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Kevin McGill
NEW ORLEANS — Twelve years ago Pierre A. Capdau Middle School became a symbol of all that was considered wrong with New Orleans' scandal-scarred school system and a test case in how to solve its problems.
Voters throughout Louisiana had, months earlier, approved a constitutional amendment allowing the state to take over schools deemed to be failing. Capdau was the first to be taken over and placed in what was then the new Recovery School District.
Now, Capdau is on the road to returning to the Orleans Parish School Board fold, albeit much later than many would have liked, and under a much different system of management.
In 2004, the state made Capdau a charter school, a public school that receives public money but run with great autonomy under a charter granted to an independent organization. The education college at the University of New Orleans began running Capdau, which now is part of the New Beginnings Schools Foundation charter organization.
Back in 2004, the idea was that the state would take over the worst of the worst schools, in New Orleans or elsewhere, turn them around, and return them to local governance in as little as five years.
But a lot has happened since 2004. Compounding the perennial poor performance of most New Orleans public schools was the realization of system corruption that included a former president of the school board who pleaded guilty in 2007 to taking more than $100,000 in bribes.
Federal investigations would result in close to two dozen guilty pleas or convictions in connection with school system corruption. And those investigations would play out against the backdrop of destruction caused by levee failures following Hurricane Katrina.
That catastrophic flooding of 2005 set the stage for a wider-scale takeover by the RSD of all but a handful of schools from the local school board, and the eventual chartering of all those schools.
Slow but measurable improvement has resulted at many schools. So has pain and resentment — among teachers and school workers who were unceremoniously let go after the storm diminished the city's population and among people in communities that lost control of local schools that had been symbols of neighborhood identity.
There is also lingering confusion caused by a patchwork of governance involving the local board, the RSD and the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Even as some schools improved enough to be eligible to return to Orleans Parish School Board control, they resisted. Last year, the state said 36 schools met the criteria to return to the local board. Only one did.
Now, Capdau is joining a handful of others making the move this year.
"The timing is appropriate," said Sametta Brown, CEO of New Beginnings Schools Foundation, the charter organization for Capdau.
What's changed?
Until last year, the local board couldn't agree on a permanent superintendent. The deadlock was broken last year when Henderson Lewis took the position.
"The appointment of Superintendent Lewis is showing the public that Orleans Parish is becoming stable," Brown said.
Some things won't change. Capdau will remain a charter. New Beginnings will remain in charge of operations of the school. But it will be up to the Orleans Parish School Board to oversee New Beginnings' performance and progress and decide, when the time comes, whether to renew its charter.
Brown acknowledged the dissatisfaction many in New Orleans feel when they want to take concerns to a locally elected board, rather than a state education board that usually meets in Baton Rouge.
For Capdau parents, the physical distance and political insulation is about to diminish.
Kevin McGill is an Associated Press reporter in New Orleans


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Nexstar Poll: Rispone overtakes Abraham in LA Governor's race
by: Austin Kellerman
Eddie Rispone, left, responds to a question as Gov. John Bel Edwards, center, and Republican Rep. Ralph Abraham, right, watch as they participate in the first televised gubernatorial debate Thursday Sept. 19, 2019, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)
BATON ROUGE, La. (NEXSTAR) – A new poll conducted just days before Saturday's election shows incumbent Democrat John Bel Edwards is not likely to pull off an outright win in the Governor's race, and which Republican will make the runoff to challenge him in November is up in the air thanks to a statistical tie.
According to an exclusive Nexstar poll conducted by JMC Analytics and Polling in Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge businessman and Republican challenger Eddie Rispone has overtaken Republican Congressman Ralph Abraham for a possible slot in the general election against Edwards.
Rispone sits one point higher than Abraham which represents a substantial gain over a previous poll conducted in mid-September.
At that point, Rispone had 16% support to Abraham's 24%. During this week's polling, Rispone's support jumped to 21% while Abraham dropped to 20%. Governor Edwards appears in an easy position to advance to the general election at 43%.
12% of those polled were undecided. That's a drop from 16% in our previous poll.
Adding up the responses from those who are undecided, but "leaning," the poll shows Edwards with a total of 47% of the vote. Analysis from these polls results indicates that black Democrat Omar Dantzler's 3% is keeping Edwards just short of 50%.
Primary election day is Saturday, October 12. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the top two vote earners will face off in the November 16 general election.
The poll also shows Edwards winning by at least 9% in potential head-to-head matchups against Republican opponents in November. In both races, the percentage of undecided voters was large enough to make up the difference.
Source: JMC Analytics and Polling
It's worth noting supplemental questions showed Governor Edwards with a 50% approval rating along with 50% of those polled saying the state is better off than it was four years ago.
According to analysis from JMC Analytics and Polling:
Governor Edwards' messaging has consistently noted improvements that have occurred during his time in office. Voters generally agree: they by a 50-29% margin believe the state is better off than it was four years ago, and by a similar 50-32% margin approve of Governor Edwards' job performance. There is considerable polarization on these questions, and these polarization patterns illustrate the bases of support of the major candidates for Governor. Blacks approve of Governor Edwards' job performance 77-6%, and by a similar 72-9% margin believe the state is better off than it was four years ago. White Democrats are similarly inclined, with less one sided support/optimism: 57-24% believe the state is better off, while 54-29% approve of Governor Edwards. White Independents are of a similar mindset, but not as overwhelmingly as blacks and white Democrats are: 42-30% believe the state is better off, while 41-37% approve of Governor Edwards' job performance. Republicans, however, believe the state is worse off by a 48-30% margin, and by a wider 53-26% margin disapprove of Governor Edwards' job performance.
These contradictory opinions demonstrate why Governor Edwards is well ahead of his two major Republican challengers, while simultaneously falling short of 50%. While Governor Edwards maintains strong support among black voters (75% on the ballot test/77% if "leaners" are included), fellow Democrat Omar Dantzler is a distraction, receiving 5% of the black vote regardless of whether "leaners" are included. He similarly maintains majority support both among white Democrats (52%/54% if "leaners" are included) and a respectable percentage of white Independents (29%/34% with "leaners" included). He is also getting a noticeable portion of the Republican vote (17%/18% with "leaners" included).
Thus far, Eddie Rispone has clung to a tiny lead over Congressman Ralph Abraham, due to a small plurality (3735%, regardless of whether leaners are included) among Republican voters. However, support for either Republican candidate drops off outside that demographic: with "leaners" included, Abraham leads 24-23% among white Independents, while Rispone has a 21-15% lead among white Democrats.
The survey was conducted October 5, 7, and 8. The margin of error, with a 95% confidence interval, was 4.0%. The demographic breakdown of the respondents was 68-29% white/black (3% "other"), while the party registration of respondents was 45-35% Democratic/Republican (20% Independents). The geographic breakdown of the respondents was as follows: 5% from Alexandria, 20% from Baton Rouge, 14% from Lafayette, 6% from Lake Charles, 9% from Monroe, 35% from New Orleans, and 12% from Shreveport.
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With anger spreading in the U.S. territory after video of the event in Ponce appeared on Facebook, Gov. Wanda Vázquez quickly fired the director of the island's emergency management agency.
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A blood test can predict Alzheimer's
US researchers from Georgetown University in Washington DC have revealed that a blood test can accurately forecast the onset of Alzheimer's disease. People suffering from advanced forms of Alzheimer's who are staying in expert care homes in Oxford and around the world are among those who could have benefited from this new form of early …
US researchers from Georgetown University in Washington DC have revealed that a blood test can accurately forecast the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
People suffering from advanced forms of Alzheimer's who are staying in expert care homes in Oxford and around the world are among those who could have benefited from this new form of early diagnosis of the disease, according to research by scientists.
The research found that, by testing levels of 10 fats in the blood, scientists could predict the risk of Alzheimer's developing in the next three years. The new blood test method is also reportedly up to 90 percent accurate.
The scientists took blood from a total of 525 people over the age of 70. They then analysed 53 samples of blood from people who developed Alzheimer's and compared these to blood from 53 people who stayed mentally agile.
Their findings, which were published on the Nature Medicine website, will now undergo further clinical testing.
If the blood test and research is proven to help identify the onset of Alzheimer's then it may be rolled out internationally.
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Shiann Lockhart has survived two and a half painful, difficult years.
Now it's time for her to do some living.
Shiann, 2, was born in September 2013 with multiple heart defects, and received a heart transplant when she was just five week old. She recovered well at first, but developed a form of infantile epilepsy after about a year. Then, in 2016, Shiann's parents got devastating news: their daughter had developed post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD), a type of cancer that occurs in one to 10% of transplant recipients, according to the Lymphoma Association. The cancer had spread from her lymph nodes to her brain and all over her small, embattled body.
That's when Shiann's parents decided she'd been through enough painful treatment, and wrote their almost-three-year-old a bucket list.
Shiann's parents created a bucket list and shared it on social media.
Facebook/Shianns Bucket ListShiann painting a canvas.
On June 6, Lockhart posted to a 42-item list to a Facebook group called Shianns Bucket List. It included some little things — a mother-daughter spa day, making a blanket fort, going to the movies. But it also some major milestones, like going to prom, getting a driver's licence, and having a graduation — the things all parents imagine their child experiencing. Shiann would just have to do it all in fast-forward.
Lockhart opened the group to the public, calling for new ideas. Then she got to work crossing things off the list.
The first items accomplished were numbers eight and 11: "Baptism" and "drive a car" (with a little help from an adult, of course). Then Lockhart's Columbus, Ohio, community caught wind of the project, and the bucket list took off.
Facebook/Shiann's Bucket ListShiann on a date with her grandfather.
The local community stepped in to help make bucket list items a reality.
A local youth athletic association arranged for her to throw out the first pitch at one of her brother's baseball games. The fire department has offered to give her a ride on one of its trucks. The Columbus Police Department scheduled a helicopter ride. A local company set up a Disney princess tea party for her.
Shiann went on a date with her grandfather, complete with a bouquet of roses. She painted a canvas, rode a motorcycle, and made her own root beer float. She even appeared on TV when a local news station featured her story.
Supporters across the globe even found a way to help Shiann cross off item number 20, "travel the world" — at least in spirit. Group members have flooded the Facebook page with images of Shiann photoshopped into iconic destinations like New York City, the Great Wall of China, and Hawaii.
Facebook/Shianns Bucket ListShiann takes a simulated trip to the Great Wall in China.
Shiann is excited about every new activity she tries — she's crossed 8 items of the 71-item list, and has another 41 in the works.
As of this writing, Shiann's Bucket List is 71 items long. Eight items are already checked off, and 41 more are already scheduled.
Facebook/Shianns Bucket ListShiann threw out the first pitch at a youth baseball game.
Lockhart hopes that sharing this story publicly will raise awareness about both congenital heart defects and PTLD. But she also hopes it will inspire others to celebrate life — the same way that Shiann does every day.
Learn more about this project at Shianns Bucket List on Facebook.


