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"Couples Share the Happiness and Heartache of Interracial Marriage" By 'National Geographic' Shows What It Means To Be An Interracial Couple 2018
Chances are, you know interracial couples or are part of one yourself. While you don't think it is a big deal — it's 2018, after all — sadly, some people still look twice and react when they see an interracial couple. On Tuesday, National Geographic released a video, "Couples Share the Happiness and Heartache of Interracial Marriage". In it, interracial couples talk about what it means to be an interracial couple today. National Geographic also published an article, "The Many Colors of Matrimony," which portrays two days' worth of interracial couples getting married at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. It appears in "The Race Issue," the April issue of National Geographic magazine, a single topic issue on the subject of race.
For decades, interracial marriage was against the law — in 1967, 17 of 50 states still enforced this. However, 1967 also marked a revolutionary time for interracial couples: The U.S. Supreme Court case "Loving v. Virginia" decided that interracial marriages were no longer illegal. The case came about when Mildred Loving (an African-American and Native American woman) and Richard Loving (a Caucasian man) got married — and they were sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia. According to National Geographic, per a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data, from 1967 until 2015, interracial marriages went from one in 33 to one in six, and they account for one in 10 marriages. Furthermore, in 2015, 17 percent of U.S. newlyweds had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity.
It seems like society has come a long way in accepting intermarried couples. However, as you'll see in the video, and according to Syracuse University law professor Kevin Noble Maillard, who writes frequently about intermarriage, society still has a way to go.
"Interracial [couples] and families have always existed, but haven't necessarily been 'out' about it in a way that feels safe and nonconsequential," Maillard tells Bustle. "Now that society is getting around to legalizing the possibility of mixed families and relationships, it must advance to a point of accepting them, which is a completely different thing."
In National Geographic's video and article, they speak to several couples about their life as an interracial couple. Take a look below at the "Couples Share the Happiness and Heartache of Interracial Marriage" video.
Below, couples featured in the article and video highlight what it means to be an interracial couple today, from the resistance they face to what they'd tell anyone who's struggling with disapproving family members.
What It Means To Be An Interracial Couple Today
Halil Binici kisses the hand of his bride, Jade Calliste-Edgar, after their wedding on October 6, 2017. The newlyweds "went right back to work" that day, Jade says, but planned to combine honeymoon trips with visits to her family in Florida and his in Turkey.
Jade Calliste-Edgar, a black woman from Florida, and Halil Binici, a Turkish man raised in Istanbul, were one of the couples who were featured in National Geographic's article. "For us, being an interracial couple means a meeting and blending of cultures and viewpoints," Calliste-Edgar tells Bustle. "Halil and I grew up in very different environments and cultures. So, we end up learning a lot about each other and our families, and our awareness and knowledge is expanded. It's important for us to know the things the other experiences and goes through, because we each experience our immediate surroundings differently."
Meanwhile, intermarried couples in the video, too, see each other for the person they are, not based on skin color. "I don't wake up in the morning and think, like, 'Oh here's my black husband and I'm half-Indian, and we're about to start our interracial day!'" Sheila Davis said in the video. Erica Derpinghaus, also featured in the video, agrees. "Why do we have to put the tag on as interracial marriage? Shouldn't it just be a marriage?"
Obstacles Interracial Couples May Still Face Today
New York City residents Stephanie Mansfield and Shiva Nahappan have been together seven years, including time spent living in Europe and Asia. At home they celebrate both Christmas and Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
Some people are very open to the idea of interracial couples, yet others may not be as welcoming. Calliste-Edgar says. "I don't know that we really face a lot of obstacles in this regard," she says. "Halil and I live in New York City, so we feel that people are a lot more accepting here about our relationship. This may not be the same if we were living in, say, Florida, where I grew up. Granted, my hometown can be pretty accepting, but it also would depend on what part of town I lived in."
Though Calliste-Edgar says she and her husband have not experienced any resistance from friends, family, or people on the street, they have received some offhanded comments. "We haven't experienced any blatant forms of resistance," Calliste-Edgar says. "I've had people ask me if I'm worried about my husband trying to convert me to Islam or about him trying to make me cover my head. And my response always involves the fact that Halil and I have talked about our expectations of each other and we try not to make assumptions. And I'm sure he's had people ask what it's like dating an American Black woman. But he speaks to what it's like dating me, and that I'm not a typical American, because my family is from the Caribbean. But no one has told us no."
However, some intermarried couples do get resistance and comments from people. "You'd think a group as marginalized as the gay community would be completely comfortable with an interracial couple," Matt Burton, Caucasian, said in the video while sitting next to his African-American husband, Bryan Fox. "But privately, they'll say things to me that are a little inappropriate. 'You know Matt — he likes the brothers,' or 'Once you go black, you'll never go back.'"
What Can Be Done To Change How Interracial Couples Are Viewed
Nathan Reese is from California; his bride, Connie Wang, is from "Minnesota via Jinan, China," he says. Though they had a larger wedding later with family and friends, Nathan reports that getting married first at city hall was "surprisingly delightful ... like an extremely joyful DMV experience."
A recent Tinder survey of more than 4,000 people from across the globe found that 52 percent of people felt that interracial couples were not well-represented — or only represented somewhat — in emojis, GIFs, and memes. For context, meanwhile, same-sex couple emojis have been around since 2015, yet interracial couple ones are lacking. So Tinder has launched a campaign, #RepresentLove, to help make interracial emojis a thing. "It's certainly a fair point to bring to light," Calliste-Edgar says. "I think if the option is there, there's exposure, people will (hopefully) use them, and it will, hopefully, subconsciously make the push in the right direction. But emojis certainly aren't enough. We need more exposure to interracial couples in TV shows, movies, and other media platforms."
Maillard also believes interracial emojis could be beneficial. "Having interracial emojis would disrupt typical expectations that couples are two people of the same race, or the same skin color," Maillard says. "It would also articulate a necessary complication that same-sex couples are categorically monoracial, when in fact, they are more likely than heterosexual couples to be interracial. The ability to have a choice, when the technology costs are so low, is something that should be mandatory."
Maillard also says that the media's portrayal of couples can effect how interracial couples are viewed. "All families are regular — but they just don't know it because art and media makes some forms more visible than others," Maillard says. "Art plays a part in changing minds in a way that law and government cannot. It's often said that film and televisions are windows into the world around us, but they are more like fun house mirrors that confirm what we think we already know. Having different representations of families and relationships doesn't just create 'visibility,' but it transforms the normal."
