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This is the official website of Toronto-based journalist and writer Steven Zhou, whose work focuses primarily on issues related to national security, political extremism, and foreign affairs, with an emphasis on post-9/11 politics. His journalism and commentary usually revolves around the broad themes of political Islam, resurgent far-right politics, security, and post-9/11 attitudes in the West.
Steven is currently a freelance journalist. He is a Senior Online Contributor for CBC News and an Associate Editor at The Islamic Monthly, a Maryland-based print and online magazine focusing on post-9/11 issues.
Steven has worked as a journalist and producer for the Ottawa Citizen and CBC-Radio's "Day 6" program, respectively. He worked for the city desk at the Citizen, covering everything from crime to politics. He also did just about everything–from producing stories to online blogging–for "Day 6," a weekly current events show.
Before starting his career, Steven graduated from Carleton University with a Master of Journalism (MJ) in 2013. He also graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology, in 2010. At U of T, he served as the Mississauga campus Student Union's Minister of Social Justice and Associate VP-external Affairs.
Steven Zhou is a prolific contributor to multiple publications. His writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Buzzfeed, Vice News, CBC Online, the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, Salon, Quartz, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America, OpenCanada.org, Policy Options, Now Magazine, the Literary Review of Canada, CANADALAND, Ricochet Media, Jacobin, The Huffington Post, Metronews Toronto, Briarpatch Magazine, The American Conservative, Middle East Eye, J-Source, BlogTo, and Muftah, among other outlets.
In 2012, He worked as a researcher and reporter for Farm Radio International after securing a travel grant at Carleton University's Centre for Media and Transitional Societies. He travelled to Lilongwe, Malawi to cover development and political economy not long after protests and unrest shook the city before his arrival. That same year, he also worked as a staff reporter for Muslim Link, a community-based newspaper in Ottawa, Canada that focuses on Muslim affairs in the city and elsewhere. Steven covered everything from community events to incidents of Islamophobia.
From 2013-2015, Steven was the managing editor for The Mark News, an international op-ed syndication company that produced and syndicated two op-eds per week to 15 English language newspapers around the world, from Japan to Norway to Argentina. He produced each and every one of these pieces, while interviewing each contributor for a transcript that was converted eventually into an opinion piece via a ghost writer. Steven has produced pieces by over 200 contributors, from former PM of Ireland Mary Robinson to leading thinkers and analysts like Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer and Harvard University's Joseph Nye.
From 2015-17, Steven was a board member of The Tessellate Institute (TTI), a charity status NGO that explores and documents the lived experiences of Canadian Muslims through academic research and the arts. He has contributed research to multiple projects and hosted multiple events, including a presentation of the national Muslim opinion survey co-sponsored by TTI and carried out by the Environics Institute. It is the only survey of its kind in Canada.
Steven is also an active member of the Canadian Muslim community and has worked on a number of issues concerning national security, human rights, and freedom of expression. He is currently a member of the Nation Security Committee of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), a prominent advocacy group in Canada focusing on human rights education. Additionally, he has also worked as an Advocacy Intern from 2010-2011 for Human Rights Watch and has volunteered for a number of other organizations such as OXFAM Canada, the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW), and Canadian Journalists for free Expression (CJFE).
Steven is an active speaker primarily in Canada on issues regarding national security, extremism, civic engagement, and the media. He has spoken at Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and McMaster University, among other venues on these issues, particularly in relation to their impact on the Muslim community in Canada. Please email him for bookings. He's also been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including CBC Radio, the Toronto Star, and Vision TV, among other platforms.
He is also available for ghost writing and copy editing/writing assignments. He has edited work that has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, the Washington Post, the Brookings Institution, the Hill Times, and the Toronto Star, among other outlets. Please refer to the "Services" page for rates and how to contact him.


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Blues Traveler - Live at Irving Plaza NYC (2/23/18)
In case you didn't know, Blues Traveler is in the middle of celebrating their 30th anniversary by embarking on a nationwide tour. On Friday, they gave a sold-out crowd in Irving Plaza their money's worth by delivering a night of pure fun.
Even though the band goes back 30 years, they really hit their stride in the mid 90's. But if you only know them for 90's hits like Run-Around and Hook, then you're missing out! On this night, they brought their diverse catalog of songs to an audience that consisted of both young and older fans alike.
When it was time for the band to play, they walked onto the stage as the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" blared through the speakers. Once they got situated, frontman John Popper greeted the NYC audience and then stated, "We are 30 f**king years old!". After that, they wasted no time in jumping in to playing some tunes for this excited crowd.
From start to finish, the band rolled through hit after hit. As great as it is to hear their songs in concert, the real highlights of the show were whenever they broke into an impromptu jam session. In between songs, the bandmates would go back and forth and just turn into a full blown jam extravaganza! You could see how they just feed off each other's energy during the show. There wasn't a dull moment at all. At the end, they said goodbye to this satisfied NYC audience by blowing a kiss from the stage.
If you've only heard radio or album versions of their music, then you really have to see them live. This is one band that sounds amazing in concert.
After 30 years, these guys haven't skipped a beat. Hopefully, they keep trucking along and have many more tours to come!
Die Hard - Soundtrack (La-La Land Records)
If you're ever stuck in Nakatomi Plaza and waiting for a man named John McClane to come save the day, a good CD to pass the time is the memorable Die Hard soundtrack by composer Michael Kamen.
La-La Land continues their catalog of high quality, limited edition CD's for movie junkies everywhere with this release. Like most of their CD's, it comes with extras like bonus tracks and a booklet that features in-depth material that take you back to this movie masterpiece. Speaking of bonus tracks, some of the ones included are Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" and Vaughn Monroe's "Let It Snow" to give that true holiday feel. People that believe Die Hard is a holiday film will definitely be happy to hear these on the CD.
With so many good products that have been released by La-La Land records, this is another one not to pass up by any fans of the film. With it being a limited release, all the more it makes it worth getting.
This CD definitely gets a "Yippee Ki Yay"!
Blues Traveler - Live at Irving Plaza NYC (2/23/18...

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Whenever there is a string storm threatening Florida's coast native Floridians quickly jump into action and take the steps needed to insure their homes security. It helps give homeowners a peace of mind knowing that their homeowners insurance will cover any damage that might be had as a result of strong winds and bad weather. Having a peace of mind can help improve one's sleep thus improving their overall health because the individual is not up late at night tossing and turning worrying about whatever situation or circumstance he or she might be facing.
Studies have shown that finances and personal health is the two most common causes of emotional and mental stress. Personal health is by far one of the most important aspects to daily life because without a healthy life mobility and overall functionality can be challenging. There are certain condition or medical concerns that can hinder a person's ability to live a normal life. One of these conditions goes by the name – Neuropathy. Neuropathy is a very frustrating condition that affects more than twenty million men and women and drastically decreases their overall ability to move about freely and with comfort.
When it comes to treating neuropathy the neuropathic patient has several options. The trick with treatment is finding one that actually works and is a safe treatment option. One of the leading treatment options would have to be the use of prescription medications, the problem with medications is that they can be highly addictive as well as come with adverse side effects attached to their usage. Dealing with side effects that are so common place with medications can further hinder the neuropathic patient on his or her journey toward peace of mind.
Natural neuropathy treatments are a safer therefore ultimately more effective treatment option. Neuropathy treatment should be designed to help soothe the pain and help encourage mobility and the following natural treatment options can do that.
These are only two of the natural treatment options that can be used to help relieve neuropathy pains and symptoms there are several more that should be openly discussed with a medical professional to help solidify the safety of the treatment thus creating a peace of mind.


