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ICS are independent funding specialists, working across England supporting education-sector organisations to secure valuable funding that improves the quality of their built provision. This funding will help provide better learning environments, that in turn can lead to much better outcomes for teachers, pupils and students.
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- Nollywood actress Regina Daniels revealed some personal details about herself in a new video
- For one, the screen diva confirmed her marital status and revealed the name of her crush
- Even more, she talked about the people she cherishes most in her life
Newly married actress Regina Daniels recently did an enlightening question tag video in which she revealed personal details about herself. She spoke of her crush, her loved ones, her secrets and gave vital marital updates.
First off, the screen diva disclosed that she has a crush on popular singer Burna Boy. According to her, one of his hits named Vampire was her favourite song. Moving on from this, she revealed that her middle name is Nne Amaka which means 'mother is beautiful'.
She also went on to divulge that the last person she texted was Somadina, the actor who has often been referred to as her ex-boyfriend. When asked about her relationship status, Regina boldly confirmed that she is married.
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Even more, Regina Daniels affirmed that she staunchly believes in love. In fact, she said that she is currently in love with someone.
Regina Daniels has always been one to cherish her siblings and loved ones. In this video, she showed more of this attribute by tagging her brother Sammy West as the one person she can trust.
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She also acknowledged her best friend Casey whom she described vividly and teased in a friendly manner. Regina also gave details such as her eye colour, height, birthday period and her current mood.
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Recently, YEN.com.gh reported that Regina Daniels has resumed acting. To prove this, the actress shared a photo of herself posing with Bolanle Ninalowo.

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FREE Networking Lunch – 25th January, 12pm-2pm
Kim Slater
As part of National Village Halls Week, WRCC is celebrating the work of volunteers who manage village halls throughout Warwickshire.
Committee members are welcome to join us for lunch at Halford Village Hall on Thursday 25th January, 12.00pm – 2.00pm.
You can find out more about topics including funding, planning a village hall rebuild and volunteering. Meet other hall representatives and share your ideas and experiences! This is a free event but you will need to book as places are limited. Please email Events or call Verney on 01789 472610 for more information as soon as possible. If transport is an issue, we may be able to get you there and back in a Back&4th minibus – just let us know.
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Anti gun violence, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Community and Social Activism, Education, Father Pfleger, Illinois, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Illinois Gun Laws, Illinois House Of Representatives, Mayor Emanuel, Social Causes, Stand your ground laws, Supt. Garry McCarthy
Recently the House of Representative approved this version Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2016 … The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives if one of the agencies that is funding this Bill.
Please call your state Senator regarding House members THAT WANTS THIS "GUN RIDER" that add these "odd" and dangerous amendments to the Bill… "WE WANT THIS RIDER REMOVED"….
For more information about these amendments and immediately sign this petition and spread the word!
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Ms. Monaghan's Message - June 22
Challenge, Inspire, Empower, Serve
St. Patrick Garage Sale
Volunteers are needed! Sign up here: www.volunteersignup.org/XHCWR
Donations accepted at the doors of St. Patrick School on the following Wednesdays from 5:00 – 7:00 PM:
•May 23, 30
•June 06, 13, 20, 27
•July 11
** Call Denise Wilderson at (816)718-5062 for questions or other drop-off times.
•Tuesday July 17, 6:00 -9:00 PM (Parish & School EARLY BIRD SPECIAL- Shop & enjoy FREE ICE CREAM FLOATS SERVED BY DEACON MIKE).
•Wed. Thurs. Fri. July 18,19, 20 : 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
•Sat. July 21 8:00 AM-12:00 PM ( $2.00 Bag Sale)
Yearbook Signing Party
New Phone Number
I'm excited to say, I have a new phone that you can call that will come directly to me! You can text or call and I will get your message with ease. I can't promise you that I will always answer (meetings, classroom observations, etc.), but I will always have access to your message immediately. You can reach me at: 816-890-2670
Summer Reading Program
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Motivating our Children
But when it comes to helping around the house, these four typically motivated people, turn into the least motivated, lazy kids I've ever known. Complete strangers! I don't ask a lot. Pick up your own stuff. Hang your wet towel. Don't leave wrappers and empty water bottles laying around. Easy things! Yet how many times do I have to ask them to do these easy things before they just start doing them???? Wouldn't not turning your mom into a raging lunatic the minute she walks into the door be enough to motivate you? Apparently not.
In school, I've noticed some of these same things in our students. Some students are over achievers and work hard at every single thing they do, and other students (who, like my own, are really great, motivated kids in most other ways) have zero motivation to work hard and do their best. Teachers try different methods to motivate, but for some kids, no amount of reinforcement seems to work.
One of my goals this year is to find new ways of motivating our students. I believe the #1 motivator for students is developing a personal connection with their teacher. Kids work hard for teachers they like. They are more likely to do their best, put forth more effort, and have a positive attitude when they walk into a classroom where they feel connected. We are working on that this year as a staff.
There are other ways to motivate kids, as well, and I want to implement these strategies throughout the year. Many of them are simple, easy things such as changing the way we talk to our kids/students. Instead of saying, "Wow, you got an A, good job!" We say, "Wow, you worked so hard to study and you got an A! You should be proud of how hard you worked." Little things like this take the emphasis off the grade and put the emphasis on the hard work that got the grade.
Check out the video for more ways you can change the way you encourage your kids!
The 7 Secrets of Motivating Children
2. Let them have a say (when it's appropriate). Kids are born trying to create an independent relationship from their parents. When they feel they have a say, they feel as if they have some independence in making choices. This can be as easy as giving them input on what chores should be on their list or when they think it's a good time to do homework. "You can decide if you want to do your homework right after school or right after dinner."
3. Let them learn from failure. We talked about this last week when discussing resilience. Kids can't grow and learn from tough situations if we are constantly swooping in to save them from failures. When failures happen, ask questions rather than lecture. For example, if your child failed a test, instead of getting angry, you could say, "Why do you think you struggled on that test? Do you feel like you put in enough study time? How did you study?" These questions can lead to great conversations where kids figure out what they need to do to be better prepared for the next time.
4. Help them to remember. Kids don't always fail to do things because they don't care or aren't motivated. Many times, they simply don't remember. If your child is responsible for taking out the trash on Wednesday, remind him the night before. Remember, though, there's a difference between helping and nagging. Instead, teach your child to set reminders for himself or to get into a routine. Then, if he fails to remember, he can be responsible for controlling the mess throughout the week...which no one wants to do!
5. Make it achievable. Don't make tasks so involved that there is no way your child can be successful. If you want your child to clean his room, and it hasn't been cleaned in months, don't expect it to all get done in one sitting. Instead, set smaller deadlines. For example, "Today, I want you to clean out your dresser. Take out anything that is dirty, fold everything neatly, and organize your clothes. Tomorrow, focus on cleaning up any dirty clothes and getting your laundry done, folded or hung."
6. Provide incentives. These incentives don't have to be "things". If your child has done his chores every single day, the incentive can simply be positive recognition like, "Wow, you've worked hard to keep up on your chores this week! I'm so grateful that you've been such a big help." Or, "I thought I'd have to clean house tonight when I got home, but you have worked so hard on your chores this week, I don't have anything to do! Let's walk to the park (or other fun family outing) instead!"
7. Make it fun. People are less motivated when something is a boring, dull task. You know your child best, so you can make it fun for them in the way that works best for them. Maybe competition motivates your child, so you can say, "On Friday, I want to go out for ice cream. Anyone who has completed all of their chores this week can come with me!" Or maybe your child is motivated by playing games. You could say, "Right now, we need to clean out the garage. Let's see how fast we can get it done. I'll set the timer!"
The most important thing is to remember that these are KIDS. They aren't like us. Many of us are motivated to work hard at our jobs for the simple fact that it provides us with the income we need to live. Our kids don't have that motivation, so we have to work hard to help build it in them!


