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One of the hot topics each year during the NFL Combine is quarterbacks' hand size. And with his measuring in at nine inches, some are now questioning more than ever if Cal quarterback Jared Goff will be the first quarterback selected in the spring.
For the 49ers, who pick seventh and might end up drafting a quarterback, hand size might not be as important. They play their home games in sunny Santa Clara and two of their three divisional opponents play in neutral climates, while Seattle has been known to get rain now and again. The common thinking is quarterbacks that play in harsher weather need bigger hands to spin the ball through wind, rain, snow, et cetera.
San Francisco's new head coach Chip Kelly held court with local reporters Thursday morning at the combine and indicated he values hand size for his quarterbacks.
This from the San Francisco Chronicle:
It's "huge," Kelly said. "You better have big hands. (Seattle's) Russell Wilson's 5-10 ½, but he's got 10 ¼ hands. You better have a big paw to manipulate the football.
"…(Hand measurements) are guidelines. It's not like 'He had nine-inch hands, he's out.' … If you just look at it from a pure analytical standpoint, the guys who are more successful at the quarterback position have had bigger hands. Has there been someone who had had size-9 hands that has been successful? Yeah. That's true."
This conversation isn't new for San Francisco. Colin Kaepernick's hands measured in at 9 1/8 inches in 2012 while Alex Smith faced the same questions with his 9 3/8-inch hands before getting taken with the top pick in 2005.
Elsewhere, Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill matches Goff with his nine-inch digits, while Raiders Pro-Bowl signal caller Derek Carr's hands measure 9 1/8 inches.
Prospects hands are measured at the combine from players' thumbs to their pinkies. Scouts say the ideal hand size is anything more than 9 1/2 inches.
North Dakota State's Carson Wentz – the prospect likely competing with Goff to be the top quarterback selected – has 10-inch hands.
The Cleveland Browns pick second and will take a hard look at quarterbacks after Johnny Manziel's series of off-the-field issues will likely lead to his release this spring.
The Browns new head coach Hue Jackson said he will account for prospects' hand size when mulling over his second-overall pick.
"It matters because we play in a division where all of a sudden there's rain, there's snow and it's different," Jackson said, according to Cleveland.com. "I think guys that have big hands can grip the ball better in those environmental situations and so we'll look for a guy that fits what we're looking for in a quarterback and, is hand size important? Yes it is."Follow @ChrisBiderman

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We have been in travel mode since Tuesday morning. After a wonderful visit we left Johnston, SC and our family a little after 8:00 enroute to Gainesville, FL. We had a pretty easy drive south. We drove SC 25 to I-16 to I-75 to Waldo, FL – just north of Gainesville. We stayed in a commercial campground, Dixieland RV Park. This was our first commercial campground in quite a while. Everyone was very nice but we remember why we like COE and state park campgrounds better. The sites are always so close together in commercial campgrounds. We began Wednesday with breakfast at Classic Cafe, a little restaurant at the park. They gave us a 15% off coupon when we checked in so of course we needed to give it a try. We enjoyed our breakfast. It was good but not really anything special. We also did a little shopping, and stopped and looked at some RVs. In the afternoon we visited Lake Alto Preserve and did some nice hiking out in the woods around the lake. The trails were nice and wide, probably so hikers can spot alligators sunning themselves. One of us was happy we saw none. It was a nice quiet day in the preserve. Very relaxing.
Thursday, we were again in travel mode and drove south to Midway Campground in the Big Cypress National Preserve on the Tamiami Trail. Except for a long delay due to a wreck causing traffic backup north of Naples it was an uneventful day. We did notice that the sun became brighter and the temperature much warmer the further we drove. It was 38 degrees in Gainesville Thursday morning and by the time we arrived at Midway about 5:00pm our camp hosts greeted us in shorts and short sleeve shirts. Nice! Today will be another play day before we head on down to the keys and prepare to go to work. It is a beautiful Florida morning – no jackets today. Don't know when we will actually get this posted because we have a very sketchy signal here at Midway.


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Dr. Michael Gordon Speaks about A Unique Approach to Treating Vertigo
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Dr. Michael Gordon, of the ENTA Garden City office, spoke to HealthWatchRadio with Dr. Jacques Doueck about treating vertigo. Dr. Gordon describes dizziness, balance disorders, and vertigo in more depth. Click Here to read or listen to the full segment.


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On February 19, 2020, the European Commission published its White Paper on Artificial Intelligence and launched a public consultation. We welcome the European Commission's effort to create an ecosystem of trust to ensure trustworthy, safe and beneficial uses of AI.
Researchers from both the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk --including Haydn Belfield, José Hernández-Orallo, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Matthijs M. Maas, Alexa Hagerty, and Jess Whittlestone -- have submitted a response to the Commission.


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SpaceX founder and CEO, Elon Musk has revealed that the company is aiming to launch the first Starship Hopper test in the coming months. The Starship is the upper stage of the company's new super heavy lift launch vehicle that Musk hopes to use to colonise Mars.
Development of the Starship Hopper vehicle is progressing at the SpaceX Boca Chica facility in Texas. Although no official images have been released by the company, photographers have been documenting the progress of the three-finned rocket.
On January 5, Musk retweeted images from the photographer, Maria Pointer of the Starship Hopper under construction. In response to the post, a user asked when SpaceX was planning to launch the vehicle for the first time. As is characteristic from the mercurial CEO, Musk replied stating, " Aiming for 4 weeks, which probably means 8 weeks, due to unforeseen issues."
Aiming for 4 weeks, which probably means 8 weeks, due to unforeseen issues
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2019
The construction of a smaller vehicle to test hardware is not new to SpaceX. When developing the company's current primary launch vehicle, the Falcon 9, the company built and launched the Grasshopper eight times. The flights ranged from a simple 1.8-meter hop to a 744-meter leap.
In addition to being the vehicle's maiden flight, the first Starship Hopper test will be the first flight of the company's next-generation Raptor engines. Currently, SpaceX utilise Merlin 1C engines to power the Falcon 9. Each of the nine engines fitted to the Falcon 9 first stage is capable of around 420 kN (94,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. The new Raptor engines are significantly more powerfully offering approximately 1,993 kN (448,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level
Even if SpaceX does manage to pull off one or even multiple Starship Hopper flights in 2019, the first flight of the full-scale Starship rocket is still several years away. Currently, Musk has stated that commercial flights could start as early as 2023. However, many in the industry have questioned whether or not that will be possible.


