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A recent survey of 1,145 young people conducted by the Schools Health Education Unit for Stonewall reported that 92% of gay, lesbian and bisexual pupils have experienced verbal abuse, 41% physical bullying and 17% have been subject to death threats. And it is important to remember that homophobic bullying does not only touch LGBT pupils but any child appearing to be different from the norm, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Although Section 28, the aim of which was to prevent local authorities from "promoting homosexuality" was repealed in 2004, many teachers still find it difficult to broach the subject of homosexuality in the classroom. Others feel helpless to challenge homophobic behaviour.
Elly Barnes is not one of those teachers. The openly lesbian music teacher and head of year teaches at Stoke Newington School, a non-selective, state school, specialising in Arts, Maths, and Science in the London Borough of Hackney. For the past three years, thanks to Elly's remarkable energy and vision, the school has been celebrating LGBT History Month by integrating it to the curriculum. This year, thanks to the success of the initiative, the wider community has also been involved and other schools in the Borough have expressed interest in marking History Month themselves.
You can find Elly's account of this year's celebration of the month, together with pictures here.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Account of a School Celebrating History Month 2008
A recent survey of 1,145 young people conducted by the Schools Health Education Unit for Stonewall reported that 92% of gay, lesbian and bisexual pupils have experienced verbal abuse, 41% physical bullying and 17% have been subject to death threats. And it is important to remember that homophobic bullying does not only touch LGBT pupils but any child appearing to be different from the norm, regardless of their sexual orientation.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Richard Chopping Dies
Richard Chopping
1917 - 2008
Richard Chopping was an illustrator specialising in plants. He is probably most famous however for the covers he design for several of Ian Fleming's James Bond books. in the late 1950. He and his life long partner where the first couple to sign a Civil Partnership in Wivenhoe (near Colchester) where they lived for over 60 years. They also founded an artists community, the members of which included Francis Bacon and famous literary figures.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online
The fully searchable accounts of thousands of trials from 1834 to 1913 have gone online today, thus completing the project of making the records of the Old Bailey available over the Internet.
The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts, 1690 to 1772. It allows access to over 210,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 3,000 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.
The trials featured include those of Oscar Wilde and the suffragettes but also those of hundreds of men sent to the pilory and hard-labour or the gallows for attempted buggery or buggery.
Professor Tim Hitchcock, from the University of Hertfordshire, said: "If you want to know how to order a plate of oysters in an East End pub, or what not to wear to church in Islington, the information is all here. Besides the desperate drama of crimes punished, the Proceedings give us a new and remarkable access to the everyday."
The records can be found at www.oldbaileyonline.org
The press release from the researchers from the Universities of Sheffield, Hertfordshire and The Open University involved in the project is here.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Canadian Elderly Priests Marry
Two retired Anglican priests, Ruth Pogson, 83, and Beth Aime, 79, exchanged vows yesterday in a civil ceremony at the Island View nursing home where Pogson has been a resident until now. She will be transfered to a care home in Vancouver later this week. Aime already lives in Vancouver but the two will still live apart.
The newly wed have been in a relationship since 1995 and wanted to make their relationship official.
"What we're here for is about justice and it's about bringing a community into an inclusive community rather than being shut out all the time," Aime told their guests. "We're here to hopefully bring this world somewhere where we're all equal."
They are now hoping to see their union blessed by the Church but are still facing obstacles.
Find out more here.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Proud Heritage Online Museum Launched
After three years of careful research and development, Proud Heritage, the national museum for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and cultural ancestry, opened its doors online officially on 18 April. There was a special preview event for the public on the 14th which featured a biographic interview with Peter Tatchell.
During the event, organised in partnership with the Natural History Museum, Proud Heritage set out its future plans and unveiled its first public phase - a cutting edge online museum that breaks new ground, and not just for being queer!
Jack Gilbert, Executive Director commented,"Proud Heritage has already established itself as an expert agency in the heritage sector, now it is ready to go live. And now it needs public support. Find out how to give memory or memorabilia, how to
volunteer and how to become a Friend! Be Proud!"
Peter Tatchell said:"I regard it as a visionary project of critical importance for the integration of queer history and heritage into British cultural life."
The online museum is organised very simply into four "wings", each containing sections or galleries to explore. Members of the public are invited to give time and money to the project but perhaps more importantly, they can also give memories and materials to be included to the museum itself.
Proud Heritage
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Study Day - Section 28: Hiding Homosexuality
International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) will be taking place on Saturday May 17th. To mark the day and as a commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the implementation of Clause 28, in May 1988, the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) is organising a study day. This will also be an opportunity for LAGNA to launch their new website.
Section 28: Hiding Homosexuality will take place at the Dragon Hall, 17, Stukeley Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5LT, between 3-30 and 8-30.
There will be an exhibition of press material from the period, covering the tabloid backlash against the lesbian and gay policies (actual and apocryphal) of a number of local authorities, the social impact of HIV and AIDS, and the routine and recurrent homophobia of Fleet Street's finest (George Gale, Jean Rook, 'Mills the Angry Voice' et al).
Later in the day, there will be a raffle to raise necessary funds for LAGNA, with the chance to win a signed photo of Sue 'Rather Invaded' Lawley among the prizes.
Refreshments will be provided.
The programme for the day:
3-30 Doors open
4-20 Introduction by Robert Thompson (Chair of LAGNA)
4-30 Professor Jeffrey Weeks: the political context of Clause 28
5-00 Lisa Power: the campaigns against the Clause
5-30 Break and film footage, including the lesbian invasion of the BBC news studio on the day the Clause was passed
6-00 Eve Featherstone (Haringey Council Equalities and Diversities) and Stella Hillier (a teacher in the borough at the time): Haringey's Positive Images strategy in the mid 1980s, and the media backlash to its implementation
6-30 Elly Barnes (Stoke Newington School): current initiatives on the issue of the teaching of LGBT issues in the education sector
7-00 LAGNA website demonstration and results of the raffle
7-30 Music
Attendance is free, although places need to be pre-booked. Please provide names of attendees by email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive www.lagna.org.uk
International Day Against Homophobia www.idaho.org.uk
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Hockney Donates his Biggest Painting to Tate
David Hockney, one of Britain's leading contemporary artist, has donated one of his latest works to the Tate Gallery. The painting, which represents a winter landscape in the North of England, is itself composed of 50 smaller canvases and at 4.6 by 12.2 meters (15 by 40 feet) is the biggest the artist has ever produced.
Hockney choose to the device of smaller canvases because it allowed him to do the work without having to use a ladder. He had however to enlist the help of a digital camera and a computer.
"Bigger Trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-photographique" will be on display at Tate Britain in the autumn of 2009.