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The impervious tube can be solved by self-repair using a piston or pipe cleaner or anything else. However, many seals are too large for the landlord to obtain or vacate as a result of his efforts and may require experienced plumber services. Even though the costs of plumbing services are linked to prices, sometimes the barrier can also cause damage to water at home. For example, a blocked toilet can cause water and drainage to return to the floor in the bathroom. To prevent such damage and associated costs in your home, think about how to find a way to avoid clogged pipes.
In the kitchen
The primary tubes that will be connected in the kitchen are those that join the kitchen sink. In many homes, the kitchen sink has at least two channels. One channel can be designed to waste energy and can be associated with garbage transport. The opposite side may simply be meant to dissipate the water. You can prevent blockage by first emphasizing that only water and fluids will drain through the standard duct in the kitchen sink. Consider placing the resources in the discharge channel as a component of the voltage collected by the glow that accidentally encounters this side of the bank. For the side of the tub with garbage transfer, set aside the opportunity to understand things that can be crushed when transporting waste. For example, you can put extra meat, noodles, small vegetable pieces, etc. Of dinner dish in the trash. Things like butter, banana strips, corncakes, and others should not be there. The simple installation of the items in the excess waste, which can be crushed, can prevent clogging in the kitchen sink.
In the bathroom
A few things can accidentally eject the channel in the bathroom, shower or tub, and you can prevent it by using a restriction to the circuit or inserting them into these channels one by one. Even small things that flush the gutters and flow in the toilet can cause clogging. For example, individual hairs that fall in the shower channel may not block the tube alone. In any case, you will be able to different hair strands, creamy cleanser, and more meet to meet the barrier. Reducing non-aquatic objects passing through the channel can prevent blockage. Also, in refrain from refrain from washing everything except toilet paper and waste. You can put a litter box in the toilet to collect different types of waste.
A method may be found to prevent clogged occlusion. Even though if you stop in your kitchen or the toilet, think about asking a certified plumber for help. Even a blockage, which allows water to step out of the tub or bath after a while, will get worse in the long run. With the help of
plumbing services, the barrier can be removed without much effort, and you can avoid the possibility of water damage in your home.
Getting a tubular throttle or throttle drain is very reasonable. A controlled metal cylinder, known as a water snake, can help you clean the air damper. The snake is a long adjustable metal cylinder used to separate the tube. This device can be purchased easily from any hardware store near you. There are two types of snakes. "Snake" normal and especially advanced. The advanced snake allows you to practice it in a way that gives you more chances when trying to remove the tube.
Some of the common things that cause suffocation are:
- Cloth threw in the toilet
- A set of oil as well as soil for the kitchen sink
- Hair and dirt for bathroom floor trap
Depending on what causes the choking, you can use a snake to push and destroy anything that causes choking or a desire to bind a substance causing choking. My advice is to go back to what causes suffocation. Driving your way, it is possible that flotsam and jetsam can plug the pipes back elsewhere. If this occurs in a very far part of the section point, you will need to call the plumber to help disassemble the tube and clean up the blocking.
If you get a leak, you may come across a flooded tub, bathtub or toilet. This may be uncomfortable, but most often you can solve this problem yourself. Here's what you need to do:
1. Place towels around the place to absorb water and prevent water from reaching the ground, etc.
2. Check, for obvious reasons, why the drain may plug, for example, a solid object that has fallen into a basin, tub or toilet. If you see an item, place a pair of gloves and extend your hand to pull the thing. You may have to use a couple of forceps to access the article.
However, if you are unable to locate the object or try to pull the purpose out of the sewer, push it into the gutter, stop immediately and ask for help from the plumber.
3. If you do not see the cause of the choking, you can try repairing it yourself.
Cleaning of drainage
1. Turn on the hot water faucet for a few minutes and see if the boiling water is attenuating the drain is stuck. Close the pool if it does not help to reduce congestion.
2. Pour a small amount of chemical detergent into the sink, after the bearings on the container for the soap.
3. Create your natural drainage cleaner if there are no discharge cleaners at your fingertips.
4. Wait for 20 minutes until the chemical extinguisher or natural detergent starts to dissolve the blockage in the bank.
5. Turn on the hot water tap again and let it run for a few minutes. If the sink cleaning is not started, add the chemical plum cleaner or repeat treatment with baking soda, vinegar, and salt.
If your attempts to remove the impasse system are unsuccessful, stop domestic water supplies to prevent potential flooding. Contact local plumbing authorities for assistance. From time to time an obstacle arises on the main line of the house or institution, and this requires a professional plumber with a discharge snake to detect and ignore the cover of the drain line before drainage works legitimately.


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Catching Up
My blog has fallen in priority as I've been spending most of my time down in my shop working on stained glass projects. One would think that making an entry in a blog would be a quick 30-minute exercise but it's not. At least not for me—not usually, anyway. But here I am, determined to make an entry of some sort for future reference.
I began a rather large stained glass project for Bryan and Sue last spring after we'd returned from visiting them in Oregon. They had a decades-old, wood-framed stained glass panel hanging in the sidelight of their front entry which has a few cracked pieces of glass. I offered to remake the window, figuring it would be just as easy to simply redo the entire panel rather than repairing it. They told me it wasn't necessary to copy the existing panel and to feel free to do whatever my heart desired for the space. And so I did.
I came up with plans for a 3-part panel but I didn't share the design with them, wanting it to be a surprise. I started work on it back in May but soon shelved it for the warmth of the outdoors and the many distractions that awaited me there—until a few weeks ago when I was ready to commit to bringing it to life. I completed the project and entrusted it to Colleen at FedEx in Lakeville to package it and send it safely on its way. And safely arrive it did! A photo from the inside looking out and outside looking in.
Since clearing off my work table I've been busy creating some stained glass sun-catchers for my Etsy site, trying to get my inventory up for people in search of gifts for holiday giving. I was able to knock out 3 of them this past week (here, here, and here) but I sold 5 so I have a net gain of -2 for the week. Tracee was kind enough to account for 3 of the 5 that sold. It's been so nice being down in the shop again. I love the ability to lose myself in a project for hours at a time. I plan to add several sun-catchers to my Etsy site each week in the coming weeks before Christmas.
I had to purchase a new indoor trainer for my bike. Since upgrading my MacBook to the Mojave operating system a couple months ago, my CompuTrainer no longer plays well with Zwift, the online program I ride with. The smooth graphics I was used to seeing had become choppy—useable but not what I need. The techs at Zwift have tried to find a workaround for me but haven't been able to. They think the problem is with the drivers within my CompuTrainer's program and its interface with Mojave. So, I pulled the trigger on a Wahoo Kickr Core a few weeks ago and have been more than pleased with it.
I've listed my CompuTrainer online to try and find a new home for it but so far I've had no luck. I lowered the price to $190 tonight and would be happy to go even lower if there's anybody interested. FYI- it requires a Windows-based operating system to do the initial calibration each time you ride it. Here's a link to a video I made about how the CompuTrainer works.
I've been listening to Rachel Maddow's Bag Man podcast. It's fascinating listening and possibly quite relevant to our times. Here's a quick preview with links in the description for where to find the podcast. There are 7 half-hour segments but only 5 of them have been released so far.
Tammy and I changed out the fairy garden scene at Trinity Care Center where her mother is a resident. Tammy is really good about keeping it relevant to the season. I tagged along to help out. Before and after.
Charlie has about the biggest appetite of any living creature I've ever seen. I have to tie him up in the morning when I feed him so he doesn't hurry over after he's finished his bowl of food to help Toby with his. Tying him to the leg of a chair works okay but Tammy came up with something even better. She found a bowl at PetSmart that prevents him from being able to devour his food so quickly. It's a hit! And Charlie doesn't seem to mind the extra effort. His feeding time has gone from 3 to 4 minutes to something closer to 10, and Toby gets to eat in peace. Win-win!!
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Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching." ~Unknown
As the above quote indicates, learning should be a life long endeavour. The world around us is ever-changing and our collective knowledge about our world is ever-evolving. domain name information Be ready to learn something new today and open to questioning what you learned yesterday.
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that our planet Earth orbited the sun in his book, "On the Revolutions". The generally accepted truth at that time was that the sun orbited our Earth, but Copernicus' own study of astronomy had led him to question the wisdom of the day. He was ridiculed at the time for proposing such an idea, but his work had an impact on others such as Johannes Kepler, who continued to push forward the idea that our Earth revolved around the sun, and his own idea that the orbit was not circular, as thought by Copernicus, but actually elliptical.
Astronomers, throughout the years and continuing into today, have continued to build on the ideas presented by Copernicus and Kepler, arriving at our present day theories about our planetary system and beyond. The knowledge does not stop there though and there are many new discoveries left to be made.
Our lesson from Copernicus and Kepler is that we should not be afraid to question conventional wisdom. It is from those who are continually learning and questioning the way things are that new discoveries arise and new ideas blossom. It is in these new discoveries and new ideas that we move forward as a society.
At Help Yourself Associates, we are all about self improvement. We offer both individual learning solutions and corporate learning solutions, from motivational speakers, to online courses, and free e‑ books, Help Yourself Associates is here for your training requirements. Visit us today to see all that we have to offer. "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today". ~Malcolm X


