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MON/13
Mah-Jongg Mondays, 1-3 p.m., Canfield Library; for adults (Mah-Jongg sets not provided).
Tales to Tails, 6 p.m., Canfield Library; read to therapy dogs, for grades kindergarten and up.
Crestview Local school board, regular meeting, 7 p.m., Middle School Cafeteria.
Cards & Games, 1-4 p.m., Leetonia Community Public Library.
Columbiana County Board of Revision, annual reorganizational meeting, 1 p.m. Followed immediately by a meeting of the
Automatic Data Processing Board. Meetings will be held in the Auditor's Conference Room, main floor of the courthouse.
Meredith Deichler will talk on her travels to Portugal, 6:30 pm., Lepper Library. Call 330-424-3117 to register.
PERRY TOWNSHIP
Board of Trustees, regular and reorganizational meeting, 5 p.m., administration building, North Ellsworth Avenue.
Historical Society Museum and Gift/Book Shop, 239 S. Lundy Ave., open, tours by appointment, 9 a.m. – noon, 330-337-8514.
Banquet in Salem, 5-7 p.m., Salem Memorial Building; menu includes chicken noodle soup, penne pasta and meatballs, green beans, tossed salad, fresh vegetables, fruit and ice cream sundaes; information, Patty Colian at 330-831-2169.
Gettin' Crafty, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Salem Library Quaker Room.
Salem Eagles Auxiliary meeting, 7 p.m.
Washingtonville VFW Post 5532 Auxiliary, 6 p.m.
TUE/14
Baby Brilliant: Tales & Talk for 2s & 3s, 10 a.m., Canfield Library; activities to help children ages 2 to 3 become readers.
Learn to Line Dance, 6:30 p.m., Canfield Library; for teens and adults; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
Crochet for Charity, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; "No Running in the Library!" sponge kickball for grades Pre-K through four, 3:45-4:45 p.m.; Gentle Yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Leetonia Community Public Library.
Salem High School Class of 1948, breakfast, 10 a.m., Adele's Place.
Salem Hospital Retirees, 11 a.m., lunch, Adele's Place.
Parkinson's Support Group, 1 p.m., Emmanuel Luthern Church Education Building, 251 S. Broadway Ave.
Salem Eagles Aerie meeting, 7 p.m.
SALEM TOWNSHIP
Salem Township Trustees, meeting, 7 p.m., township administration building, state Route 558.
WED/15
Gotta Move Story Time, 10 a.m., Canfield Library; for children ages 2-5 with caregiver.
Salem Area Visiting Nurse Association free blood pressure check, 1-2 p.m., Canfield Library.
Friend of the PLYMC Canfield Committee meeting, 1:30 p.m., Canfield Library.
Lego My Library, 6 p.m., Canfield Library; for school-age children ages 6 and up.
Leetonia High School Class of 1950, 9:30 a.m., Old Towne Country Grill.
Toddler Playgroup, 10-11:15 a.m., Leetonia Community Public Library.
Leetonia High School Classes 1955-57, lunch, noon, Heck's Restaurant.
Village Council, 6:30 p.m., village hall.
Mercy Health Dental Van, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Lepper library. Call 330-424-3117 for information.
Toddler and Preschool Storytime, 10 a.m., Lepper Library; celebrating Winnie the Pooh and his friends.
David Anderson High School Class of 1957, lunch, 2 p.m., Pondi's Restaurant.
Salem High School Class of 1952, lunch, noon, Boneshakers.
Salem High School Class of 1967, dinner, 6 p.m., Rancho Viejo.
Stitches in Time, 6:30-8 p.m., Salem Public Library Quaker Room.
Dana School of Music free percussion clinic, 5-9 p.m., Youngstown State University Bliss Hall Room 2326; information is available by calling the Office of Community Engagement and Events at 330-941-2307.
THU/16
Baby Brilliant: Bonding with Babies & Books, 10 a.m., Canfield Library; for caregivers and little ones 6 to 23 months old.
Understanding Personality Type, 6:30 p.m., Canfield Library; for adults; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
Greenford High School Class of 1958, lunch, 11:30 a.m., Inner Circle Cafe, Canfield.
Exercise, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; Crochet, 4-6 p.m., Leetonia Community Public Library.
New Waterford Eagles, wing night, 4-9 p.m. Queen of Hearts available.
TOPS #1598 meeting, weigh-ins 8:30-9:15 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 244 S. Broadway Ave.; information at 234-575-0805.
Salem High School Class of 1947, lunch, noon, Pop Jackson's.
Salem Public Library retirees luncheon, 1 p.m., Ricky's English Pub.
Brain Games for Seniors, 2-3:30 p.m., Quaker Room of Salem Public Library; meets third Thursday each month; play a card game, have a word search competition, play a few rounds of the game "Boggle," no registration needed, no cost to participate; for more information, call the library at 330-332-0042.
Salem Eagles Calzone Night, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; calzones $6 and up, small pizzas $7 and up; carryout available at 330-337-8053.
Concealed Carry Shoot, 6 p.m., Salem Hunting Club; defensive pistol shooting and shooting skills using handguns; open to the public; $5.
Customizing an Android phone, 6:30 p.m., Salem Public Library Quaker Room; register at www.salem.lib.oh.us or 330-332-0042.
FRI/17
Aultman Hospital HealthTalks, Healthy Eating in the New Year, noon, Aultman Alliance Community Hospital; reservations at 330-754-4508 or www.aultman.org/healthtalks; free and open to public.
Friends of PLYMC Chair Yoga, 10 a.m., Canfield Library; for adults; $10 per session as you attend.
Leetonia High School Class of 1962, 9:30 a.m., Heck's Restaurant in Columbiana.
"Legally Blonde the Musical Jr" presented by Stage Left Youth Players, 7 p.m., Trinity Playhouse, 234 E. Lincoln Way; $14 adults, $12 senior citizens and $10 students; tickets available at the door; reservations at StageLeftPlayers.org.
New Waterford Eagles, Fish Friday, 4-9 p.m., Queen of Hearts available.
Salem Eagles Fish Fry, 4-7 p.m.; fish dinner $12, chicken tenders $10, both with French fries, cole slaw and rolls; carryout available at 330-337-8053.
.22 Rifle Match shot from (heated) indoors, 6 p.m. start, Salem Hunting Club; $1 per match; open to the public.
SAT/18
Butter-Making Class, 11 a.m., Canfield Library; for adults and teens, bring own small mixing bowl; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
Greenford High School Class of 1958, 11:30 a.m., Inner Circle Canfield.
1-on-1 Computer and Smart Device Help, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Lepper Library. Call 330-424-3117 to register.
Ukulele Workshop, 1-3 p.m., Lepper Library. Call 330-424-3117 to register.
Book Club will discuss "Where The Crawdads Sing," 1 p.m., Lepper Library. Call 330-424-3117 to register.
Community Day Camp "Grab & Go" soup fundraiser, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Calvary United Methodist Church, 12062 South Ave. Choices of soup are zucchini chowder, wedding, ham and bean, stuffed pepper, baked potato, and broccoli cheese and more. Cost is $8 per soup.
Salem High School Class of 1953, noon, Annabell's.
Scrabble Tournament, 1-4 p.m., Salem Public Library Quaker Room; register: www.salem.lib.oh.us or 330-332-0042.
Radio Edit concert, 9 p.m., Salem Eagles; kitchen open 8-10 p.m.
SUN/19
Knights of Columbus Councils from Columbiana and East Palestine, benefit spaghetti dinner for Sophia Women's Center, 1-4 p.m., St. Jude Activity Center, 180 Seventh St.; $8 adults, $5 children 12 and under, free for children and under; carry out available.
Lisbon Lions Club Bingo, 6 p.m., 3840 Industrial Park Road; doors open at 4 p.m.
New Waterford Eagles, breakfast, 8 a.m.-noon, Queen of Hearts available.
A Little Live Music featuring Marilyn Mong, 2-3 p.m., Salem Public Library Adult Reading Room.
Kent State Salem Communiversity Choir with the Kent State Nova Jazz Singers free concert, 3 p.m., Kent State Salem City Center auditorium.
Salem Book Club monthly meeting, noon, Smucker House, South Broadway; guests welcome; for information call Barb Yonkers 234-567-3098.
Coffee Talk with West Branch Schools Superintendent Timothy Saxton, 9 a.m., Perkins Restaurant.
Columbiana County Hope Festival Relay for Life meeting, 6 p.m., Community Learning Center; for information, call Dawn Bednarke at 234-736-6757.
Crochet for Charity, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Gentle Yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Library Board of Trustees, 5:30 p.m., Leetonia Community Public Library.
Electric Furnace breakfast, 9 a.m., Adele's Place.
Bank One Retirees and Friends, noon, Annabelle's; RSVP at 330-427-0304.
Salem High School Class of 1964, 12:30 p.m., Ricky's English Pub.
National Popcorn Day & Other Snack Foods, 6:30 p.m., Canfield Library; for adults and teens; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
Salem High School Class of 1950, lunch, 11:30 a.m., Mike's Penn Grille.
Salem Eagles Bingo Night Backroom, 6 p.m.; members and guests.
Using Newspapers for Genealogical Research, 6:30 p.m., Canfield Library; for adults and teens; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
Oasis Food Ministry distribution, 4-6 p.m., First Christian Church, 39 Cherry St.; anyone 60 and older may come from 1 to 2 p.m.
United High School Classes of 1959 and 1960, 9 a.m., Adele's.
Kaiser and National retirees, breakfast, 8:30 a.m., Adele's.
Salem Eagles Italian Subs, 5-8 p.m.; $6 for sandwich, $8 with macaroni or potato salad; carryout available at 330-337-8053.
Target Pistol Shooting shot from (heated) indoors, 6 p.m. start, Salem Hunting Club; $5, open to the public.
Learn to use Google Maps, 6:30 p.m., Salem Public Library Quaker Room; register at www.salem.lib.oh.us or 330-332-0042.
Microsoft Word Class 2, 10 a.m., Canfield Library; prior attendance in Microsoft Word Class 1 is preferred; for adults; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
.22 Rifle Match shot from (heated) indoors, 6 p.m. start, Salem Hunting Club; $1 per match, open to the public.
Parachute & Play, 10 a.m., Canfield Library; for children ages 3-4 with caregivers; register at 330-744-8636.
4-Lane Highway concert, 9 p.m., Salem Eagles; kitchen open 8-10 p.m.; open to public.
A celebration of life in honor of Holly Ann Cannon (Ford) of Leetonia, 4-8 p.m., VFW Post 5532, 575 S. County Road. Benefit pasta dinner is $10. Chinese auction and 50/50 raffle. Rick Stoffer will provide music. Proceeds will be placed in an account to benefit Cannon's three children. Those unable to attend may donate via Huntington Bank (Giant Eagle or Salem) to account #02581356831. For information, call Melissa Croyle at 330-501-5531.
Salem Eagles Event Planning meeting, 6 p.m.; Auxiliary meeting, 7 p.m.
Genealogy program, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Salem Public Library Quaker Room; register at www.salem.lib.oh.usor call 330-332-0042.
Wellsville High School Class of 1962, lunch, 1 p.m., Paddle Wheel.
Off the Shelves book club, 6:30 p.m., Canfield Library; for adults; January book is Sally Rooney's "Normal People," February book is Ann Patchett's "The Dutch House."
Crochet for Charity, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Gentle Yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Leetonia Community Public Library.
Salem High School Class of 1946, breakfast, 9 a.m., Adele's Place.
"New Year, Healthy You" free educational seminar, 6:30 p.m., Salem Regional Medical Center (SRMC); register at 330-332-7439.
Adult Book Discussion featuring Tayari Jones' "An American Marriage," 7-8 p.m., Salem Public Library.
Sit 'n Stitch, 11 a.m., Canfield Library; for adults.
Instagram 101, 6:30 p.m., Canfield Library; learn to share photos and videos on Instagram; for adults and teens; register at 330-744-8636 or online.
Off the Shelves book club, 11 a.m., Canfield Library; for adults; January book is Sally Rooney's "Normal People," February book is Ann Patchett's "The Dutch House."
Salem Eagles auxiliary sloppy joe's or coney dog with French fries, 5-8 p.m.; $5; carryout available at 330-337-8053.
Concealed Carry Shoot, 6 .pm., Salem Hunting Club; defensive pistol shooting and shooting skills using handguns; open to the public; $5.
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2022 Quebec Provincial Election
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We are keeping track of all the women candidates who put their names on the ballot to provide a simple and accessible resource for Canadians, journalists, and political parties.
Quebec Provincial Election 2022
This year, the Quebec Election will be taking place on October 3rd, 2022.
In the previous provincial Election in 2018, 53 women MPP were elected in Quebec, which was the highest number and percentage that the province had ever elected (42.40%). In this provincial election, Equal Voice is still advocating for gender parity – that means at least 50% of nominated candidates and at least 50% of elected MPPs being women or gender diverse people. Our aim is to have at least 63 women or gender diverse MPPs.
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› Newsroom › News › USM Leads Effort to Provide Enhanced Course-Sharing Platform to Ease Transfer, Degree Completion for College Students Throughout Maryland
USM Leads Effort to Provide Enhanced Course-Sharing Platform to Ease Transfer, Degree Completion for College Students Throughout Maryland
New ARTSYS Partnership with Quottly will Include Students at 35 Higher Ed Institutions
Baltimore, Md. (Jan. 25, 2022) – The University System of Maryland (USM) will lead a partnership to provide an enhanced, academic course-sharing platform that will greatly boost the ability of college students throughout Maryland to transfer academic credit, complete their degrees and enter the state's growing workforce and innovation economy. Students at 35 public and private higher education institutions across the state will benefit.
The USM partnership with Quottly—a leading provider of academic course-sharing platforms—will replace the state's existing college-course credit portal, known as The Articulation System for Maryland Colleges and Universities (ARTSYS). The new ARTSYS platform will make transfer much easier for students to complete their degrees and enter or advance themselves in the state workforce. Among those students who will benefit are working adults with some college credit, students at any Maryland higher education institution who are considering transfer to one of the 35 ARTSYS institutions, and high school students who have enrolled for early-college-credit programs.
"For the USM and our 12 universities, this new platform is a game-changer," said USM Chancellor Jay A. Perman. "A good share of our enrollment consists of students transferring into the University System from two- and four-year colleges. Easing their transition into the USM and helping them complete a degree are huge priorities for us, and streamlining the credit transfer process is key to both outcomes. Plus, it's gratifying to know that this platform will help not only our own students, but those at institutions across Maryland."
The new ARTSYS platform will help fill a critical need. The credit transfer process in higher education often involves cumbersome, labor-intensive requirements that can frustrate both students and administrators. The new partnership with Quottly will help students using the new ARTSYS more easily transfer credits and keep up with the status of those transfers at the participating institutions.
Quottly currently supports more than 200 colleges and universities nationally, with a combined enrollment of over 2.9 million students.
"Quottly offers powerful customization options that check all the boxes for our system," said Dr. Antoinette Coleman, Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at USM. "We needed a partner with a robust infrastructure and integration abilities to realize our vision of credit transfer improvement and ease of use. The impact of this technology is significant for students and staff alike, not only in the USM but for all the public and private institutions we will serve in this partnership."
For example, the new portal will let students know which classes transfer, where a student's classes will be accepted as transfer credits, and how the classes will be credited. The platform also will give students capability to monitor their overall credits. However, the mission of the new ARTSYS computerized information system remains the same: to aid the transfer of students from Maryland community colleges to USM institutions and other participating institutions.
The USM and its institutions compete successfully for nearly $1.5 billion in external grants and contracts annually. USM institutions and programs are among the nation's best in quality and value according to several national rankings. To learn more about the University System of Maryland, visit www.usmd.edu.


