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RACE-LAW-JUSTICE: TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT
A series of international symposia (February, March and April 2021). Sponsored by the Center for Critical Democracy Studies and the History, Law and Society Program at The American University of Paris. Organized by professor Miranda Spieler
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies hosted seven symposia last spring that explored race and racism as problems in legal history and themes of judicial struggle.
A chief goal of this series was to treat race and racism as social constructions that vary in meaning across place and time. Participants in these symposia examined how race, viewed as a social artifact, has been inscribed within the legal culture of Old and New World societies. These discussions addressed the relationship between race and other markers of identity–class, gender, lineage, religion, political status, geographical origin–in defining the content of law and in mediating people's experience of it. Participants further investigated past and present forms of resistance—both to racism and to the constraints of racial categories. A final goal of this series was to reflect on the promise and limitations of law as a remedy for social wrongs.
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies intended, through this series, to foster vigorous exchange among leading historians and legal scholars while building an intellectual community before whom they may showcase new work, debate interpretive methods, and consider new avenues of research. As the American University of Paris is a bicultural institution, these symposia will address these topics with special attention to France, the French colonial empire, and the Americas.
The first of these symposia included an introductory conversation with students and interested faculty members about interpretive approaches to race and racism since the founding of critical race theory by legal scholars in the 1980s. Because critical race theory is now under attack as un-American in the United States while being snubbed almost universally in France, we felt it was necessary for us to open our series by confronting this controversy with a text-driven discussion of this and other approaches to the topic of our series.
Four of the five subsequent symposia were two-part meetings that approached race and racism as themes in global history with references to problems that include slavery, emancipation, imperial conquest, and decolonization.
During Part I of Symposia 2-5 participants presented their own research, whether in the form of works-in-progress or as newly published work, followed by a discussion with the audience.
During Part II of Symposia 2-5 participants joined in a moderated discussion about the state of their respective fields with the aim of posing new questions and identifying new research priorities.
The final symposium of our series consisted of a solo pre-circulated paper, remarks by a commentator, and a free discussion.
Symposium 1: Race, Law and Social Justice: An Introduction
February 23, 2021 at 10:35 CET with Miranda Spieler and Michelle Kuo
READ MORE ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM NO. 1
A text-driven conversation open to all AUP students that explored legal narratives and legal historical writing on the topic of race, social inequality, and the pursuit of social justice. The discussion was led by Professor Michelle Kuo and Professor Miranda Spieler. Readings for this two-hour discussion of classic texts included excerpts from Patricia Williams, THE ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS; from Robert Cover, JUSTICE ACCUSED: ANTISLAVERY AND THE JUDICIAL PROCESS.
Miranda Spieler
Miranda Spieler is an associate professor of history at the American University of Paris. She is the author of Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana (Harvard University Press, 2012), which received the American Historical Society's George Mosse prize and J. Russell Major Prize. Her work-in-progress, Slaves in Paris, reconstructs the lives of slaves and masters using hitherto undiscovered archival materials to construct a global history of Old Regime Paris as an imperial capital. Her scholarship is particularly concerned with the meaning of personhood, the architecture of legal space, and the role of law in enabling state violence.
Michelle Kuo
Michelle Kuo is an associate professor of History, Law, and Society at the American University of Paris. Her book, Reading with Patrick (2017, Random House) explores incarceration, racial inequality, and literacy in the rural South. It was the runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In her work as a lawyer, Michelle has clerked for a federal judge for the Ninth Circuit and defended incarcerated and undocumented people. Currently she is a pro bono attorney for the Stanford Three Strikes Project and recently helped found a nonprofit that creates a global network of formerly incarcerated people.
Symposium 2: Race, Law and Universalism: Empire and its Legacy in Modern France
March 9, 2021 from 18:00 to 20:00 CET with Jennifer Anne Boittin and Lionel Zevounou
'OF COURSE HE IS BLACK AND I AM WHITE': WOMEN DEFYING LAWS, DECREES, AND POLICING IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA
Jennifer Anne Boittin
This paper traces several women who resisted men's policing of their sexual and sentimental lives in French West Africa (AOF). These cases reveal how women were surveilled, and the nature of the debates that raged among bureaucrats and members of the judiciary who - often in the name of French prestige, which some explicitly termed white prestige - sought to bind women by preventing their mobility. Officials tried to use existing laws and principles or to write new edicts, all in the name of preventing intimacy and domesticity between white and Black people in West Africa. Women, in turn, quickly realized that if in legal principle one's "race" was not a legitimate legal barrier to companionship, in practice officials sought to stifle interracial relationships. Women reacted by resisting and creatively circumventing such interference, including by explicitly pointing to the double standards of such obstructionist tendencies on the part of representatives of a state and legal system supposedly dedicated to universalism.
THEORIZING THE CONCEPT OF "RACE" IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LAW: FIRST STEPS
Lionel Zevounou
Why speak of "race" in French legal discourse? Or should we instead forego this term, as have many jurists in France. How can we distinguish the "race" of the sociologist from the "race" of the racist? Is it possible for scholars to detach the word race from its uses? In France, the term "race" has become a marker of, or synecdoche for the defects of American society that are otherwise derided as "separatism" and "identity politics;" In treating the term "race" as an alien excrescence, a deleterious American import, jurists and social scientists have managed, conveniently, to avoid reckoning with discriminatory practices that are deep-rooted in French society. French regulatory texts and legal statutes include anti-racist provisions; and yet, between these provisions and their interpretation by judges, there is often a huge gap. How to explain this? This paper seeks to answer this question by analyzing French positive law alongside ongoing debates on the topic of race in French legal academia.
Jennifer Anne Boittin is an associate professor of French, Francophone Studies and History at the Pennsylvania State University. Her first book, Colonial Metropolis. The Urban Grounds of Anti-imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (2010, University of Nebraska Press) is an innovative, intersectional history of radical interwar politics. Her current project, about female travelers in the French empire, is entitled Undesirable: Women Resisting Policing in the French Empire, 1919-1952. She was a resident fellow at the Institut des Etudes Avancées in Paris during the 2016-2017 academic year.
Lionel Zevounou is maitre de conférence of law at the University of Paris-Nanterre. He is the author of Les usages de la notion de concurrence en droit (2012) and is completing a second book about the history workplace discrimination in France. A frequent contributor to academic and popular journals, Professor Zevounou writes on topics that range from market regulation to reparations for slavery and African legal philosophy. He is the recipient of a five-year grant from the Institut Universitaire de France (2018-2023) and leads the African Sovereignty Project, a pan-African scholarly initiative funded by the Open Society Foundation.
Symposium 3: A World Before Race? Gender, Mobility and Property in the Early Modern Iberian World
March 15, 2021 from 18:00 to 20:00 CET with Mariana Dantas and Michelle McKinley
PROTECTING HEIRS: BLACK MOTHERS, INHERITANCE, AND INTER-GENERATIONAL MOBILITY IN COLONIAL MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL
Mariana Dantas
This paper compares the experiences of two black mothers as they tried to ensure that the children, born of their sexual relationship with their former master, inherited their father's wealth and status. Joana Maria da Silva and Luiza Rodrigues da Cruz became mothers while still enslaved by the father of their children. They eventually attained their freedom, but only Luiza married her former master. These men's death initiated a process of succession of property in which the children's ability to inherit their father's wealth and social standing was not always guaranteed. As they themselves neared death, Joana and Luiza took different legal measures to protect the future of their children. Sometimes working within the contours of inheritance and family law, at other times attempting legal shortcuts and circumventions, these women strove to ensure their descendants would be further removed from the status of slave and former slave that limited their own standing in colonial Mineiro society.
BOUND BIOGRAPHIES: TRANSOCEANIC ITINERARIES AND THE AFRO-IBERIAN DIASPORA IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Michelle McKinley
Bound Biographies charts the travel experiences of Afro-Iberians who left the peninsula in service of their owners, or as freed itinerant persons as they forged their lives in the Americas in the first two centuries of Spanish expansion and settlement in the New World. The paper examines Afro-Iberian life on the Iberian Peninsula, traces Afro-Iberian travelers as they relocate in various port towns in the Americas and follows their return to the peninsula after living for considerable periods of time in the New World. Bound Biographies is part of a multi-sited project that uses the sources to reconstruct the experience of black mobility that was not forced. It explores the lives of black travelers in an early diaspora that was not exclusively tied to—yet indelibly shaped by the transatlantic slave trade. The paper focuses on royal travel licenses, official chronicles, ecclesiastical documents, and parochial and probate records as an evidentiary base to create these personal histories of travel and mobility. I view early modern emigration and travel to the Americas as one of several relocations in an individual's lifetime. Inspired by the "biographical turn" in Atlantic history and slavery scholarship, Bound Biographies recreates the lives of those who shaped the early centuries of Iberian emigration and a black diaspora. In so doing, Bound Biographies renders a more complex and nuanced history of the people inextricably linked by the processes of Conquest, slavery, and Empire.
