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How Thompson Rivers University is improving outcomes for Indigenous people
One program, Knowledge Makers, was recently recognized with the Alan Blizzard Award for excellence in teaching collaboration.
BY JESSICA NATALE WOOLLARD | AUG 19 2019
While in Tasmania on a cultural exchange for Indigenous students, Tess Wintercross visited one of the traditional territories of the Aboriginal people and was invited to cleanse herself with the smoke of smouldering gum leaves. An Aboriginal gentleman observing her smiled knowingly, Ms. Wintercross remembers, because she knew intuitively how to perform the ceremony, which felt similar to smudging, a practice performed by many North American Indigenous cultures, whereby smoke is pulled to the body and inhaled to purify and heal the heart, mind and being.
Ms. Wintercross, a fourth-year fine arts student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, said the experience of making deep connections with Aboriginal people on the other side of the world informed an article she was working on at the time, a research paper on the impact of microaggressions on Indigenous people.
"Being able to connect with other Indigenous people really opened my eyes to what my voice is and what I can write about," said Ms. Wintercross, who grew up in Kamloops but whose home nation is the Onion Lake Cree on the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. "It sparked this whole year of self-discovery and reconnecting with my culture. … It got rid of a sense of shame."
Knowledge Makers participants sing the Women's Warrior song. See more about the song below. Photo courtesy of Thompson Rivers University.
The paper Ms. Wintercross wrote was published in a peer-reviewed journal for Indigenous student researchers, part of TRU's award-winning Knowledge Makers program, a university-wide initiative that facilitates research by Indigenous students using Indigenous research methodologies. Students in the Knowledge Makers program attend a two-day workshop and meet with a coordinator who mentors them through the process of researching their papers.
The young researchers benefit from Knowledge Makers' rich network of relationships with faculty, staff and administrators across TRU; with elders from Secwépemc Nation, on whose traditional lands the university resides, as well as other nations; and with international Indigenous scholars at universities in Canada, the United States, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia. At the close of the program, the students receive a $1,000 award and copies of their published article at a celebratory dinner.
"What we're trying to do is help them see that research is a form of service and it's a possible career. It's something that they can do, be paid for, and give back to their communities," said Sereana Naepi, Knowledge Makers' coordinator and an associate director in TRU's All My Relations Research Centre, dedicated to connecting Indigenous researchers with Indigenous communities.
Launched in 2015, Knowledge Makers has had more than 65 Indigenous students from at least 30 nations and bands complete the program. There are two streams, one for undergraduate students and one for graduate students. In April 2019, it received the Alan Blizzard Award from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, a prize that recognizes excellence in collaborative teaching and learning in postsecondary education. More than 40 people across TRU contribute to the program, making Knowledge Makers one of two key, pan-institutional programs that are part of TRU's Indigenization efforts, undertaken in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its calls to action.
The second program is the Coyote Project, which aims to eliminate educational and employment gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. Each faculty or department publicly states its goals around three key measurements: student recruitment, student retention, and the success of Indigenous students. Funded internally with $1.05 million over five years, the program distributes money to help the faculty and departments reach their individual goals. Some have created new courses or altered curricula; others have supported Indigenous research; still others have looked for ways to make their physical spaces more inviting for Indigenous students.
Both Knowledge Makers and the Coyote Project are led by the faculty of education and social work, guided by its dean, who goes by the single name Airini. A Fulbright Scholar and former consultant to UNESCO and Pacific nations, Dr. Airini moved here from New Zealand. Her research interest is equity in education, with a focus on Indigenous achievement.
"If you want to create change that is truly transformational, then you have to go beyond the individual effort," Dr. Airini explained. "We know from the research that it takes a whole institution approach if you are going to have the kind of change that happens beyond one day, one month, one event, one program, and actually lasts for one decade and more."
Christine Bovis-Cnossen, TRU's vice-president, academic, believes the Coyote Project has been successful because it wasn't dictated from the top but instead was conceived by Dr. Airini and her department and rolled out across the university. "It needed to be organic," said Dr. Bovis-Cnossen. The institution can provide high-level priorities, she continued, "but in order to make projects successful and to get buy-in from very disparate areas, you need to actually let them decide how they want to move forward."
Reflecting on her contributions to Knowledge Makers and the Coyote Project, Dr. Airini describes her work as a form of service, undertaken with permission from the Indigenous peoples of the land TRU resides on. She said she hopes the project will be expanded into many more territories and believes that Knowledge Makers is scalable and can be adapted to include Indigenous researchers at universities anywhere in the world. She and Dr. Naepi envision a suite of peer-reviewed Knowledge Makers journals, a version for every institution involved, every country, and perhaps an international edition, too.
"What we're doing here is one part of the grand plan around an Indigenous renaissance in research and identity," Dr. Airini said. "We have to accelerate the pace of change because we can't in all conscience permit underachievement and under-service to Indigenous students to continue in the way that it has continued internationally." Her personal and professional motto says it all: "When we talk about success for all in education, I want it to mean all."
About the song
Thompson Rivers University writes: "At the last Knowledge Makers event, one of the students sang the Women's Warrior song and invited all female Knowledge Makers, elders and women in attendance to join her in this traditional drumming song to show support for one another, and honour the work that is taking place at TRU. The Women's Warrior song conveys unity, strength, resilience, connection to land, protection of rights and perseverance. Women are keepers and guardians of songs, sacred ceremonies, stories and history. With Knowledge Makers, this is affirming the role, the calling of Indigenous women and their communities to be their true selves as researchers serving their peoples."
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Open Thread: The first round of the playoffs was all but over
Jeph Duarte April 26, 2019 Spurs News Leave a Comment
The playoffs were supposed to be over, but nobody told that to the San Antonio Spurs, or the Los Angeles Clippers.
First off let me start by saying Spurs by 17!
I must admit, I had a crazy day yesterday. I was in a meeting that went an hour longer than expected. All of a sudden I'm Steve Martin in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles staring at my watch knowing trouble is brewing.
But that's okay because I record the games and…what's that, Honey? What's that you say? The game is not recording?
Upon entering into my home, the first words from my wife stunned me. "The game is not recording, there's something wrong."
I went to check it. Long story short, I tried to outsmart technology by preemptively recording the television shows on Fox Sports Southwest that were scheduled before they scheduled the game. That way I'd be recording the channel. mind you, the game was not appearing on their broadcast schedule when I did this.
So as a result the game wasn't recording and we had to "cancel recording" (of which there was none) to then attempt to record again. By the time this happened the game was in the third quarter.