Buenos Aires, Argentina - Day One - January 24, 2015 - Blog from Buenos Aires, Argentina | South America!!
First I must say, I feel so very much better. When I woke this morning I was thrilled to see my cold almost gone. It was brief one, thankfully, but mighty! Thank you Lord for relief!
Well, we did not make it to the convergence of the two rivers for sunset last night, but we did see it this morning in our exercise walk!
We were led to believe it was a mere stroll from our hotel to the rivers, but the walk was much longer than we expected. We got a good walk in today and got to see the borders of three countries, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay!!
We arrived in Buenos Aires about 1:30 pm and could tell from the view while still in the air that the city is huge. Really huge. We learned it has a population of 12 million people. Twelve million!!! We were met by a guide, Lillian and a driver, who immediately immersed us in the area. Our first stop was the oldest cemetery in all of Buenos Aries, Cemetery Recoleta, which dates back to the 1500's. Evita Perone is buried here. When she died of cancer at age 33 she was buried at a military installation. When Juan Perone lost power and the military gained control of the country, she was moved to Italy. Later when Juan Perone became the president for the third time, her body was moved to its final resting place here with her brothers and mother in the Duarte family mausoleum. People still place flowers on her site. She was a voice of the people.
The cemetery is a work of art and wealth. Inside the small rooms of the family mausoleums are shelves on which fancy caskets or decorated boxes containing ashes are placed to sit for eternity. The family mausoleums are amazing and obviously very expensive. Once a family purchases a lot, it has ownership for thirty years (originally 150 years), after that point, the family must pay fees to the city. After many years, many families lose touch with their ancestors and wish to no longer pay for the expensive upkeep of the mausoleums. Some go to decay. Once a family loses the ownership of a spot, the caskets in the mausoleum are moved to a common cemetery across the city and the mausoleum is offered for sale to another family. The bodies of twenty-three Argentine presidents are in mausoleums in this cemetery. We saw beautiful statues of angels. We saw sculptures depicting a young mother and baby in eternal sleep. We saw a statue of a young bride, still in her wedding gown who died in an avalanche in Austria on her honeymoon. A statue of her beloved dog is by her side. To touch the dog's nose is said to bring good luck.
After the cemetery visit, we were shown all the high spots of the city; it was a complete mental and visual overload. Maybe we will get to revisit these spots later and sort out what it is we should know. We visited the Cathedral where Pope Francis served as Bishop. We saw many wonderful squares and parks where people of the city were outside enjoying their Saturday in the sunshine. We were introduced to several important memorial plazas, the beautiful City Hall, the Argentine Congress and the Presidential office.
One of the most interesting points, however, was the La Boca area on the river port. In the 1940's, there were many immigrants from Italy who came to work in the shipyards. Because they had little money, they built homes near the shipyards of any material they could get their hands on. The houses were built of metal and spare materials. They could not afford paint, so they used paints left-over from the ships. Thus even today, the streets feature houses of all colors and unusual building materials. These streets now make up a happy place hosting artists, restaurants, and tango bars,; it is a fun destination for visitors and locals alike. A big fireworks will be there tonight.
Tomorrow, Sunday, is a big day for markets. We hope to find our way to the San Telmo market and perhaps the Rocoleta market tomorrow afternoon.


