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100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
By Alexis
11:45am PDT
76. Jess Rizkallah
Who she is: Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer, illustrator and founder and editor of Pizza Pi Press and Maps For Teeth. Winner of the 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for the magic my body becomes, Rizkallah has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is a spoken word poet. Read her "Lyric Essay for Beirut" in NAILED.
Why I love her: I read where are we headed and it filled me with a sloshing sadness. Every time I thought I'd composed myself, I'd remember a line and some more sadness spilled out.
Find her: On Twitter.
77. Casey Rocheteau
Who they are: Casey Rocheteau is the winner of the inaugural Write A House permanent residency. A Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Bread Loaf's Writers Conference fellow, Rocheteau is the author of Knocked Up On Yes through Sargent Press and The Dozen through Sibling Rivalry Press. They are the creator of a tarot deck and you can read and listen to "Topsy (direct) The Second of the Topsy Suite" at heART Journal.
Why I love them: Whenever I feel impossible, I can turn to their words and feel strong.
Find them: On Twitter.
78.Yesika Salgado
Who she is: Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet. She's a three-time member of Da Poetry Lounge Slam Team and 2017 National Poetry Slam finalist, and co-founder of Chingona Fire, a Latina feminist collective. She's also the author of three zines of poetry — The Luna Poems, WOES, and Sentimental Boss Bitch — as well as Corazón. Watch "What Comes After Loving Yourself?"
Why I love her: I watched "How to Make Love to a Fat Girl" because I'm still not completely at home with my weight. This poem teaches me how to inhabit myself better, how to demand others do the same.
79. Nicole Sealey
Who she is: Nicole Sealey is a Cave Canem, CantoMundo, MacDowell Colony and Poetry Project fellow, and the recipient of the 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize and the Poetry International Prize. Sealey received her MFA in creative writing from NYU and is executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. She is the author of two books, one of which won the 2015 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. Read and listen to "A Violence" in the New Yorker.
Why I love her: "Object Permanence" completely rearranged how I needed to live.
80. venus selenite
Who xe are: Venus Selenite is a black queer genderfluid trans woman poet, writer, performance artist, sex worker, educator, witch, Crashpad star, teacher and advocate. Xe are an editor for Trans Women Writers Collective, on the leadership team of the Trans Women of Color Collective, and is a life and culture writer at the Tempest. A Pink Door fellow, Bettering American Poetry nominee, and Capturing Fire Slam finalist, vir book trigger is available now. Watch "Love Letter to Raven Symone" in LaTiDo DC.
Why I love xem: Ve wrote and shared vir poem during a Winter Tangerine workshop word war and it shook me so much, I immediately went to friend xem because I needed vir words in my life. Xe write with such confidence, clarity and urgency that everything from vir Twitter feed to slam stages, demands to be heard and internalized if we have any hope of getting better.
Find xem: Support vir 2018 residency.
81. Solmaz Sharif
Who she is: Solmaz Sharif is an Iranian-American poet. A Stegner fellow, she has received an NEA Fellowship and Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and is a 2016 Lannan Literary fellow and Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton university winner. Her debut collection, Look, is a 2016 National Book Award finalist and winner of the 2017 American Book Award and Pen Center USA Literary Award in Poetry. Read "Social Skills Training" in Buzzfeed.
Why I love her: Solmaz's writing makes me feel like I'm completely submerged at the bottom end of the pool in the middle of summer, with my body afloat and the noise of the universe rushing in my ears.
82. Jasmine Sierra
Who she is: Jasmine Sierra is a queer black poet and Oberlin College graduate. She is the author of two chapbooks, Paradox and Letters to Ghosts, and is currently working on her first full-length collection, Avoidant Personality. Read a poem and interview with her in the Shade Journal.
Why I love her: Her poem "She Say She Ain't Never See A" is one of my favorite things ever. It's one of those poems that you can hear the beats ricocheting in your head, even as you read silently. Those last lines would've gotten me through high school horror.
Find her: On Tumblr.
83. Danez Smith
Who they are: Danez Smith is a black, queer, poz poet and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota. A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Poetry Foundation fellow and McKnight Foundation fellow, they are a member of the Dark Noise Collective and co-host of the podcast VS with Franny Choi. They are author of National Book Award finalist Don't Call Us Dead, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner and Lambda Literary Award for gay poetry [insert] boy; black movie; and winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Prize hands on your knees. Read "a poem: principles".
Why I love them: "I tried, white people. I tried to love y'all." is one of the infinite reasons I love Danez, because they center blackness. Make it a sun I can revolve around instead of an afterthought other people have spat at me. Smith creates and shares with grace, with family, with the only kind of love I've felt at sunday family dinners and cookouts and my loves sitting beside me, giving me the knowledge and comfort that, for at least this moment, they are here and they are safe.
84. Tracy K. Smith
Who she is: Tracy K. Smith is the current U.S. poet laureate and highkey saved 2017 just by existing. She's an American poet and educator who received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from Columbia University, and is an Academy of American Poets and Stegner fellow. Every book she's published has won a prize. She won the Cave Canem Prize for best first book by an African American poet for The Body's Question, the James Laughlin Award and the Essence Literary Award for Duende, the Pulitzer for Poetry for Life On Mars, and her memoir Ordinary Light is a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Princeton and her next collection, Wade in the Water, is forthcoming in 2018. Read "My God, It's Full of Stars at the Poetry Foundation.
Why I love her: Smith is the first person that got me knowing that black people belong in all parts of the universe. She made me believe that, when Sagan said "we're all made of star stuff," we weren't an asterisk; that black people are universe parts compact, and that even though we galaxy many, we can't survive space alone.
85. Layli Long Soldier
Who she is: Layli Long Soldier is an editor of Drunken Boat, a poetry editor for Kore Press, and an Oglala Lakota poet artist and adjunct professor at Diné College. Author of 2017 National Book Award for Poetry finalist WHEREAS published by Graywolf Press, she is winner of 2015 Lannan Literary Award, 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and 2016 Whiting Award. Read from WHEREAS at the Poetry Foundation.
Why I love her: Sometimes people say they can't read poetry because of all the "flowery" language. That all the roundabout speak to say nothing keeps them from appreciating the art, or even seeing it as such. I read "One Poem (Mud City Journal)" and it feels as if Soldier is playing by the rules of those who refuse to understand poetry. She says that she's going to write this poem in a short and to the point way that you will understand. You'd think this poem could be playing into a system that demands marginalized people to speak a certain way in order to be heard or understood. But as you read on, you realize Soldier subverts this belief, this expectation. Soldier's poetry demands both attention and action.
86. Talin Tahajian
Who she is: Talin Tahajian is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and the poetry editor for Big Lucks and the Adroit Journal. She is an MFA candidate at University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writer's Program, and is author of three chapbooks and co-author of a split chapbook with Joshua Young. One of her books, Movie Star With Rainbow Snow Cone, was 2014 finalist in the Black River Chapbook Contest and finalist in the 2015 Write Bloody Chapbook Contest. She won second place in the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue poetry prize judged by Eileen Myles. Her latest book, The Smallest Thing on Earth, is forthcoming from Bloom Chapbooks. Read "No Steeple" in Cosmonauts Avenue.
Why I love her: This poem feels like a secret I should only share with people I trust. All of Tahijan's work leaves me gobsmacked.
87. Naima Yael Tokunow
Who she is: Naima Yael Tokunow is a writer, editor and educator. She is the editor of the Black Voices series at Puerto Del Sol, and is currently editing a folio at Nat Brut Magazine that will focus on the work of neurodivergent womxn and femmes of color. Read two of her poems in DIAGRAM.
Why I love her: Tokunow showed me how all art intersects: That the poem doesn't have to restrained to the poetic form. That theatre can make an appearance, or even take center stage. That if art can engage like that, what does that mean for people? Tokunow's work sheds a light on the limitlessness we have and could share if only we are brave enough to claim it.
