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STRIKE AVERTED AT KAISER PERMANENTE AS UNION REACHES DEAL OVER PAY AT 3 A.M.
Kaiser Permanente strike
By Ken Stone, Times of San Diego, a member of the San Diego Online News Association
Photo: Hospital staffers and union organizers waved signs and banners in protest over staffing shortages at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Roseville. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters
November 13, 2021 (San Diego) - Pharmacy and laboratory workers at Kaiser Permanente sites in Southern California will not strike Monday, a union leader said Saturday.
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INTERVIEW WITH DR. WILLIAM TSENG, KAISER PERMANENTE'S VACCINE EXPERT, ON NEW COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOTS AND UPCOMING VACCINES FOR KIDS
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October 24, 2021 (San Diego) – "Just a couple of weeks ago, a quarter of a million kids were getting COVID," says Dr. William Tseng, area assistant medical director of Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser's vaccine expert. That's according to the American Academy of Pediatrics' new site tracking COVID cases in U.S. children. Deaths of children due to COVID have occurred in 48 of 50 states.
In an exclusive interview via Zoom on October, the day the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) broadly expanded eligibility of COVID-19 booster shots, East County Magazine interviewed Dr. Tseng on who should get boosters and what parents should know about COVID vaccines for children ages 5-11, which are likely to be approved in early November. The answers may surprise you!
Click the image at left to view the full interview (which will also air on KNSJ radio) or click "read more' and scroll down to read highlights.
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KAISER PERMANENTE PHARMACY AND LAB WORKERS AUTHORIZE STRIKE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
By Chris Jennewein, Times of San Diego, a member of the San Diego Online News Association
October 21, 2021 (San Diego) - The union representing pharmacy and laboratory workers at Kaiser Permanente locations throughout Southern California said Wednesday members voted overwhelmingly to reject the company's offer and authorize a strike if a new deal can't be reached.
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READER'S EDITORIAL: BEAUCRACY IN THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICARE ADVANTAGE AS AN EXAMPLE
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By Joel A. Harrison, PhD, MPH
September 2, 2021 (San Diego) - As in many other technologically advanced democracies, the U.S. is blessed with highly trained medical personnel and superb facilities. However, we are also by far the most expensive healthcare system in the world. Our taxes fund 65% of the total costs of our healthcare system (Harrison, 2008). More than 30 cents on every dollar goes to large partly unaccountable administrative bureaucracies that, on the whole, do not make a positive contribution to actual health care (Harrison, 2018).
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KAISER PERMANENTE TAKES NEW ACTIONS TO FIGHT RACISM AND PROMOTE EQUITY
The actions, including a $60 million joint investment with LISC and $40M in grant funds, will support over 2,000 Black-owned businesses or businesses owned by other underrepresented individuals. Kaiser's action also addresses deeply entrenched structural racism, as well as the trauma and economic inequity it creates.
June 27, 2020 (Oakland, CA)-- Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest integrated health system, announced a series of actions – including $60 million in joint investments and $40 million in grant funding – to address systemic racism and lack of economic opportunities that have persisted for far too long and prevented communities of color, and especially Black communities, from achieving total health. This announcement comes as Kaiser Permanente deepens its 75-year commitment to equity and inclusion and sends a clear message that the organization stands with those who are fighting for equity and social justice. View Kaiser's Economic Opportunity Fact Sheet.
"The tragic murder of George Floyd and so many others has reverberated around the world, pushing us to demand overdue change to a status quo that keeps communities of color in the margins and holds us all back as a society," said Greg A. Adams, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente. "As a country, this is a moment to define who we are and what we stand for. We must take strong action to stop the physical, psychological, economic and social impacts of inequity and systemic racism so that we can create healthier communities where everybody, regardless of their skin color, can feel safe and thrive."
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KAISER HEALTHCARE STRIKE TO START DEC. 16
December 4, 2019 (San Diego) - Kaiser Permanente's 4,000 psychologists, therapists, social workers and other healthcare professionals are going on strike for five days starting Monday, Dec. 16 at more than 100 medical facilities across California.
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KAISER WORKERS POSTPONE STRIKE DUE TO DEATH OF KAISER CEO BERNARD TYSON
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November 11, 2019 (San Diego) – Kaiser Permanente Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bernard J. Tyson passed away unexpectedly yesterday morning in his sleep, the healthcare organization announced. Today, 170 National Union of Healthcare Workers voted unanimously to postpone a planned 5-day statewide strike of mental health employees due to Tyson's passing.
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80,000 WORKERS REACH TENTATIVE CONTRACT SETTLEMENT WITH KAISER, AVOIDING STRIKE
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September 25, 2019 (San Diego) -- Kaiser Permanente and more than 80,000 union workers reached a tentative contract settlement early today. If ratified by workers in the coming weeks, the four-year agreement between Kaiser and seven unions in six states plus the District of Columbia would avert a nationwide strike that was scheduled to begin on October 14th.
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KAISER HEALTHCARE WORKERS LOCALLY VOTE TO JOIN NATIONWIDE STRIKE STARTING OCT. 14
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September 23, 2019 (San Diego) -- Over 4,200 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, including 480 East County workers in El Cajon and La Mesa, will be joining a nationwide strike starting October 14th. An overwhelming 98 percent of those members at Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 30 voted in support of the action.
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CAJON VALLEY RECEIVES GRANT FROM KAISER PERMANENTE FOR MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES
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December 3, 2018 (El Cajon) -- Kaiser Permanente Southern California announced a $6 million, five-year Community Mental Health and Wellness Initiative with an immediate Local Partnership Grant (LPG) grant allocation of $1.28 million to combat and improve access to mental health services. The initial grant allocation is funding a group of two-year grants to support 16 nonprofit community partners working to improve mental health and wellness in under-resourced Southern California communities.
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LOVE YOUR HEART FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
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County Offers Free Blood Pressure Screenings on Feb. 14
February 12, 2012 (San Diego)--A healthy heart is the best gift on Valentine's Day—and all year. On Feb. 10, County officials and community partners kicked off the "Love Your Heart" campaign to help residents take charge of their own health by offering free blood pressure screenings.
Chairman Ron Roberts launches the "Love Your Heart" campaign. He is joined by Donald Turko from County Dept. of Human Resources, Minh Nguyen from US HealthWorks, Dr. Nick Yphantides from HHSA, Mary Ann Barnes from Kaiser and Nick Macchione, HHSA Director.
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HEALTHCARE WORKERS STRIKE AT KAISER
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February 1, 2012 (San Diego)-- The National Union of Health Care Workers (NUHW) called for a one-day strike yesterday at all Kaiser Permanente healthcare facilities statewide in California. In San Diego the picket line walking started at six in the morning and ended at 10 p.m. outside Kaiser Hospital on Zion, with about 50 union members and supporters walking the line. View video of strike: http://youtu.be/ZuJGg95okOA According to Jim Clifford, a union rep, the "concerns are over patient care and retirement."
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Paramedic Self-Regulation: Its Importance and The Big Picture of The Paramedic Profession
By Chris Farnady, AEMCA, ACP
Paramedicine as a profession has evolved by leaps and bounds in the last twenty years – from increases in the scope of practice practitioners can draw from to innovative programs such as the Vital Heart Program (Alberta), STEMI bypass, acute stoke bypass, Tactical EMS and Community Paramedicine, just to highlight a few. However, in some provinces the regulatory framework concerning Paramedics has evolved at a snail's pace. Some have chosen the route of self-regulation while others continue their attempt at streamlining bureaucratic infrastructure without actually delving into the world of self-regulation.
As a practitioner who has been presented with the opportunity of practicing in three provinces (Ontario, Alberta and now Manitoba) with varying degrees of Paramedic legislative framework I still believe self-regulation is not only worth while but important for the patients we serve, for us as practitioners and the continued evolution of the Paramedic profession.
Why is Self-Regulation Important?
The self-regulation of professionals has been in existence for more than two hundred years, it has been used as a means of controlling the practice of some professions (Randall, 2000). The Government's authority delegated to self-regulated professions has provided autonomy as well as the authority in determining "how many, and who, would be allowed to enter each profession" (Randall, 2000, p. 3). The ability for autonomy and control ultimately translates into "independence of individual members of a profession to carry out activities with less or no supervision" (Randall, 2000, p. 3). Perhaps one of the most convincing arguments in favour of self-regulation noted by Randall (2000) is the understanding that, as an occupational group evolves over time and comes to develop a specialized body of knowledge; members of the group become experts. Due to this knowledge being so specialized, the Government is presented with the difficult and expensive task of determining and monitoring standards of practice for the profession in question. The thought is therefore that, "members of a profession are in the best position to set standards and to evaluate whether they have been met" (Randall, 2000, p 4.).