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Fleet Services Newsletter
May 2017
Driving in a Tornado
Never try to outrun a tornado. According to Accuweather, tornados can travel very quickly and they don't follow road patterns. If you are driving and a tornado develops, it is best to pull over and leave the vehicle. If possible, try to find shelter in a sturdy building. If there is no shelter nearby, find the nearest ditch or low-lying area, lay down and cover your head. Do not hide under your vehicle, as it may flip over. Also avoid taking shelter under an overpass. The winds are higher in these openings and flying debris can still get to you.
Sharing the Road
The sun is shining and the weather is warm, which means motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles are out on the roads. It is important to know how to safely share the road with these motorists. No matter whom you are sharing the road with, remember to focus on safe driving and avoid distractions.
- Drivers need to check their mirrors and blind spots several times before changing lanes or going through intersections.
- Drivers should also increase their following distance when behind motorcycles and always signal their intentions before changing lanes or merging with traffic.
- Drivers should also be wary with flashing turning signals on motorcycles and mopeds. The signals usually aren't self-canceling and sometimes riders forget to turn them off. Give the motorcyclist a few seconds to make sure they are going to turn before you proceed.
- When you are turning right, be aware of bicyclists that may be riding on the sidewalk. They move faster than pedestrians.
Fleet Services Severe Weather Procedure
When severe weather pops up and the sirens go off, we lock our doors and evacuate to the CAMBUS barn until we get the all clear. If you have a reservation scheduled to pick up during a severe weather event, please call our office ahead of time. Our phones will be forwarded to a manager's cell phone and they will give you instructions to get your vehicle. We will also leave a sign on our door so you know where we are.
Deb's Safety Corner
Keeping your emotions in check as you drive will help you avoid taking unnecessary risks and reduce stress. Don't take the actions of other drivers personally. Managing your emotions as you drive reduces aggressive driving and road rage. Pull over and take a deep breath if traffic is too much for you or ask a coworker to take the wheel.
Parking in Lot 64
When you come in to pick up a rental vehicle and you leave your personal vehicle in our parking lot, we will ask you to park your vehicle in the back half of the lot. There is less traffic in the back of the lot and your vehicle is less likely to be accidentally hit.
10 Bad Driving Habits
Did you know that some of your driving habits might be causing unnecessary wear and tear on your vehicle? These 10 habits could lead to pricey repairs. View additional information on bad driving habits.
- Resting your hand on the shifter.
- Not using the parking brake.
- Hauling unneeded weight.
- Only keeping a small amount of fuel in the tank.
- Hard starts and stops.
- Revving the engine when it's cold.
- Riding or pressing on the clutch in a manual transmission vehicle.
- Switching from reverse to drive before stopping completely.
- Dragging the brakes downhill.
- Ignoring warning signs like little squeaks, rattles or other strange noises.
Fleet Services Factoid
Our office is now closed on Saturdays for the summer. Our Saturday hours will resume August 26. We will also be closed May 29 and July 4 for the holidays.
Fleet Services Info
Manager: Mike Wilson
Phone: (319) 384-0564
Fax: (319) 335-5865
Hours: 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Fall and spring only 8:00 a.m. - 11 a.m. Saturday
Shop Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Shop Phone: (319) 335-5102
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Following HoTT's successful screening of the film TOMORROW, Rob Hopkins of Transition Network has posted some film clips of Holmfirth people's reactions on Facebook and on YouTube – see below! Take a look at 'What Holmfirth thinks' about this inspiring film about positive community action around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/yoodooright1968 – posted on 21st February 2017
HoTT Films 2017 TOMORROW 1xA4 poster – shown on 9th February


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Had a workshop fire and am desperately trying to replace a type of QUICK GRIP bar clamp that were made by the American Tool Company in the 1980's. What makes them different is that they can clamp something 5 1/2" deep whereas newer styles of this clamp type only usually clamp around 3 inches deep. I used these in a specific restoration I do and so I could use several of these clamps that are no longer made. They were made in several lengths and I am interested in any of them with the 5 1/2" deep jaws. Willing to travel for them, have them shipped or whatever I need to do. Will pay your price!!! _PLEASE_ sell me yours!
Craftsman also made some of the 5 1/2" deep clamps that are 33 inches long and I will also pay very well for some of these.
If you do not want to sell outright, have antique wood and other items for trade.
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On June 25 Riga Technical University Senate confirmed and appointed Jānis Grēviņš to the position of Director of RTU Riga Business School. Jānis Grēviņš was the recommended candidate of Riga Technical University Riga Business School Advisory Board for this position for next five years.
The election process was conducted in accordance with the Bylaws of RTU RBS. The Bylaws dictate that the selection process must be consistent with the practices employed by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In accordance with this, the Advisory Board elected a separate Nomination Committee consisting of representatives of RBS students, faculty, staff and Advisory Board, as well as representatives of RTU. The vacancy was announced at the end of February, after which the Nomination Committee pre-screened the candidates and selected three finalists. The finalists were interviewed by the Nomination Committee, RBS faculty, staff, as well as the RBS Council. Following the interviews, each group provided their recommendations. Having summarized the results, the Nomination Committee put forward two candidates for the consideration of the Advisory Board. In making their decision, the RBS Advisory Board took into account the recommendations of the Nomination Committee, RBS Council, staff and faculty, which all supported Jānis Grēviņš for the position of the Director of RBS.