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In 2003, the French conductor founded the orchestra Les Siècles, which performs exciting programmes on both modern and period instruments. The ensemble celebrated the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps in 2013 by performing the work on original instruments in a number of European cities. The CD recording won the 2016 German Record Critics' Award. Roth and Les Siècles reach more than three million viewers a week via the television series Presto! on France 2.
Roth served as chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg from 2011 to 2016. During his tenure, he focused on the work of Richard Strauss and collaborated with such composers as Rihm, Lachenmann and Widmann. He was appointed Generalmusikdirektor of the city of Cologne in 2015, and, in that capacity, holds the post of chief conductor of both the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Cologne Opera. Since 2017, he has also served as principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He also makes regular guest appearances with various European, American and Japanese orchestras.
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Students see the recent impeachment inquiry as justified
Julia Nagel, Co-Editor in Chief|October 18, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump on Sept. 24, an action that students have been following closely.
The inquiry will investigate the potential constitutional violations that Trump committed when he pressured the Ukrainian President to investigate Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden.
Many students from across the political spectrum have stated that the inquiry is justified.
"If he tried to cover up in the first place, then clearly he knows what he's doing is wrong," said senior Caitlin Carr-Smith.
Junior David Tabarez-Cisneros, head of the Republican club, agreed.
"I think these proceedings are justified and any president should be held accountable if they break the law, regardless of party or affiliation. I also think that Trump should be given a fair trial," said Tabarez-Cisneros.
Tabarez-Cisneros added that Biden should also be investigated.
"I think Joe Biden should also be investigated alongside Trump due to [Biden's] withholding of funds to Ukraine during 2015-2016," said Tabarez-Cisneros.
Though junior Gavin Tian, secretary of the Republican club, agreed that the proceedings could be justified if a crime is determined, he worried that the inquiry might simply be a way for the Democrats to target Trump ahead of the 2020 elections.
"I think this is really overhyped and it can potentially go in the direction of the Mueller probe, where a link wasn't really found," said Tian.
To Tian, the outcome of the investigation will likely determine how he votes in the upcoming election.
"If the investigation turns out to lead to nothing it would make me a bit inclined to vote for Trump. But if the investigation leads to something big, I don't think I'll vote," said Tian.
Currently, six House committees are tasked with investigating Trump. They will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to recommend a full House vote on articles of impeachment.
If the House committees determine that there is sufficient evidence to proceed with the impeachment process, Trump's impeachment would require a majority vote in the House. If this were to happen, Trump's removal from office would still require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
Historically, only 2 presidents have been formally impeached–Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. However, neither President was removed from office.
Because of these factors, although many students predict that Trump will be impeached, few believe the President will actually be removed from office–especially since the 2020 election might come along before a decision has been reached.
Senior Charlotte Cleary, who identifies as Independent, doesn't believe the investigation will amount to anything.
"I don't know what will happen, but sadly I don't think much honestly. Every time the FBI has said they found the 'smoking gun' nothing happens; it's just gets swept under the rug," said Cleary.
Junior Ethan VanGosen, who is co-head of Non-Partisans Club, agreed that the proceedings will likely not have much of an impact on the President; he believes that the Republican controlled Senate is an insurmountable obstacle.
"I don't believe that the Senate, which is controlled by the Republicans, will vote to remove President Trump from office," said VanGosen.
The belief that Senate Republicans would never vote to remove Trump from office had previously discouraged Democrats from pursuing impeachment. However, the first whistleblower's report pushed many, including Speaker Pelosi and many moderate Democrats, to change their minds.
"The actions of the Trump presidency have revealed the dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections," said Pelosi in a statement to the press on Sept. 24.
The President has denied these allegations and refused to cooperate with the inquiry.
"The White House declared war on the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday [Oct. 8], announcing that it would not cooperate with what it called an illegitimate effort 'to overturn the results of the 2016 election' and setting the stage for a constitutional clash with far-reaching consequences," stated a New York Times article.
Junior Antigone Zervas, who supports the Democratic party, believes the investigation will exacerbate the polarization of American politics.
"I don't think anything will be achieved. I feel that this will divide the country more. In my opinion, there is no political benefit for the [Democrats] to attempt to impeach the President," said Zervas.
Despite the potential for partisan controversy, VanGosen believes the issues raised by the impeachment inquiry are important for all people, regardless of party affiliation, to consider.
"The American people deserve a leader that is transparent and acts on the will of the people. A good president should not use their power to accomplish personal interests," said VanGosen.
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пробовал через object:rotate(deltaAngle), получается, что при каждом нажатии на кнопку корабль вновь поворачивается, что мне не нужно
Возможно задать фиксированный поворот типа "я нажму на кнопку вверх, а потом еще раз, но ты в первый раз повернешься в позицию "на север", а во второй раз проигнорируешь, ведь ты уже повернут на север"?