David Hockney
Bigger trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-photographique 2007
© David Hockney. Photo: Richard Schmidt
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Calpernia Addams: Widowed by Hate
Ten years ago, Private Barry Winchell's captivation for a young and beautiful show girl from Nashville Tennessee cost him his life. Two fellow soldiers decided that dating a trans woman made him gay and a candidate for summary execution in his sleep. US media and anti-hate crime campaigners decided it was easier to cast his trans girlfriend as a gay man too. And thus the die was cast for the erasure of two lives, and the nature of their love (Their story has been told in the 2003 film Soldier's Girl).
Ten years later Calpernia Addams has recovered from those horrific events and is making a rapid ascent as a US media personality. She was in Britain last week for the screening of her short film on media misrepresentation, Casting Pearls, and to attend a packed panel discussion at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Christine Burns was in London too and recorded an in-depth one to one interview with Calpernia where she talks about growing up, her spell in the US Navy, Barry's murder, her blossoming career, and the representations of trans people in film and on TV.
You can listen to the interview here.
Calpernia Addams - Wikipedia
Calpernia's website
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Was Clark Gable 'Gay for Pay"?
David Bret's angle on Clark Gable is this: Gable was "gay for pay" and "rough trade," and he enjoyed having sex "for bucks." [...] If these tidbits from the book's first few pages aren't too much information for you, you're in luck. This breathtakingly trashy biography does not skimp on sordid anecdotes.
Read the full (fairly graphic) review of David Bret's new biography of Clark Gable, Tormented Star, in the New York Times here.
Clark Gable: Gay for Pay? - Afterelton
Clark Gable - Wikipedia
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Cuneiform Clay Tablet Gives Key to Sodom and Gomorrah Story
The biblical story relating the destruction of the town of Sodom and Gomorrah is often sited by religious people as an indication of the Christian god's displeasure at homosexual acts. Indeed one of the cities even gave its name to the "sin" of sodomy.
A group of scientists from the University of Bristol might have just put pay to the theory of a divine intervention. A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, Austria. The tablet was found by Henry Layard in the remains of the library in the Royal Palace at Nineveh, and was made by an Assyrian scribe around 700 BC.
With modern computer programmes that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he records the events in the sky before dawn on the 29 June 3123 BC (Julian calendar).
Although the impact took place in Austria, the trajectory of the asteroid meant that the back plume from the explosion (the mushroom cloud) would be bent over the Mediterranean Sea re-entering the atmosphere over the Levant, Sinai, and Northern Egypt. Mark Hempsell, Senior Lecturer in Astronautics at Bristol University, explains that "The ground heating, though very short, would be enough to ignite any flammable material – including human hair and clothes. It is probable more people died under the plume than in the Alps due to the impact blast."
Dr Hempsall add that dozens of ancient myths record devastation that would tally with the asteroid's impact. This includes the Old Testament tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Ancient Greek myth of how Phaeton, son of Helios, fell into the River Eridanus after losing control of his father's sun chariot.
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and he overthrew those cities and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities . . . [Abraham] looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. Genesis 19:24-28Contrary to many Christian, classical Jewish texts do not stress the homosexual aspect of the attitude of the inhabitants of Sodom but rather focus on their cruelty and lack of hospitality to the "stranger" as the reason for the destruction of the city. The people of Sodom were seen as guilty of many other significant sins. Rabbinic writings affirm that the Sodomites also committed economic crimes, blasphemy and bloodshed.
The press release from the University of Bristol giving details on asteroid impact and the translation process of the tablet and the is available here.
Clay tablet identified as asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah - The Times
Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Broken Voices: 'Untouchable' Women Speak Out
The Launch of Broken Voices: 'Untouchable' Women Speak Out, the new book by Valerie Mason-John, will take place on Thursday 17 April at the Borders Bookstore on Charing Cross Road, London at 6.30pm
For the occasion, a panel discussion hosted by Producer and film maker Pratibha Parmar will bring together Sharmilla Beezmohun, deputy editor of Wasafiri, Malati Wankhede, from the ex untouchable community of India, Karunamaya, member of the Arya Tara Mahila Trust India, and Valerie Mason-John the Author
These previously undocumented stories reveal the lives of the Dalit—or untouchable women—in India by highlighting the continuing issues of human rights and discrimination. Recording such experiences as working in rice fields and living in slums, this work includes oral histories and covers a wide range of topics, including dowry burnings, marriages, beggars, human traffickers, and political and social activists. An exploration of the effects of Dr. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution and the advocate of positive reservations for untouchables in education and employment, and other historical movements and religious texts on these women is also included.
Broken Voices: Untouchable Women Speak Out
Valerie Mason John
India Research Press
218 pages
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Friday, April 4, 2008
Anti-homophobic Bullying Books Banned in Bristol Schools
The potential conflict of interest between religious groups and the LGBT community has come to a head once again this week when Bristol Council temporarily withdrew books and teaching materials designed to fight homophobic bullying with 5 to 10 year old children after complaints from Muslim parents.
Muslim at Easton Primary School and Bannerman Road Community School, supported by Members of Bristol Muslim Cultural Society said that they had not been consulted about the use of the books and found it problematic to have to explain homosexual relationships to their children.
Tony Fenwick, spokes person for LGBT History Month, sent the letter, reproduced below, to the BBC, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail who all covered the story.
Re-the Bristol book ban. It's very disappointing to see books being banned from classrooms and it is the first time in my teaching career that I recall it being done as a result of parental action. I sincerely hope we are not going to return to the lies, hyperbole and subsequent hysteria that led to Section 28.* Anti-gay bullying books withdrawn - BBC News
It is mandatory for schools to be safe spaces for our children as a result of the Equality Act, The Every Child Matters outcomes and the National Curriculum. It is also mandatory under the National Curriculum to teach children to respect minorities. An ATL survey found that 98% of children knew of homophobic bullying in their school, so schools are clearly not safe and homophobia is the elephant in the room. Moreover, you don't have to be a gay or a lesbian to be homophobically bullied. You don't have to have gender dysphoria to be transphobically bullied.
The purpose of education is to prepare people for the world in which they are growing up and you do that by opening doors; not by slamming them shut. The No Outsiders project provides books that help to do this, just as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month, celebrated every February, exists to put LGBT people into the curriculum and provide role models for our youth.
Any parent or guardian who does not want his or her child to be bullied must surely support these initiatives. There is no need for consultation before they are introduced into schools because they meet the criteria - and indeed the letter – of the National Curriculum. It's no more controversial than teaching Shakespeare, percentages or photosynthesis.
Good citizens come into this world through understanding each other and you cannot make people understand what you don't tell them. We forget that at our peril.
