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IFJ Pacific Media Network launched: Strong Voices Together
The Pacific Media Network (PMN) launched on Friday, October 27 at the IFJ's inaugural Pacific regional meeting and workshop in Port Vila, Vanuatu, and included the launch of a new PMN Facebook page and the #ifjmediapac hashtag.
Photos from the workshop in Vanuatu. Credit: Jane Worthington
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV), E Tū (New Zealand) and the Federation of Journalists, New Caledonia (FJC-NC) along with the Papua New Guinea Media Workers Association (PNGMWA), Fiji Media Association (FMA), and Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI), to announce the launch of a new media solidarity network for journalists and media workers in the Pacific.
The IFJ and Media Association blong Vanuatu co-hosted the two-day IFJ Pacific Solidarity & Campaign Workshop: Strong Voices Together in Port Vila, bringing together 15 media leaders and activists from Vanuatu, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Fiji. Supported by UNESCO, the meeting was aimed at building and strengthening regional solidarity, campaigning and advocacy, particularly in digital campaigns.
Key challenges for journalists across the Pacific identified at the meeting were:
Sexual harassment and violence toward female journalists in the field and in the workplace;
Journalist welfare issues such as entitlements, benefits, allowances, staffing and low wages;
Political influence by management, owners and politicians;
The need for strong RTI and Access to Information laws in the Pacific. Currently, both Solomon Islands and New Caledonia are yet to legislate any form of RTI legislation.
Journalist protection and safety, specifically to ensure ensuring governments fulfil their obligations to protect journalists and media workers and to tackle the culture of threats, intimidation and attacks;
The needs for further training and skills development to strengthen the capacity of journalists through professional development and media rights awareness building;
Strengthening regional solidarity and building a collective voice for journalists in the region.
The IFJ said: "This was the first IFJ activity which brought together journalists from across the Pacific. It was a great opportunity to create solidarity among our colleagues i and launch a network to share experiences, skills and campaigns. We hope that the IFJ Pacific Media Network will become a key vehicle for journalists to campaign and advocate on shared issues in the Pacific.
The regional workshop was preceded by a two-day union leadership and management workshop with the MAV executive and local journalists. Both activities were co-funded by Union to Union and UNESCO IPDC.
See photos from the activities here and here.
See the Pacific Media Network on Facebook here.
For further information contact IFJ Asia-Pacific on +61 2 9333 0946
The IFJ represents more than 600,000 journalists in 140 countries
Find the IFJ on Twitter: @ifjasiapacific
Find the IFJ on Facebook: www.facebook.com/IFJAsiaPacific


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Home Trending Chris Harrison won't host the next season of 'The Bachelorette'
Chris Harrison won't host the next season of 'The Bachelorette'
After nearly 20 years of hosting ABC's Bachelor reality dating shows, Chris Harrison will sit out the 2021 season of "The Bachelorette."
In his absence, Warner Horizon and ABC Entertainment announced Friday night that two former Bachelorettes — Tayshia Adams, whose season wrapped in 2020, and Kaitlyn Bristowe, the show's star in 2015 — would support the new Bachelorette through next season.
The announcement comes as the current season of "The Bachelor," featuring Matt James, a 29-year-old real estate broker from New York, has been wrought with controversy. James is the first Black man to star on the show. Mid-way through the season, Internet sleuths found that a top contestant, Rachael Kirkconnell had "liked" a post of friends posing in front of a Confederate flag; shared an Instagram post whose language echoed the QAnon extremist ideology; dressed in a Native American costume; and attended an "Old South" antebellum-themed party in college in 2018. She has since apologized and is among Bachelor Matt James's two remaining contestants.
Harrison has received criticism within the Bachelor universe and beyond for how he's handled the revelations. In an interview on "Extra" last month with former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay, he excused Kirkconnell's actions and said that, although Kirkconnell's posts weren't acceptable in 2021, they weren't such a misstep just a few years ago. He later decided to step aside from hosting the "After the Final Rose" special, which airs Monday night; he has apologized to Lindsay and has said he's doing introspection on how to move forward. On Monday, Emmanuel Acho, a former NFL player and host of the web series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" will fill Harrison's host chair.
"Racism, oppression — these are big, dynamic problems. And they take serious work — and I am committed to that work," Harrison said on "Good Morning America" last week, in an interview with host Michael Strahan. At the time, it was unclear when or whether Harrison would return to the show. Now we know he'll take at least one season off.
"As we continue the dialogue around achieving greater equity and inclusion within 'The Bachelor' franchise, we are dedicated to improving the BIPOC representation of our crew, including among the executive producer ranks," Warner Horizon and ABC Entertainment said in a statement Friday. "These are important steps in effecting fundamental change so that our franchise is a celebration of love that is reflective of our world."
The next Bachelorette hasn't been named. Katie Thurston, who was a contestant on the current season of "The Bachelor," is a fan favorite. Thurston, a 30-year-old bank marketing manager from Renton, Wash., made a splash when she first introduced herself to James while holding a vibrator.
Meanwhile, Bristowe and Adams seem excited to serve as temporary hosts. On Friday night, Adams posted an Instagram video of herself dancing on the beach, and Bristowe shared a video of herself and Adams dancing. The caption: "Let's go girls."
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The Hit
After living in Spain for a decade, English mobster-turned-informant Willie (Terence Stamp) finds his sun-drenched retirement interrupted by two hit men -- Braddock (John Hurt) and his protégé, Myron (Tim Roth) -- who have come to transport him to Paris, where he will be killed. Featuring first-rate performances and a deft script from Peter Prince, the sleeper crime drama is an early success from acclaimed director Stephen Frears.
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Opinion Columnists 29 Nov 2020 Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz
Opinion, Columnists
Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz
THE ASIAN AGE.
Published : Nov 29, 2020, 9:53 am IST
Updated : Nov 29, 2020, 9:53 am IST
The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it
Farmers who came from Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new Farmers Law reached at Burari ground raising slogans to withdraw the anti-farmers law, in New Delhi on Saturday, 28 Nov 2020. (DC Image: D Kamraj)
As I saw thousands of farmers being teargassed and drenched by water cannons, and the mass of lathi wielding policemen and barbed wire barricades put up to prevent farmers coming to Delhi to protest against the recent farm bills, I was reminded of Tulsidas' remarkably insightful lines in the Ramcharitmanas: Nahin kou asa janama jaga mahin, prabhuta pai jahi mada nahin: Never was a creature born in this world, whom power did not intoxicate. How else can one explain the arrogant manner in which the BJP government has handled the entire project of farm reforms? It is a classic case of hubris derailing even a well-intentioned attempt of change.
Firstly, it was the manner in which the three agricultural bills were passed in Parliament last September. This is a government with an overwhelming majority in the Lok Sabha, and a manageable preponderance in the Rajya Sabha. It is in a position on a simple numerical basis to get its legislative agenda through. Why then were these bills passed in a tearing hurry, without a structured discussion, through a voice vote, and without sending the bills for wider consultations and thorough consideration to the select committee?
Let us accept, too, that there is a need to replace the stranglehold of middlemen in agricultural trade and do away with the APMC Act. However, if the farmers are protesting the move it is not because they have shrunken craniums that prevent them from realising what is good for them. The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it. The government says that removing unproductive middlemen and allowing farmers to sell to whomsoever they want is good for farmers. It will open the way for corporate India to buy from farmers, enhance business investment in the agricultural sector, facilitate healthy price competition and thereby increase farmer remuneration.