In an unprecedented move, Santa Anita Park has announced that beginning this Saturday, Jan. 19, Santa Anita will guarantee a 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick Six Jackpot of $2 million for eight consecutive racing days prior to a mandatory payout (pending CHRB approval) on Feb. 2.
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Joe Biden had his best debate yet. But the wine cave business lost.
Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic
Opinion writer
December 19, 2019 at 11:25 PM EST
This article has been updated.
Members of the mainstream media have recently noticed former vice president Joe Biden's durability in the Democratic presidential primary race. Reporters seem to also have recognized that Twitter is not the Democratic primary electorate, and that the latter really likes Biden. Biden and his team's insight into the identity of the Democratic Party, one Twitter does not accurately reflect, might be paying off.
He had arguably his best debate, starting with a high-minded statement on impeachment. When asked next about the middle class, he came alive, speaking fluently about the disproportionate benefit the wealthy get. ("We have to eliminate a significant number of these god-awful tax cuts that were given to the very wealthy," he declared.) This is the Biden many voters recall, sticking up for working people in plainspoken language. ("The middle class is getting crushed.") He was equally articulate and passionate on climate change, showing a firm grip on details and his telltale optimism. ("We're the only country in the world that's ever taken great, great crises and turned them into enormous opportunities.")
Biden refused to be boxed into defending the status quo, saying we have to move "beyond normal." He said no one had more reason to be angry with Republicans for attacking him and his son, but if we cannot reach some understandings then "we're dead as a country," he argued. Rather than accuse the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a racist, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) did, Biden boasted of his connection to Netanyahu and cheered for a two-state solution. On China, Biden spoke of rebalancing power in Asia and rebuilding alliances. He got off a witty remark, saying he didn't think President Barack Obama's remark that old men needed to get out of the way referred to him. He turned the question to his advantage, saying with age comes wisdom. He also got a big round of applause when he said he would not commit to run for a second term because he hadn't won anything yet.
Most of all, the former vice president seemed relaxed and cheery. When necessary, he showed some fire, slapping down Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) suggestion that he was in the pocket of big donors. He deftly answered questions about our losing strategy in Afghanistan, he made the point (accurately) that he had opposed a big-footprint strategy. Ironically, the one issue on which he most vigorously opposed Obama may be one of the more powerful arguments in his favor. He also shredded Medicare-for-all with a flurry of details pointing out it is not feasible or affordable. He turned a final question into a paean to the people he comforts on the trail and still calls to check in on, a reminder of his strongest quality: empathy.
Sanders may have reminded his loyal followers how much they like him and his brand of undiluted socialism, but his problem was evident in Thursday's debate: His floor may be slightly higher than previously thought, but his ceiling remains fixed. He railed against the new trade deal, insisting the United States had to end (!) job losses, as though the government has a spigot that can turn off the outflow of jobs. He got caught for sliding away from a question on race, and insisted we be "pro-Palestinian" in addition to being pro-Israel. That works like catnip with his left-wing base but doesn't gain him new supporters.
As good as her summer was, the autumn for Warren has been dreadful. She repeated many of her campaign themes on Thursday, such as her wealth tax and anti-corruption measures. It was not anything new, so if you've seen a few of these debates, you might be wondering what else she has to say. She seemed to disappear for stretches of the debate, though she did get off a great line after a moderator noted that she would be the oldest person elected president. "I'd also be the youngest woman," she cracked to laughter and applause. She went after South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg for "fundraisers in wine caves" and chided him for not holding open fundraisers, but seemed to lose the round when Biden, Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) slapped down her suggestion that they could be bought.
Coming into the debate, Buttigieg surely was ready for the knives. He got through an hour before the heavy fire started. The mayor made a plea to talk about the poor and not just the middle class, and used his roots in the Midwest to explain the impact of climate change. He was, as we have come to expect, cool and confident in his delivery. On foreign policy, Buttigieg rightly accused President Trump of interfering in Israel's domestic politics and presiding over chaotic foreign policy. Rather than criticize Israel, he went after the president for embarrassing himself on the world stage. On China, Buttigieg made a plea for human rights, accusing Trump of "trashing" our values. He asked what message it sends when China hears "not a peep from the president of the United States"? He gave a full-throated, passionate defense of immigration, drawing on his experience as mayor interacting with children and families living illegally in the United States without harming anyone.
On the back-and-forth with Warren over fundraisers and billionaire donors, Buttigieg more than held his own, knocking her "purity tests" and reminding Warren that she transferred big-dollar fundraiser money from her 2018 Senate race to her presidential campaign. When repeatedly tested by Klobuchar, he forcefully retorted to her attack on his experience, reminding her he has risked his life to uphold the Constitution. Remaining poised, he showed he could take a punch without losing his cool.
Klobuchar, who needs a strong showing in Iowa, would arguably be the candidate most harmed by an impeachment trial in the Senate, which would demand her attendance in the weeks leading up to the caucus. This may have been her best chance to reach early-state voters before the voting in Iowa starts Feb. 3. The senator started off strong, laying into the president for blocking witnesses and calling the Ukraine scandal a "global Watergate." On trade, she made a strong case for the pending trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada, with a shout-out to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who supports it, as well as the Iowa farmers who would benefit.
When it came to climate change, Klobuchar painted a horrifying picture of a father singing to his child to calm her while driving through a California wildfire. She stressed her electability advantage as someone from the heartland. Unlike some rivals, she does not recycle the same set pieces. Klobuchar chided Sanders for his Medicare-for-all plan, which is not acceptable to moderate Democrats. She closed strongly with an acknowledgement that she can be blunt, but emotionally spoke to the necessity of getting the right candidate. Her answers seemed fresh, her energy high.
On race, she tipped her hat to former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on voter suppression; and on foreign leaders laughing at Trump, Klobuchar all but called him a coward. ("He quit. America doesn't quit.") She took a slap at Buttigieg, emphasizing his title as mayor (read: not big enough for the job) for only using "talking points" in defense of the media while she was the daughter of a newspaperman. That one didn't make a lot of sense, but she sounded feisty. She played the adult, stopping the food fight between Warren and Buttigieg on fundraisers to call for talking about what unties us. Clearly, her intent was to go after Buttigieg, which she did frequently on his experience and his denigration of Washington insiders. She certainly showed her toughness (even referring to her performance during the confirmation hearing of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh) and her determination to claim the role of effective lawmaker.
Business executives Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer were in the debate, but Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former housing and urban development secretary Julián Castro were not. You cannot fault Yang and Steyer for navigating the rules to reach the debate, but with the exception of Yang's answer on special-needs children, they did not match the seriousness and knowledge displayed by their peers. You were left wondering whether Booker, for example, may have added a lot more substance to the discussion on race, foreign policy and more.
Biden, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Judy Woodruff
Three-hour debates, Yang, Steyer, Warren, fighting about fundraisers, the wine cave business
Karen Tumulty: The debate reminds us that the only way to remove Trump from office is at the ballot box
Stephen Stromberg: The Democratic race has shifted toward the realists
Alexandra Petri: The brawl in the wine cave
Election 2020: What to know
Twelve major candidates are in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, with less than two weeks to go before the first votes are cast. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) dropped out Jan. 13, following Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, and self-help author Marianne Williamson. The four senators in the race are contending with the impeachment trial, which will keep them in Washington.
The candidates: Many voters haven't firmly made up their minds on which candidates they're supporting, but three are in double digits in polls in all four early states and in national polls, in a Post average: former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg is also in double digits in Iowa and New Hampshire polls. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), billionaire investor Tom Steyer, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-Hawaii) are all also still in the running.
Where they stand: Candidates have laid out where they stand on a number of issues, including economic inequality, health care, immigration, changes to government, climate change, education and foreign policy. Answer some of the questions yourself and see who agrees with you.
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Healing, calming, cooling; Moon of the great winds.
The plantain, in the medicine wheel is the plant totem in the moon of the great winds (February 19-March 20). This is a common herb that grows throughout the world. Its leaves are dark green and the flowers are white. Plantain is versatile in medical usage – inside and out. Generally it is used for calming and cooling.
In general this dream shows that there is the part of you that understands how important is to be well-connected with the earth and always willing to serve and to find the ability to cure in everyday things.
Gift of relaxation; Gift of reassurance.
dreamt of harvesting plantains by digging instead of cutting from the steam.
I was in my dream when my elder brother brought a full bunch of plantian to me, either to share with me.


