Want to lose weight, reduce stress, improve your health and be safer at work? There is one simple solution – get more sleep! Sleep is integral to our safety and our health, but it is often something we know relatively little about. This session focuses on helping you better understand how fatigue can impact safety and how sleep is often as important as nutrition and exercise in determining our overall health and wellness.
This engaging presentation strives to offer both a health and wellness and a safety perspective. For those who work in a corporate environment or wish to improve their own health and wellness, it will delve deeper into how important sleep is to our overall health, giving little-known information and providing strategies to help you improve your rest.
This session is focused on a corporate audience or workers who work in a low risk environment.
Research has indicated fatigue is 4X more likely to cause worker impairment than drugs or alcohol. Fatigue is a causal factor in an estimated 20% of all vehicle fatalities and indicated in 5% of all workplace fatalities. Yet this prevalent health and safety risk is still largely under-recognized by the majority of individuals and organizations. When fatigue is identified as a workplace hazard, many are not aware of existing best practices and personal mitigation strategies available.
This presentation is based on the belief that knowing the health and safety implications of fatigue impairment can create a work culture that better recognizes and addresses the issue. It is designed empower employees by providing awareness of fatigue issues and increasing their understandings of the best practices needed to address it.
This session is focused on workers and supervisors who may experience fatigue in their regular work environment.
More and more organizations are becoming aware of the health and safety implications of fatigue in the workplace. There is both intuitive and empirical evidence available to demonstrate health and safety risks related to fatigue. Knowing that sleep deprived employees are almost 3 times more likely to cause a workplace accident, and that over 20% of fatal collisions involve driver fatigue, it's no wonder fatigue is considered one of the top five causal factors in workplace incidents and has made the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) top 10 most wanted safety improvements list every year from its inception.
This session is focused on arming safety leaders with the background information they need to better understand the risks and mitigation strategies for effective fatigue management. It will provide a solid business case identifying key business drivers for implementation of comprehensive strategies. It operates on the assumption of management and worker co-responsibilities for effective fatigue management by identifying the organizational requirements, as well as worker strategies, to be implemented.
This session is focused on safety personnel, safety committees, mangers, or senior leaders who want to better understand the risks associated with fatigue.
SHIFT WORK- HOW NOT TO BE THE WALKING ZOMBIE!
Did you know that that a worker who is sleep deprived is almost 3X more likely to cause a workplace incident or that unmanaged fatigue contributes to diabetes, obesity and heart disease? Those who work shiftwork understand fatigue on a daily basis. They know unmanaged fatigue can have a significant impact on safety, health, social relationships and…just about everything else.
When work and/or personal requirements cause us to extend our normal waking hours, it is important to recognize the health and safety issues that are created. This session will dispel common myths about sleep, bring forth little known facts, and give many useful and practical strategies that shift workers can use to better manage fatigue.
Having a strategic plan for dealing with fatigue can help workers to take control and proactively manage their risks. Everyone attending should feel more aware and empowered to better manage their fatigue at work and at home and should have a new 'toolbox of fatigue strategies' to assist them in better managing the demands of shiftwork.
This session is intended for shift workers and their supervisors. It is designed create awareness and empower workers to better manage their fatigue at work and at home.
Are your employees feeling stressed? They are not alone! In fact, stress impacts many of us with 47% of employed Canadians considering work to be the most stressful part of their lives and 1 in 4 feeling that they are constantly dealing with moderate to high levels of stress.
Stress is often something we feel we cannot control, yet there are many things we can do to improve how stress impacts our lives. How we view stress is a key factor in dealing with it. By better understanding what causes us stress and how we react to it, we can develop stronger coping strategies and increase our resiliency.
Proactive employers are beginning to recognize the importance of stress management as research shows every dollar invested in stress prevention is worth $2 – $6 future savings. By better understanding and managing the things that cause us stress, everyone can learn to better handle and manage the stress in their lives.
This session is focused on helping everyone better understand stress in their work and personal lives, and provides insight into the multifaceted approaches that can be used to better manage it. This session will be specifically tailored to best fit your work environment.
Stress and other mental health issues cost the Canadian economy an estimated $33 billion a year in lost productivity, not to mention billions more in medical costs, disability management, workplace errors and more. No wonder 83% of Canadian employers rank stress as a top risk factor for their workforce. These proactive employers recognize the importance to invest in human capital; it makes good business sense as research demonstrates that every dollar invested in stress prevention is worth $2 – $6 in future savings. We know that stress, and other psychosocial factors have a strong impact on our workplace, but how do we work to better manage it? What can we do to improve mental health in our work environments? The answer – Plenty! And it's not that hard to do.
This presentation is designed to empower key stakeholders to better understand stress and other mental health factors in a work environment. It provides an overview of what things cost stress in a work environment and provides insight into strategies that help employees better manage stress and work life balance.
This presentation is targeted to senior leaders, HR, health and safety, supervisors and managers, JHSC members and other key stakeholders working to improve the psychological health and safety in the organization.
I hired Susan to provide her full day workshop "Dead Tired! How to Recognize and Manage Your Fatigue in the Workplace" to the membership of IBEW Local 37. She was recommended to me from one of our Executive Board members after he had heard her speak at a safety conference a few months earlier.
In working with Susan leading up to the workshop, she was always very professional and on the ball. Upon meeting Susan at one of the workshops, I was not at all surprised to find that she was so kind and seemed to have a genuine interest in getting to know not only me, but the participants in the workshop. She is truly a genuine and caring person with an obvious passion for what she does. Not only that, but the quality of the workshop was excellent, and she expertly wove in different types of multimedia, interactive activities, and discussions to ensure the group was engaged for the whole day.


I've recently discovered a fab footwear website called Spartoo which is great for me, knowing how much I love shoes! I thought it would be nice to share some of my picks from it with you. Although summer is fast approaching, it's still seeming to drag its heels a little bit and sometimes it is just too cold for sandals.
I have found that a decent, simple ankle boot is a trans-seasonal style saviour, and Spartoo have a fantastic selection. Here's my pick of their best….
They would all look epic teamed with skinny jeans or floral dresses now, and then will make the perfect festival footwear combined with the perennial summer favourite, cut off denim shorts! I will definitely be rocking mine this way!
These boots combine all the necessary features of the most perfect footwear…simple shapes, neutral colours, blocky heels (spindly heels just aren't going to cut it for SS11, it's gotta be a wedge or a block) and basic styling. In short, the ideal base for any outfit. Don't believe me? Try them out…you are going to live in these boots….
They are all crafted from the best quality materials and are the sort of boots that will just get better with age. You could imagine Kate Moss pulling on a pair to trudge round a field in Glastonbury and then dusting them off to stomp the Brick Lane vintage stores paired with a summery dress. The more bashed up and creased they get with love, wear and age, the better they'll look!
Importantly, I think one of the best things about this selection of boots is the range of colours. Boots don't have to be black or tan-though these are (obviously) fab staple colours to have! I love the creamy bone colour and the deep marine blue colour of the top pair and the pair above respectively. And I am just completely in love with the tan western-styled boots and am adding them to my wishlist as we speak!
Different shapes of boot are also key-I've already covered western, which is always a key trend for summer and the fringed pair by Tropeziennes just tick all the trend boxes. However a less obviously styled pair, such as the blue Tropeziennes pair above or the chunky heeled silky black leather Sixty Seven numbers, will be wardrobe staples for years to come. The Paul and Joe Sister Biker inspired pair are also anything but basic, but will lend a firm foundation to all your looks throughout the season.
Good boots! I love the first pair!
love love love the first pair of boots! and i'm glad you like the blog! and yes brogues are very versatile and i will do keep checking!
I love the first pair of boots, super cute!