New adversarial techniques developed by engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) can make objects "invisible" to image detection systems that use deep-learning algorithms. These techniques can also trick systems into thinking they see another object or can change the location of objects. The technique mitigates the risk for compromise in automated image processing systems.


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Q: Swift - IOS : UIalertController position I'm trying to create a custom alertView but i'm facing a problem with the size of the Alert
so my question is :
how could i know the X position of the left corner and the x position of the right corner ?

A: You can get x position something like,
  x = self.view.frame.size.width/2.0 - yourCustomAlertView.frame.size.width/ 2.0

and same for y also,
  y = self.view.frame.size.height/2.0 - yourCustomAlertView.frame.size.height/ 2.0

Update : (As Asked in comment)
You can add width constraint same as you have added height constraint so your code will be look like,
    var height:NSLayoutConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: alertController.view, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.Height, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal, toItem: nil, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.NotAnAttribute, multiplier: 1, constant: 200);

    var width : NSLayoutConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: alertController.view, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.Width, relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal, toItem: nil, attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.NotAnAttribute, multiplier: 1, constant: 300);

    alertController.view.addConstraint(height);

     alertController.view.addConstraint(width);

A: You can access properties on the frame of the view. alertView.frame.minX will get you the left corner X and alertView.frame.maxX will get you the right corner X.

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Lubomir Moravcik – Football Artist
The managerial reign of Josef Venglos at Celtic is viewed by some as a period best forgotten, a dark age where little good happened and ambition was severely limited. And in some ways, this was the case, although it would be unfair to lay too much of the blame at the door of the good doctor. These were times when the infamous biscuit tin was kept firmly in the cupboard.
So when Celtic paid £200,000 for a 33-year-old Slovakian midfielder, there was much rolling of eyes and a distinct air of ridicule among the denizens of the Scottish football media. An old pal's act? After all, the selling club was Duisburg, hardly one of the household names of German football. Besides, the player in question, Lubomir Moravcik, had only played five times for them.
Moravcik, though, had a past worth considering. Those with less parochial attitudes recalled a talented Czechoslovakia team being one of the more entertaining sides in a generally grim World Cup in Italy in 1990. There had been almost 200 appearances for one of French football's elite clubs, St Etienne, and almost a big money move to Marseille before injury intervened.
But this was in the past. Clearly, there was a gifted footballer here, but had the best-before date come and gone? Sceptics – and there were many – folded their arms and stood back to watch. His Celtic debut caused a few eyebrows to head skywards, usually accompanied by approving nods.
Admittedly, the opposition was merely a pretty dismal Dundee side, but Moravcik showed, in a 6-1 thrashing, that while he may not have been a player of the lightning-pace variety, he had a touch that was something of a rare beauty in the macho, leg-biting world of Scottish football.
The Dundee match was merely a prelude. Two weeks later, Moravcik would play in his first Old Firm derby. How, cynics wondered, would this small, slight man cope? Twinkling feet may have defeated Dundee, but Rangers were altogether a different story.
It didn't even take the full ninety minutes to dispel the grim thoughts of the doubters. Moravcik, the best player on the pitch by the proverbial country mile, scored twice and controlled the game as Rangers were blown away. The 5-1 scoreline was somewhat flattering to the visitors.
Moravcik befuddles Rangers (not for the last time)
And now, it was no longer 'Moravcik.' In a bare couple of weeks, the Slovakian was now simply Lubo. And Lubo he would remain for the rest of his Celtic career. The only disappointment, not only for Celtic fans but also those who love wonderful football, was that his time was limited by age. If only he could have arrived a couple of years earlier…
There are very few footballers one can watch and be genuine uncertain as to which foot is the stronger. Lubomir Moravcik was one of them. A corner kick on the right. Let's try an outswinger. Another corner follows. Okay, let's make this one an inswinger. And it wasn't for show. Every piece of skill, every feint, every trick, there was a meaning. And it was a sheer pleasure to watch.
It took until 2001 before Celtic at last got past Rangers and won the league title under Martin O'Neill. In fact, they won the treble and those honours were the first in Moravcik's long career. It would be harder to think of a more deserving player.
Lubo and Larsson – not a bad combination
Celtic would retain their title the following season, but by now, Moravcik was running out of time and it was to be his last at Celtic. He did, however, get the opportunity to play in the Champions League, another fitting honour.
Lubo Moravcik played 94 league games for Celtic, scoring 29 goals. Overall, he played 129 times, scoring 35 goals. He also won 42 caps for Czechoslovakia and 38 for Slovakia. In the often thud and blunder world of Scottish football, he was a fine and polished diamond.


