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It's our job to check that children and young people living in residences are safe and well cared for.
UNCROC (The Children's Convention) is the only international human rights treaty that gives non-governmental organisations (NGOs) a role in monitoring its implementation.
Under UNCROC, each government has to report every five years on children's rights in their country. The UN committee examined New Zealand in September 2016, and the Office of the Children's Commissioner made this submission.
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The endless papertrails modern school life seemingly requires are now actively making things worse for our overworked teachers. Becky Allen explains how to change all that Teaching should be the best job in the world. It has all the components of a satisfying profession: autonomy, impact, purpose and a sense of human connection. So why are teachers leaving in droves?
I believe one of the reasons is the high-stakes audit and accountability culture that undermines so many teachers' senses of autonomy and purpose.
It's entirely understandable why it's come to this.
Required to prove at a moment's notice that they know their schools' strengths and weaknesses, senior leadership teams develop a cascade of policies to mirror what kind of evidence they reckon Ofsted will be looking for. This audit culture means that, in many schools, the teacher no longer gets to decide how to prepare and deliver lessons, mark pupils' work, or assess and record learning.
But this audit culture has displaced a culture of trust in schools.
And it hasn't improved educational standards, not least because auditing teaching and learning isn't really possible. The links between what we observe through auditing activities and the quality of learning is simply unproven.
Auditing isn't necessary for talented, well-motivated teachers, and in fact it can undermine their intrinsic motivation, thereby making things worse. Auditing doesn't work for weak teachers who lack the capacity to improve or who don't care. In fact, it only works for the small subset of teachers who are a little bit lazy and unfocused but who with hard-edged accountability will push themselves to get on with their work.
I don't want to be dismissive of teacher underperformance. Where it happens it literally wastes days or years of children's lives. But my fear is that, in trying to fix this problem, we have made life intolerable for those who were always doing a great job.
So many systems of control in schools today presume that we have the scientific evidence to support top-down policies telling teachers how they should teach. I wish we did, but we simply don't.
Teaching remains a complex and poorly understood endeavour, so we need it to be a prestigious profession with competitive entry and sufficient supply, so headteachers are able find staff in whom they have confidence. We need teachers who thrive in trust cultures, rather than those who rely on systems of control.
The following points, therefore, make up my call to school leaders.
You can survive an Ofsted inspection while implementing autonomy-supportive leadership, but only if you take care how you do it. First, educate yourself and make an official plan to show you are purposively making management changes. Second, do this as part of a gang with other heads – there is safety in numbers and it makes it look like a "proper" programme. Third, do it scientifically so that you can show Ofsted how you are measuring the impact of your changes on workload, teacher satisfaction and time freed for development activities.
Carry out an experiment for a couple of weeks. Set school hours (e.g. 8am – 4:30pm) outside of which teachers aren't allowed to do any work. This will allow you to reappraise which parts of their job are essential and which can be ditched.
Read the Ofsted Myths to devise workload-saving changes to school practice that are consistent with the current inspection framework.
Stop managing everyone the same way: give professional autonomy to your good teachers and triage the others appropriately. Could this teacher get better with a lot of support? Then give them the support they need. Another teacher can't or won't get better with a lot of support? Then create the audit trail to begin capability procedures.
Teacher shortages make it easier than ever for teachers to move schools. Teachers can and should seek out working cultures that promote autonomy so they feel fulfilled at work. Make sure your own teachers can find this in your school so they don't seek it elsewhere.


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The Key to Weathering Rapid Sea-level Rise May Lie in a Massachusetts Salt Marsh
New research shows that coastal habitats can thrive—but only if there's enough sediment
Daegan Miller
A team of researchers led by Brian Yellen, research professor of earth, geographic, and climate sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface that salt marshes, critical habitats threatened by rapid sea-level rise, may in fact thrive despite higher water levels. The key factor that determines whether salt marshes collapse or flourish involves not water, but sediment.
To reach this conclusion, Yellen and his colleagues looked all the way back to 1898, when the Portland Gale, a vicious Nor'easter, battered the Massachusetts coast with hurricane-force winds, buckets of rain, and a ten-foot storm surge, which remade the North-South Rivers Estuary, in Scituate, just south of Boston.
Before 1898, the North River took a hard south-eastern turn on its way to the Atlantic Ocean, flowing behind a barrier beach for about three-and-a-half miles, until it joined up with the South River at today's popular Rexhame Beach, where both rivers finally exited to the sea. But when the Portland Gale hit, in late November, it blasted a hole through the northern end of the barrier beach, shortening the North River's journey by three-and-a-half miles. High tides in the newly shortened tidal river immediately rose by at least a foot—the kind of sea-level rise that scientists say the world may see by the end of the century.
The Portland Gale of 1898 moved the inlet of the North-South Rivers Estuary approximately three-and-a-half miles northwest of its previous location. Credit: UMass Amherst
"It was a terrible storm," says Yellen. "But it provided us with the rarest of things—a real-world, long-term experiment showing us how salt marshes, like those along the North River Estuary, may respond to rapid sea level rise in the coming years."
One of the many threats posed by rising oceans is the loss of salt marshes, which are not only essential habitats for migrating birds and juvenile fish stocks, but also provide a host of critical ecosystem services, such as protecting coastlines from storm damages and filtering contaminants from runoff. And while one might guess that sudden flooding of Scituate's marshes would be a death blow, this is not the case.
It was a terrible storm, but it provided us with the rarest of things—a real-world, long-term experiment showing us how salt marshes, like those along the North River Estuary, may respond to rapid sea level rise in the coming years.
Brian Yellen, UMass Amherst research professor of earth, geographic, and climate sciences, on the lasting legacy of the 1898 Portland Gale
"The salt marsh is thriving," says Yellen.
"Salt marshes are made up of three things," he continues. "Water, plants and sediment." The team hypothesizes that the high coastal bluffs bordering the coast near the North River Estuary provide an abundant supply of sediment as they slowly erode into the ocean, so that even under catastrophic conditions, like the Portland Gale, the salt marshes can bounce back and adapt to their changing environment.
However, sediment has historically been viewed as a problem, especially in estuaries. Sediment clogs shipping lanes and makes mudflats that many find unattractive. The standard practice has long been to dredge deep channels and haul the scooped-up sediment far out to sea. Upstream dams, too, have reduced the flow of sediment from the interior to the coast. "We treat sediment as if it's trash," says Yellen, "but it's really treasure. It makes up the beaches that we love to play on, and the salt marshes that support both endangered birds and commercially important fish stocks. It's time to stop treating sediment like waste."
The tidal North River winds through salt marshes in Scituate, Massachusetts. High tides here increased by more than a foot after the 1898 Portland Gale eroded a new inlet to the estuary. Credit: Rocky Geyer
Yellen is quick to point out that he's not advocating for ending dredging and coastal navigation, nor removing all the dams, but that, when dredging is necessary, there needs to be a compensatory re-infusion of sediment into the affected estuary system.
This work, which was supported by the US Geological Survey and the Department of the Interior's Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, is only the beginning, and Yellen and his colleagues have already teamed up with a dozen public stakeholders from all the New England states to further investigate how best to confront the risks posed by climate change to New England's shoreline.
Related: Study Finds More than Half of Hudson River Tidal Marshes were Created Accidentally by Humans; Resilient Against Sea Level Rise
In a Dec. 2020 study of tidal marsh resilience to sea level rise, Brian Yellen and colleagues observed that Hudson River Estuary marshes are growing upward at a rate two to three times sea level rise, "suggesting that they should be resilient to accelerated sea level rise in the future."
Related: Interdisciplinary Group Funded to Assess the Role of Salt Marshes in Trapping Carbon
In July 2020, the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant to an interdisciplinary group of researchers led by Brian Yellen to develop tools to estimate the mass of carbon stored in salt marshes.

