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WHJM, "Radio Maria" (for "Hearts of Jesus and Mary") is a non-commercial FM station operating at 88.7 MHz licensed to Anna, Ohio. It is a repeater station of KJMJ (AM) 580 in Alexandria, Louisiana (where its local Catholic diocese is also headquartered) and is owned by Radio Maria Inc. airing inspirational music and Catholic programming for the Upper Miami Valley region of Shelby, Auglaize, Allen, Logan, Mercer, Miami and surrounding counties in West Central Ohio. It is part of the international broadcast ministry of The World Family of Radio Maria, which is based in Italy and broadcasts in over thirty countries in thirteen languages worldwide. The station also audiostreams from its website for listeners outside its immediate signal area in addition to its very own smartphone app, the Tune In app and the Alexa device.

History
A group of New York City-based volunteers known as "Friends of Radio Maria" which operates an Italian language FM subcarrier (of WKTU) acquired the original funding and construction permit for the new station in 2001 by means of a New York-based fundraiser called a "Mariathon." The construction permit however initially sat dormant until it was discovered by a group of Dayton area volunteers in 2005 looking for a Miami Valley frequency to start a local Catholic station. After a tower site was found, WHJM joined the Radio Maria family on June 8, 2006 while volunteers feverishly proceeded with preparations to get on the air before the construction permit was to have expired.

Within just a few days prior to the construction permit's deadline date to start broadcasting, WHJM "Radio Maria" first came on the air on June 15, 2006. Its transmitting antenna and tower was abruptly struck by a spectacular display of lightning only after two hours on the air during its inaugural sign-on. However, the brief airtime before the lightning strike was enough to fulfill the FCC deadline. After necessary repairs were made, WHJM returned to the air August 11, 2006. Its current operating power is 1,000 watts ERP. WHJM's current signal fades-out north of Lima at Beaverdam where WJTA's FM translator (W204CU) in Findlay fades in, followed by CIMX in Windsor, Ontario which begins to fade-in north towards Bowling Green and Toledo.  Its signal also fades out to the south near Tipp City where listeners can switch to 1600 AM (WULM) in Springfield or 103.3 FM (WULM's translator W277AO) in Enon.

Friends of Radio Maria also helped acquire the construction permits of new repeater stations WOLM in D'Iberville, Mississippi near Biloxi and WRMW licensed to Peshtigo serving the Door Peninsula region of northeastern Wisconsin. These stations are now licensed to Radio Maria Inc.

Call sign history
The WHJM call letters were previously used at an Urban/R&B/Hip-Hop formatted station at 107.7 FM in Ledyard/Pawcatuk, Connecticut.  The call sign for that station has since switched to WWRX.  Before that, the WHJM calls were used on 1180 AM in Knoxville, Tennessee which had used Christian Country, Adult Standards and talk radio formats. That station is now WKCE.

KJMJ has been on the air as the US flagship station of Radio Maria since May 2000. Originally, the 580 frequency was home to KALB-AM, sister station to KALB-TV channel 5.

Radio Maria was founded at first with humble beginnings as a small parish-operated station in Erba (province of Como,) Italy in 1983 before its subsequent international growth in the 1990s which gave birth to the World Family in 1998. Emanuele Ferrario is Radio Maria's founder and Carlo DiMaggio as its president.

Facilities and programming
Though WHJM, for the most part, is a repeater of KJMJ, there is a studio facility west of Anna in nearby Minster which originates several live programs including  "Living The Lectionary" (now hosted by Julia Monnin after the passing of Father Rick Nieberding in 2019) and Herb Wilker's Hospice program "Letting Go." Past local programs originated by audio recording and over telephone lines included "At Home With Jesus' with Glenda Canfield,"From The Tummy To The Heart" and "Francesca and Friends" presented by Francesca Franchina from The University of Dayton's Marian Library. The studio officially opened on Sunday April 22, 2007 with a prayer and blessing service and open house officiated by Father Rick Nieberding C.P.P.S.(1953-2019) who was pastor of St. Augustine Church and the original presenter of the program "Living The Lectionary." WHJM was also the originator of the yearly remote broadcast of the Fatima USA candlelight prayer vigil which takes place in the evening during the month of August at Maria Stein, a concelebration involving parishes from Minster, Marion Township and Saint Henry.

Overnight programming was provided by Radio Maria New York and originated by WSNR 620 am licensed in Jersey City, New Jersey. Radio Maria now airs evening and overnight repeats of various daytime programs aired for listeners who work dayshift hours.

Prior to the studio opening, a public information session took place on August 29, 2006 at St. Charles Center in Carthagena, Ohio to introduce Radio Maria to local listeners and the northern portion of the Cincinnati archdiocese.

The WHJM transmitter is located to the north in nearby Botkins...at the Microwave radio relay tower site (formerly used by AT&T Long Lines) on West State Street (with the Hogg horn antennas removed prior to WHJM's 2006 sign-on.)

The WHJM studio is located in the Hoying Profesional Building at the corner of Main and Fourth Streets..the intersection of Ohio State Routes 119 and 66 in downtown Minster.

Radio Maria's AM station for Dayton/Springfield area
According to a Springfield News-Sun story dated March 10, 2008, Radio Maria USA purchased WULM (the former WBLY) from Urban Light Ministries in Springfield, Ohio. The application for license transfer and purchase which took place on February 15, 2008 was granted FCC approval on April 16, 2008. The AM station acquisition now brings Radio Maria programming to Springfield, Dayton, Tipp City, Troy, Urbana and other communities in the Miami Valley not reached by WHJM's signal. WULM's signal also has the potential to reach east towards Columbus and west towards Richmond, Indiana along U.S. 40 and I-70. WULM is also simulcast for the north Dayton suberbs on FM translator W277AO at 103.3 FM in Enon.

Radio Maria programming on WULM commenced on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 12 noon local time.
The WULM studio (formerly located at WIZE's transmitter site and now-vacated studio on Miracle Mile Road) is now located at the Father Boyle Center (the former parish convent) on Lagonda Avenue next to St. Bernard Parish east of downtown Springfield.

Radio Maria now offers its audiostreaming though the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile phone devices in addition to its own World Family Smartphone app and the TuneIn app for listeners outside of WHJM and WULM's signal area in addition to the Amazon Alexa device which can be accessed by the vocal command: "Alexa...Open Radio Maria." hence Radio Maria USA now has nationwide coverage outside the signal areas of its terrestrial stations.

Mary Pyper, (presenter of "Marian Apparitions"  and past National President) is currently the National Board Treasurer of Radio Maria USA. Jim Linthicum is local voiceover/audio production technician. Cletus Prenger is Minster studio technician. Ernestine Miller (1923–2013)   (formerly with WERM, now WFGF) served as Minster studio and office public relations representative, Greg Oen associate recording and remote broadcast technician, Nick Hoying associate remote broadcast technician and Jim Boeckman (1941-2019) was volunteer in charge of promotion and publicity before his passing. Rose Luthman is current Minster studio and office manager.