A: При повороте запоминайте позицию.
При следующем нажатии на кнопку смотрите позицию, и если она не та, что нужно - игнорируйте.

A: Если  кораблик - объект, то у него нужно задать свойство "Направление". И прорисовывать уже в зависимости от этого свойства. Стрелками нужно только установить  это значение (1,2,3 или 4 ). Потом рисовать. Можно создать изначально 4 повернутых объекта (картинки) и использовать их или поворачивать один объект из исходного состояния на нужное количество градусов.

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Being a hip-hop fan in the late 80s and early '90s required active effort. Unlike today, the music was scarcely a blip on the pop culture radar: barely played on the radio (unless it was a big crossover hit like MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" or Young MC's "Bust a Move"), hard to find in record stores, and relegated to a couple of late night hours on TV in the form of Yo! MTV Raps. The internet wasn't even a thing yet. If you wanted to hear the latest sounds from emerging artists like Public Enemy, Brand Nubian and A Tribe Called Quest, you had to go looking for them.
So imagine my surprise one day when I was scanning through the radio dial and stumbled upon a faint, scratchy signal that caught my ear. I fiddled with the antenna, even relocated the radio itself, until the signal got a little stronger. Through the static I could make out the unmistakable sounds of the New York underground. It was 90.3 WRIU, URI's FM station, which almost inexplicably featured three hours of real hip-hop every weekday from 3-6pm. From that day on, I stayed glued to my radio every day from after school until dinnertime, keeping a blank cassette in the tape deck so that I could hit record whenever something new and exciting came on. What I didn't know at the time was that I wasn't just picking up a radio signal, I was tapping in to a community of hip-hop fans, DJs, rappers, graffiti artists, breakdancers, club promoters and more who all gravitated around this epicenter of the local hip-hop scene, which was improbably found in idyllic Kingston. And I wasn't alone.
Jim Brows, one of the current hosts of Tuesday's "Real Rap Radio" show, discovered WRIU even earlier. "I think one of my older cousins turned me on to it," he recalls. "I remember the first time I heard about 90.3 was at the first Fresh Fest," the first hip-hop tour to play major arenas with artists like Run DMC and Kurtis Blow back in the '80s.
Indeed, the hallowed halls of URI's Student Union, where WRIU's studios occupy a couple of rundown rooms on the third floor, have been a haven for generations of hip-hop artists and audiences in Rhode Island. "This is a torch that has been passed since people like Curty Cut way back in the day," says DJ Nook, the station's current hip-hop program director and co-host of "Real Rap Radio," of the five precious three-hour time slots that make up WRIU's hip-hop roster.
Many alumni of '90s and early Aughts shows have gone on to make careers in hip-hop. Big Stress, who co-hosted a show with Sage Francis, now occupies weeknights on Hot 106, Rhode Island's premier "rhythmic contemporary" (more radio programmer talk) station. DJ Mekalek moved to LA and found work as a DJ and producer for artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Masta Ace (a URI grad), and his own group, Time Machine. DJ Buck is now the Program Director for Connecticut's Hot 93.7. (As existing commercial stations like our own Kix 106 began playing more hip-hop and R&B in the '90s, they started adopting the "Hot" moniker, following the lead of New York City's Hot 97, the dominant hip-hop station at the time.) DJ Nook, who started around 2003 on Wednesday's "Sterbyrock Radio" (the station's longest-running hip-hop show at roughly 15 years), makes his full-time living as a club DJ.
Even though WRIU is located on a college campus in South County, its primary audience and influence has always been found well north of the Tower. "Local people pay more attention to 90.3 than the students do," notes DJ Nook. "People in the streets listen to this. People in jail depend on this, listening to it on their headphones." He points out with pride that when publications like Motif and (until recently) the Phoenix hand out local music awards, WRIU's roster of DJs is almost always well represented.
That disconnect between the student body and its on-campus station is even more pronounced now, in the era of Internet radio, streaming music services and smart phones. "Now you have your phone, you have YouTube, you have Spotify," explains DJ Nook. "If you want to hear a song you can just play it." However, for many older listeners, college radio in general and WRIU specifically remain vital connection points. "It's still kind of a lifeline for a lot of folks, particularly those who don't really know how to traverse the internet," says DJ Nook, who is 34.
Beyond keeping people connected to hip-hop, college radio also remains a crucial platform for discovering new music and artists. "If I wasn't with the station, I don't know if I'd still be looking for this music," Jim Brows, who is 40, speculates. "We'll be the first to play a lot of records commercial radio hasn't caught up to yet." For instance, he points out that WRIU was the first station to play current hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar's records to a Rhode Island audience.
Even smart phones, streaming music services and file sharing, which have proven a threat to commercial radio, have actually strengthened the audience for college radio. People who grew up on WRIU's hip-hop shows and have since left the state continue to stream it on their computers. Listeners who can't tune in live are able to download sets after the shows air. People around the world who continue to seek out real hip-hop find refuge in WRIU's programming, and the connectivity of the internet allows them access to a community that previously only stretched as far as the limits of the station's signal (which, on a good day, hits the tip of Long Island). "We've gotten shout-outs all the way from Australia to Nigeria to Sweden," Jim Brows boasts. "People in New York look at 90.3 as a bigger deal than people right down the hall," adds DJ Nook.
As long as there's an audience somewhere in the world, both WRIU (which is listener funded) and real hip-hop will continue to connect. And Bardwell believes there will always be another generation ready to discover them: "There are those who already know, and those who will find out. Hip-hop is here to stay, and the next generation is going to need to go find out where it is. As long as kids feel like they have a medium, they'll be here." Both my 34-year-old and 13-year-old selves couldn't agree more.


