Posted on September 10, 2014 Author MindTheGab	20 Comments on Alfresco SDK 2.0-beta-4 released in Maven Central!
Alfresco SDK 2.0-beta-4 released in Maven Central!
It's with extreme pleasure that, thanks to the great support from the Order of the Bee and the Community at large, we have released the Alfresco SDK 2.0.0-beta-4 … this time in Maven Central!
And 2.0.0 release is on the way, definitely out for you to use at the Alfresco Summit!
If you check out docs and release notes, I hope you'll be gladly surprised by the number of enhancements and bug-fixes that went in this release, which, without any doubt, is to date the greatest ever achievement in ergonomics, productivity, quality and automation of Alfresco development! This represents a major step towards driving the Alfresco Community to become an organic, self sustained, proactive ecosystem of extensions and plugins for our favorite platform, Alfresco!
Availability on Maven central (see screenshot below)! Any Maven developer can just run a simple mvn archetype:generate and quickly create Alfresco projects directly from Maven Central! Is this JUST awesome?
Generate Alfresco Projects from Maven Central!
Easy new starter setup and run scripts in each archetype. Just create the project, execute ./run.sh and off you go!
The feedback we got is that this new version is just AMAZING and enables levels of productivity never seen before on Alfresco project. And, for those of you that have followed me in this journey started 6 years ago, this shouldn't be anything less than mind-boggling.
I really wish you will experience the same and I'd love to hear your feedback and contributions. I'd welcome comments here, issues or pull requests on the SDK project, or even emails on the Maven Alfresco mailing list. Also, stay tuned, since 2.0.0 final is targeted to introduce new juicy features, like easy Selenium functional testing, even easier configuration of Community / Enterprise artifacts via a simple profile and integration of the Alfresco Technical Validation tool to ensure quality of your extensions.
Stay tuned and send us your feedback!
This might be the most important feature we have ever added to the (Maven) Alfresco SDK, which explains why we are getting such an amazing feedback following yesterday Tech Talk Live, where we presented the fully hot reloading (no webapp-context reload) early 2.0 version of the SDK.
Or, well, at least half as excited as I was when I first saw Ole's early attempts and when I finally got it working integrated in the SDK just a couple of days ago. Eureka! was my reaction to say the least (and in honor of my Sicilian past, a reference to Archimedes never hurts :).
I figured though that it's not only Alfresco Developers that can benefit from this new approach, but more in general the community at large of Java developers using Maven to develop J2EE webapps in conjunction with an IDE (tested on Eclipse, IDEA, Netbeans).
And I know first hand the pain it takes to wait for neverending reloads, being this one of the main concerns around Java development with respect to newer / interpreted frameworks which make RAD (Rapid Application Development) their mantra.
So I figured I shared with all of you, eager blog readers, the couple of (simple) tricks that we used to define what, hopefully once and for all, can become the standard de facto to boost rapid develop Java webapps on Maven, in a completely IDE independent (but integrated) way and without the need for proprietary tools like JRebel.
NOTE: this is going to bind the tomcat7 plugin to run your WAR, with the RAD configuration, during the pre-integration-test phase.
Now import your Maven project in Eclipse (Luna has already the Maven integration by default) or IDEA and there the fun begins! If you make a change to an existing Java class or web resource, all it takes is for you to hit refresh on your browser and AUTOMAGICALLY changes are there! No more webapp reloads, no more waiting time, just have fun!
Posted on November 6, 2013 Author MindTheGab	3 Comments on Maven Alfresco SDK 1.1.0 is out and supports Rapid Application Development!
Maven Alfresco SDK 1.1.0 is out and supports Rapid Application Development!
Just in time for the Alfresco Summit in Barcelona, we are proud to announce that the Maven Alfresco SDK 1.1.0 is out!
In this release (tested with Alfresco 4.2.e Community and supported with Alfresco 4.2.0 Enterprise) we have focused to make the development experience even faster, on top of keeping all process oriented and automation SDK features.
This release represents a major improvement towards a full supportability of the SDK when working with Alfresco Enterprise, as well as providing a way to develop customizations in minutes, not hours.
Hope you enjoy it, feedback and contributions more than welcome, here or in the Google Code project!
EDIT: Slides are available on the Summit website. Apologies to everyone who asked before for not having uploaded them before the presentation!
Just a quick update for the Alfresco Mavenistas, as yesterday we released the Maven Alfresco SDK 1.0.2!
You can find official documentation and artifacts on the Alfresco Artifacts repository.
Maven is very good with J2EE WARs. Resources, packaging, overlays.
I admit that if it wasn't for the great features and clean development model imposed by the maven-war-plugin, I would not even probably looked at Maven in the first place when I developed the first version of the Maven Alfresco SDK.
Lately though, especially working with large WARs overlays like Alfresco (120MB) and Share (40MB), I have seen all my efforts for standardized development falling badly short on the rapid development side. Suddenly (on my Mac, or I assume on any Unix/Linux environment) my WAR overlays started to take minutes to complete, with a big so long to the quick dev-fix-test cycle. As a Java performance expert, I decided to debug it and understand where it was actually wasting time.
Leaving out that I'm not sure of the original reason for this, I later found out (also thanks to Samuel, kudos!) that this was due to a misconfiguration of the plexus-archiver package, which instead of using native JVM chmod capabilities was forking the process. All details unfolded in a related maven-dependency-plugin issue, MDEP-368.
EDIT: This is fixed in the maven-war-plugin version 2.4 (and you don't need the explicit plexus-archiver dependency anymore), see related issue MWAR-280).
Just to give you an idea how the performance improvements with this little fix, I will use as an example the Maven Alfresco All-In-One Archetype, which allows to develop and run an Alfresco Repository, Share, Solr and an AMP in the same Maven multi-module project. The SDK currently does NOT use plexus-archiver 2.3 (there is an issue for it), so it's extremely (and unnecessary) slow in the Alfresco and Share overlays.
What? 8m41s total build time? 4 minutes for each WAR? On my very decent Mac 8GB RAM+SSD?
I think it's really worth making sure this trick is known as it's going to be a life saver to the Maven Alfresco SDK and I'm also using it to speed up our internal Alfresco Maven builds.
Hope you find this useful, to the next tip of this newly born Maven post series!
Posted on May 8, 2013 Author MindTheGab	No Comments on Embrace change. Out of the comfort zone. Panta rhei. Agile life.
Embrace change. Out of the comfort zone. Panta rhei. Agile life.
In life like in software, changes should not be feared but just embraced, as a potential opportunity for improvement and a way to augment your personal cultural level, learn new things and generally train your brain to be flexible and responsive to new conditions.
This might sound obvious to all of you, but there are many more aspects of our lives (or at least mine) which, instead of driving me to change and constant improvement of my and other selfs, would be much better off if we were "constantly" stable and predictable.
Think about it, our governments would love to have all of us adhere to perfect statistics, being as controllable and predictable as a mass. Same goes for a discreetly successful love relationship. Our minds, or at least them, once in a comfort zone, tend to naturally relax and search for common solutions to problems already solved. Even our parents, in many cases, would love for us to do the most conservative choice possible for our lie, i.e. stick with what they know and with what they thinks it's safe for you, in many cases ignoring the world is "actually" changing.
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If Bible Education Isn't Practical - It's Practically No Good!
Do you know about the influences of the Bible on American culture?