88. Chrysanthemum Tran
Who she is: Chrysanthemum Tran is an emerging queer transfeminine Vietnamese-American poet and teaching artist. A Pink Door fellow, she became the first trans woman finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2016, is a three-time finalist at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, and is the 2016 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam champion. She coaches the Providence national slam team. Read four poems and an interview in the Blueshift Journal.
Why I love her: Tran's work, especially "On (Not) Forgiving My Mother," shows that even though others view our everything as irreparable messes, that does not mean that's what we are. That we don't have to make ourselves digestible for others to swallow.
89. Crystal Valentine
Who she is: Crystal Valentine is a writer, activist and educator from the Bronx. The three-time Grand Slam Champion of NYU's Poetry Slam and two-time winner of the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, Valentine is 2015 NYC Youth Poet Laureate, 2016 Glamour College Woman of the Year, and ninth ranked woman poet of the world through Women of World Poetry Slam. She is the author of Not Everything Is A Eulogy. Watch "And The News Reporter Said Jesus Was White" in Button Poetry.
Why I love her: When I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I asked on Facebook if there were any black women other people knew who also had it. Liv Mammone recommended Not Everything Is A Eulogy. I'd seen "Black Privilege" but didn't make the connection 'til I got the book. I love Valentine for making space for hope in a body that usually feels like it carries everything but.
90. Elisabet Velasquez
Who she is: Elisabet Velasquez is a Puerto Rican writer, mother, performer and feminist from Bushwick, Brooklyn. A member of the 2009 Nuyorican National Slam Team, Velasquez has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Princeton University and Main Stage at Amber Rose Slut Walk, among elsewhere. A VONA alumnus and 2017 Poets House fellow, she is the author of the chapbook PTSD. Read "To The Black and Brown Girls Who Go Missing Before They Go Missing" in the Huffington Post.
Why I love her: This essay gives me a much needed lesson in vulnerability, in remembering that I do not owe family my life just because they are family.
91. Cat Vélez
Who they are: Cat Vélez is a nonbinary, queer Boricua poet from New Jersey. They're a 2015 NPS semifinalist, 2015 CUPSI semifinalist, and 2016 CUPSI finalist. They are the 2015 Grand Slam Champion and IWPS Representative for Philadeliphia Fuze. Read And My Boricua Asked My Whiteness in Maps For Teeth.
Why I love them: On Learning To Forgive The Women In My Family is the poem that taught me that family is like being thrown on stage mid-scene after waking up. You have no idea where you are or what you're supposed to be, but everyone is waiting on you to know your part immediately. This poem taught me that it's okay that I've played too many shows to survive, that the other players on stage were probably just trying to survive too.
92. Jeanann Verlee
Who she is: Jeanann Verlee is a former punk rocker and current poet, editor and activist. She is a six-time representative of NYC at the National Poetry Slam, winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in poetry, and curates the Urbana Poetry Slam series at Bowery Poetry Club. She's the author of Racing Hummingbirds and Said The Manic to the Muse, and her third collection, prey, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. Listen to "Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls with Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair."
Why I love her: "Just because you fall in love with the river/doesn't mean you must feed it your bones" is the line that made me fall for Verleeand want to stay close to every poem of hers ever since.
93. Jen Wang
Who they are: Jen Wang is a poet, performer and educator. You can watch "This Is Water" in Button Poetry.
Why I love them: They are reason why I know what it means to reveal your heart on stage. They are also the reason I know you must carry your heart in your hand when you do. They teach me how not to give everything to anyone who asks, that not everyone deserves your energy and glory, and to not apologize that they could never behold you right.
94. Sally Wen Mao
Who she is: Sally Wen Mao is a Kundiman, Hedgebrook, Saltonstall Foundation, and Cullman Center fellow. She received her MFA from Cornell University and teaches Asian American studies at Hunter College. She's the author of Mad Honey Symposium, and her second collection, Oculus, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2019. Read read "Resurrection."
Why I love her: These poems had me staring in awe after reading them.
95. Rachel Wiley
Who she is: Rachel Wiley is a poet, performer and body-positive activist from Columbus, Ohio. Her first full length collection, Fat Girl Finishing School, was published by Timber Mouse Press. Nothing Is Okay is forthcoming. Read three of her poems in Drunk In A Midgnight Choir.
Why I love her: Wiley's performance of "Glory in Two Parts," especially the line "I am indeed glorious!" gave me permission to love the full church of my body even when everyone told me there are only parts to be proud of.
96. Candace Williams
Who she is: Candace Williams is a progressive middle school humanities educator, poet, robotics coach and DnD master. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is a 2017 Create Change fellow at the Laundromat Project, a Cave Canem fellow, and received her MA in elementary education from Stanford University. The winner of the TAR Chapbook series, her book, Spells for Black Wizards, will be published through Atlas Review in 2018. You can read "My Future Black/Certificate of Death" in Cosmonauts Avenue.
Why I love her: I can't even put my finger on why I love this poem so much, but it makes me feel like I know John Henry. That he's not a character or just someone who lived and was great and is now in history books. Williams creates an intimacy in her work that makes me feel like each poem talks to me from right across the kitchen table.
97. Jane Wong
Who she is: Jane Wong is a Fulbright and Kundiman fellow. With a PhD in English from the University of Washington, she is the assistant professor of creative writing in at Western Washington University. She's received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Squaw Valley, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is the author of OVERPOUR. You can read two poems in Four Way Review.
Why I love her: I Put On My Fur Coat, winner of the 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, is one of those poems that sneaks up on you. It reminds me of how so much wild and danger and outside are able to hide in plain sight, sometimes aren't even hiding until they realize they should be. I love this poem because it gave me new ideas about what to expect from poetry, that it can be as simple as telling me what you see in the room until the room becomes a mouth and swallows you up.
98. Jamila Woods
Who she is: Jamila Woods is a singer and poet. An editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, alongside Mahoghany L. Browne and Idrissa Simmonds forthcoming from Haymarket Books, Woods' work can be found in The End of Chiraq: The Literary Mixtape. Watch her Tiny Desk Concert and buy her album, HEAVN.
Why I love her: When Woods sang, "Yeah she scares the government, call it Deja Vu Tubman" alongside these images of black girl excellence in Blk Grl Soldier? I was like this is everything I want my life to be, and her album, HEAVN has been a map to becoming a better, more intentional me.
99. goddess x
Who shey is: goddess x is a sad queer black transfemme poet, 2016 National Poetry Slam semi-finalist, 2016 and 2017 Capturing Fire performer, 2017 Beltway Poetry Slam Team member, and 2017 Capturing Fire and Pink Door alumnus. Heir debut collection was Blk Grl Sick: Tales From the Library Burned. You can read "Other Side of the Cage," in Wusgood.
Why I love heir: I heard goddess x perform Boyat the Beltway Poetry Slam Qualifier and heir words and stage presence blew me away. This poem still makes me tear up just looking at it online, I was about to be a mess when I heard and saw heir perform it live.
Find heir: On Patreon.
100. Emily Jungmin Yoon
Who she is: Emily Jungmin Yoon is a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow and Phd candidate at University of Chicago. Author of Ordinary Misfortunes, winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and A Cruelty Special To Our Species forthcoming from HarperCollins, Yoon is the Poetry Editor of The Margins at the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Read Bell Theory in Poetry Foundation.
Why I love her: I read Say Grace and you know how sometimes something is so true it rings in your heart when you're looking for yourself over and over again? That last sentence echoes in my bones, like it's the only thing that will ever make sense when everything else refuses to.
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mildhumor
Thank you SO MUCH for this list!!
Thank you SO MUCh for reading!!
