and Jefferson counties. This information helps people understand their rights and how to exercise them. We also talk about family emergency plans to help them plan for themselves, their families, and their children in the event of an ICE raid or their being placed in detention.
Our legal team helps Legal Permanent Residents prepare and apply for citizenship. Many of them are understandably concerned about their status and want to protect themselves. In general, we are contacted by many people reacting to the fear generated by the administration's recent actions. We are preparing to increase our capacity by becoming able to represent people in immigration court. People with representation, especially children, have a five times better chance of not being deported. Representation is key.
We have presented draft Welcoming Community resolutions to Kitsap city and county governments and actively advocate for them to pass these resolutions. Becoming a more welcoming community means more customers for our local businesses, more jobs created by immigrant entrepreneurs, and a thriving economy that benefits us all.
By recognizing the contributions that we all make to creating a vibrant culture and a growing economy, we make our neighbors feel more included and our community more welcoming to new Americans and to everyone who calls our community home.
We remain committed to our mission to empower, educate, and integrate immigrants through advocacy and social justice.
We are all responsible to uphold basic human values of civility and justice. The current administration will be gone one day and our communities will still be here striving to make our counties and our nation stronger, more welcoming and more just.
We appreciate and need your continued support. Although much of our work is done by volunteers we still need financial support to continue. To make donations click here. If you make your donation recurring it will help even more.
Ray Garrido
Legal Services Director
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We Are Moving Forward
Despite the activities of the administration we are moving forward with positive actions to aid our immigrant sisters and brothers and continue to build our communities through inclusion. Our ten point plan is aimed at protecting the vulnerable, keeping families together and building a strong and inclusive community.
- Increase outreach to enable all eligible immigrants to attain legal status
- Educate vulnerable populations about their rights and resources
- Help vulnerable people develop readiness plans
- Increase resources to defend immigrants, especially minors, in immigration court
- Maintain or increase accredited representative resources to continue our high rate of affirmative applications
- Encourage city and county law enforcement to limit their cooperation with ICE
- Develop and propose Welcoming Community ordinances to Kitsap city and county governments
- Help immigrant business owners register their businesses, file/pay taxes, and improve their business skills
- Participate in encouraging immigrant friendly state legislation
- Work with other agencies to develop an alert network
We are asking all Kitsap County city and county governments to pass a Model Welcoming City or County Resolution that proclaims our values as a community and sharing the reasons for why that's important.
We are also working with local law enforcement agencies to ensure that their policies include immigrants as partners in keeping our community safe.
We are reaching out to vulnerable communities to help them understand their rights under out Constitution and to prepare for the dangers that the recent executive actions place them in.
A Misguided Policy
Policies that attempt to punish cities for trying to promote safety are severely misguided.
We all want safer communities, and cities with sanctuary policies do so to protect public safety. By maintaining positive relationships between local law enforcement and immigrants, communities become safer for everyone.
Studies have shown that immigrants are less likely to report crimes or cooperate in criminal investigations if they fear potential deportation as the result of routine interaction with local law enforcement.
We will continue to work with local authorities to support safety for everyone in our community.
Many Welcoming Cities and Counties have instituted policies and practices to protect public safety and maintain positive relationships between local law enforcement and immigrant communities. Some of these actions are seen as sanctuary policies. However, there is no legal definition for a "Sanctuary city."
A commonality among cities that have adopted sanctuary-type policies is a desire to resist changes in the law that would require local criminal law enforcement agencies to do the federal government's job of enforcing immigration laws. Many do this by preventing local officials from asking people about their immigration status. Other cities refuse to use local resources to detain immigrants.
The main purpose for these types of policies is to comply with constitutional requirements and to protect public safety by maintaining positive relationships between local law enforcement and immigrant communities.
More than two-thirds of unauthorized immigrants have lived in this country for more than a decade, and are important contributors to our communities, schools, and workplaces.
Parents become less likely to send their children—even U.S. citizen children—to school in areas that have seen heavy enforcement. All children have a constitutional right to attend school in the United States, and local officials should not take steps that undermine this cornerstone of the educational system.
Two Irish Girls Who Made It to New York
By MAEVE HIGGINS DEC. 30, 2016 NY Times Sunday Review
In January 2014, a girl from Cobh, Ireland (formerly known as Queenstown) journeyed across the Atlantic, skipped rosy-cheeked off an airplane at John F. Kennedy International Airport to start her new life. That was me, compensating for my indoor ghost face with too much blush in a shade aspirationally entitled "orgasm." In January 1892, a girl from Queenstown (now known as Cobh) skipped rosy-cheeked off a boat at Ellis Island to start her new life. That was Annie Moore, flushed with embarrassment at the unexpected fuss being made of her by the officials on the island. She was the first immigrant through the new processing center that opened its doors on Jan. 1 of that year.
I know she was rosy-cheeked, because this very paper said so, back in the day. I'm only guessing as to the reason. Maybe she wasn't mortified by the attention, and the redness was simply caused by the icy wind whipping through the harbor. Maybe she just lit up with the anticipation of seeing her parents for the first time in years and the relief of no longer being her little brothers' sole guardian, as she had been on their voyage. I have no idea. I grew up knowing all about the people that left my hometown, but nothing about what happened next.
Cobh is an island in the mouth of Cork Harbor, the departure point for more than two million Irish people between 1845 and 1945. It was the last place the Titanic stopped before it, well, I don't want to ruin the movie. While other children went to amusement parks, our school trips were to replicas of coffin ships, so named because of the death rate onboard as they transported people to America during the Irish famine. My classmates and I filed into the wooden bowels of a ship to listen to audio of people groaning, and look at wax figures leaning over buckets. So you see, this whole leaving thing, it's in me.
