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As Guyana prepares for the renewal of several of its port security master plans overseas experts on Tuesday imparted vital knowledge on reducing threats at major marine points of entry and exit. United States Coast Guard (USCG), Lieutenant Commander, Jonathan Mangum said many local port security master plans would expire this year. He said their renewal would require hard work ...Read More »
Daily Archives: March 25, 2014
Indonesian charged with overstaying two years
An Indonesian, who allegedly overstayed in Guyana for two years, was Tuesday granted GUY$100,000 bail and ordered to lodge his passport until the end of the trial. Martomi Ajen of 128 Premniranjan Place, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown pleaded not guilty to the offence when he appeared before City Magistrate, Faith Mc Gusty. Police said that he was permitted to stay in ...Read More »
Ganja in tablets lands businesssman in court
A businessman, who claimed that a drug store owner gave him a package that included marijuana and tablets, was Tuesday granted GUY$40,000 bail on a charge of possession of narcotics. He is Ronald James of 55 Albouys Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. He told the court that he was unaware that the 10 grammes of marijuana had been among the items. Police ...Read More »
GWI team rushes to Paramakatoi stricken by water shortage
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) was Tuesday preparing to rush engineers and other personnel to Paramakatoi to plug a leaking reservoir that has caused residents and government offices to be out of water for several days now. The utility company said it received a report on March 20 that water supply in the community was being disrupted. "The Toshao of ...Read More »
Essequibo rice farmers picket budget reading
Several Essequibo rice farmers on Monday picketed the National Assembly as the budget was being read despite assurances from the government that they would soon be paid monies owed to them. Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy recently revealed that farmers were owed some $300M by millers and that his ministry would be moving to clear the debt. He explained ...Read More »
"Kartel" loses hand in CBR smash-up
A CBR biker late Monday night lost his right hand when he crashed into a parkerd car on Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown. He is 24-year old Kevin "Kartel" Griffith of Stevedore Housing Scheme, Georgetown. Hospital sources said he was conscious and in no immediate danger. Surgery was expected to be performed late in the night into early Tuesday morning. Eyewitnesses ...Read More »
UG to benefit from EU-funded EDULINK programme on renewable energy
The University of Guyana has teamed up with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname (AdeKUS) and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium to be part of €613,640 (US $840,686) programme geared at capacity building in applied renewable energy technologies. Seventy-five percent of the funding is made possible through a grant under the ACP-EU Cooperation Programme in Education (EDULINK ...Read More »
Elderly Corentyne businessman, employee shot, robbed
An elderly Corentyne businessman and one of his employees were injured when a bandit opened fire on them and grabbed a bag containing GUY$400,000. The injured are 72-years old Bannsingh Guyadin of Maida, Corentyne and 28-years old Kissoondat Madhoo of Bush Lot, Corentyne. Police said they were shot and injured to their feet during the robbery Sunday about 7 PM. ...Read More »
Old Age Pensioners to get $625 top up
Old age pensioners are to receive a five percent bump in the monthly payouts from the government from May 1, finance minister Dr. Ashni Singh has announced. That works out to $625 more than the $12,500 they are currently receiving. Presenting the estimates for the 2014 national budget Dr. Singh said the increase would equate to an additional $212.5M outlay ...Read More »


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The Albany Branch was established in 1926. It was first located in the Northwest School and then in rented quarters at 1239 Albany Avenue.
The branch's present location at 1250 Albany Avenue opened in February 1950 in a building designed by H. Sage Goodwin. In 2011 a new 8,000 square foot facility on the corner of Albany and Blue Hills Avenues replaced the sixty-one year old structure .
The branch is part of a "campus" that connects with the Artists Collective, and the John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center. Part of that "campus" idea is a renewed vision of how to strategically use Keney Park and how to find new uses for the Martin Luther King Elementary School and the Lewis Fox Middle-High School buildings.
In 2009, the University of Hartford completed renovations of the former Thomas Cadillac Building located at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Westbourne Parkway. The attractive facility, named the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, offers classes taught by the faculty of the Hartt School of Music. The University, perhaps inspired by Trinity College's successes in Hartford's south end, has joined together with area community based organizations to leverage resources to revitalize the Upper Albany Neighborhood. Prospective plans include the desire to capitalize on the neighborhood's cultural resources (anchored by the Artists' Collective, Wilson-Gray YMCA Youth & Family Center, and the Albany Avenue Branch Library) to create a "village" motif, with culturally inspired street banners and more interesting and intricate lighting and pedestrian walkways.
New transportation plans for parking and traffic flow and streetscape improvements have also been initiated to support the revitalization process. Buildings are receiving funds for facade improvements, and housing initiatives aimed at increasing the neighborhood's home ownership rates are contributing to positive trends in the neighborhood.
Demographically, the neighborhood is experiencing an increase in native Spanish-Language speakers and other residents for whom English is a second or third language. As homeownership and housing prices increase in the south end, families are moving to Upper Albany where rents appear to be comparatively lower. Upper Albany's proximity to West Hartford is also a drawing point for still other residents seeking access to suburban schools and other offerings, but looking for less expensive housing options. In addition to Spanish-speaking residents, there has been a marked community of Chinese and Korean residents new to the neighborhood and seeking relevant information resources.
Crime and safety issues continue to be a main source of concern for community residents. High school-dropout and unemployment rates contribute to the social cycle that keeps the neighborhood from realizing its full potential as both a cultural district, a vibrant business community, and a source of rich housing stock.
The Albany Branch Library is strategically located on the Albany Avenue/Highway 44 corridor, in the midst of a thriving community of schools, small and family-owned businesses, and community-based organizations. Steps away from a public transportation route that travels both through and across the city and into surrounding suburbs, the Albany Avenue Branch Library supports the information needs of residents of Hartford and the Greater Hartford area.
Library staff has worked to create and maintain strong connections with the schools that are located within the neighborhood as well as with neighborhood students who attend public and private schools located outside of the Upper Albany neighborhood. Students from the neighborhood's five elementary schools: Martin L. King, Jr., Annie Fisher, Thurman Milner, Jumoke Academy Charter School, and Hartford Area Seventh-day Adventist School use the branch for after-school homework assistance and extra-curricular programs. Lewis Fox Middle School is currently closed. The Albany Branch Library has ten public computers that draw students from Weaver High School, as well as adult learners living in the neighborhood who attend Capitol Community College, Manchester Community College, University of Hartford, and St. Joseph's College for Women. Individual customers use the computers for job searches and applications, email, personal and business information needs.
The Albany Branch works in partnership with various area civic and cultural institutions from the neighboring Artists' Collective and the Upper Albany Main Street. Indeed, the library functions as a primary and critical meeting space for many neighborhood-based agencies and associations. The Upper Albany NRZ and the Upper Albany Neighborhood Collaborative use the community space for their regular meetings.
The Albany Branch Library endeavors daily to maintain its role as one of Albany Avenue's most vital resources. The Library is open 33 hours a week. For youth, the branch offers a children's area, a student area with a young adult readers' section, and targeted programming for teens. The branch participates in the free Summer Lunch Program, which served over 8,000 lunches throughout the Hartford Public Library system in 2009. The branch has aggressively sought to increase its numbers of adult users through increasing civic involvements, collaborations and outreach services. Adults visit the branch to use the public computers, enroll in computer classes, and to borrow popular fiction. The library participates in voter registration and actively encourages adult library card applicants to register.

