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Gene Moore, left, poses with his wife Irene Moore between frames at Western Bowl, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Gene is 94 (95 on March 30, 2015), and he and his wife Irene, 92 on March 28, have been bowling for decades. (Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/The Star)
"Irene Moore still blushes when she hears her husband tell how the couple met in front of her family's home on East Minnesota Street.
She was 13. He was nearly 16. It was during the Great Depression and Gene Moore was riding his bike through the neighborhood with a friend.
"All of sudden, this girl comes off the porch and started talking to him," Gene, now 95, said. "I was like, 'Who is that young lady?' That was it."
Gene insists Irene never has said what she saw in him. But the two were married in 1942 and celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary on July 26. Their common interest throughout that time has been sports. They still bowl regularly in a Thursday afternoon 10-pin league at Western Bowl on West Washington Street.
That shared interest has helped keep their love alive after nearly three-quarters of a century." Excerpt from the article "2 Have Love to Spare" in The Indianapolis Star, reporter Michael Pointer.
To read more of Gene and Irene's story and see more pictures, click on the following link: http://indy.st/1GiC7IA
"Gene Nix said he feels like the wealthiest man in Greenwood from all the blessings he's received in his lifetime. If he had to account as to why, he said it's because he's lived his life with four priorities: 'I've served my country, I've served my community, I've served my family and I've served my God. If I can honestly say that, and I can, that's all I want.'" Excerpt from the article "For the love of country" in The Southside Times.
To read more of Gene's story, click on the following link: http://ss-times.com/love-country/
When St. John's member Shawn Seals was asked, "What is it about your place of worship that helps you grow spiritually?" he responded, "'I grew up in a very structured church environment. I loved that then, and I still love that today. However, at St. John's UCC, it's easy to be yourself. One of my favorite things about both St. John's and The United Church of Christ itself, is that you are free to be who you want to be. With John 17:21 "That they may all be one." as the motto of the UCC, it couldn't be more fitting for me.'" Excerpt from the article "A family circle" in The Southside Times.
To read more of Shawn's story, click on the following link: http://ss-times.com/a-family-circle/


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Montreal writer and publisher Linda Leith was born in Northern Ireland and has lived in Basel, London, Brussels, Paris, Ottawa, and Budapest.
She graduated from McGill University with a First Class B.A. in 1970 and from the University of London with a Ph.D. in 1976.
Her most recent books have been works of literary non-fiction. The autobiographical essay The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life is published by University of Regina Press on 10 April 2021.
The cultural history Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis (Signature) was published in English in 2010 and in French as Écrire au temps du nationalisme (Leméac) in 2014.
Marrying Hungary, a memoir, was originally commissioned by Leméac and published in French as Épouser la Hongrie (2004, trans. Aline Apostolska). It was then published in Serbian (Rad, 2005, trans. Aleksandra Mančić) before an expanded edition appeared in English (Signature) in 2008.
Leith is the author of three novels: Birds of Passage (Signature, 1993); The Tragedy Queen (Signature, 1995), translated into French as Un Amour de Salomé (XYZ Éditeur, 2003), winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Translation; and The Desert Lake (Signature, 2007).
Having taught English at John Abbott College, at McGill University, and at Concordia University, she was Publisher and Editor (later co-editor) of Matrix magazine for six years until 1995.
The Founder of Blue Metropolis Foundation in 1997, she was President and Artistic Director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival until the end of 2010.
She created the online magazine Salon .ll. the following March and incorporated Linda Leith Éditions | Linda Leith Publishing in June 2011.
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Education and Academic Work
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Blue Metropolis
Linda Leith Éditions | Linda Leith Publishing
The Girl from Dream City:
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ISBN 978-0-889777-85-9. 280 pages. $21.95.
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Q: C: append char* to char** I'm really new to C pointers and I'm coming from Java/C++. I am trying to append a char* c to a char** cArray. Here is kind of what I have so far:
char **cArray = "abc";
char *c = "def";
cArray += &c;
printf("%s", cArray)

and output should be: abcdef
My question is, How do I append a char * to a char ** in C?
Thank you for any tips you have!

A: You seem to have a misunderstanding of what a pointer and an array are. First lets start with an array. An array is a contiguous fixed-size block of memory. That is to say, an array is a constant number of values next to each other.
So, to start with, the idea of "Appending" an array makes sense in the way that you can add an item to the next empty spot in an array. But it would not be right to say the array is growing. An array is not the equivalent of Java's Array List.
Lastly, I will point out static arrays are declared with:
int val[3];

Where 3 can be any other constant value interpreted as a size_t.
Next, lets discuss pointers. Pointers are not arrays, do not confuse the two- although many people find it comforting to think of them as interchangeable (and for the most part you can get away with it!). However, this is one of the cases where they are not. So what are pointers?
Pointers denote the location of a value in memory. So, a pointer could say point to an element in our val array we created above. If we created a pointer to point at each element in our val array and we printed them all to stdout we would see that they are all 4 bytes away from each other. This is because arrays have their values located right next to each other (contiguous in memory) and sizeof(int) would return 4 (on my system).
Your main misunderstanding seems to be that pointers need to point to anything at all. They do not. Just like you can have a value which holds no information (or all of the bits are set to 0), you can surely have a pointer that points no nowhere at all. As a matter of fact that's exactly what you do.
char **cArray = "abc";
char *c = "def";
cArray += &c;
printf("%s", cArray);

