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Mother and Son Champs: Dedrenna & Isaiah Hoskins
Champ recipients Dedrenna & Isaiah Hoskins with CIS Board Member Terry Morrow and CIS Staff Carol Roose & Laura McCoy
At the 12th Annual Champs Celebration, presented by Kalsec, Dedrenna and Isaiah Hoskins were honored with a 2019 Champ Award which was sponsored by Miller-Davis Company. CIS Board Member Terry Morrow and CIS Site Coordinators Carol Roose and Laura McCoy presented the award.
Terry: One of Isaiah Hoskin's favorite writers, Dr. Seuss, wrote: Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Fortunately, for our kids at Washington Writers' Academy, Isaiah and his mother, Dedrenna Hoskins care an awful lot. For almost a decade, this mother and son have been volunteering through CIS. For years, their work initially entailed distributing Friday Food Packs, made possible thanks to our partnership with Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes. Each pack the Hoskins delivered held enough food to cover breakfast and lunch for a child during the weekend when other food options can be scarce.
And when summer rolls around, the Hoskins do not slow down. Oh, the places they'll go! Our kids can count on them to tow food packs to and fro during the CIS Think Summer Program.
When Washington Writers' recently transitioned to the food pantry model and their Food Packs were discontinued, the Hoskins did not miss a beat.
Carol: That's right! During the school year, Dedrenna, a Quality Operations Technical Associate for Pfizer, heads straight from work to tutor students, assisting them on classwork, homework, math, reading, spelling, you name it. She'll seek guidance from us, to help meet both the emotional and academic needs of the students she serves.
Oh, and she also has expanded her impact to even more children by serving on the CIS Volunteer Leadership Advisory Council.
This year, Isaiah happily transitioned to making and bagging popcorn that is sold as a fundraiser to support the boys' basketball team. And while his duties may have changed, what hasn't changed is the way in which Isaiah takes up his work. He does so with absolute joy, practically skipping into the school each Friday.
Laura: A man of few words, Isaiah continues to speak to the students he serves through his actions. By showing up week after week, year after year, he is a powerful role model, sending a compelling message: this is what dedication, responsibility, and hard work look like. This is what caring and kindness looks like. And because he does his work with such joy, he's showing our kids that good feeling you get when you choose to give back to your community. He's also taught all of us that you don't give up, even when things get difficult. A few years back, when his mother became seriously ill for a time, Isaiah made the trek to school alone to make sure students got their food packs.
We can tell you first hand that being a site coordinator isn't easy. However, knowing that we can count on the Hoskins makes our job just a little less daunting.
Terry: We are all so grateful that this mother and son choose to team up each week for kids. Dedrenna & Isaiah Hoskins, we thank you for helping kids stay in school and achieve in life.
Posted in Champs, VolunteersTagged Carol Roose, Champs, CIS, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, Dedrenna Hoskins, Isaiah Hoskins, Kalsec, Laura McCoy, Miller-Davis Company, Terry Morrow, Washington Writers' Academy
Swan Snack Emporium Serves Up Dignity and Confidence
Jennifer Swan (center) congratulated by John Brandon (left) and Sara Williams (right) with Champ Award for Swan's Snack Emporium.
At the 12th Annual Champs Celebration, presented by Kalsec, Swan Snack Emporium was honored with a 2019 Champ Award which was sponsored by Chase. CIS Board Member Sara Williams and CIS Partner Services Coordinator John Brandon presented the award.
TowerPinkster, a design firm, creates vibrant places for people to live, work and play. So it's not surprising that when Jennifer Swan, a Senior Architectural Project Coordinator with TowerPinkster, set her design on helping children, she would come up with an ingenious and creative plan.
Jennifer Swan, Senior Architectural Project Coordinator with TowerPinkster
Jennifer's work schedule made it difficult to commit to volunteering in a school on a consistent basis. How else, she wondered, could she get involved in a way that impacted kids and worked with her schedule? She dug around, asked questions, and determined the CIS Kids' Closet would be the perfect structure to incorporate into her design. Jennifer will tell you that if you come up with an idea, the first thing you should do is give it a good name. So in 2015, the Swan Snack Emporium was born.
The foundation for the Emporium was poured years earlier, when Jennifer was just a child. I grew up not having a lot, she says. There were times it was hard for my mom to buy my brother and me some of the basic necessities. Knowing what it felt like to be in school without the basics, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She sketched out a plan that would funnel new items like socks, underwear, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, and soap to CIS Kids' Closet. As she puts it, I want kids to have what they need and know they are okay, that they aren't alone.
Just like designing a building, the Swan Snack Emporium relies on the collective support of the team. This is how it works: Jen purchases snacks on sale and makes them available in the office. Her colleagues can visit the Emporium and grab a bite for breakfast or pick up a s nack, all the while feeling good knowing proceeds from the dollar or two they are putting towards that granola bar, microwave popcorn, or bag of Sunchips go to purchasing items for the CIS Kids' Closet.
I know the burning question on everyone's mind right now is: What is the number one, most in-demand snack at Swan Snack Emporium? Hands down: it's Pop Tarts!
But seriously, Jennifer and her colleagues provide students in 20 CIS-supported schools with the basics they need to attend school every day with confidence and dignity, ready to learn. Thanks to Swan Snack Emporium, over the past four years, over 6,500 items have been donated to CIS Kids' Closet.
Swan Snack Emporium, we thank you for helping kids stay in school and achieve in life.
Posted in Champs, PartnershipsTagged basic needs, businesses supporting students in schools, Champs, CIS, CIS Kids' Closet, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, innovative ways to support kids in school, Jennifer Swan, John Brandon, Kalsec, Sara Williams, Swan Snack Emporium, TowerPinkster1 Comment
Conversation with Julie Davis
Welcome back to the POP QUIZ! This is a regular, yet totally unexpected, feature where we ask students, parents, staff, our friends, and partners to answer a few questions about what they are learning, reading, and thinking about. Today we feature Julie Davis. As we're on the heels of Administrative Professionals Day and on the cusp of our 12th Annual Champs event, we thought it would be fun to meet up with this former KPS secretary and Champ (once a Champ, always a Champ as we say at CIS) of ten years ago and see what she's up to these days.
"The sound of men playing horseshoes was part of the soundtrack of my childhood," Julie Davis says, recalling her "idyllic years" spent growing up in the farming community of East Lynn, Illinois. She smiles as she recounts formative years spent driving tractors and "helping" with baling hay. "And I was watching—without knowing I was watching—equipment break down and seeing someone use some random thing that had been laying on the ground to make it work."
Without realizing it at the time, Julie was learning to make do with whatever tools you have—or don't have—in any given situation. Her knack for making things work—no matter what life throws at her—has served her well, both in her personal and professional life. As a single parent, she raised two beautiful daughters, Jodie and Abby, and happily watched as they got degrees from University of Michigan and Syracuse University, respectively. Throughout her 33-year career as a school secretary for Kalamazoo Public Schools Julie made things work on a daily basis; eight years at Loy Norrix High School and then 25 years at Arcadia Elementary School.
Julie retired in June of 2017. Three months later she was diagnosed with two different kinds of cancer, one in each breast. She underwent two different kinds of treatment and is doing fabulous now (as you'll see, she did fabulous even then). She enjoys traveling often to Washington, D.C. to play with her two grandchildren, Sam, seven, and Norah, four.
We almost didn't meet up with Julie at Anna's House. In fact, we walked right by her. While her trademark shoulder-length blond hair has been replaced by short, white hair, her smile, joyous spirit, and laughter haven't changed a bit.
Alright, Julie Davis: pencil out, eyes on your own paper. Good luck.
It's so different to see you sitting and just relaxing. In your role as secretary at Arcadia Elementary School you were always non-stop.
I loved every second of every day! I have so many fond and funny memories of working at Arcadia. And so many stories!
Will you tell us a story?
Sure. I've got thousands of them!
There was this first grader who zipped his neck into his coat. Thankfully, it was a plastic zipper. I told him, "I'm going to get this unstuck for you but it's going to hurt. But I'll do it really fast." He gave me the okay and I grabbed a bit of his neck and the coat and we did it. And off he went. We were best friends after that. I still remember his name. Eric.
And here's another story. A third grader wanted me to pull her tooth out. This was in the 90s. 'It's not ready, honey,' I told her, but she wanted that thing out. She was adamant and wouldn't go back to class until I pulled it. I know anticipation can drive kids crazy. So I put on a rubber glove, pinched as hard as I could and out came the tooth. It made that cracking sound when it came out, the kind of sound that says it wasn't quite ready to come out! The next day, I received a percentage of what the tooth fairy brought her—a dime and three pennies.
And then there was a time….
Here's a 2002 award Julie received from appreciative parents for "going beyond the call of doody." Let's just say it involved helping with a search effort per doctor's orders. Julie found the quarter.
Okay, bear with me. It's going to take a minute, but there is a question at the end of this.
You received a Champ award back in 2009. Gulnar [Husain, who served as CIS Site Coordinator at Arcadia at that time] rightly described you as kind and compassionate. She wrote: "Her patience has no limits…when all the phone lines are ringing simultaneously, a deadline for a report has to be met, a sick child has to be taken care of, a dose of medicine, ice pack, or band aid has to be given to a student, visitors have to be greeted, or a teacher's question has to be answered, Julie is there to take care of everyone's needs. It would be understandable if she lost her cool, but she doesn't! She remains calm and composed and has the uncanny ability to keep everything under control." So, what's your secret?
I think it's not really even a secret. I'm just thankful I was in a job that I was designed to do. If only everybody could be in that position! That is a wish of mine. That everyone could get up, brush their teeth, go out and behave as themselves, and accomplish something for others at the same time. I was designed for my job. I loved my job. I was just out there being myself and it seemed to work for everybody. [She laughs.]
CIS partners would often comment how you always made them feel at home. I won't ask you what your secret is, but how do you do that, make people feel at home?
I think, by nature, I'm relaxed most of the time. However, at a fairly young age, about 14, I learned that if you act at ease, it puts others at ease. Having learned to be relaxed in any situation has served me well throughout my life, including my time at Arcadia, especially with regard to the daily interactions I enjoyed with families whose language I could not speak.
As you know, Arcadia is a wonderfully diverse school. I'm so thankful I got to be with people of diverse cultures because getting to know these families changed my life. It changed me for the better. When you are relaxed, it opens you up. Because I was relaxed I could embrace and feel those differences. I loved how those differences moved within me—and moved me.
I grew up in a farming community where the only diversity was the age of the farmer. To have the chance to meet people from other countries and cultures was so enlightening. How I grew! That is something I miss, not having an opportunity to be in regular contact with these enriching relationships.
From your perspective as a former secretary, what was it like to have CIS in your building?
I can't separate what CIS does from the people. People like Gulnar, of course, who was CIS. I think of Gulnar, and even before and after Gulnar—of the character you need to have to be really committed to the CIS mission. The CIS people worked with students who had needs. Their time and energy spilled over to everybody, not just those on a "list."