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Decent News Out Of Maine -- Saddleback Mountain Will Reopen
After years of sitting idle, watching the seasons change, but not able to open for skiing or snowboarding, Saddleback Mountain will once again have the lifts turning with an expected reopening next season.
The Berry Family, owners of Saddleback Mountain, have reached an agreement with Arctaris Impact Fund to purchase Saddleback, Inc. and Saddleback Land and Timber Corp.
Saddleback was one of the top three largest ski areas in the state and sits on one of the top ten highest mountains in Maine. In 2003, the mountain changed owners to the Berry Family, who shut down operations in the summer of 2015.
The mountain sat idle but had a chance at reopening in 2017 when the Majella Group agreed to purchase the mountain. However, after Majella CEO Sebastian Monsour was arrested on fraud allegations, that sale was not completed and the mountain remained closed.
This past Thursday, November 7, the light began to show at the end of the tunnel for the Rangeley, ME mountain. It was through a press release on the Saddleback website that it was announced that Arctaris Impact Fund would purchase the mountain. Having expressed interest in purchasing and reopening the mountain just over a year ago, finally an agreement has been reached between all parties involved.
"This beautiful mountain has so much potential and it looks like the Buyer has a strong plan moving forward. We are excited for the acquisition to be complete for the Saddleback Resort community and the entire Rangeley area" said Dawn Klein of Lakehome Group, real estate broker for the Berry Family.
There have been reports of plans to hire a new workforce of approximately 200 people, which would help to revitalize a community that has seen some struggles since the mountain shut down. Also, the reopening of the mountain would have benefits for other local businesses, as well.
Along with the benefits to community, there came reports of benefits to the ski area, including replacing the older double-chair with a new quad and improving the snowmaking system at the mountain. If all goes well, the mountain could be open in time for the 2020/2021 season.
Photo Credit: ThePessimus [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


Nurse called last week, I thought to start scheduling our next cycle. She was actually calling to relay the advice of a new doctor who has apparently joined the practice. This doctor decided that what we really needed was to do a mock cycle and then an endometrial biopsy to see whether or not I needed to add any additional progesterone to our routine. That means, go through an entire cycle, including weeks of PIO injections, ending not in a transfer, but in this new doc taking a swab of my uterine lining. Based on the results of those weeks of hormones, headaches, shots and that swab we would either: a.) know that the protocol was just fine and start a new cycle or b.) add a little more progesterone to it.
I hung up with nurse, slightly stunned. Thinking first of all, "Who the F*ck is Dr. ____ and what does he/she know about me?" Second thought was, "Yes, my lining was slightly under 8 this time around but THEY CHOSE not to increase my estrace. It was less than 8 the first cancelled cycle and we upped the estrace, which seemed the do the trick. It was less than 8 the second cancelled cycle because I was only on estrace for a few days before the first stripe test...."
The more I thought about things, the angrier I got. I turned to hubby for some reason and rational thought. Perhaps I was overreacting or still upset from the BFN. His anger and indignity only added to mine. He broke it down like this: If an endometrial biopsy was what they wanted to do, they had 2 cancelled cycles which they could have continued to that end, AND the several months we were sitting around doing nothing while we were waiting for our donor to be available. Now, they want to waste our time, money, emotions? Now??
I felt slightly better knowing we were on the same page. From my perspective, I simply couldn't imagine going through the stress of a cycle knowing it was a mock one. Shooting up is hard for me as it is. Would I really go forward with that day after day knowing that all I had to look forward to was a cotton swab up my noonie? It would be different if I or they suspected some serious abnormality. It would be different if increasing estrace hadn't already been proven to work. It would be different if we only had 1 or 2 embies left. It would be different if we had a few thousand dollars to throw around on meds and medical tests that serve our clinic's purposes and stats more so than ours. It would be different if Dr. ___ was the person who had taken us through the process up to this point. It would be different if there weren't ample time and opportunity to address this perceived issues without the pain of additional and fake cycle.
But none of this is the case.
So, confident that hubby had my back, I called nurse the next morning. And we talked about all of this. And much more. We talked about how bothered we were that of the 4 people present for our transfer, we knew none of them (nurse had CPR training and had already told us she couldn't be present). We talked about how upset we were that this new and unknown person (Dr. ___) seemed to be calling the shots on our cycles. We talked about how it felt when we felt the (well-respected and university-affiliated) clinic was more interested in keeping their stats above the national average than they were with us as patients. It was a long and hard conversation.
She totally understood and sympathized and made it seem like she, too, was bothered by the message she had to relay. She explained that the clinic was expanding and that a number of doctors had joined the team, hence Dr. ___, hence the unknown faces between my legs at transfer. She explained who the new docs were and which aspects of the clinic they would be in charge of. We told her that we considered her our lifeline and the one real and human point of contact there. We didn't know what we would do without her. Long pause. She said, "then I am going to keep your file. I'm supposed to turn it over to another nurse now that you are doing FET but I won't and I am going to use this conversation as my justification."
And we told her we were so grateful for that. She has been with us since the day I called almost a year ago and set up an appointment for a consult. She was the one that hugged me when I cried during the needle training. She was the one that held my hand when I got my stitch put in before the first transfer. She was the one that had to call and tell me about the BFN. To go through this without her would be rough.
So, it's day 5 of lupron. So far, so good. I need to get back in the habit of good breakfasts and healthy days. But we are looking forward to our first FET, scheduled tentatively for early March, with nurse by our side.
Wow, its amazing the power of a well timed conversation that comes from a place of truth... best of luck with you in the weeks to come.
The best thing about the clinic we went to was one nurse we worked with, like yours, she was with us from the beginning and we went through her for everything, her caring and assistance was AMAZING. It truly made all the difference in our care at the big clinic we were at. I am SO GLAD that you have someone there for you. And so great to read that you and your husband were on the same page regarding how to proceed -- it makes things easier.
I am looking forward to your FET in march too.
Oh, and I'm tagging you! See my blog for details.
Before this current cycle, my doctor (who by the way, I got by default when the doctor I CHOSE left the practice), suggested that same biopsy, as well. Like you, I couldn't imagine doing all of the drugs, checks, etc for nothing. AND...she told me that the biopsy would hurt. UM...hello!! In this day and age, there is no reason for that. I told her she would have to give me some VERY heavy drugs if I went ahead w/ it. I do not believe in physical pain (we get enough emotional pain from this). But she sort of has a "grin and bare it attitude." I hate her. Anyway...did they mention sending your samples to Yale? That is what they wanted to do w/ mine. I declined the procedure, anyway. But they did tell me, that it is not usually something that they recommend w/o several failed cycles with no apparent reason.
Dear pretty, I am so sorry to hear you're not happy with your current doc. There was no mention of sending samples to Yale, but I wouldn't doubt it.
I could understand the recommendation better if this were our nth failed cycle. But the first 2 cancellations had NOTHING to do with us - our chosen donor didn't respond to the protocols. So this most recent transfer was actually our very first attempt to sustain a pregnancy. Our first failed attempt.
I am glad to hear that I'm not the only person that said thanks but no thanks to this seemingly cruel and unusual procedure. There's got to be a better way!
I am angry for you too! That if awful. I'm glad you have at least one link to a human.
We were lucky to have a small clinic with only one doctor and still very good stats.