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Crimes Against Humanity, Displaced Persons, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Human Rights, International Law, Libya, Lynching, NATO, NTC
Empty Village Raises Concerns About The Fate Of Black Libyans
Posted by Internationalist 360° on September 14, 2011 March 11, 2012
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Tawergha used to be a city filled with black non-Arab Libyans. Rebel forces emptied the town after they seized Tripoli and residents have yet to return. | David Enders / MCT
TAWERGHA, Libya — This town was once home to thousands of mostly black non-Arab residents. Now, the only manmade sound is a generator that powers a small militia checkpoint, where rebels say the town is a "closed military area."
What happened to the residents of Tawergha appears to be another sign that despite the rebel leadership's pledges that they'll exact no revenge on supporters of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's new rulers often are dealing harshly with the country's black residents.
According to Tawergha residents, rebel soldiers from Misrata forced them from their homes on Aug. 15 when they took control of the town. The residents were then apparently driven out of a pair of refugee camps in Tripoli over this past weekend.
"The Misrata people are still looking for black people," said Hassan, a Tawergha resident who's now sheltering in a third camp in Janzour, six miles east of Tripoli. "One of the men who came to this camp told me my brother was killed yesterday by the revolutionaries."
On Tuesday, Amnesty International issued a report on human rights issues in Libya that included claims that the rebels had abused prisoners, conducted revenge killings and removed pro-Gadhafi fighters from hospitals.
Dalia Eltahawy, an Amnesty researcher, said the Tawerghis "are certainly a very vulnerable group and need to be protected." She called on the rebel leadership to "investigate and bring people to justice" for those abuses "to avoid a culture of impunity."
But rebel leaders, in their response, made no mention of Tawergha, though they promised to "move quickly … to make sure similar abuses are avoided in areas of continued conflict such as Bani Walid and Sirte."
"While the Amnesty report is overwhelmingly filled with the horrific abuses and killings by the Gadhafi regime, there are a small number of incidents involving those opposed to Gadhafi," the rebels' ruling National Transitional Council said in a statement. "The NTC strongly condemns any abuses perpetrated by either side."
There's no doubt that until last month, Tawergha was used by Gadhafi forces as a base from which to fire artillery into Misrata, which lies about 25 miles north.
Misratans say, however, that Tawergha's involvement on Gadhafi's side went deeper: Many of the village's residents openly participated in an offensive against Misrata that left more than 1,000 dead and as many missing, they say.
"Look on YouTube and you will see hundreds of Tawerghi men saying, 'We're coming to get you, Misrata,'" said Ahmed Sawehli, a psychiatrist in Misrata. "They shot the videos themselves with their cellphones."
The Tawerghis do not deny that some from the town fought for Gadhafi, but they say they are victims of a pre-existing racism in Libya that has manifested itself violently during the revolution.
The evidence that the rebels' pursuit of the Tawerghis did not end with the collapse of the Gadhafi regime is visible, both in the emptiness of this village and that of the camps to which the residents fled.
At one, in a Turkish-owned industrial complex in the Salah al Deen neighborhood of southern Tripoli, a man looting metal from the complex simply said that the Tawerghis had "gone to Niger," the country that borders Libya on the south where some Gadhafi supporters, including the deposed dictator's son Saadi, have fled.
Abandoned blankets and mattresses littered the area, and laundry still hung drying. Aside from some extinguished cooking fires and piles of trash, there was little else to suggest human habitation.
Lafy Mohammed, whose house is across the road from the complex, said that on Saturday a group of revolutionary militiamen from Misrata, 120 miles east of Tripoli, had come to the camp and evicted its tenants.
"They arrested about 25 of the men," Mohammed said. "They were shooting in the air and hitting them with their rifle butts."
"They took the women, old men and children out in trucks," he said.
Mohammed said that it was not the first time the revolutionaries from Misrata had come after the people in the camp.
"A week ago they were here, but (the people in the neighborhood) begged them to leave them alone," Mohammed said.
Mohammed said some of the Tawerghis may have been taken to another nearby camp, in a Brazilian-owned industrial complex. On Tuesday, that camp was empty as well, with the gate locked.
Reached by phone at the camp in Janzour, Hassan, who did not want his last name used, said he had escaped from the Brazilian company camp on Saturday, when it, too, was raided. He said about 1,000 Tawerghis were now at the Janzour camp.
"They arrested 35 men, but they let me go because I was with my family," Hassan said. He blamed a brigade of fighters from Misrata.
In Tawergha, the rebel commander said his men had orders not to allow any of the residents back in. He also said that unexploded ordnance remained in the area, though none was readily apparent.
Most homes and buildings in the area appeared to have been damaged in the fighting, and a half-dozen appeared to have been ransacked. The main road into the village was blocked with earthen berms. Signs marking the way to the village appeared to have been destroyed.
On the only sign remaining "Tawergha" had been painted over with the words "New Misrata."
On one wall in Tawergha, graffiti referred to the town's residents as "abeed," a slur for blacks.
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The Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association (JALTA) is an electronic double blind peer reviewed journal. Established in 2008, JALTA is published annually following the Association's Annual Conference.
Only papers presented at the ALTA Annual Conference are eligible for submission for publication in JALTA, subject to editorial discretion and the peer review process.
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The 2017 JALTA is now available to view.
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Recently, Oleg Zhokh fill his collection with a different medal - the award for a victory in ultimate class. But was it difficult to pull in the "quiet" season between the two major starts – passed professional world cup and the upcoming European Championships (and qualifying for it championship of Ukraine)?
How the off-season passes to you? Do you train or rest?
- Off-season – this is when I can relax a bit. I do not train as intensively, but don't leave workouts at all.
I train a little differently: I do not do heavy exercise for my hands, doing more for the rest – pecs, legs, back, press. In general, I do basic exercises.
I think that now I'm in good shape, and I wouldn't lose it, because I always keep it.
How much time do you need to prepare for the competition?
- If I put some purpose, and it would be necessary to prepare well, then I would have about two months.
In the last competition, where you participated, you get gold of open class. How about this achievement?
- The fact that this is my first gold of open weight category, and it was very surprising to me.
I felt very well at these competitions, it was easy to pull in my class and very well – in the open.
I noted that Rustam Babayev is now in very good shape, and I think he can gain even better. Probably Dmitry Trubin wants a rematch with both of us.
Are you planning to pull at European and world championships this year?
- Yes, I think I will fight in these championships in the new season!
We are waiting for Oleg's new victories an for sure we'll present them to you. Stay with armpower.net!


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Now just $50.
By John Zientek
When Frank Muytjens, former head of menswear design at J.Crew, visited Tokyo in 2009, he was impressed with New Balance's presence. They weren't just in athletic stores. They were in forward-thinking menswear stores and small boutiques. They were offered in unique colorways that were geared more toward daily style than gym-wear. In particular, a pair of suede, basil-green 1400s caught his eye, but he couldn't make the purchase because the Japan-exclusive style didn't come in his size. After this experience, Muytjens initiated the first collaboration between New Balance and J.Crew in 2010.
Over the last eight years, the two brands have worked together on a range of exclusive sneakers. Initially offering only Made in America styles, the partnership has expanded to include more affordable sneakers made overseas. One of these silhouettes, the 520, is an updated version of a classic New Balance design from the '70s. The New England-based footwear brand crafted the understated style in shaggy suede colorways exclusive to J.Crew.
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CHANTILLY, Va. -- Community leader Karrie Delaney today announced the Virginia Education Association has endorsed her campaign to represent Virginia's 67th House District, which stretches from Chantilly and South Riding to Fair Lakes and Oakton.
"Every General Assembly session, lawmakers are faced with decisions that put special interests over the students and families they represent," said VEA President Jim Livingston, who also serves as chair of the VEA Fund. "With Karrie Delaney as Delegate, constituents of the 67th District will know their best interests are being represented, especially when it comes to making public education the priority it should be."
"I'm honored to be endorsed by the Virginia Education Association," stated Delaney. "As the mother of a 7-year-old and 4-year-old, I'm dedicated to bringing home our fair share of education funding to lower class sizes, provide top-notch resources in our classrooms, and retain the best teachers with fair pay and benefits to ensure our children receive a world class education."
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Karrie started working at a group home for foster children - an experience where she learned how policy decisions can either serve or fail our most vulnerable. Later, as a crisis counselor, Karrie stood by women who were assaulted and raised awareness about the abuse of women around the world. When Karrie became a mother, she turned her focus towards local issues as Gov. McAuliffe's appointee to the Virginia Commission on Youth, as well as former Chair of Fairfax County Citizens Corps Council and the current Chair of Fairfax County Library Board of Trustees. She lives in Chantilly with her husband, Patrick, and their two children.
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Step Ahead Leadership
"Everyone deserves the opportunity to experience team athletics and gain the confidence and skills that come from being part of a team"
"I want my work to solve societal problems. I want to help scale Step Ahead to a national level because we need such positive social setting widespread."
"I was drawn to Step Ahead because it combines my passion for design with helping others."
Annie Marggraff
Founder & Executive Director
Annie Marggraff discovered an interest in running at age 10, when she realized she could outrun most of the boys in her PE class. Annie joined her local xc and track club and quickly fell in love with the sport, In 2015, Annie combined her love of running and determination to create athletic opportunities for all, with the assistance of college student-athletes nationwide, to create Step Ahead.
Nima Sherpa
Nima is a controller at Lextec, a private semiconductor wholesale distributor. She has prior experience in NYC Deloitte audit and Silicon Valley start up internal audit. Nima was a high impact volunteer as a philanthropy fundraiser and coordinator to disseminate emergency supplies to remote Nepal villages after 2015 earthquake. She is a first year MBA student at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Grace Vannelli
PR/Design Manager
Grace grew up in the Bay Area and then went on to study advertising at the University of Oregon, earning her Bachelors degree in 2017. After completing a marketing internship in Silicon Valley and graduating from school, Grace moved to Australia for one year in order to work as a freelance graphic and web designer. She has since returned home from her travels abroad to the Bay Area.
"All children should have the opportunity to be active, to play a sport that strengthens their body, their mind, and helps them make new friends."
"As a competitive runner myself, I know that our sport has the ability to teach key life skills such as confidence, teamwork, and perseverance."
Namrata Banerjee
Namrata is a founder, product manager, venture fellow with an interdisciplinary background in business, humanities, science, and software engineering. She loves to solve problems and believes small steps can bring monumental shifts in societies.
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Julia is a Pacific Northwest native about to graduate from Santa Clara University this June with a B.A. in Communication and a B.S. in Ethnic Studies. She competed for the D1 cross country and track team all four years while at SCU and is truly obsessed with all things running.
John Constantino, MD
Dr. Constantino received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1984, and attended Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, graduating in 1988. Since then, he has become one of the nation's leading autism researchers, authoring dozens of publications in the nation's top medical journals.
In 2018, Dr. Constantino and Annie Marggraff (Step Ahead Founder & Executive Director) published a Letter to the Editor in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry about Step Ahead's prototype chapter. You can read the paper, titled "Physical and Psychosocial Impact of a University-Based, Volunteer Student-Led Running Program for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder ", here.
Steve was a varsity swim athlete at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating with a degree in Engineering and Public Policy. He then earned his MBA at Harvard and headed West to work in Silicon Valley. Steve has been a startup executive and a partner at venture capital firm Ignite Group and co-founded Architect Partners, a boutique tech M&A advisor. In his spare time, he bikes, sails and mentors a range of non-profit and for-profit startups.
Why Step Ahead? "I think Step Ahead is a great win-win - it provides a simple, proven, valuable benefit to children with autism (and their families), and it gives college athletes a fun, easy way to give back to their community. I can think of few other programs that do as much good per dollar of funding."
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George Fechter has four-decades of successful experience as ideapreneur, intraprenuer and entrepreneur. He has been part of the founding of more than 10 service companies bringing a comprehensive managed process to under managed areas of the economy. George is an active board member, founder, and chairperson at multiple organizations around the country.
Why Step Ahead? "I am pleased to serve on the Step Ahead Board, which combines personal interest in subject matter based on autistic family members, interest in neurobiology and recognizing the benefits athletic participation, having run in 45 marathons over a 30 year period."
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Nearly 10 years after the company was founded, New Zealand startup Rocket Lab says it is ready to test its low-cost Electron rockets.
Test flights will launch from the Mahia Peninsula later this year, with the first commercial launches scheduled for 2016.
"We've been very successful in signing customers, so we're about two years fully loaded," says founder Peter Beck.
On Tuesday the Government announced new regulations for the burgeoning space industry, which Mr Beck says effectively puts New Zealand with the big boys.
"What we've seen is the New Zealand Government create a space agency. If you look around the world, that doesn't happen very often these days. Generally it's the superpowers that have space agencies. It's really significant for the country."
Without regulation Rocket Lab would still operate, but would just follow US and international law instead. The Government developed the guidelines with help from the US.
Rocket Lab looked at various launch locations around New Zealand and the world, but settled on the Mahia Peninsula, between Gisborne and Napier.
"The Mahia Peninsula is just fantastic. We in fact have the widest range of launch azimuth (angles) out of any launch site in the entire world, so we can go to more places out of that launch site than any other launch site in the world," says Mr Beck.
"There could be better ones, but as far as actually having a small island nation in the middle of nowhere, which is kind of important when you're launching rockets, it's ideal. Honestly, we looked all around the planet."
With the international space industry worth about $330 billion annually, the Government's hoping the new regulations will inspire more investment locally.
"There's also not just Rocket Lab, there's a couple of other potential organisations, two regional research institutes that are both focused on space technology," Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce said on Tuesday.