What Interracial Couples Would Tell Friends About Dating Outside Of Their Race
Robin Kennedy (left) and Carl Sylvestre were a couple for nearly 23 years before they wed. They honeymooned in Montréal.
You never know who you will fall in love with, right? Yet you've probably seen the same movies and real-life situations where someone falls in love with a person outside of their race or culture and their families don't approve. Calliste-Edgar shares what she'd tell someone who was afraid of what others may think. "I tailor my response knowing that some families, ethnicities, cultures, etc., strongly prefer that their children marry someone from the same or similar background," she says. "But, it's important for you to consider your happiness and what you want out of life. As long as the other person is open and willing to respect who you are and the background and experiences you bring, then there's no harm in trying."
How To Deal With Family & Friends Who Disapprove
Chantal Thomson says she and Orlando Easterling, Jr., "are proud to help pave the way for other people to follow their hearts."
"I personally feel that interracial couples should no longer be taboo — I mean, it's 2018," Calliste-Edgar says. "No, not everyone has reached a place of equity. But, if we are going to progress as a society, it seems counterintuitive that we still cannot understand that no one is better than another based on race. For anyone resisting, I would probably ask them what exactly about interracial couples is so problematic for them and challenge their opinions."
Similarly, Maillard suggests thinking about your best interests, not someone else's. "If your friends and family are really thinking about your best interest, they should eventually support you — following their wishes and expectations just adds to the problem and lets their narrow focus become yours," Maillard says. "If you are banished from your present contacts because you choose to be with someone you love, would you want to be around those people afterward, and would you be as happy?" Poignant question, right?
In the video, too, couples addressed why interracial coupling up should not mean anything more than two people coupling up. "According to science, race is barely even a thing," Victoria Jaggard, National Geographic's Sr. Science Editor said in the video. "I mean, we're all just humans. If you meet somebody and you do get along and have a ton in common, why should race matter?"
At the end of their video, National Geographic encourages people to share their stories, too, using #idefineme. After all, like Maillard says, only you and your significant other should define you as a couple, nobody else.


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Okay now I've finally had the time to go to my local public library and check out a few books. I also went out and bought some more too. The one I just finished is Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough.
About and Thoughts on Book:
It's about a seventeen-year-old girl named Tamsin who's from a family of witches. Everyone in Tamsin's family is Talented. They all have a unique Talent, except Tamsin. She was suppose to be the most Talented, as her grandmother predicted when she was born. But when her eight birthday comes around, the year she's suppose to show what Talent she has, nothing happens. Now, Tamsin spends most of her time in Manhattan at a boarding school. She is looked down upon by her family and everyone in her home town. When a mysterious stranger thinks she is Rowena, her older sister and one of the most Talented in her family, and asks her to help her find something, she does. Even though she has no Talent, Tamsin pretends to be her sister and helps this man out. She discovers later on that maybe she does have something special about her and that her grandmother was right.
I liked the book, so much so that I read in it in less than a day. I couldn't put it down. I felt for Tamsin every time she felt like an outsider in her own family. The ending felt open ended, so I hope this turns out to be a series.
Other News:
I have many other books left to read, and at the moment I'm reading Meridian, and the rest of the House of Night series. I finally was able to buy the last two that are out. So this is all for now.

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The Zhejral fishpond (also known as Zejhral), peatbog and peaty meadows on the north and west banks of the pond lie 1 km to the east of the village of Klatovec in the kraj Vysoฤina - Bohemian-Moravian Highlands Region. The NNR was declared in 1982 on an area of 26.99 ha at elevations of 575 – 596 metres above sea level in the parish of Klatovec.
The subject of the protection is the extensive complex of preserved communities of an oligotrophic upland fishpond, reedbeds, peatbogs, peaty meadows, matgrass pastures and developing alder stands in the Jihlavské vrchy hills. The fishpond and its surroundings represent a landscape segment of high ecological and aesthetic value.
The basement is formed of granites of the central Moldanubian massif, medium to fine-grained two-mica granites which are porphyritic in places (Mrákotín type). The granites are covered by deluvial sand-loam to stony-loam sediments of predominantly solifluctional origin. Fluvial sediments of predominantly sandy-loam character are deposited around the pond. The pond was built in a shallow spring basin. Around the pond and in areas with a permanently high groundwater table gleysols have developed, which pass into plano-gleyic luvisols and cambic podsols.
The vegetation on the territory is relatively varied and the representation of individual plant communities depends mainly on the height of the groundwater table. In shallow water areas (eulittoral) growths of branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum) and water horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile) can be found, passing into stands of sedges of the Caricion rostratae alliance as we move towards the banks. Sedge-sphagnum moss growths on small areas with a high groundwater table can be included in the communities of Sphagno recurvi-Caricion canescentis association of transitional mires. Further from the banks of the pond wet thistle meadows (Calthion) and minerotrophic sedge meadows of the Caricion fuscae alliance can be found. Typical and endangered species which grow here include tufted loosestrife (Naumburgia thyrsiflora), bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), western marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis), lesser tussock sedge (Carex diandra), creeping willow (Salix rosmarinifolia), marsh valerian (Potentilla palustris) and marsh valerian(Valeriana dioica). The sedge stands of the Caricion fuscae alliance mostly occur in their degraded stages with the typical distinctive tufts of common sedge (Carex nigra). Small populations of hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) grow on the edge of the wood on the north-eastern bank of the pond. Communities of the Oxycocco-Sphagnetea with a transition into the Nardo-Callunetea with cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris) are developed in an untypical and fragmentary way. On drier localities on the western fringe of the reserve matgrass pastures of the Violion caninaealliance with viper's grass (Scorzonera humilis) can be found. Scattered groups of trees are predominantly formed of eared willow (Salix aurita) and grey willow (Salix cinerea). The fishpond dam is lined with mixed-species and mixed-age tree stands with black-berried honeysuckle (Lonicera nigra) and rarely the mountain snowbell Soldanella montana in the undergrowth. Round-leaved sundews (Drosera rotundifolia) and grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) grow on the eastern bank of the pond and below the dam (outside the reserve).
