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Pastor Adam Fredericks
E-Mail: pastoradam@gracect.org
"I am passionate about seeing young people commit their lives to pursing Jesus Christ whole-heartedly. I love to see the Lord work in their lives."
Graduating from Rhema in 1994, he returned home to GFC to impact the lives of the children and youth. He believes the loving Jesus should be fun! High energy, bright colors and a strong commitment are his signature in communicating to the children at GFC. He loves cooking and having friends over, as well as, slight addictions to coke zero, and reality TV.
Founding and Teaching Pastor
E-Mail: pastorbarry@gracect.org
"I consider pastoring one of the greatest honors in my life. Having my wife and three sons at my side in ministry makes this honor even greater."
Pastor Barry and his wife founded GFC in 1984 soon after graduating from Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, OK. His Passion is to see the congregation grow spiritually and become all the the Lord created them to be; full of the Word of God, the Power of the Holy Spirit, prayer and worship. He loves his Dog Gracie, books about men of Faith, and watching sports.
Pastor Sheila Fredericks
E-Mail: pastorsheila@gracect.org
"I desire for the Body of Christ to be fearless and full of courage as the fulfill the will of God for their lives."
Pastor Sheila co-founded GFC, with her husband in 1984. Also a graduate of Rhema, she is passionate about sound Biblical teaching and pure Praise and Worship. She loves talking to people, gardening and her three sons: Adam, Blaine, and Seth
Pastor John Barago
E-Mail: pastorjohn@gracect.org
"I love being a part of a church that is a family"
Pastor John became a member of GFC in 1992 and went on to graduate from Rhema Bible Training Center in 2001. He and his wife, Bonnie, have two children, Michael and Rachel. Pastor John loves to spend time with his family, go to tag sales with his wife and collect vintage toy trains.
Adrienne Ventresca
E-Mail: aventresca@gracect.org
"I love seeing children come into their own faith and develop their own personal relationship with Jesus"
Adrienne, along with her husband, Ken, and two sons, Matt and Andy, joined GFC in 1992. Along with her position as Administrator, she is a Childrens's Ministry leader and a member of the advisory board. She loves being with her family, traveling, and the color purple.
Bonnie Barago
"I am blessed to be a part of a worship team and congregation that desires to praise the Lord with all their heart."
A member, with her family since 1992 and a graduate of Rhema in 2001, Bonnie has lead worship for 5 years at GFC. Her passion is to lead people into worship before God so they can experience His deliverance, freedom and power. She likes to decorate her home, refinish and upholster furniture, and do crafts of all sorts.
Rich & Donna Guerrera
Church Advisor/ Children's Church Leader
"We want the children to know how much God loves them and how important they are to Him."
Rich, Donna and their three children have been members of GFC since 1996. Rich has been a church advisor for many years and they are active in Children's and Youth ministries, as wall as prayer room and VBS. Rich and Donna are excited to be a part of teaching young people and seeing their faces when they 'Get it'. Rich loves playing softball, running and coaching. Donna loves reading, gardening, singing and dancing.
Anna LaRochelle
Outreach Director
"I love being part of a church that is passionate about not just reaching our members but reaching out to the community in such a dynamic way."
Anna has been a part of the church since 2012. She was a missionary in Africa in 2009, and graduated from Metro Ministries Internship in Brooklyn, NY in 2010. Anna is passionate about reaching out and touching the lives of everyone who is part of Grace Family Church and our community with the love of God. She oversees our community outreaches and helps coordinate mission trips. She loves NYC, spending time with family and friends traveling and her cat named Trin
Joanne MacDonald
Healing School Coordinator
"I love the attention given to the truth of God's Word with humility at GFC. The Pastors' love and caring flows through the congregation."
Joanne and her husband, Angus, have been members of GFC since 1991. She and Angus are active in many areas; greeting, ushering, worship team, and VBS. Her passions are worshiping the Lord and sharing His love and Word with others. She has two daughters, and two grandchildren. She likes decorating, sewing, and crafting.
Jan Booth
Living Body Coordinator
"I love that at GFC the Word of God is preached; all of it, even the tough things."
A Member since 1987, Jan benefits the Body of Christ from heind the scenes, as coordinator of The Living Body Ministry, she helps meet some of the practical needs of people in times of; loss of a loved on, births, or relocation. She is passionate about making a deference in peoples lives in a practical way. She has 4 step-children, seven grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. She loves to garden bake and share the Lord.
Blaine Fredericks
Jr. High Youth Leader
"I want the kids to see that God and the Bible are relevant and practical in their lives - now!"
Blaine has been a member of GFC since... 'In the begining'... along with his parents and two brothers. In addition to being a youth leader Blaine also loves teaching the Jr. high youth. Blaine loves to golf, bowl, work out and read. He has a cat named Sully, aka 'Lil Sal'.
Geri Keayes
Youth & Bible Study Leader
"I love that the pastors' messages are relevant and they give us practical ways to apply it in our lives."
Geri has been a member since 1994 and a youth leader since 1996. She introduced a Bible study for teenage girls in 2011 and coordinates all of GFC's puppet ministry. Her passion is to tell the young people that God has a plan for their lives and with His help they can be ALL that God created them to be. Geri loves to spend time with family and friends, play volleyball, and go on mission trips.
Seth Fredericks
Multimedia Coordinater
"I love many things about our church, but the people stand out in my mind. They are the definition of 'Christians'."
A graduate of Oral Roberts University in communications and RBTC, Seth seeks to have each service be an enjoyable and impactful experience with the help of media technology. He is also involved in children's and prayer room ministry. He loves a good read, a good basketball game and a good trip to Quizno's or the Jersey Shore.
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During our travels through Italy last fall, I was delighted to discover the European GinTonic: a gin and tonic with some differences, some tasty, tasty differences. First, it's not served in a highball glass — it's served in a big red wine glass. It's got tons of ice, and rather more tonic than we use here in the States.
The big difference though is the palette that is offered by such a setup. Just as here, you have the full range of gins to start with — London dry, Old Tom, Plymouth, modern botanicals —and if you're picky, the type of tonic water. Then you can add stuff: garnishes, other spirits, etc., and the sky is the limit. The result is a universe of flavors and sensations, and that is the universe I have begun exploring in a new series of cocktails. I'm calling them MDL GinTonics because my initials are MDL; it's all about the branding, you see. I vacillate between '#' and "No." in the naming system, so historians, here's your fair warning: there may be contradictory evidence in your research.
At the moment, I'm going with 1.5 oz of gin, .5 oz of some other spirit, and .25 oz of something else to add another layer. Stay tuned.
Stir the first three ingredients with ice, then strain into a balloon-shaped wine glass filled with ice. Add tonic water and lime wheel.
This GinTonic is very tasty, with the oak/woodiness of the gin forward, followed by the spiciness of the Amaro, and finally a return to the earthy/woodsy tones of the Scotch. It is now one of my favorite drinks.
