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Buddhist Film: A talk given by Bhante Bodhidhamma at the Golden Buddha Centre in May of this year, entitled The Body.
Bhante Bodhidhamma explains how the Buddha taught that awareness is the way of seeing the reality of what we are and finding liberation from suffering. First, through the contemplation of the body, then the contemplation of thoughts, feelings, and concepts, step by step he takes us through the process of realising intuitively that we are more than mind and body.
He elucidates the Buddha's teaching in a very clear, and humorous way.
[In 1986 Bhante Bodhidhamma was ordained into the Theravada tradition, and in 2007 set up the Satipanya Buddhist Centre in Wales where he now conducts vipassana insight meditation retreats in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma.]
The film runs for approximately fifty minutes and will be followed by tea.
All welcome.
Open Afternoon Thursday 1st August (2.00-3.30pm) at the Golden Buddha Centre, Totnes.
Theravada Buddhism in Totnes, Devon
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With the holidays fast approaching, many area companies are looking to fill seasonal positions before holiday retail season ramps up.
Jacksonville-based Prologistix, a logistic-industry staffing agency, is recruiting in the Gainesville area to immediately fill 60 remaining openings for Loaders and Unloaders (#10084036), the individuals who work with forklifts in warehouses. The company, who was looking to fill over 125 open positions, has hosted multiple recruitment events and is rapidly filling positions.
Meanwhile, retailer Burlington Coat Factory is recruiting cashiers (#10104582), stock merchandise flow associates (#10109471), and sales associates (#10109481). Business services staff estimate Burlington will hire roughly 15-25 employees, though the company has not confirmed a final number. Positions are listed $12/hour according to EmployFlorida.com.
Interested applications may apply at www.employflorida.com by searching for the job order number in parenthesis above.
For more information on how to interview for a position, or for information on hosting your own recruitment event, contact Steve Van Hamersveld, Employer Account Manager at CareerSource NCFL at (352) 244-5112.

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Moon phase on 22 July 2032 Thursday is Full Moon, 14 days old Moon is in Capricorn.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 14 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 22 July 2032 at 18:51 UTC.
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Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1889".
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2032.
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 402 of Meeus index or 1355 from Brown series.
Length of current 402 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than next lunation 403 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠140.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠166.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
11 days after point of apogee on 11 July 2032 at 07:50 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 July 2032 at 18:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
Moon is 366 100 km (227 484 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 602 km (222 825 mi).
5 days after its ascending node on 16 July 2032 at 18:15 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2032 at 06:13 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
2 days after previous South standstill on 20 July 2032 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.579°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.514° in the next northern standstill on 1 August 2032 at 21:35 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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The majority of patients take for granted that they'll be discharged either back home or to a post-acute facility capable of meeting their needs.
But perhaps no patients prove as great of a challenge as homeless patients who don't have anywhere to go after their hospitalization or care episode ends. With this patient population, the bedrock of a person's life that is used as a guidepost for appropriate discharge and care coordination isn't available, which means adjustments must be made in the approach to meet specific needs.
Discharging a patient home isn't an option because the person does not have a home. A lack of access to key resources (transportation, familial support, nutritious food, and other social determinants of health) jeopardizes their ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle. And homeless shelters in the area may be full or lack the resources necessary to properly care for the individual.
All these facets of the homeless experience in America make this demographic one of the most difficult to match with adequate post-acute placement. With little recourse, some facilities may opt to discharge to wherever they can find a space, even if the notation marked down in the patient's chart is as simple as "Park Bench."
That's obviously not the best-case scenario for anyone, and healthcare leaders have struggled to strike a balance between freeing up beds and connecting their homeless patients with the resources and care they need to lead healthy lives.
Despite all this, progress is being made, and it's been spurred on in part by a recent state law that's causing hospitals to completely rethink how they approach discharge for homeless patients. Tough conversations are finally being had about how to create processes that provide optimum care for those who have historically been alienated from the mechanisms of healthcare.
The Law
The regulation in question (SB-1152) comes from California, and it has already sent ripples throughout the healthcare industry since it became active in that state on January 1, 2019.
We've been keeping careful track of this law, talking with industry experts and members of our Advisory Council about its potential effects and helping our clients and post-acute providers understand what they need to do to comply.
The law, at its most basic, provides protection to homeless patients with the goal of helping them receive proper care following discharge. Becker's Healthcare breaks the law down in some detail. The big things of note for discharge planners are as follows:
- Hospitals need policies in place for successfully discharging homeless patients
- Records must be kept in regard to that discharge
- Food, clothing, medication and transportation must be offered to the patient
- Locations not reasonably considered to be care facilities (i.e. park benches, bus stops, intersections, etc.) are not admissible as discharge locations, nor are homeless shelters and other facilities that are limited in beds or otherwise lack the resources to take the individual in.
Added together, the new regulations seek to ensure a compassionate patient handoff that offers a much-improved outlook.
The Challenge
Unsurprisingly, hospitals and health systems have already run into their fair share of challenges trying to develop policies that meets the law's stringent requirements.
I've spoken with colleagues who have expressed frustration that they're basically being tasked with fixing problems that they themselves had no hand in creating. It's not that healthcare professionals want to discharge a patient to an intersection; they simply felt like they didn't have choice.
The problem lies in the lack of resources currently available to address the issue. California, as in many other states, has a homeless problem brought about by housing inequality, and inordinately high cost of living and myriad policy decisions at the state and local levels. Oftentimes, a hospital may want to discharge the patient to a shelter only to discover that there are no available facilities in the area to take them. Or, they'll seek post-acute care for that individual only to find few willing or able to accept patients in their socioeconomic condition.
Thus, hospitals were often left with little recourse but to discharge the patient to wherever they could. The law essentially takes that last-resort option off the table, leaving lots of facilities to completely reevaluate their approach.
The Solution
So, with resources strained and a homeless population that shows no signs of shrinking, what can hospitals do in order to meet the demands of the new law, fulfill their obligation to provide care and graduate patients to an appropriate level of care at a facility that better fits their circumstances? There are no easy answers, but there are a few guideposts administrators at hospitals we've worked with have used to steer the policy conversation.