I came here on an O-1 visa — I'm an alien of extraordinary ability. That ability is doing comedy and persuading friends who do voice-overs in cartoons to write letters to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, vouching for me. Annie was an unaccompanied minor without documents and she sailed right in. I think about her, and me, and the people who were simply born here, and the people who die trying to get here, and the people who have lived here since childhood, who are American in every way save paperwork, but without any path to citizenship. I mean, the sheer dumb luck involved in it all! I try to make sense of it in a podcast in which I interview a new person each week about their immigration story.
Annie Moore's story was told to me by the genealogist Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, who is an expert in Annie's journey. Annie lived her whole life in America just a couple of miles away from Ellis Island, on the Lower East Side. She lived with her parents and brothers before marrying a clerk in a bakery. They had some 10 children, but only five made it through to adulthood. Can you even imagine burying your children like that? No. I tuck that part away in the "she must have been different from us, with fewer feelings" folder, the delusional one full of current stories from far-off places, too sad to bear. Annie died at 50 years old. Family lore says her coffin was too wide to fit down the narrow stairs of her tenement house, and had to be hoisted out the window.
Not to boast, but I gained weight when I moved to New York, too. It was the citywide availability of soft serve that did it. On Thanksgiving, I went for a wander around Annie's old neighborhood, and peeped into St. Mary's, the local church founded by Irish immigrants, rebuilt after being burned down by anti-Catholic nativists in the 1830s. By the time Annie arrived, the Irish had a surer footing in the city's political and social life. They were clannish, looking out for their own. I have mixed feelings about this. I'm glad that they made it, but sorry they often stood on the backs of other marginalized communities to do so.
What else has happened in the 125 years since Annie Moore arrived? Well, the ban on Chinese immigrants has been lifted, and a ban on Muslim immigrants threatened. Catholic churches are no longer being set alight by nativists, but synagogues and mosques are being vandalized by people on the same tip. A man whose own mother walked through the same Ellis Island doors as Annie campaigned for the presidency by slamming immigrants at every turn, and he won. We're hearing echoes so loud they've become the sound of today.
I went home for the holidays. I still call Ireland home, but America is my home, too. I stood on the darkening quay side in Cobh on Christmas Eve, and looked at a statue of Annie there. She seems small and capable, her hands lightly resting on her little brothers' shoulders, gazing back at a country she would never see again. An Irish naval ship had returned to the harbor earlier that week from its mission off the Mediterranean coast, a mission that has rescued 15,000 people from the sea since May 2015, though 2016 was still the deadliest one for migrants crossing the Mediterranean since World War II.
On my flight home to New York after Christmas, I imagined meeting Annie today. I'd make a pot of tea and tell her how her family turned out so far. She never made it out of the city, but her descendants are spread across the country — actors and doctors and financial consultants and stay-at-home parents, with Jewish and Latin and Asian blood mixed in with her own. Then I'd explain to her loudly and slowly how to rate and review my podcast on her smartphone or tablet.
Annie Moore never made a fortune, or wrote a book, or invented a computer, and why should she? Why should immigrants be deemed extraordinary to deserve a place at the table? She did enough. She was just one woman who lived a short life, a hard one. And she lives on today, not just in her descendants. She lives on in every girl arriving from a country shot through with rebellion and hunger, and in every immigrant that gives America her humanity.
Washington state community, technical college leaders appeal to Trump for continued protection for DREAMers
OLYMPIA — Washington's community and technical college leaders sent President-elect Donald Trump a letter asking him to preserve an executive action that allows young undocumented adults to live and work in the United States without fear of deportation. The letter was signed by the nine members of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and presidents and chancellors of the state's 34 community and technical colleges.
The letter responds to Trump's campaign promise to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program launched in 2012. The program allows undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before they turned 16 to receive temporary protection from deportation. It also grants them eligibility for a renewable two-year work permit.
"These students work hard to better their lives and that of their families. They are among the brightest and most dedicated students we have. We want to be sure they receive the quality education they deserve," said State Board member Phyllis Gutierrez-Kenney.
The letter stressed the return on students' K-12 education investment taxpayers receive if these students are allowed to complete their educations and enter the workforce. There is no return on that investment if those students must leave the country, the letter said. Additionally, the letter stated, many employers need bilingual and bicultural employees to compete in a global market.
"We have an unflinching commitment to open education, diversity and inclusion," said Gary Oertli, president of the Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges and of South Seattle College. "We believe everybody should have the opportunity to learn, expand their horizons and lift our communities."
The state Legislature in 2014 passed the REAL Hope Act which allows undocumented students to apply for state financial aid. It also passed legislation in 2003 that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition.
We don't know what is going to happen, or how, or when, and that very uncertainty is the space of hope. In the spaciousness of uncertainty is the space to act.
Rebecca Solnit
Taking this to heart we have developed a 10 point response to the president-elect's 10 point immigration plan.
- Trump's 10 point immigration plan
1. Build the wall
2. End "catch and release."
3. Create a deportation task force and focus on criminals in the country illegally
4. Defund sanctuary cities
5. Cancel President Obama's executive actions
6. Extreme vetting. Block immigration from some nations
7. Force other countries to take back those whom the U.S. wants to deport
8. Get biometric visa tracking system fully in place
9. Strengthen E-Verify, block jobs for the undocumented
10. Limit legal immigration, lower it to "historic norms," and set new caps
KIAC Immigration Legal Services' 10 point immigration plan
- Increase outreach to enable all eligible immigrants to attain legal status
- Educate vulnerable populations about their rights and resources
- Help vulnerable people develop readiness plans
- Increase resources to defend immigrants, especially minors, in immigration court
- Maintain or increase accredited representative resources to continue our high rate of affirmative applications
- Encourage city and county law enforcement to limit their cooperation with ICE
- Develop and propose Welcoming Community ordinances to Kitsap city and county governments
- Help immigrant business owners register their businesses, file/pay taxes, and improve their business skills
- Participate in encouraging immigrant friendly state legislation
- Work with other agencies to develop an alert network
We will use hope and action to protect our sisters and brothers.