Everyone I know whose been involved with CIS has fit. They've shown a commitment and dedication to children and their families, and that stood out to me. I've seen that commitment in those who didn't have to be there, such as the college students volunteering through CIS. When I was their age, I couldn't imagine being committed to something other than trying to get through my classes. These young people could have been home and enjoyed spring break, but instead they wanted to stay and work with kids. I loved seeing that kind of dedication in the CIS staff and all the volunteers and partners. They were in school with us wanting to do this because of their love for children and watching them succeed.
What have you found to be the most surprising about retirement?
I'm really good at being lazy. I was so busy every day at Arcadia; who knew that lazy would work for me so well! So lazy is what I'm doing at the moment.
Oh, yea! Tailgaters. And let me tell you, pet peeve isn't the word for it. Because I wouldn't say to a pet what I would say to a tailgater.
What are you curious about?
[Starts laughing.] I'm curious about thousands of things, but a funny one, just sprang to mind. I was working at Loy Norrix. This was before cell phones. I had to be there at seven. And there was a girl at the payphone every morning. Back then, Loy Norrix had a phonebooth inside the building, in the hall just down from the office area where I worked. I was always curious about who she was calling.
Maybe your curiosity can finally be satisfied. Maybe there is someone reading this right now who knows something!
Wouldn't that be something? Let's see, it would have been between 1984 and 1992 that this happened, practically every day during the school year.
What is something interesting you've recently learned?
[Laughing.] I've learned that after a certain age you can come across something that is really interesting, something that you didn't know, and a few day later, somebody asks you, "What is something interesting you've recently learned?" and you can't recall what it is. I've learned lots of interesting things since I've retired, but can't recall one of them now!
Can we talk some about your experience with cancer?
Sure. I'm open about it. You know, when I received the diagnosis, the first thing out of mouth was, "Lord, I'm pretty sure you're going to get some glory out of this somehow." I tell you, when you have peace and joy, life is good. It doesn't matter what comes your way. With faith, you can say, "Well, this is unexpected" and you move forward.
I was going to ask, "How and in what ways did the cancer diagnosis change your perspective?" But it sounds like this experience hasn't changed your outlook on life in any way.
My outlook has remained the same. It didn't rock my faith foundation. I thought, "Okay, so I have cancer. That's what's happening now." I knew God was going to walk me through it. The biggest challenge came with handling the side effects of some chemicals and that gave me insight into other people's experiences and I'm thankful for that empathy.
I'm reading my Bible in the book of Acts. I've read it a billion times, but now, suddenly going through it this time, it's like oh, my gosh! I'm relating to what the first Christians experienced… We come at it knowing how it ended. When you know the ending, you don't get all anxious. But they didn't know the ending.
Although I'm reading the Bible exclusively right now, I really enjoy reading a variety of genres. I think my all-time favorite is Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee.
What is your favorite word right now?
Since you want just one word, it would be content. If you wanted to know why I'm content, that would take lots and lots of words.
Behind every successful person is a caring adult. Who has been your caring adult?
My parents, George and Helen.
Here's one story about them. Everybody that crossed their path was drawn to them. They married in 1933 and lived in a little house in the country…Dad had a job with A&P in their warehouse, He went to work one day and the owner pulled him and the one other employee, Joe, aside and said, "I have to cut you both back to half time."
Dad came home that evening and told my mom, who was pregnant at the time, that he lost his job. He had given his half to Joe so he could have full-time work. How he explained it to her: "Joe has two kids. We have a cow, chickens, and a garden so I feel we'll be okay."
That's who they were. That story is as much about my mother. They just both shook it off, said okay, and went on.
Sounds a lot like you!
[Julie laughs.]
Thank you, Julie Davis, for hanging out with us at Ask Me About My 12,000 Kids.
Posted in Champs, Pop QuizTagged Administrative Professionals, Anna's House, Arcadia Elementary School, Champs, CIS, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, Gulnar Husain, Julie Davis, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Loy Norrix High School, Secretaries
Diane Fuller: Lifting up Kids and Teachers
At the 11th Annual Champs Celebration, presented by Kalsec, Diane Fuller was honored with a 2018 Champ Award which was sponsored by BASIC. CIS Board President Tony McDonnell presented the award.
Diane standing with CIS Board President Tony McDonnell (left) and Chris Stys, Vice President of Human Resources for BASIC (right).
It was Stacy Jackson's second day on the job as CIS after school coordinator, when Diane Fuller welcomed her to Edison Environmental Science Academy and introduced herself. "I come every Wednesday at 4:45 for homework help," Diane cheerfully said.
Six years later and kids in the CIS after school program still can't wait to seek out Diane for tutoring help. "This CIS volunteer is in high demand, says Stacy, "and that's because she's flexible, consistent, and understands the needs of our kids."
It's these very qualities that, three years ago, led CIS to seek Diane's thoughts on modifying Miller-Davis Company's Secret Santa program. Diane works at Miller-Davis as bookkeeper, and also coordinated the program. Would Miller-Davis employees, instead of providing gifts to 20 to 25 students each year, consider gifting to each teacher in the building? As Stacy puts it, "Gift one teacher and you impact 30 kids."
Diane immediately saw the benefit to shifting to this "adopt a teacher model" and worked closely with CIS to map out a plan. Diane then presented it to her colleagues and they got right on board. So, Diane the homework helper, who recognizes and responds to students' academic needs, also started listening and writing down teachers' wishes—who, after all, knows better than teachers what teachers need to create learning environments most responsive to student needs?
Each year, Diane is making the list and checking it twice, trying to find out if it's Mrs. Powell who wishes for the magazine subscription, Mrs. Smith who would love arts and crafts supplies and a gift card, and that it's Mrs. Zarei King who could really use some flashcards or a set of books.
While students couldn't begin to shower these gifts upon their teachers, they are a part of the experience. It is a wonderful gift to give a child: letting them see their teacher who cares for them, being cared for, too.
In her quiet yet mighty way, Diane is making a big impact at Edison, and helping her colleagues do the same.
Diane Fuller, we thank you for helping kids stay in school and achieve in life.
Come fall, our kids will need many more volunteers like Diane. Go here to consider one of the several ways you can become a volunteer today to help the kids of tomorrow.
Posted in Champs, VolunteersTagged adopt a teacher model, adopting schools, BASIC, Champs, CIS volunteers, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, Diane Fuller, Edison Environmental Science Academy, Jen Randall, Kalsec, Miller-Davis Company, Stacy Jackson
Nkenge Bergan: Keeping the Focus on Kids
At the 11th Annual Champs Celebration, presented by Kalsec, Nkenge Bergan was honored with a 2018 Champ Award which was sponsored by Chase. CIS Board Member Pam Enslen presented the award.
Positive. Hard working. Forward thinking. These are just three of a host of wonderful qualities that only just begin to describe Nkenge Bergan. As Director of Student Services for Kalamazoo Public Schools, Nkenge refuses, for convenience-sake, to lump students into categories based on a single need to make it easier for grownups to render a 'one size fits all' approach. For Nkenge, it's about helping students succeed academically while also being prepared to respond effectively to the needs of the whole child.
As many of you know, Kalamazoo Public Schools incorporates CIS within 20 schools to increase our collective impact on children. Artrella Cohn, Communities In Schools' Sr. Director of Community Engagement and Student Investment, says, "Nkenge lives out this partnership. She goes above and beyond to ensure that CIS is able to perform effectively in the schools. She carves time out of her busy schedule to meet with me on a regular basis with an eye on how we can both assure that students can be served to our fullest capacity."
Spend just a few minutes with Nkenge and you'll quickly learn that she seeks to understand where students and families are coming from and actively encourages the adults around the table to do the same. As she often says, "But what do our kids need? That's what I care about!" Her mantra is much like the traditional greeting among the African tribe of the Masai who place high value on their children's well-being. "Kasserian Ingera," they say to one another. It means: "And how are the children?"
Living to the beat of this kid-focused mantra, Nkenge works with CIS to problem-solve, modify program designs, and identify needs as well as gaps in service delivery. This is the kind of input that helps our system of integrated student services work, so CIS, KPS and our partners are positioned to move students forward in areas of attendance, behavior, and academics.
Barriers and challenges naturally arise when working together. Moving forward doesn't just happen. It takes hard work, a lot of behind the scenes planning and coordinating—and not giving up.
Oprah Winfrey once said, "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
Nkenge always gives her personal best. It's that stick-to-it-ness and mindset of 'let's figure this out together' that Nkenge brings to the partnership table, always with an eye for doing her part—and helping others—to seize each moment and keep moving forward for kids' sake.
Nkenge Bergan, we thank you for helping kids stay in school and achieve in life.
From left: Pam Enslen, CIS Board Member Nkenge Bergen, Director of Student Services for Kalamazoo Public Schools, Darren Timmeney, Market Manager and Community President of Chase Bank in Southwest Michigan, and Kevin Bing, Vice President, Commercial Banking, Chase.
Posted in ChampsTagged Artrella Cohn, Champs, CIS, collaborating with schools and community, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, investing in children, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Kalsec, Nkenge Bergan, Pam Enslen1 Comment
SALLY STEVENS: FIRST RECIPIENT OF GULNAR HUSAIN VOLUNTEER AWARD
From left: Arcadia Teacher Debora Gant, CIS Volunteer Sally Stevens, and CIS Board Member Carolyn H. Williams
At the 11th Annual Champs Celebration, presented by Kalsec, Sally Stevens was honored with the Gulnar Husain Volunteer Award, a new recognition established by the Husain family to honor Gulnar's long-time contributions to Communities In Schools and the community.
Gulnar immigrated from Pakistan in 1981 and for more than 38 years, she dedicated herself to volunteer work throughout the community of Kalamazoo. The award recognizes a CIS volunteer who emulates Gulnar's desire to serve children with a consistent and unflinching passion. [To learn more about Gulnar and to reflect on her, read this post, "A Good Life."]
CIS Board Member Carolyn H. Williams presented the Gulnar Husain Volunteer Award, sponsored by the Gulnar Husain Legacy Fund.
Gulnar Husain, in her 14 years with CIS, first as an AmeriCorps worker and then as CIS site
Gulnar Husain
coordinator at Arcadia Elementary School was not motivated by status or money or awards. She worked persistently, quietly, often invisibly behind the scenes for children. So it is fitting that Sally Stevens is the first recipient of the Gulnar Husain Annual Volunteer Award. She shares these same traits.
Sally is the invisible behind the visible. Quietly, without fanfare, she shows up each week for kids. When she retired from Borgess Hospital in 2013, Sally's plan was to find volunteer work where she could give back and make a difference. And she has.
Visit any one the 20 CIS sites throughout the Kalamazoo Public Schools and you won't find her. You won't see her in a classroom or in the hallways. She's not in the cafeteria or on the playground. And yet, every day, because of her volunteer efforts, she touches the lives of students in all 20 CIS school sites.