A recent survey from the Barna Group, commissioned by the American Bible Society, provides new insight. From the results, it's easy to see why the Bible remains a cultural force in the United States. However, its future role appears to be very different than its past.
Additionally, despite a generally high number of Americans who think the Bible is sacred, there's also a fairly high proportion of Americans who at least somewhat agree the Bible, the Koran and the Book of Mormon are all different expressions of the same spiritual truths. Nearly half of Americans agree with that statement (31% of Americans agree somewhat, while 16% agree strongly), which hasn't significantly changed since 2011.
Overall, there has been a decrease in people who are friendly or neutral toward the Bible—those people in the "middle" who are neither engaged with Scripture nor who actively dislike the Bible. Since 2011, the number of American adults who are engaged with Scripture—people who believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God with no errors and who read the Bible four times a week—has stayed about the same (staying relatively constant from 20% in 2011 to 21% in 2013).
However, the number of American adults who are friendly–or, those who believe the Bible to be inspired and infallible but don't read the Bible as often—has gone down (from 45% to 39%). Those who are neutral—the people who rarely read the Bible and believe the Bible to be inspired but containing errors—numbered 25% of American adults in 2011, and is about the same in 2013 (23%). The biggest jump of any group are those American adults who are antagonistic to the Bible, meaning they believe the Bible to just be a book of stories and teachings written by men, and they rarely or never read the Bible. That group stood at one in ten adults (10%) in 2011. In 2013, their ranks have grown to 17% of all U.S. adults.
Most Americans esteem the Bible and have access to it. However, even if there's a baseline of respect, people aren't sure how to apply the lessons of Scripture to public life or society, particularly in an increasingly pluralistic nation.
The middle ground related to the Bible seems to be disappearing. The decrease of Bible-neutral and Bible-friendly people and the increase of Bible-antagonists suggest that more people are picking a side. It echoes the rise of religiously unaffiliated Americans—these changes are perhaps less about the decline in belief and more about there being less cultural baggage to identifying as skeptical or disbelieving.
There's a healthy cultural respect for and fascination with Scripture, which helps to explain why millions have tuned into The Bible series. People seem to be open to experiencing ancient scriptures in new ways.
Mosaics - a generation often called Millennials - are very intrigued by the role of the Bible in providing guidance and wisdom. It is a surprising expression of openness to Christianity amidst a generational cohort that is increasingly post-religious.
So how do we make any sense of this?
I believe that this study is fundamentally about the relevance of the Bible and its teachings. Many are wondering how an ancient religious book can be relevant today. How can it help them live a happier, more successful lifestyle? And perhaps, that is the problem – at least with the teachings of Jesus. Jesus taught that a true believer will deny himself, take up his cross and follow him. And then making things even more confusing, Jesus said, "If you want to be my disciples, eat my flesh and drink my blood." What did Jesus mean by that? Jesus also said that first shall be last and the last shall be first. Huh? How can I apply that to my life? Further, there are about 1200 different Christian denominations in America, some of which are saying that they are THE church. How does one find his/her way through all of this? It's very confusing!
In this post, I will share with you a little of my personal story of how I have successfully found my way through this religious maze for more than 40 years.
I believe that there are basically two very different ways to educate and learn anything. One way was first demonstrated by the Greeks and the other way was demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth, son of Jesse. And for Christians, Jesus is the Messiah and the Savior of the world. Just as during the time of Jesus, today many people have embraced a more intellectual philosophy of learning as taught by the ancient Greek philosophers, rather than the more spiritual, some have said "mystical" approach to learning. The Greek Philosophers were later called "humanists", because they taught a philosophy that exalted man's intellectual and physical abilities, while not acknowledging the monotheistic God of the Jesus and Judaism.
History indicates that there are at least two basic ways to educate and to learn. One was first introduced and spread to the world from the Greeks. Such well-known men as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates were some of the Greek philosophers and teachers. They taught and trained the mind to learn and communicate effectively and persuasively, using well researched and thought-out arguments. They were what I call "the intellectual-hypothetical-theoretical-philosophical-hermenuetical" bunch. I believe that this kind of learning has been embraced by most American public schools.
Today, they would be like American university professors with their doctorate degrees and expert opinions. These professors are frequently quoted in our American national news media as experts. Touted as "experts", the national news media asks them to give their opinion on various situations. For example, during the recent "Bible Wars" as the media has called it, the Dallas Morning News and others have frequently requested that a specific SMU professor (with a doctorate in religion) give his expert opinion on what is legal and appropriate curriculum for Texas Public Schools, pursuant to Texas House Bill 1287, the 2010 Social Studies TEKS and the US Constitution.
When I looked closer, I was reminded that "birds of a feather flock together". I noticed that the beloved SMU professor was of the liberal persuasion as is the Dallas Morning News. They were trying to tag-team and set the bar for Bible Literacy public school curriculum in Texas. This group of the liberal persuasion added at least one more liberal organization to their trio. Working together like a finely tuned three stringed instrument, they have been very successful.
So what's my point? My point is that the Greeks' kind of learning was/is purely intellectual and physiological. However, Jesus had a different philosophy of learning, because he said, "They that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth." And like the book of James says, "Faith without works is dead." In other words, Jesus brought a whole new government and way of learning and living that is diametrically opposed to the Greek philosophies. Jesus taught that mankind is a spiritual being with a soul (mind-will & emotions) and a physical body.
Today, I believe that many people are tired of powerless religious people and their intellectual-hypothetical-theoretical-hermeneutical "expert" opinions that are not practical and are not changing and empowering the lives of people. I also believe that the "religious experts", as previously mentioned, are just people with a lot of education with an opinion that is no better than anyone else's.
This what Jesus said in John 1:27, "But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true--it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ."
And I say it again… If education isn't practical, it's practically no good!


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BUILD Initiative Saddened by Further Delay of Immigration Executive Actions
Yesterday, a panel of three judges of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold a block to President Obama's immigration executive actions announced last November. This latest decision effectively upholds an earlier ruling by a federal judge that halted the Administration's implementation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program. DAPA, which was set to launch last week, would have granted relief from deportation and work authorization for up to three years for undocumented immigrant parents who have a child who is a US citizen, maintained continuous residence in the U.S., and passed a criminal record check. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that nearly 4 million U.S. citizen children with undocumented, immigrant parents could have benefited from this new program.
Young children pay the highest cost for the continued delay of DAPA implementation. Mounting evidence shows that children of undocumented immigrants are suffering acute harm from the real or perceived threat of deportation of their family members. In fact, negative child development consequences are evident as early as 24 months of age. The trauma inflicted now can take a lifetime of resources to handle. Unfortunately, what should be considered of utmost importance, the health and well-being of these children, is not central to the legal debates that are deciding the fate of the DAPA program.
Last year, the BUILD Initiative began an effort to raise awareness of the implications of immigration policy for the early childhood field. BUILD has presented at several national conferences and conducted trainings at the local level to create the space and opportunity for professionals in the field to reflect on the impact of immigration policy on young children, and learn about the important role that early childhood professionals can play in helping immigrant families benefit from the DAPA program, and other forms of immigration relief. Through this work, we have heard firsthand accounts of the hardship for children and families – children who are not picked up from child care because a parent has been detained by immigration officials; a home visitor who shared that her families are reluctant to participate in her program out of concern that they will have to flee their community at a moment's notice; an infant with special needs who cannot have a needed medical procedure because his mother was deported and his father cannot take time off work to care for him after surgery. These are just a few of the stories that underscore why this is a defining moment and a crucial set of issues in our field and for our work.