All's well that ends well. I watched the second half in real time, the Spurs won, and the game was broadcast at midnight again so that I could now record and watch in its entirety.
I must say, after the first day of playoffs in which the 6th seed Nets beat the 76ers, the 7th seed Orlando Magic best the Raptors, and the Spurs beat the Nuggets, I was expecting some upsets.
There were none. Boston swept Indiana, Milwaukee swept Detroit, the Raptors and Philly after losing the first ran four straight to take their respective series.
The West offered a little more excitement in Damian Lillard's buzzer-beating end to a series. The Jazz's Game 4 was a screenshot of the development and progress they have made. They just could not hold up to "First Round" Rockets.
But the Spurs simply will not go gentle into that good night. In speaking with another dedicated fan recently, I lamented Pop not bringing LaMarcus back in the final frame of Game 4 and reminded me "In Pop We Trust". Put simply, there is a plan.
Last night, the plan worked.
Notice I haven't mentioned the other series still in progress?
This first round of the playoffs was all but over, except nobody told that to the San Antonio Spurs.
No one told the Los Angeles Clippers either. I fully believed that the Warriors would close out Game 5 on Wednesday and the Spurs would be the last men standing. Make for a good headline.
But the Los Angeles Clippers showed their resolve.
And kudos to them for fighting their way back from 31 down, beating the Warriors at home twice. Not only that, they beat Golden State in Oracle in a close out game.
Is it me, or are the only lower seeded teams still in this thing being coached by two of the better, longer-tenured head coaches in basketball? It says something about the development, character, and trust of these franchises.
Both the Spurs and Clippers lost some major players this season. The Clippers traded Tobias Harris in what was one of his best years. And that comes after the disbanding of their long serving Big 3 of Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, and Blake Griffin.
After the trade, most people seemed to write the Clippers off. They would slip out of the playoff picture, only to be replaced by their Staples Center rivals.
But it didn't come. Doc Rivers tightened up the crew he had and they have played amazingly against a team people have called this season's champions since before the tip off of the first game.
Nobody, NOBODY, wanted to play the Warriors in the first round. Every Spurs telecast before the seeding had Sean Elliott on a loop. But it doesn't seem to have bothered Patrick Beverly, Lou Williams, and Montrezl Harrell.
So, while I am still walking tall today with the glow of the Spurs Game 6 and planning for Game 7 (do not prerecord the game, do not prerecord the game), I will take time tonight to watch the Clippers defend their home against the back-to-back champs. Out of respect. Because win or lose, they have kept basketball interesting during this first round.
Clippers host the Warriors on ESPN tonight at 9:00 p.m.
SPURS travel to Denver and play tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. on Fox Sports Southwest.
Go! Spurs! Go!
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We woke with the sun and decided to hit the same banks and eddies that had produced so well the night before. We picked up a couple of small fish before heading back to camp for scrambled eggs, sausage, and leftover potatoes. All mixed together with a pot of black coffee, we were fueled up and on the river heading to untouched water. It was nice to nod and wave to other campers who were still rolling out of bed or sipping coffee in camp. We were able to fish undisturbed water for a few hours before we started seeing other boats.
Throughout the trip we each had two rods rigged up, one with a big dry and a dropper with the other rod strung up with a double nymph rig. We quickly found the top producer on top was a big stone or salmonfly imitation and under the surface the fish seemed to prefer a beadhead hare's ear. The most productive water were inside seams on the riffle water although the occasional bank fishing could produce a rise to the dry.
We fished one of Eric's favorite runs and both pulled three or four fish out of the "popcorn" water, Eric called it. We quickly found that the rainbows were holding in the slightly faster and choppy water, were the whitefish were holding in the slower water at the end of the run. After a dozen whitefish, I quickly learned why many fisherman are slightly disappointed in the native fish. When the indicator dips and you set the hook expecting a big jumping redsided rainbow and all you get is a whitefish that rolls over and comes to the net, it gets old real quick.
There was a plethora of salmonflies on the banks and more often than not I would have a couple crawling on me at one time. Fish were looking up and splashy takes were the norm.
Golden stones started to show up more often the farther we moved down river but the fish were not too picky on patterns.
We stopped to fish some great looking water along the way down the river. One particular spot produced two beautiful fish for me. One nice hen took a nymph about a third of the way through my drift and immediately made a run towards me, slackening my line. After lifting the rod and stripping line as fast as I could, I took a step back and stumbled and felt the cold Oregon water fill my waders. Regaining my footing, my luck held and the fish was still on. Bringing the colorful bow to the net was well worth the soggy feet for the rest of the day.
We started looking for a campsite after the sun had reached its zenith and had begun its journey back towards the horizon. The river had begun to fill up with other watercraft and fishermen, which forced us to continue farther than we had planned and put us into one of the more precarious rapids on the river. The middle and lower portion of the Deschutes that we covered has a variety of class 2 and 3 rapids that to an experienced riverman like Eric, is no problem. Whitehorse Rapids is a class 4 rapids that if not given the proper respect can put a serious hurting on your trip. There are stories every year of lost boats and worse of rafters and boaters who made small mistakes and paid heavily for it.
We pulled off the river above Whitehorse and made our way to the scouting location above the whitewater. Looking at the raging water pouring over jagged rocks put my stomach in my throat and quickened my heart rate more than a little. Eric put in sometime looking at rocks and picking his entry and exit point from the rapids.
Donning life jackets and saying a quick prayer Eric pointed the boat downriver and without so much as breaking a sweat brought us through safely. Most of the river travels at about 3 miles an hour but in this section we covered a mile in a matter of seconds.
With the difficult rapids behind us we found a great campsite, quickly threw up the tent and beat the waters for a couple of hours before coming back for a dinner of marinated chicken.
I was amazed at how well the river fished from sunup to sundown. As long as I could get a fly on the water in likely looking spots and have a long clean drift, success was inevitable. The evening winds coming up the canyon made casting difficult.
The sun went down and as usual we were asleep when our heads hit the pillow. Trying to give our bodies time to recover and do it all over again the next day.
Looks like an awesome trip. It's only a couple hours away from me, and I still haven't made the trip over to do some fishing.
Thanks Steve. It really was an awesome trip. I envy you with all that great fishing around you. I highly recommend you check it out.
awesome. i was glad to read that you closed yer thighs and ran that. to do otherwise would invite ridicule.
It looked warm enough to go for a short swim! I'm glad you landed the fish!
Awesome pics and report. Thank you for sharing. My sister just sold her home in Portland and bought in Palm Springs. Do you think she will notice a dramatic decrease in my visits?
I have to tell you, the trip I made up there in April (last year) was awesome, but if we'd caught fish like you've posted (and the numbers too) I probably would've moved the family out.
Ha. Thanks Matt. I feel really lucky to have hit the river when I did. Everything just worked out and we were in the right place at the right time. I totally hear you on moving out there. It is some amazing country. Thanks for the kind words.