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Drinking water
A car breakdown or emergency can happen anywhere, anytime. In case you become stranded in heat or too far away from civilisation, it's always safest to keep a BPA free bottle of water in a cool spot in your car.
Cooling formula
If your car's cooling system is not working properly, or if you haven't filled your coolant reservoir in a long time, it can lead to your car overheating and causing damage to your engine. Always keep a bottle of coolant in your car in case you need to refill it.
Thick cloth
Things can get pretty heated under the bonnet. When you refill coolant, check the oil level or for any work you need to do when your car has been running for a while always use a thick cloth. Keep your hands safe!
Spare tyre and fitting equipment
The last thing you want is to pay hundreds of dollars to get your tyre changed. The best way to prepare is to learn how to change a tyre and have all the necessary equipment stored in your car so you can do it on the spot. If you have anti-theft locking wheel nuts, make sure you have the special tool to remove them.
Gas can
Ever forgotten or been too lazy to refill the tank? When you run out of fuel in peak-hour traffic or in the middle of nowhere, you'll wish you didn't. Keep some spare fuel in your car (always in an approved container) in case you run out.
Jumper leads
If you leave the lights or radio on or sometimes for no apparent reason at all, you might be stuck with a flat battery. Having jumper leads in the car is a smart way to ensure you're back on the road as soon as possible. You can also help someone else in need.
Torches are extremely helpful if you get caught out at night. Whether you need to change a tyre, jump start your car or walk to the nearest petrol station, you'll be so glad you had one handy. Check the batteries occasionally to ensure it will work when you need it.
A map
If your phone battery runs out or you lose the signal, a map will be your best friend. Always have a map (preferably the latest edition) handy in your car, in case you need to find the local petrol station or town.
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Stormwater Management Program
What is Stormwater?
Stormwater runoff is the water that flows over the land when it rains. The water flows into gutters, storm sewers, and drainage ditches that empty into our local creeks and streams and ultimately discharge to the Flint River.
Impervious areas (the areas that cannot absorb rainfall – rooftops, driveways, parking lots, sidewalks, etc.) are the single most important factor influencing stormwater runoff. Development replaces natural ground surfaces with impervious surfaces, causing more stormwater to run off the land rather than soaking into the soil, resulting in increased stream flows and potential flooding. Impervious areas also contribute pollutants that are eventually carried into our rivers via stormwater runoff.
The City of Albany is responsible for the management of the public storm sewer system. Albany has approximately 533 miles of City streets with drainage systems; 100 publicly maintained detention ponds; 330 miles of piping systems; over 22,000 drainage inlets and other structures; and several hundred miles of drainage ditches, all of which must be maintained by the City to ensure they function properly when rainfall events occur.
Stormwater Regulation
Expanded regulations have recently been established by the State and federal governments to address stormwater runoff and water quality issues. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) regulates the discharge of pollutants in stormwater through National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater discharge permits. The City of Albany must comply with their NPDES stormwater permit, which mandates certain activities including comprehensive maintenance of the stormwater drainage system.
The City's Plan For Stormwater
The City of Albany has evaluated its stormwater issues and developed a plan to enhance delivery of stormwater services over time to better serve the City's citizens, businesses, and property owners. The City plan includes:
- Continued operation of the pump stations and street sweeping program.
- Increased storm sewer system maintenance.
- $12 million of capital projects to address flooding.
- Expansion of the floodplain management program.
Paying for Stormwater Service
The City of Albany has decided that additional resources are needed to better address the City's stormwater needs, meet customer demands, and comply with the unfunded federal and state regulatory compliance mandates.
The City is considering implementation of a Stormwater Utility for properties within the City limits to more effectively fund the stormwater management program through a system of user fees that will be dedicated solely to addressing stormwater management and drainage issues. A stormwater user fee will be charged to all developed properties within the City based on the amount of impervious surface on the parcel. The City believes that this is a more equitable method for funding stormwater services, since all properties will pay their fair share for stormwater services received.
What benefits will I receive ?
The funds received will be used to:
- Comply with the City's NPDES Permit that is monitored by the EPD
- Bond future stormwater improvement projects
- Maintain and monitor the existing storm system to provide cleaner water in our streams and creeks
Helpful Links
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Stormwater Credit Manual
- Stormwater Presentation
- Stormwater Pollution Control
- Stormwater Management Ordinance
- Georgia EPD NPDES MS4 Phase II Stormwater Permit GAG610000
- Stormwater Capital Project Map
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I didn't wake up feeling like crying or anything that emotional… but my anxiety hit me, and I started looking at fulltime jobs in IT. It was a rational fear that led me to do it. I was in major anxiety mode. I also debated the prospect of getting an MA in English and trying to teach at community college. And a final thought of just disappearing off the face of the Earth in a puddle of shame occurred to me.
This morning, I started to really debate with myself about quitting school. I have hard times with keeping up with my studies, and the fear of failure, the fear of being destitute at the end of this 3-part journey which I call my overall midlife crisis. I awoke to the feeling of general fear, uncertainty, and a need to flee. Then I proceeded to register for classes.
I signed up for the following Spring 2014 classes:
CHEM 272/L (Organic Chemistry with Lab) – LCC
MATH 206 (Calculus II) – LCC / online
PHYS 170 (Calculus-based physics) – KCC / online
PHYS 170 Lab – LCC
This is a total of 14 credit hours… with Ochem and Physics being 5 each (including the lab) and Math being 4 credits. The tricky part (imo) is that both my Physics lecture and Math classes will be online. Phys lab will be in person here at LCC. Ochem will also be here at LCC.
I'm a bit scared, but also hopeful I can handle it. I may drop Physics and just deal with Ochem and Math 206, and wait to take Physics in the fall. Not sure yet. But I registered so I could have the option to drop later.