The fact of the matter is that, while this sounds great in theory, marginal and small farmers with less than five hectares of land account for 86 per cent of total farmers in India. No attempt has been made, as part of preparatory steps leading up to this reform legislation, to aggregate them or to encourage cooperatives. They have been given the freedom to sell outside the APMC, but given their indigent and scattered status, are without the power to negotiate the best deal for themselves.
It is true that there are only some 7,000 APMC mandis across the country, and farmers can theoretically sell to anyone they wish to. In fact, some states like Bihar, Kerala and Manipur have scrapped the APMC Act. But has the condition of the small and marginal farmers really improved in these states? The truth is that the old system — which does need reform — guaranteed to most farmers through the MSP, a minimum floor price for their hard earned produce. The much maligned middlemen or adhatis provide a support system to farmers for transporting their produce and selling it; they also are a part of a familiar socio-economic eco system available to farmers in times of need, such as a temporary loan for marriage ceremonies or child education. Now the assurance of the old system is being removed, and there is no explicit guarantee in the law for MSP.
Reforms, although necessary, need to be prepared for and properly transitioned. Suppose, the government made a peremptory announcement that henceforth everybody will travel in New Delhi only by public transport. The step can be justified as a 'reform' because it will save fuel, encourage savings, and reduce pollution. But the ordinary person will ask the basic question: is the existing public transport infrastructure good enough to meet this increased demand? If the answer is no, then people will protest.
The guarantee of MSP has led farmers, especially in Punjab and Haryana, but also elsewhere, to grow crops, such as paddy, even when government godowns are unable to efficiently store the grains, and rats consume a great deal of it. But why are farmers growing paddy in Punjab and other states? It is successive governments that have for vote bank politics guaranteed them free water and free electricity. Now that they have utilised this largesse to cultivate paddy, the government suddenly has a change of heart and says it will not buy, and wants corporate India to step in. A businessman, who is given certain inputs for production free, and encouraged to make a particular product which the government guarantees it will buy at remunerative prices, will change his production line to respond to such a situation. Suppose, after he has done so, the government says that its decision was wasteful, and it will not guarantee purchase, would not the businessman feel he has been cheated?
The agricultural sector is crying out for greater investment. The government feels that these farm bills will facilitate this but by the corporate sector. However, has the government come out with the requisite tax incentives and fiscal policies that will encourage such investment? Besides, there is a point beyond which governments — both at the centre and in the states — cannot abdicate their own responsibility. Systemic investments in modernising the food supply chain should have been made in much greater measure by governments. The buck is now being passed on to the private sector, on the uncertain premise that they will do what successive governments did not.
We need agricultural reform. But it must be done through consultation with the stakeholders and systematically prepared for. Teargassing farmers and intimidating them is not the answer.
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A proper and well thought out introduction is a gateway to an essay. Often, the introductions and conclusions of an essay are the most difficult parts of an essay. The introduction is what presents to the reader, a synopsis of what he or she is going to encounter in the whole essay.
It influences the reader's decision to read on or skip the essay. Hence, it is very important that essay introductions be effective at grasping the attention of the reader. This initial hooking and tagging the reader's attention would encourage the reader to read on and complete the essay.
A good introduction MUST stand true to the following and must possess the following in the order: a good hook to bait the audience's attention; background information and central idea around which the essay revolves and has to provide an outline of what you are going to say in the rest of the essay. It must be purposeful and informative and cite the relevant information in an organized fashion.
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The last part of the introduction should reiterate the thesis statement and say what you are expecting to write about it. This should be followed by a brief outline of how the rest of the essay is going to be organized.
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On October 1, 1962, James Meredith broke the rigid segregation in Mississippi's higher education when he became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Though federal courts had ordered his admission, Governor Ross Barnett and other state leaders stood in defiant opposition. The evening before Meredith enrolled, President John F. Kennedy deployed to the campus the U.S. Army and federalized National Guard to quell rioting segregationists. The following day agents of the U.S. Department of Justice escorted Meredith to the Lyceum Building, where he registered. He graduated in August of 1963.
recommendation. Evers abandoned that pursuit and assumed his position as NAACP field secretary.
arrival to register was told his application lacked required materials. When he refused to leave, highway patrolmen forced him into a car and imprisoned him at Mississippi Highway Patrol headquarters in Jackson, under a warrant for lunacy. He was then committed to the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield. Twelve days later, King walked out, declared "not mentally ill."
elected officials. On Saturday, September 29, 1962, during halftime at an Ole Miss football game in Jackson, he inflamed the all-white crowd with more rhetoric. Barnett was meanwhile in secret negotiation with President John Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy about the handling of Meredith's admission.
morale was down, and at least 37 professors resigned in protest.
in 1963. In 2002 Meredith's son Joseph received a doctorate from the University of Mississippi.
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Dresner Foundation Awards Gleaners With $96,500 Grant
January 12, 2019 | News, Press Releases
(DETROIT – Jan. 1, 2019) … Gleaners Community Food Bank (Gleaners) has received a $96,500 grant from the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation (Dresner) allowing the organization to support food programs for children and families at its two Ford Resource and Engagement Centers in Detroit.
Through "Food at FREC," Gleaners provides low-income families with nutritious supplemental and emergency food that, in particular, supports the healthy physical and mental development of children. Gleaners operates from the two Ford Resource and Engagement Centers in Detroit, one in the Southwest Detroit neighborhood and another on the east side. Each location has its unique community needs, and the funds will help better serve clients at both.
"We are so grateful for the Dresner Foundation's support," says Gerry Brisson, president and CEO of Gleaners. "Our work aligns with Dresner's commitment to youth and supporting family food assistance programs. This grant will enable us to provide more than just food – it will bring greater stability, health, and empowerment to our struggling neighbors and help kids reach their full potential."
Funds from the Dresner Foundation will support the three major components of "Food at FREC":
The Mercado Food Hub: A client-choice pantry providing nutritious and culturally appropriate food at the Southwest FREC three days a week and serving over 50 households each day.
Mercado Fresh Produce: A weekly supply of fresh fruits and vegetables at the Mercado Food Hub providing for up to 40 families per distribution.
Eastside FREC Mobile Pantry: A mobile distribution center providing 25 pounds of food (including fresh produce, chicken, and milk) for 50-100 families during each visit.
About the Dresner Foundation
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives in profoundly positive ways through grants focused on health, youth and family, and animal welfare. At the Dresner Foundation, we believe in working with organizations in our focus areas to create opportunity, have community impact and promote well-being. For more information, visit www.dresnerfoundation.org.
Headquartered in Detroit, Gleaners operates five distribution centers in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston and Monroe counties and provides food to 528 partner soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and other agencies throughout southeastern Michigan. In 2018, Gleaners distributed more than 43 million pounds of food to neighbors in need! On average, Gleaners distributes the equivalent of 96,348 meals each day and provides nourishing food to 430,000 people, including 171,000 children a year. Every dollar donated provides three meals and 93 cents of every donated dollar goes to food and food programs. For more information, visit www.gcfb.org.
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Bessie Blount was once Henry VIII's lover and is the mother of his son Henry Fitzroy.