The great Maestro Giuseppe Verdi lived a long life and gave the world plenty of beautiful compositions. His music sounds in opera houses and concert halls all over the world. The Viva Verdi! gala concert is a guide through Verdi's brilliant works. Excerpts from his operas in chronological order show the evolution of the Maestro's musical style.


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Whole Pay Check? Not any more, says Amazon
23-Aug-2017 - Last updated on 25-Aug-2017 at 15:32 GMT
Head to Whole Foods on Monday and expect to see lower prices on everything from organic avocados and eggs to almond butter
Related tags: Amazon, Organic food, Amazon.com, Whole foods
Amazon's decision to tackle Whole Foods 'whole paycheck' moniker from day one with a wave of price cuts sends an immediate signal to rivals that "they are now dealing with a competitor that is not afraid to damage profits and margins if it creates long term gains," says GlobalData Retail MD Neil Saunders.
In a note issued after Amazon and Whole Foods sent out a press release announcing a wave of price cuts on staples starting Monday, Saunders said: "Today's announcement… signals a clear intention to remedy what has been one of the grocery chain's biggest weaknesses. It will, at a stroke, help improve basket sizes, transaction values, and customer loyalty."
Longer term, however, Amazon's plan to integrate its Prime loyalty scheme with Whole Foods' customer rewards program, providing Prime members with special benefits; sell Whole Foods' 365 private label products via Amazon.com, AmazonFresh, Prime Pantry and Prime Now; and turn selected Whole Foods stores into collection points for Amazon.com orders; will be of even greater strategic significance, he predicted.
"Not only will this allow Amazon to target discounts and offers effectively, it will also give it significant intelligence on the preferences and habits of Whole Foods shoppers. Given that 70.3% of Whole Foods core customers are already members of Amazon Prime, the linkage covers a significant part of the existing shopper base."
This will provide a measurable improvement to Amazon's own food proposition
The plan to sell Whole Foods' private label products through Amazon's other channels is "no surprise," he added.
"Given the high regard in which the brands are held, this will provide a measurable improvement to Amazon's own food proposition. Moreover, it will facilitate greater volumes which will generate economies of scale and cost savings down the line.
"Amazon is wasting no time in making the most of its newest division. Worryingly for others in the market, these things are only the opening salvo in what will be a time of rapid change."
Kantar Retail: Deal could prompt wave of e-commerce M&A activity
And it's the speed with which Amazon seems to want to move that is generating such anxiety in the market, Kantar Retail analyst Elley Symmes told FoodNavigator-USA, with some commentators predicting it might prompt a flurry of M&A activity as traditional bricks & mortar players buy in expertise via acquisitions or partnerships.
"The competition just doesn't have the skillset inhouse to respond quickly in a meaningful way. So I think we'll see more M&A. You could see someone like Kroger coming in and buying Instacart, for example."
As for the price cuts, they underline the fact that Amazon is "not worried about margins" and is prepared to play the long game with this deal, she said, which will put further pressure on a sector already dealing with the rise of Lidl and Aldi.
While Whole Foods' stores were not designed to operate as fulfilment centers for online orders, she acknowledged, "You could see Amazon taking the 10 or 20 most unproductive stores, plus stores that haven't been remodeled in a while and re-organize the space or turn them into dark stores/fulfilment centers. However, they are not going to turn all the stores into Amazon fulfilment centers for food - they bought Whole Foods because of its brand equity so they aren't going to change that.
"I think when they open new stores, though, you'll see more of a hybrid model."
According to Kantar data, around 30% of US primary households have an Amazon Prime membership, while 64% of shoppers overall shop on Amazon.com, she said. "But only 12% of Amazon shoppers currently shop at Whole Foods, so this is an opportunity to bring the Whole Foods brand to the masses."
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Prices will be cut on staple items from Monday August 28
Amazon Prime to become Whole Foods' customer rewards program, "providing Prime members with special savings and other in-store benefits."
Whole Foods' private label products—including 365 Everyday Value, Whole Foods Market, Whole Paws and Whole Catch—will be available via Amazon.com, AmazonFresh, Prime Pantry and Prime Now.
Amazon Lockers will be available in select Whole Foods stores allowing customers to pick up products ordered via Amazon.com at their local Whole Foods store.
Longer term, Amazon and Whole Foods also "plan to offer more in-store benefits and lower prices for customers over time as the two companies integrate logistics and point-of-sale and merchandising systems."
Source: Amazon/Whole Foods press release, August 28
We'll lower prices, but not standards…
In a press release issued Thursday, Jeff Wilke, CEO of AmazonWorldwide Consumer, said: "We're determined to make healthy and organic food affordable for everyone. Everybody should be able to eat Whole Foods Market quality – we will lower prices without compromising Whole Foods Market's long-held commitment to the highest standards."
He added: "We will… continuously lower prices as we invent together. There is significant work and opportunity ahead, and we're thrilled to get started."
"Customers will enjoy lower prices on products like Whole Trade bananas, organic avocados, organic large brown eggs, organic responsibly-farmed salmon and tilapia, organic baby kale and baby lettuce, animal-welfare-rated 85% lean ground beef, creamy and crunchy almond butter, organic Gala and Fuji apples, organic rotisserie chicken, 365 Everyday Value organic butter, and much more."
Amazon/Whole Foods press release, August 28
A spokesman would not say if the initial round of price cuts – news of which immediately dented the share price of Kroger, Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Supervalu and Sprouts Farmers Markets - had been funded by suppliers, by Amazon/Whole Foods, or by a combination of both.
He also declined to comment on how deep the discounts would be, but stressed that this wasn't a short term promotion: "We're not commenting beyond what's in the press release, but hopefully the release makes it clear that this is a long-term investment – it is, and as the release says, there will be more to come."
Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey – who will stay on as CEO when the deal closes on Monday - added that the firm would "continue to expand our efforts to support and promote local products and suppliers."
According to retail research firm and consultancy GlobalDataRetail: "Amazon has more grocery shoppers than Whole Foods, but the vast majority only buy only a handful of non-perishable items a year. To date, Amazon's Fresh service is confined to a handful of urban and suburban areas with high population densities (eg. New York, L.A, San Francisco). This focus is necessary in order to support the volume required to be operationally effective. Even so, we do not believe the service is profitable – something that restricts the pace and scope of future expansion.
"The catchments of many Whole Foods stores overlap with Amazon Fresh's existing service areas – this will allow Amazon to test a number of different delivery and logistics solutions, with the aim of streamlining the operations of both businesses. However, in addition to this, Whole Foods gives Amazon access to a number of lucrative markets in places like Phoenix, Minneapolis, Houston and Portland. It also allows Amazon to play in lower density locations."
"Amazon has a huge customer database and owns the lion share of e-commerce purchasing, nearly $100bn in sales, and understands direct to consumer marketing and fulfillment better than any other grocery retail chain.
"The deal allows Whole Foods to be a key component in creating the new definition for grocery retail and a key part of designing the interface between online ordering, home delivery and in store shopping.
"We think that Amazon will use this brick and mortar foothold to create a truly interactive shopping experience...a cross over between online service level interaction and face to face connections with customers."
Jim Fosina, CEO, Fosina Marketing Group
Related topics: Markets, Bakery, Healthy Foods, Prepared Foods, Snacks, Views, Beverage, Confectionery, Dairy, Food retail and e-commerce, Manufacturers
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I need chocolate, Alexa... sweets, snacks, and the Amazon effect
Jeff Bezos proves Amazon can reinvent anything.
Posted by Andre Leonard, 25 August 2017 - 17:28 GMT
As an ardent Jeff Bezos watcher, he does indeed have the midas touch. No one picks all the winners, yet he picks most of them. While it would have seemed to most that purchasing Kroger Stores would have accomplished more for less. The fact that 70.3% of Amazon's members are Prime members and the national trend is to go organic which Whole Food's has already staked out as a 'brand' Amazon's logic is fitting here.
HALF PAYCHECK is still a issue
Posted by JOSEPH SABBAGH SAX MARITIME, 25 August 2017 - 17:10 GMT
AMZ knows nothing about store operations and will learn hard lessons as WFM was already having issues making enough money to make WS happy.
Lowering $$$ on already very high $$$ will not get them the sustained volume they think. I will hurt already weak margins immediately. Further cutting labor is their only way to make maintain margins but will hurt store ops and conditions.


