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San Diego Union Tribune
June 17, 2015
Commentary By James Santiago Grisolía M.D.
The patient lay confined to his bed, tied down by a failing heart and oxygen flowing constantly to the little prongs in his nose. He had lived a long, jolly life of faith and hard work. Here, on his last bed, he was luminous. His white hair, his translucent skin, his weakening laugh, all seemed lit from within. He died peacefully, amid family, when his time came. Not by suicide.
I'm a neurologist, and I know that death is hard and comes in all shapes and sizes. End-of-life care arouses strong emotions. But a small group of suicide advocates have increasingly dominated the California conversation on dying issues.
The Hemlock Society, re-branded as "Compassion and Choices," has amassed a $22 million war chest, mostly from out-of-state figures like George Soros, for a three-pronged attack to pass physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in California: SB 128, a bill now moving to the state Assembly; a San Diego lawsuit saying physician-assisted suicide is already legal; and, if needed, a voter proposition. They believe the day for suicide has come.
Physician-assisted suicide means that you could find a doctor online, who would then examine you and a write a cheap prescription for an overdose of sleeping pills. You could take it the same day or anytime later when you felt ready. Sadly, your 12-year-old or anyone else could also find and take it.
SB 128 is flawed by a lack of safeguards. While claiming to limit PAS to patients with less than six months to live, this law provides complete legal immunity to the death doctor, with no mechanism for oversight or verification. PAS must be left off the death certificate and the only cases recorded will be those voluntarily reported by the doctor.
Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Canada have similar laws on physician-assisted suicide. We know stories of individuals getting PAS without a six-month prognosis, and we also know, at least in Oregon, that only a few doctors are doing the lion's share of physician-assisted suicides. Instead of your family doctor sending you for an objective second opinion by a specialist, what really happens is that patients shop for a doctor who advocates PAS, who then gets a "second opinion" from another advocate who always agrees. In 2014, of the 105 cases reported in Oregon, only 2 percent got psychiatric evaluation for treatable depression. Without legal immunity, this would be malpractice.
SB 128 is both dangerous and unnecessary. Unnecessary because the Hemlock Society has been telling people how to commit suicide painlessly, without help, for decades. Dangerous because the doctor's lethal prescription can have complications which go unreported under the shroud of secrecy covering physician-assisted suicide laws in other states. Our prison systems continue to botch executions, even with professional supervision. How can we send a sick, frightened patient home with a bottle of Nembutal, to die alone or with family, easily vomiting, choking or otherwise suffering?
In my experience, the family left behind suffers a range of emotions, including guilt and divisive anger. "You shouldn't have let Mom go," or "Did I do enough to let Mom know she really wasn't a burden to us?" SB 128 fails to require family notification, much less any family therapy or reconciliation before the fatal swallow.
As our teens and young adults fight a rising tide of depression and suicide, what kind of message does it send to approve PAS? The state and doctors are telling you that suicide is legal and OK, it's just a "choice." Besides eroding the doctor-patient trust bond for all of us, legalizing physician-assisted suicide indirectly endangers our kids and other depressed, vulnerable people.
True "death with dignity" would make palliative/hospice care available for all Californians. The sensitive palliative care team involves family and friends, underscores the patient's true human worth, and, when needed, can legally provide terminal sedation when suffering can't be controlled.
Our representatives in the Assembly need your input now, to know how many Californians care on each side of this issue.
Grisolía, M.D., is a San Diego neurologist and is California director for the American Academy of Medical Ethics.
By Dr. Ira Byock
Politico Magazine
June 7, 2015
As a life-long progressive who is rapidly approaching Medicare age, I am dismayed by the apparent resignation of the political left to the sorry state of dying in America. Just when moral outrage and radical social change are called for, my fellow progressives have embraced physician-assisted suicide as their political response to needless suffering of seriously ill people. This isn't liberalism; it's nihilism.
This liberal embrace of hastened death is spreading rapidly. In California, a bill to legalize doctor-assisted suicide passed the state senate last Thursday and is headed for the state assembly. In common with similar legislation in over 20 states, it was authored and co-sponsored by Democratic lawmakers touting civil liberties as their motivation.
In the 1970s this scenario was the stuff of dystopic sci-fi. Remember Soylent Green? A society decides it doesn't have the resources or will to take good care of aging and dying people, but offers them a compassionately quick, painless and aesthetically pleasing death. Edward G. Robinson's death scene in this 1973 movie (filmed while the actor was dying of cancer) is essential viewing for anyone who supports physician-assisted suicide.
In the 1970s and 1980s progressives championed hospice as a counter-cultural response to woefully bad care of terminally ill people. To good effect: Hospice and the specialties of palliative medicine and geriatrics demonstrated conclusively that much better care of frail elders and dying people is feasible and affordable. Meticulous communication and planning, skillful treatment of pain and other symptoms, support for patients and families in caring for themselves and 24-7 availability of professional help are all far less expensive than the current norm—in which no one attends to such details, while doctors forestall death at all costs. As a consequence, one in five people languish in intensive care units during their final days.
Dying is rarely easy, but it doesn't have to be this hard. Having worked as a physician in hospice and palliative care teams since 1978, I know that no one needs to die in physical agony. With comprehensive whole person care, most people live in relative comfort and, despite the sadness of leaving those they love, even a sense of wellbeing during their final months, weeks and days of life.
For years it seemed like we were on a path to a future in which every person could be assured of comfort and having their dignity honored through the very end of life. Unfortunately, countervailing forces, chief among them the profit motive, supervened. Instead of transforming mainstream health care to become genuinely person-centered, hospice, palliative medicine and geriatrics are largely being absorbed within corporatized medicine. For instance, fully two-thirds of America's hospices now belong to for-profit companies, many traded on Wall Street.
It's great that more people receive hospice care than ever before, but quality has suffered. Across the hospice industry, the average number of dying patients assigned to each nurse has risen to untenable levels. Meanwhile, the industry's capacity to provide continuous hospice care in people's homes has all but disappeared, resulting in needless brink-of-death hospitalizations, avoidable pain and suffering and unnecessary costs. This is no surprise to liberals: the fiscal wellbeing of corporations too often takes precedence over the wellbeing of the people they serve.
Despite having the resources and technical know-how to reliably care well for people through the end of life, a persistent public health crisis surrounds the way we die. The public's fear, anger and distrust are, tragically, well founded. But authorizing doctors to intentionally end peoples' lives is nothing more than capitulation to this pervasive social irresponsibility.
An authentic, socially sound solution to this crisis is readily achievable if we can muster the will to demand it. A tectonic shift in the way healthcare is paid for—from financially rewarding quantity of services to measured quality of care delivered—has the potential to improve care for seriously ill people in transformative ways. This change began with RomneyCare, went national with ObamaCare, and will be accelerated by the "doc fix" legislation that Congress just passed and the president quickly signed.
Under these laws, accountable care and value-based payments will increasingly tie physicians' Medicare fees to the quality of clinical outcomes and people's satisfaction with the health care they receive. For end-of-life care, recognized quality measures include where people died and relatives' perceptions of whether or not their loved ones' values and preferences were elicited and honored.
This is no time to be fatalistic. Instead, it's time to push major redesign of physician education and post-graduate training. State legislators could write bills to require medical and nursing schools and residency programs to adequately train clinicians in personalized symptom management, communication and shared decision-making, and collaborative team-based care.
Legislators could mandate performance tests of basic skills in these areas before their state awards licenses to practice medicine.
Many corporate nursing homes today are little more than human warehouses. The wages and staffing levels of aides are so low that physically dependent people are destined to feel undignified. State legislatures could compel nursing home companies to employ enough nurses and aides to answer the bell when a physically dependent person—someone's grandparent, mother or father—needs help in getting to a bathroom.
State-sponsored websites could provide easily accessible and reliable quality ratings of hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health and hospice programs, helping to align market forces with public health priorities. Medicare's star ratings of nursing homes, while far from perfect, are having a noticeably positive impact on quality of long-term care.
I've been making this case to state legislators who sponsor or support legalizing assisted suicide, almost all of whom are Democrats. I get a lot of "yes-but" responses: Yes but, you'll never get doctors to practice the way you describe. The less polite refer to entrenched interests in the status quo and financial pipelines of the medical-industrial complex. Without disputing my premise, one senior blue state senator recently told me I was naïve to think anything substantial would change.
He sounded depressed, but I couldn't let him off the hook. I pointed out that if the physician-assisted suicide bill he supports becomes law, his mother's internist will still not have been adequately trained or have the skills needed to treat her pain or breathlessness. He will be no better at listening to her concerns or counseling her through the difficult, but normal, process of leaving this life. He will, however, be able to write her a lethal prescription.
What about this is good government?