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"Joy" is the second release by Ann Reynolds/Clave Gringa of Ann's original Cuban jazz compositions. Nine new compositions from cha-cha-cha to Afro-Cuban rumba and folkloric music take you on a musical Cuban journey through the ears of a gringa who is almost Cuban. Both Cuban and American musicians interpret these tunes to give a wonderful blend on this recording. Ann is the gringa who has spent much time in Cuba studying authentic styles and fusing them with her jazz background. The resulting mix honors both the Cuban traditions and Ann's life experience.
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Produced by Julio Jáuregui and Roberto Carcassés.


All tracks 24-Bit Digitally Remastered by Bob Nargberg at Capitol Mastering.
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We are often asked which is our favorite recording. With the myriad number of recordings we have made over the years, it is a difficult – if not impossible – question to answer! We have many favorites and this recording ranks very high on our preferred list. Perhaps because, to so many of us, Christmas Is So Special.
Choosing the songs to be included was a most enjoyable experience in itself. We realized that Christmas would not be Christmas without the music which has become part of the tradition over the centuries. On the other hand, we also wanted to include those songs which, over the past several decades, have joined the ranks of the music that is now an integral part of the Christmas season.
Our treatments vary from the light and frothy (by which we approach Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells and Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town) to reverence (in our treatment of age-old carols such as Hard! The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night et al.) . As a counterbalance we treat The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland and Irving Berlin's perennial favorite, White Christmas, as ballads, attempting to grasp the style and mood in which they were written.
The great variety of music afforded us was both challenging and stimulating. We hope that your pleasure in listening to Christmas Is So Special will equal our pleasure in arranging and recording it!
Our warmest wishes for A Very Merry Christmas!
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These remasterings (minus "Ave Maria") were used on the 2012 2-on-1 reissue of the holiday albums.
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Donald Trump and his White Supremacists
November 10, 2016 , by Dan Bachman, Opinion Editor
In the early morning of Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, Donald J. Trump, a real estate mogul and reality TV personality with no political experience, won 279 electoral votes and the presidency, despite a lifetime of shady business practices, losing three debates by embarrassingly wide margins, admitting to (and bragging about) sexual assault, and utilizing white-nationalist rhetoric, threatening the lives of women, immigrants, Muslims, people of color, Jews, and the LGBTQ community.
In the early morning of Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, I was lying in bed, on a full dose of ZzzQuil, eyes wide open, shaking, realizing that this is the country we live in. I didn't sleep at all that night and wandered through the rest of the day a zombie, my worst suspicions about this country confirmed in ways I couldn't imagine.
This will not be a sob story. This election affects the livelihood of my friends and family far more than it will ever affect me, and I refuse to wallow in pity and drown in white male tears. This is about understanding and negotiating space, because at the end of this, one thing is evident.
The United States is now a safe, comfortable place to be a white supremacist.
I'm not scared of what Donald Trump is capable of. If the last five hundred days of campaigning, the loss of campaign managers, the widespread condemnation by competent, compassionate humans and politicians, and a lifetime of wildly changing stances and denying facts have proved anything, it's that he is incapable of doing this job. The presidency of the United States is the hardest, most scrutinized position potentially in the world, and he will not be able to do this job. There will be no wall, and every other promise of his will face the resistance of a democratic minority Senate that contains more women, and women of color, than there has ever been before. He will meet resistance everywhere he turns, and he lacks the stamina to fight it.
What scares me are the people who voted him in. The people with my face and my voice. The people who used those things, and the privilege that comes with them, to deny a platform sorely needed to the marginalized. What scares me more are the white nationalists, the alt-right. The alt-right has terrorized people on the Internet for a year, and that terror is not going away. It will no longer be predominantly online, as this is the constituency that will be legitimized by a Trump presidency. He can be stopped easily, but they will not be.
Because the country told them that they are an acceptable political body, because they mobilize quickly, efficiently, robotically, terrifyingly, because they attack people where they are most vulnerable, spouses, children, and because they elected a white nationalist into office, I fear these people. I fear how they will shape this country. I fear their unprecedented legitimacy as a body, what it will do to the people I love, looking for a platform in this world. They are terrifying and horrifying, and though they must be fought and stopped, their legitimacy, the nomination of their candidate, is something worth despairing about.
What scares me is Mike Pence, a radical anti-LGBTQ politician whose track record is horrifying. Horrifying. If Trump is impeached, and he very well may be, he will be our president. The damage that could be done if that happens is unfathomable.
Right now, I've gotten out of bed, gone home, hugged my loved ones, and am beginning to reckon with the fact that America is so much less safe today than it was yesterday, that these forces of violence, once on the fringe, buried in the Internet, spreading their hate in private, are now free to spew the darkest, thickest bubbling sludge of human evil in public spaces. It's hard to wrap my head around how unsafe it is to be here now, but this is the reality.
But the hardest thing to understand is this: I am complicit in this. In my maleness, in my whiteness, in my overwhelming confidence in a Clinton presidency. I didn't do this directly, but I was born in, raised in a culture that let this happen. And at the same time, though, my existence is an offense to the white nationalists. I am Jewish, and I have a learning disability. A large, vocal group of people, now legitimate, think I should be cleansed from this earth. I listened to Trump shout about global banks controlling the world, a familiar, long-dismissed, anti-Semitic dogwhistle, and I feared for my family. I am more agent than victim, but I am both, and I am in pieces.
We do not know what the next four years will hold. I am prepared to fight, to support those increasingly marginalized by an increasingly white nationalist America, to organize, to donate, to protest, to do the work. But the world is changed. And I'm sad. And I'm scared.
altrightscum
Pure hogwash. Trump wins.
The bearded men of Boko Haram teamed up with Isis, which was funded by Saudi Arabia who funded Hillary, who couldn't unite enough migrant horny feminists, genderQueers , cucky beta males, Wi-Fi using phone niggaz who didn't pay their bill, social justice warriors who pose as intellectuals however they've yet to read the cliff notes to any of the great books….
You've been hoodwinked by the mainstream media, who treated Hillary like a Queen, who said Hillary had it all wrapped up,
Your "whiteness"…you make me fucking sick, you're an apologist of the worst kind.
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Seems to me this comment should have been deleted long ago.
Tom Chism
Stop blaming yourself. Many of those on the extreme left hate- HATE- Jews like you. No, they don't just hate, "Zionists," they hate Jews. If you don't think so, go sit in one of their safe spaces for an hour and listen to how they talk.
Try to develop a sense of balance before you go off on some alarmist rant about how Trump is going to end civilization. We'll be just fine in 4 years.
Thank you for having the courage to share your views, knowing the trolls will strike as they already have. It seems to me you have already formed a set of mature values. There are many who share your views and have your back.
DavidL
We are "trolls" because we disagree and criticize? At least you did not call me a white supremacist.
"A large, vocal group of people, now legitimate, think I should be cleansed from this earth."
That is true, but most of them are Muslims from the Middle East, not Americans (including Muslim Americans as far as I can tell.) I am sorry that you feel so threatened but your perceptions are so skewed that your fears are inevitable. We all are bombarded with propaganda, and it's sometimes hard to sort the false from the true. You might find some comfort if you were willing to take a hard and critical look at the sources of your beliefs. Try it. You can't do this by reading a few articles or consulting a few sources that your present belief system instinctively rejects. It's much harder than that. Perhaps your views would not change, but right now, at a very young age, is the time to look into this.
Cromwell Devlin
Pointing out obvious facts to an indoctrinated leftist is a form of child abuse.
Man with Axe
I wish you hadn't admitted to being white and male. Now I find myself unable to accept anything you have to say.
TheRatiocinator
Name one thing Trump has ever said that convinced you he's a "white nationalist". Good grief.
You have been brainwashed since birth. That is why you hear only what confirms your delusions.
Big world out there, none of it will conform to your preconceptions. Good luck and try not to cry .
Well Articulated Article
As a Wesleyan liberal, I must dispute your take on Trump's use of the global-banking fear. Trump has quite visibly courted Bernie voters, who coalesced around their distrust of many institutions, including parties, but primarily banks.
It seems much more plausible to me that Trump criticized banks not to stoke anger against Jews, but to attract the disaffected, distrustful of institutions, "Reagan Democrats" who won Bernie the Michigan primary.
In which he succeeded. Trump got those voters. I think we can credit him that he planned that.
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Yeah, funny how the "anti-big bank" tact is great when the rabble-rousers like Bernie or Elizabeth Warren are the ones saying it, but the moment someone who isn't considered "OK" makes the same criticism of the banks, they are suddenly N.W.O/Elders of Zio -spouting anti-Semites. Funny how that works. If the narrative does not fit, devolve it to anti-Semitism.