Variation notes: I tried using Laphroaig instead of Isle of Skye, but the strength of that single malt was too much. I also tried bumping the Scotch up to .5 oz, but the drink is better, more subtle, at .25 oz.
Shopping notes: the Amaro Angostura is becoming more common in liquor stores catering to the cocktail crowd, but barrel-aged gin can be hard to find, and Isle of Skye is uncommon. Buy them when you see them!
I think I'd try ANYTHING you concocted!


Black Girl Does Grad School is an online blog/webmagazine which provides strong content by and for Black women in pursuit of advanced degrees. The goal is to promote transparency about the process of completing an advanced degree while also lifting as we climb by providing resources, how-to guides, and personal accounts of our experiences.
For whatever reason, I have a passion for writing about hair. My first ethnographic project was about black hair politics in Latin America and recently I took time to reflect on my relationship to my hair during graduate school. In celebration of my locs turning three years old, I wrote a post that was featured on Black Girl Does Grad School. Here's an excerpt.
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Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura
Standard-setting represents one of the main constitutional functions of UNESCO and an important tool for realizing the goals for which the Organization was created. In addition to conventions and recommendations, the declarations adopted by the General Conference promulgate principles and norms intended to inspire the action of Member States in specific fields of activity.
The first of a two-volume work on Standard-setting in UNESCO contains the essays presented at a symposium held on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary. Topics addressed in Normative Action in Education, Science and Culture include methods of elaboration and implementation; constitutional objectives and legal commitments; international collaboration; and impact.
The second volume collects the complete texts of all UNESCO instruments. Part I of this volume contains conventions and agreements adopted by the General Conference and by intergovernmental conferences convened by UNESCO itself or jointly by UNESCO and other international organizations. Part II includes the recommendations issued by the General Conference, while Part III features all UNESCO declarations.
Together, these two volumes compose an invaluable commentary and reference work that should be of interest to scholars, practitioners, diplomats, policy-makers and students of international organizations.
Volume I : Normative Action in Education, Science and Culture
Edited by Abdulqawi A. Yusuf
Foreword by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
UNESCO Reference Works series
Book, 430 pages, footnotes, appendix, index
Format: 24 ×16 cm
2007, 978-92-3-104067-2
UNESCO Publishing / Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Also available in French
Order on line volume I
Volume II: Conventions, Recommendations, Declarations and Charters adopted by UNESCO (1948-2006)
Compiled by the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs of UNESCO
Book, 760 pages, annexes
Format: 24 × 16 cm
Order on line volume II
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This is a list of flag bearers who have represented Algeria at the Olympics.

Flag bearers carry the national flag of their country at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Key

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Algeria at the Olympics

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"I recently met Corporal Jack Kidd and having heard his story I feel it is a fitting start to "The Prisoner of War Experience. In 2007 Jack told his story to Miss Lavina Roe who wrote it down and presented Jack with a copy. This account comes from her transcript of Jack's story."


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Remembrance Festival 2019
On November 9, 2019 November 12, 2019 By RSBIn Royal News
On Saturday night, the Royal Family congregated at Royal Albert Hall for this year's Festival of Remembrance, the prelude to Sunday's formal ceremony. Like Trooping the Colour, it's an event that nearly always draws the entire family, so high is its significance on the royal calendar.
For our purposes, it also brought about a reunion when the awkwardness is seemingly high between the various royal households. Various news articles have gone back and forth on the extent to which the Duke of Sussex tipped off his grandmother, the Queen, or his father, the Prince of Wales, before the release of his press statement last month, as well as whether or not Charles and the Duke of Cambridge are angry and/or worried about Harry's behavior.
I'm of the opinion that Harry likely did give the Queen a head's up because I trust Katie Nicholl's reporting, however whether HRH was given the complete picture is anyone's guess. As for Charles and William, I think it's a safe assumption they're not big fans of either the statement or the documentary that followed, but highly debatable whether Frogmore Cottage is actively feuding with Kensington Palace and Clarence House at this point.
Regardless, all eyes were peeled for signs of tension between the one-time Fab Four, and all eyes are going to have to keep waiting because everyone was on their professional game this weekend. As well it should be given the occasion.
Instead, the festival prompted some discussion as to why Harry and Meghan were placed to the side, while William and Kate were seated front and center near the Queen. I understand that the optics may well indicate the Sussexes are being punished by exile, but in fact, Harry and Meghan are sitting in the same spot they did in 2017 and 2018. So, nothing new to see here.
I've seen some responses that the BRF is following the order of precedence for seating, but that's not strictly true here. As a reminder, the order of precedence is different than the line of succession. So, for example, while Charles is first in the line of succession, if he's in the same room as both of his parents, he comes in third in the order of precedence. Likewise, the Queen's younger children – the Princess Royal, the Duke of York, and the Earl of Wessex – come after William and Harry in the succession, but before them in the order of precedence as the sovereign's children (as opposed to her grandchildren).
Once upon a time, this order proved useful; in 2019, yes, it's a bit outdated. But it does serve the purpose of ensuring that personality and popularity don't dictate prominence. Usually. For this particular event, the center box with the Queen has fluctuated over the years, but it's generally filled with the Queen, her children, William and Kate (now that they attend this event), and the Queen's cousins, the Dukes and Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester (depending on their respective attendance).
This year there was a marked change, but it wasn't Harry and Meghan. The Queen's wayward second son, Prince Andrew, was seated on the right box, not the center box, so a bit of a (well-deserved) demotion. Granted, given the Queen's public support of him this summer, I'm not inclined to believe this speaks to actual punishment, but it may well be a concession to the negative attention he's generated in recent months.
I have a feeling that the center box is mostly filled with those in the family with whom the Queen is closest. Her children, obviously, and her cousins, who are her peers in age. William and Kate are given prime seating given their future roles, so that the optics are the Queen flanked by the next two kings. Harry and Meghan, by default, are bumped over one.
Anyway, that's enough of that. To quickly cover off on fashion, Kate wore a dress that caused some consternation because it 1) has yet to be identified and 2) looked alternately navy and black depending on the lighting. It's silhouette prompted some speculation that it was Jenny Packham, but the label denied it was theirs, so as of right now it's still a UFO. As for the color, I went back and forth on this, but I do think it's a very dark navy paired with black accessories.
The Duchess styled the dress with Jimmy Choo heels, an Alexander McQueen clutch, and a sparkly headband from Zara. It wasn't the most exciting look in the world, but I thought it worked, looked elegant, and the headband did add just enough pizzazz to a simple garment. So, win by me.
As for Meghan, she went in rather a different direction. She chose a black tea dress by Erdem, a label highly favored by several Windsor women, including Kate and Meghan herself well before her marriage. The wide neckline, the luxe fabric, the length – I really wanted to like this. Under different circumstances, I might like this. But for whatever reason, it was not flattering.