It is said that the real worth of any society can be found in the way it cares for its most vulnerable members. In Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana where doctors can legally write lethal prescriptions, the systemic deficiencies that cause preventable distress among dying people persist. A healthy society doesn't force its members to choose between suffering and suicide. I grew up believing that every person's life has value and that America does not settle for less than the best. Suicide is not the answer. We are a far more generous people than that. Aged, ill and dying Americans need progressives to reclaim our commitment to bold, constructive political and social action.
June 5, 2015
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Californians Against Assisted Suicide Vows Continued Opposition to SB 128 As It Moves to the Assembly
Sacramento, CA – On a narrow vote, the California State Senate voted to move SB 128, a bill permitting doctor assisted suicide, forward to the State Assembly. The legislation faced stiff opposition from both Democratic and Republican members of the Senate.
"Unfortunately, this vote sends the message to patients like me that suicide is the preferred option. I have a great family and strong community support, but I can't imagine how people facing a life-limiting diagnosis will hear this message from the State Senate," noted opponent Stephanie Packer, a Southern California 32-year old mother of 4 who was given a terminal diagnosis.
One of the leaders from the disability rights community advocating against assisted suicide is Marilyn Golden, Senior Policy Analyst for the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. "We recognize that opposing assisted suicide has never been a partisan issue and have always known this legislative battle in California would be a long one. This bill is simply about protecting doctors and HMOs from liability and tellspeople with disabilities who face a terminal diagnosis, that may well prove inaccurate, that there is no dignity in our lives. Assisted suicide is dangerous and we are going to bring that message loud and clear to every member of the State Assembly and the Governor."
Senate Bill 128 remains opposed by a broad group of organizations including the Association of Northern California Oncologists, Disability Rights California, the California Foundation for Independent Living, the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California, the Alliance of Catholic Healthcare, the California Disability Alliance, The Arc of California and dozens of others.
Similar bills have already been defeated or tabled this year in states like Connecticut, Delaware and Colorado. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan (D) vetoed a bill Tuesday for an assisted suicide study committee on the issue, writing that she believed "... the goals of this bill begin to take New Hampshire down a precarious path." The New Jersey State Assembly moved a bill on assisted suicide last year to the State Senate; that bill has also received significant opposition and has drawn concerns from Governor Christie.
June 3, 2015
Sacramento, CA - Several prominent African-American clergy leaders are asking California legislators to say no to Senate Bill 128 - assisted suicide. These pastors represent a larger group of African-American congregations in Southern California that are staunchly opposed to assisted suicide legalization and SB 128.
This leadership group includes Rev. Norman Copeland, Senior Pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church in San Bernardino, and the board chairman of CLUE Los Angeles (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice). Also asking legislators to say no to Senate Bill 128 is Bishop Philip Powell, Senior Pastor of The Centre at Highland and President of the Inland Empire Concerned African American Churches, and Pastor Kerwin Manning, Senior Pastor of Pasadena Church and president of the Clergy Community Coalition.
These pastors together represent several dozen largely African-American congregations in the Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas of Southern California.
"This community understands that assisted suicide mixed with a lack of access to healthcare resources in many largely African American communities is a recipe for disaster," said Ken Barnes, spokesperson for the Californians Against Assisted Suicide coalition. "California is not Oregon, Washington or Vermont, we are a far more ethnically and economically diverse state. Many of the communities these clergy leaders serve face hospital closures, lack of primary care facilities and virtually non-existent palliative and hospice care options. These items should be legislative priorities, not assisted suicide."
Senate Bill 128 is opposed broadly by groups including Disability Rights California, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, The Arc California, Association of Northern California Oncologists, Medical Oncologists of Southern California, California Foundation for Independent Living, Silicon Valley Center for Independent Living and dozens of other organizations representing a diverse cross-section of California.


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"Dang Mrs. Stoffa! Nice shoes! I haven't EVER seen a teacher wear Jordans to school before!"
It's always entertaining when the students I work with discover elements of my actual personality, not just my professional teacher identity. Today was casual Friday and I chose to wear a pair of sneakers with my outfit instead of sensible sandals or flats like most teachers wear to school. My middle schoolers were super impressed and I got compliments on my shoes all day. It was hilarious, because I was just wearing what I usually wear in real life. I also got to explain the difference between sneakers and tennis shoes to a bunch of preppy, Lily Pulitzer loving southern girls. It was wild.
Being a young substitute is pretty weird. A good chunk of the teachers at school are constantly telling me that I look like a student despite the fact that I'm 25. At the same time the students think that I'm still in college and have their minds blown every time I tell them I already graduated college and have a teaching license (we've been over this a minimum of 3 times for each grade). For some reason they can't grasp the fact that I'm apparently much older than I appear.
Finding out the things that we have in common is always fun, though. They freak out when I talk about sending snaps or posting things to my Instagram. They always ask for my twitter handle which I NEVER give out (hello, privacy is great) but it's really funny to see their faces when I tell them how long I've had my different accounts. They're also surprised that these apps have been out for that many years. I think I know how adults from my childhood felt when I asked them what the encyclopedia sets were at their houses when you could just use google haha.
Living with a foot in two worlds is pretty tricky. If I let the kids know all the things we have in common I lose some credibility, but if I don't share any of those things then they don't listen to me at all. I usually end up on the side of overly transparent just because it's fun to bond with them over shared interests and see if I'm still cool. Turns out 10 years isn't that big of a gap. Until a 7th grader mentions they rented She's the Man for the first time last night and thought it was funny and you age yourself by telling them it came out when you were a freshman. These things happen frequently, but then we bond over the fact that they want my Bruno Mars tickets this summer and I'm back haha
There are lots of things we have in common that surprise the kids, but nothing more than the fact that I'm a closeted sneakerhead as a teacher. I even taught a 6th grader what Eastbay.com was. It was super hilarious. Shout out to the little bro for that one. What really kills me is that I can't really wear any of my favorite shoes to work on a regular basis because they aren't professional enough. It's a rough life, but I really enjoy Fridays when I can let my real personality shine. Maybe someday I'll grow out of it, but until then I'll just keep looking more like a kid than a teacher when I'm at school. I've accepted my fate.


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Boo to you: Halloween events
Bainbridge Trick-or-Treat Downtown
What: Downtown Winslow will be blocked to vehicle traffic so trick-or-treaters can get around safely.
Where: Winslow Way
When: 4-6 p.m.
Cost: Free
Trunk or Treat Bash
What: The first Trunk or Treat Bash includes candy, a costume contest and a contest for best decorated car/lawn chair. Volunteers needed!
Where: Port Of Brownsville's Parking Lot, 9790 Ogle Road
When: 5-7 p.m.
Info: firstname.lastname@example.com
Halloween Buggy Bash
What: Get a free goody bag and free touch-a-bug classes all day.
Where: Bug Museum, 1118 Charleston Beach Road W., Bremerton
When: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Cost: Free
Downtown Bremerton Safe Trick or Treat
What: Candy, music, carnival, horse and carriage rides and haunted house tours.
Where: Downtown Bremerton
When: 5-8 p.m.
Cost: Free
One Life Church Trunk or Treat
What: This free community event will have games, food, a bouncy house and Trunk-or-Treating.
Where: 4205 Wheaton Way Ste. B, Bremerton
When: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Kitsap Harvest Festival
What: Bouncy house, pony rides, petting farm, tractor ride, creepy critters, toddler play-place, games and more. Concession stand and nighttime corn maze (bring a flashlight) available at an additional cost.
Where: Minder Farms, 100 Glud's Pond Road, Bremerton
When: 5-8 p.m.
Cost: Free
Union Hill Trunk or Treat
What: A safe and fun Halloween event. Free candy and hot drinks.
Where: 10th and Veneta, Bremerton
When: 6-8 p.m.
Info: 360-377-0161 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Kitsap Haunted Fairgrounds
What: The Haunted Fairgrounds is a partnership of several area families and the Kitsap County Parks and Recreation Department. Volunteers come up with a storyline for the haunted house every year and make all of the props and costumes themselves.
Where: Kitsap Sun Pavilion at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds
When: 5-10 p.m. with lights on for the first hour
Cost: $12 general admission, or $11 with donation of canned food item, which will be given to local food banks
Info: www.kitsaphauntedfairgrounds.com
Trick or Treating at Kitsap Mall
What: Bring your children in costume for safe and warm trick-or-treating at Kitsap Mall.
Where: Kitsap Mall, 10315 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale
When: 5-7 p.m.
Cost: Free
The USS Turner Joy Haunted Asylum
What: The USS Turner Joy presents "The Haunted Asylum." Proceeds benefit the restoration of the USS Turner Joy and The Bremerton Family YMCA Strong Kids Campaign.
When: 6:30-10 p.m.
Where: USS Turner Joy on the Bremerton waterfront
How much: Regular admission is $10. Receive a dollar off regular admission price by bringing a canned food item.