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The most common symptom of bursitis is pain, swelling or tenderness at the site of inflammation. The pain can build up gradually, or be sudden and severe. Bursitis occurs when the bursae, or small fluid-filled sacs cushioning the bones, tendons and muscles near your joints, become inflamed. If you have bursitis, your affected joint may feel achy or stiff, or it may hurt more to move it or press on it. The area may also appear swollen and red. Bursitis often occurs near joints that perform frequent repetitive motion including the shoulder, elbow, hip, ankle and knee. It can also occur in the thigh, the heel or the base of the big toe.
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Andy Curson writes :=
Hi all…tomorrow, Saturday 12 December, myself and a great team around me will attempt the C2C2C challenge ride from Saltburn to Morecambe then back again, raising money for Bowel Cancer UK.
Before things get too 'busy' tomorrow, I would just like to say a few thankyou's…. .
Firstly to the amazing team and club members who despite the conditions have selflessly said they would like to help? They include Toby Tanfield, Aaron Preston, John Kelly (Jnr), Lee O'Leary, Dan Waring, Marcus Smith, Ryan Murray, Ian Fryett, Peter Gunn, Eoin Carroll and Hilton Armstrong. Unfortunately, due to COVID regulations I had to limit it to two groups, but would also like to thank Martin Kendrew and Tom Pugh for putting themselves forward in case of anyone dropping out.
I would also like to thank Dave Kirton and Shaun O'Shea. Due to injury niggles they were unable to ride however instantly said they would like help as a mechanical back up vehicle for the day.
Thanks to all who offered to bake cakes, loan lights etc…I think we are all OK but your generosity and willingness to help is truly appreciated!
After realising my wheels were just about shot, thanks to Harry Tanfield for loaning me a pair of his HUNT wheels, last minute for the ride.
Thanks also to all who have sponsored – so far, £10,300 has been raised for Bowel Cancer UK, which is absolutely incredible.
With everyone pulling together like this it makes me proud to be a member of the Cleveland Wheelers and part of such a great club!
We had a practice ride last weekend, riding to the British Cycling protocol so hopefully everything will run smoothly.
Anyone who would still like to sponsor, just go to 'Just Giving Andrew Curson'. Everyone who sponsors will automatically be entered into a raffle with prizes that include an INEOS jersey, signed by Luke Rowe. A signed AG2R Mondiale bidon, cap and Vuelta race number by local cycling legend Harry Tanfield. A Beefeater Bend cycling jersey (which can be signed or unsigned ), plus many more prizes – see below. Finally, we will be arriving back into Saltburn approximately 19:30-20:00 on Saturday evening, so if you're down that way it would be good to see some smiling faces to welcome us back home after such a long day (obvisouly observing social distancing guidelines).
Thanks again everyone and stay safe, Andy.


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The Wolverine 2013
I'm one step closer to watching all of the 2013 superhero and comic book movies of 2013 and this is one that I'm really disappointed that I missed out on in theaters since I'm a big X-Men and Wolverine fan though I'm not about to do any sort of X-Men marathon again any time soon. This is Hugh Jackman's sixth turn at playing Wolverine, at least if you count his brief cameo in First Class and at least three more on the way with Days of Future Past coming out next year, Apocalypse announced for 2016, and another solo Wolverine movie very likely it seems that Hugh Jackman will be playing Wolverine until he is too old to pull off the mostly ageless mutant. This time around he's put in Japan which is part of his origin story though this movie has it take place after the events of The Last Stand. He is brought there so a business tycoon named Yashida who used to be a soldier and was saved by Logan at Nagasaki during the atomic bombing. He is now dying and offers Logan an opportunity to relinquish his healing abilities and die a natural death. Things expectedly go sideways and Logan is left to protect Yashida's granddaughter named Mariko while his healing abilities have been taken from him. Reminding me a bit of 2 Guns, there's some good character interactions but it's mixed with a heavily convoluted plotline. And I'd also like to note that I did watch the unrated extended edition for this review.
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Superhero Shorts: Wolverine the Musical
Welcome to another edition of Superhero Shorts, where I feature a superhero themed short film and ask a few words of the filmmaker. This time around I'm talking with Vincent Bova, who along with his partner in felt Damien Eckhardt-Jacobi who created Wolverine: The Musical… with puppets. As always, you can view the short below or you can check it out on their site Glove and Boots or their YouTube channel where they have a ton of fun videos featuring their usual characters Mario and Fafa the Groundhog.
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Superhero Shorts: A New Mutant
Superhero Shorts: A New Mutant
Welcome to another edition of Superhero Shorts where I share a superhero short film and ask a few questions of its creators. This time I'm talking with a group of students who created their own short for their college film class led by Eric Limarenko. They adapted a comic story written by Brian Michael Bendis called A New Mutant, as usual, you can watch it below.
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X-Men 2000
While it seemed like a good idea at the time to watch all five of the X-Men movies back to back, coming around to watching the first one made me realize that they're better suited as being treated as separate entities. When you watch them close together, the continuity changes are quite glaring. Aside from that, this movie generally holds up and I can totally see how this one movie really paved the way for the previous generation of superhero movies. I say previous in the hope that the recent Avengers movie, prequels and sequels, as well as Nolan's Batman movies, lead into the current generation of superhero movies. But X-Men still stands as a landmark in superhero movies.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2009
I continue on my trek through the X-Men movies in a possibly unorthodox manner moving on to what I believe would actually be the next chronological movie. Even though it starts well before First Class, the main portion of the movie takes place sometime before the X-Men trilogy but after First Class, the intention was probably to have it be around 1979 due to the finale being set in Three Mile Island, though it's fairly vague in its time period, without any obvious 80's or 90's fashions. I have had it on bluray for a while now, though I haven't watched it since I bought it over a couple years ago. I think this is generally the least liked X-Men film alongside the Last Stand. And while I could see a few general annoyances, I still enjoyed the movie a lot.
I was very happy with the first article in this Superhero Shorts series and I will definitely be continuing this series every Saturday. I've also gotten some good responses from filmmakers talking about their short films. This week I take a look at another comedy video by the YouTube filmmakers Greg and Lou. Wolverine's Claws Suck is their only superhero themed comedy video made in 2009 with over 2 million views on YouTube. Lou from Greg and Lou graciously answered a few of my questions about their video, but first let's take a look at it.


