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Here's the thing: the harder any piece of mechanical equipment has to work, the more energy it uses, and the quicker it needs service or repair. Look at it this way — if you change the oil in your car regularly, and keep the tires inflated, your car lasts longer and you get much better gas mileage, right?
Well, the same thinking holds true for your home's central air conditioning system — do a little regular maintenance and not only will you pay a whole lot less to PSE&G, but the system itself will last years longer.
While it's best to have a certified HVAC service professional perform an annual maintenance on your system in order to repair sealed areas, clean coils and fins, and adjust both the blower and refrigerant as needed, the one thing that you can do is replace your systems air filter on a regular basis.
Think of your AC system as something that breathes: the air filter is like a fine mask that traps dust and particulates so they don't circulate through your home. But as they accumulate, the system needs to work much harder to 'inhale' — which means that you'll use more energy and increase wear on the overall system. Plus, over time, clogged filter often give way, allowing dust and allergens to circulate throughout your house.
IMPORTANT: Be sure to TURN OFF your Indoor Air Conditioning Unit before servicing the unit. Simply locate the safety switch, which looks like a light switch, on the blower, air handler or furnace, and switch it off. In some cases, the switch may be at the top of the basement stairs or on the wall next to the indoor unit.
Air Filters are always located in the airflow stream of your system, typically, in one of two places, the main living area, or the basement. In the main living area, air filter access will be on the return air-duct register: look for a large rectangular grate, usually located on either a wall or ceiling, often in a central hallway. If it is in the basement, it will be part of the air-handler unit, usually by your furnace. In this case, look for a panel or door (sometimes marked "Filter") mounted near the blower motor. In either location, the panel or grate can either slide off or easily be removed with a screwdriver.
Once you have located the filter, check to see if it is disposable, or intended to be cleaned and reused. If the filter is disposable, simply discard and replace with a new one, taking care to match the arrows with the direction of the air flow. If it is a reusable filter, cleaning instructions are usually printed on the filter itself. In most cases, cleaning involves simply rinsing the filter with a garden hose and allowing it to dry throughly before placing back in the unit.
4) Once your filter has been either cleaned or replaced, secure the panels and/or grates in reverse order. Then, turn on the safety switch and restart you system.
And that's all there is to it! Remember, a little maintenance goes a long way. Stay cool, and have a great Summer!
With winter ending and spring arriving, Long Island residents will soon face that humid, sweltering heat that comes with every summer season.
But this summer you don't have to be miserable in the heat.
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | With temperatures in the high 90s, even dogs needed to cool off Thursday at Kent Animal Shelter in Calverton. Around 15 puppies arrived this week from Grand Bahamas and are available for adoption.
Growing tired of the sweltering heat? You're not the only one. Take a look below at how some people are dealing with the heat wave.
CYNDI MURRAY | Old Steeple Church has some fun with a heat wave message Monday.
Update: Riverhead Town has opened a cooling center in Aquebogue and will extend town beach hours as residents try to stay cool.
The Senior and Human Resources Center at 60 Shade Tree Lane will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Friday to provide water and air conditioning for those who can't beat the heat, Supervisor Sean Walter said in a statement Monday.
Beaches will also remain open with lifeguards on duty until 7 p.m., officials said.
The National Weather Service issued a Heat Advisory for Suffolk County Monday afternoon until 8 p.m. Residents are advised to drink plenty of fluids, seek air conditioning, and stay out of the sun.
Original Story: A mid-summer heat wave will bring high temperatures in the low- to mid-90s and muggy conditions that may feel as hot as 100 degrees to the North Fork throughout this week, weather officials said.
The high temperatures are expected to begin today, Monday, with a high in the low 90s, said National Weather Service meteorologist Ashley Sears. Those temperatures will stay about the same through Tuesday, and will climb into the mid-90s by Wednesday, she said.
The area won't see relief from the heat until as late as Sunday, when a string of thunderstorms could cool off the area, Ms. Sears said.
Because of the weather, Riverhead Town officials announced Monday that town beaches will remain open and staffed unti 7 p.m. from Monday through Friday.
The heat wave is caused by a system of hot, dry air that's parked over most of the eastern United States, from everywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi.
"We have this massive high pressure system that's ushering in the dry weather and the really high temperatures," Ms. Sears said.
Though a heat advisory is in effect for Nassau County and most of the tri-state area, no advisory has been issued for Suffolk County yet. Ms. Sears said the advisories are only put out when heat indexes reach 100 degrees.
Still, residents should take precautions, she said.
People are advised to stay indoors when possible, drink plenty of fluids, wear light clothing and not exert themselves outdoors if possible, she said. Pets are also vulnerable to the heat and should be well cared for, Ms. Sears added.
Residents without air conditioning should look to visit a mall, shopping center or a friend or family member who may have air conditioning to cool off.
"Now would be a good time to catch up" with old friends, she said.
Still hot? You bet, but not as much.
Temperatures won't make triple digits Saturday, but the state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an air quality health advisory for Suffolk County until 11 p.m. The concern is high levels of ozone.
Sunlight and high temperatures create ozone which, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can cause many health problems such as chest pain, coughing, throat irritation, and congestion. It can also worsen bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.
The state health department recommends limiting strenuous outdoor physical activity.
Updated information is available by calling the DEC's air quality hotline at 1-800-535-1345.


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Pickering Town Pickering Town sign Jordan Deacey  16 Nov 2020 By James Gordon
Pickering Town have announced the signing of Jordan Deacey.
Pickering Town Harry Jessop joins Pickering Town on loan  7 Oct 2020 By James Gordon
Harry Jessop has joined Pitching In Northern Premier League N/West side Pickering Town on loan from Scunthorpe United.
Pickering Town Charlie Andrew returns to Pickering Town  29 Sep 2020 By James Gordon
Pickering Town have announced the signing of goalkeeper Charlie Andrew.
Pickering Town Pickering add Jack Johnson  2 Sep 2020 By James Gordon
Pickering Town have announced the signing of Jack Johnson ahead of the 2020/21 season.
Pickering Town Pickering sign Muggeson-Forbes  25 Aug 2020 By James Gordon
Pickering Town have announced the signing of Dylan Muggeson-Forbes ahead of the 2020/21 season.
Pickering Town Simpson returns to Pickering  24 Aug 2020 By James Gordon
Pickering Town have announced the signing of Keelan Simpson ahead of the 2020/21 season.
Pickering Town Pikes add two former Seadogs  29 Jul 2020 By James Gordon
Pickering Town have signed midfielder Wayne Brooksby and forward Leon Osbourne.
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Pickering Town Football Club were first established in 1888, for many years the club competed in the local football leagues. One of the local leagues they competed in was the York Football League which they joined Division Two, in 1953/54. They were promoted to the league's top division after only one season.
In the early 1950s, the York League was heavily contended between York Railway Institute, Market Weighton and Pickering Town. Indeed, these were the teams in the top three when Pickering Town first won the York League in 1955/56.
The club dropped in form for the rest of the decade in comparison (although they did always finish in the top eight). During the 1959/60 season, they finished as league runners-up to Dringhouses.