Intensive entomological research has been carried out in Zhejral NNR in recent years and 500 butterfly species have been recorded here. The majority of these butterflies are typical peatbog, waterlogged meadow and marsh species. Among the most characteristic are the tyrphophyte gelechiid Neofaculta infernella, the tortricids Olethreutes bipunctanus and Apotomis sauciana, the geometrid chevron moth (Eulithis testata), the noctuid Hypenodes humidalis and golden-rod brindle (Lithomoia solidaginis). From the synusia of the marsh species we can mention the round-winged muslin (Thumatha senex) and the moths silver hook (Deltote uncula) and northern drab (Orthosia opima). The extensive littoral growths around the fishpond are the biotope of the snout moths Schoenobius forficellus and Chilo phragmitellus and the moths large wainscot (Rhizedra lutosa)and obscure wainscot (Leucania obsoleta), which are bound to the reed (Phragmites australis) and manna grass (Glyceria sp.). Characteristic species for the territory are the tortricid Ancylis geminana and the geometrid Hydriomena ruberata, which are bound to various kinds of willows and the rare barred chestnut (Diarsia dahlii) which prefers shrubby biotopes at higher elevations.
The shallow water and littoral growths around the fishpond are the home of many amphibians including moor frog (Rana arvalis), pool frog (Rana lessonae), common frog (Rana temporaria), common tree-frog (Hyla arborea), common toad (Bufo bufo), smooth newt (Triturus vulgaris) and Alpine newt (Triturus alpestris). The birds in the reserve are those which are typical of peaty meadows and wetlands, including the whinchat (Saxicola rubetra), meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis), grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia), reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), snipe (Gallinago gallinago), marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus), woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus), little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis), gadwall (Anas strepera)and many more. Sometimes forest birds such as the nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) and the mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) also fly into the area. The black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) was last seen here in 1978. Systematic study of the mammals at Zhejral recorded 32 species, of which significant ones are the southern water shrew (Neomys anomalus), field vole (Microtus agrestis), harvest mouse (Micromys minutus), hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), northern bat (Eptesicus nilssoni) and otter (Lutra lutra).
A small grove on the western edge of the fishpond dam is included in the reserve and was included to maintain the continuity of the NNR border. The predominantly pine stand with bilberry in the undergrowth is left to natural development.
The majority of the reserve lies within the 2nd zone of hygienic protection of water sources which is the nearby Karhov pond. Fish are not bred commercially in the fishpond and only a "maintenance stock" is kept here. Management of the NNR since 1993 is focussed on maintaining the conditions for the existence of endangered peaty and wet meadow communities. Valuable areas of vegetation of the Calthion and Violion caninae alliances are regularly cut. The Zhejral NNR is not open to the public.


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Norman Rockwell Museum Presents Reimagining The Four Freedoms
New York Capital Region Students Celebrate 75th Anniversary of Rockwell's Iconic Paintings with a Look at What Freedom Means Today
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Stockbridge, MA, March 7, 2018—In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings, set to embark on an international tour, Norman Rockwell Museum is once again teaming up with New York's Capital Area Art Supervisors to present an exhibition of student artwork, exploring what freedom means for a new generation. Reimagining The Four Freedoms is on view at the Museum from March 16 through April 8, 2018.
Reimagining The Four Freedoms will display original artworks, created in a variety of mediums, by high school students from the Capital District of New York State. Works from students enrolled in Studio in Art classes in Albany, Rensselaer, and Schenectady County will be on view. Each work will relate to a freedom most important to the individual student. Participating school districts include: Bethlehem, East Greenbush, Guilderland, Mohonasen, Niskayuna, Rensselaer, and Scotia-Glenville.
"This year's exhibition is extra special," notes Sheila Elario, a retired K-12 instructional administrator for Art and Design at Guilderland Central School District and member of the Capital Area Art Supervisors, who organized the exhibition. "Students had a chance to reexamine past works and were given a voice in how they view their world around them. In looking at the body of work, we can see that each students' values and interpretation of the Four Freedoms has changed significantly, and yet there are ideas that have changed little over the past 75 years."
A special closing reception for the artists and public will be held on Sunday, April 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. Norman Rockwell's original Four Freedoms paintings will be on view at the Museum through April 2018.
About Capital Area Art Supervisors
The mission of the Capital Area Arts Supervisors is to ensure that all regional K-12 students experience creative and critical thinking for life-long learning through visual arts education as a means to fostering personal growth, community involvement, and social and career development.
Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & The Four Freedoms
Opening May 25 at New-York Historical Society
This year, the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Norman Rockwell's iconic depictions of FDR's Four Freedoms—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear and Freedom from Want—begins its international tour in New York City. Opening at the New-York Historical Society on May 25, Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms explores how the 1943 paintings came to be embraced by millions of Americans, providing crucial aid to the War effort and taking their place among the most indelible images in the history of American art. It is, in effect, the story of how the images were transformed from a series of illustrations into a national movement that united the country behind a common cause.
The exhibition, which provides a rare opportunity to see Rockwell's images together outside their permanent home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, will illuminate both the historic context in which FDR articulated the Four Freedoms and the role of Rockwell's paintings in bringing them to life for millions of people, changing the tenor of the times. It will additionally show how the Four Freedoms paintings were precursors to a sequence of works spanning three decades in which Rockwell addressed significant social concerns, from civil rights to the nation's role and responsibilities at home and abroad.
View the Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms exhibition website…
Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, Enduring Ideals has been co-curated by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Norman Rockwell Museum, and James J. Kimble, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication & the Arts, Seton Hall University. Additionally, a National Advisory Board, comprising scholars, artists, and museum professionals, has provided guidance and expertise for the exhibition.
To date, the exhibition tour comprises The New-York Historical Society, New York City, NY, May 25 – September 2, 2018; The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI, October 13, 2018 – January 13, 2019; The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., February 9 – May 6, 2019; Mémorial de Caen, Normandy, France, June 4 – October 27, 2019; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, December 15, 2019 – March 22, 2020; and Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, September – November 2020.
Major support for Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms has been generously provided by Jay Alix | The Alix Foundation and George Lucas Family Foundation, and by national presenting sponsor The Travelers Companies, Inc. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, Michael Bakwin, Helen Bing, Elephant Rock Foundation, Ford Foundation, Annie and Ned Lamont, National Endowment for the Arts, and Ted Slavin. Media sponsors include: Curtis Licensing, a division of The Saturday Evening Post, and Norman Rockwell Family Agency.


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Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
Small businesses are often called the backbone of the economy. Policies that encourage the growth of small businesses and the role of entrepreneurship in the market are considered to be healthy for the economy at large.