The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is selected by a positional voting system. Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. The current system has been in place since 2016.
To announce the votes, the contest's presenters connect by satellite to each country in turn and inviting a spokesperson to read the country's votes in French or English. The presenters originally repeated the votes in both languages, but since 2004 the votes have been translated due to time constraints. To offset increased voting time required by a larger number of participating countries, since 2006 only countries' eight-, 10-, and 12-point scores are read aloud; one- to seven-point votes are added automatically to the scoreboard while each country's spokesperson is introduced. The scoreboard displays the number of points each country has received and, since 2008, a progress bar indicating the number of countries which have voted. Since 2016, only the 12-point score is read aloud due to the new voting system, meaning that the nine scoring countries were added automatically to the scoreboard (1-8 and 10 points). In addition, the televoting points are combined together and the presenters announce them in order, starting from the country with the lowest score and ending with the country with the highest score from the televoting.
1956 2 Two-member juries from each country awarded two points to their favourite song.
1957–61 10–1 Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs.
1962 3–1 Ten-member juries awarded points to their three favourite songs.
1963 5–1 Twenty-member juries awarded points to their five favourite songs.
1964–66 5, 3, 1 / 6, 3 / 9 Ten-member juries distributed 9 points in three possible ways. If all their votes went to one single song, it got all the 9 points, if they went to two songs, they got 6 and 3 points, and if they went to three or more, the top three got 5, 3 and 1 points. No jury ever gave 9 points to a single song, but Belgium used the 6-3 system in 1965.
1967–69 10–1 Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs.
1970 Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs. A tie-breaking round was available.
1971–73 10–2 Two-member juries (one aged over 25 and the other under 25, with at least 10 years between their ages) rated songs between one and five points.
1974 10–1 Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs.
1975–96 12, 10, 8–1 All countries had at least eleven jury members (later rising to sixteen) that would award points to their top ten songs.
1997 Twenty countries had jury members and five countries used televote to decide which songs would get points.
1998–2000 All countries should use telephone voting to decide which songs would receive points. In exceptional circumstances (e.g. weak telephone system) where televoting was not possible at all, a jury was used.
2001–02 Every broadcaster was free to make a choice between the full televoting system and the mixed 50–50 system to decide which songs would receive points. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible, only a jury was used.
2003 All countries should use telephone/SMS voting to decide which songs would receive points. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible at all, only a jury was used.
2009–12 All countries used televoting and/or SMS-voting (50%) and five-member juries (50%), apart from San Marino which is 100% jury due to country size. This is so called jury–televote 50/50.[note 2] The two parts of the vote were combined by awarding 12, 10, 8–1 points to the top ten in each discipline, then combining the scores. Where two songs were tied, the televote score took precedence.
2013–15 The same as in 2009–12, except jury and televote are combined differently. The jurors and televoting each rank all the competing entries, rather than just their top ten. The scores are then added together and in the event of a tie, the televote score takes precedence.
^ Back-up juries are used by each country (with eight members) in the event of a televoting failure.
^ In the event of a televoting failure, only a jury is used by that country; in the event of a jury failure, only televoting is used by that country.
The most-used voting system (other than the current one) was last used for the 1969 contest. This system was used from 1957 to 1961 and from 1967 to 1969. Ten jurors in each country each cast one vote for their favourite song. In 1969 this resulted in a four-way tie for first place (between the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Spain), with no tie-breaking procedure. A second round of voting in the event of a tie was introduced to this system the following year.
From 1962 to 1966, a voting system similar to the current one was used. In 1962, each country awarded its top three one, two and three points; in 1963 the top five were awarded one, two, three, four and five points, and from 1964 to 1966, each country usually awarded its top three one, three and five points. With the latter system, a country could choose to give points to two countries instead of three (giving three to one and six to the other); in 1965, Belgium awarded the United Kingdom six points and Italy three. Although it was possible to give one country nine points, this never occurred.
The 1971, 1972, and 1973 contests saw the jurors "in vision" for the first time. Each country was represented by two jurors: one older than 25 and one younger, with at least ten years' difference in their ages. Each juror gave a minimum of one point and a maximum of five points to each song. In 1974 the previous system of ten jurors was used, and the following year the current system was introduced. Spokespeople were next seen on screen in 1994 with a satellite link to the venue.
The 2004 contest had its first semifinal, with a slight change in voting: countries which did not qualify from the semifinal would be allowed to cast votes in the final. This resulted in Ukraine's Ruslana finishing first, with a record 280 points. If the voting had been conducted as it had been from 1956 to 2003 (when only finalist countries could vote), Serbia and Montenegro's Željko Joksimović would have won the contest with 190 points: a 15-point lead over Ruslana, who would have scored 175 points. To date, non-qualifying countries are still allowed to vote in the final. In 2006, Serbia and Montenegro were able to vote in the semifinal and the final despite their non-participation due to a scandal in the selection process (which resulted in Macedonia entering the final instead of Poland).
With the introduction of two semifinals in 2008, a new method of selecting finalists was created. The top nine songs (ranked by televote) qualified, along with one song selected by the back-up juries. This method, in most cases, meant that the tenth song in the televoting failed to qualify; this attracted some criticism, especially from Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (who had placed 10th in the televote in both years). In 2010 the 2009 final system was used, with a combination of televoting and jury votes from each country also used to select the semi-finalists. Each participating country had a national jury, consisting of five music-industry professionals appointed by national broadcasters.
"A Million Voices" sung by Russian artist Polina Gagarina, became the first song to get over 300 points without winning the contest (and the only one during the era when each country delivered only one set of points); with a new voting system introduced in 2016, Australia became the first country to get over 500 points without winning the contest. In 2017, Bulgaria became the first non-winning entry to score above 600 points, as well as Portugal becoming the first country to get over 750 points - winning the contest as a result of this. As the number of voting countries and the voting systems have varied, it may be more relevant to compare what percentage of all points awarded in the competition that each song received (computed from the published scoreboards  . The table below show winning songs by the percentage of all votes.
This table shows top 5 winning songs by the percentage from the all votes cast.
This table shows top 5 winning songs by the percentage from the maximum possible score a song can achieve.
This table shows top 10 participating songs (both winning and non-winning) by the number of votes cast.
Under the 2013–15 voting system Portugal would have received 17.12% of points in the 2017 competition.
A tie-break procedure was implemented after the 1969 contest, in which France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom tied for first place. With no tie-breaking system in place at the time, it was determined that all four countries would be awarded the title; in protest, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Portugal did not participate the following year.
In the procedure, sometimes known as a countback, if two (or more) countries tie, the song receiving points from the greater number of countries is the winner. If there is still a tie, a second tie-breaker counts the number of countries who assigned twelve points to each entry in the tie. Tie-breaks continue with ten points, eight points, and so on until the tie is resolved. If the tie cannot be resolved after the number of countries which assigned one point to the song is equal, the song performed earlier in the running order is declared the winner unless the host country performed earlier (in which case the song performed later would be the winner). This rule originally applied only to first place ties, but since 2008 has been applied to all places.
In 1991, the tie-break procedure was implemented when Sweden and France both had 146 points at the end of the voting. At the time, the tie-break rule was slightly different; the first tie-break rule was not yet in use, and the current rule of first determining the country with the votes from the most countries was not added until 2003. Both Sweden and France had received the maximum twelve points four times; when the number of ten-point scores was counted Sweden, represented by Carola and "Fångad av en stormvind", claimed its third victory since it received five ten-point scores against France's two. The French song "Le Dernier qui a parlé...", performed by Amina, finished second with the smallest-ever losing margin.
As each participating country casts a series of preference votes, under the current scoring system it is rare that a song fails to receive any votes at all; such a result means that the song failed to make the top ten most popular songs in any country.
1962 Belgium Fud Leclerc "Ton nom"
Austria Eleonore Schwarz "Nur in der Wiener Luft"
1963 Annie Palmen "Een speeldoos"
Finland Laila Halme "Muistojeni laulu"
Sweden Monica Zetterlund "En gång i Stockholm"
1964 Germany Nora Nova "Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne"
Yugoslavia Sabahudin Kurt "Život je sklopio krug"
Switzerland Anita Traversi "I miei pensieri"
1965 Spain Conchita Bautista "¡Qué bueno, qué bueno!"
Germany Ulla Wiesner "Paradies, wo bist du?"
Belgium Lize Marke "Als het weer lente is"
Finland Viktor Klimenko "Aurinko laskee länteen"
1966 Monaco Tereza Kesovija "Bien plus fort"
Italy Domenico Modugno "Dio, come ti amo"
1967 Switzerland Géraldine "Quel cœur vas-tu briser?"
1970 Luxembourg David Alexandre Winter "Je suis tombé du ciel"
1978 Norway Jahn Teigen "Mil etter mil"
1981 Finn Kalvik "Aldri i livet"
1982 Finland Kojo "Nuku pommiin"
1983 Spain Remedios Amaya "¿Quién maneja mi barca?"
Turkey Çetin Alp and The Short Waves "Opera"
1987 Seyyal Taner and Grup Locomotif "Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne"
1988 Austria Wilfried "Lisa Mona Lisa"
1989 Iceland Daníel Ágúst "Það sem enginn sér"
1991 Austria Thomas Forstner "Venedig im Regen"
1994 Lithuania Ovidijus Vyšniauskas "Lopšinė mylimai"
1997 Norway Tor Endresen "San Francisco"
Portugal Célia Lawson "Antes do adeus"
1998 Switzerland Gunvor "Lass ihn"
2003 United Kingdom Jemini "Cry Baby"
2015 Austria (host) The Makemakes "I Am Yours"
Germany Ann Sophie "Black Smoke"
The first time a host nation ever finished with nul points was in the 2015 final, when Austria's "I Am Yours" by The Makemakes scored zero. In 2003, following the UK's first zero score, an online poll was held to determine public opinion about each zero-point entry's worthiness of the score. Spain's "¿Quién maneja mi barca?" (1983) won the poll as the song that least deserved a zero, and Austria's "Lisa Mona Lisa" (1988) was the song most deserving of a zero.
In 2012, although it scored in the combined voting, France's "Echo (You and I)" by Anggun would have received no points if televoting alone had been used. In that year's first semi-final, although Belgium's "Would You?" by Iris received two points in the televoting-only hypothetical results from the Albanian jury (since Albania did not use televoting); Belgium would have received no official points from televoting alone. In his book, Nul Points, comic writer Tim Moore interviews several of these performers about how their Eurovision score affected their careers.
Since the creation of a qualifying round (semifinal) in 2004 and an expansion to two semifinals in 2008, more than thirty countries vote each night – even countries which have been eliminated or have already qualified. No points are rarer; it would require a song to place less than tenth in every country in jury voting and televote.
2004 Switzerland Piero Esteriore & The MusicStars "Celebrate"
2009 Czech Republic Gypsy.cz "Aven Romale"
With the new televoting system being introduced in the 2016 contest, scoring no points in either the jury voting or televoting phase is possible. An overall "nul points" is possible, but much less likely, and has not yet happened.
In 2016, the Czech Republic's entry "I Stand" received no points from the televote. They did get 41 points from juries. In 2017, Spain's entry "Do It for Your Lover" received no points from the juries. They did get 5 points from the televote. Also in 2017, Austria's entry "Running on Air" received no points from the televote but they did get 93 points from juries.
2017 Spain Manel Navarro "Do It for Your Lover"
2016 Czech Republic Gabriela Gunčíková "I Stand"
2017 Austria Nathan Trent "Running on Air"
2017 San Marino Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson "Spirit of the Night"
2017 Malta Claudia Faniello "Breathlessly"
2018 Iceland Ari Ólafsson "Our Choice"
No entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest has ever received nul points; between 2005 and 2015, each contestant begins with 12 points to prevent such a result. However, there has not been a situation that the 12 points received in the beginning would have remained as the sole points.[citation needed] The closest to that was Croatia in 2014 which ended up with 13 points, meaning that they received one point from a country's vote. On 15 October 2012, it was announced by the EBU, that for the first time in the contest's history a new "Kids Jury" was being introduced into the voting system. The jury consists of members aged between 10 and 15, and representing each of the participating countries. A spokesperson from the jury would then announce the points 1-8, 10 and the maximum 12 as decided upon by the jury members. In 2016 the Kids Jury was removed and instead, each country awarded 1-8, 10 and 12 points from both adult and kid's juries, also eliminating televoting from the contest. An expert panel were also present at the 2016 contest, with each of the panelists being able to award 1-8, 10 and 12 points themselves.
In 2018, Portugal and Wales earnt 0 points in the jury voting.
It is still common for countries to award points to their neighbours regularly, even if they are not part of a voting bloc (for example, Finland and Estonia, Germany and Denmark, the Baltic states and Russia or Albania and Greece). Votes may also be based on a diaspora. Greece, Turkey, Poland, Russia and the former Yugoslav countries normally get high scores from Germany or the United Kingdom, Armenia gets votes from France and Belgium, Poland from Ireland, Romania from Spain and Italy and Albania from Switzerland, Italy and San Marino. Former Eurovision TV director Bjørn Erichsen disagreed with the assertion that regional bloc voting significantly affects the contest's outcome, saying that Russia's first victory in 2008 was only possible with votes from thirty-eight of the participating countries.
In a recent study, , a new methodology is presented which allows a complete analysis of the competition from 1957 until 2017. The voting patterns change and the previous studies restrained their analysis to a particular time window where the voting scheme is homogeneous and this approach allows the sampling comparison over arbitrary periods consistent with the unbiased assumption of voting patterns. This methodology also allows for a sliding time window to accumulate a degree of collusion over the years producing a weighted network. The previous results are supported and the changes over time provide insight into the collusive behaviours given more or less choice.
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Could Oakland Raiders Turn to Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls?
The homeless Oakland Raiders could be looking for a place to play next season while its new stadium in Vegas is being built. How about eight games at Howard Wood Field?
Oakland is getting ready to potentially host its final Raiders game on Monday Night Football against the Denver Broncos. Everyone is aware of the team leaving for Las Vegas, but that new stadium won't be ready for another season yet. They could return to the bay area for the 2019 season, or they could look elsewhere.
So why not turn to a city that is a quick nonstop flight away from Vegas in Sioux Falls? The city has hosted numerous big-time events, and eight Raiders games would be equivalent to hosting an every weekend basketball tournament in this town.
When asked about the possibility of coming to Sioux Falls, Raiders head coach Jon Gruden expressed his love for the city.
"That town. Sioux Falls. What a beautiful city and what a great opportunity it would be to play a few games there. Haven't you seen those fans? Wow. Incredible! I haven't seen anything that beautiful since I traded away Amari Cooper."
The incredible response from Gruden prompted action from many in Sioux Falls including Sioux Falls School District's Activities Director Casey Meile and the staff at Howard Wood Field.
"We would be all in on having the Raiders turn into the Sioux Falls Raiders for one season," said Meile. "As long as Coach Gruden and the players respect the strict no sunflower seeds rule on the turf that my father instituted at Howard Wood Field, I think we can make a deal with them.
Two days later when asked about the potential partnership between the Raiders and Sioux Falls, Gruden tried to back away from all the rumors.
"You know...I made a mistake with Khalil Mack," Gruden admits, "I don't want to make a mistake with this one-year residency. I've consulted with my best friend at ESPN Jon "Stugotz" Weiner, and he was once offered to go to Sioux Falls on a private jet and never showed up. Now they just expect us to fly commercial up there? How do they expect me to coach without eating sunflower seeds? Worst case scenario, I guess, is that I can just leave my players in that black hole of a city instead of trading them to my competition."
His words ricocheted across the town with much of the city taking offense. Meile says he was on board with the plan until the town was called a black hole and the demands increased.
"Who is this guy to say that about this city and our great facility," said Meile, "We'd have to bribe our students with extra credit to attend the games that they put on the field. Our public schools put on a more entertaining product during the fall. The deal is over and they can stay homeless."
There is no word on if the Raiders have received another offer from another city.
This article is obviously satire in all nature. Do not believe anything that you just read. If you do think this was the case, you probably think that Alabama will come to Sioux Falls to play Augustana once the Vikings go DI..or something like that. This is purely for fun and nobody was interviewed for this satire piece.