Children want to do their job: be the best student they can be. But they need their basics covered so they can focus on learning. Sally is helping them do that by literally lifting up the generosity of this community. As many of you know, your donations to CIS Kids' Closet help kids attend school every day with confidence and dignity, ready to learn. When students or school staff connect with the CIS Site Team at their school to meet a basic need, it is most likely Sally who has already inventoried the items CIS gives out. She has folded the sweatpants with love, organized the underwear by size, sorted socks, folded tops, gathered up the pencils, markers and crayons, and backpacks and boots, preparing them for the schools.
"Sally can organize the heck out of anything," says John Brandon, who, as CIS partner services coordinator, oversees Kids' Closet. "Sally," he says, is "an incredibly hard worker, extremely efficient, and jumps in every way she can to help." Take, for example, November 2016. When the tiny closet in the basement of the CIS/Kalamazoo Promise office building was bursting with your donations, Kalamazoo Public Schools graciously accommodated our need for more space, providing a classroom-size, walk-in closet at their building on Westnedge. Sally—who also volunteers with the Oakwood Neighborhood Association, Warm Kids, and the Bronson Park Food Pantry—bumped up her four hours a week to over seven, to get Kids' Closet settled and up for operation. At the start of school and over holidays—when larger quantities of donations come flooding in—Sally increases her hours to meet the demand.
With Sally's help, we've been able to serve children better by expanding operations at Kids' Closet, increasing both the donations coming in and items going out to the schools.
Gulnar Husain was a prolific user of Kids' Closet, a fact her Arcadia Principal Greg Socha could attest to. We know Gulnar would be so thrilled that you, Sally, are the first to receive this special recognition.
Sally Stevens, thank you for helping kids stay in school and achieve in life.
Here's the blessing bowl Sally received. The lip of it is rimmed with words Gulnar often said and believed: "Being able to serve others, especially children, is a blessing."
Keep up with us at Ask Me About My 12,000 Kids. You can learn more about Sally in the weeks to come. We popped one of our quizzes on her!
Posted in Champs, VolunteersTagged Arcadia Elementary School, Borgess Hospital, Bronson Park Food Pantry, Carolyn H. Williams, Champs, CIS Kids' Closet, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, Greg Socha, Gulnar Husain, Gulnar Husain Legacy Fund, Gulnar Husain Volunteer Award, John Brandon, Kalamazoo Public Schools, Oakwood Neighborhood Association, Sally Stevens, Warm Kids
High School Graduate: CIS Lifted Me Up
Kanequewa Steward graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School this past spring, Last month, she reflected on her CIS experience at the 11thAnnual Champ Celebration. Kanequewa has graciously given permission for us to publish her remarks here, at Ask Me About My 12,000 Kids.
PNC was the Student Spotlight Sponsor and Steve Powell, on behalf of PNC, presented Kanequewa with an Apple iPad Pro as a gift to help her continue her education this fall as a Kalamazoo Promise scholar.
Good evening, everyone. When writing this speech, I didn't know where I should start. I have so many memories and was conflicted on what I wanted to bring up first. Has anyone ever felt so alone it made you want to give up on everything? You just thought, "I can't do anything right. No one loves me, so why am I here? Do I matter? Who would miss me? We all have been there once in our lives, right? Well, I know I've struggled with this multiple times that it's not even funny. Now I know, everyone's like, "Where is she going with this?" Well, I'll tell you…
It all started in the 6th grade when I got connected to CIS and started attending the CIS after school program. My sister and I used to go after school all the time. Mr. [Kevin] Lavender—he was our CIS site coordinator—was the best. He always helped me when I needed it. Made sure I kept my grades up, and he was a person I could confide in at such a young age.
Yeah, I know you're all like, "How could a middle-schooler know what was so good for her at the time?" Well, it goes like this. "I was struggling with letting my anger out on other people. I knew I had a big heart, but I was always afraid to show it. But being part of Communities In Schools gave me an outlet. I could come and have fun, get help on homework. I could even cry when I needed to.
Now, going into high school I thought my CIS years were over and that was the end, not yet knowing they had summer programs, and most importantly, Mrs. Yarbrough. Taking part in CIS Think Summer opened up many doors for me. I met so many people that cared about me, they were always making sure I was okay, and that I had what I needed. It's something I wish I could continue to do now.
Okay, so do we all remember when I asked my question about feeling helpless and what not? Well, in 10th grade I went down a bumpy road. My heart was broken and I was starting to lose hope and faith. It was at the point to where I self-harmed at least twice a day. I knew why I felt this way, but then again, I didn't. I was only 15. Why should I feel such pain? I always thought my past was my fault. So it ate me up inside. I didn't want to live, saw was no reason for it, until I met Mrs. [Deborah] Yarbrough.
Now some of you may ask, "Who is that? What do she do?" And that's why I'm going to tell you.
Mrs. Yarbrough is the CIS Site Coordinator at Kalamazoo Central High School. I went to her office one day and I cried. I cried so hard I couldn't see—and she let me. She held me and she told me it was going to be okay. She isn't someone who says stuff to make you feel better. She said it because she knows how it feels; when you just need a break from the world. And she allows you the time to get that. While I was dealing with so much, Mrs. Yarbrough went out of her way to provide me with services. And boy, did they help! From group therapy, to one-on-one therapy. She provided the best help there was. Not only did she help me then, but also when I lost some friends in a tragic incidence I knew exactly where to go to: her. She's always known how to help me get by; and I thank her for that.
Communities In Schools has saved my life. CIS has provided me with hope, lifted me up when I was down, and gave me so many resources I couldn't have gotten on my own. And, at this moment, being a part of CIS has helped me deal with the death of a friend who's been a friend since third grade.
So, here I am. Without CIS support, I would be somewhere, not knowing what to do for myself or if I should even live. This program created many opportunities and I'm thankful to have had you with me through my journey.
I want to thank everyone that helped me and guided me. It wasn't easy, but guess what? We did it! I've graduated from Kalamazoo Central and have been accepted into Adrian College! And it's not the end, but the beginning to a new life, a happy and healthy life. Again, thank you for having the faith I didn't have. I couldn't have done it without you guys.
Posted in Champs, Success StoriesTagged Champs, CIS, CIS Site Coordinators supporting students in schools, Communities In School of Kalamazoo, Deborah Yarbrough, graduating high school, Kalamazoo Central High School, Kalamazoo Promise Scholar, Kevin Lavender Jr, PNC, Steve Powell
Do you do your best and try hard, too?
L ast week, more than 420 guests attended the 11th annual CIS Champs Celebration, presented by Kalsec. Before guests even entered the Radisson's Arcadia Ballroom, they were treated to a live performance by the Kalamazoo Kids In Tune Middle School Ensemble, under the direction of Ben Gudbrandson and sponsored by Warner Norcross + Judd. It was clear these young musicians had practiced and practiced as they performed at their best.
What about you? Do you do your best and try hard, too? That is one of the questions fourth graders from Woodward School for Technology and Research asked the grown-ups in the room. Kyla Clark, Isaac Dyer, Kiana Gill, Kieara Virgil, and Curtis Whitfield, representing their Woodward peers, recited "The Kalamazoo Poem" at Champs (their presence sponsored by Borgess). As part of Mrs. Calloway's English class at Woodward, these KPS students were five of the 60 fourth graders from Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Polsco, and Mrs. Calloway's classes who participated in poetry workshops facilitated by CIS. The poem also incorporates several lines written by students involved in the CIS After School Program at Milwood Elementary School. On April 7, 2018, "The Kalamazoo Poem" premiered at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts as part of the 5th Annual Kalamazoo Poetry Festival.
We share with you, this week, their poem and hope you'll keep up with us at Ask Me About My 12,000 Kids to discover the Champs experience. We'll be publishing the two inspiring speeches given by representatives of the Class of 2018, Kanequewa Steward, Kalamazoo Central High School, and Dreon Smith, Loy Norrix High School. Over the coming weeks you'll also be inspired (for the first time, or all over again!) by learning what each one of the eight award winners is doing to help kids stay in school and achieve in life.
Thanks to CIS volunteer Don Kingery and CIS youth development worker Nae Williams, you'll also be able to see what guests saw (and missed!) through their photographic lens.
The Kalamazoo Poem
We love Kalamazoo.
All the wonderful places you can go,
like home, the Kalamazoo Public Library,
and all the schools.
I love going to school and learning.
Kalamazoo can be loving and caring,
even to people who aren't always nice.
This big, wonderful city has all my friends in it.
In this city that is not too big and not too small
people can be themselves.
Did I mention I love the schools?
That teachers are teaching?
Kalamazoo does not have hurricanes.
Get this: it has a banana car!
My head feels like it will explode
because Kalamazoo is so cool.
I love the way people handle their biz.
I love the summer and wind.
My family is here. My friends.
My school. My teachers. Me!
Kalamazoo is the best city I've ever been to,
it's our home, we have the Promise–and college is free!
You see, people here treat each other with kindness.
Kalamazoo can be so kind.
Kalamazoo gives presents and parties on cold, Christmas mornings.
It gives us teachers and tutors who help us with our work.
People say kind words. Someone says hi.
Students listen to their teacher.
We play together. We clean up. We get along.
When people are put down, Kalamazoo help them get back up.
We get together and help the homeless, the poor,
and those who are feeling sad.
We fix each other's houses.
I wish everybody had a home
and that it never snowed.
Yes, there are things we wish were true about Kalamazoo.
We need more good jobs.
If only everything cost a penny!
I wish the river wasn't polluted,
that I could see my dad.
I wish we always remembered to treat others
how we want to be treated.
I wish we had a robot.
If only rappers lived in Kalamazoo
and there was no such thing as the flu.
I wish Kalamazoo was 5,000 miles long and 5,000 miles wide.
I wish everybody-and I mean everybody-could be in my family.
I wish I could help everyone
and that we wouldn't stop helping each other—
even when we don't always get it right.
I wish that the power wouldn't get shut off.
I wish everyone had a place to live and I had a bed of my own.
There should be a waterpark in the middle of town.
If only Kalamazoo was California. I miss my cousins.
I miss my mom. I worry and wonder where she is.
We need more bikes and shooting stars.
No shootings! There is a scared little street
that worries someone could get hurt today.
Will you keep me safe forever?
I dream I will become ….
A firefighter, a doctor, a teacher, an artist,
a football player, a wildlife technician…
Will you take care of me?
Help me learn today?
Be there when I grow up?
Will you do your best, like us, and try hard, too?
-a group poem by 4th graders of Woodward
At the conclusion of the poem, Kiana asked emcee, Dr. John Oliver, if they could introduce the next speaker. Dr. Oliver graciously agreed. Kyla then called Dr. Michael Rice to the stage and Curtis let everybody know that Dr. Rice is their superintendent. Kieara shared that "he likes poetry, just like us!" Isaac pointed out that every day, "and I mean every day—Dr. Rice does his best, and like us, he tries hard, too."
The students then gifted Dr. Rice with a book, the completed works of Langston Hughes, signed by the fourth graders of Woodward.
What about you? Are you working hard for kids, too?
If you believe in our efforts to ensure that ALL kids stay in school and achieve in life, you can learn about volunteer opportunities here, or go here to learn more about other ways to support kids, or call us at 269.337.1601.
Posted in Champs, EventsTagged Ben Gudbrandson, Champs, CIS, CIS After School program, Communities In School of Kalamazoo, Don Kingery, Dr. John Oliver, Dr. Michael F. Rice, Kalamazoo Kids In Tune Middle School Ensemble, Kalamazoo Poetry Festival, Kalsec, The Kalamazoo Poem, Warner Norcross & Judd, Woodward School for Technology and Research