Entrepreneurship is a veritable source of employment and wealth creation for Nigerians who desire to create wealth for themselves by starting a business of their own and nurturing it to maturity. A business empire can be created by starting small and working hard enough to maintain the business and making it grow through various stages. Many big companies in Nigeria today started small many years ago and their founders were committed in their pursuit and persevered until the businesses grew into world class brands.
Despite the challenges, Nigeria is a beautiful place to do business that any entrepreneurial minded person can succeed in business if they are willing to start something no matter how difficult it may seem at first.
The most difficult aspect is in starting the business. As soon as you start, however turbulent it may be, you will begin to learn the ropes as you continue to nurture your business and sooner or later, the business will begin to make headway as long as you persevere.
To grow the Nigerian economy to a level that it would begin to compete with world class economies such as that of the US, Britain, China, Japan and other economically developed nations, entrepreneurship and job creation must be given top priority by all stakeholders. While the government holds the ace in this regard as it is expected to continuously formulate policies that will create a favourable atmosphere for businesses to thrive, it is pertinent to state that the Nigerian youths who form the bulk of the active population should be reorientated from the mentality of job hunting to job creation.
A human rights activists based in Lagos, Mr. Tayo Demola, said if every Nigerian graduate can create at least one job opportunity for himself and is able to make a living out of this, then the problem of unemployment will be drastically reduced to the barest minimum and this will greatly reduce dependence on government to create jobs as well as reduce insecurity, armed banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the country.
For Nigerians to create jobs for themselves as well as for others, he said, there has to be that entrepreneurial spirit in them that will propel every person to think about what he or she can do for the nation and not what the nation can do for them.
According to him, it is possible for Nigeria to get to that level where every citizen will have that entrepreneurially creative spirit to create jobs and make wealth for themselves for the betterment of the nation.
But to do this, he suggested an enabling policy from government to drive that consciousness into the people from cradle, meaning that, it is not enough to have entrepreneurship introduced as a course in the tertiary institutions in Nigeria, it must also a matter of necessity be introduced to pupils right from the primary schools so that students can learn how to be enterprising right from childhood.
"By so doing, we would inevitably instill entrepreneurship skills into our future generation by catching them young and directing their mentality towards a worthy cause that would eventually create wealth for the nation and propel Nigeria into economic and political greatness in the comity of nations," he pointed out.
The officer in charge, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Regional Office, Nigeria, Dr. Chuma Ezedinma, stressed that entrepreneurship and industrialisation are two important ingredients for stimulating economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction in both developed economies and economies in transition including Nigeria.
Ezedinma, who spoke at a workshop in Abuja, also said increased support for SMEs could help tame the unemployment monster.
Successful SMEs, he stressed, are the primary engines for job creation, income growth, and poverty reduction, as they broaden the base of participation in society, create jobs, decentralise economic power, and give people a stake in the future.
Government, he said, could encourage entrepreneurship and small businesses through its tax policy, which could be; corporate tax rate reductions, tax credits for investment and tax holidays.
Other solutions he suggested are; simpler regulatory processes and reducing the cost of compliance with government regulations, access to capital and the legal protection of property rights.
The director-general, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr. Muda Yusuf, said increased support for SMEs and business start-ups through capacity building and funding would help reduce unemployment in the country.
He identified lack of finance, inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of skilled manpower, poor entrepreneurial skills and lack of enabling operating environment, among others, as some of the challenges confronting SMEs.
SMEs, he stressed, boast huge potential for employment generation and wealth creation, if adequately encouraged, adding that, by creating more jobs, SMEs are reducing unemployment and its associated high crime rate.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, noted that there is the urgent need for collaboration to tackle youth unemployment crisis in Nigeria. "Insecurity challenges are symptoms of the dire state of unemployment and frustration of the Nigerian youth. The urgency to support job creation in Nigeria must be accompanied with the right synergies, as these problems cannot be solved in silos. The Ministry has committed to working with partners across the private, social and public sectors to create jobs for young Nigerians," Ngige added.
The director-general, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria(SMEDAN), Dr Umaru Radda, said, only one out of 100 Nigerian graduates were employable, attributing the situation to poor skills and lack of entrepreneurial competence.
Radda, who stted this at a forum in Anambra State, said the population of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 around the world was rapidly on the increase, adding that, the vast majority of them lived in the poor and emerging economies.
Radda, who was represented by the Director, Policy, Advocacy and Coordination SMEDAN, Mr. Monday Ewans, said: "One of the major causes of unemployment is skill shortage occasioned by dearth of skilled personnel and entrepreneurial competence, inadequate capacity of vocational skill centres and the non-orientation of the educational system to the production of vocational skills that are aligned to industry requirements."
The head, PR and Communications at Jumia, Mr. Olukayode Kolawole, said: "Unknown to upcoming entrepreneurs, being an entrepreneur does not mean you must have a brick and mortar store. You can run your entire business online – thanks to internet penetration.
"Jumia has proven that direct and indirect jobs can be created via ecommerce. It has empowered thousands of Nigerians to run their businesses through various initiatives like the Jumia J Force Sales Consultancy, Jumia Vendor Hub, Jumia University and many others."
He however called on government to take advantage of the skills inherent in Nigerian entrepreneurs, by creating the enabling environment that would enable them to further develop that skills in them into meaningful knowledge through capacity building.
"So when it comes to job creation, you do not need to wait for the government. The government only needs to create an enabling environment while the private sector and entrepreneurs will provide the much-required employment. And being an entrepreneur is a reliable tool for closing the unemployment gap," Kolawole said.
According to an Entrepreneur and Business Consultant, Mrs. Margarita Hakobyan, as small business becomes big, it faces additional challenges from other small, startup companies that are able to innovate more quickly and disrupt more intensely. This, she said, can be seen with Apple; while Apple remains a lifestyle brand that many people happily pay a premium for, they have not been considered the top of the tech field for some time.
In the field of manufacturing, she said, much has been made about how robotics has disrupted and continues to disrupt traditional manufacturing jobs. As these line jobs have been reduced, however, she noted that, other fields have opened up to respond to alerts, programme systems, and repair and maintain systems as they are used, calling on people to utilise the potentials therein to create employment opportunities.


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Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 10th, Jun. 2013 Under News
A NeoGAF user passed on a picture of what is most likely to be the official Xbox One, as seen on banners Microsoft set up for E3. We already know that Sony will be pushing the slogan, "Greatness Awaits" with the PlayStation 4.
