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Mighty Captain Marvel #1
Alien Nation, part one
Margaret Stohl (writer), Ramon Rosanas (artist), Michael Garland (colorist), Virtual Calligraphy's Joe Caramagna (letterer), Anthony Gambino (designer), Elizabeth Torque (cover artist), Elizabeth Torque; Alex Ross; Jenny Frison; Skottie Young; Paulo Siqueira & Frank D'armata (variant cover artists), Charles Beacham (assistant editor), Sana Amanat (editor), Axel Alonso (editor-in-chief), Joe Quesada (chief creative officer), Dan Buckley (publisher), Alan Fine (executive producer)
Carol Danvers is on the set of the Cap'n Marvel television show, and watches a scene being recorded. It does not impress her. Jessica Drew is with her, and she finds it hilarious. Carol speaks to the director about changes she wants made, but is interrupted by a phone call from the President of the United States. Carol and Jessica leave the studio where they are met by Sasquatch who drives them past adoring fans who are waiting to catch a glimpse of Carol. Carol links up with the Alpha Flight Space Station where she speaks with Puck, Abigail Brand and Wendy Kawasaki, who show her the footage the President sent to them – of a bounty hunter invading an alien refugee camp and kidnapping a Kree child. Carol flies out of the car and all the way to Eastern Europe, arriving at the alien refugee camp. She finds several dazed aliens, who point her in the direction of a tower in the center of the camp where the Kree child was taken. Carol finds the bounty hunter, disguised as an army ranger, trying to put the child into some sort of pod. She engages the bounty hunter in combat and discovers that he is a shape shifter. She uses her powers to destroy the tower, which collapses, the bounty hunter caught up in the explosion. Carol flies the pod with the Kree girl inside it to the AFSS where Brand, Puck, Sasquatch and Wendy are waiting for her. The Kree girl is quiet and doesn't speak as they show her around and try to engage with her. They give her some food, and Carol bonds with her. The girl takes the name "Bean" after Carol mentions she was called Bean as a child, and gives her some jellybeans. Carol attends a meeting of the Alpha Flight Board, in which she expresses her concern for the refugee crisis and the looming threat of the Chitauri. Captain America tells her that they can raise the atmospheric shield to protect Earth, but Carol doesn't want to, as it would lock needy refugees out. The Board tells Carol that her priority should be the television show, as it is what is funding the AFSS. Carol disagrees and leaves the meeting. The bounty hunter survives the explosion at the refugee camp, and after taking the form of Captain Marvel, blows the rest of the camp up.
Time Square, New York City, where Captain Marvel, sporting long blonde hair hovers in the night sky, as a man in a blue costume with a red cape flies towards her.
'First rule of super hero boss fights? Never forget you're the boss' Captain Marvel thinks to herself, as her opponent swoops in and knocks her backwards with a weapon. Captain Marvel responds by flying back towards him and grabbing him, pushing him back.
'Second rule? Never let him confuse a right hook with hooking up...' Captain Marvel decides as she pins her opponent against a building. 'Great grapple, Cap'n Marvel' the man remarks. 'I don't know if I should punch you on the jaw or kiss you on the mouth, Hero Man' Captain Marvel replies. 'Punch him! Punch him!' someone calls out. 'Let me help you make up your mind' Hero Man suggests as their mouths move closer together. 'My mind has nothing to do with this one' Captain Marvel replies. 'Oh, Captain, my captain...' Hero Man utters as they nearly lock lips. 'Vomit!' someone exclaims. Captain Marvel and Hero Man hover mid-air, embracing and kissing next to a billboard advertising the "Cap'n Marvel" television show. 'CUT! Quiet on set...!' a voice shouts.
'Oh Craptain, my Craptain!' Jessica Drew a.k.a. the original Spider-Woman laughs as she stands next to Carol Danvers, the real Captain Marvel, on the soundstage at Wacker Studios in New York. 'Every word is torture. They don't train you for this in the air force. Zero Gs yes. TV cheese, no' Carol remarks to Jessica, who laughs again. Arms folded, Carol frowns and tells her friend 'It's not funny. It's my life'. Jessica apologizes, and admits that she knows the Board put her up to it, but at least the show will keep Alpha Flight funded and in the air. 'Right?' Jessica asks. 'That's the idea' Carol replies. Jessica tells Carol that it is awesome, and to think of all the little girls who can trick-or-treat as her, instead of a princess for a change. 'You know what I trick-or-treated as? NASA girl' Carol declares. 'See? You would have loved it' Jessica tells her.
A man with a beard approaches them, 'Danvers? I take it you have notes on the script... again?' he asks. Carol addresses him as Jayson and informs him that she would like to make a few cuts – like all the dialogue. 'And that's Oh Cap'n Danvers to you, pal' Jessica tells him. Carol introduces Jess to Jayson Jay, explaining that he is the director. She tells Jess to be nice, otherwise he will give her a cameo.
'Get me down? I gotta go to the little hero's room' the actor playing Hero Man calls out as he is lowered to the ground. 'First it was the title...' the director begins. 'Which sounds like a box of cereal' Carol points out. 'Me too. I got a wedgie' the actress playing Captain Marvel exclaims. 'Then it was the costume design' Jayson reminds Carol, who points out that the actress is showing a lot of cleavage.
Her cellphone rings, and Jessica holds it out too her: 'Uh, Carol? The caller ID says it's... POTUS?' to which Carol remarks 'That can't be good'. Carol walks away from the others and the director asks Jessica if she is thinking what he is thinking. 'Never' Jess tells him. 'Cap'n Marvel: West Wing Special? After our location shoot on Alpha Flight?' he suggests. 'Oh, Jayson, my Jayson. You know Alpha Flight's in space, right?' Jess asks him, while Carol answers the phone: 'At your command, Chief. What's wrong?'
Carol and Jess walk out of the studio, where Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch is waiting beside a car. 'Danvers to Alpha Flight. You on the comm, Wendy?' Carol speaks into her communicator. Lieutenant Wendy Kawasaki's voice confirms that she is. Carol tells Wendy to expect an incoming data-burst from the Pentagon. She asks her to loop in Brand and Puck and check it out. 'Yes, Captain. Looping now' Wendy replies. Carol looks up at Sasquatch and, calling him "Squatch" tells him that he has crumbs in his fur again. 'Chocolate chip pumpkin cookies. Fangirl17 baked them for you' Sasquatch replies. His stomach grumbles as he holds the bag to Carol. 'That your stomach? Serves you right. Now get us out of here' Carol tells him.
In the back seat of the car Carol informs Jess that there has been an attack in an alien refugee camp, and the Oval kicked it to Alpha Flight because they have been intercepting 'All those stranded refugee ships at Alpha Flight. I know' Jess declares, before asking Carol what this is about – why all the sudden flood of refugees to Earth, with no warning and out of nowhere. 'Still working on that one' Carol tells her. Passing through the security gates, Jess suggests that perhaps Carol's alien fanbase wants to catch the premiere of her new show. 'Stop' Carol replies. 'Admit it. You're finally sitting at the cool kids' table' Jess exclaims. 'Only if "cool kids" means you, Jess. After the whole Ulysses mess, my closest friends are either dead, or not speaking to me' Carol remarks. 'So wait, I'm the loser at the table?' Jess asks as they drive past a large group of Captain Marvel's fans who have gathered to catch a glimpse of her. Many of them carry positive signs, while one carries a sign that says "Captain Murder".
Carol doesn't have to answer Jess, as Commander Brand's voice is heard over the communicator. 'What do you have for me, Brand?' Carol asks. Abigail Brand, Wendy Kawasaki and Eugene "Puck" Judd appear on a holo-screen, and Wendy reports that they have decrypted the data-burst that the Pentagon sent them. Brand informs Carol that they are watching it through now. 'You gotta see this' she tells her, as footage of the Black Forest Refugee Camp appears on the holoscreen. Brand remarks that it appears the camp was attacked by the good guys. 'Are those...Army Rangers?' Jess asks as they look at the footage of soldier attacking the alien refugees. 'They were. Looks like they're taking hostages' Carol remarks. 'One hostage in particular, Commander' one of the others at the Alpha Flight Space Station points out. Footage shows a cloaked warrior entering a refugee tent, where a young child huddles against their mother. 'Tell me you can do better than that, Wen' Carol asks. Wendy does her best to enhance the footage – revealing a close up of the child. 'Not just any kid... she's Kree' someone announces. An instant later, Carol is in her Captain Marvel costume and flies out the sunroof of the car. 'Someone just made a big mistake' Jess remarks to Sasquatch, while Carol soars skyward, a determined look on her face.
Soaring across an ocean, Carol knows that she is only part Kree, her human family is from Boston, not Hala – that's the Milky Way, not the Greater Magellanic Cloud. Flying across London Carol reminds herself that she only inherited her Kree powers in a freak accident, when she stumbled across a psyche magnetron, a piece of ancient alien tech. 'But try telling that to the Kree life force rushing through me... propelling me higher and faster...' Carol thinks as she flies past the Eifel Tower, until she eventually arrives at a refugee encampment in Eastern Europe, knowing that somewhere down there is a blue-skinned Kree kid who needs her help. Dropping to the ground, Carol wonders 'Maybe this time, I'm her freak accident'.
Entering the camp, Carol sees damaged tents and alien refugees scattered about. 'Something bad went down here' Carol declares, before speaking into her communicator, asking Alpha Flight Space Station if they are with her. 'Yes, Sir' someone responds. Carol instructs AFSS to deploy a medical team to her location. She goes over to an elderly alien is huddled under a tent with another. Carol helps them out and places a flag around one of them, asking them who or what did this, and whether they saw where it went. 'Hala' one of the aliens replies. 'That's right. From Hala. A Kree child. Blue skin, right? Where is she?' Carol asks'. The alien points to a tower that is within flames and says 'Hala...'
'Super' Carol mutters as she flies towards the tower in the center of the camp, passing other aliens who are gathering themselves after the recent attack. As she reaches the tower, Carol informs AFSS that she doesn't know what they saw on that video – the problem seems to be a rogue army ranger. She asks them to ping the DOD network to shut this unit down, as she has got this. Carol asks for a bioscan – she wants to know what she is looking at here. 'Scanning now. One juvenile Kree and one...indeterminate, Sir' a voice replies. 'Indeterminate?' Carol asks. 'I'm not sure...I thought it was humanoid, but now it's somehow... not' Carol is informed as she sees the army ranger hanging over the edge of the tower balcony, holding the Kree child.
Carol lands on the balcony: 'Okay, big guy. I'm guessing you know who I am' she calls out to him, instructing him to identify himself and put the kid down. A strange sphere appears next to the "army ranger" and Carol realizes that it is an escape pod. 'Bounty acquired' the "army ranger" announces, as the pod opens and the Kree child is placed into it. 'A bounty hunter? In the army? I don't think so' Carol remarks. The Kree child bites down on the "army ranger's" hand, and Carol tells the "ranger" to let her go – offering to double the rate for the name of whoever hired him. 'Blue-skinned Kree are protected by intergalactic accord. You know that' Carol declares. The pod closes on the child and the bounty hunter initiates the launch sequence, while the Kree child screams 'No no no no' over and over.