As an organization, we remain steadfast in our commitment to educate the early childhood community about the deep connection between immigrant policy, family wellbeing, and thriving children. We support the many professionals in our field who are on the front lines of this issue.
We also want to take this opportunity to encourage others in our field to commit to ongoing learning and action on behalf of immigrant families. Now is the time to get educated about resources at the local, state, and national level that can help support immigrant families. DAPA is delayed, but this is only a setback. We must prepare to help families benefit from the eventual relief from deportation that is sure to come, and take advantage of the options that currently exist. Indeed, our nation's history has taught us that, if we all do our part, a just cause eventually prevails.
Special thanks to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Goldman Family Foundation, and the Alliance for Early Success for their support of BUILD's work related to racial equity, immigrant children, and dual language learners and to Miriam Calderon, who has long-supported BUILD's thinking and work in these areas.
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Challenge yourself on a marathon of intense proportions and in one of the most remote regions of the world. The Antarctic Ice Marathon is the only marathon run on mainland Antarctica. This is the southernmost marathon on Earth, it takes place at ALE's Union Glacier Camp, just a few hundred miles from the South Pole in the interior of Antarctica.
For those who fancy a shorter distance, the Frozen Continent Half Marathon of 13.1 miles (21km) presents a considerable challenge over the same hushed, indomitable terrain.
For the toughest endurance athletes, the Antarctic 100k Race completes the amazing trio of running events.
Each event presents a truly formidable and genuine Antarctic challenge with snow and ice underfoot throughout, an average windchill temperature of -4°F (–20°C), the possibility of strong katabatic winds, and an average course elevation of 3,000 feet (900 m). Runners will race a groomed and marked course with snowmobile support, aid stations, and medical personnel at hand for the duration of each race.


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What is Narrative?
Toward New Gravity Today
Narrative Initiative / 14 May, 2019
Recapping, and reflecting on, what over 100 changemakers told us about narrative change.
The human impulse–no, necessity–to make sense of the world, to justify values and bolster beliefs, is innate and immutable.
Two years ago, the Narrative Initiative (NI) team interviewed over 100 people working in and around narrative change. We spoke to campaigners and funders, activists and storytellers, academics and trainers. We spoke to people focused on pop culture, strategic communications, filmmakers, social media and data. People shared with us how they use narrative to advance social change and how they see the field evolving.
Narrative Initiative was designed to support social justice leaders, advocates and organizers to better understand and deploy the power of narrative to build fairer, more inclusive societies. As such, we learned about the infrastructure, skills and tools needed to do narrative change work.
What did these conversations teach us about narrative? Toward New Gravity, released in May 2017, summarized our learning.
Toward New Gravity also reported on, in something close to real time, a collective sense that narratives could quickly shift and shape society in extreme ways. Our conversations, after all, occurred shortly after the 2016 presidential election and the Brexit referendum.
Looking back two years later we want to recap and reflect on what we've learned since writing it.
Can we Create Narrative Change at Scale?
Many points in the report feel as needed and relevant today as they were in 2017. One is the need for the field to innovate and learn together, at scale, and with an ambition matching the weight of problems we face:
One idea that kept growing [ was] the need for a scaled proliferation of talent—campaigners, consultants and communicators—characterized by what Thaler Pekar calls "narrative intelligence—an ability to see the world through a narrative lens, able to recognize, elicit, learn from, and share stories in support of organizational goals and identity." Or more succinctly, "narrative change needs a posse," as Alan Jenkins put it.
We spoke to practitioners about how to train and support narrative change practitioners – people who can develop, iterate and mobilize storytelling and strategic communications at scale. The skills they use in campaigns, organizations and movements include the ability to bring complex narratives into focus, identify cultural assumptions and cues, and organize messaging across art, politics and policymaking over time.
Interest in narrative strategy continues to grow and few would argue that much work remains if we're to build, train and engage a growing field of narrative change practitioners. Just as important, there remains a need for further connection and alignment among narrative strategists across disciplines and geographies.
Can we, as a field, create the conditions for narrative change to occur at scale? Can we train and support campaigners and communicators? Can we invest in creating and spreading narrative change infrastructure capable of advancing shared narrative change strategies?
In two years of deep work with changemakers in U.S. states, most notably a coalition of 22 organizations in Minnesota, the Atlantic Fellowship Programs, and others, we found that narrative change takes focus, commitment and testing. But over time, it produces important results. We remain as committed today to the long haul work of building narrative power as when we wrote the report in 2017.
The Complicated, Complex and Courageous
In Toward New Gravity we wrote about the programmatic implications of these 100+ conversations as falling into three types of activity: complicated, complex and courageous. When woven together, these strands of work become the basis for creating narrative change.
Complicated problems have less predictable outcomes, more variables, and less linear impact trajectories. We have created individual training and organizational learning programs to address complicated questions of how, when and why to develop narrative change programs.
Our trainings the past two years have confirmed that narrative work is an ongoing practice, not a one-time act. One can continually learn, adapt to new situations, and develop an ever-growing repertoire of expertise. Like a muscle, narrative work becomes stronger through daily use.
We've also found that it's only in community that we're able to go deeper. In the last two years, we've continued to expand our connections beyond the 2017 interviewees, uncovering new-to-us narrative change lineages and ways of working. We've also continued learning a great deal from those who have generously shared their wisdom and hard-won insights, gleaned from decades of experience. We're excited to continue finding new ways to tackle big problems together and to expand our community of practice.
Our conversations with the field in 2017 identified a complex set of concerns and problems facing practitioners. These included:
How campaigners, communicators and leaders identify, integrate and use a new generation of software and services that leverage data, artificial intelligence and quantitative analysis.
How the field shares lessons, collaborates and learns from colleagues in the field as well as other sectors. This concern relates to social platforms and listening tools (see above) but is also grounded in field awareness, the need to build trust, and developing common terms that describe our work and let us talk to, and strategize with, one another.
We know there aren't perfect solutions to many of these challenges. Many of our programs this year are meant to bring practitioners together to think about how they might be tackled, to share lessons, and to build trust.
One concern we heard was the need for the field to think big. Then, and now, this was made more salient under the bright light of tangible threats: income inequality, rising authoritarianism, and weakening democratic institutions. As a field, we need to take on populism and understand the global, authoritarian populist wave we face, and how narrative strategy can be a powerful means of confronting it. We must use narrative change to shape, not simply react to, economic systems that constrict constrict equality and confine our response to climate change. We continue to see an urgent need to think big and outside the box about the world we want to live in and how we can get there.
Toward New Gravity, written in 2017, reflected a field shaken by current events and challenged to rapidly counter narratives that were creating space for economic inequality and authoritarian populism. The field was perhaps skeptical of "narrative change" itself.
Looked at two years later, Toward New Gravity seems to spell out some of the ingredients needed to pursue the long game of narrative change while facing the daily pressure of media, politics, and social media.
We continue to see a need for exploration and experimentation in narrative change work. We need to test ourselves and share the results of these tests so that we collectively learn better and faster from one another.
Today, we're continuing to create new spaces for narrative change work. Threats to equity and social justice continue to mount. Those of us working in culture change, the arts, strategic communications, grassroots advocacy and other sectors of narrative change need more collaborators, additional skills, and opportunities to innovate and learn from one another.