The Scrap Yard Massacre
What: Annual haunted "house" at Belfair Truck and Auto Wrecking. Not intended for kids younger than 12, but they will be admitted if accompanied by an adult.
Where: 25603 Highway 3
When: 7:30 p.m.-midnight
How much: $15, $2 off with food donation
Hallelujah Celebration Trunk or Treat
What: Belfair Community Baptist Church is having a Trunk or Treat with carnival games, cake walk, face painting and more.
Where: Belfair Community Baptist Church, 23300 NE State Route 3, Belfair
When: 6-8 p.m.
Cost: Free
Forest Ridge Annual Trick or Treating
What: Trick or treating for kids from infants to 12 years old.
Where: Forest Ridge Health & Rehab, 140 S. Marion Ave.
When: 6-8 p.m.
Zombies of Mass Destruction
What: Come watch Port Gamble's cult classic "B" movie at the Hood Canal Vista Pavilion.
Where: Hood Canal Vista Pavilion
When: 7-9 p.m.
Info: www.portgamble.com
Port Gamble Halloween Celebration
What: Bring the little ones and celebrate during the day at the shops.
Where: Port Gamble Townsite, 1 Pugetview Drive
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Info: www.portgamble.com
What: Activities at this Halloween party for preschoolers include a cupcake walk, crafts, carnival games and lots of fun.
Where: Poulsbo Recreation Center, 19540 Front St.
When: 3:30-5 p.m.
Cost: Free for kids younger than 5; children 6 and older get a punch card for $1
Info: 360-779-9898
Eagles Haunted House
What: North Kitsap Eagles No. 3586 hosts a haunted house. Bring two cans of food for Fishline and receive a $2 discount for admission.
When: 6-11 p.m.
Where: 4230 Lincoln Road., Poulsbo
Info: Rick at 990-9399, Sue at 598-4612, or the lodge at 779-7272.
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Downtown Trick-or-Treat
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Since I'm not 12, I skipped right past the idea of seeing "Star Trek" in a theater this weekend. (Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's good. I just think we're smothering all the new ideas by rehashing the old ones that seem comfortable and fun. I understand why people wanted that in the 1950s, after a few really tough decades, but I don't think that's where we should be now. I think we should be looking to the new.)
Instead, we took advantage of the fact that Stephen Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience is released on pay-per-view while it's still in theaters.
I'm not a reviewer, so I'll leave that to others. What I did want to mention, though, is that it's shot with the RED camera in a style that loosely connects to documentary: working in available light and going handheld. And it looks great, at least on television.
As Soderbergh told Filmmaker Magazine:
You know, I shot The Informant [with the Red] last spring, but I wasn't really in a situation where sensitivity was as much of an issue as it was on GFE. So for me that [heightened sensitivity to light] was a big plus because we were shooting anamorphic and I was kind of restricted to shooting stuff at 2.8. Basically I can't go much wider than that, stop-wise, and so I really needed that extra sensitivity. It meant I could go out on the street or be in a car, still be able to shoot available light and be really pleased with what we were getting. So, [the Red] just keeps getting better. ... There are only two shots in the film where I pulled out a light. ... And frankly I wish I hadn't. They're my two least favorite shots.Above: Soderbergh talks about his experiences with the Red.


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By Brendan O'Colmain
You hear it all the time: "Maui shuts down at 9pm." But some bars and local artists are working to change that. If you know where to look, it's a different world out there when the moon is high in the sky. The energy is strong, the crowd's a little rowdy and people from every walk of life are out dancing.
Work-week warriors have opportunities each weekday to see late night bands that jam all the way to last call. Two groups are in the midst of reincarnating themselves. Levi Poasa is a solo act who teamed up to form a folk rock trio, while Natalie Nicole is a powerful, soulful front lady and has a new four-piece ensemble.
Levi Poasa and Soul Easy
Imagine Dave Matthews' guitar merged with Ray Lamontagne's vocal style and you have Levi Poasa. The cool, smooth acoustic crooner is a fixture at many local spots. You'll find him painting lyrical landscapes with folk, reggae and R&B, always armed with a guitar and his unique and amazing voice.
Levi has performed as a solo act for years at restaurants and lounges. Then last year, Levi linked up with drummer Patrick Tavis to create Soul Easy, his first official group, which will go on a West Coast tour with Louis & Lewis later this year. You can catch Soul Easy from 10pm to 1am at Dog & Duck Irish Pub on Tuesday and Diamond's Ice Bar and Grill on Thursdays.
"It's been awesome playing with Patrick," he said. "We get to play so many different styles of music." Patrick even plays the cajón (a box-shaped percussion instrument played by slapping the front or rear faces) at certain gigs to create a new vibe. "Another main focus of mine right now is to incorporate a lot more original music," he said. "I've got a lot of old and new material I have been fine tuning to debut. We are also planning on some recording sessions in the near future."
Levi is a self-taught guitar player and began writing his own music shortly after picking up the guitar at age 14. Born in American Samoa, his childhood years were split between Samoa and Pennsylvania.
"I grew up singing," he said. "I was always in choir. Jazz choirs, church choirs, school choirs and acapella Doo Wop groups." In 2012, he moved to Maui. "I made the jump into playing music full time almost a year into living here," he said. "Kanoa Kukaua was a big inspiration and source of knowledge and advice for me."
Natalie Nicole Robles
Natalie is a soul queen with passionate stage presence. Her unique and fresh renditions of rock, pop, soul and R&B are high energy and get your feet moving. "Currently, I am collaborating with Josh Hearl on lead guitar, Jordan Kamikawa on drums and Jon Cua on bass," she told me. "Honestly, I am so excited for what this power trio can do." The band has an eclectic sound, producing everything from funk and pop to blues to ballads.
"I was exposed to a diverse range of music at a very young age and carried that love for music during my travels," said Natalie. She was born into a large family in California's Bay Area. In 1998, she moved to Seattle with her family. Fourteen years later, she found her home on Maui. "I packed my beloved guitar and a suitcase not knowing what this small island had in-store for me, but was excited to go on another adventure," she said.
Natalie and her band will surprise you with some Janis Joplin, hop over to Amy Winehouse then bring the house down with that Motown sound. When we last spoke, Natalie couldn't contain her excitement about the band and their sound.
"I really hit the jackpot with this new band," she said. "It's a whole new chapter for us and everyone is so stoked to be playing together." They're quickly becoming an essential part of Maui's thriving music scene. In fact, on April 6 the Natalie Nicole Band will headline the main stage at Wailuku's First Friday town party from 6-9pm.
Lantana Hoke contributed to this article
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Do you know the Organization KFDWB or K4DWB?
Do you mean Knowledge for Development without Borders?
Do you have an idea about what they are doing?
humm! I have visited their website and find what they are doing very interesting
What are they doing particularly?
I have met last time one of their Staff for a coffee.
Wao! and then?
He explained to me how their knowledge for development mechanism works and discussed with me about how they are willing to put skills for development and knowledge in the heart of UN SDGs Agenda 2030 for its achievement.
That is really fantastic!
Yeah! I am really fascinated by the way this Organization is operating.
I can believe in you! I am very curious to know more about that.
OK! Do not worry!
This Organization is based in Austria, Vienna right?
yeah in the heart of the Vienna!
Let me explain to you now the mechanism.
Thank you very much!
So becareful. I will explain then this to you in the next 3 points.
1.) KFDWB is developing or researching online, and selecting available open global and local knowledge resources for development.
2.) KFDWB chooses and adapts the most suitable knowledge resources for development and translates them into skills for development training materials format based on the target local environment.
3.) KFDWB Transfers the selected training resources into local practices via its skills for development training, coaching and mentoring approaches that is tailored to a specific 2030 Development Goals.
Thank you very much! Very exciting.
Do you understand the mentoring and coaching approach of KFDWB?
I think so. Do you mean the process behinds this step within the training processes of KFDWB?
KFDWB helps its trainees to get experience on the field so that they can get a job or start their own business. In addition, they connect the trainees to Job market, and bank for microcredit. KFDWB networks the trainnees with development professionals and experts on an open community platform
To be honest, I am a fun of this Organization.
That is true! I like this Organization too. I will support them too.
Do you know the website of this Organization?
Yeah! I know even the forum site.
Website: http://knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org
Forum: http://forum.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org
Thank you very much!
You are welcome!
I need to go now.
See you then on Monday. Nice to meet you.
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'Several casualties' as jet crashes into A27 in airshow fireball while attempting loop-the-loop… but pilot is pulled from wreckage ALIVE
A fighter jet has crashed on to a busy road and hit at least four cars after a loop-the-loop stunt went disastrously wrong during an airshow display – leaving several 'casualties'.
Thousands of spectators watched in horror as the 1950s Hawker Hunter burst into flames after smashing into vehicles waiting at a traffic light on the A27 next to Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex this afternoon.