Another important aspect is risk of harm, the basic philosophy of self-regulation. In Ontario, the Ontario Paramedic Association [OPA] provided a comprehensive explanation of the risk of harm Paramedics pose to the public while carrying out their professional activities (Ontario Paramedic Association, 2013). However, the explanation failed to specify areas of practice outside the traditional realm of working for a 'licensed' ambulance service. This means Paramedics working in non-traditional roles still pose a risk of harm to the public due to a lack of oversight, which could only be corrected through self-regulation. Examples of these roles include Paramedics working in the industrial setting (mines, occupational health roles, power plants), clinical research setting (Contracted Research Organizations), policing roles outside of Tactical EMS roles directly attached to licensed ambulance services, private patient transfer services and special event medical coverage companies.
While Base Hospitals in Ontario provide certification for and the authority to Paramedics in performing 'controlled medical acts', Base Hospitals also act as the point of contact for Online Medical Control [OLMC] (Ontario, 2015). The Base Hospital framework only concerns itself with licensed Paramedics working for a licensed ambulance service.
Additionally, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care – Emergency Health Services Branch [MOHLTC-EHSB] only concerns itself with Paramedic practice in terms of licenced ambulance services. The framework failure of these entities has led to a lack of supervision with respect to Paramedics employed in non-traditional roles, highlighting the continued issue regarding Paramedic risk of harm under the current system. However, the advantage with the self-regulation model is found in the ability for Paramedics to explore opportunities in non-traditional roles currently reserved for self-regulated healthcare professions. While these roles currently fall outside of today's legislative framework, unlike the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Self-regulation would offer longevity in the profession. No longer would Paramedics be constrained to finishing out their careers in supervisory or educator roles, rather they would have the ability to continue working as clinicians, providing acute care experience and leadership in these non-traditional roles, all while having the public's interest in mind and safeguarding it through the self-regulation framework.
As with any system there is good and bad, and the self-regulation model is no different. As many may recall in recent history, the Alberta College of Paramedics came under fire due to its handling of a registration renewal for one of its members who had reported a PTSD diagnosis (Warnica, 2015), despite having been cleared to return to work the College decidedly withheld the practitioner's licence and demanded to examine his medical file (Mertz, 2015). The general sentiment of the profession in Alberta, including that of a human rights lawyer was that, the College had gone far beyond its reach to limit registration to those reporting a mental health issue by requiring members to disclose their full medical records even after having sought treatment and being given the all clear to return to work (Warnica, 2015). The outcome of this debacle ultimately led to the firing of the eight-member registration committee (Querengesse, 2016).
Additionally, there has been concern over the registration fees a College charges its membership. Currently, in Alberta, the College of Paramedics' membership is fighting for increased transparency with regards to the proposed increase in registration fees (Roebuck, 2016). These issues can be mitigated through active practitioner participation in the College process. This is perhaps the single most important advantage in the self-regulation model versus other legislative framework models, Paramedics have the opportunity to participate in the guidance and advancement of their profession as opposed to sitting back and allowing bureaucrats to impose their will on the future of Paramedicine. Schultze (2007) exemplified this by noting "individual members […] have the responsibility to participate in the maintenance and development of the profession to keep it strong and healthy for the future. In this way, they ensure the continued viability of the profession and themselves as professional practitioners" (Schultze, 2007, p. 52).
Further mitigation with respect to registration fees can be done through collective bargaining, as is the case with Beaver EMS in Alberta. Full time Advanced Care Paramedics (EMT-P) receive $1,700, Primary Care Paramedics (EMT) receive $1,500 while part-time employees receive a prorated amount which can be used towards:
" […] Tuition costs; course registration; manuals: ACLS, ITLS, PALS, NRP, CPR recertification
ACP [Alberta College of Paramedics] registration
Driver's license medical
Reimbursement for additional health, dental, or optical not covered by benefit plans
Wellness expenses such as fitness centre membership or equipment
Kit allowance: boots, stethoscope, duty belt, gloves, hat, ballistic vest […]" (CUPE Alberta, 2015, p. 12-13).
Despite the examples of so-called 'bad' and 'ugly', it is important to understand the four groups that benefit from self-regulation model: the public, the profession, the practitioners and Government.
First and foremost, the public benefits under the self-regulation model because public interest comes first. This is achieved through accountability for competence and professionalism through the regulator by public representation appointed to the governing board or council by way of legislation and government oversight (Paramedic Association of Manitoba).
The benefit to the profession comes in the form of recognition of professional status, which lends credibility, respect and legitimacy within public, political and health sectors. As discussed earlier in this article the profession is also graced with greater autonomy, control and is granted the privilege in determining entry requirements, setting practice standards. This allows for increased flexibility in establishing regulations alleviating government processes, which are often time-consuming; this ultimately leads to increased access to Government (Paramedic Association of Manitoba), (Randall, 2000).
Practitioners benefit in that, their peers set standards. This creates the opportunity for peer evaluation within the profession. The self-regulation model allows for increased professional opportunities for practitioners (Paramedic Association of Manitoba). Practitioners also reap the benefit of prestige from professional status, which in many cases over time, can lead to potential financial reward (Paramedic Association of Manitoba), (Randall 2000) and (Schultze, 2007).
Government benefits from the self-regulation model because it ultimately reduces their role. The Government is seen as acting in the interest of public protection. The model also increases flexibility in the establishment of regulations, since we know government processes are often time-consuming. The self-regulation model inherently insulates government somewhat from the actions of the profession and transfers the regulatory cost to profession, relieving taxpayers of the burden (Paramedic Association of Manitoba).
The attainment of self-regulated status does two important things for a profession, it "sends a message to society about the expertise and professionalism of an occupational group" and "provides members of the profession a priceless opportunity to gain control over their future and that of the entire profession" (Randall, 2000, p. 6). In the absence of self-regulation, we as Paramedics can anticipate to be consigned to "the status of second class citizens in a world which has come to highly value professionals" (Randall, 2000, p.6). Decidedly, making the move towards self-regulation is a step with which the profession has to make after thoughtful deliberation, keeping in mind that "ultimately, self-regulation has tremendous benefits – but with those benefits come costs and responsibilities (Randall, 2000, p. 6).
Chris Farnady is a practicing Advanced Care Paramedic in Manitoba, employed with FAST Air Medevac Services. Prior to completing his ACP education, Chris was a practicing Primary Care Paramedic graduate of Loyalist College's (Bancroft, Ontario) PCP program His clinical practice experience includes the County of Simcoe Paramedic Service, Flightexec Air Ambulance (Ornge SA carrier), the Region of Peel Paramedic Service, The City of Edmonton (transitioned to Alberta Health Services in 2009) and Air Bravo Corp. (Ornge SA carrier). Chris is a member in good standing with the Alberta College of Paramedics and holds an ACP license in Ontario and Manitoba. Chris is nearing the completion a Bachelor of Health Sciences from Thompson Rivers University, and a Bachelor of Technology in Technology Management from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. When not at work, Chris enjoys spending time at home with his wife and daughter on the shores of Lake Huron. He can be reached for comment at chris.farnady@gmail.com
CUPE Alberta. (2015). Collective Agreement between The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 5133 -and- Beaver EMS . In By Local. Retrieved from https://alberta.cupe.ca/files/2014/06/L5133beaverambulance2017.pdf
Mertz, E. (2015, May 14). Alberta College of Paramedics defends return-to-work process. In Global News. Retrieved from https://globalnews.ca/news/1998750/alberta-college-of-paramedics-defends-return-to-work-process
Ontario Government. (2015, July 1). Ambulance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.19. In Ontario. Retrieved from https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90a19#BK16
Ontario Paramedic Association. (2003, March). Regulation of Paramedics under the regulated health professions act, 1991. In Application for Self-Regulation. Retrieved September 5, 2016, from https://hprac.org/en/projects/resources/OPAapplicationforparamedic-self-regulation13March2013.pdf
Paramedic Association of Manitoba. (n.d.). Understanding Professional Self-Regulation. Retrieved from https://www.esmmb.ca/pam/storage/Self-Regulation/Tab_17.PDF
Querengesse, T. (2016, January 14). Embattled Alberta paramedic college fires registration committee. In Edmonton Metro. Retrieved from https://www.metronews.ca/news/edmonton/2016/01/15/embattled-paramedic-college-fires-registration-committee.html
Randall, G. E. (2000). Understanding Professional Self-Regulation. Retrieved September 5, 2016, from https://pam.in1touch.org/uploaded/web/pdf/Understanding%20Professional%20Self-Regulation.pdf
Roebuck, C. (2016, September 14). Alberta paramedics demand answers after fee hike. In CTV News Calgary. Retrieved from https:// calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-paramedics-demand-answers-after-fee-hike-1.3066425
Schultze, R. (2007, July). What Does It Mean To Be a Self-governing Regulated Profession? Journal of Property Tax Assessment & Administration, 4(3), 41-53. Retrieved from https://www.collegeofparamedics.sk.ca/docs/about-us/IPTI-article-on-regulated-professions.pdf
Warnica, M. (2015, April 14). Regulator's PTSD suspension is 'unlawful,' says human rights lawyer. In CBC News Edmonton. Retrieved from https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/regulator-s-ptsd-suspension- is-unlawful-says-human-rights-lawyer-1.3044054