Okay, lets take this apart line by line. First you declare a char ** called cArray and initialize it to "abc". Well, your variable cArray is a pointer to a pointer. The value "abc" I believe is a const char*. Therefore, you probably don't want to assign a pointer to a character as a pointer to a pointer. The consequence being, the value "abc\0" will be interpreted as another memory address. This, obviously, will not point to anything useful and accessing this memory would result in a seg fault.
Next, you initialize c to be a cstring containing "def".
Finally, you increment the address pointed to by cArray by whatever address "def" happens to be located at. So now, cArray is no longer even pointing to "abc" at all (nevermind interpreting it incorrectly).
Then we try to print some block of memory pointed to by cArray that is in no way even remotely close to any of the bits our program wants to be touching.
All of this said, say I had two cstrings and I wanted to get a third such that it is the first appended to the second:
char* a = "abc";
char* b = "def";
size_t sizeA = strlen(a);
size_t sizeB = strlen(b);
size_t size = sizeof(char) * (sizeA + sizeB + 1); //Size of our new memory block large enough to contain both a and b.
                                                  //Leave additional space for null terminator
char* c = malloc(size);                           //Actually allocate new memory
memcpy(c, a, sizeA);                              //Copy a into the first half of c
memcpy(c + sizeA, b, sizeB);                      //Copy b into the second half
c[sizeA + sizeB] = '\0';                          //Assign null terminator to last character
printf("%s", c);
free(c);                                          //Never forget