I'm not sure what the issue was exactly because the silhouette should be accommodating to Meghan's fuller figure post-baby and she's worn similar looks with success before. I think it may well have just been an issue of tailoring – that the dress just wasn't hitting or cinching the right spots. It's all about tailoring, my friends! Particularly when you're on the shorter side.
It was a good effort and I hope that she repeats it down the line, but I'm calling this a miss for the time being…and with great reluctance.
I'll follow up tomorrow with Remembrance Sunday and thank you for bearing with me on the delays this week 🙂
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West should still intervene against Islamist terror, says Blair
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent
Sep 6, 2021 – 11.25pm
London | Former British prime minister Tony Blair has urged the West not to stop intervening in countries at risk from Islamic extremism, even after his controversial support for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 left an enduring scar on his Labour Party and his legacy.
Twenty years after the September 11 attacks in the US, he said Islamic terrorism remained "a first-order security threat", including the growing risk that terrorists could potentially launch "bioterror" attacks such as releasing viruses.
"You get a huge amount of blowback whenever you say these things": former British PM Tony Blair. Getty
If not countered, the terrorist threat would "come to us, even if it is centred far from us", Mr Blair told the London security think tank RUSI on Monday.
"Its defeat will come ultimately through confronting both the violence and the ideology, by a combination of hard and soft power."
Mr Blair's speech weighed into the week of debate and reflection leading up to the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks in New York and Washington, which triggered then US president George W. Bush's interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The British prime minister's unstinting support for Mr Bush came at huge political cost: the Iraq war launched some of the biggest street protests in British history; his popularity fell; the invasion was the subject of a seven-year public inquiry; and he remains an often reviled figure in his own party.
The fallout overshadowed Labour for a decade, as disgruntled grassroots members have repeatedly elected left-wing leaders, such as Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn, who represented a break with Mr Blair but could not win elections.
"Dissatisfaction and disillusion on the left with the New Labour program, its so-called neoliberalism, got bundled up with the invasion of Iraq," said Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London.
"Together they formed a toxic amalgam for the right and centre of Labour. Without Iraq, it might have been possible for the right and centre right to make the case for their policies, but Iraq stopped up the ears of the left."
An unrepentant Mr Blair, though, used his keynote speech to defend the attempt to "remake" countries at risk from Islamism as liberal democracies.
He said these efforts failed not because locals preferred the extremists, but because of those countries' poor institutional capacity and governance, including corruption. Also at fault was a lack of strategic thinking and political confidence among Western leaders.
"Maybe my generation of leaders were naive in thinking that countries could be remade, or maybe that the remaking needed to last longer, but ... our values are still the values that free people choose," he said.
Necessity for 'boots on the ground'
"Recovering our confidence in those values and in their universal application is a necessary part of ensuring we stand up for them and are prepared to defend them."
Counter-terrorism could not succeed using only drones, targeted air strikes and Special Forces – it had to be supported by "boots on the ground".
"Naturally our preference is for the boots to be local, but that will not always be possible," he said.
Mr Blair acknowledged that the Western public's very limited appetite for military deployments overseas was "an overwhelming constraint".
But he warned it created an incentive for terrorists to inflict casualties that would undermine Western public support for interventions – as had happened in the US.
"It is clear now that America has decided that for the foreseeable future it has a very limited appetite for military engagement," he said.
Professor Bale said Iraq had put seemingly permanent limits on public willingness to back military deployment into foreign conflicts.
"[Former prime minister] David Cameron would intervene in Libya as long as he confined it to the air force and maybe the navy, but it has become really difficult to deploy troops unless UK territorial interests are directly affected," Professor Bale said.
Mr Blair's former communications director Alastair Campbell, who was accused of ordering the "sexing up" of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, was also unrepentant, at least on the merits of deep intervention in Afghanistan.
In a recent article for the Tortoise website, he said withdrawal from Afghanistan "leaves many in democratic societies wondering whether our relatively short electoral cycles have led us to lose the will, and the capacity, to stick with tough challenges for the long term.
"That sort of malaise supports the strategies and ambitions of dictators abroad, and of the hard right at home".
During Q&A, Mr Blair defended his decision to stick closely to the Bush administration's interventionist agenda.
"If the relationship matters, you've got to spend time and political capital on it, whether you like it or not," he said.
"If you think it's going to be easy to have that alliance, forget it ... being a strong ally of America is very difficult. And if you do distance yourself from America you'll find it's a long way back."
Mr Blair did not address the impact that his decisions had on his legacy and his party, but he did admit that "you get a huge amount of blowback whenever you say these things".
Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com
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Letter to Chancellor occurs for the second time
Arieanna Linton, Taylor Mitchell, and Elaijah Gibbs-Jones
A letter regarding discussion of rape culture on N.C.A&T's campus was addressed to Chancellor Harold Martin Sr. and the N.C.A&T Administration.
The seven demands are summarized below.
A public statement from the Chancellor and N.C.A&T that expresses ending sexual assault by diminishing issues within a greater system. (Misogyny, White Supremacy, Homophobic and Campus Police)
Report release on how $549,999 grant was used to combat sexual assault on N.C.A&T's campus.
Commit to providing a safe living and learning community.
Implementation of mandatory courses on sexual assault taught by 18-25 year olds, which would include clear consent, prevention and mental and emotional trauma of survivors.
Creation of a task force that hold N.C.A&T responsible for lowering the amount of sexual assault cases.
Expansion of the mandatory Healthy Brothers Healthy Sisters program's Consent module.
A public statement from the Chancellor and N.C. A&T clearly expressing opposition against DeVos' proposals for Title IX.
It was intentional for the letter to be written anonymously to ensure that it would be read for its content and not diminished due to the author. However, sophomore political science student and SGA member, Kylah Guion decided to break her silence and admitted to writing the letter.
"In the past when I have tried to have conversations about sexual assault, it did not really go far. People do not care unless it is affecting them directly," said Guion.
We sat down with the writer of the letter, Sophomore Political Science major and SGA member, Kylah Guion to get a clear understanding of the letter, its origin, and the aftermath of its release.
In 2017, Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos decided to make changes to the federal law of Title IX. Secretary DeVos's changes would protect the accused from legal action when sexual assaults reports are addressed poorly.
This letter is a direct response to DeVos's proposals as it would minimize the definition of sexual harassment, especially on college campuses.
While confronting these Title IX changes, the letter was addressed to the Chancellor and the campus' responsibility to ensure students' safety from sexual assault.
In 2016, The Office of Violence Against Women in the United States Department of Justice awarded N.C. A&T with a grant of over $500,000 for three years to strengthen responses to sexual assault of the campus, according to the letter.
Guion expressed campus did not meet the expectations of the grant and has not done their job of creating more opportunities to defend and protect students from sexual assault. She also believes more effort can be shown to create an open, inclusive conversation on what sexual assault looks like.
