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What Would Equity in Urban Planning Look Like?
By Lynda Lopez
Audrey Wennink, Roberto Roquejo, Jesus Barajas, and Katanya Raby. Photo: Lynda Lopez
The Diversity Committee of the American Planning Association's Illinois chapter co-hosted the second annual Equity in Planning panel on Thursday along with sponsors WTS Greater Chicago Chapter, UIC's College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, UPPSA, The Society of Black Urban Planners, LPODER at UIC, and Women in Planning and Public Affairs.
This year's panel focused on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of transportation planning. The panel included Jesus Barajas, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Roberto Requejo, program director for Elevated Chicago, and Audrey Wennink, director of transportation at the Metropolitan Planning Council. Moderating the panel was Katanya Raby, asssociate outreach planner for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
"How does equity shape your work and what do you think are barriers for inclusion in urban planning?" Raby asked to kick off the discussion.
Barajas started off by describing his experience living in Los Angeles and seeing what kind of discussions were happening around bike lanes. "I didn't see certain people represented in those conversations who should have been a part of them," he said.
Requejo recalled going to the master's program at UIC and first learning about racial equity efforts in Chicago. He spoke about his work with Elevated Chicago, a collaborative that promotes equitable transit-oriented development. Requejo said they've intentionally made their collaborative diverse in terms of race and gender, in addition to removing barriers to participation for parents with young children by offering daycare. "We want their voices to be included in these conversations," Requejo said.
Wennink said that lack of gender diversity in the male-dominated transportation planning field had been an issue during much of her career, until she started at MPC, which is led by MarySue Barrett.
The next question Raby asked was about strategies to help ensure transit improvements, and the ensuing rise in property values, don't trigger displacement of low-income and working-class residents.
"We know people need investment, but we don't want the investment to have negative impacts," Wennink said. "We need to be very aware of this potential as planners." She added that it's important to communicate to longtime residents that improvements are meant for them too, but it's also crucial to put in policies to preserve affordable housing, as well as to help people buy property before possible improvements occur.
Requejo noted that gentrification-fueled displacement is particularly obvious in Logan Square, which lost 20,000 Latino residents between 2000 and 2014. He also emphasized the need to talk about divestment-led displacement, the phenomenon of people fleeing under-resourced communities due to issues like lack of job opportunities and crime. "The city of Chicago continues to lose more of its African-American population," he said. "It's another type of displacement."
The next question focused on funding and how to spur state and city governments to maintain and prioritize transit.
"One thing to think about is how we are using the money we have," Wennink said. "The Jane Byrne Interchange Project is costing 700 million dollars. There's a lot you can do for the region with that amount of money." Wennink added that we need to think about the trade-offs we make when we adopt a solely auto-oriented model. "The most equitable thing we can do is fund walking, biking, and transit."
Requejo challenged the idea that we don't have enough money in the region. "There is a lot of money concentrated at the top," he said. "We need to make sure our tax rate is progressive," meaning that wealthier resident pay a larger percentage of their income in taxes than working- and middle-class people. Rejuejo added that we need to find creative ways to mix public, private, and philanthropic dollars.
Raby followed up with a question about law enforcement and its role in traffic safety, particularly given the recent controversy around police officers writing exponentially more bike tickets in some communities of color compared to majority-white neighborhoods.
"When you have a system where you are [over-]policing certain people, a message is sent that you're not welcome," Requejo said. "Economically, it is a disaster for Chicago. Ticketing is one sliver of a bigger pie of systemic racism."
Wennink said that if the CPD's ticketing strategy was really about reducing traffic fatalities, there would be a greater focus on slowing down drivers, rather than targeting cyclists. (The CPD has acknowledged that the racially-skewed ticketing numbers are due to officers using bike enforcement as a pretext for searches in high-crime areas.)
Next the panelists were asked how urban planning, a profession that has historically been dominated by white males, could be diversified.
Requejo said it's important to look at all phases and ages to address gaps in support, whether it be exposing kids to urban planning, mentoring college students in the field, or making sure a young professional of color has support at their place of employment. "You need to ask what corporations and organizations are doing to support diversity," he said. "If there is no current commitment, I would choose another organization."
Wennink said that as a transportation consultant she was often the only woman in a roomful of men. She credits WTS, an organization advancing women in transportation, as being a crucial source of support when she first got started.
Barajas said that transportation planning has historically been very engineer-focused, but that's changing, which he believes will be helpful in diversifying the field. "Public institutions also have a responsibility, especially those that host urban planning programs," Barajas said. He noted the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's recent commitment to provide free tuition for students with family incomes $61,000 and below.
To close out the panel, Raby asked panelists to define their vision for equity.
"We have racism embedded in every part of our society and we have to work to change it," Wennink said. "In every institution we're in, we need to create equity frameworks."
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UIC's Urban Transportation Center starts its fall series with a seminar on transit inequity
By Olivia Grenzebach | Sep 19, 2022
Speakers included Ellen Partridge from the Shared-Use Mobility Center, Audrey Wenninkfrom the Metropolitan Planning Council, and Rochelle Jacksonfrom the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council.
Let's Stop Booking Majority-White Panels on Citywide Transportation Issues
By Lynda Lopez and John Greenfield | Aug 18, 2017
If you can't find anyone to sit on your panels who isn't white, you need to reevaluate what your year-round connections to communities of color look like.
Equiticity study calls for residents with "lived expertise" to participate in urban planning
By Sharon Hoyer | Jan 23, 2023
The researchers argue that, along with planners and other experts it's equally important to consult those living in the relevant neighborhoods who use the transportation system every day.