'And now you're just being annoying' Carol tells the bounty hunter. 'Leave it alone, Captain' the bounty hunter declares, speaking for the first time. 'So you do know who I am' Carol remarks. 'But do you know who I am? Am I an army ranger...or a Kree orphan?' the bounty hunter asks, switching to the appearance of the Kree child, he then screams 'Help! Help! Captain Marvel is hurting me!' Carol fires a blast of energy at the tower: 'Seriously? A shape-shifter? So old-school!' she declares, but as the tower begins to collapse, the bount hunter is flung off of the balcony, and Carol points out that it is not as old-school as brutce force. Namely, hers. She then flies over to the pod and starts to push it towards space. 'Just sit tight, little guy...we've got two hundred and forty thousand miles to go...' Carol calls out as she forges onwards. '...but today we're traveling at the speed of Carol...which is crazy fast...even for me' Carol adds, before approaching the AFSS and informing her team that she is coming in hot.
'You brought us a present?' Abigail Brand asks as she, Wendy Kawasaki, Puck and Sasquatch are waiting for Carol in the hangar bay. 'A moon pie?' Puck enquires. 'Close. One blue-skinned Kree – complete with bonus smuggler's pod' Carol replies. Wendy informs her that they saw. 'Bounty hunter and shape-shifter?' she asks. 'Yup. Two for one' Carol declares, before putting the pod on the floor. 'I've got it' Wendy announces as she goes over and uses a device which opens the pod hatch. 'Welcome to Alpha Flight, kid' Carol greets her, standing in front of the pod as the young Kree child looks out. 'No!' the child exclaims. Carol assures the child that she is okay, and that they are not going to hurt her. 'No no no no' the child utters. 'Maybe that's the only word the kid knows' Brand suggests.
When the child is out of the pod, Wendy takes her to her work station. 'See? This is where I work. I keep Alpha Flight's brain running' Wendy explains. In another room aboard the AFSS, Puck tells the child that this is where he and Sasquatch keep them from crashing through the atmosphere. 'Puck! Not helping!' Wendy declares as the Kree child's mouth drops open in shock. Puck tells Wendy to relax, as the kid knows they are not the bad guys. 'YOWWWW!' Puck exclaims when the child pulls on his beard. The others laugh.
Soon, Carol, Puck, Brand and Wendy watch as the child eats. 'Are children all this sticky?' Brand asks, arms folded. 'It's a sticky, nasty little beard puller...' Puck mutters. 'Puck, you're taling about a child. They don't bite!' Wendy exclaims. 'Er, only sometimes' Carol remarks. 'It knows everything we're saying. It knows all' Puck declares, to which Brand tells the kid to cut the crap – they are onto her. 'Maybe it can't get a word out around all that ice cream' Puck suggests. Carol tells Brand and Puck to cut it out. Brand scowls as she goes over and takes the spoon from the child and states that this DNA is going to the lab. Wendy frowns and gives the child another spoon. 'What the cranky lieutenant means is, Alpha Flight has a universal translator. And we'd like to talk to you, so we can help you' she explains.
Carol asks the child if she can tell them her name. Pointing at Carol's Hala star on her costume, the child replies 'Name. Name is... Hala'. Carol opens a cupboard as she tells the child that Hala is where she is from, and a name is what people call you. 'My name is Carol, and I'm from Boston.. Beantown. When I was little, my dad used to call me Bean' she adds. 'Bean' the child repeats. 'Really, Captain?' Wendy asks. Carol reveals that she also had a thing for jellybeans – but that was another story. She smiles as she pulls a bag of jellybeans from the cupboard, even though she knows they are probably pretty stale. 'Bean?' the child asks, looking at the bag of sweets with wide eyes. 'Mmmm. Bean' the child utters. 'See what I mean? Good stuff' Carol tells her. 'Bean' the girl remarks, pointing at herself. Carol eats one of the jellybeans and asks 'You don't have a name so you're just gonna have mine?' 'Yes. Mine' the girl tells her. 'Well, then. I guess Bean it is' Carol declares, before looking at her wrist. 'Crap' she mutters.
Shortly, Carol is in the conference room, where she meets with the Alpha Flight Space Station Board via holo-conference. Bean sits near Carol as the Black Panther, Captain America and severla unidentified members stand before her. Carol tells the Board that she moves they suspend all board meetings until the alien refugee crisis is solved. 'You know how the charter works, Captain Marvel' the Black Panther remarks. 'No can do' Captain America adds. Carol tells them that they are looking at a displacement crisis of epic proportions and they are running out of time. 'The Chitauri are coming. They've chasedb these aliens out of their homes...and we're next. If we don't help each other -' Carol begins, but Cap interrupts her: '...this becomes an extinction level event. I agree. Which is why we're building the atmospheric shield'.
Carol remarks that she will not raise the shield if it means trapping defenseless refugees outside. 'Choosing who lives and who dies...we've all seen how that ends'. She adds that she needs more resources. Captain America assures Carol that they are doing all they can, but that there is still an Alpha Flight budget crisis. He then asks Carol how the show is going. 'Let me get something straight...Alpha Flight's cargo bay is full of stranded alien refugees. Whole intergalactic taces are flooding to Earth. I've got the White House calling, and a shape-shifting bounty hunter is stealing Kree children...and you're telling me that my priority in all this is Cap'n Marvel and her boob windows? I don't think so' Carol declares. 'That unfortunate show is why the AFSS and refugee relocation program can exist' the Black Panther reminds her. 'We are heroes whenever we serve our people, Captain...when, not how' he adds. Carol looks shocked, and tells Bean to come on, as they are done here. Carol takes the child's hand and walks out of the conference room.
At the alien refugee camp in Prague, the bounty hunter watches as another space pod takes off into space. 'Bounty acquired. HLC Ten is en route to base' the mysterious being announces. 'Affirmative, MIM. Tracking Hala child ten on our radar...Status update on Nine?' the reply comes. The mysterious being shifts its form into a humanoid, and replies that the half-Kree took the child as bait. 'Just need to clean up first' the bounty hunter declares as they press a small device, and an instant later, the camp explodes. 'Now to hunt some bigger game...' the bounty hunter grins as they walk away from the flaming camp – in the guise of Carol Danvers!
Captain Marvel VI
Puck, Sasquatch (both Alpha Flight)
Lt. Cmdr Abigail Brand
Lt. Wendy Kawasaki
Spider-Woman I
Captain America, Black Panther and unidentified members of the Alpha Flight Board
Jayson Jay
Captain Marvel actress
Hero Man actor
Alien refugees
This series follows the events of Civil War II.
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Cyprus Classical Academy Made its Mark on the Gifted Education Scene on Saturday 10/5/2019
Cyprus Classical Academy made its mark on the Minnesota gifted education scene on Saturday, 10/5/19 when three Cyprus students won 1st place for their grade level out of the four Cyprus students who scored in the top 2% of 12,000 participants in the prestigious Northwestern University Midwest Academic Talent Search (NUMATS) at the Minnetonka MCGT (Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented).
100% of Cyprus students who participated in NUMATS last school year were award winners!
Simran K won 1st place for 4th grade - PSAT 8/9
Ian W: 1st place for 5th grade - PSAT 8/9
Seeley K: 1st place in 6th grade -- ACT math
Brock D: 7th grade ACT & SAT award winner in the top 2% of talent search participants.
Students from over 40 schools were recognized for their scores in the top 5% of Minnesota NUMATS award winners, but Cyprus students had a noticeable presence on the winners page with Cyprus students occupying the 1st place slot in 3 categories.
1st Place Award Winner for Academic Talent Search 2018
Nine Cyprus Students participated in the Northwestern University Midwest Academic Talent Search (NUMATS), and three are award winners. Talent search participants take out-of-level tests - either the ACT or PSAT 8/9 through NUMATS to participate. Cyprus students, Simran Kaur (3rd grade - PSAT 8/9) won 1st place for her math score and 1st place for her composite score and was invited to the awards ceremony in Evanston, IL. Ian Wang (4th grade - PSAT 8/9), Brock Dodds (6th grade ACT), and Simran Kaur (3rd Grade PSAT 8/9) were among the top 5% of Minnesota participants and were invited to the MCGT NUMATS award ceremony in MN.
Cyprus Classical Academy and 75F partner to transform STEM learning into a real world project.
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Cyprus Classical Academy teachers saw this installation as an opportunity to teach their students about the real-world applications of STEM, including the importance of energy efficiency and air quality. The renovation not only created a unique learning experience for the students—the new system could save Cyprus nearly 50% annually on their HVAC energy expenses. View the press release here.
The proposed solution will optimize the school's HVAC and indoor air quality simultaneously using Dynamic Airflow Balancing (DAB) and Outside Air Optimization (OAO). The project consists of installing 75F room sensors in every classroom. These sensors will measure thermal snapshots every 60 seconds, which are then analyzed and combined with weather forecast data to send the optimal control strategy to the Central Control Unit (CCU). From there, the system proposes ongoing adjustments to smart dampers and room sensors and works with multiple Rooftop Units (RTUs) to reduce energy usage, improve comfort. Reducing those pesky temperature imbalances and correcting that "stuffy air" issue will benefit employees and students alike.
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Clean Energy Resource Teams
Top Burnsville Students Awarded for Academic Excellence
by Northwestern University
Burnsville, Summer 2017 – Andrea Wallick, 7th grader from Apple Valley, Minnesota, and Brock Dodds, 5th grader from Chaska, Minnesota are award winners for being among the brightest young participants in the 2016-2017 talent search sponsored by Northwestern University Center for Talent Development.
Brock and Andrea, students at Cyprus Classical Academy in Burnsville, took above-grade-level tests and scored in the top 2-3 percent of over 12,000 gifted talent search participants. They have been invited to attend the NUMATS award ceremony this September in Evanston IL.
As part of the Northwestern University Midwest Academic Talent Search (NUMATS), advanced students in 3rd – 9th grades take challenging tests that reveal their high abilities. 3rd – 6th grade students take the PSAT 8/9, while 7th-9th grade students take the ACT or SAT, the same test used for college admissions.
"I am so proud that at our small private school, two of our students have been honored in this way. It speaks for our school, and it speaks for the hard work and talent of our students," said Michelle Wallick, Director of Cyprus Classical Academy.
About Cyprus Classical Academy
A leader in gifted education, Cyprus Classical Academy has an innovative and unique approach to educating gifted students. Students at this K-8 school attend all their academic classes based on their abilities along with other similar students their age. This allows for unlimited progression through the curriculum. Cyprus Classical Academy students regularly win top placement in contests, competitions, and programs, and the school draws students from all directions and as far as 70 miles away.
For more information about Cyprus Classical Academy, go to CyprusClassicalAcademy.com
For more information about NUMATS, go to https://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/program/numats
Andrea Wallick
NUMATS award winner
7th Grade ACT
Brock Dodds
5th Grade PSAT 8/9