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2608 From the Sermon on the Mount onwards, Jesus insists on conversion of heart: reconciliation with one's brother before presenting an offering on the altar, love of enemies, and prayer for persecutors, prayer to the Father in secret, not heaping up empty phrases, prayerful forgiveness from the depths of the heart, purity of heart, and seeking the Kingdom before all else. 64 This filial conversion is entirely directed to the Father.
- The first, "the importunate friend," 75 invites us to urgent prayer: "Knock, and it will be opened to you." To the one who prays like this, the heavenly Father will "give whatever he needs," and above all the Holy Spirit who contains all gifts.
- The second, "the importunate widow," 76 is centered on one of the qualities of prayer: it is necessary to pray always without ceasing and with the patience of faith. "And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
- The third parable, "the Pharisee and the tax collector," 77 concerns the humility of the heart that prays. "God, be merciful to me a sinner!" The Church continues to make this prayer its own: Kyrie eleison!


Linked Events collects event data from various sources into a city-specific API.
What does the Linked Events API do?
Harmonised Linked Events APIs make it easy to create scalable intercity event applications. This enables citizens to access event information whether they are on the move in their hometown or exploring a new city. The harmonised API also promotes accurate information as the data is not copied and pasted from the database but directly accessed in a harmonised format through the API.
In Finland, the API is currently used by several apps, for example the City of Helsinki's own Events Calendar, the Eventmore mobile app, the Eventz.today service and the messis.fi online services.


Recognizing what actually happens behind the scenes in newborn screening is fundamental to appreciating its importance. The public does not often see the heroism of the members of the NBS system, but the commitment and expertise of all personnel within this system are crucial to saving babies' lives. It's important to highlight these screening stories below to understand and share the important work that NBS programs do every day to save lives. If you have a story you'd like to share please contact Sari Edelman.


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Roadside bombs are a serious problem for servicemembers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan and now researchers are seeking to better understand the long-term effects these attacks can have on veterans.
According to military records, the U.S. has lost 3,589 soldiers to roadside bombs and another 32,556 have been wounded, reports Stars and Stripes. These numbers come from the 2.6 million troops that have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past decade.
Brain damage is one of the most common long-term injuries caused by roadside bombs. Approximately 32,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have been diagnosed with brain damage, according to VA data reported by Stars and Stripes, which can occur without any physical impact to the servicemembers' head. In some cases, just being in the proximity of a roadside bomb detonation can be forceful enough to cause head trauma leading to brain damage.
The long-term consequences of brain damage are not completely understood, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is looking for better sources of research on the condition. The IOM have requested that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) develop a database to report cases of servicemembers injured by roadside bombs and the long-term complications they experience after the attack.
The VA already keeps detailed records of Agent Orange exposure and of Gulf War veterans who experience service-connected illnesses. The development of a roadside bomb injury database could help doctors better understand the various disabling conditions that can persist after an attack.
With continuing research and treatment of veterans injured by roadside blasts, doctors are constantly finding new ailments connected to brain damage. A roadside bomb can cause a number of service-connected disabilities which may qualify a veteran for veterans' disability benefits.
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Stenhousemuir 0 Cowdenbeath 2 [Robertson 39, McBride 50 pen]
The last meeting between the clubs saw jubilant scenes for the Stenhousemuir support as they had just won promotion to the Second Division via the play-offs. It turned out to be irrelevant as Cowdenbeath were also elevated into the Second Division after the problems at Livingston.
Nevertheless encounters between Stenhousemuir and Cowden have always been intriguing in recent years and there was a feeling that this could be another close encounter. In the end the Warriors supporters were to be despondent after rarely getting into a game that ended with a more comfortable victory for the Blue Brazil that the score suggests and there was an air of doom and gloom for the first time at Ochilview this season as the home side lost in the league for the first time with a performance that was the worst of the season.
The Warriors kicked off with the wind at their backs and had a good opportunity to take the lead in the 13th minute when a Kevin Motion cross was missed by Scott Linton and fell to Iain Diack at the back post but his shot was comfortably saved by David Hay. Cowdenbeath's Scott McBride then tested Chris McCluskey with a drive from the edge of the box that the Stenhousemuir keeper managed to get a hand to. Stenhousemuir's Diack was then denied by a Linton interception from another Motion cross just as the Warriors striker looked to head home. In the 36th minute there was a bad miss for the home side when Craig Molloy was unable to control a Craig O'Reilly cross and despite taking a touch was only able to fire over from 6 yards out.
It took goals either sides of half time to make the difference. The first in the 39th minute was a header by Jon Robertson his first ever senior goal. A cross by Linton was missed by Gary Thom and caught Chris McCluskey off guard. Robertson rushed in to head home from close range with the keeper who should have intercepted the cross slow to react with the inevitable consequences.
The second goal in the 50th minute was a controversial affair that could have been prevented. Chris McLeod was woefully short with a header back to McCluskey and with Gareth Wardlaw looking to intercept the keeper attempted to clear with his head on the edge of the box. He looked as if he had managed that and though there was a collision between him and Wardlaw the referee allowed play to continue. For the second week running the Warriors management were left to rue the intervention of an assistant as the standside assistant felt that a penalty should be awarded and persuaded the referee Mr Colvin to change his mind. McCluskey was cautioned though if it was a penalty should have been dismissed and Iain Diack and Kevin Bradley were also cautioned for their protests. When the game restarted Scott McBride duly converted the spot kick with ease.
Normally the Warriors are positive in trying to fight their way back into the game but on this occasion they failed miserably despite changes in personnel and the referee would have been as well ending the game at that stage as the result was a formality and just the margin was in doubt.
Stenhousemuir – McCluskey [b50], Thom [b81], Motion, McLeod [Brand 62], Smith, Molloy, Bradley [b50] [Lyle 59], I.Thomson, Dalziel [Love 59], Diack [b50]and O'Reilly.
Subs not used – Stirling and Bennett
Cowdenbeath – Hay, Armstrong [t], Linton, Winter, Droudge [b70], Mbu, Fairbairn [Ramsay 85], McBride [Ferguson 76], Wardlaw [McQuade 67], Robertson [b39] and Stein.
Subs not used – McCabe and McKay
Referee – Brian Colvin
Assistants – George Drummond and Michael Banks
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— Tiffany Cook, President of Consumer
To say the way we shop has changed is like saying "The Bachelor" is a show about finding love. It's true, but it doesn't totally capture what's going on.
As consumers, we can hardly remember a time (and many might not want to) before Amazon Prime shipped our paper towels, Blue Apron delivered food or Stitch Fix shipped new outfits — all right to our doorstep. And for retailers on the other side of the equation, trying to capture the attention of an ever-elusive customer base, keeping up with these dramatic shifts is a challenge, to say the least.
To help retailers, last year WE released the research report "Romancing the Store" filled with insights into how women shoppers, ages 25−40, engage in today's technology-infused shopping experience. It told how to keep the romance alive and develop a long-term bond with customers.
Today, in partnership with YouGov, WE builds on those key points with "From Like to Buy," a report on women's social and, surprisingly, antisocial behavior in shopping.