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For the first part of this post click here.
The first part of the post ended with a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Grant Blank, talking about the ways in which researchers defined the term echo chamber and that according to results his team obtained, there was no echo chamber.
Grant Blank also said that people living in the United States of America actually got their information from multiple forms of media.
According to Blank, Americans on average consumed about five different and separate media sources.
More specifically, they consumed around three offline sources and two online sources.
Because of that, it was hard to believe that the American people did not come across a diverse range of opinions.
Blank also said that people living in the United States of America did encounter things that they did not agree with.
Moreover, Americans also changed their mind about specific things based on the things which they regularly encountered in the media.
This is a point that even the likes of Pariser (who coined the term filter bubble several years ago) agreed on that one could not simply blame the internet for all the ills in the country's polarized political scene.
Some also believe that it might even help to explain why the US liberal elite did not have the foresight to see the coming of Trump.
Afterall, there is no doubt about the fact that a major portion of middle America did not engage in various social-media feeds belonging to liberal people and liberal sources.
And indeed, Blank (more specifically Blank's work) did conclude that the vast majority of researchers who found such an effect found so because they only studied the cultural liberal elites.
However, as far as most of the Trump supporters went, pre-internet filter bubble such as,
- Local news
- Fox
- Talk radio
managed to play a far important role in terms of news sources than fake news on social media sites like Facebook and tweets on platforms such as Twitter.
It is also true that data coming from Pew, a polling firm, backed up this idea.
In short, the internet did not represent the only source of polarizing news in the country.
It came from a multiple number of news platforms and sources.
After the United States presidential elections in 2016, Pew actually found out that around 60 percent of all Americans got their news from sources such as social media sites.
However, most of the articles covering the study ignored a parenthetical in the study which said that only around 18 percent of Americans said that they did so regularly.
Moving forward to a newer Pew study, researchers found that around 5 percent of all Americans made the statement that they actually had a lot of trust in all the information that they received.
The director of the Center for Civic Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ethan Zuckerman recently said that he did not consider the internet as the absolute causal factor of political polarization.
However, he also said that he believed the society, as a whole, was experiencing a phenomenon which began with news sources such as Fox News and now had sort of extended itself into the space that we call social media.
So if that makes sense, then is there something that we, the society, can do about this problem?
Well, some people have attempted to fix the problem of the filter bubble with varying degree of success.
The three attempts to fix the internet bubble
After the United States presidential elections in 2016, Zuckerman along with a number of other collaborators actually managed to design a tool that they called Gobo.
What did Gobo do?
It allowed people to adjust and modify their own filter bubbles with the help of sliders which allowed them to control all the content filters.
To take an example, there may be a political slider and it could have a range from "many perspectives" to "only one perspective".
If the user selects the "lots of perspectives" option, then the tool would expose the user to those media outlets which they are unlikely to see on a regular basis.
However, the social media giant Facebook showed from little to no interest in using and/or adopting the tool called Gobo.
Zuckerman recently commented that what Facebook was worried about was that the company believed (and according to Zuckerman they were probably right) very few Facebook users would actually want to move ahead with diversifying their news feed.
Members from Deb Roy's lab also developed a tool which they called Social Mirror.
In the early part of 2018, members of the lab reported their results of an experiment that they conducted with the help of the new tool.
The tool, called Social Mirror, used techniques such as data visualization in order to give users on the Twitter platform a wide bird's-eye view of the way in which their whole network of friends and followers fitted into the larger and more general universe of the platform, Twitter.
Deb Roy's lab members tried to recruit only those Twitter users who were politically active on the platform.
It turns out, the recruits themselves found it very surprising to learn the extent of how much they had cocooned themselves inside far-left and/or far-right bubbles on the platform.
However, the experiment was unable to make any type of long-term impact.
Researchers found that even though some participants in the experiment did follow a more diverse range of political news via Twitter accounts than before even after a week of the experiment ending, after about two or three weeks the majority of them had given up and had gone back to their previous set of homogenous news sources.
Moreover, researchers came across another twist.
Participants who had agreed to start following a larger number of contrarian accounts as researchers suggested to them in order to assist them in diversifying their Twitter news feeds, eventually reported that they had actually started to have even less inclination to actually talk to people who held opposing political views.
It should not be hard for anyone to see that Zuckerman's team were only able to achieve lousy results.
Such results, among other things, actually pushed Zuckerman towards a slightly more radical idea in order to counter the internet's filter bubbles.
He wanted to create a social media platform with the taxpayer's money but with a civic mission in mind to help and provide users with a global and diverse view of the whole world.
Recently Zuckerman wrote an essay for the Atlantic and noted that the early United States of America did not have a problem with featuring a highly partisan press.
The people working behind news sources tailored the press to some very specific audiences.
However, editors and publishers, for the majority of the cases, did not shy away from abiding by the country's strong cultural norms.
These publishers and editors published a huge array of stores from all the different sections of the young nation.
They also reflected on various different political proclivities.
In many democracies, public broadcasters have successfully tried to focus on provider citizens with a wide array of different perspectives.
However, Zuckerman makes the argument that following in their footsteps in simply not realistic on part of outlets such as Facebook.
Well, according to Zuckerman, the reason why the society should not expect Facebook to do the same as many public broadcasters is the company's business model.
The business model which sustains Facebook actually drives the company to pander to the people's natural human desire.
That desire is to take the easy way and congregate with other people who are just like themselves.
According to Zuckerman, a social media platform which was public and had a civic mission could actually find success in pushing unfamiliar perspectives directly into the user's feeds.
Of course, such a platform would also push people out of their comfort zones.
Computer scientists and other scholars could actually review various algorithms used in providing news to users in order to make sure that people would see an unbiased and balanced representation of different views.
Zuckerman is not under any illusions though.
He has admitted in the past that it is highly likely that people would not shy away from complaining about such a social media platform receiving public funds.
People are also highly likely to, according to Zuckerman, question the platform's even-handedness even if it came into existence.
However, Zuckerman believes that it definitely deserves a shot since there were no other viable solutions to problems such as internet filter bubble.
The people are the problem
Or are they?
A social psychologist working at New York University, Jay Van Bavel, has actually studied a good number of social posts and has also analyzed which one of those posts was more likely than other to gain sufficient traction.
Jay Van Bavel found that posts which fell under the category of group identification actually activated the most primitive and non-intellectual sections of the human brain.
To take an example, if a politician from the Republican party told people that all the immigrants that were moving into their neighborhoods were actually changing their country's culture and/or taking away local opportunities or jobs, or if a politician from the Democratic party informs a group of female students that activists of the Christian faith wanted to ban all women's rights, the words of that specific politician would carry a lot weight and power.
Jan Van Bavel's research also suggested that if someone really had a desire to overcome biased and/or partisan divisions then he/she had to focus on the emotions rather than the intellect.
Members from the Deb Roy's lab did not lose hope after their Social Mirror experiment did not achieve the desired results.
They actually went back to work and a few months later debuted a new project which went by the name of FlipFeed.
This exposed people using the Twitter platform to other Twitter users who had different views on subjects such as politics.
The lead author of the study, Martin Saveski, recently said that the whole point of using such tools was to simply try and change how people on these social media platforms felt about people who were on the other side.
In one of the newer experiments, researchers prompted participants to actually try and change their perspective on things.
In simpler terms, researchers wanted participants to actually not get aggressive whenever they encountered a view that opposed their own and imagine if they simply heard their friend having a similar opposing view.
Researchers found that people who received this prompt showed more willingness to say that they would have little problems in speaking with a person who held opposing views more appropriately in the future.
The same participants also said that they now had a better understanding of why the other person had a view that opposed their own on a given subject.
Researchers found that their results actually had congruence with the observations that Pariser made a while back.
Pariser recently noted the fact that some of the most civil political discussions actually took place in online sports forums.
Because the people participating in such forums have great unity.
And why do they have great unity?
They have great unity because they love a single sports team.
That commonality is the reason why they are so united and hence so balanced in their political views.
Of course, Pariser is assuming here that all the participants in the political discussions consider themselves fans of a given sports team first and liberal and/or conservative second.
These participants in online sports forums have an emotional connection with each other even before they enter the field of discussing politics.
If one take a slightly deeper look at the type of projects that the like of Deb Roy and Zuckerman along with other research teams have carried out, one can easily see that what these people are actually trying to do is to simply find a suitable way to employ technology in order to get people to engage with online content that comes from outside their own political bubble.
However, who is to say that is a workable solution to strive towards?
Deb Roy has himself said in the past that he does not believe that the problem of political polarization had any pure and/or simple technological fix.
Some believe that, in the end, it is actually up to the people themselves to decide if they truly want to expose themselves to content which a larger array of news sources.
Of course, such people then also have to make the decision of whether or not they want to engage with people who hold the views expressed in that new content.
To many of our readers, it may sound rather unappealing to go out on your own to find views opposing your own.
Such readers should also give through to the alternative of that approach.
Readers who have no interest in what the other side has to say will continue to post outraged political posts on social media platforms.
And in the process of doing so, they will not accomplish much.
New research shows that anyone who comes across such a post is already certain in his/her heart and mind that the post and its content are true.
Newer technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning may help social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and others to finally deliver content to users which is as balanced as possible.
Of course, one simply cannot ignore the bias problem with computer algorithms and those who write them as well.
Plenty of research shows that machine learning algorithms are only as good as the data that they train on.
Will social media platforms be able to help people out in staying away from extremes and have a balanced view of the world that is surrounding them?
Will they help people empathy for the other side?
These are all questions which are, at the moment, hard to answer.
In their attempt to keep the growth philosophy going year on year, technologies companies especially those involved in social media websites and other news sources will simply refrain from doing anything that might lead to a decrease stock price or shareholder satisfaction.
All the while these social media platforms also have to make sure that they provide enough "relevant" content to users so that they keep coming back for more.
How can a single social media platform balance the need for a balanced set of news sources with the need for the user to come to the site more often (for which the platform has to provide the user with the content that he/she likes rather than the content from the other side which the user may or may not like) is also a hard question to answer.
All of these might also lead some to think about the early days of the internet and its purpose.
Currently, there are a total of four ways in which ex-internet idealists like to explain where the internet went wrong.
To read more on that click here.