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Corbyn in control despite Labour unrest
Vidya Ram | Updated on March 01, 2019 Published on March 01, 2019
UK Labour party chief's policy vision stands, despite rifts over the 'second referendum' on Brexit and the anti-Semitism furore
This week, just under a month before Britain is due to leave the EU, Labour — the main opposition party — made an announcement that many had been pushing for: it would back a second referendum if its version of Brexit was rejected by Parliament (which it was).
While Labour continued to respect the referendum result, faced with the prospect of the Prime Minister's "botched deal," Jeremy Corbyn told the House of Commons on Tuesday that he believed there had to be a "confirmatory public vote to see if people feel that is what they voted for.". However, a close reading of Corbyn's choice of words reveals that little had actually changed in the party's position: a public vote would only be offered if at some stage an agreement on the same were to be passed by Parliament — which remains highly uncertain at this stage.
It is notable that even after Labour's alternative plan — which involves remaining in the customs union and being closely aligned to the single market — was rejected, the party is yet to formally endorse a second referendum.
These developments are very illustrative of the state of the Labour Party at the moment: despite strong pressure from within and outside the shadow cabinet — and even from close allies — the Corbyn vision remains very much at the forefront of policy, despite some very severe setbacks. It means that for now at least despite some "concessions" from the Corbyn line — particularly on the anti-Semitism controversy gripping the party — it remains the policy driver.
Last week, in what was seen as a crunch moment in British political history, eight Labour MPs and three Conservatives left their party to form an independent group within Parliament. They left for different reasons — some over concerns that Labour wasn't dealing suitably with anti-Semitism within its ranks, others because of the failure to back a second referendum, and others on the party's wider economic agenda. A ninth MP left too, though not to join their ranks as he does not concur with their stance on Brexit. More MPs are potentially expected to leave Labour within the next few weeks.
Tackling anti-Semitism
Through all this, as the second referendum issue has highlighted, there is little sign that the party is set to veer off the course set by Corbyn and his allies. There is one exception: faced by pretty much overwhelming opposition, he has had to alter his stance on tackling anti-Semitism. Last week, on the day that Jewish MP Luciana Berger quit the party citing concerns over anti-Semitism, Derek Hatton, a controversial politician who had been kicked out of the party for belonging to a Trotskyist group, was readmitted and then two days later suspended over a past social media message that had held Jewish people responsible for Israeli policy.
This week, a Labour MP close to Corbyn was also suspended from the party for suggesting that the concerns around anti-Semitism were being over-hyped. On Wednesday, a furious row broke out on television between the shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and two other MPs over the party's past track record and in particular its handling of the suspension of another Labour MP in 2016 over anti-Semitic comments. Even the head of Momentum — the radical grassroots movement closely allied to Labour — recently admitted the party had a problem with anti-Semitism that needed to be tackled.
Stance on Venezuela
Another controversy erupted within the party earlier this year over Venezuela, and the party leadership's insistence on opposing the attempt to oust the socialist government of Nicholas Maduro, which has been facing mounting pressure internationally. While Corbyn has been highly critical of the British government's recognition of the opposition leader Juan Guaido as the nation's interim president, some even within his own shadow cabinet have expressed disagreement with that stance.
However, while the internal conflicts rumble on, other aspects of Corbyn's agenda remain very much alive. His 2017 election manifesto pledges to nationalise a number of industries have considerable popularity among the public and consequently within the party, particularly when it comes to Britain's railways, which are amongst the most expensive in Europe, and over-stretched (particularly beyond London and the surrounding regions).
There are other policies too that command support — such as his plans for workers to have seats on boards, and inclusive ownership funds (that would require corporates over a certain size to transfer up to 1 per cent of equity each year into a fund, up to a total of 10 per cent over a decade). This is also the case for issues such as taxation (he insists that the burden must shift much more towards the higher earners) and funding for the National Health Service.
Britain's internationally revered health system has routinely been plunged into crisis mode, amid a staffing and funding crisis (while the government insists it is putting more and more into the NHS, it remains well below the level sought by the NHS to keep up with growing demands, particularly as areas such as social care have been cut back on).
Even the issue of Brexit remains a complex one: there is far from unanimous support within Labour for a second referendum. Many MPs who disagree with Corbyn ideologically, remain committed to following through with Brexit, particularly those in northern constituencies that voted to leave the EU.
Several have spoken out, warning that the party would haemorrhage support and trust were they to alter stance radically and push for a second referendum or remaining in the EU (the shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said he would vote to remain if such a referendum were to be held). Apparently, seeking to satisfy all sides, the party has insisted that alongside pushing for a second referendum, it will also continue to push for its vision of Brexit as well as a general election.
Where the party goes from here remains to be seen: Corbyn has for now at least stubbornly faced down internal party opposition, and calls among some for his resignation. There remain at least around 40 MPs and a handful of cabinet ministers ideologically committed to his wider vision, as well as many more drawn to aspects of it.
Going forward two issues are likely to determine the fate of the party and Corbyn: the direction of Brexit and when and whether another general election takes place. An economically damaging Brexit could aid Labour in the long run, given the party's insistence on a far "softer" exit by remaining in the customs union and the government's firm resistance to it. This would ensure the government would struggle to not "own" that process.
As for a general election, which remains a distinct possibility in the coming months whether or not Brexit takes place, it has been this mode in which the party has been the strongest, as was the case in 2017, when the party rallied strongly behind Corbyn, and had a unified show. Recent opinion polls put Labour firmly behind the Conservatives, but Brexit could swiftly change the balance.
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In the era of shows like "Stranger Things" and "Black Mirror," Netflix viewers have already gotten a taste for fourth-dimensional mind mangling. When Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland came together to create "Russian Doll," they worked tirelessly to give it a fresh edge.
They succeeded in doing this by formulating a soundtrack that not only contributes to the theme of the show and creates a vintage, nostalgic feel, but transforms the story into a perfectly blended audiovisual experience. The lyrics and melodies partner with the events of the story to reflect ideas about the passing of time and the everyday pains of life.
Nadia,the main character of "Russian Doll," danced around the concept of death her whole life She struggles to cope with her childhood and the passing of her mentally unstable mother. Portrayed by Natasha Lyonne, Nadia is a comically pessimistic computer scientist living a somewhat self-destructive lifestyle in New York City. When Nadia turns 36, the age her mother was when she died, her unresolved trauma and neglect for her own mortality decides to finally poke back at her.
On the night of her birthday party, she is fatally struck by a taxi while searching for her lost cat, Oatmeal. She awakens again in the bathroom earlier that night and is suddenly trapped in a whirlwind of repetitive deaths and rebirths. As Nadia attempts to find answers and escape from the cycle, she is guided by a diverse yet fluid collection of songs.
This 1971 classic is the defining song of the series. Each time Nadia dies and reappears in the dark bathroom of her birthday celebration, the Nilsson tune sounds. The song is a criticism of the repetitive, routine nature of adulthood. It's light, upbeat melody mocks the humdrum working class lifestyle.
When partnered with Nadia's predicament, this message takes on a double meaning. Her resentment of tradition, routine, and commitment in her everyday life already pairs well with the satirical lyrics, "What if I'm late, gotta big date, gotta get home before the sun comes up." However, as she is forced to relive the same day dozens of times, this parallel takes an extreme form.
The fast-paced, incessant beat of the song is sure to stick permanently in your mind by the end of the first episode. Soon enough you'll become entrenched in Nadia's universe, sharing her same frustrations as the song begins.
In the second episode, "The Great Escape," Nadia reaches a point of hopelessness after several attempts at finding a solution to her death dilemma. Instead of leaving the party like she had every other time, she stays to recklessly drink, smoke, and snort cocaine until she eventually passes out on the sofa.
British singer-songwriter Anika's 2010 song, "I Go To Sleep," plays behind a sped-up montage of Nadia's long night of substance abuse. Although it was originally written by Ray Davies for The Applejacks in 1965, it has since been adapted by several artists including The Kinks and The Pretenders.
Anika's version offers an intensely nostalgic feel that is reminiscent of carnivals, carousels, and childhood. Changes in frame synchronize perfectly with the hypnotic rhythm of the song, providing a creative reflection of Nadia's entranced state. The familiarity of a song which has been produced and performed routinely for decades also contributed to the shows cyclical theme.
The lyrics are a clear expression of what Nadia is longing for: to wake up and face a new day where her problems are resolved. Not only does she wish for the cycle to break, but to jump the psychological hurdles keeping her in it.
The morning after Nadia's bender, she walks the city streets with a remix of ALA.NI's "Cherry Blossom" playing behind her. The original jazz version of the track, although it was released in 2017, exudes mid-century vibes which are complemented by the British-born artist's flowery, feminine vocals.
Moors rendition of this song adds elements of electronica and hip-hop, combining music from various genres and eras to create a unique, warped sound. Including this song in the soundtrack was one wise choice of many that created a time-transcendent musical universe.
Accompanied by slow-motion shots of passing pedestrians, the song contributes to Nadia's distorted sense of time and space. It also adds stark contrast to the previous scene and demonstrates her change in attitude. After sheathing her problems with substances the night before, she is alert and perplexed once again.
Although the show is set in present day, Lyonne said she hoped the soundtrack would preserve some of the forgotten cultures within New York City. She accomplishes this in a unique way, often by incorporating new music that is reminiscent of an older sound.
American musician John Maus is neither a New Yorker nor did he produce music in the '80s, but his song "Copkiller" is sure to have you fooled. However, this Minnesotan synth-popper is not simply a revivalist. His gloomy tunes have a number of influences in new and old sounds ranging from electronic to medieval.
His message, however, fits perfectly into the one Lyonne wanted to get across. In 1992, Body Count faced widespread criticism after releasing a song of the same name. They were called unpatriotic, violent and inflammatory. Maus's version has a similar call to the rebellious youth, insisting not that they kill armed officers, but that they fight the status quo.
When the audience is introduced to Alan, who finds himself in the same position as Nadia, the soundtrack suddenly shifts. Beethoven's piece is used much like "Gotta Get Up" is used for Nadia's rebirths.
Alan, an obsessive self-critic who first encountered death by committing suicide, awakens in his pristine apartment to the sounds of classical music. This suits Alan perfectly because his character shares the same boring, dull associations as the genre itself.
More specifically, this concerto captures a feeling of violence which interrupts tranquility. This is exactly what happened to Alan's seemingly perfect life when it was uprooted by a never-ending encounter with death. The intensity of the piece gradually builds until a point of eruption, serving as an excellent demonstration of Alan's buried emotional turmoil.