* Anti-homophobia books removed from schools - Telegraph
* Muslims' fury forces schools to shelve anti-homophobia storybooks for 5-year-olds - Daily Mail
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Male Pregnancy
Last week the American LGBT magazine, The Advocate, published an article by Female to Male Trans man Thomas Beatie. In the article, Beatie, explains how he is now carrying his and his wife's child despite opposition from the medical world.
Having transitioned some years ago, Beatie is legally recognised as a man and has been able to marry his partner, Nancy. Beatie has undergone chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy while keeping his reproductive organs. Since Nancy Beatie is now unable to procreate, the couple have decided to have their child, a girl to be born in June this year, carried by Thomas. On 3rd of April, Beatie gave his first television interview to the Oprah Winfrey show.
This announcement of the pregnancy has create a huge amount of controversy and many column inches in the press. Headlines range from Is the pregnant man Thomas Beatie a hoax for April Fool's Day (Daily Mirror) to 'Pregnant' man stuns medical profession (The Telegraph) or 'Being a pregnant man? It's incredible' (The Guardian).
Christine Burns, the UK trans activist, has produced an episode of her equality and diversity podcast, Just Plain Sense, to tackle the issues linked to male pregnancy in depth, explain the legal and medical background, and pick away at some of the conclusions that people might jump to. This can be downloaded here.
Labor of Love - Is society ready for this pregnant husband? - The Advocate
First TV Interview: The Pregnant Man - Oprah Winfrey Show
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
bulletin No 45
The latest edition of the LGBT History Month bulletin is now available, as usual packed-full of news, information, notices of upcoming events and quotations.
To access the latest bulletin please click on one of the links below:
word document
pdf file
You can view all previous bulletins here or register to our mailing list here.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Press Release: Department of Health Endorses the Month and suggests ideas
LGBT History Month explains why equality is good for you with the support of the Department of Health, which runs the NHS, in a new addition to its expanding LGBT History Month website.
In a number of informative pages we explain why safe spaces are essential to our health and wellbeing; provide 23 exciting ideas for running your own LGBT health event in 2009 and beyond; provide a list of resources relevant or specific to the LGBT community; and include a list of relevant links.
LGBT History Month spokesperson Tony Fenwick said, "This is a very exciting addition and it makes all our work worthwhile when a Government department supports us and feels our work is important. We are proud to have the Department of Health on board.
"We hope that everyone who visits our site reads these pages and uses them when planning events for LGBT History Month 2009. We need to start planning now to make it bigger and better than ever.
To read the pages go to www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/health
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Washington is sending more troops to Iraq to fight the Islamic State (IS). According to the Defense Department, the deployment of 1,500 additional American troops to Iraq has been authorized by President Obama. This will double the number of forces that have been sent to advise, train and help the Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers fighting IS in the region. The U.S. currently has roughly 1,400 troops already assisting in the region. This number is beneath a previously established limit of 1,600. This new influx of troops is in response to the continued advancement of IS militants across Iraq and Syria.
The New York Times sources the Pentagon as saying that these advisers will establish more sites across Iraq in order to train forces in the area. These sites will be located in western, southern and norther Iraq and will be used to train nine army brigades from Iraq and three of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. This recommendation was made to President Obama by Secretary Hagel and is at the request of the Iraqi government.
In addition an assessment of Iraqi units and security forces show progress has been made in correlation with the development of the campaign to defend certain areas and launch an offensive against IS. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, that the deployment of more troops is part of an effort by the U.S. to train the Iraqi forces. This will enable Iraq to defend its border, interests and citizens against IS and is part of Washington's larger strategy to help those partners on the ground defeat IS.
In addition to Washington sending more troops to Iraq to fight IS, the White House is asking Congress for $5.6 billion for the campaign in Syria and Iraq. This includes $1.6 billion for the "Iraq Train and Equip Fund." The Budget Director for the White House, Shaun Donovan sees the request for funding as an "opportunity" for the administration in Washington and Congress to combine efforts to help provide the resources necessary to defeat IS.
The chair for the House Armed Services Committee, Buck McKeon said that the acknowledgment of the need for additional funds by the White House was welcomed, but that President Obama needed to give lawmakers a better explanation of the strategy he is pursuing against IS. As well as how additional funds will help support a different direction.
Washington sending more troops to Iraq to fight IS is the next step in a campaign that is already underway. IS has suffered several losses in Iraq with the help of U.S. Airstrikes. Last week the town of Jurk al-Sakher was retaken by Iraqi forces and last month IS also lost a group of towns near the border of Syria. Iraqi troops have also kept control of the largest oil refinery in Iraq despite attempts by IS to capture it. There is concern that the current operation by the U.S. Is insufficient and that more forces will be necessary. President Obama has stated that American troops will only play a supportive, non-combatant role in the fight.
By Clara Goode
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
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Fifty years ago this spring, Centre College men's basketball traveled to the NCAA tournament for the first time in the College's history. To commemorate this achievement, members of the 1963-64 men's basketball team, as well as coaches and cheerleaders of the time, will reunite at this weekend's January 4th men's basketball game against Sewanee.
"We've invited all team-members, managers, coaches and cheerleaders from that season back to this game," says Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Shawn Lyons '81. "It's an opportunity for them to relive a highlight of their college experiences."
The women's basketball game begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday; members of the 1964 team will meet before the 3 p.m. men's tipoff to hear from men's basketball head coach Greg Mason about this year's basketball team. At halftime of the men's game, the 1964 team will be recognized in the Alumni Gym. Following the game, a private reception and dinner will be held for this esteemed group of Centre athletes in the Evans-Lively room of Old Carnegie.
"This team was the first Centre basketball team to post a winning record in the post-WWII era," says Lyons. "You can make a pretty strong argument this is the team that really started Centre's strong tradition in basketball."
One player who will be in attendance is Hal Smith '64, a Southgate, Ky., native who currently resides in Louisville, Ky. Smith was a four-year letterman and team captain of basketball and track at Centre, with top statistics in rebounds, free throws, scoring and total points. He was inducted into the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
Also in attendance will be Steele Harmon '56, the assistant coach for the 1964 basketball team. Harmon himself was a standout five-letter athlete while a student, playing football, basketball, track, tennis and baseball. He coached multiple sports at Centre, including football, baseball, basketball and track. He was inducted into the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
"I loved having time with the team and with Coach Phillips," says Harmon of the trip to the NCAA tournament. "It was such a fine group of young men to work with. It was exciting to realize that Centre could start to develop a winning tradition."
In fact, his most treasured experiences from his time as coach are the bonds he formed with other athletes.
"The highlight of my job was to develop a close relationship with Hal Smith, Mel Borland, Gary Wright, Dick Rankin, Mike Marks, Julian Palmer, Charlie Schomaker, Ronnie Yount and several others," Harmon says. "It was a very coachable group of fine athletes."