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IPPA Fellows 2011
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D.
Claremont Graduate University, USA
Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC) at Claremont Graduate University. The QLRC-as described on the Claremont website-is a non-profit research institute that studies "Positive Psychology"; that is, human strengths such as optimism, creativity, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility.
Professor Csikszentmihalyi is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Studies. He is the author of numerous books: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience; The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millenium; Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention; Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life; Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet; Good Business: Flow, Leadership and the Making of Meaning.
Ed Diener was a professor at the University of Illinois from 1974 until 2008 and is now Professor Emeritus, and a Senior Scientist for the Gallup Organization. Diener is now also a Professor of Psychology at both the University of Virginia and University of Utah. He was the president of three scientific societies and the editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Diener was the founding editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science and a co-founder of Journal of Happiness Studies. He has over 340 publications and 110,000 citations of his work, and has been awarded many of the top scientific recognitions in psychology, as well as honorary doctorates. Diener explores the personality and cultural influences on SWB, as well as the influences of income on well-being. He works on the development and validation of diverse measures of SWB. He recently has been exploring the beneficial effects of subjective well-being on health, social relationships, productivity, and citizenship. Diener spearheaded the drive to use national accounts of subjective well-being for policy purposes. In 2000 Diener proposed that nations establish national accounts of well-being, and he has a number of publications explaining and defending this idea.
Raymond D. Fowler was an American psychologist and Professor Emeritus of the University of Alabama. He was president of the American Psychological Association (1988) and served as APA's executive vice president and chief executive officer (CEO) from 1989 to 2003. His academic contributions spanned more than four decades, from innovative work on personality assessment in the 1960s to his role as a leading voice for the study of positive health in the early years of positive psychology. Dr. Fowler conceived of the idea for the International Positive Psychology Association in 2006 and International Positive Psychology Association and served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Committee in the first years of the Association.
Christopher Peterson was the Arthur F. Thurnau professor of psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the former chair of the clinical psychology area. He was science director of the VIA Institute on Character, and co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues for the classification of character strengths.[2] He is noted for his work in the study of optimism, health, character, well-being and one of the founders of positive psychology.[3][4] In 2010, Dr. Peterson won the 2010 Golden Apple Award – the most prestigious teaching award at the University of Michigan. After his untimely death in 2012, IPPA created the Christopher J. Peterson Golden Medal Award, the highest honor the organization bestows.
Martin Seligman, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Martin E.P. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family professor of psychology and director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, ethno-political conflict, and optimism. He is a best-selling author of several books including, most recently, Flourish. He received the American Psychological Society's William James Fellow Award for basic science and Cattell Award for the application of science, and two Distinguished Scientific Contribution awards from the American Psychological Association. In 1996, Seligman was elected president of the American Psychological Association by the largest vote in modern history. His current mission is the attempt to transform social science to work on the best things in life—virtue, positive emotion, good relationships, and positive institutions—and not just on healing pathology.
Dr. Vaillant is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. He is graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School; Dr. Vaillant did his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He has spent his research career charting adult development, the importance of involuntary coping mechanisms, and recovery from alcoholism. From 1970 to 2005 he was Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service. The study is arguably the longest (75 years) prospective psychosocial and medical study of males in the world. At age 80 he is now the beneficiary of his own research.
More recently Vaillant has been interested in positive emotions and their relationship to positive psychology.
In 2000 he became a founding member of positive psychology. He has been a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a past Class A (nonalcoholic trustee) of Alcoholics Anonymous and is a Fellow of the International Positive Psychology Association. He has received the Jellinek Memorial Award and American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Service Award.
His published works include Adaptation to Life, 1977, The Natural History of Alcoholism-Revisited, 1995, Aging Well, 2002, Spiritual Evolution, 2008 and Triumphs of Experience, 2012.
IPPA Fellows 2013
Dr. Lopez was the world's leading researcher on hope. As Senior Scientist at Gallup and Research Director of the Clifton Strengths Institute, Lopez leads research on the measurement of hope, as well as its relationship with strengths development, academic success, and overall well-being. He is coauthor of the statistical reports for the Clifton StrengthsFinder and the Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer. Dr. Lopez has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters and he has edited or authored seven books including the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want in Business and Life, which details how hope can be learned and spread to others.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside, USA
Dr. Lyubomirsky is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where she has been recognized with the Faculty of the Year and Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards. Dr. Lyubomirsky's research focuses on the concept of sustainable happiness, practicing gratitude and kindness as interventions, and the impact of genetic and environmental influences to happiness-increasing interventions. Her research has been awarded a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and grants from the Science of Generosity, John Templeton Foundation, and National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Lyubomirsky is a fellow at the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Social and Personality Psychology. She is the author of The How of Happiness, now translated and published in 19 countries, and The Myths of Happiness.
Nansook Park, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Park is a Professor in the Psychology Department and the Director of the Michigan Positive Psychology Center at the University of Michigan. Her main research reflects a psychology of human strengths. Her research topics include character strengths, moral excellence, positive relationships, life meaning, positive experiences, and strength-based practice, and their role in resiliency, well-being, health, family, work, and education. She has taken the lead in developing ways to assess character strengths among children and youth and in conducting cross-cultural investigations. She played a major role for US Army-Soldier resilience and psychological fitness project and Positive Education project in Australia. She is a fellow at the Association of Psychological Science and International Positive Psychology Association, and a former Templeton Research Fellow at the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) steering committee, a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Positive Psychology, and a former Associate Editor for the Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being.
IPPA Fellows 2015
Antonella Delle Fave, MD
University of Milan, Italy
Antonella Delle Fave, MD specialized in Clinical Psychology, is professor of Psychology at the Medical School, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her research work is centered on the study of psychological indicators of well-being, daily experience fluctuation, and the process of psychological selection across cultures and among individuals experiencing conditions of diversity and adversity. She developed intervention projects in the domains of health and education. Together with international partners she launched and implemented the project "Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness Investigation", aimed at identifying well-being components across cultures. She is currently conducting research and clinical studies aimed at integrating the bio-psycho-social perspective of Western medicine and the Indian traditional view of health and disease.She contributed to the development of positive psychology, as founding member and President of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), the European Network of Positive Psychology (ENPP) and the Società Italiana di Psicologia Positiva (SIPP). Author of over 150 scientific articles and books, since 2010 she is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Jane Dutton, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, USA
Jane E. Dutton is the Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology at the, University of Michigan and Professor of Psychology. She does research, teaches and works with organizations on issues related to how to bring out the best in employees and in organizations. She studies and writes about how people build high quality connections, how people craft their jobs, compassion at work (http://www.thecompassionlab.com/) and how they construct self-identities that are strengthening. She is a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations (http://www.centerforpos.org/) at the Ross School of Business.
She has won research and teaching awards and has written more than 100 research papers and monographs(http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/janedut/). She leads workshops, builds intervention tools for bringing out the best in people (http://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/tools/), teaches in executive programs on positive leadership, and loves doing research, teaching and change around the general topic of positive leadership.
Scott Huebner, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina, USA
Scott Huebner, a graduate of Indiana University, is a professor and former Director of the School Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association (Div. 16) and International Society for Quality of Life Studies and an elected member of the Society for the Study of School Psychology. His scholarly interests focus on the conceptualization, measurement, and application of positive psychology constructs in children. He is the author of more than 200 publications on child well-being and several youth well-being measures. He is also a co-editor of the Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools.
Willibald F. Ruch, Ph.D.
Zurich University, Switzerland
Willibald Ruch, born in Carinthia, Austria, received his PhD from the University of Graz, Austria, and later worked at a number of universities in Germany and the UK. Between 1992 and 1998 he held a Heisenberg Fellowship, awarded by theGerman Research Foundation-DFG, and since 2002 he has been chair and full professor of personality and assessment in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He has served on the boards of several international societies (including the International Positive Psychology Association-IPPA, the European Association of Psychological Assessment-EAPA, and International Society of Humor Studies-ISHS) and was president of the ISHS twice. He was a member of the editorial board of a dozen scientific journals, co-editor of two book series, and co-authored about 250 journal articles and 5 books. He actively contributed to the development of positive psychology, as participant of the Akumal think tanks, leader of a pod, contributor to the "character strengths and virtues"-handbook, presenter at the Gallup Washington positive psychology summits, invited keynote speaker at international conferences, and founder and first president of the Swiss Positive Psychology Association (SWIPPA). His more recent interest in positive psychology is in character strengths and virtues and their role in the life of children and youth as well as adults. He and his team also work on training of character strengths, assessment of positive emotions, humor, laughter and cheerfulness.
Carol Ryff, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, USA
Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute on Aging and Marie Jahoda Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research centers on the study of psychological well-being, an area in which she has developed multidimensional assessment scales that have been translated to more than 30 different languages and are used in research across diverse scientific fields. Investigations by Dr. Ryff and colleagues have addressed how psychological well-being varies by age, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic/minority status, and cultural context as well as by the experiences, challenges, and transitions individuals confront as they age. Whether psychological well-being is protective of good physical health is also a major interest, with ongoing longitudinal investigations linking positive psychosocial factors to a wide array of biomarkers (neuroendocrine, immune, cardiovascular) as well as to neural circuitry. A guiding theme in much of this inquiry is human resilience – i.e., how some individuals are able to maintain, or regain, their well-being in the face of significant life challenge and what neurobiology underlies this capacity.Dr. Ryff has generated over 180 publications in the areas described above, and she currently directs the MIDUS (Midlife in the U.S.) longitudinal study, which is based on a large national sample of Americans, including twins. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, MIDUS II has become a major forum for studying health as an integrated biopsychosocial process. She is also Principal Investigator of MIDJA (Midlife in Japan), a parallel to the MIDUS investigation, for which she received an NIH Merit Award.
Lea Waters, Ph.D.
University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Lea Waters (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is the Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne. Lea a registered psychologist (AHPRA), a full member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and a full member of the APS College of Organisational Psychologist. Lea holds an Affiliate position with Cambridge University's Wellbeing Institute in the United Kingdom and the Centre for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan in the United Kingdom. She is the Chair of the Scientific Committee for the 4th World Congress of Positive Psychology.
Lea is internationally recognised for her research and has published and presented in the United Kingdom, Canada, U.S.A., Asia and Europe. She has published over 70 scientific articles and book chapter as well as speaking at over 100 academic conferences. She is a regular contributor to the Journal of Positive Psychology.
Lea was named the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Educator of the Year in 2004, received an Australian University Individual Teaching Excellence Award from the Prime Minister in 2007 as well as team Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Government's Office for Teaching and Learning in 2013.
IPPA Fellows 2017
Meike Bartels, Ph.D.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prof. dr. Meike Bartels is Professor in Genetics and Wellbeing at the department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Over the past years, she made important progress in quantifying and identifying causes of individual differences happiness and subjective well-being by conducting a large scale meta-analysis that revealed that about 36% of the variance in SWB is accounted for by genetic influences. Furthermore, she published a ground-breaking paper providing the first evidence ever for molecular genetic influences on SWB, and, together with international colleagues, she found the first genomic locations for SWB. The importance of a focus on gene-environment interplay is supported by her recent finding of significant associations of SWB with DNA methylation. To share her ideas with the scientific community at large and to disseminate her findings, she published over 150 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in Nature Genetics, PNAS, Behavior Genetics, Psychological Methods, and JAACA). International acknowledgement of her expertise and scientific accomplishment is reflected in the Thompson Award and the Fuller-Scott Award awarded by the Behavior Genetics Association and her honorary and competitive University Research Chair position.
David Cooperrider, Ph.D.
Case Western University
David L. Cooperrider, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University and holds the Fairmount Santrol – David L. Cooperrider Professorship in Appreciative Inquiry. He is the faculty founder of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. David is also the Honorary Chairman of TheDavid L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at the Champlain College Robert P. Stiller School of Business.
David is best known for his original theoretical articulation of "AI" or Appreciative Inquiry with his mentor Suresh Srivastva. He has published 25 books and authored over 100 articles and book chapters. David has also served as advisor to prominent leaders in business and society, including projects with five Presidents and/or Nobel Laureates such as William Jefferson Clinton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, and Jimmy Carter. David advises a wide variety of corporations including Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Hunter Douglas, Cleveland Clinic, National Grid, as well as the U.S. Navy and United Nations. Jane Nelson, at Harvard's Kennedy School of Leadership recently wrote, "David Cooperrider is one of the outstanding scholar-practitioners of our generation."
Robert Emmons, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis where he has taught since 1988. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign. He is the author of over 200 original publications in peer‑reviewed journals or chapters and has written or edited eight books, including The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns (Guilford Press), The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press), Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton-Mifflin), Gratitude Works! A Twenty-One Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity (Jossey-Bass) and The Little Book of Gratitude (Hachette). A leader in the positive psychology movement, Dr. Emmons is founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology. He is Past-President of the American Psychological Association's Division 36, The Psychology of Religion. His research focuses on the psychology of gratitude and thankfulness in both adults and youth, and also include the psychology and spirituality of joy and grace as they relate to human flourishing. Professor Emmons speaks regularly at medical and psychological conferences, churches and public events. Dr. Emmons has received research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John M. Templeton Foundation, and the National Institute for Disability Research and Rehabilitation. His research has been featured in dozens of popular media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, Time, NPR, PBS, Consumer Reports, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Today Show.
Judith Moskowitz, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Director of Research at the Northwestern Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Trained as a social psychologist, she studies the impact of positive emotion on adjustment to health-related and other life stress. She is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded trials of a positive emotion skills intervention that aims to improve psychological and physical well-being. Her research team is currently conducting trials of the intervention in people coping with various types of health related stress including dementia caregivers, those living with elevated depressive symptoms or type 2 diabetes, and people newly diagnosed with HIV.
Ryan M. Niemiec, Psy.D.
VIA Institute on Character
Ryan M. Niemiec, Psy.D. is Education Director of the VIA Institute on Character, a non-profit organization in Cincinnati, Ohio, that is viewed as the global leader in advancing the science and practice of character strengths. Ryan is author of the new book, Character Strengths Interventions: A Field-Guide for Practitioners and other books including: Mindfulness and Character Strengths and Positive Psychology at the Movies. He's an award-winning psychologist, certified coach, international workshop leader, and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Xavier University.At VIA, Ryan develops (or co-develops) VIA's courses, reports, and programs, and helps professionals around the globe, across disciplines, apply character strengths, personally and professionally. He's published over 60 peer-reviewed or invited articles on character strengths and related topics. Ryan is especially interested in the intersection of character strengths with resilience, intellectual/developmental disability, mindfulness, savoring, and health.Ryan is creator of the evidence-based, Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice (MBSP), the first, structured program for building character strengths. Over the last 15 years, Ryan has led hundreds of mindfulness groups for various audiences and has offered hundreds of presentations on character strengths.On a personal level, Ryan's signature strengths are hope, love, curiosity, fairness, honesty, and appreciation of beauty.
Tania Singer, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Tania Singer is the Director of the Department of Social Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig since 2010. After receiving her PhD in Psychology in 2000 at the MPI for Human Development in Berlin, she became a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London and later Full Professor of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on the behavioral, neural, and hormonal basis of human social cognition and emotions and the motivational underpinnings of economic decision making. In the ReSource Project, a longitudinal study, she investigates the psychological and neuroscientific effects of mental training techniques. Tania has published her findings in many high-impact peer-reviewed journals and books.