R-gen's latest innovation is to create Zero Carbon homes from slab to final completion within 5 weeks on site. Over 70% of the building is constructed in the factory, and is completed to the PassivHaus Air tight standard within 48 hours of erection.
R-gen is able to produce an extreme fabric first Off Site Manufactured PassivHaus certified home that exceeds the Fabric Performance and Carbon Compliance targets specified within the Allowable Solutions Policy. The homes are timber framed using sustainable resources and are factory built in the UK.
This exciting development is ahead of Government commitments on zero carbon. The UK Government is committed to reducing CO2 emissions levels by at least 80% by 2050 from the 1990 level. The Climate Change Act of 2008 set out a number of clear targets of how this may be implemented, one of which is that by 2016 all new homes should demonstrate that the construction and energy performance should have zero impact on carbon emissions.
This is a move away from the traditional definition of zero carbon, which sets out that any home should produce more energy from non-carbon sources than it actually needs to consume in a year from carbon fuels.
The Zero Carbon Hub has set out a mechanism of how this may be achieved through its Allowable Solutions strategy. Essentially, the Policy is aligned with the European guidelines detailed in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, and is based on the principles that new homes should meet a fabric performance standard measured in the energy needed to provide heating and ventilation, and a Carbon Compliance limit calculated on the volume of carbon emissions remaining after taking into consideration heating, cooling, fixed lighting and ventilation. Any remaining Co2 emissions may be off- set by a capital contribution to specific carbon saving funds.