Wow, this looks wonderful! Just a few weeks or so ago, I was talking with some friends in grad school about how alongside the research I am doing for my own academic project, which is focused on the 16th and 17th centuries, I have ended up reading a lot chicana literature, women poets of color, etc. to help keep my spirits up in these dark times and difficult spaces. That evening I suggested that we compile a sort of "survival syllabus" of all the people we have read in parallel to our regular projects. I am excited to see your take on a similar idea, Alexis (so much so that I am leaving this comment after only page 1), and to get to know some poets I haven't read yet.
I'd love to hear about who made it to your survival syllabus!
I'm so glad you're giving it a read, I hope you find some more poets to love!
Snaelle
Well this is an incredible list that got instantly bookmarked and that I'll be referring to again and again.
Thank you SO MUCH Alexis! Wow.
Thank you so much for reading!! <3
glory hallelujah for this incredible list! I've been halfheartedly trying to explore new poets and this is just the shove I need! <3
yes!!! good luck i'm so excited for you to explore more poets!! thank you for reading!!
amidola
This list is going to take me a while to get through!
In the meantime, I thought I'd share this:
I've been in love with this poem for a few weeks, now.
It certainly gives grocery shopping a whole new meaning, and well it makes me want to hug her and hug myself,too.
Although I am not a connoisseur of poetry, I would like to put Daphne Gottlieb on your (or anyone's) radar. She came to my Women's Studies class (way back in 2002) and read us her poems and I have been smitten ever since. Feminine Protection will forever be my favorite, although 15 Ways to Stay Alive is a close second.
queer girl
Caitlin! I discovered Daphne Gottlieb about eight years before I came out and read Why Things Burn constantly for a couple of years. I wrote her once and she wrote me back! She's rad.
Yaaaay! I basically stalked her throughout college, but she was very nice about it lol. BTW, if you ever read the short story Bette Williams wrote for Daphne's book Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions, the "small women's college" where they met is my college, Mills, and I was at the reading that night. I feel semi-famous :)
I didn't realize you went to Mills! That was one of my dream schools in high school, but I didn't end up applying because it had a scary price tag compared to the UCs. :-) Such a pretty campus!
Awww too bad you didn't apply! We would have been in college together! They actually gave me a partial scholarship without me asking for it, almost a 50% reduction in tuition. It was still more than a UC or State, but having a guarantee of completing in 4 years (or less, like I was able to do) made up for it. They are actually going to be REDUCING tuition next year in order to make it more affordable. I love my alma mater :)
This is EXTRAORDINARY thank you Alexis!!!
PS Dear other readers, consider joining A+ if you haven't! It starts at $2.50/mo. AS Staff are busy making killer content like this so that's why I'm commenting about it :)
This list has it all, trans people, Middle Eastern queers, and great info. Thank you!
I'm so happy you like it! Thank you for reading!
queerpritch
This is such a GIFT! Thank you.
<3 <3 <3 Thank you for reading!!
So many of my favorites and soo many new poets to check out! Thank you!
Yes! Thank you for reading!!
What about Tarfia Faizullah? She's saying really important things.
I love Tarfia Faizullah, 100 Bells is one of the poems that absolutely changed me. Just didn't feel comfortable because I haven't read enough of her books yet, and this is definitely more of a starter pack not a full list!
Thank you so much for this! One of my goals for this year is to consume more healing media, and poetry is great for that probably because it's one of the most instinctive art forms, so this is exactly what I've been looking for.
I can't see 26-50 and am not sure if the link's not working or it's just not working yet? If she's not on the second part of your list, I would recommend Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Her collection Bodymap focuses on her experiences as a disabled queer woman of colour and is so beautiful.
tebeccs
i've spent hours with this list looking through all of these brilliant writers' works and i cannot wait to spend time with each and everyone of these artists' works…. thank you for bringing me closer to other middle eastern queer womxn i could cry… (and your words about your personal connections to all of these incredible works made this list that much more special)
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As a kid, winter is a lot of fun. Winter brings storms, which in turn bring snow which can lead to extra days off from school, and all the while, the thought of Christmas is hanging in the air. While this is all great as a kid, as an adult things prove to be a little more difficult, especially when it comes to snow.
Driving can already be a bit of a hassle, thanks to the increase in traffic, but the bad weather can make things worse. Driving in the rain or snow can be dangerous if a person is not prepared, or lacks any experience with the matter. To help take care of that, here are some winter driving tips.
Slow down on wet roads. Water on the roads can reduce friction, which will make it easy for cars to slide across the road without any control when at high speeds. Slowing down just a little bit can reduce the chances of this happening to you. If the vehicle you are driving starts to hydroplane, do not slam on the brakes as doing so will take away what little control you have. Instead, take your foot of the gas pedal and let the vehicle slow down naturally. Once it slows down, the tires will regain traction and you will have control of the vehicle again.
Slow everything down on frozen roads. Snow and ice reduce the grip of your tires on roads far more than water. To compensate for this, a person needs to not only drive slower, but accelerate and brake at a slower pace as well. Accelerating too quickly can cause a car to spin out, while braking too suddenly will cause the car to slide.
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As many people are aware, not every law is a good law. There are some very strange and obscure laws out there. Every single state in the country has some weird law that would make a person wonder why it even exists.
Whistling while underwater is prohibited in West Virginia.
In Maine, you may not step out of a plane that is currently in flight.
In Delaware, it is illegal to fly over any body of water unless one is caring sufficient amounts of food and drink.
Prisoners in Louisiana who hurt themselves can end up serving an additional 2 years in jail.
Women in Vermont have to get permission from their husband in order to wear false teeth.
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Toddler Classes – Yes Or No?
Am I alone in my frustration with some toddler/children's classes? Yesterday I took my 20 month old to a singing group that cost £4 (not a lot I know, but £4 is £4). For this sum my son was entertained with 4 basic kids songs, was given a shaker to shake and then had some bubbles blown at him. This occurred amongst the chaos of 15 kids aged between 3 months and 3 years screaming the place down over the long drawn out time of 50 minutes. By the time I got home I was all for having a Valium.
My five year old recently fared no better at a 'drama' taster class where for £10 she said she had to sing 'baby songs', roll about on the floor pretending to be a worm, and stand up and hop on one leg for "Like forever mum".
Now don't get me wrong, some toddler/kids classes are fantastic. I am a huge fan of Monkey Music. These classes are brilliant, well structured, amazingly organized, and always run on time (something I need as a working mum). But best of all they are perfectly placed at specific age groups (4 different classes for ages 3 months to 4 years) and as a result my son joins in and loves both the teacher and the class.
In these hard times when all of us are counting the pennies, all I'm looking for is value for money from classes whether I am paying £4 or £140.00. I expect my kids to be entertained, but also I want them to be in a calm atmosphere where other kids aren't tearing the place up and group leaders aren't wandering around looking exasperated.
Am I asking too much? What's your experience of toddler classes? Can anyone recommend any good ones? Let me know.


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Coronavirus Measures
Dogs are being trained to help detect COVID-19
By Fatima Arif 9 months, 4 weeks
The man's best friend is once again at the forefront in an attempt to see if the good boys and girls can help us deal with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
A British charity has teamed up with scientists to find out if the keen sense of smell of dogs can be used to help detect COVID-19. The collaboration is happening between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Durham University in northeast England and Medical Detection Dogs.
This is a follow up to the research in which the canines' ability to sniff out malaria, with the generic premise being that each disease triggers a distinct odour. The organisations shared that they had begun preparations to train dogs in six weeks "to help provide a rapid, non-invasive diagnosis towards the tail end of the epidemic".
Previously the charity trained dogs to detect cancer, Parkinson and some bacterial infections by sniffing samples taken from patients. They can also detect subtle changes in skin temperature, potentially making them useful to determining if a person has a fever.
"In principle, we're sure that dogs could detect COVID-19," said Claire Guest, founder and chief executive of Medical Detection Dogs.