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Topic: Savory to the Taste (07/26/12)
- TITLE: Anticipation | Previous Challenge Entry
By Deborah Sampson
This year he was in the running for the Savory Stew Cook-off. This was the fifth year of the cook-off, and his second in entering it.
Last year the three judges agreed that most of the entries were good, but Willis Bates was by far the best. They could not stop talking about the ingredients in Will's stew; the combination gave it a unique taste, one fitting to be the winner.
When the samples were given out to taste, all the people seemed to agree, it was a hit.
This year though, Will had to go out of town on church business and would not be back till the day of the cook off. Tom was sorry to hear it, but it meant this year might be his turn. He looked around at the other entries and summed up that he had the best chance of winning this thing.
Tom shook his head, what was this, a new entry? He moseyed over to the table as the stew was being set down, he could see the man clearer now, it was Bradley Lane, a newcomer to the church, Hum-m, Tom said to himself, he needed to investigate this.
Bradley set about stirring the stew in the round flowered slow cooker, it gave off heavely whiffs of the savory stew, Tom could see bits of perfectly cut carrots, potatoes, peas, celery, and bite sized pieces of tomatoes. Chunks of beef that looked so tender, it could melt in your mouth, boy, Tom would like to find a way to taste this concoction, and the herbs Bradley used smelled delicious.
Tom left to go back to his stew, not that his wasn't really great, he reached for his spoon to stir his stew again, his looked good, had many of the same ingredients. But was something missing?
His church sponsored this event every year, and there would be anywhere from eight to fifteen entries. It would appear to be eleven so far, the judging was set for noon, about an hour to go.
Tom saw his family coming up to the table, his wife, Katy smiling at him, she hadn't change much since they were married almost ten years, now, still as pretty as ever, on one side was their son, Adam, and the other side, a petite version of Katy, was their daughter Candance.
"We just want to wish you well, honey, we'll be rooting for you." Katy said, reaching up to give Tom a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks, guys, I need it this year, I think." Tom reached for the spoon again, "I'll see you in a little bit."
Tom looked at Bradley again, he knew the Lord said to be gracious, and want good for others, but Tom wasn't feeling like losing to a newcomer, this year it was his turn, and no he didn't like it one little bit, he ought to go tell Bradley to shove off.
Someone just walked up to Bradley, now who was that? Oh yes, it's his daughter Samantha, she was giving her dad a hug, he forgot he had a family too, some of Tom's emotions calmed down.
It was true; Bradley had just as much right as he did to be here, may the best stew win. He knew he had to ask the Lord to forgive him of the not too kinds of thoughts earlier, and he set about doing just that.
The bell rang a few minutes later, signaling it was time for the judging to start.
All the stew was tasted and the judges huddled together to talk over the findings.
"Ladies and Gentleman we have reached a decision, Savory Stew number Nine won. For the second year in a row, we have picked Willis Bates's stew." The judge announced.
"What, he's not here, come on how can that be?" Tom asked himself.
"Bradley was so kind to bring in Will's stew for him since he couldn't get here in time. Thanks to Bradley, Will's stew won again!" The judge continued.
The crowd clapped for the winning entry.
Tom, scratching his head just started laughing, he hadn't been right about anything today, except that Will's stew smelled delicious. He aimed to go get a sample of the best tasting Savory stew at Calvary Center. He smiled, maybe next year.
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CLEVELAND — "Sign the petition to raise the state minimum wage," was the call to passers-by from volunteers at the People's Weekly World booth at the 2006 AFL-CIO Union Industries Show.
The annual event, showcasing unions and union-made goods, was held May 5-7 at Cleveland's IX Center. It attracted over 100,000 people from throughout the region who came to check out cars, tools, housewares, canned goods and services provided by union labor throughout the country. They also took part in a seemingly endless series of drawings that raffled off over $l million worth of these products.
It was the first time the PWW had a booth and by all accounts it was a tremendous success. Over 1,100 people signed the referendum petition that the Ohio AFL-CIO hopes will put the issue on the ballot for November's elections. The Cleveland AFL-CIO Retirees Council also collected 1,500 signatures at their booth and several hundred more were collected by a Teamster's local.
Ohio and Kansas are the only two states where employers not involved in interstate commerce can pay workers less than the federal minimum wage. The ballot measure would raise the state level from the current $4.25 to $6.85 an hour with an automatic cost of living adjustment.
The PWW booth was a boost for organized labor in another way. Nearly 700 people signed up for introductory subscriptions to this working-class weekly which rallies, educates and mobilizes its readers behind the cause of working people.
Although many who signed up knew of the paper, others saw it for the first time and were delighted to know that it existed. They were hungry for news and needed little convincing that the Bush administration, under right-wing corporate control, is pursuing policies disastrous for working people.
They seethed with anger and frustration as they spoke of bitter experiences with long strikes and lockouts, corrupt politicians and skyrocketing costs of fuel, healthcare and college educations.
Many were union stewards, labor council delegates and local officers. Although most were from Ohio and nearby states, some came from far away. Al Perisho, president of the southern California International Longshore and Warehouse Union Pensioners, said he hadn't seen the PWW for a long time and was glad we were there. He took out a subscription for his office. Others came from Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, Minnesota and Canada.


