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Two-generation programs and health
Sherry Glied, Don Oellerich
Urban Initiative
Parents' health and children's health are closely intertwined-healthier parents have healthier children, and vice versa. Genetics accounts for some of this relationship, but much of it can be traced to environment and behavior, and the environmental and behavioral risk factors for poor health disproportionately affect families living in poverty. Unhealthy children are likely to become unhealthy adults, and poor health drags down both their educational attainment and their income. Because of the close connection between parents' and children's health, write Sherry Glied and Don Oellerich, we have every reason to believe that programs to improve parents' health will improve their children's health as well. Yet few programs aim to work this way, except for a narrow category of programs that target pregnant women, newborns, and very young children. Glied and Oellerich assess these programs, discuss why there are so few of them, and suggest ways to expand them. Their chief conclusion is that structural barriers in the U.S. healthcare system stand in the way of such programs. Some of these barriers have to do with health insurance, access to care, and benefits, but the biggest one is the fact that physicians typically specialize in treating either children or adults, rather than families as a whole. The Affordable Care Act has begun to break down some of these barriers, the authors write, but much remains to be done.
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UN General Assembly next president a woman: Ecuadorean foreign minister
Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 09:19 UTC
Ms. Espinosa had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Minister of Defense, and Coordinating Minister of Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Antonio Guterres said Espinosa is an experienced diplomat and politician who understands "the need to cooperate when addressing current global challenges."
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday elected Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, president of its upcoming 73rd session, becoming the only fourth woman to hold that position in the history of the world body and the first since 2006.
Ms. Espinosa secured 128 votes against 62 votes obtained by the only other candidate, UN Ambassador Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake of Honduras.
In her acceptance speech, Ms. Espinosa also noted that she was the first woman ever from Latin America and the Caribbean to preside over the Assembly.
She said she would maintain an open-door policy during her presidency and "act as an impartial, objective and open facilitator."
"As you know, I am also a poet as well as a politician. As such, I am fully aware that no view is useful if we do not see, and no word has value, if we do not listen. I will be ready to listen to you all and work for, and with you," she said.
In his congratulatory remarks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres introduced her as an experienced diplomat and politician who understands "the need to cooperate when addressing current global challenges."
She was the first woman to be named Permanent Representative of Ecuador in New York, after having served as Ambassador in Geneva.
"Your direct knowledge of the intergovernmental negotiations on human rights, indigenous women and climate change will help the General Assembly advance the agenda of the United Nations," Mr. Guterres said.
As a writer and poet, Ms. Espinosa has published more than 30 academic articles on the Amazon River, culture, heritage, development, climate change, intellectual property, foreign policy, integration, defense and security. She has also published five volumes of poetry and received the Ecuadorian National Poetry Prize in 1990.
The current Assembly President, Miroslav Lajčák, also congratulated Ms. Espinosa on her election, saying that having only four women among the 73 Assembly Presidents, is "not a record to be proud of", urging continued efforts towards full gender parity.
Ms Espinosa said her priorities during the upcoming Assembly session, which starts in mid-September, include UN reforms, finalization of the global compact on migration, and implementation of the Addis Ababa Agenda on financing for development.
Climate action, employment, inequality, and peace in the Middle East, including the rights of the Palestinian people, are also on the agenda.
Also today, the Secretary-General drew lots to determine which Member State will have the first seat in the GA Hall at the 73rd session, with Mali gotten picked.
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True Collaboration on A True Novel
Interview by Anna Zielinska-Elliott and Lynne E. Riggs
Juliet Winters Carpenter is a well-known translator of Japanese literature and research professor at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto. Her list of translations is very long and includes works by Abe Kōbō, Tawara Machi, Enchi Fumiko, Shiba Ryōtarō, and many other writers. Her recent translation of Minae Mizumura's* A True Novel, published in 2013 as part of the Japanese Literature Publishing Project, has won the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award's Grand Prize in Fiction. It was also a runner-up for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award. A True Novel is a story within a story. The "outside" story is narrated by a Japanese writer, named Minae Mizumura (like the author). The narrator claims that what she writes is based on real events. The protagonist of the "inside" story told within the novel is Taro Azuma, a Japanese man whom the narrator used to know as a girl growing up in the United States. Taro comes from a very modest background but gains wealth and success in America; yet all the while he remains devoted to his first love, Yoko.
The story begins in 1950s postwar Japan and ends over 40 years later. Set in Tokyo and Karuizawa, it tells the tale of several families against the background of a rapidly changing Japanese society. Parts of the book are set in the United States, beginning in the 1960s, where the country is seen through the eyes of Japanese expatriates. The plot and characters are loosely based on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights: Taro is reminiscent of Heathcliff; his love interest, Yoko, has some similarity to Catherine; and the unreliable narrator, Fumiko, is a former maid, as was Ellen Dean in Brontë's novel. A True Novel consists of two volumes that total over 850 pages in English.
A True Novel is a fascinating read, a great story with a rich and multilayered background. The English translation is excellent and does full justice to the original work, maintaining the same level of complexity and depth. Since Mizumura grew up in the United States and knows English well, she was able to collaborate with Carpenter during the translation. Carpenter agreed to answer a few questions about this process for SWET.
Anna Zielinska-Elliott: I have truly enjoyed reading A True Novel in English. I got caught up in the plot and couldn't put it down! I was very impressed by the translation.
Juliet Winters Carpenter: Thank you!
AZE: Did you want to translate the book and suggest it to the publisher, or did the publisher approach you?
JWC: I was invited by a representative of the Japanese Literature Publishing Project to jump aboard. I was in the middle of two other mammoth projects—a translation of a
commentary on the Tannishō, a classic of True Pure Land Buddhism, and the multivolume Clouds above the Hill by Shiba Ryōtarō—so I wouldn't have signed up for it on my own. When the invitation came, though, I realized it was too precious a chance to let slip. One of the smartest things I have ever done!
AZE: I would like to ask about possible and obvious influences. First, we know that the plot is loosely based on Wuthering Heights. Were there any other novels that came to mind when you were translating the book? Did you refer to Wuthering Heights?
JWC: I looked at Wuthering Heights after doing the translation—I had read it before, and didn't see any real reason to read it again while translating the book. Echoes of Wuthering Heights come up constantly, of course. Other stylistic influences are from Sōseki and The Tale of Genji. Mizumura told me that she patterned Fumiko's voice after the ladies-in-waiting in Genji. You could also substitute Gatsby for Taro.
AZE: I read Susan Chira's review of A True Novel in the New York Times and am very curious how you feel about this statement from the review: "Yet Mizumura has triumphed in taking a quintessential Western Gothic and making it wholly Japanese. . . . At least between its pages, Western tradition does not eradicate Japanese literary sensibility. She has drawn on the West for inspiration but created something indelibly, irresistibly, Japan's own." What do you think about the urge some critics seem to feel to create such dichotomies between "Japan" and "the West"? Are these categories still valid, in your opinion, especially in the case of a writer who tries to straddle both cultures?
JWC: This is an interesting question. I was actually pleased by Chira's statement, since the novel is admittedly based on a Western classic and yet draws from Japanese history
and literary traditions as well. Certainly the human experience is largely universal—which is why translation is possible in the first place, and why Mizumura can be inspired by different literary traditions simultaneously—but the particulars of that experience vary among cultures, and a clumsy imitation could end up sounding a bit ridiculous. I think of TV dramas made in Japan where Japanese characters go on having conversations that grate on the ear, grown siblings saying things like "Do you think Father still loves Mother?" Japanese people just don't talk that way, even if some Westerners do. I think the novel is a successful transposition of a Western framework into Japanese, and more, and if that comes across in the translation, then great.
AZE: I think the title, A True Novel, is very clever because it can be taken as meaning that it is a true story, based on real events, while it also works as a translation of the phrase honkaku shosetsu (本格小説). Did you consider other titles before you came up with it?
JWC: The French title is Taro, un vrai roman, so we did consider doing something similar in English. Encyclopedia Britannica still gives the title as "Genuine Novel."
AZE: I was very impressed by how you seamlessly wove into the text little explanations about Japanese things and places. I also noticed a longish fragment explaining the history of Karuizawa. Did Mizumura write it especially for the American edition? Or did you come up with it?
JWC: A lot of rewriting went into the final version. I don't know how carefully you compared the translation and the original, but the description of Karuizawa is a good example of something inserted into the text for the benefit of Western readers. I would certainly hesitate to write anything that extensive all by myself. When a longer passage such as that needs to be inserted, Mizumura writes it herself in either English or Japanese, I translate/rewrite it, and then we go over it together—usually quite a few times before it's finalized. This was the same procedure we followed for the book The Fall of Language in the Age of English [Also available on Amazon Japan - Ed.], which is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in January 2015. Shorter things I may do myself, or she may ask me to come up with something.
Lynne E. Riggs: You have mentioned that you and Mizumura worked together closely on the translation. Could you tell us more about the process?
JWC: I would have to say the entire translation was a collaboration. (In fact, the paperback edition will say just that—translated by yours truly "in collaboration with the author.") Before I became involved, another translator worked on the first half, but she ended up having to withdraw for various reasons. I therefore originally signed on to do only the second half: volume 2 in the Japanese edition, starting with "Lightbulbs." (The idea that I would have to do "only" half the book, while clearly a pipedream, was another factor that helped me commit to the translation.) While I was working on my half, Mizumura herself went over the first half, putting unimaginable effort into trying to redo the still-rough translation to her satisfaction. She probably shortened her life in the process. I understand that her longtime American friend, a novelist named Anna Shapiro, gave her considerable help along the way, but the whole thing was apparently too much for Mizumura and took a great physical and mental toll. Eventually I realized what she was doing and felt terrible. In the end I worked equally hard or harder on the first half, which four people before me had had a hand in: the original translator, Mizumura, Shapiro, and editor Stephen Shaw. I can truthfully say that Mizumura and I went over every word of the entire novel together, more than once. We also continued to work with the great Stephen Shaw and benefited enormously from his insights and down-to-earth comments—while not necessarily accepting everything he said, either. All of that had to be worked through, line by line. It may sound grueling, and I guess it was, but Mizumura and I were on the same wavelength and it was fun, too. I should also mention the many contributions of her friend Toyota Horiguchi, who designs her books, takes the photographs in them, and offers every other conceivable kind of technical and moral support. I also benefited greatly from his help. I particularly remember the night before we had to turn in the final translation to Other Press—we stayed up working till 5 a.m.—I just had time to go home and shower and sleep for maybe an hour before going to campus to teach three classes. I guess my adrenaline was pretty high.