It has been reported that the pilot, who has not yet been identified, was pulled from the burning wreckage of the 1950s plane and is now recovering in hospital.
Sussex Police said there were several casualties after the jet came down but it was not known how many people were injured or how seriously they were hurt.
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A case was registered against former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and three of his cabinet colleagues by the Enforcement Directorate on Friday for alleged money laundering, diversion of state funds and making huge investments abroad without legal sanction.
The ED filed a Enforcement Case Information Report (equivalent to a FIR) before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in Ranchi against Koda, Kamlesh Singh, Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Bhandu Tirkey besides five others.
The ministers including Koda, who was the chief minister of Jharkhand between February 2005 and August 2008, have been accused of amassing properties worth hundreds of crores in UAE, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Liberia.
Quoting from the ECIR, sources said Koda, who was the first independent candidate to become a chief minister, has been accused of purchasing mines in Liberia worth Rs 8.5 crore.
Most of the assets by Koda, ironically the first chief minister to be booked under PMLA, was purchased in the name of a close confidant Binod Sinha, once a tractor mechanic. As per the ECIR, the properties in the name of Sinha runs into several hundred crores of rupees.
As per the declaration given by the three ministers individually, nobody had bank deposits more than Rs 1.9 lakh or immovable property worth over Rs 1.15 lakh. Sources said the agency is looking into details of the real wealth of the accused ministers and it will also attach all the properties identified. They said under the PMLA, the onus of proof is on the accused rather than the agency.
Two other cabinet colleagues of Koda have already been booked by the ED for alleged money laundering, foreign exchange violations and forgery. The Directorate had swung into action after the Jharkhand Vigilance Department lodged a complaint and recently searched the residences of Koda, Hari Narayan Rai and Enos Ekka, both ministers in the Koda government.
ED officials claimed they had come across documents suggesting the former ministers had amassed huge wealth including mines, real estate firms and properties in Hong Kong, Thailand and some other countries. A case was lodged against the two former ministers by the vigilance department, on the directive of a vigilance court, under various IPC sections last year.
Efforts to get in touch with Koda did not fructify as his mobile phone was switched off and no one answered the calls at his residence. The vigilance court had then directed the department to file the charges when it heard a petition by Vinod Kumar, a resident of Jharkhand's Deoghar district. Both Rai and Ekka were arrested following the court's directive recently, after which the ED swung into action.


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Pulsars with features in their radio spectra, such as curvature or breaks seem to be special cases among the known pulsar population, with only about 20 per cent exhibiting them. Unfortunately, reliable flux density measurements besides at 1.4 GHz are often unavailable, so that their spectral morphologies and features cannot be determined accuratel... morey. We propose to utilize the unique capabilities of the newly commissioned UWL receiver at the Parkes telescope, its extremely wide instantaneous frequency coverage from about 700 to 4000 MHz together with its high sensitivity, to determine the spectra of 26 radio pulsars. These have previously been identified to exhibit spectral features or show hints thereof. The new Parkes data are crucial to determine their spectral morphologies in that frequency range, to characterize their spectral features and to resolve these within the recorded bandwidth. Our aim is to understand the physical origin of the features, namely, whether these are perhaps intrinsic to the pulsar emission in these sources, are caused by absorption processes inside the pulsar's magnetosphere, or along the line of sight. less
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Pulsars are rapidly rotating and heavily magnetized neutron stars, city-sized objects that have masses that are greater than that of our Sun. They are visible through their radio emission in the form of pulses that reach the observatory when the beam sweeps past our line of sight. However, the physical processes that make pulsars shine at radio fre... morequencies are still poorly understood. Most of the pulsars seem to become dimmer with increasing radio frequency in a steady manner, but a select few (about 20 per cent of the best-studied ones) show bumps or curves in their spectra. The latter ones become first brighter and then fainter with increasing frequency when observed from Earth. In this project, we try to understand the exact behaviour of 26 of those odd sources. We do this because we want to understand why they are not like the others that have smoothly decreasing brightness. less
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Ava DuVernay, Wynton Marsalis, Chelsea Clinton, Bryan Stevenson, and Carrie Mae Weems are scheduled to be among the attendees at "Vision & Justice: A Creative Convening on Arts, Race, and Justice" at Harvard April 25-26.
The conference will look at the impact of the arts on issues of citizenship, race, and justice, according to a press release from Harvard.
Over the two-day event, DuVernay will discuss her forthcoming Netflix miniseries, "When They See Us," about the Central Park Five. Clinton will speak with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who uncovered the water crisis in Flint, Mich. A number of other global figures will participate in performances and discussions.
"American citizenship has long been a project of vision and justice," Sarah Lewis, an assistant professor at Harvard whose research and teaching inspired the event, said in a statement.
"I organized this convening based on my research and teaching, and I wanted to frame it around several guiding questions, and invite speakers who rarely converge to answer them anew."
Registration for "Vision & Justice" opens to Harvard students and staff on April 10 and to the public April 11.
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According to the FAO regional Office for Africa a fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) outbreak, the first emergence of the pest in southern Africa, is causing considerable crop damage in some countries in that region. The pest damages maize and cotton plantations. Based on information from the FAO Sub-regional Coordinator for southern Africa, David Phiri, it appears that preliminary reports indicate possible presence (of the pest) in a number of countries in the region, although it has yet to be officially reported.
As the the FAO regional Office for Africa reports, fall armyworm is a relatively new pest from the Americas, whose presence on the African continent was first reported in Sao Tome and Principe. The pest is known to cause extensive crop losses of up to 73 percent depending on existing conditions and is difficult to control with a single type of pesticide, especially when it has reached an advanced larval development stage. The potential damaging effects of the pest on food security outlooks for Africa were reported recently by international news agencies such as AFP and BBC.
FAO reports that, in partnership with the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) and the International Red Locust Control Organization for Central and Southern Africa (IRLCO-CSA), organized an Emergency Regional Meeting of key stakeholders from 14 to 16 February 2017 in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Harare meeting discussed the strengthening of surveillance, preparedness and coordinated emergency responses to transboundary crop pests and livestock diseases, including the fall armyworm infestation. It also discussed control strategies and measures and provided a platform for sharing experiences and valuable lessons.
This serious outbreak of this quarantine pest in southern Africa and its potential serious effects on food security in the region shows that public awareness about the impacts of plant health for food security and poverty alleviation must be intensified. This also shows the importance of international cooperation in dealing with emerging or emergency plant health matters. The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), as the only international convention tasked to manage pests of plants and plant products and to prevent their international spread, and especially their introduction into endangered areas is ideally suited to provide assistance in such cases.
The IPPC Secretariat will work together with the regional plant protection organization (RPPO) of Africa, and relevant national plant protection organizations (NPPOs) in the region in dealing this regulated pest if funds are available. NPPOs should help to sensitize the public and political decision makers towards the dangers of plant pests and the benefits of efficient plant health systems.


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Late as always, I just discovered this video from Chance the Rapper. It's a bit of an ode to Chicago, with lots of scenes of the El, the cityscape, and lots of dancing and footwork.
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Men's Breakfasts is held the last Saturday of each month at King's Restaurant at 10:00am. Here men from local United Methodist churches gather for for devotions and fellowship.
United Methodist Men (UMM) meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Their focus is service and fellowship.
Ruth Circle meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. This multi-generational group of women is involved in missions, member care, and fund-raising for church projects. Their spring and fall rummage sales are as much of a community service as a fundraiser!
Bethel Book Club is a group of women who meet on the 4th Monday of each month during the school year (excluding December.) They gather at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the current book over dessert. This group is open to women of all ages.
The Choir meets at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays during the school year to practice music for Sunday worship and special events.
Loaves and Fishes provides meals, small handyman services, transportation and other everyday assistance to members of the congregation who need support through illness or other hardship.
Needles of Love makes prayer quilts to give to folks going through difficult times. Members of the group also knit and crochet chemo caps, baby hats, and sweaters for World Vision.
Bethel UMC is host to several Girl Scout Troops and the local chapter of Over-eater's Anonymous.


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Professor Barry O'Sullivan of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics,
has been named Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year 2016. This is the second time an Insight director has been awarded researcher of the year since the
Centre was established in November 2013.
Prof O'Sullivan is Director of Insight@UCC. His research interests include artificial intelligence, constraint programming, operations research and decision analytics. He was recently elected deputy president of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), the world's largest association for AI. He is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence and a recipient of the international Association for Constraint Programming Distinguished Service Award. In 2015 Silicon Republic recognized him in Ireland's Sci-Tech 100: A galaxy of science and technology stars and as one of 10 experts unlocking the secrets of big data in the information age.
A keen advocate of the ethical application of data science and artificial intelligence research, Professor O'Sullivan heads up Insight's Magna Carta for Data Project. In September, he spoke for the second time at the United Nations Headquarters in New York about artificial intelligence and data analytics in the context of sustainable development.