See also
 KJMJ
 KBIO
 WULM
 WHHN
 WMKL
 HMWN(now Radio Maria Canada, a webcaster)

References

External links
 Official Radio Maria USA site (with streaming audio)
 Radio Maria WHJM on Facebook

 Unofficial WHJM/WULM website for listeners and supporters
 Listing of Radio Maria USA's stations in English, Spanish and Italian
 Official Radio Maria World Family site (with streaming audio)
 Official Radio Maria Italy site (with streaming audio)
 Radio Maria app download for iPhone
 Radio Maria app download for Blackberry
 Radio Maria app download for Android
Springfield News-Sun story of Radio Maria's purchase of WULM in Springfield (March 10, 2008)
 Youngstown Vindicator news article on WHJM.(September 10, 2006)
 WHJM's current transmitter site
 WHJM coverage area map in PDF format

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Gastonia actress making a splash on TV, internet
By Brandy Beard bbeard@gastongazette.com
Jun 21, 2019 at 8:00 AM Jun 21, 2019 at 10:15 AM
With her roles on multiple hit television and web series, the success of her own production company, and other accomplishments to come, it's actress and Gastonia native Susan Gallagher's time to shine.
Gallagher's connection in the community run deep. Her family has lived in Gaston County for four generations, and her father's family started Good Will Publishers in Gastonia, at one point the largest Bible distribution company in the country.
Growing up, Gallagher shared a home with her mother, a musician, her father, who worked at the family business, and three older siblings.
Gallagher describes her younger self as "rebellious," often getting in trouble.
"People who know me in Gastonia, they know of some of the wrong turns I made at a young age," she said.
After hitting "rock bottom" at 25, her family helped her get back on track. It was during this time that Gallagher set out to change.
"I decided it was time to get my life together," she said. "That's just what I did."
A creative outlet
Gallagher fell in love with Jimbo Jahna and after their wedding in 1987, moved with him back to his hometown in central Florida. The couple had two children, Caroline and Bo. Jahna suggested Gallagher find a creative outlet, which led to acting classes.
"I really embraced acting and found that creative outlet I always needed and the doors just started opening for me," she said.
One of those doors included working for the Home Shopping Network doing live sales. Her career's demanding hours prevented her from participating in a feature film. It was then she realized acting was her true passion.
Her big break came in the 1990s when she was hand-picked by producer Aaron Spelling (who was behind shows like "Dynasty" and "7th Heaven") to play the role of Claire in The WB Television Network's "Safe Harbor." There, she worked alongside stars like Greggory Harrison and Rue McClanahan.
Soon enough, Gallagher and her children were travelling yearly to live in Los Angeles for three to four months during pilot season, with Jahna flying in every two weeks.
"That's where the bulk of the entertainment industry is," she said. "Living in a regional market is difficult because these regional markets don't have that much production."
The kids would attend school in Los Angeles and take acting classes. They lived at The Oakwood apartments, where stars like Neil Patrick Harris and Queen Latifah were known to have stayed because of its proximity to Warner Bros., Universal and Walt Disney studios.
Gallagher has appeared in shows and films across all genres with credits in "The Haves and Have Nots," "The Inbetweeners," and "I Killed My BFF." She's arguably most known as "Homeless Lynn" on the YouTube series "Cobra Kai."
"That's really fun and challenging for me as an actor to play this homeless woman who is filthy from head to toe and who is outrageous and sassy," said Gallagher.
She's a little more recognizable in the role of Val for the webseries "Queering." Val is a divorced, retired dentist who comes out as bisexual to her daughter, a lesbian.
"It's not just about bisexuality or struggling with your sexuality, but really it's about what life is about and I think it's about relationships -- whether it's a mother-daughter relationship or relationships with longtime friends and how they change over the years," she said.
She's currently working on NBC's "Bluff City Law" and HBO's "The Outsider," and movies "Beast Beast," "Walkaway Joe," "I'll Be Here For a While," and "Letting Go."
Gallagher became tired of waiting on her agent to call, felt like she had no control, and that she had to depend on others to get auditions. She took matters into her own hands in 2014 and with the help of a few friends, started Her Little Red Productions in 2014.
"None of us knew what we were doing, but we inspired each other to take that leap and put our fears aside and be bold. So what if we fail? I finally got to a place in life where I'm not afraid to fail," she said.
The woman-led company supports woman film makers and has set out to empower women in film.
One of the company's projects is "Portrait of a Woman at Dawn." Inspired by the #MeToo movement, this short film explores themes of abuse and women's empowerment. It's currently on the film festival circuit.
"As I get older, supporting women and younger women, whether it be in film making or acting or life or motherhood, I just have always had a passion for that kind of thing," said Gallagher. "I think a lot of other women have, too."
Follow Susan Gallagher at susangallagher.com, facebook.com/susan.jahna on Twitter @SusanlGallagher, and on Instagram @susangallagherofficial.
Reach reporter Brandy Beard at bbeard@gastongazette.com or 704-869-1840.

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Hembury Woods Circular Walk
Hembury Woods Circular Walk, Buckfast, Dartmoor National Park
Hembury Woods (National Trust) are situated near Ashburton and Buckfastleigh on the south eastern border of Dartmoor National Park. Managed by the National Trust, the woods are easily accessible and there are a number of beautiful circular walks to enjoy.
The following route takes you to the top of the woods at Hembury Hillfort before dropping down to a stunning section of the River Dart. The initial uphill section that climbs through the woods gets the heart pumping but it's not particularly demanding. It's then a pleasant descent to the river. This is a short circular walk taking in the central and southern sections of Hembury Woods.
Start at the parking and picnic area in the southern section of the woods
Head for Buckfastleigh and Buckfast just off the A38 Exeter to Plymouth road. Drive past Buckfast Abbey and take the first right. This takes you past houses on your left and Buckfast Abbey to your right. Very shortly, you'll come to another road. Turn left. Drive for about half a kilometre and then turn right. You'll come to the edge of Hembury Woods. The road climbs to a parking and picnic area in the southern section of the woods. We've positioned this parking area on Google maps so zoom in on the 'Satellite' setting to see its location.
Follow the path up the hill to Hembury Hillfort
On the other side of the road from the parking area is a wide forestry track. Walk along this for a short distance and you'll see a path on your left that climbs up the side of the woods. As you trudge up the path, you'll see signposts with the word 'FORT' (see photos) carved into them and arrows pointing you in the right direction. This path winds its way up through the woods and cuts across upper forestry tracks until you come to Hembury Hillfort.
Having explored the hillfort, head for the exit on the north side of the enclosure. There's a gate and information board telling the story of the fort. A forestry track runs north west to an upper car park. The track turns north and descends to another forestry track to your right. Follow this track all the way down to the bottom of the woods. You walk with a stream to your left and trees tower above you. It's stunning.
The River Dart
At the bottom of the woods, you'll see another signpost with the word 'RIVER' (see photos) carved into it and an arrow showing you the way to the water. Drop down to the River Dart. Spring and Autumn here are amazing.
Follow the river south and the path leaves the river and climbs through the woods. The National Trust have built steps to help. This path connects with the forestry track you used when first entering the woods. Wander back to the car parking area.
Extending the walk in Hembury Woods
For a longer circular walk, follow the above route but extend into the northern section of the woods. So, yomp up to Hembury Hillfort and follow the forestry track north west to the upper car park. From there, walk the track as it turns north but instead of turning right, continue past Hembury Barn (ruin). Walk north and then east along the track. There are several routes you can take. Consult the Ordnance Survey Explorer OL28 'Dartmoor' map to see your choices. It's fun to follow the track around the edge of the woods and then drop down to the far north eastern corner by the River Dart. Notices tell you to keep off private land to the north. Just follow the bank of the River Dart south all the way back to the car park as described above.


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The Heritage Office provides advice and information on heritage issues; develops policies and priorities for the identification, protection, conservation and enhancement of Kilkenny's heritage; collects and collates heritage data, and promotes and supports heritage awareness & education throughout the county. A key objective is to work with the Kilkenny Heritage Forum in the preparation and implementation of the County Heritage Plan and the County Biodiversity Plan.
The Heritage Office is located in Johns Green House, Johns Green, Kilkenny, R95 CX92.
Tel: 056-7794925.
Email: Dearbhala.ledwidge@kilkennycoco.ie.
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Normal office hours are Monday – Friday, 9am – 1pm, and 2pm- 5.30pm.
Services of the Heritage Office are free of charge, where there is a cost for events these will be stated.
To contact other Heritage Services of the Council view the Heritage Team page.
Click on the following link to view the Kilkenny County Council Freedom of Information Publication Scheme.