LER: Could you share some examples of the kinds of places in the book that were the focus of your particular collaboration?
JWC: Here is a passage from the second half—Fumiko commenting about Masayuki and Taro visiting Yoko in the hospital (p. 841). First is the Japanese, followed by my
rendering (JWC), then Stephen Shaw's edited version (SS), then the collaborative wording (JWC&MM). I think you can see how it comes into sharper focus.
看護婦さんたちの中には見るからに立派な二人がとっかえひっかえ出入りするのをぼうっと上気してみている人もいますが、働き盛り分別盛りにある男の人たちがこうして交代交代で見舞いに来るだけの日を送っているのは、いくら正月休みとはいえ、何か世の中に対して申し開きができないような気がわたしはしました。これが最後になるとは思ってもいなかったからです。(p. 438)
Sentence 1 of the English translation rough draft: Some nurses looked on with wonderment at the constant comings and goings of these two stunning gentlemen. →
SS: Some of the nurses seemed curious about the constant coming and going of these two good-looking men. →
JWC & MM: Some of the nurses seemed star-struck at the alternating appearances of these two dashing men.
Sentence 2 rough draft: I myself thought the situation rather ludicrous. I never thought that this would be the end. →
SS: I myself found it a bit ludicrous. I never imagined that this would be the end. →
JWC & MM: I myself found it a bit ludicrous that two men in the prime of life should spend all their time taking turns coming to see her in the hospital, getting nothing else
done—even granting it was New Year's vacation. I never imagined that this would be the end.→
JWC & MM: I personally found it a bit ludicrous that two busy grown-ups should spend all their time taking turns coming to see her in the hospital, getting nothing else done—even granting it was New Year's vacation. I never thought that this would be the end.
Mizumura often wanted the sharpness of Fumiko's disapproval to come through more clearly, as it ends up doing here. This was a recurring pattern: Stephen would pare and simplify, and this would serve to highlight what wasn't coming through in the text, so that we would return to it and rethink the premise of the passage to bring out its underlying meaning more clearly.
Since the part omitted from the first two versions of the second example above is present in the original, clearly for some reason it was cut and then reinstated. Just how it all happened is a bit fuzzy in my mind now. . . and I suppose if I did it now, it would all end up differently! Finally, here is how I changed something in response to a request from Mizumura. This is Fumiko recalling the moments just after Yoko's death (p.852 in A True Novel).
ところが非常口を出て冬の夜空の降るような星のあいまから細い月が清さやかにアスファルトの駐車場を照らしているのを見たときです。よう子ちゃんが死んでしまった。(p. 456)
Rough draft: I went out the emergency exit. I saw the wintry sky filled with countless stars. Then I saw how, through those countless stars, clear light from the sliver of moon shone on the asphalt parking lot. That's when it hit me. Yoko was dead.
SS: I went out by the emergency exit. I saw the wintry sky filled with stars. Then I noticed, in addition to those stars, the light of the moon on the asphalt parking lot. That's when it sank in. Yoko was dead.
(Mizumura request: Could we do something more with the description of the moonlight?)
JWC: I went out by the emergency exit. I saw the wintry sky filled with stars, and from among them fell shards of moonlight, glittering on the asphalt parking lot. That's when it sank in. Yoko was dead.
So yes, it was a mutually creative process.
AZE: These examples are fascinating! I would like to know more about the logistical side of the collaboration. You live in Kyoto and Mizumura lives in Tokyo, right?
JWC: We would work separately and communicate by email, but then always meet in person to go over things together. The process was often exhausting, but at the same time exhilarating. At one point I stayed with her in Karuizawa (Oiwake) for an entire week. Other times she would come down to Kyoto for an extended stay, and we would work in a friend's apartment, often putting in eight-hour days over a period of a week or two. Eventually we developed a rhythm—a day apart, a day together, and so on. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. I would have to say there are few people in the world I feel so close to as her. At the same time, I can only thank the translation gods for letting me have this rare experience with a writer so gifted and so passionate about what she does.
LER: Mizumura's abilities in English are of course unusual, and I wonder if she ever attempted to write in English from the outset.
JWC: Mizumura is definitely a Japanese writer, although her first published work was in English—a widely praised scholarly essay on the literary criticism of Paul de Man. But fiction is a different matter, and when she decided to become a full-time writer she made the deliberate choice to write in Japanese, the language closest to her heart. Anyone wanting to know more about what it means to her to write in Japanese instead of English should pick up a copy of The Fall of Language in the Age of English, where she delves deeply into the ramifications of that act.
LER: What should we look for as Mizumura's particular contribution, through this translation, to literature in English?
JWC: There is a stylistic freshness and originality—you could even say audacity—in all of Mizumura's works, which together explore the evolution of modern Japanese language and literature. Each one seamlessly does something never before attempted, from completing Sōseki's last, unfinished novel to mixing Japanese and English in her semi-autobiographical novel Shishosetsu from Left to Right to demonstrating the nature of the "I-novel" in a lengthy, meaty prologue before moving on to the reworking of Wuthering Heights, weaving together I-novel and "true novel," East and West, in a powerfully imagined way. Each of her works is unique, a stylistic tour de force.
AZE: This is not a question but a comment. I really admired how you dealt with some of the set phrases in Japanese that often sound really awkward in translation. For example, sore wa sore wa o-tsukaresama deshita became "We are most grateful to you, my dear" (p. 249), and you cleverly turned kitsune ni bakerarete into "I was completely foxed" (p. 179).
JWC: Thank you!
AZE: There was one spot that took me by surprise. In the prologue, there is a scene when Minae meets Taro Azuma on the dock, wearing shorts. In Japanese, it says:
私は小さく会釈をすると、慣れないショーツの姿を意識しながらぎこちなく歩きを運び男から三メートル離れたとこれで停まって同じように欄干に寄りかかって海に向かった。 (p. 66)
AZE: In the English, a phrase about "Japanese prudishness" was added:
I acknowledged his presence with a slight bow and walked toward him, acutely conscious of wearing shorts rather than a skirt. My years in the States obviously hadn't fully freed me from my Japanese prudishness: I stopped some distance from where he stood, and leaned on the railing myself. (emphasis added; p. 61)
AZE: I am curious if this kind of intervention was something suggested by Mizumura, or did you feel that the sentence needed more explanation in English?
JWC: I am fairly certain this is Mizumura's addition—I wouldn't have come up with such an explanation on my own. She felt that Japanese readers would understand this without having it spelled out, but for Western readers, who think nothing of wearing shorts, this cultural difference needed clarification. A valid point. An additional note: You see that 三メートル becomes simply "some distance." Rather than convert all meters to feet, etc., we left measurements to the reader's imagination where possible. It sounds too precise in English to be always measuring such things.
AZE: Is Taro Azuma a real person? Is that his real name, as Mizumura claims in the book? Or is he based on a real person? Or are we not supposed to ask?
JWC: There is someone who proudly claims to be the "real" Taro, and possibly elements of his life are woven into the story, but obviously the Taro in the novel is fictional.
AZE: How long did the translating and editing take?
JWC: It was April 2010 when I was first contacted. I met Mizumura in May, and things took off from there. The final proofreading was in summer 2013, so that's just over three years total.
AZE: That is a long time! You mentioned that it was occasionally tiring, but it must have also been a fascinating experience.
JWC: To me it was one of the richest experiences of my life—getting to hear directly from the author about how she shaped the novel or conceived of a scene or character, and then working with her to bring the English text into closer alignment with her vision. I really can't begin to tell you how satisfying it was.
AZE and LER: Thank you very much.
* Please note SWET style on Japanese names at the SWET Style Sheet page.
Note: The Japanese Literature Publishing Project is a government-funded iniative launched in 2002 to translation Japanese literature into English, French, German, and Russian. See also the SWET article, Nurturing Literature in Translation.
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RICHMOND, Ind. – A new urgent care facility that is not affiliated with the Reid Health network could soon be under development on the city's east side.
First Care Clinics, a Kentucky-based chain of urgent care centers, has filed plans with the state to build a new, nearly 4,500-square-foot structure in the 3600 block of East Main Street, where two existing buildings are currently situated.
The facility would be the area's second business concentrated on providing urgent care services, but unlike the existing facility it would most likely lack a direct affiliation with Reid Health's urgent care center along Chester Boulevard.
According to First Care's website, the urgent care chain treats a variety of serious illnesses and injuries that are not considered to be life-threatening; it also works to diagnose common illnesses and offers diagnostic and screening services, along with wellness exams.
The centers generally work with all patients, regardless of medical insurance status, and also offers payment plans, according to the website.
In addition to the existing Reid urgent care, several other facilities in the area serve as health centers for those who live and work in Wayne County.
►RELATED: Can downtown support three health clinics?
Filings with the state indicate the building will be built on property spanning the 3600 E. Main St. and 3640 E. Main St. addresses, though further details regarding the building's design and layout have not yet been made public. Currently, two buildings sit on those lots.
The 3600 building was at one point a loan facility (in addition to high-turnover from other businesses that leased the space), while the building at 3640 was most recently an automotive parts store.
According to the City of Richmond's permits and inspections office, First Care Clinics has not yet filed local building permits, so it remains unclear when construction on the new facility — or demolition of the existing structures — is expected to start.
A media contact for the chain in a phone call Tuesday did not comment on the plans for the new urgent care, but said he would be able to provide information down the road, noting plans are still being finalized.
First Care recently began advertising job openings for the Richmond location on its website and multiple search engines for jobseekers. The posted positions include two nurse practitioner openings and two radiologic technologist openings; for each title, one position is full-time and the other is on-call or part-time.
First Care has 14 clinics that are already operational and appears to be working toward expanding its reach along the Interstate 70 corridor through Indiana. The urgent care center chain also has job listings in Indianapolis and Greenfield as well as a planned location in New Castle.
Most of First Care's existing locations are scattered around smaller cities and towns in Kentucky, though it has two facilities in Indiana, one in Bedford and the other in Seymour.