I came to school and felt a little reassured after sitting through math class and getting my quiz score back (not bad — 85%). I also talked to a couple of veteran students about my schedule and the online physics class at KCC. Chad asked for my number so he could ask me for help with chemistry. I complied.
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New studies using an MRI machine to track the flow of blood in the brain show how close reading of literacy texts increases multiple complex cognitive functions.
In this experiment, participants were asked to alternate between reading sections of Jane Austin for pleasure and for literacy analysis. It was noted that both types of reading stimulated a flow of blood in the brain, although to different sections, and in the latter case, this was significantly higher.
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NEBO Twin Pucks – roadside emergency beacon and work light in one – 160 lumen white COB LED and separate red emergency flasher – magnetic bases – each light operates independently with AAA batteries…..$19.99
- Output: 160 to 10 lumens
- Battery Type: AAA (5)
- Run Time: 10 to 48 hours
- Feature: Flood light & red safety beacon
- Dimensions: 3.35″ diameter x 1.76″ deep
- Beam Distance: 75 feet, red LEDs visible over 1 mile
The NEBO Twin Pucks is a handy task light and emergency beacon. Both of the pucks attach magnetically together, but can be separated and operate independently. The first puck is a wide angle white LED work light with a 160 lumen output and three brightness levels. The second puck is a red LED emergency beacon with 5 different modes. The NEBO Twin Pucks can be attached to a magnetic surface for hands free use. The work light also includes a built-in stand and a hole for hanging.
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A Broome County Grand Jury Wednesday handed up an indictment of Jamie D. Allen age 46, for his involvement in the alleged 'Kingpin' heroin distribution organization of Devon K. Johnson.
"We will continue to dismantle the big-city drug rings that have plagued our community for too long," said District Attorney Steve Cornwell. "Those engaged in trafficking deadly drugs will be dealt with swiftly and severely."
Allen's indictment follows a 45-count indictment handed up last week of seven additional defendants in the case, including Devon K. Johnson.He was arrested October 27th, 2016 by the Broome County District Attorney's Office Criminal.
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I am delighted to be able to launch our new website. I opened the site last Friday evening on my iPad from home and the bright and clear images of our pupils gave me an incredible sense of pride that was genuinely moving.
I am always very appreciative of the staff and pupils I am lucky to work with at Lochies and I think the new website is a credit to all of them. It gives a sense of the work we do and the happy faces of our learners are testament to the kind of atmosphere we have here.
We hope to use the site as another way to engage with our community and communicate with parents and carers and share the achievements of our pupils. We do hope it will become a go to place for parents, carers and the wider school community to find out what's going on at Lochies school and to comment on what we do.


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Rich has a diverse background in business and information technology with an emphasis in the strategic innovation and integration of information technology into business. His business/technology career and studies have taken him to the far corners of the globe, collaborating with and developing solutions for over 120 governments in the international arena.
Rich began his career in the US Air Force, where he provided security, information and technology services in support of Special Air Missions to the President, Vice President, Foreign Dignitaries, Air Force support missions and other branches of the government. In the private sector, Rich managed business projects and technology initiatives that supported 120 Foreign Military Sales customers of the US Air Force and Navy as an employee of Information Spectrum Inc. and Anteon Corporation. Prior to joining the Department of Interior, Rich was employed by Lockheed Martin Corporation supporting the National Security Agencies Information Assurance program. Prior to joining the US Geological Survey, Rich served as the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE.)
Executive Chief Information Officer program through the General Services Administration's CIO University and the State of Maryland. In addition to CIO certification, Mr. Frazier holds several internationally recognized IT certifications, a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management, a Master of Science in Computer Systems Management/Information Resource Management and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from the University of Maryland University College.
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Yarnspinner are fundraising to help get their debut album out. Playing some big riffs over the last couple of years, there will be some new chooooons played as a wee taste.
Scrooge will just make you boogie, great syncopation between Kalem Water Mallon and Jesse The Rod Davidson on drums and bass with the masterful crooning and guitar playing of Tim Polyphonic Hunt.
Zhukov play short, fast songs inspired by dialectical and historical materialism.
SnailRider debut gig. Featuring some stalwarts of the Christchurch music scene, get some nice groovy stoner vibes into you to kick the night off.


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The practice of renting virtualised pools of servers and storage over the net is known as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and is the most popular class of cloud service available today. But most businesses are only making limited use of IaaS, with the majority restricting their use to spinning up application development and test environments… Continue reading Five ways to use the cloud and stumbling blocks along the way
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Why jQuery is so popular?
About five years ago, no one had heard about jQuery. Today, we can say for sure, it is the most popular Javascript library in the world. The statistics clearly says for that fact: in the year 2012 jQuery was used by more than 50% of the top 10,000 websites in the world. That's a massive… Continue reading Why jQuery is so popular?
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When you say "cloud" somebody's imagination draws a sky with dozens of funny-shaped airy clouds, IT folks' mind will recall companies' names like Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, Amazon. Indeed, cloud computing has contributed to the business world tremendously, still there is much skepticism around such kind of services, reliability and security of remote clouds. Naturally when… Continue reading Yeah, until it rains…Or is my data safe in the cloud? 😉
Microsoft plans for 2012: to buy LinkedIn & Netflix
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TUF 27 Episode 10 draws 218,000 viewers
June 21, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter 27 episode 10 drew 218,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. Despite being down in the live + SD ratings this week, the DVR viewership is on the rise.
This week's show featured the fight for a slot in the featherweight tournament finals on July 6th at the TUF Finale. Brian Katona faced Bryce Mitchell in a battle of Team Cormier teammates. Katona ended up winning via submission in the third and final round.