1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children which God has graciously given your servant.
8 And he said, What do you mean by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that you have to yourself.
10 And Jacob said, no, I pray you, if now I have found grace in your sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.
13 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goes before me and the children be able to endure, until I come to my lord to Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needs it? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who [are] those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
8 And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my lord.
11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took [it].
13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
2 and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
7 and Leah also draweth nigh, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel, and they bow themselves.
13 And he saith unto him, 'My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the suckling flock and the herd [are] with me; when they have beaten them one day, then hath all the flock died.
17 and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth, and buildeth to himself a house, and for his cattle hath made booths, therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth.
20 and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.


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The DHL logo on its own isn't an extraordinary piece of design. But it is just one element of a holistic visual identity that we created for Deutsche Post and its subsidiaries back in the mid-1990s.
As a creative director for the Nitsch Design agency in Düsseldorf from 1995 until 2003, I was responsible for the brand design of Deutsche Post. And when Deutsche Post acquired DHL, the migration of the DHL brand into what would become the Deutsche Post DHL Group became part of my remit.
From the beginning we developed a strong, concise and remarkable colour concept as the main anchor for the Deutsche Post identity. At that time DHL was already an established brand in the US and we decided to make only slight changes to the logo itself (adjusting the angle of the letters and the spacing between them, opening the counterforms and adjusting proportions and the shade of red) to bring it into line with the Deutsche Post brand family.
Vetements' DHL T-shirt on the SS16 catwalk © Catwalking
The colour concept (replacing the white with the Deutsche Post yellow) was important for brand recognition. Still, establishing a global brand on a long-term basis requires market penetration and patience. Today DHL is a brand leader and almost everyone recognises its yellow vans.
For me the hype about the fashion label [Vetements, the collective led by Demna Gvasalia] is typical of the fashion industry and a consumer-driven and sense-devoid society. Selling a T-shirt with a DHL logo for £185 is crazy. Buying it for this price is beyond reason.
I can't see any creativity in printing a well-known brand on a T-shirt. What is genius is persuading people to freak out about a simple T-shirt. I give the designers and marketing people at Vetements credit if they can sell an "ugly" T-shirt for £185. It's totally nuts.
We live in an overexcited world. As consumers we have to deal with thousands of products and brands that vie for our attention. So it becomes more and more difficult for designers and marketers to create something completely new to serve glutted markets. For Vetements the DHL T-shirt is a lucky stunt, and it's good PR for DHL, too. DHL tolerates the T-shirt (or perhaps it has a deal with Vetements) because it promotes its brand on a channel and in a market where it wouldn't normally get any attention.
"Ugly" or not, the DHL T-shirt is the best choice from the Vetements website. I wouldn't wear any of the other tops, even if I got them for free.
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In the mood for a beer and a great food deal? When it comes to taking your pick from a wide selection of beers AND scoring some delicious food deals, you're in luck: opportunities for enjoying both are aplenty in Baltimore!
Want beer plus fancy eats? Click here to see our other favorite Baltimore beer locations with exquisite, unique food options, perfect for date night or a special occasion!
This beloved neighborhood sports bar has two levels, both offering excellent service and tons of TVs. You'll find that Looney's offers a food and drink special each day (Crab cakes! Cheesesteaks! $1.50 brews!), trivia on Tuesdays, and outdoor seating on a dog-friendly patio. Cheers, friends.
TIP: They host a Power Hour from 10-11pm every Friday Saturday—$2 shots, $2 beers.
To say that Jack's Bistro's beer selection is extensive would be a massive understatement. In addition to serving some of the city's best Malaysian / Indonesian / Singaporean food, Jack's serves critically-acclaimed brews from across the globe, including many area favorites. The miles-long menu has been conveniently ordered by country of origin and style—order up!
TIP: Happy Hour specials await you from 5-6pm on weekdays, but you have to be seated at the bar.
Located along the water in historic Fells Point, Kooper's Tavern offers delicious bar food made with fresh ingredients and an extensive beer list. Locals rave about their Tuesday special—build-your-own-burgers starting at just $5, all day long—but they've got delicious food and drink specials every single day of the week! Enjoy happy hour Monday through Friday, 4-7pm.
TIP: Every beer they serve on tap is available to take home in a growler. Stock up on your faves!


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Home News Bfa 1/2Hour Hits The Screens
The Benin Film Academy Half Hour, Bfa1/2 Hour, a record breaking 30 minutes Social, Style and Entertainment Variety Programme, scripted, packaged and directed by students and graduates of Benin Film Academy has hit the screens.
This is the first time in Nigeria and the sub-Saharan Africa that students of a film school will achieve such feat.
The programme according to the founder of the school, Ambassador Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen hit the screens on Independent Television, (ITV) Benin on Wednesday July 3, 2019 at 6 pm and on Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS TV) at 4 pm and Saturday 1pm on both terrestial and satellite stations.
Lancelot celebrated 24 years behind the camera. "The vision for creating BFA half hour was borne out of our desire to constantly engage and provide a visible platform for our products."
"At Benin Film Academy, it's not just about the teaching but more of hands on practical. We also provide opportunity for our products to continually find a space for expression."
"The scripts are written by them, produced by them and presented by them. Ours is just to supervise."
"What this does is to foster trust and belief on themselves to be able to face the rigors and struggles of the industry."
BFA half hour, a production of Benin Film Academy, according to industry observers will open a new window to young sets of actors who intend to learn the trade of movie making through the right channel.
It will be an avenue for Niger-Deltan States to provide an alternative means of livelihood for their teeming youths.
Admission is currently on-going for new set of young minds who want to fulfil their dreams.
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When the fire is good and ready and a quick wash of the hands later, Shakuntala Bai puts on some water to boil — water stored in a tank in a corner of the kitchen and to be used only for cooking. She readies the large cast iron pan on which she will make chapattis or bhakris (rotis made of jowar flour). She walks over to one of the shelves carved into the wall where she stores her grains and other groceries, and picks up some flour in a vessel and adds a little bit of salt. Then she squats on the floor in front of the stove and kneads flour with the hot water and salt for bhakris.
Once she finishes prepping the dough, Shakuntala Bai places the cast iron pan on the stove, checks the fire and fiddles with it a little until she's satisfied. She moves a little so she's in front of the large, round, smooth Shahbaz stone placed strategically near the stove. She flours the surface and pats small balls of the dough into circular shapes on the stone, her palm going pat, pat, pat on the stone, constantly moving in quick semi-circles so the bhakris turn out evenly round. With darting movements, her fingers dab drops of water on the now expanding circle to fix cracks and then some flour so it doesn't get stuck on the stone. Water, flour, water, pat, pat, pat. A white cloud of fine flour dust swirls in the air around her.
Avalakki is a staple in North Karnataka cuisine. Avalakki Uppittu, a type of semi-dry porridge, is a popular breakfast dish. The rice flakes are also used to make quick snacks eaten late in the afternoon. A few basic spices and ingredients are all it takes to turn avalakki into dishes that are flavorful but light. More elaborate preparations of avalakki (such as Chivda) are made once in a while in large quantities to pack and take while traveling or to share among family and guests during festivals and religious observations.
This entry was posted on October 19, 2015 by Sujatha Bagal in About, Food Writing, Published, Stories and tagged Aerogram, Culture, Family, Food and Drink.


Shop fronts Stockport, Mane install aluminium shop fronts and aluminium shop front doors in the Stockport area of Cheshire, all of our shop fronts are made from high quality aluminium and come in many different colours. Our shop fronts are individualy made to suit your shop front in Stockport, we offer single glazed laminated safety glass as standard for our shop fronts and also offer double glazed glass, the shop front doors come with a built in door closer and have a hook lock as standard.
As well as installations Mane also carry out repairs to shop front doors in Stockport, we can replace faulty door closers, replace hinges, change locks and replace glass on faulty doors. All of our parts for shop front doors in Stockport come with a 2 year guarantee.


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Membro del Partito Operaio Socialdemocratico Russo fin dalla sua fondazione (1898), fu più volte arrestato dalla polizia zarista. Dal 1923 fece parte della Segreteria del Comitato Centrale del Partito bolscevico. Fu inoltre membro dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'URSS, svolse importanti studi sulla storia della rivoluzione, della guerra civile russa e del Partito bolscevico e presiedette dal 1931 al 1935 l'Associazione dei vecchi bolscevichi.