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Faced with anti-Semitism, the left commentariat's eerie silence
Well, mostly: there are always exceptions.
"No-one can justify the Toulouse attacks", said Stop The War Coalition's Lindsey German, "but…" and, without irony, proceeded to attempt to do precisely that, with the usual litany against Western imperialism. It was, predictably, all our fault.
However, we expect that from the Stoppers. More interestingly, there were a few mainstream voices. On Tuesday while it was still entirely uncertain what had caused the attacks, a Guardian editorial gleefully jumped in:
"Currying votes from the extreme right is a two-edged sword, and Sarkozy could be about to feel its blade."
Of course, it was all the fault of that nasty Sarkozy. And how conveniently it played to our prejudices to see that it was to see that it was right-wing fascists responsible for the horror. Except that, of course, in this case, they weren't.But more generally, the reaction we saw in the liberal-left press was all the more intriguing.
Where was Seumas Milne? Where were Robert Fisk and Simon Jenkins? Not a dicky bird. Metaphorical tumbleweed blew through the left-leaning media following these shocking events.
However, if you think about it, it makes sense. Because even such seasoned defenders of the indefensible would find it difficult to dream up an "it's the West's fault" argument for a child-killer.
And, although the body count was relatively small in comparison with, say, the London bombings, somehow there was something more stomach-wrenching about Mohamed Merah, in that he could witness, and revel in, the suffering of his victims. So the reaction of the left commentariat was a deafening silence. Anything but admit that a resurgence of anti-Semitism is a fact, and Islamism increasingly its root cause.
Mohamed Merah was a textbook Islamist extremist who had "made the trip" to Afghanistan. He was trained and nurtured as a hater and killer of Jews. He was not like Anders Brevik, a lone wolf with his own sick ideas; he acted after being radicalised. As some pointed out, this was not France's Brevik killing, it was its 7/7.
Those few liberal-left commentators who did not keep their silence were reduced to Houdini-like contortions: for example, the Independent attempted to argue that it was indeed like the Brevik massacre, and was all the fault of the nasty racist French. In fact, Merah's motivations were almost mundane in their predictability: hatred of the West, in the shape of France, combined with a vicious anti-Semitism. Not a 20th century European anti-Semitism, that of white Christians. No, this was taken directly from Islamism, that perversion of Islam which blights the 21st.
And there is an uncomfortable truth in all of this: that something lies deep in the psyche of the European left, which still, despite all logical evidence to the contrary, wants to see these jihadists in Iraq, the Arabian peninsula or Palestine in some degree as freedom fighters. Sticking it to the man: the man in question being the West, the Establishment, the US.
It is a dangerous fantasy, and one which ultimately puts in jeopardy everything we believe in, because those outside our narrow political club do not see things the same way. The disturbing thing is that we can't see that this kind of coincidence, of a bunch of Jewish-related news stories since the start of the year in the national press, in a country where we're talking about a tiny proportion of the population. It wasn't happening ten years ago, or even five. We can't see that anti-Semitism is back on the agenda in a big way, as I wrote in the New Statesman back in October, and the left is ignoring it. It is periodically linked with the far right, but more often with Islamism.
As Alan A points out in a very fine post at Harry's Place, we Europeans, particularly on the left, have developed a strange blind spot towards anti-Semitism:
"…particularly but not exclusively among the "progressive" Left, there is a clear determination to ignore the legacy and present danger of anti-Semitism. So much so, that when a Jihadist murderer grabs a little 8 year old Jewish girl by her ponytail, and shoots her in the face, in front of her mother, few are prepared to acknowledge the role that conspiracism, pathological hatred, and murderous intents towards Jews, as Jews, played in that slaughter."
We can't see it because we don't want to. Because, in doing so, we hold a mirror up to ourselves, and the truth is so unpleasant we keep our eyes closed. But there is a choice: we choose either to condone Islamist extremism, or to reject it. There is no in-between, much as we might like there to be.
So, there must still be those of us who don't think anti-Semitism is a problem for us on the left. But we should also be asking ourselves: how much more evidence do we need?
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Damien 28 March 2012 at 09:29
Don't you think that Mehdi Hasan's defence of Jenny Tonge's comments a few weeks ago as well as Mike Homfray's refusal to condemn anti semitism unless you condemned Zionism and accusing you being pro Israeli indicate that both are probably more anti semitic than they let on or dare admit to?
Making the trip to Wazirstan is not easy, nor cheap. I know, I tried to see what all the fuss was about.
Rob Marchant 28 March 2012 at 13:12
@Damien: Jenny Tonge is mad, and her views at best unpleasant. I am sure you've seen my various pieces on the PSC on this site, so my views on them are fairly clear. Mike Homfray I can't even be bothered to get into.
@Ciaran: Wow. And your conclusion?
oldschooltwentysix 29 March 2012 at 07:15
Excellent post. The deficiencies so apparent in Europe are gaining momentum in the USA as the universities become the launching ground for the narrative that denies that Jews are still victims.
Thanks. It's a worrying trend. Mind you, the other way round there tends to be more visible Islamophobia there and less here.
But the long term trend of both kinds of racism is up, everywhere.
Ralph Musgrave 31 March 2012 at 06:21
I suggest the explanation is more general than "a blind spot towards anti-semitism". It's the fact that in the eyes of the political left only people with white faces do racism. I.e. if a black gunned down a Muslim / Arab family (or the other way round), you wouldn't hear any mention of racism from the political left.
The political left is as intellectually bankrupt as Cameron and Clegg. The only want the left can draw attention to itself is by being anti-white, anti-British, anti-West, etc.
Just for a lark, I looked at three Guardian articles about Toulouse recently (total of 3,000 words) fully expecting the number of references to racism to be thin on the ground. The words racist and racism did not appear once!!!
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A man was left with facial injuries after a robbery and assault at a pub in Elton.
Police are appealing for information after the incident at The Rigger pub on Ince Lane, which occurred at around midnight on Sunday (November 25).
At around that time as staff at the pub were locking up, two men knocked on the front door.
But as soon as the door was opened one of the offenders punched the victim, a 38-year-old man from Ellesmere Port, in the face and pushed his way inside the pub.
The two offenders had scarves covering their faces and had their hoods up, and grabbed a quantity of cash before running outside with it.
The victim was left with minor facial injuries and officers are now trying to trace the two men responsible.
The man who punched the victim is described as white, approximately 6' tall with a stocky build. He was wearing a black hoodie with no logo on it, black tracksuit bottoms, white trainers and a black scarf.
The other offender also had a stocky build but was shorter at around 5' 9" to 5' 10" tall. He was wearing all black clothing.
Enquiries into the incident are ongoing and detectives are appealing for anyone who witnessed the offenders entering or exiting the pub or saw anything suspicious in the area to get in touch.
They are also keen to hear from anyone who believes they may have CCTV or dashcam footage of the offenders or may know who they are.
Detective Constable Peta Ticer said: "The 38-year-old victim has understandably been left shaken up by the incident and we are determined to catch the men responsible and make them face the consequences of their actions.
"Enquiries are ongoing and I urge anyone who believes they may have seen the offenders in the area or have CCTV or dashcam footage of them to come forward.
Anyone with information that may help detectives with their ongoing investigation should call Cheshire Police on 101, quoting IML 251701, give the details via https://cheshire.police.uk/contact/general-enquiries or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage is host to a beautiful Easter Celebration! Gates open at 9:00am to kick off a fun-filled day for the whole family with activities and entertainment for all ages including Easter Eggstravaganza Games, hayrides, pony rides; face painting; live music, theater and dance; delicious fresh local organic food; and a tour of the EcoVillage. Enjoy this sacred day of wholesome, family fun in the beautiful surroundings of mother nature at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage in Tumacacori, Arizona.
11:30am – Easter Eggstravaganza Games! Including Egg Hunt, egg fishing, target toss, spoon races, tunnels, and more!
Live entertainment includes performances by TaliasVan's 50-voice Bright & Morning Star Choir & Orchestra and by the CosmoYouth Choir, as well as theater and dance by students of Global Community Communications Schools for Teens & Children.
A tour of Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage will be offered after the entertainment for those interested in learning about North America's largest EcoVillage established in 1989. Avalon Gardens is located on 220 acres of rich farmland just across the Santa Cruz River from the Tumacácori Mission established by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1691. Father Kino cultivated these lands to provide for its indigenous community and Avalon Gardens continues to honor this vision by fostering progressive practices of sustainability such as permaculture, water harvesting, green/eco building, composting, seed saving, heritage grain cultivation, wind and solar power, Arizona's largest food forest system, aquaponics, community-building, and more.
Entrance fees include free hayrides and the Eggstravaganza Games. Pony Rides are $5.00 per ride or 2 rides for $8.00. $2.00 face painting. The ecovillage tour is $10 for ages 18 & up (free for 17 & under).