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The grounds of Finley Creek Vineyards is every bit as glorious and charming as the interior of our Wedding Barn. That is especially wonderful to consider if you are looking for a place to hold your late spring or summer wedding reception.
Because Finley Creek Vineyards is just outside of Northwest Indy in lovely Zionsville, our property is private and lush, well away from the hubbub of suburban and city life.
We are always looking for new ways to add to the ambience of our beautiful grounds. Last year, we added two beehives way in the back – away from our buildings – to help keep our planned flower and vegetable gardens fertilized, healthy and thriving.
This spring, we are planting hosta, astilbe, anemone, hellebores, foam flower, coral bell, and stargazer lilies around our stately oak trees.
Not only will the flowers smell amazing during outdoor events and receptions, but they will look stunning, too. We chose flower varieties with flower timing in mind, so there will always be something in bloom no matter what early spring or late summer month you choose for your gathering.
Finley Creek Vineyards will have a grape arbor, too. Those plantings will go in soon, as will new vegetable gardens. The bees will be happy …and busy. Soon, we'll be harvesting honey from the flowers' nectar as well!
Also new this year at Finley Creek – a lovely outdoor stone fireplace – perfect for intimate gatherings around evening bonfires.
There's a lot to like at Finley Creek, both inside and outside. We invite you to come visit this exclusive Jacquie's Gourmet Catering venue. Whether you plan your event for inside or out — or both — we know you are going to have a delicious and memorable time!


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Practice restrictions on NC nurse-midwives under scrutiny
by NC Health News January 31, 2014 July 8, 2020
This story originally appeared here and is published by Carolina Public Press through a content-sharing agreement with North Carolina Health News.
By Rose Hoban
Lawmakers are taking another look at a proposal to loosen the practice restrictions on nurse-midwives.
A bill proposed in committee would allow nurse-midwives to practice without contractual supervisory arrangements with physicians, instead mandating that they "collaborate, consult with or refer to other providers … if indicated by the health status of the patient."
A similar bill was passed by several committees during the 2013 legislative session after a heavy lobbying effort by nurse-midwives, with doctors lobbying against the measure. An 11th-hour procedural move killed the amended bill on the House floor.
A proposal to study the nurse-midwife issue resurfaced in the final budget bill last summer. That study began last week in a subcommittee of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services.
At issue for nurse-midwives is the requirement that they contract with physicians who "supervise" their practice. Nurse-midwives point to the fact that physician supervisors don't directly oversee their work and are sometimes even located several counties away. They also say it can be difficult to convince an obstetrician/gynecologist to sign supervisory agreements.
Physicians, on the other hand, argue that having the supervisory agreements ensures patient safety.
Rep. Sarah Stevens (R-Mt. Airy), the subcommittee co-chair, said both sides are entrenched in their positions.
"I think it is a territorial-type issue. I think physicians want to maintain control," Stevens said after the committee meeting. She said she's been meeting with both nurse-midwives and physicians over the issue. "I'm not clear I've got enough reason why they need to maintain control."
Supervision vs. collaboration
In North Carolina, a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) requires three things in order to practice: they need to be a registered nurse, they need to complete a master's or doctoral degree program in midwifery and they need to enter into a supervisory contract with a physician.
"The requirement to have a signed supervisory agreement filed does not require that the supervising physician literally supervise the practice of nurse-midwives, it does not require that they work in the same setting, in the same county, even in the same part of the state," said Alex Miller, a lobbyist for the North Carolina affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Miller explained that even though nurse-midwives carry their own malpractice liability insurance, the agreements can increase malpractice insurance rates for supervising physicians.
Without the supervisory agreements, North Carolina CNMs are unable to practice, even if they've completed training.
In several recent high-profile instances, physicians have withdrawn their supervision, putting midwives out of practice.
According to the American College of Nurse-Midwives, only six states require such supervisory agreements (see map).
"Increasingly, it is difficult for nurse-midwives to find supervising physicians to sign these agreements and accept legal liability," Miller said.
"There is no grace period. If a supervising physician who signed an agreement withdraws that agreement for any reason – God forbid, if the supervising physician drops dead – there's no grace period and no recourse for nurse-midwife other than to find other physician to take on that liability," explained Miller, who said that if a CNM is not able to find another supervising physician she would be forced to abandon her patients.
In many states, CNMs work "collaboratively" with physicians – collaborating as needed when problems arise or when something is out of their "scope of practice" – but they don't need to contract with a physician in order to practice. That standard was affirmed in a 2011 joint statement by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologist.
But because of North Carolina's supervision requirement, Miller pointed to the fact that there are only two birthing centers in the state, whereas there are about 350 in the rest of the United States.
"There was a [birthing center] in Siler City in 1991.… The signing supervising physician moved from Siler City to Raleigh, and withdrew his supervisory agreement as a result," Miller said. "That birth center was forced to close, so the women and families were forced to lose those services, including women who were very close to being ready to deliver."
Physicians objection
Miller was followed by Haywood Brown, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University School of Medicine and former head of the N.C. Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
"Obstetricians support certified nurse-midwives practicing to the full extent of their training and licensure. Let me be clear," said Brown. "When they're out of their realm, we're there to collaborate and supervise as we need to."
But in an at times rambling statement, he went on to say that the current system is not broken and that physician supervision ensures patient safety. At one point, Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Raleigh) asked him if he was for or against the changes.
"I'm against," Brown said, emphasizing that he opposed changing from supervision to collaboration.
Brown asserted that 20 of the states noted by the American College of Nurse-Midwives as requiring collaboration "require a detailed written agreement."
He claimed that many states define collaboration in the same manner that North Carolina currently defines supervision. "Signing something in a collaborative state is not that different than signing something in a supervisory state," Brown said.
He also said that family-medicine physicians who do obstetrics could also supervise nurse-midwives.
"In ratings for an insurance premium, isn't it a fact that premiums for a family physician are lower than an OB/GYN?" Avila asked. "There's not a doctor on God's green earth who's going to sign to raise his insurance premium."
"Well, if you are assuming that if they are supervising a person who stays in that scope of practice and doesn't get into trouble, then I would say there are many physicians who would sign it," Brown said. "I sign. All the time."
He went on to assert that two states, Maine and Oregon, were looking to roll back legislation allowing nurse-midwives more freedom.
According to Cara Kinzelman, state government affairs manager for the American College of Nurse-Midwives said she is not aware of any legislative actions to repeal independent practice.
Collaboration a necessity
The nurse-midwives at the hearing said they could not imagine practicing without collaborating with physician colleagues.
"I would consider it highly deviant to practice without it," said Suzanne Wertman, a nurse-midwife from Wilmington who lost her supervising physician in 2009. It took her close to a year to find a job.
"How can I do my job without collaboration?" she said. "I don't know the answers to all of the things that my patients come to me with. If I've got a patient who comes to me with depression, I have to send them to a specialist who can handle their medical needs."
But Wertman said that adding language about collaboration in the nurse-practice act would ensure CNMs do work with physicians. She argued that loosening restrictions on CNMs would increase access to care for patients, in particular in rural communities.
Currently, North Carolina has 31 counties without an OB/GYN and 50 counties with fewer than three OB/GYNs.
"I have students on a regular basis who have difficulty finding jobs in rural areas because of the 'supervising' language in our bill," wrote Becky Bagley in an email to legislators.
Bagley runs the CNM training program at East Carolina University, which was established in 1991 in response to a workforce shortage in many rural counties.
"If there is no obstetrician there to 'supervise' them, they are unemployable which creates an access to care problem for the women of those counties," she wrote.
After Friday's meeting, Bagley said she had several students from the northeastern part of the state who dropped out of her program once they realized they would not be able to find supervising physicians.
"I'm from one of those areas that doesn't have a lot of obstetricians," said Rep. Stevens after the meeting.
"I represent Allegheny County, that doesn't have anybody. Those people get in the car and drive to Winston or somewhere else to have their baby, and what if it is an emergency? I mean, do we not want someone to at least have some training and expertise in that to be there?"
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President Donald Trump named the European Union as a "foe", along with Russia and China.
President Donald Trump called the European Union a "foe" of the United States in an interview that aired Sunday.
European Council President Donald Tusk hit back at the "foe" comments on Twitter, calling any mischaracterization of the US and EU's close relationship "fake news", a phrase Trump uses often.
"I respect the leaders of those countries," he told CBS. "But, in a trade sense, they've really taken advantage of us and many of those countries are in NATO and they weren't paying their bills."
Trump is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.