What Roles Do Transportation, Housing, and Development Play in Dismantling Segregation
By Lynda Lopez | Oct 18, 2018
Representatives of WBEZ, LUCHA, MPC, and Blue Sky Strategies discussed how urban planning and policy can be used to address age-old inequities.
We Will Chicago is Chicago's first citywide planning initiative in 50 years
By Courtney Cobbs | May 3, 2021
The Chicago Department of Planning and Development hosted a kickoff discussion about We Will Chicago, a new three-year citywide planning initiative.
Advocates laud Lightfoot's pick of Studio Gang's Gia Biagi as transportation chief
By John Greenfield | Dec 10, 2019
Biagi comes to CDOT from Jeanne Gang's renowned design firm Studio Gang.


A Moment in Time by Tracie Peterson is book two in the Lone Star Brides Series, you can check out my review of the first book A Sensible Arrangement HERE.
The good news about this series is each book could be it's own stand alone. However, if you want to get to know the characters a bit better I suggest starting with the first book.
Being a country girl at heart, I do love myself a fun western every now and then. A Moment in Time picks up right where A Sensible Arrangement left off. Although Marty has a bit of a role in this book, especially earlier on in the story. Mainly this book is about Alice, this is her love story.
Alice was the orphan, who was cut and left for dead when robbers came to attack her and her father. Taking his life, and then leaving her with nothing. While she recovered in the hospital others took care of her fathers affairs, even selling their home, which really did leave her with nothing.
With no where to go, Marty and Jake took her in, and when hard times hit them financially during Denver's financial crisis in the 1890's. Marty kept Alice living with them because the two were more friends than homeowner and servant.
Times are tough and when Jake takes off for Texas to find work and a new way of life for them. Marty and Alice stay behind, living and helping out at a small Denver orphanage.
Alice is still being haunted and stalked by the man who sliced her face long ago. She can't seem to get rid of him, even though she doesn't have the Gold bonds he thinks her father left her. With worry and suspicion around every corner it is a welcome relief when Jake sends money for the two women to travel by train to Texas to live with him and Marty's sister Hannah.
Alice had decided she would always be single, seeing as she couldn't see how any man could see past the ugly scar that ran down the side of her face. But Robert Barnett, Marty's nephew doesn't see a scar at all, instead he's falling in love with the woman she really is. Alice always having been a city girl, discovers she loves the life of a Texan and a rancher, this is where she feels she is truly meant to be. She also finds herself quickly falling in love with a handsome rancher named Robert. The only problem is everyone is telling her Robert is engaged to a beautiful girl that lives a few ranches away.
However, life isn't all it appears, and nothing ever comes easy for Alice. After a few discoveries Alice's world is thrown into something she can't even of ever fathomed. Secrets come out, and discoveries about her family and some dark secrets they harbor come to light. It isn't long before Alice is left to make serious decisions, at the same time hoping that she can keep hidden and avoid the clutches of the man who attacked and scarred her face for life.
If you enjoy a great clean western, with lovable characters and a fast paced storyline. Then you will love the Lone Star Brides Series. Tracie Peterson takes you back in time, to a harder life but also a more peaceful time in the old west. If you're like me, you'll fall in love with the characters and the heart that was put into A Moment in Time.
Disclosure: I was provided a complementary copy of this book for my review by Bethany House. I was not asked to write a positive review, all thoughts and opinions above are my own.


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Advocates push for Australia to take greater role against TB
Tracy Parish
(L-R): Professor Warwick Britton (TB-CRE), Matt Thistlethwaite MP, Jo Chandler (MDR-TB patient), Senator Brett Mason, Professor Brendan Crabb (Burnet), Professor Steve Graham (Royal Children's Hospital), Mary Moran (Policy Cures), Maree Nutt (RESULTS)
Australia's leading tuberculosis experts and health advocates met with Federal parliamentarians on World TB Day to push for an increased and coordinated response to the tuberculosis crisis in the Asia-Pacific.
Burnet Institute, Aeras, TB Alliance, TB Centre for Research Excellence (TB-CRE), RESULTS International (Australia) and Policy Cures outlined the daunting health challenge of tuberculosis at a special parliamentary briefing hosted by Senator the Hon. Brett Mason, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Parliament House in Canberra.
Freelance journalist, Jo Chandler, who is recovering from multidrug-rsistant TB (MDR-TB) also spoke at the briefing about "how lucky I am to have access to world class care and treatment in Australia" whilst many mllions of other patients do not.
In 2012, 1.3 million people died from tuberculosis worldwide, a preventable disease, with 40 per cent of those deaths occurring in developing countries of the Asia-Pacific.
Burnet Institute Director and CEO, Professor Crabb said Australia has a crucial role to play in the response to TB.
"It is a major issue on our doorstep with 58 per cent of global cases in the Asia Pacific region; this is a threat to both our neighbours and ourselves," he said.
"A scale up of existing healthcare methods alone is unlikely to be sufficient, TB needs innovative solutions. We urgently need research at all levels, including developing new vaccines, diagnostic tests and drugs."
RESULTS International (Australia) CEO, Ms Maree Nutt said the high-level round table discussion which followed the parliamentary briefing reinforced the need for a coordinated approach to the burdening problem of TB.
"We will be asking the Government to facilitate a coordinated response to combat the disease that is both treatable and curable, but is becoming more entrenched in our region due to drug resistance," she said.
"Failure to address DR-TB will result in major long-term human and economic costs, which may pose a serious threat to the development and security of our region."
Globally, the prevalence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) has risen from an estimated 440,000 cases in 2008 to 680,000 in 2012.
"Health advocates are calling upon the Government to mobilise regional political commitment and resources to fight the disease and convene a high-level roundtable meeting to develop a coordinated strategic response to rid the region of TB," Ms Nutt said.