She further added that, "The aim is that dogs will be able to screen anyone, including those who are asymptomatic, and tell us whether they need to be tested.
"This would be fast, effective and non-invasive and make sure the limited NHS (National Health Service) testing resources are only used where they are really needed."
The head of disease control at the LSHTM said dogs could detect malaria with "extremely high accuracy" and, as other respiratory diseases changed body odour, there was a "very high chance" it could also work with COVID-19.
Detection dogs could be deployed at airports at the end of the epidemic to rapidly identify people carrying the virus, helping prevent the re-emergence of the disease, according to Steve Lindsay from Durham University.
TOPICS: Coronavirus, Dogs, Pandemic, Coronavirus Measures, Coronavirus Protection
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Home Audio Harman Kardon Go+Play Portable Bluetooth Speaker Review
Review: Audio
Harman Kardon Go+Play Portable Bluetooth Speaker Review
Darwin Del Rosario
Harman Kardon is well-known for making high class home and car audio equipment. Today we are going to share with you our experience with the Harman Kardon Go+Play.
This speaker is not just a typical Bluetooth audio device. It is more of what we call a boombox in general. It also has a built-in rechargeable battery that can last up to 8 hours of playtime and it can also charge your smartphone from its USB port. For its price of Php14,990, is it justifiable enough for you to consider it? Let's find out.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE / DESIGN
The Harman Kardon Go+Play has a very stylish and iconic design that can easily fit on any space you placed it. The one that we have comes in color black with an accent of stainless steel handle on its top. If you prefer a cleaner-looking one, you can also pick the one that comes in color white.
The speaker is covered with fabric grills around.
The top part is made up of rubber consisting of the 5 easy-to-press buttons (Bluetooth, Volume Down, Power, Volume Up, and the Play||Plause button). It was also equipped with a stainless steel handle.
The bottom cover is made up of plastic and it has 4 stands that slightly elevates it from the surface.
The back part house the different ports. Starting from the left is the USB port that allows you to charge your phone using a cable. The other one is a microUSB port for upgrading the firmware of the speaker. The third is a AUX port for an alternative audio input if you don't want to use the Bluetooth feature. And the last on is the charging port.
At this size and weight of 3.4kg, it's probably to large for most people to carry it around on a regular basis unless you have a car. But thanks to its stainless steel handle making it portable enough to move it around the house.
Unlike some portable speakers, the Go+Play has a very simple and very easy to understand buttons. It has a dedicated Bluetooth button that lights up when you pressed to indicate that it was turned ON.
Aside from that, the dedicated Volume Control buttons are also there and produce a sound when you reached the maximum volume. The Play&Pause button also function to answer calls from your smartphone.
The Go+Play is powered by Bluetooth 4.1 technology that allows faster and more optimized data transmission. You can connect multiply devices into it to play sound simultaneously. Just in case you want a better listening experience, you can get another Go + Play speaker and pair them with each other.
Equipped with dual 90mm woofers, two 20mm twitters, and a pair passive radiator, this portable speaker produces powerful and superb room-filling sound.
Listening to the song Hotel California by Eagles will definitely showcase how the Harman Kardon Go+Play can handle to produce the surround sound that you are looking for. The song is rich in texture that you will distinguish the different instruments, the thunderous bass, and the rich tone of the vocals.
You can also expect clear voice calls thank to its Harman noise and echo cancelling technology.
The Go+Play meets superior sound quality and effortless portability. But this is nothing if it cannot stand with you during dance rehearsal or into your garden party this summer season. Good thing, its 22.2Wh rechargeable battery can last up to 8 hours of music playtime on around 50% – 75% volume. If you are just using it on your room, it can last up to 9-10hours. But using it on its maximum volume will give you around 5 hours of music playback. It also has 5 light indicator so you can easily track the battery life of the device.
Just in case your smartphone run out of battery, this portable speaker can also work as a powerbank to charge your phone using its dedicated USB port.
Charging it using the included AC adapter with an output of 19V||3A will take up to 3 hours.
The Harman Kardon Go+Play is a real powerful portable and wireless speaker. It has a well-built design that can easily fit on any space. In terms of portability, this audio device is suitable enough to carry around the house or when you have a dance rehearsal somewhere. It can produce rich sound quality and loud enough to fill the whole house. So to conclude it all, if you have the budget, then you should definitely consider the Harman Kardon Go+Play!
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The above video is a small overview of 2012 LifeStyle Food rebrand graphics.
The full on-air graphic suite feature over 30 specifically shot Line-Up and Next backgrounds featuring recipes from some of LifeStyle Food's most well known chefs and cooks. The backgrounds have been divided into breakfast, lunch and dinner categories as well as seasonal and holidays categories so the on-air graphic presence of the channel can continually evolve throughout the year.


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Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Marlon Brando, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire
Stretch (2014)
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously…
CHiPS (2017)
Watch CHiPS full movie online free on 123Movies. CHiPS (2017) watch free HD streaming online. The adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers as they make their rounds on…
Bleeder (1999)
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get acquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo can't cope with the pressure of becoming…
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and…
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control…
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph…
Ruthless East End gangster Vic Dakin has plans for an ambitious raid on the wages van of a plastic factory. This is a departure from Dakin's usual modus operandi, and…
Hannibal Rising (2007)
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will…
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An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
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Out of the royal conservatory for not being a member in 2001 Pynappol began studying music theory and composition on his own, although he has already been active as a DJ for a few years, when DJ's didn't suffer from the Ron Hubbard syndrome.
Back when kids were learning to stand on the wheels of a bike, he chose the wheels of turntables and began DJ'ing at the age of five. Not only does he hold the record for the youngest DJ on earth, but he is the one who invented the DJ turntable in 1972.
As a child Pynappol spent a lot of time travelling with his mom, Alyona Smith, the famous world champion gymnast playing for Great Britain.
After all those years watching his mom compete against other athletes, he subconsciously assimilated various body moves which he would later adapt to his musical performances. To mention a few: the piano roll, the overhead clap, the crowd wave, the raise the roof, the finger to the sky, the mixer knobs massaging and obviously the Jesus pose. He could have never made it as a musical performer if it wasn't for the his mother's gift.
While experimenting with the very early VST of the late nineties, a technology which along with Personal Computers democratized studio time, he enjoyed tweaking analogue synthesizers and gears which he didn't own. You only have to look at the vast collection of analog synthesizers in his videos for solid proof of his knowledge of synthesis.
Pynappol has two Progressive House singles and one Electro E.P to mention, if you haven't seen them reaching the top position on the iTunes and Beatport charts that is absolutely OK.
When it comes to creative talent, Pynappol has it in spades. The progressive/electro house DJ and producer's third release was entirely made in four hours with a laptop on a plane while flying to a club in Ibiza. The track immediately reached Beatport number 1.
Some of his achievements involve his name not appearing at several of the most well-known festivals like Thunderdome, Sensation, Mysteryland, Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival, Electric Day Carnival, and Global Gathering.
Pynappol's vision for the future is ambitious, he can't wait until he makes music better for everyone. One future goal is an online music store that offers more tracks than you can ever listen to, but unlike other stores music will be available at the unprecedented quality of 192 kHz at 24 bit.
Given his track record, there's no doubt this will become a reality.


THE FACTORS THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED WHILE REPLACING WATER HEATERS in Queen Creek, AZ.
Water heaters are very handy pieces of household equipment given the pivotal role they play insofar as the provision of hot water, especially in the chilly winter weather, is concerned. They too, just like every other household equipment, are prone to damages, obsolescence, breakdowns, and other forms of wear and tear. Consequently, they or at least some of their constituent parts and components need to be replaced from time to time to guarantee their smooth functioning and the attendant benefits.