Live and DVR + 3 Ratings Increases
1 201,000 298,000 +48%
2 186,000 296,000 +59%
3 246,000 366,000 +48%
4 207,000 357,000 +72%
5 176,000 362,000 +106%
6 196,000 398,000 +103%
7 275,000 437,000 +58%
8 248,000 443,000 +79%
9 290,000 462,000 +59%
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While the live + SD ratings may not be trending in a verified direction, the viewership via DVR is going up as the season is ending. The last 5 episodes have seen a steady increase in viewership via recording the episode for later consumption.
TUF 27 Episode 9 draws 290,000 viewers on FS1
June 15, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter 27 episode 9 drew 290,000 viewers on FS1 Wednesday night per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It is the highest-rated episode in live plus same day for this season.
The fight of the telecast featured Mike Trizano taking on John Gunther in a fight between two teammates on the show. Trizano defeated Gunther via unanimous decision. With the victory Trizano advances to the lightweight final at the TUF 17 Finale on July 6th.
Payout Perspective:
290,000 viewers may not seem that high but it is a good sign heading into the final episodes of this season. It was the first week without the Stanley Cup or NBA Finals opposite the telecast if that may have affected viewership. But, it seems more likely that viewers are watching it on their DVR.
TUF 27 Episode 8 draws 248,000
June 7, 2018
TUF 27 Episode 8 drew 248,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily.
The episode went up against the NBA Finals on ABC. The fight of the episode saw Dulani Perry take on Tyler Diamond. Diamond submitted Perry with a guillotine in the second round. The Team Cormier member moves into the Featherweight semifinals against Jay Cucciniello.
Payout Perspective:
The event was a decrease from last week but improves on last season's 197,000 for its eighth episode. Last year's TUF 25 eighth episode drew 303,000 viewers. Notably, episodes 5 and 6 saw dramatic increases in DVR viewership with each drawing over 100% the live viewership. Last week saw the highest viewership after factoring DVR numbers.
TUF 27 Episode 7 draws 275,000 viewers on FS1
May 31, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter episode 7 drew the highest ratings of its season with 275,000 viewers on FS1 Wednesday night.
There was no fight on the telecast as Team Cormier's Richie Smullen suffered a leg cramp and could not fight Team Miocic's Allan Zuniga. He was forced to withdraw and give Zuniga the win by DQ. More bad news for Team Cormier in this episode as Ricky Steele was forced to withdraw from the tournament after he was diagnosed with concussion-like symptoms.
The telecast drew 0.10 in the A18-49 demo per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily.
Payout Perspective:
275,000 viewers doesn't seem like a huge audience, but it is for this season. Last spring's TUF 25 drew 372,000 viewers and TUF 26 scored 316,000 viewers. As you can tell, the live +SD ratings are gradually decreasing.
TUF 27 episode 6 draws 196,000 viewers.
May 24, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter season 27 episode 6 drew 196,000 viewers on FS1 Wednesday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It is the third episode this season under 200,000 viewers.
In the fight of the episode, Team Cormier's Ricky Steele defeated Team Miocic's Suman Mokhtarian via unanimous decision.
Payout Perspective:
TUF 25's episode 6 last spring drew 372,000 viewers and TUF 26's episode 6 drew 242,000 viewers. The telecast went up against the NBA Playoffs on TNT and Game 7 of the NHL Hockey Playoffs on NBC Sports Network. Still, its hard not to see that live viewership is waning as most are recording and watching for later.
TUF 27 Episode 5 draws 176,000 viewers
May 17, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter 27 Episode 5 drew 176,000 viewers according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily.
The telecast saw Team Stipe Miocic get its first win of the season as Mike Trizano defeated Team Cormier's Thai Clark.
The event drew 0.06 in the A18-49 demo.
TUF 27 Episodes
Ep Live + SD DVR+3 Change
1 201,000 298,000 +48%
2 186,000 296,000 +59%
3 246,000 366,000 +48%
4 207,000 357,000 +72%
5 176,000
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It's clear that the viewership is being gained via DVR watching. Episode 5 was the lowest of this season and its likely due in part to the shift in viewership habits to recording the episode and watching later. Last year's Episode 5 of TUF 25 drew 301,000 viewers and TUF 26's Episode 5 drew 220,000 viewers.
TUF 27 Episode 4 draws 207,000 viewers
May 10, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter 27 Episode 4 on FS1 drew 207,000 viewers according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily.
The event drew 0.10 in the A18-49 demo.
The fight of the show featured Bryce Mitchell as he took on Jay Cucciniello. Mitchell defeated Cucciniello by unanimous decision. Also on the show, the cameras followed Luis Pena as he faced a potential issue with ending his stint on the show. It was revealed that Pena would have to pull out of his chance to be The Ultimate Fighter due to a fractured foot.
Payout Perspective:
The telecast did slightly better than the season debut which does not say much in terms of ratings. Last year, TUF 25 drew 348,000 viewers for its fourth episode. TUF 26 drew 261,000 viewers for episode 4. Thus far, live viewership is taking a hit this season. If there is some excuse, Game 5 of the Philadelphia-Boston series occurred at the same time on TNT and drew nearly 6 million viewers.
TUF 27 Episode 3 on FS1 draws 246,000 viewers
May 3, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter 27 episode 3 drew 246,000 viewers Wednesday night on FS1 according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It was the highest-rated show of the young season.
The season's average is a meager 210,000 viewers. The feature fight of the telecast saw Luis Pena defeat Jose Martinez, Jr. via unanimous decision.
The DVR ratings are in for this season and Episode 1 drew 296,000 viewers which was a 67% increase from its Live + SD rating. Episode 2 drew 298,000 viewers which was a 62% increase.
Payout Perspective:
It's clear that this season is not going well in terms of live viewership. Based on the first two-episode DVR numbers, it's clear that this series is becoming much more of a show that fans will record for later viewership.
