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"Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family," by Amy Ellis Nutt, generously traces the parameters of parental love. It tells the story of Wayne and Kelly Maines, a good-hearted, hard-working American couple, neither rich nor poor, neither fabulous nor downtrodden, who after years of trying to conceive a baby are finally given the opportunity to adopt: infant boys, identical twins, the children of Kelly's second cousin. The Maineses name the babies Jonas and Wyatt, and immediately the low expectations that come with unmet yearning give way to the more self-centered aspirations that accompany getting what you want. Fantasies of imprinting upon these inchoate beings a storybook childhood preoccupy both parents, but especially Wayne, who sees in fatherhood a chance at passing down the rites and traditions of American manhood. Still in the hospital, Wayne cradles the babies and murmurs to them as if reciting a prayer: My boys, my boys. "We're going to have so much fun together," he whispers in the twins' ears. "We're going to go hunting and fishing and I will teach you everything I know."
These dreams are tested almost from the outset — for the twin named Wyatt knows that he is a girl. It's not just that he loves to imagine himself as the Little Mermaid, or that he likes to dress up in a tutu. It's that he feels profoundly disconnected from the gender that his genitals would seem to prescribe. "Daddy," he says before he turns 3 years old, "I hate my penis." Wyatt's prayer is different from his father's, and to his mother he confesses it aloud: "When do I get to be a girl?"
Children are never what one expects, and the trick is not to be disappointed — in fact, to be pleased — with who they are. This process of constantly recalibrating one's expectations is the central job of parenthood: a high-wire act in which one's own memories of childhood and the priorities and habits developed there come into direct conflict with who one's child actually is. No one describes this tension better than Andrew Solomon in his sweeping 2012 book, "Far From the Tree," in which he showed the tireless efforts of parents to help children who are entirely unlike them evolve into who they are. "Becoming Nicole" iterates this idea, delving deep into the case of a single family with a transgender child and discovering in its particulars certain universal truths about the ways children arrive in one's life already themselves.
The heroine of the tale is Kelly, the mother, who is endowed with spectacularly clear vision when it comes to Wyatt, as well as with an enviable lack of sentimental attachment to any preconceptions about how he — or they, as a family — should look. She barely hesitates before she finds herself at Target, buying him a pink shirt so he'll get dressed for preschool without a fuss, and letting him grow his hair long. Living mostly in small Northeastern towns where the nascent trans movement has not yet made inroads, Kelly finds the word "transgender" on the Internet and understands on an almost intuitive level that to insist on a correlation between Wyatt's genitals and his outward appearance — to force him to perform life as a boy — would be to do irreparable harm.
"If there is an inner distress" characteristic of transgender people, Nutt writes, "it arises from knowing exactly who they are, but at the same time being locked into the wrong body. . . . The dysfunction arises not from their own confusion, but from being made to feel like freaks or gender misfits." This insight — that the potential for psychic damage to Wyatt lies not in his gender identity, which is clear, but in everyone else's ideas of who he should be — emboldens Kelly; she discovers her inner mama bear, becoming almost maniacally focused on keeping Wyatt safe from physical and emotional harm. Time after time, she barrels past the (mostly silent) objections of her own husband, who can't help regarding Wyatt's femininity as a personal humiliation.
By the fourth grade, with his mother's support and assistance, Wyatt is wearing a girl's bathing suit to swim lessons at the Y, and culottes to perform at the school Christmas concert. With her child on the brink of puberty, Kelly allows Wyatt to be, in every possible way, a girl. Wyatt dresses like a girl at home and at school, and Kelly enrolls Wyatt in a girls' softball team; the introductory email she writes to the coaches deploys, for the first time, the phrase "our daughter." (Nutt, wisely, evades the minefields around pronouns that can bedevil writers on transgender subjects by taking her cue from the Maineses themselves. In her account, Wyatt is "he" as long as the family uses the masculine referent too.) Rightly anticipating trouble to come, Kelly lobs a fusillade of bureaucratic paperwork at school administrators, designed to protect Wyatt's right to use the girls' bathroom at school. The summer before fifth grade, the Maineses go to court, and Wyatt Maines becomes, officially, "Nicole."
Nutt is a health and science writer at The Washington Post, and some of the most compelling material in this book is positioned as kind of entr'acte between the early chapters, which might be called "Wyatt," and the later ones, which might be called "Nicole." Here Nutt gets down to the nitty-gritty, explaining how genitals and gender identity develop differently in utero, according to different processes, with genitals being established within the first six weeks after conception. Genitals are an anatomical fact between one's legs — but even they are far less definitive than one might imagine: "As many as one in 100 infants are born with sexual anatomy that differs in some way from standard male and female anatomy," Nutt writes.
Gender identity, on the other hand, occurs in the brain: It usually correlates with genitals, but sometimes it doesn't. According to Dr. Norman Spack, the pediatric endocrinologist whom the Maineses ultimately consulted to set Nicole on the path to gender reassignment surgery, "Only about a quarter of those who express themselves as the opposite gender early in life still feel that way as they approach puberty. But for that 25 percent who remain convinced they were born into the wrong body, the idea of going through puberty in that wrong body is anathema to them." In 2015, after she finished high school, Nicole Maines underwent surgery to become, anatomically speaking, female.
Nicole is hell on wheels — charismatic, insistent, dramatic, angry. Like her mother, she knows what she wants, and from a very young age demonstrates a fierce bravery: She will draw any fire on the way to becoming herself. Is this a true portrait or an interpretive act, a display of an author's preference for heroic tales? One doesn't know, but in Nutt's telling, the humiliation and discrimination that Nicole suffers as she grows up (and these are not a few) pale in comparison to her battle-ready steel. This is not one of those stories, which Nutt also catalogs in terrible detail, in which a trans person lives for years with self-doubt and self-loathing, until finally finding a way to live honestly or disintegrating under the pressure of a divided self. And it is also not a story of someone who's "queer" — who lives on an uncharted point on a spectrum and wants it that way. For better and worse, Nicole adheres to the binary, and it is her certainty, and Kelly's, that propels the whole family forward along this unmapped course until even Wayne himself, the traditionalist, is testifying before the Maine Legislature on behalf of transgender rights.
Only Jonas, the twin brother, remains a cipher. Neither as forceful in personality nor as problematic as Nicole, Jonas remains, in Nutt's otherwise empathic telling, underdeveloped, an afterthought. What must it have been like to grow up in this family where one twin absorbed every ounce of parental attention? Nutt makes attempts in this direction, but they are not convincing: Jonas, the more recessive brother, recedes too much from the narrative. Perhaps more disappointing, Nutt shies from a central question that lurks behind this book's every line: If gender identity is a process that begins in the womb, how did Jonas and Wyatt, identical twins, develop so differently? Nutt sees, rightly, that the story she's telling is really about love; one only wishes that she had included Jonas more fully in the family embrace.


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They wear the same purple and gold uniforms, tap their IDs in the lobby of Piano Row, and may even know more about the Lions than the average student, but several of the department's student-athletes aren't actually enrolled at Emerson College.
"Communications allowed me to utilize my voice in an artistic manner."
A constant oral and optical interchange is intrinsic to "Mother Hicks," a play in which all lines are delivered in spoken English and ASL.
Professor Michael Brown has been at Emerson College "forever," he said. He's had front-row seats to the athletic department's myriad changes over the past 45 years.
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A professor and two alumni navigate the meaning of manhood in the context of their relationships with their own fathers.
Chloe Jankowitz is now the owner of Scoopsies, a small ice cream delivery service based out of her own Somerville home. For Jankowitz, creating ice cream mixes personal and business.
EmersonPathways is a free program for Boston public high school students that aims to prepare participants for college and give them the space and support to express themselves through the arts.