Yorkshire and Northern Counties Leagues
Pickering eventually joining the Yorkshire Football League Division Three in 1972. They started well in the league, and during their second season were promoted to Division Two as champions. Pickering Town finished as runners-up to Bridlington Town in the 1974/75 season and thus were promoted to the top division of the Yorkshire League.
They dropped in form a couple of seasons later, getting relegated in two successive seasons. For the rest of the decade Pickering lingered around the mid-parts of the Yorkshire League Division Three. In 1982 they became founding members of the Northern Counties East Football League and were in the NCEL Premier Division from 1992. It was around this time that the club first entered the FA Challenge Cup, they knocked out Penrith before losing to North Yorkshire rivals, Northallerton Town in the next round.
A few seasons later in 1996/97, they knocked out Pontefract Collieries 2–1 in the competition, but lost to Bishop Auckland in the next round. In terms of the draw, the club has had very bad luck in the competition, as every time they reached the First Qualifying Round, they were forced to play away from home. In 1999 Pickering were relegated to the NCEL First Division. This was to last only two seasons and promotion back to the Premier Division came in 2001.
Jimmy Reid transformation
The club underwent a great transformation with manager Jimmy Reid and his assistant Steve Brown in charge. Reid was a former player with St Johnstone and York City and Brown a former "Pikes" player and coach at the Leeds United Academy. At the end of 2001/02 season Jimmy Reid left the club and Steve Brown took control.
At the start of the 2002/03 season five first team regulars were lost for a variety of reasons which left the club struggling for much of the season. The hard work and dedication of Brown, his management team and the players was rewarded towards the end of the season as it all started to come together and with only four defeats in the last 15 league games the club finished the season in thirteenth position.
2003/04 season was an exciting one for the club as they were in the top half of the league table all season and for much of it, with games in hand, looked possible championship contenders. However, with a glut of fixtures, and possibly with the knowledge that promotion to the re-structured Northern Premier League was not an option due to ground grading, at the season's end the club were not able to capitalise and finished in a creditable fifth position.
Early into the season 2004/05 owing to ever increasing business commitments Steve Brown stepped down as Manager to be replaced by ex-Ipswich Town and Newcastle Unitedstriker Alex Mathie, veteran of over 200 league games and 20 years as a professional.
After much ground improvement work in recent years, including the erection of floodlights, a new 120 seater stand, covered standing accommodation and more recently an additional 100-seater stand behind the "scoreboard end" goal, the club now possess one of the best grounds in the league.
In the 2005/06 season the club reached the Quarter-Finals of the FA Vase the furthest in the club's history. The team eventually lost out to Nantwich Town.
After an encouraging start in the 2006/07 season, results took a turn for the worse over the winter period, and a run of one win in eleven games led to the resignation of Mathie as manager on 06 January 2007. Within a week, the board announced they had appointed ex-Pickering player and Mathie's assistant Mark Wood as the new manager.
The 2007/08 season saw the club finish in third in the NCEL Premier Division, their highest league position in over a decade. Off the pitch the club saw significant change and Pickering applied for promotion to the Northern Premier League. The club erected a removable fence for the cricket pitch side and improved the existing exterior toilet facilities. Ground development has continued with the club resurfacing and floodlighting the car parking facilities, adding new goals, corner flags and dugouts and improving the drainage of the pitch.
Mark Wood stepped down as manager early in the 2010/11 season and he was replaced by Scarborough FC legend Mitch Cook. Cook oversaw a change in philosophy mainly focussed on youth and passing football. This approach had mixed success, but the club eventually finished in a very respectable seventh place. Cook resigned just before the end of the season to take up the vacant managerial role at rivals Bridlington Town taking with him much of the playing squad.
Following Cook's resignation the club invited applications and eventually offered the job to former York City player and coach Peter Vasey.
They reached the Second Round Qualifying of the FA Cup 3 times (1999/2000, 2001/02 and 2003/04).
On 30 April 2013, the club won the North Riding Senior Cup for the first time in their history following a 3–0 win over Marske United. The goals were scored by Liam Shepherd, Liam Salt and Joe Danby in the second half. The game was played at the headquarters of the North Riding County FA in Stokesley in front of 439 spectators.
Paul Marshall era
In the summer of 2015, Paul Marshall left the manager's job at Tadcaster Albion and was swiftly appointed as manager of Pickering Town. Denny Ingram joined him as a player and assistant manager. Pickering finished sixth in the first season under Marshall and second in 2017, behind only champions Cleethorpes Town. They reached the final of the North Riding Senior Cup in 2017, losing 3–1 to Whitby Town in the final at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium.
The 2017/18 season saw Pikes again finish runners-up. but this time promotion was secured and as a result entry to Step 4 football for the first time in our history. 96 points and 127 goals along the way, but it was a nervy last five days as 5 points were needed to automatically go up from the last three games, a 0-0 draw at Staveley on the Monday a 1-1 draw at Barton on the Thursday meant we had to win on the last day at Hall Road, Joe Dandy put Pikes ahead in the second half but the home side equalised with fifteen mins to go, an agonising last ten minutes were facing us until Casey Stewart making only his second start headed us to victory with nine mins left.
Marshall's reign at Pickering lasted until March 2019, when the club needed a change in fortune after the season hadn't gone to plan. Denny Ingram stepped into the role for the last thirteen games and secured enough point to fend off relegation.
Denny's second season started badly and by the turn of the year it was clear that relegation was looming. Having spent several seasons as Scarborough Assistant Manager Steve Roberts was looking for a new challenge and the Board were convinced to offer him that chance. Despite some significant progress we were still struggling and then the season was ended by COVID.
The Board showed faith in Steve and he is now in the process of building his side to achieve some stability in season '20/21.
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New Zealand's current child support system is outdated and comprehensive legislative reform is needed to create an improved, fair and efficient system, the New Zealand Law Society says.
In a submission on the Government discussion document "Supporting Children", the Society says the current system lacks flexibility because it fails to reflect the changes in New Zealand since it was introduced nearly 20 years ago. This is both in the way the courts now approach day-to-day care and contact issues, and in the way families operate.
The submission, prepared by the Society's Family Law Section, encourages the Government to use the review as a chance to consider all aspects of the current child support system.
Looking at the objects of the Child Support Act 1991, the Society says that while there is reference to the child's right to be maintained, the welfare and best interests of the child are "notably and regrettably absent".
"This means that the Act is in breach of Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that 'In all actions concerning children … the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration'," it says.
The submission also points to a philosophy in comparable Australian legislation of children being entitled to continue to benefit from the wealth of both their parents, even if their parents separate. It recommends that the New Zealand legislation should include the welfare and best interests of the child in its objects, together with the Australian provisions.
A Maori perspective is also seen to be entirely missing from both the current New Zealand Act and also the discussion document. It is also recommended this this be taken into account and included in the Act's objects.
Noting that the discussion document presents two options for reform of the formula for improving the child support system – comprehensive change or component change – the Society recommends adoption of comprehensive change.