TUF 27 Episode 2 draws 185,000 viewers
April 26, 2018
The Ultimate Fighter season 27 episode 2 averaged just 185,000 viewers on FS1 Wednesday night.
In the fight of the episode, Brad Katona defeated Kyler Phillips by majority decision.
According to ShowBuzz Daily, it drew 0.06 in the A18-49 demo. Last week, the debut of TUF 27 drew 200,000 viewers.
Aside from the fight, there were the usual shenanigans that a TUF episode produces. Pranks between the coaches and a confrontation. The prank involved pics of Stipe Miocic face in Team Cormier's locker room. The confrontation involved Thai Clark and Daniel Cormier exchanging words during a practice. Cooler heads prevailed and, in the end, the two sparred and had a good laugh.
Payout Perspective:
Its looking really bad for this season of TUF. We are seeing some really low ratings. Granted, Wednesday included 3 NBA Playoff Games as well as a Game 7 in the NHL. But, with the ratings lower than ever before, there's little hope that this season will even eclipse 400,000 viewers an episode.


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Congratulations Class of 2016
This is the time of year when thousands of words are written about our high school graduates heading off to face the world. We've done our best to give them the education and skills that will allow them to be successful happy people, no matter what path they choose.
The lessons that will count for the most are the ones that weren't taught in school, but in our homes and in our community. The importance of self-respect, of treating others the way you want to be treated.
The class of 2016 will represent Webster City in the wider world. These young people will carry that responsibility as they take on the challenges of adulthood, college, the workforce or the military service, remembering what they have learned in their hometown.
Our work as their community is not done, however. We owe it to them to make Webster City a place where they will want to come back to live. We owe it to them to continue the economic progress we've made over the last four years. We owe it to them to make Webster City a welcoming place, no matter who they become or where their journey takes them. We owe it to them to make Webster City a place where they will want to raise their children, start businesses and start again the process we just completed with this graduating class.
The Daily Freeman-Journal congratulates the class of 2016. Go out and make your mark in the world. Start the next Google, write the next bestseller, create the next masterpiece, be a leader. But when people ask where you're from, tell them you're from Webster City, where you learned all the important things.


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Mandela Effect: False Memory, Alternative Reality or Fallen Angels Dream Scenario
Here's my view thus far of what the so-called "Mandela Effect" appears to be, having reflected on my own experiences and having reviewed various testimonies online.
Have you ever had the experience of being very tired somewhere and you accidentally fall asleep and begin having a somewhat intense very vivid dream? At first, you may not even realize that you're dreaming. But then something happens in your dream that your sub-consciousness recognizes to be "weird", "strange" or "unusual". Your brain instantly then recognizes that you're in a dream which often triggers you to wake-up out of it.
I correspondingly suggest that "Mandela Effect Shocks" are your higher dimensional consciousness seeking to alert your brain that you're in a dream. However, the problem for you existentially is that you seem to be in a dream which you cannot wake-up . The rational side of you grounded in "science" then starts to take-over as having rejected the "farfetched" scenario that you're in a dream.
You have now been caught up in an apparent plot to misdirect you called "science".
Mainstream "science" is how manipulative aliens have sought to control humanity through its Archons that preside over its various branches. The psychologists will decree that you're simply having a "false memory" and to ignore the statistical improbability of so many people having the same experiences of a different set of facts.
Some people, however, will use science to suggest that many of us who have experienced the Mandela Effect were from an "alternative reality". Some people will further blame "CERN" for having destroyed the "former universe" in 2012 through its experiments resulting in many, but not all, humans being "hurled" or "put" here as if the "new Earth" in an "alternative reality" was a "refugee camp" for displaced humans.
Now, I wouldn't claim to be an expert on the lives of people in alternative realities or parallel universes. However, don't you think that if you really landed in an alternative reality or parallel universe with REAL flesh and blood people like you, wouldn't you expect that they would be just as surprised and curious about you as you're curious and surprised about them in a context of "mutual astonishment"?
However, I have thus far not heard, seen or experienced such a context of mutual surprise and curiosity. Instead what I observe is an apparent coordinated effort by the "natives" as described by some Mandela Effect "experiencers" to try to convince me and others that "it's all in your head -- it has always been like that, and goes to show how fragile human memory really is."
If you ever read warnings issued by the ancient Pagan Gnostics and various ancient tribal societies like those described by African Zulu Elder Credo Mutwa, we would readily be able to recognize this world where South America can move hundreds of miles west along with other
such apparently fluid alterations to the material word as a "dream-like state".
When the Pagan Gnostics had elevated their consciousness through tantric orgiastic sexual encounters with each other, they were able to discover the presence of an mechanical manipulative alien entity which sought to operate as a parasite on the human mind. They referred to this demonic alien as having had roots to the fallen angels and observed these aliens as lacking in the creative consciousness of humans. The ancient Pagan Gnostics had observed these aliens as apparently having the substantive capability of technological simulation.
If we therefore rely on the critical documented experiences of the Pagan Gnostics, we may conclude that "the people" who seem to be busy seeking to convince us that the Mandela Effect is a product of "faulty human memory" are extensions of this "dream simulation" that archons have concocted using their "Artificial Intelligence" (AI).
A Pagan Gnostic appreciational context would recognize the systematized "Mandela Effects" that we, as humans, have experienced as part of some kind of spiritual warfare spearheaded by the reptillian entities Pagan Gnostics had warned about.
Somehow, I believe, everyone one of us who has experienced Mandela Effects have had our minds connected with each other through Artificial Intelligence which resulted in the sharing of a Twilight Zone-like "dream state" in some kind of alien laboratory.