Mariana Dantas is an associate professor of history at Ohio University and an expert on African diasporic peoples in the Atlantic World. Her first book, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (2008), is a comparative social history of urban slaves in Baltimore and Brazil. She is now at work on a longitudinal history of mixed-race families in a Brazilian mining town, in which she traces the changing social meaning of race across three generations of townsmen. She is a co-founder of the Global Urban History Project, a research collaborative.
Michelle McKinley is the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon Law School and Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Her monograph, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima 1600-1700 (2016), reveals the efforts of enslaved women in Lima before local courts to secure their claims to liberty. Fractional Freedoms received the 2017 Judy Ewell prize for women's history from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies and honorable mention for the best work in sociolegal history from the Law and Society Association. She is also the founder and former director of the Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative in Peru, where she worked for nine years as an advocate for global health and human rights.
Symposium 4: Slavery, Race and the Law During the Long Eighteenth Century
March 22, 2021 from 18:00 to 20:00 CET with Christy Pichichero and Miranda Spieler
RACE AND THE DOCILE BODY:POLITICS OF BLACKNESS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND LAW IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH MILITARY
Christy Pichichero
This paper explores the intersection of two juridical arenas in the eighteenth-century French empire: laws concerning slavery and policing Black bodies and those regulating the military. Black and other men of color served in French armed forces in theaters across the empire throughout the eighteenth century, some enlisting as freemen and others as enslaved with a promise of freedom through military service. Their recruitment, training, and career trajectories held extraordinary importance for multiple stakeholders, from the slaver Colonial lobby and royal ministers to military officers and the Black soldiers themselves. Historians have engaged in dynamic exchanges regarding Foucault's concept of "docile bodies" and its historical accuracy in militaries of the eighteenth century in France and other contexts. This paper constitutes a critical intervention in this scholarly debate by interrogating the intersection of race in the discipline of militarized bodies and its implications in the contexts of the law, politics, military endeavors, and notions of social justice.
AMI DES NOIRS AND SLAVE TRADER THE CHEVALIER DE BOUFFLERS (1735-1815) BETWEEN PARIS AND SENEGAL
There remains a parrot for the queen, a horse for Maréchal de Castries, a little captive for Monsieur de Beauvau, a sultan chicken for the Duc of Laon, an ostrich for Monsieur Nivernais, and a husband for you (19 July 1786). So wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers, governor of Senegal, as he sailed home on a ship laden with gifts for patrons and loved ones. A little captive was, in plainer terms, an African toddler. She was one of four or five small children whom Boufflers purchased in Senegal and dispatched to Paris in defiance of a royal edict (1777) banning "blacks, mulattos, and other people of color" from the kingdom. Bouffler's reckoning with slavery unfolded between the advent of race laws in domestic France and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. In 1788, one year after leaving Senegal, Boufflers joined the Society of the Friends of the Blacks, a revolutionary club that soon gained undeserved notoriety among West Indian planters as a conclave of abolitionist firebrands. This paper will situate Bouffler's tepid embrace of antislavery in light of his racial views, his fetishizing of African children, and his oversight of a giant commerce in African captives at the apex of the French slave trade. This paper is drawn from a manuscript that looks to the history of slaves and masters in Paris to sketch the city's transformation into an imperial capital dependent on slavery on the eve of the French Revolution. The dream of French universalism, as described in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, arose in a setting that was singularly ill-suited to making that dream a reality.
Christy Pichichero is an associate professor of French and history and Director of Faculty Diversity at George Mason University and the current president of the Western Society for French History. Her first book, The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2017), was a finalist for the Kenshur Book Prize for the best interdisciplinary book in eighteenth-century studies. She is currently writing two books: the first examines processes of racialization in eighteenth-century Europe; the second is about war and humanism. As an activist scholar, Pichichero organizes pedagogical workshops and roundtables on diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism at institutions throughout the United States.
Symposium 5: The Construction of Race and Racial Hatred by the State in French Algeria
March 29, 2021 from 18:00 to 20:30 CET with Joshua Cole and Judith Surkis
LETHAL PROVOCATION: THE CONSTANTINE MURDERS AND THE POLITICS OF FRENCH ALGERIA (CORNELL 2019)
Joshua Cole
Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation revisits the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people. Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army, who later rallied to France's Vichy regime during the Second World War; he finished his career in the Waffen SS. Lethal Provocation lays bare El Maadi's motives as a provocateur and exposes official efforts to cover up his role as an instigator of this massacre. Cole's bracing exposé of the Constantine murders reveals the government's role in shaping ethno-religious antagonisms in Algeria during the years preceding anti-colonial war and independence.
THE CORPOREALIZATION OF "MUSLIM LAW": LEGAL EMBODIMENTS OF RELIGION, RACE, AND SEX IN FRENCH ALGERIA
Judith Surkis
In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930 (Cornell, 2019), Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. Her book provides a sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria, and elucidates how "the Muslim question" in France became—and remains—a question of sex. Drawing on her book, Surkis's talk will explore longstanding French legal fantasies of Muslim law– born out, most recently, by Emmanuel Macron's bill targeting "Muslim" separatism. The colonial genealogy of a particularized conception of Muslim sex and the family as instituted in and by law illuminates enduring ideas of the embodied difference between secular French people and Muslims. Her paper will explore how the very legal technologies deployed by the state to eliminate so-called Muslim separatism in fact reproduce difference, thus sustaining and legitimating discriminatory practices
Joshua Cole is a professor of history at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on the entangled colonial and post-colonial pasts of France and Algeria. His most recent book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (2019) is a microhistory of a 1934 anti-Jewish pogrom in Constantine that reveals the role of French colonial administrators in inciting ethnic hatred and killing. His new book project examines the relationship between the colonial past and contemporary relations between France and Algeria. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the University of Alger-Bouzareah (Algeria). Lethal Provocation won the Mimi S. Frank Award in Sephardic Culture (Jewish Book Council), the J. Russell Major Prize (American Historical Association), and the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize (French Colonial History Society).
Judith Surkis is a professor of history at Rutgers University. Her first book, Sexing the Citizen: Masculinity and Morality in France, 1870-1920, shows how masculine sexuality became central to the making of a social order in republican France. Her new book, Sex, Law and Sovereignty in French Algeria 1830-1930 (2019), which won the Middle East Women's Studies 2020 book prize, explores the politics of identity in France and colonial Algeria from the vantagepoint of legal and gender history. The recipient of many prestigious fellowships and awards, Surkis is currently at work on a new project, entitled The Intimate Life of International Law: Children and Development After Decolonization.
Symposium 6: A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetic of Nonhistory
April 8, 2021 from 18:30 to 20:00 CET with Gary Wilder
A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetic of Nonhistory
Gary Wilder
This chapter of my book manuscript, entitled "Untimely History, Unhomely Times: On the Politics of Temporality and Solidarity," analyzes Édouard Glissant's innovative understandings of history and critique of contemporary historiography. He developed both from the standpoint of Antillean historical experience which, in his view, anticipated a globalized future that we now inhabit. Specifically, I propose ways of understanding Glissant's conceptions of nonhistory, tormented chronology, a painful sense of time, and a prophetic vision of the past. These temporal concepts are as important for Glissant's thinking as his more familiar spatial concepts (e.g., creolization, wandering, detour). They are integral to his poetic politics of worldwide Relation. Glissant's attempt to employ an Antillean optic to think history otherwise also helps us to grasp untimely temporal objects, processes, and practices that shape social life (especially in post-slavery societies), but for which conventional disciplinary history cannot easily account, or even recognize.
Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Program of Anthropology, with a cross-appointment in History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). His newest book, entitled "Untimely History, Unhomely Times: On the Politics of Temporality and Solidarity," will be published by Fordham University Press in 2021. In Spring 2018 he co-authored Theses on Theory and History, an open-source digital publication, with Ethan Kleinberg and Joan Wallach Scott. He is co-editor of two books: The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present, with Jini Kim Watson (Fordham University Press, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for the Life is the Matter, with Mariana Coronil, Laurent Dubois Paul Eiss, Edward Murphy, David Pedersen, and Julie Skurski, (Duke University Press, 2019). He is currently working on a manuscript provisionally entitled "More Abundant Life: Black Radical Humanism and the Atlantic World."