It has been a good year for O'Sullivan and Insight@UCC with the announcement of a significant industry collaboration with US company United Technologies. The €1.5 million partnership was announced last month.
Insight's CEO Oliver Daniels welcomed the announcement saying, "It's an extraordinary achievement for Insight with two of its researchers being recognised in this way. We are producing research of real note and value academically, and this accolade will certainly increase our attractiveness to industry which is so important in today's research environment, and it will also help in attracting the best and brightest researchers to our Centre. I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Barry and his team in Insight@UCC."
UCC's Vice President for Reserch and Innovation, Professor Anita Maguire said, "Prof Barry O'Sullivan is clearly a thought leader in his field internationally, as evidenced by external recognition in multiple prestigious fora; we are delighted to see his excellence, commitment and contribution nationally and globally recognised and honoured by this award." This is the fifth time a researcher associated with University College Cork has been recognised in this way.
O'Sullivan has three children and is a very keen gardener, cook and musician. He has played tenor saxophone and guitar with several Irish jazz greats over the years. Born and raised in the village of Carrigtwohill in County Cork. He was educated at St. Mary's Boys'National School in Carrigtwohill, St. Colman's Community College in Midleton, the University of Limerick, and University College Cork. He lives in Midleton in East Cork with his wife, Linda, and their three children. Science and mathematics have always played a significant role in his life. In fact, he and Linda met when they were both participating in the 1990 Young Scientists' Exhibition.


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Londo Lodge
Pemba, Mozambique
per person for 7 nights based on 2 people sharing an Ocean View Villa on a full board basis, including transfers.
Unfortunately Londo Lodge has sadly closed until further notice. Please speak to our Africa specialists for alternatives in Mozambique and beyond.
At a Glance
Head to the local village and be welcomed by all the friendly children
Walk to the other side of the island for breakfast
Dive the pristine corals
Take a local dhow sailing boat out at sunset
Sit, relax and enjoy the wonderful local hospitality
Head into Pemba to get a flavour of Mozambique
Best time to Visit
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Sunshine, blue skies and temperatures averaging between 24°C and 27°C along the coast are the norm, except during the rainy summer season from about December/January through to April when everything gets soggy and sticky, and temperatures exceed 30°C in some areas.
The best time to visit is from May/June to November, during the cooler dry season.
Insider's View
To start planning your holiday to Londo Lodge
Londo Lodge is an exclusive beach hideaway only 20 minutes by speedboat from Pemba Airport, set within the Quirimbas Archipelago in Northern Mozambique. Set on a peninsula, each of the six villas and suites have stunning views across the bay.
Londo Lodge is owned by a charming Dutch couple who run the hotel with a real home from home feel. With only six villas it is small and intimate with a very welcoming and laid back vibe. You are invited to kick your shoes off when you arrive and enjoy the slow pace of Mozambique life.
Delicious fresh seafood is served in different locations around the hotel with an emphasis on meals times to enjoy the peaceful surroundings, beautifully presented dishes and a glass of cold wine! The staff here are all local Mozambique people who will look after you with great pride and full of friendly smiles.
Every room is slightly different but all are large and spacious boasting spectacular ocean views from each open fronted villa. There is one beautifully positioned main pool raised above the beach near the main bar and lounge area. The beach below is a stunning sandy cove which does mostly disappear at high tide, but this is when the bay becomes one enormous pool perfect for swimming and snorkelling.
The relaxing Spa is set on the cliff edge taking advantage of the views over the Londo bay with a wide range of treatments to ensure guests relax in style.
The activities are plentiful, from snorkelling, scuba diving and fishing to exploring the surrounding mangroves by traditional dug-out canoe, visiting the local village and walking through the nearby bush marvelling at the giant Baobab trees and even spotting some resident buck!
Londo Lodge is a perfect place for families as children feel comfortable to run about and enjoy the freedom the property offers. It is also the ideal place for couples looking for a quiet retreat with plenty of areas to curl up with a book and totally unwind.
Accommodation is in four Standard Ocean View Villas and two two-bedroom Ocean View Suites, each ocean-view villa is built on a 7 meter high cliff overlooking the majestic Pemba bay. Octagonal spacious rooms with outside teak decking, louvered 3 metre wide doors and traditional bamboo and thatch roofing. All villas are fitted with handmade UK mattresses, Belgian bed linen, in and outdoor bathrooms, handmade chrome taps and showers, draped mosquito nets and air-conditioning units.
Eclectic in design, the villas have a delicate look and feel where Moroccan art blends in with traditional Maconde woodcraft and Victorian mirrors.
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Standard ocean view villas have one double bedroom with en-suite bathroom. The villas all have air conditioning and lovely views.
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These villas have two en-suite bedrooms, air conditioning and lovely views of the Indian Ocean.
Although there are no specific child care facilities available, children are most welcome and food and meal times can easily be adjusted to suit all tastes. Babysitting can be arranged where needed.
Facilities include a private beach and mangrove beach-bar, eclectic restaurant, cliff edge swimming pool and spa, library and a cigar bar.
24-hour personal catering, private lunch on secluded beaches, sunset dhow dinner and bush breakfast are all part of the authentic Mozambique experience on offer a Londo Lodge.
Activities are either land or sea based and the surrounding reefs draw guests to snorkel or dive with the Lodge's PADI instructor. Game-fishing and fly-fishing are available as are mangrove river trips, waterskiing or canoeing in a traditional dug-out.
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Pemba, Mozambique
Londo Lodge is situated on a peninsula on the southern border of the Quirimbas National Park, on the shores of the Pemba bay, a member of the exclusive group of UNESCO most beautiful bays in the world.
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Fly to Pemba via Johannesburg, Nairobi or Dar es Salaam. Only a 15-minute boat ride from Pemba, Londo Lodge lies just north of town in the Quirimbas National Park.
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Located in what remains of the sleepy village of Mogiła that Nowa Huta was plunked down upon, the ancient Cistercian Monastery, with its two adjoining churches, was the closest place of worship to Plac Centralny until Arka Pana Church was finally consecrated in 1977. The vast and splendid Holy Cross Basilica and the adjoining Cistercian cloister, which date way, way back to 1266, are recognised as among the most important religious buildings in Małopolska. During the Renaissance the monastery was well known for its master painters and the huge interior of Holy Cross Basilica as well as the monastery library feature many fine works from the period. Most importantly, Holy Cross Basilica also stores the famous Cross of Mogiła - the source of many miraculous legends. Said to have been discovered when a blacksmith's son jumped into the Wisła River to save what he thought to be a drowning man floating downstream, the cross was brought to the monastery and quickly began building a reputation for miracles before cementing them when it was the only part of the church's furnishings not destroyed by the fire of 1447, despite being made of wood. Christ's hair and loincloth were burned however, and ever since that time he has donned a wrap of true fabric and a wig of real human hair. Weird. The monastery is easily accessed from Plac Centralny via tram 70; get off at the Klasztorna stop and it's a short walk south.
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Ask John
The Lions tour that never was, Cecil Afrika's Sevens' career and Shane Williams' try-scoring rate
John Griffiths
December 5, 2011
Shane Williams' try-scoring record comes into question in this edition of 'Ask John' © Getty Images
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In this edition, John Griffiths looks at the British & Irish Lions tour that never was, Cecil Afrika's Sevens' career, Shane Williams' try-scoring rate and interim coaches.
Can you provide the tour itinerary for the cancelled 1986 British & Irish Lions tour of South Africa?Nigel, Ireland
None was ever officially announced. The visit certainly featured on the calendar of tours for the 1980s, but in those days the Lions could not play overseas until the Four Home Unions Tours Committee received an official invitation from the host Union. The custom at the time was for the itinerary to be announced when the invitation was made and accepted.
In 1985, an invitation for a tour of South Africa by New Zealand had been issued by the then South African Rugby Board (SARB). It was accepted by the NZRFU whereupon an itinerary was drawn up. Indeed, the New Zealand tour party was actually selected before, at the eleventh hour, the visit was cancelled as a result of proceedings in the New Zealand courts. That action immediately called into question the possibility of a Lions tour to South Africa in 1986.
In the early months of the 1985-6 British/Irish domestic season there was much discussion about the tour. Edinburgh was due to host the 1986 Commonwealth Games. Had the Lions signalled their intention to fulfil their commitment, it was feared that there would be a mass boycott of the Games. In South Africa, moreover, a state of emergency was in operation.
A month before Christmas 1985 Dr Danie Craven, the President of the SARB, removed the need for any tricky decision-making by announcing that his Board were "postponing" their invitation to the Lions to undertake a tour.
So the visit was effectively cancelled at six-months' notice, hence the absence of a tour itinerary. South Africa had to wait another six years, until 1992 and the end of the anti-apartheid era, before taking part in another Test against a member nation of the International Board, and the Lions did not return until 1997.