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Will The Bear Make Chicago's Beef a National Dish?
The whole country wants a taste of those Italian beef sandwiches.
Marnie Shure
Image: Frank Ockenfels/FX
Who knew that a sleepy summer hit on Hulu about a struggling family-owned restaurant would dictate the culinary tastes of the nation? Such is the power of good TV—and good Chicago cuisine.
Let's make crustacular fried chicken in a cast iron skillet
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The Italian beef has long been Chicago's unsung signature sandwich, and its majesty often gets lost in the cacophony of bad jokes about Chicago's other famous food, the deep dish pizza. But interest in the sandwich is spiking now that images of greasy, drippy, wax-paper-wrapped beefs are filling living rooms across the country—and beef stands across Chicago (and beyond) are reporting an increase in demand.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Gino's East, a chain of restaurants founded in Chicago with locations nationwide, has been selling twice as many beefs at its Los Angeles location than it was selling before the premiere of The Bear—300 per day compared to 150 per day. That matches the Google Trends data for searches related to Italian beef, which roughly doubled after the series' June 23 premiere.
It's a phenomenon that's also been clocked at Buona, a Chicago-area chain of fast casual restaurants specializing in Italian beef. Joe Buonavolanto III, VP of Franchise Operations at The Buona Companies, spoke with The Takeout about The Bear's influence on ordering patterns.
"I thought it was very entertaining," Buonavolanto said of his experience watching The Bear. "I thought there were some components that were accurate, some that were maybe a little far-fetched for businesses like ours." Still, its portrayal of the sandwich itself was rightfully reverent.
"For years, it was a regional item, and unless you visited the greater Chicagoland area, odds are you'd never even heard of it," said Buonavolanto. "[On The Bear], there's just so much appreciation for Italian beef—the way they made and maintained it—that it got people to say, wow, look at this sandwich!"
Natives of the Chicagoland area might not even be aware, but some ingredients in a classic beef generate "a lot of intrigue," Buonavolanto says, because consumers aren't even aware they exist.
"Giardiniera—a lot of people in other regions of the US have never had much giardiniera, which is a Chicago staple," he explained. "Obviously, the show was a success and brought a lot of awareness to Chicago's original beef stands. We're selling a lot of Italian beef sandwiches, for sure."
Buona has a partnership through Goldbelly that allows customers nationwide to order its Italian beef sandwich kits in various sizes. Additionally, the company will soon be launching a franchise program, expanding its restaurants across the Midwest and select states nationwide—a move serendipitously timed with the release of The Bear and the craze it kicked off.
"For diners who have never had an Italian beef, hopefully they'll see one in their communities in the next few years," said Buonavolanto, who recommends ordering the sandwich "baptized," aka fully dipped in the gravy, bread and all.
If you can't find a beef stand near you and lack the patience for a Goldbelly shipment or the construction of a new restaurant in your neighborhood, you can always do what no actual Chicagoan does and try making your Italian beef from scratch. Or better yet, just take a few strategic shortcuts.