Symposium 7: The Prison Abolitionist Movement: The Convergence of Movements to End Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration
April 12, 2021 from 18:00 to 20:00 CET with Michelle Kuo
THE PRISON ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT: THE CONVERGENCE OF MOVEMENTS TO END IMMIGRANT DETENTIONAND MASS INCARCERATION
This paper begins with the observation that the prison abolitionist movement stands at the intersection of two social justice struggles: the demand to end mass incarceration and the call to end immigrant detention and deportation. The former, which alternately describes incarceration as "the new Jim Crow" or "carceral slavery," centers incarcerated Black people as the inheritors of America's long history of racial violence. The latter, embodied by #Abolish ICE, has increasingly called detention centers "immigration prisons" and figures the unauthorized immigrant as a longstanding victim of exclusionary policies underpinned by claims of American sovereignty. This convergence has not been inevitable. The legal doctrines under which prisoners and detained migrants are incarcerated—criminal law and administrative law, respectively—have been mostly discrete. This paper describes the legal conditions in the past thirty years, in particular the implications of the crimmigration field, that have made this convergence possible. It asks how this convergence might be fruitful in imagining new forms of collectivity among immigrants and descendants of American slaves.


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The left side of the laptop has the Kensington Security Lock Slot, the AC charging port, a full-size HDMI port, two USB 3.0s and the headset.microphone combo jack. On the right side it has the power button, volume up and down button, USB 2.0 port and an SD card reader. When inserted the SD card is pretty flush to the edge, which is nice because you won't run the risk of breaking it off inside your laptop.
This keyboard does have a bit of bounce and flex to it surround the keys, but it's not anything to get too worried about. Keyboard performance is pretty good.The key travel is adequate and the tactile feedback is great. This keyboard also has the two-stage backlighting feature of either low or high.
The trackpad surface is plastic unlike the glass finish found on the Dell XPS 13. The tracking is great. The two-finger scrolling and multi-touch gestures are highly responsive. The reason they are so precise is because Dell opted to use the MicroSoft precision trackpad drivers that are also found in the 13 XPS.
The biggest difference between the XPS and the 7000 is the 2-in-1 function modes. There is the laptop mode for everyday functions, stand mode is useful for presentations, then we have tent mode which is good for touch based games or just streaming media, and finally tablet mode. Due to the weight of this laptop tablet mode is kind of cumbersome. However, there was no excessive heat or fan noise when doubled back on itself. Obviously the keyboard is deactivated when in any mode other than the standard mode. A couple things to be aware when in tablet mode are when upright the two panels bounce off each other and the aluminum edges of the hinges are pretty sharp, especially when using it in portrait mode, so beware of that.
The Samsung panel that Dell chose on this unit is spectacular. The colors are vivid and the just poop out at you. The RGB coverage came in at 97% and the AdobeRGB came in at 76%. These are the same type of scores that you'd find the Dell XPS 13. You definitely won't have any complaints when it comes to the brightness levels, as they come in nice and bright. Also given that this is an IPS display you will end up with very nice viewing angles. One drawback however is the amount of reflection that this panel broadcasts. So working near windows or bright lighting must be keep in mind to avoid gnarly reflections. The 10-point touchscreen is nice and smooth and has highly responsive scrolling and multi-touch gestures make using the Windows 8.1 a pleasant and smooth experience.
The i5-5200U is a Broadwell chip that powers this laptop. You get pretty good performance from this chip for web browsing, programming and even light video and photo editing. Also keep in mind this is the same chip that powers the mid-tier Dell XPS 13. The bench scores come in really nice for this chip. With the new Broadwell U processors you also get the all-new Intel HD 5500 which is a fairly capable integrated graphics card. Just like the CPU, the GPU's benchmarks were outstanding. As far as temperature is concerned, even after about 45 minutes of constant game play remained pretty cool. The high was around 63 degrees Celsius, wit and average of 50 degrees Celsius. The keyboard stayed about 40 degrees Celsius. These temps are pretty impressive especially being under heavy loads.
A quick look into the internal components Dell featured the 500GB HD running at 5400RPM that is 7mm and is easily upgradeable to a Solid State Drive (SSD). Average read and write speeds were about 109-110 MBs per second. On day to day functions the fans are going to stay almost silent, but when put under heavier loads such as gaming they can tend to get a bit noisy.
The two bottom side facing speakers were pretty good. The sound quality is adequate and the mid-range levels are decent once you tune the setting in the Dell MaxxAudio Pro.
Battery life has been the downfall of this laptop compared to other 2-in-1 laptops on the market. Dell cut some corners here by only providing a 43WHR battery as compared to others like the Yoga 3 Pro and the HP Spectre x360 that give you bigger batteries. With casual web browsing and mixed YouTube and Netflix streaming with screen brightness set to about 50% you can expect to only get about 4-5 hours on a full charge.
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The partition of British India followed World War II, and ever since the independent states of India and Pakistan came into existence in 1947, the two countries have had a volatile relationship. The rapport has been characterized by wars, armed conflicts, numerous skirmishes and standoffs, and threat of nuclear conflict.
In sport, the two nations typically have a heated rivalry on the cricket pitch, which has been called one of the most intense sporting rivalries in the world. Millions across the globe tune in whenever the two countries face off.
On the tennis court, however, India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi have mended some of the political and sporting divide between their two countries by forming a successful partnership on and off the court. The two men, currently in the thick of the Wimbledon men's doubles draw as the No. 8 seed, first met over a decade ago and formed a fast friendship. They bonded over their love of Bollywood and football, even though Qureshi supports Liverpool and Bopanna is a fan of Manchester United.
The "Indo-Pak Express," as they've been dubbed, first partnered up in 2003, but enjoyed a four-year run from 2007 to 2011 that included four titles, seven finals and two appearances at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, once as an alternate. The unlikely pair was thrust into the international spotlight during their run to the U.S. Open final in 2010, where they upset two higher-seeded teams and reached the championship match without dropping a set.
"Initially we did have a few problems, because a Pakistani was partnering an Indian at major tournaments, but people appreciate the fact that we're sticking together and have done well," Bopanna said during the pair's breakthrough season in 2010. "There isn't too much prejudice now, but I would be naive to say there wasn't any grievance."
"The beauty of sport is that it brings together different cultures and religions," Qureshi said, nearly echoing Mandela's famous words. "It is free from all the conflicts. ... Whether my partner is a Jew, Christian or Hindu, if I feel I can do well and promote tennis in Pakistan, then I will play with him."
The duo was also awarded the ATP Tour's Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year Award for their "Stop War, Start Tennis" campaign, which began at Wimbledon in 2010, when they first proposed an exhibition match at the Wagah border between India and Pakistan (using the line that divides the countries as a "net"). They were also nominated as "Champions for Peace" by the Monaco-based organization Peace and Sport. The group of 54 athletes are "committed to serving peace in the world through sport," and includes Serbian fellow tennis player Novak Djokovic, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and British distance runner Paula Radcliffe.
The duo split up at the end of the 2011 season, as Bopanna partnered countryman Mahesh Bhupathi in the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympics. Qureshi spent much of the last two seasons playing with Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands.
Qureshi received the first Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award of his career after partnering with Israeli Amir Hadad at Wimbledon in 2002 amid controversy, and returns to the All England Club this year with Bopanna by his side. The duo reunited earlier this year and won their fifth ATP World Tour title together in February, and both enter Wimbledon knowing a title at the sport's most prestigious tournament would give unprecedented visibility to their cause.


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Abraham Lincoln -- It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
Albert Einstein -- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is exactly what pc error fix does.


ONS Geography produces two key postcode products – National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) and the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) - that are used by a variety of customers, including central and local government, private industry and academia.
The NSPL should be used by producers of National Statistics to allocate their source statistics at postcode level to a wide range of higher geographies.
The NSPL does this by allocating UK postcodes to output areas (OA) using the same methodology as that for the ONSPD. These OAs are then referenced to a wide range of higher geographies, for example local authorities, by a best-fit methodology that uses census population data.
Two NSPL versions are currently available - one based on 2001 Census output areas and one based on 2011 Census output areas. Both are included in the NSPL download.
The methodology used within the NSPL to allocate postcodes to higher geographies is different from that used in the ONSPD. For further information see 'Which postcode product should I use?' section further down the page.
The ONSPD is a Gridlink® branded product that pulls together data from members of the Gridlink® Consortium (Royal Mail, Ordnance Survey, National Records of Scotland, Land & Property Services (Northern Ireland) and ONS).
It links all current and terminated UK postcodes to the administrative, health and other geographic areas in which each postcode falls.
Users should note that postcodes that straddle two geographic areas will be assigned to the area where the mean grid reference of all the addresses within the postcode falls.
Which postcode product should I use?
An explanation of the differences between the NSPL / ONSPD to assist with deciding which product suits your requirements.
The ONSPD and NSPL are available with grid references at 1 metre resolution with UK coverage.