Footnote: A Lions squad, managed by Clive Rowlands (Wales), coached by Mick Doyle (Ireland) and led by Colin Deans (Scotland), was selected by the Four Home Unions Committee in the spring of 1986. They played in a special representative match against the Rest of the World at Cardiff to mark the centenary of the International Rugby Board.
I was interested to see a programme for the match between Kent and the Maoris in 1911 was recently sold at auction. I can find no reference in New Zealand to an official Maori side visiting England that year - do you have any details of results etc? Geoff, New Zealand
You might have had a lucky escape with that 1911 "Maori" programme.
The programme is genuine enough and in appearance and style has the format of the England home rugby internationals staged at Richmond, Blackheath and Twickenham in the 1890s, 1900s and up to the Great War. But the team was "Maori" only in name. It was not representative.
The "tourists" were no more than a subset of the Maori performing troupe (a choir/concert party led by Maggie Papakura) which came to London from New Zealand via Sydney in 1911. They appeared at the Festival of Empire staged at London's White City as part of the Coronation Exhibition.
Reports suggest that they ran into financial difficulties during the visit. The men in the party were encouraged to form a rugby team - never a difficult proposition for New Zealanders - and they played a few games in the London area, possibly to raise funds for the troupe's coffers from a share of the gate-money.
The players involved certainly had no connection with the representative Maori sides which, under the management of W T Parata, played their first official matches on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1910. Parata led further parties on local New Zealand tours in the seasons leading up to the War.
It's also true that Parata lobbied the NZRFU for permission to ask the RFU to accept a tour to England by the Maoris for 1912-13, but he had to wait until 1926 before this particular wish was granted by the English authorities. The NZRFU, it was thought, were afraid that permission for a Maori tour to the UK might compromise plans for another full All Blacks tour to Europe.
Anyway, the "Maori" in England in 1911 played three recognised games in the London area. County matches in the Home Counties in those days were always played mid-week:
Thursday November 9 - lost - 3-33 v Kent (Blackheath)
In the Middlesex match a newspaper reported: "Kereti made the opening for Tonihi to score. The place-kick was from a difficult angle, but Paora was successful."
The Welsh wing Hopkin Maddocks was the star for London Welsh in the final match.
Now that Shane Williams has retired from Test matches, it would be interesting to see his strike-rate compared with others who have scored, say, 40-plus international tries.P Griffiths, Wales
There have been 13 players to date who have scored 40 or more tries in Test rugby.
Measuring strike rate as the average number of tries scored per ten Tests played places Shane Williams in sixth place, as follows:
The figures for Williams, Underwood, Thomas and O'Driscoll include their performances in Tests for the Lions.
With England poised to make an interim coach announcement for the Six Nations, which other Home Unions have had interim coaches (ie excluding one-off match appointments)?Graham, England
Rob Andrew (P2 L2) in NZ in 2008 took interim charge of the England side when Martin Johnson succeeded Brian Ashton in 2008.
Dennis John (P2 W1 L1) was a caretaker coach for Wales in 1998 in southern Africa while the Welsh Rugby Union went in search of a successor for Kevin Bowring, who had succeeded an interim coach in 1995 when taking over from Alex Evans after the World Cup in South Africa. Evans's record with Wales was P4 W1 L3. His last match in charge was Wales's post-World Cup visit to South Africa for the first-ever Test match of the professional era.
Lynn Howells (P2 W2) was Wales's interim coach for their tour of Japan in 2001 when Graham Henry was coaching the Lions in Australia and Robin McBryde (P2 W2 in North America) similarly filled in for Warren Gatland in 2009 when the New Zealander was in South Africa with the Lions.
Scott Johnson was a caretaker coach for Wales (P3 D1 L2) in 2006 when Mike Ruddock left during the Six Nations.
Niall O'Donovan (P2 W2) stood in for Eddie O'Sullivan in Japan in 2005 when the Irish head coach was part of Sir Clive Woodward's coaching team with the Lions in New Zealand, while Michael Bradley (P2 L2) filled in for Ireland in New Zealand and Australia in 2008 between Eddie O'Sullivan and Declan Kidney.
Richie Dixon (P2 L2) stood in for Scotland in Australia in 1992 when Ian McGeechan was given a sabbatical.
Unions have also appointed temporary coaches to cover one-off Tests between appointments (such as Nigel Davies for Wales against South Africa in 2007). The list also excludes those who were appointed as interim coaches but subsequently had their contracts made permanent (such as Frank Hadden with Scotland in 2005).
Can you tell me Cecil Afrika's record in IRB Sevens matches?Danie Joubert, South Africa
Cecil Afrika has scored 599 points in IRB Sevens Grand Prix events. His total comprises 66 tries and 134 goals (mostly conversions) from the 17 events in which he has appeared (up to and including the 2011-12 season opening event in Australia).
He made his IRB Sevens debut for South Africa in Dubai in 2009.
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According to EIGE's Gender Equality Index report, women in Europe are currently only halfway towards to the goal of reaching equality with men, and their overall situation has not improved during the last decade. The picture is even grimmer in Visegrad countries which are lagging significantly behind older member states in terms of women's position, ranking around 10% below the EU average of 52.9%. But as recent conservative mobilisations across Europe alarm us, the progress that has been made in the field of gender equality has not only been rather stagnant and uneven, but also much shakier and easier to reverse than we had imagined.
In countries such as Croatia, Germany, Italy, France, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia, the post-war consensus on human rights is currently being threatened as issues such as gender mainstreaming, sexual education, LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive rights have come under coordinated attacks carried out by the Church, religious and lay conservative NGOs, right wing politicians, and even grassroots mobilisations.
Since the transnational anti-gender campaign began unfolding around 2012, the aforementioned actors have already achieved a great deal: they managed to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people for demonstrations and civil initiatives across Europe, to hinder the passing of progressive laws or the ratification of international treaties advancing human rights, cut state funds for gender quality, and in some countries – even change the constitution.
In France, the La Manif pour tous movement took off in 2012 as a campaign against same-sex marriage (with 150 thousand people marching in Paris alone in May 2013), but it soon turned into a protest against the more general threat of "gender theory" being taught in schools.
Likewise, in Italy and Germany, demonstrations against school curricula were carried out under the aegis of "protecting the children" from a depravation allegedly imposed on them by "gender ideology".
In Croatia and Slovakia, the pressure from conservative civil movements resulted in the introduction of constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage.
Meanwhile in Russia, a bill aiming to protect minors from "homosexual propaganda" was signed into law in 2013, and was soon followed by similar attempts in other post-Soviet countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.
In Poland, the campaign initially focused on opposing the Istanbul Convention as a carrier of "gender ideology", delaying its ratification by three years. However, it soon spread to other issues, and gained significant momentum after the populist right wing Prawo i Sprawiedliwość came to power. During just the last few months, the newly elected Polish president vetoed a major transgender rights bill, a coalition of pro-life organizations submitted a petition calling for Parliament to withdraw the morning after pill from pharmacies and hospitals, the government cancelled the publicly funded IVF scheme and cut the funds from the Ombudsman due to accusations that the office promotes "gender ideology", as well as announcing plans to eradicate any elements of sex and equality education from schools.
The aforementioned national campaigns have a lot in common. They share a common enemy figure – "gender ideology" or "gender theory", draw from the same philosophical foundations – the social teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, invoke identical, hyperbolic and fear-arousing discursive figures and operate through similar means of action (i.e., civil initiatives and grassroots organizing). But while the concept of "gender" is present in all these campaigns, we would be very wrong to assume they are simply about opposing gender equality and minority rights.
Anti-genderism – as we argued in our book – is rather a "symbolic glue" which connects various progressive issues under one umbrella term, and unites different conservative actors in a much bigger quest to change the values underlying the European liberal democracy. As such, anti-genderism is not "just" a feminist issue, but rather one threatening liberal democracy – a Trojan horse for making much broader and deeper changes to our political system.
At the same time, both progressive European political leaders and Members of the European Parliament have been rather hesitant to react to these mobilizations, and when they did, they often found it sufficient to simply target these conservative campaigns as a problem in and of itself. And so they came up with ways to expose their financial and ideological connections with the Catholic Church, discredit their leaders by ridicule or defamation, educate their supporters in gender studies, or simply defend certain policies from conservative attacks.
And while some of these tactics might have been effective in the short term, I am growing more and more convinced that they will ultimately prove insufficient. It is because waging a war against the rise of political extremism and religious fundamentalism can only bring us so far as mitigating the symptoms of a disease instead of curing its root causes.
So what are these root causes and why do masses of people become radicalized against liberal democracy in its current form? It is of course a complex, multi-dimensional issue. But thanks to a growing literature dealing with the social consequences of the current economic system we know for sure that a large part of the answer to this question is that the neoliberal, market-driven democracy that we currently see in Europe, structurally excludes a huge number of people from social participation, pushing them into insecurity if not outright poverty.