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Thoughts on year-end snubs, Yonkers expanding its oval and whether partnerships hurt the yearling game
All this, and more, in the final edition of Ask The Guru for 2019.
Tidbits: I have received lots of emails about what a great job Russell Williams is doing as USTA president. The word on the street is that he is getting things done, which certainly bodes well for us.
I stopped for a moment at the Harrisburg sale to offer him the compliments I had received and naturally he was very humble.
I do however strongly disagree with his assessment that the 60 directors are a necessity. Trim the fat. We do not need the expense and it is useless to the common good.
While ranting I will also point out that the USTA webpage is boring at best and changes so infrequently we may be better served by carrier pigeon.
My suggestion is trim the directors and use the money to have a full-time writer for the webpage with a 800 number so our flagship association can stay relevant.
I received a very newsworthy note from Gates Brunet praising me for defending the drives of Brian Sears on Greenshoe. Gates pointed out that Brian was asked by the connections of Bold Eagle to warm the horse up for them as is the custom in Europe. Unfortunately, Brian was a passenger and had to use every muscle in his body to hold the horse who was a runaway on the racetrack. Returning to the paddock spent, he had to jump on Greenshoe when he wasn't near to 100 per cent himself. This situation, plus the horrid weather, may have created the perfect storm that enabled his stablemate Gimpanzee to prevail.
Phillip DeLucca asks: It seems to me that the forming of partnerships has had a profound effect on the yearling business. What are the Guru's thoughts?
It's really funny that 20 years ago or so, I remember farm owners and managers crying that partnerships were killing them. George Segal would smile like a Cheshire Cat seeing a dogfight between Bob Suslow and Tony Pedone over a Brittany bred filly.
The emerging theory was that if Suslow and Pedone had become partners it would lessen the prices, which to some extent in those days was true.
Fast forward 20 years and guess what? The numbers are increasing at a spectacular rate and whether it is partnerships, the economy or both, something is going right.
Back in the day if you had $200,000 to buy a colt you were basically golden. In today's market at the two major sales venues Lexington and Harrisburg you could have gone home with nothing. It's nice to have unlimited funds and partnerships have definitely driven prices to new highs. Not that some couldn't afford the $1 million colt on their own but there is safety in numbers and split three ways it significantly lowers the degree of exposure.
In today's market, when the powerful teams bid against each other there are new benchmarks. The $200,000 colt is now $500,000 and the $500,000 colt no longer has a limit. If the financial climate remains it would not shock me to see new records every year. If the two big ticket colts fare well it would be sensational for the sport.
All this basically put me between a rock and a hard place trying to buy for Lindy Farm. When the Antonaccis bid, it's all their money, so to fight the partnerships of Alagna, Burke, or Svanstedt becomes an uphill struggle. I loved Reflect With Me last year when she sold as a yearling. She was small and should have been in my opinion under the $100,000 level. She was a half-sister to a Well Said filly I bought from Brittany for $23,000, Lucy's Pearl, winner of 23 races and $350,000. So she was an upgrade, but not a $100,000 upgrade. We were the underbidders to George Segal and Brad Grant at $120,000. I believe if we kept bidding we all would still be there. It's great to select a Breeders Crown winner, but better when she is in your barn not someone else's.
Paul Archer asks: I read on Facebook that Brad Grant was not listed in the Dan Patch owner of the year considerations, what's your take on that decision?
This is exactly why I refuse to join the U.S. Harness Writers Association. There is a core element that really has no interest at all and are influenced by others. This is why we have had such an odd array of nominations to the Hall Of Fame. Many times politics has reared its ugly head in Horse of the Year voting. The system as it stands now simply stinks of lack of interest and corruption. I myself have been a victim of the lack of knowledge among the harness writers. I don't want the Moiras and the Gordons, and the Davids to take my comments to heart. You all know me for more years than I wish to reveal and you in no way fall into this category. The ones that do, know who they are, I THINK.
Back to this year's choices — that as yet have not been published — but some have slipped through the cracks. I will discuss two. Brad Grant buying the first $1 million yearling to me is more than enough, to say nothing of his vast equine holdings and his amazing success on the racetrack, not only with great stakes horses but overnight horses as well. Add to this he is truly a wonderful guy.
I don't want to demean the real nominees, both have a reasonable claim but in this writer's opinion the winners are in no way comparable in overall achievements than Brad Grant.
While on the subject how did the harness writers leave out Joe Bongiorno for the Rising Star award? He won stakes for many top stables, won a myriad of races on all size tracks, including breaking into the top five at Yonkers Raceway's extraordinarily tough driving colony. Once again I am not demeaning the choices of the harness writers, simply questioning their omission of Joe Bongiorno.
Tom Santoro asks: I am in Parx Casino in Philadelphia and some of the guys asked why doesn't Yonkers build a mile track? Is it a lack of real estate? If they made it a mile they would be the number one track in the country.
First of all, the Meadowlands as long as the doors stay open, will always be the number one track in the country. That said, since I was a kid there was always a discussion of making Yonkers a five-eighths mile track and there were plans unveiled and there was more than enough room building out toward the south side parking lot. The mile would be a major stretch.
If you had spent any time in Yonkers, as I spent much of my life there, management was always happy with the existing operation. Change was a word that was not in their vocabulary. And here we are over 60 years since I walked into the race office and had to face the "wonderful" Ed Parker, the toughest most miserable race secretary that ever looked over a desk at me. In those 60 years, the race office is the same, the barn area is the same, the clubhouse and grandstand are slightly different because of the casino. They owned the land and felt there was no need to change, which has certainly worked well for them. They sport a program that has the highest purses in the industry by a long shot. They were so successful that they enticed MGM, the gambling giant ,to purchase the plant recently.
I am running away with myself. Steven Starr, my good friend, was the racing secretary and I would consider him the only shining light in my Yonkers experience. Don't get me wrong, it's great for the horsemen. The money is there and — you heard it here first — the half-mile is part of the legacy, it is there for the duration.
More important than the track, they should level the paddock before it is condemned by the board of health. They may even find Jimmy Hoffa.
Happy New Year to all my readers and friends. Please keep the questions coming in and have a healthy and successful racing season in 2020.
Have a question for The Guru?
Email him at GurfTrot@aol.com.


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There are no shops directly in Kanimbla but its location means that it is within 10 minute drive from Raintree's Shopping Centre in Manunda, including a Woolworths; Piccone's Shopping Village, with a Super IGA; and Cairns Central Shopping Centre containing major outlets including Coles, Myer, Target, Kmart and JB HiFi. There are also a number of small convenience stores in the adjoining suburbs within a 5-minute drive away.
Although there a no schools within the boundaries of Kanimbla there are two Catholic primary schools, St Francis Xavier's and Our Lady Help of Christians, as well as a public school, Whitfield State School located in adjoining suburbs and providing schooling from years prep through to year 6. There is also Trinity Bay State High School and St Andrews Catholic College located close by providing secondary schooling in both public and private options. The Cairns Sunbus public transport service also runs throughout the area with multiple stop overs in the suburb.


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464 to join 708 as south suburban area code starting in 2022
Information provided by the Illinois Commerce Commission
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (August 16, 2021) – The Illinois Commerce Commission is announcing the addition of a 464 area code to south suburban counties presently served by the 708 area code. The 464 area code will "overlay" the existing territory in order to supplement the telephone number supply. The 464 area code will be available for assignment only when all assignable prefixes in the 708 have been exhausted which is not expected to occur until January of 2022.
The 708 area code serves most of western and southern Cook County and eastern and southern Will County including Lansing and surrounding Illinois communities.
History of the new overlay
The Illinois Commerce Commission on June 30, 1999 approved an all-services overlay over 708. Conservation efforts put into place, such as number pooling and Commission review of numbering requests forestalled the need for a new area code until now.
How an overlay area code works
With an overlay, an additional area code is added to the same geographic area as the existing area code, with all current phone customers retaining the original area code. The 464 area code will be assigned to new customers requesting local phone service, cellular and paging services, and alarms.
With the new 464 area code, current 708 area customers will keep their numbers. The new area code is being introduced so that the numbering administrator will have a continuing supply of prefixes and blocks to assign to new and growing telecommunications service providers. Consumers seeking additional telephone lines will, in most cases, continue to be able to receive 708 telephone numbers, even after the 464 area code is in service.
The FCC requires that all telephone calls made in the 708 overlay area be completed by dialing 1 + 10-digit number (1 + area code + seven digit number). The change does not raise the cost of the call. A local call will remain a local call, and a toll call will remain a toll call, regardless of the number of digits that are dialed to complete it.
Carriers are expected to enforce mandatory 1 + 10 digit dialing no earlier than October 24, 2021 and no later than January 8, 2022. Earlier this year, it was announced that customers in the 708 area code must adopt 1 + 10 digit dialing by October 24, 2021 to make room for 988, the 3-digit dialing code ordered by the Federal Communications Commission for the National Suicide Hotline.
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Q: How to have moment(time).format() return in the same timezone I'm trying to use .format() to convert the inputted time into 'ddd, MMM DD, hh:mma' format, but it returns it in the wrong timezone compared to the original intended timezone (America_NewYork).
const someday = moment('2023-01-27T12:21:08.088Z').format('ddd, MMM DD, hh:mma');

const out = document.getElementById('output');
const someday = moment('2023-01-27T12:21:08.088Z').format('ddd, MMM DD, hh:mma');
out.innerText = someday;

Expected outcome: Fri, Jan 27, 12:21pm

Actual outcome:

A: All you have to do is get the UTC time and then use the local() method to convert that UTC date-time to your local time. Here is a sample code.
Just doing moment.utc().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm'), will give you the UTC time. You can also set UTC offset like moment(testDateUtc).utcOffset(10 * 60); //set timezone offset in minutes.

const local = moment(moment.utc()).local().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm');
console.log(local);


SUMMARY: Astronomers have used the light from a distant quasar to discover a metal-rich hydrogen cloud that would have otherwise been invisible; the quasar is 9 billion light-years away, but the cloud is only 6.3 billion light-years away. By analyzing the spectrum of this galaxy, astronomers have discovered that it contains 4 times more metal than what's contained in our Sun. If more of these clouds are discovered, it might help account for why the Universe seems to contain less metal that cosmologists have predicted it should.
This is an interesting story. I'm guessing that this implies that the light from this quasar is coming to us through a part of a galaxy that had recently had a lot of supernova activity as the light passed through it. Too bad we can't determine how extensive this cloud is.
"Missing Metal" is kind of a backdoor argument. There has been much higher ratios of metals (metals meaning about everything except helium and hydrogen), in very distant quasars than BB theory predicted. The 'missing' metals' are in galaxies found at intervening distances. Finding a metal-rich cloud between a very distant quasar and the local universe only provides a partial answer to the real question: Why are quasars so high in metal content cosmic seconds after the BB?
This piece of data also makes it difficult for "Arpian" theoriests, myself included, who argue quasars are badly displaced in space and time. I can live with this one, because a quasar with an intrinsic redshift of two and a cosmic reshift of four could be behind a cloud with a cosmic redshift of four.