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Unprecedented international media attack on Biden: "You're done, you have nowhere to hide Joe - Your presidency is not recovering"
Posted By: GeorgeEaton
Date: Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 05:19:17
Bad climate at the Pentagon - Here are the dead Americans
A fierce attack on Biden and the Democratic government has been unleashed by the international media of allied countries, describing an America in free fall and a president incapable of leading.
The Biden affair has sparked a storm of reactions inside the United States as well, with the front hardly closed without its replacement.
In fact, a climate of "demand for its replacement" is being formed abroad .
The situation is bad in the US Pentagon with CENTCOM publishing the list of dead Marines. Spokesman T. Kirby is furiously trying to avoid questions from journalists about Afghanistan and the Taliban.
Shock count in US arms depots - Biden collapses in front of cameras under the weight of Taliban responsibilities & equipment
"Serious blow to Biden presidency"
"With his eyes closed and his voice cracked, the US President reflected with his body language the terrible blow to his presidency", comments a report of the French Agency.
For its part, the report of the French Agency states in its headline that the presidency of Biden suffered a severe blow to its core after the explosions in Kabul.
On the other hand, the British newspaper Daily Mail does not chew its words: "You have nowhere to hide, Joe - The President in a fetal position" is mentioned in an article.
"The memorable scene unfolded at the end of Biden's press conference on Thursday, with Fox News reporter Peter Duchess pushing him to leave Afghanistan disastrously, where 13 American soldiers and dozens of Afghans were killed in two attacks. of suicide ".
The 78-year-old US president sometimes seemed to have lost them and consulted his notes with his eyes rolled, writes the British newspaper "Daily Mail".
"His presidency will not recover"
The British newspaper Telegraph uploaded the photo in a prominent position along with a comment that said that Biden "has blood on his hands and his presidency will not recover".
"The leader of the Democrats has already been hit hard by the collapse of the Afghan government, which had the support of the US government and troops. Working feverishly in recent days, the Biden government "thought it could turn disaster into a triumph" as evacuation went better than expected.
In fact, as the international media observed, the 78-year-old US president, at other times, could not hide his frustration and at other times simply remained silent in the persistent questions of journalists about the responsibilities of his government for the massacre in Afghanistan.
"Joe Biden has blood on his hands"
The image of the US leader bowing his head appears on the front pages and websites of the American newspapers New York Daily News, Washington Post, Fox News and New York Post.
"The deep sadness on President Biden's face as his eyes filled with tears was painful," wrote New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin.
"But his personal pain cannot absolve him of responsibility for what happened in Kabul," the New York Post reported.
The article in question was published by Bloomberg, describing the bombings as a "test day for Biden".
"Joe Biden has blood on his hands," said Republican MP Elise Stefanick.
"He is unfit to be in charge," he continued, according to AFP.
"What we have seen is the result of the catastrophic failure of Joe Biden. It is now painfully clear that he has neither the will nor the ability to lead. "He has to resign," said Republican Sen. Josh Howley.
The biggest blow to the 46th president of the USA is the fall of his popularity with more and more of his fellow citizens turning their backs on him.
According to a survey by USA Today and Suffolk University, only 41% of Americans approve of Biden's work.
"Biden destroyed everything"
The Russian news agency RT did not upload the photo in question but criticized Joe Biden for answering only to the journalists he had selected.
"Horror in Afghanistan on Thursday as terrorists beat and kill American soldiers. "Wait to see how an MSNBC analyst reacted to the attacks," the RT article said.
"Furthermore, President Biden reveals during a press conference that he only answers questions from journalists he has called."
In Germany, the newspaper "DIE WELT" shows the image of the American president accompanied by the following caption:
"Joe Biden had advertised his experience and credibility in foreign policy before the election. "Chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has ruined that reputation."
The Argentine newspaper "Buenos Aires Times" presented the image of Biden with his head bowed on its front page, under the headline:
"The deadly attack in Kabul shakes Biden's strategy of evacuating from Afghanistan."
The Brazilian website "Folha de S. Paulo" reported on the issue while maintaining a neutral stance while other sites such as "Toronto Star" and "Al-Ahram" of Egypt rebroadcast an article of the American news agency "Associated Press"
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Towards a Planet of Twelve Patriarchates
Today's Reality
The first millennium saw the development of seven Local Orthodox Churches, arranged in five Patriarchates and two Autocephalous Churches: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and the Churches of Georgia and Cyprus. In theory, these covered the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe. Their number decreased to six after the defection of Rome to its new creed of Papalism and the Western tip of Europe fell away from the Church.
However, in the second millennium the number increased. This happened when the Patriarchate of Constantinople was infected by Greek nationalism (Hellenism) and monolingualism. This nationalism had already played a role in the nationalistic foundations of Monophysite and Nestorian denominations in Egypt, Ethiopia, Armenia and groups in Syria, but it fragmented further in Balkanization. Thus, the autocephalous Serbian Church was founded, followed by the Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian, creating another four Local Churches.
In the 19th century Imperialist Britain also forced the Greek Church to separate from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, making eleven Local Churches. Then in the 20th century, the Polish and Czechoslovak Churches were carved out of the Russian and Serbian Churches for political reasons and the Albanian Church came into being, because the border between Greece and Albania was unjustly delineated, adding another three Local Churches. Thus, at the present time there are fourteen Local Orthodox Churches, so many of which exist only because of the vagaries of politics and nationalism.
What if the twelve apostles were to meet today in a new Council of Jerusalem, as they did before in 33 AD, with the above information, a map of the world as it is in front of them and information about history, geography, culture and present-day populations (Asia, 4.45 billion; Africa, 1.2 billion; the Americas 1 billion; Europe 740 million; Oceania 40 million), how might they divide the world amongst themselves? Perhaps into Twelve Local Orthodox Churches, something like this?
The Patriarchate of Jerusalem and All the Holy Lands. (A Church based in the City of the Resurrection and covering today's Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and the Balkans (Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and ex-Yugoslavia), thus uniting two of the present ancient Patriarchates and seven of the present autocephalous Churches.
The Patriarchate of Baghdad and All the Middle East. (A Church to cover all the Christian and Muslim Middle East, from the Lebanon, Syria and the Jordan to the Arabian Peninsula, to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan).
The Patriarchate of Nairobi and All Africa. (A Church based in Nairobi to cover the 1.2 billion people of the African Continent. Main languages: English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and native African languages).
The Patriarchate of Moscow and All the Russias. (A Church covering most of Northern Eurasia, one sixth of the planet, including Mongolia and the Korean Peninsula).
The Patriarchate of Vienna and All Western Europe. (A Church based in the cultural heart of Central Europe, and not in off-centre Rome, to cover all of what was Roman Catholic and Protestant Europe, from Iceland to Hungary and Portugal to Finland, including the territories of the Local Churches in Poland and the Czech Lands and Slovakia).
The Patriarchate of New Delhi and All India. (A Church to cover the ancient territory of Hindu Civilization with nearly 1.4 billion people, together with Nepal and Bhutan).
The Patriarchate of Beijing and All China. (A Church to cover the nearly 1.5 billion Chinese population, Taiwan and Tibet).
The Patriarchate of Tokyo and All Japan. (A Church to cover the ancient and unique Japanese Civilization).
The Patriarchate of Bangkok and All South-East Asia. (A Church to cover the largely Muslim and Buddhist populations of Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia).
The Patriarchate of Manila and All Oceania. (A Church to cover the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and all the Pacific Islands).
The Patriarchate of Washington and All Northern America. (A Church to cover the USA, Canada and the Carribean. Main languages: English and French).
The Patriarchate of Rio de Janeiro and All Latin America. (A Church to cover South and Central America and Mexico. Main languages: Spanish and Portuguese).
The Gap Between Reality and What If?
As we can see from the above, only Churches No 1, 2, 3 and 4 already exist, although: Church No 1 is at present tiny and seems to be run largely as a Greek clerical colony; Church No 2, though claiming to be the Church 'of All the East' is at present small, based in Damascus/Beirut, though claiming to be in Antioch in Turkey, and is largely run by four merchant families; Church No 3 is also small, and though claiming to be 'of All Africa' is governed almost entirely by Non-African bishops, is based very far from its flock, in Alexandria, and has converted only 1% of those in its canonical territory. Although Church No 4 would remain much as now, Churches Nos 5-12, to cover some 5.5 billion human-beings, do not even exist.
We should be ashamed of ourselves.
This entry was posted in Orthodox Restoration, Orthodox Unity, Orthodoxy, The Orthodox Church and tagged The Church on November 29, 2017 by Father Andrew.
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Secretary Kerry's planned visit to Abu Dhabi to reinforce the U.S.-UAE strategic partnership comes at an awkward time, as the country opens another controversial trial.
Today, the United Arab Emirates began the trial of thirty Emirati and Egyptian nationals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Abu Dhabi's State Security Court, the second such trial this year. Ninety-four Emirati defendants (known as the "UAE 94") associated with the Brotherhood were tried in the same court between March and July. Sixty-nine of them were found guilty of establishing and managing a secret Brotherhood organization that sought to overthrow the government; the organization allegedly ran parallel to the UAE's longstanding social and cultural Brotherhood association, al-Islah. Yet public records show no evidence of seditious activity by the convicted defendants, aside from a confession that one of the men gave under torture and later retracted.
Secretary of State John Kerry's scheduled arrival in Abu Dhabi shortly after the new trial's commencement creates an unwelcome sense of deja vu. The UAE 94 trial began on the eve of his last visit to Abu Dhabi in March. Although the parallel timing is a coincidence this time around, it serves as a poignant reminder of the disturbing approach to basic rights taken by an important U.S. ally and challenges America's top diplomat to address the issue prudently.
Among the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, the UAE has adopted the most aggressive approach to local Brotherhood elements. It remains the only member state to try individuals explicitly for links to the group since the initial Arab uprisings in 2011.
Al-Islah has been the UAE's most organized civil society group for decades and has at times been perceived as a domestic security threat. Emiratis linked to it were key participants in recent calls for political reform in a country where political organizations are outlawed and political debate is discouraged.
The primary charges against the ten Emiratis and twenty Egyptian nationals currently on trial are establishing an illegal Brotherhood branch in the UAE, stealing and airing state security secrets, and collecting funds illegally. The Emirati defendants are also serving jail sentences in conjunction with the UAE 94 case. Evidence aside, there are no indications that the new trial will proceed any differently from the UAE 94 trial, in which the proceedings were closed to officially unapproved foreign media and observers, the government detained relatives of the accused who sought access to or reported on the trial, and authorities tortured defendants and denied them their basic judicial rights. In the meantime, the UAE continues to detain other Emiratis and Egyptians for Brotherhood links.
The UAE trial comes amid a new phase in Gulf-Brotherhood dynamics following the July military ouster of Egypt's Brotherhood-led government. The removal of democratically elected president Muhammad Morsi exacerbated fault lines between Gulf governments and local Brotherhood supporters. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait had been concerned that the Brotherhood's rise to power in Cairo would inspire the group's Gulf sympathizers to rise up against them. Accordingly, they rushed to congratulate the new military leadership in Egypt and promise $12 billion in aid, while Brotherhood supporters in these states privately and publicly condemned the coup and their governments' backing of it.
Since then, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have sought to minimize the influence of, and in some cases root out, local Brotherhood supporters via stepped-up security actions. The organization's damaged reputation among Gulf publics following its poor performance in ruling Egypt has helped enable this approach. For example, both countries have suspended imams who condemned Morsi's ouster or expressed support for Egypt's pro-Brotherhood demonstrators during Friday sermons. The scuffle that broke out in Riyadh's al-Firdous Mosque on August 23 highlights the tension surrounding the issue. During that day's sermon, the mosque's imam criticized Egyptian defense minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the general who helped spearhead the overthrow. When an Egyptian at the service objected to those comments, a Saudi attendee hit him repeatedly with his igal (traditional Gulf headwear).
For its part, Kuwait has targeted Egyptian nationals -- the country's largest foreign Arab population -- for deportation and entry restrictions. One such incident involved Asmaa Mahfouz, a leader of Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement who was asked to leave Kuwait on September 28 so as not to upset the country's delicate political environment. And in mid-August, authorities announced the deportation of several Egyptians who had participated in Kuwaiti demonstrations against the crackdown on pro-Morsi protestors in Cairo; the local rallies were organized by former Kuwaiti parliamentarians near the Egyptian consulate and the U.S. embassy. At the time, Kuwait also suspended the issuing of family and business visas for Egyptians until the situation in Cairo calmed down, according to an August 22 Kuwait Times report.
The other three GCC countries -- Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar -- have different relationships with the Brotherhood, and the organization is not subject to the same kind of targeting there. Specifically, the Brotherhood works in cooperation with the government in Bahrain, is not perceived as a formidable force in Oman, and is considered to be defanged in Qatar by official support for local Islamist elements.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait's efforts to limit the Brotherhood's influence at home have extended well beyond their borders, as seen in Egypt. Diminishing the organization in its birthplace appears to be a key factor in their decision to provide billions of dollars in economic aid, apparent weapons supplies, and robust political weight to Egypt's military-backed interim government. On October 9, UAE press reports noted that Morsi's trial would take place on November 4 and the latest Emirati trial on November 5. The near-simultaneous reports hinted at a well-coordinated Gulf-Egypt effort against the Brotherhood.
Viewed more broadly, however, Gulf relations with the group are decades long and quite tangled, due in part to the Brotherhood's prominent place in Gulf educational, legal, and other institutions. For example, according to an October 10 report by Arabic news site al-Mogaz, Kuwaiti diplomats in Cairo allow funds to be funneled through them to the Egyptian Brotherhood. If the reports are true, it is unclear whether the Kuwaiti government is directly supporting the group, turning a blind eye, or being caught completely unaware. In any case, the situation attests to the deeply entrenched relationship between some Gulf officials and the Brotherhood. Similarly, Saudi Arabia has supported Brotherhood-linked international charities for decades.
The UAE trial comes at a time of strained rapport between Washington and the GCC states over differences on shifting relations with Iran, involvement in Syria's civil war, and support for Egypt's interim government. Moreover, the challenges of U.S. diplomacy in Bahrain have brought into sharp relief America's limited leverage on issues of basic rights in the Gulf. In the UAE, officials have repeatedly rejected foreign meddling in internal affairs, including U.S. objections to the 2012 closure of two democracy-promoting organizations, the National Democratic Institute and Germany's Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
On November 3, Secretary Kerry addressed the issue of Muslim Brothers on trial in Egypt, telling reporters in Cairo that he and Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy "agreed on the need to ensure that Egyptians are afforded due process with fair and transparent trials." In the current environment, such comments are unlikely to be echoed regarding Abu Dhabi's Brotherhood trial. At the same time, the UAE is profoundly interested in upholding its international image as a modern, progressive state. Releasing convincing evidence of seditious activity would stigmatize the Brotherhood locally and internationally, but without such proof, the UAE will remain vulnerable to international charges of targeting political expression. Accordingly, Washington should privately encourage its close ally to bolster its image abroad by publicly presenting the evidence against the defendants currently on trial.
Lori Plotkin Boghardt is a fellow in Gulf politics at The Washington Institute.