Within the letter, the lack of protection of transgender and non-binary students was also confronted.
Due to the contents of the letter, many students followed Guion's lead and reposted it with the #NCAT. Guion has also received positive feedback from students who have shared their experienced as reason why the letter was needed.
"People needed to see it. So, posting it on my Twitter account as well as retweeting was to show this letter is something I support and stand behind," said Myles Wilder, sophomore horticulture student.
Gaining much attention, SGA's Twitter account released a tweet in response.
"We've seen and read the letter written by an anonymous group of students on campus. SGA is working diligently to get the answers the student body is seeking."
Since the release, there has been backlash, which contained arguments of the campus implementation of programs with purpose to educate the student body about these topics including Healthy Brothers and Sisters. However, many students stand with Guion on how ineffective these courses are.
"They [Administration] did not feel that classes about consent and trauma relating to victims needed to be mandatory," said Guion.
Services like Aggie Escort are used to combat the issues of safety on campus. However, there are services offered on other college campuses including UNCG, such as Sexual Assault Nurses (SAN), that are not implemented at N.C.A&T. SAN provide a service that entails extensive training in terms of accompanying sexual assault survivors, which differs from the average nurse.
"We lack alternatives of SANs on our campus and even transportation to the nearest SAN," said Guion.
With SAN, those who choose to be examined are allowed to do so without pressure of having to take action immediately, which would allow the survivors to have substantial evidence at anytime of their life.
Since the release of the letter, Guion has not yet met with the Chancellor. However, she has been in meetings with Administration to discuss the demands.
Guion and many other advocates strive to fix the difference of how these conversations occur nationally and throughout the HBCU community.
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About an hour ago, it was annouced that Paul Krugman was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Jumping onto wikipedia to confirm, I soon succumbed to the problem with Wikipedia and ended up reading up again about mechanism design.
I remember first finding out about mechanism design almost exactly one year ago, when the 2007 Nobel Economics Prize was announced. Mechanism design is a simple idea: If you make some radically simplifying assumptions about people's desires and methods, you can predict how they will go about behaving under certain scenarios. If you then know *enough* about how people will behave, you can structure the *rules* of the system to cause certain outcomes. For example, whether an auction is blind or non-blind can have an impact on how much people bid. What Hurwicz, Maskin & Myerson had done was to build powerful analytical tools to formalise this intuition and present it in a highly rigid, mathematical manner.
Which was great, it was fabulous and it was directly in line with what I was working on. I too was looking for how to understand the intersection between the rules of the system and people's behaviour. But mechanism design was a formal, analytical and bottom up approach that only captured a tiny part of the hugely complex, social context of the real world. Which made me really wonder: How come I had never even heard of people trying to study this from a more holistic manner?
Let me give a simple example: The implicit rules I was brought up with for group discussion was that if you had a point to make, you raised your hand. The moderator of the group would then pick who had their hand up for longest. This was a *horrible* way to conduct group discussions because by the time they reached you, the group had moved on and the point you were trying to make was half an hour in the past. It didn't hit home to me just how bad it was until I attended a philosophy discussion group which added just a tiny bit more process into the system.
To make a point directly related to the current point, you raised a single finger. To make a completely new point, you raised an entire hand. All the fingers got to go before any of the hands but as a finger, you were not allowed to speak more than 30 seconds and it was very poor form to meander too far off the original topic. As a result, digressions were quickly but efficiently resolved and the level of the conversation in the room was markedly more efficient.
The rules were slightly different and, as a result, the conversation was *better*. But when I was asked to *explain* why it's better, the best I could do was to piece together ad hoc bits of common sense that I knew at the time. What I was seeking was some sort of framework that I couldn't fit my explaination into.What was really surprising to me was how hard it was to find such a thing. Wherever I looked, nobody seemed to be studying this kind of thing. So part of this blog post is an appeal to people to point me to others who are doing the same kind of work because it's still hard for me to believe that something so big and so obvious could have received so little study. My work has been so interdisciplinary I can only surface skim over a lot of different fields and it may well be I've completely missed an entire area of research.
So this is the message that I've been trying to craft for the last 2 years: Rules matter when you're designing social systems and right now, people don't have anything but intuition and rules of thumb to guide them. Mechanism design is awesome but it's impossible to use in any practical sense. Without some sort of way of thinking about how rules should be structured, each system is at the whims of the individual talent of the designer. What's more, without such a framework in place, it's difficult for people to even recognise the aspects of mechanism design and clever and innovative designs are not propogated. This, to me is a situation which needs to change and it needs to change quickly.


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Sharia law in Ireland - The roll of shame 2009
The roll of shame 1985
Irish politicians who voted to make blasphemy illegal in 2009.
This is the most embarrassing vote by Irish politicians on any issue since 1985.
Saint Dominic (founder of the Dominicans) presiding over an auto de fe.
The roll of shame
The Dail Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights voted on 1 July 2009 to make blasphemy illegal in Ireland (it was already theoretically illegal, but they proposed to introduce a working blasphemy law). The TDs who voted for this were (all FF):
Dermot Ahern
Sean Ardagh
Bobby Aylward
Sean Connick
Brendan Kenneally
Darragh O'Brien
Noel Treacy
The Dail itself then passed this without a vote on 8 July 2009.
Despite widespread national interest in and opposition to this bill, with media debates and national campaigns against it, the FF-Green-PD government refused to allow any proper debate on it in the Dail, and managed to railroad it through without a vote. Dermot Ahern even said on 9 July 2009: "I do not know if I ever received as many e-mails on any other issue in my political career as I did on this. ... They showed outrage. They were all outraged." And yet he refused to allow a Dail debate on this!
The Senate passed the bill on 9 July 2009. The Senators who voted for this were (all FF unless otherwise noted):
Boyle, Dan (Green).
Brady, Martin.
Butler, Larry.
Callely, Ivor.
Cassidy, Donie.
Corrigan, Maria.
Daly, Mark.
de B�rca, D�irdre (Green).
Ellis, John.
Feeney, Geraldine.
Hanafin, John.
Keaveney, Cecilia.
Leyden, Terry.
� Murch�, Labhr�s.
O'Brien, Francis.
O'Donovan, Denis.
O'Malley, Fiona (PD).
O'Sullivan, Ned.
Ormonde, Ann.
Phelan, Kieran.
Walsh, Jim.
White, Mary M..
Wilson, Diarmuid.
Program on the blasphemy law, RTE, Prime Time, 12th January 2010.
Thomas Byrne, FF TD, who voted for the law in the Dail Committee, defends his role in introducing a working blasphemy law. He actually declares that he doesn't even believe in the law, and yet he helped introduce it!
Islamic reactionary Ali Selim (who believes in sharia) sits beside him, welcoming the law: "you are entitled to hold this value sacred to you, and nobody should degrade that value, full stop".