After the birth of their child back in 1519, Cardinal Wolsey banished her to Lincolnshire, and now she lives among those who began the Pilgrimage of Grace.
Guy Kyme is an entrepreneur, a self-made adventurer and will not allow the political and religious upheaval to distract him from furthering the success of his business. He is undaunted and remains resolute in his ambition to use his new-made wealth to persuade Bess to take his hand in marriage.
But – there is a revolution in the air.
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A threatening snapshot? The conservation status of Australian land snails
Michael Shea, Dr Anders Hallan, Dr Frank Köhler
AMRI conservation assessment reveals worrying trend for Australian land snails, with several species threatened and one perhaps extinct.
Convergent shell morphotypes in non-related camaenids. Image: Francesco Criscione & Frank Koehler
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Let's go back a century and a bit, to the late 1800s. In the small, then thriving town of Mossgiel in western New South Wales, blackened rain clouds are moving toward a flat horizon. Hooves are splashing in newly laid puddles, leaving bystanders mud-flecked in their Sunday best as a Cobb & Co stagecoach rattles by. And why not cast our eyes to the ground? It just might be that if we do, we'll notice individuals of the lyrically named land snail Sinumelon simulante (or Mossgiel Dwarfmelon) moving immeasurably slowly under the weight of their tan, dome-shaped shells, as they tentatively come out of hiding to take advantage of the rare downpour.
Just as this scene is long gone and now a fading memory, so are the snails. Because hypothetical as the above may be, it may have been the event playing out the very last time living specimens of the Mossgiel Dwarfmelon were seen. More than three-quarters of a century later - following decades of widespread land clearing, heavy grazing, and major droughts causing sparse vegetation to shrivel up and scatter with the wind - old and sun-bleached shells, their inhabitants long gone, were encountered not too far from Mossgiel. That find dates back to 1972, and constitutes the last proof of existence that we have for this species. Not a single shell has been recorded in the four and a half decades since.
Shell of the possibly extinct Mossgiel Dwarfmelon (Sinumelon simulante). Image: Des Beechey
You guessed correctly – the Mossgiel Dwarfmelon may have gone extinct. However, because its potential historical distribution covered a large area, there is still a slim chance that some individuals persist in small remnant pockets of suitable habitat. Although, given the travails mentioned above and the fact that nearly all of its former documented range is now used for grazing and agriculture, too much optimism is hardly warranted.
Extinct or not, that question is very hard to answer definitively. Should it still exist it is certainly threatened, although you won't find it on the official Red List of threatened species. Of the more than two thousand land snail species known in Australia, only a fraction has been listed to date. This, importantly, reflects the number of conservation assessments done so far and by no means the actual number of threatened species. Through the current evaluation of the conservation status of more than 700 Australian land snails (read more about it here), we are now striving to get a more comprehensive understanding of the status quo in land snail conservation. Through our assessments, a picture is starting to emerge: one where dozens of additional species are likely threatened, ranging from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered following the prescribed categories of the International Union of the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
So, in addition to the hapless Mossgiel Dwarfmelon, what others have we come across so far? The Boggabri and Jimbour Black Soil Snails, Liverpool Range Bristle Snail, Port Lincoln Shrubland Snail, Mount Coot-tha Bristle Snail and Maroubra Woodland Snail, to name a few, are all likely candidates for the official Red List. The Maroubra Woodland Snail (Meridolum maryae) exists right here on our doorstep – confined to coastal dunes and headlands of the Sydney metropolitan area, it has been subject to enormous urbanisation pressure, invasion by the African 'Bitou' bush and other disturbances, leaving the remaining population dwindling and fragmented. In Brisbane, the Mount Coot-tha Bristle Snail is imperilled by the displacement of native habitat by the destructive buffel grass, whereas further inland the Black Soil snails have the misfortune of favouring native grassland on volcanic black soil, a substrate so suited for agriculture that extremely little of it remains. For the Jimbour Black Soil Snail, the situation is so dire that it is possibly teetering on the brink of extinction, with the Boggabri species in all likelihood not too far behind unless effective protection measures are put in place.
Galadistes liverpoolensis Image: Anders Hallan
Whereas habitat loss through land clearing is the main threat in southern Australia, pastoralism, invasive weeds and large-scale habitat alteration due to the so-called 'grass-fire cycle' are major concerns in the north. The latter is a particularly worrying process, converting enormous areas of woodland into savannah as the spread of tall, highly combustible grasses provides an ever-increasing fuel load. The fires, now burning hotter and more frequently as these grasses advance, lay waste to native trees and vine thickets, in turn furthering the spread of grass-dominated savannah. This well-documented vicious cycle causes untold harm to land snails and many other animals and plants.
Of course, it is not all bleak. Many species we have assessed are not of particular concern, often thanks to the prescience of those who designate national parks and other protected areas, conservation-minded landowners and community groups, and many other involved citizens and organisations. And while the evaluation process is not exhaustive – we need more data for that – it provides a valuable snapshot of the wellbeing of an entire fauna, and hopefully also a crucial roadmap to show us where future conservation efforts are most needed.
Hopefully, it won't lead to another Mossgiel.
Dr Anders Hallan, AMRI Scientific Officer
Dr Frank Köhler, AMRI Senior Research Scientist
Michael Shea, AMRI Technical Officer
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Asad Aliweyd
New American Development Center
Asad Aliweyd is the Executive Director of New American Development Center, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting education, cultural awareness and economic opportunity for East African immigrants in Eden Prairie. Asad moved from Somalia to the United States in 1995. After earning his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Metro State University, Asad taught math at Eden Prairie High School. During his years as a teacher, he started a parent group to help improve outcomes for Somali students. NADC was born from that group. The organization soon expanded its reach as Asad realized that employment, transportation, health care, education and affordable housing were equally important to his community. He became involved with the Alliance when he began organizing around the Southwest LRT and the potential benefits its development could bring.
Monica Bravo
West Side Community Organization
Monica currently serves as the Executive Director of the West Side Community Organization (WSCO), a nonprofit built by and for community organizing and is one of Saint Paul's District Planning Councils. Prior to leading WSCO, Monica spent more than a decade in grassroots community organizing at PCAMN, SEIU, ISAIAH, and working for state and county agencies in Minnesota. Her career and lived experiences are centered on two guiding values: equity and justice. From housing to labor to health care, Monica's personal mission is to shift the power of systems, institutions, and policies toward the people who are directly affected by them. Monica is committed to the core values of Justice and applies a lens of equity to all aspects of her work. Monica views the role of her profession as a step on the path of a deeply healing and spiritual journey.
Sunny Chanthanouvong
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota
Sunny joined the Alliance board in 2017 after serving as a member representative for the Lao Assistance Center, where he is Executive Director. Since 1992, Sunny has been supporting and leading the Lao Assistance Center's work to enhance the quality of life for Minnesota Lao families by meeting basic needs, increasing self-reliance and youth development, reducing social isolation, and promoting cultural equity. In 2013, Sunny was awarded the distinguished Virginia McKnight Binger Award in Human Service for his work. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Jim Erkel, Treasurer
Jim Erkel is an environmental attorney. He recently retired from the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy after having established and then directing MCEA's Land Use and Transportation Program for 18 years. He is particularly interested in the social, economic, and environmental effects that play out at the nexus of land use and transportation throughout Minnesota. Representing MCEA, Jim participated in a number of coalitions with members of the Alliance including Stops for Us which succeeded in securing three missing stations on the Green Line for some of the region's most racially diverse and transit-dependent neighborhoods.