In the world of business, petty cash is a term used for money that's kept for small expenses paid in cash.
Nowadays, most expenses, bills and purchases are made electronically or even by cheque as cash seems to be less popular than it was before the 2000s.
If you're a witch that uses cash often or receives cash or tips in your work or business, having a petty cash jar can be a great way to pay minor expenses such as for deliveries, fares, etc.
What's the difference between a honey jar, spell jar/bottle and a Witch's Petty Cash Jar?
Normally honey jars and spell jars/bottles for money or any type of spell work aren't opened; once the ingredients are put into the jar and sealed, the seal must remain unbroken for the spell to continue to work.
For Witch's Petty Cash Jar, the jar can be opened whenever you need to take a little bit of money from the jar.
Magick is worked on the petty cash jar to ensure that the money will be replenished and that the jar will never become empty.
This helps to ensure that there's a constant flow of money coming in and out of your home that all your "petty cash needs" are met.
In this post, we'll show how you can make a Witch's Petty Cash Jar to pay for small expenses and keep money flowing back into the petty cash jar without depleting your funds.
* Substitutions for this oil can be: magnet oil, fast luck & money drawing oil, drawing oil, give me your money oil, nutmeg oil, prosperity oil, bring money fast oil, lodestone oil, money rain oil.
The best day to start the jar is on a Thursday during the new moon or waxing moon.
Begin by cleansing the jar with incense (sandalwood or money drawing incense).
Make sure to have some cash readily available as you create the jar – there needs to be money in it as soon as possible – even if it's only $5.
Bless and consecrate the money herbs that you will add to the petty cash jar.
Add the herbs to the jar one by one depending how many herbs you choose to add to the jar.
If you wish to add money drawing dusting powder, bless and consecrate the dusting powder and add to the jar.
You can also add a lodestone and magnetic sand to the jar. Coins added to the jar will be naturally attracted to the magnetic lodestone.
Take your cash that you want to add to the jar and anoint the bill with your chosen oil on each corner of the bill and the centre of the bill.
Do this on both sides of the bill. Fold the bill towards you twice and then add to the jar.
Repeat this process for each bill that you want to put in the jar.
When you add money in the future, anoint each bill in the same way before adding the money to the jar.
If you're adding coins, dab oil on each side of the coin and massage the oil on to the coin on each side then add the coin to the jar.
After your cash and coins have been added to the petty cash jar, place the lid on the jar securely.
Take some oil into your hands and cover the jar top, bottom and all sides as you visualize money being added to the jar and never becoming empty. Picture in your mind that you will always have the cash on hand when you need it.
Place your Witch's Petty Cash jar in a place where you can see it but isn't openly visible such as a corner in kitchen.
If you often have cash on hand from such as a job that receives tips or run a business that gets cash payments, you can have a Witch's petty cash jar at home or if you're lucky enough, at your business.
The key to keeping a petty cash jar always full is to be mindful of what is taken from it and having the intent to replace money that comes out of it.
When working with a Witch's petty cash jar, it's important to not only feed it money, but also to feed it spiritually with intentions and oil.
At least once a week, feed your jar with the same oil by covering it lightly with the oil.
You can add more money herbs and dusting powder to the jar before anointing the jar with oil.
You may find that if you neglect your petty cash jar, that you may not have as much money being added to it as you did when you pay attention to it.
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Q: SPservice for filtering Dropdown based on parent dropdown we are $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns  for cascading. Suddenly it stopped working. now I want to use another option of using SPServices with CAML query to display the projects based on Employee selected. Something like this
 $().SPServices({
                     operation: "GetListItems",
                     async: false,
                     listName: "Project Allocation",
                     CAMLRowLimit: 1,
                     CAMLQuery: "<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Employee' /><Value Type='Lookup'>" + thisUserAccount  + "</Value></Eq></Where></Query>",
                     CAMLViewFields:"<ViewFields><FieldRef Name='Project' /></ViewFields>"  ,
                     completefunc:null,
                     debug:true
                     });

but I am not able to filter.I am new to SPServices. please guide me for this

A: Your CAMLQuery: "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Employee' /><Value Type='Lookup'>" + thisUserAccount  + "</Value></Eq></Where>"
should have "<Query>" tags:
CAMLQuery: "<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Employee' /><Value Type='Lookup'>" + thisUserAccount  + "</Value></Eq></Where></Query>"

A: If the cascade stopped working after a SharePoint upgrade, check out this blog post:
http://sympmarc.com/2014/01/23/office-365-update-changes-display-name-on-required-fields/
I would also suggest to try out this solution for Cascading Selects (disclaimer: I am the author).

A: Try adding LookupId='TRUE' to your FieldRef. (Also make sure that Employee is the internal name of your field.)
<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Employee' LookupId='TRUE'/><Value Type='Lookup'>" + thisUserAccount  + "</Value></Eq></Where></Query>

Also, an employee's userID varies depending on what site you're in. It's stored in a hidden list in each site.
userID = $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser({
    fieldName: "ID",
    fieldNames: {},
    debug: false
});