"The Act was passed nearly 20 years ago at a time when circumstances were rather different. The Society recognises that there have been changes in New Zealand life, in particular modified employment patterns and a much greater trend towards shared parenting after separation," it says.
The Society outlines a number of ways in which that comprehensive reform could be achieved. These include linking contributions to income and not using a flat-rate basis, taking a child's age into account, maintaining an income cap with an increase in the current cap, making the income of both parents comprise part of the formula, taking into account the liable parent's dependent children, and basing child support on a more flexible scheme for recognising shared care.


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For 30 years, Ecology Action has been organizing the Bike To Work program in Santa Cruz County. The program happens every May and October and now represents the largest sustainable transportation event in the region and serves a combined total of over 13,000 residents every year. RIDE ON!


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The Lara-Su Chronicles and Ken Penders topic - READ PAGE 164, POST 4096
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The "Name Something About The Lara-Su Chronicles' Copyright Ken Penders Pre-Release Stuff You've Actually Enjoyed" Topic. So many heads will explode that by the time we get to 251 we will have mirrored the comic's character removal.
Five Nights at Freddy's - Help Wanted in Virtual Reality
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I'm kind of surprised no one seems to have commented on the "Please stay in your seats" thing in the picture. I think it involves some kind of ride. The part of the trailer where the room you're in seems to be spinning would fit with that.
The Spongebob Musical!
Disonoid 3000 replied to Klinsy's topic in Chit-Chat
I just want to know if they actually had to find someone who could do that laugh, or if they'll use recordings of Tom Kenny and just, I don't know, attach a tiny speaker to the actor's shirt or something. Edit: Or, I guess, he could just have a different laugh. I dunno, I always kind of saw it as iconic so I presumed they'd consider it important, maybe I'm wrong.
I was going to go off on a long thing about how this is not how you do a group shot, but apparently he was just trying to show how tall they are in comparison to each other, so, slightly less terrible than I feared. On a different note, if I was Lara-Su I'd be incredibly angry that Geoffrey got the luxury of actual shorts.
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I've been turned off from this film since the first trailer. Them making such a huge deal out of her doing something that happened in the first film already, and the way Marlin's managed to become such an amazingly chill person he's perfectly okay with the idea Dory might just swim off, both irritated me. And yes, I know character development dictates Marlin not be overly protective anymore. That doesn't mean he has to be a moron. Is this not the norm? Also, you say "managed" as if the star hasn't been begging for this for years, and million dollar checks weren't involved.
I'm not sure if the fangames go in this thread, sorry if they don't, but one of the bigger name, better quality (you know, relatively) ones released its sequel like three hours ago. Five Nights at Candy's 2. I played Night 1 and just spent the whole time switching Candy between two rooms. And because a couple hundred bucks wasn't a stupid enough reason to risk your life for five nights, now we have "Do it or be seen as a chicken!".
Belated thanks for the birthday message.
(Not quite sure if I should have just responded to it directly...)
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Nickelodeon Animation Discussion
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Shouldn't Chloe be a Creampuff instead of a Squirrely Scout? You could actually probably make a fairly interesting plot out of the two being in separate troops that keep running into separate problems so Cosmo and Wanda need to keep popping back and forth and ultimately can't help with everything. Them being in the same group seems like it's kind of squashing potential a bit.
Eeeeeeeh. I'm sure I'll be alone on this, I don't really blame Timmy for his actions in the episode (I haven't watched the second one). I mean, the poor kid had to be genuinely miserable for a chunk of his life to get his fairies, with a murderous babysitter, parents so neglectful they forget to feed him, an insane teacher and absolutely miserable grades, and constant bullying alongside having very few friends. Chloe's problems amount to "One person doesn't like her, and occasionally she messes up but no one actually cares when she does", yet she gets fairies. I'd be monumentally ticked off, too. And his actions did just amount to trying to not let her have fairies, it's not like he actually hurt her. Not that I'm saying he took the right actions, just that I see where he was coming from and have a hard time disliking him over it. Then again I'm not exactly a fan of the character, so I'm not an unbiased source. Unless we're talking about some other act of meanness.
DreamWorks Animation SKG
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I was expecting Trolls to be stupid, I wasn't expecting this specific brand of stupid. And I'm irrationally bothered by the fact that the logo is not made to look like hair. That seems like the obvious thing to do to me.
Just accidentally spoiled Zootopia for myself. Crud, now I won't be able to properly tell if it's as obvious as Big Hero Six's "twist".
Oh right. I forgot the Halloween thing was coming out. Oh yes, that. I've seen that. I presume that was the part he was wrong on, because it's too damn stupid to consider.
I want someone to mod FNaF so it actually lasts six hours. It'd be painfully boring but I want it to happen anyway.
And then I'd insist that all lets players play through the whole thing and maintain the same level of overacting the whole way through.
Wait, Scott confirmed Purple Guy to be Phone guy? When the hell did that happen? I need citation on that, it's too stupid to take without proof.
Blue Sky Studio's Peanuts: Lights. Cameras. Beagles. (Nov. 6 2015)
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The composer says the movie's actual score will consist of stuff from Vince Gauraldi and his own stuff inspired by Gauraldi. Or, he at least implies most of it is.
So Blue Sky's been releasing videos on what I think might be a weekly or biweekly basis going over the behind the scenes stuff, called "The Art of Dreaming Big". The staff talk about their childhood Peanuts love, showing off the decorated studio, talking about the Peanuts museum, the director, and the animation. Pretty interesting, IMO. Kind of wish the animation one was more in depth but I get why it's not.
Where are you guys seeing Phantoms? Those are the burnt ones, aren't they? I don't see them on here and never did. Is the thing behind Chica's arm supposed to be Phantom Foxy?
[ART] PrincessPandaSonic's Artwork and Drawing Stuff
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I really would suggest that you practice with single figures first. Just open your sketchbook and try and draw whatever little poses you can think of with generic figure. Don't bother trying to put detail on them (unless you want to), but try to get a feel for how bodies should work, practice with it for awhile. I say that because as is, they both look very stiff, and their poses are identical, which is a valid creative decision but I'm not sure if that's what you're going for here. If you're having serious trouble figuring out how thing should be placed, look up a reference. For example, here's a kiss; Subsequently, you should probably draw the bodies and then put clothing on them, don't try to just draw clothing and then add body parts, at least for now. I'm not sure which of those you were doing, so this may be pointless to say, but to me it just helps make sure everything's connecting right and you don't have a leg that, if followed through the clothing, should be unconncected to the torso or something similar. And they're not standing on the same level, and Sonic's arms are shorter than her's. Keep things like that in mind, look for them when drawing. Don't be afraid to take out a ruler and just draw a light little reference line to insure that they are equal. /I'm not particularly good at drawing, anyone who is feel free to correct any of my pointers.
In hindsight, we probably should have found it weird that he included that endoskeleton and not the other rarely-show-up-presumably-hallucinations things before it changed to draw attention.
Plot twist; that's what's in the box. : p
I don't get why he's showing us this to begin with. If he's trying to show that he actually is getting stuff done, using the second page probably wasn't a good idea. If he's just trying to build hype, he should be continuing the prequel.