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Q: java merge two flux without duplicates I have two fluxes and I want to merge them avoiding duplicates. How can I do this?
Here are my fluxes:
Flux<Tweet> remoteTweets = Flux.just(
        new Tweet("tag1",new TweetID("text","name"),"userimage","country","place"),
        new Tweet("tag2",new TweetID("text","name"),"userimage","country","place")
);

Flux<Tweet> localTweets = Flux.just(
        new Tweet("tag1",new TweetID("text","name"),"userimage","country","place")
);

Merging these two is giving me tag 1, tag1, tag2, but I want tag1, tag2.
The order is not important.

A: you can do it like this
     SpringApplication.run(BackendApplication.class, args);
  String[] strings = {"a","b","c"};
    Flux.merge(Flux.fromArray(strings),Flux.fromArray(strings))
            .distinct()
            .map(s -> {
                System.out.println(s);
                return s;
            }).subscribe();

but in your case in Tweet object you need to override equals and hashcode
be aware distinct firstly see if hashcode is equal then .equal function
if you are using intellij try alt+ insert and click equal and hashCode

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Kells (; Irish: Ceanannas) is a town in County Meath, Ireland. The town lies off the M3 motorway, 16 km (10 mi) from Navan and 65 km (40 mi) from Dublin. It is best known as the site of Kells Abbey, from which the Book of Kells takes its name.
The monastery at Kells is thought to have been founded around 804 A.D. by monks from St Colmcille's monastery in Iona who were fleeing Viking invasions.
Kells became a border town garrison of the Pale and was the scene of many battles, between Bréifne Irish and Hiberno-Normans, both of whom had heavily intermarried. From 1561 to 1800 Kells returned two Members of Parliament. During the rebellion of 1641, Kells was burned by the O'Reilly clan during their attacks on the Pale.
The Abbey of Kells, with its round tower, is associated with St Colmcille (also known as Columba), the Book of Kells, now kept at Trinity College Dublin and the Kells Crozier, exhibited at the British Museum. The round tower and five large Celtic crosses can still be viewed today. Four of the crosses are in the churchyard of St Columba's church. The other Celtic cross was positioned in the middle of a busy crossroads until an accident involving a school bus. It now stands in front of a former courthouse. A roof protects the cross from the elements. Curiously, a replica is completely safe from the elements inside the museum.
Just outside the town of Kells on the road to Oldcastle is the hill of Lloyd, named after Thomas Lloyd of Enniskillen, who camped a large Williamite army here during the wars of 1688-91 against the Jacobites. Here also stands a towering building called the Tower of Lloyd, which is an 18th-century lighthouse folly in the form of a giant Doric column, surmounted by glazed lantern, erected to the memory of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, by his son. The tower is around 30 m (100 ft) high. The top offers a view of the surrounding countryside as far as the Mourne mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland on a clear day. The tower was used to view horse racing and the hunt in the nineteenth century. The plaque on the tower reads: 'This pillar was designed by Henry Aaron Baker Esq. architect was executed by Mr. Joseph Beck stone cutter Mr. Owen Mc Cabe head mason Mr. Bartle Reilly overseer Anno 1791'. The area around the tower has been developed as a community park (The People's Park), and includes the Paupers' Grave. This cemetery was a necessity in the times of great poverty in the country. Mass is still celebrated there annually and the cemetery is a reminder of the Workhouse and extreme poverty engendered by changes in farming practice in the 19th century and during the Famine.
The population of Kells town (according to the official 2011 Census of Population) stands at 5,888 persons. This represents a slight increase in population over the 2006 Census. There was a 24.8% increase in total population between 1996 and 2002.
Until the opening of the new motorway in June 2010, Kells stood as a busy junction town on the old N3 road with over 18,000 vehicles passing through the town each day. Kells was a renowned traffic bottleneck from both the N3 national primary route (Dublin, Cavan, Enniskillen and Ballyshannon) and N52 national secondary route (Dundalk, Tullamore and Nenagh) passing though the town centre. The new M3 motorway (opened June 2010) significantly reduces the journey time to Dublin, as well as the numbers of vehicles in the town.
Kells is served by a regular bus service run by Bus Éireann, which takes about 1.5 hours to Busáras in Dublin.
St. Colmcilles Boys National school is an all boys school on the Navan road,first opened by the Christian Brothers on January 20th 1845. The present school was opened in 1976 and the Brothers, because of a fall-off in vocations, withdrew from the school in 1985.
Damien McGrane b. 1971 professional golfer is a Kells man.
Maureen O'Hara Kells born American actress and singer. A statue has been erected in her memory on Farrell Street.