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4-star defensive end Elijah Jeudy commits to Georgia for 2021
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Elijah Jeudy, a four-star defensive end from Philadelphia, Pa., has committed to the Georgia Bulldogs for the class of 2021.
Jeudy announced his commitment to UGA live via his social media accounts on Sunday.
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— Elijah Jeudy1⃣6⃣ (@ElijahJeudy) April 19, 2020
Elijah Jeudy (6-3, 246) plays for Northeast High School in Philadelphia. He committed to the Georgia Bulldogs over offers from Alabama, Florida, Georgia Tech, LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Ole Miss, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Wisconsin, and others.
In the 247Sports Composite, Elijah Jeudy is rated as a four-star recruit, the No. 12 weakside defensive end, and the No. 167 overall recruit for the 2021 class.
Rivals.com also rates Jeudy as a four-star recruit. They list him as the No. 7 weakside defensive end and the No. 196 overall recruit for 2021.
Elijah Jeudy is the third commitment since April 8 for Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs. Four-star offensive lineman Micah Morris tweeted his decision to commit to Georgia on that date and was followed by 4-star running back Lovasea Carroll one day later.
Georgia now has a total of seven commitments for the 2021 recruiting class. The Bulldogs' class is currently ranked 7th in the country by 247Sports despite having nine less commitments than the current top-ranked team, Ohio State.
UGA Football Commitments
GO DAWGS!!
— Coach Kirby Smart (@KirbySmartUGA) April 19, 2020
Let's Go Dawgs!!!!! #GrowTheEdge
— Dan Lanning (@CoachDanLanning) April 19, 2020