Among the many eye-catching insights, a few could have a monumental impact on how retailers reach customers:
Nearly 40 percent of women would rather forego makeup, sweets or sex for at least a month rather than shop through social media. For now, the hype about social media shopping is still just hype. While most of the women in our study were likely to discover new products on social media, they were not ready to buy directly from Twitter or Facebook.
Retail store apps are largely useless. Despite large investments and headlines to the contrary, only 9% of the women we surveyed made purchases through a retailer's apps, often opting for the mobile site.
Gen X goes both ways. Bookended by two larger generations (Millennials and Baby Boomers), Gen Xers hold sway over the purchasing habits of both and demonstrate shopping habits of both — spending their considerable discretionary income both in-store on online.
Should retailers shut down their social media accounts? Definitely not. Social media channels are still important for discovery, but it may be time to take a second look at your mobile site experience, which is increasingly becoming a destination of choice when she's purchasing on her smartphone. Insight like this, which highlights where customers are and how they buy, can guide how you connect with them.
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Tests and some classwork will need to be made-up within 3 days of an absence. Come to my classroom any time during the day (outside of your regular class time with me) to do this.
Please note that this is the policy of the DeKalb County School System. I will consider extenuating circumstances, and will sometimes allow students to turn in assignments late for a grade point deduction depending on the circumstances.
Late work will be taken and assessed on a case by case basis. In normal circumstances, work that is late will earn point deductions depending upon how late the assignment is. Students who turn in late work will not be able to earn full credit on the assignment(s). After a certain time period, work cannot be made up, and absolutely no work can be made up after the grading period is over. I assure you, students are reminded frequently of missing work.
Some classwork cannot be made up because of group work or other circumstances that cannot be duplicated. Absences and grades will be taken on a case by case basis. Students with unexcused absences will get a grade of zero for grades that cannot be made up, so make sure parent notes and doctor notes are on file at the office.
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Progress reports and report cards are sent out periodically. If you wish to keep track of grades any time, you can contact the office for iNow access. Parents are also given the opportunity to access our Google Classroom activities, and I will attempt to make sure all grades are up (it is the first year using this program, so please bear with me as I learn it). If you did not get the sign-up sheet from your child for Google Classrooms, please email me and I will help you get set up. I will also be happy to send home progress grades any time you wish. I cannot send grades through email, but will be happy to send a report home with your child.
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1991-02-04T08:01:35-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/62a/19910204081917001.jpgChristopher Hitchens and Morton Kondracke discussed the call for a possible deadline for the end of the Persian Gulf. They discussed the strategy of the allied forces and political decision for U.S. involvement.
Christopher Hitchens and Morton Kondracke discussed the call for a possible deadline for the end of the Persian Gulf. They discussed the strategy of the allied forces and political decision for U.S. involvement.
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This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published. These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraits—in studios or on location—that caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Paul Rudnick, Truman Capote, Francis Wyndham, Jeffrey Steingarten, Joan Juliet Buck, William Norwich, Gloria Steinem, Georgina Howell, Vicki Woods, Marina Rust, Michael Specter, and Jonathan Van Meter tell you the stories behind these figures and events.
Hamish Bowles is the European Editor at Large for Vogue and one of the most respected authorities on the worlds of fashion and interior design. He writes feature and fashion stories for all parts of the magazine as well as overseeing all lifestyle and interior design features and acting as Vogue's liaison to the European fashion markets.


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Regional Animal Services of King County
Regional Animal Services of King County, one of Washington State's largest shelter systems, is on a mission to help families and pets affected by the COVID-19 health crisis.
"We're right in the area where COVID-19 began in Washington State," says Tim Anderson, Lead Sergeant of Regional Animal Services of King County, or RASKC. The shelter system serves an astounding 24 cities, including Seattle. "In normal times, we provide animal shelter and control to 1.1 million people, seven days a week, and we have about 5,000 adoptions a year," says Tim.
Help is on the way! With a speedy grant from PetSmart Charities, Lori Mason, Foster Coordinator of Regional Animal Services of King County, WA, gets food to bring to food banks and shelters for pets whose owners are affected by COVID-19.
These are not normal times, though. RASKC has had to shift their resources toward a mission targeted to the current health crisis: helping families affected by COVID-19 keep their pets.
Planning for the Worst, Hoping for the Best
"Our biggest initial concern was the flood of animals we might see," says Tim. RASKC anticipated large numbers of animal surrenders from people being hospitalized, those moved into quarantine and unable to take their pets with them, and workers suddenly unemployed who could no longer afford to care for their pets. "That's not good for anyone," says Tim. "Being able to keep a pet reduces stress, and that helps a person's immune system. It's good for the people, and it's good for the pet to not end up in a shelter."
"We're trying to keep people and their pets together," says Tim Anderson of Regional Animal Services of King County, WA. When that isn't possible, the RASKC team is setting up mobile shelters to help pet parents and keep pets out of the shelter system.
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RASKC quickly coordinated with Public Health to work with families and individuals, including the homeless, who might become separated from their pets. To get help to those who needed it, and fast, PetSmart Charities rushed a grant to RASKC so they could put their initiatives into action. "Thanks to PetSmart Charities, we're keeping operations going. We can purchase a cargo trailer and food and supplies to set up remote shelters, and get food where it needs to be," says Tim. "We couldn't have done this without PetSmart Charities. I haven't worked with any organization that expedited this process so quickly. We got the funds within days and were able to do what we needed to do to help the community."
Kate Hipol, Animal Services Coordinator for Regional Animal Services of King County, WA, and a friend in need. RASKC is doing everything they can to help pet parents keep their furry family members with them, or placed with fosters.
The RASKC team knows that, unlike an earthquake, storm, or other natural disasters, the coronavirus crisis will have lingering effects. "We're working to make sure all shelters and our area food banks are stocked with pet food. People who could normally purchase food and supplies now can't, either because stores are sold out or they can't afford it," says Tim. "The shelter is not a good place for pets to be. Thanks to this partnership with PetSmart Charities, we can help keep pets where they ought to be—with their families."
Turkeys need love too! Ashley Hernandez, Animal Care Technician at Regional Animal Services of King County, WA, tends to one of the many pets at the shelter. They, and shelters across the country, are helping pets and people stay together whenever possible during the COVID-19 health crisis.
If you're in the King County area and need information on how to keep your pet or help others do the same, visit www.kingcounty.gov/pets
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Knowledge is the key asset of the knowledge organization (Conklin 2001). Organizational memory extends and amplifies this asset by capturing, organizing, disseminating, and reusing the knowledge created by its employees. Organizations routinely forget what they have done in the past and why they have done it. Ott and Shafritz (1994) coined the term "organizational incompetence" to refer to the lack of organizational capability to learn or as the antonym of organizational intelligence.
Organizational memory is not just a facility for accumulating and preserving, but also for sharing knowledge. A shared memory for the project team or a community of practice can create coherence within the mass of formal and informal project knowledge. This project memory is most naturally represented in the form of a web of information that includes facts, assumptions, constraints, decisions and their rationale, the meanings of key terms, and, of course, the formal documents themselves.
The next step in the evolution of organizational memory is the use of a display system to focus knowledge workers on improving shared understanding and coherence in their project meetings, and capture the group ' s information and knowledge in context and link it with the project's formal products in an easy and natural way.


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Gold, Silver, & Platinum Had a Good Year
Precious metals markets are finishing out a choppy 2022 on an up note. A strong fourth quarter is pushing both gold and silver prices back up into positive territory for the year.