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Thanks to the internet, for unearthing a clip from Kanye West's shelved music video for "Robocop."
Kanye West decided not to release his official visuals for "Robocop" off the acclaimed 808s & Heartbreak album, following his break-up with then-girlfriend Amber Rose, who starred in the video. Although we did get a behind-the-scenes look from the video, apart from that, we've never seen what the actual video looked like, until today.
Artist Shihan Barbee has taken to his Instagram to treat the internet to a 16-second clip from the unreleased music video. In it we see Amber Rose dressed to look like a (beige) robot, doing robotic movements while Kanye raps.
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Haryana is poised to become the first state to invite social media users to interact with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for faster and real-time redressal of grievances, officials said on Tuesday.
The Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Rakesh Gupta, who chaired a meeting on "Social Media Grievance Redressal Mechanism" at Panchkula on Tuesday, said Haryana would launch an integrated Social Media Grievances Tracker — Twitter and Facebook on May 15.
"The online grievance redressal mechanism is being set up to identify, process and resolve all relevant short-term complaints sent by citizens to the Chief Minister Office (CMO) or the government through social media," Gupta said.
This, he said, would contribute towards improving various services being provided by different departments.
Suggestions received by CMO through e-mails could also be processed through the system to ensure proper follow-up by the departments concerned.
The tracker would provide a platform to the citizens to easily interact with the government, he added.
"Several state governments were using social media, but Haryana is the first one to use a technical platform to monitor all grievances received by the Chief Minister on his Twitter handle, Facebook and e-mail. This would help monitor and ensure quick redressal of grievances," he said.