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Politici del Partito Operaio Socialdemocratico Russo
Membri del Comitato Centrale del PCUS
Segretari del Comitato Centrale del Partito bolscevico
Membri dell'Orgburo
Sepolti nella necropoli delle mura del Cremlino
Deputati della I legislatura del Soviet Supremo dell'URSS

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For many observers, I believe the take-away from this year's JavaOne was: "business as usual." In some important ways, business as usual here is a good thing.
The roots the enterprise Java world remain strong and resilient, with a compelling balance of stability and adaptability. This is a vibrant community and technology with the ability to make software that can create value. The community's seriousness and passion were in evidence at JavaOne this year in the session attendance across a diversity of topics, both mature and emerging.
As the organization behind a leading open source implementation of Java EE, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), we're excited and energized by the prospects for enterprise application development signaled by this year's JavaOne. When it comes adaptability and resilience, we believe that the innovation coming from open source communities will be a contributor to the ongoing strength and versatility of enterprise Java. Our customers look to us as a go-to platform for Java EE workloads, and we commit to empowering and extending those workloads in the best possible environment.
To put just a few examples behind that commitment, let's start with the cloud. Red Hat was the first vendor to put Java EE in a PaaS with JBoss EAP on OpenShift in 2011. Two years ago we announced our xPaaS strategy, which is about putting Red Hat JBoss Middleware on OpenShift—not merely throwing it out there, but re-imagining middleware and taking advantage of the new possibilities of the cloud. We've executed against that roadmap, embracing emerging phenomena such as containers and microservices along the way, and over the next few months we anticipate bringing to market new deliverables against that initiative.
A second example of our commitment to helping to carry the enterprise Java world forward is what we're doing in integration. Red Hat acquired FuseSource three years ago, and our community leaders in Apache Camel, Apache Active MQ, and others have continued to innovate in ways that build on those projects' successes. You may think of JBoss A-MQ and JBoss Fuse as next-generation messaging and service bus technologies...but we believe there is more to those technologies.
A third area is microservices and WildFly Swarm. WildFly is the "upstream" open source community project that drives JBoss EAP, and even if the latter isn't famous for the conciseness of its name, it has been regarded as a lightweight, fast-to-deploy, fast-to-restart Java EE implementation, rendering it a well-suited candidate for enabling Java EE workloads in the cloud. Red Hat's middleware team has been a driver of modularity, notably including contributions in contexts and dependency injection (CDI).
The Swarm initiative within WildFly takes this lightweight, cloud-friendliness even further by enabling developers to more easily create microservices—small bundles of business logic running on "just enough app server"to do the job. It supports simpler integration of third-party frameworks and provides access to the full suite of Java EE application program interfaces (APIs) and services. So whether you're building new apps or carrying-forward an existing code base - you have the ability to build enterprise-grade microservices.
There's more to write about here, but I wanted to put in one place a summary of Red Hat 's take on enterprise Java, our commitment to the community, and our thoughts on how we anticipate driving things forward. There's lots to do, and we look forward to working with you on it!


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Q: Python regex pattern which search for domain name I got a list of links and some of them look like
https://www.domainname
or https://domainname
I need to make a regex pattern to get only the domain name from it.
This "www" make problems in my pattern :(
print(re.findall("//([a-zA-Z]+)", i))

A: You could use the end of the string.
url = "https://www.domainname"
url2 = "https://domainname"

for u in [url, url2]:
    print(f'{u}')
    print(re.findall(r"\w+$", url2))

https://www.domainname
['domainname']
https://domainname
['domainname']

A: import re

with open('testfile.txt', 'r') as file:
    readfile = file.read()

    search = re.finditer('(?:\w+:\/\/)?(?:\w+\.)(\w+)(\.\w+)', readfile)

    for check in search:
        print(check.group(1)) #type 1 : if you want only domain names

result :
domainname
example

A: My solution:
import re

l1 = ["https://www.domainname1", "https://domainname2"]
for i in l1:
    print(re.findall("/(?:www\.)?(\w+)", i))

Output:
['domainname1']
['domainname2']

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Recruiting great people is a challenge, to do so consistently, and in significant volumes requires the right technologies, data and methods informed by the latest in behavioural science.
1. The effect they had on diversity was troubling - on some tests, for example, the pass rate difference between men and women was as much as 24%, despite Maths GCSE A/A* grade attainment gap being a tiny fraction of that (0.8%).
2. We noticed that our candidates absolutely loathed them - and that was not just because they were being tested, but from a user experience, lack of feedback and perceived lack of relevance. In fact, 94% disliked them in our survey, despite our network containing far more STEM subject studiers than average.
3. They didn't seem to test what count - to create challenge, and differentiate candidates they either relied on specific maths knowledge in almost a "who can remember more from school competition", or imposed huge time pressure for relatively simple questions. Calculator speed use is not interesting; rapid mental calculation is more so, but not enough by itself.
In light of these challenges we considered dropping testing altogether – but frankly we a) needed to know how analytical people were; b) didn't want to be limit ourselves to only people who did quantitative degrees; c) Sometimes need tools to objectively help us distinguish between thousands of similar applications in the large-scale recruitment we conduct on behalf of clients.
Instead, we decided it was the right time to make our own. We linked up with Applied – A spin-off from the Behavioural Insights Team and world leaders in understanding how unconscious bias affects recruitment processes. They know exactly how to create elegant, user-friendly recruitment tools whilst shrinking that troubling gender gap, as well as ethnic and socio-economic recruitment gaps. Using our combined expertise in graduate recruitment solutions and technology we were then able to create a product to address the problems and that works for candidates and clients.
Last year we piloted with 4 businesses in the finance and consulting world and the results across the board were promising; the gender gap shrank, on average candidates on average hugely preferred it (citing variety, nature of questions, UX), and perhaps most importantly it was predictive of who was ultimately hired.
Learning from the thousands of hours of testing data accumulated we have rebuilt it from the ground-up alongside the feedback from the clients and candidates that actually used the platform.
We are now hugely excited to officially launch Mapped as a revolutionary new product in joint partnership with Applied and make testing fairer and better for everyone.
To find out more and start your journey with Mapped as a partner solution within your own recruitment, visit the website at www.get-mapped.com and request a demo.


It is important that we develop the ability to overcome the difficult emotions that set in when we feel hurt or offended.
Often, our natural instinct is to withdraw or to become distant, or in some cases, to retaliate. My experience is that none of these approaches are very effective relationship tools. In fact, my experience, both personally and professionally, is that these approaches exacerbate and prolong the difficult circumstances.
We need to develop the ability to not take things personally (which will avoid the issue altogether. To learn more about this concept read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz). And even though this path will lessen the number of episodes that we must face, we will still have some. When it does occur again, we need to take responsibility for dealing with and soothing our own feelings in a timely fashion. Finding our voice and having conversations about the situation will help. Denying that our feelings are hurt or saying that everything is OK (when they are really not) will not help. These approaches just prolong the situation. Many people tell themselves (or subconsciously think) that they cannot or will not feel better until the offending person apologizes to them.
Do you see the power giveaway here?
First, we are giving them the power to essentially dictate our emotions by taking it personally, and now we are giving them the power to sustain the hurt feelings.
Let's stop giving away our power.
This is not an easy concept to adopt and practice, but it is so powerful that I encourage you to try it as part of your journey.


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Fertőboz ( Holling) ist eine ungarische Gemeinde und ein Dorf im Kreis Sopron im Komitat Győr-Moson-Sopron.

Geografische Lage
Der gleichnamige Hauptort liegt ungefähr 10 Kilometer südöstlich der Stadt Sopron, am südlichen Rand des Neusiedler Sees. Nachbargemeinden sind Nagycenk, Hidegség und Balf.

Geschichte
Bereits 1839 wurde in Holling ein Seebad am Neusiedler See errichtet, wodurch das Dorf bekannt wurde.