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THERE was once upon a time a poor man living with his wife in a certain village. They had three children, two boys and a girl. They used to get milk from a tree. That milk of the tree was got by squeezing. It was not nice as that of a cow, and the people that drank it were always thin. For this reason, those people were never glossy like those who are fat.
The next morning, when she returned and saw that, she wondered greatly. She again put it in order on that day, and put some sticks in the ground to mark the place.
In the evening she went home and told that she had found the grass which she had cut growing just as it was before.
Her husband said: "How can such a thing be? You were lazy and didn't work, and now tell me this falsehood. just get out of my sight, or I'll beat you."
On the third day she went to her work with a sorrowful heart, remembering the words spoken by her husband. She reached the place and found the grass growing as before. The sticks that she stuck in the ground were there still, but she saw nothing else of her labour. She wondered greatly.
She said in her heart,"I will not cut the grass off again, I will just hoe the ground as it is."
She commenced. Then the bird came and perched on one of the sticks.
"Citi, citi, who is this cultivating the ground of my father?
Sods, go back to your places!"
"This is the ground of my father.
Who are you, digging my father's ground?
Sods, return to your places."
Then the man tightened his fingers and caught the bird. He came up out of the place of concealment.
He said to the bird: "As for you who spoil the work of this garden, you will not see the sun any more. With this sharp stone I will cut off your head!"
Then the bird said to him: "I am not a bird that should be killed. I am a bird that can make milk."
The man said: "Make some, then."
The bird made some milk in his hand. The man tasted it. It was very nice milk.
The man said: "Make some more milk, my bird."
The bird did so. The man sent his wife for a milk basket. When she brought it, the bird filled it with milk.
The man was very much pleased. He said: "This pretty bird of mine is better than a cow."
He took it home and put it in a jar. After that he used to rise even in the night and tell the bird to make milk for him. Only he and his wife drank of it. The children continued to drink of the milk of the tree. The names of the children were Gingci, the first-born son; Lonci, his brother; and Dumangashe, his sister. That man then got very fat indeed, so that his skin became shining.
The girl said to her brother Gingci: "Why does father get fat and we remain so thin?"
He replied: "I do not know. Perhaps he eats in the night."
They made a plan to watch. They saw him rise in the middle of the night. He went to the big jar and took an eating mat off it. He said: "Make milk, my bird." He drank much. Again he said: "Make milk, my bird," and again he drank till he was very full. Then he lay down and went to sleep.
The next day the woman went to work in her garden, and the man went to visit his friend. The children remained at home, but not in the house. Their father fastened the door of the house, and told them not to enter it on any account till his return.
Gingci said: "To-day we will drink of the milk that makes father fat and shining; we will not drink of the milk of the euphorbia today."
The girl said: "As for me, I also say let us drink of father's milk to-day."
They entered the house. Gingci removed the eating mat from the jar, and said to the bird: "My father's bird, make milk for me."
The bird said: "If I am your father's bird, put me by the fireplace, and I will make milk."
The boy did so. The bird made just a little milk.
The boy drank, and said: "My father's bird, make more milk."
The bird said: "If I am your father's bird, put me by the door, then I will make milk."
The boy did this. Then the bird made just a little milk, which the boy drank.
The girl said: "My father's bird, make milk for me."
The bird said: "If I am your father's bird, just put me in the sunlight, and I will make milk."
The girl did so. Then the bird made a jar full of milk.
He came unnoticed by me.
He found great fault with me.
The little fellows have met together.
Gingci the brother of Lonci.
When it finished its song it lifted up its wings and flew away. But the girl was still drinking milk.
The children called it, and said: "Return, bird of our father," but it did not come back. They said,"We shall be killed to-day."
They followed the bird. They came to a tree where there were many birds.
The boy caught one, and said to it: "My father's bird, make milk."
It bled. They said."This is not our father's bird."
This bird bled very much; the blood ran like a river. Then the boy released it, and it flew away. The children were seized with fear.
They said to themselves: "If our father finds us, he will kill us to-day."
In the evening the man came home. When he was yet far off, he saw that the door had been opened.
He said: "I did not shut the door that way."
He called his children, but only Lonci replied. He asked for the others.
Lonci said: "I went to the river to drink; when I returned they were gone."
He searched for them, and found the girl under the ashes and the boy behind a stone. He inquired at once about his bird. They were compelled to tell the truth concerning it.
Then the man took a riem and hung those two children on a tree that projected over the river. He went away, leaving them there. Their mother besought their father, saying that they should be released; but the man refused. After he was gone, the boy tried to escape. He climbed up the riem and held on to the tree; then he went up and loosened the riern that was tied to his sister. After that they climbed up the tree, and then went away from their home, They slept three times on the road.
"We have no father and no mother; rock, be our house."
The rock opened, and they went inside. After that they lived there in that place. They obtained food by hunting animals, they were hunted by the boy.
When they were already in that place a long time, the girl grew to be big. There were no people in that place. A bird came one day with a child, and left it there by their house.
The bird said: "So have I done to all the people."
After that a crocodile came to that place. The boy was just going to kill it, but it said: "I am a crocodile; I am not to be killed; I am your friend."
Then the boy went with the crocodile to the house of the crocodile, in a deep hole under the water.
The crocodile had many cattle and [much] millet. He gave the boy ten cows and ten baskets of millet.
The crocodile said to the boy You must send your sister for the purpose of being married to me."
The boy made a fold to keep his cattle in; his sister made a garden and planted millet. The crocodile sent more cattle. The boy nade a very big fold, and it was full of cattle.
At this time there came a bird.
The bird said: "Your sister has performed the custom, and as for you, you should enter manhood."
The crocodile gave one of his daughters to be the wife of the young man. The young woman went to the village of the crocodile, she went to be a bride.
They said to her: "Whom do you choose to be your husband?"
The girl replied: "I choose Crocodile."
Her husband said to her: "Lick my face."
She did so. The crocodile cast off its skin, and arose a man of great strength and fine appearance.
He said: "The enemies of my father's house did that; you, my wife, are stronger than they."
After this there was a great famine, and the mother of those people came to their villace. She did not recognise her children, but they knew her and gave her food. She went away, and then their father came. He did not recognise them either, but they knew him. They asked him what he wanted. He told them that his village was devoured by famine. They gave him food, and he went away.
The young man said: "You thought we would die when you hung us in the tree."
He was astonished, and said: "Are you indeed my child?"
Crocodile then gave them [the parents] three baskets of corn, and told them to go and build on the mountains. He [the man] did so and died there on the mountains.
The following is another version of this story of the Bird that made Milk, as current among the Barolongs, a tribe speaking the Sechuana language, and residing beyond the Orange River. It was written down for me by an educated grandson of the late chief Moroko.
"Masilo's cultivated ground, mix together."
The ground did as the bird said. After that was done the bird went away.
"Is it really the place we were digging yesterday?"
They saw that it was the place by the people working on each side. The people began to laugh at them, and mocked them, and said It is because you are very lazy."
They continued to dig again that day, and in the evening they went home with the others.
Then the bird came and did the same thing.
When they went back next morning, they found their ground altogether undug. Then they believed that they were bewitched by some others.
"Go home; I will stay behind to watch and find the thing which eats our work."
Then he went and laid himself down by the head of the garden, under the same house which the bird used always to stand upon.