Malik Holt-Shabazz
Malik is the Neighborhood Leadership and Organizing Program Coordinator at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. Prior to joining CURA, Malik worked as a Community Organizer with the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition to promote access, equity, and community benefits of bicycle infrastructure, policy, and engagement. He also served as the former Director of St Paul District 6 Planning Council for three years and former Executive Director & Economic Development Organizer of North Minneapolis's Harrison Neighborhood Association for 11 years leading community engagement projects, racially equitable development initiatives, business development, and land use planning. He received an undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts in Human Services with a minor in Sociology from the University of Minnesota Morris. Malik was a member of the Board of Directors for the Headwaters Foundation for Justice and its past Grant Review Committees. He was a long-standing member on CURA's Kris Nelson Community Based Research Program Grant Review Committee, a 2004 graduate of MCNO's Neighborhood Organizing Training Program, and a past member of the MCNO Advisory Committee. He is currently on the Nexus Community Partners Grant Review Committee, the Bryant Neighborhood Organization Board Chair and Board member of the People's Anti-Racist Global Committee. Malik is a native of Chicago but has lived in Minnesota for more than 13 years. His life has centered on community, spirituality, music and dance, his wife and son, and his love for learning, community capacity building, systems change, racial equity, and direct service.
Joshua Houdek, Secretary
Sierra Club North Star Chapter
Joshua joined the Alliance board in 2016 after being involved with our organization for more than 10 years through his position as Land Use and Transportation Program Manager at the Sierra Club North Star Chapter. He manages the chapter's work on promoting sustainable development and expanded equitable transportation choices that will move Minnesota beyond oil. Joshua also serves on the Minneapolis Capital Long-range Improvement Committee and the city's Bicycle Advisory Committee. He has a B.S. in geography from the University of Iowa and holds a master's degree in outdoor education and recreation from the University of Minnesota.
Suyapa Miranda, Vice President
Ms. Suyapa Miranda currently works as an independent consultant on legislative policy matters and on general nonprofit management. She previously worked for the American Heart Association as Midwest affiliate and served as executive director for the Saint Anthony Park Community Council (SAPCC). Prior to joining SAPCC, she worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 17 years, as a development coordinator for the Women's Environmental Institute. Ms. Miranda is deeply committed to social justice with a passion for affecting systemic change in the way public, private, and nonprofit sectors work together and brings an equity lens to the leadership she provides. Miranda served on the board of directors for several other Minnesota non-profits and organizations, including the Metropolitan Council Transportation Advisory Board and the Minnesota Council of Latino Affairs. In addition to serving as Vice President of the Alliance board, she currently serves as a board member of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, and MNsure. Miranda earned a B.A. in modern and classical languages from University of St. Thomas and a master's in advocacy and political leadership from Metropolitan State University.
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African Career, Education & Resource Inc
Nelima Sitati-Munene represents African Career, Education & Resource, an organization that promotes culturally competent solutions that help Africans, African Americans, and other communities of color achieve social and economic independence. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Summit Hill Association, a St. Paul district council, is a member of the Metropolitan Council's Housing Policy Plan Work Group, and serves on the city of Brooklyn Park's core planning team. Nelima has a long history of community organizing, including work at the North Minneapolis-based Harrison Neighborhood Association. She is a member of the Equity in Place table convened by the Alliance and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs to secure more equitable investments in the Twin Cities region.
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Major Taylor Bicycling Club of Minnesota
Anthony Taylor is a founding member of the Major Taylor Bicycling Club of Minnesota, a nonprofit social/recreational club that promotes safe and fun cycling geared towards the African-American communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. He is the Adventures Director at the Loppet Foundation, where he leads the growth and development of efforts to provide opportunities and create passion for year-round outdoor activities and adventures in the Minneapolis area, especially among inner-city youth. Anthony also serves on the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission, the League of American Bicyclists Equity Advisory Board, and the National Brotherhood of Cyclists.
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This Group Is Helping Make Climbing Culture Inclusive
The Brown Ascenders is out to have a good time—and to bring change and equity to the climbing culture
The Brown Ascenders at Dogpatch Boulders in San Fransisco (Photo: Courtesy Saki Cake)
Joe Purtell
On a Wednesday evening earlier this year at Dogpatch Boulders, a San Francisco climbing gym, James Dong and Max Morales stood at a table by the front door to greet arriving climbers. Each newcomer was offered a blue and yellow sticker adorned with a geometric logo and the words "The Brown Ascenders." By 7 P.M., a circle of black and brown climbers had assembled in one corner.
"Raise your hand if you've been to a Brown Ascenders meetup before," Morales said. About a dozen hands went up. Some people were there to try rock climbing for the first time. Others had been attending for years, since the group first formed to create a community for climbers who are black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC).
The Brown Ascenders, which formed in 2017 and registered as a nonprofit in 2019, is one of many groups across the country bringing climbers of color together. (Additional organizations include Brothers of Climbing and Brown Girls Climb, both working to increase representation and inclusion in the sport and collaborating to host the popular Color the Crag climbing festival each year.) The movement is not unique to rock climbing: the groups Indigenous Women Hike and Brown Folks Fishing, for example, focus on increasing the visibility of BIPOC individuals in other outdoor recreation spaces. The Brown Ascenders is pushing the movement one step further. With its new nonprofit status, the organization is taking on bigger projects and trying to make it easier for climbers everywhere to feel at home in their local gym or at their local crag.
The Brown Ascenders began when Summer Winston, a professor at Santa Rosa Junior College, in California, attended Color the Crag in 2017. Winston (who prefers they/their pronouns when being referred to) had been climbing for a couple of years before the festival but had never come across a climbing community that consisted mostly of people of color. "I never knew I needed that space," Winston says. "The energy was amazing. At the end of that first festival, we were leaving, and I said, 'I want to bring this back to the Bay.'"
Winston returned home from the climbing festival on a Sunday. By Tuesday, they had a name, a logo, and an Instagram page for what would become the Brown Ascenders. They soon met with a local gym to negotiate a special deal for members: climbers got free day passes for Brown Ascenders meetups, and gyms waived their initiation fees. Climbing is an expensive sport, Winston points out, so removing some of the cost can give people a reason to try something new.
Since then, Winston and the group have hosted more than 40 meetups in five cities and two states. And they've brought on community organizers, like Morales and Dong, to plan the meetups for their home gyms.
Two Brown Ascenders show a mentee how a belay device works before he climbs. (Photo: Courtesy Saki Cake)
On the crowded floor of Dogpatch Boulders, the Brown Ascenders were having a blast, with climbers working the same boulders and cheering each other on.
Aubrie Johnson, 30, watched quizzically as four of her friends collapsed on the crash pads, giggling. Johnson has lived in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood—not far from Dogpatch—for more than 15 years. She has been climbing since 2016 but says she would have quit if she hadn't found the climbing community the Brown Ascenders offers. The gym reflects the gentrifying population of the city, she says, and previously, she found it hard to meet people she clicked with.