Harmon is especially looking forward to the chance to see members of the dream team and learn more about what they are doing now.
For Lyons, this reunion, because it happens at the opening conference game for men's basketball, could not be more appropriate.
"The reunion helps celebrate the first appearance of a Centre basketball team in the NCAA tournament," he explains. "We are honored to have members of an esteemed Centre basketball team present to cheer on today's Colonels as they try to do the same thing 50 years later."
1964 Men's Basketball Team Members
Lew Phillips (deceased), Head Coach
Steele Harmon '56, Asst. Coach
Ben Arnold '67
Melvin Borland '64
Bob Carran '64
Terry Coyle '67
Chuck Jensen '67
Mike Marks '66
Julian Palmer '66 (deceased)
Brent Pierce '67
Dick Rankin '64
Charlie Schomaker '67
Hal Smith '64
John Thompson '66
Denny Walts '66
Gary Wright '64
Ronnie Yount '66 (deceased)
David Drake '65
Jerry Garrison '66
Penny Preston Bamford '64
Larry Davis '65
Nancy Gunn Gay '65
Pattie McCollum Kimberlin '65
Chinky Ellis Kraft '65
Judy Trotter Simpson '64
Karen Willis Smith '66
Sally Seibert Walters '64
Learn more about basketball at Centre.
By Mariel Smith
1964 men's basketball team reunites to celebrate NCAA tournament 50th anniversary
Fifty years ago this spring, Centre College men's basketball traveled to the NCAA tournament for the first time in the College's history. To commemorate this achievement, members of the 1963-64 men's basketball team, as well as coaches and cheerleaders of the time, will reunite at this weekend's January 4th men's basketball game against Sewanee.


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Winning Whose Future?
The theme of President Obama's State of the Union address was "Winning the Future." It is a theme he continues to tout and one that may well make its way to Election Day 2012. Presumably it was vetted thoroughly by White House wordsmiths and strategists (although apparently overlooked was the fact that its initials are commonly used to express profane incredulity). Regardless, it is a revealing theme that should represent a philosophical flash point between partisan philosophies. Would that it did.
It is a theme that is shorthand for the Democrats' notion that America is some kind of team — that we are all in this together, sharing some goal toward which we must strive (together) in order to win. Alas, too many in the GOP see nothing wrong with this construction. Indeed, Mr. Obama stole the phrase from none other than Newt Gingrich, noted ethanol champion and soon‐to‐be presidential candidate. His 2005 book is titled Winning the Future. And the neoconservatives are forever clamoring for "national greatness," the concept according to which all Americans should sacrifice for some shared national goal.
The neoconservative intellectual David Brooks once explained that national greatness requires that "individual ambition and willpower are channeled into the cause of national greatness and by making the nation great, individuals are able to join their narrow concerns to a larger national project. … Ultimately, national purpose can find its voice only in Washington."
Perhaps the most earnest explication of the team concept of political philosophy came from presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton back in 2007 when she told MSNBC, "You know, when I ask people, 'What do you think the goals of America are today?' people don't have any idea. We don't know what we're trying to achieve. And I think that in a life or in a country you've got to have some goals." After all, how can we determine if we've won or not without goals?
All of this team spirit may help explain why President Obama seems somewhat perplexed whenever the subject of American exceptionalism is raised. Sure, he says, I believe in American exceptionalism, "just as I suspect the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." In other words, there is nothing exceptional about American exceptionalism.
But, of course, there is. It is clearly stated in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, which contains the radical concept that legitimate government exists to protect our individual right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Happiness here refers to our personal goals, dreams and ambitions. Indeed, the concept of group rights or group goals is missing from the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and anything related to the American founding that made for American exceptionalism.
Yet Mr. Obama and those colleagues who share his collectivist, we‐are‐family, what-is-America's-purpose mentality aim to "win" the future. The question is, whose future? In a society based on individual liberty, each of us should decide what our goals are and what constitutes a life well lived. The groupthink approach from both the left and the right has led to $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We are regulated, controlled and micromanaged at every stage of life and in every endeavor, from education to health care to our workplace.
We don't need politicians winning the future for us — whatever that may mean. As Americans become ever more dependent on a bankrupt, intrusive and inept government, what we need is to liberate the future.


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by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
A massive undertaking planned for the Frommers: Four months in Israel researching and interviewing for our book, an oral history about the miraculous nation as told by those who lived the experience. Very long trip from New York to Tel Aviv.
In our long travel writing career, we have flown all over on different airlines, some exceptional, some not so exceptional. We checked around for the most exceptional airline to accommodate our bountiful luggage, need for non-stop flight and comfort and security.
El Al was the easy choice – on paper that is. In practice, the airline of Israel that came into existence in 1948 — the same year as the country did, was the right choice.
Much history is associated with this very unique airline as archival images from the collection of Marvin G. Goldman, archivist of El Al, reveal:
El Al's first scheduled passenger flight, 31 July – 1 August 1949, arrives at Orly Airport, Paris.
Shimon Peres, then director general of Israel's Ministry of Defense and later prime miniister, boarding an El Al Lockheed Constellation aircraft at Lod Airport, Tel Aviv
Leaving the United States and then returning from Tel Aviv back home, from our dealings with flight bookings, through the baggage handling, the seamless security checks, the well prepared food, the courtesy and professionalism of all crew members, everything was over the top A-plus.
The only blip was El Al is "dark" on the Jewish Sabbath and on religious holidays. There are never any scheduled flights. A very small blip for us.
We experienced first-hand the kosher in-flight meals which had a lot to recommend them as far as freshness, variety, quality. Flight attendants were caring and highly competent.
We also experienced first-hand the special security associated with the airline of Israel, There were many questions asked at different stops along the way from checking in to baggage check. All operated seamlessly in a system of security procedures, on the ground and on the aircraft. Passengers are requested to show up three hours before departure. All El Al terminals around the world are closely monitored for security. There are plain-clothes agents and fully armed police or military personnel patrolling the premises for explosives, unusual behavior, threats. Inside the terminal, passengers and their baggage are checked by a trained team. El Al security procedures require that all passengers be interviewed individually prior to boarding. All of this was done swifly, painlessly and reassured us about safety.
Most El Al pilots are former Israeli Air Force pilots, and they operate out of cockpits with double doors, making for added security. There are reinforced steel floors that act as a barrier between the passenger cabin and baggage storage.
El Al boasts the most nonstop flights between New York (JFK/Newark) and Israel as well as the only nonstop service from Los Angeles. In June 2015, non-stop service from Boston to Tel Aviv was put into place. Globally, EL AL has more than 40 destinations from Israe. Dozens of other destinations are reachable via its partnering with other leading carriers.
There are all kinds of choices we make in life. Flying El Al to and from its homeland is a non brainer all the time.