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Seeing the Sights of Little Tokyo
September 26, 2018 November 28, 2018 Richard Hicks Leave a comment
The entrance to the Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple.
In 1884, a Japanese sailor named Hamanosuke Shigeta jumped ship in San Diego and eventually made his way to downtown Los Angeles, where he opened an American-style cafe. The opening of Kame Restaurant—the first known Japanese-owned business in Los Angeles, signaled the beginning of what is now known as Little Tokyo. Before World War II, Little Tokyo was thriving and grew to be the largest Japanese community in the United States. This area is steeped in history and every month JANM docents lead walking tours of the neighborhood to explore both popular and lesser-known gems of this bustling neighborhood.
One of the stops on the tour is the original Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, at 119 North Central Avenue. Built in 1925 by Japanese immigrants, and originally named the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, the building was the first structure in Los Angeles designed specifically to house a Buddhist place of worship. In 1942, the building was used as a gathering place for people of Japanese ancestry to board buses as they were forcibly removed to American concentration camps during World War II. Reverend Julius Goldwater, one of the first non-Japanese Buddhist ministers in America, did not face removal and allowed people in the community to store their belongings in the building while they were incarcerated.
With no congregation, the temple closed down. However, in 1944 the Providence Missionary Baptist Association converted part of the building into a Christian center and began offering sermons. The Association's stay was only temporary, though. When the war ended in 1945 Goldwater notified the Baptist Association that their lease could not be renewed as he expected many of his congregation members to return home. The temple then reopened and served as a hostel for many of those returning from the camps who found that their homes had been lost. The building eventually fell into disrepair after the temple moved to a new location in 1969 and it was sold to the City of Los Angeles in 1973. Destined to be torn down for new development, the building was spared when the City of Los Angeles supported its use as a museum site. In 1992, the Japanese American National Museum opened in the renovated historic building.
People of Japanese ancestry board buses in front of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple as they were forcibly removed to American concentration camps. 1942. Photo by Jack Iwata. Japanese American National Museum, gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata.
The architecture of the ornate building draws inspiration from a temple in Kyoto, Japan, and combines Japanese and Middle Eastern motifs in its striking façade. The Middle Eastern influence stems from the architectural movement called Egyptian Revival. This style of architecture first came to prominence in the late 18th century. But after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, Egyptian influences saw a renewed wave of popularity around the world. Also, Egyptian themes had become an essential part of the Art Deco movement in the 1920s.
This building's entrance is on the plaza across from the Japanese American National Museum's Pavilion building. The cement canopy (karahafu) over the entrance replicates the imperial gateway of the associated Mother Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The characteristic shape is the undulating curve at the top of the entrance. This design is common in traditional Japanese architecture, including castles, Buddhist temples, and Shinto shrines. Kara means "noble" or "elegant" and this architectural element is often added to places that are considered important or grand.
The original Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple is only one of several stops on the JANM docent-led walking tours of Little Tokyo that engage visitors beyond the walls of the museum and introduce them to a unique and diverse community. Whether you are a first-time visitor or a lifelong Los Angeles resident, you'll learn surprising details about the people, historic architecture, and community spirit of this colorful neighborhood. Museum admission is included with the fee for the tour, so be sure to see JANM's current exhibitions afterward.
Tours take place on the last Saturday of every month, weather permitting. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended. To sign up for our next walking tour please visit janm.org
Highlights from the Little Tokyo Sushi Graze
Edible Adventures at Sushi Go 55
Is it uncivilized to use soy sauce? Should extra wasabi be added? Recently, travel agent and food enthusiast Roxana Lewis led a "sushi graze" edition of our Edible Adventures walking tour series in Little Tokyo, this time starting with a "Sushi 101 class." Lewis explained that adding wasabi or soy sauce depends on the restaurant and the chef. However, she stressed that when using soy sauce, one should lightly dip only the fish to avoid having the rice ball fall apart. Attendees also learned some surprising sushi history. Enthusiasts may find it hard to imagine sushi ever existing without rice. However, beginning in the fourth century in many parts of Asia, salted raw fish was wrapped in rice and held in storage for months. When the rice fermented, it acted as a preservative but was discarded before the fish was eaten.
Sushi was introduced to Japan in the ninth century. It became popular as Buddhism spread throughout the country; the Buddhist practice of refraining from eating meat meant that many Japanese began eating fish as a dietary staple. Vinegar was eventually used as a preservative instead of rice and this change led to the uniquely Japanese version of sushi that is eaten today. A rice ball and a small portion of raw fish (known as nigiri sushi) need very little preparation, so by the 1800s, it was a popular choice with roadside vendors and a big hit with busy workers who didn't have time to sit down for a meal.
After the short history lesson, attendees enjoyed a small feast at the restaurant Sushi Go 55. The sushi served at this restaurant reflects the same style that emerged as a favorite fast-food option in nineteenth century Japan. Made to order piece by piece, attendees watched as the chef's hands moved in perfect rhythm as he assembled balls of rice and affixed fish to them with the exact amount of wasabi. In the past few centuries, not much has changed in the making of this style of food. While enjoying sushi at this restaurant, one could close their eyes and feel a direct connection to Japan and the past.
A chef prepares sushi
While sushi is a pillar of Japanese cuisine, the history of the delicacy in the United States is an ever-evolving one. When first introduced, Americans had a difficult time warming up to the idea that raw fish could be something tasty. The creation of the California roll in the late 1960s helped change American perceptions. First created by a Japanese chef in Los Angeles (according to some), the California roll features crab, avocado, and cucumber, making it more suitable to the American palate. It's often then rolled "inside out," meaning the rice is on the outside. The next stop on the tour exemplified this American take on sushi. At the Ebisu Tavern, "caterpillar" and "spider" rolls which featured ingredients like battered soft-shell crab and spicy mayonnaise were served to showcase the evolution of westernized sushi.
The Edible Adventure offered more than just learning about sushi. Between stops Lewis recounted tidbits touching on the history of Little Tokyo. She pointed out Buddhist temples and explained their architecture, showed participants the former sites of trailblazing restaurants now gone and noted how the area has changed through the generations. The tour ended back at JANM. Museum admission was included with the tour and attendees then spent time taking in the current exhibitions. Don't miss the next Edible Adventure—you can stay up to date on all of JANM's events by visiting janm.org/events. You can also sign up to receive our monthly Exhibitions & Events email with all the latest information.
Spanish-Language Tour of Little Tokyo Opens More Doors of Understanding
January 24, 2018 November 28, 2018 Sergio Holguin Leave a comment
Monica Cruz and Sergio Holguin. Photo by Richard Watanabe.
The Little Tokyo Walking Tour is one of many public programs offered by the Japanese American National Museum. In conjunction with JANM's latest exhibition, Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo, visitors will soon be able to tour the Little Tokyo Historic District with an experienced Spanish-speaking docent. To gain more insight into this new offering, JANM Visitor Services Associate Sergio Holguin sat down with Monica Cruz, the docent who will lead the tour, for a brief discussion.
Author's note: In this discussion, "Latino" is shorthand for a larger, mixed identity/ies. Both parties use the term to refer to persons of Mexican, Mexican-American, Latin American, and mixed Hispanic descent. The term is not used to describe those who significantly identify with specific indigenous identities or those who represent themselves as "Chicano." "Latino" is used for the sake of brevity, and should not be misconstrued as a reductive gesture. If there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to comment below.
Sergio Holguin: Tell me about yourself and the work you do with JANM.
Monica Cruz: I've been a member of the museum for about five years, and a volunteer for three. I've worked in a variety of capacities: Visitor Services, when they need me; leading the Little Tokyo Walking Tour (I was trained as a docent); and now I'm a part of the group that helps out at the HNRC (Hirasaki National Resource Center).
SH: As a Mexican-American, I tend to get a lot of puzzled looks from folks coming in, even after seven years of working here. As a non-Japanese person like me, how did you get involved with the Japanese American community?
MC: To make the story short, my late husband was Japanese American, the first generation in his family to be born in the United States.
SH: So he was Shin-Nisei [a child of Japanese immigrants who arrived in the US after World War II]?
MC: Yes, we were both actually born in the US territory of Puerto Rico and moved to California for work. When he passed, I decided to stay close to the Japanese American community here, in celebration of his memory. I started volunteering with the different temples, and also got involved in Obon season, when they remember the dead—kind of like Día de los Muertos for us Latinos. I became a member of the museum because of all the programs they offer, and I saw the need for volunteers at that point, and I wanted to be a part of that as well.
SH: I like that you brought up Obon, because that's actually how I was first drawn to visit Little Tokyo years ago. There's a lot of overlap between cultures—not just Mexican, Latino, and Japanese culture, but other cultures as well. Remembering and honoring the dead, responsibility to family, and public service—those are very universal human traits. It's important that we celebrate intersections of identity. What are some of your thoughts and hopes for the very first Little Tokyo Walking Tour en Español?
MC: I think that Transpacific Borderlands and this tour both provide opportunities to increase our knowledge and understanding overall, with a particular focus on the mix between cultures. We can each say that we have gone through similar changes—moving from a different country to here, learning new cultures, and learning new things as part of joining "the American Dream." I think that opening doors of understanding for people who may not be comfortable with English, but are still an important part of the community, can help with that.
I would like others to discover and fall in love with Little Tokyo the way I did. I think if we offer the tours in Spanish and other languages as well, we can share our experience with others while growing as a group and bringing new stories and experiences into the museum.
SH: Absolutely, and that's the museum's mission: to share Japanese American stories to celebrate America's cultural diversity and encourage others to share their own stories. If we're able to talk with one another along those lines, the more rigid lines between communities start to melt away.
MC: I think that's the part I enjoy the most: when people who begin the tour being quiet or shy actually open up and start sharing their life stories. Because even though this is the Japanese American National Museum, I think that the general idea of being an immigrant or coming from an immigrant background is something we share with others.
SH: It's always fun to hear where people are from—whether it's France, Osaka, or even El Sereno—and what brought them to Little Tokyo, because that in turn informs and becomes part of your experience.
MC: Yes. The stories that people tell me, I can sometimes include on my Little Tokyo tours. For example, someone once noted that the Brunswig Square building looks a lot like Los Angeles City Hall, so I did some research and found out they were designed by the same architect. Even if you have led the tour many times, the perspective of other people can still open new doors.
SH: Tell us more about what your tour en Español will be like.
MC: It depends on the needs of the group. Sometimes people are here for school, so certain kinds of information are more important for them. But I do want everyone to be familiar with the area so that even after the tour they are able to go and find their own adventure. We only have two hours to condense decades of living in Little Tokyo! As time moves forward, we get different types of people moving into the area. I don't expect everyone to sit down and read up on all the history, but I do expect them to go and have an adventure!
Museum admission is included with the fee for the tour, so after lunch, I encourage people to come visit the museum. I feel that JANM is the spine of the whole Little Tokyo experience, not only because it's the Japanese American National Museum, but because it tells you the story from the beginning, when the Japanese first began migrating to the United States.
Monica Cruz will be leading a tour of Little Tokyo in Spanish on February 10 at 10:15 a.m. You can purchase tickets for the tour here. Visitor Services staff at the front desk are always happy to answer questions about the tour or any of our other public programs.
Sergio Holguin is a Visitor Services Associate at JANM. Formerly a volunteer docent, Holguin strives to share his personal story as a means of encouraging discussions of contemporary identity within a shared American history. You can read about his journey on Discover Nikkei.
Highlights from the Vegetarian "Edible Adventure" in Little Tokyo
November 20, 2013 November 20, 2013 Esther Shin Leave a comment
Roxana enlightens the group with facts about various Japanese vegetables.
On November 16th, JANM volunteer Roxana led a very special vegetarian edition of Edible Adventures in Little Tokyo.
From 10am to 2pm, a group of foodies followed Roxana through Little Tokyo. Roxana enlightened the group about Japanese vegetables while giving the group a chance to sample them along the way.
The group sampled a cooked and seasoned batch of gobo from Nijiya.
This Edible Adventure was more than just learning about vegetables—the group also got to tour all three exhibitions at JANM, learn interesting facts about Japanese American history and Little Tokyo, and discover new foods and restaurants!
Cute bunches of radishes.
This is the first time Roxana led a vegetarian Edible Adventure, but it was still as enlightening and delicious as her other Edible Adventures! In the past Roxana has led a sushi graze, and organized an izakaya graze! Don't miss the next Edible Adventure! Stay updated on all of JANM's events by visiting: janm.org/events
Check out these photos from last Saturday!
Photo Credits: Tsuneo Takasugi and Esther Shin
Before starting their Edible Adventure, the group visits JANM's newest exhibition, "Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers Fighting on Two Fronts"
The group also visits the Go For Broke Monument before starting their Edible Adventure.
The group learns more about popular Japanese mushrooms, such as shiitake, maitake, and bunashimeji.
Shishito is a small sweet pepper. 1 out of 10 of them are spicy, but there is no way to tell which one is spicy without biting into them!
Roxana holds up a raw stick of gobo as she explains the preparation involved in cooking gobo.
The group huddles around Shojin's menu, excitedly deciding what to order!
Shojin is located in Little Tokyo and is dedicated to serving chemical-free, vegan, organic, and naturally delicious foods!
Shojin uses Origami Balloon lights to create an intimate setting.
The group got to try fried shiso leaves stuffed with tofu as one of their appetizers.
The group tries fried cauliflower as one of their appetizers at Shojin.
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Running From Depression?
Does running help you chase away the blues? New research offers insight.
ByESSAY by JAMES POTASH, M.D.
Aug. 22, 2008— -- Watching the best athletes in the world in the Olympics, with their fit and trim physiques, has me thinking about exercise. We all know it is great for cardiovascular health, but what about for mental health? Does swimming five miles a day put Michael Phelps in a good mood?
An article in this month's "Archives of General Psychiatry" suggests that, as we might expect, regular exercise is associated with reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety.
But there is a bit of a surprise: The researchers also found that exercise did not appear to cause decreased depression and anxiety. Instead, common genetic factors seemed to underlie both a predisposition to exercise more and a predisposition to experience less depression and anxiety.
The study took advantage of a Dutch sample of almost 6,000 twins. For any given individual, exercising more when measured at a given time point correlated with fewer mood symptoms at the same time point.
But for identical twins, who are genetically the same, more exercise in one twin predicted fewer mood symptoms in the other. This did not hold for fraternal twins, who are only halfway similar genetically.
It was also noted that for any individual, more exercise at one time point did not predict fewer mood symptoms at a later time point.
The message: happy people are exercise-friendly people.
Brain Buzz
But what about the "runner's high"? Many people have heard about how exercise increases beta-endorphin, a natural opiate in the brain that is associated with feeling good. A study published earlier this year that scanned the brains of runners did show increased release of this natural buzz chemical and a correlation of its release with perceived euphoria.
There is also evidence that exercise can increase levels of the brain chemicals serotonin and norepinephrine, neurotransmitters which have long been known to play a role in mood regulation. The antidepressants all boost levels of these same chemicals.
A group at Yale University led by Ronald Duman examined the "runner's high" in running mice. In a paper published last year in Nature Medicine, they observed that a week of exercise in mice led to changes in the expression of genes in their brain, including an increase in one called VGF, which promotes growth of brain cells.
They then went on to show that injecting the VGF gene product into mouse brain produces an antidepressant response in the animals.
So doesn't this suggest that exercise should help people's moods? There have been many studies that have experimentally tested the hypothesis. They have compared groups of depressed patients assigned to an exercise regimen to others getting treatment as usual or placebo.
One review found that eight out of 18 of these studies showed a 50 percent reduction in depressive symptoms in those who exercised. Another review of 14 studies found that exercise did appear to reduce depressive symptoms, but the quality of the studies was not sufficient to be confident in the conclusions drawn from the data.
Fitness Prescription
The trouble with prescribing exercise to depressed patients is that they are often too depressed to want to exercise. It can be like prescribing reading exercises to strengthen the vision of a blind person. With no energy or motivation, a severely depressed person may have no chance of being able to follow through.
For patients who are mildly depressed, while it may not be easy, it is more realistic to think that an exercise regimen can be pulled off. While it remains unclear as to whether this exercise will treat depression, there are clearly additional benefits that make it well worth trying.
Perhaps the biggest benefit is on weight, an issue for many a depressed patient as both the illness and the medication treatment of it can cause weight gain. The other huge benefit is on general health, as exercise reduces risk of many illnesses including heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
But all treatments have side effects, and exercise is no exception.
The downside to an exercise prescription is that if people think they should be exercising and are not able to fire up the willpower to get it done, they can experience more of the guilt and self-loathing that they already have in abundance from the depression itself.
So there is a balance to be struck between pushing for more exercise if it can be accomplished vs. accepting that the depression has made this impossible for the time being.
That will do it for now. Time to go for a run. I will, incidentally be passing by Meadowbrook, home of Michael Phelps' North Baltimore Aquatic Club, on my route.
Yes, we are very proud here in Baltimore!
Dr. James Potash is an associate professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Mood Disorders Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. If you have questions or comments, please e-mail moods@jhu.edu. To participate in our genetic and clinical studies, call 1-877-MOODS-JH.