Is adding music a thing that actual comics ever actually do? Cause it doesn't seem like a good gimmick to start with to me. Admittedly, I haven't listened to that much score and stuff, but I kind of got the impression that the point of music, most of the time, was to underscore exactly what was going on, actions and stuff like that, and you can't really do that when you can't sync up the music to the background. You could put a heavy bass type thing in the music to emphasize panic and I could still be back when things are still calm. I mean I guess there are also those times where there are just sweeping, orchestral numbers, but those tend to be in moments where nothing much is happening (like, that iconic Jurassic Park song plays when they're all just sitting in a helicopter heading towards the island, not doing much, and we're seeing pretty landscapes), which I would hope wouldn't be in a comic. Unless he plans to have you start up a new piece of music for each panel, or to just have this subtle melody that isn't really specific to everything playing softly. Or just have stuff playing over the menu. Or I'm misunderstanding the point of music and scores.
I really want to see "The Visit" when it comes out. It looks like the funniest thing since After Earth.
The part in the trailer where the grandma says "Will you get in the oven to clean it?" kills me every time.
I doubt they're in space, they're clearly on the surface of something and said something has plants. I'm guessing either just a strange sky (the island IS supposed to be floating through space), inaccurate representation for merchandising reasons (much like Lien-Da will probably not be floating in the background), or Ken not thinking things through. Also betting Mykal just never takes off the suit for whatever reason. I think he might be implying he got people to actually make stuff specifically for him.


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Flow, his take on the classic Jazz piano trio legacy is again first rate, but whether it will change his status is problematic. Working with bassist Joshua Abrams, known as leader of the Natural Information Society (NIS) and drummer Mikel Patrick Avery, who also plays in NIS, Giallorenzo exposes nine of his own compositions which juxtapose the unique and unexpected with an unvarying sense of swing and affability, Polymetrical and responsive, at first the pieces seem to be fully in the established night club piano tradition, which includes such Windy City masters as John Young and Jodie Christian. But sly interpolations turn many of them into musical palimpsests, with spry countermelodies peeking from the perimeters. MORE
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Archive for Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Justice Department sues KCK Housing Authority, former worker
Kansas City, Kan. — The Justice Department sued the Kansas City, Kansas, Housing Authority and a former hearing officer Monday over sexual harassment claims.
Victor L. Hernandez is accused in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, of exposing himself in 2013 while he was a hearing officer to a woman seeking public housing and another woman facing eviction. The suit also claimed that Hernandez asked the two women sexual questions and showed them pornographic pictures and videos.
Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, spokesman Edwin Birch said the city had no jurisdiction over the housing authority and referred questions to the agency. No one from the housing authority immediately returned a phone message left after hours on Monday.
Hernandez, who left the agency in January 2014, didn't have a listed phone number, and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.
The Justice Department claims the harassment alleged in the suit was a violation of the Fair Housing Act. The suit also said that the agency "knew or should have known of Hernandez's discriminatory housing practices, had the authority to take preventive and corrective action, yet failed to take reasonable preventive or corrective measures to prevent or redress Hernandez's conduct."
The suit seeks monetary damages for the women and a court order barring future discrimination and requiring additional preventive measures.
"No one, including those who seek public assistance for housing benefits, should be subjected to sexual harassment, particularly by the very people tasked with providing critical assistance," Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said in a written statement. "The Justice Department will continue its vigorous enforcement of the Fair Housing Act against those who abuse their power and authority."
The Justice Department is asking anyone else who may have been subjected to harassment to come forward.


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Clansayes is een gemeente in het Franse departement Drôme (regio Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) en telt 441 inwoners (1999). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Nyons.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Clansayes bedraagt 14,6 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 30,2 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Gemeente in Drôme


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This homemade chicken soup comes together quickly with simple pantry ingredients and is a terrific option for feeding a crowd.
There's nothing more comforting, am I right? I like to whip up a pot of this chicken and pinto bean soup on the weekend and have it to come home to on a tired weeknight. It's great to make in advance, or the night of–you'll have this stew bubbling away on the stove top in no time. Part of what makes this recipe so easy is that it relies on canned and jarred items. However, feel free to use the fresh counterparts in you have them. For example, fresh diced Anaheim chilies for the "diced green chilies", and fresh tomatoes for the canned diced tomatoes. Either way, this homemade chicken soup is sure to please most everyone at the table. I prefer chicken thighs in this homemade chicken soup because I think they have more flavor, but if you prefer to use chicken breasts instead, that will totally work! For a vegetarian version, omit the chicken and use black or kidney beans as a substitute.
The toppings really make this a yummy bowl of soup. My favorites are sour cream, cilantro, and crunchy tortilla chips (we all need an excuse to eat chips for dinner, right?!) Quesadillas would make a great accompaniment as well. For a salad, try a green salad tossed with this Pumpkin Seed Dressing. Also, this soup freezes really well. Just be sure it cool it overnight in the refrigerator before popping it into your freezer-safe containers and putting it in the freezer. Don't forget to label with the name of the soup and the date! You'll thank yourself later, I promise (or kick yourself later when staring at a sea of unlabeled mystery containers cluttering up your freezer). You'll want to use any frozen soup within 3-6 months.
This Chicken and Pinto Bean Soup comes together quickly, and tastes even better the day after. It is a great way to feed a large group of people, or to freeze in batches for a later date.
Cut onion into a medium dice. Mince garlic. Mince fresh oregano if using.
Heat butter or olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, and salt and cook until onion is starting to soften, about 7 minutes.
Add broth, salsa, tomatoes, green chili, spices, and bring to a boil over high heat. Add chicken thighs and reduce heat to a simmer.
Simmer stew for 35 minutes, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked through. Pull out chicken thighs from stew and chop into bite sized pieces. Return to stew.
Add corn, pinto beans, and black pepper, and simmer for 15 more minutes. Serve in bowls, garnished with shredded cheese and sour cream, and chopped cilantro if desired. Serve with warm tortillas or chips.
*Amount of salt needed may vary, depending on broth used.
**If you have any Mexican oregano on hand this is the place to use it!
Made this and it was a big hit in my house. On my list for go to meals now. Rather easy to make and great flavors. Would love more like this.
Hi Kelly! Thank you for the comment. I'm so glad this made it to your list of go-to meals. Working on another similar to this one, stay tuned!


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"I know, and chocolate too, right?"
"Yes! But most of all I like going to the sweet shop because it's full of sweets and Yasuo-chan will be there!"
"Yes, he will be. I'm sure he'll be happy to see you, but you mustn't distract him too much, okay? He'll be working."
"But I like distracting him!"
"I know, just not too much, okay?"
"Come on tsu-chan, I didn't say that you couldn't distract him now, did I?"
"I'll buy you some when we get there, and you can shoose wha type it is."
Kaito smiled, turning right towars the main shops.
Tsubasa started playing drums on Kaito's head.
"Want to stay up there?"
"Not when we're in the shop..."