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Applications are now being accepted for the district's annual Highly Capable Program identification process. To have a student evaluated for this program, parents/guardians give permission by completing the High Capable Permission Form and returning it to the student's school. Permission forms are due Friday, March 15, 2019.
Cognitive Ability Testing (CogAT) will commence March-April 2019. The selection team will review student data April-May 2019. Testing results will be mailed in May 2019.
The R.A. Long Science Olympiad Club presents the 6th Annual Elementary Science Day Camp for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in Cowlitz County. There are two sessions to pick from – Monday, February 18, 2019, 8am – 2pm (there is no school that day) and/or Saturday, March 23, 2019, 8am-2pm.
Students will explore a variety of scientific concepts including physics, chemistry, biology. High school students will run the experiments and offer hands-on lab activities and demonstrations. Experiments include catapults, robotics, code breakers, lava lamps, footprinting, chemical reactions, lasers, and rockets.
The camp will be held at R.A. Long, Room 130; the cost is $49, payable at the ASB office during school hours or on the day of the camp. Please complete the registration form and return to R.A. Long High School ASB office during school hours.
This letter was sent to all Kessler families.
We want you to be aware that we have a student with a confirmed case of pertussis (whooping cough). Your child may have been exposed through contact with this student at school.
Pertussis is a highly contagious disease that is spread through the air by coughing. Pertussis usually begins with cold-like symptoms and a cough that worsens over 1-2 weeks. Symptoms may include coughing "fits" followed by a "whooping" noise, vomiting, cyanosis (turning blue) or the inability to catch one's breath. The cough is often worse at night and cough medicines usually do not help eliminate the cough. Usually, persons infected with pertussis do not have a fever. In older children and adults, the symptoms may be only a persistent cough which is worse at night. This illness is often very severe in small infants.
Please monitor your child for the next 3 weeks for cold-like symptoms. Symptoms of pertussis usually appear within 7-10 days of exposure, but can be as long as 3 weeks before symptoms begin. If your child develops cough, fever or other signs of respiratory illness s/he should be evaluated promptly by your doctor for pertussis infection.
If you have a child under the age of 1 year who was potentially exposed, please speak with your doctor about getting antibiotics for your child even if your child does not have any symptoms. This is done to prevent an exposed infant from developing the illness. These antibiotics must be taken as soon as possible after exposure.
If you are pregnant, especially if in your third trimester, and were potentially exposed, please speak with your doctor about getting antibiotics for yourself to prevent the development of illness even if you do not have any of the above symptoms. These antibiotics must be taken as soon as possible after exposure.
If you see your doctor for any of the reasons listed above, please show them this letter at your visit.
Although adults and children may contract pertussis, even if they have had all or some of their immunizations (DTaP and Tdap), vaccination against pertussis is still one of the best ways of reducing the risk of getting this disease and reducing the severity of disease. Pertussis vaccines are recommended for both children and adults. Adults and adolescents should have a Tdap booster shot. Cowlitz County Health Department encourages parents to take this opportunity to ensure their families are up-to-date with vaccinations that protect against pertussis and other preventable diseases, regardless of a potential exposure.
Students return back to school on Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Students will be released one hour early on that day.
Broadway Learning Center has no school on Friday, Dec. 21. School resumes for Broadway students on Thursday, January 3, 2019.
If you printed out a district calendar before September 13, please throw it away. It will not include the changes made after the strike like on October 12th. Find the updated calendar here.
Set a regular bed time and morning routine.
Lay out clothes and backpacks the night before.
Don't let your child stay home unless the child is truly sick.
If your child seems anxious about going to school talk to the teachers, school counselor, or family liaison for strategies to help the child feel comfortable and excited about learning.
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We are excited to have your student as a member of the Kessler School Family.
Enjoy learning and connecting with great people who have a shared passion for kids, gardens, and good food. Snacks provided. Meet the garden rabbits, Sam, Sorrel, and Satou.
This training is free; all are welcome.
Party in the Park 2018!
Note: class lists won't be out until the afternoon of August 28, and students and parents can bring supplies and meet the classroom teacher that day from 3:00-4:00.
School safety–a current topic of various opinions and many comments–is the subject of a digital conversation offered by Longview starting Monday, June 4.
Through the Thoughtexchange process, all community members are encouraged to take part in voicing their ideas on the most important considerations about school safety and security.
Improvements to Thoughtexchange now make it possible for participants to review and respond to others' ideas after a number of ideas have been collected.
The information gathered in this Thoughtexchange will help the district as it constantly works to keep students and staff members safe, and to best respond when school safety is threatened.
If you haven't participated in one of our Thoughtexchange conversations before and don't want to miss out this time, please let us know. Spanish participation is also available.