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Behind the Scenes of a Pumpkin Patch
Orange, white, pink, green. Smooth, bumpy, round, flat. When it comes to choosing a pumpkin, the options are endless — and totally up to your style tastes. Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a pumpkin grower?
Amy France of France Family Farms gives us the scoop on how their family started their own pumpkin-growing business — The Farmer's Daughters' Pumpkins. Read on to see what goes into growing pumpkins and the lessons they've learned over the years, as well as some tips for picking the perfect pumpkins.
How did you get started growing pumpkins?
The Farmer's Daughter's Pumpkins truly began out of a need in our community. To purchase fun and unique ornamental pumpkins, you would have to travel at least 60 miles to get them. There was a basic supply at our local grocery store, but if you wanted to recreate a Pinterest picture, those pumpkins wouldn't cut it! We had a little bit of ground on the farm that wasn't being used and I pitched the idea to my husband, Clint. At first, he thought I was crazy, but being the good husband that he is, we gave it a try. The first year we didn't plant as many ornamental varieties because my husband was still a little leery. Once he saw how quickly those went, he was on board.
Who is involved in growing the pumpkins?
Our pumpkin patch takes the whole family, including our kids: Delaney, 14, Calli, 12, and Jury, 6. Clint usually "works" the ground; just like a garden, the soil needs to be tilled (we just use a little bigger piece of machinery). We also use our chicken poop (technical term, of course) to fertilize it. We build up mounds or rows to begin the planting process. Clint created a tool that helps make the holes while keeping the space between the plants even. One kiddo will walk down the rows making the holes, while the others drop in the seeds and gently cover them with soil. After all the seeds are planted, we will lay out a drip hose and secure it so the western Kansas wind doesn't blow it away. We usually try to stagger planting over a few weeks to keep the supply going.
When harvest comes around, we bring in everyone! This includes our grown children — Caleb and his wife Kennedie, and Madi. This really is the fun part! It's like a treasure hunt. The shapes, sizes and colors never cease to amaze us. We will form an assembly line from the patch to the trailer. Several of us will go through the patch clipping the pumpkins from the vines, then the next group comes in and begins tossing from one person to the next until it gets loaded on to the trailer.
The last two years we've battled grasshoppers. These giant grasshoppers will eat the leaves off the plants the second they emerge. This year was especially challenging. We replanted our pumpkin crop threedifferent times. Our crop was substantially smaller as a result. The pumpkin crop isn't any different from other big field crops like corn, wheat and grain sorghum. Nature makes us or breaks us! But we keep improving from year to year. The pumpkin patch is really my "farm" and I'm a beginning farmer with lots of help from farmers who are smarter and wiser than me. I love watching our family's efforts and hard work pay off, not necessarily monetarily, but in lessons learned. We do it together from beginning to end.
What varieties of pumpkins do you grow?
We plant a wide variety of pumpkins and truly haven't made a science of it yet. We began with buying packets of seeds we liked, and we still do it that way four years later. We also harvest the seeds from our own pumpkins to be replanted the following year. Our favorites are definitely the odd-looking ones! Some of the varieties we grow are: Hooligans (small, multicolored), Baby Boos (small, white), Full Moon and Cotton Candy (both white), Jarrahdale (grey-blue), Cinderella (varies in color, more flattened but still round), Porcelain Doll Pink (light pink), Knuckle Head, Goosebumps and Warty Goblin (bumpy, warty texture). There are some regular jack-o'-lantern seeds in the mix, too. No two pumpkins are ever the same!
What tips do you have for picking the best pumpkins?
When selecting a pumpkin, be sure to keep in mind its purpose. Specialty pumpkins are going to have a much thicker flesh, making them harder to carve. I recommend sticking to the jack-o'-lantern types for carving, then decorating with the fun, unique ones. White pumpkins often have a jack-o'-lantern-like thickness as well. We have many customers "set up" their display while picking their pumpkins out. This is a great idea to make sure you have just what you need. Bring your Pinterest inspirations and recreate!
What special memories have you made as a family?
Our family has truly enjoyed this pumpkin patch journey. (Well, most of it!) There are plenty of times we aren't very excited to go weed or put thousands of seeds in the ground by hand, but we do it and it's a beautiful life lesson learned as a family. The kids experience all the business aspects of growing and selling pumpkins: the expenses, field care (weeding), planting, harvesting and marketing the crop. We give the kids a certain percentage that they can spend how they want and a percentage goes to their savings accounts — but first they tithe. Money is a gift and doesn't come easily. We believe this is a crucial lesson to instill in our children. The best way to teach a lesson is to hold their hands while they are learning!
Follow France Family Farms on Facebook and Instagram to see more about The Farmer's Daughter's Pumpkins.


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Netflix already has a slew of Emmys, among other prestigious awards. Now, apparently, the streaming media giant is stalking the big prize of entertainment awards: the almighty Oscar.
According to Deadline, Netflix outbid major studios for the worldwide rights to Beasts of No Nation, an award-friendly movie starring the British actor Idris Elba, about a child soldier forced to join mercenaries in West Africa. The film is directed by Cary Fukunaga, whose masterful directing of the show True Detective won HBO an Emmy last year. Long before Netflix purchased its distribution rights, the film was receiving heaps of awards buzz.
Although Netflix's model is based on streaming, a film must be shown in theaters to qualify for the Academy Awards. The movie won't qualify if it streams before it's put in theaters, so Netflix will debut the film in select theaters on the same day that it streams the film online.
Netflix paid a mighty $12 million for the exclusive rights. With that price, the company–which generally favors small-budget movies and TV shows–could probably have made something original. It suggests, particularly because the film doesn't have the wide appeal of, say, an Adam Sandler film, that Netflix believes in its awards potential. According to Variety, which cites insiders, Netflix is indeed planning a serious Oscar campaign for the movie (itself an expensive proposition).
Netflix typically employs a strategy of "efficient content"—it makes and distributes shows and movies that will appeal to a wide range of people, at the lowest possible cost. That strategy is why it recently decided to bring back the dormant but adored Pee-wee Herman, and why it revives cult hits with built-in audiences such as Wet Hot American Summer and Arrested Development.
Beasts of No Nation, however, is unlikely to have wide appeal, nor an obvious niche audience. Instead, Netflix's target audience seems to be the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
It's actually not the first time Netflix has tried sneaking into the Oscars: The documentary Virunga, which the company won the rights to stream exclusively, was nominated for an Oscar this year, but did not win. But Beasts of No Nation will be a much more visible film, and one that will give Netflix a chance to win multiple major awards, including those for acting and directing.
Nor is it the first time Netflix has bested other major competitors for the rights to stream movies. In 2012, it beat out some of the biggest pay-TV providers to exclusively distribute Disney's catalog of movies after they're taken out of theaters. It is becoming increasingly apparent that Netflix is a major player in Hollywood, both in television and in film. This new model of distribution has upset some major theater owners, who are refusing to show Netflix's sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon when it's released this summer.
Unfortunately for the theater owners—who had a rough time at the box office in 2014—it may just be a matter of time before more and more Hollywood movies are distributed, at least in part, on the internet.


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SEO represents Search Engine Optimization, which is the act of expanding the amount and nature of traffic to your site through natural search engine results.
What goes into SEO?
To comprehend the genuine significance of SEO, how about we separate that definition and take a gander at the parts:
Nature of traffic – You can pull in all the guests on the planet, yet in the event that they're going to your site since Google reveals to them you're an asset for Apple PCs when truly you're a rancher selling apples, that isn't quality traffic. Rather you need to draw in guests who are truly inspired by items that you offer.
Amount of traffic – When you have the opportune individuals navigating from those search engine results pages (SERPs), more traffic is better.
Natural outcomes – Promotions make up a noteworthy bit of numerous SERPs. Natural traffic is any traffic that you don't need to pay for.
How SEO works?
You may think about a search engine as a site you visit to type (or talk) an inquiry into a crate and Google, Yahoo!, Bing, or whatever search engine you're utilizing mystically answers with a considerable rundown of connections to website pages that might respond to your inquiry.
That is valid. Be that as it may, have you at any point halted to think about what's behind those mystical arrangements of connections?
Here's the means by which it works: Google (or any search engine you're utilizing) has a crawler that goes out and accumulates data pretty much all the substance they can discover on the Internet. The crawlers take each one of those 1s and 0s back to the search engine to construct a list. That list is then taken care of through a calculation that attempts to coordinate such information with your question.
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Sasol is looking to acquire more upstream acreage in West Africa.
The company's only operated upstream acreages outside South Africa are in Mozambique. It has equity in upstream acreage in Gabon and is involved in a midstream project in Nigeria.
Sasol says it has strong basin knowledge in West Africa and it is building on existing relationships, assets and capabilities on the continent. In the last few years, it has strengthened its skilled team for the purpose for acquisitions.
It is one of the 16 companies looking to get an acreage through Ghana's ongoing bidding round.
The company says it has a structured West Africa basin screening process. It has identified acquisition targets and has assessed both sub-surface and above ground risks. Sasol is investigating low-cost entry into targeted infrastructure-led exploration opportunities.
Its model for value delivery is to acquire new production assets with exploration running room; invest in the early part of exploration life cycle and farm down for value and realise asset option value through active management.
This piece was originally published in the January 2019 edition of Africa Oil+Gas Report, released on January 21, 2019.