1910 lebten hier 518 Einwohner, von denen 490 Deutsche (95 %) und 26 Ungarn (5 %) waren. Im Gegensatz zu den vielen evangelischen Dörfern im Umland von Ödenburg gehörten fast alle Einwohner Hollings der katholischen Kirche an.

Bei der Volksabstimmung in Ödenburg 1921 stimmte Holling trotz seiner deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung überwiegend für Ungarn ab. Dies wurde später von österreichischer Seite auf den Druck der ungarischen Gutsbesitzer auf deren deutschsprachige Pächter zurückgeführt.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Großteil der deutschen Bevölkerung deportiert.

Söhne und Töchter der Gemeinde
 Rezső Jáki (1946–2002), Bergbauingenieur

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Ecce-homo-Statue (Ecce homo-szobor), erschaffen um 1750 (Barock)
 Gloriette-Aussichtspunkt (Gloriette kilátó), erbaut 1801
 Römisch-katholische Kirche Szentháromság, erbaut 1732 (Barock), restauriert 1903
 Sarkophag von Béla Széchenyi und seiner Frau Hanna Erdődi (Széchenyi Béla és felesége Erdődi Hanna sírboltja)
 Standbild des heiligen Johannes Nepomuk (Nepomuki Szent János szobor)
 Szent-Apollónia-Statue (Szent Apollónia-szobor), erschaffen um 1780 (Barock)
 Széchenyi-Museumsbahn, gebaut 1969–1972
 Weltkriegsdenkmal (I. és II. világháborús emlékmű)

Verkehr
Durch Fertőboz verläuft die Landstraße Nr. 8518, von der im Ort die Nebenstraße Nr. 85118 in Richtung des südlich gelegenen Bahnhofs abzweigt. Die Gemeinde ist angebunden an die
Eisenbahnstrecke von Sopron nach Győr. Zudem verbindet die Széchenyi-Museumsbahn  den Bahnhof Fertőboz mit dem Schloss Széchenyi in Nagycenk. Durch die Gemeinde führt der Neusiedler-See-Radweg.

Abbildungen

Literatur
 Fertőboz településképi arculati kézikönyv. Hrsg. von der Gemeindeverwaltung, Fertőboz 2017.

Weblinks
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 Boz in A Pallas nagy lexikona (ungarisch)

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Ort im Komitat Győr-Moson-Sopron


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Hip hop and politics. Blind photographers. Crayons and big ideas. In this week's CultureFutures special we're exploring creativity in surprising areas. In Rwanda, teenage girls have created its biggest media brand. In Spain, a photojournalist has set up the world's first 'special photographer' agency for people with intellectual disabilities. And in Senegal, they're rapping the news.
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COVID-19 crisis is not under control in Bali: expert
By Sheany Sep 8, 2020 | 6:10pm Bali time
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The recent spike in coronavirus infections in Bali is showing that COVID-19 is not under control in the popular holiday destination, a public health expert has said, as officials appear to reject Bali's reopening to domestic tourism as one of the contributing factors.
"The spike in cases show that COVID-19 pandemic is not under control in Bali, and the officially reported numbers may just be a portion of the real number of cases among the public," I Made Ady Wirawan, who heads Udayana University's School of Public Health, said today.
Bali reported 164 additional cases this afternoon, bringing the provincial tally to 6,549. The 12 deaths confirmed today reflects the highest number of daily deaths recorded so far, following a record high of daily cases last Friday at 196.
In the early days of the pandemic, Bali reported fairly low numbers compared to other parts of Indonesia, despite being the country's top holiday destination that welcomed thousands of foreign tourists before travel ground to a halt.
But for more than a week now, the island has reported more than 100 cases daily.
This was preceded by the reopening of domestic tourism on July 31, which brought a reported average of 3,000 daily visitors last month.
In spite of the seemingly straightforward connection, Ketut Suarjaya, the head of Bali's Health Agency, said domestic tourism was not to blame for the spike in cases, according to a report from Reuters.
Meanwhile, Ady said the high rate of transmissions recently may be attributed to loosened health protocols, as citizens have grown jaded six months into the pandemic. In addition, health experts are unable to estimate the peak in COVID-19 cases due to "low rates of testing."
"Besides that, the reopening of domestic tourism also appears to indicate to the public that the situation is safe when many transmissions are still occurring," Ady said.
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What is the value of a solid technical background without skills like time management and confidence? The Strengthening Learnerships for Unemployed Youth: Innovations for Life Skills and Technical Training initiative, officially launched at the J.P. Morgan offices in Johannesburg, aims to provide young people with the well-rounded training that will prepare them for the world of work. Over two years, the initiative will develop a successful, scalable model for integrating life skills training into a multi-sector youth employment initiative, including generating increased corporate demand for and investment in such training.
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Иваново — деревня в Егорьевском районе Московской области. Население —  человек (). Входит в культурно-историческую местность Леоновщина.

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Упоминается с 1578 года в составе Крутинской волости Коломенского уезда.

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 Писцовые книги Московского государства. Ч. I. Отд. I. - СПб., 1872.
 Смирнов В. И. Мы - егорьевцы. М., 1999.


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Lisa Cameron is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne, where she leads the research area on 'Disadvantage and Well-Being in the Asia-Pacific'. She is an empirical micro-economist who received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1996. Her research focuses on issues of social welfare and poverty, in Australia and throughout Asia, and often incorporates the techniques of experimental and behavioural economics to better understand human decision-making. Much of her research focuses on policy evaluation - understanding the impacts and behavioural implications of public policy. She is particularly interested in the welfare of disadvantaged and marginalised groups and the socio-economic determinants of health and well-being. She has extensive experience collaborating with government and international agencies such as the World Bank and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has been on the editorial board of Australia's leading economics journal, the Economic Record. She is an adjunct Research Fellow at ANU's Indonesia Project. In 2013 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
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The Blackhawks Stadium Series Game coincides with Hockey Weekend Across America –an annual hockey promotion event by USA Hockey — which is being held later this year because of the Winter Olympic hockey tournament in February 2014.