Information on the latest postcode changes is available on the Royal Mail website.
Postcode products are released quarterly in February, May, August and November and are available to download, free of charge, from the Open Geography portal.
Postcode products are provided in all the following formats: TXT, CSV DBF, MDB and multi-csv.
TXT - fixed record length with no text qualifiers.
CSV - Variable record length with data items delimited by commas and qualified with double quotes.
Version Notes and a User Guide provides comprehensive information about the products and are included with the data.
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Brent Wojahn/The OregonianA new timeline to fluoridate Portland's water could make opponents work even harder.
just made the race to fluoridate Portland's water supply more controversial, if that's even possible.
, two months before voters could weigh in under an initiative effort that will be launched by opponents.
The contentious issue of fluoridation has sparked hundreds to write or call the Portland City Council in advance of a hearing Sept. 6 and vote Sept. 12. Already, Leonard has lined up votes from Mayor Sam Adams and Commissioner Nick Fish in support of fluoride. But it's not clear if the new timeline will carry support.
Reached Friday evening, Shaff declined to comment on the hastened timeline that is included in the proposed in the City Council ordinance, which had been released earlier in the afternoon.
Opponents have pledged to collect 29,786 valid signatures in an effort to ban fluoride from Portland water and are targeting the May 2014 election. They could instead opt to block the pending City Council decision through a different election process. But they'd have just 30 days from the date of the City Council vote to collect 19,868 valid signatures.


RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) A Brazilian judge has released former IOC member Patrick Hickey on bail of 1.5 million reals ($500,000) so he can seek medical treatment outside Brazil.
The judicial order was published on Wednesday.
Hickey, who is reported to have a heart condition, was arrested three months ago during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on ticket scalping charges. He is awaiting trial, though not imprisoned, and has not been allowed to leave Brazil.
Hickey has temporarily stepped down from all of his Olympic positions.
He was president of the European Olympic Committees, head of Ireland's Olympic Committee, and a member of the International Olympic Committee executive board.
He is one of 10 people facing charges of ticket scalping, conspiracy, and ambush marketing related to the Olympics.


What we are not offering you is just another conference where you hear about the newest and best curriculum. We are not going to try and sell you a bunch of books. Our goal is to provide some good and practical content that is relevant to any student ministry followed up by round table discussions where you can hear from other experienced student pastors and leaders. This is meant to make sure that you are able to integrate and implement the material into your own student ministry.
Session 2 Engaging students with the Gospel.
Session 3 Equipping students by helping them discover who God created them to be.
Session 4 Empowering students to become world changers for Christ.
Each session will be about 25 minutes followed by a 25-minute round table discussion with 5-8 other student pastors and leaders. We will also provide 3 break-out sessions where you can connect and collaborate with other like-minded ministries.
*You are welcomed and encouraged to invite your volunteer adult leaders to attend any part of this retreat. They simply need to email info@thecampbytheriver.com so we know how many to expect and how much food to prepare. The only cost would be meals that they choose to eat on campus.


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"IECA requires its members to subscribe to a code of ethics"
While thinking about why I belong to IECA, I recalled my first day of the Summer Training Institute (STI) in Claremont, CA, nearly a decade ago. I was a rookie independent educational consultant (IEC) and had no idea what to expect from the faculty and students. But what happened that summer not only strongly affected my growing practice but also powerfully communicated the value of IECA's mission, membership, and motivations.
I met newbies like myself who were just starting their practices and had flown to California from across the country. Before STI, I had attended countless conferences as an attorney—and frankly hated nearly all of them (I challenge you to stay awake through a day-long Continuing Legal Education update on property law). But STI and the IECA leaders running the program enthralled me from the beginning. Practicing IECs shared anything and everything germane to starting and running a successful practice.
Conversations were lively and debate was encouraged. I first met Steve Antonoff (CO), CEO Mark Sklarow, and many well-established IECs who all enjoyed disseminating practical and immediately useful information. All attendees received a well-organized and surprisingly indispensable binder brimming with information about starting a practice, establishing pricing, and executing marketing. Most important, I learned that IECA's core mission is to espouse and promote within its membership—and beyond—a profound respect and passion for helping students find the proper educational match.
Fast forward to 2017. Remarkably, those same rookies I met at STI are today some of the best IECs in the country. I've cultivated durable friendships with many of them. In fact, the networks that I developed at STI and in the many years after, particularly at national meetings, invariably yield wonderful insights into how admissions offices work, how to work in the best interests of an increasingly-diverse client base, and how to manage a successful and ethical practice in an ever-changing field.
I also value IECA because it strongly deters unethical and unqualified individuals from sullying the profession. Indeed, IECA does something fundamentally important: establishing something akin to a licensing body for IECs. As we all know, states don't license independent education consultants and literally anybody can hang out his or her proverbial shingle claiming that they can help students navigate the increasingly Byzantine world of college admissions. I find it reassuring and refreshing that IECA requires its members to subscribe to a code of ethics, encourages and facilitates visits to colleges and universities, and emphasizes working to find the right match for students.
In addition, IECA catalyzes a collaborative culture. We're all here fundamentally to help students make the right choices—very few people get rich being an IEC and money is hardly ever mentioned by my colleagues as the driving force behind their career choice. That collaboration is evident from the variety of webinars IECA offers regularly that help me keep on top of my practice. I'm continually impressed with the quality of speakers and the professionalism of my fellow IECA members; they freely share information that in many other professions would be considered proprietary and would never be distributed among colleagues. On a personal note, I have been able to consult with IECA leaders regarding several situations where I needed advice about unorthodox circumstances, and the outcomes were always positive. But for my membership in IECA, I'm not sure if I could resolve those rare situations that surprise me even after 20 years of practicing as an IEC.
Finally, I support IECA because our high school students nationally are in deep trouble. In most states across this country, students are dramatically underserved by a system that does not properly allocate resources—money and personnel—into the vital role of college advising. It's appalling that many high schools in America have hundreds of students assigned to just one overburdened college counselor, yet I see it all the time.
As someone who works as a sole practitioner by choice, it is nice to know that I work not in isolation but as a member of a much larger organization that shares my belief that there is a wonderful match for every student in this country. I honor IECA's belief that with the right team approach—involving, among others, parents, teachers, and high school counselors—we can ultimately succeed in creating opportunities for those who might otherwise not find that terrific college match or might abandon the college search altogether.
Ultimately, IECA is an organization that is remarkably useful and a reassuring community of change agents committed to the success of every student.
—Jason Lum, MPP, JD, IECA (MN)
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A medical referral form is a template consists of medical form in which it is aimed to process a patient from one doctor to another or from one hospital to another. The medical referral form itself refers to the process of referring or directing a patient for a medical reason to another physician that is considered to be more appropriate in encountering his medical case. It is hoped to make the patient have proper treatments. There are some steps that can be followed to make a template of medical referral form.
Knowing the need of referring a patient to another doctor or hospital. It is important to make everyone understands that the patient might require some advance treatment and the doctor should be treating his patient according to his capability.
Addressing the doctor's name with a proper credential.
Making sure that the patient knows that he should be redirected to another doctor and he will probably take an advance steps.
Verifying the information of the patient including his address, email, phone number, and so on.
Providing information that is only required for assessment inquiry for the 'new' doctor.
Writing the 'new' doctor or referring doctor's personal information such as: email, phone number, fax number, and address.
Copying the file for the patient, the 'previous' doctor, and the 'new' doctor.
The date when the referral form is made should be provided. It is usually written in the top of the letter.
It should provide the information of the patient such as the full name, phone number, address with the details, and date of birth.
The symptoms that the patient encounter is also important to be provided in the referral form. It helps to diagnose the disease and to let the referring doctor know as well.
The result after performing medical assessment, for example, requires to be written in this section to assess the diseases.
If the previous doctor had given any treatments to the patient then it is necessary to be reported. It also aims to let the referring doctor know what have been down by the previous doctor.
It shows the most possible disease of the patient after doing medical examination and giving treatments.
If the patient has allergies, it is required to write them down here.
It helps the doctor to diagnose the patient's diseases.
A medical referral form should provide clear information about the patient who requires the referral and the referring doctor who the patient will be taken care of. It is also important to provide the reasons of referral why the patient needs to get another doctor whether it is for taking some advance treatments or for referring to a proper doctor that the patient might have taken a 'wrong' specialist for his case.
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Walk to the surf at the end of the street from this impressive home and enjoy afternoons on the expansive deck overlooking the bay.
This split level home offers 4 spacious bedrooms, all with built in robes, lower level lounge/rumpus room, family bathroom with luxurious spa bath, an additional central bathroom with shower, separate toilet, large laundry, modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances including dishwasher, wall oven and electric cooktop, and generous open plan dining and family room with an abundance of windows to encourage the natural light. The family room extends onto an enormous second level balcony with water views over the Bay, the perfect space for summer entertaining or family gatherings. The home also features a ground level deck.