Abioula Akanni, 26, recently moved to the Bay Area from New Orleans. He met Winston at Color the Crag and has helped organize the Dogpatch meetups ever since. "This is my jam," Akanni says. "It's something I care about. It's about getting black and brown people together to climb and build community. Summer had a great vision."
Winston says communities like the Brown Ascenders make it easier for people to try the sport and stick with it. When Winston started climbing in a gym in Texas, they say it took more than six months before they saw another black person in the gym. "It felt good to see someone else walk in that space that looked like me," Winston says. "I feel like that happens a lot to other folks, that's not a unique story."
While BIPOC climbers often deal with both large and small racist incidents in climbing gyms, Winston notes that even if people aren't being explicitly racist at such a place, it can be uncomfortable if you're the only nonwhite person in the room.
Winston wants people to understand the importance of comfort and a sense of belonging in outdoor recreational activities. "If it feels uncomfortable to go into that space, there's no incentive," Winston says. Having a supportive climbing community, they believe, "makes the difference between people coming back and never trying it again."
Brown Ascenders bouldering (Photo: Courtesy Summer Winston)
In the summer of 2019, after the Brown Ascenders had hosted climbing hangouts for a year and a half, Winston started thinking about expanding the group's work. It felt great to be bonding at the climbing gym, but Winston wasn't convinced they were creating lasting change. So in November, the Brown Ascenders became a nonprofit and began planning to take on a wider range of projects. Winston has a long list of ideas about the future, including equity and inclusion training for gyms, kid's camps, and outdoor clinics. But they are also rooting the new programming in data and community feedback. They plan to conduct a research project in gyms across the Bay Area in 2020 (which has been postponed due to COVID-19) that asks climbers of all colors what an inclusive space would look like to them.
"I can go to a gym as one person and say, 'Hey, like, these are ideas I have for things that you can do to make this space more accessible.' But I'm one person," Winston says. "If I go with 4,000 survey results and say, 'Hey, this is what 4,000 members of our community are asking for,' it gives me, like, a foot to stand on."
Since starting the Brown Ascenders, Winston has experienced moments of doubt. They've been accused, mostly by white climbers, of causing divides in the climbing world. And even before the Brown Ascenders launched, some BIPOC climbers were skeptical that organizing a group was necessary, telling Winston they thought the Bay Area climbing scene was in much better shape than other parts of the country.
"Sometimes I get in my head, and I'm like, Are we really doing something good? Is this really important?'' Winston says.
But participants' enthusiasm at the meetups always reminds Winston that the group is changing the game by creating a welcoming experience in an outdoor sport where people of color still can't always take those things for granted.
"At the end of the night, people say, 'This was so amazing. It felt so good and fun to just be here and, like, feel encouraged by everyone,'" Winston says. "People will leave me little notes just saying, 'Thank you for hosting this.' That means the world to me."
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J Team will field a full new roster for the PCS in 2023
The Taiwanese organization J Team will play the PCS 2023 season with a completely new roster with a mix of veterans and rookies.
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J Team will have a new PCS lineup in 2023
After a disappointing end to 2022, which saw J Team eliminated in the first round of the 2022 PCS Playoffs, the organization decided to part ways with most of its players. ADC Lilv, jungler Kongyue and mid lane Uniboy have all left for their new destinations prior to the end of the year. With the latest departure of both top laners Rock and Driver, J Team only kept their support Elso, who has extended his contract.
He is going to play with six new players, as J Team picked up also two subs for 2023. The new lineup will look like this:
Top: RYue
Jungle: Fung – Lauva
Mid: Minji
ADC: Bruce – Whale
Support: Elso
Who are the new players?
The team will have both players with years of experience in the league and rookies that haven't played much competitively. RYue has been promoted from the academy team, with jungler Lauva doing a similar thing. He was previously a sub in the last few years but most recently competed in the collegiate circuit with team Far East Eagle.
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He will have to fight for the starting spot with Fung, who is the only player with no prior competitive experience. He was a trainee for the LDL team Young Miracles, so it seems like he will be the substitute for now, hoping to improve and grow over time.
Minji is probably the most known player on the roster, having played for Beyond Gaming at Worlds. He is likely going to be the leader of the map, having performed the best in 2022.
For the ADC position, Bruce and Whale will fight for the starting spot. Whale was previously on Meta Falcon Team, who disbanded after last year. Bruce, on the other hand, has returned to professional League after spending two years playing Wild Rift. His last stint was spent on Machi Esports and participated in the 2020 World Championship. Unless he lost his mechanics, he should be the starting ADC with Whale as the sub.
The PCS 2023 Spring Split will start later than most competitions, with its start date scheduled on Feb. 3rd. The league will likely have two new participants since SEM9 and Meta Falcon Team will no longer be in the PCS. While the latter's spot was acquired by HELL Pigs, it has not been confirmed who is going to replace SEM9 this year.
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Break in or break-in may refer to:
Burglary, the criminal act of entering a building to commit an offense, usually theft
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Death Note is a 37-episode anime series based on the manga series of the same title written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. Death Note aired in Japan on the Nippon Television (NTV) network every Tuesday, from October 3, 2006, to June 26, 2007. The plot of the series primarily revolves around high school student Light Yagami, who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook titled Death Note. This book causes the death of anyone whose name is written in it and is passed on to Light by the God of Death (or Shinigami) Ryuk after he becomes bored within the Shinigami world.
A three-hour "Director's Cut" compilation TV special, titled "Death Note: Relight: Visions of a God", aired on NTV a few months after the anime concluded. Although advertised to be the "complete conclusion", the popularity of the series inspired the release of a second TV special, titled "Death Note: Relight 2: L's Successors" nearly a year later. These specials recap the first and second arcs of the anime respectively, with new scenes added to fill in any plot holes resulted from omitted footage.
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Move is the eponymous debut album by The Move, released on the Regal Zonophone label. The only one which was recorded by the group's initial line-up before bassist Ace Kefford left, it includes both sides of their third and fourth singles ('Flowers in the Rain' and 'Fire Brigade'). 'Flowers in the Rain' was the first ever song played on Radio 1 in September 1967 by Tony Blackburn
The album consisted of Roy Wood originals, and three cover versions that had featured prominently in their live set. "Weekend" was an Eddie Cochran song, and "Hey Grandma" had originally been recorded by US psychedelic band Moby Grape. "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" was an old James F. Hanley standard, with an arrangement copied from The Coasters.
"Cherry Blossom Clinic"/"Vote for Me" single
The last track, "Cherry Blossom Clinic", was intended as a single at the end of 1967, and an acetate, with "Vote for Me" (a song which remained unreleased until 1997), was pressed. Release was cancelled, as the lyrics were about the inmate of a mental home, and in the wake of the controversy which had dogged 'Flowers In The Rain', with its promotional postcard featuring an allegedly libellous drawing of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, it was felt that potential further allegations of bad taste and scandal would harm their career irreparably.
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Peter Bogdanovich's last film was on Gershwin brothers
Could a posthumous project by Peter Bogdanovich on George and Ira Gershwin make it to the big screen?
After the famed director of "The Last Picture Show" died January 6, writer Sam Kashner revealed in Graydon Carter's Air Mail this week that he and Bogdanovich had been penning a screenplay about the famed "Porgy and Bess" composers over the past year, called "Our Love Is Here To Stay."