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1 The contest is open to writers of color who are residents of the United States, 18 years or older at the time of entry, and who have not previously had a children's picture book published.
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Note: La Bloga friend Gregg Barrios composed this poem upon the sudden death of renowned entertainer, Juan Gabriel. Gregg notes, "He never wanted to crossover and sing in English. He preferred to sing and speak in the language of his raices."
Barrios is in process of composing an extended tribute to the Mexicano singer. Gregg developed a long appreciation for JuanGa over the years. Barrios is one of the few Chicano journalists who actually gained Juan Gabriel's confidence and did several interviews with him for El Heraldo de Mexico y Mas magazine.
en algo triste y gris.
tome el papel de un infeliz.
que dejo estas cenizas de amor?
The fourth Sunday of the month, except during the winter holidays, La Palabra Hosted by Karineh Mahdessian, convenes at 2 p.m. in the galleries at Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles' Highland Park community.
August 28th's reading was a heartfelt occasion whose emotions and prime aesthetic motives completely fulfilled the gente who joined the circle. An Open Mic session kicks off the afternoon, followed by four featured readers, including Maya Washington, Natalie Graham, Cynthia Alessandra Briano, Devi Laskar.
La Palabra Hosted by Karineh Mahdessian reliably brings unique experiences with spoken word and good people. Today, poets come from Orange County, from Northern California, from the far Westside of the LA basin.
Although the audience mostly arrives deliberately, serendipity plays a role when passersby look into the gallery and, hearing people reading, tiptoe inside. A welcome smile points the visitor to an open chair.
Friends, familia, locals join in, and with a handful of regulars, constitute the enthusiastically warm audience. One regular, the unofficial official snack maker, Albie Preciado, had a malfunctioning oven that explains his absence today. He'd planned to bake a luscious goodie, even hinted at a gluten-free version. For the September affair, Preciado declares "I'll do my best to find something appropriately delicious to bake."
Eschewing conventional one-to-many seating, Mahdessian forms seating into a circle with central wide open space allowing performers to use the area to their heart's content. Most stand in place, a few remain in their seat. Today, only Elisabeth Adwin Edwards utilizes the entire room.
Merna Dyer Skinner's gentle dog lay patiently throughout the performance. Stella Archer, middle foto, makes her debut reading in public. Amanda Wang felt comfortable sitting and sharing an identity poem.
Joseph Rios sat at the far end of the circle, while Elisabeth Adwin Edwards stood and moved about to make eye contact with the full circle. Joe Kennedy read from a novel-in-process. Edwards' touching poem gave voice to a daughter's coming to terms with a dying mother. Poetry heals.
The poets today elect to read round-robin style. Natalie Graham leads off. Following Graham, clockwise, Devi Laskar reads, then Cynthia Alessandra Briano, and coming full circle, Maya Washington reads a piece. Then the cycle begins again.
The readers begin with a tribute, reading work by other poets. Illustrating the importance of flexibility and adaptation, poets changed their planned program to read a piece that reflects the moment and complements the previous reading.
Boisterous applause greets news that Natalie J. Graham's manuscript, Begin with a Failed Body, is selected for the 2016 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Natalie will receive $1,000, publication by The University of Georgia Press in fall 2017, complimentary copies of the book, and a feature reading in New York City.
Lasker reads a personal poem about a violent raid she endured at the hands of her local police. The moment is unnerving in the context of regularly disclosed police beatings and murders from coast to coast, and the complete helplessness of victims to do anything but bleed or endure. After the reading, the audience is happy to take a breath.
Cynthia Alessandra Briano stands and gestures freely. Briano's fluid eloquence adds a welcome dimension to her performance. I discover after the reading she is a speech and debate teacher. Public speaking class is among the very best ways for poets and writers to gain confidence and poise reading their own stuff. Those who can, teach.
Maya Washington, like Graham, reads from her chair. She exhibits a strong persona to go along with a strong poetic voice. The audience is satisfied with the wonderful readings, especially because all of the poets utilize a natural reading style. None adopt "the voice" that often diminishes a poet's oral and presentational effectiveness. Clearly these artists have keen awareness of their art. The natural voice technique illustrates respect for the labor each devotes to crafting literature.
Plan to be in Highland Park on September 25th to enjoy work by Gerda Govine Ituarte, Carla Sameth, Gale Cohen and Maria Elena Fernandez.
Juan Gabriel passed away in Santa Monica, CA yesterday, August 28, 2016. May his music and spirit continue to enlighten generations to come. He will be tremendously missed by not only his vast audiences, but also including those of us at La Bloga.
La poesía permite a todos acurrucarse en sus brazos: maestros, estudiantes, actores, bailarines entre otros. Esa exactamente fue la diversidad que enriqueció la noche del 8 de julio, cuando nos dimos cita en el Café Sin Título de la ciudad de Xalapa, Veracruz, México para compartir una vez más un poco de poesía, más bien, un mucho.
Pablo Rodríguez se paró al frente del público para darles la bienvenida a esa fiesta de palabras y emociones, Socorro Gutiérrez abrió la noche con sus divertidas décimas, después José Luis nos conmovió con su cuento titulado "No quieren cenar con nosotros".
La dulzura en la poesía de Paula Busseniers no hizo vivir sus propios recuerdos, luego la fuerza en las palabras y la seguridad en la voz de Silvia Santos hicieron que disfrutáramos sus versos, esta vez sin compañía de su jarana, Dora Rivera nos mostró que además del teatro, las letras son su pasión, el torbellino de sus palabras llenó toda la sala, enseguida Xánath hizo rugir al jaguar y aletear al colibrí mostrándonos la fuerza de una mujer que ha logrado mucho en su trabajo de poeta.
Siguieron Malena Flores, David Córdova, Pablo Rodríguez y Natividad Blásquez. Karla Hernández llenó de magia el lugar, sus delicadas manos y lo sigiloso de sus pies la convirtieron en poesía.
Todos nos sentimos abrazados por nuestra madre la poesía. No hace distinción y por eso la noche se llenó de diversidad, partimos de burlarnos de la vida y terminamos con temas fuertes, pero valientes. Que sea la poesía una excusa para hacer reuniones, que sea motivo de festejo, que sirva para reír, llorar, gozar. Que sirva para crear lazos como los de estas once personas. ¡Que sirva la poesía para vivir!
Naty Blásquez es estudiante de tercer semestre de la Licenciatura en Letras Españolas, Universidad Veracruzana en la ciudad de Xalapa, Veracruz, México. También es poeta y promotora cultural.
In honor of the Mexican music legend, Juan Gabriel, who died Sunday at the age of 66 in Santa Monica, California, I'm posting this story.
It's from my Tell Your True Tale storytelling experiment by Diego Renteria, who tells of his time as a young mariachi playing in South Gate at Christmas at the home of a grieving family that is requesting "Amor Eterno."
A beautiful story ... Read it! share it!
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This La Bloga entry offers a reflection about the recognition of "place"-- the importance of taking the time to look around, mindfully existing in the space where you find yourself--demanding the books/the education you need to conocer y contemplar quien eres/quien somos. In this entry, I'm contemplating "place" that has often been constructed as "empty" and "white"-- yet first and foremost, a space that was and is Indigenous: Lakota and Dakota, Ponca, Omaha, Pawnee, Otoe, Winnebago, and also continues to be a space where inmigrantes reside: Nebraska.
Nosotras: Chicanas y Chicanos write about land: the land we left behind, the land we desire, the land we imagine, the land that defines us, the land that created or destroyed us. I think of Tomás Rivera's . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra ( . . . and the earth did not devour him), a novella of inmigrantes, of struggle and survival. I also think of Arturo Islas' Rain God which attends to the theme of identity so eloquently and painfully within and outside of familia and land; and Gloria Anzaldúa who wrote, "I was the first in six generations to leave the Valley, the only one in my family to ever leave home. But I didn't leave all the parts of me: I kept the ground of my own being. On it, I walked away, taking with me the land, the Valley, Texas," (from Borderlands/La Frontera).
Some of my experiences on this Great Plains land of Nebraska have been what I consider more Mexican, mestiza, Xicana, more "raza" to me than living in Los Angeles ever was (and the opposite is true as well, but I'm more surprised with the former). For example, I never planted, never grew or harvested chile or maize, tomate or ajo until I came here to Nebraska. In Los Angeles, our backyard had two kinds of fig trees (white and black); grapefruit, lemon, peach, quince trees, chayote, and cactus. My memories of our Los Angeles jardin stay with me. Yet, the wonders I have seen on this Nebraska land (lightning bugs, thunder snow, cicada melodies, the migration of thousands of sandhill cranes from Mexico no less!) only emphasize what Professor and writer, Norma Cantú told me when I first considered "migrating" to Nebraska to teach at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "There is magic here, if you can see it."
I read My Antonia in California long before I ever thought about moving here. I was in San Francisco, at a friend's house. It was raining. I was sitting next to the window reading and intermittently watching the rain create uneven trails down the pane of glass. While reading one of Cather's descriptions much like the one I quoted above, I remember looking up and saying, "I must go there." I never meant to say, "I must live there." Pero aqui estoy--and I find myself constantly surprised at the connections, the familiarity of "place."
The prairie is like a tide pool. From far away, a tide pool looks like rocks and water--that is all. One could call it "empty." But if you immerse yourself within the tide pool, if you bend down, if you use your fingers to reach in toward the greens, reds, and orange colors, you will discover sea stars, mussels, sea anemones, sea palms, urchins, sponges, surf grass. The anemone reminds you (when it grabs at your finger and holds on) of the powerful life forces within. John Steinbeck wrote: "It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again." Where from a distance, the tide pool may look like rock and water (nothingness to some), it is teeming. The earth and sky are teeming if you seek to observe with passion.
In Nebraska, winter snowstorms encourage hidden communities. Shoveling snow, one may think that nothing, absolutely nothing is underneath all that snow. Yet, like the tide pool, here you have what's called the subnivian zone where it can be 50 degrees warmer than where the person above is shoveling snow. If we were small enough (like a mouse, vole, grouse, or bunny) we could go down to that zone and be quite comfortable.
This subnivian zone and its inhabitants remind me of California's drywood termites in East L.A. One day my uncle Frank gave me a memorable gift. He had called me into the garage to give me a bottle, its mouth wide enough to have probably been a peanut butter container. At first I only saw pieces of small spindly wood through the glass. It took a bit of time, but finally I could see the almost see-through segmented bodies (two of them) of termites, with fine shiny wings. I sat there, transfixed, watching their mandibles have at the wood.
The subnivian zone in Nebraska, the California termites remind me also of Mexico and the flying cockroaches en Torreon, Coahuila with my tia Panchita--swatting them on a hot August night, which then reminds me of the time that my cousin Angelina and I found opals imbedded in rocks when we were playing in a cave outside Guadalajara (perhaps near Tonalá). On that particular day, not only did we find opals, after walking out of the cave, we observed a truck down the road (filled to the brim with mangos) suddenly jackknife and turn over on its side. Thousands of red orange (some greenish) mangoes covered the side of the road. The truck driver, who didn't seem hurt--only quite upset--pleaded with us to take as many as we could. And we did--creating pouches with our shirts, grabbing at any pockmarked plastic bags we could find, filling them up, laughing and intermittently stopping just to look at this red orange road this "mango spilling" had created. So many discoveries just by being open to mindful observations.
During the spring, summer, and fall, I ride my bike and take a route that sends me out of Lincoln. I ride past fields of family farms, of bike and foot paths, of streams and trails where, at times, herons or hawks have flown so close I can hear their whoosh of wings. I can almost feel the soft downy of feathers in the sound. One morning, I saw what looked like a surreal drapery of black curtains ahead of me on the bike path, only to realize that a flock of turkeys were hurrying down the road and taking to flight in a mighty awkward effort. I never knew turkeys could take to flight at all-- and here they were raising their black wings, lifting their heavy bellies up a few feet, then back down in such an interestingly odd, almost helpless way. This happened near the home of a Mexican family from Sonora who have a number of chickens and a rooster that often calls as I bike past their place.
I mention this Mexican family's "Sonoran" home in Nebraska because it is exactly during this part of my ride where I swear I'm in Mexico--en Guadalajara or en Torreón, Coahuila hearing the tunas vendor going down the street, pushing his tunas cart, shaking the bells attached to the side, and calling, "tunas, tunas."
In some ways, I am doing what Anzaldúa describes as "taking with me the land." Another explanation is what geographer Doreen Massey calls, "different experiences of time-space compression." She writes: "Instead then, of thinking of places as areas with boundaries around, they can be imagined as articulated moments in networks of social relations and understandings, but where a large proportion of those relations, experiences and understandings are constructed on a far larger scale than what we happen to define for that moment as the place itself, whether that be a street, or a region or even a continent. And this in turn allows a sense of place which is extroverted, which includes a consciousness of its links with the wider world, which integrates in a positive way the global and local." Given what Massey says, this "Mexican Nebraska" description (my description) functions as a way to disrupt fixed constructions of place.
Once, during a reception (hosted by The University of Nebraska-Lincoln English Department) for fiction writers and poets from out of town, the conversation turned to living in Nebraska. One of the writers turned to me and asked how I could live in such a barren geographic region. "There is nothing here on the Plains," he said with an authoritative tone. I agreed that there was nothing--for him. He wasn't looking. "Nothing" registered for him because he had always been told, he explained, that there is nothing here. He reminded me of the main character Clithero in the 1799 novel, Edgar Huntly: or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown, a gothic novel illustrating what has been described as the white man's fear and desire to control nature, to maintain rationality and harness the imagination because of the horrors an active conscience can conjure or encounter. Clithero seeks not to cross the line between what is defined as "civilization" and what is considered "wild." He is constantly fearful of nothingness, of what is beyond what he knows. And I too was fearful when I arrived here in Lincoln--thinking as well there was "nothing" because of the overwhelming stereotypes this country has constructed regarding all of its regions. For example, Nebraska is part of the region often considered as "the fly over zone."
Yet, from the moment I arrived in Lincoln, so many connections to what I knew registered for me. The Nebraska State Capitol architect (Bertram Goodhue) is the same architect who designed The Los Angeles Public Library. As soon as I saw the building, the facade, the type of calligraphy font carved into the stone, it felt familiar. I remember thinking, "I recognize this place." The land outside of Lincoln (Nine Mile Prairie, for example), the tall grasses that Cather described-- red and sea-like in its movements (big and little Bluestem grasses, switch grass, etc.) are present south on the Gulf of Mexico (as well as in Latin America: the Gran Chaco of Bolivia y Argentina).
However, I also question the use of "taking with me the land" even though it is in the title of this blog entry. I often hear myself say, "My Mexican Nebraska," "My Los Angeles," "My Califas." Nothing . . . nothing is ever mine. Nothing is ever ours, and in thinking this way, I may be more appreciative, more respectful to see "land" and "people" as they are without assuming how "a people" or "a place" should be, without fear, without judgement. I like thinking of the term, "constant migrancy:" from the tide pools to the subnivian zone and everything in between. "Mestizas," "Xicanas," are everywhere-- and we carry with us our books, our history, our experiences, our complex perspectives which illustrate our deeply rich and complex raza.
When I moved here, I was afraid some of my Califas friends would be right when they told me, "You'll lose your Xicana roots." Pues what has happened es que I've planted Xicana roots here "taking with me the land de alla." When I was little (five or six years old), I remember my parents constantly instructing me: "If someone asks who you are, you tell them you are an American." They would tell me this with worry imbedded within the inflection of each word. They were recent immigrants. Perhaps my mother worried they would somehow take me away or take all of us. This worry is still alive and real today in Nebraska and many other states (Texas, Arizona, etc.). My parents wanted me to say I was American not knowing I would make the term "American" a life-long pursuit of study. And throughout my life, I've read how the Puritans, and later nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century writers have defined the term "American." Waves of immigrant writing throughout the years have described personal journeys regarding identity, a multitude of legislators have forced their opinion on what "American" is in order to have license to deport, license to ban individuals, multicultural teaching, license to ban diverse literary perspectives, license to ban Ethnic Studies curricula, license to take away books or change what has been written by raza to promote a definition of "American" that is narrow and excludes certain voices.
Raza continues to bring books to students whose classrooms lack a rich variety of literature, las palabras de tantas culturas, de tantas voces from where we live, from where we came, from where we walk "taking with us our land."