The Xbox One's rallying cry then? "All in One. Input One."
Yes, seriously.
We understand the "all in one" part, given how Microsoft is pushing its next generation console to be the complete entertainment solution. This includes games, internet browsing, TV, Skype and much more. Now, if only we could figure out for the life of us what "Input One" means. Input one controller? Input one player? Input one human soul?
Regardless, there it is. Microsoft's E3 press conference is set to begin in just a few more minutes, with expected reveals of 20 games. Will it be able to shake off the negativity that its official reveal first brought about? Join us and find out.
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Year: 2010Genre: ComedyDescription:
Created and Executive Produced by David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith, "Hard Times" is an irreverent half-hour coming-of-age series that orbits the hilariously-hellish life of RJ Berger, a desperately-unpopular fifteen-year-old. When RJ's anatomical gift is dramatically revealed in front of the whole school, he goes from anonymous to infamous, and finds his first sliver of confidence. But with each step he takes towards popularity, RJ takes ten steps back as he deals with a best friend trying to capitalize on his newfound fame, a student body with no shortage of cruel jokes, and a truly insane home life.
|Seasons The Hard Times of RJ Berger
- The Hard Times of RJ Berger season 1 (12 Episodes)
- The Hard Times of RJ Berger season 2 (12 Episodes)


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1. Defective trafficking of a metal transporter leads to hereditary parkinsonism.
Significance: Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes are the second most common neuro-degenerative disease in the United States with over half a million diagnosed cases. Most parkinsonian syndromes occur due to complex interactions between genetic mutations and exposure to environmental toxicants. However, our understanding of the mechanisms by which gene-environment interactions lead to the development of parkinsonism is limited and this has impeded therapeutic progress. Over the past few years, mutations in the gene coding for SLC30A10 were reported to cause an inherited form of parkinsonism, but the underlying mechanism was unclear.
What we discovered: Using a combination of mechanistic and functional assays in cell culture and primary midbrain neurons, we demonstrated that SLC30A10 is a cell surface-localized ion transporter that specifically transports the metal manganese from the cytosol to the cell exterior (i.e. mediates manganese efflux) (Fig.1). Expression of the wild-type form of SLC30A10 reduces cellular manganese levels and protects against manganese-induced cell and neuronal death. Disease-causing mutations block the ability of the transporter to traffic to the cell surface and abolish its manganese efflux activity. Consequently, cells and neurons expressing these mutants exhibit enhanced sensitivity to manganese toxicity.
Manganese is an essential metal, but at elevated levels, the metal becomes neurotoxic and leads to the development of parkinsonism. Historically, manganese-induced parkinsonism was reported to occur under specific occupational or environmental settings where individuals were exposed to high levels of the metal over prolonged periods. However, we receive a lot of manganese through diet, and eukaryotes have complex homeostatic processes to regulate intracellular manganese levels. Our work implies that patients carrying mutations in SLC30A10 fail to regulate cellular manganese and develop parkinsonism as a secondary effect of manganese toxicity.
On-going efforts: We are building on the above work and have three major goals:
1. We are trying to develop effective treatments for manganese-induced parkinsonism, which is currently untreatable. Our goal is to increase manganese efflux in a manner that may be therapeutically useful.
2. We are working on elucidating the mechanisms by which SLC30A10 transports Mn and regulates Mn homeostasis at the cellular and organismal level. These studies will be aided by our recent generation of SLC30A10 knock-out and knock-in mice.
3. Finally, we are interested in understanding why certain neuronal subtypes, such as those present in the globus pallidus of the basal ganglia, are specifically affected by manganese.
2. Intracellular transport of Shiga and other bacterial toxins.
Significance: Shiga toxin is a bacterial toxin produced by certain E. coli and Shigella bacteria. It belongs to the AB5 class of bacterial toxins, which include other well known members such as cholera and pertussis toxins. Infections with these toxin producing bacteria kill millions of people each year and have no cure. These toxins kill infected cells by modifying specific molecular targets in the cytosol (e.g. the 28S ribosomal RNA in the case of Shiga toxin). In order to reach the cytosol, the toxins hijack the host cell's trafficking pathways and, after endocytosis, sequentially move through early endosomes, the Golgi apparatus, and the endoplasmic reticulum from where they are transported to the cytosol. As intracellular trafficking is essential for infection, blocking toxin transport represents an appealing therapeutic strategy to protect against and treat infections caused by toxin producing bacteria.
What we discovered: Direct transport from early endosomes to the Golgi apparatus is a crucial step in the retrograde trafficking itinerary of AB5 toxins because it diverts the toxins away from late endosomes and lysosomes where degradative proteolytic enzymes are active. In order to sort into Golgi-directed transport intermediates at the level of early endosomes, the toxins need to interact with cytosolic trafficking factors that mediate endosome-to-Golgi transport. However, this is a challenging proposition because the toxins are contained within the lumen of the endosome and do not have direct access to the cytosol. The mechanisms mediating endosomal sorting of AB5 toxins are largely unclear and a subject of intense investigation. Our recent work led to the discovery of a novel protein-based sorting mechanism that mediates the endosomal sorting of Shiga toxin.
We discovered that Shiga toxin interacts with a host protein called GPP130, and this interaction is essential for the early endosome-to-Golgi transport of Shiga toxin (Fig.2). GPP130 is a single pass transmembrane protein that constitutively cycles between early endosomes and the Golgi. Shiga toxin interacts with the intra-lumenal domain of GPP130 and "piggy-backs" on GPP130 to traffic to the Golgi. Thus, GPP130 functions as the endosomal receptor for Shiga toxin. GPP130 is the first endosomal receptor identified for any AB5 toxin and an exciting possibility is that other toxins similarly rely on endosomal receptors to traffic to the Golgi.
In a rather remarkable co-incidence, we also discovered that cellular GPP130 levels have a functional relationship to manganese homeostasis. We found that when cells are exposed to low levels of manganese, which do not induce any observable signs of toxicity, GPP130 traffics from the Golgi to lysosomes where it is degraded (Fig.2). While we are still working on the physiologic relevance of this induced degradation, the fact that GPP130 is required for Shiga toxin transport and that GPP130 is degraded by manganese led us to test if manganese can be used as a drug to protect against Shiga toxicity. Experiments in cell culture revealed that pre-treatment with manganese provides >3800-fold protection against Shiga-induced death. Further, experiments in an animal model revealed that pre-treatment with manganese completely protects mice against a lethal challenge with Shiga toxin without inducing neurotoxic side-effects seen with high manganese exposure. These effects are specific to the loss of GPP130, because expression of a manganese-insensitive variant of GPP130 (that we generated), restores the trafficking of Shiga toxin in manganese-treated cells that do not have endogenous GPP130.