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Twin City Chess Club
Serving the Chess Players of Bloomington/Normal, IL
« Chess – the Musical – in Urbana playing in December
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iExcell December Christmas Open/Scholastic
iExcell Open/Scholastic Tournament, December 2013
A total of 30 players braved the freezing rain and icy roads and sidewalks to come play at iExcell on Saturday, December 21st. Players came locally, but also from Hudson, Decatur, Champaign, and even Oak Park and Naperville. Our Under 1200 section was too small to sustain the tournament, but the players got experience by playing up into the Open Section where they competed for the trophy prizes for their section.
As freezing rain continued throughout the day, the people inside played through five rounds of G/30 (U600,) or four rounds of G/60 (Open.) In the 15 Player Under 600 section there were four players who scored 4 of 5 points. Rahul Vudaru (Evans JH) scored fourth on tiebreaks. Gowtham Krishnakumar (Evans Jr. High) took the third place trophy, Sreeansh Vakiti (Colene Hoose Elem) took second, and first place was awarded to Niroop Krishnakumar (Benjamin Elem.) This was Niroop's first tournament. The team trophy was taken by Grove, represented by six players in the fifteen player field.
Although the Under 1200 section was folded into the Open, we awarded the U1200 trophies to the players who had registered U1200 in that section. Third place went to Marcus Lee (Colene Hoose Elem.) Second place was awarded to Aarushi Bafna (Washington Elem.) First place was awarded to Raghav Mukundan (Washington Elem,) who scored 2.5 points. The team trophy went to Washington Elementary.
The Open section, 15 players total, saw excitement in Round 3 where Joseph Alford lost a minor piece for a pawn and lost to Mihir Bafna. Mihir earned over 100 ratings points by defeating the Class A player Alford, going from 1404 to 1527 rating. Mihir drew round 4, but earned $75 with a 3.5 score. For Joseph Alford, it was his only defeat and he finished with a 3.0 score for $50. Scoring 2.5 points and receiving $25 were Alexander Hsia, Minkee Lee, Grahame Watt, and Chris Morgan.
Every player received a Christmas gift from Twin Cities Chess Club and iExcell; players got to choose from scorepads, pens, pencils, and books (chess and non-chess) by drawings held every round. The winners of the Grand Prize giveaway drawing were Jai Mahajan and Khel Gordhan, who each had a choice of either a DGT 960 or a Saitek Competition clock. Our great thanks to iExcell for providing the clocks and many of the gifts.
The tournament also saw the debut of a new round information display system. Paper was all-but-dispensed-with in favor of putting pairings and standings directly online. Two large screen TVs (one in the playing hall, and one in the players area) provided refreshed information on tournament status, pairings and standings throughout the tournament.
The system was well received, and future improvements are planned.
For a frozen day, the chess action was hot indeed. Link to tournament crosstable at USCF.
Merry Christmas to All, and to All Play Good Chess!
Original event listing post follows.
The next tournament to be held at iExcell will be on Saturday, December 21, 2013. Details in "TLA" ("Tournament Life Announcement") format follow, then a "plain language" explanation. A link to the tournament flyer is forthcoming.
TLA Information:
Dec. 21, IEXCELL BLOOMINGTON/NORMAL OPEN/
SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 2013
iExcell, 2416 East Washington Street, Suite B3, Bloomington IL 61704.
For new players, see http://laughingvulcan.org/TCCCBlog/iexcell/ for more
comprehensive explanations. In 3 Sections
Open: 4SS, G/60;d5, EF:
$30.00 if Prepaid by Oct. 30; $35.00 Onsite. $$: $100.00 for 4.0 score;
$75.00 for 3.5 score; $50.00 for 3.0 score, $25.00 for 2.5 score. Only
zero point byes allowed, all rounds.
U1200 Scholastic: 5SS, G/30;d5, Open to 1200 & under. Open to
Scholastic Players Only. EF: Scholastic sections: $15 if paid by October
30; $20 Onsite. Prizes: 1st-3rd Place Trophy, 1st Place School Team
Trophy. All players receive at least one'goodie.' All scholastic players
receive participation medals. ½ point bye available any single round
*except final round*; zero point byes only in final round. We reserve
the right to combine the U600/U1200 sections or reduce rounds if
number of players is low.
U600 Scholastic: 4SS, G/30;d5, Open to
600 & under. Open to Scholastic Players Only. EF: Scholastic sections:
$15 if paid by October 30; $20 Onsite. Prizes: 1st-3rd Place Trophy,
1st Place School Team Trophy. All players receive at least one'goodie.'
All scholastic players receive participation medals. ½ point bye available
any single round *except final round*; zero point byes only in final
round. We reserve the right to combine the U600/U1200 sections or
reduce rounds if number of players is low.
ALL: Rds: Check-In and
Door Registration Ends 8:30 AM; 1st Round begins play ASAP after
registration closes at 8:30. Lunch break provided, all other rounds ASAP. Floor repairings will be done for any player 15 minutes after round start if opponent not present / opponent will be forfeited from round.
One or more door prizes (used books and other chess-related stuff) will be raffled off to players at start of every round.
Preregistered players are expected to check-in. ENT: Rahul Bafna, iExcell
(309) 287 -0293 or admin@iexcellkids.com. INFO: admin@iexcellkids.com.
DIR: See http://goo.gl/maps/w1SnT for Google Map to site.
Some explanation in English:
This will be a United States Chess Federation rated tournament at iExcell. There are three sections, one for scholastic players under 600 USCF rating, one for scholastic players under 1200 USCF rating, and an open section for scholastic and adult players. If the scholastic attendance (U600/U1200) is too small we reserve the right to either shorten the number of rounds or combine the two sections together.
All sections have the following in common:
Everyone must be present and either have checked in, or be in the check in line, by 8:30 AM. Those who arrive after 8:30, even those preregistered, may or may not have a first round game. It pays to be early!
All players must be paid members of the USCF (because we are not separating by grade, all players must have current expirations or pay a minimum three month USCF membership fee, in addition to the tournament registration fee.)
We will take a lunch break when possible and the start time for the post-lunch round will be announced. Otherwise, all rounds begin as soon as possible after the last game in the prior round is finished. In practice there's about a fifteen minute break after the last game finishes and when play in the next round starts.
Typically the scholastic sections end at around 4:30 PM. (A perfect day would have rounds approximately start at 9:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 1:50 PM, and 3:15 PM.) The open section usually ends at 6:00 PM, (rounds start at 9:00 AM, 12:oo PM, 2:15 PM, and 4:15 PM.) Things, however, rarely come out perfectly.
To preregister, or if you have any questions, please contact Rahul Bafna of iExcell at (309) 287 -0293 or email admin@iexcellkids.com.
The scholastic sections share the following in common (even though they are two separate sections):
It is a total of 5 rounds in Swiss system format (all players play 5 games of chess during the day.) Each side has thirty minutes each to play the game (bringing/buying a clock is recommended,) and each there will be 5 seconds of delay each move before time starts counting down. If neither player has a clock, we will place a clock on the board with both times equally split based on availability (this typically happens in the last 10-20 minutes of the round.)
The top 3 players by tiebreak score receive trophies, and the school with the four best players takes a team trophy. All players take home a medal.