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Teachers Union Head Casts School Choice as Racism
Scott Shackford | From the October 2017 issue
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Ethnically diverse Los Angeles boasts a population that's nearly half Latino, 10 percent Asian, and 10 percent African American. The metropolitan area is also home to the largest charter school program in the country. In May, Los Angeles voters put school choice supporters in charge of the Los Angeles Unified School District board, a show of support for parents' right to decide where to send their kids for an education.
In fact, demographic data across the United States show that charter schools are remarkably ethnically diverse. As of 2014, some 27 percent of the more than 3 million charter students nationwide were African American and 31 percent were Latino, according to Department of Education numbers.
So it would be more than a little disingenuous to attack school choice as a tool of racists. But that's exactly how American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten is responding to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' push for more parental control.
In a speech before her union in July, Weingarten made an angry appeal to guilt by association: She argued that the idea of vouchers came from a desire to keep white children from associating with black children after the courts struck down segregation. Thus, she said, the very concept of school choice is tainted. "Make no mistake: The 'real pioneers' of private school choice were the white politicians who resisted school integration."
Arguing that DeVos' "preferred choices" of charter schools and tuition vouchers "don't work," Weingarten also insisted that privately operated schools are not accountable. But that's not true: they're accountable to parents, who can decide to stop sending their students there if they don't like what such schools are doing. The biggest incubators of school choice are not white strongholds but diverse metropolises such as Los Angeles and New York City.
The larger absurdity of Weingarten's speech is painting the powerful teachers union as a David fighting the Goliath of school choice advocates. The AFT made more than $20 million in political contributions in 2016 alone, clocking in as the 21st biggest donor out of more than 18,500, according to OpenSecrets.org. The real Davids are the parents themselves battling to establish control over the quality of their children's educations.
NEXT: Brickbat: That's Mighty Neighborly
Scott Shackford is an associate editor at Reason.
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Memory Hole
The real pioneers of private school choice were the white politicians who resisted integration.
That's exactly how it went down in Louisiana. Racism still accounts for some private school enrollment and some public schools suck more than they might have otherwise sucked because of this racist past so the past does inform the present. I don't think you would see as great of a demand for school choice without this extremely toxic racist past and public schools wouldn't suck as bad had white families invested in their success. Acknowledging this doesn't mean people who advocate for choice today are guilty of racism but they may be sons of bitches if they don't at least acknowledge how racism played a role in the downfall of public education and the rise of private education.
And of course my life experiences here in Louisiana inform my opinions and no doubt y'all have seen different shit. Private schools are preferred by practically everyone today so it ain't about race any longer for the most part.
And at some point if enough of our public money in the form of vouchers is used to fund these private schools they become not so private any more.
I don't know Louisiana. In California, the history is that public school districting was used to create white-mostly schools.
And today in California, "bilingual education" is used to keep the hispanic kids away from the white kids.
C. S. P. Schofield
And most of that institutionalized racism was put in place by Democrats, speaking of memoty holes.
The cols facts are that the Teachers' Unions don't have any facts on theirmside…that they dare invoke. "If school choice becomes reality I might actually have to work for a living" not being calculated to win hearts and minds.
What the various officers and panjandrums of the Teachers' Unions need and deserve is a fifteen minute head start.
Scarecrow Repair & Chippering
Too many people forget, or never knew (government schools, after all, aren't going to brag much on their racist roots), that Plessey (1895) was government-imposed mandatory racism against a private railroad, and arguably its customers, who were happy with integrated railways and had to be forced into Jim Crow racism.
loveconstitution1789
Public schools were used to break Native American kids of their native tongues and of course Democrats used Jim Crowe laws to segregate schools.
CatoTheChipper
Speaking of memory holes, most of that institutionalized racism was enforced in the South by the armed wing of the Democratic Party, a.k.a. the Ku Klux Klan.
Also fallen into a memory hole is the fact that opposition to private schools originated with anti-Catholic Democrats and Klansmen (see, for example, Oregon Compulsory Education Act).
MarkLastname
I don't really care a shit for your anecdotes. If this is the best you can come up with then the poverty and disingenuousness of the pro-union position are more obvious than I thought.
JFree
I agree. And one of the problems as I see it is that we still have one of the remnants of what enabled much of that racism. We used to have individual school management in almost the entire country. Local education was never supported in the South for a few reasons dating back to the original land grants and statehood – but that way of managing local schools would have been the best way to deal with issues of race/class at the same pace that neighborhoods themselves could deal with residential segregation.
Instead, the South and New England (for different reasons) went to the 'school district' model in the late 19th century. And what that does is take management of education out of the hands of local parents, homeowners, 'volunteer school board' types – and move it into the hands of 'professionals'/pols/etc. The rest of the country then went to that model in the 1950's with the one-time explosion of suburbs. But its pretty clear that that district model has failed to improve education – and worse it has eliminated any commitment to 'fix the infrastructure that we already have'.
School choice is just another useless idea that avoids solving the underlying problem. We need to restore individual school management and weaken the higher level impositions that have proven that they don't work.
Sidd Finch v2.01
I don't think you would see as great of a demand for school choice without this extremely toxic racist past and public schools wouldn't suck as bad had white families invested in their success.
– Racism tisk tisk
– Public schools need white people.
The real pioneers of private school choice were the white politicians who resisted integration. That's exactly how it went down in Louisiana. Racism … public schools wouldn't suck as bad had white families invested in their success.
Then why do public schools suck everywhere, and not just in Louisiana and the Deep South?
And, why did Clinton and Obama send their kids to Sidwell Friends rather than a nearby D.C. government school?
Repost for a re-thread:
"As Parents Get More Choice, S.F. Schools Resegregate"
"A majority of families may be satisfied with the outcome, but the student assignment system is failing to meet its No. 1 goal, which the San Francisco Unified School District has struggled to achieve since the 1960s: classroom diversity."
http://sfpublicpress.org/news/…..esegregate
Ignoring the fact that the N0. 1 goal should be educating the kids, the gov't schools don't seem to be doing so hot, either,
The public school system has dumbed down kids by the millions over the last 30-40 years and hopefully the school choice change alters that. Unfortunately, it will still take years, possibly decades, before America sees the smarting up of kids leaving these new schools that value education.
Elias Fakaname
The democrats certainly want to prevent that.
GILMORE?
[x] Casts [y] as Racism
there's a lot of that going around
AlmightyJB
She's actually behind the times. It's not Racists! anymore it's Nazis! Must not have received memo.
Jerryskids
So it would be more than a little disingenuous to attack school choice as a tool of racists.
Disingenous's got nothing to do with it, "racist" is just a verbal tic like "sexist", it means absolutely nothing. You get into an argument with anybody over anything and the left breaks out the racist and sexist the same way anybody else breaks out fat-ass, ugly, or retard.
Michael Ejercito
I wonder if this overuse of the word "racism" will incite people to question what is wrong with racism in the first place.
Or, per the Streisand effect, to examine more closely what it even means.
Sports Reporter Charles Manson
If we're applying guilt by association, what about the fact that many states operated racially-separate government school systems for decades?
Going back before that, what about the fact that the states formerly operated government schools *only* for whites, while anyone caught teaching a black slave to read went to prison?
Somehow, government schooling as such isn't tainted with guilt by association.
And while I can certainly agree that in states where the whites were used to white-only government schools, many of them turned to white-only private schools once the government schools were ordered to be integrated. And that apparently taints *all* school choice with guilt by association.
Even nonwhite parents today whose motivation for supporting school choice is a desire for better education – they're tainted with guilt by association, too.
Apparently, it's not enough to have equality before the law, and to stop racial discrimination by all government agencies – every white parent must be presumed to be a racist who is reeling from the impact of Brown v. Board of Education and plotting and scheming, above all things, to give their children a monoracial education regardless of any academic benefit.
Well, *rich* white parents aren't presumed racist, they should be able select a private or public school with just the right racial mix for their child. And their choices are based on academic factors exclusively!
But parents who can't afford to opt out of the system? They're all racists, they don't care if Johnny can read so long as he can be sent to a segregated school.
That's how you're viewed, poor and middle-class parents. If you're allowed to select your kid's school, you'll just base your decision on racism. Even if you're black you're guilty by association with white racists.
Unicorn Abattoir
Weingarten is screaming racism because she's out of rational arguments against charter schools.
It seems to me that the AFT and NEA are fighting a rearguard action at this point. Education is going to change, whether they like it or not. From charters to online schools, elementary/secondary education is changing. I don't know what it will look like in the future, but it won't be the assembly line system in place throughout public school systems today.
At some point they'll get wise and coopt the movement:
"OK, we endorse charter schools and vouchers, all we ask is for some fairness – charter and voucher schools will just have to meet one or two little regulations about teacher tenure, diversity, anti-bullying education…here, this is a modest list of proposed regulations…bring the forklift over here…"
Marty Comanche
Mic drop. Thread over. The entire article could have just been the first sentence here.
Longtobefree
But "historically black" colleges are special and should get their own racist pass?
All the union is against is schools without union dues paying teachers. Period.
esteve7
Make no mistake, the union hack can fuck off. She is responsible for more generational misery of monorities than the KKK could ever hope to achieve
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One of the biggest mistakes Asian parents keep committing is telling their children to respect and obey their teachers as a given in the west. Most of the time the teachers are going to be ignorant and will treat as Asian child negatively or differently at best. Asian kids internalize this from a so-called authority figure and get problems regarding their identity or even simply defending themselves from people who would limit them.
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Greenpeaces Rainbow Warrior greeted with food by 4th Street Food Co-op and Time's Up!
The 4th Street Food Co-op teamed up with Time's Up! to deliver a special food order to the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's new ship that just docked at Chelsea piers. Their brand new ship is fresh off a European tour and will be in New York City all week.
Greenpeace USA contacted the co-op to help with provisioning, as they were hoping to avoid large grocery chains and bad-reputation-corporations like Chiquita. We enlisted the help of Time's Up! to bike the produce and other supplies to the west side. Brennan, Keegan, Kim, Nicholas, and Theresa from Time's Up! joined Nick, Vanessa, Brianna, Arthur and myself from the co-op.
After our jaunt across town in high winds, we approached the high seas–ok the Hudson River.
Once the goods were loaded, Rainbow Warrior crew member Katie gave us a tour of the ship. Highlights included the galley (AKA kitchen) and the navigation instruments including new radar equipment, and the bike room!
Chef Wendy told us they were pretty down before we arrived, because US Customs incinerated a fair bit of their provisions that they arrived with. Fresh supplies delivered on bike apparently brightened moods. We hope they come back to the co-op this week to restock. Unfortunately we don't carry marmite.
After their week-long stint in NYC, the Rainbow Warrior will continue down the US eastern coast and to the Amazon, where they will campaign against deforestation, which may be on the rise again.
The ship will be available for public tours this weekend and group tours during the week while docked at Chelsea piers.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small team of U.S. Treasury officials is discussing options to stave off default if Congress fails to raise the debt limit by the Aug. 2 deadline, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
But behind the scenes, top Treasury officials have been exploring ways to prevent a financial meltdown that would be triggered if the government was unable to pay its bills on time, sources told Reuters.
Mary Miller, assistant secretary for Financial Markets, and Richard Gregg, Treasury's fiscal assistant secretary, are leading the specialized Treasury team.
They have discussed, but the White House has dismissed, the option that Treasury could rely on the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to go ahead with bill payments even in the absence of a debt limit increase.
There has been growing speculation in Washington in recent days that Treasury could use the amendment -- which some argue says the government cannot renege on its debts -- to ignore the congressionally imposed limit on the amount of money the United States can borrow.
The Treasury team has also talked about the Government Accountability Office's 1985 assessment that Treasury has the authority to prioritize payments.
``They were exploring if there were any legal and practical alternatives. It was not obvious to them that the president has the legal authority to pick and choose who gets paid,'' he said.