The gist of the discussions that follow is centered on the subject matter of water heater replacement and endeavors to highlight and briefly explain the various factors that ought to be considered while replacing a water heater.
It is a measure of the water heater's overall efficiency. It measures the amount of hot water a heater may produce for every unit of power consumed. The higher energy factor is indicative of greater efficiency and should, therefore, be preferred over and above the lower ones.
This refers to the actual capacity of the heater. It is expressed in gallons and it basically measures the total amount of water that a heater may accommodate at any given time. Household water requirements do vary with time. A replacement period grants homeowner a rare opportunity to re-examine their water needs and make the necessary adjustments if need be.
As has already been stated, a replacement exercise grants homeowner the opportunity to re-evaluate their energy expenditure and take appropriate actions. Homeowners ought to ask themselves whether they are comfortable with spending the same amount of money on utility bills. If no, then they should consider alternative forms of fuel for their new heaters. If yes, then a new heater that derives its power from the same source ought to be acquired.
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Clergy Abuse Reparations Are Closure For Some Victims, Resurface Trauma For Others
Laura Benshoff
John Quinn, 67, first came forward two decades ago with allegations of sexual assault by a Philadelphia priest and said he considered waiting to sue. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault.
After more than a decade of investigations into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church, last year's grand jury report still contained new revelations.
The numbers were superlative — more than 1,000 allegations against 301 priests, spanning seven decades.
Reactions came swiftly. The U.S. Department of Justice began investigating. Victims demanded new laws. Leaders of seven of Pennsylvania's eight dioceses announced compensation programs, offering confidential settlements in exchange for agreeing never to sue the church. Hundreds of victims have now taken lump sum payments averaging from $120,000 to nearly a quarter-million dollars.
A much smaller group has turned to the courts, suing the dioceses themselves for conspiracy and fraud, based on information contained in grand jury investigations.
What made John Patchoski, 57, want to sue was "the anger inside of me," he said. "That the church would actually have the gall to bring up a victim's fund to tell you what you're worth, tell you what it was like to live with this for 40-some years, with all this."
A recent Pennsylvania court ruling allowing such cases to go to trial has breathed new life into old claims of childhood sexual assault in spite of state law that puts time limits on legal action.
"What if it didn't happen this way, where would I be?"
For some, these payments provided a kind of closure, after years of "howling into the wind," as 67-year-old John Quinn put it. He first came forward two decades ago with allegations of sexual assault by a Philadelphia priest and said he considered waiting to sue.
Instead, he received $250,000 from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Independent Reparations and Reconciliation Program in February.
"I'm a man of my word; I signed it and I said I wasn't going to go after them anymore," said Quinn. Still, doubts and questions persist, he said. "I get stressed, I get depressed, I get what-ifs ... what if it didn't happen this way, where would I be?"
Growing up in Philadelphia, he bounced between his family's home and a half-dozen Catholic orphanages around the region. For thousands of young people who filtered through church-run orphanages in Philadelphia, these institutions often offered a reprieve from a difficult family life. But they also created an environment ripe for the abuse of vulnerable children.
At St. Joseph's House for Homeless and Industrious Boys in Philadelphia, Quinn said, a layperson working as a dorm supervisor molested him. After that, he ran away repeatedly. After one escape, he said, the Rev. Charles Siegele, a diocesan priest, found him and brought him back to his mother's house.
On the way, Quinn said, the priest stopped at an apartment outside Philadelphia, got him drunk and sodomized him.
"It seemed like I had something written across my head, 'I'm available, take me,' because I'd been abused so many times," he said.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia said it could not confirm Quinn's allegations, but officials say Siegele, who remained in ministry until he died in 1989, is on its list of credibly accused priests.
As an adult, Quinn became addicted to drugs and alcohol, fleeing from one town to the next, from relationship to relationship. In the late 1980s, he went into treatment, where he decided to confront his past. He told church leaders his story and began receiving church-subsidized counseling and a living allowance, although no acknowledgement of wrongdoing.
Slowly, his life stabilized. He met his fourth wife, Enriqueta, and they have two teenage sons. Going through the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's compensation process provided more stability — $250,000 worth. With it, he paid $50,000 in credit card debt, bought one son a car and the other braces.
"Now, I live halfway comfortably," he said.
Stories like Quinn's provide one example of why more than 500 people registered abuse claims with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia alone.
Ninety-eight percent of applicants to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's compensation fund accept the settlement offered, said retired Judge Lawrence Stengel, chair of the fund's oversight committee. "[That's] pretty strong evidence that those are adequate and fair," he said.
Half of all people who registered claims with the program had never come forward before, according to Stengel, signaling that the confidentiality and independent nature of the process helped victims otherwise afraid to go public with their claims. So far, the total amount paid out across all seven programs is north of $50 million, with dozens of claims still pending. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has the most heavily used program, having already doled out $32 million.
"The Pennsylvania compensation programs were needed," said Marci Hamilton, CEO of Child USA, a think tank dedicated to addressing child abuse. However, she noted that in taking the money victims turned down a potentially bigger windfall later.
"Some, they just weren't willing to settle because of course you would get less money through this process than if you were able to go to court with a valid statute of limitations," Hamilton said.
Other critics said the programs' primary function is to mitigate the church's liability amid calls to reform Pennsylvania's statute-of-limitations laws. Bills just passed through the state Legislature and waiting for the governor's signature would extend the statute of limitations for suing over childhood sexual abuse from age 30 to age 55 and create a constitutional amendment allowing retroactive lawsuits.
"The church would like people to believe that they're doing the right thing by helping survivors when really they're trying to get releases to protect themselves when the law changes," said attorney Richard Serbin, who has been suing the Catholic Church for 32 years.
The statute of limitations stopped short many of his clients' legal challenges, Serbin said. Then, in August he scored a victory that opened a different path to sue.
What's fair?
In 2016, Serbin filed a lawsuit against the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown on behalf of Renee Rice. Rather than naming Rice's alleged abuser as the defendant, the suit named the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, retired Bishop Joseph Adamec and the estate of Bishop James Hogan. Both bishops are now deceased.
In essence, Serbin chose to sue over the cover-up, as opposed to the underlying sexual assault, by showing that "the diocese knew about it ... had a duty to speak up, and instead remained silent," he said.
He based those claims on information in the grand jury reports investigating the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.
Earlier this year, Pennsylvania's Superior Court ruled that the case could go to trial, and more than a dozen other survivors have followed suit.
After turning down $176,800 from the Diocese of Harrisburg compensation fund, Donald Asbee joined them.
"The compensation I felt was inadequate but the most important thing is it just didn't feel like they were disclosing what really was going on," he said of the reparations process.
The arbitrary amounts of those settlements also nagged him.
When Asbee was an altar boy in the 1960s, two different priests at St. Joseph's Church in Milton, Pa., sexually assaulted him, he said. One was physically violent. Yet the amount he was offered was far less than the average settlement offered in other dioceses.
The dioceses of Harrisburg and Scranton asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take jurisdiction over the cases but have so far been denied.
Lawyer Matt Haverstick is outside counsel for the Diocese of Harrisburg and Diocese of Greensburg. He said the statute of limitations bars decades-old lawsuits for a reason — because they become increasingly difficult to prove.
"If the allegation is that there was a conspiracy 50 years ago among people who are long dead ... that's really difficult for people to know," he said.
Haverstick is defending his diocesan clients against at least four lawsuits, and he estimates there could be as many as 20 filed statewide. Earlier this year, a plaintiff identified only as S.D. filed a lawsuit against Boy Scouts of America in federal court in Philadelphia, using the same legal theory.
Defenders of the church say the lawsuits come down to a basic question of fairness — should those leading now be punished for the actions of their predecessors?
"That church doesn't exist any more," said Haverstick. "The church, at least in my experience, since the early 2000s has been trying to protect people from abuse."