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Walls by Ran Walker
October 31, 2018 Fiction
They had been talking for what felt like hours before Christopher noticed the walls crumbling down around them. He'd been too transfixed on the movement of her lips when she spoke, the way they elongated with certain syllables before coming to rest, full and slightly moist.
He had noticed her when she arrived in the reception area, several feet from the elevator bank on the seventy-fourth floor. She wore a forest green blouse and might have been banal vegetation in his peripheral vision had she not smiled at him.
It was a smile that invited him to return one of his own, though the gray whiskers on his cheeks were like lead. Still, he nodded his head to her by way of introduction, as to not be rude.
She approached him and began to speak.
"Quite a tall building, huh?" she said. The comment was akin to trivialization about the weather.
"I'd say so. My elevator went up to the 90th floor, but I believe you can switch over and go up another twenty floors."
He had said far more than he'd intended, but by now he realized she was watching him attentively and a warm glow bloomed over him, the kind of feeling he hadn't felt since well before Carla left him for the tennis pro at his former country club. He relished the idea of being watched by this woman, her large doe-eyes taking in his haggard face and rewarding it with a rich smile.
She then inquired why he was there and the conversation began to take on a life of its own.
She spoke to him as if she had always known him, and he lapsed into a familiarity he did not even know he still possessed.
It was this fluidity of conversation that delayed his understanding that something was off. People were scrambling, their eyes wide with fear. And the walls—yes, the walls—were actually coming down around them.
The fear consumed him like a fire leaping upon a shirt doused in gasoline. "We're going to die," he said, unable to comprehend his own voice.
"Christopher, look at me," she said, taking his hand.
It was the first time she had touched him, and the softness and warmth of her hands pulled him back into her eyes.
"It's going to be okay," she said, her words so calming he was forced to consider them. It was only then that he realized he had never told her his name.
"Just hold my hand. It'll all be over soon," she said.
"I'm scared," he managed.
"I know, but it will all be okay."
He took her hand, just as the floor dropped from underneath their feet. He could no longer make out the screams, the debris, the smoke. He could only feel her hand as they descended.
Ran Walker is the author of sixteen books. He works as a creative writing professor at Hampton University in Virginia.
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Apple and Dream Corps team up to help introduce more people to Swift
Paroma Bhattacharya February 20, 2019 news No Comments
Tech giant Apple has made it to the headlines for announcing a partnership with Dream Corps intended to train people to code using Swift, the company's own programming language. The company claimed it is working with the Oakland-based nonprofit on the initiative as per which Apple will provide technology along with professional support, curriculum guidance, and advocacy to middle and high schoolers, college students, and beyond.
Reportedly, Dream Corps currently runs its own learn-to-code program #YesWeCode, which has had 100 graduates till date and placed nearly 60 percent of them in tech jobs. The firm's long-term goal is to help 100,000 youngsters from understated backgrounds in attaining training to get jobs in the tech industry.
Vien Truong, CEO of Dream Corps, who joined the company in 2015, stated that to her the company is like a Peace Corps for the American Dream.
Truong further noted that it's about ensuring to help uplift people who lived or grew up in communities like hers. This partnership with Apple will help unleash the untapped talent and genius within those communities, which will help a new generation achieve their dreams, Truong added.
The organization is working together with the Mayor's office and the city of Oakland in search of a dedicated location to implement the program with Apple and other workforce development programs, reported sources familiar with the development. The program is slated to be launched later this year in the Bay Area, stated Apple.
Apple's investment in the program is part of its larger Community Education Initiative, but this is not the only way the tech giant is persuading people to learn Swift. Since Swift's introduction in 2014, Apple has launched several programs and tools targeted at introducing more people, including the launch of Swift Playground in 2016, reported sources.
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Deb and Joel – Thank you so much for having real-time suggestions for inner and outer change. I feel inspired to look (with loving eyes) at my own money and how I flow it in the world. There is so much non-sense being peddled and broadcast right now that I appreciate the clarity you both are offering to cut through the cloud of darkness and misinformation.