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Michigan State guard Malik Hall (25) tries to drive past Minnesota forward Jamison Battle (10) as guard Payton Willis watches during the first half an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
Wednesday, December 08, 2021 11:40 pm
No. 19 Michigan St. outlasts Minnesota 75-67 in Big 10 opener
DAVE CAMPBELL | Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS – Gabe Brown, Malik Hall and Tyson Walker scored 15 points apiece for 19th-ranked Michigan State in a 75-67 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday night in the first Big Ten opener for Gophers coach Ben Johnson and the 27th for Spartans coach Tom Izzo.
Brown had three 3-pointers as the Spartans went 10 for 21 from long range against a Gophers team that entered the game with the best 3-point defense in the nation at 23.1% allowed.
Hall (nine) and Brown (eight) fueled a 44-29 rebounding advantage by the Spartans (8-2, 1-0), who were humiliated here at Williams Arena a year ago in an 81-56 defeat that Izzo and his staff made sure to remind them of this week.
Sixth-year senior Eric Curry had a career-high 18 points and Jamison Battle scored 17 points for the Gophers (7-1, 0-1), whose feel-good start in Johnson's debut was hit with a reality check from the stronger and deeper Spartans. Minnesota was one of only 12 remaining undefeated NCAA Division 1 teams when the day began.
Minnesota made a game of it by holding the Spartans to one basket over the final 4 1/2 minutes, a 3-pointer by Brown after the Gophers got within 64-55 at the last media timeout on a steal-dunk sequence by Sean Sutherlin.
Walker, the transfer from Northeastern who was the Colonial Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Year last season, held Minnesota's Payton Willis to nine points on 3-for-13 shooting.
The Gophers missed 13 of their first 16 shots, and not without hustle or creativity. The Spartans simply clamped down on the driving lanes and were there to grab the rebounds when the 3-pointers rimmed out. Eylijah Stephens found an open hoop off of a crisp pick-and-roll, only to have his finger roll swatted into the seats by Brown.
Hauser had 10 points, seven rebounds and tight defense on Battle — the sixth-leading scorer in the Big Ten entering the game. The sophomore's first basket came with 8:59 left before halftime, a 3-pointer from the top of the key that cut Michigan State's lead to 17-15. The Spartans snapped right back with a 25-9 spurt that stretched into the second half. Hauser hit a 3-pointer to give the Spartans their largest lead, 58-39, with 11:26 to go.
Izzo and Johnson first met 25 years ago, when Johnson was a sophomore point guard at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis and Izzo started recruiting him for Michigan State. Johnson ultimately picked Northwestern, where he played two seasons before transferring to Minnesota.
Izzo said this week that Johnson would be his early choice for Big Ten Coach of the Year. Izzo quickly extended congratulations and advice when Johnson was hired this spring.
"When you look at a total program and how he has run that and will run it, from alumni to what he does off the floor, to their brand, to who he is and what he means to that university, I think for all coaches, if you're not trying to kind of pick apart how he did it, you're at fault," Johnson said.
Michigan State: Games like this are exactly why Izzo consistently loads up his early slate with national powers. The Spartans have the strongest schedule among all major conference teams, according to NCAA calculations. Losses to No. 8 Kansas and No. 2 Baylor hurt their record, but helped their cause in a Big Ten road game.
Minnesota: The good news for the Gophers is most of the rest of their opponents won't be tougher than this, both in terms of talent and tenacity. They'll have to play near-perfect games to beat the Spartans in the rematch next month, as well as a few other teams in the Big Ten's top tier, but with Battle the only non-senior in their seven-man rotation they've got the experience, confidence and chemistry to be competitive in conference play.
Michigan State hosts Penn State on Saturday. The Spartans are 25-2 all-time at home against the Nittany Lions.
Minnesota plays at Michigan on Saturday. The Gophers have lost seven straight games in Ann Arbor, last winning there in 2011.
Purdue men hold off Illinois 96-88 in double OT
No. 14 Villanova hits 12 3s in 82-42 romp over Butler
Mabrey scores 24 points to lead Irish women
Walker leads Mastodons in rout
Jackson-Davis leads Hoosiers, who snap road skid


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'Lives are on the line' CAT kicks off $5.7M campaign to triple addiction treatment
by Movers and Makers • June 3, 2016
Cincinnati Vice Mayor David Mann
The Center for Addiction Treatment has launched a $5.7 million capital campaign that would triple the number of people who can get the treatment they need.
The campaign was announced to a standing-room-only crowd at CAT's annual pancake breakfast.
"Greater Cincinnati is at the forefront of a well-documented and unprecedented drug epidemic," said Sandi Kuehn, CAT president and CEO. "Lives are on the line. It is essential that we put recovery within reach for those needing help."
The new funds would add treatment capacity by:
Constructing a 17,000-square-foot building for outpatient services and a new primary healthcare clinic.
Retrofitting the existing building to expand detox and residential services.
Kuehn called lack of capacity "the single biggest barrier" to obtaining treatment. "This plan helps with that," she said. "No one wanting help should have to be put on a waiting list."
CAT serves more than 1,700 patients annually. The added capacity would increase that number to 6,000.
The campaign has reached 58 percent of its goal, thanks to several large gifts received before the public launch.
Gifts to the campaign include:
The Spaulding Foundation: $500,000.
Deaconess Health Associations Foundation: $300,000.
City of Cincinnati: $125,000.
Additionally, Bethesda Inc. has granted $150,000 to enhance the center's staffing and training of its primary healthcare clinic.
"The training and staffing model that CAT is exploring … is unique and could have a lasting impact on the way healthcare is delivered to vulnerable populations," said Jill Miller, executive director or Bethesda Inc., who "believes fueling this project will equip primary care physicians to better treat patients battling addiction, and in turn support the community."
Though CAT currently offers an array of programs for addicted individuals and their families, expanding the medical detox, short-term residential and MAT programs is considered key to breaking the cycle of addiction.
"I am inspired by the vision and leadership that CAT is demonstrating through the inclusion of a primary health care clinic," said Tony Woods, president of the Deaconess Health Associations Foundation, whose $300,000 grant will help fund the primary health care component. "Providing a place where patients can come and be treated for their underlying problems – which many times are masked or compounded by their addiction issues – is very significant for our community."
Construction should be completed in 10 to 12 months.
The Center for Addiction Treatment provides treatment for patients with addiction to drugs, alcohol or gambling. As the only non-hospital-based medically monitored detox facility in the region, CAT provides individualized care through short-term residential and intensive outpatient services, medication-assisted treatment, counseling, a continuing care program and a comprehensive family education program.
The campaign: catsober.org/lead-the-change-capital-campaign/
Addiction services: catsober.org
Tags: Center for Addiction Treatment
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A driver has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after his bus hit a tram near Edinburgh Airport.
The incident in which the tram derailed occurred at Eastfield Avenue between the airport and Ingliston just before 5.30pm.
Police said the driver of the car park shuttle bus had been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
The extent of his injuries remains unknown, although police confirmed he had been seriously injured.
The tram driver and conductor were treated at the scene by paramedics, but were not thought to be seriously hurt.
Six passengers on board the tram were unhurt.
A Police Scotland statement said: "The male driver has been taken to hospital after the single-decker bus he was driving was in collision with a tram at Edinburgh Airport shortly before 5.30pm this evening.
"The tram has been derailed from the tracks.
"The bus driver has been taken by ambulance to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment. The extent of his injuries is not known at this time.
"The driver and ticket conductor from the tram were treated at the scene by paramedics and their injuries are not thought to be serious.
"Six passengers on the tram at the time are not believed to be injured and there were no passengers on the bus.
"The bus is used to transport passengers between the long-stay airport car parks and the terminal building.
The tram has been seen jackknifed at the scene, with the line blocked close to the airport's rental car return area.
One witness at the airport told the Evening News: "Apparently the bus has gone through a lights somehow and struck the tram.
"I don't know if there are any injuries, but the tram was bent like a boomerang.
Trams are only running between the Gyle Centre and York Place while the line is blocked.
A spokesperson for Edinburgh Trams said: "Edinburgh Trams regret to advise that services are currently running between York Place and Gyle Centre due to a road traffic collision at Eastfield Avenue near Edinburgh Airport.
"Early indications suggest that minor injuries have been reported from both the road vehicle and the tram involved.
"We are working with the emergency services to investigate the cause of the incident and would like to offer any support to those affected.
Tram services were due to continue operating between York Place and Gyle Centre for the remainder of this evening.
"We will be working with our maintainers throughout the night to recover our vehicle as quickly and as safely as possible," Edinburgh Trams said in a statement.
In August 2014, a tram collided with a bus on West Maitland Street in the West End of the city.
Both vehicles were travelling east towards Princes Street.
No-one was injured in that incident and the tram was not derailed.