On-going efforts: We are expanding on the above studies through three important lines of work:
1. A major goal of the laboratory is to determine whether use of endosomal receptors is a conserved strategy utilized by all AB5 toxins to evade lysosomal degradation in host cells.
2. We are trying to better understand the mechanisms of endosomal sorting of GPP130 so as to gain deeper insights into Shiga toxin trafficking.
3. Finally, we are completing pre-clinical studies necessary to develop manganese as a treatment for human Shiga toxicosis.
Publications relevant to above projects
(click blue links to obtain downloadable PDFs of articles and read media coverage of our work)
1. Zogzas CE, Aschner M, Mukhopadhyay S. Structural elements in the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of the metal transporter SLC30A10 are required for its manganese efflux activity. J Biol Chem 291 :15940-15957, 2016.
2. Selyunin AS, Mukhopadhyay S. A conserved structural motif mediates retrograde trafficking of Shiga toxin types 1 and 2. Traffic 16: 1270-1287, 2015.
3. Levya-Illades D, Chen P, Zogzas CE, Hutchens S, Mercado JM, Swaim CD, Morrisett RA, Bowman AB, Aschner M, Mukhopadhyay S. SLC30A10 is a cell surface-localized manganese efflux transporter, and parkinsonism causing mutations block its intracellular trafficking and efflux activity. J Neurosci 34:14079- 14095, 2014.
Coverage and Podcast interview in The Academic Minute, a program of NPR:
Highlighted in Nature Chemical Biology, Research Highlights, Dec 2014. "Transporters: A
metal movement disorder". Nat Chem Biol 10:984, 2014.
4. Mukhopadhyay S, Redler B, Linstedt AD. Shiga toxin-binding site for host cell receptor GPP130 reveals unexpected divergence in toxin-trafficking mechanisms. Mol Biol Cell 24: 2311-2318, 2013.
5. Mukhopadhyay S, Linstedt AD. Retrograde trafficking of AB5 toxins: mechanisms to therapeutics. J Mol Med 91:1131-1141, 2013.
6.Mukhopadhyay S, Linstedt AD. Manganese blocks intracellular trafficking of Shiga toxin and protects against Shiga toxicosis. Science 335: 332-335, 2012.
Podcast interview in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066 /332/suppl/DC2
Highlighted in Nature, Research Highlights, Jan 26, 2012. "Manganese fights deadly toxin".
Nature 481: 413, 2012.
Covered by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (front page), The Times of India, MSNBC and many other newspapers and news websites.
7. Mukhopadhyay S, Linstedt AD. Identification of a gain-of-function mutation in a Golgi P-type ATPase that enhances Mn2+ efflux and protects against toxicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 858-863, 2011.
8.Mukhopadhyay S, Bachert C, Smith DR, Linstedt AD. Manganese-induced trafficking and turnover of the cis-Golgi glycoprotein GPP130. Mol Biol Cell 21: 1282-1292, 2010.
Link to full list of Som's publications
Publications listed at bottom of page
Fig.2. Mn-induced loss of GPP130 blocks Shiga Toxin (STX) trafficking.
In control cells (-Mn), the Golgi-to-endosome cycling of GPP130 is in blue and the GPP130-dependent retrograde trafficking of STX is in red. STX binds GPP130 to traffic from early endosomes to the Golgi.
Addition of Mn (+Mn) diverts GPP130 to lysosomes leaving STX no receptor for sorting into Golgi-directed endosome tubules. Consequently, STX is degraded in lysosomes and cells and animals are protected against lethal STX toxicosis.
Fig. 1. SLC30A10 is a cell surface-localized manganese efflux transporter, and parkinsonism causing mutations block its intracellular trafficking and efflux activity.
A. Wild-type (WT) SLC30A10 traffics to the cell surface and transports manganese from the cytosol to the cell exterior. This transport activity protects cells and neurons against manganese toxicity. ER, endoplasmic reticulum; black dots, manganese.
B. Disease-causing SLC30A10 mutants fail to traffic to the cell surface and instead, are trapped in the ER. These mutants fail to mediate manganese efflux, and cells and neurons that express these mutants exhibit heightened sensitivity to manganese toxicity.
Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease
Broad Research Interest: We are working on two separate projects, one focused on understanding metal homeostasis and induced parkinsonian disorders, and the other on bacterial toxin transport. While these projects seem disparate at first glance, they shared a close relationship when the lab was established in 2013. Briefly, both these projects emerged from Som's post-doctoral work on intracellular membrane trafficking at Carnegie Mellon - membrane trafficking plays a pivotal role in regulating ion homeostasis in mammalian systems, and pathogenic toxins often usurp host trafficking pathways to invade cells. Both these projects are explained in greater detail below.
Aspects of these projects have been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (2016), Journal of Neuroscience (2014), Molecular Biology of the Cell (2013 and 2010), Science (2012) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2011).
Our work has been featured on National Public Radio, and widely covered by the national and international news media, including by The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and MSNBC.
Mukhopadhyay Lab at UT AUSTIN


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Alwyn Hamilton's 'Traitor to the Throne' is the second book in a trilogy all about badass women fighting for their lives and each other.
It's been nearly a year since the end of 'Rebel of the Sands' and Amani now faces a world where the message of the Rebel Prince is spreading across the desert. When she is cruelly betrayed and kidnapped, Amani must use every ounce of her survival instincts to get herself out of the Sultan's harem and learn as much as she can while there.
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Ok, so maybe I was what I call "drafting delirious" by the time I sent that text. But even with the book printed and the delirium long gone I sort of stand by that point.
With about a third of the book set in the sultan's harem, I read quite a bit about them while researching 'Traitor to the Throne'. The more I did, the more it occurred to me that they defined a series of strange contradictions. An entirely female space but constructed by men. A place that is both highly sexualised but not sexually liberated. Where women are powerless but play an incredible complex power game between them.
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While 'Rebel of the Sands' was about girls being strong in big bold brash ways,'Traitor to the Throne' quickly became about a different, more quiet form of sexism that more closely matches the one we're likely to encounter in our modern world. These are girls navigating a world made for them by men, stripped of freedoms but given luxuries to cover up the hole left behind so that if they dare complain someone might spread their arms and ask what they could possibly be wanting for.