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"Weekend Gateway Deeg, Rajasthan"
Established by Maharaja Suraj Mahal in the eighteenth century, Deeg filled in like the mid-year resort to the Royal family. Prevalent for its superb royal residences, dazzling fortresses, and desi bazaars, the town is a break from the customary noise of city life.
Let's explore Deeg With Unique dazzling fortresses .
WEEKEND GATEWAYS FROM DELHI: Deeg (Rajsthan)
Overview: Deeg Tourism
Situated in the close region to the city of Bharatpur, Deeg is a residential area in the territory of Rajasthan. Established by Maharaja SurajMahal in the eighteenth century, Deeg filled in like the mid-year resort to the Royal family. Prevalent for its superb royal residences, dazzling fortresses, and desi bazaars, the town is a break from the customary noise of city life. You can absorb the rustic scene and laze in the way of life. Not a long way from here is likewise found the well knownBharatpur Bird Sanctuary which is an absolute necessity visit.
The majority of the explorers go on a get-away in the pursuit of a break from their customary lives, some look for a difference in culture and not simply alleviation, Deeg could be one such place. Far from the enormous group, it is a little and serene town with a top-notch scene and chances to see the brilliant play of nature. A few kilometers away is Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, where you can discover uncommon types of winged creatures. Back in Deeg, you can go through multi-day lazing in the provincial background, living the desi way and getting a charge out of the adjustment in way of life. Many places are established on Deeg Tourism.
"Deeg Tourism is the Best Place for you Visit in Weekend Gateway in Deeg".
Havelis:
Deeg has various Havelis from the late seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century. Tremendously motivated by Mughal engineering and plans. The greater part of these is worked in marble and pursue a typical structure.
All these Bhawans were put to use by the Jaat realm when they were administering the position of royalty. These antiquated structures have been an observer to numerous critical choices of the history, some have seen gore while others have been quiet eyewitnesses of the sentiment of the royals. NandBhawan, KesavBhawan, HardevBhawan, KishanBhawan, and SurajBhawan are the famous ones in Deeg. In Deeg, Havelis can be the best place to visit.
Deeg Fort:
With RoopSagar streaming on one side and this gigantic, wonderful stronghold on the hoisted drift, Deeg fortress is the most loved of vacationers. Worked in 1772, this stronghold was developed deliberately here because of the closeness with Agra.
In 1730, Raja Suraj Mal requested the development of a stronghold around the castle, it was then that the huge dividers were raised and the profound channel was conceptualized to fend off the intruders. The stronghold appears to be immensely affected by the idea and structure of the Mughal Charbagh, it has a comparable plan, with the yards situated in four corners and a walkway on the inside. While the stronghold has RoopSagar on one side, on the opposite side is GobindSagar, them two together help cut down the temperature of the fortress. On the rooftop is a gun which is an old one, which more likely than not been utilized in fighting amid the standard of the Jaat administration. Toward the north-west corner of the fortress is LakkaBurj which is a 70ft tall watchtower, climb it up and see the town at the look, a hypnotizing sight, completely!
Bharatpur:
"The Bird Haven"
Frequently alluded to as the 'Eastern Gate of Rajasthan', Bharatpur is situated in the Braj area of state Rajasthan. The city is doused by its way of life, valor, and sentiment woven into ditties, and old stories can be gotten notification from miles. A fascinating strange goal that serves sightseers with genuine Rajasthani conventions, religious events stamp the dedication of the state individuals. Otherwise called Lohagarh, it is a piece of the brilliant travel industry triangle of Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra, this place draws in an impressive number of national and global vacationer consistently. It is likewise the home of Keoladeo National Park, which natural surroundings more than 370 types of creatures and fowls. It is perceived as a standout amongst the most prevalent feathered creatures sustaining and rearing grounds. In 1982 the recreation center was set apart as a National Park, and later in 1985, it went ahead of the rundown of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.
The Bharatpur National Park, otherwise called Keoladeo National Park, is a delightful fowl haven. Named after the Keoladeo sanctuary situated in its fenced-in area, the place was set up as a national park on tenth March 1982. It is a wetland, made, and figured out how to shield the Bharatpur area from regular floods. Proclaimed a World Heritage Site of UNESCO, this national park is home to more than 230 unique types of winged creatures, more than 200 distinct types of different creatures of land and water and reptiles like fish, turtles, snakes, reptiles, etcetera, and more than 350 flower species can be found here. This National Park, privately known as Ghana, has been a winter home for the Siberian Crane; a species very nearly eradication (thought about an imperiled flying creature today). 5km far from the Bharatpur Junction (railroad station) and around 192km from Delhi via vehicle (a 1-day venture).
"These are the Best Places for you Visit in Weekend Gateway in Deeg".
Best time to Visit Deeg:
October to March is a good time to Visit in Deeg in Winter
July to September is a good time to Visit Deeg in Monsoon
April to June is a good time to Visit in Deeg in Summer.
"These are the best time for you to Visit Weekend Gateway in Deeg".
How to Reach Deeg by Flight
The closest air terminal is in Delhi which is 150 km far from Deeg. Neighborhood navigates, vehicles, and transports are accessible to cover the adventure subsequently.
Closest Airport: Agra Airport (AGR) – 72 km from Deeg
How to Reach Deeg by Road
Arranged on the Mathura-Alwar Highway there are a few state-run modes of transport up to Bharatpur. You can decide on effectively accessible nearby transport from Bharatpur to Deeg.
How to Reach Deeg by Train
There are few express trains that end at Deeg station. Along these lines, it's best to pick a train to Bharatpur, Agra, Mathura, or Delhi to reach Deeg.