Bogdanovich was also meant to direct the film.
"Peter was so excited about the prospect of being back in the director's chair," writes Kashner of the director whose credits also included the '70s classics "Paper Moon" and "What's Up, Doc?" "He began to talk about how the Gershwin picture had to be shot in black-and-white," like "The Last Picture Show."
But Kashner recalls that as the screenplay process ended, "To make our movie, Peter knew he would need something like an understudy [to direct], for insurance purposes, 'in case anything happened to me.'"
But while "Peter floated a few names for possible alternate directors… sadly we didn't get that far."
Bogdanovich had been penning a screenplay about the famed "Porgy and Bess" composers over the past year called "Our Love Is Here To Stay."
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Bogdanovich himself had served as a backup director for projects by Orson Welles and John Cassavetes, Kashner writes.
He passed away at 82 from complications of Parkinson's disease.
Kashner now figures of the duo's Gershwin brothers film: "Someone, someday may come along and breathe life into our Gershwin story, imbue it with Peter's spirit, but for me, it was never just about the screenplay, as these things are in the laps of the gods anyway. It was always about the pleasure of his company, the pure joy of the work."
There's buzz that one of Bogdanovich's acolytes might look at the project. His acclaimed fans include Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Quentin Tarantino and David Chase.
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Dollar Community Development Trust
Helping you make Dollar a welcoming and vibrant place to live, study and work
Meet The Trust
Our Partners and Supporters
Dollar Hive
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Volunteer Driver Service
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Ideas Bank
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Dollar Community Council
The Trust works in partnership with the Community Council as set out in our Memorandum of Understanding (See below). In practical terms this means we work closely together on projects that make Dollar a better, more vibrant, place.
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Website: https://dollarlife.co.uk/
For an overview of what a Community Council does click here
We have formalised this partnership in a document which you can read here
Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface
CTSi have been invaluable in guiding The Trust through its first year, providing training for Trustees and access to a range of supportive networks and keeping us updated on funding opportunities.
Website: http://ctsi.org.uk/
EDF Burnfoot Hill Community Fund
These three charitable Funds are provided by EDF-ER, the developer of the Burnfoot Hill, Burnfoot North and Rhodders Wind Farms. The funds benefit a number of different communities in Perth & Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
The Burnfoot Hill Fund benefits the Community Council areas of Alva, Dollar and Tillicoultry, Coalsnaughton & Devonside in Clackmannanshire and Blackford and the hamlet of Glendevon in Perth and Kinross.
Website: https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/programmes/edf-burnfoot-hill/
Dollar Co-operative Community Fund
The members of the Dollar Co-op have chosen The Trust to be one of the supported 'Good Causes' which means that every time you shop at the Co-op the trust gets a small percentage towards our fundraising which we are very grateful for
Co-op Easter Basket Raffle made a welcome contribution!
Development Trust Association Scotland
We are members of DTAS and are very grateful for the support they gave us while we were getting set up and they are currently helping us through the community asset transfer process.
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Ochil Youths Community Improvement (OYCI)
We are delighted to be working with OYCI. Through them we ensure that we don't lose the young peoples voices in the community. They are also helping us with our Play Parks Project.
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Join us and have your voice heard!
Dollar CDT exists to further the ambitions of the community. We want to help you to make Dollar a welcoming and vibrant place to live, study and work.
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Mirjana Muratovic, from Podgorica, was crowned Miss World Montenegro 2019 on Saturday 15 June at a grand ceremony broadcast on TVCG from the Verde Complex in Podgorica.
19-year-old Mirjana, a student at the Secondary School of Commerce speaks two foreign languages and as part of her prize has been awarded a scholarship from the University of Donja Gorica.
Crowned by her predecessor Natalija Glušcevic, Mirjana said: "This victory for me represents the opportunity to present Montenegro in the way that my country deserves. I will do my best."
Mirjana will now enjoy a year of appearances in her new role and will represent Montenegro along with 130 contestants from around the world at the three-week festival and 69th Miss World Final.
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Q: Use node.js to save json file I am very new to Node server/javacsript. So I am sorry if this might be stupid
question/topic.
I intended to create a very simple solution to open JSON file, load to list, and save it back to my local disk (running node.js server).
Could you please help me out, what I am doing wrong? I am running app in browser using react.
index.js containing
  var fs = require('fs');
  var fileName = './test.json';
  var file = require('./test.json');

  alert(file.name + " " + file.age);

  file.name = "Peter";

  alert(file.name + " " + file.age);
  fs.writeFile('./test.json', JSON.stringify(file), function (err) {
    if (err) return alert(err);
    console.log(JSON.stringify(file));
    alert('writing to ' + fileName);
  });

Before I was not even able to open JSON file. I needed to include this property into the webpack config file.
node: {
    fs: 'empty'
}

Now I am able to open JSON file, change it virtually, but unable to save it.
In chrome developer tools, it prints "fs.writeFile is not a function" into console.
Thank you very much.

A: When you included the property in your webpack config
node: {
  fs: 'empty'
}

You told webpack that the module fs should just be an empty object. You can confirm this by simply putting a console.log(fs) in your file to see it is indeed empty.
Beyond that, fs is not going to work in your browser. fs expects the node.js runtime (which includes non-JavaScript things in order to make it work), not your browser's runtime.
If you want a user to save a file, you'll have to use a browser based saving solution. You won't be able to just arbitrarily write files like that outside of something like your browser's local storage.

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Am looking for a long term friendship, no flings. Looks are not overly important, as long as you are clean and tidy. Not an introvert or selfish in any way A keeper through good times and bad! My ultimate goal is understanding and compassion so if you can be the calm side and talk openly with me, I will be understanding and we will clear up any arguments quickly. One who enjoys a coffee n a chat.
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To be caring and romantic would be a bonus. Can talk the talk, plus walk the walk on a great many subjects.
Currently redecorating and renovating my house and garden, a total complete make over. Hi am full time employed as a support worker for aquired brain injury clients I live in the south of Adelaide and work locally! All around funny and entertaining. Ideal partner has to be themselves no one clibs the wings of a buterfly.
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I'm wondering how to collect a fixed-sized array from an iterator.
How to obtain a fixed size array ( like [_,3]) instead?
Ideally without copying the data or using boxed slices (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.into_boxed_slice).
Given the fact that iterators are considered a zero-cost abstraction there must be a way to stay with static dispatching.
I assume there is some kind of copy involved as well?
ArrayVec::into_inner() moves out the whole array from itself, and in Rust move is semantically equal to memcpy, so theorically it can memcpy HUGE array out. But llvm can optimize out most of unnecessary memcpy so practically such move out is considered near zero cost.


Not all individuals think about the presence of such a diversion as cricket. Indeed, even less individuals know the standards of cricket. In any case, occupants of nations such as, England, India, New Zealand and Australia find out about cricket. In the event that you take a gander at the history a bit, you can discover one intriguing truth there. In this way, in 1900, cricket rivalries even occurred as a component of the Olympic Games in Paris.
What does a cricket field resemble?