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In 1962, US Army Corps of Engineers personnel pumped 165 million gallons of waste fluid into rock 12,000 feet below the surface of the earth at Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal and noticed that the pumping was accompanied by a number of small earthquakes. Six years later, the US Geological Survey monitored seismic activity as the Corps pumped some of that water back out, observing a noticeable increase in seismic activity after the pumping.
Hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, causes earthquakes. Or, rather, deep-injection disposal of the wastewater from fracking causes earthquakes.
Some people -- namely, public relations flacks and lobbyists for the petroleum and natural gas industries, and their political allies -- would have you believe that's a disputable, even controversial, claim. It isn't. It's something we've known for half a century.
In a study published the September 23 issue of Science, researchers from Stanford University establish a firm link between fracking wastewater injection and a series of earthquakes in east Texas, including the largest quake ever recorded in that region.
Fracking. Causes. Earthquakes. Period.
Question: What's the difference between a drunk driver who totals your car with his reckless, intoxicated driving, and an oil company that damages your house's foundation with its reckless, earthquake-inducing fracking?
Answer: The oil company can afford to buy off politicians and regulators to let it injure you without legal consequence or liability, and to run slick public relations campaigns aimed at convincing you to not believe your own lying eyes. The drunk driver counts himself lucky if he has enough cash on hand to buy the next six-pack.
Some self-styled advocates of "capitalism" and "free markets" have prostituted themselves out to the fracking industry, attempting to justify that kind of privilege and favoritism in the name of cheap energy and economic growth, all the while decrying "crony capitalism" as it relates to industries which haven't written generous checks to fund what the so-called think tanks euphemistically refer to as "research."
There's a difference between a free market and a free-for-all. In a free market, you have to pay for what you take. That includes restitution for damages caused by your reckless, negligent, or even criminally intentional, activities.
Fracking causes earthquakes. Earthquakes damage stuff. It's time for frackers to start picking up the check for that damage or to knock off the fracking. They don't have to like it. That's how it needs to be whether they like it or not.