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Q: Confusion on Big-O So I have to prove that $\sqrt n = O(n/\log^2 n)$. I've never come across something with division.
Would this be the same as proving $(\log^2 n )\sqrt n = O(n)$? Or if I were to do it with
$\lim_{x\to\infty} f(x)/g(x)$ would I bring the $\log^2 n$ to the numerator?

A: Notice that $$f(n)=\mathcal{O}(g(n))\iff \limsup_{n\to+\infty}\frac{|f(n)|}{g(n)}<+\infty. $$
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*$f:n\mapsto f(n)=\sqrt{n}$.

*$g:n\mapsto g(n)=\frac{n}{\log^{2}n}$.

Since $$\lim_{n\to +\infty}\frac{|f(n)|}{g(n)}=\lim_{n\to +\infty}\frac{|\sqrt{n}|}{n/\log^{2}n}=0.$$
The result is follows.

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In the cool darkness of the spring night the priest and his ministers gather outside the door of the empty Church. The "new fire," struck from flint, is enkindled and blessed. From this new fire the Paschal Candle will be lit. The marvelous Exsultet will then be sung, proclaiming the full meaning of the Easter mystery. Flame will be taken from the great candle, and multiplied throughout the building in all the different hanging lamps, and on the altar candles. As Mass is being prepared, "prophecies" will be chanted from various books of the Old Testament, showing how the types and figures hidden in the obscurity of the Old Law, have been brought to light in the glory of the resurrection. Each prophecy kindles a mystical light in the listening Church. This is a feast of light, a feast of life, celebrating not merely a past event but the present existential reality of the redemptive fact by which Christ communicates His life to us and unites us to Himself in one spirit.
The light that leaps out of darkness, the fire that comes from stone, symbolizes Christ's conquest of death. He, Who is the source of all life, could never remain in death, could not see corruption. Death is not a reality, but the absence of a reality. And in Him there is nothing unreal. The fire that springs from the stone speaks, then, of His reality springing from the alienated coldness of our dead hearts, of our souls that have forgotten themselves, that have been exiled from themselves and from their God—and have lost their way in death. But there is nothing lost that God cannot find again. Nothing dead that cannot live again in the presence of His Spirit. No heart so dark, so hopeless, that it cannot be enlightened and brought back to itself, warmed back to the life of charity.
In the old days, on Easter night, the Russian peasants used to carry the blest fire home from Church. The light would scatter and travel in all directions through the darkness, and the desolation of the night would be pierced and dispelled as lamps came on in the windows of the farmhouses one by one. Even so the glory of God sleeps everywhere, ready to blaze out unexpectedly in created things. Even so His peace and His order lie hidden in the world, even the world of today, ready to reestablish themselves in His way, in His own good time: but never without the instrumentality of free options made by free men.
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Creation had been given to man as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into men's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, the sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to man not of themselves only but of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of man after the fall led the Gentiles further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque. The nations were no longer able to penetrate the meaning of the world they lived in. Instead of seeing the sun a witness to the power of God they thought the sun was god. The whole universe became an enclosed system of myths. The meaning and the worth of creatures invested them with an illusory divinity.
Men still sensed that there was something to be venerated in the reality, in the peculiarity of living and growing things, but they no longer knew what that reality was. They became incapable of seeing that the goodness of the creature is only a vestige of God. Darkness settled upon the translucent universe. Men became afraid. Beings had a meaning which men could no longer understand. They became afraid of trees, of the sun, of the sea. These things had to be approached with superstitious rites. It began to seem that the mystery of their meaning, which had become hidden, was now a power that had to be placated and, if possible controlled with magic incantations.
Thus the beautiful living things which were all about us on this earth and which were the windows of heaven to every man, became infected with original sin. The world fell with man, and longs, with man, for regeneration. The symbolic universe, which had now become a labyrinth of myths and magic rites, the dwelling place of a million hostile spirits, ceased altogether to speak to most men of God and told them only of themselves. The symbols which would have raised man above himself to God now became myths, and as such they were simply projections of man's own biological drives. His deepest appetites, now full of shame, became his darkest fears.
The corruption of cosmic symbolism can be understood by a simple comparison. It was like what happens to a window when a room ceases to receive light from the outside. As long as it is daylight, we see through our windowpane. When night comes, we can still see through it if there is no light inside our room. When our lights go on, then we see only ourselves and our own room reflected in the pane. Adam in Eden could see through creation as through a window. God shone through the windowpane as bright as the light of the sun. Abraham and the patriarchs and David and the holy men of Israel—the chosen race that preserved intact the testimony of God—could still see through the window as one looks out by night from a darkened room and sees the moon and stars. But the Gentiles had begun to forget the sky, and to light lamps of their own, and presently it seemed to them that the reflection of their own room in the window was the "world beyond." They began to worship what they themselves were doing. And what they were doing was too often an abomination. Nevertheless, something of the original purity of natural revelation remained in the great religions for the East. It is found in the Upanishads in the Baghavad Gita. But the pessimism of Buddha was a reaction against the degeneration of nature by polytheism. Henceforth for the mysticism of the East, nature would no longer be symbol but illusion. Buddha knew too well that the reflections in the window were only projections of our own existence and our own desires, but did not know that this was a window and that there could be sunlight outside the glass.