Just like the mean girls in high school movies, or real life high school, some of the girls chose to play the game they are being given in order to win. In 'Traitor' this is a trio of young women who go as far as to slice off Amani's hair in a bid to make her less appealing. I guess it reminded me of old high school tropes because of the way girls are both treated and pitted against each other. If you want to talk about girls going violent towards other girls, let's talk about 'Heathers'.
Others chose not to play the game and subtly resist. In a scene where Amani is being threatened by a man in the harem one of the young women takes it upon herself to distract him long enough to ensure her escape. And when another character plays the game too well and it backfires, Amani does her best to bail her out before it gets her killed.
And ultimately that is the shape that the feminist fight takes on in 'Traitor to the Throne'. For Amani it's about literally breaking out of the harem. The one we get up and go to work chipping away at every day is about breaking down those walls metaphorically and entering a world that is decided by men and women, not by men for women. Where we make our choices about how to act and what to do without the same impunity that men are granted for the same behavior. And where girls aren't turned on each other for no good reason.


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Listed below are a few different ways to track employee member utilization of the Employee Navigator system.
On the Company Level
View Recent Events from "Employees" tab
- On the company "Employees" tab, (top right hand side of the page), select "Recent Events" to view the ten most recent events.
- Under the recent events, select the link "See more Events".
- Select your event start date and click "Submit".
- This will give you a report of all events that have occurred since the start date you specified.
- Select Modify to view a specific event (for example "Account Registration Completed by Employee"), and then filter the events field
View Events from Reports tab
- From the company "Reports" tab, under "Change History Reports" select the "Event Report"
- Check the box for the events which you would like to view (for example: "Account Registration Completed by Employee")
- Preview or Save the Report
View Employee Logins for the last 6 Months
- From the company "Employees" tab, select HR Analytics (bottom left hand box)
- Change the dropdown to "Member Utilization"
- Select view to see a list of employees that includes the number of logins in the last 6 months and the date of the last login
View an individual employee last login:
- Go to the Employee's Profile and select "Login Access"
- Under Login Access it will tell you if the user if registered, and if so, when they last logged in to the system.
View Login Status Report from the Home tab
- Go to the company Home tab > Helpful Tools and Information> Login Status Report.
- This will pull a list of all active employees, their username, and a timestamp of their last login attempt as well as how many times an employee had a failed attempt to login to the system.
On the Agency Level
Client Utilization Report
- From the Reports tab on the broker level, go to "Utilization Reports" and select Client Utilization
- This report will display the last login for each of the HR users in all active companies
Member Utilization Report
- Also in "Utilization Reports" on the Reports tab
- This report will show the total number of employees who have logged in to Employee Navigator


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Hi Everyone, Items of note in today's Permits Foundation newsletter:
(1) Ireland: Employment Permit Regulations for Spouse and Dependants Tightened
"The Irish Department of Enterprise,Trade and Employment has announced new tighter measures for green card and work permit workers. They have also announced that with effect from 1st June, spouses of intra-company transferees and work permit holders will no longer be eligible for the special arrangements that previously allowed them to apply for a work permit for all occupations without a labour market test and application fee. The spouses of Green Card holders are not affected by the change. This means that it is worth using the Green Card scheme where possible (employee salary over euro 60,000 or shortage occupations with salary euro 30,000-59,999). Full details of the changes are published here. Details of the revised spouse and dependant regulations are given here. We are disappointed to report this change particularly in the light of the current review in the UK."
(2) Ireland: De Facto Partners Recognised
"On a positive note, the DETE recently announced that recognised facto partners may apply for an Employment Permit. Details here and here."
(3) Japan: Permits Foundation Steering Group Makes Initial Proposals to Cabinet Committee on "promoting highly skilled foreign nationals in Japan.''
"We are pleased to report that our Japanese steering group has met with a high level committee of the Prime Minister's Cabinet, which is conducting an investigation into "promoting highly skilled foreign nationals into Japan."
This was an excellent first step to advocate a relaxation of spouse work permit regulations in Japan and was followed up by a brief written submission to the committee, which will conclude its investigations in June.
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html (Prime Minister's Cabinet Office in English)
http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/jinzai/jitsumu/dai4/sankou.pdf (Permits Foundation submission in Japanese.)"
On a side note, the following is a great resource on the Permits Foundation site: Work Permits for Expatriate Partners - Country Summary (last updated January 2009) if you would like to know the current stance on this issue by each of the following entities:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- European Union
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Ireland
- Japan
- Malaysia
- The Netherlands
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
Thanks go to the Permits Foundation for all of their ongoing lobbying for expatriate partners!


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Vlastimil Samek - a spokesman for the UN Department of Public Information in Kazakhstan.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Vlastimil Samek as the Representative of the Department of Public Information in the United Nations Office in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Mr. Samek, a national of the Czech Republic, comes to this post with extensive experience in communications and public relations. He took up his duties on 17 August.
Mr. Samek joins the United Nations after having served as the Minister-Counsellor for the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. He has also served as senior adviser on international relations and communications with Cautor Consulting, and has been the senior advisor to the president and CEO on communications with various corporate entities.
In addition, Mr. Samek has served as the Head of the Czech Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; as Deputy Head of the Czech Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and as Head of the Embassy of Czechoslovakia in Yangon, Myanmar.
Mr. Samek has a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Economics and International Relations in Prague.


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Classroom Resources: Acids & Bases
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Concentration, Molarity, Net Ionic Equation, Acid & Base Theories, Titrations, Indicators, Strong vs Weak, Buffers | High School
Lesson Plan: Acids and Bases Unit Plan
The AACT high school classroom resource library and multimedia collection has everything you need to put together a unit plan for your classroom: lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations. We constructed a unit plan using AACT resources that is designed to teach the topic of acids and bases to your students.
History, Acid & Base Theories, Strong vs Weak | High School, Middle School
Activity: Acid & Base Guys Video Questions
In this activity, students will watch a video about the history of acids and bases. They will learn about the evolution of these theories, from Lavoisier to Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis.
Concentration, Acid & Base Theories | High School
Lesson Plan: Calculating pH, A Look at Logarithms
In this lesson, students will be introduced to a base-10 logarithmic scale and use it to calculate pH from hydrogen ion concentration. Often students are able to calculate pH by pushing the correct buttons on their calculators, but they don't understand what the values mean. This lesson attempts to bridge that gap using a guided inquiry model.