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Glen T. Martin
Secretary-general, World Constitution and Parliament Association
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Professor of Philosophy, Radford University, Radford, VA 24141
Keynote Address in the "Challenges to Global Peace" program, Jaya College of Arts and Sciences, Chennai, India, June 21, 2011
The past several decades have been characterized by a planetary awakening, the emergence of a planetary consciousness, and the sense of living within a holistic planetary ecosystem and planetary human civilization. A significant factor in the emergence of this universal consciousness has been the increasing awareness that human beings face global problems on the Earth, problems that exist beyond the scope of national boundaries. At the same time, awareness is growing worldwide of our common human needs.
Increasingly, people around the world, even in the remotest regions, are aware of the planetary problem of war and militarism, the problem of growing fresh water shortages, the problem of the disappearance of agricultural lands for growing food, the problem of global pollution, the planetary problem of ever-growing poverty and misery for the majority, and the terrible problems of global warming, climate disruption, and pending climate collapse.
To date the feeble attempts to address these problems through divisive UN conferences and the development of unenforceable UN treaties have resulted in complete failure. The excellent aspirations called "Agenda 21" that came out of the 1992 Rio conference on climate change were recognized as unfulfilled ten years later at the 2002 climate conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen was similarly a failure. War and militarism continue to plague the people of Earth, fresh water and agricultural lands continue to disappear, pollution overwhelms ecosystems, forests, and oceans, poverty and misery continue to mount, and the consequences of climate disruption become ever more devastating.
The Earth Federation Movement (EFM) has understood the dynamics of these global problems for more than fifty years. It alone, among all the citizen movements that have developed in response to our multifaceted global crises, has focused on the central holistic solution that must be actualized if we are to survive and flourish on our precious planet Earth. The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) was founded in 1958 with the understanding that global problems cannot be addressed by fragmented political and economic institutions more than three centuries old, institutions created when the conditions on the Earth were entirely different than they are today, when people living on the Earth never even dreamed that there could be such a thing as planetary crises. global problems, or a population of seven billion people.
The Earth Federation Movement was born out of the World Constitution and Parliament Association and today has spread worldwide. Since 1958, our movement has drawn on the brightest and best international lawyers and thinkers from around the world to create the magnificently designed Constitution for the Federation of Earth. The Constitution was completed in 1991 and today the Earth Federation Movement works night and day to promote the ratification of the Earth Constitution by the people and nations of the world.
Today, I want to suggest four fundamental principles that should be the basis of all our thought and action if we want to create a decent future for the Earth and humanity. I will list the four principles first and then discuss each of them briefly. The first principle is that we must recognize and keep in mind that all our global problems are interdependent and interconnected. Second, we must recognize that the only possible solutions to these problems must also be holistic, integrated, and interconnected. Third, we must keep our focus on our basic human needs that all people everywhere have in common and ask how these needs can best be addressed. Finally, we must recognize that the Constitution for the Federation of Earth holistically addresses both our global crises and our human needs.
First, therefore, we must understand deeply that our global problems are interconnected and interdependent. The problem of war and militarism is universal because it arises from a system of so-called sovereign nation-states more than three centuries old and from a global economic system that benefits from war and military competition among nations. Today, more than one trillion US dollars per year are poured down the toilet of militarism by the nations of Earth, while poverty and environmental collapse increase daily.
The system itself (our planetary economic and political system) fosters war and militarism, and this is the same system that fosters poverty and misery and environmental destruction worldwide. The system of militarized sovereign nation-states is integrated with global corporate capitalism fostering economic and military rivalry and competition among peoples and nations. Big nations colonize trade privileges and concessions, backed up by neo-colonial influence and the threat of force just as they once colonized the world by direct military conquest. Without the rule of non-military, democratically legislated, enforceable law for the Earth, neither peace, nor elimination of poverty, nor protection of the environment are ultimately possible.
Study after study have shown that poverty negatively impacts the environment as poor people search for wood for cooking fuel and cut down trees to grow food for survival. A major source of deforestation and environmental damage is poverty, planetary poverty caused by the same political and economic system that diverts resources toward war and militarism in order to protect the wealth and power of the few. Peace cannot be achieved through ever- more violence, and a war system that creates conflicts around the world, a world that needs more than anything else cooperation and dedication to protecting the environment, insuring adequate resources, and eliminating poverty.
Corporate profits from the business of war amount to hundreds of billions of dollars annually, while there are few corporate economic incentives to eliminate poverty or protect the environment. War and militarism itself are among the most environmentally destructive of human activities, generating every year millions of tons of toxic wastes and millions of tons of destructive explosive chemicals and such poisons such as depleted uranium weapons. Poverty within nations of the global south supplies corporations with cheap labor and cheap resources in order to maximize their profits, profits at the same time protected by the global system of militarism and war.
We live within centuries old nation-state systems and a global economic system predicated on scarcity, a scarcity that causes greed and competition to dominate and control scarce resources. Nation-state militarism (such as that to which the big imperial nations are dedicated) is directed toward controlling the world system and weaker nations in favor of their own interests for oil, water, cheap labor, and other natural resources. The reason why our planetary problems are all interrelated and interdependent is because our global economic and political systems are at the root of them all. It is not bad leaders or a corrupt human nature that is the problem. Human corruption is primarily a symptom of the deeper structural political and economic roots of our global system.
My second point today is that the interrelation of these global problems requires a solution that understands their interdependence and addresses the entire range of global crises together. These problems are caused by economic and political systems developed centuries ago that were never designed for a world of modern weapons with a global population of seven billion people. Similarly, you cannot solve the problem of militarism and war without also addressing the root causes of poverty and misery. You cannot protect our planetary environment and our precious natural resources using economic and political structures directed toward control and exploitation of these resources within a system of competition leading to absolute winners and losers.
Since our crises are global, clearly any solution must be global. It is not enough for citizens to conserve water resources locally if these resources are not also conserved by communities around the planet. It is not enough for citizens to reduce CO2 emissions that cause global warming if CO2 emissions are not also controlled on a planetary scale. Not only must the solution be global, it must also be systemic, that is, if the global economic and political system lies at the root of our interconnected crises, so that system must be altered in a holistic way to address simultaneously the systemic roots of these global problems. Preventing war and demilitarizing the planet must result from the same systemic changes that protect the environment and eliminate poverty.
Science has discovered the holism of our planetary ecosystem and human life on Earth. Our global problems are rooted in political and economic systems that are fragmented and foster fragmentation. The only possible solution will be conversion to economic and political systems premised on the holism of nature and human life. Interdependent global crises can only be addressed through a holistic economic and political system that simultaneously eliminates war and militarism, protects the environment, preserves resources for the benefit of all, and eliminates poverty and misery from the Earth.
Similar conclusions follow if we examine basic human needs, which is the third point that I wish to make in this talk. Every person on Earth clearly has the following needs:
- Nourishing food of a sufficient quantity for health.
- A reasonable quantity of fresh water for washing, cooking, and drinking.
- Decent housing with basic sanitation facilities.
- An adequate infrastructure supplying sufficient energy, transportation, roads, hospitals, schools and other vital physical resources.
- Opportunities for education and personal development.
- Opportunities for family, friendship, and community.
- Security of person within a framework supporting the liberty of political and economic participation for all adults.
- All of the above within a social and legal framework protecting the natural environment and establishing world peace.
The last item on this list makes it clear that our basic human needs cannot be satisfied without a conversion of our world system to one which prevents war and protects the natural environment, since both peace and a protected environment constitute the framework and the condition for all the rest. Article 28 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that the people of Earth have a right to an international order that protects and promotes the entire set of rights given in that declaration. It should be clear that the UN Charter does not and cannot give us such an international order. The UN Charter is premised on these same fragmented, centuries old, economic and political systems.
It should also be clear that none of these eight basic human needs can be satisfied under the present system of 192 militarized sovereign nation-states operating within the globalized economic framework of neo-liberal corporate capitalism. Today, the resources of the planet in the third world are largely becoming the private property of corporations centered in the first world. The natural wealth, as well as the created wealth produced by cheap labor in the third world, is syphoned from the poorer regions of the world to serve the exorbitant consumer desires (not the needs) of the 10% of the global population who benefit from this unworkable and immoral economic and political world system.
This entire system is protected and promoted by the military might of first world nations under the deceptive code-word of "promoting investment stability" around the globe on behalf of multinational corporations, the IMF, and the World Bank. The United States trains military personnel is some 80 countries worldwide in "counter-insurgency warfare," that is, in the methods and techniques of repressing their own populations that are being hurt by this global system of exploitation.
The global economic system working in tandem with the system of sovereign, militarized nation-states has little interest in creating a holistic world system that establishes peace, protects the planetary environment, and satisfies the basic human needs of all persons. Indeed, NATO, under the leadership of the US, has become the new neo-colonial dominator, sending troops to destroy the lives and infrastructures of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere in the service of the global empire. The 2% of the world's population who own 50% of its wealth must be protected from the vast majority of the world's citizens who live in insecurity, poverty, and ever-increasing misery. The title of a recent book calls the Earth: "planet of slums."
In sum, we have a series of interrelated global crises that the present global economic and political system cannot deal with, for you cannot create holistic solutions from fragmented and fractured economic and political systems. Next, we have a list of eight very basic and fundamental human needs that cannot be addressed by the present global economic and political systems. Scholars have estimated that clean water and sanitation could be supplied to every person on Earth for merely US 400 billion per year, less than half of what the world spends annually on militarism. The present fractured world disorder cannot effectively deal with either our problems or our needs.
Planet Earth is an ecological whole, and the human species is a biological and civilizational whole, merging ever-more closely as travel and communications unite the world. Our global crises, and our inability to deal with the satisfaction of basic human needs are a direct result of fragmented economic and political institutions never designed to address our situation in its wholeness. The Constitution for the Federation of Earth is a holistic document designed to address both these fundamental aspects of our human situation – our global problems and our basic human needs.
My fourth and final point in this presentation, therefore, is that we need to ratify this Constitution, which is designed as a holistic peace system, a prosperity system, a justice system, a freedom system, and a sustainability system for the Earth. Addressing our basic human needs requires the same holistically designed system as required to address our global crises. The rule of democratically legislated law is the foundation of any possible peace system, just as within nations where there is democratic law a peace system has been established in which conflicts are resolved nonviolently through dialogue, mediation, courts, and due process of law. Under the present international war system, there is no rule of enforceable law over the nations or the leaders of nations as individuals, and hence no possibility of establishing peace for humankind.
Protection of the environment, careful assessment of technology and human productive activities, research designed to foster efficiency, development of renewable energy and resources, and the holistic rule of law governing the Earth in the service of sustainability and the ecological health of the planet are built into the Earth Constitution in a multiplicity of ways. Article one of the Earth Constitution lists the purposes of the Earth Federation as follows: (1) prevent war and secure disarmament, (2) protect human rights worldwide, (3) create the conditions for universal prosperity, (4) regulate and protect world resources, (5) protect the environment and the ecological fabric of life, and (6) devise solutions for all problems beyond the scope of national governments and plan for the future.
The same is true with regard to basic human needs. The Constitution identifies the range of basic needs in a variety of its articles and institutionalizes their satisfaction within Articles 12 and 13 as fundamental human rights. It creates a democratic world system designed to holistically address these needs while the same system establishes peace and sustainability. It recognizes that world peace and environmental sustainability provide the necessary framework for satisfying all other human needs. All these factors go together as products of a holistic political and economic system for the Earth: peace, sustainability, and the satisfaction of basic human needs.
Similarly, the opposite of these three factors is the manifest result of the current fragmented economic and political institutions of the planet: war, unsustainability, and the inability to meet basic human needs. Modification or evolution of the present fragmented system, for example, through attempts to reform the United Nations, cannot address our human situation adequately. It cannot produce a peace system, a sustainability system, or a prosperity system directed toward satisfying our basic human needs and can only lead to continuing disaster. Under the Earth Constitution the viable agencies of the United Nations are integrated into the ministries of the Federation of Earth, so what is valuable about the UN is not lost but empowered to really address our human situation.
In conclusion, then, the Constitution for the Federation of Earth offers our best hope for creating a holistic system for the Earth before it is too late. Attempting to draft a new constitution or proposing some alternative would amount to trying to reinvent the wheel, since so much work has already been accomplished and disseminated throughout the world regarding the Earth Constitution. The Constitution can be ratified in three measured stages according to Article 17, and provisional world government can be initiated here and now at the same time that the process of ratification is moving forward. Ratification is doable, practical, and it is the compelling need of the hour.
We must act with determination and vision to end the institutional fragmentation that is the root of our planetary crises and to create the holistic solution that alone will make possible a decent future for humanity. Tomorrow is too late, and the time is now to organize and promote the ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.