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When the Sudanese civil war began, William Muorwel, now a sophomore at Emerson, was separated from his family and friends, and became one of legions of refugees known as the Lost Boys.
"My mother has always supported me in everything that I do, which I am very grateful for." -Leo Manzari
In Piano Row, deep beneath the street, the Emerson men's basketball team has begun hitting the gym in preparation for their upcoming season. Meanwhile, in the athletic department, the team's new coach is suiting up and strapping in to answer some emails.
"We never were big stars—we were a part of the show and sometimes we'd be included and sometimes we wouldn't."
A bestselling nonfiction writer, Denizet-Lewis' honest and inquisitive pieces about weighty issues like identity, religion, and addiction have recently propelled him to national renown.

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TONI Braxton dropped jaws on the Grammy Award's red carpet with her despicably see-through number.
Now at the age of 51, the Maryland-born star not only proved last night that age is just a number but that she can still stop the show with her unmissable presence.
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AN Avon and Somerset Police officer has been dismissed for gross misconduct.
A hearing this week was told that PC Dave Adams skipped an event he had been instructed by a superior officer to attend.
Adams, who was the second PC sacked by the force during the week, also gave a "dishonest, misleading and inaccurate" account of why he missed the event.
The hearing was told he failed to take responsibility for failing to attend and tried to deflect the blame from himself.
It also emerged that he lied when he told his manager he did not work from home.
The panel ruled that Adams's actions amounted to a breach of the Standards of Professional Behaviour and he was dismissed without notice.
Superintendent Simon Wilstead, head of the Professional Standards Department, said: "Officers are required to fulfil their duties and responsibilities diligently, and where that doesn't happen they can expect that their performance and conduct will be held to account.
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SANTA FE, Texas— A new set of fears to deal with at Santa Fe High School after administrators shared a text message Wednesday afternoon containing threats against a group of certain students at Santa Fe High.
School officials issued a statement saying "appropriate disciplinary action was taken based on the student code of conduct. no further action was warranted as charges were declined by the Galveston County District Attorney's Office."
The school district says they are unable to share any further info due to student privacy laws.
But after all the Santa Fe community has gone through this year, no one can feel comfortable or at ease about another threat.
"I think a lot of them maybe are lonely, they want attention. They're trying to make friends in a bad way," ice cream truck operator Dee Dee Felter said.
The high school sent a letter home to parents on Thursday announcing the text message and an investigation conducted into who the culprits were who sent it.
The Santa Fe High School principal Rachel Blundell assured parents law enforcement were able to identify the individuals who sent the text and promised those responsible will face disciplinary action.
As the principal put it, "Threats of this nature bring anxiety to all our SFISD community— students, parents and staff alike."
But Santa Fe seems to feel they handled this current threat appropriately and rapidly.
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I've been spearfishing for the last 10 years and each summer sees me out on the water as often as possible. Usually that means weeks on end of diving multiple times per week over the Christmas holidays and basically every weekend between October and April. The last 2 years has been very different, having moved from the north of Auckland down to Palmy. I've been getting a hell of a lot more hunting but the diving itch hasn't really been scratched.
This summer holiday has been the worst on record in terms of dive days - only managing five days in the water. What it has lacked in quantity was somewhat made up for in the quality of diving and the company. I introduced SWMBO to spearfishing three years ago and she has steadily improved to the point where she is fully autonomous in the water and doesn't need her hand held (even in deep water with lots of current she is more than capable). This year she had three goals - Snapper, Kingfish and a Cray. We managed to tick off two of the three and added Boarfish to the list as well (a typically deep and hard to find fish, little known to line fishos and prized by spearos).
I will add some photos at some point and make this thread worthwhile but words are all you get for now as I smashed my phone yesterday and the bloody insurance company say there is a 10 day turn-around to get it assessed and replaced.
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Golf: A game of growth
July 10, 2004
The Ryan Anderson who weighed 155 pounds during his senior year at Greeley West has disappeared.
Meet the new Ryan Anderson, all 195 pounds of him.
Anderson, a standout golfer for the Spartans who graduated from West in 2002, is an inch taller (6-foot-3) and 40 pounds heavier than when he placed sixth at the Class 5A boys golf state tournament his senior year.
"I'm kind of trying to get used to my new body. Today I felt like I played about as bad as I could," said Anderson, who shot a 5-over-par 75 at the two-day Dick Billehus Invitational on Saturday at the Greeley County Club. "I'm hitting it a lot harder, but the problem with that is I'm not quite hitting it straight so it just goes farther off line."
Anderson, 21, will be a redshirt sophomore for the golf team at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall where he'll be fighting to be one of the top five golfers, which will enable him to travel with the Buffaloes.
You'd have a hard time picking Anderson's photo out of the 2002 Greeley West yearbook, though. "I put on a whole bunch of weight, and I got taller," said Anderson, who drained three birdies on holes No. 9, 16 and 17. "I just got my new license and the one when I turned 18 said 6-2, 155. I just have a different makeup now. I have a lot more meat in my upper body, and I'm trying to get used to swinging around it."
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Anderson, the Tribune's Athlete of the Year in boys golf his senior year, said he's on a weight program at CU.
"I think I've finally stopped growing up and started growing out. I think even before last Christmas I was 175-180," said Anderson, who won the Billehus championship flight in 2001. "Then I went to grandma's house and came back a lot bigger and a lot stronger."
Bogeys on holes No. 2, 4, 8, 11, 13 and a triple-bogey on the par-4, 342-yard No. 14 were holes Anderson wished he could take back.
Anderson said his new-found strength and weight provides him with a lot more power when he wants to use it.
"I can hit a club farther if I need to like over a tree, or hit a par-5 in two maybe that I couldn't have when I was smaller," Anderson said. "When I was smaller it was also easier to hit it straight."
In the game of golf, not even someone such as Anderson, who has been playing since the age of 5, knows when his game will be where he wants it to be.
"I'd like it to be tomorrow, but golf is a weird game like that," Anderson said. "There are times where I feel like I'm playing really well, and then I have rounds where I can't find it. It could be a couple of months or it could be next week."
Anderson's father, Ken Anderson, is the golf pro at the Greeley Country Club. He said putting on weight can change a swing.
"There is truth to that. If you put on 35 pounds your swing begins to change a little bit," Ken Anderson said. "His consistency isn't quite what it used to be, but his strength has really gained. His short game is real strong. Once he gets his coordination and his full swing and balance, he'll be fine."
GREAT TIME: Anderson, who is on an academic scholarship, said he is having a great experience at CU. A top student at West with a 4.08 gpa and a top-10 class rank, Anderson has pulled in a 3.68 gpa at CU and is majoring in psychology.
GREAT ROUND: Rick Dewitt of Arvada, the 2002 Billehus Invitational winner, won top honors with a 5-under-par 65, just two strokes off the course record of 63 on the 6,632-yard course.
BUFFS TEAMMATE: Jim Grady, a 2003 Broomfield graduate and teammate of Ryan Anderson's at CU, shot a 68 and tied with senior championship flight golfer Bob Heiny for the second lowest score behind Dewitt.
Grady, 19, said Anderson has become his swing coach at CU.
"He's given me more advice than pretty much anybody else this year on my swing," Grady said. "He knows what's wrong with it."
TOP FLIGHT: Dewitt (65, championship flight), Heiny (68, senior championship flight), Ed Holloway (73, 1st flight), Zack Ferrier (73, 2nd flight), Tom Evers (77, 3rd flight), Allen Knox (78, 4th flight), Ken Elsimnger (84, 5th flight) and Mac McConolugue (84, 5th flight) led their flights heading into the second day.