Is Thomas Byrne proud?
An anonymous, anti-jihad, Irish atheist responds to Thomas Byrne and Ali Selim: It would be nice if the Irish media gave Ali Selim a hard time like this.
Jim Walsh, FF Senator, who voted for the law, is almost alone in Fianna Fail as really defending it.
In the Senate, 9 July 2009, he refers to "the advertisement by Paddy Power, which showed a picture of the Last Supper. I think that kind of thing is unnecessary and gratuitously offensive to people. ... I do not think that should be allowed in society and it does not matter what religion it offends." He absurdly says: "I regard myself as a republican and the essence of that is tolerance for other viewpoints." And then he votes to criminalise "blasphemy": "I do not think anyone will be a victim of this Bill. ... It does not interfere with the freedom of speech but it does provide that those who are grossly abusive or insulting on matters held sacred by a religion and cause outrage among a substantial number of the people when their intention was to cause such outrage will be guilty of an offense. I see nothing wrong with that."
Possible additional names to roll of shame
The lack of a Dail vote spared many blushes. If the Dail had held a vote, most (or all) of the following government TDs would have voted for the bill. But we cannot say with 100 percent certainty how each of these would have voted. There could have been dissent. We cannot even say with 100 percent certainty that the party leaders would be on the list (as Liam Cosgrave showed in 1974). We can only be certain that if the Dail had held a vote, most (and maybe all) of the following would also have been on the roll of shame (all FF unless otherwise noted):
Bertie Ahern.
Michael Ahern.
Noel Ahern.
Barry Andrews.
Chris Andrews.
Niall Blaney.
�ine Brady.
Cyprian Brady.
Johnny Brady.
John Browne.
Dara Calleary.
Pat Carey.
Niall Collins.
Margaret Conlon.
Mary Coughlan.
Brian Cowen.
John Cregan.
Martin Cullen.
John Curran.
Noel Dempsey.
Jimmy Devins.
Timmy Dooley.
Frank Fahey.
Michael Finneran.
Michael Fitzpatrick.
Se�n Fleming.
Beverley Flynn
Mary Hanafin.
Se�n Haughey.
M�ire Hoctor.
Billy Kelleher.
Peter Kelly.
Michael Kennedy.
Tony Killeen.
S�amus Kirk.
Michael Kitt.
Tom Kitt.
Brian Lenihan.
Conor Lenihan.
Miche�l Martin.
Tom McEllistrim.
Mattie McGrath.
Michael McGrath.
John McGuinness.
Martin Mansergh.
John Moloney.
Michael Moynihan.
Michael Mulcahy.
M. J. Nolan.
�amon � Cu�v.
Charlie O'Connor.
Willie O'Dea.
John O'Donoghue. (*)
Se�n � Feargha�l.
Noel O'Flynn.
Rory O'Hanlon.
Batt O'Keeffe.
Ned O'Keeffe.
Mary O'Rourke.
Christy O'Sullivan.
Peter Power.
Se�n Power.
Dick Roche.
Eamon Scanlon.
Brendan Smith.
Mary Wallace.
Michael Woods.
Ciar�n Cuffe (Green).
Paul Gogarty (Green).
John Gormley (Green).
Noel Grealish (PD).
Mary Harney (PD).
Jackie Healy-Rae (Ind).
Michael Lowry (Ind).
Eamon Ryan (Green).
Trevor Sargent (Green).
Mary White (Green).
(*) He was the Ceann Comhairle, so would not normally vote, but would vote if there was a tie.
The double roll of shame
Irish politicians who appear on both the Roll of shame 1985 and the Roll of shame 2009.
The following voted to make blasphemy illegal and to make contraception for unmarrieds illegal.
Donie Cassidy (FF).
John Ellis (FF).
Terry Leyden (FF).
Noel Treacy (FF).
Possible additional names to double roll of shame
As discussed above, the lack of a Dail vote spared many blushes. If the Dail had held a vote, most (and maybe all) of the following would have been on the double roll of shame (all FF unless otherwise noted):
Ahern, Bertie.
Ahern, Michael.
Browne, John.
Cowen, Brian.
Fahey, Francis.
Harney, Mary (PD).
Kirk, S�amus.
Kitt, Michael.
Nolan, M. J.
O'Dea, William.
O'Hanlon, Rory.
O'Keeffe, Edmond.
O'Rourke, Mary.
Woods, Michael.
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The Vocabulary of Good Social Life
Trust in Obedience: the Key for the Future
Meekness - The Vocabulary of Good Social Life/16
by Luigino Bruni
published in Avvenire on January 12, 2014
The words that do not age can die and be resurrected in every era. One of these words is meekness, which was already great in the Psalms and the Gospel as well as in the ancient oriental civilization. It has been made even more sublime by the great meek people of history - Father Kolbe, the many martyrs of yesterday and today, Gandhi - and many others unknown to the news who, with their humble meekness, make each day better for all on earth.
Meekness is the virtuous answer to the vice of anger that has always dominated and still dominates the public sphere, making our offices, our meetings at work or at the condominium, urban traffic and the venues of political life wicked. If it were not for the meek, our anger would produce many more wars and wounds than it is producing already, and it would make our cities unliveable, dominated by the reciprocity of Lamech, murderers of children for a scratch.
The meekness of a few cares for and takes care of the wrath of many. This would be enough to explain the essential preciousness of the meek, the first prophetic minority that elevates the world, the mother yeast, the first salt of the earth. They are the truly non-violent ones, because with their strength they can prevent violence from dominating the world and our worlds. Meekness is also what makes the chronically ill live, and sometimes live joyously. It helps to grow old and die well. It makes us stand in the long and severe trials of life without becoming embittered and angry with others and with ourselves, but by letting a gentle hand pass over ourselves: the meek are those that bare the hand to pass above them (in Latin: "ad manum venire sueti", thence in Italian: mansueti, the translator).
When at some point, often suddenly and without notice, there comes a great misfortune and pain in our life, it is education towards meekness that makes the heavy yokes bearable. It's the meekness of Job, who, sitting on the heap of ashes, does not follow the advice of his wife ("curse God and then die"), and continues to live, to resist, to fight humbly. In these decisive phases of life, meekness becomes a painful exercise, likely to dive into one's inner life, to find the hidden, deeper resources and values than those that are staggering around or have disappeared.
And you learn to say "amen". To say the most important "amen"-s of life and especially the last one well, without wrath and malice, you need the virtue/bliss of meekness. One day a friend of mine who is a teacher of meekness said to me: "If life pushes you down to your knees once, get up. If it pushes you down a second time, get up again. But if you are pushed down onto your knees for a third time, maybe it's time for you to pray" (Aldo Stedile). Meekness is required for true forgiveness, too, which is not only to forget and then feel better, so it is not taking (for-get) but giving (for-give). The meek are capable of forgiveness because while they are forgiving they already turn obedient, ready to receive the other person's hand again.