A community TB treatment supporter supervises a TB patient in Western Province PNG taking her daily medication. Photo Australian Aid.
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#16Voices, #16Stories DAY 1: Leave While You Can; The story of Wanja Ngiri (Agnetta Robinson), a domestic violence survivor from Kenya
It's DAY 1 of the #16Voices, #16Stories from around the globe for the #16DaysOfActivism Against Gender Based Violence.
On 25th Day of November each year, the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the beginning of 16 Days Of Activism against gender based violence campaign. This year marks 25 years of the campaign whose purpose is to increase international awareness on the systemic nature of violence against women and to expose this violence as a violation of women's human rights. UNWOMEN estimates that 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence - mostly from an intimate partner.
In this spirit, IAMGOAL5 will be featuring stories from 16 people from a cross-section of people from around the world, from survivors of different forms of gender violence, policy makes, human rights defenders fighting to end gender based violence and government officials as well.
#16Voices for #16DaysOfActivism against gender based violence.
'Leave while you can' says Wanja Ngiri who left an abusive toxic relationship and has now embarked on a new path, with a baby on the way, after having put all that behind her.
She is the premier events and party planner as well as lifestyle consultant in the busy town Nanyuki in Kenya; and having to be warm and open comes naturally to her being in the hospitality Industry. She buzzes from end to end with her beautiful smile doing what she loves best, being a lifestyle consultant and running her events business as well as blogging on fashion and travel.
But all is not what it seems at first glance, her smile is something that she has had to acquire back after having been robbed of it while in an abusive domestic relationship with her-then-fiance almost two years ago. She has come a long way since deciding to get out that toxic abusive relationship, a decision she has lived by very happily ever after, but was not an easy one.
She has shared her story with the Daily Nation and Stories of Courage which you can read here and here. I asked her;
"What is your advice to women who want to break away from the cycle of domestic abuse?"
"I would tell them not to be afraid of leaving for the fear of what the society will say about them. Also, anyone who hits you the first time will do it again, do not believe their emotional blackmail. Leave while you can."
Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking in East Africa.
Globally, 27 million people are said to be in modern-day slavery while about 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders annually. About one million children are exploited by the commercial sex industry every year, 80 per cent of victims being women and girls while 70 per cent of female victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation.
In all the six East African Countries, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, only three of them have enacted a legislation to combat human trafficking and modern day slavery. These are Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Kenya has the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2010, Uganda has The Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act 2009, while Tanzania has the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2008. As for Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan, none of them have a specific law addressing human trafficking but they are signatories to international treaties cubing modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
According to the 2016 Trafficking In Persons Report, only Kenya and Uganda are in Tier 2, which is a classification of countries whose governments do not fully meet the Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA's) minimum standards, (a United States of America legislation) but are making significant efforts to meet those standards.
As for Rwanda and Tanzania, they have been classified under Tier 2 Watch List, which are for countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA's minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those standards AND:
a) The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing;
b) There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials; or
c) The determination that a country is making significant efforts to meet the minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year.
As for Burundi and South Sudan, they have been classified under Tier 3 whose classification is for the countries whose governments do not fully meet the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.
What you need to know about sex trafficking/slavery.
What is sex slavery/trafficking?
Sex trafficking or slavery is the exploitation of women and children, within national or across international borders, for the purposes of forced sex work. Commercial sexual exploitation includes pornography, prostitution and sex trafficking of women and girls, and is characterized by the exploitation of a human being in exchange for goods or money. Each year, an estimated 800,000 women and children are trafficked across international borders—though additional numbers of women and girls are trafficked within countries.
Some sex trafficking is highly visible, such as street prostitution. But many trafficking victims remain unseen, operating out of unmarked brothels in unsuspecting—and sometimes suburban—neighborhoods. Sex traffickers may also operate out of a variety of public and private locations, such as massage parlors, spas and strip clubs.
Adult women make up the largest group of sex trafficking victims, followed by girl children, although a small percentage of men and boys are trafficked into the sex industry as well.
Human trafficking migration patterns tend to flow from East to West, but women may be trafficked from any country to another country at any given time and trafficking victims exist everywhere. Many of the poorest and most unstable countries have the highest incidences of human trafficking, and extreme poverty is a common bond among trafficking victims. Where economic alternatives do not exist, women and girls are more vulnerable to being tricked and coerced into sexual servitude. Increased unemployment and the loss of job security have undermined women's incomes and economic position. A stalled gender wage gap, as well as an increase in women's part-time and informal sector work, push women into poorly-paid jobs and long-term and hidden unemployment, which leaves women vulnerable to sex traffickers.
Source: SOROPTIMIST
What do the Sustainable Development Goals have to do with violence against all women and girls, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation?
This is a target under SDG 5 on Gender Equality. empower all women and girls
The Agenda 2030, which this target falls under Goal 5 on gender equality, is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. It recognizes that eliminating violence against all women and girls, in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation, is one of the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
While there have been significant progress made towards ending all forms of violence, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation towards women and girls over the last decade, a lot still remains to be done for the world to achieve this target by 2030. It requires collaborative partnership between the Governments and private sector in taking bold and transformative steps in adopting a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of violence violence towards women and girls. Governments need to step up their efforts at national level by ensuring that they have laws that prohibit all forms of violence against women and that they are enforced at the national level.
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Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Cedarwood. We believe that camp is a wonderful place to learn and grow, not only for the campers and the rental groups who come but for the staff and volunteers as well. Serving others is a very rewarding thing and we appreciate your interest!
We welcome weekday and weekend volunteers based on availability and our program needs. Volunteers are eligible to receive a discount towards one week of summer camp for themselves or their camper.