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When Mark Ormiston came to Definitive Audio in 1982, he joined a business that owned one store with a handful of salespeople. Today, as president of the company, Ormiston oversees two stores and a diverse staff of 64 employees that includes salespeople, architects, designers and software developers.
Certainly, a lot has changed in the store's 25 years. Definitive Audio is no stranger to the pros and cons of changing times in the retail business, but it has managed to come out on top as one of the most successful independent audio/video retailers in the Puget Sound area. Today, it represents some of the top names in home theater and audio, including Meridian, Lexicon, Rotel, Sony and a host of others. This year, it was honored by Runco as the first dealer to break the $1 million mark in Runco sales in less than a year.


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Regular Monthly Meeting: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
Time: 6:00 p.m. social time, 6:30 pm meeting
Place: Food Bank (725 26th Avenue)
Speaker: Vic Johansen on small fruits, hugelkultur, and permaculture
(What is "hugelkultur" you ask? I know I did! http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ )
Agenda: Planning spring garden workshop
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Hello Beautiful Thinkers,
I was looking for the doorbell skit from SNL and found that they did another one except for car horns. I'm addicted to these videos. I'm totally making text and ring tones out of them. They aren't the best quality on youtube but the audio is the funniest part anyway.
Keep Learning Beautiful Thinkers,
The Boy In The Heart Shades


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However, one myth associated with a minibus taxi is that it is rather pretty expensive and the seater options confused with a coach.
A minibus taxi service starts from a 9 seater to 12 seater minibus taxi hire. From 16 to 24 seater minibus hire after which comes the coach services. Now stating the other concern that it is expensive is also not true. As it almost costs you the same amount as hiring a couple of manchester airport cars for your journey would.
However, the benefits and pleasure you will get in return are much more. Let it be from being cost effective to extra space for stretching a leg, luggage, and a comfortable ride. Or perhaps the most important having quality time together and starting the fun before you have reached your destination.
Hiring different cars comes with many other concerns and worries as well and more importantly, you came on a trip to enjoy together. Then why travel separately and keep on updating the other group with the latest.
Hiring MTM's minibus taxi service has much to offer you. Why not get in touch with our representative today and ask for more or if you have any queries regarding your travel or our services that you need an answer to. They would love to answer them all and find the ideal travel option for you. You can also get an online booking done in a couple of minutes. Where you will also get an instant quote for your trip so you can be on top of your budget


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I welcome paranormal researcher and author Rosemary Ellen Guiley to Arcane Radio. Rosemary is a full-time researcher and author in the paranormal and body-mind-spirit fields, with more than 65 books published. Her work embraces paranormal and unexplained phenomena, cryptids, UFOs and alien contact, spiritual and psychic skill development, angels and spirits, spirit communication, afterlife research, dreams and dreamwork, reincarnation and past lives, and other topics. Her most recent books include 'Contact with the Dead' and 'Mysteries of the Afterlife.' Rosemary's website can be found at visionarylivingpublishing.com.


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Someone should start a blog about birthday messages (to past and present) . . .
Wouldn't it be cool to see a blog that pays tribute to whoever's birthday it is on the day of the post? Maybe the blogger would limit it to people who are alive or to friends, or maybe it would even include birthday wishes (or some kind of message) to people who are already dead. For example, if it were Abraham Lincoln's birthday, maybe the blog post would be about how everyone views him today as an important figure in the Civil War and history of slavery. It could also mention things he's remembered for (like the Gettysburg Address) – kinda a letter to Abe with an update on what his life means.
Well, I'll give a full-length example of a post for such a blog because today is not Lincoln's birthday, but it is tthe birthday of one of my best friends . . .
Happy birthday! If you didn't know, today is your birthday! I hope it's a great one. It's the big 2-0 on the 2-0! Make sure to wear something bright and do a birthday dance.
It stinks that we can't all see you in person on your birthday, but at least I can still give you your present! Well, it's really the invitation to a present.
You are cordially invited to attend the Montana Skies concert at The Brown Street Club on Saturday, January 14, 2012. I have made reservations for six at 6:30 = concert time. You may bring five of your closest friends for an evening of food, fun, and fentertainment (I had to keep the alliteration going.). Do I sound like a sweepstakes spokesperson yet? So we'll go downtown, take you to eat wherever you'd like, head to the concert (where we might grab another bite to eat, or dessert!), enjoy the music, and then of course wander around downtown.
I can hardly wait. I've almost given away this secret like 15 times, but I made it! I didn't tell you. Anyways, I hope this is something I tell you often: thank you for being my friend. I'm honored to know you, and I hope this will be another great year. God will continue to do awesome things in your life as you follow Him!
1. Who is Montana Skies, you may be asking? This is Montana Skies.


text: Ever since Windows 2008 R2 SP1 became available people have been waiting for Windows Hyper-V Server R2 to catch up. The wait is over as last week Microsoft made it available on their website http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd776191.aspx. That's a nice package to have when it serves your needs and there 's little to argue about. Guidance on how to configure it and how to get remote management set up has been out for a while and is quite complete so that barrier shouldn't stop you from using it where appropriate. If you're staring out head over to José Barreto's blog to get a head start and here's some more information on the subject http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794756(WS.10).aspx and naturally there are some tools around to help out if needed and the Microsoft provided tools are not to you liking http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/. So there you go, now you have a free and very capable hypervisor available to the public that gives you high availability, Live Migration, Dynamic Memory, Remote FX and they even threw in their software iSCSI target 3.3 into the free package so you can build a free iSCSI SAN supported by Microsoft. Live is good.