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, meekness is associated with the inheritance of the earth (land). But which land is it? The first land that the meek will inherit is the "promised land", the land of the advent of a reign of peace and justice, wished for by everyone and every civilization yesterday, today and tomorrow. But first of all they will inherit the gift of eyes that can "see" this Earth/Land, and so long for it and love it. You cannot start or continue any journey, nor cross any desert without first seeing through to the end of it, and desiring the fulfilment of a promise at its other end. If we didn't have promise land of in front of us, one that's new and better, how could we fight meekly to make our wounded earth a better place?
The inheritance of the land, however, is also what our children will receive tomorrow if we are going to be meek today. There exists, in fact, a sort of meekness in the use of the land, its resources, its goods, water, air, a meekness we desperately need. All the times that we are violent with the land and its resources we are reducing the value of this inheritance. Meekness is directly related to safekeeping: Abel the meek and Cain the non-safekeeper are still in front of us as representatives of radically alternative choices that are always possible. The one who is meek preserves the oikos (the home) and so conducts a meek oikonomia. A meek economy is one that uses the resources knowing that they were inherited and that they should be left as inheritance. If we were meek we would do different calculations to measure our growth and prosperity. In those algorithms we would give much more weight to the consumption of non-renewable resources and to all those we found on earth and must leave behind. The "universal destination of goods", the principle underlying the doctrine of the Common Good certainly refers to space but what it really questions is, above all, time. If we were to do so, the concern for what's "after us" would become a general culture that would lead us to use all the common property with the same care as children's things are handled.
By contrast, individualist capitalism, which in these times of "crisis" is spreading unchallenged, is all too often violent in the use of resources, and so it trades the quality of the environment, air and water of tomorrow, the future of entire peoples (I am thinking of Africa in particular), for some degrees of temperature up or down in the houses of the northern part of the world, and continues to greedily consume the earth, the environment and the poor; it does not include the peripheries but destroys them. Economic meekness would mean, especially for large companies, reducing the aggressive presence of advertising in all the moments of our lives, and stopping to squeeze the fresh graduates that, at this stage of severe shortage of employment possibilities are very vulnerable to blackmailing. It would mean reducing the speed and aggressiveness of speculative finance, mitigating the arrogant and vulgar language of the powerful, bending and soothing the hands of many banks towards entrepreneurs and families, or that of the public administration with those who have always paid their taxes but, having fallen into misfortune, cannot do it anymore.
Meekness talks to us through its typical language that's different, but closely linked to the language of the other virtues and beatitudes. It tells us an ancient truth that is at the heart of community life. When we look at the "show" of life that takes place every day in front of our eyes, our first impression is that the smart ones, the violent and evil ones will always prevail and succeed. The meek appear as losers, rejected and unsuccessful under the blows of the powerful and violent, an unfairness that made Norberto Bobbio cry out from pain and disappointment: "Woe to the meek: they will not be given the kingdom of the earth" ("In Praise of Meekness"). The stories and the truth of ordinary and extraordinary meekness tell us instead that this first impression, realistic as it may be, is not necessarily the truest one. When you do the accounts of real costs and revenues of individual and social life, which cannot be measured primarily in currency, the highest profit is often marked by meek people and communities: "I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread." (Psalm 37).
If tomorrow we have a better economy than at present, in which young people can work and won't have to be "begging bread", it will not be due to the promises of the powerful, but by the strong, silent and tenacious action of the many meek. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Translated by Eszter Kató
Further commentaries by Luigino Bruni in Avvenire are available through the Avvenire Editorial


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<Synonym>Blepharospasm-Oromandibular Dyskinesias</Synonym>
<Synonym>Brueghel Syndrome</Synonym>
<Synonym>Blepharospasm-Oromandibular Dystonia Syndrome</Synonym>
<Synonym>Idiopathic Orofacial Dyskinesias</Synonym>
<Synonym>Idiopathic Orofacial Dyskinesia</Synonym>
<Synonym>Idiopathic Blepharospasm-Oromandibular Dystonia Syndrome</Synonym>
<Synonym>Blepharospasm-Oromandibular Dystonia</Synonym>
<Synonym>Blepharospasm Oromandibular Dystonia</Synonym>
<Description>A syndrome characterized by orofacial DYSTONIA; including BLEPHAROSPASM; forceful jaw opening; lip retraction; platysma muscle spasm; and tongue protrusion. It primarily affects older adults, with an incidence peak in the seventh decade of life. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p108)</Description>
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Burna Boy, Falz, Mayorkun and Teni The Entertainer Win Big at 2019 Headies Awards
The Headies Award, Nigeria's equivalent to the Grammys, held last night at the Eko Hotel and Suites. Attended by industry stalwarts, producers, veterans as well as musicians, it was all pomp and pageantry in celebration of those whose works merited recognition in the year of review. Hosted by rapper Reminisce and TV Personality, Nancy Isime, the award ceremony also enjoyed brilliant and tepid performances from a host of artistes including Rema, Styl Plus and Sunny Nneji.
The biggest winners of the night includes Burna Boy who clinched Song of the Year with Ye and Best Collabo with 'Killing Dem'. Mayorkun won the Best R&B Pop Album of the Year and Hip-Hop World Revelation Award. Falz won Best Rap Album and Best Album of the Year with his 'Moral Instructions. Newcomer Teni The Entertainer was garlanded with highly coveted Best Female Vocalist, Best Pop Single and Headies Viewers' Choice Award.
Some of the biggest winners including Burna Boy, Yemi Alade and Seyi Shay were not in attendance. Ditto for some bigwigs like Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Olamide and Fireboy DML, who were in London to attend Wizkid's O2 Concert which was happening at the same time in faraway London.
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Q: Dissolving polygons based on spectral differences from QGIS? I'm looking for a package or algorithm that allows to dissolve polygons based on their spectral characteristics and a threshold defined by the user in QGIS. Equivalent to what the "Spectral Differences" algorithm does in eCognition.
I did a segmentation using the Meanshift algorithm of the OTB in QGIS, based on a three band image of Sentinel 2 satellite. I want to analyze some oversegmented polygons, and dissolve them with their neighbours if their spectral differences are less than a certain threshold.
Does anyone knows of a tool that does this kind of work? or something similar at least? I haven't found anything in the web, but I suppose there might be someone who has already done it.


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Experience a traditional American Thanksgiving at the Eileen Rockefeller House, an extension of North Country School.
An ideal option for high school boarders who wish to stay in the eastern U.S. over the holidays, this program will immerse students in life on an Adirondack farm as they help our experienced educators prepare a traditional Thanksgiving feast. Participants will share rooms and meals at the Eileen Rockefeller House ("RockE"), complete with mountain views over private Round Lake, a modern kitchen, and direct access to North Country School's working farm and forest. They will learn how to care for sheep, goats, horses, and chickens and cook from scratch using fresh garden squashes, potatoes, herbs and more.