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Fox Confirms A Deadpool Sequel Is In The Works
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As if a lot of us are suprised. Fox has announced that a sequel to Deadpool is officially in the works. The comic book film in just ten days became the highest-grossing X-Men film as well as the highest-grossing R-rated comic book film of all-time. It is literally a surprise to NO ONE that Fox has realized the immense popularity of their antihero.
Ryan Reynolds who LOVES his character will return for the role and it is predicted that Tim Miller will return to direct. At the moment there is no announced plot direction for the sequel but I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Deadpool himself did mention in the first film's post-credits scene that we would be seeing the time-traveling X-Man Cable if we got another movie.
So far there is no plot, no anticipated release date, and no other actors other than Reynolds to hang our hats on. BUT WE ARE GETTING ANOTHER DEADPOOL MOVIE SO EVERYONE REJOICE!
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Russia, thanks to its continent-spanning size, sits upon vast reserves of oil and natural gas. It is a the world's third largest producer of crude oil, for example, and is only second to the United States when it comes to natural gas production.
But while its mineral wealth transfers into both political and economic heft, Russia's geography presents some unique transportation challenges – namely moving billions of barrels of oil and cubic metres of natural gas through the country and off to foreign markets.
Russia ranks behind only Saudi Arabia and the United States in terms of crude oil production. In 2016, Russia produced 10.96 million barrels of oil a day. In December of that year, Russian oil output hit a 30 year high, peaking at 11.21 million barrels per day.
The drop in global oil prices, which started in 2014, did hit Russia hard, but as prices begin to stabilise and the market returns to health, Russia's oil industry will likely remain in rude health. To avoid another huge nosedive in the price of oil worldwide, Russia, alongside Saudi Arabia, has agreed to cut production levels through to 2018. So less output is coming, but Russia's oil sector is not going anywhere soon.
2016 saw Russia produce 637 billion cubic metres (Bcm) of natural gas – representing a marginal increase of 0.2%. Exports of gas products are a major source of revenue for Russia, which may explain why 5% more natural gas was sent overseas last year. A total of 202.3 Bcm of gas was exported in 2016, primarily reaching European markets and Turkey.
Some 90% of the gas and oil produced in Russia is transported via pipeline. Transneft is the state pipeline company, and effectively runs a monopoly on Russian pipe-based transportation. Trucks are only really used to move refined products to and from storage bases to customer-orientated selling points, such as petrol stations.
Rail is the chief non-pipeline mode for ferrying oil from its production sites to export centres. 23.6 million tons of oil and associated products was carried by Grand Old Man of European railways throughout 2016.
Russia's rail network stretches from its Western borders through to the farthest reaches of Siberia and beyond. Given the remote location of Russia's energy projects, and the importance of mineral shipments for the nation's economic prosperity, ensuring exports travel unimpeded to their transhipment destinations is a top priority.
Russian railways are more developed than the country's road routes, especially in the Far East, making transporting these essential exports a far easier prospect. This goes some way towards explaining rail's importance to the Russian energy industry.
Natural gas mostly requires specialist LNG carriers for transportation. The world's first icebreaking LNG-carrying ship was successfully tested in the arctic Yamal region of Russia in 2017, demonstrating the unique challenges Russian geography presents for its energy industry – namely in moving the products around. Orders for further LNG-transportation vessels are in the pipeline.
Russia is blessed with thousands of miles of coastline and access to some of the world's busiest waterways including the Black Sea, Gulf of Finland, and the Pacific Ocean. As such, a number of Russian ports are essential stops in its energy supply chains.
Below is a list of Russia's leading oil terminals, ranked by total annual volumes of oil cargoes handled by each port (2015's figures).
Take a look at this map of Russia's ongoing oil and gas developments. Notice something? Apart from a handful in more accessible zones, such as Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, they are all in remote, nigh-inaccessible locations. And when things get remote in Russia, they tend to get cold. Very cold.
The Sakhalin and Yamal gas fields are especially hard to access. These are located in Russia's frigid Far East – a region known worldwide for its Arctic temperatures and exceptionally harsh winters. Moving essential prospecting and production equipment to these locations is no easy task, given the nature of the machinery in demand at these project sites.
Oil and gas production equipment is big. Extremely big. Necessary oversized cargoes, such as drills, bespoke production modules, and so on, often weigh hundreds of tons, are unwieldy and difficult to move to Russia's remotest corners.
However, this is where the biggest opportunities for foreign businesses to enter this niche market. Specialist cargoes require specialist services, and Russian energy producers are more than ready to collaborate with international breakbulk operators to get the job done.
ALE Heavy-lift, a UK-based oversized cargo handler, is collaborating with Russia's Yamgaz, TechnipFMC, JGC, and Chiyoda, to outfit the under-construction Yamal LNG terminal in Northwest Siberia. The site is in need of huge liquid gas production modules, weighing hundreds of tons and possessing unique dimensions, which requires ALE's expertise to transport.
ALE successfully completed shipment of essential project equipment to the site in early 2017, showing how, if they can deliver, foreign firms can meet Russia's energy-related transport needs.
Russia is committed to expanding its energy industries with new sites and projects appearing every year. Even in the face of its promised oil production cuts, the nation is still forging ahead with massive, yet remote, natural gas developments, as well as construction of energy terminals across its coastlines.
Such projects share a common trend: a demand for oversized cargoes requiring specialist transportation – playing right into foreign transport and logistics' operators hands.
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By Hayli Goode on April 1, 2016
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While sitting in the waiting room lobby, Matt Bellina began Googling his symptoms: cramping hands, twitching arms, stiffness in his legs. Before he was called back for his EMG, he came to the conclusion that he had ALS.
His doctors, however, hoped differently. "They were like, 'Well, you don't meet all the criteria. So maybe it's not that and maybe it is.' And there was a lot of back and forth for literally another 17 months. But by the time I was actually formerly diagnosed, I knew for sure," said Bellina.
ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing those with ALS to lose control of their muscles.
Bellina was officially diagnosed on April 9, 2014. According to ALS.net, a non-profit organization where Bellina is an ambassador, most ALS patients live 2 to 5 years after their diagnosis. But, two years after his diagnosis, Bellina is not only an ambassador for ALS research, but a father of two boys and the founder of Matt's Mission at Newtown Athletic Club.
Nine months after Bellina and his family started working out at Newtown Athletic Club in Newtown, Pennsylvania, Bellina asked the owner if they would be interested in fundraising for ALS.net. It turned out, the club was already fundraising for Augie's Quest.
Augie Nieto, the co-founder of equipment manufacturer Life Fitness, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2005, started Augie's Quest. Newtown Athletic Club told Bellina if he wanted to get involved, they could "make it really big."
Linda Mitchell, the director of public relations of Newtown Athletic Club, came up with Matt's Mission as the vehicle for Newtown Athletic Club to raise money for Augie's Quest.
In 2015, their goal was to raise $50,000, which Bellina did not think would be possible. With the help of the members and Newtown Athletic Club founder Jim Worthington, they raised $180,000, which is 10 percent of the total amount raised for Augie's Quest by IHRSA clubs in 2015.
"The members are so generous," said Bellina. "Obviously, the owner, Jim, is super generous. And then this year, just this last fall, another member was diagnosed, so they decided to hit it hard again. And so far, we've raised $100,000 this year, in the last 2.5 months. And we're going to keep going. Who knows where it might go."
And he has hope that he himself will beat this disease. According to Bellina, ALS is not incurable, it's underfunded.
He encourages health clubs to not only partner with Augie's Quest to help raise funds for ALS research, but to also support their members with the disease.
"I think that making them feel like they're a part of the community, like the NAC has to me, [is important]," said Bellina. "Making them feel like they're still valued members of the club. I mean, it's hard when your muscles are wasting away, going to the gym and seeing everybody working out. That has just made me slow down and realize what I am doing is still valuable. Even if I'm not bench-pressing 300 pounds, I'm still setting goals and working toward them. I think if a club can help an ALS patient do that, then we're on the right track to getting where we need to be."
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FBI, Election Fraud, and the Story You Likely Don't Know About
Is the FBI missing in action or just keeping a low profile?
By: Leesa K. Donner December 01, 2020 Articles, Election 2020, Politics, Social Issues
by Leesa K. Donner
During his first extended interview since the election, President Donald Trump protested loudly about the Department of Justice and the FBI's lack of action in examining election fraud. The two agencies have been as quiet as church mice thus far. Trump assailed these government authorities as missing in action and mused aloud whether they were involved in what millions of Americans believe has been election fraud on a massive scale.
"This is a total fraud, and how the FBI and Department of Justice — I don't know, maybe they're involved — but how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable," Trump told Fox's Maria Bartiromo. But wait, could it be that the nation's highest law enforcement agency is out there digging for dirt?
The Scoop No One Will Talk About
In the tumultuous aftermath of Nov. 3, a national conservative non-profit called the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society partnered with former data chief and strategist for the Trump campaign, Matt Braynard, to see if there was any evidence of voter fraud. Their efforts appear to have caught the eye of someone in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Braynard tweeted, "The @FBI has proactively and directly requested from me the VIP [Voter Integrity Project] findings that indicate illegal ballots. – By Tuesday, we will have delivered to the agency all of our data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, etc."
Confirming this information was Amistad Project Director Phillip Kline, who tweeted just a couple of hours later: "After learning that hundreds of thousands of ballots are potentially fraudulent – The FBI has now requested to look at our data." Then he followed with this statement:
"The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society retained Matt Braynard and his team after Election Day to develop data analysis to cultivate as evidence to support election integrity lawsuits in the battleground states. We've learned that Mr. Braynard was contacted by FBI Special Agent Young Oh of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office seeking our data. Mr. Braynard is cooperating with this request, and we fully support him. This data has been used to identify hundreds of thousands of Potentially fraudulent ballots in the states where we filed litigation. More about this data will be made available in Matt Braynard's appearance before a meeting with legislators in Arizona tomorrow."
The Voter Integrity Project (VIP) appears to be Braynard's baby through and through. His VIP team has crunched a dizzying array of numbers since Election Day and come up with more than a few oddities.
For example, there is a provision in Wisconsin for people to request an absentee ballot should they be "indefinitely confined" in their home. This type of ballot request permits a resident to vote early by mail without showing any identification for an absentee ballot.
Keep in mind that COVID was excluded from this provision and not considered a "legal reason" to receive this ballot. In previous years, the requests for "indefinite confinement" ballots in Wisconsin were nominal. However, this year Braynard's research shows there were almost 170,000 people who asked for them.
Braynard recently encapsulated his discoveries from the Voter Integrity Project. In an extended video presentation, he comes off as a credible data analyst and goes to great lengths to substantiate the detail that went into the endeavor. He does not appear to be a conspiracy theorist or someone with an ax to grind. Although he's obviously partisan, the data analyst seems to be the kind of person who leads with logic rather than emotion. Perhaps this is the reason Braynard's VIP project caught the attention of the FBI.
The findings and conclusions of the Voter Integrity Project were made from the raw election data from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The VIP team went so far as to place personal phone calls to hundreds if not thousands of voters. They analyzed National Change of Address forms; they investigated double voting by individuals in swing states and charges that "the dead" voted, etc. From the results of what certainly presents as an exhaustive study, Braynard concluded:
"I have no confidence that Joe Biden is the deserved winner of this election based on our findings and the current results of the election in the states of Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and potentially other states. He may have won, he may not have won. Trump may have lost — he may have been re-elected. We just can't know because of how bad this election system has operated."
As of 3 p.m. on Nov. 30, the only thing new on Braynard's Twitter account was that there was "good patriot energy at the #ArizonaHearing." Arizona has since certified its election for Biden. What Special Agent Young Oh of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office will do with Braynard's data is anyone's guess. However, just the fact that someone from the Bureau has asked for it is more than a bit curious.
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Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the author of "Free At Last: A Life-Changing Journey through the Gospel of Luke."
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Generation Z Is About To Completely Change The U.S. Workforce
Filed Under:Jobs, Millennials
CBS Local — The U.S. workforce is about see one of the biggest influxes of new talent in several decades; however, experts say Generation Z will also drastically change the way American companies do business in the future.
Members of Generation Z are now entering the U.S. workforce
There are around 61 million Americans born from 1996-2010
Most of Generation Z has never lived in a world without smartphones
Recruiting firms say Generation Z has a very different set of values than their parents do
According to consulting firm BridgeWorks, there are 61 million members of the generation born between 1996 to 2010 living in the United States. Generation Z, also called the iGen or Digital Natives, is a larger portion of the population than Generation X and about two-thirds the size of the baby boomer generation.
With this massive group of young Americans starting to graduate from college, U.S. companies are reportedly preparing to welcome a generation that has a uniquely different outlook on the world than their parents do.
"They're a generation that, in many cases, can't remember a life without a smartphone in their hand — and they have no memory of the 9/11 attacks, beyond the classroom," a report from MSN explained. The mood of "Gen Z" is also significantly impacted by what others on social media think of them, according to experts.
"Gen Z's self-worth is affected by social media more than any other generation. A stunning 42% of iGen feels that social media has a direct impact on how they feel about themselves," a study by The Center for Generational Kinetics (CGK) reported.
Although these 61 million Americans may seem as emotionally detached as millennials are accused of being, the strategy firm added that Gen Z is actually much more concerned about their future in the workforce. "These Gen Zers have seen their parents struggle financially [due to the recession and student loan crisis]… They're having conversations older generations never really had before," CGW founder Denise Villa said.
While these young adults have had more conversations about money and saving for retirement, recruiters say the Gen Z mentality doesn't revolve around money. "They want to have a purpose in their work," Larry Nash of recruiting firm EY told The Wall Street Journal. Nash added that his firm's survey of young workers found that office culture and giving back to the community were key priorities for Generation Z.
The biggest stumbling block companies are reportedly finding with their new recruits is person-to-person communication skills. The generation that has primarily learned to communicate through emojis and text messages is said to lack many of the office skills their parents have.
Companies are having to train young adults to do many things older Americans take for granted, like writing emails and handling phone calls. "They want to come in and do a really good job; they just need skills we grew up with that they didn't," Denise Villa added.