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From Syria to Maastricht
Three refugees recently received a special NWO grant to carry out research at the UM. Two of them - a Syrian neuroscientist and a Palestinian pharmacologist - tell their stories. The third laureate, from Turkey, preferred not to be interviewed.
"We walked the whole night, holding hands, through a forest"
Former life. Before the Syrian war broke out in 2011, Mohamed Kassem (40) led a comfortable life in Aleppo, where he grew up and studied. Kassem had two jobs: he worked as a scientific advisor at a pharmaceutical company and as a neurosurgeon in his own private clinic. He had a beautiful house, in a nice neighbourhood, was happy with his wife and daughter, then three years old.
Nonetheless, Kassem hoped for a revolution, as it had raged in Tunisia. "Most educated Syrians longed for a democratic country, where human rights were respected. We went on the streets, demonstrating, but soon the police started shooting. From then on, we expressed our criticism on social media, under fake names."
When he had completed his training as a neurosurgeon, Kassem was called up for military service. No way that he would join the army. So he fled to Sudan first, to a branch of his pharmaceutical company, and in 2012 to the Turkish border, where he worked for the Red Cross. "My wife and daughter fled to Egypt. It was complete chaos in Aleppo, everything was destroyed."
Kassem worked as a coordinator for the Red Cross at the border from 2012 to 2014, responsible for eradicating infectious diseases all over Syria. "At that time, polio had spread all over the country. As a coordinator I could help my people and gained international experience with organisations such as UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders."
In 2014, Assad's secret service noticed that Kassem was sending money to his family in Aleppo every two months. Where was he hiding? "They took my brother and best friend to jail. My brother spent nine months there, my friend died from torture. In some way I feel guilty, but how could I know that sending money could cost lives?"
The flight. In 2015 Kassem got divorced and met his current wife, who fled by herself and worked for an international organisation as well. They decided that the border area wasn't safe enough and chose to flee to the Netherlands because of its good reputation in the field of human rights and democracy. "With just a small bag we went on a dilapidated wooden boat with 46 people to Marmaris in Turkey. From there we walked the whole night, holding hands, through a forest. Next we sailed ten hours with a motor boat to a small island near Rhodes."
On the way to Rhodes, the sea was very wild and people started vomiting. Kassem brought two medicines with him: anti-allergic pills and anti-vomiting tablets. Smiling: "By mistake I distributed the antihistamine, with vomiting as a side effect. Everyone kept throwing up."
In the Netherlands. In Athens, Kassem and his wife met a smuggler who provided them with false IDs. Good counterfeits, because no one at the airport noticed. After arriving at Schiphol, they went to the police and then to the registration centre for refugees in Ter Apel. Afterwards an odyssey led them to Dronten, Budel, Arnhem, Wageningen and Venlo. "It took one year until we received a permit to stay. In July 2015, the COA (Centraal Orgaan Opvang Asielzoekers) had found a house in Maastricht."
Learning Dutch was primal, so Kassem went to a school in Heerlen and from 2016 he registered at the UM Language Centre. "I wanted to work as a neurosurgeon, but that would take me seven years of extra education. How would I provide for my livelihood? Because I love research, I enrolled for the research master's of biomedical sciences, supported by social welfare. I'm in my second year now."
Professor Eline Kooij, coordinator of the master's, tipped Kassem about the subsidy by research financier NWO. "I wrote a proposal and was invited to Utrecht for a 5-minute presentation and a 20-minute discussion. And it worked!"
Research. Kassem will finish his master in June and starts then with his research project. What is it about? Patients can develop a stroke, he explains, if the carotid artery is being narrowed by atherosclerosis. But what is the best treatment after a TIA or stroke? Normally, says Kassem, if the artery is closed for 70 percent or more, then surgery will be necessary. Otherwise the patient will usually get preventive medication.
"My project assumes that the risk for stroke is not only dependent on the degree of arterial narrowing but also on the features of the plaques, like microbleedings inside. My hypothesis is that MRI can detect these features and help selecting the patients for surgery. That is useful, because some patients may not benefit from surgery, while others with no indication do."
Will he go back to Syria one day? "Only if the human rights and democracy are respected, but that won't happen as long as Bashar Assad is in charge."
"The second time, the boat sank and one woman died"
Former life. Musa Idris (31) wears a striking orange sweater. Is it a reference to the Dutch nationality, which he received in December? Yes, it was a gift from his wife, he says. Idris was a Palestinian living in Damascus. So when he arrived in the Netherlands, he couldn't submit a passport and became stateless.
In Damascus Idris lived in the southern neighbourhood, which is called Yarmouk. "It started as a Palestinian refugee camp, but later brick houses were built as well. It was a lively place, where half a million people lived. When the war broke out, no bombs were targeted on Yarmouk, which became a safe haven people fled to. They lived in the mosques, in schools, everywhere."
In 2011, Idris had just started with his master's of molecular biology (after finishing his bachelor's of pharmacology). At the same time, he operated as a civil activist. "As a pharmacist I distributed medicine and instruments in Yarmouk, among doctors and patients who were in need."
In 2012 the refugee camp was bombed and 'transformed into a death camp', as the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph put it. Idris was injured, but his injuries were not life-threatening. He lost the hearing in his right ear. Idris moved with his family to the inner circle of Damascus and finished his master's of molecular biology. He was still engaged in distributing medicine.
"Then, one day, the police arrested two of my friends, also activists. I got scared and decided to leave, even before finishing my master's. My friends were tortured to death."
The flight. Idris headed to Lebanon and got a tourist visa to Turkey. "That only works if you are important, so I lied and said that I had a company and 50 thousand dollar in the bank. In Izmir I contacted smugglers to get to Greece. The first time, the police caught us and imprisoned us for one day. The second time, the boat sank and one woman died. The police saved the others. On the third attempt we arrived safely in Rhodes."
With a Croatian ID, bought from smugglers, he boarded the plane to Amsterdam. Why Amsterdam? "It was the first flight that left. Frankfurt was scheduled for the following day, but I didn't want to wait."
In the Netherlands. Idris got his residence permit and put in a request to the COA for a house in a city with a medical faculty. But he ended up in Eindhoven ("you cannot refuse"). He met his wife in Eindhoven, she is also Palestinian. They married, had a son, and during the process of 'inburgering' (integration) Idris worked for Post NL.
"Then I applied for the master's of biomedical sciences in Maastricht. I only brought the bachelor's diploma from Syria, but that was enough for admission. I graduated in June 2018 and wanted to become a researcher. So the NWO subsidy came in handy. From February onwards, I'm a PhD student in Maastricht and in Rotterdam."
Research. Idris is doing research on the relationship between the nervous system in the gut, the so-called second brain, and colon cancer. To study this relationship, a 3D model is needed, and that is what Idris will build.
And his future? He wants to make a career in science. "I want to become a professor."
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A strike is a good thing and especially a good thing for the University of British Columbia at this moment in time. The very courageous CUPE 2278 labour action, full strike pending, is a wake up call, a breath of fresh air, or a catalytic measure for an apathetic campus, faculty and student bodies inclusive. Yes, there are individuals taking chances and stances on issues online and off, but a collective movement has materialized at UBC. Yes, those of us fortunate enough to be members of unions or the Faculty Association accept that a collective agreement is better than an individual agreement.
We invite students, faculty, staff, and administrators to do all they can to make CUPE 2278's—the Teaching Assistants'– strike meaningful, effective, and successful and help the GTAs inject the campus with the spark and power of activism.
What to do as a student, faculty member, or administrator in the face of a strike? The question for staff tends to be redundant as union members in sympathy will rarely, if ever, have to or want to cross picket lines.
First, a matter of policy. UBC's Strike Policy and Guidelines note that the "University respects the right of students, staff or faculty members as a matter of conscience, to refuse to cross a picket line in a labour dispute." Once a student communicates a decision to side with the striking workers (usually by the first or second day of the strike), accommodations have to be made or will be made once the job action resolves. Missed assignments will be given an extension and have to be completed. Students can gain access to a "senior faculty member to serve as an academic arbiter for students who have sought to resolve their concerns with their Faculties but feel that they have been treated unfairly." Yes, faculty members, GTAs or undergraduate student employees, and staff may surrender salary for the duration of time taken as a matter of conscience, but it is a small price to pay for activism, dignity, and solidarity.
Strikes are not left vs. right politics, as eventually most want nothing more than fair treatment and find or would give a lot for the security and protection of unions. Reciprocity and shared benefit may be expected in the future when your union is mobilizing for job action. Just as the CUPE 2278 strike is a good thing for UBC at this point, honoring or participating in this strike is a good thing. Individual dignity is bound to collective power.
Undergraduate students, keep in mind that inasmuch as you can organize a protest, and some of you have, you can also strike in sympathy with your graduate student peers. You can strike regardless of whether CUPE 2278 strikes. The BC Labour Code establishes limitations to the rights of workers or unions such as CUPE 2278, but is does not govern student strikes. As an example, the Quebec student strike lasted seven months, the longest student strike in Quebec history. For an excellent guide to student strikes, see the FAQ from the Students' Society of McGill University http://ssmu.mcgill.ca/blog/2012/03/student-strike-faq/. It is a fair question to ask, in this case, 'why don't faculty members strike?' Many faculty members at UBC wish we could but our Collective Agreement with the University has a "Prohibition of Strikes and Lockouts" clause. We will support strikes in sympathy nevertheless.
Second, a matter of pragmatics. From a labour activist standpoint, 'do everything in your conscience and power to support the job action.' Neither desire nor expect business-as-usual, as a disruption of this business is the intent of most job action, boycotts, etc. If you have to, plan ahead and retrieve necessities from your office or locker prior to the strike, as crossing a picket line is an aggressive response to the striking workers. If you find yourself behind picket lines, move to reposition yourself on the other side of the pickets. If your building of campus is picketed, do not try to sneak in a rear entrance to rationalize that you did not actually "cross" a picket line to get there. Being asked to cover and doing the work of those on strike is an anti-labour or anti-union response that invalidates the purpose of the job action and ultimately makes for a heated, toxic workplace, or in this case university. Be present and invest in strength in numbers. If you're an administrator, especially without a real "management" designation, well, use your conscience and please don't direct minutiae from the top down to intimidate the students and faculty. Call in sick if you don't want to join your students and faculty on the picket line.
What do we have in common and when should we act collectively? For the most part, day in, day out, the only group demonstrating their political capital or clout at UBC is management, and in many ways what a conservative, corporate-driven, regressive politics this turns out to be! Management has its aggressive side and we can readily draw the connections between this and a learned apathy of faculty and students. As 180,000 students took to strikes, protests, and occupations of campuses and streets between February and August in Quebec, it is an affirmation of activism for a student movement to materialize here at UBC and what we used to call the 'left coast.' A strike is economically a good thing as well, as it sends a message to the University and government that "net zero workers" and bad faith approaches to collective bargaining are not working. A net zero mandate removes the ability of unions to actually bargain and legitimizes an employer's option to shirk accountability at the bargaining table. The reasonableness of a CUPE 2278 strike is undeniable, as it would help workers across the province— everyone gains. So, the graduate teaching assistants' union decision to hold a strike vote and mobilize for action is precisely the injection of student power into activism and bargaining that this campus needs. And let's not forget the courage of CUPE 2278 in its valiant effort to bring a sense of fairness to the University and government in the full strike of 2003. Again, this is a declaration of full support.
Stephen Petrina & E. Wayne Ross, co-Directors of the Institute for Critical Studies in Education (ICES), co-Editors of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, and blogging at Workplace.
ICES is returning to the archive and rolling out back issues in OJS format! We begin with the inaugural issue and its core theme, "Organizing Our Asses Off." Issue #2 will soon follow. We encourage readers and supporters of Workplace and Critical Education to revisit these now classic back issues for a sense of accomplishment and frustration over the past 15 years of academic labor. Please keep the ideas and manuscripts rolling in!
Institutional Memory and Changing Membership: How Can We Learn from What We Don't Recall?
This article was originally delivered as the Second Annual Adam Renner Education for Social Justice Lecture at the Rouge Forum's Occupy Educaton! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change Conference held at Miami University in Oxford, OH, June 22-24, 2012. Starting with a personal journey in learning that political activism isn't as scary as many teachers believe, the article highlights the highly political nature of press coverage of Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards initiative, zeroing in on the quisling nature of teacher union and professional organization antics to keep a seat at the political table. Questioning the silence on critical issues of higher education providers of educational products to consumers—aka professors—the author insists that whining isn't the same as doing. The article concludes with several points on how educators can take action.