UNDER PAR: Dewitt (65), Grady (68), Heiny (68) and Scott Van Hofwegen (69) shot under par 70.
TEE TIMES: Today's action begins with the fifth-flight golfers at 7 a.m. The senior championship flight starts at 10:40 a.m. with the championship flight beginning at noon. Leaders in the championship flight won't start until 12:50 p.m.
BIG NUMBERS: A total of 135 golfers are competing in the invitational.
Dick Billehus Invitational
Greeley Country Club
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Championship Flight
Rick Dewitt 65, Jim Grady 68, Scott Van Hofwegen 69, Brandon Tomasovich 70, Bob Brown 71, Chris Doering 71, Rick Rose 71, Guy Mertz 71.
Senior Championship Flight
Bob Heiny 68, Dave Schey 70, Mark Achziger 71, Larry Eaton 71, Boll Boyd 72, Dan Coffin 72.
First Flight
Ed Holloway 73, Mike Fellows 75, Dick Monfort 76, Micah Seyler 77, Tom Sherk 77, Matt Dietz 78.
Second Flight
Zack Ferrier 73, Harvy Parish 77, Scott Gordon 79, Frank Grabowski 79, Bob Goldsmith 82, John Mullin 84.
Third Flight
Tom Evers 77, Tom Callahan 81, Jerry Dillon 81, David Juarez 83, Scott Hovey 83, Barry Biegler 84, Chuck Dixon 84.
Fourth Flight
Allen Knox 78, Dave Tarpley 84, Thomas Day 86, Clark Fasset 87, Benno Scheibegger 87, Vince Troisi 87.
Fifth Flight
Mac McConolugue 84, Ken Elsimnger 84, Fred Nichols 88, Vic Nottingham 90, Del Gorsline 91, Steve Menikhein 94, Pavel Tempir 94.


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There is something about that record that really reminds me of Julian Cope and the Teardrop Explodes. I guess it mostly lies in how vocalist Harry McVeigh's style isn't exclusively distinct. Then there is the antagonising manner in which the guitars couple with the keyboards somewhat softening proceedings in a painfully eighties fashion which perhaps only serves to undermine the clear intention of the lyrics. One paragraph along it is already a lot to take in.
This song appears to be about remorse. The playground addressed could easily resemble/represent a number of things both past and present. And all of them mental.
While listening to this seven inch I find myself scratching my balls. As I raise my fingers to my nose the smell is orgasmic.
The success of this record is in the chorus and the thumping hook therein found. It's blunt and unsubtle, exactly the kind of familiar disposition that the listener is able to psychologically hug and attach itself to. This music is not alternative, it's pop. It's clear. It may as well be manufactured. What came first: the song and the hook or the post-punk packaging it is dressed up in?
White Lies hail/originate from Ealing, London a place where I know a lot of people, all of which inhabit varying degrees of trait but none of which necessarily assemble fetishes towards mental playgrounds. Ealing is way out west, an area of London that does not strictly resemble the capital. It's on the tube but fails to command or maintain the bright lights of the city. As a result it has a suburban, grim feel. This perhaps explains White Lies mindset.
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What should you do with a colleague, employee or boss who fails to accept responsibility?
It's an awful realisation. Suddenly, someone you work with shows you his true colours when placed under pressure. In a desperate attempt to avoid blame and guilt, he avoids taking responsibility.
He claims he 'didn't do it' and fends off attempts to hold him to account in any way. Once he starts running away, the conversation turns into a chase.
You try to make a difference, while he does his best to distance himself from feeling like a victim.
In moments such as this, there are no winners. If the other person is in a position of power, the loss can be great.
Witness the recent tragedy at National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). As Kingston was covered in palls of dangerous smoke, it was impossible to find anyone willing to stand up and be accountable for what was happening.
Many working adults who watched events unfold felt uneasy as it brought to mind some of their most difficult, irresponsible colleagues.
It reminded me of a gardener who once gave my wife the following report after splitting the blade of our lawnmower on a rock: "It bruk".
He didn't say: "I broke it". Instead, his stance indicated that the mysterious outcome happened all on its own.
Apparently, in the minds of a few people, the fire at Riverton did the same.
When employees at all levels of an organisation adopt this mindset, they set themselves up as observers rather than actors, victims rather than agents. Their frame of mind places the entire organisation at risk of losing profits, customers, or in our case, fresh air to breathe.
More important, they unwittingly render themselves useless in preventing the event from happening again. To them, it's just a matter of having some better excuses the next time around.
It's a corrosive, contagious frame of mind that must be addressed because it can leave a whole organisation hapless.
What can the ordinary employee do to transform this mindset?
Step 1 - Separate responsibility from blame. In a workshop a few years ago, I introduced the term 'response-ability'. Inspired by the work of Werner Erhard, I defined the term as free of the usual negative connotations: blame, fault, guilt or shame. Instead, it's about putting oneself in a mental place to make a difference, especially when failure is possible, or even after it has occurred.
Those who are confused with regard to response-ability end up only running away - throwing out the baby with the bathwater. In other words, they don't want to feel bad so they surrender their power to act.
Step 2 - Show others the cost. When people are lost in blame-avoidance, trying to avoid negative feelings, they are momentarily blinded. Otherwise good people are unable to see the cost of abandoning their ability to act. You can help them see the bigger picture by sharing the impact of their blindness on you and others, dollarising it if possible.
Step 3 - Invite them to take action, even if they feel bad. People who are accountable appreciate that life is always a blend of successes and failures, but they don't only accept the former and ignore the latter. They are willing to 'take the heat' when things fall apart.
Taking the heat means saying: Yes, I helped to cause the unwanted result. This mindset is a must if they wish to empower themselves to fix problems once and for all.
If you can follow these three steps, even when others feel badly, you are helping to move the problem towards resolution.
This can be hard work, but it's easier to take the above actions if the person is willing.
With skilful coaching you can prevent further disasters by diverting their attention to the difference they can make and the high cost of the failure. If you can help them be consistently accountable at some point, it is even better, as they ignore their bruised feelings.
But that's not all. Here's an important twist.
The best place to start helping a colleague who is slipping into victim-like, don't-blame-me mode is to be a real-time role model for everything I have said so far.
In other words, assume personal responsibility for their powerless behaviour. Look to see where you can own the part you played in their failure to be 'response-able'.
As you look, learn. Then act to make a difference.
Jamaica would be a different place if more of us could take this stand on a regular basis. Some do it every day, but it remains a characteristic that's tricky to see clearly.
However, once you develop an eye for it, you need never be stymied by a colleague who fails to be responsible.
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It is time to get ready to ROVE Vancouver! You might be thinking what is ROVE?
ROVE is what you get when you combine art, community and adventure! It's a free self guided art walk in Mount Pleasant.
ROVE features a hand picked selection of galleries, artist studios and curated spaces for participants to explore. You can cover the whole route in one night and stop for drinks and food along the way. Support local artists and find art to hang in your home created by a talented local Vancouver-ite!
All you need to do to ROVE is….
STEP 1: Come to Mount Pleasant on Friday, may 25th from 6pm to 10pm.
STEP 2: Get your free map or pick up a free map at any of the ROVE locations
STEP 3: Follow the route to check out galleries, studios and creative spaces.
STEP 4: Enjoy the incredible artwork and people that the Vancouver art scene has to share.
LOCATION 1 – Jay Senetchko, Studio #224/ 336 East 1st Ave, Vancouver
Expect: Huge figurative work and a hidden studio door covered in ivy!
LOCATION 2 – MNSTR Gallery, 1818 Lorne Street, Vancouver
Expect: Silkscreen magic!
LOCATION 3 – Gene Studios, 2414 Main Street, Vancouver
Expect: Paintings, ceramics and eerie dearies!