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A photojournalist has won a national award after capturing the reality of Britain's drinking culture.
Joel Goodman clinched the student image of the year in the National Council for the Training of Journalists' (NCTJ) awards for excellence after snatching images outside a popular Manchester nightclub of passed-out revellers, fights, and paramedics and police at work.
The 36-year-old, who just completed a press photography and journalism course at Norton College, part of The Sheffield College, was presented his accolade by veteran broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson.
Joel said: "I'm chuffed to bits. It's really flattering to have won this award. The course has been great. It has a strong reputation, being highly regarded among most press photographers and has provided a terrific opportunity for me."
Andrew Cropley, Norton's principal, congratulated Joel on his "fantastic success".
The Sheffield College is one of only two colleges nationally offering the NCTJ–accredited press photography and photojournalism qualification.


Simply beautiful! I can't guess. What is it about?
I love these! The oozing lava, the parched sea, the riddle-ku itself…so much fun:>) Thank you (and your students, too) for sharing these, both here and on the Padlet! Woohoo!
These are great fun. I love the popsicle stick idea!
Your waiting is over and now you are a proud Grandma, Margaret! Congratulations! May I capture your riddle-ku for my upcoming gallery?
Yes, you may. I assume you are referring to the sugarcane field one. They burn the fields for harvesting. This is a common fall scene in my area.
I forgot to mention that I enjoyed the children's riddle-kus. I love the title to Madison's poem.
I had a hard time with Madison's. She said it's a desert and the memories are the fossils.
It must have been lots of fun to write these with your students. I saved all of Laura's when she first wrote them. Is your last one a haiku? Congratulations on becoming a grandmother!
I can't wait to write riddle-kus with my students!
Fun post Margaret, and intriguing riddle-kus by you and your students, thanks!
These are wonderful, Margaret! As always I so enjoy reading your work alongside that of your student poets. This writing exercise must have been a hit with them!