Players may take up to one half point bye for any round except the last round. This counts as a draw for pairing and prize purposes.
If there are not enough players, we will at our discretion combine the U/600 and U/1200 scholastic sections.
The entry fee is $15.00 if prepaid by October 30, and $20.00 if paid after October 30 / at the site.
The open section has the following characteristics:
It is a total of 4 rounds in Swiss system format (all players play 4 games of chess during the day.) Each side has sixty minutes each to play the game (bringing/buying a clock is recommended,) and there will be 5 seconds of delay each move before the time starts counting down. If neither player has a clock, we will place a clock on the board with both times equally split based on availability (this typically happens in the last 10-20 minutes of the round.)
This is a plus-scores section. Wins count as 1 point, draws count as 1/2 point, losses are 0 points. A player scoring a perfect 4.0 score (4 wins) receives $100.00. A player who scores 3.5 receives $75.00. A player scoring 3.0 receives $50.00. A player who scores 2.5 points receives $25.00. Scores less than 2 points receive nothing.
Because we're playing plus scores, all elected byes count for zero points, not a half point. Also, to avoid more than one (possible) full point bye in a round, we may do floor repairing of any player whose opponent is more than 15 minutes late for the round start.
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Ikea issues nationwide ban on hide and seek games in their stores after police called
Police sent five officers to guard a store entrance
Ikea has issued a nationwide warning to people not to try to organise games of hide and seek in their stores - after police were called to one.
Some 3,000 teenagers had signed up to take part in a game at the store in Glasgow, and Ikea had to beef up security and police attended to nip the game in the bud.
Some attendees who said they would take part when it was posted as a Facebook event in Scotland's largest city did manage to get in, and hid in wardrobes and fridges.
But scores of others were turned away by police and security before the event was due to begin.
Scotland Police sent five officers to guard the entrance to the store, according to The Mirror.
GV of IKEA Eastville Bristol. (Image: Jon kent)
It fizzled out, but only with the help of police nipping it in the bud, and now Ikea have reiterated their objection to people using their huge stores as a playground.
Rob Cooper, the store manager for Ikea Glasgow, told STV : "The safety of our customers and co-workers is always our highest priority.
"We were aware of an unofficial hide and seek Facebook event being organised to take place at our store and have been working with the local police for support," he added.
Someone is organising a huge game of hide-and-seek in Ikea in Bristol and a thousand people say they are playing
An Ikea spokesperson said the rule applied across the country, and discouraged anyone from thinking of a copycat game.
"While we appreciate playing games in one of our stores may be appealing to some, we do not allow this kind of activity to take place to ensure we are offering a safe environment and relaxed shopping experience for our customers."
The furniture stores have become venues for hide-and-seek games
Hide-and-seek games have taken place at other Ikea stores in the past, with 500 people participating in a game in Belgium in 2014.
There have been a few attempts to start a mass game of hide and seek at the Ikea store in Bristol over the years, and the Eastville store is said to be the first in the country where someone undertook the 'Ikea sleepover challenge' - which involved people hiding in the store until it closes, spending the night there, and then hiding again to avoid detection in the morning.
18,000 sign up on Facebook to play hide and seek in Bristol Ikea only to find the event is a gig in Totterdown
Most recently, a Facebook event page advertising a round of the playground game 'The Floor Is Lava', attracted thousands of people willing to play, before the event page changed overnight to a Bristol band's gig at a pub in Totterdown.
An Ikea spokesman said the company appreciates that people want to have fun in its stores, however the behaviour is prohibited.
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When only one of you wants another baby, it can make things… hard. Marriage is already hard enough, trying to find time to be together and manage the day to day life.
The day after we had our third baby, I was scheduled for a tubal. We had talked about this decision months before I delivered, and felt it was the responsible thing to do. Most people thought we were crazy for even having a third child because we already had a boy and a girl… and to society, we had our full, perfect family. Why in the world would we want to add more children to it?
However, when they came to take me back for my procedure, as I laid in the hospital bed holding my barely 1-day-old baby, I knew in my heart, right then and there, that there would be a fourth. I was disgusted at myself for ever consenting to this in the first place, and I was in hysterics as doctors and nurses approached me for the paperwork to sign off on the surgery.
Today, I can't thank God enough for tuning me in to my maternal instincts, because without a doubt, I knew there was one more child to come… someday.
Our lives were busy. OK, that is putting it quite lightly. They were crazy. We had three children, one baby coming every other year. We had our kids involved in extracurricular activities, my husband had his hands full with his job and in between getting not even close to the amount of sleep a body needs to appropriately function, I was teaching full time, writing a column, writing a book, started my own photography business and within a short amount of time, had six grad classes to take within one semester. Shortly following this, I made the decision to become a Beachbody Coach. Oh… and most importantly, I was a wife and mother and had to keep our household running.
So… with that said, what rational person would want to add another baby to that mix? Yes, it was me. As much as I knew what the stress of another close pregnancy (my fourth in six years) would do to my body, I yearned for it. I felt that it was coming. My husband, on the other hand, was a realist, a very practical person, and realized our schedule was filled to the max, as we barely survived our days as it was. We had three, beautiful, healthy children and that was it for him. We were done, and even talking about adding another brought stress to the table.
He knew I wanted one more. It was no secret to anybody that was even somewhat familiar with me. With every fiber in me, I knew in my heart that our family wasn't complete. There was never one lie, secret or trick, but lo and behold, as our timing had come yet again… another year, another pregnancy. I'll never forget the look of pure shock or quite frankly, pure horror, on his face when I told him.
He turned white, sweaty, started pacing and couldn't find any words, except that he couldn't talk to me about it right then. Both of our heads were spinning, and despite wanting this baby and knowing deep in my heart that he or she would have come into our family at some point, I was still in a state of shock as well and just wanted and needed my husband to put his arms around me and hold me tightly and tell me that everything would be OK, simply because it had to be.
However, it was everything else that got in the way. The worry of money; we just made it by the skin of our teeth each month as it was. The worry of our sanity; we had already lost our minds and now we were bringing another baby into our family. The worry of simply surviving in general; physically, financially, emotionally and mentally. What society thought and said of what was right and practical was totally overtaking his rationalizing, whether it was right or wrong. Emotions were mounting on both sides.
We went through several months of very strong, aggrieved feelings toward each other. And sadly, it had brought me to feel at certain points like I was crashing and burning. I began questioning myself, "What was I thinking? How are we going to do this? Maybe he's right. Maybe my wishing and hoping and praying for this wasn't the right thing after all." And with the pregnancy bringing hundreds of different hormones and emotions, I felt at times so defeated and uncertain of what the future held for our family.
The questions kept playing over and over in my mind. How dare he feel this way?How could he possibly almost deride the thought of adding another baby into our family? And what kind of partner was he to almost isolate me, since this was, in fact, my fault?
He simply feared an unknowing future and had let that fear get the best of both of us.