I've been very busy the last two weeks, it's such a good job I have a diary or I'd be all over the place.
And, it's nearly Christmas. Yay! I'm really looking forward to it, I'm a bit of a kid when it comes to Christmas, I pretend I'm not excited when really my insides are doing somersaults. Only 20 days to go.
I've been terribly unprepared this year though. I've only bought three presents, oops. Three of my friends and I are going to the Trafford Centre on Wednesday after our lecture and I hope I'll get the majority of things there.
I attended the Teaching Fair on Tuesday, it was mainly aimed at QTS and PGCE students but my friend and I went along to have a look anyway. I found out a lot of information about teaching in a correctional centre (because I'm very interested in doing that) and also in Further Education, (college/sixth form). It was a really useful afternoon with a wide range of different people to talk to and gain information from. Plus, we got plenty of goody bags, tonnes of pens (which delighted Robyn) and I personally found it extremely beneficial.
After that I had my photo shoot for the main Edge Hill website. I was so nervous. I was stood outside the library, in front of the Business building, the wind was blowing, my hair was crazy and I kept laughing because students were watching. Argh! Embarrassment. I hope they turn out okay and I don't look too demented, knowing my luck, I'll look like a crazy lady.
I also got two of my assignments back this week. Complete nervous tension in my seminar groups as they were handed out, and utter elation when I saw my marks.
Year 2 = Much more difficult. However..Year 2 + Extreme Preparation = Happy Sarah.
That's all. Next time I write it'll be even closer to Christmas, woo!
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CELEBRATING ITS HERITAGE: DAILY PAPER
"Between our upbringing and where we come from, we felt that our cultures were not represented the right way and that with our brand, we could make a difference."
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Clockwise from the top: Founders of Daily Paper, Jefferson Osei, Abderrahmane Trabsini, and Hussein Suleiman.
Daily Paper founded in 2012 by Hussein Suleiman, Jefferson Osei and Abderrahmane Trabsin of Somalian, Ghanaian and Moroccan descent, is an Amsterdam-based menswear label.
Each Daily Paper item is made to illuminate the customers "passion for individuality and personal style". The label is committed to authenticity and quality, inspired by the founder's African heritage and the rich culture of the continent. The brand combines the unique aesthetics of African cultures with contemporary designs possessing a "rugged" quality. With a strong focus on individualism, Daily Paper place major importance on details; from in depth research on various aspects of African history as inspiration for their collections to interpreting this information into original designs and prints in their pieces.
The brand had begun as a lifestyle/fashion blog in 2008, where they sold T-shirts and became popular for their printed T-shirt logos rather than the blog in Amsterdam. The three founders, then friends decided upon a concept to differentiate themselves from other brands and launched their first spring/summer collection in 2012.
This company founded by friends who consider each other family, want to represent the DIY generation. A global movement of underrepresented individuals that is making efforts to break stereotypes, especially those that are assigned to Black and African people. The mission is to be a vehicle where they get to learn more about themselves and the history and at the same time speak to third culture kids that grew up in metropolitan cities in the west.
The brand has grown drastically since its inception, selling in 29 countries in over 200 multi-brand stores. The brand has evolved from making five basic T-shirts for their first collection to a 50-piece collection consisting of wide variety of designs and silhouettes ranging from socks to jackets.
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The inspiration:
Abderrahmane believes that "If Daily Paper doesn't represent Africa anymore, it has no meaning anymore". They are inspired by the people around: friends, colleagues, global community who live in major cities across the globe. All the people within youth culture platforms act as inspiration.
The brand remains authentic by translating African heritage instead of copying African heritage. The patterns used in their collections are reflection of their interpretation of it. It is less "folklore" and more contemporary. Mix of modern silhouette with African inspired prints and colour palettes. The inspiration ranges form Moroccan tiles, to engravings on traditional alien cutlery and African architecture to patterns and colours used on the houses of the Ndebele tribe in South Africa.
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The Daily Paper capsule collection in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum inspired by the works of Dutch painter.
With the ability to cross borders and unite global communities, Daily Paper serves more than just a fashion and lifestyle brand but rather the voice of the youth. Through creativity and fashion, with the aim to inspire young adults through education and setting an example of giving back.
By cultivating the next generation of leaders, Daily Paper has attracted a tribe of multidisciplinary of creatives from all walks of life, a community of like minded individuals who celebrate their roots and champion differences through inclusion.
Head over to Daily Paper's website to shop the looks now.
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I went to see the Asterix exhibit when I was in London in May. I'd recommend it. It's less about Asterix than a biographical display of the life and work of Goscinny, of which Asterix is just one part. The complex story of his early life in Argentina and New York, and the amateur and professional drawings he did before settling down to being purely a writer, were particularly interesting. I also liked a clip of a televised interview in which he and Uderzo explain how they worked.