For more information about volunteering with us please email cedarwood@yfcwinnipeg.ca. We can then begin our volunteer application process.
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Ventilated facades appeared on the Ukrainian market relatively recently. Nevertheless, they managed to gain popularity among architects and customers, as they are suitable both for the reconstruction of old buildings and for the finishing of new ones.
Ventilated facade is an optimal solution for insulation and creating a modern exterior.
external decoration (decorative panel), which additionally protects the walls from environmental influence.
Thanks to the use of an adjustable aluminum substructure system, installation of ventilated facade systems does not require prior alignment of building walls. Between the insulant and the outer panel, a ventilated distance is formed allowing free air circulation between them.
Thus, ventilated facades have a significant advantage: the wall decorated by them can "breathe". This minimizes the risk of water vapor condensation.
reduces the possibility of appearance of fungi, and even people with allergies will feel comfortable in a building decorated with ventilated facades.
In addition, ventilated facades are a perfect solution not only for insulation, but also for making the house look modern. Using different decorative panels, architects create impressive buildings.
Installation of ventilated facade is indeed a pretty serious decision.
But every construction specialist will assure you that you will not make a mistake. After all, you choose not just ventilated facades, but a modern European solution for your building, which attracts by the outer appearance and guarantees warmth and comfort.
The aluminum composite panel consists of two outer aluminum layers and one internal filler (polyethylene or mineral).
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Arseni Karmatski (; englische Transkription Arseniy Karmatskiy; auch Arsenii Karmatckii; * 1990 oder 1991) ist ein professioneller russischer Pokerspieler.

Pokerkarriere
Karmatski spielt seit Dezember 2012 auf diversen Onlinepoker-Plattformen unter dem Nickname josef_shvejk sowie als kastaban bei GGPoker. Er hat Online-Turniergewinne von knapp 6,5 Millionen US-Dollar aufzuweisen. Beim PokerStake-Ranking, das die erfolgreichsten Onlinepoker-Turnierspieler der Welt listet, befand sich der Russe im Jahr 2018 zeitweise auf Platz 4. Seit 2014 nimmt Karmatski auch an renommierten Live-Turnieren teil.

Im April 2017 wurde Karmatski beim Main Event des WSOP International Circuit in Cannes Dritter und erhielt ein Preisgeld von knapp 60.000 Euro. Mitte August 2017 gewann er die partypoker German Poker Championships in Rozvadov mit einer Siegprämie von 185.000 Euro. Ende März 2018 siegte Karmatski auch beim Main Event der European Poker Tour in Sotschi. Dafür setzte er sich gegen 860 andere Spieler durch und sicherte sich ein Preisgeld von 27,3 Millionen russischen Rubel, zu diesem Zeitpunkt umgerechnet knapp 480.000 US-Dollar. Zusätzlich erhielt er einen "Platinum Pass" im Wert von 30.000 US-Dollar, der zur Teilnahme an der PokerStars Players Championship im Januar 2019 auf den Bahamas berechtigte. Im Juni 2018 war Karmatski erstmals bei der Hauptturnierserie der World Series of Poker im Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino erfolgreich und kam bei sechs Turnieren der Variante No Limit Hold'em in die Geldränge. Beim PokerStars Caribbean Adventure auf den Bahamas wurde er Mitte Januar 2019 bei einem Side-Event Zweiter und erhielt ein Preisgeld von mehr als 250.000 US-Dollar. Ende August 2022 gewann er bei der Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party im nordzyprischen Kyrenia das Warm Up mit einem Hauptpreis von 310.000 US-Dollar und belegte wenige Tage später beim Main Event den zweiten Rang, für den er aufgrund eines Deals eine Auszahlung von 471.000 US-Dollar erhielt.

Insgesamt hat sich Karmatski mit Poker bei Live-Turnieren knapp 3 Millionen US-Dollar erspielt.

Weblinks

 Arseni Karmatski in der Datenbank der World Series of Poker: 2016–2022, 2022, 2022 (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Pokerspieler (Russland)
Gewinner des Main Events der European Poker Tour
Sowjetbürger
Russe
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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Q: Netify-gatsby form submission not working with custom Success Component I am using Netify-form with gatsby JS. I am trying to show a success alert Component when a user submits the form. This is working fine, but I am not able to get form data under my Netify account.
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PS: commenting this // onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}, I am able to get data but I am loosing showing success alert.

A: Netlify forms setup - Success messages

By default, when visitors complete a form, they will see a generically styled success message with a link back to the form page. You can replace the default success message with a custom page you create by adding an action attribute to the  tag, entering the path of your custom page (like "/pages/success") as the value. The path must be relative to the site root, starting with a /.

Or you could check out this guide from Netlify - How to Integrate Netlify's Form Handling in a React App which has a gatsby specific example for submitting with js.
import React, {useState} from 'react'

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Whitworth used a pair of walk-off wins to complete a four-game sweep of visiting Pacific (Ore.) on Saturday at Diana Marks Field.
Whitworth defeated Pacific 12-0 and 7-2 to sweep a Northwest Conference softball doubleheader on Friday at Diana Marks Field.
Whitworth will host Pacific (Ore.) in the last regular-season softball series of 2019 this weekend at Diana Marks Field.
Lewis & Clark held on for a 3-1 win over Whitworth on Monday in the finale of an NWC softball series, ending a 16-game losing streak to the Pirates.
Whitworth defeated visiting Lewis & Clark 10-2 and 9-1 on Sunday in the middle two games of a Northwest Conference softball series that will conclude on Monday.