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2011 National Field Trial Championship
Strideaway congratulates Ike Todd and Keith Wright, owners of Touch's Whiteout, on this well-deserved win. From all accounts, the dog did a magnificent job for Ike and we await the official description from the American Field's Bernie Matthys who reported the event. Congratulations also go to scout, Nick Thompson and Blair Conley. This is not the first occasion Nick has scouted a dog to a National Championship win.
One of Touch's Whiteout's qualifying wins to get him to the National was the All-America Derby Championship held in Galatia, IL, March 8, 2010 — less than one year ago. At the time the dog was named "Lester's White Out" and was owned by Gary Lester. Here is the description of his performance:
"Lester's White Out, handled in the second brace by Ike Todd, had owner Gary Lester scouting. White Out had three picture perfect finds which were spread nicely during the hour. The first was at 24 when birds were flushed from briars that were growing around a fallen tree. The second was at 35 in a thicket of honeysuckle. At 56 Todd raised his cap the third time and soon flushed quail that White Out pointed to the left side of a mowed field. The strong pointer hunted aggressively and consistently for the entire 60 minutes covering a lot of ground. His carriage was beautiful and he was a pleasure to watch."
Judges for the All-America Derby were Frank LaNasa and Jerry Kolter, both well-known and respected trainers/handlers from Minnesota with a wealth of knowledge of wild bird dogs. We are proud that both men are contributors to Strideaway.


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We currently need 1.75 Earths to sustain Earth's population. Last year, the world ran through a year's worth of resources on the 29th of July. If everyone in the world lived like Australians, we'd use more than the Earth can renew in a year by the 23rd of March.
You've probably heard these numbers before – or numbers like them. You've probably also heard of the term "ecological footprint". But how are these numbers figured out, and who came up with them?
Dr Mathis Wackernagel, now director of the Global Footprint Network, coined the term 'ecological footprint' in the early 1990s, along with his PhD supervisor, Professor William Rees.
But while he popularised the term – and now leads the network that tracks biocapacity – he says he didn't invent it. Biocapacity has always existed, and he merely described it.
Cosmos sat down with Wackernagel to learn more about biocapacity and how it's calculated.
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It game is first for Newcastle since the renewal of the Premier League. The team is currently placed 14th and it seems that they have no chances to move-up significantly in the league table, while the team is not endangered from relegation as well. It is clear that the goals of Newcastle for the next campaign will be higher and the team will focus on top 10 at least. The team is expected to be very active during the transfer window due to the funds of their and new owner.
Sheffield has already taken part in the postponed game from Round 28 against Aston Villa. The team scored a goal but it was further cancelled. In the end, the match finished 0-0. We could expect that Sheffield is going to rely on their defensive style with lethal counter-attacks. The team still has chances even for top 4 but let's be honest, Sheffield did already impress us throughout the season, they over accomplished their goals for the current campaign.
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Financial literacy is the ability to use skills and knowledge to take effective and informed money-management decisions. For a country like India, this plays a bigger role as it is considered an important adjunct in the promotion of financial inclusion and ultimately financial stability.
As per a global survey by Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC (S&P) less than 25 per cent of adults are financially literate in South Asian countries. For an average Indian, financial literacy is yet to become a priority. India is home to 17.5 per cent of the world's population but nearly 76 per cent of its adult population does not understand even the basic financial concepts.
Yes. Lack of financial literacy is a sad reality in India. However, some bright minds are tapping into this very space and investing their time and energy in educating Indians. Three young souls, Vivek Bajaj, Vineet Patwari and Vinay Pagaria are exactly doing the same through their fintech organisation named Kredent InfoEdge. Their aim is to build a complete ecosystem of financial management, which would guide a user to learn, analyse and participate in various financial products in the right manner.
Kredent's story started back in 2006 when Bajaj, armed with an experience in trading in the derivatives market and working as a commodities analyst at JM Financials, set up an exchange desk for trading in equities and commodities.
When began recruiting for the trading desk, he got acquainted with the lack of financial literacy among young Indians. This prompted him to set up Kredent Academy in 2008 where he offered courses in financial markets largely targeting students who pursued higher education in commerce, economics, management and business studies. "Our main objective was to train people on financial markets and enhance financial literacy as much as possible," said Bajaj, the current MD of the organisation.
Vineet Patawari, the current CEO at Kredent InfoEdge, joined the bandwagon on 2010. So far, the fintech has successfully trained more than 150,000 students all across the country.
However, being driven in life, Bajaj craved for more and felt the need to reach out to students via the online medium. He knew that he had to leverage the online space if he had to taste success. Thus he ended up launching a completely new venture named Elearnmarkets. This particular endeavour was aimed at offering exclusive courses on finances through video-based sessions as well as offer live courses via interactive web conferences. This is when the third partner, Vinay Pagaria stepped in to lead the technology aspect of the organisation. Gradually, as its courses started gaining popularity, the trio thought of further strengthening the certifications. In order to do so, they tied up with a half-a-dozen financial institutions including NSE Academy, NCDEX and MCX. They even went on to tie-up with the city's top-notch educational institution, St. Xavier's College in order to impart financial education to young minds, through full-fledged certification courses. The latter has already witnessed participation from more than 40,000 individuals including both students and young professionals.
With the success of Kredent Academy and Elearnmarkets, the trio was further motivated to tap into more finance markets. An analysis of the markets led them to realise that there is a need for a basic analytical tool that could help people comprehend market data properly. This led them to launch their third wing of the organisation named StockEdge.
StockEdge is a self-help market analytics app designed to help investors and even novices comprehend stock market dynamics with ease. In three years' time, the app has been downloaded a million times and needless to say millions across the country are benefitting from the same. It has recently introduced a premium plan and the StockEdge Club, a community of stock market investors, which focuses on providing education and networking opportunities. Gradually, in the journey of StockEdge, the founders apprehended financial data, including market data and other corporate data undergoing phenomenal evolution with technology like XBRL and online unstructured social data.
On its expansion of StockEdge, its founder, Bajaj was quoted saying, "now we are working on building exhaustive database of structured and unstructured information related to the small and medium size listed companies in India."
When it comes to the users of the various segments of Kredent InfoEdge, the main target audience happens to be college and university students as well as young professionals who wish to enhance their financial skills and investors and traders interested in stock markets. The age group ranges anywhere between 20 and 36. "We wish to simplify financial needs across age profile by meeting their learning, analytics and execution or advisory need at different phases of life," Bajaj further added. Kredent Venture's steady growth in the space from offline to online and then to a successful mobile app online highlights the increasing demand for financial education and the need for more innovation in the space.