This will be a time to make new friends and deepen both outdoor and cultural skills. Round Lake Campus includes 6 km of ski and hiking trails, sledding hills, its own downhill ski slopes, easy access to High Peaks Wilderness hiking trails, and more. Close proximity to Whiteface Mountain and Mt. Van Hoevenberg XC ski center open up further opportunities for downhill or cross-country skiing, or even trying out skeleton or luge. Additionally, we are just 7 miles from the village of Lake Placid, which offers a range of shopping and dining options.
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Congratulations to Salvatore Tavano on the championship win.
What happened to the Tipo? Wasnt it due to debut at Vallelunga?
Good for Tavano, he showed to be fast after a long break. Cupra has also a good talent with Greco, who obtained great results with a DSG car.
Ferrara deserved more, for sure. His Alfa has been a bit unreliable, he had too much technical failures. I hope he will try again next year.
Very bad year for Baldan, since the first race at Imola it was clear that it wouldn't have been a good season.
A bit dissatisfied by Larini and Mugelli, maybe Schmarl could have been done better also. Thumbs up for Bettera instead.
Overall, TCR has finally given us back the Italian Touring Car Championship. Now we have a good championship to watch. A lot of cars, good drivers, good show. Hope for more next year, especially with Subaru and Fiat.
The series was better than the first season.
Hopefully 2019 will be as good as this season.


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WHDC Awards $1 Million in Grants, Announces Next Grant Cycle
West Harlem Development Corporation has awarded $1 million in grants to 38 nonprofits that aim to increase economic opportunities and quality of life to sustain a vibrant West Harlem community.
The awards are the third round of grants made to date, bringing the total amount of grants to $4 million. In this round of granting, WHDC tightened its focus to areas in need of immediate impact in the community and raised the reporting requirements for awardees in an effort to better serve the Community District 9 community in West Harlem. Though all groups will serve West Harlem, 66 percent are also based in the community.
The breakdown of grants by community-need category is:
Community Facilities, including Arts and Environment: $286,389
Education, including Arts and Historical Preservation $487,158
Housing, including Legal Services $76,287
Workforce & Economic Development, including Environment $150,166
Representatives from each organization attended a Collective Impact meeting to discuss how to work together to obtain measurable results such as improved test scores in public schools and tracking program attendees' progress toward obtaining a job. Grantees were divided into working groups based on the community need they serve (i.e., community facilities, education, housing and workforce and economic development) and will meet throughout the year.
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Q: Action of projections Suppose we have a projection $p$ on a Hilbert space $\mathfrak{H}$. Is the following true: There exists an set $V\subset\mathfrak{H}$ such that $p(x)=x$ if $x\in V$ and zero else? I asked because I want to prove the following: if $p$ and $q$ are two projections and $p\mathfrak{H}\subseteq q\mathfrak{H}$, then $p\leq q$. One observes that we must say something about $||qx||^2-||px||^2$ and we want this to be positive. If one has what I say above, then we are done. Does one has another idea how to prove this?#
Thanks a lot.

A: I guess that with projection you mean an orthogonal projection: $p^2=p=p^*$. For such a projection the image $im\, p$ and the kernel $ker \, p$ are closed subspaces of $H$. One has $H=im\, p\oplus ker\, p$, an othogonal sum, which means that each vector $x\in H$ can be presented uniquely as $x=y+z$, with $y\in im\, p$ and $z\in ker\, p$, i.e. $y\perp z$. Note that $py=y$ and $pz=0$. Thus $px=y$, which is not necessary $0$.
Assume that $im\, p \subseteq im\, q$. We would like to prove that $p\leq q$, i.e., $\langle (q-p)x,x\rangle \geq 0$ for any $x\in H$. Note first the following: (i) since $p$ is an orthogonal projection one has $|\langle px,x\rangle| \leq \| p\|\| x\|^2\leq \| x\|^2$ $(\forall x\in H)$, and (ii) since $im\, p\subseteq im\, q$ one has $ker\, p\supseteq ker\, q$.
Let $x\in H$ be arbitary and $x=y+z$ the decompostion with respect to $H=im\, q \oplus ker\, q$. Then
$$ \langle (q-p)x,x\rangle=\langle qy,y\rangle+\langle qz,y\rangle+\langle qy,z\rangle+\langle qz,z\rangle -(\langle py,y\rangle+\langle pz,y\rangle+\langle py,z\rangle+\langle pz,z\rangle)= $$
$$=\langle qy,y\rangle-\langle py,y\rangle\geq \| y\|^2-|\langle py,y\rangle|\geq \| y\|^2-\| y\|^2=0.$$


"Non crediate che io abbia la pretensione d'insegnarvi a far le polpette. Questo e un piatto che tutti lo sanno fare cominciando dal ciuco." (Don't think I'm pretentious enough to teach you how to make meatballs. This is a dish that everybody can make, starting with the donkey.) Pellegrino Artusi, author of the first modern Italian cookbook, La scienza in cucina a l'arte di mangiar bene: manuale practico per le famiglie (The science of cooking and the art of eating well: a practical manual for families) published in 1891.
Meatballs are featured in the earliest Arabic cookbooks, in the ancient Roman cookbook written by Apicius, and in Chinese culinary traditions that date back to the Qin Dynasty (221 to 207 BC). They are called frikadeller in Denmark, lihapullat in Finland, kottbullar in Sweden, klopse in Germany, polpette in Italy, albondigas in Spain and Hispanic America, kofte in Turkey, faggots in United Kingdom, and wanzi in China. Their history is long and their reach is wide.
According to Claudia Roden (The New Book of Middle Eastern Food) "It is the Arabs who brought meatballs to Sicily, and in the Arab world meatballs are highly regarded and considered refined and sophisticated. This is partly because they require labor. In the old days, the meat was chopped by hand or put through a grinder two or three times then pounded with a pestle and mortar until it was a smooth soft paste. Nowadays, those who have one use a food processor." And, by some accounts, pasta also arrived in Italy with the Arabs when they invaded Sicily in the 8th century. Once tomatoes appeared after the "new world" was discovered, the primary ingredients for spaghetti and meatballs were in place. Nevertheless, examples of meatballs served with pasta in southern Italy are rare.
Some propose that spaghetti and meatballs actually is an innovation of early twentieth century Italian immigrants in New York City. About 4 million Italians immigrated to America from 1880 to 1920. Most (85%) came from impoverished conditions in southern Italy, where they were forced to spend as much as 75% of their income on food. In America, food required only about 25% of income, and meat became a staple, not a luxury.
Moreover, in Italy pasta was considered an appetizer rather than a main course or side dish. In America, where starch, usually potatoes, was expected to accompany protein, newly established Italian American restaurants quickly moved pasta from primi to secondi piatti. Some also argue that those same restaurants may have made marinara, or tomato sauce, ubiquitous because canned tomatoes were one of the few Italian ingredients readily available in American groceries.