Cynon Valley History Society has, since its inception in 1971, regarded publishing as an integral part of its programmes.
Its main publication has been the highly regarded Journal "Old Aberdare". Running to ten volumes the books contain reprints of early parish histories, articles by professional historians and carefully researched original works by local authors.
The Society has been particularly proud to print reproductions of pencil drawings of local views made by Emma and Lucy Bacon of Aberaman House during the years 1827 and 1828. These charming and interesting sketches can be seen on the Rhondda Cynon Tâf Libraries online Digital Archive.
A History of the Aberdare Valley Ironworks by Ken Collins and Steven Graham. This is the work of the late Ken Collins, who was a Vice President of the CVHS, and Steven Graham. Ken sadly died before the book was finished, and Steven completed it by adding an extra 100 pages of text.
It contains very full accounts of the ironworks that existed here: at Cwmaman, Hirwaun, Llwydcoed, Abernant, Gadlys and Aberaman.
There are descriptions of the terrible working conditions that the men, women and children endured. It includes tragedies, relating some of the accidents that occurred. On a happier note, there are articles about some of the presentations to workers, and in a humorous vein, one article describes a bungling robbery of the monthly wages of ironworkers. The lives of local iron masters and famous men involved with the iron industry are also recorded.
As well, there are maps of the ironworks and forges, numerous old newspaper articles from the 1800s on various aspects of this subject. There are over 40 photographs of the ironworks and buildings associated with them and many reproductions of original documents from Aberdare Library, Pembrokeshire Record Office and Glamorgan Archives.
The volume, due to be published in late September 2018, contains over 300 pages, costs £16.00. Members of the Society are not required to pay postage and packing.
by Emma and Lucy Bacon.
A beautiful war memorial at St Elvan's Church, Aberdare was the starting point for a new book about Cynon Valley's First World War casualties. The memorial lists the names of 222 officers and other ranks, and the 42 different regiments in which they served. Short biographies of nearly all the casualties are recorded and their places of burial are given.
During the course of the research letters written home to relatives and the newspaper by many of those killed were discovered in the Aberdare Leader, and these are reproduced in the book.
They contain graphic first-hand accounts of life in the front line, and of the fighting, describe the squalid conditions in which the men lived, the hardness they endured, and above all, and pathetically, reveal their thoughts and feelings.
The delight of the son of Lord Aberdare in firing grenades at the German trenches, and his other exploits at the front.
An Aberaman soldier's desire for Welsh cakes.
Descriptions of the first tanks.
An Aberdare landowner's concern for the men from this locality.
An account of Turkish girl snipers, and the story of an Aberdare teacher whose life was saved by a box of tea tablets.
How the local MP's son crossed no man's land to remove an enemy flag which was annoying his men, and later encouraged them to smoke prior to leaving their trenches to capture Mametz Wood.
The letters reveal many interesting accounts and stories of other local heroes, and the publication recalls the Penrhiwceiber miner who won the first Victoria Cross awarded to the Welsh Guards.
The book also looks at war memorials in general, describes local movements to have them set up, and records the ceremonies connected with the unveiling of a number of local memorials. In addition an attempt has been made to catalogue and describe every war memorial in the Cynon Valley.
The publication entitled The Men Who Marched Away was first made available at St Elvan's Church, Aberdare on Remembrance Day, November 11th. Price £12 (by post, 1st class: £14.15; 2nd class: £14.00).
The book has been researched and written by Geoffrey Evans, one of the History Society's regular authors.
The Men Who Marched Away was launched and introduced by Pontypridd historian Dr. Anthony Mór-O'Brien.
Dr Mór-O'Brien is an expert on the social history, economics and politics of the south Wales valleys, and particularly Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil during the period of the First World War.
His doctoral thesis was entitled A Community in Wartime: Aberdare and the First World War, (1986). He has published and edited The Autobiography of Edmund Stonelake for Mid Glamorgan County Council, (1981), and has written a number of articles for The Welsh History Review and other journals.
Cheques please to 'Aberdare Branch of Royal British Legion' for £14, includes p&p.
2. The CVHS 40th Anniversary Publication.
A Comprehensive List of the Publications of The CVHS, 1971-2011.
Elaine Morgan in The Western Mail, 10 June 2011.
"…The bringing together of this varied selection of 'Pen Portraits' relating to the Cynon Valley gives them a strong collective impact and the reader an enjoyable 'time travel' experience.
Hilary M. Thomas in 'Morgannwg'.
The book was formally launched at a function which took place on Friday, 3rd June 2011, in the Parry Suite of the Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare. The guest speaker was the Society's new Vice President, Mrs Tydfil Thomas, OBE, JP, MA. The meeting was very well attended, and after the formal part of the meeting, refreshments were served while members had the opportunity to purchase the new volume.
The book may be purchased by post from Mr Haydn Williams - contact details below. Cost £10 plus £2.50 p&p 1st Class, £2.20 p&p 2nd class in the UK.
3. A Digital Archive of Hanes, the newsletter of the Society, plus more!
A Timeline of the history of the Cynon Valley, in English and Welsh, (the versions are not identical). The timelines shown are those which were current on the website in 2011.
The disc is supplied in a slim-line DVD case as illustrated. Please note, the disc does not contain any audio or video.
This disc is designed to be used only with a computer equipped to read DVD datadiscs, using Adobe Reader software. Virtually all modern computers will be capable of reading the disc. It will not work with a domestic DVD player designed for use with a TV.
The disc can be purchased for £5 at Society meetings.
4. Churches of the Cynon Valley / Eglwysi Cwm Cynon.
Pages: 279, plus 15 front matter.
Size: 280mm x 210mm (11 x 8 inches).
and at the Cynon Valley Museum & Gallery, Gadlys, Aberdare.
Mr A.V. Jones, 3 Holly Drive, Aberdare, CF44 8PB.
Churches of the Cynon Valley contains the history of thirty two churches in our locality from Llanwonno in the south to Penderyn in the north. The history dates from the founding of the first churches in the sixth century and spans those still in existence between the late twelfth century primarily up to the Victorian period. The book includes church and local history, art, and the architecture of our splendid churches.
The book is a companion volume and sequel to the author's book — Chapels of the Cynon Valley — covering one hundred and eighty nonconformist chapels in the locality and published by the Cynon Valley History Society in 2004. It is hoped this new volume, published by the author, will appeal to those living in the district and also to others residing elsewhere who may have roots or connections with the Cynon Valley.
In 1984 the Society introduced a periodical newsletter Hanes. This has reached its 80th edition and is now published regularly on a quarterly basis. It is free to all members.
Click here for some previous editions.
In addition to the above list individual members of the Society have published various titles.
"The Society is to be congratulated on a book which should be bought by all interested in the history of the South Wales Coalfield" (Welsh History Review of Cynon Coal).