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Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Chaokang Tai
Bart van der Steen
Jeroen van Dongen
Studies in the History of Knowledge
Dutch and The Netherlands
Anton Pannekoek, Viewing Science and Society (Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen) Anton Pannekoek's Astronomy in Relation to his Political Activities, and the Founding of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam (Edward P.J. van den Heuvel) Anton Pannekoek: A 'Principled Theorist' (Gerrit Voerman) Utopianism in Anton Pannekoek's Socialism and Astronomy (Klaas van Berkel) Pannekoek's One Revolution: Anton Pannekoek and the Modernization of the Dutch Astronomical Community (David Baneke) Astronomy in the Time of Pannekoek and Pannekoek as an Astronomer of his Times (Robert W. Smith) 'A New Scientific Conception of the Human World': Anton Pannekoek's Understanding of Scientific Socialism (Bart van der Steen) From Science to Science: Anton Pannekoek, Willem Bonger and Scientific Socialism (Annemarie Rullens) Popularizing the Cosmos: Pedagogies of Science and Society in Anton Pannekoek's Life and Work (Jennifer Tucker) Anton Pannekoek as a Pioneer in the Sociology of Knowledge (Bart Karstens) The Milky Way as Optical Phenomenon: Perception and Photography in the Drawings of Anton Pannekoek (Chaokang Tai) The Labour of Handwork in Astronomy: Between Drawing and Photography in Anton Pannekoek (Omar W. Nasim) Cross-Fading the Milky Way: Johan Hartle in conversation with Jeronimo Voss about universalism and a realist economy of time A Galaxy of Appearances: Anton Pannekoek and the Planetary Cinema of Jeronimo Voss (Alena J. Williams) Index
Reviews and Features
Anton Pannekoek , produced as an open-access publication, succeeds in alerting a wider audience to this fascinating thinker. It also provides a valuable model for how to recover the interconnections between an actor's political convictions, philosophical and historical theories, and his or her scientific practices."
- Margaret E. Schotte, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies , 41.1 (2021)
"Er zijn tientallen beschouwingen over de marxistische astronoom geschreven, maar die bezien hem veelal vanuit één oogpunt: als astronoom óf marxist. Dit boek brengt hier op succesvolle wijze verandering in. Auteurs met verschillende achtergronden beschrijven het werk van Pannekoek in de context van politiek, wetenschap en kunst. [...] In deze bundel kan de lezer gemakkelijk tussen hoofdstukken wisselen en bepaalde delen opzoeken of juist overslaan, al naar gelang de interesse. Het is juist dit brede spectrum dat van Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society een geslaagde, toegankelijke bundel maakt."
- Stefan Gaillard, Universiteit Utrecht, Wonderkamer. Magazine voor wetenschapsgeschiedenis , 2 (2020)
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the crossroads of political history, the history of science and art history.
Chaokang Tai graduated in the program in History and Philosophy of Science at Utrecht University in 2013. He is currently working on a PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam, where he focuses on Anton Pannekoek's contributions to astronomy and how they relate to his social theory.
Bart van der Steen is University Lecturer in Modern History at Leiden University, and a specialist in labour history. His most recent publications include In Leiden moet het anders. Geschiedenis van een SP-afdeling (2019) and (as editor) A European Youth Revolt (2016).
Jeroen van Dongen is Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. His most recent publications include Einstein's Unification (2010) and Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge (2015).
Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
Karin Hofmeester, Pim de Zwart (eds)
Religion in Dutch Society 2005
R. Eisinga, Ariana Need, Marcel Coenders, Nan Dirk de Graaf, Marcel Lubbers, P. Scheepers (eds)
Frank Miedema
In Praise of Science


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Goldman Sachs says it sold off entire Uber stake after IPO lockup expired
Goldman owned about 10 million shares of Uber at the time of the IPO, turning a $5 million wager using the firm's own money back in 2011 into a major windfall.Bloomberg | January 16, 2020, 06:57 IST
Goldman Sachs Group has sold off its stake in Uber after the ride-hailing startup's disappointing initial public offering in 2019.
Chief Financial Officer Stephen Scherr said on the bank's earnings call Wednesday that it closed its position in Uber in the fourth quarter last year.
Goldman owned about 10 million shares of Uber at the time of the IPO, turning a $5 million wager using the firm's own money back in 2011 into a major windfall. The bank recognized a gain in the second quarter, but took a hit in the third quarter as Uber's shares plunged. Like other investors, Goldman Sachs was restricted from selling shares until six months after the offering.
Goldman lost out to Morgan Stanley as lead banker on Uber's IPO, one of the most highly-anticipated in 2019, though it did share some of the work along with Bank of America Corp. But Uber's shares tumbled immediately after the listing and ended the year down 34% as investors questioned its path to profitability and regulatory challenges and controversies about passenger safety and the rights of drivers weighed on the company's image.
Uber has said it plains to be profitable on an Ebitda basis in 2021 and its shares are up about 18% so far this year.
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Pope Francis hits it over the fence!
#202 – Inequality is the root of all social ills.
204. We can no longer trust in the unseen forces and the invisible hand of the market. Growth in justice requires more than economic growth, while presupposing such growth: it requires decisions, programmes, mechanisms and processes specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality. I am far from proposing an irresponsible populism, but the economy can no longer turn to remedies that are a new poison, such as attempting to increase profits by reducing the work force and thereby adding to the ranks of the excluded.
48. If the whole Church takes up this missionary impulse, she has to go forth to everyone without exception. But to whom should she go first? When we read the Gospel we find a clear indication: not so much our friends and wealthy neighbours, but above all the poor and the sick, those who are usually despised and overlooked, "those who cannot repay you" (Lk 14:14). There can be no room for doubt or for explanations which weaken so clear a message. Today and always, "the poor are the privileged recipients of the Gospel", and the fact that it is freely preached to them is a sign of the kingdom that Jesus came to establish. We have to state, without mincing words, that "there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor". May we never abandon them.
49. Let us go forth, then, let us go forth to offer everyone the life of Jesus Christ. Here I repeat for the entire Church what I have often said to the priests and laity of Buenos Aires: I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not want a Church concerned with being at the centre and then ends by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures. If something should rightly disturb us and trouble our consciences, it is the fact that so many of our brothers and sisters are living without the strength, light and consolation born of friendship with Jesus Christ, without a community of faith to support them, without meaning and a goal in life. More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door peole are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: "Give them something to eat" (Mk 6:37).
56. While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide dimensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
So now they're getting more public input into the rule.
So now it's up to us to sort through all of this and explain why this is utterly insane policy… New York managed to get through to the federal court, so it isn't hopeless. But the NRC's persistence in its "Nuclear Waste Confidence" is inexplicable.
Monday, November 18, 2013 @ 6 p.m.
The packet for this meeting wasn't posted as of Friday, so county staff sent it right away. Their system needs help, not only was the packet not on the county site, but on the "Events Calendar" it said the meeting time was 7 p.m. NOT GOOD.
d. Set harsh penalties for mining, processing and trans-loading violations (such as canceling the permit). The means of these different version seem similar but not identical and some of the differences could be important.
Any combination you like, one from Column A, one from Column B… it's wide open.
So "Any combination you like, one from Column A, one from Column B…" to me means to take these maps, put them together, and what do you get? Pretty good protections of the natural resources of our County!
This is a good start on the request of the original application. Not the be-all and end-all, but a good start!
What's up with Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary?
What's up with Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary in Georgetown, Delaware?
State police were there today, animals carted off to who knows where. The SPCA took it over, they were going down, down, down, but people were coming in to adopt animals prior to the December 1 closing and were turned away, locked out, and the police called! Is this any way to run a rescue?
On change.org there's a 10 month old Petition to US Senate, Delaware A.G., IRS and Department of Agriculture to Investigate Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary for abuse/neglect of animals, misappropriation of funds and donations and prevent recurrence of prior wrongdoings.
This place is one of those weird stories that doesn't add up. The 2009-2011 IRS 990s are on file, and in 2009 they had a $300k+ bank note, same for 2010, and in 2011, a $2,300,000 million loan from USDA ostensibly to build their building. And now they're closed? How does that happen? Is there any plausible explanation? What of the Board's fiduciary duty?
WOW! No review by the Board, no availability to the public? WTF?