With each new investigation, however, more victims are emboldened to tell their stories. John Patchcoski was receiving treatment for kidney failure last year when he glanced at the television in his hospital room.
"That was when I noticed on CNN that it said like 1,000 kids were molested, raped, sodomized in the state of Pennsylvania," he said in a recent interview.
That news item was about a sweeping grand jury report.
Patchcoski, who grew up outside Scranton, Pa., has his own story.
When he was around 11 years old, Patchcoski said, a priest named Michael Pulicare invited him on a fishing trip, and then pinned him down and ejaculated on top of him.
Pulicare is on the Diocese of Scranton's list of credibly accused clergy. The priest died in 1999.
After Patchcoski told his story, first to The Wall Street Journal, he found out other men he grew up with had similar encounters.
"I blamed myself because I thought I could have stopped it," he said. He joined a lawsuit with three other men against the Diocese of Scranton, the current bishop and a former bishop, as one way to begin relinquishing that guilt.
Reparations After Clergy Abuse Puts A Price On Trauma, Victims Say
How Some Sex Abuse Victims Are Finding Different Ways To Sue Clergy In Pennsylvania
West Virginia Accuses Catholic Diocese Of Covering Up Clergy Abuse
Pope Calls For 'All-Out-Battle' On Clergy Sex Abuse, With Few Specifics
Victim Advocates Of Clergy Abuse Say They Won't Bury the Past
New Lawsuit Reveals More Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Boy Scouts Of America


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The Best Mobile Games in 2020
May 6, 2021 June 11, 2020 by Tori Adachi
When's the last time you played a new game? The app store on your phone has thousands of games available to download, and a lot are completely free! No matter what you're into – puzzles, adventure, trivia, creativity- there are tons of options out there. These are just a few of the current, popular games available:
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
One of the cutest Nintendo games ever is available in a condensed, pocket-sized version! It's free to download, and Pocket Camp puts you in control of your own campground with endless creative possibilities.
Sky: Children of the Light
Apple named this game the best iPhone game of the year in 2019. Create a character and fly around exploring a magical kingdom in this social adventure game.
Two Dots
A beautifully designed puzzle game that slowly gets more and more complicated as you progress. The stunning minimalist illustrations and soothing music have sky-rocketed this game to the top of the popular charts and kept it there for years.
Fortnite Battle Royale
This game became popular on video game consoles and PC in 2017, and now they've made it even more accessible. The exact same game and map is now available to be played on the go! Fortnite is available in the app store for free.
Another popular game that has been brought to a portable version, Minecraft can be purchased in the app store for play on both smartphones and tablets. Create and play by yourself or in multiplayer with other friends. Play in creative mode or survival mode for two completely different experiences in a world of infinite possibilities.
QuizUp
The biggest trivia game in the world. Choose from a massive variety of topics, from general trivia to specific tv shows, and so much more. You get matched up with another random player from around the world or can challenge your friends in this speed game of knowledge.
Become a Pokémon trainer in this interactive game that gets you moving. Walk around to explore and catch new Pokémon, team up with other trainers during raids, and compete in gym battles.
This list is just the beginning of all of the amazing options out there, and of course we missed some on this list! What are your favorite addictive phone games? Let us know in the comments!
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How the Israeli economy can remain strong amid Omicron uncertainty
Stuart Hershkowitz
The country must do everything in its power to keep its university campuses open and running.
(January 12, 2022 / JNS) Prior to the intensification of the Omicron variant, the Israeli economy had received multiple forecasts for strong growth in 2022. The Jewish state's own finance ministry projected 4.7 percent growth for the economy this year (following 7.1 percent growth in 2021), while the OECD predicted 4.9 percent growth in Israel's GDP for 2022 and 4 percent for 2023.
Both internal and external assessments have attributed the resilience of the Israeli economy during the COVID-19 pandemic to the country's world-leading vaccine rollout. But what else can Israel do to further strengthen its economic position in these continuously uncertain times?
The unemployment rate is among the typical measures of a nation's economic strength, yet the pandemic has added a new layer to the dynamics surrounding the workforce. Today's environment poses the challenge of not only creating jobs and getting people back to work, but also convincing people to go back to work. In the United States, for instance, the so-called "Great Resignation" has seen record numbers of Americans quit their jobs (4.5 million in November 2021 alone). Factors that are driving this trend have included boosted federal and state unemployment benefits (earlier in the pandemic); the desire to leave retail jobs that do not allow for remote work and involve a high degree of potential exposure to coronavirus; and the inclination to use the pandemic to rethink one's personal and professional trajectory.
Israel is no stranger to the challenge of lagging workforce participation. The employment rate for haredi men typically hovers around 50 percent, as many of them opt to study Torah on a full-time basis. Whether haredim or Arabs or other underserved populations, expanding employment among largely untapped demographic sectors represents a crucial way of ensuring Israel's economic strength.
This is particularly true in the talent-starved sector of high-tech. Last year, State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman issued a report that documented 18,500 vacant positions in the Israeli high-tech industry, resulting from a shortage of skilled university graduates with training in the computer software and hardware fields. And make no mistake: Higher education is an indispensable pathway to such training. Basic certificate or vocational courses in computer programming do not provide students with the high-level, well-rounded skill set they need to effectively fill the current gaps for Israel's technology-focused employers.
The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) has long worked to advance an academic solution to this employment challenge, striving to bolster Israel's labor market by increasing access to technology-related educational and employment opportunities for underserved populations. The college's haredi graduates attain an 89 percent employment rate, far exceeding the employment rate for haredi men throughout Israel. This past year, our Mechina (pre-academic) preparatory program, which helps religious Jews gain basic education in the STEM subjects that is required for entry into academia, saw a 20 percent increase in enrollment.
Further, 53 percent of all JCT's computer science students are women, which is 18 percent higher than any other Israeli academic institution. The new Tal Campus for women, which is on track to break ground early this year, will expand the college's impact on women's empowerment. As the permanent home for up to 3,000 of JCT's female students in nursing, computer science, electro-optics, industrial engineering, accounting and management, the campus will provide increased opportunities for national religious, haredi and Ethiopian women to pursue higher education and attain quality employment in scientific and high-tech industries.
The Omicron variant means that many sectors, including higher education, could once again be subjected to severe restrictions and disruptions.
Remote learning was a necessity at the outset of the pandemic, and it seems like academic institutions could now be headed back towards March 2020-style conditions. While JCT did its best to adapt to this unprecedented environment two years ago, students at our college and across the board have reported that distance learning is far from ideal. For instance, many haredi students have large families, inadequate workspaces at home and weak Internet connections—obstacles that make it exceedingly difficult to learn online.
Meanwhile, for all students, the absence of socialization when distance learning is implemented presents morale and mental-health challenges that should not be ignored.
Bar-Ilan University, Israel's second-largest higher-education institution, has already transitioned to remote learning amid the Omicron crisis. But other major Israeli campuses have not yet followed suit, and the Israeli government should be applauded for its ongoing push for students of all ages to continue in-person learning.
"There is no reason for entire classes to automatically switch to distance learning when they have no confirmed cases" of COVID-19, said Israeli Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton recently.
In turn, the looming threat of school closures also ties into Israel's economic outlook. A college campus is a microcosm of a city, and when we essentially shut down an entire city, we halt all of the economic growth and contributions that come with its day-to-day operations. That is why Israel must do everything in its power to keep our campuses open.
By expanding educational and employment opportunities among underserved populations, which happens to be a highly difficult proposition when college campuses are closed, Israel can take at least one key step towards weathering the storm of Omicron.
Stuart Hershkowitz is vice president of the Jerusalem College of Technology.
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Eden & Main, a new townhome community from Homestake Capital, LLC, is coming soon to Southington, CT.