Lecha Lecha means 'to go'. This sedra deals with the journey of Avram and his wife Sarai from their homeland of Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) to the land of Israel. Furthermore, we look at this sedra as the beginning of our Jewish history, as we refer to Abraham as our forefather, the first man associated with a belief in one G-D and an example of how to live an upright life surrounded by people with different values.


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FedEx Launches Seventh Annual Small Business Grant Contest: $220,500 in Total Cash and Prizes Up for Grabs in 2019 Contest
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) today announced the launch of its seventh annual Small Business Grant Contest. This year, the contest offers grants and services to ten U.S.- based small businesses, distributing a collective prize pool of $220,500—the largest sum since the contest was established in 2012. In addition to the grants, winners will also receive an additional dollar amount in credit to use towards FedEx Office print and business services to help run their businesses, as well as packages designed to help them with website optimization, design thinking, social media, and print expertise. Specifically, the 2019 FedEx Small Business Grant Contest prize packages include:
Grand prize: One (1) winner of $50,000, plus $7,500 in FedEx Office® print and business services
Silver prize: One (1) winner of $30,000, plus $5,000 in FedEx Office print and business services
Bronze prize: Eight (8) winners of $15,000, plus $1,000 in FedEx Office print and business services
"We know it's difficult for even the most promising of small businesses to grow and scale, especially at the beginning of their lifecycle," said Scott Harkins, senior vice president, Customer Channel Marketing at FedEx. "That's why we are proud to offer our top ten winners so much more than just the funds to help them grow their businesses. This year, our winners will receive much-needed expertise and advice on some of the most fundamental and critical aspects of building a viable and sustainable business – and we will stay on with them as a trusted advisor as they take their businesses to the next level."
The 2018 contest garnered nearly 665,000 votes and attracted more than 7,800 candidates from across the United States. Grand Prize winner Rumi Spice, a small Chicago-based business that sources and brings to market premier saffron from the fields of Afghanistan, was founded by former Army officer Keith Alaniz and two friends who, while serving in the war-torn country, realized the need to provide economic alternatives to opium farming for the Afghan people. In the year since they took home the grand prize in the FedEx Small Business Grant Contest, Rumi Spice has used their winnings to greatly improve their supply chain logistics, as they transport the saffron out of Afghanistan and bring it to Chicago where it is then packaged and sent to Michelin star restaurants and consumers all over the U.S.
Over the past seven years, 24,000 businesses have entered the contest in the United States alone. The contest has now grown from one country to eleven countries and the grant pool for the U.S. contest has grown from $50,000 to $220,500 in total cash prizes.
The 2019 FedEx Small Business Grant Contest is open to U.S.-based for-profit small businesses that have fewer than 99 employees and have been operating for six months or more. To enter, participants must visit www.fedex.com/grantcontest and enter their contact information, write a short profile about their business and upload four photos of their business or product, including their logo. While not required, participants also have the option of submitting a 90-second "elevator speech" video to supplement their entry.
The contest entry period is open from February 19 to March 25, 2019, with voting to take place from February 27 to April 1, 2019. Following a judging period, winners will be announced on April 29, 2019 at www.fedex.com/grantcontest.
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A memorial near Ned Peppers bar in the Oregon District, photographed Aug. 7. THOMAS GNAU/STAFF
This local manufacturer is donating to the Oregon District fund
Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer
Fuyao Glass America is donating $5,000 to the Dayton Oregon District Tragedy Fund, the company has announced.
"Together with the entire community, Fuyao Glass America is heartbroken over the shootings in Dayton this past weekend at the Oregon District and grieve with our community during this difficult time," Fuyao said in a release. "It is in times like these that we stand together as one Fuyao family and keep each other strong."
"Heren Foundation U.S.A. (founded by Fuyao Group) today made a contribution of $5,000 to the Dayton Oregon District Tragedy Fund set up by the Dayton Foundation to extend a helping hand to the victims and their families," the manufacturer of automotive safety glass said.
RELATED: Dayton Daily News, WHIO sue school district to get shooter's records
The Dayton Oregon District Tragedy Fund was created last week in response to the shooting that took the lives of nine people in Dayton's Oregon District neighborhood. The money is meant to help to help "those individuals most directly impacted by this tragedy," the foundation said.
To contribute via mail, checks may be mailed to The Dayton Foundation, 40 N. Main Street, Suite 500, Dayton 45423. Contributors are asked to designate on the check or in the fund name field "Dayton Oregon District Tragedy Fund" or "Fund #8365".
Cox Media Group Ohio, including WHIO, Dayton Daily News and Dayton.com, has partnered with the Dayton Foundation in this fund-raising effort.
RELATED: Connor Group donates 1st $100K to new fund for Dayton shooting victims
Fuyao Global founder Cho Tak Wong launched the Heren Foundation in 2010 with a donation of 300 million shares from his company.
The foundation was named named after Cho's late father and is the largest charity foundation in China, with the donated shares having a market value of 3.55 billion yuan or $538 million, China Daily reported in 2011.
Fuyao Glass America employs about 2,300 people in Moraine, at the largest auto glass factory in the world.