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When we heard that Plex had indeed released an app for the new Apple TV, we ran out and bought it right away! We had always enjoyed using the Apple TV to watch content from the Internet (YouTube, Netflix, Hulu), but the fact that you couldn't easily stream local content always had us going to a different media box to accomplish that task. With a more powerful CPU and a gyroscope built into the touch-controlled remote, it is better suited for gaming than its predecessor. The new remote also supports Siri for voice commands, and while I don't use Siri as much on my phone, I absolutely love being able to say "rewind 25 seconds" or "who stars in this movie?" instead of fidgeting around with buttons. At only $123.49 (with Code: "VISA5") from Groupon, this is one of the lowest prices we have seen.
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Will China Get Lonely Before It Gets Rich?
China is becoming a nation of singles, 'DINKs,' and empty-nesters, says a new government report.
Four Generations Under One Roof, a 1940s novel by author Lao She about life in Beijing under Japanese occupation, describes what was then an archetypal Chinese family: large, multigenerational, and united. But in modern China, a place of massive internal migration and upheaval, that image is fast becoming quaint.
That's the basic conclusion reached in an official report released by China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), the agency charged with overseeing the country's demographic policy, which shows that Chinese families have become greyer and more isolated, with fewer children. The Development Report of Chinese Families is the first official study of Chinese family structure that has been made public, and the picture that emerges from the report is likely to worry some Chinese economists and policymakers.
Chinese families have been getting smaller for decades, and not just because of the country's reviled family planning policies. Before the 1950s, the average household in China had more than 5.3 people. But the report shows that number dropping to 3.96 by 1990, and then to 3.02 by 2012. Since 2000, the decrease in birth rates has no longer been the primary driver of shrinking of family size, with geographic mobility and changes in social mores playing bigger roles.
Three demographics increasingly stand out: Unmarried young workers, couples who have delayed or foregone childbirth, and elderly empty-nesters. 160 million Chinese households, or 40 percent of the nationwide total, now consist only of one or two people. In the decade between 2000 and 2010, when urbanization was at full throttle, the number of solo households doubled, and the number of two-member households increased by 68 percent, according to the report.
In urban areas, 45.4 percent of unmarried residents lived alone, spurning the traditional practice of living with parents until marriage. Millions of young Chinese now work in cities far from home — and even if they live in the same city as their parents, many do not want to move back into a spare bedroom once they start working. Young men and women are delaying marriage to pursue career goals, save up for down payments on cars or houses, fulfill lifestyle choices, or wait to find the right mate.
For thousands of years, elderly Chinese had lived with their children and grandchildren, but that is rapidly changing too, as young people leave their hometowns for education and employment opportunities. According to the report, 90 percent of China's elderly live at home instead of assisted living facilities. But their children and grandchildren often choose not to live with them, or cannot live with them. The problem is particularly acute in rural areas: Millions of young farmhands have left for factories and construction sites, while rural social security and healthcare resources are comparatively sparse, leaving many elderly to fend for themselves in squalid conditions.
A nascent social security safety net is being built in rural areas, but is not yet particularly sturdy. According to the report, over 40 percent of senior citizens above the age of 80 live alone. The report cites another study that shows 37.5 million elderly Chinese citizens lacked the ability to care for themselves in 2013. A quarter of all elderly lived below the poverty line. In a survey released by the NHFPC, 80 percent of Chinese households say they are worried about supporting their elderly relatives.
Responding to the report on social media, Chinese web users expressed concerns about the future of Chinese families and what it means for the country's economic and social development. Zhi Xiefei, a professor at Nanjing Information Technology University in wealthy Jiangsu province, wrote that China "would not be able to achieve sustainable growth" based on these demographic trends. Many blamed China's longstanding family planning policy, which restricts millions of urban families to only one child per couple. Despite a major reform to the policy in December 2013 that allowed certain urban couples to have two children, bureaucratic red tape remains thick, and the cost of raising children may prove prohibitive to some couples.
To be sure, there is one bright spot in the report, at least for enterprising real estate developers with an eye on the long term. The report projects that China will have 500 million households in 2040, compared to 430 million today, because of the trends toward smaller families. That could mean more demand for urban housing units in the decades to come.
For everyone else, the report is likely to stoke concern. It shows anxieties about the expense of caring for children and parents weighing on Chinese families; that, in turn, is likely to reduce their propensity to spend, just as the Chinese economy becomes increasingly reliant on a burgeoning consumer culture to bolster its growth. For Chinese policymakers, this may be the wake-up call they need to continue to reform the country's much-maligned family planning policy. It may get increasingly rare for four Chinese generations to live in one home. But neither need there be so many families of one.