Eden & Main coming soon to Southington, CT
Brielle, NJ – Homestake Capital, LLC has announced that Eden & Main, its newest townhome community, is coming soon to Southington, CT. Those interested can visit https://edenandmaintownhomes.com/ to sign-up for the community's VIP list.
"Eden & Main is unique in that it draws from the industrial history of its location and incorporates a sophisticated, contemporary style," said Michael J. Kokes, Managing Principal of Homestake Capital, LLC. "Scenic Southington is tucked in a valley between two mountainsides with easy access to the highway. The result is a charming atmosphere you can't wait to come home to."
Situated on Eden Avenue and Main Street, in the heart of historic Southington's revitalizing downtown center, the community is just a short walk from restaurants, cafes, shops and more. Rich with history and culture, Southington has all the charm of a small town with the conveniences of a big city. Located one town over from Bristol, which is the home to ESPN, Otis Elevator and Barnes Group, Southington is close to all major highways and transportation.
Eden & Main is also just a half-mile from the beautiful Farmington Canal Heritage Trail that stretches down to New Haven and will soon run all the way through Hartford County to Massachusetts. Mount Southington Ski area, Hubbard Park, Lake Compounce and Hawks Landing Country Club are just a few of the other attractions close to town.
Eden & Main is located at 35 Eden Avenue, Southington, CT, 06489. Townhomes will be priced from $229,900. To learn more, visit https://edenandmaintownhomes.com, call 860.302.5173 or email info@EdenAndMainTownhomes.com.
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Homestake Capital, LLC, a boutique real estate investment firm located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, is focused on providing direct investment and non-traditional lending to residential and commercial developers. Homestake further adds value by providing development and building experience to the sponsor or borrower. Homestake's unique niche is providing capital for projects that are too big for one investor, but too "small" for a traditional institutional investor. To learn more, visit https://homestakecapital.com.
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Barbados' Republican status is not a yen for pieces of silver
Among the most nonsensical statements uttered by a British Parliamentarian and repeated in the British newspaper, The Sunday Times, is that Barbados will become a Republic at the dictation of the Government of the People's Republic of China.
The unvarnished truth is that within the next decade all of the independent English-speaking Caribbean countries will likely become Republics. On November 30, Barbados will become the fourth, following Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica.
The move to Republican status will probably also be taken by Australia and other Commonwealth countries where the Queen remains the symbolic Head of State. After Barbados becomes a Republic, the Queen's realms, other than Britain, will be reduced to 14, the majority of them (eight), being in the Caribbean.
It should be noted that when Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in June 1953, she also became Head of State of 67 other countries, then either colonies or dominions of Britain. Over the last 68 years, 52 of those countries opted to become Republics. Barbados will become the 53rd.
None of the countries that chose to become a Republic did so because of pressure from China or any other country. They became republics because, even though the Queen's role was only symbolic, exercising no real executive authority, it was simply not acceptable that a foreign person, residing thousands of miles away with no daily experience of life in a country, could credibly be its Head of State.
Indeed, breaking the link with the Queen as Head of State, also completed the process of national sovereignty and independence from Britain as the former colonial power.
There are two reasons why the remaining eight independent English-speaking Caribbean countries have not already moved to Republican status. The first is that, for many of them, a Constitutional amendment will be required. Political parties in government know well that this would become a political football for their political opponents, with allegations that governing parties want a republic so that they can assume greater powers and control. Notwithstanding, the examples of Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago where presidents have little more than symbolic roles, this argument will have its supporters.
The second reason is a residual and deserving respect for Queen Elizabeth who, in the almost seven decades as Head of State, has been an example of rectitude, particularly on matters of race. Her stance against apartheid in South Africa and the end to white rule in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) are enduring qualities of her reign. But the high regard for the Queen will not transfer to her successor. Prince Charles has already been selected to succeed the Queen as the Head of the Commonwealth of Nations that includes the countries of the English-speaking Caribbean. This transition will be regarded as important and satisfactory.
The notion that Barbados is becoming a Republic because the Queen's symbolic headship of the country stands in the way of Chinese ambition, is nothing but utter foolishness. It started in September this year when the chair of the foreign affairs committee of the British House of Commons, Tom Tugendhat, said that: "China has been using infrastructure investment and debt diplomacy as a means of control for a while and it's coming closer to home for us. British partners have long faced challenges from rivals seeking to undermine our alliance. Today we're seeing it in the Caribbean. Some islands seem to be close to swapping a symbolic Queen in Windsor for a real and demanding emperor in Beijing".
We should note that Tugendhat has long adopted an anti-China position, having nothing to do with Barbados. His remark about Barbados "swapping" the Queen for "a demanding" Chinese Emperor is less about Barbados and more about his taking every opportunity to criticize what he calls "the rise of China". As I remarked, in a commentary, when Tugendhat first tried to align Barbados' decision to become a Republic with China's influence, given the fact that he is the chair of the foreign affairs committee of the British parliament, he should have been better informed. But clearly, he was more interested in accusing China of seeking world control than he was with the truth of the Barbados decision.
On November 20, the Sunday Times carried a story, written by journalist, Matthew Campbell, which had the appearance of carrying the views of many persons in Barbados, but which was more selective in its reporting. The story was evidently meant to justify its headline: "Awash with cash from Beijing, the island is ditching the Queen. Some fear it is simply swapping one colonial master for another". Again, the truth, that will not acknowledge its name, is that the persons, who peddle the fears of "the Chinese will end up in control", are the same people who would have preferred that Barbados remain 'little England' which bestowed upon them perceived rights that they feel they have lost.
Tugendhat's assertion, supported by like-minded persons in Barbados and elsewhere, of the threat of Chinese dominance, fails to understand the mettle of Caribbean leadership, and especially of the fierce nationalist and regionalist disposition of Mia Mottley. His judgment, and theirs, are rooted in the condescending colonial mindset that our people cannot think for themselves.
Caribbean countries need economic assistance because of their vulnerability and the legacies of colonialism that underlay their structures of economic weakness. Their leaders and their people want to advance their countries' social and economic development. To achieve this, they engage in economic and financial cooperation with all in a fair and just way. But they will not surrender hard-won sovereignty because of a yen for pieces of silver.


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A hot month but a very successful one for the birth of my our baby Daniella, at the same time as the sale of my company Comart when I also worked on The Lady and tending our laying ducks before starting on my independent industry role whilst Diana was ill and recovering as the miners' strike and peace protests dominate domestic politics
This was a beautifully sunny month, but too hot for comfort in working until the weather broke much later. I had started it by writing up Comart and Byte Shop Review Meeting minutes as the Group Chairman and ended it as its outgoing Chairman by drafting all of the staff announcements, member and director's meetings that were needed to complete the sale of the group. Kode PLC continued to present problems for the Comart sale right up to the last moment. Then there was the hectic day of the 3rd July, when the deal was done to sell Comart and Diana gave birth to Della, our third child.
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I may be something of an anomaly, but summer has never been my favorite season of the year. Nope, not even as a kid. You know what I remember most about summertime as a kid? BOREDOM. And spray cheese. I remember being so bored that I ate lots and lots of spray cheese.
I'm a Type A personality who thoroughly appreciates the predictability that a good schedule brings. So as undeniably wonderful as that summer freedom is, it lacks the very thing I crave the most: order.
If I felt this way before I had kids, you can imagine the terror summertime brings now that I have a house full of children. Our boys are 9, 7, and 5 this year and if you've never been around 9, 7, and 5 year old boys then the one thing you need to know is they come with endless amounts of energy. And with it being summertime and all I HAVE NO WHERE TO SEND THEM.
My first instinct was to find a way to fill our calendar. To keep the boys busy and occupied and for the love of all things holy, SCHEDULED.
But something happened over the course of these last few weeks that caused me to second guess my approach to summer. It wasn't just one single event that precipitated this change, but a series of small almost non-events that gave me insight into what my boys need most.