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Orange Peel Powder (Citrus sinensis) is often used in culinary creations (especially jams and chutneys) to add or enhance flavour or add flavour but is also used in many cosmetic preparations. Not to be confused with the outer "zest" of the rind, this is the entire peel ground to a fine powder. The powder tends to disappear when used in cooking or in baking leaving its characteristic flavour behind it.
It is also used extensively in Middle Eastern chutneys as a souring agent and can be used instead of Tamarind or Mango Powder (Amchoor) if they prove difficult to obtain.
Ancient Chinese medicine used Orange Peel Powder as a treatment for colic and today it is often added to drinks to add a fruity fizziness. It is used to add flavour to tea, herbal or otherwise as well as its diverse and distinctive vitamin content.
In Africa, to this day, Orange Peel is used to treat colic and dyspesia, and in India, Orange Peel is used to treat upset stomach and indigestion.
It is often used in cosmetic preparations and is a very gentle "scrub" agent in soap.
Orange Peel contains Vitamin C, Vitamin B1, Choline, Folic Acid, over 60 known flavonoids, d-limonene, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, aldehydes, numerous minerals and vitamins.
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Jax Taylor and Faith Stowers had no real emotional connection when they slept together earlier this year.
After admitting to sleeping with Faith Stowers during last night's episode of Vanderpump Rules Season 6, Jax Taylor spoke to Us Weekly magazine about their relationship, admitting that cheating with Stowers had nothing to do with Stowers.
"It was a situation that I was in. It had nothing to do with that person. She was there for camera time and I'm not even going to entertain her," Jax Taylor said.
Jax Taylor claimed that while he did sleep with Faith Stowers, he didn't do so because he liked her. Instead, he was dealing with something in his relationship with Brittany Cartwright that led him to cheat.
As for Faith Stowers, she was reportedly only out for camera time, and as fans may recall, it may not have been the first time she slept with someone to further her reality television career. In fact, just a couple of seasons ago, Stowers seemingly hooked up with Lisa Vanderpump's son, Max, during a group vacation.
Although Jax Taylor and others have accused Faith Stowers of sleeping with him to increase her role on Vanderpump Rules, Stowers recently took to Instagram to deny any such thing, claiming she actually left the show to pursue bigger projects.
"All they do is fight, f**k, and drink. I'm over it. I'm on a whole other network now," she revealed.
Jax Taylor was accused of cheating on Brittany Cartwright during the premiere episode of Vanderpump Rules. At the time, Faith Stowers revealed their affair to James Kennedy, and word quickly got out about their fling.
While Jax Taylor has admitted to sleeping with his co-star behind his girlfriend's back, he and Brittany Cartwright were able to work through things and are currently living together in West Hollywood, California. As for why Cartwright excused her boyfriend's cheating, that has yet to be revealed.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright were together for two years at the time of the affair and had recently filmed the first season of their reality show, Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky.
To see more of Jax Taylor and his co-stars, including Lisa Vanderpump, Brittany Cartwright, Tom Sandoval, Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, Scheana Marie, Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, and Tom Schwartz, don't miss new episodes of Vanderpump Rules Season 6 on Monday nights at 9 p.m. on Bravo TV.