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Exploring Australia's East Coast
By Bobbi-Jo O'Gilvie Special to The Lost Girls Australia. Known to many as the land of Vegemite and funny-looking animals that can almost always kill you. Where things grow bigger and weirder, and you're always greeted with a hat tip and a "G'Day, mate!" Australia is also known for the...
May 2nd, 2011 | Australia, Country Guides, Featured | Read More
Colorful Cairns: Four Must-See Places
Yelena Galstyan, a magazine journalism student at Syracuse University, is taking a study abroad semester at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. In her second piece in a series about her observations in the land down under, she explores Cairns' natural wonders. If you're looking...
April 21st, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Australia, Australia/New Zealand/Pacific, Extras, Wildlife & Animals | Read More
Speak Like an Aussie: Slang for Down Under
Yelena Galstyan, a magazine journalism student at Syracuse University, is taking a study abroad semester at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Her first piece in a series about her observations in the land down under provides a lesson on Aussie slang. It took me all of two days in Brisbane...
April 7th, 2011 | Australia, Australia/New Zealand/Pacific, Destinations, Studying Abroad | Read More
Where to Stay in Sydney, Australia
For anyone who's ever been to Sydney, they know that a good pair of walking shoes is definitely on the packing list. Sydney is a city that is wider than it is tall: You won't get the "big city" feel that you have in cities like New York or Chicago, but there is still a lot to...
April 4th, 2011 | Australia, Hotels & Resorts | Read More
Air Travel News 03.08.11
by Nancy Yeomans LG Air Travel News Editor Look up in the sky! It's a bird….it's a plane! No….it's your weekly air travel news! Here's what's happening in the world of aviation, from the ground up. Share The Cost? Not only do more carry-on bags make for a longer...
March 8th, 2011 | Air, Air Travel News, Australia, Travel Products & Services | Read More
The Top 5 Jobs on a New Zealand Working Holiday
By Candace Rardon LG Correspondant Job hunting is stressful for everyone, everywhere. But that process of applying, interviewing, and waiting for a call back can be even crazier when you've just moved abroad and are starting fresh. I went to New Zealand on a working holiday, looking for a year-long,...
January 10th, 2011 | Expats Abroad, New Zealand, Working Abroad | Read More
6 Tips for Traveling to Australia in the Summer
By Brooke Schoenman LG Tech & Gear Editor If you're located in the Northern Hemisphere and freezing your bum off at the moment, you're probably going to hate what I have to share. The summer season has definitely come to the land down under, and to be honest, I find myself wanting to...
December 20th, 2010 | Australia, Australia/New Zealand/Pacific | Read More
Working Holiday Visas: How to Get a Job in Australia, Ireland or New Zealand
By Candace Rardon LG Correspondent Ever dreamed about working in the world of Hobbiton? Hanging out with kangaroos and koalas on your day off? Or maybe grabbing a perfectly poured Guinness at the pub after a long day at the office? The choice is yours with New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland all offering...
December 6th, 2010 | Australia/New Zealand/Pacific, Expats Abroad, Ireland, Passports & Visas, Working Abroad | Read More
The World's 8 Best Low-Cost Air Carriers
by Nancy Yeomans LG Air Travel News Editor When traveling around the globe, the cost of your plane ticket is likely to be the largest expense you'll incur. If you don't mind sacrificing a little comfort and amenities—but never safety!—to save money, you'll have to look beyond...
July 9th, 2010 | Air, Asia, Australia/New Zealand/Pacific, Budget Travel, Central and South America, Europe, Expats Abroad, Finances & Savings | Read More
Air Travel News 5.28.10
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Silver Medal International Wine Show. From an area that produces spectacular fortifieds, especially the Muscats. Rutherglen Muscat has been acclaimed by wine lovers all over the world as a unique Australian style. The Calliope Rare Liqueur Muscat includes some very old material dating back over thirty five years, exclusively blended from exceptional vintages only. Calliope is aged in cask at the winery prior to bottling and will not improve with further cellaring.
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Q: Little confused on the usefulness of beforeAll construct in ScalaTest I have more of a philosophical confusion in-regards to the usefulness of methods like 'beforeAll' in scalaTest.
I have been looking for an answer why the need to even have constructs like beforeAll? I do understand that there is a reason why this design decision was taken but not able to think it through. Can anyone help?
e.g.
Suggested way as per tutorials online,
class TestExample extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
   private var _tempDir: File = _
   protected def tempDir: File = _tempDir