TrainingCompassionate care of the homeless population starts with training team members on the unique challenges faced when discharging such individuals. Anyone at a hospital who comes into contact with homeless persons should be provided with coursework complete with in-person training and roleplaying exercises to ensure the patients' needs are met.
It's a good idea to have case managers available who specialize in addressing the needs of the homeless population and thus understand the challenges they face upon discharge.
Post-Acute NetworkHaving a reliable, verified post-acute network is critical. You can't begin the process of discharging large numbers of homeless patients unless your network of post-acute clinical and community-based services is current and complete. Facilities need to be thoroughly vetted with profiles that are updated regularly. Furthermore, post-acute networks shouldn't be limited to traditional interpretations of medical facilities. In addition to rehab centers, home health services and nursing homes, a modern post-acute network should contain homeless shelters, community organizations, affordable housing and any other facilities a patient could conceivably go during their post-acute recovery.
Discharge Referral SoftwareIn addition to having an all-encompassing post-acute network, you also need a means of quickly and securely communicating with those facilities when you have a patient in need. That requires discharge software that instantly and seamlessly communicates your patient's circumstances and can receive a 'yes/no/considering' response within minutes.
Follow-Up Care ManagementTo prevent readmissions and ensure optimum care, you also need staff members who will follow up with patients and/or the providers overseeing their post-acute care. This is going to require a large expansion of communication between providers, but it's absolutely essential, and it can be achieved through a coordinated investment in care management applications.
The Effect Goes Beyond California
The California law has had ramifications far beyond state lines. It has led health systems around the country to rethink how they approach the provision of healthcare to the homeless.
The guidelines I've offered here provide a way to frame the conversation and begin the hard work of creating policy that will aid that portion of our population most in need of assistance. By meeting this challenge head on, we can hopefully begin to ensure that everyone receives the absolute best care possible in both the short term and the long term.
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Jan 25, 2019
Food allergies: Tougher labelling law to prevent deaths
Stronger food labelling laws are being proposed to prevent further deaths of people with allergies. All packaged food such as sandwiches and salads could be required to list the full ingredients. Under current laws, the company did not have to list the ingredients of food packed and sold on the premises. In a statement, Natasha's parents, Nadim and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, said that food producers and retailers had been playing "Russian roulette" with allergy sufferers' lives for too long. Allergy UK chief executive Carla Jones said that the food industry needed to do "More than just the bare minimum" when catering for the estimated two million people in the UK with food allergies.
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Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American poet and writer. Gioia also served as the Chairman of the federal arts agency the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). He was born in Hawthorne, California to Italian and Mexican parents, attended Stanford and Harvard Universities, and spent the first fifteen years of his career writing at night while working for General Foods Corporation. After his 1991 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" in the The Atlantic generated international attention, Gioia quit business to pursue writing full-time. Gioia has published four books of poetry and three volumes of literary criticism as well as opera libretti, song cycles, translations, and over two dozen literary anthologies.
In August 2011, Gioia became Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California where he now teaches.[1] He currently divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California.
Michael Dana Gioia—his surname is pronounced "JOY-uh"—was born in Hawthorne, California, the son of Michael Gioia and Dorothy Ortez. His younger brother is jazz historian Ted Gioia.[2] Gioia grew up in Hawthorne, "speaking Italian in a Mexican neighborhood", he said.[3] He attended Catholic schools for twelve years including Junipero Serra High School in Gardena, California.[4]
Gioia was the first person in his family to go to college and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1973, a Master's degree from Harvard University in 1975, and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School in 1977. From 1971–73, he was editor of Sequoia Magazine and then its poetry editor from 1975–77.
After business school, Gioia joined General Foods Corporation in 1977, where he eventually became vice president of marketing. He was on the team that invented Jell-O Jigglers and [5] is credited with reversing a long-running sales decline for Jello.[6]
In 1992, Gioia resigned from his position as a vice president at General Foods to pursue a full-time career as a poet.
Although Gioia writes in both free and formal verse, he is usually classified as one of the "New Formalists", who write in traditional forms and have declared that a return to rhyme and more fixed meters is the new avant-garde. He is a particular proponent of accentual verse.[7] While working at General Foods Gioia wrote in the evenings, producing several books of poetry and translation.
After becoming a full-time writer, Gioia also served as vice-president of the Poetry Society of America from 1992 and as music critic for San Francisco magazine in 1997.
Gioia has written several collections of criticisms. In his landmark 1991 essay "Can Poetry Matter" Gioia objects to how marginalized poetry has become in America. He believes that university English departments appropriated the field from the public:
The voluntary audience of serious contemporary poetry consists mainly of poets, would-be poets, and a few critics. Additionally, there is a slightly larger involuntary and ephemeral audience consisting of students who read contemporary poetry as assigned course work. In sociological terms, it is surely significant that most members of the poetry subculture are literally paid to read poetry: most established poets and critics now work for large educational institutions. Over the last half-century, literary bohemia had been replaced by an academic bureaucracy.
Gioia has also written or co-written over two dozen literary anthologies and college textbooks, including An Introduction to Poetry (with X. J. Kennedy). He has also written many essays and reviews.
It was as a poet that Gioia first began to attract widespread attention in the early 1980s, with frequent appearances in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. In the same period, he published a number of essays and book reviews. Both his poetry and his prose helped to establish him as one of the leading figures in the New Formalist movement, which emphasized a return to traditional poetic techniques such as rhyme, meter, and fixed form, and to narrative and non-autobiographical subject matter.
As a result, Daily Horoscope (1986), his first collection, was one of the most anticipated and widely discussed poetry volumes of its time. Its contents range widely in form, length and theme. Among its more notable—and widely reprinted—pieces are "California Hills in August", "In Cheever Country", and "The Sunday News".
The Gods of Winter (1991) was a much deeper and darker book than its predecessor. It contains "Planting a Sequoia", his most direct engagement of the tragic loss of his infant son, as well as two long dramatic monologues, "Counting the Children", in which an accountant has a disturbing interaction with a grotesque doll collection, and "The Homecoming", whose narrator explains his motivations for committing murder. Simultaneously published in Britain, it was chosen as the main selection of the U.K. Poetry Book Society.