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Mr. Vrana was formerly employed by Michigan State University as a research/outreach specialist and director of CMURM (1994 - 2000), and as an underwater preserve specialist with the Michigan Sea Grant Extension (1989 - 1994). The Michigan Sea Grant College Program is a joint endeavor of the State of Michigan and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in applied scientific research, outreach, and education. During that time, he played an instrumental role in establishment of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, the first NOAA marine protected area in the Great Lakes region to focus on historic shipwrecks and other underwater heritage sites. In 1984, Mr. Vrana was selected by the U.S. National Park Service from a nationwide pool of applicants as its first archaeological research diving technician, and served in that capacity until 1989 for the prestigious Submerged Cultural Resources Unit on cultural resource management studies throughout the United States and in the western Pacific. He began his professional career at Isle Royale National Park as a park ranger and operational scuba diver specializing in the management and public interpretation of historic shipwrecks (1976 - 1984).
Mr. Vrana has been involved in numerous underwater archaeology and maritime heritage management projects as operational scuba diver, archaeological research diving technician, project coordinator, principal investigator, or consultant since 1979 on sites throughout the United States, and in the Caribbean basin and western Pacific. He was project coordinator for the first civilian expedition to Edmund Fitzgerald (1989), and served as consulting marine archaeologist for Titanic Expedition 2004. During a 25-year career, Mr. Vrana has logged nearly 1,000 operational and scientific dives on historic shipwrecks and other underwater heritage sites.
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Recognizing Poland's unique role in spreading the message of Solidarity and Freedom around the world, the Wroclaw Global Forum is also the European home of the Atlantic Council's Freedom Awards, which will be celebrated this year on the evening of June 1. The Freedom Awards recognize extraordinary individuals and organizations that defend and advance the cause of freedom. Past awardees include: the Cuban dissident group the Ladies in White, Egyptian activist Esraa Abdel Fattah, Belarusian dissident Ales Byalyatski, Secretary Hillary Clinton, and Václav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia. This year, we will present Freedom Awards to Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR; the National Endowment for Democracy (represented by Carl Gershman); Emma Bonino, vice president of the Italian Senate and trustee of the Arab Democracy Foundation; and Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former underground activist, foreign minister and chair of the International Council of the National Auschwitz Museum; along with other illustrious individuals on the evening of Friday, June 1.
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The much-anticipated securities class action launched against IMAX appears to be heading for trial after an Ontario Divisional Court judge refused leave for the company to appeal decisions that certified the action and allowed the matter to proceed under Ontario's Securities Act.
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HP Offers AMD Processors on New Notebook Lineup
HP today introduced a new consumer notebook lineup that offers customers a choice of processor technology, award-winning support and value beyond the competition.
Select HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario consumer notebook PCs will, for the first time, include the option of AMD Turion 64 mobile technology. AMD's latest mobile processor technology delivers 32-bit performance today and can run tomorrow's 64-bit applications, in addition to offering enhanced virus protection.
As with the company's consumer desktop PCs, HP consumer notebooks come with a full year of support, significantly longer than some competitors' 90-day offerings.
Offering more complete customer support is one way HP provides consumers with the best customer experience possible. In fact, the Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm, recently awarded HP top honors in a study of how well high-tech companies treat their customers online. HP was the only company to earn an "Excellent" rating in both privacy and email responsiveness. The study showed HP's one-hour email response time was particularly impressive considering the significant challenges noted for much of the high-tech industry.
HP updated its consumer notebooks in the categories of: thin and light, value, entertainment and desktop replacement. Specific series include:
-- The award-winning HP Pavilion dv1000 Entertainment Notebook PC
-- HP Pavilion ze2000 Series Notebook PC - available with AMD Turion 64 mobile technology
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Detailed information on available configurations and features, including the AMD Turion 64 mobile technology processor, is available at www.hp.com/notebooks .
Configure-to-order models of select new notebooks are available now direct from HP. The entire lineup is expected to be available later this month. HP offers a one-year limited warranty for notebooks that includes technical support, parts and labor as part of its HP Total Care portfolio of services.
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Ruth B. Freeman, RN, MA, EdD
"The public doesn't understand what a nurse really is. A nurse does more than just boosting morale of patients. She is an individual who must have an understanding of human nature and a keen sense of responsibility."
Ruth Freeman took her own words seriously. As the author of two books considered the "bibles of public health nursing," she provided standards and forms to evaluate the profession. She analyzed the shortage of nurses in the United States and encouraged public health schools to admit nurses to their health education programs. She insisted that they work in the same degree programs as physicians and have equal status within those schools.
In 1952, she took a year's leave of absence from the School to consult with the Rockefeller Foundation on its nursing programs.
Dr. Freeman was a consultant for many agencies, including the U.S. Air Force, the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health and the Academy of Political Science. She was president of The National Health Council and the National League for Nursing.