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Burundi: 'Vote against President Nkurunziza if you want to beat him' says Willy Nyamitwe
By Elsa Buchanan
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has signed a decree delaying controversial parliamentary and local council elections, set to take place on 26 May, to 5 June, as the country faces a political crisis.
Protesters who are demanding Nkurunziza withdraw his third-term bid in the upcoming 26 June elections, descended in the streets on 18 May for the first time since a failed coup on 13 May. They accused the president of violating the constitution and the Arusha Peace Agreement, which says Nkurunziza can only stay in power for two terms.
Nkurunziza's supporters argue the president's first term should not be counted as he was chosen by the parliament and not by the people in an election as is specified in the agreement.
'Dialogue with opposition, a positive step'
The president's adviser, Willy Nyamitwe, told IBTimes UK Nkurunziza had decided to delay the elections were threefold.
These include the fact that opposition leaders, East African community heads of state and the United Nations, the African Nation and the European Union "made a request for the elections to be deferred".
Protesters run as soldiers fire shots during a demonstration in Bujumbura Carl de Souza/AFP
"Finally, our CENI (Burundi's electoral commission) proposed that the elections are deferred for about 10 days. They will now happen on 5 June," Nyamitwe said over the phone on 20 May from Bujumbura.
The president signed the decree, which officially sets the date for the elections, on 19 May.
He added: "This means the electoral campaign is also extended, until 2 June. Those who haven't had the time to lead their campaign can now organise themselves and complete this task successfully."
While the government has been in talks with opposition leaders, the adviser says the subject of the discussions are not to be made public.
He said: "It's already a positive thing that we are at least entering a dialogue. For now, these talks stay between us."
No decision regarding presidential elections
When asked whether the government had taken a similar decision regarding the controversial presidential elections due to take place on 26 June, the adviser explained the "presidential election has not yet been convened".
He said: "First, electors are summoned for the parliamentary and local council elections, then they will be convened for the presidential elections. That's not yet the case, it's the way it works."
"If opposition leaders and supporters want to beat him because you don't want him to govern you, then you need to go to the polls and vote against him. It is that simple."
- Willy Nyamitwe
The next step in the crisis, the adviser said, is "people need to go to the polls", and "political leaders who were in the streets must leave the streets, and instead lead their electoral campaigns".
Speaking about the decision by ruling party CNDD-FDD to nominate Nkurunziza for the presidential elections, Nyamitwe said: "It is our party's decision, not his. If you [opposition leaders and supporters] want to beat him because you don't want him to govern you, then you need to go to the polls and vote against him. It is that simple."
Investigating media responsibility in coup
On 19 May, directors of news group IWACU announced they were planning to resume its work, after been closed for five days following the failed coup.
Following the press conference, Nyamitwe told IBTimes UK the government agreed that the media group should re-open soon but stressed a number of conditions should be respected.
"We will wait for the investigation to know what happened and the responsibilities of each one in the coup," he said, referring to an investigation launched on 19 May by the country's Interior Ministry. "The culprits will be punished according to the law."
Burundi is southern neighbour to Rwanda, where the 1994 massacre of 800,000 mainly Tutsi and moderate Hutu was perpetrated IBTimes UK
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Crown Crafts, Inc. (NASDAQ-CM: CRWS) today reported operating results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 3, 2011.
"During the year, we made significant progress on critical strategic initiatives, including the diversification of our product line and channels of distribution," said E. Randall Chestnut, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. "As a result, net sales climbed 4.5% for the year, fueled by acquisitions and significant organic growth in our bib, bath and disposable products. It is also noteworthy that we generated approximately 7% of our fiscal 2011 sales from channels that barely existed two years ago, including international sales of Company-branded products, as well as sales into premier restaurant chains, food and drug chains and the rapidly growing 'dollar' store segment. Furthermore, our total sales of Company-branded products increased by 22% from a year ago as our customers and their consumers continue to embrace our innovative, high-quality and attractively designed products."
Chestnut noted that the Company, like its industry peers, faced macroeconomic headwinds in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. "While we are certainly not satisfied with our fourth quarter financial results, we believe the positive operational momentum we built throughout the year remains strong and will serve us well as we move forward in fiscal 2012," he said.
Net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $1.6 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, on net sales of $27.2 million, compared with net income of $2.3 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, on net sales of $26.0 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Higher than expected raw material costs, as well as labor, transportation and currency costs associated with the Company's operations in China, had a negative impact on Crown Crafts' net income and earnings per diluted share.
Net income for fiscal 2011 was $4.3 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, on net sales of approximately $90.0 million, compared with $4.8 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, on net sales of $86.1 million a year ago.
The Company's fiscal 2011 Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and certain one-time costs) was $10.1 million, compared with $10.5 million for fiscal 2010. In addition to the negative factors discussed above, the Company incurred a number of one-time charges totaling approximately $1.1 million during fiscal 2011 that have been excluded for purposes of calculating Adjusted EBITDA. These one-time charges include $401,000 in proxy-related costs, $254,000 in outside fees for corporate governance matters, a $121,000 impairment charge related to assets held for sale, and $313,000 for share-based compensation to certain executives.
The Company previously announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Company's Series A common stock of $0.03 per share. The dividend will be paid on July 8, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 17, 2011. "This action by the Board is further evidence of the strength of our balance sheet and operating cash flow, as well as the Board's continued confidence in our underlying business and its potential to create value," said Chestnut.
The Company will host a teleconference today at 1:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time to discuss the Company's results, during which interested individuals will be given the opportunity to ask appropriate questions. To join the teleconference, dial (877) 317-6789 and refer to conference number 451377. The teleconference can also be accessed in listen-only mode by visiting the Company's website at www.crowncrafts.com. The financial information to be discussed during the teleconference may be accessed prior to the call on the investor relations portion of the Company's website.
A telephone replay of the teleconference will be available one hour after the end of the call through 8:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time on June 21, 2011. To access the replay, dial (877) 344-7529 in the United States or (412) 317-0088 from international locations and refer to conference number 451377.
Crown Crafts, Inc. designs, markets and distributes infant, toddler and juvenile consumer products, including crib and toddler bedding and blankets; nursery and bath accessories; reusable and disposable bibs and floor mats; burp cloths; room décor; and disposable placemats, toilet seat covers and changing mats. The Company's operating subsidiaries include Crown Crafts Infant Products, Inc. in California and Hamco, Inc. in Louisiana. Crown Crafts is among America's largest producer of infant bedding, bibs and bath items. The Company's products include licensed and branded collections as well as exclusive private label programs for certain of its customers. The latest news about Crown Crafts can be found at www.crowncrafts.com.
In addition to the Company's disclosure of its financial position and results of operations in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"), the Company has also presented Adjusted EBITDA, which is not determined in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA excludes costs associated with the proxy contest related to the 2010 annual meeting of stockholders, outside fees for corporate governance matters, compensation costs related to non-vested stock awarded to certain employees in fiscal year 2011 and impairment charges related to an asset held for sale. Adjusted EBITDA is used internally by the Company to monitor its operating results and cash flow and to evaluate the performance of its businesses. The Company believes that its presentation of Adjusted EBITDA is useful in that it is an important indicator of the Company's results of operations and its ability to generate cash sufficient to reduce debt, make strategic acquisitions and investments in capital expenditures, pay dividends and meet its working capital requirements and other obligations as they become due. The items excluded to calculate Adjusted EBITDA are significant components that should be considered in understanding and assessing the Company's financial performance. Adjusted EBITDA is presented as supplemental information and should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, the Company's GAAP financial measures, including its net income, cash flow provided by or used in operating, investing or financing activities, and other measures of the Company's financial performance and liquidity. Because Adjusted EBITDA, by definition, is not determined in accordance with GAAP, companies calculate it in varying ways. Therefore, Adjusted EBITDA as presented by the Company may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.


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