Valentine's Day. The day where all the couples get to be extra cute and mushy gushy and singles get to wallow about how they're alone because it's the one day where it is socially acceptable to boast your relationship status (or lack thereof). I have a love-hate relationship with the holiday. In recent years, I've taken to hating the holiday because it's really just a day designated by Hallmark to spend obscure amounts of money on chocolate, pieces of paper and flowers. It's stupid really. Yet all of society conforms and sends candy and teddy bears to their loved ones. Now don't take this a rant for me hating Valentine's Day for the sole reason that I'm 20 years old and still single--yes, my 'hate' part of the love-hate relationship with the holiday stems from that. But. I have many, many reasons to love the holiday, and that's what I'm going to focus on (for the most part).
Last year on Valentine's Day I went out to dinner with some of my friends--some were single and some were in relationships--and we just went out and had a good time regardless of being alone or not. While at this little dinner at Panera Bread, my phone rang with an unknown number. I answered, and it was Insomnia Cookies telling me to come down the lobby of my dorm because they were almost there with my order.
I'M NOT GOING TO BE ALONE ANYMORE.
IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE THE END SCENE OF YOU'VE GOT MAIL AND IT WILL BE AWESOME.
YAY. I'M GETTING FREE COOKIES FROM SOMEONE WHO LOVES ME.
After about five minutes of this, my phone buzzed with a text from my mom. It included a photo of an old card I had given to my dad as a kid with a picture of me with some sort of Tupperware container on my head, and a message that said, "Share the cookies!!! Love you and Happy Valentine's Day!!!"
Yes, for me, Valentine's Day is more like Single Awareness Day, but it's totally okay because I know that I've got tons of friends who love me and who I love in return. Valentine's Day isn't just about showing the person you are currently in a relationship with you love them. I think it's about showing all of the people who are most important in your life that you love them.
This year, Julie's coming up to visit, and I could not be more excited to be spending this weekend with her and my friends because I know that I'm lucky to have people in my life to care about me. Will Julie and I probably end up watching sappy romantic comedies and cry about our non-existent love lives? You can bet on it. Do I already have the bag of chocolates that will inevitably be eaten while wallowing in self pity over the fact that I am single? Oh of course. Am I going to look at Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl" memes on Pinterest for the greater portion of my classes? I'm 80% positive that I do that at least twice a week already.
But it's totally okay. Everything else in my life--school, friends, family, my jobs, and my health--are going perfectly well. I'm content with where I'm at and the people I'm spending my time with, because eventually, whether it be tomorrow, next week, next month or next year, my time will come to be sappy and mushy gushy and cute on Valentine's Day. The cliche is true: It will happen at the most unexpected time and with the most unexpected person. And it may not happen with a bouquet of carrots, or through AOL, or even with a Peter Gabriel song. But it will happen. That I'm sure of.