LOCATION 4 – Kafka's Coffee, 2525 Main Street, Vancouver
Expect: The show is Friends or Foes but you will only find friends here!
LOCATION 5 – The James Black Gallery, 144 East 6th Avenue, Vancouver
Expect… the unexpected!
Select Murals from Mural fest dotted throughout the walk, enjoy them as you stroll!
We can't wait to see you there! Stay connected to ROVE by finding us on Instagram, Facebook
Vancouver Is Awesome is a proud sponsor of ROVE.
ROVE is run by artist, Jamie Smith founder of THRIVE Art Studio.THRIVE is a community of local female artists who support each other on their journeys to become the artists and people they most want to be. Located at The Profile on Thurlow, THRIVE is home to THRIVE Mastermind, THRIVE Talks and the THRIVE Network.


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Wall Street may be advising McDonald's Corp. to slow down on international expansion but the investment community should also take a hard look at fast-food realities here at home ("Wall Street advises McD's: Stay home," Jan. 8).
The United States is oversaturated with McDonald's restaurants, as well as with those of its competitors. Throughout the past decade, the large, publicly held fast-food companies opened thousands of new locations in a race to convince Wall Street that they were still growth companies.
Today, we have too many fast-food locations chasing too few customers. The proof of this oversupply is the unceasing price wars focused on sandwiches under a dollar. Every location of every brand is festooned with window banners advertising the latest discount offer.
Even with the acquisition of Donatos Pizza, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Boston Market, there is little room to grow the McDonald's system. These new brands all compete with each other and will only cannibalize the sales of nearby McDonald's restaurants.
Unfortunately, the corporate culture at McDonald's is focused on trying to prove that they can build restaurants endlessly. Management refuses to accept what most of the world has known for years: This is not a growth company, and fast food is not a growth industry.
If McDonald's Corp. wants to be perceived as a growth opportunity, they need to diversify into other industries and leave the restaurants alone to recover from the cannibalization of the 1990s. Existing restaurant sales and profits cannot be restored by building more locations in a saturated marketplace.
A dramatic shift toward diversification may not be possible with the current group of accountants who rule in Oak Brook. However, time will prove that Main Street USA has no more room for additional fast-food locations under any flag.
Richard Adams
Franchise Equity Group
San Diego
Memory lane
I enjoyed Joe Cappo's article on Montgomery Ward & Co. ("Wards biggest problem wasn't the competition," Jan. 8), which brought back some good memories. I, too, remember going with my mom to the so-called "Wards Outlet."
My parents were Ukrainian immigrants, and my dad had the Standard Oil Gas Station on Orleans Street and Chicago Avenue for 40 years. Now, it is a parking lot. Anyway, I remember my mom going to the gas station to get money from Dad to go shopping at Wards.
I also remember shopping at Goldblatts on Chicago and Ashland. (By the way, Dad is still living, and celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 1.)
Vera Gojewycz
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Importance of Meigs
With the recent skyrocketing air traffic delays and flight cancellations, the question of airport capacity in Chicago is critical to the region's future. It is clear that the United States is fast approaching a crisis in capacity for future growth in air travel, with Chicago particularly feeling the pinch.
Because news stories have focused heavily on scheduled commercial traffic, many do not realize that non-scheduled general aviation (e.g., corporate, charter and other private traffic) accounts for far more flights than the airlines do in the U.S. (about 40 million flights out of a total of 52 million flights nationally).
Since these flights generally choose the closest airport to their destination, it is important to maintain a strong network of close-in general aviation "reliever" airports airports like Chicago's downtown Meigs Field to avoid additional overcrowding at commercial airports like O'Hare and Midway.
Recently, the National Air Transportation Assn. announced their long-awaited list of the "100 Most-Needed U.S. Airports," focusing on the general aviation airports most needed for a strong national aviation infra-structure. Meigs Field is one of those airports named.
What's more, Meigs Field received more nominations than any other airport in the country.
Meigs Field handles over 40,000 operations annually, over 85% of which are business- or convention-related. With modest improvements in policies and facilities, it could handle considerably more. By doing so, it helps to relieve traffic at Midway and O'Hare, traffic that otherwise would add to the growing congestion and delays. Every air traveler to or from Chicago benefits from the existence of airports like Meigs Field.
The one thing everyone agrees on is that Chicago needs more airport capacity, not less. Closing Meigs is not the answer. Meigs is part of the solution. Let's not make it part of the problem.
Steven G. Whitney
Friends of Meigs Field
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15 years after purchasing their property, Egon and Richard decide to renovate it, demolishing the lean-to and building an extension in its place.
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On 28th May, 1976, the Ulster Defence Association detonated, without warning, a bomb in the Club Bar on University Street, Belfast. Two civilians, one Catholic and one Protestant, were killed. The pub, which had been attacked by loyalists a number of times previously, was frequented by both Catholics and Protestants.
The documentary, made by Caroline Magowan and supported by Northern Visions through its Access Initiative, interviews those who were caught up in the bombings.
Marion Milne was 16 and at boarding school. She had sneaked out from school, but for a long time couldn't tell anyone what she had experienced, as she wasn't supposed to be there.
David Smylie mentions that the events of that night repeated in his mind "like a small [film] reel", his own form of post-traumatic stress, and of walking through the bar after the explosion.
"There was a smoke like a mist hanging in the bar. It was thicker towards the ground, and there was a smell, which I found out was cordite, the smell of the explosive. It was raining, but it wasn't rain – it was the burst pipes from the toilets. And I walked through, and I soon as I got in I said 'what are you doing here?' I was frightened. Fear hit me then. But I had come so far, and I found a young man lying on the ground, and I stopped there and stayed with him… I didn't want to go any further. He needed him, and I think I needed him. I found out later there were two people killed, and a lot of people badly injured, in fact other people I knew… but I stayed with this young man."


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I have to say a special thanks to Stacey from Poplar Bluff who so kindly sent me two copies of Ralph Stanley's book Man of Constant Sorrow, My Life and Times. One copy was especially for me, and the other copy was for me to give away.
I started on the book this weekend and am now on page 81. I have a ways to go... It is really a fantastic book! It's like the story of a musician's dream, hard life, old times, mountain folks, and the history of bluegrass music all rolled into one. The more I read of the book, the more I keep realizing how fortunate I am.
Although Stacey doesn't know this at the time of my blogging (he will surely read this and know soon), I have decided to "give" the book to a bunch of different people. This wasn't a plan I came up with. It just sort of happened. One of my banjo students saw the book in my teaching room and asked about it. I told him to take it home and read it, and then bring it back. I have decided I will loan it to my students who are interested in reading it. Since Stacey works at a library, I'm sure he will approve of this idea!
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About myself: I have been active in the flashlight community since 2009 when I first signed up to Candlepowerforums. 2 years later I joined the clan at BLF (budgetlightforum) where I stayed most of my time.
Country: the Netherlands
My first LED flashlight: a 2006 Taskforce Super 1 watt flashlight with Luxeon LED. (direct drive). See the link for the picture.
Current favorite flashlight: Depends on the situation. For a large thrower, I like the Acebeam K75. I have an old Fenix LD01 on my keys, that sometimes gets replaced with the MBI HF. Favorite tactical flashlight: Malkoff MDC bodyguard v2. I have the Malkoff in my pocket when I do beam shots at night, in the middle of nowhere. I basically have a flashlight for each occasion. And my 'nicest' flashlight is currently the Reylight Krystal.
Favorite flashlight brand: I have been very fond of Sunwayman in the past, but they dropped the ball a few years ago. Acebeam is probably in the top 3 of my list as of now.