The property is fully fenced with low maintenance landscaping, large lawn area and detached garage with large roller door – ideal for secure caravan or boat storage, or for all of the beach toys!
Located only 4 blocks from the surf beach and nature reserve, and only a short drive from Cowes and Phillip Island's tourist attractions, this property is an ideal holiday home or permanent position. Arrange your private inspection and secure this property for Summer!


Exercise is a powerful tool for creating wellness, making it one of the cornerstones of optimal health.
Regular exercise promotes heart health, respiratory health, maintains healthy muscle mass, and actively staves off obesity and the many negative health consequences that come with it. In addition to the physical benefits of exercise, there are mental and emotional benefits as well. For example, multiple studies have linked exercise to lower levels of stress and depression because of its ability to release endorphins and to eliminate distractions.
Now, a recently completed 25-year study has found a long-term link between exercise and mental acuity. In short, cardiovascular exercise appears to preserve brain function.
"Things that would be good for the heart are probably going to be good for the brain," David Jacobs, one of the researchers behind the study, told NPR.
The study established a strong correlation between teenage treadmill performance and memory tests at middle age, suggesting that being physically active had lasting mental health benefits, which is in addition to the many benefits of exercise that we already know about.
Mental sharpness, in terms of optimal health, is a vital part of our wellbeing. If your goal is to live a longer, healthier life, having a healthy mind is essential for enjoying the additional time with friends and family that you earn by investing in your health. With a strong mind, you can enjoy life, recalling old memories and making new ones as you continue to travel and interact with the people you care about. If we have a healthy body but don't have the healthy mind to go with it, what's the point?
If you weren't the most athletic teenager growing up or if you have made it well into middle-age without exercising regularly, don't worry, and that's coming from Jacobs and me.
The best you can do for your health is not to lament what you could have done in the past but to make the most of the body and the time that you have now. You don't need to sign up for an Iron Man competition or become an Ultra-Marathon runner either to enjoy the benefits of exercise. If exercise is not a regular part of your routine, start small, and consider connecting with a personal trainer, a health coach, or even by taking an email health challenge.
If you are looking for more ways to keep your mind sharp, the Habits of Health can help there. Try doing household chores and tasks with your non-dominant hand. It will feel awkward at first, but it will challenge your brain to build new neural pathways. Picking up a book, having intellectual debates, and playing brain-teasing games (on paper or in videogames) can also help.
Think of your brain as a muscle. It needs to be active, and it needs to be challenged! And like other muscles in your body, your brain is part of a larger machine. Taking care of the big picture by eating right and by exercising will translate into rewards for your mental health, as well!


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The village of Croagh is situated on the N20, roughly midway between Adare and Rathkeale. The population of the parish is around of 1,100.
The Irish for Croagh is Cruach, which means 'a rounded hill'. In the past Croagh was called Mayncroo. By 1109, Croagh had an abbey and two castles. After the defeat of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, Lewis says that James stayed one night at Amigan castle, which is now in ruins. According to Begley, in 1678, the then bishop of the diocese, Dr. James Dowley ordained priests from the famous school in Croagh.
Kilfinny is from the Irish Cill na Fionaí or Cill Finche, which means "the church of the wood". However, it is more commonly translated as "the church of St. Finneach". There were two women saints called St. Finneach. One founded a church in Knocktopher in Co. Kilkenny and the other came from what is now Co. Down. To confuse the issue further, the patron saint of Kilfinny is St. Ciarán. This St. Ciarán is from Clonmacnois and his feastday is on September 9th.
The original church in Kilfinny was built in 1790. When it was first built the roof was thatched and the church has been rebuilt three times since 1790. It is dedicated to St Kieran.
As you enter the church, the doors contain stained glass windows of St Ciarán on the right and St Finneach on the left. This is a large church with a high ceiling. To the left of the altar there is a statue to the Sacred Heart and on the right, there is a statue to Blessed Virgin.
Over the altar, which is wooden, there is a depiction of the crucifixion that includes the Irish phrase "I líontaibh dé go gcastar sinn" which means, "May we be caught up in the net of the Lord". Painted on the wall behind the altar are shoals of fish swimming into the tabernacle.
The church in Croagh was built in 1830, and is dedicated to St John the Baptist. On the left wall of the nave of the church, there is a wooden carving, which depicts the baptism of Jesus by John. There is a statue of Our Lady in the grounds of the church.
To the left of the altar there is a statue of the Sacred Heart. There is a statue of the Virgin Mary on the right. The stained glass window behind the altar depicts the Blessed Virgin, the Sacred Heart and John the Baptist. The stained glass window in the porch depicts John the Baptist baptising Jesus. On the floor in front of the altar, there is a crest of the Lamb of God.
There are church ruins in Kilfinny in the townland of Ballynakill. Westropp measured the church ruins, which consists of a nave and choir as 40 feet by 18 feet and 15 feet by 14 feet. The walls are 12 feet by 3 feet and in 1810 the choir was rebuilt and used as a burial place for the Pigott family. The ruins are now surrounded by a graveyard.
There is a church ruin in Croagh in the townland of Adamswood. This church was a collegiate church but prior to that, this was the site of an Augustinian abbey. According to a plaque on the abbey wall, this abbey was used as a seminary for a number of centuries. The abbey was founded around the 10th century and was used by a religious order called the Augustinians Canons. The chancel was still in use when Westropp visited the site in the early 20th century. The church was cruciform in shape and had been used as a Protestant church from the 18th century until the 1830s.
Begley mentions a chapel in Lismuck (now called Lisnamuck) but neither Begley nor Westropp give any details or site of this chapel.
There is a new graveyard at the back of the church in Croagh.
The old graveyard in Croagh is in the grounds of the abbey. The oldest headstone that we found was from 1802 and it was in memory of Denis Smith who died on January 1st of that year at the age of 28.
In the graveyard in Ballynakill, the oldest headstone that we found was to Michael Foley who died on April 23rd 1794, aged 26. However inside the church ruin we found a headstone that was broken in a number of pieces. This headstone was in memory to Anne Pigott who died May 28th 1683. It appeared that this headstone was originally on a pedestal near the wall of the church.
According to Danaher, there are three wells in the parish. In the Croagh division of the parish there are two wells. In the townland of Ballinvira the well is called Toberreendoney. This well is in a field and is just besides a stream. In the past visits were made before sunrise on Sundays. The well was famous for the cure of sore eyes and is said to be connected in some way with St Ita. According to local tradition, a woman was cured of blindness at the well.
The other Holy Well in Croagh is in the townland of Ballymacave and is called St James' Well. The feastday of the well was the 25th of July and crowds came to the well at dawn on the eve of the feastday.
The well is believed to have been on the bank of a stream but has disappeared due to the water from the well being incorporated into to a drainage scheme. Rags were hung on nearby bushes. The water cured St James' Evil, which Danaher tells us is scrofula, if applied by someone called James between sunset and sunrise. Scrofula is the development of glandular swellings and consumption, which is also called the king's evil.
The well in the Kilfinny part of the parish is in Ballynakill townland and is called St Ciarán's well. This well is besides the church ruin in Ballynakill. The well has steps leading down to the water level.
The rounds were mainly made on September 9th, the feast of St. Ciarán. The rounds took place partly in the graveyard and partly around the well. The water is believed to cure sore eyes and St. Ciarán's footprints are said to be visible on one of the stones at the well.
In the Marian Year 1988, the Costello family erected a shrine to the Virgin Mary. This shrine is near the abbey in Croagh, facing towards the N20.
This plaque was unveiled on 9th September 1990, the feast of St Ciaran to commemorate the bicentenary of Kilfinny church.


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The First-Timer's Guide to Page-to-Stage
August 29, 2013 | by Maddie Gaw
Daniel Crane, left, and Erin Weaver at the 2010 Page-to-Stage Festival.
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Capital Fringe and Source Festival are in the rearview. How will lovers of new and inexpensive work whet their appetites before next summer? Look no further than the Kennedy Center's 12th Annual Page-Stage Festival. Coming at you this Labor Day weekend, Page-to-Stage is a collection of free readings and rehearsals of work being developed by local Washington and Baltimore-area theatre artists. To help you plan ahead, theatreWashington breaks down who's doing what.