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Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Spanking remains a common, if controversial, childrearing practice in the United States. In this article, I pair mounting research indicating that spanking is both ineffective and harmful with professional and human rights opinions disavowing the practice.
I conclude that spanking is a form of violence against children that should no longer be a part of American childrearing.
In this article, I summarize why we should be concerned about the continued use of spanking as a form of discipline. Spanking, which in this article means hitting on the bottom with an open hand, is a common parenting practice around the world.
As befits a widespread childrearing practice, a large body of research has examined the links between spanking and subsequent child behavior. This literature has been reviewed extensively elsewhere Gershoff, ; Gershoff, so what follows summarizes what is known about spanking and child development. Spanking is a form of punishment and as such can only directly achieve the first goal. Specifically, punishment is the process by which a behavior e. How well does spanking decrease undesirable behaviors? The most germane test of the effectiveness of a punishment is whether it gets the child to stop engaging in a misbehavior immediately.
Recent evidence is difficult to obtain for several reasons. First, spanking is challenging to observe in the home because it occurs relatively rarely in most families and because families may not spank in front of observers. Second, it is difficult to study in the lab spanking reviews university Institutional Review Boards prohibit the gratuitous hurting of participants.
The team ased young children with behavior problems who had been referred to the clinic to one of several conditions: Some children who disobeyed an instruction were put in time out alone and others were put in time out but spanked if they did not stay in the time out for the allotted time. The children were spanking reviews observed to see whether they complied with a series of 30 commands from their mothers.
In an initial meta-analysis of these studies, children were more likely to comply when mothers used time outs than when they spanked Gershoff, But the findings were based on a comparison of postintervention rates of compliance, which is typical for random asment experiments, and failed to consider the fact that the comparison groups in two of the five studies had substantially different rates of initial compliance at baseline.
Parents discipline to achieve not just short-term compliance but long-term changes in behavior.
Several studies have examined whether spanking is effective in achieving long-term compliance or promoting the development of conscience, variously operationalized as obedience to commands, resistance to temptation, and evidence of conscience or guilt. The answer is, clearly and definitively, no. In all 27 of the relevant studies, spanking was associated with more, not less, aggression in children Gershoff, Critics of the spanking literature maintain that this association is an artifact of effect, such that aggressive children elicit harsher parenting generally and more spanking in particular from their parents Baumrind et al.
A second study across the preschool years with more than 2, children found that spanking at ages 1, 2, and 3 predicted increases in externalizing behaviors one year later, but found no evidence of effect Berlin, Ispa, Fine, Malone, Brooks-Gunn, Brady-Smith et al. It is difficult to imagine that a parent would be able to meet all of these criteria when administering spanking; indeed, it would likely be both inadvisable and bordering on abusive if parents spanked children following every instance of a given misbehavior.
Spanking alone does not teach children why their behavior was wrong or what they should do instead Hoffman, Rather, it teaches them that they must behave when the threat of physical punishment exists, but once the threat is gone, they have no reason to behave appropriately Hoffman, Moreover, spanking is ineffective because it is different from other forms of punishment and discipline in that it involves hitting, which is of course a form of violence see further discussion of this issue later.
Hitting, by its nature, causes physical pain, and it can be confusing and frightening for children to be hit by someone they love and respect, and on whom they are dependent. This latter message then perpetuates the transmission of violence in spanking reviews across generations. In a series of meta-analyses, spanking was associated with increases in mental health problems in childhood and adulthood, delinquent behavior in childhood and criminal behavior in adulthood, negative parent-child relationships, and increased risk that children will spanking reviews physically abused Gershoff, The link between spanking and physical abuse is the most disturbing of these unintended effects, but it should not be a surprising one; both parental acts involve hitting, and purposefully hurting, children.
Studies of this cultural normativeness hypothesis have primarily used race or ethnicity as a marker of culture. In several early studies, spanking or harsh physical punishment indeed was associated with more aggression among White children but not among Black children e.
In one of only a few studies that measured normativeness, more spanking was consistently associated with more aggression in children, even when mothers or children perceived that their communities largely accepted spanking Gershoff et al. The abundance and consistency of studies linking spanking with undesirable outcomes in children has failed to spur societal change in attitudes about or use of spanking. Change may need to come from outside the academic world, and a growing of organizations representing professionals who work with children and human rights advocates have voiced concerns about and disapproval of spanking.
Based in large part on the consistency of the research linking spanking with undesirable outcomes but also on changes in attitudes about the appropriateness of hitting children in the name of discipline, several national professional organizations have called on parents to abandon spanking as rearing practice and for professionals to recommend disciplinary alternatives to spanking.
Religious leaders have begun to speak out against spanking, as well. Two major denominations in the United States, the United Methodist Church and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USApassed resolutions encouraging parents to avoid spanking and use other forms of discipline. Other international human rights bodies have called for corporal punishment to be outlawed in their member countries.
Largely in response to these human rights concerns, 33 countries have banned all corporal punishment of children, including that by parents Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children [Global Initiative], Human rights-based arguments have little influence in the United States until we ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the United States is one of only three countries not to have done so the others are Somalia and South Sudan, the latter of which gained independence in Yet it is clear that American society is increasingly isolated in our insistence that parents and, in 19 states, public school personnel can spank children as a form of discipline.
We now have enough research to conclude that spanking is ineffective at best and harmful to children at worst. We also know that a range of professional and human rights organizations condemn the practice and urge parents to use spanking reviews forms of discipline. We thus have research-based and human rights-based reasons for not spanking our children.
But there is a third reason not to spank our children, spanking reviews that is a moral one. Although most Americans do not like to call it so, spanking is hitting and hitting is spanking reviews. By using the euphemistic term spankingparents feel justified in hitting their children while not acknowledging that they are, in fact, hitting. We as a society have agreed that hitting is not an effective or acceptable way for adults to resolve their differences, so it should not be a surprise that hitting children, like hitting adults, causes more problems than it solves.
It is time to stop hitting our children in the name of discipline. National Center for Biotechnology InformationU. Child Dev Perspect. Author manuscript; available in PMC Sep 1. Elizabeth T. Author information Copyright and information Disclaimer. Author contact information: Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Ph. Dean Keeton St. Copyright notice.
See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Spanking remains a common, if controversial, childrearing practice in the United States. What We Know About Spanking and Child Development As befits a widespread childrearing practice, a large body of research has examined the links between spanking and subsequent child behavior. Short-term noncompliance The most germane test of the effectiveness of a punishment is whether it gets the child to stop engaging in a misbehavior spanking reviews.
Long-term noncompliance Parents discipline to achieve not just short-term compliance but long-term changes in behavior. Why is spanking spanking reviews Criticisms of Spanking From Outside the Academy The abundance and consistency of studies linking spanking with undesirable outcomes in children has failed to spur societal change in attitudes about or use of spanking. Spanking Is Increasingly Disavowed by Professional Organizations Based in large part on the consistency of the research linking spanking with undesirable outcomes but also on changes in attitudes about the appropriateness of hitting children in the name of discipline, several national professional organizations have called on parents to abandon spanking as rearing practice and for professionals to recommend disciplinary alternatives to spanking.
Conclusion We now have enough research to conclude that spanking is ineffective at best and harmful to children at worst. Policy Statement on Corporal Punishment. Jul 30, Child Protection Position Statements. Ordinary physical punishment: Is it harmful? Comment on Gershoff Psychological Bulletin. Use of harsh physical discipline and developmental outcomes in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology. Correlates and consequences of spanking and verbal punishment for low-income White, African American, and Mexican American toddlers. Child Development.
General comment No. Externalizing behavior problems and discipline revisited: Nonlinear effects and variation by culture, context, and gender. Psychological Inquiry. Developmental Psychology. The New Dare to Discipline. Tyndale House; Wheaton, IL: Social competence in children.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Punitive violence against children in Canada. Retrieved from www. Learning of aggression in children. General Assembly adopts wide range of social justice issues. Jul 6, Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin. More harm than good: A summary of scientific research on the intended and unintended effects of corporal punishment on children.
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Solution: Which is the proper description of chemical equilibrium? A. The frequencies of reactant and product collisions are identical B. The concentrations of products and reactants are identical C. The velocities of product and reactant molecules are identical D. Reactant molecules react to form products as fast as product molecules are reacting to from reactants.
Which is the proper description of chemical equilibrium?


Kids opinion on books targeted to their age group, is very important because they're the ones who are reading the book and telling their friends to read it! check this video out to see this little boys opinion on The Pinkaboos book!!


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L'alexandronecte (Alexandronectes zealandiensis) è un rettile acquatico estinto, appartenente ai plesiosauri. Visse nel Cretacico superiore (Maastrichtiano, circa 70 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Nuova Zelanda.

Descrizione
Noto per un cranio frammentario, questo animale doveva essere simile ad altri plesiosauri dei continenti meridionali, come Aristonectes e Kaiwhekea. Come questi ultimi, Alexandronectes possedeva un'espansione delle ossa pterigoidi che si estendevano posteriormente al condilo occipitale, e un arco dell'osso squamoso a forma di A in vista dorsale. Tuttavia Alexandronectes si differenziava dai due precedenti generi nella forma dei processi paraoccipitali, dell'osso glenoide nella mandibola, e nella dimensione del cranio (più piccolo in Alexandronectes). Sembra inoltre che la forma del cranio di Alexandronectes fosse intermedia tra quella molto alta di Kaiwhekea e quella piatta e larga di Aristonectes. Come questi animali, probabilmente Alexandronectes possedeva una dentatura costituita da denti aguzzi piccoli e sottili, che formavano una sorta di trappola per i pesci. Come tutti i plesiosauri, anche Alexandronectes doveva avere un collo molto lungo, un corpo compatto e appiattito e quattro arti simili a pagaie.