Pleasanton's boys basketball team earned its first district title since 2011 as it defeated La Vernia 69-55 on the road on Feb. 5.
The win gave the Eagles (27-3, 10-0 District 4A- 30) a 2-0 series edge with the Bears, ensuring the tiebreaker for the district title as they hold a twogame lead in the district with two contests left.
The Eagles led 35-26 at halftime.
Pleasanton, which is ranked 17th by the Texas Basketball Coaches Association, has its highest win total since 1990.
The Eagles overcame a challenging first half to beat Gonzales 86-44 at home on Feb. 1.
Gonzales used its speed to get into the halfcourt quickly, preventing Pleasanton from using its full-court press defense during the first half. Pleasanton led 16-10 at the end of the first quarter.
Midway through the second quarter, the Eagles started to break away with a 9-0 run in which Dalton Hobbs picked a steal and made two layups. That enabled a 31-17 Pleasanton halftime lead.
Pleasanton went on a 22-6 run in the third quarter to put the Apaches away.
Santiago Arguijo had his second straight game with 23 points. Hobbs finished with 18 points. Kade Loeffler had 13 points. Kameron Parks had 12 points.
The Eagles have a promising chance of a perfect district run, finishing the season at Cuero (8-14, 4-5 District 4A-30) on Feb. 8 and at home against Navarro (2-22, 2-8 District 4A-30) on Feb. 12.