Main Title Cadmium Bioaccumulation Assays. Their Relationship to Various Ionic Equilibria in Lake Superior Water.
The potential use of bioaccumulation by Daphnia magna as an analytical tool in studying properties of various aqueous cadmium forms is described. Selected aquatic chemical factors affecting cadmium residues were determined for organisms exposed to cadmium in the absence and presence of various organic and inorganic chemicals, some capable of strongly complexing cadmium. Without any added complexing agents, steady-state relationships were observed between total aqueous cadmium concentrations and bioaccumulated cadmium within 2-4 days of exposure. Residues were a nonlinear function of the concentration. The presence of humic acid, pyrophosphate, or aminopolycarboxylic acids, at sufficient concentrations to maximize complexation, was effective--to various degrees--in reducing cadmium uptake. However, cadmium in the presence of diethyldithiocarbamate bioaccumulated to a greater degree than in its absence.


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"First Communion, Breckenridge, Texas, 1925." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1925.
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society awards a prize to recognize the work of early career scholars in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history. The First Book Award will be presented to the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America.
To be eligible for the award, a book must be copyrighted 2022, must be based on substantial primary research, must present a major new scholarly interpretation, and must be an author's first academic monograph. Edited collections or multi-authored books are not eligible.
The $2,000 award will be presented at the annual IEHS banquet in 2023.
A book may be nominated by its author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Society.
Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to firstbookaward@iehs.org, which will reach all committee members.
Danielle Battisti (Chair), Ashley Johnson-Bavery, Carl Lindskoog
Copies of the book must be received by all three members of the committee at the following addresses by the deadline: December 31, 2022.
Dr. Danielle Battisti
University of Nebraska – Omaha
287T Arts and Sciences Hall
Dr. Ashley Johnson-Bavery
Department of History & Philosophy
701 Pray Harrold Hall
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Dr. Carl Lindskoog
Department of Humanities Social Science Social Work and Education
Somerset Hall, S-336
118 Lamington Rd.
Jessica Ordaz - 2022
The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity
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Ashley Johnson Bavery - 2021
Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Danielle Battisti - 2020
Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform
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Rosina Lozano - 2019
An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (University of California Press, 2018)
Daniel Inouye, Distant Islands: The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876-1930s. (University Press of Colorado, 2018)
Hidetaka Hirota - 2018
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. (Oxford University Press.)
Rachel Kranson, Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America.. University of North Carolina Press.
Lori Flores - 2017
Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement. Yale University Press.
Adam D. Mendelsohn - 2016
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. New York University Press.
Ellen Wu - 2015
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Princeton University Press.


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Archives: March 27, 2017
"You're not doing it the way I did": Public media in Europe gets creative with digital news
Ricardo BiltonMarch 27, 2017
With its big London expansion, The Atlantic will chase stories — and business opportunities — in Europe
"I see this as a chance to bring coverage of what's happening in America to a large global audience, but also to bring an understanding of what's happening around the world the American audience that we already largely serve."
Joseph LichtermanMarch 27, 2017
Australia's public broadcaster is using Apple News push alerts to reach new, younger audiences
"It's gone from being an interesting platform that we're dipping our toes into to a huge audience."
Shan WangMarch 27, 2017
The Bureau Local is stepping in to help U.K. local news outlets that want to do investigative reporting
"What is a story that needs to be told? What is the data that's difficult to get? What would make your life easier? We'll try to find common threads there."
Wang, Shan. "The Bureau Local is stepping in to help U.K. local news outlets that want to do investigative reporting." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Mar. 2017. Web. 20 Jan. 2020.
Wang, S. (2017, Mar. 27). The Bureau Local is stepping in to help U.K. local news outlets that want to do investigative reporting. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 20, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/the-bureau-local-is-stepping-in-to-help-u-k-local-news-outlets-that-want-to-do-investigative-reporting/
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Q: FTP delete and FTP unlink not working I want to delete a specific file withn an FTP folder using PHP.
Here's the work I have done so far: This is the code I'm using to echo the image view and the checkbox so that users can select an image and then click a delete button.
for ($i = 0; $i < $r; $i++)
{
    echo "<form action='somephpfile.php' method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data'>"
        . "<img src='$images[$i]' width='50' height='50' />"
        . "<input type='checkbox' name='$i' value='Restaurant' />"
        . $images[$i]
        . "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Delete' />"
        . "</form>";
}

This is how I try to delete the file that the user wants to delete:
$images = ftp_nlist($conn_id, "somefolder");
$r = count($images);

for ($i = 0; $i < $r; $i++)
{
    if ($selected_checkbox = $_POST['$i'])
    {
        $myFile = "$images[$i]";
        $fop = fopen($myFile, "w") or die("can not open file");
        $fclose($fop);
        unlink($fop);

        if (ftp_delete($conn, $myFile))
        {
            echo "$file deleted successful\n";
        }
        else
        {
            echo "could not delete $file\n";
        }
    }
}

ftp_close($conn);

Why is this example not working?

A: The following line of code doesn't correctly compare $selected_checkbox with $_POST['$i'] but assigns the posted value instead, which always evaluates as true:
if ($selected_checkbox = $_POST['$i'])

You want to use the comparison operator == instead of the assignment operator =. Take a look at the section Comparion Operators in this Overview of PHP Operators.


Sunday, July 1st is Canada Day. Please be advised that our Local Lodge 2323 offices will be closed on Monday, July 2, 2018 in observance of the Canada Day holiday.
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There's something about sunshine and color that improves everyone's mood. The new show RELICS at Brackenwood is full of color and so far everyone whose come through the door has enjoyed it. Its always fun to see how artists interpret a theme and this is no exception.
Sara Saltee's amazing, intricate and incredibly creative assemblages are a joy to take in. Each one lovingly and painstakingly created with something in particular to say. My favorite so far is the wall piece entitled "Mystery Girls of 1956"! Sara found an old yearbook from the University of WA and cut out pictures of women, slipped them into little velvet sleeves and cut out phrases that explained what they were known for. It's a walk down memory lane from days gone by: "Right Hand Man of the Business Manager", "Sold Corsages" or "Rally Girl". So fun and hey things have changed! Sara really played upon the theme Relics by incorporating vintage elements in each piece.
Zoë Osenbach makes the statement that there are relics in our everyday world, things we take for granted and overlook. We see these objects: hydrants, dumpsters, overhead wires everyday and since they are such a part of our daily lives we cease to see them at all. But they are there, in our landscapes and certainly offer a different side of beauty. Zoë taught me a new photographic word, Cyanotype. I had never heard of this but once she explained the technique I understood that it was a fancy name for a sun print, a very old and often forgotten technique. The images all come out shades of blue, which give them an architectural blueprint feel. I love Zoë's "out of the box" ideas and take on art!
Rene Flynn Federspiel's relics are ancient little snippets of Venice. Peeling plaster walls imbedded with angle sculptures and quiet canals remind me that Venice itself is a relic. Federspiel finds it endlessly fascinating...always searching for the elegant decay and mystery of the obscure. The only time I visited Venice I wandered down forgotten corridors, over bridges and sniffed the smells of years of decay that comes from a city floating on water. I found myself stopping to admire little antiquities that greeted me around each corner. That's the way I feel when I look at Rene's oil paintings, they make me stop and remember a place I loved and hope to return to someday.
Horses, who would think of them as relics? Christine Nyburg Epstein's beautiful Mixed Media Encaustics made me reflect that indeed horses are ancient and in times gone by every household depended deeply upon them to plow the land or carry the load. They have a mysterious connection to many people, which Christine taps into. Her pieces are dreamlike, so many elements embedded in the wax, I find myself transfixed trying to see it all and seek out its relevance to me as the viewer.
Come celebrate the work these incredible artists are presenting, it's a lovely show and full of thought provoking elements!


In association with the Gold Coast group's next scheduled run on 8 July we'll be celebrating "Christmas in July" at the Commercial Hotel in Harrisville. A group went there for lunch last year and felt it was pretty hard to beat for a country pub, especially their lovely big back deck. We commandeered it then, and we'll be doing the same again in July!
More details as arrangements for the event, particularly runs for groups from the various points of the compass, become settled.


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Q: Android can not change default time out value with KSOAP library i am using KSOAP 2.5.7 to accesss my web service.
But the call to web url got time out after  particular seconds .
i want to change the default time out value.but it is not changing even if i set the time out value in the call new HttpTransportSE(SOAP_URL,20000)