Interrogations at Noon (2001), Gioia's third collection, was the winner of the 2002 American Book Award. It includes both translation and many original poems in which contemplative and occasionally wistful notes predominate, as in the concluding stanza of "Summer Storm": "And memory insists on pining / For places it never went, / As if life would be happier / Just by being different." "Words" explores the power and limits of language to understand the world. Other poems examine the lives of poets, painters, and composers.
Pity the Beautiful (2012) marked Gioia's return to poetry with this full length collection of verse. As with his other books of poetry, it featured both metrical verse and free verse. " Special Treatments Ward" garnered notice for its description of a pediatric cancer ward. "Haunted", the central poem in the collection is both a love story and a ghost story. The themes of the collection, love, death and memory, are seen in many poems.
Gioia's poetry is anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and several other anthologies. His poems have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, and Arabic.
Dana Gioia has frequently collaborated with musicians. Trained in music, he had originally hoped to become a composer before deciding to pursue poetry. Gioia's poetry has been set to music in almost every contemporary style from classical and jazz to rock and country. The classical composers with whom he has worked include Ned Rorem, Lori Laitman, Paul Salerni, Alva Henderson, David Conte, Tom Cipullo, Stefania de Kenessey, and John Harbison, among many others. His jazz collaborators include Dave Brubeck, Paquito D'Rivera, and Helen Sung.
Gioia's most significant musical collaborations have been in opera. Gioia has written three opera libretti. His first opera, "Nosferatu (opera)", with music by Alva Henderson, was jointly premiered by Rimrock Opera and Opera Idaho in 2004.[8] His second libretto, "Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast", with music by Paul Salerni, won the National Opera Association award for best new chamber opera and was premiered in Los Angeles in 2008.[9] Both of these works have been recorded. His latest opera, "The Three Feathers", with music by Lori Laitman, was premiered by Virginia Technical University and Opera Roanoke in 2014.[10]
In 2002, Gioia was nominated as NEA Chairman by President United States Congress in an effort to find common ground. As a practical matter, Gioia expanded the agency's reach to put at least one NEA grant in every Congressional District. Gioia's reasoning for this initiative was to guarantee that the NEA was serving Americans in all parts of the country and to acquaint every member of Congress with at least one arts organization in their district.
With the support of both Congressional Democrats and Republicans, Gioia gained a $20.1 million increase in his agency's budget and for the remainder of his tenure, silenced the perpetual requests from conservatives to defund the agency. "Dana is a superb politician. He knows how to talk to Congress and to the arts community, and to state and federal agencies and to the complex, gigantic, fire-breathing beast called the White House", said David Gelernter of Yale University. Bill Kauffman called Gioia "the best poet in government service since President Tyler sent John Howard Payne, who wrote "Home! Sweet Home!" to Tunis. In November 2006, Business Week Magazine profiled Gioia as "The Man Who Saved the NEA". Five years after Gioia left office, the Washington Post referred to him as one of "two of the NEA's strongest leaders". Gioia stepped down from the NEA in January 2009.
While Chairman, Gioia created national initiatives such as Shakespeare in American Communities, which supported tours to small- and medium-sized communities by more than 40 American theatre companies with grants of $25,000.[11] Since the launch of the program in 2003, the tours visited thousands of communities in all 50 states and more than 4,000 schools, were seen by millions of students, and provided work for hundreds of actors, directors, and crew. The late New York Times columnist William Safire referred to this and other NEA national initiatives as "A Gioia to Behold".
In June 2004, the NEA released a research publication, Reading At Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America that detailed a 20-year decline in literary reading among American adults. As a writer, Gioia found this a dangerous trend for a democracy that relies on an informed, engaged citizenry. In response, Gioia created another national initiative, Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation contest for students. Each year, some 375,000 students participate, beginning at the high school classroom level. Classroom winners advance to school-wide recitation competitions, and school champions advance to regional and state competitions, and ultimately to the National Finals in Washington, DC. The winner receives a $20,000 scholarship. In an interview[13] with Poetry Daily, Gioia noted that the competitive aspect of the program inspires both the students and the audience. "We did not predict that aspect of the Poetry Out Loud, but it was apparent from the first time we held a public event. The audience displayed an intensity of attention that is very rare at ordinary poetry readings."
Gioia also expanded re-energized the NEA Jazz Masters, which is the nation's highest honor in jazz music, in order to raise the visibility of artists who he felt were undervalued in their own country. Gioia believed the NEA Jazz Master award should be the jazz equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. As part of the NEA Jazz Masters initiative, Gioia created NEA Jazz Masters on Tour, to give artists more opportunities to perform live, and NEA Jazz in the Schools, a web-based curriculum produced in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center. "We have a generation of Americans growing up who have never been to the theater, the symphony, opera, dance, who have never heard fine jazz, and who increasingly don't read", said Gioia,[14] in justifying his efforts to bring large scale national initiatives of artistic excellence to millions of Americans.
Gioia's term as NEA Chairman coincided with the peak of U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. During that time, Gioia worked to include the military and military families in NEA national initiatives. Shakespeare in American Communities was expanded to include tours to military bases—which were warmly embraced by audiences. The NEA also sent young artist programs from opera companies around the country to military bases with the Great American Voices Military Base Tour.
In 2004, Gioia launched Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which collected writings from U.S. troops and their families about the wartime experiences in Afghanistan, Iraq, and stateside. Between 2004 and 2009, Operation Homecoming conducted more than 60 writing workshops for troops, their families, and veterans at military installations across the country and in war zones. Many of the writings were collected in the anthology Operation Homecoming (book). The anthology was named one of the "Best of 2006" non-fiction by The Washington Post. There is an archive of writings housed at the Library of Congress. A documentary based on Operation Homecoming, produced by the Documentary Group, was nominated for a 2006 Academy Award.