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Nonprofits in Canada: Key Organizations to Know
By Megan Cooper
For decades, nonprofit organizations have been used by communities to help support their neighbors in need, and while these group's share universal missions of supporting those who're struggling, they offer specific services tailored to the needs of the regions and countries that they reside in. Take Canada, for example. Its sprawling population and provincial system result in a collection of Canadian nonprofits that include both small-scale provincial operations and large-scale national organizations. Check out Canada's top nonprofits and see which ones you can either help support physically and financially or get support from based on your specific needs.
Nonprofit Organizations in Canada
Boasting about four million square miles of physical territory, Canadian nonprofits have a lot of ground to cover. Focusing on social concerns relating to hunger, health, education, homelessness, the youth demographic, and so many more, Canadian nonprofits impact people across multiple areas of their lives and require a lot of financial and in-person support to keep running. Each of the following nonprofits offer incredible services for those who need it and welcome both donations and volunteers to help keep their missions afloat.
Types of Grants
Calgary Food Bank
The Calgary Food Bank was voted the country's best charity of 2020 by the publication, Maclean. Using statistical analysis offered by Charity Intelligence Canada, Maclean reports that Calgary Food Bank was the most financially transparent Canadian nonprofit for the 2019-2020 year while using the least amount of their revenue for employee pay and fundraising costs. Specifically, this food bank works to refer people facing a food shortage to partnering food banks and other agencies that help to alleviate the causes of food insecurity. You can make food and/or monetary donations and volunteer with them, as well as easily contact their team for the use of their services.
Food Banks Canada
Another prominent Canadian nonprofit helping to fight national hunger and food insecurity is Food Banks Canada. According to their website, their "work is focused on maximizing collective impact, strengthening local capacity, and reducing the need for food banks" by supporting various groups that work on the community level. If you're interested in receiving aid from their services, you can check out to their partner food banks for more information. You can also make a monetary donation and volunteer your time.
Bruce Trail Conservancy
Protecting the environment has become more important than ever, and groups like the Bruce Trail Conservancy are trying to preserve the wilds that are left. The Bruce Trail encompasses a conservation corridor in the Niagara Escarpment and a foot path that runs along it which many people greatly enjoy. You can help support the Bruce Trail's initiatives by giving them a donation via their website.
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA)
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association is one of Canada's premiere hospice groups that helps support both individuals facing life-threatening illnesses and the loved ones caring for them. They run programs in all ten provinces and three territories, and you can donate a monetary sum in honor of someone's memory to the organization at their website.
If you've ever struggled with mathematics in school, then you know how discouraging it can be to not get the proper assistance that you need. JUMP Math is a Canadian nonprofit that focuses on "enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love of math in students and educators." This Toronto-based organization was listed on Charity Intelligence Canada's Top 10 Impact Charities for 2020 list, and according to the group's website, they generate $10.80 of Social Return per dollar invested. With groups like JUMP Math, you know that every donation you make reaps social benefits tenfold.
East York Learning Experience
Not every adult has had the same educational opportunities presented to them, and East York Learning Experience works to alleviate this by providing educational programs designed under the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework. Between April 2018 - March 2019, the nonprofit helped 76 clients, while their average client roster amounts to about 40 to 50 active learner/tutor pairs at any given time of the year. You can donate to this educational nonprofit via their website.
Fresh Start Recovery
This nationally recognized addiction recovery nonprofit "offers an individual approach to recovering" through their 14-16 week programs. These programs follow a holistic treatment path, which not only provides individual counseling and group healing, but also physical training, nutritional meals, and housing for their patients. You or a loved one can reach out to the organization if you're seeking addiction recovery or you can also support them by donating via their website.
Canadian Nonprofits Put in the Work
Running a nonprofit can be physically, mentally, and emotionally draining, but they're all too necessary if you're going to support those in your community who're struggling. If you're one of the people struggling, don't hesitate to reach out to get the help that you need, but if you're fortunate enough to be healthy and stable, think about donating your money or time to any one of these impressive Canadian nonprofits. After all, making the world a better place starts with you.
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Suspect in woman's West Side shooting death kills self as police close in
Jim Woods Bethany Bruner
A man suspected of shooting and killing a woman found inside a parked car on the West Side Monday afternoon took his own life as police were closing in to make an arrest.
Columbus police said Mervin Hines III, 37, of the Northwest Side, had been identified as a suspect in the shooting death of the woman, who was found in the car on the 3500 block of Alberta Street shortly after noon Monday.
The woman's identity has not yet been released as police try to notify her family.
A SWAT team had located Hines at an address on the 1500 block of Felix Drive, on the South Side, around 1 a.m. Tuesday and attempted to make an arrest.
As officers closed in, Hines shot himself. He was pronounced dead at 1:02 a.m. Tuesday.
The woman's death is the 121st homicide in Columbus in 2020. Anyone with additional information is asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4730.
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Poor start curtails Houtzen's Ascot hopes
June 19, 2019 1:54 am. by AAP
The Toby Edmonds-trained Houtzen has finished eighth on her Royal Ascot debut.
Queensland mare Houtzen has finished a disappointing eighth in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot following a slip at the starting barrier.
The Toby Edmonds-trained four-year-old went off at $25 with the local bookmakers, but hopes of shocking the home contingent in the 1000 metre Group One showpiece were essentially over before the race even began.
As the barrier flew open, the former Magic Millions winner went down low on her front legs, with jockey Kerrin McEvoy doing an outstanding job to get her to go forward in the wet conditions.
However, that poor start never allowed her to get into real contention for a place as last year's winner Blue Point edged out favourite Battaash for the second successive year in a repeat of last year's 1-2.
Soldier's Call, a winner at the Royal meeting last year, finished in third.
Billed as a match between the big two, it developed into everything local race fans wanted inside the final furlong – but Charlie Appleby's five-year-old Blue Point was pulling away at the line.
In the early stages Jim Crowley on Battaash was tracking Houtzen, but they were on their own and just after halfway Crowley took the decision to track over towards the main group.
As Blue Point moved to the head of that pack Battaash travelled up strongly alongside him, only for James Doyle's mount to see it out the strongest.