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How this Female Entrepreneur Turned Her Passion for Baking to a Thriving Business
Our Entrepreneur Profile for this week is on Motunrayo Akinseye, CEO of Licious Desserts a company whose focus is on making mouth watering desserts, cakes, ice creams and pastries.
Motunrayo attributes the origins of her bakery business to her mum and dad. Her mum had always baked for them growing up and Motunrayo was always by her side to mix the ingredients and clean up. Turning simple ingredients to a sweet treat was something she always looked forward to and this exciting mother-daughter bonding experience eventually turned into what is her business today.
While her Mum was showing her the ropes in baking, her Dad ignited the business mindset in her also from a young age. He would buy just about anything they created, so naturally he encouraged her by buying her cakes and was the first of her many customers which eventually extended to other family members, friends and neighbours.
Motunrayo chose to study Business Administration at the University. She had initially planned to do a food related course but was advised by her Dad to do something that would still serve as a useful foundation to her on whatever career path she decided to pursue after school while not limiting her to a food related course. Baking was still top of her mind so right after graduating from University, she enrolled in a 1 year programme at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute, London were she got an Advanced Diploma in Frecheville Patisserie. After the programme, she came back to Nigeria to establish her bakery business.
Licious Desserts initially started out in 2004 from her Kitchenette under the name Farmhouse Bakery and Patisserie by supplying bespoke cakes to friends and family who ended up referring their products to others. As word of their cakes and desserts spread, their domestic kitchen could no longer keep up with the demand and so in 2007, after a decision to rebrand the name to Licious Desserts, Motunrayo opened up their first official business located on Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja. As their products and services continued to expand and it become more important to create a "home away from home" feel for their fast growing customer numbers, the business moved to their current location on Allen Avenue. The places houses "Cafe Licious" which provides a wide array of brunch and easy meals for customers.
From a small daily production in her Kitchen all by herself, Motunrayo's team size is now made up of 22 staff and together can handle hundreds of daily orders to effortlessly overseeing dessert catering for a crowd of over 4,000 guests. Their dessert menu line is also very wide boasting over 40 cake types with the red velvek gateau being their current best seller.
The menu line includes a wide range of tarts, mousses, puddings, cheesecakes, 20 ice cream flavours, celebration cakes, bridal cakes and pastries and Motunrayo is proud to let everyone know that Licious Desserts is excellent at every single one of their product range. As someone who has built a business using her creativity and ingenuity, Motunrayo says that her focus when transitioning from a hobby to a business was to be unique and different in the Nigerian bakery industry and all her home and technical training to date fuelled by an innate creative mind has helped her to build and continue to expand her business and product line.
According to her, they were one of the top 3 dessert vendors when starting out and their pride to date is differentiating their business through ingenuity and service excellent. In a market that has so many competitors, Motunrayo has managed to keep her company running successfully. This is clearly seen in how Licious Desert is structured to be very service oriented. It has gone beyond making cakes to building relationships that puts smiles on the customer and making them a part of every celebration. As someone who is very particular about how people are treated, Motunrayo says that she continues to focus on ensuring her team members understand and express top notch quality service to all their customers.
Running a business that is very dependent on electricity and imported ingredients is also something that she deals with. In her own words: "Electricity is a major challenge, we run our generator all day and still pay high NEPA Bills. It affects our productive margin but we are learning to adapt to it." As the foreign exchange rates have not been in her favour recently, she is positioning her business source more locally produced ingredients without affecting the taste and look of her products.
Motunrayo is not stopping with where she is and plans to open mini retail outlets across parts of the country while also expanding the Licious product line to include off the shelf retail items such as packaged cake mixes, cookie mixes and waffle mixies for those who want no-stress baking at home. It was part of this strategic focus of her business that led her to enrol in the FATE Foundation Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme (EEP) 19 class where was also elected as Class Governor. One key area of her business that the EEP has really helped her to refocus on is around cash flow management and financial reporting. Now she knows how to build these "money" related areas into her strategic decision making and is also gradually putting in place key policies and processes to institutionalise this.
For someone who started from watching her mum bake to now running her own bakery business, Motunrayo knows that it takes more than passion to build a thriving business particularly in Nigeria. People and structures are very important to the growth and sustainability of Licious Desserts and Motunrayo prides herself in still having staff members on her team who were there from when she started. In addition to expanding her product line, the business will also provide training programs to those who have a flair for baking and are looking into establishing bakery businesses. As the market continues to evolve, Motunrayo intends to ensure that they do not relax but always keep being ahead of the changing dessert patterns and palettes in order to ensure Licious Desserts is always ahead of the curve.
To learn more about Licious Desserts and view more of their mouth watering desserts, please visit www.liciousdesserts.com or Cafe Licious at 60 Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos. You can also view pictures and make your orders by following @licousdessert on Instagram and Facebook.


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How Far Can Cable Stocks Fall?
Cable investors are sleeping like babies these days—they're more likely to wake up every few hours and cry.
After several years of heady gains, cable stocks are getting pummeled. Five of the top operators lost more than 200,000 basic subscribers in the last quarter alone, in part due to fierce competition from satellite and deep-pocketed telecom companies. Recession fears loom over an uncertain economy, making complicated cable stocks something to avoid. And perhaps worse than anything, cable's old nemesis, the FCC, is threatening new regulations that could hamper profits. All this has cable stocks trading near their 52-week lows.
Chris Marangi of Gabelli & Co., like many analysts covering the sector, has been frustrated by underperforming cable stocks that he says do not reflect their growth. "It's tough being a cable bull these days," Marangi says. "I've never seen sentiment shift so violently, so quickly against the sector as has happened over the past three months."
Industry bellwether Comcast, which is the largest cable operator in the nation, was down 35% to $19.66 from its 52-week high of $30.18 as of Nov. 15. While the stock was trending lower throughout the summer, most of the pain was felt after the company kicked off the cable earnings season by reporting a loss of subscribers.
When Comcast reported its third-quarter results on Oct. 25, revealing a loss of 65,000 basic subscribers, its shares dropped 10% and the whole sector followed it lower. As cable operators continued reporting, the subscriber losses kept coming. Mediacom reported it lost 13,000 subscribers, Time Warner Cable 83,000, Charter Communications 40,200 and Cablevision Systems 16,000.
Meanwhile, cable competitors were adding subscribers. Direct broadcast satellite providers added 350,000 net new customers in the quarter, while telcos added 277,000 customers.
It was a bloody two weeks. In the period since Comcast reported, its stock sank 17.5%, Time Warner's 21%, Cablevision's 16.5% and Mediacom's 27%. A particularly battered Charter slid 47%.