It is in this context that conservative protest movements create a space for these people to vent their fears and insecurities, voice their anger and dissatisfaction with politics and claim a sense of agency and empowerment that European liberals and social democrats once promised – but failed to deliver.
Interestingly enough, the city where European policies are made and where I have originally given this statement, can serve as a mini-laboratory for the examination of these issues. Brussels has been one of the main migrant destinations for Polish unskilled workers from rural areas.
In eastern parts of the country, there are towns that now count 25% of their total population as citizens who have emigrated from other areas of Europe, and most of those were women who have been especially vulnerable to the rolling back of the state, the privatization of health care and the growing precarity of work in general. And while these brave women made the hard decision to leave their children in order to be able to provide for them, back at home their departure resulted in a massive moral panic aroused around the emotive figure of a "Euro-orphan", as Polish sociologist Sylwia Urbańska observed. In the media, female migrants were accused of being deviant and egoistic, and their families were ostracized as broken and pathological. It was not long until right wing politicians started calling for the return of the nuclear family and traditional family values as a solution to these emergent problems of transnational families.
The case of the patriarchal moral panic around migrant women is just one of the many examples of the link between current right-wing, anti-gender mobilisations and the challenges created by the globalised, neoliberal economy. Another one is the recent social campaign "Don't Put Off Motherhood Until It's Too Late", carried out by the conservative Mom and Dad Foundation (Fundacja Mamy i Taty), one of the key civil society actors of the war against "gender ideology" in Poland. The video shows a wealthy, middle-aged woman expressing regret over not having children. "I managed to have a specialisation and a career; I managed to see Tokyo and Paris; I managed to buy a flat and renovate a house. But I didn't become a mum. I regret this" – she concludes, as a tear rolls down her face.
While the demographic crisis is undoubtedly unfolding not just in Poland, but around the continent, what raises eyebrows is the Foundation's decision to blame it solely on women's alleged egoism, and the subsequent efforts to discuss the issue in an anti-choice and anti-gender framework. In fact, most Polish women would probably not recognize their own motivations to postpone parenthood in this portrayal, as the former have more to do with financial instability, insufficient provision of state-funded childcare and a lack of gender-equal parental leave policies than with individual love of comfort and consumptionism. But just like in the case of the moral panic around "Euro-orphans", here the right has also managed to aptly identify very genuine social challenges and insecurities, and then provided deeply harmful solutions to them.
By all means, members of the European feminist and LGBT+ movements as well as progressive politicians have been right in opposing anti-gender mobilizations, and criticizing the solutions offered by them as threatening human rights and destructive to democratic society. But as they were calling for the need to protect women's and minority rights and other liberal values from right-wing attacks, what they so often ignored is the fact that the liberal democratic system in its current form has become an empty slogan to the vast masses of people to whom it has very little to offer, among them rural mothers forced to migrate to support their families or middle class women struggling to afford a child.
While this does not mean that these people will automatically become radicalised, what is certain is that those who have been failed by the liberal democratic system will not readily join the struggle to oppose right-wing mobilisations, not recognizing the European democratic values as something worth fighting for. The evidence is already there – while the demonstrations against "gender theory" or sexual education have taken hundreds of thousands of Europeans to the streets, counter-reactions have been considerably smaller in numbers and mostly restricted to the academic and NGO level.
Therefore, the task that stands before European political leaders and decision makers is to acknowledge the connection between anti-genderism and other forms of right-wing radicalisation on the one hand, and the broader crisis of democracy stemming from the failure of the current globalised, capitalist order on the other.
This does not mean that the fight for gender equality should be abandoned as a legitimate social goal or substituted with a plan that focuses on redistribution instead. Rather, the challenge is to reconnect these two dimensions of social justice in new ways.
One way to do so is to start our politics with the very material experiences of ordinary people's lives, identify the challenges faced by them, and articulate them in progressive terms. It is precisely here that young grassroots feminist and socialist movements offer a unique perspective which could help progressive political parties break out of the current deadlock.
Working grassroots with women who have been disproportionately affected by the rolling back of the state, severe austerity measures, growing precarity of employment and privatization of care work, feminist activists across the globe remind us that women experience intersecting oppressions and that the promise of gender equality cannot be fulfilled without reforming the current socioeconomic system, and that only by solving the latter can we renew people's faith in the democratic project.
The author is a sociologist and a feminist currently pursuing a PhD at the Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her research focuses on Polish nationalism, militarism and the far-right seen from a gender perspective. She is the author of "Płeć powstania warszawskiego" [Gender of the Warsaw Uprising, IBL PAN 2013] and contributor to "Gender as symbolic glue. The position and role of conservative and far right parties in the anti-gender mobilisations in Europe" (FEPS and FES 2015). She is also a member of FEPS Young Academics Network and a Gender Research Team affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences.
This article is an extended version of the author's statement delivered at the event Passing on the Torch. The legacy of the Beijing Platform for Action and new, grassroots feminist movements organized by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in the European Parliament in Brussels on 20 October 2015.


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The BYU School of Music prides itself on assembling and maintaining a collection of the world's finest pianos for the edification of our students and faculty.
The BYU Piano Shop has the responsibility to oversee the care and maintenance of more than one hundred fifty pianos in the School of Music. Each piano is tuned and serviced at least six times a year—with teaching studios, classrooms, and recital venues receiving significantly more attention.
Pianos in the concert halls are maintained at an optimal level, at times being tuned daily to meet the rigorous demands of the concert artist.
The Piano Shop also maintains the piano faculty's instruments, each having two grands in their studios. Their primary instruments are Steinway & Sons Model B grands.
In general, we do not service pianos outside the School of Music, but if a piano anywhere on campus is in need of service that may also be requested through the service/repair link. It will be forwarded to the appropriate department.


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Cookies for breakfast….its possible, right? 😉 These cookies have all the makings of a healthy breakfast: fruit, whole grains and protein! They aren't meant to be as sweet as a dessert type cookie, but you do get a great natural sweetness from them, and the heartiness of the oats.
Banana Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies
Makes 12 cookies
2 ripe banana's, mashed (if you don't like banana, use approx 2/3 cup mango, canned pumpkin or sweet potato)
1/3 cup natural peanut butter, smooth or crunchy (or nut butter of choice. For nut-free, use Sunbutter)
2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce (2 snack packs)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cup quick oats (could also use old fashioned for a more hearty textured cookie)
2 x 30 gram scoops whey protein powder (1/2 cup), I used vanilla (if you want to omit protein, use another 1/4 to 1/2 cup oats)
10 drops liquid stevia (optional)
1/4 cup chocolate chips
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, mash bananas until smooth. Add in applesauce, peanut butter & vanilla and mix together until smooth. Add in oats and protein powder and mix. Taste and if not sweet enough for your liking, add stevia to taste. Since they are a breakfast cookie, they aren't meant to be as sweet as a dessert cookie, but of course, if you want it that sweet, then go for it!
On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, or greased, take 2 Tbsp of batter for each cookie. Flatten it out a touch with the back of the spoon, and add some chocolate chips on top to each cookie.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown around the edges.
Store in an airtight container or large plastic zipper bag in the fridge so they don't spoil quickly. Can also be frozen.
Nutrition (per cookie) Calories: 137 Fat: 5.7 g Carbs: 17 g Fiber: 2 g Sugars: 7 g Sodium: 27 mg Protein: 7 g


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Motorsports Brands - Alpinestars Outfits 2013 Lotus F1 Team
Lotus F1 Team will partner with Alpinestars as the world's premier performance motorsport apparel and footwear company extends its involvement in Formula 1 by signing a multi-year partnership agreement with the team.Alpinestars will provide performance racing products and high-level technical support for two of Formula 1's most exciting drivers; 2007 World Champion Kimi Räikkönen and rising star Romain Grosjean.
Lotus F1 Team's test and reserve drivers – as well as the team's mechanics and technical staff – will also benefit from Alpinestars technical expertise and support; both on track at Grand Prix events and at Alpinestars' product development facilities in Northern Italy and California.
Eric Boullier, Team Principal, Lotus F1 Team:
"Alpinestars is an internationally recognized and respected brand so it's fantastic for the team to agree a partnership. The support and proactive approach that Alpinestars brings will benefit the team in many ways. I'm looking forward to seeing our drivers in their ultra-lightweight, safe and stylish new race attire alongside the ultra-lightweight, safe and stylish E21."


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Richmond's Gateway Theatre concludes its season with a production of Annabel Soutar's newest play, The Watershed (Apr 6-15). A timely tale of one of our country's most precious resources, here are five reasons we think you should go:
1Documentary Theatre
Soutar specializes in documentary theatre where she has previously explored such contemporary issues as the high-tech industry, the health care system in Quebec, and the 2006 collapse of the De la Concorde overpass in Montreal that left five people dead.