Why pitch a minor-league baseball novel for your Dale Fellowship?
Zachary Newick '12 will spend the next year traveling to minor-league baseball stadiums as a Martin Dale Fellow to do research for a novel — an outgrowth of his short story "Record Snowfall" — about a family affected by one member's dream of making it in the big leagues.
What is it about baseball that attracts you as a writer?
Baseball, especially at the minor-league level, is interesting because it has people doing something that they're not getting compensated very much for. You have these people who believe that the end goal is to be a star centerfielder on a major-league team, make millions of dollars. ... At this moment they're doing something that's the same act, but fundamentally different ... and they're all just hoping. Really, it's a way to look at America.
How did you choose places to visit?
I'm going to Tennessee, Lousiana, to immerse myself in their version of the big city — Nashville, Knoxville, New Orleans. But I want to see the small towns where they're actually playing minor-league baseball because, theoretically, that's where my characters would be living and working.
The very young first-year players who think they're on the way up and they're only going to be playing in Nowheresville for a season, and the 29- to 35-year-old players who've been doing this forever.
What baseball experiences do you remember growing up?
I played shortstop [in Little League]. I remember that one time I made a diving catch on a line drive with the bases loaded — it had been error after error, walk after walk — and our whole stand erupted and gave me a standing ovation. It was partly sarcastic, because this is how you're supposed to play baseball, but it was funny.


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A 2017 Service Year Alliance Program Impact Award recipient, Jubilee Year Los Angeles (JYLA) is empowering a generation of changemakers through a commitment to intentional service, community, and justice. JYLA, formerly the Episcopal Urban Intern Program, is one of the founding members of the Episcopal Service Corps and it is the longest continuously serving domestic Year-of-Service program in the Episcopal Church. We've been providing a space for exploration and discernment, pursuing social justice, and serving communities of need in LA for over 25 years.JYLA recruits corps members from all over the world to live in intentional community, explore spirituality through interfaith practice and fellowship, and serve full-time at some of Los Angeles' most innovative and effective community-minded organizations.
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In a first, Merck's Keytruda snags FDA nod for esophageal cancer as stomach cancer label hangs in the balance
PD-1/L1 inhibitors have had a relatively low success rate against cancers that affect the digestive system. But Merck & Co. can now tout a first-in-class approval for one disease type—though its archrival Bristol Myers Squibb isn't so far behind.
Merck's Keytruda, used in tandem with platinum- and fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy, is now cleared in the U.S. for newly diagnosed esophageal or gastroesophageal junction carcinoma, the company said Tuesday.
The go-ahead covers tumors regardless of PD-L1 expression, but it's limited to those that aren't amenable to surgical removal or definitive chemoradiation.
It marks the first time a PD-1/L1 agent is allowed for the first-line treatment of this type of gastrointestinal cancer. "There have been few advances in improving survival outcomes in the first-line treatment setting for esophageal cancer over the last three decades," Roy Baynes, Merck SVP and head of global clinical development, noted in a statement.
Regulators based the green light on data showing the Keytruda-chemo combo could top a chemo pairing of cisplatin and fluorouracil at extending patients' lives in the phase 3 Keynote-590 trial. In that study, the Merck regimen cut the risk of death by 27% over chemotherapy, as patients on Keytruda lived a median 12.4 months versus 9.8 months for chemo.
Before the first-line nod, Keytruda, as a single agent, already had an FDA green light for previously treated esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer. But that label is being confined to the squamous cell subtype with tumors that express PD-L1 at a high level, with a combined score of at least 10%; the drug failed to beat chemo in all randomized patients in the Keynote-181 trial, which also enrolled patients with lower PD-L1 levels. In the U.S., about one-third of newly diagnosed esophageal cancer cases are squamous cell carcinoma, and the rest are adenocarcinoma, according to Merck.
In the second-line setting, Bristol Myers Squibb's PD-1 rival Opdivo also boasts a label in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after prior chemotherapy treatment, but the FDA nod doled out last June covers tumors regardless of PD-L1 expression level.
Bristol's also chasing Merck in front-line esophageal cancer. Adding Opdivo to chemo reduced the risk of death by 20% in all trial participants regardless of PD-L1 expression, and the risk reduction amounted to 29% in patients with PD-L1 levels of at least 5%, according to data unveiled from the CheckMate-649 trial at last year's European Society of Medical Oncology virtual annual meeting. The study is also testing Bristol's dual immunotherapy regimen that combines Opdivo with CTLA4 inhibitor Yervoy, but data aren't yet mature.
One key difference between Keynote-590 and CheckMate-649 is that the Bristol study also includes patients with gastric cancer, another hard-to-treat disease type.
Keytruda has had a mixed showing in stomach cancer. In 2017, the blockbuster secured an accelerated FDA approval for the third-line treatment of PD-L1-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. But that conditional nod was recently put under question amid an industrywide FDA review.
That's because the drug failed in the second-line Keynote-061 trial. And in previously untreated stomach cancer, the Keynote-062 trial found a combination of Keytruda and chemo failed to outdo solo chemo at extending patients' lives, and solo Keytruda matched chemo in terms of overall survival. Both trials were meant to confirm the original third-line nod.
The Keytruda third-line gastric cancer indication is now scheduled to be discussed at an upcoming FDA advisory committee meeting in April.