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A shocking investigation by Susan D. Foster into corruption within World Health Organization ranks, relating to scientific causality of biological harm from electromagnetic radiation (EMR).
Just WHO are they working for? Is the World Health Organization complicit in an unprecedented coverup of skewed science and conflicts of interest?
On this day, two scientists distinguished themselves as authors of the thick, glossy tome that was almost the biggest presence in the press briefing. Co-authors Prof. Bernard Stewart, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and Christopher Wild, PhD, Director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) esteemed International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) prepared to tell the world we are on the verge of a cancer tsunami. World Cancer Report 2014 was nearly six years in the making. IARC is the cancer agency of the WHO, and a core part of their mission is to disseminate information on cancer. They gather information, frequently classify the risk level of various substances, and share that news with the world. This day the news was daunting.
Reporters gathered at the press briefing heard the numbers and the implications were clear. 14,000,000 new cancer cases are being diagnosed worldwide each year, with that number expected to almost double over the next two decades to 22,000,000 new cases per year. Even the richest countries will struggle to cope with the spiraling costs of treating and caring for cancer patients. Of course the greatest burden will be borne by the lower income countries where numbers of new cases are expected to be the highest, and they are poorly equipped for the epidemic that is descending upon them. Over 60% of the global burden threatens Africa, Asia and Central and South America, where 70% of cancer deaths occur.
One man was hushed, initially, for a reason other than jotting notes to be sent back to a news desk. That man was not a reporter, but rather a representative of a charity in the UK that had prevention as its primary goal. He had hurried to the London press conference at the request of his friend Eileen O'Connor, Director of the UK's Radiation Research Trust (RRT), a non-profit she and several others founded after Eileen found herself caught up in a cancer cluster in her tiny town of Wishaw in The Midlands section of England. A cellular telecommunications mast had loomed over the tiny hamlet for seven years before Eileen was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, and once in the hospital, she started bumping into neighbors who were also there for chemotherapy. A campaign that led to the halls of Parliament was started, and along the way the Radiation Research Trust was formed.
What in the world was Dr. Christopher Wild thinking that rainy morning of February 3 in the Royal Society Library's Events Room? The Spectrum of RF – EMF, meaning everything on the radio-frequency through the electromagnetic field spectrum, may cause cancer in humans. Yet this spectrum that seems to now be ubiquitous in our daily lives was missing on the list of possible carcinogens that we should approach with a massive focus on prevention. The RRT Advisor wondered what Christopher Wild's reasoning was when he signed his name to the report. How did inactivity, alcohol, and obesity take priority over cell phones, cell towers, smart meters and Wi-Fi? The Advisor was incredulous.
It is true that alcohol was listed as a Group 1 carcinogen in 2012 by IARC. It is a known carcinogen for certain types of cancer. But nowhere is obesity listed as a carcinogen by IARC, nor is inactivity. While fat cells can store chemicals that in turn weaken the immune system and may make an individual more prone to cancer, studies have shown radiation from cell phones directly weakens the protective blood-brain barrier – a sort of biological "hairnet" around the brain to protect it from harmful chemicals that may be circulating in the blood. Thus chemicals can now access the brain as never before, and this is suspected as a key mechanism for the inducement of cancer in the temporal lobe of the brain in some cell phone users, particularly for gliomas, the deadliest of brain tumors. Dr. Lennart Hardell's science was key in IARC securing the nearly unanimous 2B vote. Dr. Hardell has linked both gliomas and acoustic neuromas to RF (microwave) radiation exposure from cell phones and cordless phones. With all this in mind, what was Dr. Wild thinking with this glaring omission to IARC's massive cancer report on precautions? Was he not working with a team of qualified experts when he led IARC to this historic 2B vote on RF – EMF in May of 2011?
This news absolutely shook the telecommunications industry. Studies by industry friendly scientists were quickly released to try to persuade the public that cell phones were safe, while World Health Organization donations continued to decline. Most would be surprised to hear the WHO does rely on donations from countries, private organizations, and various companies, with the United States and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the world's largest contributors. Within weeks of the IARC vote, the World Health Organization "updated" their website. These websites are created for the world to see, and their words of warning do not go unnoticed.
No adverse effects? Confused yet? You should be. That's the idea. There are conflicts of interest woven throughout the WHO and IARC itself. The telecommunications industry is powerful, and it is generous. Money for independent science has virtually disappeared worldwide. Money for industry-friendly science is readily available. Prestigious universities worldwide enjoy the largesse of the telecommunications industry. When their scientists make discoveries that would hurt the profits of telecom interests, the previously generous donations are withdrawn. Thus most universities are not known to encourage research that would prove an adverse biological effect from RF radiation.
Case in point was the discovery by University of Washington researchers Dr. Henry Lai and Dr. Narendra "NP" Singh two decades ago. [Lai, H. and Singh, N.P. Acute low-intensity microwave exposure increases DNA single-strand breaks in rat brain cells. Bioelectromagnetics 16:207-210, 1995.] They were examining the effects of radiation on the DNA of rats. This is the same type of radiation that is emitted from cell phones and cell towers, Wi-Fi, lap tops, and smart meters. Even though Lai and Singh used a level of radiation considered safe by the US government – which would be in keeping with UK standards, as well – the researchers discovered the DNA in the brain cells of rats was damaged by exposure to the radiation. After the Lai and Singh findings of DNA breaks were published in 1995, a campaign to discredit Henry Lai and his work was launched by the industry. In other words, if your research threatens this new technology in any way, your research will be threatened and your reputation will be impugned.
Lest you think Drs. Lai and Singh made a mistake when they discovered DNA breaks in the presence of RF radiation and levels deemed "safe" in the US, the UK and Canada, please note that following the 1995 paper that threatened a multi-trillion dollar industry, a plethora of scientific studies had similar findings. Henry Lai has clarified that since publication of the respected BioInitiative Report 2007 which detailed all the existing science on genotoxic effects (DNA and chromosomal damage), there have been 86 new papers on genotoxic effects of RF radiation published between 2007 and mid-2012 alone. These additional studies were gathered for the updated BioInitiative Report 2012 co-authored by Cindy Sage, MA and Harvard-trained David Carpenter, MD.
According to Dr. Henry Lai, of these 86 new papers, 54 (63%) showed effects of RF radiation on DNA and 32 (37%) showed no effects. Considering funding is jeopardized for almost all independent, non-industry funded science worldwide, meaning the industry-funded study continues to thrive, this is a daunting review of science behind the technology that is in all our lives every single day. RF radiation has never been proven safe, and Dr. Lai's review of the genotoxic science alone, as a part of the overall BioInitiative Report 2012, should give the world pause before the roll-out of wireless continues unabated.
The BioInitiative Working Group 2012 was composed of 29 scientists from 10 countries who reviewed over 1800 new studies since the original review in 2007. One purpose of the study was to come up with updated, biologically-based exposure standard recommendations. After reviewing over 3800 studies between the two reports, the standards recommended are less than 1/1000th the standards currently allowed in the United States, the United Kingdom, and well below standards in most countries around the world. Instead of guessing at standards that are supposedly protective, the BioInitiative Reports 2007 and 2012 were a world-wide scientific effort to look at all the science available and suggest standards below which harm does not occur to the human body.
The world presently relies on antiquated standards that are based on the industry and military view of principles of physics. The "safety" standards have morphed from 6 minute exposure standards for industrial use — that is, how long could a worker in the workplace safely be exposed to RF radiation — to the entire population 24/7. The standards vary by country with the US, UK and Canada allowing the greatest exposure. Most governments were persuaded to rely upon two industry groups for standard setting that do not take the biological effects of RF radiation into account: US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and European-based International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). Yet neither IEEE nor ICNIRP can produce ethical science that proves the extraordinarily high exposure levels they established do not cause harm to humans.
A new report by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has substantially increased from electromagnetic fields and wireless technologies since their 2007 report. Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and pregnant women are at particular risk.
"Strong concern has been voiced by scientists, public health and environmental policy experts alike that the deployment of technologies that expose billions of people worldwide to new sources of EMF may pose a pervasive risk to public health," said Cindy Sage, primary author of BioInitiative 2007 and BioInitiative 2012.
The telecommunications industry is fond of circulating doubt about the current science, continually suggesting, "We need more study." Yet how much proof do we need before caution is demanded in the face of massive fallout of cell towers and Wi-Fi in schools hospitals, businesses, and homes? When did the world demand 100 percent proof with tobacco warnings? Never. Do we legitimately need more study to determine that RF (microwave) radiation is harmful? The BioInitiative Reports 2007 and 2012 examined over 3800 studies with a majority of these studies showing adverse health effects from RF – EMF exposure.
Perhaps, if the Elephant in the Room could speak, he may have announced that instead of calling for more study, Drs. Wild and Stewart could surely have called for prevention – if not for adults, than for children. Russia has much more protective safety standards than most other countries, and officials have issued the recommendation that all children under the age of 18 should avoid using cell phones. Caution with respect to children's use of cell phones has been called for in the UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Finland and India. If these countries can urge precaution and prevention, why not IARC and WHO? Haven't the scientists contributing to the IARC classification of RF radiation as a 2B carcinogen and the BioInitiative Reports 2007 and 2012 offered enough? How much of humanity are Drs. Wild and Stewart willing to risk?
One of the most important scientists contributing his work to the BioInitiative Report 2012 was Dr. Lennart Hardell – the man whose science was one of the two studies on which IARC based their 2B carcinogen status for the entire RF – EMF Spectrum.
Consider again Dr. Wild's response to the Radiation Research Trust Advisor's question about 'the Elephant in the Room' and the possibility of RF – EMF receiving a higher classification than 2B in the future. Dr. Christopher Wild had responded that he was a part of that Working Group and up to this point in time there's no new evidence which suggests there is any cause for concern. If Dr. Wild was indeed part of the Working Group when RF radiation was classified as a 2B carcinogen, then his opinion regarding what should or shouldn't be given weight in the cancer prevention categories is profoundly meaningful.
But wait . . . once again. We have a slight problem here. Dr. Christopher Wild, though Director of IARC in May 2011, was not part of the Working Group that classified RF – EMF a 2B carcinogen. His presence was noted by some, though not all, of the experts assembled. Perhaps he was there as an observer? Wild was not invited to join the Working Group as an expert, nor was he listed as an official observer. Yet his comment during the February 3 press conference led almost all in the room to believe he was a key player in the historic 2B vote in May 2011. The problem is, Dr. Wild's statement appeared to be self-anointed gravitas with a hollow ring. The purpose of this maneuver?
It was time to alert Dr. Lennart Hardell, the epidemiologist whose science helped move IARC toward a nearly unanimous vote to classify RF – EMF a 2B carcinogen. Hardell is the esteemed researcher whose science the Italian Supreme Court gave significant weight to as they decided the fate of a landmark case of a man who developed a brain tumor known as an acoustic neuroma from a work-related cell phone.
In just six words Dr. Lennart Hardell summed up what the silent elephant taking up the greatest space in the press conference could not express. "What is going on at IARC?" asked Dr. Hardell.
No one could have phrased it more poignantly. And no one deserved to ask this question more than the man whose science earned the 2B classification for the RF – EMF Spectrum as voted on by IARC in May 2011, the man who maintained independence in the financing of his science, and the man whose science is the hope of a series of cell phone-related brain tumor lawsuits in the United States.
Indeed, what is going on at IARC?
Truly, it makes no sense, unless one starts to believe telecom influences at WHO are more powerful than WHO/IARC's responsibility to accurately assess cancer risks of various substances that have the potential to jeopardize the health of millions, or billions, of people. After all, when the Monograph was published by IARC detailing, in 430 pages, the basis for the 2B decision on RF radiation, Microwave News reported that the basis for the 2B decision was summed up in one sentence: "Positive associations have been observed between exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless phones and glioma and acoustic neuroma" (p.421). Those associations with brain tumors and tumors of the acoustic nerve were observed, reported Louis Slesin, by the Interphone study group and Lennart Hardell's team in Sweden.
But Hardell's science was hardly done. Subsequent to the 2B classification in May 2011, the Hardell group published five more studies, all of them in 2013, prior to the release of the World Cancer Report 2014. Lennart Hardell and his research team have reaffirmed their previous findings that long-term use of a wireless phone leads to higher rates of both malignant brain tumors and acoustic neuromas. The longer the use of wireless phones (mobile and cordless), the greater the risk for malignant brain tumors as well as acoustic neuromas.
The Hardell Group concluded in their world-renowned epidemiological studies, that according to the IARC Preamble, the classification for RF – EMF should be Group 1, i.e., "the agent is carcinogenic to humans", and stated urgent revision of current guidelines for exposure is needed. The current safety limits and reference levels are not adequate to protect public health. New public health standards and limits are needed. Lennart Hardell, PhD could not have stated his findings more clearly.
No new evidence? Did IARC's director fail to see Dr. Hardell's five new papers? Responded Lennart Hardell, "If Wild says that there are no new studies he is either not telling the truth or is uninformed about what is published, although our articles were sent to IARC. In either case he is not doing his job properly." Dr. Hardell was absolutely correct. It is IARC's responsibility to monitor studies in PubMed Central, a comprehensive archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
So what does IARC have to say about the failure to include the RF – EMF Spectrum in a major world health policy study and press conference, in this world of rising cancer rates juxtaposed with "all things wireless"? Could we be facing the biggest failure in cancer prevention since it took 30 years to label tobacco products carcinogenic?
One scientist does not speak for all, as IARC is composed of experts from around the world. Yet one voice that deserves to be heard is that of Dariusz Leszczynski, PhD, DSc., Specialty Chief Editor, Health and Radiation, Frontiers in Public Health. He is also an Adjunct Professor, University of Helskini, Finland and a member of the IARC Working Group that in May 2011 classified cell phone radiation as a possible human carcinogen.
"There are many causes of increases in cancer cases around the world," explains Prof. Leszczynski, reflecting news of the World Cancer Report 2014. "IARC's focus on prevention is a very good sign. It is easier and cheaper to prevent cancers than to cure them.
Dariusz Leszczynski was not necessarily referring to other elephants in the room of years and carcinogens past, but he could have been.
And now, let's have a glimpse back at that press briefing in London on the rainy Monday morning in early February with two esteemed scientists, 25 reporters, and one invisible Pachyderm. The latter had been standing in stoic silence, the giant mammal visible to none, though one might speculate that Drs. Wild and Stewart were made painfully aware of his enormous presence.
In the days and even weeks to come, the Radiation Research Trust's Advisor waited for any one of the esteemed media outlets to pick up the proverbial Elephant in the Room's presence. That giant mammal dwarfing all else in the room may as well have had the words "The RF – EMF Spectrum may cause cancer" flashing in neon lights on his side. Was the grip of corporate influence and government complicity truly able to silence concern that came out of IARC's meeting in May 2011? World Cancer Report 2014 was in process at the time and clearly one of its co-authors was acutely aware of the 2B "possible human carcinogen" status. Weren't the reporters even a tiny bit curious about a lone man's grilling of Drs. Wild and Stewart? Apparently not, because among the various news outlets, silence about the apparent hypocrisy dominated.
The Advisor's disappointment was great, but his surprise less so. After all, he had long been aware that telecommunications had been buying up large portions of the media. In addition, advertising revenue from telcom had become welcome income for media of all forms. Whoever controls the media controls the public's thinking.
But where was the Precautionary Principal, a concept that urges caution particularly where children are involved until a substance or technology can be proven safe?
There was absolutely no sense from IARC's World Cancer Report 2014 or the accompanying press release of a Precautionary Principal considering the current classification of RF as a "possible human" carcinogen. Even in the face of demands from many scientists and public health officials around the world that the RF Spectrum causes cancer and should be much more tightly regulated, there is silence from IARC and WHO, and misleading statements on WHO's website continue, stating "no adverse health effects have been found" with respect to cell phones.
In his glimpse back to his eager anticipation as he entered the press conference on February 3, the Advisor's hopes for the world sagged around him like the ripples of wrinkles descending to the hoofed feet of the Pachyderm that had stood next to him. There were two great disappointments. First, IARC missed a brilliant chance to change the well-being of so many people for the better. Where was the prevention they so desperately call for? Where was the leadership of IARC in the face of their own warning to the world in May 2011?
And secondly, and equally worrying, the Advisor was stunned by the sheer lack of journalistic duty. The journalists in that room represented the great British press, including the BBC, The Guardian, and The Times. None of his concerns were reported. Even weeks later, as he scoured the media, it was clear they had reported absolutely nothing about the questions raised by the RRT's Advisor who directly challenged Drs. Wild and Stewart. The omission of the 2B carcinogen, RF radiation that powers all things wireless, was complete. It didn't deserve a preventive focus because it barely existed in the giant tome, and certainly not a mention in the press release. Every single media outlet missed a major story considering our current levels of RF (microwave) radiation exposure levels. The truth is, thought the gentleman sent to the press conference by Eileen O'Connor – a woman who knew the horrors of 24/7 radiation first hand — there appears to be a deeply complicit attitude from the media in not addressing these profoundly legitimate health concerns. Does that mean the truth of this major issue will not get out before it is too late?
The briefing room used by Drs. Wild and Stewart for their grand announcement has seen many visitors come and go since February 3. The topics differ as much as the people who file into the Royal Society's Library Events Room. Yet one visitor remains the same, and he has refused to leave the room. Hundreds of millions of lives are at stake, and as long as they are, the Elephant in the Room will remain, raising his trunk in a valiant attempt to be heard. After all, silence is not an option.
Susan Foster is a medical writer who organized a SPECT brain scan study of firefighters who had been exposed to a cell tower on their firestation for over 5 years. Because of the damage seen in the brain scans, Susan authored Resolution 15 which was later passed by the International Association of Firefighters in August 2004, calling for a moratorium on the placement of cell towers on firestations in the US and Canada. She is an advisor to the UK's Radiation Research Trust, a member of the International EMF Alliance, and was made an honorary firefighter for life by the San Diego, California Fire Department.
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The biggest offenders are SmartMeters and cell phone towers.
Wi-fi is deadly to. Read above comment.
We need the scientists, researchers, experts, and concerned politicians and people to get together and fight this as a large, collective group. We won't win if we fight separate battles. We must unite. They continue to divide and conquer us. They have used psychology to stop us from moving forward. They call those affect by the radiation 'mental'. They refer to those who are concerned as alarmists or paranid, or concpiricy theorists. They have 'war gamed' not only the science but, more importnatlyu, they have 'war gamed' public opinion. Even those people being affected stand with teh industry! They have created a very effective campaign against concern and against he truth. We haveto do the same. Start by hitting the parents with information. Moveto warning people again not to move by towers or power lines. Make real estate less valuable so tha land owners will fight too. Start a campaign to show the safest and worst places in the country for microwave/radiofrequency exposures. We can't continue to think that the truth and our evidence will win the day. It won't! We ca't expect the truth to win when the industry obfuscates it so well wit hte help of a complicit media. If ther is any chnce of winning–we haveto go to the psyche of the people. Appeal to the most basic desires and fears of the masses. That is what they do. Come on–ther has to be some really smart people who also understands the dangers of this. Marketing, marketing, marketing…..that is what is working for them. Turn it around and use that against hem. Use psychology along with the truth. It won't work any other way!!!
fairdinkumradio.com will give you a voice in fighting this and other issues being purposely censored by MSM (mainstream media). It is aussie resistance media being broadcast worldwide about world issues (often with an aussie slant regards local politicians behaviours) affecting every person on the planet. Every Thursday evening a new segment comes on. Subscription is free (until, like me you realise the value of this media and choose to donate the value of a weekly cup of coffee, or more) and each week's segment is sent direct to your email for ease of access.
Check out his segment on Blueshield for protection – I bought this gadget and my numerous 3-day headaches came to an end! We are swimming in radiation wherever we go.
Also Fair Dinkum Radio's segment on "Silent Weapons".
google "Barrie Trowers" for even more alarm. He is a retired British M15 agent who during the cold war questioned thoroughly Russian defectors skilled in Silent Weapons using electro-magnetic radiation microwave radiation. Along the spectrum different effects are experienced and its truly shocking.
Smart meters are silent weapons. Wi-fi in schools is altering the mitochondrial dna in little girls ovary eggs. This will be passed on to their girls. We are in big trouble if we do not get wi-fi OUT of schools immediately as Barrie Trowers is courageously exposing. The FRENCH GOVT listened to his expertise and REMOVED WI FI FROM SCHOOLS.
Many of us who do our research for REAL news/truth which is missing in mainstream media (owned by international corporations and their government puppets), are aware that there is a massive agenda (yes agenda) to depopulate the planet from 7 billion down to under 1 billion. We are not needed in their 'post' industrial era of futuristic robotics and technology.
For other methods to depopulate go to Fair Dinkum Radio and listen to the interview with the Canadian (who has been jailed 6 times to silence him) on DEPOPULATION. If you listen before thursday evening it is on the front page of the website (this weeks broadcast). After thursday evening it will still be easily obtainable – in Leon's most recent 2014 archive broadcast.
Agreed. EM radiation is highly dangerous. However also not mentioned are all the chemical toxins in our environment, diets and medicines, including pesticides, artificial sweeteners, vaccines, GMOs etc. All need to be opposed.
"who organized a SPECT brain scan study of firefighters who had been exposed to a cell tower on their firestation for over 5 years. Because of the damage seen in the brain scans" biggest lie, SPECT imaging cannot provide the date of a brain injury, only show blood flow and glucose. In this study they have only 6 firefighters more than 10 years ago and what ? why we dont have epidemic? because this like others similiar studies are flawed.