While he was thinking, the bird came. It was a very beautiful bird. He was looking at it and admiring it, when it began to speak.
Then he caught it, and said: "Ah! is it you who eat the work of our hands?"
He took out his knife from the sheath, and was going to cut the head of the bird off.
Then the bird said: "Please don't kill me, and I will make some milk for you to eat."
Masilo answered: "You must bring back the work of my hands first."
The bird said: "Masilo's cultivated ground, appear," and it appeared.
Then Masilo said: "Make the milk now," and, behold, it immediately made thick milk, which Masilo began to eat. When he was satisfied, he took the bird home. As he approached his house, he put the bird in his bag.
"What have you to put in such large pots?"
Masilo said to her: "just hear me, and do as I command you, then you will see."
When she was ready with the pots, Masilo took his bird out of his bag, and said: "Make milk for my children to eat."
Then the bird filled all the beer pots with milk.
Beware that you do not tell anybody of this, not one of your companions."
They swore by him that they would not tell anybody.
"Why are the people at Masilo's house so fat? He is so poor, but now since his garden has appeared he and his children are so fat!"
They tried to watch and to see what he was eating, but they never could find out at all.
"Why are you so fat while we remain so thin?"
They answered: "Are we then fat? We thought we were thin just as you are."
They would not tell them the cause. The others continued to press them, and said: "We won't tell anybody."
Then the children of Masilo said: "There is a bird in our father's house which makes milk."
The others said: "Please show us the bird."
They went into the house and took it out of the secret place where their father had placed it. They ordered it as their father used to order it, and it made milk, which their companions drank, for they were very hungry.
After drinking they said: "Let it dance for us," and they loosened it from the place where it was tied.
The bird began to dance in the house, but one said: "This place is too confined," so they took it outside of the house. While they were enjoying themselves and laughing, the bird flew away, leaving them in great dismay.
Masilo's children said: "Our father will this day kill us, therefore we must go after the bird."
So they followed it, and continued going after it the whole day long, for when they were at a distance it would sit still for a little while, and when they approached it would fly away.
When the digging companies returned from digging, the people of that town cried for their children, for they did not know what had become of them. But when Masilo went into the house and could not find his bird, he knew where the children were, but he did not tell any of their parents. He was very sorry for his bird, for he knew that he had lost his food.
"Do not be afraid; I can command a house to build itself."
They said: "Please command it."
He said: "House appear," and it appeared, and also wood for fire. Then the children entered the house and made a large fire, and oegan to roast some wild roots which they dug out of the ground.
While they were roasting the roots and were merry, there came a big cannibal, and they heard his voice saying: "Mosemanyanamatong, give me some of the wild roots you have."
They were afraid, and the brave boy said to the girls and to the other boys,"Give me some of yours."
They gave to him, and he threw the roots outside. While the cannibal was still eating, they went out and fled. He finished eating the roots, and then pursued them. When he approached they scattered some more roots upon the ground, and while he was picking them up and eating, they fled.
At length they came among mountains, where trees were growing. The girls were already very tired, so they all climbed up a tall tree. The cannibal came there, and tried to cut the tree down with his sharp and long nail.
Then the brave boy said to the girls: "While I am singing you must continue saying, 'Tree be stronger, Tree be strong!'"
With the blood of girls upon one!
A great darkness fell upon us.
While he was singing, there came a great bird and hovered over them, and said Hold fast to me."
The children held fast to the bird, and it flew away with them, and took them to their own town.
It was midnight when it arrived there, and it sat down at the gate of Mosemanyanamatong's mother's house.
In the morning, when that woman came out of her house, she took ashes and cast upon the bird, for she said: "This bird knows where our children are."
At midday the bird sent word to the chief, saying,"Command all your people to spread mats in all the paths."
The chief commanded them to do so. Then the bird brought all the children out, and the people were greatly delighted.
These notes originally appeared at the end of the book and also appear on the Notes page of this ebook.
[a] The word amasi, translated milk, means that kind of fermented milk which is used by the Kaffirs. When taken from the cow, the milk is put into a skin bag, where it ferments and acquires a sharp acid taste. When poured out for use by the master of the household, who is the only one permitted to touch the milk-sack, a portion is always left behind to act as leaven. Amasi is very nutritious; it forms one of the principal articles of food of the Kaffirs, and is relished by most Europeans in Kaffirland. In warm weather, especially, it is a pleasant and wholesome beverage.
[b] Among the Kaffirs the work of cultivating the ground fell entirely upon the women in olden times, The introduction of the plough has caused a change in this respect, but to the present day the planting and weeding is performed by females.
[c] lkùba, a pick or hoe. Before the advent of Europeans, the largest implement that was made was this instrument for breaking up the ground. It was of nearly the same shape as a European hoe; but in place of having an eye, into which a handle could be fastened, it was made with a top like a spike, which was driven into the large knob of a long and heavy club. It was at best a clumsy tool.
[d] Kaffir law recognises the right of individuals to possess landed property. The chief allots a piece of ground to a family, by whom it is retained and held in possession as long as it is cultivated. It is forfeited by abandonment for a long time without assigning sufficient cause. It cannot be sold. Pasture land is held in common.
[e] ltungoa, a basket used to milk the cows in. It is woven so nicely as to be watertight. The Kaffirs are expert in making baskets and mats, but never attempt to dye any of the materials of which they are composed, or otherwise to ornament them. They use mats as we use dishes, to eat from.
[f] The potter's art is now being lost by the Kaffirs. The large jars are being replaced by wooden casks purchased from Europeans, and iron pots have already come into general use.
[g] The Kaffir house has only one opening, which is low and narrow, but which serves for door, window, and chimney.
[h] The fireplace is a circle in the centre of the hut. It is made by raising a ring on the hard and smooth ant-heap floor. Round it the inmates sleep, while the back of the hut, or the side opposite the entrance, is used as a store room. There the jars and other household utensils would usually be placed.
[i] Intambo, a riem, or thong of untanned oxhide.
[j] Equivalent to saying that they journeyed for three days.
[k] There are no crocodiles in the rivers of the present Amaxosa country, but the reptile and its habits are well known to the people by hearsay. According to their traditions, the tribe migrated from the north-east. It is not unlikely that the Xosa belief in a water-spirit which has power to charm people and entice them into rivers to their destruction, may have originated in the fact of their having come from a country where these destructive animals were common, as the spirit and the reptile have the same name. In this story it is seemingly a crocodile that appears, but very shortly we learn that it is really a man who has been bewitched and forced to assume that appearance.
[l] Boys "enter manhood," or acquire the privileges of men, by a ceremony similar to the ntonjane.
[m] Up to this point there is nothing to indicate that the girl knew he was not in reality a crocodile, but here it is evident that she was aware he was a man under the power of a charm, for she uses a proper name when speaking of him, as is indicated by the prefix U.
[n] The inference from this is that his enemies had bewitched him and made him assume the appearance of a crocodile, but that the young woman on account of her good qualities and great love for him had power to dispel the charm, and by licking his face had enabled him to resume his proper form as a man.
Theal, Georg McCall. Kaffir Folk-Lore. London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886.


Since 2003, nearly 450 fellows have helped develop and support numerous bills and gained invaluable experience navigating complex legislative processes. With 32 of our fellows' policy projects signed into law, and various resolutions and administrative wins at both the state and county levels realized because of our fellows' hard work, we've seen how a single leader's actions can have an enormous impact on communities.