In 2007, Gioia gave the commencement speech for his alma mater, Stanford University. In his speech Gioia discussed the low esteem in which American society holds its artists. "...we live in a culture that barely acknowledges and rarely celebrates the arts or artists ... When virtually all of a culture's celebrated figures are in sports or entertainment, how few possible role models we offer the young ... There are so many other ways to lead a successful and meaningful life that are not denominated by money or fame. Adult life begins in a child's imagination, and we've relinquished that imagination to the marketplace." In May 2014, National Public Radio included Gioia's speech on its list of "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever", dating back to 1774.[15]
Dana Gioia has won several prizes. He won the Frederick Bock Award for poetry in 1986. For his 1991 poetry collection The Gods of Winter, Gioia shared the 1992 Poet's Prize with Adrienne Rich. Gioia won the 2002 American Book Award for his collection Interrogations at Noon. Gioia has received eleven honorary doctorates. In 2005, Dana Gioia received the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. In 2010, Gioia was announced as the recipient of the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, an honor traditionally given to an American Roman Catholic in recognition of outstanding service to the Church and to society. In 2008, Gioia was inducted into the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.[16] He won the 2014 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. On November 17, 2008, Gioia was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush.
On February 23, 1980, he and Mary Elizabeth Hiecke (born May 26, 1953) were married. They had three sons, Michael Jasper Gioia (who died in infancy); Michael Frederick "Mike" Gioia; and Theodore Jasper "Ted" Gioia. His poem "Planting a Sequoia" is based on his real experience of losing his infant son.
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AAA Announces 2014 Diamond Award Winners
On January 17, AAA released its annual lists of Four and Five Diamond hotels. A total of 90 hotels across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean have been added to this year's lists.
AAA's Diamond Rating is one of the few hotel appraisal systems that rely on physical on-site inspections. Members of AAA's inspection team evaluate each of the 29,000 eligible properties based on comfort, cleanliness, security and available services and amenities. Each property is then given a Diamond Rating between one and five, with five being the best.
Out of the 29,000 hotels that were assessed, only 124 hotels have been awarded the prestigious Five Diamond rating. Six of those hotels are newcomers, including the Château du Sureau in Oakhurst, Calif., the Wynn Tower Suites in Las Vegas, the Montage Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, the Banyan Tree Cabo Marques in Acapulco, Mexico, and Secrets Maroma Beach Riviera Cancun in Playa del Carmen.
These newcomers join the ranks among numerous distinguished properties, but they have a long way to go before they can claim a lasting Five Diamond legacy. Only eight hotels have managed to hold on to all five diamonds for at least 25 consecutive years. The properties are: the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead in Atlanta, The American Club in Kohler, Wis., the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., The Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Va., The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, Calif., and The Ritz-Carlton, Naples in Naples, Fla. But 25 years pales in comparison to the 38 years racked up by the The Broadmoor. This Colorado Springs, Colo., hotel has maintained its place on the Five Diamond list since AAA first implemented the Diamond system in 1976.
"Attaining the Five Diamond rating is not an easy undertaking," said Michael Petrone, director of AAA's Tourism Information Development. "Establishments at this level must consistently provide an unparalleled guest environment and experience."
The AAA Four Diamond list is not quite as exclusive as the Five Diamond list. This year, 84 hotels attained their first Four Diamond award, including Solage Calistoga in Napa Valley, Calif., The James Royal Palm Miami in Miami Beach, Fla., L'Hermitage Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Dorado Beach, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico. These new properties will strive to live up to the legacies held by Tu Tu' Tun Lodge in Gold Beach, Ore., and The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, two of just 12 hotels that have retained their place on the Four Diamond list for 38 consecutive years — since the inaugural year of AAA's Diamond ratings.
This year, New York City captured the highest number of diamond awards, boasting eight Five Diamond and 47 Four Diamond hotels. Las Vegas is home to the highest number of Five Diamond winners with nine properties making the list. (Only 14 Las Vegas hotels earned Four Diamond awards this year.) But neither New York state nor Nevada topped the list of states with the highest number of diamonds: California took home the most awards again this year, featuring a total of 19 Five Diamond properties and 190 Four Diamond hotels.
To learn more about the Diamond Ratings or to view all of the Four and Five Diamond award recipients, visit AAA's website.
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Lawsuit by former Fairfield cop convicted of stealing drugs heads to trial
BRIDGEPORT — A former Fairfield police detective will be allowed to sue the town over his resignation, a judge has ruled.
A Superior Court judge on Wednesday refused to throw out the lawsuit by a former Fairfield police detective who claims he was forced to resign after pleading guilty to stealing thousands of dollars in heroin and OxyContin pills from the Fairfield Police Department.
Stephen Rilling, the son of Norwalk's Mayor Harry Rilling, claims in his lawsuit against the Town of Fairfield that his superiors in the police department ignored his pleas to keep him away from drug investigations and later refused to allow him to retire on a disability — being addicted to powerful painkillers.
"The defendant does not present any argument or evidence relevant to the central allegation of the plaintiff's complaint, i.e. that the defendant insisted on keeping the plaintiff assigned to narcotics cases such that he had access to narcotics despite its awareness that the plaintiff was in recovery for an opioid addiction, and that this caused the plaintiff's subsequent relapse and led to the very felonies that the defendant now cites as an independent reason justifying the plaintiff's alleged termination," stated Judge Barbara Bellis in denying the town's motion to dismiss the case.
A trial in the case is now scheduled for March. Rilling is asking for unspecified money damages.
Lawyers for the town did not return calls for comment.
"We are confident in our case and this (decision) adds to our confidence," said Rilling's lawyer, Eric Brown.
Rilling, a 19-year veteran of the Fairfield Police Department, agreed to a plea bargain in March 2018 and pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor possession of narcotics and three counts of fourth-degree computer crime. He was sentenced to a suspended 5-year sentence with three years' probation.
Police said between June 2016 and February 2017, Rilling signed out more than 225 folds of heroin, more than 800 OxyContin pills and a few packets of cocaine from the department's evidence room on the pretext of needing to have the drugs tested.
He "ultimately converted these narcotics for his personal use and consumed them as a result of an addiction to said drugs," police said.
Police said the drugs originated from a number of raids, undercover operations and from the homes of people who overdosed on them.