Jennifer Lawrence got engaged to art gallerist Cooke Maroney this week, news her publicist confirmed on Tuesday night. There have been no high resolution images of the ring yet, but Lawrence has been photographed wearing a ring on her left finger on two occasions this week. The only issue with the ring she wore? The diamond looks suspiciously smaller the second time she wore it…perhaps because she's trolling the paps. So what exactly is going on?
The first time J.Law was photographed in the ring, the diamond did look big. Paparazzi photos were taken of Lawrence leaving Raoul's. That was Monday night, and while the photo of the ring is very, very grainy, a noticeable diamond appears to be visible if you zoom in.
The second time J.Law was photographed in the ring, the diamond was basically gone. Lawrence went out again with Maroney last night and was photographed leaving Il Buco Italian restaurant in New York City. There's a ring on that finger, and while it's hard to see it again, there's not much of a diamond visible. There's a tiny bump—and not exactly the kind of stone you'd call a "giant rock" or that you could see from another restaurant table.
Two things are possible: Lawrence could be wearing her engagement ring, but she could have deliberately turned the diamond around on her finger to hide in her palm because she knew the paparazzi were waiting for her, as Celebitchy pointed out. Photographers wouldn't get their ring shot, and she'd be able to debut the ring when she wants to—like at the Oscars, for instance.
Lawrence could also have brought another ring with her that she swapped her engagement ring for before leaving the restaurant. It'd be her way of trolling the paps and sticking it to everyone who is so eager to see her ring before she's ready to flaunt it.