Other hobbies: Photography and eneloop batteries (I'm ChibiM)
Name: Peter
Crazy flashoholic
About myself:Working as a Control an Automation Engineer, i work with all kinds of technical stuff, IT, Functional Safety Related, software and hardware related, but flashlights are my favorite
Country: The Netherlands
My first LED flashlight: The famous sipik sk68 with a Q5 LED
Current favorite flashlight: I find it very hard to name just one light being my favorite, because they all have elements I like or dislike.
I like Convoy lights because they're very well built and affordable. Currently I like my Convoy L21a very much, but it's difficult to EDC, that's were my Acebeam TK16 comes in, but the tint is a little cold, so thats were my Emisar D4 with 18350 and 3000K SST20 comes in, but that has a sideswitch which is easily turned on by accident. I could go on and on, talking about flashlights with their pros and cons LOL.
Favorite flashlight brand: Convoy, Acebeam, Jaxman, Emisar, Reylight, oops, did I have to name only one ?
Other hobbies: I'm a volunteer for the yearly flower parade event in my town. I help with several technical things like building, welding, painting, etc.
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Name: Owen
Avid flashoholic
About myself: IT worker by day, daddy by night. I stumbled across the deep hole that is the flashlight enthusiast world early 2019 via /r/flashlight, and the smoking crater that used to resemble my wallet is evidence of how deep the addiction runs.
Country: Australia
My first LED flashlight: First real light was the Olight S Mini Cu; it's still in pieces on my workbench after the e-switch decided to implode (Olight, if you're listening, I'd love to be able to get a new driver for it!)
Current favorite flashlight: Primary carry is my FW3A with sw45k 219B; the BLF C01S is on my keys, and headlamp rotates between Sofirn SP40 (4000K LH351D) and Wowtac A2S (5000K LH351D).
Favorite flashlight brand: I'm very impressed with the way Convoy, Sofirn, and Astrolux take on feedback from the community, and they're definitely in the price range that works best for me at the moment. Lumintop have also been very helpful when I've had a question! Looking forward to branching upwards and seeing what the big hitters have.
Other hobbies: I'm a volunteer firefighter in the NSW RFS in my spare time.
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Name: Gabriel
Flashlight enthusiast
About myself: I joined BudgetLightForum in 2016 after a very short stint at CPF. I love just about anything and everything that lights up. When I'm not busy illuminating things, you can find me at my day job (a business intelligence and systems analyst). I'm also a full-time family man with a great wife and five energetic kids.
Country: United States of America
My first LED flashlight: Dorcy Metal Gear model 41-4282, circa 2008. Years later, I got my first "modern" LED flashlight – a Fenix E25 at the advice received from CPF. It's a nice light, but I knew there had to be more out there, and that's when I discovered BLF and the rest is history!
Current favorite flashlight: This is like choosing a favorite child! My current EDC is a ReyLight Ti LAN with a sliced LH351D and 10 ice blue trits. When I need more lumens, I reach for my Mateminco MT07 or Wuben TO50R (with custom aux board). If I need a true thrower, I go for my Emisar D1S with a custom 5 amp linear driver and a OLSON White Flat.
Favorite flashlight brand: I really like Convoys because the customization options are endless. I also really appreciate Emisar/Noctigon for what Hank has done in terms of compact, high-power, attractive lights at an affordable price. Sofirn/Wurkkos has to be mentioned though because of their interaction with flashlight enthusiasts on BLF and their constant push for redefining what can happen in a budget flashlight.
Other hobbies: I'm an outdoorsman and a maker. I enjoy hunting, fishing, and being out in Mother Nature. Around the house, you'll find me working on electronics, doing 3D design, or tinkering on a car.
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Name: Mike
Flashlight enthusiast
About myself: I have been intrigued by flashlights since I was very little when I picked up my first Maglite and started shining it around the back yard to see how far it goes. I became engaged in the community first through BLF in 2017 and now I have my own growing YouTube channel (LumenChaser) where I do flashlight reviews.
Country: United States of America
My first LED flashlight: Ultrafire Zoomie
Current favorite flashlight: Foursevens Mini TURBO Mkiii
Favorite flashlight brand: Acebeam
Other hobbies: I also make custom modded flashlights
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Name: Richmond
Recovering flashoholic
About myself: I am a university student working towards becoming an airline pilot. A year or two ago I set out looking for the best flashlight for night flights, so I made a post on r/flashlight asking for advice. I got plenty of advice, and my collection has only grown since!
Country: USA
My first LED flashlight: Technically, my first LED flashlight was probably something given away at a trade show. However, I consider the Manker E03H to be my first light, and I still use it on every night flight!
Current favorite flashlight: Well, while my EDC is a Emisar D4 (with 219C emitters), I have to go with the Thrunite Catapult V6, because it brings joy to the face of anyone who sees its beam cut through the night sky.
Favorite flashlight brand: Convoy has to be my favorite brand – whether buying a light directly from them or building it from parts they supply, I've never had a bad experience with a Convoy product.
Other hobbies: Photography is my other main hobby – feel free to check out my shots at www.ForsenFoto.com.
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Name: Tom
Flashlight crusher
About myself: My friends describe me as a weird person. Maybe it's because I enjoy sleeping in a tent in the middle of the forest all alone and listen to country music. Or, maybe it's because I watch anime… hard to tell. I also enjoy listening to music – sad thing about life is that there is no background music.
Country: Poland
My first LED flashlight: Modded Solarforce L2P I bought – it was a really good and bright flashlight back then. I still have it – great flashlight, it even survived my bike accident in which I nearly died.
Current favorite flashlight: Armytek Wizard Pro Nichia + FW1A Pro or Imalent DM70 is my favorite combination for hiking.
Favorite flashlight brand: Armytek for headlamps, Convoy and Lumintop for other flashlights.
Other hobbies: Hiking, especially in the mountains, and traveling.


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I have to confess to having read absolutely no Being and Nothingness today. I did however make this gingerbread house.
I quickly abandoned any attempt to make it look like it did on the box the kit came in, after the heat and my complete lack of piping skills rendered everything a very sticky mess, and just randomly stuck stuff all over the place. Note the mutant gingerbread men out the front.
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Especially with personal products, are prospects tired of hype?
Is there such thing as "Hype" blindness or even Hype turn off?
Sure there is! especially if the claims sound like big lies!
It is not about hype, it is about authenticity.
If hype=arrogance, then, yes it is a turn off.
What you need to identify is selling confidence and selling power, not arrogance.
People buy from you if you are sympathetic to them.
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Sietse T Braakman, W Daniel Stamer, Darryl R Overby; A fluorescent permeability assay for Schlemm's canal endothelial cells in response to stretch. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):5983.
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All conventional outflow must cross the inner wall endothelium of Schlemm's canal (SCE), and the increased outflow resistance in glaucoma is located near to SCE. Understanding the factors that regulate SCE permeability may thereby facilitate development of novel glaucoma therapies. SCE cells experience extraordinary biomechanical stretch as a consequence of basal-to-apical directed outflow and giant vacuole formation. We hypothesize that cellular stretch increases SCE permeability.
Permeability was measured based on the intensity of a fluorescent tracer (FITC-avidin) as it crosses the SCE cell monolayer and binds to an elastic (PDMS) membrane coated with biotinylated gelatin, following Dubrovskyi et al. (Lab Invest, 2013). The elastic membrane was mounted in a cell stretching device (Lee et al., AJP, 1996). SCE cells isolated from a 44-y/o donor were seeded in cloning rings onto the membrane. Once confluent, cells were stretched to 0%, 21% or 44% areal increase, exposed to FITC-avidin for 3 mins and fixed at 5 mins post-stretch. A plate reader was used to measure membrane fluorescence. Permeability measurements were compared against porosity measurements from a previous study of stretch-induced pore formation in the same cell line (Braakman et al., ISER, 2012).