Have you wondered how you will participate in your beloved sports now that you have vision loss? Losing your sight doesn't mean you have to "lose sight" of the activities you enjoyed before. Here's a recount of one person's take on the recent Olympics as well as info about how those with vision loss compete and/or play with their own loss.
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So, a couple years ago, not too long after I arrived in Berks County, I was asked to review a new book on Susanna Cox. While I had only been in Berks County, probably a year, I had heard all the stories and after reading the book, went to the primary resources, most of which were in the HJL (none of the Collection Names or resources at this facility were properly cited, they actually were not referenced at all…a BIG pet peeve of mine) and knew a good deal about the history. One does not need to grow up with an area's history to make an informed decision. Being an outsider, apparently did not make me a trustworthy source when it came to this review and the author's took offense. What interested me most about the book was the discussion on the evolution of criminal investigation, forensic pathology and criminal prosecution and not the Susanna Cox story, which was the same story told to me by researchers, volunteers and Louis Richards, Susanna's first biographer. Unfortunately for Susanna, everything mentioned in the book was either too new or came later and was of no help to her case, nor do I think it would have made a difference in the outcome.
1776-1876 Centennial Book of Reminiscences, Traditions, Recollections, Habits, Manners, and Customs, and of what I Know of the Older TImes. Written Expressly for the Van Reed Family. J Van Reed, 1876.
Of what I know, and heard tell of Hanging. The first case I recollect of, and of which I shall give a condensed account was Susanna Cox. A girl of 17 years of age who resided for 5 years in the family of Jacob Gehr, a farmer in Oley Township was delivered in the spring of the year 1809 of an illegitimate child, the body of which was found by Mr. Gehr wrapped in an old coat, and concealed in a hole under a closet in a room over the washhouse. A corners inquest examined the body, and found the under jaw broken, and a piece of twisted tow stuffed in its throat. The jury had made out that the child was born alive, which the girl however denied, she was tried before Judge Spayed, and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be Hung. She subsequently made a full confession of her guilt. Her execution took place on the 10 of June the same year 1809. Never (I am told) such a numerous collection of People took place before. Every body, it seamed symphacited [sympathized] with the unfortunate girl, and all with one accord, declared that Mr. Gehr should be hung, beside her, for reason to be presumed.
as a good looking girl; with black eyes and hair and red cheeks. She appeared to have manifested a wonderful degree of resignation, in regard of her fate. On the eavening before the Execution she was visited in Prison by an old lady to whome she showed the Shroud that had been made for her. The poor girl said "This is too long for me I can't walk well in it tomorrow. I beleave I will put a tuck in it." Dressed in her garment of death, She walked up Penn Street from the Jail to the hill, behind the cart which contained her coffin and was supported on each side by a clergyman. The day was very hot and the sun in full meredian, in passing a Pump which stood on Penn Street below Seventh on the site no No 635. She asked for a drink of water to drink the Sheriff stopped the cart, and brought her a pint measure of fresh water, which she drank. The Gallows Erected on the side of the Hill at the head of Penn Street which consisted principally of two upright and cross pieces, in the middle of which the rope was tied. Susanna mounted the cart and when the rope had been adjusted and the cap drawn over her eyes the cart was drivin from under her, and she was Suspended for some 10 minutes. She contracted her Shoulders and gave signs of life. The Hangman seeing this, took hold of her feet, and gave her body a jerk, one of her slippers comeing off fell to the ground which created one continuous moan through the croud at the limited time her body was taken down and a couble of physiscians bled her freely and jabbed her all over to restore life if possible but it was found that her neck had been broken by the Hangmans jerk. The entire concourse of the spectators where effected to tears by the heart = ending specticle Indignation was loudly expressed against the Hangman, Who was a German, and a stranger in the place. Who was hired by Sheriff Marks to perform the duty of hanging. Towards Eavning this JACK KELCH came down (Gallowhill now Fifth) Street from the jail and was observed some Bully of the Town who was standing on the S.E corner of Sixth and Penn Street who went across the street to where Jamesons Cloathing Store now is and procured a Cow – Skin caught the hangman and flayed him so desperately that the blood ran down his legs. Twenty silver 1/2 dollars the blood-money he had obtained for hes serveses as poor Susanna's Executioner, dropped out of his pocket, which when he had picked up, he made off down Sixth Street as fast as he could, crased [crossed] over the Lancaster Ferry and was never heard off again in this neighborhood. The body of Poor Susanna was givin to her friends and buried in the vicinity of Hampdon.
Follow-up. The Susanna Cox story is (or was) taught to every child in school and is reenacted three times a day at the Kutztown Folk Festival. Her's is a story that Berks County wants remembered. Some facts, they choose to forget. For instance, the rope, made for the hanging, was too short. So, while everyone remembers that Susanna was standing on the cart that carried her coffin, they forget that she was actually standing on top of her coffin in the cart, so they could get the rope to reach her neck. Susanna was buried on a farm belonging to her brother-in-law, somewhere around the vicinity of Albright College. She was in an unmarked grave, because her sister did not want her body disturbed. It is believed that road crews working in the Hampden Heights area a few years ago, came across an unmarked grave and found the body of a female. It was removed to a site unknown. Everyone speculated that it was Susanna. Susanna Cox goes done in Pennsylvania History as being the last woman hung publicly in the Commonwealth. Not something I would like to be known for. Some historians say she didn't do it, others say she did. Was Mr. Gehr the father or Mr. Mertz? And who is Mr. Mertz? For better or worse, the story of Susanna Cox sparks interest in her story and almost compels you to seek out more information.
I will share more from J Van Reed's diary a little later. It is one of the better "finds" found in the library. I will also try and gather some information on him as well.


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Q: Debugging Memory Leak I'm trying to figure out where my memory leak is coming from since lately i'm experiencing a lot of performance drop when just opening a new tab on my browser FireFox ver.51
Just to be sure I've disabled all non-Microsoft startup services in msconfig even after reboot it still gets stuck on this.
Looking up on the vendors updates for this machine then it would be up to date on the drivers, i do occasionally check for Intel Chipset and onboard Graphics drivers (stable versions only) myself that are a few years newer then the vendor.
MS Resource monitor
MS Taskmgr Perfomance monitor
In the Taskmgr Performance monitor you can see I'm barely using any CPU and I/O leaving out any form of I/O wait issues due to swapping.
When looking in the Resource monitor actual physical RAM in is about 6.3GB while Cached is only 1.6GB making it roughly 4GB RAM missing where it's usage is coming from.
So i did do a offline MemTest (oh yes the old blue gorgeous BIOS screen) and all checks were passed, luckily it's only 8GB RAM so the downtime is manage-able ;)
Any ideas or other handy tools I can use to find the culprit?

A: Already fixed it, seems like my pagefile is storing too much cached memory for some reason, will look into it myself why it stores so much memory


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После милијон година је научнофантастична драма Драгутина Ј. Илића из 1889. године и представља прву научнофантастичну драму у светској књижевности.

Радња
Драма почиње на месту: "где је пре милијон година био град Париз." У драми се Натан мудри и његов син Данијел, као последњи људи на Земљи, нови људи Духо-света и Биљан, посланик са Меркура.

Издања
Прво издање се појавило 2. јуна 1889. године у Београду, у 15. и 16. броју Кола - листа за забаву и књижевност. Фототипско издање је 1988. године, након читавог века, објавила Народна библиотека Србије.

Треће издање се појавило тек 2017. године, од стране издавачке куће Portalibris.

Види још

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Књиге 1889.
Српске драме
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Србија у 1889.