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ADOTAS – As Bunchball's latest numbers showed last week, gamification fever has officially swept the interactive marketing space. Toyota's Scion division has jumped on the trend with a game-adorned ad unit delivered in the June iPad issue of satirical news publication The Onion.
Developed entirely (and, according to the press release, pretty painfully) in-house by creative agency ATTIK, the game promotes a $1,000 rebate for qualifying college graduates buying or leasing a car through challenging them to propel a cartoon Scion off a ramp and into various college-themed targets (student loan officer?). The game features three levels of difficulty, and points are earned by not only destroying the targets but also for hitting other random objects (homemade bongs?) and trashing fewer Scions.
Any resemblance to a certain best-selling mobile game about hot-tempered avians I'm sure is completely unintentional.
Demo for Scion's College Rebate Rally Game from ATTIK on Vimeo.
I hope there's a message somewhere in there advising college kids not to hurl their cars into concrete walls at high speeds… But all joking aside, the targeting aspect is smart — those smarty-pants college kids love their satire, and using a slingshot to destroy stuff is an ageless sport.
In addition, the ATTIK guys suggest the game is pretty revolutionary in the way it was designed, jumping the animation hurdles typically presented by the iPad's javascript engine — my brain began hurting a bit reading about the development details, a clear sign it's way too technical for a lowly journalist like me to understand.
"The Rebate Rally pushes the boundaries of what's possible in HTML5, and we hope people will take notice," commented ATTIK Principal Design Technologist Paul Hulett. "We are big believers in gamification, and feel that this game and our other recent projects demonstrate our leadership in creating ads that are smart, approachable and engaging. With ads moving out of Flash containers and into integrated browser experiences, and needing to engage customers more than ever, we are ready to lead the revolution."


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I called from the street and then made my way up a few flights of stairs. This old building in Brooklyn is a working place, stuffed with "small businesses" – Asian men and women sewing piece goods in a loud crowded room on one floor. Another floor chocked full of electric machine tools ready to be used for fuck all. And as always in NY you'll find a few artists' studios filled with old paintings and half finished projects. Paul Corio had invited Michael Zahn, Dennis Bellone and me over for a studio visit. As usual I was running late – always…. Paul had been pulling out his works and lining them against the painting wall. Michael and Dennis had just finished the first round on the six pack and were deep in discussion about the last painting they'd seen. Artists tend to take studio visits deadly seriously especially among friends… I was happy to be there and looked about for signs of Paul's studio life before really having a look at the work (I enjoy seeing how artists incorporate their lives into their work.) On a few table tops and shelves there were stacks of jars of paints, mixed and labeled in sequence, hues and values morphing from light to dark, precise and orderly. Used painters' tape was scrunched into balls discarded here and there. I thought it was wonderful – a working production studio filled with 21st Century electrically colored paintings contrasted by a bank of windows looking northward over a view of Brooklyn's 19th and 20th Century manufacturing detritus. Glorious.
As I was looking at Paul's paintings I kept thinking about his blog postings on No Hassle at the Castle and the post he did here on Henri about his painting processes and studio life. Numbers and patterns are extremely important to Paul. He is interested in the specific mathematics of horse racing and betting. Paul is also a jazz musician, a drummer to be precise, and for me all of these things come across in his work in a very specific way. His vision is connected to rhythms and time, color, space, pattern, movement. Paul has a real way of involving the viewer across the surfaces of his works using specific kinds of optical repetitions. The paintings become physical and direct through their temporal movements. Color fades in and out and then turns on a dime into its compliment. The geometries break into packets, keeping time in moments of explosive visual energy. He's constantly building signatures through these algorithms, pushing the viewer along to his visual beat. Christ, you can feel your body start to move as you look – I caught myself bobbing my head to these back beats a couple of times. It's hard not to feel time slip and slide in front of Paul's paintings. But there's more going on here than music. His imagery pushes into the ground, exaggerating the pulsing efficiency of his colors. What you begin to feel as you look and follow is your own subjectivity sliding into this time frame. The visual experience is sharp, electric and thorough.
Paul has pushed back the literal optical surfaces and mannered surfaces of the 1960s. He's playing with the idea of a deeper illusion – taking these algorithms and floating them against and above the expanding ground. In the most successful works Paul reaches for something darker and more emotional in his patterns. Unlike the Postmodern appropriation critiques of the 80s and 90s based on geometric/op abstractions (for example like those found in the work of Bleckner or Armleder), Paul examines a more direct idea of a visual and transcendent painting unmoored from irony. Rather than critique a style, keeping us at a distance, his illusions push the geometric patterns further and deeper into our consciousness, involving us in the rhythms. These paintings represent a kind of faith in the constant flow of repetition and movement that defines our world. The visual impetus behind the work is more Modern than Postmodern. There are no pretty bows or glittering curtains of material painted on the surfaces to hold us back from a direct physical vision. Paul is demanding that we engage in these rhythms and patterns and feel how they move us in this particular moment. In some paintings he raises this geometric imagery just above the ground allowing the subject to float and pulse there before our eyes. We are uplifted, transported out of our material concerns. And this is where Paul breaks with the Postmodern. His work is not held to the ground. Paul is fucking with those surfaces, reaching over the optical billboard to grasp older ideas of visual conflict and consternation – those Modernist concerns related to pattern, decoration, and transcendence. What he's getting at is the fragility of vision in the optical overload of our time.
What was truly impressive, what really stuck with me was the large black painting that Paul let rest against the wall. It kept drawing me back in. I had only seen it in reproduction, but in person it hums and vibrates in a very dark and moving way. I kept feeling a kind of landscape like one sees in Asian paintings – where the eye travels along the length or width of the painting. You watch the world fade into the light and mist and then reappear further back, like you're moving along space through time. This dark painting plays on that kind of temporality as it keeps regenerating – top becomes bottom, bottom top. Paul's rhythms catch and break, and that's when he pulls the shifting ground out from beneath you. You begin to feel that you're upside down, folded back on yourself. I thought of Jasper Johns' paintings that push the words and images around the sides of his canvases making the viewer realize that he's stepped into an endless loop, there's no escape. Again, there isn't a hint of irony, not a bit of "aside" or commentary. This is a first person experience, fast, slow, broken and whole.
Lately Paul's work has taken on the corporate, the logo, the straightforward presentation of power. What's really interesting in these "word" works is the way Paul has skewed the visual approach and impact. We don't see the work straight on, it's as if he's moved the perspective to one side to show us the optical workings beneath the logo and the program. They fly past us, breaking into geometric codes as they do. The program is false in these works, and once we catch that fakery, we quickly find another vision within it. The works take us back into our own understanding of color, light, space and time outside of and through the programmatic corporate vision. For me these paintings are hopeful, joyful and alive. And in a new clever twist Paul re-presents this work within a work. He's doubling down on his bet against Postmodern irony, appropriating his own work, his own studio into a painting within and about the studio and himself. He's patterning the flows of both his creative experience and his work-a-day life, documenting and glorifying the temporal space of that studio. It's a very clever 21st Century self portrait – like Matisse's Red Studio – a painting of the studio as a doppleganger for the artist himself.
We no longer speak of transcendence with any seriousness here in the 21st century. Most artists are content to make a work that looks good, that says something passably intelligent. Usually it's not that personal, or that deep, but it looks good, you know? We have tons of work that does just that, stacked to the rafters in the Chelsea galleries. But Paul is looking for something else. He wants to get at an experience of visual contact, communication, and in that way, he's quintessentially American, wholly himself. He's reaching back to a tradition of abstraction that begins with Cezanne and culminates with Rothko and Newman. His vision is connected to a more physical and literal visual experience of the geometric and abstract, emotion and vision. You get a similar feeling standing in Paul's studio – the heady mixture of brilliant color and fast pattern, the clash of time and history going on out the window – it's a sense of place, solid and ephemereal at once. Paul wants you to see, to feel, experience in a visceral way and in that, his work embodies our great American Romantic visual tradition.
For more about Paul Corio – website and No Hassle at the Castle.