In one case, police said, Rilling conducted an investigation between Feb. 20, and May 1, 2014, that resulted in the seizure of 58 folds of heroin. Police said the target of the investigation pleaded guilty in October 2016 and on Dec. 31, 2016, Rilling signed out all 58 folds from the evidence room, saying that a follow up investigation was being done.
In his lawsuit, Rilling claims that in 2009, he was injured in a car accident while on the job and was prescribed opioid medication which led him to be addicted to opioids. He states in the suit that in 2013, he told his superiors in the department he was addicted to opioids and admitted himself to a drug treatment facility.
When he returned to work, he claims that despite his protests, he was ordered to resume investigating narcotics crimes. This led him to relapse and begin using opioids again and taking opioids and heroin from the Police Department's evidence locker, the suit states.
"The plaintiff was forced to resign from employment with the defendant but if his disability had been accommodated, he could have continued in his position as a Fairfield police officer without relapse or resignation," the lawsuit states.


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Manila: Hen Destination
A bustling city with a laid-back, casual nature
For hen parties Manila offers a wide selection of hotels, venues, clubs, bars and other nightlife options to suit any budget. English is widely spoken and is the language of business, so arranging hen nights should be easier than in most Asian countries. Restaurants come in all price ranges, national flavors and range from the very informal to the luxuriant.
Malate is a popular location for restaurants and nightlife in Manila, and therefore a great choice for hen parties. Accommodation for hen holidays is also diverse, ranging from budget guesthouses to five star hotels. Spa treatments, pampering and beauty services are exceptionally affordable, with massages from around €2 or €3 and up and are usually offered within the hotel, or if you are staying at budget lodgings, inexpensive spas are plentiful in the centers of Makati, Ortigas and Manila and in any of the Metro Manila's many shopping malls, making Manila a location with many choices for hen celebrations.


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On July 7th we had sports day on Kogakuin Junior High School's sports ground. This year, we had three teams: white, blue and pink.
First, we had the opening ceremony. We did radio exercises, teachers gave speeches and each group performed cheering.
We had relays, a mini marathon, sprints, a dance called "soranbushi", a tug of war, three-legged races and each grade had a game. The last event was a relay with people who were good at running. The winner of this relay could get many points. Everyone cheered for the runners.
In the end, the blue team won! They can get French fry tickets as a prize. We had a very fun time.
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So that we can ensure that all Members of the Churchill College community stay healthy and safe, things will look a little different when you next come to College. But you can find everything you need to know on our new Coronavirus Guidance page From the latest research from the University to what you should do if you have symptoms, and from the provision of College services to minimising the risk of transmission, you'll find all the answers to your questions here.
Women's role in international affairs can often be 'hidden' in narratives dominated by the careers of male politicians and diplomats. But records of women's own international relations survive in many different ways in the archives, illuminating the way their work, social lives, and love affairs played out across borders and in global and imperial contexts. The Churchill Archives Centre holds the papers of diplomatic wives, women delegates to the League of Nations, Communist defectors, First World War ambulance drivers, and the first woman Professor of International Relations.
Part of a series exploring women's personal papers in the Churchill Archives Centre's collections, these lists are not exhaustive and provide a very subjective window onto some of our personal highlights. Please get in touch with the team if you have any questions about the collections the Archives Centre holds relating to women's history, or if you would like to make an appointment to consult any of these collections in the reading room.
Said to be a distant cousin of Winston Churchill, Kathleen Wanstall trained as a nanny in London during the 1900s. Between 1911 and 1919 she was employed by the Prince and Princess Wilhelm of Schloss Schönberg in Hesse, Germany, travelling with them to the Germany Embassy in Rome and then to Vienna during the First World War. She collected a scrapbook of documents and ephemera during her travels, including postcards, stamps, tickets, rings, and other small objects made by Russian prisoners of war.
The album and some objects from it, including a brisé fan, have been preserved in special conservation-grade boxes, and can be ordered in the reading room under the reference code MISC 98 .
The youngest daughter of Josef Stalin, Alliluyeva was raised in the Soviet Union and worked as a lecturer and translator. In 1967, following the death of her husband Brajesh Singh, the Communist politician, she was allowed to return his ashes to his family. While in India she approached the American Ambassador and defected to the United States, marrying an architect, William Wesley Peters.
Lady Minna O'Conor, who featured in our top 10 list of women partners and secretaries, accompanied her husband Sir Nicholas O'Conor on diplomatic postings including to China, 1883-86 and 1892-95; Bulgaria, 1887-92; St. Petersburg, Russia, 1895-98; and Constantinople, Turkey, 1898-1908. Her personal papers contain letters, photographs, and newspaper cuttings collected during the course of their life abroad. Together with her husband's diplomatic correspondence, they provide an alternative perspective on the lives of the diplomatic élite in the British Foreign Service during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Headlam-Morley became the first woman to hold a full professorship at Oxford, when she was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations in 1948. She had been a tutor in modern history and fellow of St. Hugh's College since 1932, specializing in Anglo-German relations, and was a founder member of the Anglo-German Association. Her first book was a comparative study of new constitutions in Europe following the First World War. She also edited a memoir written by her father, the diplomatic historian Sir James Headlam Morley, of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Headlam-Morley's papers include unpublished manuscript works on European history and correspondence, and are currently in the process of being re-catalogued.
Blanche Lascelles (the older sister of Alan "Tommy" Lascelles, and a Maid of Honour to Queen Alexandra) married the Liberal politician and intelligence officer George Lloyd, later Lord Lloyd of Dolobran, in 1911. She accompanied her husband on his postings as Governor of Bombay, 1918-23, and High Commissioner in Egypt, 1925-29. Her diaries, along with her letters to her husband written during the First World War, survive in his papers.
Cynthia Jebb married the young diplomat Gladwyn Jebb in 1929. She accompanied her husband to Rome, where he had been posted in 1932 as a secretary in the British Embassy. In 1935 they returned to London, where over the next fifteen years Jebb's diplomatic career kept him in the Foreign Office, before a key posting to New York City as the British representative on the UN Security Council. Cynthia's talents as a society hostess were invaluable, especially in her husband's final posting as British Ambassador to France (1954-60), where she ran the Embassy, managing the arrangements for several highly successful royal and prime ministerial visits to Paris at a crucial time in British relations with France. She kept a diary throughout much of the post-war era, giving her frank and vivid opinions of many of the social and political figures of the day, and published a book on the Paris Embassy in 1976.