Soutar gained national acclaim in 2012 for her play Seeds, a re-enactment of the legal battle between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto Inc.
3Family Road Trip
The Watershed follows Annabel, her actor husband, her daughters, and an unruly dog as they travel the country in a Winnebago in search of answers as to why the federal government has chosen to close the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario's Kenora district, a major funded freshwater research station, without any public input. What starts as a lesson about the value of water in the wake of a home plumbing incident quickly morphs into an exploration of whether Canada can enjoy both economic prosperity and ecological sustainability.
4Complex Ideas
Offering a nuanced perspective on very complex issues, Soutar ultimately leaves it up to the audience to decide what course of action is best.
5Eric Peterson
Canadian stage and television actor Eric Peterson returns to Vancouver to perform in the play. Peterson was last seen in Vancouver as Percy Schmeiser when Seeds played the 2014 PuSh Festival.


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The golden hue of honey brings to mind sweet treats without sugar such as baklava. But honey can be used for a variety of purposes beyond food. This past winter has been harsh for honeybees, causing losses for beekeepers that might make honey true liquid gold. Check out these 20 sweet ways to use honey for health and beauty.
Honey for Beauty
You can combine honey with other natural elements to make your skin and hair more beautiful. Honey is a humectant that adds moisture to your skin. It is also soothing with a fabulous scent. This liquid gold might be even more valuable as beekeepers in the northeast region of the United States see significant losses after a long, cold winter. Consider these ways to add honey to your health and beauty routine:
1. Are you looking for a sweet way to soften your skin in the bath? Add a quarter cup of honey and just relax. Your skin will feel silky smooth when you get out. You can also add a tablespoon of honey to your foot bath to soften them before you file away callouses.
2. Now that the warmer weather is here, often we see pimples pop out on our skin. Put away harsh chemicals and alcohol that strips your skin. Put a bit of honey mixed with cinnamon on your blemishes and blackheads overnight. It helps to minimize swelling and zap zits. Honey mixed with cinnamon in warm water is also a great way to freshen your breath.
3. A honey facial scrub is a great way to slough off dead skin after the winter or after being in the sun. Mix ground almonds into honey with a dash of lemon juice to exfoliate your skin. It also smells wonderful. Recently HULIQ published 20 ways to use lemons for everything from beauty to cleaning your home.
4. Do you want your skin to look firmer? Mix an egg white with a tablespoon of honey then apply it to your face. Leave it on for 15 minutes then rinse it off with warm water for a fresh and glowing look. Honey has antioxidants that also deep cleanse your pores.
5. Is your hair dull and lifeless after the long winter or due to excessive sun exposure? Make it shine by mixing a tablespoon of honey with a quart of warm water then put it on your hair after shampooing. Let it stay on your hair for a half hour then rinse with warm water for a fabulous shine.
6. Do your hair and skin feel dry? It's time to infuse them with moisture by using a mixture of a tablespoon of honey and a teaspoon of olive oil. You can put it in your skin or hair then leave it for 15 minutes before rinsing it off with warm water. HULIQ recently published 20 more ways to use olive oil for all kinds of purposes.
7. Are your lips feeling dry and parched? Infuse them with moisture by making your own tasty and fragrant honey lip balm. All you need is beeswax, honey and some almond oil.
8. Are you afraid to bare your elbows now that short sleeve weather is here? Get rid of those dry elbows by applying honey to them after your shower. Let it sink in for about one half hour then rinse it off for smoother elbows.
Honey to Feel Better
While these tips are certainly no substitute for the advice of a trained physician, they might offer a bit of relief from certain health conditions. Consider these potential ways honey may help you feel better:
9. Is happy hour your favorite time of the week until the morning after? You might want to think twice about reaching for that cup of coffee with extra sugar. While coffee also has 20 unusual uses, a hangover cure might not be one of them. Honey contains fructose which can help to metabolize the alcohol from those margaritas last night. Add it to a cup of tea to feel better in a few minutes. It will also boost your energy better than an energy bar.
10. Spring is here and yard work is sure to lead to a few cuts and scrapes. Instead of reaching for chemical ointments or elements that may dry out your skin, apply honey to your minor cuts and scrapes. It has antimicrobial and antibacterial properties to help clean and heal minor wounds. Even better, honey helps prevent bandages from sticking to your cuts.
11. Are you suffering from a scratchy throat and cough? Honey is a great way to feel better and soothe that painful throat. Mix two tablespoons of honey with juice from a lemon and a finely chopped onion to feel better without taking OTC medications.
12. Nobody wants to think they have parasite but it can happen, especially if you travel. There is a natural way to kill them. Combine water, vinegar and honey then drink it to combat those nasty parasites.
13. A yeast infection can become a nasty and painful situation. While this is not a cure, it can help relieve the burning inside caused by a yeast infection. Soak a tampon in honey, freeze it and then insert it to get some relief.
14. Is your stomach feeling upset? A spoonful of honey is a great way to relieve indigestion and feel better.
15. Are you looking to shed a few pounds now that the warmer weather is here? Try a mixture of honey and lemon to help out rather than trying a variety of OTC weight loss products. Honey can help lower cholesterol and improve your blood sugar maintenance. Lemon aids digestion and speeds your metabolism. It is a powerful combination.
16. Did you catch a virus and how have a hard time getting rid of it? Mix honey with raw minced garlic to combat bacterial infections and viruses.
17. Did you return to the gym or start walking again to shape up for the summer? Create the ultimate energy drink at home. Add a dash of honey to coconot water to get energized for your daily workout.
18. Are you having trouble getting to sleep at night? Sometimes we feel anxious or stressed and it makes it difficult to relax. Honey can help alkalize the pH in your body. It acts a bit like a sedative so you feel calmer and ready to snooze.
19. Do you suffer from diabetic ulcers? If you see one forming on your skin, rub a little honey on it to relieve it and help it go away.
20. Are you feeling mild asthma symptoms now that spring has sprung? Mix honey with ginger and black pepper for some relief. HULIQ also recently shared 20 unusual uses for pepper. If you get allergies in the spring, take a spoon of honey and bee pollen early in the season to relieve them.
Honey truly is liquid gold when you consider how much it can do for us beyond making foods more delicious. Can you think of any other uses for honey? Share them with us in the comment section below!
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Chain Reaction
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A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
Meditation Park
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Rush Hour
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The Jade Pendant
A tragic love story set against the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, in 1871. Filmed in Utah.


text: Métamorphoses (original title) – A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings. High schooler Europa is drawn into a world of gods, myths and seduction when she meets the handsome Jupiter in this contemporary take on Ovid's epic.


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(Rockville, MD – April 6, 2016)—The Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) recently received the maximum 5-year renewal of recognition from the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
The ED recognition enables CAA-accredited programs to establish eligibility to participate in certain federal programs authorized under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA), Section III, and the U.S. Public Health Service Act.
The renewal reaffirms that the CAA, a semiautonomous body within the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), operates in compliance with the Higher Education Act and accepted best practices within the accrediting community.
The CAA is the only accrediting body for programs in audiology and speech-language pathology that is recognized by both the ED and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
As of February 2016, 248 master's programs in speech-language pathology and 73 clinical doctoral programs in audiology were CAA-accredited. Another 20 new programs—two in audiology and 18 in speech-language pathology—held candidate (or pre-accreditation) status.
"ASHA's accreditation program has been recognized by ED since 1967," ASHA 2016 President Jaynee Handelsman, PhD, CCC-A, says. "In fact, its long history dates as far back as the early 1960s when the first accreditation standards were developed."
Handelsman adds: "Through the CAA's work, we continue to help ensure that academic programs graduate students who are fully prepared to provide effective professional services as audiologists and speech-language pathologists."
According to CAA Chair Mikael D. Z. Kimelman, PhD, CCC-SLP, the "ED's recognition process provides the CAA with an opportunity for self-evaluation of our accreditation program and processes."
"An important part of our self-study comes from peer review and dialogue with stakeholders in the higher education community," Kimelman explains. "Our accreditation program is strengthened by the ED's rigorous review process, which makes it valuable to us and the programs we serve."
About the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
The CAA formulates standards for the accreditation of graduate education programs that provide entry-level professional preparation in audiology and/or speech-language pathology; evaluates programs that voluntarily apply for accreditation; grants certificates and recognizes those programs deemed to have fulfilled requirements for accreditation; maintains a registry of holders of such certificates; and prepares and furnishes to appropriate persons and agencies lists of accredited programs. Although it is part of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the CAA operates autonomously when it carries out its accreditation tasks.
About the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 186,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and students. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment, including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems, including swallowing disorders. www.asha.org