This is an oval-formed region with grass. Precisely amidst such a stage an uncommon earthen strip passes, which is known as a pitch. The pitch length is 20.12 meters. There are wickets on inverse sides of the pitch. Such wickets are called extraordinary developments from three little segments dove into the ground. On these posts there are two little wooden crossbars. Each cricket diversion includes two groups, every one of which comprises of eleven players. To win in cricket, you have to score a bigger number of focuses than your adversary. Focuses are earned by assaulting groups amid a dash between wickets. The guidelines of the round of cricket accommodate just 2 kinds of players: (bowler) and (batsman). Think about every one of them in more detail.
Bowler is the player who takes the ball. It is situated at one of the entryways. Batsmen are remaining close it and at the contrary door. Every one of them has a bit. The bowler must hit the square or the wicket braces. The assignment of the batsman is to repulse the ball tossed by the bowler with his bat. In the event that the batsman kick was effective and the ball is reflected, at that point he should hurry to the contrary door. Right now, the player remaining inverse he races to the kicker's place. You have to contact any piece of the body or the bat at the door, after which you can keep running back. More runs – more focuses.
It is anything but difficult to figure that the primary undertaking of the shielding group is to restore the ball to one of the entryways as quickly as time permits. In any case, the best choice is to get the ball that the batsman beat off. For this situation, the players of the assaulting group will lose all odds to make an expansive number of runs, and, subsequently, focuses. In cricket, the player assuming the job of a Batsman is viewed as an essential figure. The truth of the matter is that he can gain focuses without doing the surges between the doors. All his group needs is a very much batted ball. In the event that the batsman hits the ball extremely hard, with the outcome that he will fly out of the field, without contacting the ground, his group will get 6 points. In the event that the ball moves off the field after the strike, at that point it will be around 4 points.
The door was annihilated amid a batsman run.
Bowler has six innings consecutively. At that point change it. After the server changes, the ball is tossed from the contrary side of the pitch. In only one cricket match, 1 or two 2 purported innings. Every inning has a specific number of arrangement (overs). For one cricket coordinate is given 5 days.
Each time the bowler gives the ball, paying little heed to whether the strike hit the ball, a scoring is made. After the bowler gives the ball multiple times in a single heading, an "over" is announced. With an over bowler, another bowler player must supplant. Bowlers can't serve a few overs consecutively, yet they can be returned after one bow by another bowler. Hence, in principle, two bowlers can, evolving places, serve amid the whole innings. At the point when an over is proclaimed, the situation of the bowler moves from one end of the pitch to the next.
New Zealand has for quite some time been advancing a solid, agreeable way of life and enthusiasm for games among every one of its residents, anyway extraordinary it might be. Henceforth the circumstance when both mass and extraordinary games increased unfaltering notoriety in the nation. The most well-known national game in New Zealand has dependably been rugby. The national group of New Zealand – All Blacks – is the most grounded group on the planet appraised IBR. Consistently, All Blacks players (as they are called due to the dark shade of the uniform) take part in the Rugby Three Nations Cup, where they contend with groups of Australia and South Africa. Right now, 9 out of multiple times the triumph was for the All Blacks.
Cricket is the most well-known summer sport in the nation. New Zealand is among the best ten nations that partake in universal cricket matches. Common rivalries are not as famous as rugby rivalries, yet the majority of the nation's inhabitants watch universal matches with intrigue. New Zealand's national cricket group isn't as fruitful as the national rugby group. Partaking in worldwide matches since 1930, the group had the capacity to achieve the elimination rounds just in 1956. The group made gigantic progress during the 1970s – 1980s. Albeit customarily New Zealand is viewed as one of the most grounded groups, it has never moved past the cricket world container elimination round.
The cricket group of New Zealand, which the fans called the "dark tops" because of the group support, played its first test coordinate in 1930 against England. New Zealanders neglected to win that coordinate. Before the primary triumph in the test coordinate, the New Zealand national group needed to hold up to 26 years and hold 45 tests. Karma at last grinned at the New Zealanders in the amusement against the West Indies group in 1956. The national group of New Zealand won the fourth of a progression of test matches, while in the initial three players from the group of the West Indies did not have much trouble to beat the adversary. After this triumph for two decades, New Zealand figured out how to grab triumph from an adversary just multiple times. The reason was the absence of an OK bowler, in spite of the way that the group could flaunt extraordinary batsmen Bert Sutcliffe and Glenn Turner and an incredible all-round rider John Reid. In spite of the not very outstanding history, "dark tops" dependably demonstrate a staggering, delightful diversion, from which the fans in the stands simply amazing.
New Zealand started the new thousand years in the most ideal way. They won the famous ICC 2000 trophy in Kenya to guarantee their first, thus far, just ICC competition. They began with 64 triumphs once again Zimbabwe, at that point kept on beating Pakistan with 4 wickets in the elimination rounds. In the last against India, Chris Cairns won an undefeated 102 in quest for a New Zealand run helping them win the competition. Shane Bond played 17 Tests on the NZ somewhere in the range of 2001 and 2007, yet was missing significantly more through damage. When fitting, he added a measurement to the NZ moving ambush, which was absent since Hadley resigned.
Expanding the money related influence of the BCCI affected cricket NZ and its players. The BCCI figured out how to persuade different sheets not to pick players who joined the adversary Twenty 20 Indian League Cricket. NZ Cricket has lost the administrations of Shane Bond, Lou Vincent, Andre Adams, Hamish Marshall and Daryl Tuffy. Cash to be produced using Twenty, 20 crickets in India may likewise have provoked players, for example, Craig Macmillan and Scott Stiris (from Test Cricket) to resign sooner than they would something else. After the decay of the Indian Cricket League, Bond and Tuffy again played for New Zealand.
Vettori was supplanted as Test Captain in 2011, driving star player Ross Taylor to have his spot. Taylor drove New Zealand consistently, which incorporated an exciting triumph in the low International Winning match against Australia in Hobart, their first triumph over Australia since 1993. In 2012/13, Brandon McCulum moved toward becoming skipper and new players, for example, Kane Ulyamson, Cory Anderson, Doug Brackewell, Trent Bo and Jimmy Nish showed up as world-class entertainers. McCullum, driven by New Zealand to the arrangement, wins from the West Indies and India in 2013/14 and both Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2014/15, which builds the rating of New Zealand in both Test and ODI positions. In the arrangement against India, McCullum won 302 in Wellington to wind up the triple centurion of the principal Test of New Zealand.
Today on the record of the national group of New Zealand in excess of four hundred test matches, of which a fourth of the New Zealanders won. In the positioning of the International Council of Cricket, the group takes the fair fifth spot in the test matches and the third spot – in one-day universal matches. In universal Twenty20 matches, the New Zealand national group is a perceived specialist, possessing the exceptionally top line of the ICC rating.
Nonetheless, the most remarkable accomplishment of New Zealand in the field of cricket can be viewed as the exit to the elimination round of the World Cup in cricket in 2015. At that point the New Zealanders, within the sight of very nearly one hundred thousand cricket darlings from around the globe, lost to the Australian group, which won the trophy for the fifth time. The New Zealand group frequently takes puts on the platform in numerous titles. Make sure to visit the match with the cooperation of the national group of New Zealand, abruptly on this diversion she will most likely win her next honor. It is smarter to purchase tickets for the New Zealand national cricket group ahead of time to take puts in the segment from which the most complete perspective on the playing field opens.