To be sure, part of the recent slide is in lock-step with the meltdown in the broader market as investors look for a safer place to park their money than an equity market increasingly susceptible to the fallout from the mortgage crisis and signs of a weakening economy. The S&P 500 index is down 3.8% in the month of November alone, as of the 15th.
Weaker economic data has some investors worried about a recession. That is weighing on the stock market but is not helping cable, which is traditionally viewed as a haven during recessions because of their quasi-utility characteristics. "It makes intuitive sense," says Marangi. "If anything, the cable companies have become more like utilities in that they are providing phone service."
Comcast Corp.'s Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke said during the company's third-quarter earnings call that while cable is still recession-resistant, "it stands to reason that in difficult economic times, people are more price sensitive, and less likely to upgrade or add a second or third product."
Lately the specter of competition from DBS providers and telecom companies offering video services has spooked cable investors. Signs of slowing subscriber growth in the second quarter left investors wondering if heavy marketing campaigns by satellite, the rollout of Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's U-verse systems, and aggressive pricing of satellite and telco bundles weren't taking a bite out of cable.
And cable operators are openly addressing the effects of increased competition to analysts and investors. "We have two very strong competitors in the air. We have two or three strong competitors on the ground in the form of the RBOCs and they're not going away," Comcast's Burke said at an investor conference in September.
DirecTV is particularly aggressive in positioning itself against the cable companies with its rollout of high-definition programming, targeting carriage of 100 linear channels by the end of the year. Cable currently lacks the bandwidth to match such an offering, carrying an average of only 20 to 25 HD channels. Cable operators are pushing back with high-definition on-demand offerings, which the satellite companies cannot match.
On the telco side, Verizon's FiOS service is gaining traction, racking up more than 700,000 subscribers. Though its current overlap in many cable operators' footprints is not significant, it is a particular threat to Cablevision's territory, where FiOS is available to more than 20% of households.
Behind the loss of subscribers is another story that cable operators don't like to talk about: The TV industry as a whole is contracting. While DBS providers DirecTV and EchoStar Communications added subscribers in the quarter, the 110,000 net additions from EchoStar's Dish Network were lower than expected and revealed a weakening trend for Dish. The company caters to the lower end of the pay-TV market, which is particularly susceptible to the housing meltdown.
It also signaled that the subscriber losses for cable were being felt elsewhere and were not wholly related to competition. In the third quarter, the pay-TV industry reported a total of approximately 410,000 net new subscribers, but analysts were anticipating better results.
"That was a lot lower than we were expecting," says Oppenheimer analyst Tom Eagan. "Either fewer TV households were added in the quarter, which is understandable given what we are seeing in the housing market, or fewer folks abandoned their antenna-only viewing."
For comparison, in the third quarter of 2006, when the telco rollouts were less of a factor, the pay-TV market added 530,000 net new subscribers.
A central contributor to the slump is one that is causing the economy as a whole to stumble: the housing market. The collapse of this market in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis is causing lenders to be more stringent with their mortgage terms, spiking foreclosure rates and cramping the market for new homes. With fewer homes being built, the pool of households for cable companies, or any pay-TV provider for that matter, is growing smaller.
Foreclosure filings jumped 30% in the third quarter, according to mortgage research company RealtyTrac. On Charter's third-quarter conference call, CEO Neil Smit said the company had access to fewer households because it faced higher vacancy rates in its footprint.
If increased competition and a tight consumer market weren't enough to deal with, cable is also facing a test from regulators. The cable industry has a history of butting heads with authority, and the current administration of the FCC is no exception.
Last week, FCC chairman Kevin Martin said the commission would invoke the so-called "70/70" threshold to impose more regulation on the cable industry (see Washington Watch, this issue). The rule kicks in when cable systems with 36 or more channels are available to 70% of U.S. households and achieve a 70% penetration rate of those households.
Invoking the rule would give the FCC broad powers to advance an agenda that includes instituting a la carte programming, lowering rates for leased access, enforcing multicast must-carry and capping the growth rates for large cable companies at 30% of households.
The FCC is expected to announce soon that the threshold has been met when it releases its 2007 multichannel video competition report. But Wall Street and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association counter that the threshold has not been met.
"The provision itself is a relic of decades-old regulation and there is no basis for reviving it now," said Kyle McSlarrow, president and CEO of the NCTA. "Twisting statistics in order to breathe life into this rule is simply another attempt to justify unnecessary government intrusion into a marketplace where competition is thriving."
According to Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett, the "basis for invocation of the 70/70 rule appears untenable." That's because one of the conditions for the rule is that cable's penetration of available households must exceed 70%. According to Bernstein estimates, cable's penetration falls well short of that, in the 50%-54% range.
Either way, the announcement is not doing cable stocks any favors. Says Oppenheimer's Eagan, "This could not come at a worse time for cable operators, whose stocks are down significantly since this summer."
But with all these obstacles lined up against cable operators, why do so many analysts have a "buy" rating on cable stocks?
It's not all gloom in cable, bulls say. While losing basic subscribers, the industry can still upgrade customers and grow additional services. Indeed, industry leader Comcast added 662,000 phone subscribers and 450,000 data subscribers in the same quarter it lost basic subscribers.
The industry-wide number of digital cable subscribers grew 16% year-over-year to 35 million in the second quarter while phone customers grew 62% to 12 million, according to the NCTA. That's why the investment community sees upside in cable, exemplified by nine out of 14 analysts that rate Comcast Corp. some variation of a "buy," according to SNL Financial.
Meanwhile, cable operators argue that the growth potential for new services far outstrips concerns over competition. Says Time Warner Cable's president and CEO Glenn Britt, "We are all too aware of the recent stock performance, but we remain focused on running the business in a manner that maximizes returns and value creation."
Some investors feel the same way if the recent battle over Cablevision is any indicator of the sector. Investors blocked a bid by the Dolan family to take the company private because the offer price of $36.26 undervalued the company. If investors see upside at that level, they should love it at $26.
Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne, who remains cautious on cable, says many people are struggling with the investment case for cable because while the stocks look cheap, they don't always perform well in a challenging environment. "Cable stocks really never worked as value stocks in the traditional sense," Swinburne says. "They've usually outperformed when there is an expectation for growth accelerating."
But not everyone on Wall Street is singing the same tune. Tuna Amobi, an analyst with Standard & Poor's, has a "sell" rating on some the sector's top players. Amobi says a "dramatic slowdown" in revenue-generating units at big cable companies, on top of a challenging competitive and economic environment, is cause for concern.
The hang on cable stocks will likely continue at least through year's end. Moreover, analysts note that there doesn't appear to be a good, hard catalyst to boost the stocks higher in the near term, so it will be up to an investor's sense of value to lift these stocks.
"It's going to take time for investors to get comfortable that cable companies can continue to grow cash flow in times of economic stress and competitive stress," Marangi says.