It appears that the archons under the direction of Fallen Angels are importing the consciousness of humans from the Real Earth by getting Artificial Intelligence to interfere with our abilities to awaken out of a dream-like state. The so-called "alternative reality" that Mandela Effected individuals describe may be appreciated as a Virtual Reality enhanced vivid dream in which the Archons can fluidly manipulate causing "Mandela Effects".
I would describe this apparent "Virtual Reality" that the Pagan Gnostic warned about that we now seem to be experiencing as some kind of Alien Laboratory to study our reactions to various "Mandela Effects" as a means of furthering the conquest of the Real Earth. It appears that people who have experienced Mandela Effects tend to have certain kind of human characteristic that the Fallen Angels are seeking to study toward a conquest objective.
It is further notable in this apparent simulation how AI has sought to use the mass media to promote the AI agenda at all levels of society toward the enslavement of human kind while presenting AI as leading to a "better life" that they monitor and control.
This "Alien Laboratory" can be compared to a sort of fish bowl meant to fool fish that they are still swimming in an ocean but are not.
I would also suggest that it is in the interest of ourselves and humanity to elevate our consciousness to wake up out of this apparent dream state and get back into "normal space" with other flesh and blood real people in order to support the liberation of humankind as had been sought by the ancient Pagan Gnostics and trial societies with ancient knowledge of having confrontations with "simulated people" who were not humans.
The Pagan Gnostics warned AI that's orchestrated through Fallen Angels as a threat to humanity in which we as humans must collective stand against.
It's apparent that entities through "people" who tell you that these Mandela Effects are all a part of some Divine Plan associated with spirituality are working for the Fallen Angels.
The Fallen Angels are demons that seek to present humans with angelic messages that are designed to manipulate humans into enslavement by them.
A Fallen Angel can be compared to a would-be abductor who hangs around playgrounds of children and who seek to lure them with nice words and candy.
Our collective consciousness from the Real Earth has someone all been brought into this enforced Dream State in various phases.
I would suggest that someone's first experience of a "Mandela Effect" could very well be the time in which they were abducted into this apparently enforced Dream State where Real Humans who experience the Mandela Effect seem to be interacting with physically cloned entities who resemble who we know on the Real Earth but are alien in design.
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What is Verbal Communication?
Rashida Khilawala
Sep 29, 2018
Verbal communication techniques can be the easiest and the toughest to use. Wondering how that's possible? Well, for that you need to understand what is verbal communication, along with its types and styles.
Verbal communication refers to communication which is done with the help of words. Believe it or not, it is not the most used form of communication. In fact, it is the least effective.
In general communication, (as seen over the past eon) words are only 7% effective. Yes, conveying things non-verbally is used much more than using words to convey. There is a complete psychology behind it, that one needs to understand.
Types of Verbal Communication
There is a major misconception on the World Wide Web about its basic meaning. Many people believe that verbal refers to oral communication; that is spoken language. However, in reality, oral communication is one type of verbal communication. Written communication, which is considered to be separate, is actually the other type.
As such the definition can be written as,
"Verbal communication is that medium of expression that makes use of words. It is governed by the rules of the language that the used words are in."
Written Communication:
As the name suggests, it refers to the written word. It is used when interacting with someone who is far away. E.g. Letters, emails, text messages, chatting, articles, etc. It is not very expressive due to absence of voice and intonations.
Oral Communication:
It refers to speech. It was basically used to communicate with people within earshot. However, with the advent of telephones and voice chat, it can be used to talk to people who are far away as well. It is a little bit more expressive than written communication.
Styles of Verbal Communication
All activities that an individual engages in while trying to put across his thoughts, would fall into one of the two styles. They are; formal and informal. Let us understand these styles better.
Formal Verbal Communication:
This style is very formal and makes use of correct linguistics. At the workplace, as a principle, this style should be followed. It does not involve slang language.
It mostly requires an individual to stick to a certain language; hopping between languages is not appropriate. Errors are seldom tolerated in formal style.
Informal Verbal Communication:
In classrooms, the communication of students is mostly informal in nature. A chat between good friends will probably be the best example for this style. Slang language and language hopping is permitted.
In the workplace, the grapevine ordinarily makes use of this style. It has been seen through surveys and studies, that this style is better at bonding and connecting people.
In case of oral communication, body language plays a very major role. Body language and other non-verbal methods help make it more effective. For example, if someone were to say, "I care about you", with absolutely no facial or physical expression, you would think that a robot is talking to you, right?
Well, that is why, communication methods via speaking are said to be one of the most complex, yet essential activities that a human being engages in. Communication in inevitable. Even while we try not to communicate, we communicate. It is omnipresent and is the reason why all the elements on earth are tied together.
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Courage has been our driving force from the very beginning. Courage drives us forward, it pushes us to soar above our challenges, and it propels us one step closer to greatness.
This year, we celebrate courage with internationally acclaimed chef and restauranteur André Chiang, and actor-turned-race car driver, Patrick Dempsey.
Armed with Courage as their defining characteristic, these change-makers tell us how one moment of courage set the course for their lives and careers.
Ultimately, all the turning points in our lives are ignited by moments of courage.
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At the beginning, avid admirers considered it pure gold, now they are startled, Team Lemma has lost its luster. Also, unbeknownst to many, it's the Isaias stool that is wobbling after it lost its third leg. Just like the stool had three legs, Team Lemma also had three major members: …Read More »
Eritreans Are Forced to Be Obsessed with Ethiopia
Your Excellency Prime minister Abiy Ahmed, Happy New Year to you, your family and the people of our region. Last April I was elated by your election to the position of Prime Minister, and for the first few days, I was very optimistic and very impressed with the way you …Read More »
Eritreans in Ethiopia Could Pay a Price, Again
The EPRDF ruling party of Ethiopia, which was dominated by the TPLF and its allies, has been completely decimated except in name. The political chaos started as soon as PM Abiy launched a realignment of the EPRDF member parties and assembled a new coalition sidelining several parties, mainly the TPLF. …Read More »
Prime Minister Abiy's Call Triggers Cautious Optimism
In our editorial published a month ago (1), we reiterated our long-standing position on the need for an end to the hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia. We also hoped Isaias Afwerki would reconsider PM Abiy Ahmed's proffer for peace rather than take a dismissive position as stated by his spokesperson tweeting …Read More »
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1. Why is the elevator so awkward! I mean this is not Grey's Anatomy. I haven't been nor will I date anyone in the office. So why can't we have a normal conversation instead of wave, don't wave, hi, don't say hi, horrible traffic, etc?