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"You know you're a mum when your fantasies are about sleeping."
"I'm so tired my tired is tired."
Sure, they can make you chuckle but to the sleep-deprived mums out there, maybe they're not quite so amusing.
Research carried out by the Sleep Health Foundation has shown between 33 and 45 percent of Australians have poor sleep patterns. As a result, one may wind up feeling tired and irritable the next day, often leading to lower productivity or even possible damage to mental health and other unsafe behaviours. Perhaps even more alarming is the fact that the numbers are on the rise.
According to a study led by Professor Robert Adams at the University of Adelaide, women are more likely to experience difficulty falling asleep, while also waking up too early with a feeling of exhaustion and irritation.
Here at Sealy, where our aim is for everyone to get the best sleep possible, we thought it might be helpful to give you a few ideas for Mothers' Day gifts that help mums get that much deserved rest.
Winding down after a long day with some "alone time", a warm bath, a good book, or listening to music is a good start. Already getting some ideas?
Why not turn your mum's bedroom into her own personal spa retreat?
It's easier than you might think with no end of fabulous products available in all price ranges to get you started.
To get the right environment going, set the mood with some relaxing candles (smokeless if possible) or burn essential oils in scents such as lavender or chamomile. These tried and trusted, warm and mellow fragrances with floral hints are well known to contribute to peace and relaxation.
Take it up a notch with the use of an Essential Oil Humidifier. Imagine the calming effect of an essential oil fragrance and gentle mist being distributed to every corner of the room. Enjoy a comfortable, safe and efficient use of essential oils by adding 6-12 drops of your favourite essential oil and turning it on. There are a variety of diffusers on the market these days and some of them will run for up to eight hours, shutting themselves off on their own when water is low (great to put on before bed and just let it run).
Rejuvenate her mind and body with a delightful selection of bath salts or bath bombs in a variety pack that you've specially selected. Each can come with their own particular attributes, from soothing vanilla/musk soakers to something with a bit more zing, such as a citrus variety.
Although it's often said we should cut back on technology to really switch off, the gift of a Bluetooth speaker or similar device means your mum can play her favourite music from her favourite artists as she relaxes in the bath. Why not go a step further and create a playlist for her that you know she'll like. It's a nice personal touch to show you've really thought about her.
For after the bath and as an extra special touch there's nothing better than a new, soft, fluffy towel or go all out and invest in a luxurious robe. With the cooler weather approaching this can be like a warm hug every day. Add in a pair of matching slippers or even a set of silk pajamas to have your mum feeling like a new woman. If you think that sounds too old-fashioned, it doesn't take much effort to find ones which can be as fun and quirky as you like. There's sure to be something out there to suit everyone's style.
All this pampering can be topped off with some beautiful herbal tea and perhaps a new tea cup or mug with an infuser. The very act of brewing tea and sipping on it is a calming ritual and when you add in an appropriate variety of tea, you're onto a winner. A good way to unwind is with a cup of caffeine-free sleep tea, such as Bondi Snooze Tea. Go to your specialty tea store and ask for some advice and there's no doubt you'll come away with something soothing and relaxing.
Of course, never underestimate the effect that presentation can have. Once you've assembled your selection of gifts, think about how you're going to put them all together. Place everything from fluffy towels, bath robe, bath salts, candles or the box of soothing tea in a basket she can re-use again. No need to worry about ribbons and bows if that's not your thing; add a bunch of flowers or a small living pot plant to set off your display.
As a final touch you could surprise your mum with the perfect pillow on her bed. We often overlook the importance the right pillow and they need replacing more often than we think, as they become soiled and worn out. No more waking up with a sore neck or headache from sleeping on the wrong pillow. Add a nice silk pillowcase and slip it on her bed just before bedtime. To really out-do yourself, add a pillow mint and a book by her favourite author.
We're hoping some of these ideas will help your mum get the rest that she needs, and your thoughtful approach to this special day will be truly appreciated.
After all, if you think about how much sleep your mum has lost over the years caring for and worrying about you, then making an extra special effort to help her have a relaxing day is a small price to pay to say thank-you.