I can't tell you our exact turning point. I don't remember when one day was better than the other. But after months of adjusting and praying that this too, just as everything we've gone through before, would work itself out and would have a happy ending, we seemed to turn a corner somewhere. Maybe it was my growing belly that reminded us that our sweet angel was indeed on her way. Maybe it was the tiny, precious kicks that made everything so much more real. Maybe it was watching our children fall in love with their little sister and watching their sincere innocence and anticipation and ultimate love and acceptance of the miracle that was surely on its way.
But soon, we found ourselves much closer and embracing what our large, already crazy, yet amazing family, would be welcoming. This had finally led to an impatient countdown of our baby girl to finally make her arrival as the anticipation for her became far too much to even bear. We finally loosened our grip on all of the what ifs, the hows, and the questioning of how everything would play out.
Today, I sit here and watch my husband holding her. With each of our children, he fell immediately in love with all of them, but this time it's different — I see a deeper appreciation for our daughter. She was certainly a gift we were supposed to have, but a gift he never anticipated that he'd want. She's absolutely the missing piece that our family needed, but the emptiness he never knew existed until she came. And she's undeniably his little princess, as she is identical to each and every last feature of his, and is intensely drawn to the sound of his voice.
Since this baby has made her way into our family, I become more enamored each day as I watch my husband hold her so delicately, love her so affectionately and stare at her so intently in a way that I've never seen him do. The words don't need to be spoken, but I see it all in his eyes as he looks at her. It turns out that sometimes the greatest gifts, the things we need most in this world, are blessings we never pictured having until they are upon us.
We finally gave our unknowing future up to the one who has a perfect plan laid out for our family. What we've learned for us is that some of the hardest times we've feared and endured have often led us to the most absolute, greatest moments of our life. They say that the couples who are meant to be together, go through everything that is designed to tear them apart and somehow come out of it stronger. Thank God that this has been us… continually hurdle after hurdle, year after year.
Just as the great Nelson Mandela said, "It's always impossible until it's done." This little piece of Heaven changed our family, changed our hearts, and showed that with love involved, anything is possible.
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White Privilege: An Insidious Virus That's Eating America from Within
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon, August 23, 2014
In one of the most famous passages of the New Testament, the apostle Paul writes to the Christians of Corinth, employing a complicated series of metaphors on the theme of transformation: from childhood to adulthood, from ignorance to knowledge, from sinfulness to a state of grace. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child," the epistle runs, in the memorable rhythms of the King James Version. "But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
I'm not a believer, in the ordinary sense of that word, and I'm aware that Paul is a problematic figure in theological history, to put it mildly. But those words have resonated with me over the last two weeks. Painful recent events on the ground in Ferguson, and the strongly divided national response to those events–offer us a chance to become aware of the ways we see race in America "through a glass, darkly," and perhaps also the beginnings of a chance to see each other face to face, to know as we are known. Let me be clear that when I say "we" I am primarily addressing America's white majority, to which I belong. We are the ones whose vision is occluded by the darkened glass of white privilege, and it's up to us to do something about it. Black people can see white privilege pretty clearly, but from a different perspective, and it's beyond their power to change it.
White privilege is a term that sometimes gets thrown around too cavalierly, especially when people are having a fight on the Internet and want to shut each other up. (I find myself echoing here many of the things I wrote about masculinity and male privilege in the wake of the Elliot Rodger case in May. It's been a tough summer in America.) Recognizing white privilege does not mean that white people don't get to express our views on controversial racial topics, or that we have to defer to whatever a person of color may say. It does mean, however, that we have a responsibility to be alert to advantages we may possess, whether as ordinary citizens on the street, economic agents or wielders of rhetoric that appears neutral rather than "racial." By definition, it means that some of those advantages are things we don't notice, or take entirely for granted.
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But the most insidious power of white privilege, the albatross effect that makes it so oppressive to white people themselves, is the way it renders itself invisible and clouds the collective mind. It's like a virus that adapts in order to ensure its own survival and perpetuation, in this case by convincing its host it isn't there. So we see polls suggesting that large percentages of white Americans believe that racism is not a significant factor in Ferguson or law enforcement in general, that cops are just doing their jobs, and that whatever bad things may have happened once upon a time in our beloved country, they've been locked away in the dusty cabinet of history and don't matter anymore. {snip}
Among the "childish things" we need to put aside, white people, is the idea that America's tormented racial legacy belongs to the past. You know exactly the attitude I mean: We have twice elected a biracial president and LeBron James and Jay Z are zillionaires, so no more talk of racism, please. In the more paranoid formulation prevalent in the Fox News demographic (but not limited to it), this becomes the idea that the federal government has spent the last 50 years giving away money, housing, education and other "free stuff" to black people who don't work or pay taxes, while vigorously grinding down the white man. So either the vision of healing and reconciliation conjured up so eloquently by Martin Luther King, Jr. more than 50 years ago has now been fulfilled (and black people need to stop complaining), or America is being not so slowly turned into a gay-Muslim-socialist totalitarian state where every day is Kwanzaa. Both scenarios come up against the nettlesome fact that African-Americans stubbornly persist in being poor, living in disadvantaged circumstances, getting shot by the police for no particular reason and going to prison in large numbers.
This kind of white privilege is a willful blindness, along with a passionate embrace of exactly the kind of aggrievement and victimhood that white people often claim to resent in others. {snip} There is a much larger population of white Americans, I believe, who feel troubled by what they saw in Ferguson but are unable or unwilling to face the fact that it reflects a recurring historical pattern that has obviously not been exorcised, a pattern of power, privilege and domination in which they are complicit.
Any white person who is being honest can understand this reluctance, and probably any other kind of person too. It's a lot more comfortable to believe that equal opportunity has been pretty much afforded to all, allowing for some bumps in the road–or to believe that you yourself belong to the unfairly downtrodden and stigmatized group–than to consider the alternatives. {snip}
William Faulkner's famous remark that the past is not dead, and isn't even past, could not be more vividly illustrated than by the images from Ferguson: A black man shot dead in the street; angry African-American protesters facing impassive and heavily armed white police officers; tear gas, broken glass and the National Guard. But how to deal with these events that seem like nightmarish echoes of too many previous events? One way, the path of survival pursued by the virus of white privilege, is to detach each of these cases from history. Each of these inexplicably dead black men becomes an isolated phenomenon, with no reference to any discernible pattern. History is bunk, as Henry Ford and then the Gang of Four told us; there are no lessons in the past.
This urgent agenda of historical decoupling offers one reason why the specific details of each case become so fraught with meaning, and why the elaborate character assassination of every victim is so important to TV talking heads and Internet trolls. If Michael Brown was a thieving thug who made Darren Wilson fear for his life, if Trayvon Martin was a drug-dealing ne'er-do-well who was casing out potential burglaries (and probably high on "Purple Drank"), if Eric Garner was a bruising gangster who resisted arrest and stopped breathing because of asthma and cardiac arrest rather than an illegal chokehold, then their deaths were regrettable (or maybe non-regrettable) consequences of the system working as it should. Race was not a factor, the police and/or random armed citizens acted reasonably, the protesters are mobs of looters and law-breakers, and the liberal pantywaists crying about it on TV are the real racists.