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Lunchtime buzz is back in Cork's English Markets as office workers return
Sellers say today has been busier than the last few Mondays, and that it's 'great to see the suits back in for lunch and food for dinner'
Eimer McAuley
The English Market is in full swing
As office workers made a phased return to their buildings today in Cork city after a long period of working from home there was a bit of an extra buzz around the place, nowhere more so than in the English Market.
Sellers at the market told CorkBeo that they noticed that their lunchtime was that little bit busier today compared to some quiet Mondays over the last month - which is hopefully a sign of things to come.
Pauline from Kathleen Noonan's butchers says there was 'definitely more people round the place, popping in to get a few bits for their dinner."
She says it's just "lovely to see" a wider range of people coming in again at lunchtime."
If you have returned to work in the office and your struggling with leaving the nest, call into Pauline for some dinner advice to give you something to look forward to in the evening.
She says that you can't beat traditional Corned boddice and that it ought to be served with "cabbage and potatos" - in true Cork style.
Heidi from Maki Sushi Rolls
Over at Maki Sushi Rolls Heidi says she is not sure yet whether the return of office workers has increased footfall in the market, "It has been a busy lunchtime, last Monday was quiet in comparison, we are noticing more accents in the market as well as tourists come in," she said.
Maki Sushi Rolls got through the ups and downs of the pandemic by offering a Deliveroo service to their customers as well.
"That has kept us busy the whole time which is great, but it is wonderful to actually see people, and to be busy with in-person and online service today,' she said.
At the Ballycotton Seafood counter Alan says he's definitely noticed things picking up today with the return of the lunchtime rush hour.
"I've just seen a few guys in suits come in for a bit of fish for the dinner that I haven't seen now in, maybe six months, and as well as that some people who come to us on the weekend who are back in after working from home have been in on their lunch to say hello and pick up a bit of fish, which is just great to see," he said.
"There is that little extra buzz, even in the city besides the market, we're almost back to what it was like before the pandemic as September is always that bit quieter with the kids going back to school - but the best part is definitely welcoming back some familiar faces and old customers," Alan added.
Summer is officially over as the pontoon bridge at Barleycove is taken away
Once in a lifetime humpback whale encounter off West Cork coast
Operation begins to remove 220 Doneraile dogs from North Cork puppy farm
North Cork
An operation is underway for the dogs and puppies at Ms Broderick's property at 'The Hermitage'