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Referee of Nisky-Schdy girls soccer game highlights broader respect problems
CAPITAL REGION -- Jim Mangano, who officiated Tuesday's varsity girls soccer game between Niskayuna and Schenectady, said the inappropriate conduct of student fans at that game reflected a broader lack of respect toward referees and players.
The game, Niskayuna's senior night and a 9-0 win for Niskayuna, was marred by racist comments that some Niskayuna students in the crowd directed at Schenectady players.
Mangano said he did not hear the racist comments that some Niskayuna students directed toward Schenectady players, but he did nearly stop the game during the first half in response to other trash talk emanating from the Niskayuna student section. He said Niskayuna student fans demeaned the Schenectady team by saying they weren't good enough to be a junior varsity team.
Also see:
- Niskayuna students hurl racial slurs at Schenectady girls soccer players, Oct. 10, 2018
- Plenty of support for Schenectady soccer team, Oct. 11, 2018
At halftime, Mangano said, he approached Niskayuna athletic director Larry Gillooley about the trash talk he had heard. His fellow referee also heard jeers directed at Schenectady players and complaints about calls that referee had made, which they also reported to Gillooley. Gilloley separated groups of students for the second half, Mangano said.
"I could begin to feel something foment if it continued on," he said in an interview Thursday. "The fact was it was negativity and it was inappropriate. You are talking about players from a different place who have earned a varsity spot."
Mangano said the troubling comments were primarily emerging from the Niskayuna student section and that the players on the field and the adults in other crowd sections didn't appear to be echoing the student behavior.
While Mangano said he does not regularly notify athletic directors about comments from the crowd he finds troubling, he does think there is a broader deterioration of respect toward referees and athletes occurring in the youth soccer games he officiates in the Capital Region.
Mangano, who has officiated high school and youth club games in the Capital Region for about 20 years, said the culture of negativity and disrespect starts early and carries into the high school level. He said parents and coaches, many of whom question a referee's integrity over a call that goes against their side, set an example that informs the behavior of young players and, ultimately, the crowds who turn out for games.
"The comments they are making are totally inappropriate and violate the school's or anyone's code of conduct," Mangano said of what he heard during the game.
Gathering information
Niskayuna school district officials are still gathering information about what happened during Tuesday's game, Niskayuna spokeman Matt Leon said Thursday, but the two districts are also looking to turn the incident into a teachable moment.
Schenectady Superintendent Larry Spring and Niskayuna Superintendent Cosimo Tangorra Jr. have been in contact since Tuesday's game and students in both district haves expressed an interest in establishing a dialogue among students in the two districts.
"We have had some pretty overwhelmingly positive responses from students and adults alike who collectively recognize that [behavior] is incredibly inappropriate and not acceptable and represents some beliefs that don't fit with the norms of our community," Spring said.
In an interview Thursday, Spring said the two districts were working out the logistics of bringing students together in the coming days to begin discussions about how students from the neighboring districts can work together and interact more often.
"It was the kids that said maybe we could be doing more things together as students," Spring said. "This is an opportunity for us, I think, we have some kids that may be wise beyond their years and they want to exercise leadership."
Trying to stop referee abuse
Mangano has a red penny he wears before and after games that sends a message he hopes will gain more traction in the region's youth sports: Stop Tormenting Officials Permanently.
Started by a referee in Oklahoma – who pays $100 for videos of parents behaving wildly at athletics in an effort to raise awareness of the verbal abuse directed toward referees – the STOP campaign is spreading around the country, and Mangano has taken it upon himself to lead the effort in the Capital Region.
Also see:
- Niskayuna students hurl racial slurs at Schenectady girls soccer players, Oct. 10, 2018
- Plenty of support for Schenectady soccer team, Oct. 11, 2018
He said referees have long been mistreated and that coaches, parents and players alike feel empowered to critique, question, ridicule and outright bully referees during games. In some cases, parents have gotten in his face or followed him to his car after games.
"You've got to point to somebody, you've got to blame somebody," he said. "The referee is a perfect target for three groups: parents, coaches and players."
He said the climate has become so bad that he worries about attracting and retaining young referees to fill the ranks as a generation of older officials call it quits.
He said school districts can do more to extend the anti-bullying efforts they enforce in the classroom to the athletic field.
"You want to treat other people how you want be treated," said Mangano. "They are teaching that in school, but it's not carrying over to sports."


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One Year of Finn-on-Samurai LoveDecember 29, 2008
"I can't believe Samurai Cathy has dated Mikka for a whole year," says Ninja Vicki.
"Yeah, who'd have thought Mikka could keep a girl interested in him for that long," I say.
"No, it's amazing that Samurai Cathy has kept up this facade for so long," says Ninja Vicki. "I mean, we're sworn enemies and all, but to date someone for a full year just to spite me."
"You really need to accept the fact that Cathy actually likes Mikka," I say. "They are happy together, and quite frankly the rest of us are happy they're together too."
"But I'm not happy," says Ninja Vicki. "Why does everyone else get to be happy and I don't?"
"It's not like you were a paragon of happiness before Mikka and Cathy started dating," I say.
"Yeah, so before Mikka and Cathy started dating I was only merely downtrodden," says Ninja Vicki. "Now I'm freakin' miserable out of my skull."
"So you're saying your depression stems from the happiness of others," I say. "And so conversely your happiness comes from the depression of others."
"Is that what I'm saying?" says Ninja Vicki.
"Pretty much," I say. "And it's not in that charming House M.D. way either."
"Damn it, I thought I'd escape it…" Ninja Vicki sighs.
"Escape what?" I say.
"The Ninja Social Curse," says Ninja Vicki. "The Ninja lifestyle is not a social one. Despite our recent positive portrayals in the media, no one is ever happy to see a ninja. It's usually an omen of certain death. We're ruthless and efficient killers, and as such are cursed with this sort of reverse interpersonal polarity."
"No… I think it's just because you are a messed up person, and has nothing to do with your devotion to ninjitsu," I say.
"I like my theory better," says Ninja Vicki. "It costs less than therapy."
"You could just steal the antidepressants," I say. "You know, just like how you steal everything else."
"Yeah, but I don't know which pills will work best on me," says Ninja Vicki. "Plus I haven't figured out how to steal hours of psychotherapy from the psychiatric community."
"So are you resolving to go to therapy in this new year for your problems?" I say.
"Did I say that?" says Ninja Vicki.
"Yes you did," I say.
"Shit…" says Ninja Vicki. "I blame Mikka and Samurai Cathy for this."
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Minnesota's public health community gathered Wednesday night to honor seven individuals and one group for outstanding contributions to public health in Minnesota. The ceremony took place in conjunction with Minnesota's annual Community Health Conference.
The Community Health Awards are presented annually by the Minnesota Department of Health and the State Community Health Services Committee. Awards are presented for leadership, impact on reducing health inequities, dedication to serving the community and more. The awards were presented by Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger.
"Minnesota's public health community has so many dedicated professionals, elected officials and volunteers who deserve recognition," said Commissioner Ehlinger. "It's my great honor to present these awards to a group of people who are advancing public health in Minnesota."
The 2016 Community Health Award recipients include:
- Laurel Hoff, director of Anoka County Community Health and Environmental Services, Anoka (Jim Parker Leadership Award)
- Karen Swenson, director of Brown-Nicollet Environmental Health, St. Peter (Jack Korlath Partnership Award)
- Luann Reif, professor, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville (Commissioner's Award for Distinguished Service in Community Health Services)
- Nate Sandman, associate director of the Human Services Division of the Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Cloquet (Lou Fuller Award for Distinguished Service in Eliminating Health Disparities)
- Rosemary Schultz, Jackson County Commissioner/Des Moines Valley Community Health Board member, Lakefield (Award for Outstanding Dedication to Local Public Health)
- Chris J. Johnson, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul (Certificate of Recognition)
- Stearns County Health Protection and Promotion Unit, St. Cloud (Certificate of Recognition)
- Sara Chute, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul (Certificate of Recognition)
For more information on the awards: Community Health Awards