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Industry Segments and Functions
LIVE PERFORMANCE and TOURING
In this section, we will introduce you to the basic concepts of live performance and touring. Performances include club dates, college gigs, in-stores, live radio, festivals, shows in all sizes of halls and theaters, or special events, like a corporate party or fund-raiser. Performances can be one song on a TV show, thirty minutes at a special event, several sets in a club, or complex shows at large venues. In this video, you'll hear from several artists (Mia Borders and the Givers) and an artist manager (Billy O'Connell) about the elements of touring and live performance including why tour, tour crews, how gigs are booked and paid, staging, lighting and sound, connecting with fans and merchandise, and marketing and promotion.
This infographic will give you some idea of the crew needed for a large tour. For emerging artists and artists on every level, live performance is complicated and takes a village, even if the band or artist are its only residents, and have to do all of its functions to make it run efficiently and effectively. All groups have similar issues and various ways of dealing with them. The audio track below the graphic will list the positions and their responsibilities.
http://artistshousemusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Touring-and-Performance-1.mp3
Until an artist or a band can afford to hire people to do the jobs required of a successful artist, they will have all of those responsibilities themselves. An artist does not need a manager until there is something to manage. What the manager will be managing are the businesses of the artist and their relationships with labels, publishers, agents, and others involved in what the artist or band does, including making recordings, writing songs, producing videos, performing, and licensing their intellectual property. The video below will give you an overview of some of the most important of this and other related positions.
The infographic below will allow you see the some of the possible members of an artist's team. If you would like to hear a description of these positions, click the audio file below.
http://artistshousemusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Artist-Team.mp3
HOW MUSIC MAKES MONEY
Our next area of focus concerns the uses the of a song or composition and the recording, and the revenue streams these uses create. Songs/compositions and sound recordings are two of the eight categories of creative work protected under federal copyright statutes. The rights are the same for both. These rights include the right to copy, the right to distribute (make public), the rights to control the public performance and public display of the work, and the right to make derivatives from it. The sound recording enjoys a sixth right to control the digital transmission of the work (Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, et al).
It's important to note that for a song only the words and melody are protected by copyright statutes. If more than one person is involved in creating either one of these elements, it is a joint work and everyone is paid according to songwriter contracts and agreed upon royalty splits. All those involved in a joint work have an ownership interest in the work not in just the lyrics or melody that they may have contributed to.
The sound recording is another one of the eight categories of copyright protection. (The others are visual works (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.), audio-visual works (films, videos), literary works (books, poetry, blogs), architecture (you can't copyright a building but you can copyright the plans that built it), dramatic works (plays, musical theatre), pantomime and choreography (because you can write down the steps and moves). The owner or owners of the sound recording have to pay owners of the songs on the sound recording for the use of the songs. The rate for the use of a song for audio recording only, is the statutory rate and currently 9.1 cents per use; that is per CD, LP or download manufactured or sold. This is not true for streaming, which has its own royalty rate set by the federal copyright commission pursuant to federal copyright statutes. Rates for other uses, like in film or TV, are negotiated and vary greatly depending on the use.
The video below touches on some of these uses followed by an infographic to provide a visual representation of the revenue sources. The attached audio file explains the uses in more detail.
http://artistshousemusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/How-Songs-and-Recordings-Make-Money.mp3
THE ART OF THE DEAL – RECORDING AND PUBLISHING CONTRACTS
The Art of the Deal is another important area we would like to touch on in this module. This usually refers to the negotiations regarding the transfer of copyright rights from the person who created the work (the author) to another person or company who can monetize those rights (the rights of publication). This transfer can be for a period of time or for the the duration of copyright. Both sides to this deal should have entertainment lawyers representing them because these transfers can be quite complicated, mostly because there are so many revenue streams and mitigating factors that have to be addressed.
The rights being transferred are the five (or 6 in the case of a sound recording) exclusive rights under federal copyright statutes that attach to any and every original work. As mentioned in the section "How Music Makes Money", these include the right to copy the work (copyright), the right to publish the work (to distribute it, share it, give it away, sell it, market it), the right to control the public performance of the work, which is what ASCAP and BMI – Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) – collect for), the right to control the public display of the work, and the right to make derivatives of the work (a movie from a book, a ring tone from a master recording, a translation of the song).
The Art of the Deal is the method through which these rights are transferred by the author or creator of the work to others who will monetize those rights and pay the author or creator a percentage of the profits, often described as royalties.
More often than not, songwriters and recording artists do not want to run the businesses these rights make them. If you write a song you have the rights of a music publisher. If you record music you have the rights of a recording company. If artists are curating only their own music, they may not have the resources to exploit their rights so they transfer them to a company or person who can, like your company. And in that transaction lies the art of the deal. These negotiations between the copyright owner and the entity or person is acquiring the rights are generally engaged in by entertainment lawyers who represent each side.
Although these can be very complicated transactions, the basic terms of these contracts, these transfers, these deals, are similar for songs, recordings, videos, or other types of IP. There are specific characteristics for each type of work, and the video below will discuss some of the most obvious points to be covered by these agreements.
The infographic below is oriented more to a recording contract than a publishing deal but often the terms are similar: term, territory, royalty compensation, ownership, commitments, etc. Publishing deals involve various types of relationships, including co-publishing and administration, and in respect of songwriters, they may involve minimum delivery requirements or are tied to the release of a song or an album.
http://artistshousemusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Terms-Of-A-Typical-Contract-and-Publishing-Deal.mp3
DIVISIONS OF A MUSIC COMPANY
The term of art in the music business for a publisher of sound recordings is record company or label. For songs and compositions, the term of art is music publisher. These publishing entities share similar functions and derive revenue in similar ways through the interaction of these functions and the monetization of the IP created and shared. These functions include Marketing, Finance, Legal and Business Affairs, Creative Services, A&R (Talent Acquisition), Production and Manufacturing. Product Development in the music industries is built around spotting talent, encouraging and nourishing it, and branding it. The company's job is to develop innovative ways to use and exploit its IP assets.
The video below is a basic overview of the general responsibilities of these various areas of the company.
The infographic below will provide a visual representation of the divisions and functions of a typical music company. The audio file contains a more detailed explanation of each function.
http://artistshousemusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Divisions-of-Music-Publishing-and-Recording-Companies.mp3
In the video below, Billy O'Connell discusses music marketing from both the company's and artist's perspective.
1. (True or False) Booking agents are responsible for their acts starting shows on time.
2. (True or False) Venues are generally responsible for promoting shows, because shows take place within their space and their incentive is to have the largest audience possible.
3. (True or False) One of the ways for an artist or band to be paid for a performance is a "versus deal." This means that the band will receive a guaranteed fee versus a percentage of gross ticket receipts - whichever is greater.
4. (True or False) The most important person on an artist's team is their lawyer, because the work she performs for that artist most greatly impacts on that artist's success.
5. (True or False) Managers are generally paid 15% of net revenues from an artist's public appearances.
6. (True or False) Other than the live performance, music makes money in two forms: the publication and exploitation of the song (or composition) and the recording (of a song). Revenue is derived from the exploitation of the copyrights and intellectual property rights that attach to these works.
7. (True or False) The exclusive rights under copyright statutes that attach to a song or sound recording include the right to copy and the right to distribute.
8. (True or False) The negotiation between the author of an original work and a label or publishing company involves the transfer of the five or six rights that attach to the work through the operation of copyright law.
9. (True or False) Royalties are the monies paid to an artist and songwriter for the use of their work, and are paid by the number of units sold or by the use.
10. (True or False) All of the departments of a typical music publisher or recording company are aimed at two things: the acquisition and retention of customers.
Obviously, all of the areas touched on in this module could have their own modules and there are many other areas that are not included at all but will become available over time. In this test module we have attempted to provide an example of several methods of creating content related to specific topics for a typical learning management system.
We propose to accompany the modules with daily one-minute "flash briefings" on the module topics as well as provide summaries of current music business news both in the US and in other countries in which the company plays a major role.