 override def beforeAll(): Unit = {
  super.beforeAll()
  _tempDir = Utils.createTempDir(namePrefix = this.getClass.getName)
  }

  test("...") {
   // using the variable in the function
  }
 }

vs
class TestExample extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
   private val tempDir: File = Utils.createTempDir(namePrefix =
   this.getClass.getName)
  }

  test("...") {
   // Use the initialized variable here.
 }

A: If you have cleanup to do in afterAll, I think it is symmetric to do setup in beforeAll. Also if you need to do some side effect that doesn't involve initializing instance variables, that can go in beforeAll. In the example you gave, though, where you don't have any cleanup to do in afterAll and all you're doing before all tests is initializing instance variables, I'd do with plain old initialization.
One other difference between val initializers and beforeAll is val initializers happen when the class is instantiated, whereas beforeAll happens later, when the instance is executed. If you want to delay the initialization until the class is run, you can use lazy vals.

A: One point worth noting is that some runners (such as the ScalaTest ant task, and Intellij IDEA), will instantiate all tests instances before running any tests. If your setup code happens to interact with any global variables or external state, then you probably want to defer those interactions until the test is run.
As a simple (contrived) example, suppose your code under test includes
Object Singleton {
  var foo = ""
}

and you have two test classes:
class Test1 extends FunSuite {
  Singleton.foo = "test1"

  test("...") {
    Singleton.foo should be("test1")
  }
}

class Test1 extends FunSuite {
  Singleton.foo = "test2"

  test("...") {
    Singleton.foo should be("test2")
  }
}

If both classes are instantiated before any tests are run, then at least one of your two tests will fail. Conversely, if you defer your initialize work until beforeAll, you'll not see the same interference between tests.

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The Tsukiji Market (築地市場 Tsukiji shijō), supervised by the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market (東京都中央卸売市場 Tōkyō-to Chūō Oroshiuri Shijō) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs, is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind.
The market is located near the Tsukijishijō Station on the Toei Ōedo Line and Tsukiji Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. There are two distinct sections of the market as a whole. The "inner market" (jōnai-shijō) is the licensed wholesale market, where approximately 900 licensed wholesale dealers operate small stalls and where the auctions and most of the processing of the fish take place. The "outer market" (jōgai-shijō) is a mixture of wholesale and retail shops that sell Japanese kitchen tools, restaurant supplies, groceries, and seafood, and many restaurants, especially sushi restaurants. Most of the shops in the outer market close by the early afternoon, and in the inner market even earlier.
Following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake architects and engineers from the Architectural Section of Tokyo Municipal Government were sent to Europe and America to do research for the new market. However, because of the sheer size of the market and the number of items traded they were forced to come up with their own unique design. The quarter circular shape allowed easier access and handling for freight trains and the steel structure above allowed a wide, continuous space free from columns and subdivisions.
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The Journal of Economic History (3)
Pickering & Chatto (1)
Economic History Association EHA JEH (3)
The Wealth Tax of 1942 and the Disappearance of Non-Muslim Enterprises in Turkey — ERRATUM
Seven Ağır, Cihan Artunç
Journal: The Journal of Economic History , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2019, p. 1
The Wealth Tax of 1942 and the Disappearance of Non-Muslim Enterprises in Turkey
Journal: The Journal of Economic History / Volume 79 / Issue 1 / March 2019
Print publication: March 2019
Turkey imposed a controversial tax on wealth to finance the army in 1942. This tax was arbitrarily assessed and fell disproportionately on non-Muslim minorities. We study the heterogeneous impact of this tax on firms by assembling a new dataset of all enterprises in Istanbul between 1926 and 1950. We find that the tax led to the liquidation of non-Muslim-owned firms, which were older and more productive, reduced the formation of new businesses with non-Muslim owners, and replaced them with frailer Muslim-owned startups. The tax helped "nationalize" the Turkish economy, but had negative implications for productivity and growth.
3 - The Reception and Impact of Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace in Turkey
from Part I - The Consequences in their Time
By Eyüp Özveren, Middle East Technical University, Seven Ağir, Middle East Technical University
Edited by Jens Hölscher, Bournemouth University, Matthias Klaes, Univeristy of Dundee
Book: Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace
Published by: Pickering & Chatto
Published online: 05 December 2014, pp 63-82
View extract
At a time when speculations about the unfolding history of the twenty-first century are wide open, the history of the twentieth century in general, and of its first half in particular, remains a safe haven for more cautious historians who content themselves with stocktaking. The attraction of the latter is all the greater because it also serves as a point of departure for comparisons and contrasts if not for drawing lessons and making inferences. There exist two camps: On the one side, there are those who give greater weight to the role of agency in the making of history. On the other side, there are those who give priority to structural factors which determine the course of things over the long term. In general, those who are engaged in politics and policymaking tend to emphasize how right choices can make a great difference. They are contested by those who insist that the long-term trajectory of events does not shift significantly over time. In any case, it is difficult to attribute outcomes to particular policy choices. Historians as well as some social scientists insist that reality is far more complex and multi-faceted to lend itself to simple linear cause-and-effect interpretations. On the contrary, reality proceeds with contingencies in the place of causalities in a world plagued with uncertainties.
Plague, Quarantines, and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. By Birsen Bulmuş. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2012. Pp. vii, 195. $105.00, hardcover.
Seven Ağir
Journal: The Journal of Economic History / Volume 73 / Issue 3 / September 2013
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2013, pp. 895-896
Print publication: September 2013


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Q: Write this function in a FP way I have this function that I wrote to basically compute the distance to each node from a source node. Nodes are strings and neighbours(node) return the node neighbours.
It works fine, but I'd like something more in the spirit of Scala.
How could I rewrite it? (maybe with recursion?)
def distanceMap(source: String): Map[String, Int] = {
    val distances = scala.collection.mutable.Map.empty[String, Int]
    var batch = List(source)
    var newBatch: List[String] = Nil
    val seen = scala.collection.mutable.Set(source)
    var distance = 1
    while (!batch.isEmpty) {
        newBatch = batch.flatMap(neighbours(_)).filterNot(seen(_))
        for (neighbour <- newBatch) {
            seen.add(neighbour)
            distances(neighbour) = distance
        }
        batch = newBatch
        distance += 1
    }
    distances.toMap
}

A: Try recursion with accumulators and helper function
def distanceMap(source: String): Map[String, Int] = {
  def loop(
    distances: Map[String, Int],
    batch: List[String],
    seen: Set[String],
    distance: Int
  ): Map[String, Int] =
    if (batch.isEmpty) distances
    else {
      val newBatch = batch.flatMap(neighbours).filterNot(seen(_))
      loop(
        distances ++ newBatch.map(neighbour => neighbour -> distance),
        newBatch,
        seen ++ newBatch,
        distance + 1
      )
    }

  loop(Map(), List(source), Set(source), 1)
}


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Why this man plans to travel across Europe on his friends' BACKS (and they're fine with it)
Kevan Chandler will be a 'human backpack' as he explores historic cities, famous landmarks and breathtaking landscapes across the continent
Millions of people dream of backpacking across Europe.
And keen adventurer Kevan Chandler is no different.
But in his case, he will BE the backpack as he explores historic cities, famous landmarks and breathtaking landscapes across the continent.
This is because Kevan suffers from muscular dystrophy, a devastating disease that has caused his weight to drop to just 65lb and left him wheelchair-bound.
Touchingly, the young man's friends have offered to carry him across France, England, Ireland and other European countries as a 'human backpack'.
During their trip, the group hopes to see an array of 'wonders', including catacombs, picturesque gardens and ancient monasteries.
Kevan Chandler will be a 'human backpack' as he travels across Europe this summer (Image: http://wecarrykevan.com/)
And in doing so, Kevan, from Florida, US, will have an experience he is 'sure never to forget'.
"These guys want to make this happen," said the adventurer, who hopes to set off on his travels this summer. "They want to serve me in this way."
The three men who plan to carry Kevan across Europe are Tom Troyer, Philip Keller and Ben Duvall, while Luke Thompson will film their trip of a lifetime.
In order for the journey to be a success, the group will use a specially converted backpack to attach Kevan to whoever is carrying him at that time.
The backpack features padding, a special headrest and a saddle, according to WANE-TV .
The friends have previously used the backpack on a trip in 2013, when they explored the sewers of Greensboro, North Carolina, with Kevan.
The young man's friends will carry him on their backs so he can enjoy the trip of a lifetime (Image: http://wecarrykevan.com/)
At the time, Philip said he and his pals had a brilliant time - but that carrying Kevan was more difficult than they had initially imagined.
"Kevan is 65 or 70 pounds," he told greensboro.com. "Carrying him didn't sound too bad to us until it was 10 to 15 minutes in."
Now, the group are raising money to fund their planned European travels, which they hope will take place from June 19 to July 8.
On a dedicated GoFundMe page, Kevan writes: "On a cold night in 2013, I fulfilled a dream I've had to go urban spelunking.
"I have muscular dystrophy and thus rely on a wheelchair to get around, so the feat seemed out of reach until my friends made it possible.
"Moved with love for me and my aspirations, four guys took turns carrying this 65 lb. explorer on their backs through the Carolina sewers.
A special backpack featuring padding, a headrest and a saddle will be used on the journey (Image: http://wecarrykevan.com/)
"Now, three years later, the gang has another dream — to carry me across Europe, especially the hard-to-get-to parts of France, England, and Ireland.
"These amazing countries are filled with wonders that would normally be inaccessible to me, from catacombs to gardens to ancient monasteries.
"The rich history and breathtaking landscapes that draw the world to those shores draw the disabled all the same."
After the friends' return from Europe, Luke hopes to transform his footage of their experience into a documentary film.
Kevan, meanwhile, plans to write a book on the trip.
Muscular dystrophy is hereditary condition that results in the progressive weakening and wasting of the muscles.
There is no cure for the disease.
The most common and severe form of the condition - duchenne muscular dystrophy - affects around one in every 3,500 males.
To visit the Kevan's GoFundMe page, click here ,
You can also view his blog, called We Carry Kevan, here .
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If you want to excite your friends about the new hacking skills, then this application is going to be your star. HackerTyper is a simple application, which can help you in showing your hacking skills to others without knowing any computer codes. In other words, if you are looking for an option that can provide you with easy hacking, then you can go for this application. Like any other application, you'll have to install it. But when done, it can start working immediately, and you can follow the instructions provided by the application to initiate the hacking process.
The hacking process is also easy. You need to enter the keys on your keyboards and the code for hacking would be generated automatically on your screen. Using, HackerTyper you can also manage the speed of code generation and the lines that you want to create on the screen.
But make sure that all this hacking process is just a fun exercise to show off your coding skills to your friends. It does not allow you to hack a device or network at all.
HackerTyper is a fun application, which can mock the hacking code on your screen, which can be used for entertainment and fun.