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Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
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The purpose of this series is to focus on subjects in which fluid mechanics plays a fundamental role. As well as the more traditional applications of aeronautics, hydraulics, heat and mass transfer etc., books will be published dealing with topics, which are currently in a state of rapid development, such as turbulence, suspensions and multiphase fluids, super and hypersonic flows and numerical modelling techniques. It is a widely held view that it is the interdisciplinary subjects that will receive intense scientific attention, bringing them to the forefront of technological advancement. Fluids have the ability to transport matter and its properties as well as transmit force, therefore fluid mechanics is a subject that is particulary open to cross fertilisation with other sciences and disciplines of engineering. The subject of fluid mechanics will be highly relevant in such domains as chemical, metallurgical, biological and ecological engineering. This series is particularly open to such new multidisciplinary domains. The median level of presentation is the first year graduate student. Some texts are monographs defining the current state of a field; others are accessible to final year undergraduates; but essentially the emphasis is on readability and clarity.
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SS Point Pleasant Park was a merchant steamship constructed for Canada's Merchant Navy in 1942 during the Second World War as part of Canada's Park ship program. She carried a variety of wartime cargoes to Atlantic and Indian Ocean ports until the  sank her off the coast of South Africa on 23 February 1945 as Point Pleasant Park was sailing independently from Saint John, New Brunswick to Cape Town. Point Pleasant Park was the last vessel sunk in South African waters during the Second World War.

Construction
Point Pleasant was built by the Canadian Park Steamship Company Limited, a Crown Corporation set up in 1942 to aid the Allied war effort by building and operating cargo ships to replace those lost to enemy action and ensure an ample flow of supplies to Allied forces. The ship was a 10,000 ton version of the Canadian Park ship program, a design similar to the American Liberty ships. She was built at Davie Ship Building & Repair Co. Ltd. at Lauzon, Quebec and entered service the 8 November 1943. The ship was named after Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia, following the tradition of naming Park ships after Canadian wilderness and recreation parks.

Career
Point Pleasant had mostly British officers, led by Captain John Everall, but otherwise the crew were Canadian. She left Montreal on 5 December 1943, bound for Cape Town, South Africa. She stopped at Halifax for minor engine repairs and while there, the mayor of Halifax, John Lloyd, presented Captain Everall, with a framed picture of the ornate gates to Point Pleasant which was hung in the officer's dining room aboard the ship. The Halifax Herald featured the ship on its front page in honour of the connection between the city's landmark park and the war effort.  The ship left Halifax in a convoy on 9 December 1943, stopping at New York City and then Port of Spain, Trinidad where she refueled and continued in convoy. Off the coast of Brazil, she was detached from the convoy to sail alone to Cape Town arriving in early February 1944. The ship then called on Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban in South Africa and Beira, Mozambique before returning to Cape Town with a cargo of sugar. Point Pleasant sailed next to Lagos, Nigeria and collected a cargo of palm oil, peanuts and cocoa for Montreal where she arrived on 19 June 1944. Most of her crew re-enlisted for her second voyage, an indication of a happy ship, and she left Montreal on 3 July 1944 repeating a similar voyage in convoy as far as Brazil and then unescorted to Cape Town, East London and Durban before loading a cargo of manganese ore from Takoradi, Ghana which she delivered to Philadelphia. Point Pleasant arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick on 18 December 1944. There Captain Everall took another command.

Evarall's replacement was Captain Owen Owen. Point Pleasant left Saint John on 8 January 1945 for her final voyage carrying general cargo. She travelled in convoy to New York and Trinidad before she was separated from convoy protection off the coast of Brazil on 11 February 1945, bound for Cape Town.

The attack
On the 23 February 1945, at approximately 14:00, Point Pleasant Park was sailing independently approximately  north west of Cape Town, South Africa, when U-510, skippered by Kapitänleutnant Alfred Eick, found her. U-510 was en route to Germany with a load of tungsten from the Far East when she encountered Point Pleasant Park.

U-510 fired on Point Pleasant Park at . A torpedo from U-510 hit Point Pleasant Park in the area of the quarters for the engine-room crew. The explosion immediately killed eight of the crew and trapped 38 others below. The 38 crew were eventually rescued by the officers with only  of air space left in their compartment.

Twenty minutes after the torpedo struck Owen gave the order to abandon ship. Forty-nine men took to the sea in three open boats. The boats moved off and stood by. Ten minutes later U-510 surfaced, fired two bursts from her 37mm AA gun into the waterline of the bow to flood the forward holds, and then moved off on the surface in a westerly direction. As the submarine moved off, Owen attempted to return to his ship but before the crew could get alongside Point Pleasant sank. As she sank, hull stress caused the steam whistle to sound in a long final salute.