With competitive, economic and regulatory pressures in place, investors are not likely to drive stock prices back up without a reason.
Says Oppenheimer's Eagan: "[Cable] stocks are going to stay depressed until we can get a better sense of how the companies are doing late in the fourth quarter."
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Let's take a vacation with KATERINA ILIAKI from OnceUponJewelsCo
1. What is your favorite vacation destination and why? Where exactly in the world is it located?
Kythira is small island in Greece opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula and near to Crete. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, It is the island where my mother is coming from and the place I spent all summers of my childhood.
2. What are several places everyone visiting this destination should see?
It is a magic island and has so many places to go and things to see.
My personal favorite is Avlemonas village, a small fish village on the east side of the island, with scenic coves. A peaceful place with a beautiful seaside and seaside where you can swim like a pool!!
Mylopotamos is an other beautiful village…It has different personality from Avlemonas, with waterfalls and an amazing passage through the woods with 16 mini watermills that lead to an amazing beach.
Potamos village is the central village of the island with a traditional fair market every Sunday where locals sell their products and beautiful small bars and restaurants…
Chora is the capital of the island..Traditional island village with tiny white houses and a spectacular Venetian castle to dominate on the top!!
One of my favorite walking tours is the one for the Moudari Lighthouse,which is located at the northernmost point of the island, at Cape Spathi. It is a very well conditioned lighthouse which you can also visit inside and the view from up there is breathtaking!
3. What special customs, traditions, geography, nature etc. are intriguing about this destination?
To begin with,in Ancient Greek mythology, Kythira was considered to be the island of celestial Aphrodite, the Goddess of love.
Geographically, even it belongs to the Ionian islands, it is located at the southwestern exit from the Aegean Sea. This particularity, makes this island unique.. It has combines many different landscapes.. the green and rich in vegetation part of Ionian and at the same time the wild and without water landscape of Cyclades…A combination that every visitor can either love it or hate it. There is no middle situation in Kithira.
Near to Kithira, you can find a tiny tiny island, the Antikithira island.
Between these to islands, in April 1900 Antikythera mechanism was found by a group of Greek sponge divers. Antikithire MEchanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes.It is consider to be a huge archeological discovery and the wreck that it is still at this location continues to reveal a lot of secrets to our archeologists.
4. Where are the hot spots to eat and drink?
The best place to eat on this island is Kaleris restaurant. It is a tavern on Agia Pelagia village on the north-eastern part of the island. It is a family business and the son of the owner is a great chef..He worked for years in European restaurants with success and he decided to come back and cook for Kithirians and visitors of this island!
In Avlemonas village there are two traditional fish taverns, both of them have delicious and fresh food!
For drinks, Araxtopolio is what you are looking for! It is also located in Avlemonas, on the old harbor. Stavros is there for you to make the best cocktails.
At Potamos village you will find Astikon. it is a bar-cafe with life music most of the summer.It is very cosy and graphical.
If you are looking for something even more mystic, Amir Ali bar in Karavas is your choice. You will spot it on the side streets of the village as you are going to find the water springs of Amir Ali. Romantic and out of this world.
And of course you should stop at Karavas Bakery in the entrance of the village. This is were the famous Kithirian paximadia are made and distributed all over the world. Pavlos, the owner has renovated his family old mill and can give you a tour to his bakery with pleasure!
5. Have you been to your favorite vacation destination more than once and will you visit again?
I was living there for five years, working on my jewelry shop, spent all my childhood summers and revisiting every time I have the chance!
6. What are your social media sites?
Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/OnceUponJewelsCo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/OnceUponJewelsCo
Twitter: twitter.com/OnceUponJewels
Instagram: www.instagram.com/onceuponjewels
Pinterest: gr.pinterest.com/OnceUponJewels
Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/BohemianSummerTales
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BohemianSummerTales


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30 years strong
By COLIN M. STEWART
By COLIN M. STEWART
Tribune-Herald staff writer
What a difference 30 years can make.
What began in 1983 at the Hilo Lagoon Center as a small women's clinic with five staff members has grown into a health care network serving areas in East and South Hawaii, with nine different locations and 170 employees.
"I'm not sure how many patients they saw that first year, but we had approximately 20,000 patients and approximately 75,000 visits this year," Bay Clinic Inc. CEO Harold Wallace said Wednesday. "We've definitely seen a lot of growth in the last 30 years."
Last week, Bay Clinic hosted its 30th Anniversary Gala at the Old Sugar Mill at Wainaku, where guests were asked to enjoy "A Taste of the Pacific, Celebrating Bay Clinic's Diversity," as the event was called, with food prepared by celebrity chef Ippy Aiona. Proceeds from the event will benefit the continued expansion of the system's services — which are aimed at treating underserved and uninsured residents — such as the recent addition of a new facility in Ka'u, said Dawn Hawkins, chairwoman of Bay Clinic's Board of Directors.
"Just this past Friday we had our blessing for our new Ka'u Family Health Center in Naalehu," she said. "We already had a building there, but this is a brand new, state-of-the-art facility."
Bay Clinic opened its Ka'u Family Health Center to offer health care to underserved residents in 1996 in response to the closing of the sugar plantation in Naalehu. But after nearly 17 years, the limited and outdated clinical space was not meeting Bay Clinic's quality of care standards, according to a press release.
The new Ka'u Family Health and Dental Center will allow Bay Clinic to expand its access to an additional 3,400 new patients and handle an additional 8,500 visits annually, Hawkins said.
"It's a big change in the amount of patients we're able to service," she said. "Our mission is to increase access to care."
That mission has guided a variety of additions to its network throughout the history of Bay Clinic. Among them:
• 1991 — Pahoa Family Health Center opens
• 1996 — Ka'u Family Health Center opens
• 1998 — Hilo Lagoon site relocated to Bay Front and expanded to provide medical and behavioral health services.
• 2001 — Keaau Family Health and Dental Center opens
• 2008 — Hilo Bay Clinic relocates to Kinoole Street and renamed Hilo Family Health Center
• 2009 — Pahoa Women's Health Center opens
• 2010 — Bay Clinic begins mobile dental services to provide dental care to Puna, Ka'u and Hilo districts, as well as opening its Hilo Women's Health Center, providing among other things comprehensive OB/GYN services in Hilo
• 2012 — Hilo Family Dental Center opens six exam rooms in Hilo Shopping Center
• 2013 — Ka'u Family Health Center opens in Naalehu
As for the future growth of Bay Clinic, Wallace said he hopes to see efforts to build a new facility in Hilo that will consolidate the area's many different services under one roof.
"That's the grand plan, to have a larger, comprehensive site here in Hilo," he said. "We'd obviously like for that to happen as soon as possible, but realistically we're looking at within the next 3-5 years we would like to see that happen."