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Fun New Character Promo Spots For The Boys Series Introduces You To The Heroic Seven
"If superheroes were real, they'd be real assholes."
Amazon Studios has released a series of character promo spots for the upcoming new series The Boys and they introduce The Seven, who are the superheroes in the series. These heroes are conceited individuals that think they are above the rest of the world. It's these characters that inspire Karl Urban's character to get "The Boys" together to take them down.
The heroes include Starlight, played by Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones), Homelander is the leader and is played by Antony Starr (American Gothic), A-Train is played by Jesse T. Usher (Survivor's Remorse), The Deep played by Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Queen Maeve, portrayed by Dominique McElligot (The Last Tycoon), and Translucent, played by Alex Hassell. The only member that didn't get his own promo was Black Noir, who is being played by Nathan Mitchel (iZombie).
The show is based
The Boys (2019)
The Seven (2019)
Jessica Jones (2015)
Survivor's Remorse (2014)
The Deep (1977)
Gossip Girl (2007)
The Last Tycoon (2016)
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Gods (2014)
Erin Moriarty (II)
Alex Hassell
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Annie has a twin brother named Buck. They were born pre-maturely, at 31 weeks gestation. Both came into the world very small, but as they grew, a disparity became apparent between the two in terms of their rate of development. At the age of 3, Annie was diagnosed as having the DDX3X gene mutation. While it has been enormously insightful to connect with other girls and their families upon receiving this diagnosis, we are well aware that as of now there is not a medical cure for what Annie has. Our main focus continues to be helping Annie gain strength and confidence in the abilities she does have, and to love and cherish the special glow that she brings into our family. Annie gets such enjoyment out of life. She takes great pleasure in interacting with animals, people, and she adores any type of water play! As the youngest of 8 children, Annie has a very strong and supportive family unit along with her on her journey. She is the blessing that our family didn't know we needed.


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Q: onbeforeunload window location change not working I want to capture the page reload event using JavaScript and then redirect to a different URL (i.e. load the different page in the same browser tab) instead of the letting the existing page reload. My code is here -
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    window.onbeforeunload = function(e) {
        window.location = "https://www.google.com";
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The code gets executed when I right click in Chrome and then click reload but www.google.com does not load in the tab - instead the page reloads in the same tab.
What should be changed here?

A: You can only do certain, things inside this event handler, mostly ask for confirmation, redirection is too late.
However you can redirect after the user confirms. Use .returnValue
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-beforeunloadevent-interface


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2017 High School Football Preview: Benedictine Bengals
Tony Bogan
Last year, the Benedictine Bengals struggled to start off the season, losing four of their first five games by a total of 17 points.
Their first eight games were decided by a total of eight points or less, with the Bengals only winning two of them, at Buchtel and at home against NDCL. Benedictine would finish the season at 3-7 overall and 2-4 in the North Coast League Blue Division.
This year, the Bengals are looking to turn things around and get back to the playoffs for the first time since 2015, when they made it all the way to the regional championship game. Head coach Carter Welo is entering his second year at the helm at Benedictine.
"We're just trying to take it one day at a time and get better. There's a lot of young guys that are getting a chance to play. I'm excited to see the progress that we've hopefully had over this offseason," said Welo.
Returning Players To Watch
Nick Demchuk (Jr.) QB, 6'2, 170 pounds
Chris Jefferson (Sr.) WR, 6'0, 180 pounds
Devon Fox (Jr.) WR/CB, 6'0, 169 pounds
Mikey Williams (Sr.) WR, 5'9, 180 pounds
Keith Williams (Sr.) SS/OLB, 5'10, 190 pounds
"There's a handful of guys who had a little bit of success last year individually, now we have to figure out how to have more success with wins and losses," Welo added.
Thoughts on Playing in the North Coast League?
"The NCL is a tough league. Our non-conference schedule is tough," said Welo. "We know every week that we're gonna go in with a battle on our hands. Whether it's a team we've never played, a team we've played once every couple of years, or a team we've played the last 20 years. It's a grind of a schedule but like we did in years past, we just have to take it one game a time. It's a great league."
The Bengals' schedule is the same as last year, with key matchups against Cleveland Heights on September 8th, at Notre Dame Cathedral Latin on September 29th, and the regular season finale against defending state champion Archbishop Hoban, (which moved up from Division III to Division II) on October 28th.
Tony Bogan is a 2010 graduate of Shaker Heights High School. He covers high school sports in and around the Cleveland area, and has done part-time college basketball play-by-play for Cuyahoga Community College.
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125th Ann of Gib Stamps
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125th Ann of Gib Stamps (view technical specs)
Early details of postal arrangements in Gibraltar are hard to establish although it is known that postal facilities were provided by the Civil Secretary's Office from 1749. Gibraltar became a packet port in July 1806 (a year after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805), although the Civil Secretary's office continued to be responsible for other mail. The two services were amalgamated on 1st January 1857 as a Branch Office of the British Post Office with the control of the Gibraltar Post Office not reverting to Gibraltar until the 1st January 1886.
Spanish stamps could be used in Gibraltar from their introduction in 1850 and indeed such franking was required on letters weighing over ½ oz. sent to Spain after 1 July 1854. From 1 July 1856 until 1 January 1876 all mail to Spain required postage to be prepaid by Spanish stamps and there issues were supplied by the Gibraltar Postal Authority acting as a Spanish Postal Agent. The mail forwarded under this system was cancelled at San Roque with a horizontal barred oval, later replaced with by a cartwheel postmark showing numeral 63. From 1857 combination envelopes showing the 2d ship mail fee paid in British stamps and the inland postage by Spanish issues exist.
Stamps of Great Britain were issued for use in Gibraltar from 3 September 1857 to the end of 1885. The initial supply contained 1d, 4d and 6d values.
Finally on the 1st January 1886 the Colonial Government of Gibraltar assumed control of its Postal Services. As an interim measure, Bermuda stamp plates were overprinted with 'Gibraltar' using different colours. These were replaced by Gibraltar's own design in December of that same year.
Gibraltar's stamps were used with peseta values from 1889 to 1898 since trade was carried out in this currency. Stamp designs were rather stereotyped until 1931 when, at the Governor's request, Captain Garrood, Gibraltar's Crown Surveyor and Engineer, produced the first pictorial Definitive.
The first commemorative issue was in 1935. The release of such issues were confined up to 1966 to Crown Agents 'Omnibus' issues and marked events of international interest. From 1966 subjects of a predominantly local flavour were chosen as well as international events.
Today Gibraltar continues to adopt a conservative stamp issuing policy thus maintaining its high reputation amongst the philatelic fraternity. Gibraltar stamps are highly collected worldwide and the Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau proudly despatched its stamps to collectors worldwide.
The 125th Anniversary of Gibraltar stamps feature iconic stamps issued during five reigns: the 1886 Queen Victoria Bermuda overprint one shilling; the 1903 King Edward VII one pound; the 1926 King George V five pounds; the 1938 King George VI one pound and the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II half shilling. These and the complete archive of Gibraltar stamps issued over the past 125 years are included in the The 'Historic Stamps' section of www.gibraltar-stamps.com
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Printer: BDT Security Printers
Colours: 4 cols.
Stamp size: 25.73 x 39.56mm
Stamp Values: 10p, 42p, 44p, 55p, £1.50
Special Folder
Maxi Cards
Gutter Pairs Set
First Day Cover
Block of 4
Royal Engagement
Royal British Legion
HM QE II, Prince Philip 'Lifetime of Service'
Europa 2011 'Year of Forests'
Royal Wedding GIB
Gibraltar Barbary Macaques
Spitfire 75th Anniversary
SEPAC Beautiful Corners of Europe 3
1300th Ann. of Tariq ibn Ziyad
Christmas 2011 'Nativity Art'
FDC 2011 Year Collection
PPack 2011 Year Collection


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Yuhua Shouzhi Wang (born 1966), is a contemporary Chinese American artist. In 2000, she worked as a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. Currently, she is the Lifetime Chairwoman of the International Art Museum of America. Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang was recognized as an international first-class artist by New York Academy of Art.