As well as a socialist and feminist, Mary Agnes Hamilton was an ardent pacifist in her early career, and her third novel gained her critical attention for its portrayal of the dilemma faced by British pacifist intellectuals before and during the First World War. As a Labour MP from 1929 to 1931, one of her particular areas of interest was international relations. She was appointed one of two British women delegates to the League of Nations, where she worked on the Refugees Commission and the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. Her Second World War diaries, kept almost daily from 1938 to 1945, record her changing attitudes to war and European politics, and provide a fascinating document of her war work at the Ministry of Information and in the Reconstruction Secretariat, where she was mainly tasked with improving communications between Britain and the United States.
Clementine Churchill's private correspondence with Winston reveals a more intimate side to a marriage often playing out across continents. Her papers also contain several files of letters and telegrams relating to her work in the Soviet Union as Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund in 1945. The collection also holds important visual materials, including a series of albums of Churchill family photographs with images from their global travels, and War Office photographs documenting the signing of the Atlantic Charter and the public face of other Second World War conferences.
Mary Borden was born in Chicago in 1886 and graduated from Vassar College in 1907. On a tour of the Far East, she met and married her first husband, Scottish missionary George Douglas Turner. After becoming involved in suffragette politics in London after 1913, she served as a director of French field hospitals in both World Wars, for which she received military medals for bravery. Borden drew on her experiences of war for her poetry and several of her novels. Her papers are now kept with those of her second husband, Sir Edward Spears, whom she met on the Western Front in 1914.
The UK's first woman Prime Minister, the first politician since Churchill to achieve significant international standing, and still one of the most newsworthy individuals on the planet. The Thatcher Papers are vital to the study of international relations in the late-twentieth century, providing crucial source materials on the Falklands conflict, the end of the Cold War, and the Conservative Party's relationship with Europe — produced by the hands of many of the people involved.
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The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife has said Kenya does not support re-opening of trade in products obtained from endangered species like rhino horn.
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How does making a living from salvaging precious gold and diamonds from the New York sidewalks? That's exactly what one man does.
Raffi Stepanian, a middle-aged freelance gemstone designer, realized that the streets of NY contain small quantities of diamonds, rubies, platinum, and gold that have fallen by passers-by and traipsed about under the bustle of the city, usually ending up in pavement slabs or even chewing gum.
This sounds like tedious and potentially icky work, but that didn't stop Raffi as he earned $819 from two sales alone and $850 in one week.
He claims that "the percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine."


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Often, electronic post you receive will have arrived in your e-mail inbox via a virtual mailroom or a virtual postroom. The idea of a virtual mailroom came to exist as companies developed the ability to transfer more of their document distribution needs from post and fax to electronic means. Now a common feature of the modern business, virtual mailrooms are becoming extremely trendy, and give strong competition to those who have not yet acquired a virtual mailroom.
Definition of a Virtual Postroom
A virtual postroom is another word for a virtual mailroom. The virtual postroom is really a computer system of sending document to customers without them being printed onto paper. The terms virtual postroom and virtual mailroom have come to exist because they take over the job of a traditional postroom which would sort and post transactional documents, such as statements, in the past.
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The virtual mailroom has become popular for a number of reasons. Firstly, by removing the need for companies to print, envelope and post their transactional documents. This aspect to a virtual mailroom saves companies a lot of money in postage costs and the purchasing of paper and envelopes. The company also does not need to buy or run a folder inserter machine for enveloping this post.
Secondly, the virtual postroom delivers invoices faster than postal methods, allowing businesses profit maximisation and better financial management. An electronically sent invoice will arrive with the customer sooner than a posted one. This means payment of that invoice can potentially happen sooner. Electronic invoice presentment and payment is the system by which this is possible, and is a prominent feature of the virtual postroom.
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The virtual postroom does not render the fax machine redundant as it is still a useful method of document distribution, especially in B2B transactions. Other businesses will wish to pay invoices promptly, and the arrival of a fax is more obvious than the arrival of an e-mail. A statement sent by fax also has similar features to a virtual mailroom due to its instant arrival.
More information on the virtual mailroom and how it enables you to receive electronic post is can be found using the following link: Netsend. Netsend is a company which runs virtual postrooms and virtual mailrooms on behalf of other businesses.


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Children who attend 100% are 5 times more likely to work at, or above, the expected standard.
Coming to school everyday allows your child to get the best possible education. We'll work with you, to help your child attend as much as they can. We've got a great attendance, please get in touch if you're having difficulties.
To encourage and celebrate our children for their great attendance we run regular fun days and other rewards.
Our start, end and other times of the day:
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KS1 – 8:55am to 3:15pm. Classroom doors open at 8:45am so that children can come straight into school.
KS2 – 8:55am to 3:20pm. There is a member of staff on duty at the front entrance from 8:45am.
Morning break: 10:30 – 10:45am
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Afternoon break: There is an afternoon break for 10 minutes at a suitable time.
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If your child has any allergies or health problems, please tell us so that we can be prepared. If at a later date your child develops any problems be sure to inform us.
We'd ask that all contact numbers are given to Miss Hughes or Mrs Gill in the school office. If your child is ill or has an accident, we may need to phone you at work or home during the school day so if your contact number changes for any reason please inform the school.
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A minimum of five days from the onset of the rash, after the blisters have dried and the child feels well.
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The Palm Springs Art Museum has always found a way to make their gala art centric as well as elegant and memorable. Their 80th Anniversary Gala, co-chaired by Barbara Keller and Ann Sheffer, took on the theme of "The Art is You."
The all-white dress code succeeded in making the guests the canvas as well as the art. More than 400 supporters walked a white carpet to join a reception with a photo booth that imposed images from the museum's collections on their "personal" canvasses. Guests crowded the bars for liquid reinforcements and to watch performances by Flair Bartenders.