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Solar-Powered Pipe Desalinizes 1.5 Billion Gallons of Drinking Water for California
August 23, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Adam Hebel /Inhabitat (El Segundo)
The infrastructure California needs to generate energy for electricity and clean water need not blight the landscape. The Pipe is one example of how producing energy can be knitted into every day life in a healthy, aesthetically-pleasing way. One of the finalists of the 2016 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition for Santa Monica Pier, the design deploys electromagnetic desalination to provide clean drinking water for the city and filters the resulting brine through on-board thermal baths before it is reintroduced to the Pacific Ocean.
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LA Aims to 'Capture' 5 Billion Gallons of Water Each Year With New Project
August 23, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Adam Hebel /Los Angeles Daily Newsby City News Service
Construction began Monday on a project at the Tujunga Spreading Grounds that is expected to double the amount of stormwater that can be captured at the facility to about 5 billion gallons per year. The $29-million project, to be completed in 2018, was funded by the city's Department of Water and Power and designed by the county's Department of Public Works. The project will increase the spreading grounds' current capture and storage ability from 2.5 billion gallons, or 8,000 acre-feet of water, to 5 billion gallons or 16,000 acre-feet per year – enough water each year to supply 48,000 households in Los Angeles.
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Why California Water Fix is a Path to Extinction for Native Fisheries
August 23, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Adam Hebel /Water Deeply (New York)by Doug Obegi
The California WaterFix project, which proposes to construct and operate twin tunnels that would divert millions of acre-feet of water before it reaches the Bay Delta estuary, would likely lead to extinction of several native fisheries, based on our review of the recent biological assessment prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation.
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BLOG: Peter Gleick Why California's Current Drought Is Different
August 23, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Adam Hebel /Water Deeply (New York)by Tara Lohan
IN 1987, CALIFORNIA was at the beginning of what would be a six-year drought – the second driest in the state's history. Fittingly, that same year Peter Gleick helped to co-found the Pacific Institute, a global think tank that would become a leader in global environmental and California water issues. In 1987, Gleick had just finished a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in the Energy & Resources Group, where his dissertation was the first to study the impact of climate change on water resources.
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State Assembly Narrowly Passes SB32 to Extend Climate Change Fight
August 23, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Adam Hebel /SFGate (San Francisco)by Melody Gutierrez and Kate Galbraith
The Assembly approved sweeping climate-change legislation Tuesday that extends the state's targets for reducing greenhouse gases from 2020 to 2030 in a controversial bill that saw White House officials and Gov. Jerry Brown privately urging lawmakers for support. Under SB32, the state would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The bill would piggyback on AB32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which calls for California to reduce greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. The state is expected to reach that target.
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Groundwater Declines Seen, Even in Wet Climates: Studies
August 23, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Adam Hebel /Bloomberg BNA (Edison, N.J.)by Amena H. Saiyid
Water availability in the U.S. characterized by four years of drought in the West and more rainfall in the East reflects the nation's geographic extremes from deserts and mountains to low-lying almost tropical swamplands. Even where water seems abundant, increasing demand is stressing the ability to re-charge groundwater supplies everywhere. From all appearances, the West Coast in 2015 was thirsting for more water with its parched lands and dried up lakes and rivers, while most of the Southeast was wetter than average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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California's Ocean Waters Due For a Cooling Trend After Period of Damaging Heat, Scientists Say
August 23, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Adam Hebel /Los Angeles Timesby Joshua Emerson Smith
As a series of marine heat waves linked to climate change has thrown ocean ecosystems out of whack from Australia to the coast of California, a cooling trend called La Niña has given scientists hope that water temperatures could come back into balance. But so far, the cooling weather pattern — predicted to follow as a result of last winter's El Niño — remains squeezed by warmer ocean temperatures along a narrow stretch of the Earth's equator.
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Explosive Blue Cut Fire Fully Contained as Other Wildfires Continue to Rage
August 23, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Adam Hebel /Los Angeles Timesby Hailey Branson-Potts
Exactly one week after the Blue Cut blaze first exploded in the Cajon Pass, fire officials declared the devastating wildfire fully contained Tuesday. The fire destroyed an estimated 105 homes and 213 other structures in San Bernardino County and now ranks as the 20th most destructive wildfire in state history, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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Backers Drop Plan to Allow Delta Anglers to Keep More Striped Bass
August 23, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Adam Hebel /The Sacramento Beeby Ryan Sabalow
The state Fish and Game Commission on Thursday will no longer consider a controversial proposal to allow anglers to catch and keep more nonnative Delta bass. On Tuesday, backers pulled a petition that sought to increase the size and daily bag limits for nonnative striped and black bass in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Michael Boccadoro, a spokesman for the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, said supporters were frustrated that they would only be allowed 10 minutes at Thursday's meeting to make their case to the commissioners.
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Freedom of Religion in the Contemporary Middle East: Unsatisfactory Answers to the Wrong Questions
Nancy Khalek | Jul 1, 2015
The persecution of non-Muslim and Shi'i Muslim inhabitants of Iraq and Syria at the hands of ISIS has dominated both popular and scholarly discourse on the modern Middle East for the better part of the past year. That persecution has taken the form of killing, destruction of architecture and historical artifacts, economic exploitation, expulsion, and horrifying sexual violence. In spite of the fact that the vast majority of the victims of violence in Iraq and Syria—including the Sunnī and Shi'i inhabitants who are forced to reside in ISIS-controlled areas—are fellow Muslims, that group's ideology is often framed, among other things, as an example of a long-standing and historically rooted Muslim intolerance toward the freedom of religion. As discussed below, that framing is often done at the hands of non-Muslim observers and militant groups alike; each have their own reasons for invoking historical precedents. Militants invoke the early Islamic period, including the life of Muḥammad and the early caliphs, in order to assert that their actions are authentically Islamic even as they depart from Islamic precedents, as non-state actors and especially in their use of the technologies of modern war. Non-Muslim observers, on the other hand, often seek and occasionally misconstrue medieval explanations for the violent behavior of modern militant Islamists.
To give one example, on a public radio broadcast a terrorism specialist responding to a question from the program's host described ISIS's agenda as "a plan for a global caliphate, hearkening back to the seventh-century caliphate with its capital in Mecca." Any historian of Islamic history would have noticed the inaccuracies in this positing of seventh-century history. There never was a capital or caliphate based in Mecca (with the exception of short-lived rebellion), the city of Muḥammad's birth and early career as a prophet. Rather, he and a very few of his successors held political power from his adopted city, Medina. Thereafter, the nominal capital of the empire moved to Damascus, then Baghdad. Further, the concept of a "global" caliphate is a foreign one, even for the period of expanding Islamic empire, when medieval Muslims explicitly framed the world as consisting of regions that were either non-Muslim or Muslim. Historians can shed light on these anachronistic assertions, which are rampant in public discourse in and on the contemporary Middle East, rendering them both less powerful when manipulated by Islamists who claim to have history on their side, and less damaging when garbled by commentators and policy makers who claim to have useful historical insight into modern phenomena.
So, how is the historian to offer a useful response to the real fact of religious persecution and intolerance currently exhibited in the Middle East, especially in conflict zones? In addition to positing accurate correctives, we should also concern ourselves with the history of ideas. As is the case with so many of the issues currently confronting scholars of Middle Eastern history, it is impossible to assess issues of contemporary religious freedom (or indeed freedom of expression of any kind), let alone the category of religion itself, without addressing broader issues in the theory and study of secularism.
Much like Talal Asad's Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, and Modernity, William T. Cavanaugh's recent book The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict does a fine job of demonstrating the historical roots of the modern concept "religion" and the use of that concept for establishing religion as other, irrational, and inherently lethal. This modern concept of religion as other has been helpful in cultivating public support for military and other state interventions based, in part, on assertions of religion's inevitable relationship to irrationality and violence. Once we understand the historical roots of these modern ideas and the powerful geopolitical contexts in which they are deployed, it becomes easier to see how all of political Islam (and not just its militant varieties) is regularly framed as incompatible with modernity, or as inherently "medieval," by design, not definition. That design, however, suits both Islamic militants and their opponents, and so it requires critique.
If left uncritiqued, the paradigm in which proper secular governance entails the removal of religion from the public and political spheres will ensure that questions about Islamic "compatibility" with secular (a term often conflated with democratic) governance will continue to underpin the issues of tolerance, violence, and religious heterogeneity in the contemporary Middle East. The trouble with the paradigm, aside from anachronism, is that a series of oversimplified binaries necessarily ensues: between secularism and political Islam; between privately held belief and publicly enforced religiosity; between tolerant democratic pluralism and intolerant Islamist fundamentalism. Non-Muslim observers readily impose these framings, but militant groups like ISIS, which are only too happy to accept a rigid notion of secularity against which to position themselves, have also wholeheartedly adopted them.
At seemingly opposite ends of a philosophical and political spectrum, then, both secularism and militant fundamentalism are well served by the maintenance of these oversimplifications. Since it is shaped in this profound way by the recent history of secularism as a concept, the current phenomenon of intolerance toward religious freedom in the Middle East is better assessed when framed as a distinctly modern phenomenon, rather than as the resurgence of a deeply rooted and historically uninterrupted antipathy to religious freedom in the broad history of Islamic civilization. All this is not to say that the historian has nothing to contribute to these misguided conversations; rather, it is to say that in having both to tackle the history of ideas and correct errors about the history of political and social events, historians have their work cut out for them.
The challenge is further complicated by the fact that there appear to be high stakes, or deep investments, in continuing to assert connections between the current phenomenon of religious persecution in the modern Middle East and early medieval literary constructs, such as the "Constitution of Medina" or the "Pact of 'Umar," both of which reflect the subjugated state of non-Muslims living under Muslim rule at various points in the Middle Ages. These presumed connections are cited as proof of a primordial antipathy to religious pluralism rooted in the very origins of Islamic civilization.
Assertions of seamless continuity with the medieval period are not only the result of anachronistic thinking or errors made by pundits or journalists who happen to be ignorant of history (consider the recent media firestorm created by Graeme Wood's conclusion in the Atlantic that ISIS is not just Islamic, but "very Islamic"). The matter is further complicated when similar assertions of historical continuity are reinforced by members of groups like ISIS themselves. Having fully embraced the binaries that accompany contemporary secularism's framing of the nature of religion, these groups evoke connections to the historical past as an expression of their rejection of secularism (a stance often characterized, ironically, as a rejection of modernity itself). In fact, however, they actively construct a historicized caricature of Islamic history whose narrative salience, like all historical constructions, is deeply embedded in the immediate context (material, social, economic, and political) in which it is deployed, and is less dependent on actual consistency with historical traditions of Islamic governance or culture.1
Legal historians have demonstrated, if only indirectly, just how much of a departure from tradition ISIS represents in its rejection of long-standing Islamic legal and social precedent. Intisar Rabb's recent Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law and Khaled Abou El-Fadl's Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority, and Women discuss Islamic legal concepts that have more in common with contemporary legal theory and progressive pluralism than they do with the draconian brutality of ISIS.
Historians of premodern Islam have likewise cited examples of successful cohabitation of Muslim and Christian populations, occasionally within the same monumental complex, as illustrated in Elizabeth Fowden's The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran. While this is not to say that the medieval period was a purely "Golden Age" in which sectarian or interreligious conflict never occurred, the medieval period seems more often to have been characterized by an inverse relationship between the rhetoric and the reality of religious intolerance in the always heterogeneous Middle East. Current sectarian conflict, exacerbated by the conditions of modern geopolitical conflict and war, is an animal of a very different species.
In light of these issues, it is difficult not to see persistent assertions of the historical roots of religious intolerance in the contemporary Middle East as fundamentally misguided but nevertheless irresistible. They seem misguided for being premised on a set of assumptions about the very nature of freedom and religion as conceived within the context of modern secularism. Those assumptions are contingent on a particular philosophical and political history, but nevertheless claim to possess a self-evident and timeless universality. Yet addressing these assertions remains irresistible, since they appear central to such jarring and disturbing contemporary events that are, for a responsible scholar of the Middle East, impossible to ignore, sideline, or dismiss as mere aberrations or misunderstandings. Reframing the question of religious freedom in Muslim-majority societies as one primarily shaped by the polarizing nature of contemporary discourses on secularism and its concomitant framing of religion, however, both eradicates the need to seek historical precedents for acts of militant intolerance and undermines the claims of militant actors themselves to a historically rooted and therefore "authentically Islamic" mode of governance with origins in the medieval period.
Nancy Khalek is associate professor of religious studies at Brown University.
Edited 17 July 2015, 9:12 a.m., to reflect historical detail.
1. Nevertheless, numerous authoritative Muslim bodies operating under pressure to assess militants' claims to Islamic historical "authenticity" have been univocal in their condemnation of ISIS in particular—describing it as the opposite of "traditional" and casting it instead as an aberration or as "un-Islamic."
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A double rainbow thickly arched across the sky.
Patti so very graciously sent me this photo to share with you. Multi-hued diamonds so beautiful they hardly seem logical. But here they are from one heart of wonder to each of your wonderful hearts!
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Thanks for sharing this beautiful photo!
It is! For way over there close to the east coast!
Yes! A prefect shot straight ahead!
I needed that! Thank you for sharing them….
I always need a rainbow!
You have become the clearing house of all things rainbow on the internet.
Oh! Yes! Thank you for the blessing, Vadarae! Love you!