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Q: Technique to draw relative velocities vectors and diagrams How do you start drawing a diagram in a problem with relative velocities? I always see my coursemates and my lecturer drawing them in a second, as soon as they read the text, I asked them how they did it, they just couldn't explain cause it just comes naturally. But to me it's very hard to figure out how to actually draw them as we are talking about different frames.
For example consider this problem

 Now I draw this after a while, where $V_{bo}$ is the velocity of the boat wrt the ocean, $V_{og}$ is the velocity of the ocean wrt the ground, and  $V_{bg}$ is the velocity of the boat wrt to the ground. But the diagram, it is quite random really, because I could have easily put the arrows in another order, but with the same direction! So for example I could have put the head of $V_{og}$ where $V_{bo}$ starts or other changes.

How do I decide how to put the arrows? In "putting the arrows" I mean, how do I know I have to put $V_{og}$ starting point as the same of $V_{bo}$ and not put the head of the first, where the second starts? And what about where the second has its head?

Is it related to the formula $$V_{ab} = V_{ac} + V_{cb}$$ ? and if so how? I really struggle everytime to draw these diagrams and it takes me more than half an hour every time..
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To show what I mean here's my drawing:

As you can see it works fine most of the times. But if I follow the advice of connecting the heads or the tails of the two absolute velocities, I can get a different vector, as shown in the last two triangles of column 1, but you could get the same on the left side as well. Also, we don't know which of those triangle would be correct, or do we?

A: The velocity of the boat relative to the ocean is the velocity of the boat minus the velocity of the ocean. The last two terms are what you are referring to as relative to the ground, or absolute velocities.
The vectors oney the triangular law of vector addition.
Draw a triangle so that the arrow heads of the two absolute velocities either converge at one point or both head away from one point.
The third side of the triangle is the relative velocity.
Follow the arrows to indicate the correct direction of the relative velocity.

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September 11 memorial created on Quad
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The Sept. 11 memorial on the Quad includes nearly 3,000 American flags.
Nearly 3,000 American flags are strewn throughout the Humanities Quad today, each representing those who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
The 9/11 Never Forget Project is facilitated by the Young America's Foundation.
Eric Bush, from YAF, told WHAS 11 that it was important to remember the lives lost on that day because his generation was too young to "know what it was like before then."
"Most of us were barely alive when 9-11 happened. It's something that has impacted almost every facet of our life but it's something that just feels kind of normal. We don't really know what it was like before then and nearly 3,000 people died on that day – so it's important for us to put these flags here to remember those lives. These are actual human beings," he said.
Never Forget Project
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Alicia Kelso
Alicia Kelso is the director of social media and digital content. She joined UofL in 2015 as director of communications at the Brandeis School of Law. She also serves as a senior contributor at Forbes.com, writing about the restaurant industry, which she has covered since 2010. Her work has been featured in publications around the world, including NPR, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, Good Morning America and Franchise Asia Magazine.