If you're an Everything Old Is New Again kind of guy/gal…
Classics endure for a reason, and one of those many reasons is that each successive generation of artists finds inspiration in them. Faction of Fools will be presenting their own commedia dell'arte version of The Three Musketeers. 1st Stage offers up One More Night, a musical written by Lou Ann K. Behan and Gary Fitzgerald, which transports elements of the Grimm Brothers' "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" to Napoleonic Italy. Synetic Theater will be previewing their upcoming movement-based interpretation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, while Theater J gives audiences a sneak peak of Our Suburb, Darrah Cloud's update of Our Town, moving the action to the 1970s in suburban Illinois.
If Bio-Theatre is really your thing…
Hollywood biopics are often criticized for taking creative liberties with their subject's life; luckily, theatre is all about taking creative liberties. MetroStage is showcasing Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song, the Maurice Hines-conceived musical that will be going up in January. American Ensemble Theater will present a staged reading of The Law of Return, Martin Blank's political thriller based on the real-life Jonathan Jay Pollard espionage case and his capture in DC. And First Draft gives us Hinged, Sarah Sorkin's look at the act of preserving someone's historical legacy—in this case, an obscure Tudor court painter named Levina Terling.
If you want to be taken to Another World…
Tired of watching the same kitchen-sink drama taking place in someone's crappy New York apartment? The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts takes us to the 17th century in The Good Devil, In Spite of Himself, Mario Baldessari's comedy about a traveling commedia troupe hounded by restrictive government decrees. African Continuum Theatre Company shows us a less cliché New York in Thembi Duncan's Mon Chaton, a depiction of gay and lesbian life during the Harlem Renaissance. And Flying V gives us The Pirate Laureate and the King of the Sea, Zachary Fernebok's next chapter in the story of Finn, a pirate in a world where poets fight word-to-word combat on the high seas.
If you want A Little Bit Of Everything…
Sometimes life is full of interesting surprises. dog & pony dc is already poised to give an audience a unique experience with its Toast Incubator Salon, a participatory devising workshop where audience members watch works-in-progress and then collaborate on something new. Theater Alliance will show a selection of short plays under the heading Risk and Return, culled from a writing prompt sent out on Facebook. And finally, The Inkwell presents excerpts from eight different plays in ten and twenty minute installments, guaranteeing a smorgasbord of variety.
For full festival details and specific dates and times, visit the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage event page.


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Often times, the first preseason game, both teams go in "dry" or without a gameplan. This tactic really allows for coaches to find players who can "play football" and see who separates themselves from the entire pact of new members on the team. This is the Dolphins second game this week, and they started game-planning earlier in the week. However, after interviewing Jaguars players, they didn't organize a game-plan. Before the beginning of the game, the Dolphins had the advantage, and the final score with Miami ahead, 27-3, reflected just that.
Why is Free Agent RB, DJ Ware available?
It doesn't matter how you get in the league, it's what you do once you're in it. There are countless examples of players making an impact on Sundays who were not drafted to start off their NFL career: Texans running back Arian Foster, Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker, Raiders wide receiver Josh Cribbs, Giants running back Ryan Grant, Bengals linebacker James Harrison, and Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz to name several. But there is also, current free agent Danny "DJ" Ware.
Devin Aromashodu Football Camp
Seven year NFL-veteran wide receiver, Devin Aromashodu gave back last week to his hometown, hosting an event for kids at his alma mater, Miami Springs Senior High School. In attendance were his friends and some of his former teammates, Vikings defensive players, Mistral Raymond, Fred Evans, Chris Cook, and Bears Tim Jennings and Major Wright came out to support. Bills DE, Mark Anderson and Lions S, Louis Delmas were also in attendance. Check out the article for exclusive interviews. Read more
Jaguars Offensive Lineman, Will Rackley Interview
Will Rackley played high school football with current Bills offensive lineman, Cordy Glenn. He decided to continue his collegiate career at Lehigh University. He is one of few players in the school's history to start every game in the four years. He earned First-Team All-Patriot League honors three times in college. He was selected 76th overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2011 NFL Draft. Rackley was part of an offensive line that helped Maurice Jones-Drew lead the NFL in rushing in 2011. Read more
Offseason Workout with Brian Tyms and Kevin Elliott, Interviews Included
I attended an off-season workout with two current NFL players, and a few players who are working their way up. I spoke with all of them, introduced myself to all of them, but only interviewed a couple of them. I interviewed Buffalo Bills WR, Kevin Elliott who was previously a member of the Jaguars and was a star on their Special Teams unit. I also spoke with Miami Dolphins WR, Brian Tyms who spent his entire rookie season on the practice squad. Check out this article about their off-season workout on January 26th. Read more
Detroit Lions S, Don Carey Video Interview via Skype
My first ever interview, Don Carey, becomes our first ever Skype interview for Pro Interviews! Make sure you check it out, and go ahead and give our video a view. I also transcribed it, in-case you wanted to read the interview instead of just watch it. Don Carey grew up a Lions fan in Michigan, and in just about five games (including the playoffs) with the Detroit Lions last year, Don Carey racked up twelve tackles, and had one pass deflections. Make sure you check out our interview.
Jaguars S, Antwon Blake Interview
Antwon Blake played college football for the University of Texas-El Paso. He was known for playing the gunner role special teams. He also was one of the top defensive backs to come out of UTEP in years. During his collegiate career, he totaled about 137 tackles, one sack, two forced fumbles, and also had one interception. He entered the 2012 NFL Draft, but went undrafted, and then, he signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. This interview was conducted before the 2012 NFL offseason. Read more
Packers Long Snapper, Brett Goode Interview
Brett Goode was a long snapper for the Arkansas Razorbacks and after college, he entered the 2007 NFL Draft, but went undrafted. He went through a series of cuts with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2007 and 2008, and talks about them. He signed with the Packers in 2008, and has remained with the Green Bay Packers since. He was a member of the winning Super Bowl XLV team. He talks about his specialty position, and so much more. This interview was conducted during the 2011-2012 NFL offseason!
Bethune Cookman NFL Draft Prospect DE, Ryan Davis Interview
Ryan Davis played college football in the MEAC at Bethune Cookman University. He was recruited to play TE at BCU, but ended up making the switch to defensive end/outside linebacker. During his four year career, he totaled he was there, he totaled 190 tackles, 44.5 tackles for loss, 24.5 sacks, and forced twelve fumbles. During his senior season, he was nominated to be the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year. He is entering the 2012 NFL Draft, and projected to go in the mid-rounds. The interview was conducted before the 2012 NFL Draft. He signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Colts LB, Cody Glenn Interview
Cody Glenn played college football at the University of Nebraska. He played running back throughout his first three years there, and then switched to linebacker for his senior season. He then entered the 2009 NFL Draft, and was selected in the 5th round by the Washington Redskins. He was cut in the preseason, but the Colts signed him and he remained with the Colts from 2009 to 2011. He played in Super Bowl XLIV mainly on Special Teams. This interview was conducted before he signed with the Baltimore Ravens.


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The Three Big Business Hubs in Central Luzon
Central Luzon is gradually becoming the go-to place for big corporate entities which either plan to set up business for the first time or those intending to expand their enterprises in the countryside. In fact, not may people know that there are already three big business hubs in Central Luzon.
The huge and wide plains of Central Luzon make it a perfect site for businesses to establish their companies in these large tracts of land (specifically business centers like Clark Freeport Zone and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), the two biggest business hubs in Central Luzon at present) instead of putting up with the chaos, maddening crowd and gruesome traffic of Metro Manila.
But wait, making its way to becoming the third business hub in Central Luzon is the Palayan City Business Hub (PCBH) which has recently been officially declared as a Special Economic Zone. At the same time, the three-hectare PCBH complex was also designated as an Information Technology (IT) Park.
Being declared as a Special Economic Zone makes PCBH comparable with the likes of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone and Clark Freeport Zone.
Thus, these three big business hubs in Central Luzon (SBMA, Clark Freeport Zone and the Palayan City Business Hub-PCBH) will definitely help not only its local inhabitants by providing employment, livelihood and a better life for residents, but will likewise absolutely contribute to the country's economy with the present investors operating in the area in the form of multinational companies and BPO centers as well as projected influx of investments that is already schedule to be established.
The three big business hubs in Central Luzon are projected to earn in the hundreds of millions especially when the 17-station railway from Manila to Clark becomes operational.
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has already started the infrastructure project which is being funded through the Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan and will be completed in the year 2021.
Once finished, the travel tome from Manila to Clark will drastically be reduced from two hours to a mere 55 minutes, and will accommodate a total of 350,000 passengers daily.
This drastic reduction of travel time from Manila to Clark will definitely make the operation of the three big business hubs in Central Luzon more efficient and productive since even employees from Manila who might be enticed to seek employment in the three big business hubs in Central Luzon will have a more comfortable journey from their home to their work in Central Luzon.
Now, it will be faster to travel from Metro Manila to Central Luzon than from Quezon City to Makati. Imagine that!