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Lowcountry Area Transportation Study
Home Planning & Transportation Transportation LATS MPO
LATS MPO
LATS Policy Committee
2023 Meeting Schedule
Public Participation Plan (PPP)
LATS Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
2045 LATS LRTP (Adopted 5/6/22)
2045 LATS LRTP Appendix
2021 - 2027 LATS TIP (Adopted 8/7/20)
2021 - 2027 LATS TIP Spreadsheet (Adopted 8/7/20)
FY2022-2023 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) - Adopted 4/9/21
LATS Transportation Project Reports and Committee Presentations
The next LATS Policy Committee meeting will be held on Friday, February 3rd, 2023 at 9:00 am in the TCL New River Campus Conference Room located at 100 Community College Drive, Bluffton. The event will be live-streamed on the Lowcountry Council of Governments Facebook page as well.
Individuals wishing to ask questions are encouraged to do so by posting them to the LCOG Facebook page or sending them via email to Stephanie Rossi at srossi@lowcountrycog.org.
MPO Overview
As of the 2010 Census the Hilton Head Island/Bluffton urban area population was recorded as 68,998 residents, and is now classified as a "Small Urban Area". Federal regulations require the formation of a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to "provide continuous, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning" for areas with urbanized populations of 50,000 or more.
The Lowcountry Area Transportation Study (LATS) was established in 2013 as the MPO responsible. LATS includes the municipalities of Beaufort, Bluffton, Hardeeville, Hilton Head Island, Port Royal as well as the relevant unincorporated areas of Beaufort and Jasper Counties.
MPO Plans
LATS administers the planning process that determines how the area's federal transportation dollars will be spent. These funds cover improvements for all elements of the transportation network, including roads and streets, bridges, public transit and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This process promotes the development of a safe, effective, efficient and environmentally sensitive multimodal transportation system for moving people and goods in the LATS area.
The MPO is responsible for three major plans:
The Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) identifies current and future transportation needs and provide multi-modal strategies and projects to address these needs. Federal funding cannot be allocated to transportation projects unless they are on the LRTP project list. The projects will be fiscally constrained, meaning that the MPO cannot spend more money than it expects to receive.
The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) details all projects and programs to be Federally-funded. These projects and programs will result from the LRTP. The TIP covers a period of five years but is updated annually.
The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) outlines LATS MPO transportation planning activities that use funds provided by federal and state transportation agencies and local MPO contributions.


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Book Review: Glitter and Glue
mamalodeadmin June 3, 2014 reviews & interviews
"It's not until after I put her to bed that night that I can bring myself to think about my mother and the reams of things she did for me that could and should have softened me. What is it about a living mother that makes her so hard to see, to feel, to want, to love, to like? What a colossal waste that we can only fully appreciate certain riches – clean clothes, hot showers, good health, mothers – in their absence."
Did you tear up reading this profound quote from Kelly Corrigan's memoir Glitter and Glue? I did. And it wasn't the first—or the last—time while reading this beautifully penned coming of age book that delves deeply into the mother daughter relationship as well as what really matters at the core of the people we meet.
Corrigan's Glitter and Glue dissects a turning point in her life at the heel of what she thought this point was going to be. Corrigan sets off for her Big Adventure to Australia, where she was to become a—and meet many—Very Important Person.
But instead, she ran out of money and found herself on an adventure hiatus nannying for the Tanner family whose mother died of cancer. For the first time in Corrigan's young life she played the mother role and in doing so, saw her own mother in a different light. The quote above is where Corrigan realizes that there are different ways to be Important.
Corrigan's memoir takes you by the hand and—gently, poignantly—reminds the reader that there's a difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers, and whom you admire, why, and how this changes over time.
The title comes from something Corrigan's mother used to say in her youth, "Your father might be the glitter, but I'm the glue." It's easy to love and admire and want to be around the glitter, isn't it? But the glue is what Corrigan not only craved when she struggled (on her travels and, later, as an adult and a mother) but also what she became.
At the end of Corrigan's time with the Tanners she says a tearful goodbye to all of their family members, including her crush, Evan, the kids' stepbrother who has stayed on at the Tanner household to Be There, to Show Up. Tearfully, she says, "People need you. You're… important. You're probably the most important person I've ever met."… This was one for the books I think. You are one for the books."
That was another tearjerker for me. The lessons woven in this book are so stick-to-your-ribs Important; I've still thought about them weeks after I turned the last page, which makes Glitter and Glue a must-read memoir in my books.
You can learn more about Corrigan, her other books, and Glitter and Glue on her website. But for now, I just have to ask–Are you more the glitter or the glue? What about your mother?
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Cybersecurity: Awareness is Only the First Step
European Cyber Security Month (ESCM) is an annual campaign designed to raise awareness of the myriad of threats individuals and organisations face in today's ever more connected world Click here
Proposed bill seeks to help non-federal entities improve cyber-security
There's one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on: the need to reduce the impact of cyber-threats.To that end, members of Congress proposed a bipartisan bill on Jan. 17, the "Cybersecurity State
70,000 photographs of women leaked from Tinder onto cyber-crime forum
Over 70,000 photographs of women from the popular dating app Tinder were leaked onto a cyber-crime forum, according to Gizmodo, an act which has previously led to the abusive usage
Embedding security, the right way
As organizations proceed to move their processes from the physical world into the digital, their risk profile changes, too – and this is not a time to take risks. By
Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims
It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Click here to view original webpage at www.bleepingcomputer.com
Vertical Maturity and DevOps Culture With BSIMM10
If you're in business today, no matter what your "core" product or service is, you are almost certainly a software company. It is nearly impossible to run a business without
Mainstream Technologies receives elite cybersecurity rating
Little Rock-based Mainstream Technologies, Inc. announced Tuesday (Jan. 14) it has received the MSPAlliance Cyber Verify Risk Assurance Rating for Managed Services and Cloud Providers. Cyber Verify is designed to
Microsoft issues patches to critical systems following NSA tipoff
Microsoft has released updates for Microsoft Windows after being tipped off by the US National Security Agency (NSA) that there was a serious flaw in the operating system that is
Microsoft Stops Supporting Windows 7, Leaving Millions of Users at Risk of Cyberattacks
After 10 years, support for Windows 7 will stop today, January 14, 2020. According to Microsoft, when Windows 7 reaches end of support on January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide technical
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Far Cry : HDR
The 384-bit bus influences the results strongly when we enable the game's FP HDR mode. The CPU has a smaller effect on performance of graphics cards as the resolution grows up, and the GeForce 8800 GTX increases its lead over the Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire, up to 30% in 1920x1200. The Pier map is heavy for the platform at large, that's why the GeForce 8800 GTX doesn't slow down much as the resolution grows up.
The Research map is less CPU-dependent than Pier, and the GeForce 8800 GTX enjoys a great advantage over the Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire. Well, ATI's solution suits for playing this game in every resolution too, including 1920x1200. The same is also true for the GeForce 7900 GTX SLI.


The heat and humidity Tuesday will give way to potentially severe thunderstorms in the afternoon in Massachusetts, forecasters say.
The service said localized flash flooding and damaging winds are concerns with the sweeping storms.
The strongest storms are forecast in western and northern Massachusetts, and the storms are expected to weaken as they approach southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
After Tuesday's storms, the rest of the week should be dry.


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'The Last Letter'
By Robert Siegel
Published February 4, 2003 at 11:00 PM CST
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about his first feature film, Le Derniere Lettre, ("The Last Letter.") It's in French with English subtitles and has one actor, Catherine Samie. The film is a black and white adaptation of a short story by Soviet writer Vassily Grossman, about a letter written in 1941 by an elderly Jewish woman to her grown son, while living in a small Ukrainian village under Nazi occupation.
Robert Siegel
Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.
See stories by Robert Siegel


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