Maddy Thomas homored twice as Whitworth defeated visiting L&C 12-8 in the opener of an NWC softball series on Saturday. The second game was suspended by rain.
Whitworth looks to get back on track this weekend, but the turnaround will have to come against a much-improved Pioneer softball squad.
Kinsey McNaught of softball and Derrick Phelps of men's golf have been selected as the Whitworth / Subway student-athletes of the month for their performances in March.
Whitworth softball coach Cristal Brown gives Pirate fans an update about her team on April 9, 2019.
Whitworth fell 5-0 on Sunday morning at Linfield, but the Pirates led the NWC softball series finale 4-2 heading to the bottom of the sixth inning before it was suspended by rain.
The visiting Pirates fell 12-0 and 3-2 to the Wildcats in Saturday's NWC softball doubleheader.
Whitworth heads to 10th-ranked Linfield this weekend for a showdown between teams at the top of the NWC softball standings.
Whitworth softball coach Cristal Brown gives Pirate fans an update about her team on April 3, 2019.
Madelyn Carlson threw a shutout in the opener and saved the nightcap to lead the Pirates to a doubleheader softball sweep at Pacific Lutheran on Sunday.
Drea Schwaier-Wolf won her 11th game of the year to help the visiting Pirates bounce back from their first NWC loss at split a softball doubleheader at PLU on Saturday.
Whitworth softball returns to NWC play this weekend with a four game series at Pacific Lutheran.
Whitworth bounced back from a 5-3 loss in the opener to split a doubleheader against visiting DePauw with a 3-2 win in the nightcap.
The non-conference softball series between DePauw and Whitworth has been postponed until Monday due to a rainy Sunday forecast in Spokane.
After 20 games, the Whitworth softball team finally plays at home on Sunday when the Pirates host DePauw (Ind.) in a non-conference doubleheader.
Whitworth softball coach Cristal Brown gives Pirate fans an update about her team on March 19, 2019.
Whitworth defeated UPS 10-0 and 15-0 to complete a sweep of the NWC softball series on Sunday afternoon in Tacoma, Washington.
Visiting Whitworth defeated Puget Sound 6-3 and 8-0 to run its winning streak to 13 games in a row on Saturday afternoon.
Whitworth will take on the Puget Sound Loggers in a Northwest Conference softball series in Tacoma, Washington this weekend, instead of at home on Diana Marks Field.
Whitworth softball coach Cristal Brown gives Pirate fans an update about her team on March 13, 2019.
The Whitworth Pirates held Willamette to just four runs in Sunday's doubleheader to finish off a weekend sweep of the Bearcats.
The Whitworth Pirates stretched their win streak out to nine games with a doubleheader sweep of the Willamette Bearcats Saturday afternoon.
Whitworth is headed back to Oregon for a Northwest Conference softball series at Willamette riding a seven-game winning steak.
Whitworth softball coach Cristal Brown gives Pirate fans an update about her team on March 5, 2019.
The Whitworth Pirates piled up 16 runs in the first game of their doubleheader with George Fox to win their seventh straight game on Sunday evening. The nightcap was suspended due to darkness and will be continued later.
Kinsey McNaught led the Whitworth offense, going 5-8 with 4 extra-base hits and 7 RBI. Kaylie Lowery pitched in another 5-8 day with 3 RBI and 4 runs.


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Democracy dies on the altar of Stability!
"the crisis of democracy" as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order." – Noam Chomsky
I know, this is our time paradigm and it isn't a shift of policy, just a ignorance of the mere fact that dictatorships and totalitarian affairs gets to linger, because the international stakeholders rather see stability and military efforts to control the population, instead of a tolerant and transparent democracy. That is just the mere reality, it isn't fiction.
This happens again and again, it rebounds and recharge after every contested and questionable election. Now in Zimbabwe, previously in Kenya last year and in Uganda the year before. It doesn't matter if the head of state rigged themselves in and used the army to silence the population after. As long as they are stable and loot their nations at a steady pace. It isn't happening on our shores, so why should the international stakeholders suffer and make the public lose faith in the institutions. They are moving forward and showing some signs of democratic values, even as belittling as letting them have a rally or two without interference of the police.
Therefore, this get boring as this sort of play get back-to-back, no return and steady road without any redemption. Only more of the same old suffering and toils in the midst of oppression. We see no salvation and not turn of events, where the mere factors changes. It is just the same old story with new names and new charges put on opposition leaders.
If not there will be 'Unity Governments' where the loser reign supreme and the winner begs for breadcrumbs, where the rigging master get the head of state and military, while the real winner get meaningless positions and a title not even worth the print of ink. It is just a mere puppet show the façade to look beautiful, while the population and the ones who govern knows it is just a play. They could be shooting a movie and not run a government, because this is just nonsense. They all know it, but they have to secure donor funding and legitimacy.
This is the sort of game we play, we return to it, as the opposition is tarnished, called terrorists and hooligans, while the democratic playing field is shrinking and no one seems to care. Unless, you're the President and you're the VPs bitch, because you cannot pressure the VP or the army, since they hired you to be the head of state. That is why Mnangagwa will speak of tolerance and unity, but will not challenge any solider killing innocent civilians, than he plays against the ones who hired him.
The army will hold Kenyatta in force too, and they did with their assaults on the public after the Fresh Presidential Elections, as the did their duty in Kisumu and Kibera. They really went ahead with violence and killed civilians. Just like the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) did after the 2016 in Kampala and elsewhere to prove their majesty, his excellency Museveni all power.
Therefore, this game is getting old and stale, where the ruling regime is eating of the plate, taking it all and only leaving pain for the majority. It isn't funny, but the same old play we have seen before and no one seems to really care. They accept this and doesn't really challenge it. They are putting out statements: We condemn. But a few minutes later, they will not do anything about it.