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Prime Minister Theresa May will call on Britons to reject the acrimony of the Brexit referendum in a speech this week that some newspapers have billed as setting the stage for a "hard" exit from the European Union.
Investors will scrutinize May's speech on Tuesday for clues on whether she plans to prioritize immigration controls and bilateral trade deals in a "hard Brexit" that would see Britain leave the EU's single market and customs union.
May intends to launch by the end of March the formal process of negotiating the terms of Britain's exit from the EU, but has so far given very little away about what deal she will be seeking, frustrating some investors, businesses and lawmakers.
May's speech will stress the need for Britons, who voted for Brexit by 52 to 48 percent in last June's referendum, to unite around common goals such as protecting and enhancing workers' rights, her Downing Street office said in a statement.
"Now we need to put an end to the division and the language associated with it – 'Leaver' and 'Remainer' and all the accompanying insults – and unite to make a success of Brexit and build a truly global Britain," May is expected to say.
The speech extracts cited in the statement did not say whether she would reveal her stance on the single market or immigration, but the Sunday Times quoted an unnamed source in May's office as saying her words were likely to cause a market correction. A spokesman told Reuters such reports were speculative and did not comment further.
After May said in a TV interview last week that post-Brexit Britain would not be able to keep "bits" of its EU membership, the pound fell sharply as the comment was interpreted as signalling a clean break from the EU's single market - the biggest destination for British exports.
In the Brexit negotiations, the EU is likely to insist on freedom of movement for its citizens in return for full access to the single market, but many of those who voted for Brexit did so precisely in order to be able to restrict immigration.
EU trade war
British finance minister Philip Hammond was quoted on Sunday as saying the country could change its economic model to regain competitiveness if it were to leave the EU without an agreement on access to the single market.
His comments, from an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, were interpreted as a warning that Britain could use its corporate tax rate as a form of leverage in negotiations.
"He appears to be making a sort of threat to the European community," said Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party. "It seems to me a recipe for some kind of trade war with Europe in the future."
Nevertheless, Corbyn said he would not block the triggering of 'Article 50' - the legal process of leaving the EU. An upcoming legal ruling might insist that May gets parliamentary approval for her plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March.
In an article in the Sunday Times, Brexit minister David Davis wrote that Britain would consider ways to extend or smooth the exit process to provide certainty for businesses.
"If it proves necessary, we have said we will consider time for implementation of new arrangements," he wrote.


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SOMERVILLE, NJ - A late afternoon thunder storm rumbled through central New Jersey Saturday, but Mother Nature turned off the rain spigots in time for the kick-off of the Summer Stage live music series on Division Street sponsored by the Downtown Somerville Alliance.
Mail Order Bride, a four-piece cover band from Freehold featuring two guitarists, bass and drums, opened with Don Henley's "Boys of Summer," released in 1984 on the "Building the Perfect Beast" album, followed by covers of Tom Petty, ZZ Top and other classics from popular bands of the '70s, '80s and '90s.
In a change from previous years, the stage was set up near Main Street, with the band easily seen and the music echoing down Main Street, which was crowded with customers enjoying dining al fresco at dozens of popular downtown restaurants.
People brought their own lawn chairs and maintained social distancing; the crowd grew as the evening grew longer.
Here's the schedule for the rest of the Summer Stage series:
7/24 - Green Planet Band
7/25 - The Broadcasters
8/1 - Bob Lanza
8/8 - Venture to Zen
8/15 - Woke Robot
8/22 - Dan Harrison Band
8/29 - Ryan Bernero
9/5 - The Frost Kings
9/12 – Bob Lanza
9/19 - Bryan Hansen Band
9/26 - The Outcrops
10/3 - John Busse
10/10 - Tyrone Stackhouse
10/17 - Mike Holland - Elvis Impersonator
10/24 - The Paul Nagy Project
The weekly series has been existence for several years and is sponsored by the DSA with support from local non-profit Arts on Division. Talent for the season is booked by local music/arts advocates Shawn Daley and Michelle Kassick, owners of Gallery on Main Street, located at 30 West Main St. in Somerville.
For more information, visit downtownsomerville.com or contact the Downtown Somerville Alliance at email@example.com. Also, Visit them on social media @DowntownSomerville (instagram) and @DowntownSomervilleAlliance (Facebook).
The Downtown Somerville Alliance is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation and the District Management Corporation for Downtown Somerville, NJ - one of New Jersey's premiere downtowns. The district has become known for its colorful dining scene, flourishing retail, and up and coming arts and culture scene.
The DSA promotes balanced and progressive economic development and leverages the art of creating experiences that continue to bring a new and diverse population to Somerville. The DSA oversees infrastructure and beautification projects and works with historians and environmentalists alike to maintain and promote the historic charm that is unique to the district.


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The Kahu™ pre-production prototype is a New Zealand first – the first and only gyroplane design to be registered in the NZ IPO [NZ Regn, 401717 & 403839].
Research and development commenced in early 2000 and the prototype has undergone numerous iterations to meet client specifications and changing global regulations and engineering standards.
Kahu™ is now ready for production with a final review of the pre-production prototype completed by NZ CAA in October 2015.
The production models will meet the ASTM standards and the LSA category and contain some changes from the current Kahu™ prototype.
© Aero-Sport International Limited 2015


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Week 4 (Teaching)
- All-day event
- Other
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers tells the captivating tale of twin brothers who are separated at birth only to be reunited by fate to confront a big secret. One of only three musicals to exceed 10,000
performances in London's West End.
Book, Music and Lyrics by Willy Russell.
By arrangement with Origin™ Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French Inc.
A Chorus Line
If they really need this job, count 5,6,7,8 and see what they'll do for love. This group of hopefuls share personal moments with director Zach as he tries to find his perfect Chorus Line.
Conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett
Book by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Edward Kleban
Co-choreographed by Bob Avian
Original Broadway production produced by the New York Sh...