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- Offer professional development through Lean process improvement training.
- We want Providence to deliver services in the best and most efficient way possible. To do this, we've developed a Lean Process improvement training program that empowers our employees to tackle operational challenges to deliver impressive results. Lean combines communication strategies, performance measurement, and process improvement to create small changes that have big, lasting impacts.
- Lean cohorts document their projects using a form called an A3.
- This is the latest version of our Black Belt Lean training presentation: Black Belt 7.6.17
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- Helping departments develop 1-year plans that include metrics that can be tracked in line with their overall departmental goals
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- Helping with the proposition and maintenance of the City's Open Data Portal
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Louise Parker is the type of girl who doesn't need to worry about her hair. She's a sun-kissed blonde, straight-across—no muss, no fuss. She came into the office wearing a red cardigan and ate Sour Patch Kids waiting for hairstylist Didier Malige to give her a haircut. Not necessarily something drastic—but something new. Spring may have arrived with a hefty dose of snow this year, but once the seasons change, it's hard not to feel like a little personal change is in order.
Eventually Didier walks in and there's Louise, hunched over, playing with her split ends. Maybe expecting someone with layered, voluminous head of hair ready for experimentation, instead he got the epitome of Midwest simplicity. She recently graduated with a degree in photography (eventually she plans on working as a photojournalist) and made it through the four years of school cutting her hair maybe once. Her daily routine consists of washing and leaving her hair to air dry without brushing, in hopes of keeping any waves.
'You should be a bit more wild," Didier tells her. When she says at this stage, she already feels "too old for that now," he responds: "Are you crazy? You haven't even discovered life yet," Haircuts are best served with a side of sage advice, we find.
Didier is known to be scissor happy—he's comes from the school of hairstylists in the '60s and '70s who made sex hair a thing. "I'm not attracted to very neat hair. I think it's an American thing to smooth and tame. Now, you don't see any more pictures of models with little hairs sticking out. It's all Photoshopped out,"
He takes Louise's hair and begins to cut long layers at the ends with scissors. "Do you want to look," He asks her. "No, I trust you," Louise says. It couldn't really be called a full-blown haircut, but rather a few stylized, strategic snips to give it more body. He then soaked Louise's hair in L'Oréal Wild Stylers by Techni.Art Beach Waves for some matte, subtle texture. Soaked isn't an exaggeration—he kept forewarning Louise that he was really going to wet it. Windblown effects can be attributed to hosting the photoshoot part of the gathering on the roof.
'I think I'll keep it," she says as she looks at the photos—just before Didier sweeps it up into a different look, this one more cockatiel cum black tie updo. Inspired by Louise's vintage Celine secretary blouse, Didier went with the 1940s feel to create the rebellious Euro counterpart to the doughnut-ified American top-knot. It's wild looking, but at least half of the fun comes from knowing you've got bangs, without actually having to get bangs. Maybe next time, Didier.
Louise Parker (The Society) wears a vintage Celine top, Isabel Marant Étoile skirt, and Saint Laurent Boots. Photographed by Tom Newton.


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Philippines in refinery project with Mitsui, Itochu and Daelim
Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC), has decided to implement an oil refinery in Limay on the Bataan Peninsula, the
Philippines, together with Japan's Itochu Corp. and Mitsui & Co. The Philippines has been the only nation in the
ASEAN countries that has no petrochemical industry as yet; downstream plants now under construction are scheduled to
be completed by year-end, ahead of construction of a petrochemical complex. PNOC plans to construct, as a first step,
a 200,000 bpd refinery via Petron, an oil refining firm controlled by PNOC. It is projected to cost about $ 110 mm.
Itochu and Mitsui & Co. will invest in the refinery project and South Korea's Daelim Industrial Co. will
undertake engineering of the refinery. The refinery will be for the nation's first petrochemical complexes, each of
$1 billion scale, that PNOC is now planning at two sites - Batangas in the south of Manila and Limay on the Bataan
Peninsula. The Batangas project, which Thai Petrochemical Industry may join, is planned to havea 400,000 tpy ethylene
plant, and the Rimay one, for which foreign investment will also be invited, may have a 230,000 tpy ethylene plant.
It is now certain, however, that the two complexes will actually be constructed in view of the size of the Philippine
petrochemical market and other relevant factors.
Ahead of the refinery and naphtha cracker construction, a joint 200,000 tpy PP plant and a joint 200,000 tpy L-LDPE/HDPE plant are now under construction, with completion set for the year-end. Last October a 200,000 tpy PP plant by joint foreign investment was completed in Maribeles, Luzon. The PP and PE plants being constructed are located in Batangas. In addition, a joint 70,000 tpy PVC project is planned, with completion targeted for 1998-end.


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By Steve Palopoli
The Devil Makes Three have been spoiled by good audiences. As in, crazy good. In Portland, the band sold out the 800-seat Wonder Ballroom, and two nights before that, fans were bum-rushing the stage when they played to a thousand people in Humboldt County.
"It was complete mayhem," says guitarist and lead singer Pete Bernhard. "Now when we get a quiet, normal audience, we're like, 'Don't you like us?'"
The answer's yes. Among the new songs DM3 are playing on this tour is "He Calls That Religion," a song originally done by the Mississippi Sheiks in the 1920s. "It's sort of a cover song, except I rewrote all the lyrics," says Bernhard. "There are so many great preacher scandals right now."
Another untitled new song sees the band branching into yet another genre—Sam Cooke-type soul—and a third, "This Life," is a classic our-life-as-a-band tale. "It's all about how what we do is somewhat insane, but we all love it a lot," says Bernhard.
There's that element of psychosis again. On this tour, the craziness will be documented for a live album when the Devil Makes Three play Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, at the Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 8:30pm. $19. 707.765.2121.


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Wayne Rooney helped Manchester United past Liverpool to win the International Champions Cup on Monday.
And even though it was pre-season the 28-year-old would-be skipper enjoyed getting one over their old rivals blasting "it's always nice to beat Liverpool".
In that vein we've taken a look back over his career to see how often he's managed to beat the Merseyside team.
Since his career began at Everton, Rooney's clubs have faced up to Liverpool 28 times in major competitions.
Of those 28 games, Rooney featured in 22 - winning 10, drawing four, and losing eight. Overall, that gives him a win ratio of 45 percent over United's bitter rivals.
However Rooney has endured limited personal success against the Merseyside outfit. Before last night's game, despite Rooney only having 4 goals against them, all 4 were crucial as they resulted in United victories.
His most memorable moment against Liverpool came back in 2012 when he scored a double in his 500th game for club and country.
Should Rooney be Manchester United captain? Vote who YOU think should get the armband.