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Amazon.co.uk review summary for Asus G750JZ
alaTest has collected and analyzed 9 user reviews of Asus G750JZ from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. Opinions about the keyboard and screen are overall positive. The design and usability are also appreciated. Some have doubts about the touchpad and durability. There are some mixed opinions about the price.
performance, usability, design, screen, keyboard
portability, size, durability, touchpad
89% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.
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Amazon.com review summary for Asus G750JZ
alaTest has collected and analyzed 13 user reviews of Asus G750JZ from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.8/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. Reviews about the keyboard and design are on the whole positive. The usability and portability also get good comments. There are some critical reviews about the image quality, while there are some mixed reviews about the sound.
performance, portability, usability, design, keyboard
69% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.
Expert review by : Brian Westover (pcmag.com)
Asus ROG G750JZ-XS72
The Asus ROG G750JZ-XS72 delivers high-end gaming performance, and it comes at a high-end price.
Quality construction. Intel Core i7 quad-core processor and latest Nvidia graphics. Lots of storage with 1TB hard drive and two SSDs. 32GB of RAM. Integrated subwoofer with sound optimization software. Excellent selection of ports and features. Long...
Overly sensitive touchpad. No custom backlight color. Limited portability.
You get a ton of storage space, with two 256GB solid-state drives (SSDs) in RAID 0, and a 1TB hard drive. This edges this past the likes of the Digital Storm Krypton, which offers only a 250GB SSD and a 750GB, 7,200rpm hard drive, but it also...
Expert review by : Dan Ackerman (cnet.com)
Get the newest Nvidia graphics in the Asus G750
Asus takes Nvidia's top-end GTX 880M GPU out for a spin in a massive $3K gaming laptop.
The ; is one of the first laptops with Nvidia's new top-end GeForce GTX 880M graphics cards. The hefty keyboard is great for WASD gaming, and a generous selection of ports makes it easy to add accessories or external monitors.
For a $3,000 laptop, this still looks like a thick, clunky box. The screen skips the higher resolution and touch functionality we're seeing more often in premium laptops.
The Asus line of gaming laptops has always offered excellent high-end configurations, along with custom software and hardware tweaks. This latest version of the G750 bets on Nvidia's brand-new line of GPUs, and includes the current top-end card for...
Expert review by : Josh Fields (reviewed.com)
Asus ROG G750JZ-XS72 Gaming Laptop Review
If you've got the money (and a hunger for PC games), Asus has your fix.
Expert review by : ComputerShopper (computershopper.com)
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Blazing gaming performance, Above-average sound, Long battery life
Huge and heavy, Expensive, Viewing angles aren't the best
All in all, it's easy to praise the G750JZ-XS72 (with, as we said, the mental reservation that those who don't need to burn DVDs and for whom 24GB of RAM is ample can save $500 by stepping down to the DS71). Probably in three years we'll be celebrating...
Expert review by : Michael Passingham (expertreviews.co.uk)
Asus G750JZ review
The G750JZ is a powerful and heavy gaming laptop with excellent build quality and blazing performance
Expert review by : Cliff Joseph (techadvisor.co.uk)
Asus RoG G750JZ gaming laptop review
The G759JZ makes a good impression right from the start. The 17-inch machine may be big and bulky, weighing in at a hefty 4.5 kg and measuring a mighty 58 mm thick. But the build quality is excellent. The matt-black chassis has an attractive...
It's expensive, but the Asus G750JZ delivers the goods for gaming performance. You can find similar performance at a lower price, but features such as its Blu-ray drive, 2.1 speakers, and Thunderbolt interface mean that the G750JZ is also well-equipped...
Expert review by : Dan Ackerman (cnet.co.uk)
Asus G750JZ-XS72 review
While much of the public discourse about laptops and mobile PCs is taken up with ultrabooks, hybrids, and other ever-slimmer devices, there's still room for the traditional 17-inch gaming desktop replacement.
The Asus G750 is one of the first laptops with Nvidia's new top-end GeForce GTX 880M graphics cards. The hefty keyboard is great for WASD gaming, and a generous selection of ports makes it easy to add accessories or external monitors.
Expert review by : Bobby MacPherson (alphr.com)
Asus ROG G750JZ review
An absolute monster of a gaming laptop, but let down by a lacklustre screen
For the most part, we were extremely impressed with the Asus ROG G750JZ. It's by no means cheap, but it sports some of the finest mobile components money can buy, and for considerably less than similarly specified machines from rival brands such as...
Expert review by : Luke Hill (kitguru.net)
Asus ROG G750JZ (T4110H) Gaming Laptop Review
Gaming laptops are big business to consumers who want to play their titles at more than one specific Gaming laptops are big business to consumers who want to play their titles at more than one specific location. You get the (relative) portability of a...
Powerful CPU (with Iris Pro 5200 GPU).
Lower-cost GTX 970M outperforms GTX 880M and uses less power.
An all-round powerhouse with plenty of gaming and productivity performance on tap.
Consumer review (newegg.com)
Great buy, would buy again.
I found it to be the cheapest laptop with 4Gb Dedicared video with an SSD
-4Gb Dedicated video -24Gb RAM -256Gb SSD
-Some of Asus preinstalled apps slow down computer a lot and just aren't necessary. -It's surprisingly heavy and can be difficult to travel with
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Frank Lyman Shepard
Frank Lyman Shepard was born in Barreyville, Henry County, Illinois, December 1867. He received his education at the village school, the college of Beloit, Wisconsin, and the Chicago College of Law from which he graduated in the year 1891. He taught school for a year and half and then took up the pratice of law in the city of Chicago. He was appointed First Assistant District Attorney for Cook County in 1895, a position which he still holds.
Brother Shepard was mustured in the Order as a charter member of Union Volunteer Camp No. 197, at Nunda, Illinois, in 1888; he filled some of the important offices in this Cmp. In 1889, he moved to Chicago and became a member of General George Armstrong Camp No. 6 serving this Camp as Quartermaster, First Sergeant and Captain. In 1892, he was appointed mustering officer of the Division of Illinois by Colonel Wells, and in 1893, was elected a delegate from the Illinois Division to the 12th National Cncampment of the Commandery-in-Chief held at Cincinnati. In this year he also served Colonel Marsh as Inspector of the Division of Illinois and continued the same under Colonel Hall through 1894.
In 1894, he was elected Colonel of the Illinois Divison serving in that capacity with marked success. He was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Order of Sons of Veterans, U.S.A. at the 17th National Encampment held in Omaha in 1898.
His picture shows him wearing a bar with four stars above his membership badge, his past camp commander's badge and his past department commander's badge with the cross of the Illinois department suspended from the top of the ribbon.
Submitted December 1998 by:
Jerome Orton, PDC, Past National Historian
213 Dixon Dr.
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Journal of the 1899 New York Division, Sons of Veterans