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Everyone has a favorite school lunch or a favorite subject. A recent survey was sent out to NHHS to discover what kinds of "favorites" students share-- in particular, their favorite lunches and subjects. The results of this survey are as listed below.
Cecelia Malone, junior, was asked what her favorite school lunch was. She responded with, "I love the breaded chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. It just tastes really good." Her favorite school subject is math because "it relaxes her and relieves her stress when she accomplishes an equation."
Lydia Otten, sophomore, was asked what her favorite lunch was. Her reply was, "I would pick hamburgers because who doesn't love hamburgers?"
Meagan Holtmeyer, sophomore, was also asked what her favorite lunch was. She said, "Something with mashed potatoes. I don't care what it is, but the mashed potatoes are the best because they are [so] creamy."
Owen Borcherding, freshman, said that his favorite lunch was chicken alfredo because "it just tastes so good, and it fills him up." He was asked if he thinks they should serve it more. He said, "Yes, because I only had it three times this year, and I remember not having it as much as all the other meals."
Dianna Ribera, junior, was asked what her favorite school subject was. She responded, "Art/Commercial Arts [would be my favorite because] I can be as creative as I want and I can learn some new things when I'm working on a project. I like being able to show New Haven videos I have made for the students whenever we have an event going on."
Alyssa Sidwell, freshman, said that her favorite subject was math. "I've always liked math. I like learning new equations, memorizing numbers, and learning about binomials and trinomials."
Johnna Bloch, sophomore, talked about her favorite subject, and said what her previous favorite subject was as well. "I would have to say Foods because I love cooking. Child Development used to be my favorite class, but now I [just] love [to cook].
Miranda Durbin, junior, was asked what her favorite subject was. She responded, "I like all of my subjects, even if I'm not good at them. I do especially like math, mostly when it's only easy material."
In response to whether or not it had always been her favorite, Miranda added, "Sort of. Math has always been a favorite of mine, and I'm not sure why. I just like it. But I hate it too, but only because it can go wrong and [get] confusing really quickly."
There were a lot of similarities with favorite subjects among the students. Out of all the given responses, 7 students said Math was their favorite; 2 students picked English; 1 student picked Science; 5 students picked other activities such as P.E. and Art. 1 student also said that both Math and English were their favorites.
According to the survey results, there was a variety of favorite lunches such as pizza, chicken alfredo, holiday meals, etc.
These were just some of the students' favorites here at NHHS. To see more featured school favorites, check out Callie Weatherly's upcoming article on favorite teachers.


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Italy has closed its ports to NGO-run migrant rescue vessels due to safety concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic. NGOs and activists have criticized this decision. Meanwhile, improved weather conditions have led to more departures of migrants, trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
The Italian government closed its ports to NGO-run migrant rescue ships on Wednesday. The foreign, interior, transport and health ministers -- respectively Luigi Di Maio, Luciana Lamorgese, Paola De Micheli and Roberto Speranza -- signed a decree, which will be valid for the entire period of the emergency.
The decree says that "for the entire period" of the coronavirus emergency "Italian ports do not ensure the necessary conditions to be ... defined as a place of safety." It also says that it is "not possible" to open Italian ports "without compromising the functionality of national health, logistic and security facilities dedicated to the containment of the spread of contagion and to the treatment of Codiv-19 patients."
Some left-wing politicians, including members of the Democratic Party, protested against the decree. However, other pro-migration politicians expressed their support for the decree. Pozzallo Mayor Roberto Ammatuna, who many in Italy see as a poster child of integration, said he was against the arrival of another NGO-run ship, the Sea Eye, because "the health of my community comes first," he said.
Alan Kurdi denied permission to dock
German-flagged rescue vessel Alan Kurdi, which is travelling towards Sicily with 150 rescued migrants on board, was denied permission to dock.
The Italian transport ministry said that the new decree applied to "cruise and passenger ships with foreign flags," passing responsibility for the Alan Kurdi to its flag state, Germany. Italy, the ministry said, is ready to collaborate "if it is certain" that Berlin will take care of the 150 migrants, although countries have nearly entirely suspended the transfer of migrants due to the coronavirus emergency.
Landings resume in Italy
Italy saw fewer migrant sea arrivals in March, but arrivals seem to be on the rise again in April, likely due to favorable weather conditions.
A reported 110 people landed in Lampedusa on Wednesday. They could not be transferred to the local hotspot because 46 people who arrived last Monday are currently in quarantine. Many of the foreigners are currently without accommodation and local residents are protesting against the situation. Mayor Totò Martello said the migrants should stay on a boat "docked in front of the port," because it is the "only solution possible" given that there is "no more space" on the island.