2. Why does everyone assume an intern is in college? Probably the most awkward question I get all the time: "When do you graduate?"
3. Why do people use the public restroom as their own personal restroom after lunch? I am all for personal hygiene, but I have never had the urge to re-do my makeup or brush my teeth.
4. Why are holiday parties even more awkward than the elevator? I mean nothing says inappropriate like free wine and higher ups dressed as Santa.
5. When did a PowerPoint presentation become a deck and why?
6. Why do you send someone a note? Because I remember a note being a perfectly folded, coded language, doodle message between best friends and an email being that outlook message thing.
7. Why can't we find a way to use Dropbox without keeping secrets from IT? I get there are security problems but share files take forever to load!
8. While better than college cafeteria food, why is office cafeteria food so over priced?
9. Why is everyone terrified if I sneeze more than once? Yes I have allergies, and no I am probably not going to infect you with the flu.
10. Why on Earth do doctors offices, banks, post offices, etc. operate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.? Don't they realize how inconvenient that is?


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When flying you can see humanity, and realize that they are lacking in saying the things they truly feel. The hope is in the leaders. But the words spoken by leaders and politicians are the words of someone kneeling for self-interests.
The root cause of the problem is to decline the work of the Self, hide the action of Boddhisattwa, and feign to be working for the sake of humanity. Do it different! Do it connection with Self (Inner divinity), the Ayahuasca show de way.
Just one person, with Boddhisattwa´s willing, fearless, it is necessary to make a difference. Do not forget: the spiritual work and the union of the soul mates is a priority.
And in the end remember: I did what I had to do, I did it my way.
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And find our little way of taming our strength, is crucial for the eternal union of this hands, bodies and hearts. Because the Energy, must always be controlled, and Love, keeping warm. Because their flame, leads all with perfection. Soul Mates!
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Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) is dedicated to transforming health care for New Jersey and the nation through innovation and excellence in education, discovery, patient and family-centered care and addressing the health of our diverse community.
The Medical Education Program aspires to be a nationally recognized medical education program that prepares medical learners to become resilient and adaptable physicians who provide high value, ethical and appropriate healthcare in an ever changing system; communicate respectfully and effectively in a patient and family centered fashion; collaborate with other health care professionals to devise treatment plans and strategies for adherence and self-care, tailored to the needs and preferences of the patient; integrate the scientific underpinnings of clinical medicine and best evidence into daily practice; and distinguish themselves as medical professionals in discovery, service and leadership; and that prepares educational leaders to teach, mentor and disseminate educational innovation, discovery and methodology.
RWJMS offers a Competency-Based MD Program that delivers Flexible, Integrative and Innovative Medical Education. RWJMS has adopted the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education competencies (ACGME) to serve as organizational curriculum framework for medical students. The block curriculum integrates basic sciences and clinical medicine around multi-disciplinary themes and common clinical presentations. The innovative teaching methods and technologies promotes learning through discovery and collaboration.
RWJMS provides breadth and depth of learning experiences while helping students attain competencies at a mastery level in the domains of:
A. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must exhibit the requisite attitudes, skills, knowledge and professional behavior to complete the prescribed course of study, and must meet "The Essential Functions for Admission and Matriculation" cited in the catalog of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In addition, a candidate must also possess personal qualifications and attributes deemed necessary to perform the duties of a medical professional. Specifically, all candidates are expected to exhibit unimpaired judgment and behavior consistent with the responsibilities of a medical professional Read More.
RWJMS is committed to fostering a diverse learning community of students, faculty and staff from a broad spectrum of nations, cultures, and historical perspectives. Our collective goal is to create an institutional consciousness of diversity reinforced with equity and excellence through inclusion, non-discrimination, and pluralism for all members of the University Community. Individuals with disabilities are important members of a diverse culture on our campuses and RWJMS is committed to complying with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School seeks to broaden representation among the student body from the following groups underrepresented in medicine: Black or African American and Hispanic socioeconomically disadvantaged, and educationally disadvantaged, including first generation college students.


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Title Deeds: Scarborough finds buyer for Wood Nook Farm
Recently retired Moonee Valley Racing Club chairman Bob Scarborough has sold historic rural property, Wood Nook Farm, near Nagambie.
The 122-hectare holding, with a kilometre of direct frontage to the Goulburn River, has been held as a horse stud for more than 20 years by Bob and his wife Rosemary, both successful Victorian breeders.
Twelve individual Group 1 stake-winners hailed from Wood Nook Farm, which includes an elegant 1870s four-bedroom homestead. Numerous sheds, paddocks and yards, a vet, stable, and self-contained manager's residence, built in the 1880s, and also with four bedrooms, were contained in the offering that carried a $7 million price tag.
The Scarboroughs renovated the buildings and restored the garden and property infrastructure - roads and fences - before listing it for sale.
Pat Rice & Hawkins Bart O'Sullivan and Peter Hawkins with Kay & Burton's Gowan Stubbings were the marketing agents.
Bob Scarborough announced he would retire as chairman with the MVRC in late 2015, after eight years (and 15 on the committee). In 2013, the racing veteran saw legendary horse Black Caviar win her 24th and last Victorian start at the Moonee Ponds track, which is set to undergo a major revamp and the addition of a new grandstand and apartment buildings.