We are just moving in circles and it isn't funny. Democracy is dying and it does it on the temple of stability. What is the value of stability, if the elite eats 99 % and the 99 % eats the 1 %. It is worthless, as worthless as these "elections", where the handpicked Gentlemen are doing as they please and has no consequence. Seriously, what value does it add? Other than for some empty headed businessmen who eats of the electoral tenders. Very little are to gain for the society or the stakeholders. Just buying legitimacy and race to the supreme.
Just getting tired of this scheme, of this race and of these sort of play. It is time to get serious and engage properly, respect the ballot and the will of the people. Not just use that election for the little regard regime so they can stay afloat for another term. That isn't cool, screw stability, when it only leads to power-vacuum and a more intolerant society afterwards. Peace.
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Opinion: Is Collymore the only person who can run Safaricom?
That Bob Collymore has no returned to Safaricom is a sign of the state of affairs, the man whose through 2016 got the dirty laundry in the streets for everyone to see. That Safaricom and Vodaphone takes him back. Shows that the company is so big, it doesn't care about public perception or their ordeal of the last two years. As they can get scratch free from the dirt and thinks people forget. Collymore is a shady character and runs a dirty business. However, it is profitable, that is why the leadership above him keeps him. They want the easy money and wants to run the market of telecom's in Kenya. That is what Safaricom does so well.
That Collymore was directly involved in the General Elections, that his misuse of the company within the Results Transmissions, that doesn't matter now. That the Safaricom used their backbone to support the Jubilee, by canceling and stopping the M-Pesa Paybill to the National Super Alliance (NASA). Shows the lack of tolerance and their political stance. They did that with passion, while fixing and making sure the fraud of an election went through with their back-channels with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, also with Cambridge Analytica and whatever else that was needed to secure the results into the famous undisclosed server. Collymore did this and fixed that with IEBC, while stopping the cash-flow to NASA. A clear indication of his works. That was the year after the damaging internal report from KPMG.
The KPMG agreement showed how the Safaricom misused their place, their tenders and the procurement of installations of 4G, M-Pesa software and direct dealing with third-parties. This was done in a fashion where the leadership was eating of the top and putting the bills on the consumers. At a rate that was insane. That the 18th February 2016 KPMG Report should mean the end of a career for a leader and CEO like Collymore. But Vodaphone doesn't give a rats ass. They don't care as long as their profits are souring in Kenya. They are oblivious and nurturing their pockets, nothing else matters. Even if they are within the pockets of cartels, election-rigging and midst of public outrage. As long as the pockets are filled with shillings, they don't mind. They can still be proud-cock and be chiefs.
That Safaricom paid of the local-media houses with ad-revenue, that they used their place to keep themselves on top. That doesn't matter, because the results are blindly positive, even if everyone know knows that the company is run like the mafia. Controlling everything it can, not only selling Mobil-Data, Mobile-Money and Communications, but they are also a FinTech company that has the information on the public that other doesn't. Who knows how they are using that and misusing that to gain even more profits. When Facebook does it? Why shouldn't Safaricom too?
That Collymore should be gone, that is the reality, there should be someone who could muster trust and show that its a decent company, not a pillar of power in Kenyan Politics. Which it has become and where it muster all capabilities with the funds to slash stories in the media and also to be directly involved in Results Transmission during the General Elections. Therefore, the importance of the company is beyond communications between the citizens and their data. But also the perception of the trust between them.
Collymore is now the epitome of what is wrong with businesses in Kenya. He is the significant prospect of someone who misuses his position for monetary gain. Instead of being there for just simple services and leave the office in the night. He has directed the company in the midst of public space, making sure his stories are portrayed and cleaning the dirt of his hands. Even if it doesn't go off, it won't, not this way.
So Vodaphone, I have one important question:
Where the no-one else on planet earth that have the capabilities to run Safaricom?
Seemingly there should be, but your still behind the man that are really involved in shady deals for you. Taking the dirt and eating it, so that the stakeholders can eat the profits without any questionable
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Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Jon Snow letter to Mark Zuckerberg (22.03.2018)
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Kenya: Journalists for Justice – "Lies, confusion and psychological warfare are Cambridge Analytica's tools of trade" (21.03.2018)
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Opinion: There is a need for a investigation in the acts of Cambridge Analytica in Kenya!
It is weird, it is strange, but also very clear why President Uhuru Kenyatta, why Deputy President William Ruto and all of the political elite, and the Jubilee Party don't want to touch the affiliate Cambridge Analytica. As the world is grasping with the toils and the states are asking for subpoena information and oral evidence from Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. The Kenyan Government are walking around like nothing happen. Not like the lightning stroke down in 2013 and 2017, but just letting it go like spilled milk.
While other governments are looking into the madness, into the big-date breaches, where the Cambridge Analytica used their manpower and expertise to take private information from users of Facebook. Use that to target and make messages fitting the campaigns that hired them. This they did in Kenya, we got no idea to what extent, but clearly they have done their thing. Even the CEO has been proud about their activity. As the Kenyan government has hired the company and used their services.
There has been known that the company had connection with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), even as far the Commission own server was directly tapped by the government. While the Jubilee Party also used the affiliate Harris Media also to spread the messages and campaign agenda made by the Company, everything was elaborate and made to make sure the President got his way in the media. Even media companies was paid to make ready-made, microwaved articles to serve the public. Like dishes fitting the paradigm of the state. This isn't just hearsay, it was the real deal. The Githeri Media was boosted and paid through the ranks of the Company. Cambridge was involved in everything, even wrote the speeches and notes that Kenyatta brought to the public. Clearly, the President Strategic Communication Unit (PSCU) was working directly with the Company making sure their stories was set straight.