High-paying employment and lesser travel time are just some of the attractions which may persuade nearby residents of Central Luzon to work and be employed by the three big business hubs in Central Luzon.
TOURIST SPOTS IN CENTRAL LUZON
Aside from a comfortable and high-paying employment, Central Luzon likewise boasts of several tourist attractions.
This will be the topic of our next blog. See you soon!
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CeliaSue Hecht sent me an email about her experience with deceased loved ones. She gave me permission to share it with you, and I think you will find it interesting.
Then my father came through to me in a very vivid dream, during my divorce in 1996, it was a visitation, and I started having all kinds of woo-woo experiences and started doing psychic readings for others. As my gifts grew, the folks from the other side started talking to me, in dreams, in words, in visions, and even through music.
A recent experience: I was driving into Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Park. It was a beautiful warm sunny summer day. A song came onto the radio. And there were wildflowers everywhere, gorgeous colors. The song reminded me of an old boyfriend who had always wanted to show me wildflowers. And I wept because I knew this was his way of letting me know he was still around. (I found out last year that he had passed).
Another time, I was doing a writing class with an older woman. She kept talking about everything BUT writing, and any time I could get a word in to change the subject, she interrupted and kept up her monologue. At some point, I saw this young man, brown hair, in his 20's, who told me that he was her son and he had passed from AIDS. He was cracking jokes and finally, I asked her to verify what I was seeing and hearing. You would think that would have gotten her attention, but no, she kept right on. And she confirmed everything he told me about his name, and his dog. I spent the rest of the time listening to her and to him making me laugh. So you just never know who will come through and what they will say.
The first time I am aware of a loved one that I did not know in this life who came through and talked to me for awhile, was my grandmother who I was named after but she had died before I was born. Her name was Celia. She and I chatted while I was watching John Edward for the first time. I did not know who he was then. Funny that he, James van Praagh and I all come from the same vicinity, Queens, NYC.
Carl David's new book, Bader Field, embodies the emotional story of a son's loving relationship with his father - a legendary art dealer whose life is suddenly taken by a massive coronary at the young age of fifty-eight years. His death plunges the twenty-four-year old man onto the front lines of the family art business, which he had entered a mere three years prior. Battling with his own grief while trying to help his adoring but fragile mother survive, David forges forward with all of the elemental tools his father imparted to him. His journey proves a difficult one, not having yet recovered from the horrific loss of his brother to suicide just eight years earlier when he was found dead on the fourth floor of the Rittenhouse Square tonwhouse, which was home to the prestigious David David Gallery. His self-imposed obligation is to successfully take the family art business to the next generation and to give his own children every bit of love, kindness, and wisdom bestowed upon him by the unique man whom they will never know other than the mark he left on everyone who knew him.
Bader Field adds significant insight into the myseterious workings and dealings of the art world. David speaks from experience of having been immersed in it all of his life and having lived it from the inside out. There will be a tremendous crossover interest in this book as it combines the elements of an American family, it's goodness and its tragedy interfaced with the multifaceted aspects of the art business and flying small airplanes. Bader Field in Atlantic City was the oldest airfield in the country. With little sophistication, its two asphalt runways juggled single and twin engine aircraft and exuded a character and charm that created memories to last a lifetime. That is where this saga begins and where it ends as life comes full circle.
Carl David is the third generation of a four-generation family art business in Philadelphia. He is the author of Collecting & Care of Fine Art published by Crown in 1981. His article about Martha Walter, an American impressionist painter (1875-1976) was published in the American Art Review in May 1978.
Life and death are not random events; they are choices we make at a soul level. Everything that happens is in Divine order and is assisted with Divine help.
As it is in heaven so it is on earth and vice-versa. Birth, death and rebirth are simply part of a cycle similar to the seasons of our earth. There are seasons of planting, growing, waiting, harvesting, fading and resurrection. Even the time of winter or dormancy is an active time; for without it decomposition could not occur. And what is decomposition except for one thing being transformed into another? Energy replaces energy whether we see it or not. Death may seem like a dormant season, but it is far from it.
Like the proverbial glass that is both half full and half empty, a soul is both here on earth and on the other side. There are many dimensions and facets of our soul yet to be discovered. Death and life show a work in progress—a work intended to help us return to Source.
Do not be afraid! If death is upon you, rebirth is on its way. There's always a springtime to follow. We are just passing through this veil. There's always more than meets the eye!
Our loved ones who have crossed over communicate with us in a variety of ways. They may bring a familiar smell, or leave coins, feathers or other objects in our path. They may appear as a bird, an animal or take human form. They may come to us in our dreams, or may be the voice we hear in our head.
No matter how you sense their presence you can be assured that you're not crazy! They really are near and they want to communicate.
Do you have ears to hear what the spirit is saying? Do you see More Than Meets the Eye?


I am thinking the last 2 are more along the right path, but I'm not understanding what I'm reading in the Wordpress Codex or something. If anyone can help me out or steer me down the correct path, that would be amazing.
First of all: eventON is a pain to override styles with. The default styles are too nested, which makes overriding them inefficient and problematic.
That being said, !important should always work, if not, you are not doing something right within your own stylesheets. You can check if your styles are are even loaded through Google Dev tools, even if they are overriden by eventON.
Based on that, we can modify our dequeue-script as seen above.
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Hiking the urban not-so-wilds of Central Florida | Florida Hikes!
As I start today's hike at Seminole State Forest, I recall hiking here almost one year ago. It was our first Valentine's Day together, and when I asked Sandy what she would like to do, her response was "take me for a Valentine's Day Hike." Which I did! An overnight backpacking trip with me cooking a meal over the fire ring.
One year later, after 525 miles on the Appalachian Trail, and a couple of hundred more miles all around Florida, our hiking together has been a life-changing and wonderful experience. Now here I am out trying to hike the Florida Trail on my own. Even if right now, because of injuries, it's just a series of day trips.
Even though the Florida Trail runs within a few miles of home, I'd never been on this particular piece of the trail. That changed this morning when Sandy dropped me off along SR 46 west of the Wekiva River.
Knowing that most of the day was going to be either a road walk or shared bike path, I enjoyed the view of the river and the "short" walk in Lower Wekiva Preserve. Once I crossed SR 46, the real woods were behind me.
The Seminole Wekiva Trail starts after a road walk up Lake Markham Road. On one side there's a nice natural buffer between you and the road. But along the other side there are the back yards of monstrous homes, hidden inside many gated communities.
Where the sidewalk ends. Thoughtful, weren't they?
In one yard I was surprised by three adult deers. They were enjoying the day grazing in a nicely maintained yard. After a half a dozen others came by, you could see that they weren't concerned by us being there. I guess even the deer feel safer living in a gated neighborhood. I'm afraid that they were the last big natural thing of the day.
Asphalt, concrete side walks, and more asphalt: that was the song of the day. If you must hike in the urban jungle, access to food and services is a good thing. For lunch, I walked in to a new, McDonalds, fifty feet from the trail, right across from a Publix grocery and liquor store. If I was willing to go just a little farther, I could take in a movie, or buy a fine cigar.
Not far after passing McD's, I came to the big, showy pedestrian bridge over I-4. Standing there high above the mass of speeding cars, I felt a little "special," knowing that this multi-million dollar bridge was built for just us hikers and bikers.
Bridge over Interstate 4. Note the orange blaze!
When Sandy picked me up later in the day, I was tired of walking in the urban mass, but happy knowing that while out today I crossed the 100 mile mark. Other than with Sandy last year, I had never hiked this far in a single month.


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Covid Spreads, But Still No Data
Sandra Moscoso | January 12, 2021
This piece was written by DCOGC Board Member Sandra Moscoso and edited by Board Member Miranda Spivack.
This post is part of a series that will become a case study in the D.C. Open Government Coalition's 2021 open government education and training program. We will post information soon early next year about how to enroll.
In the meantime, follow us on Twitter at @DCOGC, our Facebook page, and our new Instagram account to get word of each installment in this search for information about Covid and its impact on DC schools, day cares, and other places children gather.
Update on the FOIA request
Short update, nothing to share…. While DC Health's General Counsel and FOIA Officer now have acknowledged my Nov. 18 FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request for data about Covid-19 cases and outbreaks in schools, daycares, and student support centers, they have not otherwise responded. Bottom line: data has not been released.
We took a break over the holidays, but the virus did not
DC infections have continued to rise. Two weeks after DC Public Schools (DCPS) Winter Break began on Dec. 23, the city sustained 3314 positive tests.
According to numbers reported on Jan. 7, 315 children ages 0-14 had tested positive for Covid-19 (from 1965 positive tests to 2280 on Jan. 6) in those two weeks.