Awards, honors, and achievements

In 2013, President George Christophides of the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centers, and Associations (WFUCA) conferred the title "2013 WFUCA" to Dr. Wang's artworks.

In 2019, Dr. Wang was recognized as an international first-class artist by New York Academy of Art in the United States.

On March 18, 2019, Dr. Wang's artwork "Pomegranates in Bamboo Basket" of size 27" x 18" commanded $1.27 million in Gianguan Auctions.

Painting style

Dr. Wang's painting style combines elements from Eastern and Western art. Professor Stephen Farthing, a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in the U.K. has remarked that "Dr. Wang's paintings may draw heavily on the traditions of Eastern art, but they present themselves as extraordinarily Western ideas and images", and that Dr. Wang's mastery is of exquisite magnificence and her paintings "reach across cultures to celebrate the space that exists intellectually and emotionally between representation and abstraction, between a fact and an idea."

Solo exhibitions

 2019, Seeing Two Worlds in One Flower, Palais du Louvre, Paris
 2019, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
 2019, Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Department of Culture of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
 2018, Dapeng Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
 2008, Gold Room at the United States Capitol

Theme exhibitions

 2021, Claude Monet and Yuhua Shouzhi Wang: An Exhibition of Water Lily Paintings in Dialogue, organized by the Art Who's Who Museum of Paintings in Dialogue, Los Angeles, California, the United States

Bibliography

 World's Highest-Level Color Paintings and Ink-Wash Paintings
 Paintings of Yuhua Shouzhi Wang
 Yuhua Shouzhi Wang Flower and Bird Paintings

References

External links
 Courants d'art transfrontières-Une fleur deux mondes
 Art Who's Who Museum of Paintings in Dialogue

1966 births
Living people
Chinese women painters
American women painters
American contemporary painters
21st-century American women artists
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American painters
Auburn University faculty
American women academics


A new report maps the landscape of New York state nutrition education policies and programs as the Trump administration and Congress de-prioritize public health initiatives.
The Trump administration's plans to cut the federal budget, coupled with the tax law that Republicans passed at the end of 2017, will create dramatic changes in the daily lives of many Americans.
In public health alone, the tax law is likely to trigger massive spending cuts, including $61 million from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and $900 million from a health education fund in the Affordable Care Act. The tax bill could also mean $145 million in cuts to the federal food stamp program, known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which includes SNAP-Ed, a program that provides tens of millions of dollars to states to fund initiatives that promote healthy eating habits and prevent obesity, like cooking demonstrations at farmers' markets.
Policymakers and advocates seeking alternatives to fund these types of programs are further stymied by how the federal funds even flow to local and state-level programs. Charting the ways that federal policy affects these nutrition education programs at the state and city level is about to get a bit easier: A report released today by researchers at the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education, and Policy at Columbia University's Teachers College, attempts to map out those connections, using New York as its focus. The report, "Empowered Eaters," is the first detailed look at the complex landscape of nutrition education policies and programs in the state.
Uno and her team define nutrition education broadly. "It's helping people gain the skills, attitudes, and knowledge to make healthy decisions as well as supportive environments, policies, and systems that can facilitate those choices," she explained. A lesson on reading nutrition labels counts, so does a cooking class, installing a community garden, and much more.
The timeliest finding was how dependent local programs are on federal funding, which makes them vulnerable to shifting political priorities. According to the report, of the 32 nutrition education initiatives administered by New York state during fiscal 2016, 28 were fully or partially federally funded. Federal dollars also accounted for $1.19 billion of the $1.76 billion New York spent on public health initiatives in FY 2015.
The researchers also found that many of the existing policies would be more effective if they were more responsive to individual community needs, and that there's a lack of coordination between agencies working on these issues, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees nutrition education programs like SNAP-Ed, and the CDC, which oversees programs like the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program.
The report comes at time when the government has prioritized cutting social programs of all kinds and are de-emphasizing support for policies that focus on goals like curbing obesity rates.
The attempts to repeal and gut the Affordable Care Act could also have major consequences since many state nutrition education programs are funded through the law's Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF).
Advocates and educators have taken these developments as a wake-up call, especially given the coincidental timing of the report and its findings related to how dependent nutrition education programs are on the federal government. The big question now is how to keep funding flowing to these programs.
Uno and McCarthy said that they plan on publishing a guide to their methods so that other states can follow their lead and create their own roadmaps of the nutrition education landscape. If they did so, many themes would likely align, since money from programs like SNAP-Ed and PPHF go to every state.
The researchers also hope that showing how funding is used will encourage lawmakers, leaders, and advocates to commit to building a more effective, well-funded nutrition education policy that actively supports improving health outcomes for all Americans. "A lot of it comes down to where money ends up. Is it actually making it to the communities?" Uno said.
An example of where that money flows is Bronx Health REACH's programs, which have focused on reducing minority health disparities in the borough since 1999. The organization has worked to get produce and healthier snacks on shelves at local bodegas; its FoodCorps service members have installed teaching gardens, organized parent and student tastings of an alternative lunch menu, and regularly lead classroom lessons on food and health.
That work could be seriously curtailed soon, since a significant portion of the organization's budget is funded through REACH, one of the CDC programs slated to be cut later this year.
Top photo: A sample of the plants that have been planted at the new Frederick Douglass High School community garden in April 2016. Photo by Lance Cheung, USDA.
The tax bill was exempted from PAYGO as part of the Continuing Resolution signed by the President in December. This means that the automatic spending cuts cited in the first two paragraphs are no longer a threat, at least as a result of the tax bill being passed.
Many of the programs you identified could be cut in either future budget negotiations or in the next Farm Bill, including under the rationale that they are needed to reduce a deficit that was increased by the tax bill, but automatic PAYGO cuts directly resulting from its passage are no longer on the table.


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Stroke Alliance for Europe
Discovery Foundation
Verhaert Masters In Innovation
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Dr. Ana Clara Cristóvão
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
NeuroSoV
Ana Clara Cristóvão obtained a Basic in Science (Biochemistry) in 2005. In 2002 and 2003 she was a visiting student at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, at the Department of Biological Chemistry and the Radiation Detection Physics Laboratory. In 2005, she was accepted into the international PhD program in Cellular Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB-CNC) of the University of Coimbra.
In 2007, she went to the Neurology and Neurosciences department, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA to work on her PhD thesis. She obtained her PhD in Biology, and neuroscience field, from the University of Coimbra in 2010. In 2011, she was accepted as an associate researcher in the Division of Neuroscience at Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida (UCF), USA. Currently, she is at CICS-UBI, Covilhã, as an assistant researcher.
Her research work in neuroscience aims to understand the role of oxidative stress derived from NADPH oxidase (Nox) enzymes in the neurodegenerative process occurring in Parkinson's Disease to develop new therapeutic strategies to halt the disease progression. Inline, she is currently investigating the potential of specific inhibitors of Nox1 and antioxidant molecules to protect dopaminergic neurons and the use of innovative reformulations of those molecules to boost their bioavailability and effectiveness in the brain.
To transfer this knowledge to the industry, Dr. Cristóvão has recently co-founded NeuroSoV, a startup dedicated to the development and the pre-clinical validation of molecules with therapeutic potential for Parkinson's Disease.
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