Waiatarua residents husband and wife couple Coralie and Adam Usmani are hosts of the new AltTV show Top of the Rocks. Bands apply to appear and perform a set at the Space nightclub in Newmarket in front of a live audience.
With colour photo of Waiatarua resident Coralie and Adam Usmani.


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Join The People's Walkout
Stanford Review
By Elliot Kaufman and Nikhil Prabala
Now is a time to stand together
The People's Walkout planned for tomorrow bears a message of love and community. It's a demonstration that our campus is unafraid to step up and acknowledge that we care. The Walkout is a declaration that all of us are worthy of dignity and respect. We plan on joining in solidarity with Muslims, Latinos, and every other group that may need to protect its rights over the next four years. We need to show them our support.
However, we cannot fully support the demands presented by the rally's organizers.
The demands listed by the organizers of The People's Walkout
We believe that we will need a community empowered to organize and speak out against injustice in the coming years. As a result, we cannot denigrate "the cloak of free speech" — we will all need it to defend what is good and true in the age of Trump. We should condemn the content of prejudiced or fear-mongering speech, not its right to be expressed.
Additionally, demanding that Stanford become a "sanctuary campus" raises an entirely separate host of concerns. First, refusing to enforce federal law means risking our federal funding. Stanford's recent policy statement on marijuana makes this point clearly.
"Stanford University receives federal funding for various uses, including research and student financial aid. As such, Stanford must comply with federal law"
This statement is as true for federal drug laws as it is for federal immigration laws. President-Elect Trump even spent a significant portion of his campaign promising to remove federal support for sanctuary cities, and violating federal law would risk the funding that is extremely important to low-income students. Our federal funding also sustains valuable research, helping Stanford faculty and students to contribute to the betterment of society. There are competing demands upon our compassion.
Furthermore, the petition asserts that Stanford has the power to deny access to the campus for the police department, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That is decidedly not the case and would set a dangerous precedent.
Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities cannot bar federal officials from entering the city. Neither can schools or states. Under the Constitution, the federal government has a right to enforce federal laws. To insist otherwise would be open rebellion. The memo cited by the petition to justify their claims requires only that federal agents obtain approval from their own superiors — not the Stanford administration — before enforcing federal law at a "sensitive location" like a school. Other jurisdictions can only refuse to report any undocumented citizens of whom they know or ignore government requests for information about them.
The above policy of non-cooperation is the only feasible option for Stanford. While most international students here have some kind of visa status, there are some who have no documentation at all. In fact, the university provides financial aid to those students since they are barred from working legally in the states and accordingly cannot make a large contribution towards tuition. Stanford cannot prevent federal agencies from entering the campus to search for undocumented citizens, but it can certainly refuse to share its list of undocumented students with the government. It is our hope that, in practice, the elements of this petition will match this realistic goal.
If one accepts that a nation can have borders — and we presume that Stanford is not being asked to disavow the foundation of the nation-state — people who cross those borders without permission can be legitimately deported and returned home by the state. However, illegal immigrants studying at Stanford are the least of our country's concern. They pose no threat to our security, economic or otherwise. In fact, like other members of the student body, they are one of our nation's greatest assets.
We affirm the core message of The People's Walkout. However, the wording of its demands gives us pause. Their mechanism for creating a sanctuary campus seems to unnecessarily deny the authority of the federal government, and their dismissive treatment of free speech misses its importance in protecting our rights.
Our presence at the rally will not change Trump's mind, but it may change yours. People of all stripes — including Stanford Review writers like us — will stand together in defense of liberty, justice, and compassion. We will stand in solidarity at The People's Walkout.
Stanford Students, Stop Changing the World
Stanford's mission is practical. It has always aimed to "promote the public welfare" and "qualify its students for personal success, and direct usefulness in
We the People: Change Starts With Us
As one children's story goes, there was once a tree called The Racist Tree that sat atop a hill overlooking a town below. Whenever