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Mikołaj Dzierzgowski herbu Jastrzębiec (ur. ok. 1490, zm. 18 stycznia 1559) – arcybiskup gnieźnieński i prymas Polski, biskup chełmski, biskup kamieniecki, biskup kujawsko-pomorski, kanonik warszawski, płocki i gnieźnieński, hrabia na Dzierzgowie.

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Syn kasztelana ciechanowskiego Pomścibora Jeżewskiego de Dzierzgów i Zbigniewy Wilkanowskiej (inni podają Katarzyny Wilkanowskiej). W 1518 po studiach w Akademii Krakowskiej został notariuszem królewskim. Był protegowanym biskupa płockiego Andrzeja Krzyckiego. W 1528 kontynuował naukę na Uniwersytecie w Padwie. W 1541 został biskupem chełmskim, w 1543 mianowany był biskupem kujawskim, w 1545 objął arcybiskupstwo gnieźnieńskie.

Obok Jana Łaskiego był przywódcą antyhabsburskiego stronnictwa narodowego. 7 grudnia 1550 w katedrze na Wawelu ukoronował królową Barbarę Radziwiłłównę. 30 lipca 1555 tamże dał ślub i koronował Katarzynę Habsburżankę. . Zagrożony zwołaniem przez Zygmunta II Augusta soboru narodowego, zwołał w Warszawie zjazd biskupów. W 1556 roku zorganizował kontrreformacyjny Synod w Łowiczu, na którym między innymi potępiono Dorotę Łazęcką (spaloną żywcem na stosie 1 czerwca 1556 roku) oraz trzech innych Żydów którzy rzekomo z dostarczonej przez nią hostii wytoczyli butelkę krwi.    Pod jego wpływem Zygmunt August wydał 13 stycznia 1557 edykt przeciwko nowinkarzom religijnym, godzący w protestantów.

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 Mikołaj Dzierzgowski h. Jastrzębiec, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny [dostęp 2021-12-17].

Absolwenci i studenci Akademii Krakowskiej
Biskupi chełmscy (Kościół rzymskokatolicki)
Biskupi włocławscy
Biskupi gnieźnieńscy
Duchowni archidiecezji gnieźnieńskiej (I Rzeczpospolita)
Duchowni diecezji włocławskiej (I Rzeczpospolita)
Duchowni katoliccy – szlachta I Rzeczypospolitej
Duchowni łacińskiej diecezji chełmskiej (I Rzeczpospolita)
Mikołaj
Kanonicy gnieźnieńscy
Kanonicy kapituły kolegiackiej św. Jana Chrzciciela w Warszawie
Kanonicy płoccy
Pochowani w bazylice archikatedralnej Wniebowzięcia NMP i św. Wojciecha w Gnieźnie
Polscy hrabiowie Świętego Cesarstwa Rzymskiego
Prymasi Polski
Senatorowie duchowni I Rzeczypospolitej
Senatorowie za panowania Zygmunta I Starego
Senatorowie za panowania Zygmunta II Augusta
Urodzeni w 1490
Urzędnicy kancelarii królewskiej I Rzeczypospolitej
Zmarli w 1559