This was done with precision and with full fury, they did it knowingly and misused their trust. This wasn't just campaigning, but rigging with the mercy of American Company registered in the United Kingdom. With ICT Managers and hackers who took information and boosted the ruling regime. If this isn't a massive theft, than nothing is. That the Cambridge Analytica would make sure and facilitate it this way. Shows how the company and their string-men are working to get their client fixed in position. That is maybe why US Ambassador Bob Godec has been such a loyal man to Kenyatta. Where he has worked for the benefit of the President and not for democratic values. They are not needed, when the President are spending on American Companies and using their products to extend his agenda. Even if that meaning rigging and a hostile takeover of the state.
If this isn't investigated, if the ones behind the theft, the ones who has stolen a republic. The ones who has used manipulation, rigging and propaganda to benefit one man and his cronies. If that isn't sorted out, the reality of it all will never matter. That Kenyatta got everything served, paid the Westerners a fortune and secured his victory, it was already Pyrrhic on 26th October 2017, but now it is a blatant lie. Manufactured election with a tin-soldier running the show.
This isn't fun and games, this is a killing, a kill of democracy and a kill of institution and a death-stroke to believe how the citizens been used to targets themselves in a ploy to reinstate their client. It is without mercy, without justice and without consent. It is just mere facade and forgery. Nothing else, its the worst sort of realization.
It deserves to investigated, by Scotland Yard, by someone from the outside to do it properly, a foreign investigation unit, who works independently and can take all evidence and affidavits. To unleash the truth, reveal the madness and not only the open air implications that are there. Put it in system, collect more than the leaks, but actually get the whole truth and than indict the ones culprits behind it all. Peace.
Opinion: Cambridge Analytica and Facebook – Time to connect the dots!
It's time to wake-up and smell the coffee. It is time to kick-back and not be fooled by the mess. It has been a vindictive and outrage breach of trust between the social media company called Facebook, the Mark Zuckerberg has earned massive profits on speculative ads and destruction of democracy. While he has let political weaponized attempts of our digital imprints on his page taken by the Strategic Communication Laboratories and the infamous Cambridge Analytica. That has done shady business all around the globe, on every continent and has imprinted their campaigns of malice to the public.
The distorted view that this is fine and dandy, that a multi-millionaire, a guy Cenk Ugur ones said printed money. Robert Mercer, the millionaire backing President Trump and such, who has his stooges in around him too. That this guy's ethical backbone, has been shown to world and what sort of affair it is. Clearly, they have misused and illegally collected personal information, I doubt only in United States, but all around the globe. As well, as Facebook has been paid to alter likes of pages, posts and whatnot from all the major political parties. All to create social media merit to the ones ruling the world.
Therefore, this all a collective scheme, where the data-breaches, where the personal information and the collected effort has undermined our system. Because we have trusted Zuckerberg, but also unknowingly let him trade away our social-media interactions to a third-party, which haven't been sanctioned for their use of that. They have at the same time, used this information to hit key areas in elections, states and also ethnic groups, as well as the same backers has had PR campaigns, written speeches and made a whole package to secure the elections in certain republics.
In Kenya, the Cambridge Analytica, that has breached the data collection activity in the United States, could surely, done the same there. As they could have taken it, messed around it with it and then played the cards to secure the president. The company has even the server of the Electoral Commission (Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission). Therefore, they got all the tools to alter the narrative and the results in the favour of their contractor Kenyatta and the Jubilee Party.
The same can be seen with the DUP who both paid Facebook, but also paid Cambridge Analytica, even parts of the Brexit referendum campaign funds has gone to this. Therefore, they have used shady tricks and used malicious breaches of public trust, to build campaigns fitting the public.
This isn't only a USA thing, even if this is shattering the gates of power, as they are involved, the ones close to the Trump Campaign, even the one time Campaign Manager Stephen Bannon was involved in the company in question, therefore, who knows what sort of data he has used for his methods and his help to get Trump elected. As well, as the leaks has proven the company even used honey traps to black-mail politicians and was proud of this. This isn't campaigning, but is reality a special sort of scandal, where the mighty knights and their misuse of trust has been breached.
This isn't just about social media, this is how it has been used and how the politicians, their benefactors and their donors has used to boost their campaigns, how they have hired in consultants that has taken private information, sorted it in brackets and made sure they could use it take advantage of the political climate. Make sure they had the right slogans, the right message and right PR. That they could use the social media to spin the news cycle and make sure the people got hooked. All of this in attempt to secure their client, the Presidents and President-Elect. The ones they was working for, using the details from the big-data, breach the networks and secure the foundation of a campaign. Where the people are running around like sheep providing all the details and the reconfiguring it and they spilling the beans. That has been done, time and time again, also that if it is possible. They have even made sure of the counting, the rigging of the ballots. So their client get elected through their circus, it doesn't have to be legitimate, but they are playing shadow state through their computers and servers. Playing second fiddle, but being the king-maker nevertheless.
That shows the dire need for investigations, for suspending these sort of activities, stopping Facebook for delivering this information, if not get people to deactivate and kill of their profiles. So Cambridge Analytica cannot use their information for political campaigning, so they cannot steal the big-data and juice up either Trump or Kenyatta. This for profits, this for personal gain and we now know, that the innocence of Facebook is gone and the image CA had was false.
Cambridge Analytica was a hit-factory, they made hits online and in real life, made campaigns and prepared the whole package, they could even make the candidates and they could be empty shell of a person, they don't even need a thinking mind. That is proven, that is worrying and the empty suits boosted by collecting social media without knowledge, is proving to a serious breach, a serious attack on the trust and can collectively destroy our trust in companies involved. We as consumers should move elsewhere, but where. Who else has a platform that works, that is what we have to find and make sure it is not used by third-parties to weaponized our digital imprint online. Peace.