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Q: Need to bound a trigonometric sum Let $\boldsymbol{\theta}=(\theta_1,\ldots,\theta_m)$ be a vector of real numbers in $[-\pi,\pi]$. For $t\ge 0$, define
$$ f(t,\boldsymbol{\theta}) = \binom{m+t-1}{t}^{-1}
 \sum_{j_1+\cdots+j_m=t} \exp(ij_1\theta_1+\cdots+ij_m\theta_m),$$
where the sum is over non-negative integers $j_1,\ldots,j_m$ with sum $t$.
Note that the number of terms in the sum is $\binom{m+t-1}{t}$, so
$|f(t,\boldsymbol{\theta})|\le 1$ with equality occurring when all the $\theta_j$s
are equal.
For a problem in asymptotic combinatorics, we need a bound on
$|f(t,\boldsymbol{\theta})|$ that decreases rapidly as the $\theta_j$s move apart and
is valid for all $\boldsymbol{\theta}$.
Surely this problem has been studied before?
Note that $\binom{m+t-1}{t}f(t,\boldsymbol{\theta})$ is the coefficient of $x^t$ in
$$\prod_{j=1}^m (1-xe^{i\theta_j})^{-1},$$
which suggests some sort of contour integral approach.

A: Another approach is to write ${m+t-1 \choose t} f(t,\theta)$ as a Schur function of the $z_j := \exp i \theta_j$, and thus as a quotient $\Delta' / \Delta$ of $m\times m$ determinants with unit-norm entries.  Then $|\Delta'| \leq m^{m/2}$ by Hadamard, and $\Delta$ is the Vandermonde determinant of the $z_j$ so
$$
|\Delta| = \biggl| \prod_{1 \leq j < k \leq m} (z_j - z_k) \biggr| \phantom{+} = \prod_{1 \leq j < k < m} 2 \left| \sin (\theta_j^{\phantom{Y}} - \theta_k^{\phantom{Y}})/2 \right|.
$$
Hence
$$
|f(t,\theta)| \leq \frac{m^{m/2}\strut} {{m+t-1 \choose t} \prod_{1 \leq j < k \leq m} 2 \left| \sin (\theta_j^{\phantom{Y}} - \theta_k^{\phantom{Y}})/2 \right|}.
$$
This bound has the advantage of satisfying the desideratum of "decreasing rapidly as the $\theta_j$s move apart and [being] valid for all $\theta$", and of being sharp in some cases where the $\theta_j$ are equally spaced.  It has the disadvantage of being larger than the trivial upper bound $|f(t,\theta)| \leq 1$ when some $\theta_j$ are very close, and indeed infinite when two or more $\theta_j$ coincide.
EDIT Expanding $\Delta'$ by the $z_j^{t+m-1}$ row yields the formula
$$
{m+t-1 \choose t} f(t,\theta) = \sum_{j=1}^m \frac{z_j^{t+m-1}}{\prod_{k\neq j} (z_j-z_k)}.
$$
Hence
$$
|f(t,\theta)| \leq {m+t-1 \choose t}^{-1} \sum_{j=1}^m \phantom{Y} \left[ 1 \left/ \prod_{k\neq j}  \phantom{Y} \left| 2 \sin \frac12(\theta_j^{\phantom{Y}} - \theta_k^{\phantom{Y}}) \right| \right. \right]
$$
which has the same overall advantages and disadvantages as before but is better when the $\theta_j$ are neither bunched together nor spaced exactly evenly.
The determinant formula also gives yet another interpretation of ${m+t-1 \choose t} f(t,\theta)$, in terms of polynomial interpolation: it is the $z^{m-1}$ coefficient of the unique polynomial $P$ with $\deg P < m$ such that $f(z_j) = z^{m+t-1}$ for each $j$.