This class of "Park" ship carried four life boats, two small ones on either side of the Captain's deck, just below the bridge, and two larger ones on either side of the engine room. The smaller boats could hold about twelve people and the larger ones about twenty. The smaller one on the port side of the bridge was manned by the First Mate and a designated crew. The boat on the starboard side was commanded by the Third Mate. The large boat on the port side of the engineroom was the Captain's, and had an engine. The fourth boat was the Second Mate's.

The rescue

The torpedo blast had destroyed the ship's radio antenna so no distress call could be sent out. The lifeboats plotted a course for the coast of South West Africa (today known as Namibia), over  away. The two life boats soon lost sight of each other. In one boat 21 sailors were crowded in space made for 11 or 12. Daily rations were 2 ounces of water per man, two spoons of pemmican (hard grain mixed with fat), two biscuits and a small piece of chocolate. The overcrowded boats endured blistering sun and survived a significant storm. The survivors were comforted when the Southern Cross constellation, which appeared each night, showed they were on course.

Captain Owens and 19 crew members made landfall at Mercury Island on Namibia's Skeleton Coast on 2 March. There the fishing vessel Boy Russell found them, and took them to Luderitz, South West Africa. The South African naval trawler  found the other lifeboat on 4 March, north of Spencer Bay. Africana landed the 29 crew members she had rescued, many injured, at Walvis Bay, South West Africa. After recovery in hospital, the survivors went by rail to Cape Town and eventually made their way back to Canada via the United States.

Commemoration

Commander Owens received the OBE on 3 December 1946. The British Empire Medal was awarded to five crew members: Laurant Girard, Robert Korogi, Edgar Proctor, Frank Rosendaal, and John Slade.

Twenty-two years after the sinking of the Point Pleasant Park, the survivors erected a memorial to their lost comrades in Halifax. The memorial was organized by Captain Paul Tooke, a Canadian Coast Guard captain who began his career aboard Point Pleasant Park rising from seaman to third officer on the ship. He worked with fellow survivor Philip Caddock to raise the moment in co-operation with the park commission. The monument was unveiled on 6 July 1967.

Research and publicity over the monument resulted in correspondence with the captain of U-510, Alfred Eick, who wrote to say that his sub had fired the torpedo. He also sent $30 ($180 in 2013) for a wreath that was placed at the base of the monument in a ceremony on 25 November 1967. Eick said he greatly regretted the loss of life for his action. Until the news of the monument had reached him, he had assumed that all the crew had survived, as his torpedo had struck far aft on the ship and he had observed the orderly evacuation of two full lifeboats before he left the scene fearing an air attack. He hoped the monument would help former enemies become friends and aid the cause of peace.

The nine dead are listed on the Halifax Memorial to the Merchant Marines in Point Pleasant Park: Joseph Bayliss (age 18),  Alfred Malmberg (age 19), Leslie Toth (age 20), Louis Wilkinson (age 21), Patrick Guthrie (age 24), Frederick Breen (age 29), George Edwards (age 34), Ronald Hallahan (age 54), and Robert Munroe (age 39).

A large scale model of Point Pleasant Park forms a centerpiece of the "Battle of the Atlantic" exhibit at the Halifax Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

See also

Military history of Nova Scotia

Citations and references
Citations

References
  Darlington, Robert and McKee, Fraser M. (1998) The Canadian Naval Chronicle 1939-1945. (Vanwell Publishing, Ontario). .  Chapter 65, page 241.
 Halford, Robert G. (1995) The Unknown Navy: Canada's World War II Merchant Navy. p. 38.

External links
 Images of the Sinking and Rescue -SS Point Pleasant Park
 Veteran account 1
SS Point Pleasant Park - dimensions
SS Point Pleasant Park - Uboat.net
Crew List
London Gazette
CREW AWARDS
Names of dead on Halifax Memorial to Merchant Navy
Veteran account 2
Crew list for final voyage

Naval history of Canada
Military history of Nova Scotia
Maritime history of Canada
Maritime history of South Africa
History of Namibia
History of Halifax, Nova Scotia
1943 ships
Ships built in Quebec
World War II merchant ships of Canada
Steamships of Canada
Maritime incidents in February 1945
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
Fleet of the Canadian Merchant Navy
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Boroughmuir won the Ondeo Stirling County 2014 Rugby Sevens on Saturday (19th April) beating the host side 26 – 14 in the final.
A large crowd basking in the Bridgehaugh sunshine enjoyed an afternoon of non-stop fast rugby action with a competitive mix of Premiership, National League, regional, local and guest teams. Boroughmuir, GHA, Hamilton, Howe of Fife, Stirling County, Stirling University, Perthshire and Cartha Queen's Park, won through to the second round of the cup, while the losing teams played in the Plate competition. Kirkcaldy and Falkirk won through to the final of the Plate, with the Fife side winning the trophy 26 – 12.
In the Cup, Boroughmuir, Howe of Fife, Stirling County and Perthshire won their quarter-final ties. In the semi-finals, Boroughmuir beat Howe of Fife 22 – 15, while Cup holders Stirling County had a convincing 31 – 5 victory over Perthshire.
In the Cup final, Boroughmuir scored the first three tries, two converted, to lead 19 – 0 at the break, but Stirling County responded with two converted tries early in the second-half, before the Edinburgh side sealed a 26 – 14 victory with a final converted try to deservedly lift the Ondeo Stirling County 2014 Sevens Cup.
In the Junior Sevens competitions, Stirling County won the S1 final beating Mackie, while Ayr beat Stirling County to win the S2 competition.
Thanks to all teams, referees, officials and volunteers who made the event a huge success, and particular thanks to Ondeo Industrial Solutions for their sponsorship of the annual Stirling County Sevens Tournament.
The next round of the Legacy 7s Series is at Boroughmuir on Saturday 26th April at Meggatland – starting at 2pm. Stirling County will again meet the hosts and Kirkcaldy in Pool B.


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