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Сьюзен Сункю Ли (род. 15 мая 1989 года, более известная как Санни) — южнокорейская певица и ведущая, участница гёрл-группы Girls' Generation и её юнита Girls' Generation — Oh!GG.

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Санни родилась 15 мая 1989 года в Ориндже, США. У неё есть две старшие сестры (разница в возрасте 15 и 13 лет соответственно), и они отмечают день рождения в один день. Отец Санни — родной брат Ли Су Мана, основателя SM Entertainment. Во время войны в Персидском заливе (1990—1991), семья Санни переехала в Кувейт, однако через некоторое время вернулась обратно в Корею; в результате жизни в военных условиях Санни страдает акустикофобией.

В 1998 году, когда Санни было 11 лет, она прошла прослушивание в SM Entertainment, где стажировалась в течение пяти лет, прежде чем перейти в агентство Starworld, чтобы дебютировать в дуэте Sugar; в начале 2007 года японская певица Ли Аюми убедила девушку вернуться в SM.

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2007—12: Начинания в карьере

5 августа 2007 года Girls' Generation дебютировали с синглом «다시 만난 세계 (Into the New World)»; Санни также стала одной из участниц группы, простажировавшись в агентстве несколько месяцев. В начале 2008 года Ли стала со-ведущей Сонмина (Super Junior) на Melon Chunji Radio. В августе она записала саундтрек «You Don't Know About Love» для дорамы «Работающая мама». 13 ноября в Корее вышел первый интерактивный фильм «История вина», специально для него Ли также записала песню «Finally Now». В сентябре 2009 года состоялась премьера дорамы «Точный пас», для которой Санни записала саундтрек «It's You» совместно с Тхэён. В том же году вместе с Хёнчжуном (SS501) и Сылоном (2AM) она стала ведущей программы «М».

В марте 2010 года Санни выпустила саундтрек «Your Doll» для дорамы «О, моя леди!», который стал первой сольной её песней, попавшей в Gaon Digital Chart (88 место). В мае стало известно, что она станет постоянной участницей первого сезона шоу «Непобедимая молодёжь» вместе с Юри. Позднее она вновь вернулась на шоу в качестве участницы второго сезона, который покинула в июле 2012 года.

В январе 2012 года Санни впервые стала актрисой озвучивания в мультфильме «Пушистые против Зубастых», где она озвучила Миранду. В марте она была назначена ведущей шоу «Музыкальный остров» на MTV. Она также выпустила две песни: «I Love You, I Love You» с Мирё (Brown Eyed Girls) для её дебютного мини-альбома, и «It's Me» с Луной для дорамы «Для тебя во всём цвету».

2013 — настоящее время: Роли в мюзиклах, саундтреки и телешоу

В период с 2012 по 2013 год Санни участвовала в своём первом мюзикле «Поймай меня, если сможешь», основанном на истории жизни Фрэнка Абигнейла. В июне 2013 года она выпустила песню «The 2nd Drawer» для дорамы «Класс королевы». В марте 2014 года она вновь вернулась к озвучиванию мультфильмов; новым проектом стала картина «Рио 2». В мае стало известно, что Санни будет ведущей радио FM Date. В июне она также получила главную женскую роль в мюзикле «Поющие под дождём», основанном на одноимённом фильма 1952 года. В ноябре она приняла участие в специальном проекте Хван Сон Чжэ, и исполнила песню «First Kiss». В том же году она стала одной из участниц реалити-шоу «Соседи».

В апреле 2015 года инди-группа Roof Top House выпустила дебютный сингл «Heart Throbbing», и Санни была приглашённой исполнительницей. С августа по октябрь она была со-ведущей ток-шоу «Шопоголики». В марте 2016 года Санни стала одной из судей шоу «Битва вокалистов: Голос бога». Она также стала одной из ведущих корейско-китайского шоу «Звёздное пришествие».

Летом 2017 года Санни стала участницей шоу «Проект: снежный мячик», её партнёром стал Генри (Super Junior-M); осенью они выпустили сингл специально для программы. В августе Girls' Generation вернулись на сцену, чтобы отпраздновать 10-летие со дня дебюта, однако промоушен был завершён через неделю, и в октябре стало известно, что Тиффани, Суён и Сохён не продлили контракты с SM, и будущее продвижение коллектива стояло под вопросом, несмотря на заявление агентства о том, что группа не распадается. Почти год спустя, в конце августа 2018 года стало известно, что оставшиеся в SM участницы дебютируют в юните Girls' Generation — Oh!GG 5 сентября. Промоушена не проводилось, однако заранее было отснято реалити-шоу «Девчачий гульбарий». Санни также была участницей шоу «Реальная жизнь мужчины и женщины».