The ballroom of the Palm Springs Convention Center emulated the white theme with elegant table settings, a shiny white dance floor, and a stage with a large curved screen that featured honored trustees who have contributed $5 million dollars or more in gifts of cash and art, hours of service, and leadership to the museum. Honorees were Leonore and Ambassador Walter Annenberg, Steve Chase, Helene and Lou Galen, David Kaplan and Glenn Ostergaard, Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Harold Matzner, Dorothy and Harold Meyerman, George Montgomery, Sam and Gladys Rubenstein, Faye and Herman Sarkowsky, and Gwendolyn Weiner representing the Ted Weiner Family.
Weiner also served as the 80th Anniversary Chair and announced that the Henry Moore bronze sculpture Woman would be her family's gift to the Museum's permanent collection in honor of their 80th Anniversary.
Guests were entertained during dinner by Johnny Manuel, an America's Got Talent finalist. After being served two very special desserts that were museum-quality works of art, guests finished off the evening on a beautifully lit white dance floor.
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text: Anna Kislitsyna performed on the piano at Ware Family Recital Hall in the Swope Music Building on Wednesday February 19th at 1:30pm. It was a performance full of talent and emotion you could hardly believe your ears! There was not a huge audience for the concert most likely because it was in the afternoon when most students are in their classes. But the audience that did attend was a handful of students and one music teacher. Everyone was very nice and polite throughout Anna's performance. Also, everyone was mostly casually dressed since it was the afternoon and not an evening recital. One part that I really enjoyed during the concert recital was how Anna showed a great deal of emotion when she performed. Her fingers were hitting the keys with such precise movement and her facial expressions matched the intensity of the piece she was playing perfectly. You could just really tell that she was thoroughly feeling the music in every aspect. I didn't necessarily dislike any part of the performance but one thing that did bug me a little was how many breaks there were throughout the performance. I think one intermission was all that was necessary. I felt like it kept dragging on especially near the end since there was a constant start and stop motion. Since there was more than one break I never knew when to clap because I was not sure if it was the end or not. One thing that I did not expect to see was a great deal of variety in musical pieces performed on the piano. Anna started playing pieces from the late 1600's and ended with a piece from 1992 which I thought was really interesting because I never realized how far back classical music on the piano first came about. So it was nice to hear a wide range of pieces from different centuries. I definitely have more of an appreciation for pianists and classical music. One piece during Anna's performance that I really enjoyed was when she played a contemplation of the prophets, the shepherds and the Magi by Oliver Messiaen. There were many memorable parts to this piece. It started out slow and had a sort of soothing sound to it and then got a little louder on the keys almost sounding triumphant and miraculous. She used the foot pedal on the piano to add an echoing effect to the keys so at the end of a piece it sounded as if the note was on going or never ending. During this performance, Anna seemed to Show More


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Right Photos for your Kids Jigsaw Puzzles
Are you intending to have a photograph puzzle made for you kid? Make sure you pick the appropriate photo for the photo puzzle or your custom jigsaw puzzle. Kids jigsaw puzzles are usually made with large pieces. Incorrect selection of photographs may lead to inferior quality photograph puzzles.
You will need to take into consideration numerous variables if you need the finest photo puzzles produced. Although theoretically you may transform all of the photographs in to picture puzzles or custom jigsaw puzzles. Here are a few hints for picking your photograph for the photo puzzles. Quality — The quality of the picture must be great for photo puzzles. Most picture puzzle companies will ask your photos to be sent by you in electronic format. Given that many of us possess cameras, this will not be considered a difficulty. Nevertheless, the quality of the photographs that you deliver for your photograph puzzles must be top quality. Better photo puzzles will be created by photos with high resolution than low quality pictures. Usually, if the picture is bigger than 1MB it would work for photo puzzles!
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Naval Academy - The United States Naval Academy is the undergraduate college of the U.S. Navy and is dedicated to preparing midshipmen to become our country's future Naval and Marine Corps Officers. Located in Annapolis, MD, the Academy houses a brigade of 4,000 midshipmen who, upon graduation, are commissioned as Ensigns in the Navy or 2nd Lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Our charm is a .925 sterling silver 3-dimensional rendition the Academy's mascot, Bill the Goat, with a large "N" etched on both sides.
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Third-Year Wide Receivers (Fantasy Football)
Wide receivers who are going into their third NFL season are often heavily criticized. Fans, analysts, and experts of the game consider the third season to be a "make or break" year. I guess it's fair to say that in the rookie season (depending on the situation) a player may not be on the field enough to show all of their potential. Year two could turn out to be what most would excuse as the infamous "sophomore slump." So by year three, their production (or lack of production) on the field should uncover the truth of that wide receiver's value.
I have listed some of the most relevant third-year WRs for the 2017 season. I will give you my perspective on whether I consider them to be a "value," someone that will give you a return on investment or a "reach," a player you will likely overpay for at their current ADP.
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Amari Cooper (OAK) – Value
As mentioned in my article about Amari Cooper back before the 2016 season began, he became the first Oakland Raiders' wide receiver to reach 1,000 receiving yards his rookie year in 2015. Michael Crabtree does have more targets and receptions in each of the last two seasons but Cooper has more yards, showing he can produce more with less opportunity. Cooper's touchdowns can only rise from his six in 2015 and five in 2016. Derek Carr continues to praise Cooper and will certainly look to cash in on his developed chemistry with him in what will be the third season for both players. For a young wide receiver who has given us enough to show he is on the rise, Amari Cooper is a safe bet as the number 10 WR off the board in the very end of the second round.
Stefon Diggs (MIN) – Value
Stefon Diggs has played in 13 games in each of his first two seasons. It's typically hard to form an opinion on a player that hasn't completed a full 16-game season, however, 26 games in two seasons are more than enough to evaluate a player's worth and potential. Diggs improved in his sophomore season, increasing his targets by 33% and receptions by 62%. He accomplished this despite an emerging Adam Thielen and a healthy Kyle Rudolph. Diggs still led the team in receptions (84) while playing in three fewer games than both Thielen and Rudolph. Regardless of whether or not Diggs stays on the field for a full 16 games, his production per game is worth his current ADP somewhere in the 6th round.