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This Week in Social Media
One of our favorite things about social media is how easy it is to find amazing design inspiration with just a few clicks. We're fortunate enough to follow some very talented designers and architects, and we want to share their work with you! Here's a quick social media round-up featuring all the beautiful imagery we've seen on the Internet this week. First up, industrial meets contemporary in this chic kitchen featuring Sleek Concrete countertops by Big House Little House & K2 Projects.
We have a special place in our hearts for white kitchens. The only thing that could make it more special? Misty Carrera countertops, of course! Wendy Resin Interiors does white just right in this beautiful kitchen.
A metallic backsplash helps to pull in the stainless steel appliances as part of the design. Naples Remodeling balances fun and contemporary in this Miami kitchen with Dreamy Marfil tops.
Lagos Blue is the perfect addition to this sunshiny country kitchen by Bonnie Sachs, ASID Interior Design.
How about something a little different for your kitchen?
Try adding depth and character to your cabinets with pops of paint in strategic places. Moger Mehrhof Architects incorporate natural materials and Organic White countertops to perfectly balance this stylish kitchen.


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Opening Day of the 2013 Major League Baseball season brought a lot of fanfare (and fans!) to Nationals Park today, where the Washington Nationals shut out the visiting Miami Marlins by a score of 2-0. And while it was my first time in several years not attending an Opening Day game at Nats Park (don't cry for me, Nats fans – I will be there this Thursday afternoon with my family), I was able to catch all the action from the warmth and comfort of my living room.
The day started with the unveiling of the "2012 National League East Division Champions" pennant. This particular sign is not pennant-shaped but rather rectangular and large, welcoming fans into the main center field gate of Nationals Park. After the unveiling, players were presented, the National Anthem was sung by an Army quartet (sans the traditional fly-over, probably due to sequestration), and the 2012 awards were doled out. Adam LaRoche received the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards, Ian Desmomd and Stephen Strasburg received Silver Sluggers as well, Davey Johnson was given the 2012 Manager of the Year award, General Manager Mike Rizzo was awarded the Executive of the Year award, and Bryce Harper was given the National League Rookie of the Year award. It was a ceremony that seemed to take forever – we were all definitely ready for some baseball to be played.
Speaking of Bryce Harper, the kid ended up hitting two home runs during today's game. The first one was cool, but the second one was just unbelievable. I found myself thinking "Are you freakin' kidding me? What does this mean? Is this some sort of omen?" It was kind of surreal, even though I wasn't there to experience it. We Nationals fans spent so many years watching mediocre baseball that it's still hard for all this good baseball to sink in. But we'll take it!
And speaking of good baseball, the Nationals' starter, Stephen Strasburg, pitched seven stellar innings, allowing only three hits while striking out three. Strasburg threw only 80 pitches and did not walk a single batter. He was replaced in the seventh inning by Tyler Clippard, who did not disappoint by giving us one of his usual stressful outings. In typical Clippard fashion, he walked a guy and then took forever to get the next three batters out. New Nats' closer, Rafael Soriano, closed it out in the top of the ninth by striking out two out of the three batters he faced. I found it odd that Soriano un-tucked his shirt as soon as he recorded the final out – I wonder if that's his "thing" at the end of a game. I'll have to notice to see if that's something he does when he earns a save – I honestly didn't pay that much attention to him during his days as a Yankees closer.
Now the Nationals have earned their first win of the season and did not disappoint the 45,000-plus fans in attendance. It was a very quick game – only 2 hours and 10 minutes, but they still found time for the traditional Presidents' Race (with new member William H. Taft in the mix, though he fell over in the beginning of the race and was unable to finish). They also played a little bit of "Take On Me" during the seventh-inning stretch as a little tribute to former Nationals' outfielder, Michael Morse. It was an "awww!" moment for me, especially when all the fans joined in the singing.
So what does today's victory and Harper's two home runs mean? Nothing really, other than the fact that the Nationals are picking up where they left off last year, playing solid baseball (though it would have been nice if they'd had a few more hits), showing excellent team work (that double play in the seventh inning was anything but routine), and giving it their all at every at-bat. I'm not putting all my eggs into the Nationals' basket just yet (as much as I'd like to!); this was just one game of 162 – a lot can happen between now and then, but for now it's nice to root for the team that is solidly in first place!


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From Chronicle Staff Writer Susan Slusser at the Coliseum
All-Star Bartolo Colon, whose past two starts have been his worst since early in the season, strained his left groin while doing flat-ground work yesterday. Trainer Nick Paparesta stopped Colon's throwing session and manager Bob Melvin announced today that Colon will go on the 15-day DL and Tommy Milone will start in Colon's place tomorrow against Cleveland.
"He came in today and it was sore again, so this is the prudent thing to do," Melvin said of Colon's groin injury.
With Milone joining the A's today, Brett Anderson (stress fracture, right foot) is now starting for Triple-A Sacramento rather than pitching in relief, and he will go three innings (or 50 pitches) rather than two. Melvin said this is a case of the A's keeping their options open – with Colon going on the DL, Anderson potentially becomes more valuable in the rotation.
"You never know how things go from here," Melvin said. "We looked at it and after the Bartolo situation today we felt it was probably the right thing to do."
Milone said he was primarily working on keeping his stuff down at Sacramento and also on polishing up his curveball, which he doesn't use all that much but which was working well with the River Cats. He had a 1.74 ERA in two starts, allowing 16 hits in 10 1/3 innings – and striking out 15 while walking one.
Considering that Colon's velocity has been down much of the second half and he had poor results his past two times out, allowing 10 runs in 6 2/3 innings, a break might not be a bad thing for the 40-year-old.
"He certainly doesn't want to (rest)," Melvin said. "He wants to make every start he can. Based on the fact he's had a great season for us and he's a guy we've leaned on pretty hard and has 14 wins to this point, it's not easy. You always want him to be able to pitch, but maybe with his age and so forth, a little break at this point in time might be good for him."
Melvin said that Coco Crisp (left wrist) is unlikely to play tonight or tomorrow; Melvin is hopeful that Monday will be the day. Crisp was on the field doing pregame work.
Here's the lineup: Callaspo 2B, Lowrie DH, Reddick RF, Cespedes CF, Moss 1B, Donaldson 3B, Smith LF, Vogt C, Sogard SS.
It's Dan Straily on the mound for Oakland – if he's made it in yet. He tweeted about an hour ago that he was still stuck in the parking lot. It's a madhouse out there between the Yoenis Cespedes bobblehead giveaway and the circus next door. Lines for the bobblehead started at 10 a.m., I understand.
"When you drove up today, it crossed your mind maybe it was an earlier game time," Melvin said with a grin of the large crowd already there this morning. "It is kind of neat. … I guess the Yoenis bobblehead is a popular item."
Cespedes gave the people what they wanted: With a large crowd here for batting practice, he did his usual bashing, including hitting one homer into the second deck of Mt. Davis, dead center.