A: We shall prove that
$$
f(t,{\theta}) \le \frac{m-1}{t+m-1} \min_{1\le j,k \le m} \frac{1}{|\sin((\theta_j-\theta_k)/2)|}.
$$
This shows that if the angles are not too close to each other, then the sum does get
small.
Suppose without loss of generality that the minimum in our bound occurs for $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$
(so these are the angles that are furthest apart).   Then writing $j_1+j_2 =\ell$ we have
$$
|f(t,{ \theta})| \le \binom{m+t-1}{t}^{-1} \sum_{\ell=0}^{t} \sum_{j_3+\ldots+j_m=t-\ell}
\Big| \sum_{j_1+j_2 =\ell} \exp(ij_1 \theta_1 + ij_2 \theta_2)\Big|.
$$
Now the inner sum over $j_1$ (and $j_2=\ell -j_1$) is simply a geometric progression, and
so
\begin{align*}
\Big| \sum_{j_1+j_2=\ell} \exp(ij_1 + i j_2 \theta_2) \Big| &=
\Big| \sum_{j=0}^{\ell} \exp(ij (\theta_1-\theta_2))\Big| =
\Big|\frac{\exp(i(\ell+1)(\theta_1-\theta_2))-1}{\exp(i(\theta_1-\theta_2))-1}\Big|
\\
&\le \frac{2}{|\exp(i(\theta_1-\theta_2))-1|} = \frac{1}{|\sin((\theta_1-\theta_2)/2)|}.
\end{align*}
Therefore
$$
|f(t,{\theta})| \le \frac{1}{|\sin((\theta_1-\theta_2)/2)|}\binom{m+t-1}{t}^{-1} \sum_{\ell+j_3+\ldots+j_m=t} 1,
$$
which proves our claimed bound.
As the original question suggests, one would be able to prove better bounds
using contour integrals.  The key would be to integrate on the circle centered at
the origin and with radius $r=t/(m+t)$.  One should be able to get good bounds
in terms of
$$
\sum_{j,k} \sin^2 \Big(\frac{\theta_j-\theta_k}{2}\Big),
$$
but I have not worked this out carefully.

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Financial Accounting Foundation Appoints Dennis H. Chookaszian, Former Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies, as Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council Chairman
Norwalk, CT, December 4, 2006—Robert J. DeSantis, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) today announced that Dennis H. Chookaszian, the former chairman and chief executive officer of CNA Insurance Companies (NYSE: CNA), has been named chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC).
The FASAC advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on technical issues relating to the Board's agenda, project priorities, and other timely and topical matters involving the FASB. Mr. Chookaszian will succeed Richard J. Swift, whose term as FASAC chairman concludes at the end of December 2006.
Mr. Chookaszian retired as chairman and chief executive officer of CNA Insurance Companies in 1999. In his 26 years of service to CNA, Mr. Chookaszian served in numerous other executive capacities, including chairman of the Executive Committee, president and chief operating officer and chief financial officer. He was also chairman of the Agency Management Services subsidiary of CNA, and chairman of Intergroup, the HMO operation of CNA.
Commenting on the appointment, Robert E. Denham, chairman of the Financial Accounting Foundation said, "The FAF is very pleased to appoint Dennis Chookaszian as chairman of the FASAC. Dennis' background and expertise will make him a superb chairman and resource to the FASB as it carries out its mission to establish and improve accounting and reporting standards that empower and protect investors and support efficient capital markets. We are highly confident that Dennis will continue and advance the fine work and support of his predecessor, Dick Swift, to whom we extend our deepest gratitude and well wishes."
Mr. Chookaszian, a certified public accountant, has served on many AICPA and FASB committees and task forces including FASAC, and was a member of the Public Oversight Board Panel on Audit Effectiveness. He has also served as director for numerous public corporations including, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Career Education Corporation, CNA Financial Corporation, Insweb Corporation, Loews Corporation, LoopNet, MacDonald Dettwiler and Sapient Corporation. He is a Trustee of Northwestern University, a director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation and the Boy Scouts of America, and a member of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Advisory Council and the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business Advisory Board.
Mr. Chookaszian earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, an MBA degree in finance from the University of Chicago, and a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
"The FAF conducted a thorough and rigorous search for the new FASAC Chairperson," added Mr. DeSantis. "Mr. Chookaszian met all of our criteria and was selected from a group of highly qualified candidates. He will commence a four-year term on
January 1, 2007. "
About the Financial Accounting Foundation
The FAF is responsible for the oversight, administration, and finances of both the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its counterpart for state and local government, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The Foundation is also responsible for selecting the members of both Boards and their respective Advisory Councils.