Membrane fluorescence increased by 66% when cells were stretched from 0% to 44% (p=0.0009). To calculate relative permeability, fluorescence values were normalized between 0 (fluorescence of cells on non-biotinylated membranes) and 1 (fluorescence of biotinylated membranes without cells). Relative SCE permeability also increased with stretch (p=0.001) and mimicked the stretch-induced porosity increase (p=0.03) observed in the prior study, see figure.
The permeability of cultured SCE monolayers increases within minutes of stretch, suggesting that biomechanical deformation regulates SCE barrier function to possibly influence outflow resistance. The fluorescent permeability assay may provide a surrogate measure of SCE porosity that requires time-intensive pore counting and may provide a screening platform for drugs that target SCE permeability.
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Inspiration | The Expanse
Wow. I just finished the 10th and last episode of SyFy's TV-series The Expanse (available on Netflix where I live). If you're a fan of Hard SF and haven't seen it yet, you're in for a treat. It starts out a bit slow but it will drag you in soon enough and the show is one […]Read more "Inspiration | The Expanse"


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I write because I care. I grew up in southern Utah, in the desert, the redrock wilderness. I have lived most of my life away from that wild, natural environment, however. After moving to northern Utah to attend university I ended up staying and raising my family in Utah Valley, shadowed by the Wasatch mountains, still within an easy travel distance to the canyons that I, now single, and my children (now adults) love.
My formal education consists of: undergraduate degrees in Geography and History, with a Geology minor, master's degree in Planning and Resource Management, Thesis: "Cannonville Utah: A geographic study of landscape and cultural change." I taught Geography 101 (Physical Geography) for three years. All of this was at Brigham Young University where I currently am employed as Executive Secretary to the Dean of the College of Humanities and also the permanent member of the International Cinema Program committee. Where my formal education is based in the physical world, my life education has been largely the interface of the human experience with that physical world. I guess you could say that I am a humanist firmly grounded in the earth — but shouldn't that describe all of us?
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My passions: my family, the earth, geography, being outdoors, and trying to make the world better for all things, organic and inorganic.
My intense dislikes: Contention, Selfishness, Hypocrisy, Dishonesty, Unkindness, Incivility and Bad Things Done to This Beautiful World.
Things I like to do: travel, hike, read, write music, garden, watch hockey and international films.
I dislike: cilantro and peas, football, answering the telephone, leaving voicemail messages, cleaning up after my cats, not having good public transportation, going to the doctor/dentist.
I am: enjoying middle age, anxious about the state of the world, stressed about finances, joyful in my family and mostly at peace with my God.
My nature is quiet, passionate; my hair is red with a lot more white than I like; my eyes are hazel, often tired; my ears hear life, music; my senses feel warmth, comfort.
I'm just someone who loves this beautiful earth. I feel that human beings may be writing their own final chapter by the general disregard for the natural systems and unwillingness to adapt to the conditions of our own creation. I believe that God created this world and everything in it, both living and nonliving. I also believe that he expects us to treat it well, to treat it with the same love and respect as He had for it during the creation. The commandment was not only to "multiply" but also to "replenish the earth" and I don't believe that means only to fill it with more of ourselves. We can and must do better.


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For the sixteenth year in a row, movie lovers in Oxford will head to the town's annual film festival to celebrate the art of independent cinema.
2019 Oxford Film Festival
The 2019 Oxford Film Festival began on February 6th and lasts until Sunday the 10th. Check out some amazing films, and meet the creators at this years event!
With hundreds of people viewing these films, Assistant Director Kaleigh Graham says a showing here could lead to national exposure.
"We've had success stories," she said. "Last year we had a film called Forever Be, and now it's on Netflix. It's called Abducted in Plain Sight, which, everyone's freaking out about. We had it last year."
The festival will showcase more than 200 films and introduce filmmakers from around the world who are eager to gain a wider audience.
"If you don't have any direct distributions… or something that's going to go to Netflix, it is a great way for people to see your film," said festival volunteer Withrow Newell.
The Oxford Film Festival features narratives, documentaries, shorts, Mississippi films and those with an LGBTQ focus.
To add to the fun, organizers try to bring some star power to town, too.
"One year we brought James Franco. This year we're bringing Roger Bart, who was on "How I Met Your Mother,'" Graham said.
The event is sponsored by the Chancellor's House, the Local Voice, MaxxSouth, Artist Vodka, and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, to name a few.
The Oxford Film Festival began Feb. 6 and will wrap up Sunday, Feb. 8. Films will be shown at different venues like the Powerhouse, Ford Center, and Malco Oxford Commons Cinema Grill. Tickets are available online or at the box office. VIP passes are also available.
If you are a student, sponsor or senior, use online code: Sixteen, for a 16 percent discount on any type of ticket or pass.
For the full event schedule click here.


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New social housing scheme opens for residents
- 07 Apr
Seven families have begun to move into a new affordable housing development in Bamber Bridge.
The 34 newly built homes are a joint venture between Maple Grove Developments and Progress Housing Group. It's the first scheme to be delivered through the Lancashire Regeneration Property Partnership which is a joint venture between Lancashire County Council and the Eric Wright Group, reports 24dash.
The £3m development, designed and built by Eric Wright Construction, comprises 18 two and three-bedroom houses and 16 one and two-bedroom apartments on a former County Council owned site. The homes are being delivered over two phases with the second due to be completed in May 2015.
Andrew Murphy at Maple Grove Developments, said: "Brindle Road provides an attractive new residential area with quality properties that make a positive contribution to the local community. Social housing developments are on the rise with political parties now recognising the economic benefits of increased housing supply and ensuring the correct footings are in place to deliver this."
Eric Tamanis, Executive Director of Business Development and Property Services at Progress Housing Group, added: "It's really satisfying to see this first phase of the development finished and tenants being given the keys to their new homes. By working successfully The Eric Wright Group, the Homes and Communities Agency and South Ribble Borough Council we have been able to build a high standard of affordable housing in Bamber Bridge for local people at an affordable price."
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Join in the festivities this Saturday
Downtown Kelowna Block Party!
Join Danceworx for a few dance lessons throughout the day… We'll be doing lessons on the top of the hour from noon until 4pm, and dancing to the music of Country 100.7, who will be on location in their roving RV doing a live feed from downtown Kelowna! Bernard Avenue will be closed to traffic from The Sails to Richter Street, and in addition to country music and dancing in the 600 block of Bernard, there will be monster trucks, dog agility, roller derby demos, bouncy castles for the kids, and live entertainment on three street stages… Something for everyone… bring a cool drink, and come down to enjoy summer in the Okanagan! The festivities run from 11am to 5pm on Saturday, August 11th.
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"High officials dare not or do not want to resist the interference of the Patriarchate in governmental activity," said Tamar Kordzaia, a political secretary of the Republican Party of Georgia. The leader of the opposition party responded to the LGBT community rally and the contra demonstration at the government"s administration.
Kordzaia imposes full responsibility for the abovementioned on government.
The confrontation lasted for a whole night at the government administration building. The situation between the organizers of the "Tbilisi Pride" and the participants of the counter-demonstration was extremely tense.


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FDLE holds child safety fair this week; Special Agent Long talks internet safety
FORT MYERS, Fla. – This weekend the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is holding a Child Safety Fair. It's Saturday Feb. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at their Fort Myers Regional Operations Center. The event is free. You will find activities like SWAT and K9 demonstrations, free helmet giveaways, fingerprinting, Smokey the Bear, and more.
Special Agent Larry Long was in studio to talk about the event and ways to keep your children safe on the Internet.