MINSK, Belarus -- President Alexander Lukashenko inaugurated Belarus' new independence day Thursday with a Soviet-style military parade and a defiant speech in Independence Square.
The main opposition group countered by declaring it a day of mourning for four children killed in a bus crash the day before.
As with virtually any public celebration in Belarus in recent months, the commemoration of the nation's independence has become fraught with controversy.
Since 1990, the former Soviet republic had celebrated its independence on July 27, the date when the first democratically elected parliament of Belarus adopted a declaration of sovereignty.
But a controversial referendum held by Lukashenko last fall changed the date to July 3, commemorating the date in 1944 that Soviet troops liberated Minsk from the Nazis.
Lukashenko, an authoritarian who laments the breakup of the Soviet Union, also dissolved the democratically elected parliament following the referendum.
Thursday's independence festivities began early, under a driving rain, with a flag ceremony at the presidential residence.
Then, at the military parade, nearly 4,000 soldiers and officers marched through Independence Square, accompanied by 100 combat vehicles.
In his speech, Lukashenko referred to those who oppose his efforts to reintegrate the former Soviet republics.
"Today, they are persistently playing a new card in an attempt to present Belarus as a totalitarian and nondemocratic state in the eyes of the world public,'' he said.
"But in course of time, the world community becomes more and more aware of our country's importance on the world arena," he added.
A parade of sportsmen followed, a staple of Soviet-era parades.


Lahore: PAT chief Allama Dr Tahir ul Qadri has said that we will not accept daiet for our martyrs rather we demand Qasas for them.While addressing to media and massive crowd of the Inqalab Jalsa at Minar-e-Pakistan amid sky touching slogans og"Go Nawaz Go",Allama Dr Tahir ul Qadri said Inqalab has reached at Lahore and the day of judgement was not far away.Soon the Sharif will have to pay the price of their crimes,poor & weak were ready to stand up to the tyrant rulers.He said those who were talking about the Daiet of billions,were liers and no one could even buy my shoes.He said that the blood of the martyrs of the Islamabad sit-in and Model Town have woken up the nation. The issue of martyrs will end with Qisas.Only retribution will settle Model Town martyrs issue,he added.
Allama Dr tahir ul Qadri said that nation has experienced many isms including Mullaism,socialism,islamism ,I do not want to take the name of one ism but people listen and understand that now only one ism will prevail and that is Quaid-e-Azam ism.He said the historic mammoth rally of PAT will usher Pakistan into revolution; it's set to end injustice.The contract for the bus service in Lahore was handed over to another country.Government imported 50,000 shells of poisonous gas from India to drop on our supporters.Today the residents of Lahore voted against the status quo and for revolution,he added.
Dr Qadri claimed that Lahore is not PML-N's, it belongs to PAT to revolution, it belongs to a new system.He promised a free house,education,health facilities,land for agriculture,funds will be provided for home based industry to women.
Ch Shujaat Hussain in his address,strongly criticized the federal and punjab government and said Khawaja Asif was the single minister for defence in whole world who abuse his own army.He said martyrs of the Model Town incident blood will not go in vein. He dismissed all the rumors about any differences with PAT and said we were,are and will with Allama Dr Tahir ul Qadri who was a legendary leader of the revolution.
Former Prime Minister Senator Ch Shujat Hussain has said one individual, one party, one army, one judiciary cannot solve the problems of the country, all will have to be one in the national interest brushing aside personal interests only then we can guarantee solidarity and security of Pakistan. He said that Ch Parvez Elahi during his tenure in the Punjab and he during his brief tenure as the Prime Minister did revolutionary works for the poor and common man including entry of religion into the passport, facility to bring deceased overseas Pakistanis body free, free education and medicines, 1122 Rescue Service, Ring Road, incentives and amenities for the farmers as well as not sending the army to Iraq and law to provide first aid to the injured before police report.
He said this while addressing mammoth historical public meeting along with Tariq Bashir Cheema, Ch Zaheeruddin Khan, Ahmad Yar Heraj, Haleem Adil Shaikh, Ajmal Wazir, Zulfiqar Ghumman, Khadija Farooqi, Amna Ulfat, Syeda Majida Zaidi, Kanwal Naseem and other Muslim League leaders at Minar-e-Pakistan here tonight which was also attended by thousands of PML workers. Ch Shujat Hussain further said through the decision taken at this historical venture, we got the country and independence but quite regretfully problems of the poor could not be solved, there was dire need for revolution to save Pakistan from further deterioration which does not mean bloody revolution but elimination of poverty, oppression, dearness, lawlessness, terrorism, securing the rights of the people, welfare and well-being of the poor, practicing the law of Almighty Allah and Quranic principles meaning thereby "Pakistan Ka Matlab Kiya La Illaha Ill Lillah Muhammad (PBUH) Rasool Allah" should be the duty of every one. He said that out of panic over our 10 points agenda the govt took the benefit of absence of Dr Tahirul Qadri and committed bloodshed in Minhajul Quran in which 15 persons were martyred, many were injured and many others were crippled for life, we came out to stand with the oppressed ones, controlled all matters and told the rulers that we have come out in the field against oppression, we are continuously raising voice against oppression, not only provided moral support but also did practical work.
He said that sit-ins of 65 days had generated the spirit for struggle against oppression and injustice, we did not make just promises but 5 out of our 10 points agenda were in reality implemented by Ch Parvez Elahi during his govt in the Punjab, what remains would also be implemented, Insha-Allah, poor and common man were the focus of our works, the Ring Road, 1122 Rescue Service, distribution of 80 thousand acres of land among the poor farmers including Choolistan, payment of half of the electricity bills for tube-wells by the govt were some of the good works undertaken by Ch Parvez Elahi as the Chief Minister through hard work and labour day and night, during his prime ministership the decision to bring home dead bodies of deceased Overseas Pakistanis had saved Rs 5 to 6 lakhs for them.
The PML President further said that Ch Parvez Elahi has thrown challenge to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for debate on TV about performance of own 5 years and his (Shahbaz Sharif)'s 15 years tenure. "I would even say that he (Shahbaz Sharif) should come and have debate at Minar-e-Pakistan before the sea of human beings. He said not only after Model Town tragedy Nawaz Sharif did not take resignation of Chief Minister Punjab considering him only as his brother but also expressed no regrets over it during his address in the parliament. Mentioning the sacrifices and services of Pak Army, he said our Defence Minister kept hurling abuses on his army on the floor of the assembly but it was quite unfortunate that against India our Prime Minister and the Defence talked softly, criminal silence of Nawaz Sharif was very much harmful for Pakistan and the Pak Army.
Allama Nasir Abbas,Sahibzada Hamid Raza,Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali,Gulam Mustafa Khar and others also addressed the jalsa.


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Giant Itaipú Dam and Bacteria Join Forces for Clean Energy and Environment
By Mario Osava	Reprint | | Print | |En español
FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil, Mar 18 2020 (IPS) - "It used to be complicated, I would have lunch with the flies," recalls Pedro Colombari, laughing, on his 400-hectare farm where he fattens 5,000 pigs and raises 400 cattle outside of a small town in southern Brazil.
Biogas production keeps disease-carrying insects away by extracting the gases from animal waste through anaerobic biodigestion by bacteria. The settling ponds for the manure, which "produced 99 percent of the flies," have disappeared, according to Colombari.
Using the biogas, the farmer generates electricity shared with neighbouring properties in a micro-grid set up in the municipality of São Miguel do Iguaçu, 42 km from Foz do Iguaçu on Brazil's border with Argentina and Paraguay.
For fellow farmer Ademir Escher, the biggest benefit was the reduction of "70 to 80 percent of the stench" from the manure he uses to fertilise his hay crop.
Since last July, the waste from the 1,200 pigs he fattens on his three-hectare farm has been producing biogas for the mini power plant in Entre Rios, 133 km from Foz do Iguaçu.
Escher is one of 18 pig farmers who supply the fuel that produces the energy for almost all of the local government's offices and services in the municipality of 4,600 inhabitants.
The mini power plant, with an installed capacity of 480 kilowatts, was created as part of programmes implemented by the Itaipu Binational Hydroelectric Power Plant, which promotes alternative energy sources in its area of influence as well as technological innovations, such as electric or biomethane powered vehicles, or purified biogas.
Itaipu, the second largest hydropower plant in the world, shared by Brazil and Paraguay, has an installed capacity of 14,000 megawatts.
That is equivalent to 29,166 mini power plants like the one in Entre Ríos.
But the binational giant, which accounts for about 11 percent of Brazil's energy consumption and 88 percent of Paraguay's, continues to promote biogas production, to generate both electricity and biomethane.
The use of livestock manure and organic waste to produce energy and biofertiliser reduces the sediment that runs into the rivers and pollutes the dam's reservoir, explained General Luiz Felipe Carbonell, Itaipu's coordination director.
All sediments affect water quality, which is "critical to power generation," he said. But organic sediments are especially harmful, because they fuel the proliferation of aquatic fauna that damage the plant's machinery and the dam, he said.
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