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Opinion: Fearing for the information Cambridge Analytica has on Kenyan Citizens!
Since it is now revealed how far the ICT Company and Campaign Monitor Company Cambridge Analytica went in the United States, where they analyzed and took information, collected and made sure to target the public, because of the information from 50 million United States Citizens. It is interesting because the connection the same company had in Kenya. They we're hired and worked for the President. They worked for President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. They we're connected with the ruling pary Jubilee and also with the Electoral Commission. This being the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
There been found that the Cambridge Analytica was in-charge of IEBC Web-pages, who knows what sort of information the company has stalled through the registers and the gist of public details. If they have collected similar information on Kenyan citizens in the same ways as in United States. They have already done it one place the years before in 2015 and 2016, why not do the same in Kenya in 2017. That would be plausible.
"Our data came from the myPersonality Facebook application which I ran from 2007 until it ceased data collection in 2012. Users consented to their data being used in research and then completed a Big Five personality questionnaire which gave them feedback on their results. Over the five years of its operation the app collected data from approximately 6 million users. We examined Facebook Likes from a subset of approximately 60,000 American users" (Stillwill, 2018).
So with the knowledge of the extended survey and collection of data in concerning of the American Election, I am sure the same company has done similar efforts in Kenya. To get the right views and make sure they are on the measures they needed to be. If not, why where you working for Kenyatta and serving his party with information. Just like they did for the Trump Campaign so they could target areas and come with the sort of ads and click-bait stories to catch the people in doubt. This is why the company was hired in the first place, to make sure the political campaign hit the home-run in battle states in the United States. You can wonder what the same company planned, what sort of collection of data and how many of the Kenyan citizen's on Facebook, which has been collected from. Since that is not known, also what sort of play and what information they got by having the IEBC Web-Page on their server.
"There are many different potential sources for the additional information that could have been used. It is plausible that Cambridge Analytica Ltd also have a psychographic model of Prof. Carroll and Prof. Golumbia, given that they claim to use psychographics in their political advertising. Alternatively, Cambridge Analytica Ltd may have based its predictions on any number of alternative data points, such as whether Prof. Carroll and Prof. Golumbia are a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), are known to have purchased a gun, etc" (Stillwill, 2018).
So it is hard know what they used the collected data in the 2016 Elections in the United States, but that they had it and target it to the public is fairly obvious. Therefore, to expect the same in the run-offs in the 2017 in Kenya, seems likely too. If not they wouldn't been billing the state and the ruling party. They wouldn't have been working and making adverts, and also campaigns for the President. That is clearly and also understandable. We can just wonder what sort of details the company has on the citizens of Kenya and what they used it for. What they got from the IEBC before they used the servers. There are many open venues, but non is disclosed. This should be investigated, as the privacy and the rights of the citizens are taken for granted. Which is never right. There are already FinTech companies who has to much information on Kenyan citizens. This comes in the same regard. Peace.
Stillwill, Dr. David John – 'Subject Matter: Section 7 DPA request ("Subject Access Request") sent by Prof. Carroll to Cambridge Analytica Ltd, whose parent company is SCL Elections Ltd, on 17th February 2017' (16.03.2018)
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Kenya: IEBC – "The Commission wishes to notify the public that one of its ICT Managers was last seen on Friday night. Efforts being made to trace him" (30.07.2017)
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Kenya: Thirdway Alliance – "Press Release on the Presidential Ballot Papers Due Dilligence Update at Al Ghurair Printing and Publishing LLC in Dubai, UAE" (28.07.2017)
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Kenya: IEBC – Code of Conduct Summons on Marsabit Violence (27.07.2017)


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Dec 7, 2021 Economy, Finbold, Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), U.S. stock exchange, World
A total of 179 companies were delisted from U.S. stock exchanges between 2020 and 2021, a report by Finbold says.
In the report released on Tuesday, Finbold revealed that the number of companies listed on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) dropped by 2.89 per cent from 6,179 in 2020 to 6,000 in 2021.
"…a total of 179 companies have been delisted from the major United States exchanges between 2020 and 2021.
"In 2021, the number of companies on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stands at 6,000, dropping 2.89% from last year's figure of 6,179. In 2019, the listed companies stood at 5,454," Finbold in the report said.
While NYSE recorded the highest delisting with companies on the platform, dropping 15.28% year-over-year from 2,873 to 2,434, Nasdaq listed companies grew 7.86% from 3,306 to 3,566.
The report detailed that a significant portion of the delisting sprang from the regulatory perspective that pitted U.S. agencies against their Chinese counterparts.
Finbold explained that other companies were delisted for violating listing regulations and failing to meet the minimum financial standard which includes the company's inability to maintain a minimum share price, financial ratios, and sales levels.
The report also cited the emergence of new alternative markets as other possible reasons for the delisting from U.S. major exchanges
It explained that China and Hong Kong markets have become more appealing, with regulators making local listings more attractive.
It added that some delisted companies' voluntary requested to be delisted following their desire to trade on other exchanges.
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By Matthew Oloche


ATM Skateboards, also known as ATM Click, was one of the brainchildren of professional skateboarding legend Mark Gonzales, and created in 1993. The brand was established shortly after Gonzales left his previous sponsor Blind, where he took matters into his own hands to provide quality products to the market that stayed true to skateboarding. Although Gonzales is no longer with the company, ATM Skateboards sticks to it's routes, and sponsors an extremely talented team of riders.