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President Muhammadu Buhari is set to honour Abdullahi Abubakar, the 83-year-old Imam who hid over 200 people, including Christians, during an attack in Plateau.
Simon Lalong, governor of Plateau, disclosed this on Monday during the opening ceremony of a three-day peace and security conference.
Lalong said the president took the decision following reports that the Imam saved lives by hiding people in his house and mosque.
"The president has told me to bring Imam Abdullahi Abubakar for a handshake which will be followed by a national honour," the governor said.
"I was also preparing what to do for this man. Although he is already in his old age, God knows why he did it at that age for us to study and also know how to maintain peace, not only in Plateau State but in Nigeria in general.
"What he did not only saved the people of Barkin Ladi LGA, not only Plateau state but I think the whole of this country because 300 lives is not a small number. So, Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, only God will reward you for what you have done.
"We are waiting for that process of meeting the president for a handshake and national honour. Having a handshake with Mr President at the age of 83, I think the man will be happy, even if he is going to his grave, that something has happened in his life."
The governor also expressed happiness that the Imam's gesture took place during his tenure as governor of the state.
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A special thank you to our generous corporate sponsors. Their financial support and our sponsors personal commitment to the Future Ready Schools network is valued and much appreciated!
If your company would like to part of the Future Ready Schools network, please contact, Sara Hall for more information.
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Amazon Web Services
The AWS Cloud frees schools and districts from the distractions of managing infrastructure reducing risk, and improving digital equity so they can focus on students. With the AWS Cloud, schools and districts can access industry-shaping technology at an affordable cost, no matter the scale. From back-end data management to virtual desktops, AWS offers tools so that every student gets the attention they need to thrive. LEARN MORE
Why AWS Supports FRS?
The mission of Future Ready Schools is to make learning personalized and research based. Their support of a future workforce that is driven by passion and technology, along with a focus on postsecondary success, makes Future Ready Schools a natural partner for AWS Education. Everything that we do starts with students and we work backwards from there. This focus on the learner is something we share.
Chad Stevens, Strategy Lead, Educational "Why"
I believe that students deserve ubiquitous and equitable access to technology resources. I am passionate that schools deserve the same tools that drive innovation in other industries. As a former teacher, a principal, and a technology leader, I recognize that technology is just one tool for learning. When school leaders embrace new technologies that increase efficiency, equity, and agility, it allows us to reinvest back in the classroom. I am a believer that the teacher is the most critical part of the school system. We must invest in them. That interaction between a student and a teacher is where the magic happens in schools.
Follett is the largest provider of educational materials and technology solutions to PreK-12 libraries, classrooms, learning centers and school districts in the United States, and a major supplier to educational institutions worldwide. Follett distributes books, reference materials, digital resources, ebooks and audiovisual materials, as well as pre-owned textbooks. Follett also is one of the leading providers of integrated educational technology for the management of physical and digital assets, the tracking, storing and analyzing of academic data, and digital learning environment tools for the classroom focusing on student achievement. Learn more at FollettLearning.com
Technology is empowering teachers, inspiring students to achieve, removing barriers to graduation and preparing today's learners with the skills they'll need for the jobs of tomorrow. The 2019 AT&T Aspire Accelerator $1 Million Skills Building Challenge connects the entrepreneurs who are leading the way with the resources they need to drive exponential change in addressing today's skills gap. The 27 participants from the 4 previous classes are currently reaching more than 23 million students. Since launching in 2015, program participants have included 63% women-led companies and 44% minority-led companies. www.att.com/aspireaccelerator
All Covered | Konica Minolta
Why Konica Minolta and All Covered Support FRS?
Konica Minolta and All Covered are building the workplace of the future which directly influences the classroom of the future. Our philosophy is that in order to prepare students for future-ready careers; we must provide meaningful experiences with technology now that will foster innovation and skills they need post-graduation. Our hope is to guide Future Ready members with strategic planning to reach their goals, deliver resources and quality expertise for upgrading technology aligned to their schools educational mission.
General Support
Allovue is a K-12 education finance technology company that empowers educators to strategically and equitably allocate resources to best support the needs of students. Their signature software platform, Balance, helps educators budget, manage, and evaluate spending. Allovue also supports district financial strategy through research, training, and equity analysis. The company is headquartered in Baltimore, MD and works with school systems across the country.
Why Allovue Supports FRS?
Allovue is proud to partner with the FRS Network in our efforts to equip districts with the tools and strategies required to maximize student success. For the past five years, Allovue has worked with school districts and administrators across the country to innovate K-12 finance. We've worked with superintendents and CFOs, principals and school secretaries, food services and athletic department heads, budget analysts and accountants, grants managers and special education leaders, board members and parents. We've seen the challenges that schools, district administrators and members of the board and community face when forced to do more with less while ensuring consistency and equitable opportunity for their students.
Allovue is dedicated to helping districts nationwide rise to the challenge by designing software and offering bespoke services specifically for K-12 districts. Allovue provides a professional learning community for our customers, offering tailored resources through our website and through Future Ready as well as access to experienced education finance experts who've walked in their shoes. Together, Allovue and FRS will empower school district leadership and their stakeholders to strategically and equitably allocate resources to best support the needs of students.
Jess Gartner's Educational "Why"
CEO and Founder
Allovue was founded in 2013 by a former Baltimore City middle school teacher, who saw first-hand how budgeting impacts student success. Our founding team brought together educators, technologists, education finance experts, and data specialists to build innovative education finance technology solutions. Allovue currently works with districts and state departments of education across the country to budget and manage their spending. Allovue's software platform, Balance, integrates seamlessly with districts' existing accounting systems and other data systems to help educators budget, manage, and evaluate spending. Allovue also provides supplemental services, including funding equity analysis, diagnostic surveys, financial management training.
Classcraft helps educators motivate students by making learning fun.
Classcraft combines time-tested pedagogy with a modern approach, harnessing the power of games and stories to foster personal connections that make learning more meaningful.
With Classcraft, educators can personalize their existing curriculum, develop students' non-cognitive skills, and measure student motivation in real time. By promoting happier, more engaged classrooms and stronger relationships between teachers and students, Classcraft makes teaching more fulfilling. For administrators, Classcraft's ability to measure and promote student engagement in real time helps them advance initiatives like SEL, PBIS, and personalized learning. Learn more a classcraft.com.
Why Classcraft Supports FRS?
Engagement, collaboration, growth. It's not a coincidence that the common characteristics of future-ready learners are also the core values of Classcraft. Preparing learners to thrive in the future is why we exist, and accomplishing this mission requires fostering the type of intrinsic motivation that improves outcomes by making students care about succeeding in school.
Classcraft is successful in driving motivation for two main reasons: gaming's cultural relevance among young people, and the power of games to create sustained engagement. By motivating students, Classcraft can help educators develop learners who are capable of thinking critically, collaborating, and adapting to change.
Shawn Young's Educational "Why"
CEO and Co-Founder
Growing up, my brother (and co-founder) Devin and I struggled to find meaning in school. We performed well academically, but we were in large part disengaged. We weren't deeply connected to what we were learning — or the students and teachers we interacted with — the way that we wanted to be.
As a high school physics teacher, I encountered the same problem from a different perspective: my students got good grades, but they weren't self-motivated. They achieved because they were taught that achievement was important, not because they wanted to achieve something themselves.
At Classcraft, we are working to help educators motivate students by making learning meaningful for students. By changing the perception of school as a place students go during the day to an experience that students and teachers share, Classcraft fosters the type of sustained engagement that we wish we'd experienced growing up — and that can prepare students to thrive in the future.