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Project Vs. General Operating Support: Need it Be Either/Or?
With reports from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the Center for Effective Philanthropy, among others, focusing on program vs. operating costs, I am often asked how donors and family funders are dealing with this debate. I remember the passionate debate that followed a major paper on this issue by Michael Seltzer and Michael Cunningham – and I am sure those who have been in philanthropy longer remember previous iterations.
The positions are much the same as they were some years ago. Those who support funding special projects and programs talk about the scarce resources private philanthropy has at its discretion. They believe these resources are too scarce to fund operations and fear organizations will become dependent on them for ongoing sustainability. Further, they hope private funders will take some risks with their grants and fund important things that others may not.
Those who fund operating or general expenses seek out grantees that match their values, mission and goals and provide general support so grant dollars can be spent as needed. They see themselves as investing in leadership and vision. They talk about grantees bending over backwards to fit their work into acceptable projects or, worse, risk their general stability to accept a large proportion of funding for special projects.
Others don't see the debate as either/or. They may prefer to fund projects but will accept or add some percentage to the project total for general expenses. Others may provide general operating support and note that the grant is to help the grantee meet organizational objectives. The grant agreement may include some benchmarks so there is accountability for how and when those goals are met – what some have called "negotiated general operating support."
Donors and family funders often have a special perspective on this conversation. Some have a special connection with or personal knowledge of the grantee and the relationship has gone on for many years. Because the relationship is likely based on experience and trust, these funders are very likely to make general support grants. This same experience and trust makes it easy for the funder to step in quickly during difficult times. In fact, the question is not whether to provide general support or project funding, but how to ensure the relationship stays fresh and effective and that communications and accountability are appropriate.
Some donors and families may not accept unsolicited proposals at all. They may seek out grantees that match their interests and provide project or general support. While the concept of not accepting unsolicited proposals carries its own controversy, it is a frequent choice of those who have the staffing help to identify prospective grantees and those who are volunteer managed and prefer identifying grantees to taking on the potentially formidable task of responding to inquiries.
My own feelings about the program or general support debate have evolved since reading that report in the '80s. Some of that evolution is due to the paradoxical nature of my current job. I spend my work life focusing on what it takes to establish and maintain an effective family grantmaking program – but I can only do that work by managing an effective grantseeking organization!
The National Center for Family Philanthropy is blessed with a truly remarkable Board of Directors who understands this paradox. They have helped me understand how important it is to invest in the organizational effectiveness of nonprofits and have brought that understanding to their care for the development of the National Center.
Our Board and staff have spent the last year engaged in a business planning process. The Board recognized that we were at a point when we needed to examine both our program choices and our sustainability. Their commitment to this organization prompted them to take this on personally – naming themselves as the planning committee and providing the funding for the process.
We were fortunate to work with the staff of Wellspring Consulting who understood our concerns for both our mission and our financial viability. We learned that we will always take on some causes and work because of our values and mission, even if there may not be an immediate market for that work. We learned that our ongoing supporters – our Friends of the Family – are critical to our ability to be available for all donor families in need. We renewed our appreciation for funders who saw the value of our projects and were willing to invest in the potential of those projects. And we learned that we must structure the resources and services that earn critical income to ensure our sustainability.
The implementation of this business plan is off to a great start because of a family foundation that took the time to share their experience with other grantees with us. They helped us see that the implementation of the plan had to be as thoughtful and bold as the planning process itself. Their technical assistance has been as valuable as the generous grant they made for business planning implementation.
I am not sure if that grant was for general operations or a special project – it seems to be the perfect marriage of both. And that may be as perfect as this subjective argument can ever be. As with most governance and grantmaking decisions, your choice is likely to be the result of your own values and mission and will derive from the impact you want to have. And, as most donors report to me, when they have engaged in a thoughtful consideration of facts, experience, and mission, their decisions have been the most satisfying and important to their success.
You will begin to see the signs of our business planning implementation. Changes to improve our website, FP Online, and even this newsletter are planned for the next several months. Changes will also improve the way we package our services and manage our relationships.
One thing will not change: our commitment to enhance our position as the only organization that draws its inspiration, mission, and programming from the personal participation of donors and donor families. In addition to what I learned about marketing and sustainability, I learned a lot about why we must ensure the sustainability of the National Center for Family Philanthropy. It is our commitment to encouraging and supporting philanthropic families. New donors, donor families in transition, those considering a philanthropic commitment – all are foremost in our minds and our programs. It is our commitment to being here when you need us as well as to collaboratively working with and through staff, advisors, and colleague organizations so that our resources are well and widely shared.
Representing the needs and interests of donors and donor families is a special privilege and responsibility. I hope you will always share your thoughts, reactions to our programs, and concerns with us so we represent you well. These ideas not only encourage and challenge us; they are the sustenance that makes this such exciting work and such a special organization.


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Have you heard of Stone Soup magazine? It's a wonderful publication featuring creative stories and poems by children ages 8-13. Stone Soup also offers beautiful art prints from children around the world. Many of the prints have been around since the start of Stone Soup, founded in 1973.
You can view children's art by subject or country. Many are archivally printed as 13″ x 9″ prints. Here are some of my favorites:
Planet With Five Suns by Vika Sycheva, age 8, USSR
Playing At School by Souad Ramadan Mouhamad, age 13, Egypt
Baking Bread At Home by Saben Hassan El Sharkawi, Egypt
Ice Skating by Heather Karaka, age 10, New Zealand
At The Zoo by W. Sala, age 12, Switzerland
The Bride by Panayiota Tsikou, age 8, Cyprus
If you've got young creative writers or illustrators at home, they can submit their work to Stone Soup.
View all the art prints for purchase on Stone Soup's online store.


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Tonight's WWE SmackDown on FOX episode ended with "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt attacking Alexa Bliss and putting her down with the Mandible Claw.
The SmackDown main event saw WWE Women's Tag Team Champion Bayley retain her SmackDown Women's Title over Nikki Cross. After the match, Bliss tried to console a frustrated Cross, but Cross shoved her to the mat and walked off. That's when SmackDown went black. The red lights came back up and made the ring glow as the eerie horror sound played in the background. The Fiend was standing behind Bliss.
The Fiend circled Bliss while she looked up from the mat, terrified. He then knelt down in Bliss' face and raised his hand in the air for the Mandible Claw. The Fiend finally brought his hand back down, slowly, and put his fingers in Bliss' mouth to bring her flat on the mat with the Mandible Claw. SmackDown then went off the air.
A new Firefly Fun House segment aired earlier during SmackDown where Wyatt joked about WWE Universal Champion Braun Strowman still being stuck in the swamp after the Wyatt Swamp Fight that closed WWE's recent Horror Show at Extreme Rules pay-per-view. The Fun House segment also saw Wyatt claim that he never wanted to hurt Strowman, but now The Fiend wants what Strowman has and until The Fiend gets that, no one is safe.
WWE first used Bliss in the Wyatt vs. Strowman feud during the recent Wyatt Swamp Fight where an image of Bliss, possibly appearing as Sister Abigail, was used to lure Strowman into a trap set by Wyatt. The angle played off Strowman's past with Bliss, including their time together in the Mixed Match Challenge. At the time it wasn't clear if Wyatt was just using Bliss to lure Strowman to the attack during that Swamp Fight match, or if she would become a regular part of the Wyatt vs. Strowman storyline.
There's no word yet on what WWE has planned next for Wyatt and Strowman, but it's believed that Strowman will defend the WWE Universal Title against The Fiend at WWE SummerSlam on August 23. Stay tuned for updates.
Below are a few shots from tonight's show-closing angle with Bliss and The Fiend on SmackDown:


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NORRTÄLJE, Sweden (PRWEB) September 03, 2015
Author Ante Eklof's debut novel, "Ikon" (published by Abbott Press), depicts interracial romance amidst backdrop of racism in 1960s American South.
A young, naïve Swedish man arrives in Alabama, unprepared for the racially polarized American South of the 1960s. He witnesses a white man bullying a young black woman. He is fascinated by her dark beauty and risks everything to break the taboo of interracial romance.
"'Ikon' is not just a Romeo and Juliet story," Eklof says. "I want to show that there are complex and unique psychological factors in the 'American Dilemma' that even the famous and exhaustive 1,500 page study of that name preferred to leave unexplored.
An excerpt from "Ikon":
"Born of his pain, a surprising insight came to him as a sudden flash of revelation. It was a curious insight, a peephole into the glowing lava currents of subconsciousness.
He detested those men because of what they stood for and what they held holy. They doted on depictions of a half-naked, pale, emaciated, bloody, tortured-to-death Jesus. They revered the symbol of pain, humiliation, and death! On the other hand, in their twisted minds, they were convinced that sex with black people was terrifyingly sinful. They denied their hunger for passion and fleshly pleasure and thought that those things led to eternal suffering in hell.
How insanely macabre, sick, and irrational! They reverently drank the blood and ate the flesh of innocent Jesus, convinced that doing so would save them from Satan's clutches—provided that they felt enough guilt and remorse and denounced all that led them into temptation."
By Ante Eklof
Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 234 pages | ISBN 9781458216335
Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 234 pages | ISBN 9781458216311
E-Book | 234 pages | ISBN 9781458216328
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
The experience of living in the American South in the 1960s was revelatory for Ante Eklof. "Ikon" depicts Eklof's dramatic encounter with the complex and emotion-laden issues of the 1960s American South. Inspired by these experiences, and intrigued by those issues, Eklof wrote "Ikon," his debut novel.
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