The strange glow over the stadium attracted the attention of spectators of the cricket match between the teams of New Zealand and Sri Lanka. At some point, burning objects began to fall from the sky. These objects were parts of the satellite of the Russian Defense Ministry, burning in the atmosphere. On the mountain of Maunganui, on January 5, a cricket match was held between the teams of New Zealand and Sri Lanka. The attention of the audience was riveted to the game until unusual bright flashes appeared in the sky. The operator switched the broadcast on them, to give observers the opportunity to see the incomprehensible glow in more detail (and, perhaps, to look at it myself).
Speaking about the problems in the Russian space industry, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, in an interview with RBC reported that memes and those who distribute them are to blame. The politician called the "holy fools" pictures on the theme that tells about our gilt and said that an information war is being waged against the national cosmonautics. It is not precisely known whether the appearance of the remains of the satellite in New Zealand's broadcast was part of this war. However, both the game commentator and the operator during the combustion of Cosmos got a little distracted from cricket and showed viewers falling debris from the apparatus.


Kenneth Brauchle will visit campus Feb. 20-21 to interview for the associate vice president for outreach services and dean of outreach programs position in the Division of Continuing Education. Dr. Brauchle is currently assistant dean of extended studies and director of the Center for Professional Development at Boise State University. He has been involved with technical, vocational and higher education for adults for over 20 years, and has held administrative posts in continuing education at three institutions. He has extensive administrative experience in graduate, undergraduate, technical and non-credit contract training. Dr. Brauchle's professional interests include program development, outcomes assessment and distance education, and he has taught in technical, undergraduate and graduate programs. He holds a Ph.D. in the administration of adult education from the University of Alaska and a master's in organizational management from the University of La Verne. Originally from Syracuse, N.Y., Dr. Brauchle has lived in several states, including several years in Alaska. His curriculum vitae is available for review at http://www.conted.und.edu/search/brauchle/files/vita.pdf.
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend an open forum by Dr. Brauchle Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 9 a.m. in Room 16/18, Swanson Hall.


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Average IQ by Country. This explains an awful lot about the world. Look how well it maps onto economic development, which in turn maps onto population growth. (As a result, the world average IQ is falling quite rapidly at the moment.)
These numbers came from a work carried out from 2002 to 2006 by Richard Lynn, a British Professor of Psychology, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science, who conducted IQ studies in more than 80 countries. Differences in national income are correlated with differences in the average national intelligence quotient (IQ). They further argue that differences in average national IQs constitute one important factor, but not the only one, contributing to differences in national wealth and rates of economic growth.
This knowledge has been suppressed by the politically correct and the left generally for decades, for obvious political reasons.
IQ correlates well and positively with income, but well and negatively with criminality — much better than education, which suggests that education only has these correlations because it is a proxy for IQ nowadays. But the left worldwide furiously denies that IQ exists or that it matters, and figures that giving people more education, including a university education, makes them more economically productive and less likely to be criminals — no, not much, beyond a base level that we passed in the west decades ago. Mass university education is a cargo cult of the left. Another example of a large waste of time and money because the politically correct deny reality. Damaging too, because universities have dumbed down to accommodate large numbers of less-bright students.
Beyond a reasonably stimulating environment and decent diet and health, nothing people have tried has any significant effect on IQ in the long term — it is mainly a genetic outcome. A bell curve results because it is a somewhat additive effect of about 500+ genes, apparently.
It seems that this knowledge about IQ is escaping into the population, via the Internet. The media of course, being politically correct, won't have a bar of it — but I've noticed it is starting to seep in.
By the way, I haven't seen any maps of the standard deviations in IQ, which are also relevant economically because they help determine the numbers of people at the ends of the bell curve.
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Sunday was Round 3 of the WA Formula Ford State Championship at Barbagallo Raceway.
The lead up to this event for me was certainly the most challenging I have experienced so far. Firstly, a company over east who were repairing a fault in the wiring for my car's on board dash somehow made the mistake of sending it back to Perth via road which unfortunately affected a couple of my planned practice sessions. Then, my scheduled new engine which Brett had spent an enormous amount of time preparing for me turned out to have a fault in some of the machining completed by someone else which resulted in it completely failing on the dyno just prior to my Friday practice. This was especially disappointing for Brett given how much time he had spent on preparing it for me.
So Saturday morning came (before the race) and I had not been on the track at all, and even more concerning, had no engine!
Were it not for Brett and Fastlane Racing, there is no way I would have got there. However, with all of his experience and an incredible amount of effort, by Saturday evening at 4:30 he had managed to switch another engine into my car and get me on the track to complete some laps to test and all was ready to go. I am very fortunate to have such support from him and his team. What was even better was that in that practice session I managed to put in my best ever times including a couple of 62.0's!
On race day I set the fastest time in qualifying, by a mere 0.02 seconds, I started the first race on Pole Position. This is my 3rd Pole Position in my last 4 events (though one of those I had to give away due to a penalty). After getting a good start, I held the lead into the first corner. After some close racing for the lead after the first couple laps, I missed the blip into the first corner, and spun into the sand. After the safety car driven around for three laps, I was lifted back onto the track and allowed to race. However, as I completed less than 75% of the race distance, I wasn't classified in the race's final results.
In the second race, I had to start from 15th position. After getting a good start (avoiding an "almost" stalled car in front of me) and making a couple moves, I was up to 10th by the end of the first lap. For the next few laps, I continued to catch the cars in front and tried to overtake as quickly as possible. Once I worked my way into 7th, it took a couple laps to catch up to the battle between 6th and 5th. Once I caught them, I overtook for 6th, and one lap later, overtook for 5th. By this time, the race was nearly over, and there was a large gap to the next position, so I finished in 5th.
In the third race, I started from 5th. At the start, I dropped to 6th, not with a bad start, but one of my competitors made a particularly good one. After following the battle between 4th and 5th for a couple of laps, I managed to get a better exit out of turn 6 when one of them made an overtake, and went into 5th. I then followed for another couple of laps and eventually, managed to make a move by undercutting at turn 6 and went into 4th. Over the next two laps I was chasing 3rd, and managed to make a move into the first corner.
Now, in front of me, was the battle for first and second. Over the remaining few laps I was trying as hard as I could to try and make an overtake, but I was unsuccessful in finding that gap I needed. At one point we crested the hill on the main straight 3 wide! Finally, on the last lap I set up a good exit and used the slipstream to pass on the outside of the back straight, and held the position into the final corner, and managed to finish second, just behind the leader.
One mistake in the first race cost me in the final result, however there is a huge amount that I am proud of from this weekend. It was great to fight back through the field in Race 2, and the final race was really special to be a part of with very good driving by all.
I had quite a few people supporting me over the weekend which is very much appreciated. A huge thanks to them all, along with my sponsors Truck Dealers Australia, Edith Cowan University, Impressions the Home Builder, Grand Toyota, Rvend, Kingsway Community Bank Brach, Online Logistics Solutions, Signarama Joondalup, Fullworks Fire Safety and Focused Recruitment.
Once again, a big thanks to Brett Lupton and Fastlane Racing.
Do you go-pro the events? If so it would make good viewing. A few people here in the UK would be interested.
Yes we do. There are quite a few on my racing Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/calanwilliamsracing (including the last race from Sunday). There's also a promo video we put together earlier in the year on my website at https://calanwilliamsracing.com/2016/04/26/my-new-promotional-video/ .Nice to hear from you – hope you are well!