ClassLink solves the problem of too many passwords, and too many files scattered about. It's a one click single sign-on solution that gives students access to everything they need to learn, anywhere, with just one password. Accessible from any device, ClassLink is the perfect tool for ensuring the success of a 1:1 or BYOD initiative. Learn moare at classlink.com.
Helping children develop a love of reading and learning, no matter their ability level, is at the heart of what we do at Capstone. Our passion for creating inspired learning has made us the most trusted publisher of children's books and digital solutions for libraries, classrooms, and consumers for 25 years. Capstone's content comes in a variety of print and digital formats including board books, picture books, interactive books, apps, audio and databases. Whether print, online, or new, yet-to-be-discovered formats, Capstone provides children and young adults with the content they love. Learn more at mycapstone.com.
Edthena is the award-winning platform for delivering personalized professional learning using classroom video and online collaboration. An educator uploads a video of instruction, and people on the other end provide timestamped feedback. Perfect for mentoring, coaching, and building leadership pipelines through Video Learning Communities, Virtual Walk-Through, and even Online Lesson Study. Learn more at edthena.com.
Why Edthena supports FRS?
We believe, along with Future Ready Schools, that personalizing professional learning for the educators is critical element for achieving this vision for students. Personalized learning experiences for educators not only models what we aspire to see for our students, but it also ensures that the educators, themselves, are continually increasing effectiveness along their career path.
We see in our partner organizations many examples of delivering personalized learning experiences for teachers and administrators: One district is ensuring that early childhood educators receive targeted feedback about key skills. Another is using Edthena to support instructional coach development and ensuring a consistent coaching across the district. Yet another is using Edthena to train and support principals as they broaden their capacity for instructional leadership. While the scenarios and learners vary, one thing is true across all: the professional learning process is tailored to the needs of each learner by incorporating video evidence of practice.
We are proud to support the Future Ready Schools network to help more school and district leaders learn about the ways that they can make personalized professional learning a reality for the staff across their district.
Adam Geller's Educational "Why"
Founder & CEO
Academic research about professional learning that drives and sustains change strongly favors providing feedback on educators' actual implementation of particular skills. But having the right person in the right place at the right time is a challenging proposition.
I am passionate about how technology can solve for this problem because I know what it feels like to yearn for someone who can watch me teach and give me feedback on my actual teaching. As a first year teacher, no one with science expertise was available in my building to provide support.
Edthena solves this by shifting time and place for educators to collaborate online about what's actually happening in classrooms across a district. Having videos of what happens in classrooms puts teachers in the driver's seat of the observation process, finally enabling them to see themselves as others and their students do. This is true "personalized professional learning," centered on the artifacts of teaching and learning, that will drive and sustain change as districts work to implement their vision for being Future Ready.
Edgenuity provides online and blended learning solutions for students in grades K-12 including core and credit recovery courses, intervention and test readiness programs, virtual instruction, and professional development. Our solutions propel student success, empower teachers to deliver effective instruction, and enable schools to meet their academic goals. Learn more at Edgenuity.com
Through engagement with Future Ready Schools, we look forward to connecting with educators across the U.S. who share our focus on tools and resources teachers need to leverage technology in ways that improve student outcomes, deepen the relationship between student and teacher, and prepare students for a technology-rich future. We have dedicated our efforts to creating powerful, flexible products and solutions that give educators the ability to personalize learning using flexible customization tools and real-time data that integrate seamlessly with their teaching style.
Why Edgenuity Supports FRS?
Edgenuity's 24/7 student-centered learning platform empowers students with meaningful instruction, technology-enhanced practice, embedded assessment, intuitive learning tools, and visual representations of achievement and progress data for access whenever and wherever learning happens. Through a continuum of digital learning options, students and teachers are supported in helping students define and achieve success as they prepare for their career and life success. Our Professional Development team provides options for schools and districts to address learning and best practices sessions either in person or virtually to support effective digital learning integration and personalization.
Their Educational Why
At Edgenuity®, our mission is to provide opportunity and access to high quality education using technology to improve student outcomes. We believe the greatest driving force behind successful learning is the teacher. Our products and services are designed by educators, tested by students, and built to enhance teaching and drive academic achievement at all levels. Our online curriculum and learning solutions empower educators to leverage innovative technology that integrates seamlessly with their teaching style. Every tool and feature within our products are built to support educators, improve student outcomes, and strengthen the connection between the student and teacher.
Pear Deck
Pear Deck helps teachers create powerful learning moments for students of every age and ability with tech solutions rooted in active learning and formative assessment. Founded by educators, Pear Deck makes it easy for teachers to create, distribute, and manage multimedia content and interactive presentations from within Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams. With a library of templates to support learning objectives, Pear Deck creates opportunities for every student to engage with their teacher, classmates, and new ideas, every day. Learn more at peardeck.com
Why Pear Deck Supports FRS?
The Pear Deck team sees an alignment between our mission to help teachers deliver powerful learning moments to students of all ages and abilities, and FRS's framework rooted in personalized student learning. We believe FRS's extensive knowledge about formative assessment and learning outcomes will help support teachers in their implementation of Pear Deck, demonstrating the many ways to use it to its fullest potential.
Michal Eynon-Lynch
Chief Educator & Co-Founder, Pear Deck


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Designed by Omer Arbel, the Bocci 14.3 Multi-Light Pendant is a handmade fixture of multiple cast glass spheres that can be used to create larger scale configurations.Light interacts with each sphere's imperfections, rifts, bruises and bubbles resulting in a visually rich halo of light.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Bocci was started in 2005 by Omer Arbel as an in-house design company dedicated to creating exemplary products through material research. Bocci's facilities handle all stages of development and production, including a multi-disciplinary collaboration between designers, architects and artisans. This cooperative environment excels in material advancement, constantly evolving Bocci's collection with an emphasis on bespoke and high-quality product design.
- 3 cast glass spheres
- Round ceiling canopy
- Three field-adjustable suspension cables
- Xenon version is dimmable, LED version is NOT dimmable
- Designed by Omer Arbel in 2005
- Finish: Clear
- Material: Cast glass spherical shade with frosted cylindrical void
- UL Listed
- Made In Canada
- Xenon Option: Three 10 Watt (100 Lumens) 12 Volt G4 Bi-Pin Base Xenon Lamp(s) (Included)
- LED Option: Three 1.5 Watt (140 Lumens) 12 Volt Bi-pin Base LED Lamp(s) (Included)
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LumensThe amount of light that comes from a bulb, which has commonly been measured in watts. The more lumens, the brighter the bulb.
WattageA measurement of the power delivered to a component of an electric circuit (allowing a one-ampere current to flow through the component under the pressure of 1 volt.)
Bulb ShapeBulb shapes are denoted with a letter, which describes the shape, and a number, which indicates the size. The number indicates the diameter of the light bulb at its widest part in eighths of an inch.
BaseThe part of the bulb that connects to the fixture and its power supply. Bulb bases are denoted with the letter E, and a number which indicates the diameter of the bulb base at its widest part in millimeters.
VoltageIndicates how much voltage a bulb can accept via the fixture it's installed in.
Light Color TemperatureThe relative color from a light source, measured on the Kelvin temperature scale. Warm light is lower in color temperature (2700-3000 K) and cool, blue light is higher (5000 K).
Average Rated LifeThe average amount time that a bulb is expected to last.
CRICRI = color rendering index. This number, which can go from 0 to 100, measures the ability of a light or bulb accurately renders colors. The higher the number, the better, with most quality bulbs these days measuring at least in the 80s.
- Indoor Option Cable: Length 120"
- Indoor Option Canopy: Height 1.3", Diameter 6"
- Indoor Option Fixture: Diameter 4", Weight 12Lbs
- Indoor Option Maximum Hanging: Length 124"
- Indoor Option Shade: Diameter 4"
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