This is a great last minute dinner for a cold winter's night!
Pour a dash of olive oil into a pot, turn heat to medium high, and saute your onion until cooked through. Add the box of soup to the pot, lower the heat all the way and let simmer until it is nice and hot.
Take a large nonstick frying pan and put a dollop of butter/olive oil and heat on a medium flame. Put two slices of bread in the pan until toasted. Sprinkle some cheese (about 1/4 cup, depending on how big your bread is) on one slice, then cover with the other slice. While the cheese is melting, throw some more butter in the pan for it to melt (trust me, this will help with sticking). Spread 1 tbsp cheese on top of the grilled cheese, then delicately flip over to the other side of the pan (with the cheese underneath). Wait until the cheese underneath gets nice and crispy, add butter to the pan, then sprinkle cheese on top and flip again. When both sides are crispy, turn onto a plate and cut in half on the diagonal. Watch the video above for a tutorial.
Ladle the soup into four mugs and sprinkle with basil. Place the mug on its saucer and put the grilled cheese on the plate. Dip the grilled cheese into the soup to eat. Alternatively, get cute bowls with attached plates. I found these Soup & Sandwich plates from Crate & Barrel, they are super cheap and adorable!
* Beware of some boxed/canned soups as they can contain a lot of sodium. I always reach for the "lower sodium" options and make sure I don't make these soups every day. They are great in a pinch but try not to make them a staple in your kitchen.
**If you're looking to cut calories, you can use fat free kosher cheese. I love cheese so I cannot make that type of sacrifice, but I find that if you use half regular cheese and half fake cheese (like Smart Beat Cheese) it tastes similar to the original and lowers the calories.
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Very easy to do – my new 'go to' when i don't want to cook up a storm- and my husband loved it! thanks for the idea!
This looks so amazing and I love how you give the fat free option- thanks so much!
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petition: Rush Limbaugh Must Apologize to the Pope!
Rush Limbaugh Must Apologize to the Pope!
Talk show shock jock Rush Limbaugh has attacked the very basis of Catholicism by calling the Pope a Marxist. Rush lambasted our much loved Pontiff, labelling him a Marxist and casting doubts on his understanding of economics and society.
Well we all know you only care about money Rush, but millions of people rely on the Pope to set a good example of offering love and compassion to humanity. After decades of eroding values and challenges to the Church we now have a Pope that will take a message of love and hope to the people.
Too bad if this offends you Rush, you offend us!
It's time for Rush Limbaugh to realize he can pick on politicians, but he has crossed the line when he picks on the Pope of the People. We demand an apology!
This time you have gone too far. By casting doubt on the legitimacy of the recently delivered message from the Pope "Evangelii" you are attacking the basis of Catholicism. Your claim that he is a Marxist that has been "gotten at" is a disgrace.
He is called the Pope of the People because he serves the people, maybe you should take some lessons from him.
We the undersigned demand you apologize to the Pope for attacking what he stands for.