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Home Features Zeitgeist Assisted loving: Prostitutes and the elderly
Assisted loving: Prostitutes and the elderly
by Nele Obermueller
Photo by Lindsay Isola
Prostitution is hardly a taboo any longer, especially in Germany where ladies of the night can legally ply their trade in broad daylight on the capital's asphalt, while contributing to their state retirement pensions.
More unmentionable is sex in old age. Elderly men being serviced by prostitutes is a reality that is kept discreet inside the walls of retirement homes. Yet, according to the Bundesverband sexuelle Dienste e.V., an advocacy group for sex workers and brothel keepers, prostitutes regularly visit every second retirement home in Berlin.
Nele Obermüller dug deep to explore this taboo within a taboo.
Nina: The client's wishes come first
"Every time I go see him, I have to introduce myself again," says Nina de Vries (photo), who works as a 'sexual assistant' for Josef, an elderly man suffering from dementia. "Then I ask whether he'd like a massage and he says 'oh yes, that would be nice.'"
De Vries' time with Josef involves them being naked, touching and holding each other, and it will end with him having an orgasm. A visit costs €120 per hour (€90 if the client comes to her place). Intercourse and oral sex do not usually feature in her arrangements.
De Vries doesn't feel this sets her apart from other prostitutes, however. "I think differentiating myself from prostitution would be assuming," says the middle-aged full-bodied brunette leaning back in a chair in her suburban garden, swathed in black, loose-fitting cotton clothes.
"I prefer the term sexual assistant because it doesn't carry any negative connotations, but I don't shy away from describing what I do as a sexual service for which I expect to get paid."
The native Dutch woman has been living in Germany since 1990 and is seen by many as a pioneer in the field of sexuality among the disabled and elderly. She remains wary however of putting on false airs. "It irks me when people compare me to a therapist. My work is not therapy, because the client's wishes come first."
On occasion she has ceded to some wishes that go above and beyond her usual routine, like when she slept with a client who was dying of multiple sclerosis. "We had been seeing each other for a long period of time and it felt alright," she says. A pre-requisite for crossing her self-set limits is that she 'feels like' it at the time.
Lisa: There's a therapeutic aspect to my work
Before she chose to specialise on the elderly and disabled, two frequently overlapping areas, Lisa (who prefers further details of her person to remain anonymous) was a prostitute serving all types of clients. Now she also refers to herself as a 'sexual assistant'.
"People should be more willing to play with their sexuality," she says in a soft, light-hearted voice. For Lisa, moving beyond the pale is normal. She sees benefit in married men purchasing her services to "get fresh ideas for their bedrooms" or because their partners can no longer satisfy them sexually.
An hour with her costs €100 and usually includes tantric massage. "Prostitutes are particularly important in showing people who are a bit older, who haven't had sex in a long time, that they're still sexual beings," she says, going on to diverge from de Vries: "There's almost a therapeutic aspect to my work."
Stephanie: Left to sneak in
Stephanie Klee, a 49-year-old prostitute with over 25 years of experience, counts many elderly or disabled men among her clients – but for her, they're just regular johns.
And while 'sexual assistants' de Vries and Lisa receive invitations from nursing home staff, Klee is left to sneak in: "Of course you can't just go to a retirement home and say, 'I'm a prostitute and I'm going to be spending the next three hours satisfying Mr. So-and-so'. So instead you tell the receptionist you're his niece or his former neighbour, or he just comes down to meet you and then you walk up to his room together."
The clients who invite her are often men who solicited her before they moved to the homes – in other words, satisfied, loyal customers.
Klee's resolve is etched across her face, and her throaty voice reveals no hesitation in her opinions. She dismisses the question of how much she charges an hour: "It's a matter to be negotiated."
There's no doubt in Klee's mind that sexuality in old age is a huge problem. "Whether it's a taboo depends on who you're talking to," she says. "The clients and prostitutes don't think so, but if you speak to relatives or staff from retirement homes, it is."
Solicited sex in nursing homes
"People working in retirement homes have very ambivalent views towards prostitution," says Marion Detlefs of Hydra, a self-help and advocacy organization for sex workers. "When they do encourage a visit from a prostitute, it's usually only after a patient has been causing them problems, grabbing his nurses or touching himself too often."
Indeed, in Stephanie's experience, only one retirement home was open-minded enough to arrange the contact between their patients and prostitutes.
This quotidian neglect of geriatric sexuality is problematic. "Particularly male management will tell its staff (most of whom are female) that they shouldn't kick up a fuss just because a patient gropes their behinds," Detlefs recounts. "They just ignore older people's needs. I also heard of a rather singular case in which a male nurse brought his elderly patient to a brothel to live out his own voyeuristic tendency."
Women are less inclined than men to display their sexual frustration as aggression. As a result, institutional failure to consider geriatric sexuality when it isn't causing acute problems leaves elderly women's sexual needs virtually unrecognised.
"They're also measured by their physique more," de Vries speculates – meaning that even if there were a demand, few callboys would be willing to have these women as customers.
A booming niche?
With symptomatically ageing populations, countries like Germany potentially offer an ever-growing market to specialised sex workers such as Klee, Lisa and de Vries.
Regardless of the prejudices faced by prostitutes entertaining elderly clients – ironically less about prostitution itself (which is formally recognised as a legitimate profession in Germany) than about elderly and disabled people's sexuality – these women stand by their professions.
"I wanted to find a more challenging and personally satisfying form of sex work," Lisa explains. "A lot of men go to prostitutes to experience an illusion – and a good prostitute can offer that. I was never particularly skilled at it though, and I didn't want to have to pretend that some guy was this fantastic lover when he just wasn't."
Lisa can't imagine working the 'old way' anymore, when the first questions asked typically concerned her age, bust size and whether she was clean-shaven.
"There isn't the same focus on intercourse in this line of work. Men have an extroverted sense of sexuality – it's like their dicks, which hang outside – and when they're younger that's all they think about. That changes with age. One of my clients is in a wheelchair for instance, and we just lie together and cuddle. Sometimes we even fall asleep."
Detlefs says that making that kind of conscious choice to specialise is rare in the field of prostitution. "Generally, there is no neat separation between what types of clients you receive. Men of all ages go to brothels and they're all serviced. What's different is when a woman is spending a lot of her time in homes; Hydra only has around 10 women for work like that."
Klee's experience confirms Detlefs' comment. Working with the elderly was a completely natural procession in her professional life. "Older men continue visiting brothels like all other men, especially if they've had good experiences there previously," she attests. "And if a physical condition means a man isn't able to come to you anymore, then you go see him in his retirement home."
There's no big mystery: a prostitute ages alongside her clients, says Klee. Catering to older clients might also be a way for prostitutes past their physical prime to stay in the game, although most of them refute the argument.
From puppies to dogs
Some have also argued that older prostitutes were driven towards the niche of sex with the elderly and disabled (which remains a relatively uncompetitive domain) by the influx of young prostitutes from Eastern Europe, as well as the financial recession.
Klee and Lisa vehemently oppose that idea. "That's rubbish," Klee says. "Yes, our industry felt the financial recession, but it didn't force us into niche work. I don't want to offend any of my younger colleagues, but generally speaking, working with older men requires the right kind of approach, appropriate guises, time and experience."
Lisa says she "would not have felt up to this job" when she was younger and knows very few sex workers who've specialised in the niche who are under 40. And she knows none, she adds, "who don't enjoy their work."
This idea of a prostitute who wants to do her job is hard to digest for many, however. We live in a time when well-respected feminist scholars such as Catharine MacKinnon have likened prostitution to being serially raped, and in a society that tends to see prostitutes as circumstantial victims.
The proposition that a woman could take pleasure in solicited sex with someone who is elderly, disabled or both is hence nothing less than shocking. "Our society is obsessed with beauty," says de Vries. "And beauty is largely reserved for the young."
It's hardly surprising that a culture that shies away from parents' sex lives fails to embrace grandparents' sex drives. But these four women agree it's high time society did just that.
"Sexuality is so much bigger than this," de Vries says. "It shouldn't just receive attention when a problem with a patient arises. If someone is no longer able to form relations himself – because he suffers from dementia or has brain damage – then it's much better if there's a woman who visits him who has made this into her profession. It's that simple, and it's been going on for millennia!"
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A thick lock of hair is usually a sign of youth and health on first impressions. Without a head full of thick hair, a person can sometimes look older than they really are. Sometimes it depends on your hair type as well, because if your hair strands are coarser, it will generally make your hair look thicker. I myself have very fine hair, and if I don't take care of it, they can sometimes look limp and make me look really dull. Taking care of your hair doesn't just mean making sure you are using the right shampoo or applying the right products; what you eat or don't eat will affect the condition of your hair too.
There are three different phases your hair goes through in your lifetime. There are known as the Anagen cycle (growth phase), Catagen cycle (transition phase) and the Telogen cycle (rest stage). Most of your hairs on your head are in their Anagen stage, which lasts from 2-8 years on your head. The Catagen stage typically lasts 2-3 weeks, and the Telogen phase lasts around 2-4 months. While most hair follicles on your hair are always going through transitions, for a healthy normal head, 90% of them should be in their Anagen stage and only 10% should be in either the Catagen or Telogen stage.
It is normal for people to lose 50-100 strands of hair every day and upon washing, sometimes  you can lose up to 250 strands. But all that is normal because even if you don't wash your hair or tug at it, those hairs will still fall off on their own. Unusual hair loss can sometimes be attributed to heredity, pregnancy, and medical problems such as thyroid disorders, anemia, psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis. Physical or emotional stress can also be one of the reasons why a person may lose a large amount of hair overnight.
Always styling and manipulating your tresses may prove to be more harm in the long run even though the hair loss during these inflictions is temporary. Drying your hair too roughly when it's wet, daily blow drying hair, and tying your hair too tightly on a daily basis tend to break your hair and make it brittle over time, and in the long run may add to premature hair loss. It's best to let your hair breathe once in a while without too many styling methods.
If you are born with fine or thick hair, improving your diet will not drastically change your hair type, but rather, it will significantly improve the growth of new and healthy hair in time to come.  People often overlook ways to improve the health of their hair through diets because they tend to forget that it is the follicles and condition of the scalp that determines the growth of hair. Here are some of the foods to eat to improve the condition of your scalp and future hair growth.
Omega 3 fatty acids are needed to provide hair with a shiny and moisturized outlook. Having  sufficient omega 3 fatty acids will ensure a healthy scalp and will help prevent dry and brittle hairs that are prone to breakage. Foods that contain omega 3 are salmon, flax seeds, chia seeds and fish oil.
This helps your body produce sebum secreted by hair follicles and acts like a natural conditioner for your hair. Foods that have vitamins A and C are kale, carrots, broccoli and brussels sprouts.
Iron improves blood circulation and in turn promotes healthy cell growth. This works for a better quality hair growth as well. Foods that contain iron include dark, leafy greens, beans, artichoke, liver, and egg yolks.
Foods that are high in all the B vitamins promote better and healthier skin. Having all the right nutrients your body needs to improve the condition of your skin and scalp will result in healthier and better hair quality.
Zinc is a powerful anti-oxidant that will improve the general being of your skin and stimulate hair growth for your scalp. Foods contain zinc include seafood, nuts and beans, and poultry.
The health and condition of our hair is very much dependent on the scalp which is also part of our skin. I think the best way one can ensure healthy hair is through diet, as that is the only method foolproof enough compared to applying external products. Apart from heredity, prevention of hair loss and unhealthy hair is not as impossible as it seems. If your body is healthy from the inside, it should reflect on the outside and vice versa. So the next time when you decide on your meals, think of your hair!
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