Seriously. Monitoring pet water consumption is important.
It can tell you EVERYTHING about your pet's health.
OK, so maybe not "everything", but water is your pet's #1 nutrient, and drinking habits can tell you and your veterinarian a LOT about your pet's health.
Water is your pet's most essential nutrient. It transports nutrients to the body, removes cellular waste, and provides cooling. Adequate water around your pet's joints and internal organs helps cushion the shock when running or jumping, and water lubricates internal and external body surfaces. But bad things can happen when your pet drinks too much, or too little.
As you'll discover, knowing your pet's water consumption is one highly reliable method of monitoring and maintaining your pet's overall health. Years ago, Unicorn Inc. began research and development on the first total water consumption tracking system for pets (now patented and patents pending).
I'll soon explain HOW our pet water intake system works, but first, let me explain WHY knowing your pet's water consumption is important.
About 67% of your healthy pet's weight is comprised of water. When that 67% changes significantly up or down, serious health problems start to emerge.
It's recognized that when a pet's dehydration exceeds 12%, death would be imminent without emergency care. Even dehydration levels as low as 8% can still lead to urinary tract problems like kidney stones, or even organ failure.
An alarming fact that researchers found over 40 years ago showed that dogs don't "feel" thirsty until they are already 6% dehydrated! At that point, even if they start drinking a lot of water, their body will require from many hours to a full day to fully rehydrate to a preferred normal level.
Dehydration causes a reduction in the volume of blood plasma, and that causes reduced cardiac output. To make matters worse, if dehydration is occurring during exercise, health problems are exacerbated since exercise increases the demand for higher blood flow at a time when there is a decrease in cardiovascular performance. Reduced fluids also rob pets of their ability to cool down.
As you can understand, severe dehydration can be deadly serious – and unfortunately, your pets can't tell you when they are becoming dehydrated.
Many pets instinctively know to drink just the right amount of water for their needs, but some pets have a decreased urge to drink (adypsia) and don't drink enough water, while other pets always feel thirsty (polydipsia) and drink way too much. Sometimes this is caused by psychogenic origins, but other times changes in drinking behavior are caused by a pet's physiological changes.
This article only discusses how new technology can discover underlying physiological causes.
Pets should be continually hydrated during any infrequent rise in activity (for the same reason that human athletes start drinking well before a tough physical competition) and pets should re-hydrate throughout the activity.
On the other hand, over-drinking creates a separate set of problems. As one example, a dog that plays in the lake all day may swallow a lot of water (just like you might). Over-drinking causes electrolyte imbalance that can cause painful muscle cramps – just like in humans. Since your dog can't talk, it will just quietly endure the muscle cramp pain.
It stands to reason that high-intensity activities, like chasing a Frisbee® for hours on end, increases your pet's anaerobic metabolism. In much the same way as your human body creates lactic acid that causes cramps when you over exercise, your pet can experience low blood pH levels and lactic acid build-up from high-intensity activities for extended periods. Over-drinking can also create electrolyte imbalance.
Electrolyte imbalance is not to be confused with electrolyte disturbance, a medical condition associated with low phosphate levels.
Drinking too much water by an otherwise healthy pet reduces the level of sodium that is otherwise needed to maintain nerve, muscle and cellular function. Sodium also helps to regulate your pet's blood pressure.
So, it's up to YOU, the responsible pet parent, to keep your pets well watered, yet guard against over-watering.
A general rule or thumb has been long established by the veterinarian community: your pets need about ½ to 1 fluid ounce of water per day for each pound of body weight. In other words, a 10-pound dog should consume about 10 oz. of water per day. But, if your pet spent a hot and humid day at the park chasing a Frisbee®, this number could increase considerably, so a "rule of thumb" does not work for all situations.
You must recognize that the total volume of water your pet "drinks" during the day goes way beyond the water they lap from their bowl; it includes the water that they EAT, such as the water content of meat juices, and the water content of their food.
Wet pet food typically contains about 85% moisture, while dry kibble contains about 5-8% moisture. But keep in mind that older dry kibble in opened bags may have higher or lower moisture than what the food label says depending on the average humidity of your area.
Figuring out your pet's water consumption could get complicated. How does one easily convert 1 cup of food containing 8% moisture to ounces of water? Once you figure that out, you'd need to add the moisture from sources other than the water bowl to total your pet's daily water consumption. For instance, how much water does your dog drink when it "bites" at your lawn sprinklers?
Obviously, tracking all of this data has been virtually impossible unless the measurements are being made in a controlled laboratory environment – something that's not available to a typical pet owner.
To make drinking management even more impossible, consider that a nursing dog should drink three to four times the amount of water she normally drinks. Puppies need to drink about ½ cup of water every 2 hours depending on breed, and they should be closely monitored and encouraged to drink.
The fact is that daily water consumption is almost never monitored for the roughly 200 million pets living in American households, and underlying medical problems are allowed to silently progress – often to the point where the cost of treatment becomes prohibitive – even if it will work at all.
Technology is changing all that.
It's important to know that long-term changes in water consumption could signal onset of chronic diseases.
You now understand that too little water can lead to acute dehydration – especially if your pet is engaged in high-energy activities, and that too much water can lead to electrolyte imbalance and muscle cramps.
But what if your pet starts drinking a lot more water each day than they drank each day last year, or the year before that?
The obvious first question is "how will you even know?".
As your pet ages, their activity level, and its consumption of water and food, naturally change. All three of these factors are linked together. As you can simply imagine, if your pet increases activity, they increase food and water needs, and if they decrease their activity, food and water needs diminish.
These variations, as well as age-related changes are natural and to be expected. Over time, each pet establishes their own "baseline" food and water consumption. However, many times the variations in food, water and activity exceed a normal deviation from their baseline, indicating a possible underlying health problem. Let's look at a few.
When pets are thirstier, they drink more. If the increased thirst is not caused by increased activity or hotter, more humid environmental conditions – there is often another, potentially more serious reason.
If these symptoms are related to increasing water consumption over the long term, then your pet has probably had a gradually worsening medical problem for quite some time! These severe symptoms indicate that your pet's health problem may have needlessly progressed to an advanced state.
Yeah – there's a lot going on here.
But what if you could detect the slightest trend increase in water consumption BEFORE you could see any obvious symptoms?
Treatment could be more effective, saving your pet from having to endure potentially weeks or even years of misery and discomfort from these conditions.
UNICORN™ instantly detects water consumption trends and anomalies above the pet's baseline.
As I previously outlined, older pets are less active than young adults, so they will typically reduce their daily water consumption. That's normal. But what if they start drinking a lot less than their normal baseline?
Leptospirosis – bacterial infection. Can reproduce in the liver, kidneys, nervous system, eyes, or reproductive system. Can be fatal.
Parvovirus – a highly contagious virus.
Once again, early detection could lead to earlier, more effective treatment, and much less discomfort for your pet.
UNICORN™ detects water consumption trends and anomalies below the pet's baseline.
So far, we've discussed the issues associated with short and long term water consumption increases and decreases, and why it's important to monitor your pet's water consumption patterns.
Now, here's how Unicorn has addressed this problem.
Knowing the total daily water consumption of your pet means that you track all water that they drink and eat from all sources – their bowls, toilet, biting sprinklers and more.
The content of any bowl can be measured – so this part will be understandable.
1. The water bowl is simple. Water weighs about 1 ounce per 1 fluid ounce. The Unicorn Smart Bowl Platform weighs the full water bowl, then subtracts the weight of the water the pet drinks, adds the weight of more water when you refill, and computes all those measurements to arrive at the total number of ounces of water consumed from the water bowl during the day.
2. The food bowl is a bit more complicated. Once you fill the food bowl with Unicorn pet food (we know the actual moisture content), our software automatically computes the total amount of water contained in the total amount of food in the bowl. At the end of the meal, our system subtracts the water in any remaining food, and computes the total number of ounces of water consumed from the food bowl for that meal.
If you have more than one pet, you probably know which pet is drinking when you hear their lapping of the water, or the clanking noise of their collar tags on the bowl. In other words, you are familiar with your pet's unique sounds when they are drinking.
3. Unicorn's Smart Collar takes this to another level. Our collar has accelerometers built in – just like the popular FitBit and iWatch devices. Using our patent pending methods, the collars precision-track movements associated with drinking and create a unique "drinking fingerprint" for each pet., and use proprietary algorithms to compute the total water consumed.
In other words, if the collar knows that your pet drinks 1 ounce of water every 15 seconds, then if your pet drinks water from a lake for 30 seconds, the collar will determine that your pet drank 2 ounces of water. The collar will track how much they drink from an open toilet (that you don't know about), or from the swimming pool, or from a new rain puddle.
Now we know how much water they are "sneaking" from sources other than their water bowl.
In review, the Unicorn Smart Bowl Platform has recorded and stored the total water from the water bowl (1.) and the food bowl (2.) and the Unicorn Smart Collar (3.) has computed and recorded all water that your pet drank based on the total time that the collar was in "fingerprint" mode.
Keeping it simple, just know that there are some computational algorithms that our system completes each day to verify the accuracy of all of the data.
When the pet returns to the Unicorn Smart Bowl Platform, the Smart Collar sends the data to the Smart Platform where a microprocessor computes the daily total of all water from all sources, then sends this information to your pet's lifetime record on the Unicorn Cloud.
That's where our system analyzes your pet's daily water consumption, looking for tiny increases or decreases out of normal range when compared to your pet's lifetime baseline.
When our system identifies changes that could signal a potential health problem, it sends you an alert with information that you should share with your veterinarian.
There you have it. Just put on a collar, provide Unicorn food and water your pets like you always do. The Unicorn hardware and software does all of the water consumption data collection and analysis, so you don't have to give it a second thought.
Just another way that Unicorn is helping your pets live happier, healthier and longer.