Acid & Base Theories, Buffers | High School
Lesson Plan: Preparation and Evaluation of Buffers
In this lesson students will use multiple methods to calculate and prepare buffered solutions with a desired pH. Upon preparation of the solutions, the students will explore differing aspects of buffers including buffering capacity and predominant form.
History, Acid & Base Theories, Strong vs Weak | High School, Middle School
Video: Acid & Base Guys Video
This video tells the story of how the definition of acids and bases has evolved from Lavoisier, to Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis.
Chemical Change, Acid & Base Theories, Strong vs Weak, Mixture, Salts, Ions, Conductivity | Middle School
Lesson Plan: Why Drink Gatorade?
In this lesson, students will test different flavors of Gatorade and other liquids to investigate acids and bases. This will take several days unless students already know about acids and bases.
Chemical Change, Gas Laws, Pressure, Acid & Base Theories, Indicators, Solubility Rules | Middle School
Lesson Plan: Chemistry of Pop Rocks
In this lesson, students will determine the pH of several liquids with litmus paper or a pH probe. Next, students will explore how pH affects the production of gas with Pop Rocks. Students will also investigate how Charles' Law affects Pop Rocks. Finally, students will design their own experiment with Pop Rocks.
Interdisciplinary, History, Acid Base Reactions, Acid & Base Theories, Acid Rain, pH | High School
Project: Acid Base Creative Letter
In this project, students will compare and contrast the properties of acids and bases and define pH.


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When I was a kid, we loved visits with Granny above just about everything else. Leaving "Camp Granny" was hard, but always came with one of Granny's all-engulfing hugs, which was a pretty good consolation. Then, as we headed out the door, she'd say, "Be sweet to yourself," and some version of "Stay safe and have fun!" If Dad was with us, he would chirp back in response to this last line, "Well, make up your mind!" And we'd laugh our way out the door.
I later learned that Granny's ritual "Stay safe and have fun!" had begun in Dad's own childhood. Predictably, his response came shortly after. From generation to generation, the exchange, "Stay safe and have fun!" and "Well, make up your mind!" has marked our leave-taking of one another.
On the most basic level, this exchange conveys our family's love for each other. We want each other's joy, which is not a small thing. Of course, fun and joy are not everywhere synonymous, but I believe my Granny's desire that we have fun stemmed from the love that longs for another's joy. There are plenty of places in this world where wanting the joy of the other person is not a given of being in relationship. In such places, we need to be ready to demonstrate what longing for another's joy looks like. Likewise, with safety. Parents, for example, pray that our children will have friends who value the dignity of each person, along with the safety that attends that respect and dignity, exactly because we know that that respect is not a given in all relationships.
My dad's objection - "Well, make up your mind!" - takes this familial expression of love and exposes the tension between the twin desires for fun and safety, especially as read through the lens of an immortal adolescent.
When it comes to fun and safety, I am decidedly in the pro camp. I think fun and safety are mostly good things, with the caveat that Christians are called to lives of which self-sacrifice is a part, so safety cannot mean the absence of risks or loss inspired by love. (Such lives would not be "safe" but devoid of trust.) But, then again, God's love can so ground and secure us that we become willing to risk and lose in love for God and the world God also loves. Score one for true safety.
It's an interesting thing to think about the things you hope for people who are about to leave you and, equally, the hopes we have for the journeys on which we ourselves are about to embark. Fun and safety are good and right. Are they exhaustive? Probably not. Exhaustive is a pretty extreme word. Putting aside exhaustive, then, are fun and safety at the normative center of our hopes for our journeys? Maybe, depending on the context. What other hopes would be in the mix?
St. Paul's list would want to add, if not lead with, "that God would be glorified," and "that the others would be built up."
I'll be honest, when I imagine my family holding hands in the car and praying before a family vacation, if I imagine us praying for a) safety in our travels, b) fun along the way, then adding c) that God would be glorified and d) that we would build up in everyone we encounter and especially our sisters and brothers in Christ, it starts to feel in my mind like a prayer from outside of the Episcopal tradition.
When I keep thinking about it, though, the truly strange thing is that an Episcopal prayer tradition that contains as many as 15 opportunities to recite some version of "give glory to God" in one day of prayer (Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline) might produce Episcopalians who are not more instinctively shaped (myself first among us) to pray that God would be glorified in the activity we are about to undertake.
But here I am at camp. What does it mean to glorify God in a game of crazy kickball? What does it look like to glorify God in the Gaga pit? And after this week, what does it look to glorify God in all manner of meetings and appointments at which God won't be mentioned? What does it look like to glorify God in my grocery shopping? In my relationship with my wife? My kids? What will it look like to glorify God and build up others on a summer's vacation? Where will I speak up and give voice to the claims of the Gospel in the place where God would not otherwise come up? Alternatively, where will I ask God to quietly shape my presence in such a way that nonetheless conveys the conviction that the love of God matters for and peculiarly informs how I go about the work?
I want to stay safe and have fun. I want you to stay safe and have fun. But, my sisters and brothers, I want so much more for us than that.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.


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Spectrum Pouf
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The Spectrum Pouf is great fun and adventurous in the finishing. It's rewarding to see the intense colors presented so boldly in the color wheel. The large gauge and the size of the footstool make for a dramatic home piece.
Finished Size 20″ tall and 80″ around (stuffed).
Yarn Lion Brand Hometown USA (100% acrylic; 81 yd [74 m]/5 oz [142 g]): #158 Pittsburgh yellow (A), #133 Syracuse orange (B), #113 Cincinnati red (C), #148 Portland wine (D), #109 Fort Worth blue (E), and #130 Green Bay (F), 2 skeins each.
Needles Size 17 (12.75 mm): 40″ circular (cir) needle. Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
Notions Crochet hook size P/16 (11.5 mm); 22″ square of 4″ thick foam; spray adhesive for foam (I used Permatex Heavy Duty Headliner and Carpet Adhesive purchased from an auto parts store); foam cutter (I used an electric knife); six 12 oz bags of polyester fiberfill; one large double-pointed needle (dpn); spare size 17 (12.75 mm) or smaller 40″ cir needle for grafting; tapestry needle.
Gauge 5 sts and 10 rows = 4″ in garter st using 2 strands of yarn held tog.