In that same period, DC Public schools reported cases across six schools, with two 2 students and 22 staff testing positive. (Note, still no reporting on whether any daycare, private or charter school staff or students have been tested, or what the results from those tests are. )
Meanwhile, DCPS pressure to open school buildings is… confusing
DCPS announced that all public schools will open for some form of in-person instruction on Feb. 1.
The pressure to reopen schools is confusing.
There continue to be plenty of opinion pieces about why schools should open, and some DCPS and Non-DCPS families are advocating for reopening schools.
However, when you poll DCPS families, it's complicated. DCPS released its reopening survey results on Dec. 24. Overall, families are generally split about virtual or in-person experience in elementary grades, and lean towards virtual for secondary grades, but when you dig down, preference varies by geography.
PS3 – 5th Grades 6th-12 Grades
For elementary students, Ward 3, 6 and 4 families prefer in-person. Families in Wards, 7, 8 and 5 prefer virtual. Wards 1 and 2 are more evenly split.
For secondary students, Ward 3 families prefer in-person, Wards 5,7and 8 prefer virtual, and Wards 1, 2, 4, and 6 are split.
DCPS, while making the case for reopening school buildings in Term 2 (Nov 2020) has said seats will be offered via a selection process that will prioritize students furthest from opportunity. It is not clear within the released survey results whether the demand for in-person learning aligns with DCPS' priority of serving students furthest from opportunity, but a view into DC poverty by geography (by Ward) suggests DCPS priorities and parent demand do not align.
Data from American Community Survey (ACS) about poverty status by age group and published on https://opendata.dc.gov/.
A recent article by two Johns Hopkins epidemiologists illustrates the very real risks to opening schools, while underscoring the role schools play in society and why communities should strive to keep them open. The key, though, is in their conclusion: "We can only move forward safely with in-person learning by being honest about the risks posed by Covid-19 in schools and the ways in which we can overcome them."
So far, we are lacking this honesty and true transparency in D.C. from government agencies.The releases of information so far from D.C. Health and DCPS are confusing and difficult to understand. DC Health collects data, has the context of data in hand and blind spots, but at the point of sharing the data, it is diffused across multiple, disjointed platforms, or not shared at all.
How is a parent supposed to feel confident about the decision to send their students to school? How is a teacher supposed to feel safe?
We would love your thoughts. Write us at info@dcogc.org. Stay tuned to keep up with our request. And come to our class next year where we'll break it all down. Details soon.
Dec. 15 – Council Period 23 Report of the Committee of the Whole report issued.
Dec. 14 – Councilmember Silverman introduced "Pandemic Learning Emergency Act of 2020", which "Requires transparency in specific education and public health data related to in-person learning, including COVID test results by school."
Dec. 7 – DC Health's General Counsel and FOIA Officer responded that a search has started and the "deadline for a final response" for the request is set to "January 25, 2021, subject to extension should the Mayor extend the public health emergency and subject to reduction should the Mayor terminate the public health emergency earlier than December 31, 2020."
Dec. 3 – DC Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt, when questioned about data on infections at big events (called "Covid clusters"), said at a press conference that the agency will release those data "when people can understand it and it won't be misconstrued," according to a reporter's tweet.
Dec. 2 – DC Council Committee of the Whole & the Committee on Education Public Roundtable on Return to In-person Instruction in DC Public Schools
Dec. 2 – The mayor announced a new plan for testing even those without symptoms in the schools that are open – without a word about how the results will be shared.
Nov. 23 – The Office of the District of Columbia Auditor (ODCA) issued recommendations for improved transparency on Covid-19 reporting, including "report new and cumulative COVID cases for all in person congregate settings for children, including all sectors of compulsory education (age 5 through 18)and all early childhood education and childcare centers (ages 0-5)."
Nov. 18 – DC OGC board member and school parent Sandra Moscoso submitted a FOIA request to DC Health, acknowledged by the FOIA Portal, for the full set of data requested by Council member Allen.
Nov. 18 – even so, the D.C. government's coronavirus dashboard without fanfare started to include the number of cases and quarantines for students and staff at D.C. Public Schools (only). About 200 students returned to schools that day, far fewer than the school system predicted. No data are included in the dashboard on charter or private schools, daycares or student support centers, some of which have been open or partially open since the beginning of the school year.
Nov. 18 – Allen later told parents that staff from D.C. Health confirmed that they do collect Covid-19 data related to schools and daycares, but the agency isn't publishing it.
Nov. 17 – Council member Allen included the Ward 6 group's questions in the Council's weekly list to the mayor's office (an information system developed for the Covid-19 emergency to provide fast, on-the-record executive-branch answers to Council questions). The questions were:
The number of cumulative and current active cases in the past seven days by setting, i.e., child care center or school, including traditional public, charter, and private.
The number of students and separately the number of staff currently in quarantine due to Covid-19 by childcare center or school, including traditional public, charter, and private.
The number of deaths due to Covid-19 of either staff or students who were in in-person childcare centers or schools, including traditional public, charter, and private (this doesn't mean they had to have contracted Covid-19 in this setting).
The cumulative number of outbreaks in childcare centers or schools, including traditional public, charter, and private and the definition being used to define an outbreak.
Is this data being collected and tracked through our Contact Tracing? Can this be publicly reported on a regular and ongoing basis, perhaps weekly? If not, why?
D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) was at the parents' meeting. He agreed to follow up with D.C. Health to ask for specific data about Covid-19 cases in schools (and other settings for groups of children).
Nov. 16 — the Ward 6 Public Schools Parent Organization (W6PSPO) met to share experiences of walk-throughs and concerns about the DCPS reopenings two days away. Schools' plans had changed several times; facts were sparse, and therefore controversies arose about what's best. Word had circulated that a DCPS principal was disciplined for even questioning assumptions on equipment readiness and other details of the plan.
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CURRENTLY IN CHICAGO THERE ARE 50 STATUES AND 2% ARE WOMEN
Chicago Parks currently have 2% representation of statues of historical women! The 48 statues of men include William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus. The Chicago Parks feature representations of female figures, including nymphs, mermaids and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
In 2018 the only sculpture of a woman in the 570 Chicago Parks was unveiled. The statue depicts Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to win Pulitzer Prize. Also present is a memorial to Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, but this is There are also a handful of statues of women outside the parks in Chicago, including Georgiana Rose Simpson, the first black woman to finish a doctorate from University of Chicago.
Current Statues of Women in Chicago
The Jane Addams memorial sculpture was Chicago's first major artwork to honour an important woman. Helping Hands commemorates Nobel Peace Prize winner and social reformer Jane Addams (1860 – 1935). Jane Addams established Hull House, the nation's first settlement house in Chicago's poor immigrant neighbourhood on the Near West Side. The sculpture by Louise Bourgeois can be found in Chicago Women's Park.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for 'Annie Allen', making her the first African American to receive the Pulitzer. She later became the first black woman to be the poet laureate of Illinois as well as the first to serve as a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Her statue, by Margot McMahon was unveiled at Brooks Park on June 7 2018. The installation is designed to "both educate and invite public interaction" with Brooks' life and work – both of which have been under appreciated by the wider public, McMahon said.
Georgiana Rose Simpson
Georgiana Rose Simpson (1865-1944) received her PHD in June 1921 and was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in the United States. During her time at the University of Chicago, she faced significant incidents of racism and attempts to force her out of the women's dormitory at the campus which led to protests. Following her studies, Simpson taught at Dunbar High School before becoming a professor at Howard University. Teaching in Washington allowed her to reinvest in the strong Black communities that had contributed to her own success.


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Man rescued from river in Long Eaton
He's been taken to hospital
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A police helicopter was over Long Eaton this afternoon
A man was rescued from the River Erewash in Long Eaton today.
Police, ambulance and fire crews were called to Bennett Street following calls from the public.
Two rescue boats and a police helicopter were also at the scene.
A spokesman for Derbyshire police said: "We received a call at around 12.55pm about a concern for a man's safety who was near the water.
"The man has been recovered and is being treated at the moment. He was in the water and had to be recovered."
Emergency services on Bennett Street, Long Eaton
East Midlands Ambulance Service said the man was treated by paramedics and taken to Royal Derby Hospital.
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It's been a long silence on the blog. Sorry I am very busy with my day job and juggling with my private life. I hope busy life means a good thing for the year of horse 2014 for everyone. Just to share a wedding guestbook I did last year. It was my first time but I'm very happy that the receiver; happy couple liked it. Below are the final wedding guestbook with 60 pages. The theme is purple, pink -dusty pink with a lil' bit of sweet, dreamy and soft element.
Special feature of the design would be the birds with the couple's initial name. "F' on each of the bird tail. Besides that, I added some blings and two small swarovski.
Close-up on few of the tiny elements on the wedding guestbook.
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."