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On Thursday, New York City learned that they will have an extra $3 billion to spend, as Amazon caved to the immense amount of public pressure placed on them, and announced that they would not be moving their HQ2 to NYC.
New York promised to hand Amazon $3 billion in various tax breaks to bring its HQ2 to its city, but it turns out that plenty of state legislators and their grassroots supporters aren't too keen on giving away billions to one of the most valuable companies in the world, run by the richest man in the world. There's nothing stopping Amazon from continuing its plan to expand to New York City, it's just clear that the gigantic tax breaks they thought they squeezed out of the city are not forthcoming.
There is a new generation of politicians who won't sell out their city so they can gain a talking point about jobs. Jobs are good and politicians should focus on bringing more opportunities to their constituents, but "jobs at all costs" is not a coherent policy narrative. New York City is not hurting for work and opportunity, and there is absolutely no reason for the city to give away billions to a multi-billion dollar company because it's bringing jobs.
Amazon initially pitched HQ2 as a way to bring plenty of new jobs to an upstart city that needs them, like Austin or Nashville. Instead, after demanding every city give Amazon some level of unprecedented control, Amazon decided to split its HQ2 between New York City and the Washington D.C. area because that's where the power is and this was never about helping any city other than the digital fiefdom that is Amazon.
Billionaires don't need to be given billions in free money. While that may sound like simple logic, one look at America proves that giving away public funds to the wealthy IS the policy in the United States. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of capitalists like Jeff Bezos, and for the first time in my 32 year life, it finally feels like the winds are shifting towards a more just and equal world.


This book describes the application of non-destructive geophysical methods in subsurface archaeological features. Such non-destructive methods are magnetometry, electrical resistance, electromagnetic conductivity, magnetic susceptibility and ground penetrating radar. This book also includes the last improvements in instrumentation, data processing, and interpretations of the collected data sets leading to the rapid progress in geophysical applications in the field of archaeological investigations. The book also provides complete case-studies and archaeological interpretation obtained our results carried out in different localities around the world.


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Jody Lafond (born 1956) is an American video artist and documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of  the Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center in Buffalo, NY. Lafond began producing work in the 1980s, and from 1990 to 1991 was the producer of Artwaves, a weekly public-access cable television program in Buffalo. Her works have been shown in Canada and the United States. Two career retrospectives of her video work have been held at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, one in 1994 and one in 2001.

Early career
During the winter of 1979, Lafond and her friend Susan Clements attended a performance by the art duo the Kipper Kids. This was her first exposure to performance art.

Lafond received a BA in history from the University at Buffalo in 1986, where a film course started an interest in video and filmmaking. Subsequently, she completed an MAH in Media Studies & Theater from the University at Buffalo.

Style and themes
Lafond and others active in Buffalo in the 1980s and 1990s often addressed issues of freedom of speech, human rights, and access to media. Lafond's work often focuses on relationships between men and women.

Exhibitions and screenings
In 1983, Lafond had a screening of her early work at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center as part of New Buffalo Video. The program included work by Toni Billoni, Armin Heurich, Debbie Jordan, Brian Springer and Julie Zando. Lafond was active in founding the Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, which emphasized the democratization of new media.

Her work was included in the show The State of Upstate: New York Women Artists, curated by art historian Nina Felshin with the support of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. in 1990. In 1995, a video created by Lafond in collaboration with Susan Clements screened at Art in General as part of Transmissions of Memory, a program on video work by artists in New York state.
Her videos and documentaries have also been screened at  NY Video Festival and the Images Film Festival, among others.

Lafond has had two retrospectives, both at Hallwalls. The first, a mid-career retrospective of her video work, was held in 1994. This was followed by a second retrospective at the same institution in 2001. Her works have been described as "small-scaled, understated gems".  Her work was part of a thirty-year retrospective exhibit celebrating the Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, where it was commended for still showing "Squeaky Wheel's core inspirational and motivational concept."

Awards
Lafond is the recipient of a 2001 NYSCA Media Grant and NYFA Video Fellowships in 1988 and 1992.

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1956 births
American filmmakers
Living people
University at Buffalo alumni

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Valilu (, also Romanized as Valīlū; also known as Vali and Valli) is a village in Bedevostan-e Gharbi Rural District, Khvajeh District, Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 399, in 96 families.

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Populated places in Heris County