Combining Hilo's Bay Clinic offerings under one roof, including primary care, pediatrics, adult medicine, women's health, behavioral health and dentistry, would ultimately mean patients wouldn't have to spend all day walking or on a bus getting between appointments for various services, Wallace said.
It would also provide benefits such as contributing to workforce development efforts, not only for the facility's own employees, but also area college and high school students, he added.
"We could set up a small university, or training center, where you could offer continuous training, and keep those people here in the community and make the money that they want to make. But to do that, you have to have the larger facility," he said.
While no plans have been drawn up, nor has any particular piece of property been identified, Bay Clinic officials already have an idea of how big a facility they are looking to add, he said.
"At the smallest level, it could be about 20,000 square feet, but we'd like to have between 25,000 and 28,000. It would also help so we could have a medical supplies distribution center, in addition to dental and medical exam rooms," he said.
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I am making a chart using TChartShapes to create a Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (a series of rectangles showing costs and avoided carbon dioxide for a range of different measures). Its a pretty standard type of chart in my field. TChartShape series seemed like the best way to do this and they generally work very nicely.
However, I would like to label each block using Marks but TeeChart insists on showing two marks for each shape at two corners of each shape. See attached picture.
Can you offer some advice on how to fix this problem? Many thanks in advance.
I'm using Delphi 10.3.3 (32-bit) in Windows 10 using VCL version of TeeChart Pro v2019.27.
Below is code to demonstrate problem:
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procedure TForm19.MACCBtnClick(Sender: TObject);
Series: TChartShape;
procedure _AddSer(x0, x1, y0, y1: double; name: string);
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Series.Title := name;
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The Cape Shore, Newfoundland and Labrador extends from Long Harbour to Placentia, down to Cape St. Mary's and Point Lance and then north past Branch to Colinet. The myriad buildings and other structures that dot the landscape around the Cape Shore Loop are deeply resonant of its colourful and richly textured history. It is a history that is safely moored in our memories and thoughts. No matter where we go, a part of the near and more distant past threads seamlessly throughout the here and now.
Simply choose from the menu box in the upper left of the map and a drop down menu will reveal information on the various sites on the map.
If you wish to learn more, there are several books that have been written on the various aspects of the history that surrounds the places to be found around the Cape Shore Loop.


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In April 2017, BestSub have successfully passed the factory audits conducted by BSCI, the Business Social Compliance Initiative, and certification bodies of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and received BSCI and ISO9001 certifications.
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Our whimsical and unique personalized party invitations for Halloween will create a special touch to your special celebration. Customize them to suit your style and needs. Just select your design, paper and font. We do all the rest. All Halloween party invitations are printed on high quality paper stock with matching return address labels, thank you note cards available.
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Infograph: Tallest Residential Buildings in the World
Having the tallest building in the world is a place of honor, but one that most buildings only enjoy for a fleeting moment. New structures are ever-reaching further up into the sky, battling each other for top prize.
The current tallest residential building in the world is the
Princess Tower Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at
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413 meters (1,355 feet).
This surpasses the previous record-holder, 23 Marina, also in Dubai. The Q1, in Gold Coast, Australia also previously held the title, but is now only the fifth tallest. Better catch the current goliaths now as bigger and taller are being built every day. Take a look at the Movin on Up Infrograph:
Dubai is the high-rise champion as it is currently home to six of the ten tallest residential towers in the world. However, current buildings face stiff competition as three taller residential skyscrapers are under construction. The DAMAC Heights (Dubai), World One (Mumbai) and Pentominium (Dubai) are all clamoring for the current record holder's title.
For more about the cities with the tallest buildings, check out EasyExpat's Comprehensive City Guides. We have more than 50 guides for cities around the world, covering everything from visas, to finding a job, to entertainment. Guides are available online, or for free PDF download.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs and activities. Title IX provides, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." The DOE is committed to complying with Title IX and ensuring that DOE schools and workplaces are free of sex discrimination.
Title IX's protections apply to DOE students, parents, staff members, and applicants for employment.
Examples of the types of complaints/actions covered by Title IX include, but are not limited to:
How you file a Title IX-related complaint depends on the type of complaint you want to file. See the corresponding Chancellor Regulation for filing instructions.
Chancellor's Regulation A-830 is the DOE's non-discrimination policy and outlines how to file a complaint of discrimination, including sex discrimination and sexual harassment complaints.
The Students Bill of Rights serves as a guide for students as they strive to become productive citizens in a diverse society.
Chancellor's Regulation A-831 is the DOE's anti-sexual harassment policy and outlines how to file a complaint of peer sexual harassment.
You can also fill out a report of student-to-student sexual harassment by using the below form and turning it into your school:
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Chancellor's Regulation A-740 is the DOE's policy requiring pregnant students of compulsory age to attend school unless medical reasons indicate to the contrary, and outlines the procedures for which school personnel are responsible during and after a student's pregnancy.
If you have a question about filing a Title IX-related complaint, or about addressing sex-based discrimination, contact the DOE Title IX coordinator or liaisons:
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All aboard the famed Orient Express with a star-studded cast that portrays one of the most enthralling and thrilling murder mysteriesever told. Co-produced by Ridley Scott, the Murder on the Orient Express centres around 13 strangers that are stranded on the luxurious train amid a fierce winter storm, where everyone is considered a suspect. This gripping thriller is the latest adaptation of the classic novel bearing the same name by legendary author Agatha Christie.
Director and leading star, Sir Kenneth Branagh, portrays Hercule Poirot, the famous detective who races against time to solve the murder mystery before the killer strikes again. In searching for clues to reveal the identity of the murderer and their motive, Poirot interrogates all the passengers, some of whom are played by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, and Judi Dench.
The film sets out to replicate the opulence of the original Orient Express as it was during the era of the golden age of travel. A fully dressed moving train with an engine and four carriages was specifically built for the production at Longcross Studios in England. Set designers and crew helped recreate the train's extravagant details and layout of this lavish one-of-a-kind passenger train. In addition, to bring the illusion of reality to life, over two thousand LED screens were mounted outside the windows, streaming footage of passing scenery of the majestic European and alpine countryside.
Murder on the Orient Express is the second film of the original novel; with Sidney Lumet's being the first, in 1974. For those sceptics who think they already know the story, Branagh promises his version will hold "some surprises". This film has garnered much interest, and audiences are looking forward to its November release.


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Lexus' goal was to get original content promoting their hybrid technology in front of consumers driving competitor makes such as Audi and Infiniti. Contend and Facebook identified the top interests of this target. As a result, Contend created Proven Innovators, a video series featuring progressive thought leaders in the worlds of science, fashion, art and design fed into Facebook newsfeeds. The series generated millions of views during the first month alone.