Classificazione
Alexandronectes zsealandiensis venne descritto per la prima volta nel 2016, sulla base di un cranio frammentario ritrovato nella formazione Conway, in Nuova Zelanda. Inizialmente si era pensato che i vari frammenti appartenessero a due differenti individui, ma un successivo esame determinò che le ossa appartenevano a un solo esemplare. Alexandronectes è considerato un rappresentante degli elasmosauridi, un gruppo di plesiosauri dal collo eccezionalmente allungato, tipici dei mari del Cretaceo. In particolare, Alexandronectes sembrerebbe far parte di un clade noto come Aristonectinae, comprendente forme dalle specializzazioni insolite nella dentatura.

Bibliografia
Otero, R. A., J. P. O'Gorman, N. Hiller, F. R. O'Keefe, and R. E. Fordyce. 2016. Alexandronectes zealandiensis gen. et sp. nov., a new aristonectine plesiosaur from the lower Maastrichtian of New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1054494.
  O'Gorman, J. P.; Otero, R. A.; Hiller, N.; O'Keefe, R. F.; Scofield, R. P.; Fordyce, E. (2021). "CT-scan description of Alexandronectes zealandiensis (Elasmosauridae, Aristonectinae), with comments on the elasmosaurid internal cranial features". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (2): e1923310. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1923310. S2CID 237518012.

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Q: Method call inside a Runnable is not working in android I need to call the getItem() method inside the runnable. But the thing is it's not working. Both logs are working but the method is not executing.
this.viewItems = new Runnable() {

        public void run() {

            Log.i("getitem", "before");
            getItems();
            Log.i("getitem", "done");
        }
    };

This is getItems method
    private void getItems() {
    try {
        Log.i("url", url);
        InputStream source = retrieveStream(this.url);
        Log.i("inside getitem", "before object");
        Gson gson = new Gson();

        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(source);

        SearchResponse response = gson.fromJson(reader, SearchResponse.class);

        Log.i("inside getitem", "after response");
        i_orders = new ArrayList<Items>();

        List<Offers> off = response.offers;

        for (Offers of : off) {

            Items item = new Items();

            item.setCovers(of.covers);
            item.setCuisine(of.cuisine);
            item.setDate_available(of.date_available);
            item.setDistance(of.distance);
            item.setEnd_time_available(of.end_time_available);
            item.setLarge_image_url(of.large_image_url);
            item.setLat(of.lat);
            item.setLon(of.lon);
            item.setMax_cover(of.max_cover);
            item.setMin_cover(of.min_cover);
            item.setOffer_description(of.offer_description);
            item.setOffer_id(of.offer_id);
            item.setPrice_range(of.price_range);
            item.setRestaurant_name(of.restaurant_name);
            item.setRestaurant_profile(of.restaurant_profile);
            item.setRestaurant_suburb(of.restaurant_suburb);
            item.setSmall_image_url(of.small_image_url);
            item.setStart_time_available(of.start_time_available);
            item.setTables_available(of.tables_available);
            item.setTime_available(of.time_available);

            i_orders.add(item);

        }

        Thread.sleep(1000);
        Log.i("ARRAY", "" + i_orders.size());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("BACKGROUND_PROC", e.getMessage());
    }
    runOnUiThread(returnRes);
}

I don't get even the log message in the top.
Thanks in advance !!

A: There is an implicit "this." in front of getItems(), but where you're calling from "this" is a different thing (a Runnable, in fact).
You should probably be able to do something like:
private Context myContext;
...
myContext = this;
this.viewItems = new Runnable....
myContext.getItems();
...
But somehow you have to have some kind of variable that is a reference to 'this' in the outer scope that can be used to refer to it from the inner scope.

A: I figured out that there is a exception inside the getItems method due to not formatted URL.

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This one's a little late considering 3DS owners got Four Swords for free about a month ago (and for those worried about spoilers, that's just my guess of what the final area looks like!), but the nice thing about doing BitF is that topicality really isn't the focus. Four Swords is definitely a game that will turn friends against each other, and I imagine that if you throw romance into the mix, things will get even more brutal.
Hope everyone had a good Halloween! I dressed up as Dr. Doofenshmirtz and was engaged in a fierce battle. Curse you, Perry the Platypuuuus…!


Take a leisurely stroll through a garden designed and installed by the Leicestershire Garden Design Company and you'll notice two things straightaway – a completely practical concept, and painstaking attention to detail at every turn.
That's because every single one of our garden designs is carefully considered and developed to become a practical extension of your living space.None of this would be possible without the specialist knowledge and experience of our designer Jeff Randall, who has spent the last 20 years learning how to take your garden dreams and translate them into stunning –but practical – reality.
What makes a great garden design?
Now we're not saying that a great garden design just needs to provide practical solutions. That on its own can't transform your garden into a uniquely special place to live and entertain in. A great garden design is one that fulfils your visions and aspirations, wholeheartedly. Creating the perfect outdoor space means achieving a delicate balance between the visual, fragrant effect of the planting and the solid, structured feel of the flagstones and stone walling.
And if your new garden is going to stand the test of time – and provide pleasure year in year out – it needs to be sustainable, environmentally friendly, and designed with our changing weather conditions in mind.
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I said NO a dozen times before I said YES.
A bottle of unopened lavender sat in my nightstand drawer, a birthday gift from nearly 9 months earlier. My dearest and most trusted friends had already embraced the oily lifestyle and still I stood firm. Because I'm stubborn. And skeptical. And I wasn't looking forward to an inevitable eye roll when I handed my husband Peppermint essential oil during his next migraine.
It wasn't until several months after delivering our third baby that I twisted open my bottle of lavender. Three kids was no joke and I was tired. I started simple—a few drops behind my ears and on my wrists at bedtime. I quickly found myself looking forward to this nightly routine and even sneaking a few drops on my boys pillows and rubbing it into the soles of their feet after they had fallen asleep. It wasn't long before I had gone through my single bottle of lavender and found myself eager to try new oils. I had already noticed a calming shift in our evening routine after introducing only ONE oil—and now I wanted more!
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Now, I never leave the house without a pouch filled with my favorite oils and blends. As a family, we've embraced oils for ouchies and sniffles, sore muscles and headaches, stresses and overwhelm. The boys look forward to evening oil-infused foot rubs and love having diffusers going in their rooms. Oils have become one of my first lines of defense when something starts to feel heavy.
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Just Like Us invites speakers, introduces vocational opportunities
Junior Isabella O'Reilly organized the program Just Like Us to connect students from various socioeconomic backgrounds and introduce them to vocational opportunities.
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Chloe Zhao and Wilson Bailey
Judge Vanessa Gilmore always had an aptitude for photography, but when a thief broke into her apartment and stole her camera equipment, she discovered her passion for law. After suing her apartment complex for neglecting to investigate the robbery, Gilmore represented herself in the civil lawsuit and won. Thirteen years later, Gilmore became the youngest sitting federal judge in the nation at just 37 years old.
Gilmore's story was one of the four personal narratives that Breakthrough Houston and SJS students heard on Saturday, Oct. 20, at a program meeting hosted by Just Like Us. According to junior Isabella O'Reilly, who organized the program, Just Like Us aims to break down barriers between students from a spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds and bring in speakers to introduce vocational opportunities.
O'Reilly founded the program after learning about the Posse Foundation, an organization that selects and trains minority students from less fortunate backgrounds create solutions for complex social problems.
"I realized that not all students have access to internships and mentors," O'Reilly said.
In order to expose students to a variety of perspectives, O'Reilly invited four influential people from across the legal profession to answer questions about their experiences in the field. The panel consisted of Gilmore, Magistrate Judge Christina Bryan, trial lawyer Derek Hollingsworth and the In-House Counsel for Shell Oil, Carolyn Aiman.
"They were once just like us too," sophomore Eliot Aiman said. "No matter where we come from or what school we go to, we can get anywhere."
The two-hour meeting began with students playing icebreakers in order to learn each other's names, common interests and differences, followed by the panel of lawyers, then concluded with a debrief where the students questioned the panelists.
O'Reilly intended the debrief to foster a safe environment for a diverse group of teens.
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O'Reilly aims for Just Like Us to connect students regardless of their background.
"Students will benefit from the opportunities. Even though students might not have these connections," O'Reilly said. "Regardless of how much money you have, you're benefiting as much as everyone else."
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Wilson is a freshman, and this is his first year on The Review.
Review editors attend journalism conference in Washington, D.C.
Women of Color affinity group to host first assembly
Freshmen participate in Day of Service, give back to community
The Review to host Molly Ivins ('62) documentary screening
Freshmen visit museum on history field trip
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Three Musketeers, EHS football game scheduled simultaneously
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