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Turmeric Corn Soup
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- 16 oz frozen corn kernels, thawed
- 3 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
- ½ cup BPA-free canned full-fat coconut milk
- 1 shallot, roughly chopped
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp each ground turmeric and sea salt
- ¼ tsp each ground black pepper and curry powder
- 1 tbsp jarred harissa sauce (TRY: Mina Harissa)
- 1 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint or cilantro
1. In a blender, purée corn, broth, coconut milk, shallot, coriander, turmeric, salt, pepper and curry powder.
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- Serving Size: 3 cups
- Calories: 378
- Carbohydrate Content: 57 g
- Fat Content: 17 g
- Fiber Content: 3 g
- Protein Content: 9 g
- Saturated Fat Content: 11 g
- Sodium Content: 747 mg
- Sugar Content: 10 g
- Monounsaturated Fat Content: 3 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat Content: 1 g


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Nottingham Forest's Brian Eastick believes new signing Lars Veldwijk will slot in to the environment that Stuart Pearce wants to create at the club.
Both Eastick and Pearce scouted the 22-year-old Dutchman when he starred for Excelsior in the Dutch first division play-offs in May, scoring four goals in four games as they secured promotion to the Eredivisie.
Eastick said: "Stuart went to watch him play at the end of the season and I went to watch him play on a couple of occasions and we think that he's got very good potential.
"He's probably not one to come into the team straight away and hit the ground running but we do certainly see him breaking into the first team squad once he gets settled in."
Eastick is excited about the potential that Veldwijk possesses and is confident that he will flourish under his and Pearce's tutelage.
He added: "When Stuart did his initial press conference he said that one thing that he will guarantee is that all the players under his control will be given the opportunity to improve.
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Srinagar, April 28: The suspense over the reshuffle of BJP ministers in the cabinet headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is finally over as oath ceremony is being held at Convention centre Jammu on April 30.
Highly placed sources said that invitation will be sent to all the Ministers and Journalists by tomorrow. "The Oath Ceremony will take place at 12 noon on the 30th afternoon," the sources said.
Confirming the development, BJP Vice President Avinash Rai Khanna said that oath ceremony has been fixed for April 30. He said that names of the ministers to be inducted into the cabinet have also been finalized but refused to divulge their names.
Sources, however, said that deputy chief minister Dr Nirmal Singh, health minister Bali Bhagat are likely to be retained and MoS Sunil Sharma was likely to elevate to cabinet rank.
Others who are likely to be inducted in the cabinet include speaker Kavinder Gupta, Sukhnandan Chaudhary, Shakti Parihar, Devinder Kumar Manyal, Rajeev Sharma, Ravinder Raina and Rajeev Jasrotia.
All the BJP ministers in the government have resigned last week to pave way for a reshuffle of the party ministers in the Mehbooba Mufti-led government.
The development came a few days after two BJP ministers, who had attended protests in favour of accused in horrific Kathua rape and murder case.
Sources said the cabinet reshuffle in the BJP became necessary when the PDP inducted Tassaduq Hussain Mufti and Javaid Mustafa Mir as cabinet ministers raising the strength of the party to 12, including Chief Minister, in the state cabinet. The Chief Minister later allotted Tourism portfolio to her brother Tassaduq Mufti while Javaid was assigned Disaster Management, Relief Rehabilitation and Reconstruction and Floriculture departments.
Senior PDP Minister Abdul Rehman Veeri was divested of Disaster Management, Relief Rehabilitation & Reconstruction portfolios while as he retained Revenue and was also given Parliamentary Affairs and Hajj and Auqaf portfolios. In the process, Syed Farooq Andrabi tendered his resignation from the ministry of Hajj & Auqaf. Later Haseeb Drabu was made to resign as finance minister.
At the same time, the BJP has only six including Deputy Chief Minister as cabinet ministers even as portfolios held by Chandar Prakash Ganga and Lal Singh were assigned to Dr Nirmal Singh.
The PDP has 2 MoS while the BJP has three.
The incumbent PDP ministers include Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Ghulam Nabi Lone, Abdul Haq Khan, Syed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali, Naeem Akhtar, Imran Raza Ansari, Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, Javaid Mustafa Mir, Tassaduq Hussain Mufti, Asiea Naqash and Zahoor Ahmad Mir. Naqash and Mir are MoS. The BJP has deputy chief minister Dr. Nirmal Kumar Singh, Bali Bhagat, Sajad Gani Lone, Chering Dorjay, Sham Lal Chaudhary, Abdul Ghani Kohli, Sunil Kumar Sharma (MoS), Priya Sethi (MoS), and Ajay Nanda (MoS). (GNS)


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Spear to the West
Thought and Recruitment in Violent Jihadism
A probing, at times startling, long essay on how the threat of jihadism has shaped our societies since 9/11.
May 2019 • £12.99
9781787381308 • 176pp
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With the seeming defeat of ISIS, has jihadism disappeared from world politics? In this startling new book, Stephen Chan uncovers the ideological foundations that allow ISIS and other jihadi groups to survive, as they propagate terror by sophisticated means online and continue thrusting their spear at the West.
Far from presenting simple-minded, black-clad fighters, Chan describes an elaborate process of online recruitment, which is, in its own terrible way, meaningful and thoughtful. He examines the foundations of this thought and the step-by-step methods of jihadi indoctrination, exposing the lack of IT knowledge among Western world leaders and urging the 'moderate' Islamic community in the West to challenge jihadi ideology with a courageous, non-violent ideology of its own. Without a counterideology, Chan argues, alienated Muslim youth are drawn not only to glamorised dreams of violence, but also to the pull of a totalising system of politics and theology.
Spear to the West picks apart the fallacy of 'thoughtless' jihadi carnage, arguing that—dangerous and gruesome as it might be—there is more thought behind this phenomenon of destruction than meets the eye.
Stephen Chan, OBE was Foundation Dean at SOAS University of London, where he holds the Chair in World Politics. The author of over thirty books and a former international civil servant, he has worked extensively in Africa, and remains involved in current diplomatic affairs in Africa and the Middle East.
'Chan's argument … has at least two major implications: only those capable of speaking within the ideological terms of jihadis can counter their appeal, and counterterrorism strategists must consider using the Internet in ways they have not yet tried.' — Foreign Affairs
'Chan's succinct and discerning study of violent jihadism and radicalization will reward specialists and policy-makers, but its apportionment in discrete, digestible essays makes it a good choice for anyone needing a primer on its complex and critically important subject.' — Michigan War Studies Review
'With erudition and élan, this insightful book challenges us to rise above facile condemnations and to acknowledge that contemporary jihadists evince a moral reasoning—one that is, at once, motivating, arrogant, and self-limiting.' — James Piscatori, co-author of Muslim Politics
'Stephen Chan is one of the great doyens of world politics. This book displays his distinctive global consciousness and unique cultural empathy, even when tackling the most contentious topics.' — Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, SOAS University of London
'In this brilliant, disturbing work, Chan lays bare the global jihad's sinister engagement with modernity. Full of insights, it is one of the best treatments of radicalisation I have read.' — John Calvert, Professor of History, Creighton University
'Chan shows how the West incubates jihad and must instead respond actively to digital recruitment by ISIS. He also argues powerfully for debate within Islamic scholarship to accommodate Muslim aspirations for justice.' — Alison Scott-Baumann, Professor of Society and Belief, SOAS University of London


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