That pathway remains highly seductive for white America, because it avoids any notion of collective or social responsibility and accesses the Calvinist myth of individualism that lies at the core of white American identity. A man makes his own fate or is elected by Providence–it comes to the same thing in the end–and if those young men and a distressing number of others met death in the street under unsettling circumstances, that can only have been their just deserts. Considering the possibility that they died because of a system of justice and law enforcement that skews heavily toward arresting, imprisoning and otherwise suppressing black and brown people, and that that system is itself embedded within much larger cultural and historical patterns, raises a lot of painful questions. What are we supposed to do about it, for one thing?
For starters, we can be honest with ourselves about white privilege, when we're able to see it. {snip} Resisting white privilege is not about "liberal guilt," or donning sackcloth and ashes, or whatever Bill O'Reilly thinks happens in graduate seminars at elite universities. It's about finding material ways to pay down that debt, and also about recognizing how much the debt has weighed us down–all of us, white and black and brown and all other shades.
As I said earlier, the virus of white privilege survives by convincing its host organism that it does not exist. That's because the more clearly we see it the more likely we are to notice that its purported benefits have faded almost to nothing. Whites of the working and middle classes correctly perceive that their economic fortunes have deteriorated over the past half-century, even if the average white household is still 20 times wealthier than the average black household (an especially deleterious consequence of white privilege). An entire right-wing ideological empire remains devoted to convincing white people that benefit-sucking African-Americans and job-stealing Latino immigrants are somehow to blame for their downward trajectory. White privilege is the solvent used, throughout American history, to dissolve multiracial coalitions of working people, and the drug used to brainwash whites into making common cause with the class of CEOs, financiers and landlords. Kicking that drug habit is the only way white America can ever set itself free from the past.
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As part of the programme, IB have developed an IB Learner Profile to help develop students' skills. It contains 10 attributes, listed below, that are to be worked on inside and outside of the classroom. The aim is to have the students improve in these areas so that they are fully prepared for their next journey after leaving high school. The goal is to become more internationally minded citizens who will look after the world that they live in.


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Mayor Lori Lightfoot Has Created A Task Force To Review The Chicago Police Use Of Force Policy
June 15, 2020, 2:29 p.m. CT
Chicago police officers watch a peaceful protest over the police killing of George Floyd. A new community-led task force will review the Chicago Police Department's use of force policy — the directives that outline when an officer should use or avoid using a weapon during an arrest. Manuel Martinez / WBEZ
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a new community-led task force to review the Chicago Police Department's use of force policy — the directives that outline when an officer should use or avoid using a weapon during an arrest.
The task force will be made up of 20 members, including residents, students, experts, lawyers, advocates and elected officials. The task force will work with members from CPD's Research and Development and Training divisions, Lightfoot said Monday.
Among those named are Craig Futterman, an expert on police misconduct at the University of Chicago; Ald. Chris Taliaferro, the chairman of the city council's Public Safety Committee; and Mark Clements with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression (CPAC), the group advocating for civilian oversight of the Police Department. Members from the Community Renewal Society, Communities United and local chapters of the NAACP are also listed. Those organizations have spent years advocating for police reform at City Hall.
After an eight week review process, the Use of Force Working Group will report their findings and new policy proposals to CPD brass who've been selected to oversee the CPD Executive Steering Committee (ESC). This includes Superintendent David Brown, First Deputy Superintendent Anthony Riccio and Deputy Superintendent of Constitutional Policing Barbara West.
Lightfoot said these steps will be part of other initiatives recently announced, like bringing the community into the police academy as teachers and providing district training on neighborhood history from the community's own perspective, so that officers who work in a particular district have cultural literacy about the areas they police. "We need to make all of these things real and meaningful and substantive and we will," Lightfoot said Monday.
Though the announcement is in response to the local and national protests against police brutality, the task force follows recent policy updates to the guidelines already implemented by the department. Less than four months ago, the Police Department's use of force guidelines were updated to include language confirming the sanctity of life and the importance of de-escalation.
The federal consent decree also requires the city to provide some way for the public to weigh in annually on the policy. Under the court-ordered agreement, the city must also release a biannual review of how those policies are incorporated, including a requirement that the department observe and report trends and practices by officers. The federal monitor has already requested a probe into the department's use of force during the recent string of protests and has given the city poor marks as it continuously fails to meet court-ordered benchmarks for reform.
Claudia Morell covers city politics for WBEZ. Follow at @claudiamorell


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Through his newspaper columns and features, as well as his internationally-known film and video work, Doug Cuthand has become a respected voice in the aboriginal community. In Askiwina: A Cree World, he offers fresh insights and straight talk over platitudes and dogma, providing readers with a bridge to understanding Aboriginal philosophy, history, culture, and society.
He explores the basics of Aboriginal spirituality – the four directions, the trickster Wesakechak, creation stories, coming-of-age rituals, the Sundance, and sacred places on the prairies. He describes Saskatchewan history from an Aboriginal point of view, a perspective from which familiar events like the Battle of Cutknife Hill, the siege of Battleford, and the establishment of Prince Albert look profoundly different. He delves into the worlds of past leaders and thinkers like Canon Edward Ahenakew, Anahareo, Poundmaker, and Sweetgrass, and cultural and religious traditions like the powwow and the Ghost Dance.
He portrays the impact Aboriginal peoples have had on this province – including their critical role in the fur trade, place names of the province, settlement patterns, and even Canadian-American relations – and projects the impact they will have on its future. He also presents a seasoned observer s view of economic and political issues facing Aboriginal peoples in Saskatchewan, including such topics as gaming, self-government, and land claims.
About Doug Cuthand
TheDoug is an independent film producer, director, writer and journalist whose career has spanned over 20 years. His work frequently has been recognized and honoured by the media industry. Weekly columns in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, and features in the Winnipeg Free Press have made Mr. Cuthand a respected voice for the aboriginal community. A collection of his newspaper writing was published in 2005 as Tapwe. His film and videos have been featured by the National Film Board, and aired on the CBC and numerous local and independent television stations. They have also won awards at the American Indian Film Festival, the Geminis, the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association awards and the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. He was awarded the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) award in 2003 for best column. In addition to his work as a producer and writer, Doug Cuthand is also the chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Little Pine First Nation. Duties include the management of $25 million in trust funds, intended for the purchase of 90,000 acres of land to fulfill the land quantum as promised in the terms of Treaty #6.lma Poirier is the author of three previous Coteau Books publications – the memoir Rock Creek and the poetry collections Grasslands, the Private Hearings and Double Visions. She has written two books for young readers, Children of the Wood Mountain Uplands and The Bead Pot, as well as portions of the Field Guide to the Grasslands National Park.
She has had a hand in editing five books on the ranching life: Beyond the Range, Cowgirls: 100 Years of Writing the Range, Grass Roots, Wood Mountain Uplands and A Voice of Her Own.
Thelma Poirier spent most of her youth and adult life on ranches near Fir Mountain, Saskatchewan, moving to the nearby village of Glentworth in 2004. Ranching, the natural environment and history remain her special interests.
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