Makes it easier for incarcerated trans people to petition for a legal name and/or gender marker change. The first piece of legislation written by currently and formerly incarcerated transgender people.
Increases access to opportunities for families across the state by allowing parents to qualify for subsidized child care during the time they take English as a Second Language and High School Equivalency courses.
Allocates 35 percent of California's renewable energy fund to projects located in and benefiting disadvantaged and low-income communities.
Started as a WPI-Local project, this bill requires cities and counties to address environmental justice in their general plans.
Removes the sunset provision on the successful AB 241 from 2013 (below), making permanent the overtime labor protections for domestic workers.
Provides expedited CalFresh for survivors of domestic violence.
Repeals the Maximum Family Grant rule that prohibited additional aid to children born into a family receiving aid under the CalWORKs program.
This bill limits the number of California students who are suspended and expelled, particularly for relatively minor behavioral problems that do not threaten school safety. Until this bill passed, the "willful defiance" offense was used disproportionately to discipline and expel minority students.
Known as the Healthy Baby Act of 2014, this bill gives pregnant women access to lifesaving CalWORKs cash and healthcare benefits in their second (as opposed to third) trimesters of pregnancy. It will particularly affect women facing domestic violence because abuse often starts or escalates during pregnancy.
The bill facilitates the collection of demographic data within allied health professions. This data will help create a workforce that's better equipped to meet our communities' diverse health needs. This law will go a long way towards helping us develop a dynamic workforce capable of helping everyone, in particular the state's growing Latino population.
This budget bill included an authorization for a sheriff or a county director of corrections to implement a voluntary alternative custody program for male and female inmates who have been committed to a county jail for a felony or misdemeanor and to additionally include confinement to a mental health clinic or hospital that offers appropriate mental health services.
This bill updates the information provided to parents about the National School Lunch Program to include information about the new low-cost health care coverage through the California Health Benefit Exchange and the Medi-Cal programs. By updating information provided to parents through schools, the parents will be better informed to take advantage of new and lifesaving health care coverage options.
This bill, better known as the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, provides overtime pay to an estimated 100,000 California housekeepers, child care providers and caregivers when they work more than nine hours in a day or forty-five hours a week. More than 90 percent of domestic workers in California are women.
*Worked on by two previous WPI teams and passed on the third try.
California law currently allows survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and elder or dependent adult abuse to break their residential leases with documentation limited to either a court-issued protective order or a police report. This bill expands the type of documentation allowed as proof of abuse to include reports from domestic violence and sexual assault counselors, human trafficking case workers and other mental health and health care professionals.
SB 73 outlines how the Proposition 39 funds will be allocated to California's K-12 schools and community colleges and it ensures that those funds deliver the expected energy efficiency and cost savings. Because of SB 73, some of the Proposition 39 funding will be allocated to school districts based on the proportion of their low-income student population as well as to small school districts in pollution-impacted regions.
* SB 39 went through the traditional legislative process but was subsumed in the state budget's last minute negotiations, becoming SB 73, a budget trailer bill.
AB 2530 is a bill to ensure that incarcerated pregnant women are restrained in the least restrictive way possible when being transported to and from a state or local correctional facility (reintroduction of AB 568 and AB 1900).
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that the right of an arrested custodial parent to make telephone calls or otherwise arrange for the care of a minor child or children during his or her absence is applied without regard to immigration status or language of the person arrested.
AB 138, the Elder Economic Planning Act of 2011, requires the California Department of Aging and the local area agencies on aging to use the Elder Economic Security Standard Index as a guide in making resource allocation decisions and in crafting statewide and local area plans. The Elder Economic Security Standard Index quantifies the costs in the private market for meeting the basic needs of elders, including, but not limited to, the costs of essential household items, food, health care, shelter, transportation, and utilities.
SB 897, the RCFE Residents Foreclosure Protection Act would protect elderly residents living in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs) from the physical and emotional upheaval that results from unexpected and abrupt foreclosures. Under this bill, California's 8,000 RCFEs must provide timely notification to residents, their legal representatives, and the state should the facility fall into severe financial distress or foreclosure, thereby preventing the forced eviction of vulnerable RCFE residents through no fault of their own.
SB 1440, the California Community Colleges Student Transfer bill guarantees admission to the California State University System with junior standing. The law will allow thousands of community college students with an associate's degree to have a more streamline path for transfer to the California State University system. This bill would enact the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, which, commencing with the 2011–12 academic year, would require a student that receives an associate degree for transfer to be deemed eligible for transfer into a California State University baccalaureate program when the student meets prescribed requirements.
AB 1963, the Farm Worker Health Act, provides oversight and structure to a program aimed at protecting farm workers from overexposure to dangerous pesticides. This law protects farm workers from pesticide poisoning - before it occurs - and will lead to workplace safety improvements, ensuring long-term protections to farm workers and their families.
AN 2070 gives social workers more discretion to extend the timeline before parental rights are terminated in the case of a parent's incarceration. This bill also expands the reunification services available to families following incarceration.
This bill strengthens protections from physical assault for frontline workers dealing with domestic violence, reproductive rights, and human rights. The bill permits employers to obtain protective orders for the entire worksite when an individual or a group of employees experiences violence or a credible threat of violence in the workplace.
This bill serves victims of human trafficking by extending certain public benefits including refugee cash assistance, Medi-Cal, and employment social services — to qualified victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other crimes.
This bill creates safer and more livable communities by increasing local control over liquor store licensing.
This bill prohibits the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.
This bill establishes the California Safe Cosmetics Act of 2005 and requires cosmetics manufacturers to disclose to the Department of Health Services (DHS) a list of ingredients in their products that are chemicals that have been identified to cause cancer or reproductive harm.
This bill expands the family childcare retention program in Los Angeles County, thereby increasing working families' options for affordable quality childcare.
This bill provides that a victim of domestic violence or abuse has the right to have a domestic violence counselor and a support person of his or her choosing present at any interview by law enforcement authorities, district attorneys or defense attorneys, as specified, and shall be notified orally or in writing by the attending law enforcement authority or district attorney of that right prior to the commencement of an initial interview.
This bill improves access to education to community college for CalWORKs students whose primary language is not English and increases access to higher education for foster care youth by requiring that they receive information about educational opportunities. The bill also establishes the intent of the Legislature to enable residents to reach self-sufficiency, to develop a Student Parent Scholar grant program to assist low-income parents with postsecondary education, increase access to higher education for foster care youth and ensure that programs operated with federal TANF funds promote education and training for jobs that offer self-sufficient wages.
This bill provides that a convicted drug felon, with certain exceptions, shall be eligible for aid under the Food Stamp Program. The bill will require these Food Stamp Program applicants to have proof of completion or other affiliation with a government-recognized drug treatment program, or other evidence that the illegal use of controlled substances has ceased.
This administrative win helped the state seek clarity from the federal government that parents receiving both CalWorks and CalFresh will be allowed to receive the highest level of employment and training program assistance.
A resolution to ensure that the United States is working to achieve the economic security of the aging population in California and beyond by modernizing the way in which poverty among seniors is calculated.
This WPI-Local win decreased barriers to housing aid for the formerly incarcerated. It reduced the "look back period" for criminal convctions from 7 years to 3 years, allowing more persons to qualify for help from the Housing Authority.