ICT President Matteo Mecacci welcomes meeting participants.
On October 17, 2014, the International Campaign for Tibet and Beijing Spring magazine jointly organized a roundtable discussion on the Middle Way and dialogue on Tibet in Washington DC at the office of the International Campaign for Tibet. Moderated by Hu Ping and Yu Dahai of Beijing Spring magazine, a number of Chinese scholars and writers, including Su Xiaokang, Chen Kuide, Xia Yeliang, and Qin Weiping attended the session. Others, including Yang Jianchi and Yu Jie, were not able to attend and sent their written remarks. The four hour long session was conducted in Chinese language and discussions took place on many aspects, including culture, social and political system, interpretation and implementation of Middle Way. A summary of some of the comments raised in the discussion are included below. Full video and written remarks will be made available on Beijing Spring magazine and Liaowang Xizang website for online viewing in the coming days.


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Die Ortslage Vogelsang war ein Wohnplatz in Haan. Heute ist der Ort eine Wüstung.

Lage
Der Wohnplatz lag im äußersten Osten Haans an der Gemeindegrenze zu Wuppertal inmitten des Waldgebietes Osterholz, knapp südlich unterhalb der Kuppe einer Erhebung und oberhalb der Grube 10, in der Kalkstein abgebaut wurde.

Benachbarte Ortslagen waren: (In der Gemeinde Wuppertals) Osterholz, Alt-Derken, Simonshöfchen, Ölbers, Zur Linden, Schrotzberg und wüst gefallen Steeg. In Haan lagen benachbart: Birschels und mittlerweile auch wüst gefallen Mühlenfeld, Isenberg und Klevenhof.

Geschichte

Zur Geschichte des Wohnplatzes ist nichts belegt. Auf den Karten von 1824 und 1843 ist der Ort noch nicht verzeichnet, erstmals ist Vogelsang auf der topographischen Karte (TK25) 1892/94 verzeichnet. Die Ortslage war dann bis 1974 verzeichnet, auf der Karte von 1983 ist Vogelsang nicht mehr verzeichnet und der Wohnplatz wurde geschleift. Der Ort ist heute bewaldet.

Wüstung in Haan


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Join Us for Our Next Giveback Tuesday Event on March 27!
Come join us this month for our March Giveback Tuesday, which is set for March 27. This month, our Giveback Tuesday event will benefit Joe's Place.
Every month, we are proud to feature a local nonprofit charity and donate 100% of the earned proceeds from the entire day to the charity. Lunch, dinner, drinks, and carryout all go to the designated charity. We started Giveback Tuesday in July 2014 and have reached beyond our milestone of donating over $100,000 to local nonprofit charities!
Funds raised from this Giveback Tuesday event will be used to help Joe's Place tackle some much-needed projects and improvements around the facility, including a new shed.
Established in 2006, Joe's Place offers homeless teenage boys in the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District a caring home environment that supports them in graduating from high school and creating positive futures. The organization places an emphasis on college and career readiness, as well as emotional, social, and academic success.
"Each year, close to a dozen of these students find themselves virtually without a home due to serious family difficulties," said Heath Moylan, President of Joe's Place. "That's why we are committed to providing teenage boys at risk for homelessness a supportive home environment that encourages their pursuit of education and enriched lives. We want to offer these boys what every kid should be able to expect from life – a warm place to sleep, regular meals, and someone to provide guidance and attention."
Since welcoming its first residents in 2007, Joe's Place has served 25 boys with all but one successfully completing high school or on track to do so.
"We host up to four residents at once, plus we provide ongoing support for many of the boys who have participated in our program," Moylan said. "We have seen the average grade point averages for each of these boys improve by 1.25 points, and their daily attendance has also improved by 12%."
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We hope to see you on March 27 at Katie's Pizza & Pasta Osteria in Rock Hill!
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Our next Giveback Tuesday event will be on January 25 at our Rock Hill location! This month, we will be donating money to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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Spread the spirit of meaningful giving this holiday season! Join us on December 28 for our next Giveback Tuesday event at our Town & Country location. The recipient will be The Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (AADD), a nonprofit organization that provides support to adults of all ages with developmental disabilities.
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Get ready to enjoy incredible handmade Italian food and make a difference in your community! Our upcoming Giveback Tuesday event will take place on November 23 at our Rock Hill location! The profits will be donated to Boys Hope Girls Hope of St. Louis, a nonprofit organization that provides disadvantaged youth with a safe, nurturing home environment and a strong academic foundation.


This week's Artist Spotlight: Sidewalk Prophets, "Come to the Table"
Spanning 10 years and over a million miles, Sidewalk Prophets has connected with listeners across the country. And they are coming to Mansfield April 25th at 7p.m. Crossroads Church in Mansfield is the host for this celebration of WVMC's 40th anniversary as a radio ministry! You're invited to the concert! Tickets are $15 General Admission. There are also VIP packages available.
The Artist Spotlight will be celebrating all things Sidewalk Prophets leading up to the concert!
Connect with Sidewalk Prophets, and get your concert tickets HERE!
Here's a video of one of Sidewalks early hits, "The Words I Would Say"
Be sure to listen in Monday through Friday at 5:20 & 11:40 am, plus 3:20, 7:40 & 10:40 pm to hear the Total Praise Artist Spotlight and to get behind-the-scenes info!
Share your thought(s) on the Artist Spotlight HERE.


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