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Home » News » Grants » Morgan State University Nursing Program Receives More than $146,000 in Funding to Promote Statewide Student Mentoring
Morgan State University Nursing Program Receives More than $146,000 in Funding to Promote Statewide Student Mentoring
Morgan State July 10, 2020
Funding Comes as Part of nearly $30M in Nurse Support Program II Competitive Institutional Grants dispersed statewide by the Maryland Higher Education Commission
BALTIMORE – In support of efforts to promote statewide mentoring for nursing students, the Morgan State University (MSU) Nursing Program, in collaboration with University of Maryland School of Nursing Workforce Center, announces the receipt of $146,722 in funding from the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) Nurse Support II (NSP II) Competitive Institutional Grants program. The funding comes as part of $29.2 million MHEC awarded to higher education institutions statewide in support of increasing the number of nurses at patients' bedsides and improving student outcomes through practical experience and learning opportunities.
"The increased emphasis on supporting nursing students throughout the state will improve health outcomes and assist with meeting workforce demand as well," said Kim Dobson Syndor, Ph.D., dean of the School of Community Health and Policy (SCHP) at Morgan. "This initiative is aligned with Nurse Support II's goal of increasing the enrollment and graduation of nurses, along with attracting and retaining populations that are underrepresented in the nursing profession."
The mentoring initiative was inspired by the Nursing Program's collaboration with the Maryland Action Coalition and participation in two training sessions jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health; the American Association of Retired Persons; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and the Center to Champion Nursing in America. The training provided the participants with the tools necessary to develop, implement and sustain formal mentoring programs with a greater emphasis on making the nursing workforce more diverse, particularly in the areas of gender, race, and ethnicity.
The increased prevalence of chronic illnesses, aging senior populations, and the high demands resulting from the recent COVID-19 pandemic are leading to greater demands for healthcare services, particularly the healthcare workforce. The registered nurse (RN) workforce is the single largest group of health professionals, with more than three million nationally and estimated 53,150 employed in the State of Maryland. The NSP II Competitive Institutional Grants program aims to sustain a skilled pipeline of nursing professionals to stem any potential shortages within the state of Maryland. Competitive institutional grants are awarded for projects addressing the following initiatives:
Increasing nursing pre-licensure enrollments and graduates,
Advancing academic preparation of entry-level nurses and existing nurses to meet the needs of hospitals and health systems (80 percent BSN by 2025),
Doubling the number of nurses and nurse faculty with doctoral degrees,
Academic/practice partnerships for hospitals and nursing programs to collaborate,
Developing statewide resources and models for nurse educators at both hospitals and academia, and
Cohen Scholars programs to prepare nurse educators for the future.
Encouraged by the prospects of sharing this initiative throughout the state Dr. Maija Anderson, director of MSU's Nursing Program shared, "I know that mentoring has been a crucial component of our graduates' success, I look forward to assisting other programs throughout the state in implementing successful mentoring programs, and I hope that our model will serve as one that can be replicated in other states as well."
The NSP II funding awarded to Morgan will be used to support a number of outcomes including, advancing a statewide mentoring workshop for all nursing faculty from all nursing programs in the State; establishing a formal mentor program at the university; and evaluating the effectiveness of the mentoring initiative.
On August 12-13, MSU's Nursing Program and the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Maryland Nursing Workforce Center will be hosting a free virtual workshop on Mentoring: A Strategy for Enhancing Student Engagement and Success which includes a panel discussion on "Student Mental/Emotional Health During COVID-19.
About Morgan
Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified doctoral research institution offering more than 126 academic programs leading to degrees from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland's Preeminent Public Urban Research University, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information about Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu.
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Larry Jones or Dell Jackson, University PR
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A bump in the road to recovery
Bill San Antonio, Sports Editor|October 21, 2009
After losing most of last season to foot surgery, Red Storm swingman Anthony Mason Jr. will miss the next four to six weeks with a hamstring injury, head coach Norm Roberts announced Tuesday.
"We're disappointed for Anthony, because we know he wants to be out there," Roberts said in a press release."We have to give him time to recover so when he joins us on the court, he'll be 100 percent.
"We'll obviously be very happy and excited to get Anthony back. He is such a versatile scorer, and his ability to be our main scorer on any given night makes our team that much deeper."
According to the release, team doctors have been carefully monitoring the hamstring injury, which Mason Jr. initially suffered in early September before the Red Storm's four-game trip to Canada. After a re-examination over the weekend, a team doctor recommended the redshirt senior take even more time off to fully recover.
The hamstring injury comes months after Mason Jr. underwent foot surgery that ended his 2008-09 campaign, one that began with a 24-point game against Cornell and a 12-point outing against Boston College as part of the preseason NIT Tipoff tournament.
But on Nov. 21, the team announced that an MRI in Mason Jr.'s right foot revealed a torn peroneal tendon, requiring season-ending foot surgery. The team announced that Mason Jr. was granted medical redshirt status for the 2009-10 season on July 22.
In the months that followed, Mason Jr. was filmed rehabbing from the surgery for the MTV documentary series, True Life, which aired Sept. 19.
As a junior in 2007-08, Mason Jr. averaged 14.0 points per game earned a Big East Honorable Mention selection and a first team All-Met selection by the Metropolitan Basketball Association despite missing eight games due to high ankle sprain.


Masseria Acque di Palermo is well-known and valued in Italy for its farm-to-table products by an act of Regione Siciliana.
Our products are cultivated, made and packed in Sicily, in a 100% made in Italy spinneret.
We supply both privates and commercial activities all around Italy.
The extra virgin olive oil we produce is extracted mechanically from olives of Biancolilla or Nocellara del Belice qualities, free from chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Our 100% Italian homemade pasta is made of wholemeal flour and using only the wheat we produce.
Lentils and chickpeas, always present in vegetarian and vegan diets, have the role of renewing crops in our company.
We have two types of almonds – Pizzuta and Tuono.They grow spontaneously, and for this reason they preserve taste, seasonings and consistency of "almonds of yesteryear".
Call us at 336 696155 for more informations or to order our products.
We cultivate our land and direct our production respecting nature and protecting the ecosystem. Our products preserve their own natural qualities because they are free from toxic materials.
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We will miss you guys! Your sweet spirit and easy smile makes me wish our paths had crossed more. We'll pray you settle in quickly. God Bless you and keep you.
So glad to hear that you guys are doing so well! We miss you guys a bunch here, but honestly, I'm a little bit jealous of you being in a place where you can be outside and not just die of the heat! Or so it looks in your pics! Hope you are able to start feeling like it is home again soon! Love you!!
Yes - Sam would LOVE another friend named Henry! :) Where are you living now? We're in Roseville.


Erasmus is an opportunity to get to know new cultures and education systems and it can be an inspiration for life. The aim of the SocialErasmus project is to allow international students to benefit at the utmost from the local community and enrich the latter through the international background of the students. It promotes as well a social attitude amongst international students all over Europe.
For further information on the project you can visit the SocialErasmus website.
For any question related to this project please write to info@esnvigo.org.


The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is scheduled to launch the Selenological and Engineering Explorer (or Moon explorer) "SELENE" by an H-IIA Launch Vehicle in the summer of 2007.
The major objective of the SELENE mission is to acquire scientific data to answer key questions on the Moon's origin and evolution. It is the first fully-fledged lunar exploration project since the Apollo program.
As we would like to stir everybody's interest in the Moon as well as in the SELENE project, we decided to launch the "WISH UPON THE MOON" campaign. We are asking you to write your name and message to deliver them to the Moon by etching them on a sheet and having it onboard the SELENE.
The SELENE will be injected into the Moon's orbit about one month after its launch.
This is a worldwide campaign from Japan and the United States sponsored by JAXA in cooperation with The Planetary Society of Japan and The Planetary Society of the U.S.A.
Please send us your name and message within the following letter limits.
In Japanese: Name should be within 10 characters, and the message should be within 20 characters.
In English: Name should be within 10 letters, and the message should be within 40 letters.
The SELENE is currently scheduled to be launched in the summer of 2007.
* Please understand that the limits for letters are set in order to accept names and messages from as many people as possible.
* Please be aware that your message may be published on the JAXA website or released to the press without your permission for the purpose of this campaign's public relations activities.
Please apply via the following site.
The English site will be accessible from 4:00 a.m. Japan Standard Time (or 11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time in the U.S.) on December 2 (Sat), 2006.
Please write the following on the postcard.
Name and message that will be onboard the SELENE, your address, name, age, gender, and telephone number.
* Your personal information will be used solely for the campaign under JAXA control. Except for cases where its disclosure is required under applicable laws and regulations, we will disclose your personal information only to campaign-related parties, and NOT to any third party without your permission.