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In the wake of Lori Loughlin's arrest in the college admissions cheating scandal, her co-star John Stamos is reportedly worried about how it will affect his income. Will Loughlin's legal trouble lead to Stamos and the rest of the cast losing millions in Full House royalties?
An insider recently told Rob Shuter of the Straight Shuter podcast that Loughlin's castmates are preparing for a major financial hit.
"John Stamos, Jodie Sweetin, and Bob Saget fear they are going to lose millions in lost royalties as the TV stations decide what to do with Full House following the college application scandal surrounding Lori," said the source.
The insider added that if the show loses its audience and stations drop it, it will cost everyone in the cast because every time a Full House rerun airs, everyone gets paid.
"She has potentially ruined that for everyone, and it's just not fair," claims the insider.
As fans know, Loughlin starred as Aunt Becky on Full House – which aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995. She then returned in a guest role for the Netflix reboot Fuller House, and she also had multiple acting gigs on the Hallmark network.
However, Hallmark fired her after her arrest for charges of mail fraud, and she is reportedly not returning to Fuller House. She was released on a $1 million bond and ordered to appear in court on April 3rd in Boston, Massachusetts.
Loughlin is accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get her daughters Olivia and Isabella accepted into the University of Southern California as recruits for the school's crew team, despite the fact that neither one participated in crew.
Fuller House won the award for Favorite Funny TV show, and Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber, and Jodie Sweetin hinted that they supported Lori Loughlin, who they have worked with since they were kids.
The first four seasons of Fuller House are currently streaming on Netflix.


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Purple sweet potatoes or Satsuma-imo are a great source of beta-carotene and vitamin A, which boost your immunity and help preserve your eyesight. They have also been found to improve blood sugar regulation, even in people with type 2 diabetes. But what makes them truly stand apart from their orange counterparts is the fact that purple sweet potatoes have significant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. They have 150 per cent more antioxidants than blueberries. And the antioxidants they contain may reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
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Javon Johnson plays Blue, the conflicted owner of the jazz club Paradise in 1940s Detroit. "Paradise Blue" is one of three dramas in playwright Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit Trilogy." True Colors has now staged all of them. (Photos by Greg Mooney)
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Playwright Dominique Morisseau has often described herself as the scribe for her native Detroit. In her Detroit Trilogy, she aims to give voice to the working people who are the heart and soul of the Motor City. In Paradise Blue, set in the 1940s, Detroit's historically African American Black Bottom neighborhood is on the verge of gentrification. Blue, whose club, Paradise, has been a mainstay since his father opened it decades earlier, must decide whether the demons he's fighting and the check the city's offering are enough for him to walk away. True Colors Theatre Company's new artistic director, Jamil Jude, directs Paradise Blue (at the Southwest Arts Center through October 20).
Morisseau's trilogy is partially inspired by the formidable August Wilson (1945–2005), who wrote a play about the African American experience in Pittsburgh for every decade of the 20th century. True Colors has produced many of Wilson's plays over the years and is the first theater in the country to produce Morisseau's entire Detroit Trilogy. Like Wilson, Morisseau has been one of the most-produced playwrights in the country for the past few years, according to American Theatre magazine.
The jazz men (from left) Javon Johnson, Keith Arthur Bolden and Enoch Armando King. Tangela Large is behind the bar. Set design by Moriah and Isabel Curley-Clay.
Of the three Detroit plays, the structure and character development in Paradise Blue resemble Wilson's style most closely. Blue (Javon Johnson) is a man who comes off tough at first but is deeply haunted by a tragic incident from his past. Always nearby is his girlfriend, Pumpkin (Cynthia D. Barker), who's battling demons of her own. Fellow musicians Corn (Keith Arthur Bolden) and P-Sam (Enoch Armando King) are there to challenge Blue's moral ambiguities and provide comic relief. (King is right at home with this material since he appeared in True Color's stagings of Morisseau's Detroit '67 and Skeleton Crew.)
The wild card in this line note is Silver (Tangela Large), a sultry stranger who blows into town and sends everyone into a tizzy.
Morisseau has created a world all her own, one in which she explores gentrification, classism and trauma within the African American community. Set designers Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay rise to the occasion by crafting a beautiful space for Blue's club. Cubed, frosted glass windows sit inside blue, exposed brick walls. They're adorned by posters of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Count Basie. It feels like another time, which is exactly what Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood was.
In the first half of the 20th century, Black Bottom and Paradise Valley were the names of two historically black residential and business districts in Detroit. Residents were forced out when the areas were demolished for urban renewal in the 1960s. In many ways, Detroit's current economic crisis can be linked to the destruction of this area because it displaced so many people. For jazz musicians like Corn and P-Sam, Black Bottom represented freedom from entering through back doors to play the standards in white bands.
Enoch Armando King and Cynthia D. Barker. Costumes by L. Nyrobi N. Moss.
This is a legacy, however, that Blue doesn't want to carry. The performances here are good, but I wish Johnson found more places to go in exploring Blue's demons. He starts off desperate and stays there, but fear, anger and sadness are all in the script.
The melodic language that Morisseau gives to everyday black people — in this case, jazz musicians — is as rhythmic as the music itself. The jazz underscoring scenes lends it the suspense of a murder mystery and adds an extra layer of intrigue.
On the surface, this drama seems like it's about the men and their foibles, but look closer and it's clear that the women take center stage. It's easy now to laugh at a woman screaming at the sight of a gun or at skepticism toward women who choose to be single. But most of our grandmothers had very few options that allowed them to have financial independence and dignity.
Barker as Pumpkin seems like a woman easily led, but she's smart, reciting stanzas from Harlem Renaissance poet Georgia Douglas Johnson. Large as Silver is slinky, sexy and not to be messed with. In the same way that Shug gives Celie the courage to stand up to Mister in The Color Purple, Silver tries to be a guardian angel for Pumpkin.
L. Nyrobi N. Moss stitches impeccable threads for the women to wear. Silver's green-and-pink wrap gown and grey off-the-shoulder dress fit like a glove. She doesn't leave the men out, either. Sam's gold suit and Corn's red-striped pants with matching shoes feel period perfect.
One of the most poignant things about this drama is that these are gallon-sized people in pint-sized circumstances. Life throws blows at everyone, but the thing that director Jude and this cast capture so well is the way in which racism exacerbates everyday drudgery. Recent articles report that Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood may see another heyday. Let's hope its future fares better than the people in this searing script do.
"Paradise Blue"African American theaterAtlantaCynthia D. BarkerDetroitDominique MorisseauEnoch Armando KinggeorgiaJavon JohnsonKeith Arthur BoldenKelundra SmithTangela LargetheaterTrue Colors Theatre Company
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