12 мая 2019 года состоялась премьера первого эпизода кулинарного шоу «Должны ли мы поесть курочку?», где Санни была одной из ведущих. В 2021 году у исполнительницы последовало сразу несколько новых шоу: «Красота и роскошь 6», «Острые девочки», «Шоу Панды» и «Легендарный трейни». 5 июля 2022 года состоялась премьера первого эпизода шоу «СоШи ТамТам», приуроченного к 15-летию Girls' Generation.

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The third annual Critter Crawl 5K starts in MacRae Meadows and gains more than 900 feet in elevation as it climbs Grandfather Mountain to end at the Mile High Swinging Bridge. The $35 entry fee includes a Critter Crawl T-shirt, parking pass and free day pass to return June 8-July 31, 2014. All proceeds directly benefit the Grandfather Mountain animal habitats. Online registration begins March 3. Call 800-468-7325 or visit grandfather.com/events/the-critter-crawl/ for more information.


In having a business or a workplace where we would need to operate, it is important that we should be able to have the proper conditions in them to deal with all of the employees that we are going to have. If we are going to have some people to work for us, we should see to it that we are able to provide them with the proper job environment as their well being is our responsibility. It is important that we should be able to do some research on what are the things that are needed in a working environment so that we would not have any problems in providing them to the people that we are working with. Click here to know more about job hazard analysis.
We should know that there are a lot of jobs that would have a hazardous environment as the job that needs to be done using dangerous chemicals or other dangerous elements. We should have some knowledge on how to properly analyze the job hazards that we are going to have so that we would be able to properly do something about it. We should look for information on what are job analysis software as they are tools that we are able to use in our times today that could help us properly analyze the condition of our workplace would be. You can read more now.
Job hazard analysis software is a tool that would have different types of information that would involve job hazards on different types of workplaces of different industries. It is important that we are able to find a software that would be specifically made for the business that we have so that we would be able to get all of the information that we need from them. We should invest in these things so that we can avoid having some problems in our workplace like accidents and such. There are also more people that would be confident in working with us if we are able to offer them with a safe working environment as they would know that we are going to offer them the proper support that they need so that they can work well and be productive. We can also avoid a lot of expenses in having the proper safety measures in our workplace as we can avoid paying for medical fees from accidents. We should do some research on the job hazard analysis software that we are able to use so that we can be sure that they are able to have the proper qualities that we need. Find more info here : https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sleep-workplace-accidents_n_3479572.


However a full accounting of the activities of politicians before Maidan isn't in the playing cards for now, says Rondin. Though activities work together to form a cohesive person expertise in an app, every exercise is just loosely certain to the opposite activities; there are often minimal dependencies among the many activities in an app. This exercise develops dynamic stability in preparation for all strolling and working activities at older ages.


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Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections
This curated collection brings together diverse archival footage documenting the Civil Rights movement.
Eleanor Phelps' Cruise Around the World
The photographs, diary entries, and souvenirs that comprise this collection document Eleanor's visits to the Panama Canal, the Taj Mahal, and the Valley of the Kings, as well as dozens of cities and other historic sites all over the globe.
Fox Movietone News Collection
The collection contains seven million feet of nitrate motion picture film and four million feet of safety motion picture film documenting the national and global politics and culture from 1919 through 1934 and from September 1942 through August 1944. Paper holdings provide detailed notes generated by original camera crews as well as ephemera related to individual stories.
Fox Movietone News: The War Years
These 8 to 10 minute Fox Movietone News newsreels record how the world appeared on screen to the American public during the war.
Harry and William Birch Collection
Over 40 hours of film, photographs, and papers document the careers of two distinguished Chicago news cameramen, father and son.
Home Movies from Moving Image Research Collections
Moving Image Research Collections' holdings of amateur films and home movies documents family life, holiday celebrations, vacation travel and much more. These films, created in many locations across the United States and across the globe as well, represent a period of time spanning from the early 20th century to the 1970's.
Local Television Newsfilm Collections
The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations.
United States Marine Corps Films
This online collection provides access to the United States Marine Corps Film Repository and highlights materials from other collections that enrich our understanding of Marine Corps history.
University of South Carolina Film and Video Collections
This collection consists of copies of films made by and for the University Libraries, The University of South Carolina Marching Band, University Athletics Department and the South Carolina Manuscripts Collection. It includes films and videos made about the various functions, services and events on the University of South Carolina campus.


A flash loan is a loan for a low amount and with a very short duration. Think of a loan of a few ten to several hundred euros. The duration is a maximum of 3 months.
The biggest advantage is the speed with which you can arrange the loan. Within a few minutes you can apply and a few minutes later you have the loan amount on your account. Another advantage may be that a number of providers of these flash loans do not carry out a BKR check, and therefore you can also apply for a mini loan with a BKR Registration from these lenders.
The costs associated with this form of borrowing are often much higher than with a personal loan or revolving loan. Although providers of such loans must comply with the legal requirements, they do not all do that. They charge extremely high percentages that can reach more than 30% per year.
Until May 2011, providers of mini-loans and flash loans could proceed undisturbed because they fell outside the supervision of the AFM (Financial Markets Authority). From that date, legislation has been tightened and providers of short-term loans must also comply with these conditions. For example, they may charge a maximum of the statutory interest plus a surcharge percentage of 12%. That is a maximum of 15% in total.
If you need a small amount quickly, a loan loan or mini loan can be a solution. But think carefully whether you can and do want to pay the extra costs before you take out such a loan.
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Acabaria variabilis är en korallart som först beskrevs av Sydney John Hickson 1905.  Acabaria variabilis ingår i släktet Acabaria och familjen Melithaeidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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An opportunity?
What does Freedom look like? James Mumford considers the opportunities that the church has to help those in need.
James Mumford is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia. His research interests include bioethics, political theology and modern Catholic social thought. He taught bioethics in the University of Virginia's philosophy department. His first book, Ethics at the Beginning of Life: A Phenomenological Critique, was published in 2013 by Oxford University Press and was widely reviewed in both religious and philosophical circles. Mumford was an undergraduate at Oxford and a Henry Fellow at Yale. From 2010-13 he worked for leading British political think-tank The Centre for Social Justice. He currently writes on a range of ethical, political and social issues for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The Spectator, The Hedgehog Review, The American Conservative and Standpoint. You can follow him on Twitter: @JamesACMumford.
The views and opinions expressed in this resource do not necessarily express the views of Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland
The views and opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily express the views of Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland.
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The passing of a COPD Hero: Nick Jones
Last Activity: 7 years ago, Kristen Willard
Nick Jones
Bill Clark - Community Manager 7 years ago
We are sad to report that Nick Jones passed away at the age of 80 on October 4, 2015. What set Nick apart from so many others was that his accomplishments and message of love and caring far exceeded the boundaries of his beloved Florida community, impacting people living with COPD across the United States. Nick leaves a rich legacy of integrity, respect, leadership and humility that shall remain an inspiration to us all.
When diagnosed with COPD, rather than be a victim, Nick chose to spend his remaining years reaching out to others with COPD in his community. Nick became a charter member and president of the Village Airheads COPD Support Group. This innovative group became the model for other similar communities including an Airheads chapter in Ocala. Nick also worked closely with other lung health organizations including the American Lung Association and EFFORTS.
After a meeting with John Walsh and other staff members of the COPD Foundation, Nick and the Airheads teamed up with the COPD Foundation to start a campaign that could lead to an even greater impact on the lives of those living with COPD, the undiagnosed, their families and even the healthcare system.
Nick's wish was that his dreams for the COPD Community would go on long after his passing, and that his simple message of hope and caring for others would continue to inspire future generations. To honor Nick's life and legacy and continue his outreach for many years to come, The COPD Foundation is in the process of establishing the Nick Jones Legacy Fund to provide support for those struggling with COPD and to honor his wish that other COPD communities could be built on the model he so successfully designed.
We invite you to post your comments and remembrances of Nick on COPD360social. A more complete look at Nick's impact on the COPD community will be posted later this week with a memorial page on the COPD Foundation website. Our thoughts remain with his family and and friends.
COPD Pioneer and Advocate Passes Away : Vlady Rozenbaum