Jamison Crowder (WAS) – Reach
The Washington Redskins coaching staff has been very vocal about their love of Jamison Crowder this offseason. I believe that hype has played a role in Crowder's current, early 6th round ADP. Crowder could prove to be a valuable asset to your fantasy team, but he's got a steep hill to climb in order to collect enough targets from this congested receiving corp; Terrelle Pryor, who is expected to take on the WR1 role, "rookie" Josh Doctson, newly acquired Brian Quick, not to mention, tight ends Jordan Reed and Vernon Davis. Everyone keeps talking about the combined 214 targets from DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon and how they have to go to someone. Well, they have plenty of mouths to feed in 2017, and Crowder is likely the third option in the passing game. Crowder has upside but his floor may be much lower than his current 6th round ADP.
DeVante Parker (MIA) – Reach
Probably one of the most intriguing third-year wide receivers heading into the 2017 season, DeVante Parker is getting a lot of hype from the Miami Dolphins' coaching staff. To be fair, literally everyone is getting hype from the coaching staff on their offense. There is plenty of talk of this being Parker's "break-out" year. Truth is, it won't take much for this to happen as he has only started 12 of the 30 games he played in his first two seasons. In his best season (2016), Parker started in only eight of the 15 games he played, had 56 receptions on 88 targets and finished the season averaging 6.56 fantasy points per game. Like I said, it won't take much for him to have his best season yet. He does have attractive upside but his ADP will likely rise from his current 9th round projections. For that reason, I consider DeVante Parker a reach in 2017.
Tyrell Williams (SD) – Value
Yes, I know he is in an offense with plenty of weapons, but he was the most consistent wide receiver last year for Philip Rivers in the absence of Keenan Allen, and I don't expect him to forget that so quickly. Allen and rookie Mike Williams will likely demand the most attention from defenses leaving Tyrell with an open field on most plays. Even if Tyrell Williams doesn't begin the season strong, it's only a matter of time before Rivers looks his way and finds him more open and ready to take advantage of his opportunities than the QB's other options. His current ADP is in the 13th round, an absolute steal on a wide receiver with a lot of proven upside.
Cameron Meredith (CHI) – Reach
The Chicago Bears offense will be a mess in 2017. They will need to throw a bunch so I can see the reasoning here. However, the 9th round seems like a potentially devalued pick for a couple of reasons. Guys like Jeremy Maclin, Jordan Matthews, Adam Thielen, and John Brown are being drafted after Meredith. These players come with huge upside and better quarterback situations. Meredith is on a terrible offense and may not even be the WR1 for the Bears by the time the 2017 season begins. I'd rather pass on Meredith and draft these other wide receivers later.
Kevin White (CHI) – Value
Kevin White is another big reason to pass on Meredith's ADP. Currently going in the 13th round as the 55th wide receiver off the board, White provides tremendous upside given his ADP. A healthy Kevin White would likely mean he would be the WR1 on the Bears offense. If you are drafting potential in the later rounds, why wouldn't you pass on Meredith in the 9th to get the potential WR1 in the 13th? You don't want both of these guys on your team, so go with the one that will cost you less despite carrying as much upside.
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12: Akatosh x Maker Slash Fic
The drums of war resound across the land once again, as PK and Sean decide to fight over which is better: Dragon Age or the Elder Scrolls. Prepare for boring beaches, cool shirtless dwarves, and a lot of exaggeration! Only one will survive! Just kidding, we're both fine.
This podcast contains adult language and spoilers for Death Note, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Final Fantasy VII, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and Wing Commander II.
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A Canadian soldier was killed today in Ottawa and a Parliamentary Hill security guard was injured.
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo died from gunshot wounds suffered near the National War Memorial.
A gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was later shot and killed on Parliament Hill by sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers in a dramatic shooting inside centre block, reported the CBC.
The CBC also reported that Ottawa police and the military would not say if there was a second suspect in relation to the gunfire around the central block of Parliament Hill.
Dozens of shots were fired inside the Parliament Hill as recorded by Globe and Mail reporter Josh Wingrove.
During the incident all buildings surrounding Parliament Hill were placed under lockdown, including Ottawa University, the Rideau Centre, and the U.S embassy.
Global News reported that people inside Parliament Hill barricaded themselves inside their offices and police told them to keep doors locked under any circumstances.
The Toronto Star reported that despite earlier reports, Ottawa police said there was no gun fire at the Rideau Centre.
The University of Ottawa issued a campus-wide lockdown at around 11 a.m. and many students remained hiding for hours.
Some students were dissatisfied with the level of information provided to them about the lockdown. "I was really mad at the terrible communication and misinformation we've received," said Ethan Elliott, at the university.
"I was on campus when it happened and no one knew what they were doing. The campus was supposed to be on lockdown but people were walking around freely without a clue of the situation."
Fourth-year science major Jordi Goldberg ran to the nearby human kinetics building and locked herself in the office with ten other people following a lockdown email.
"It's pretty scary," said Goldberg. "We've been here for two hours and we're getting restless and want to leave."
Ottawa police advised residents to stay away from the downtown core, according to The Globe and Mail.
The security threat reached Toronto.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying that Torontonians would see a "very visible police presence" in the coming days around public institutions and spaces.
However, he said there is no need for concern at the present moment.
"There is no specific or identified credible threat to any individual or public institution in Toronto at this time," says Blair.
The Ryersonian will continue to follow the story.
UPDATE: Canadian Forces are being asked to take extra security precautions across the country following the deaths of two soldiers following the Parliament Hill attacks. To ensure the safety of military personnel, they have been instructed by Rear Admiral John Newton to avoid wearing uniform in public to avoid being targeted, according to a source from the Defence Deparment, the Toronto Star reported.
But not everyone agreed with the idea and took to Twitter to express their own.
Soldiers in Ottawa told not to wear uniforms to work. If we're afraid they'll be targeted I'd prefer to see all of Ottawa don a uniform.
— Andrew Potter (@jandrewpotter) October 23, 2014
Hamilton resident says he isn't afraid to wear a uniform and stands strong in support of our soldiers. #HamOnt pic.twitter.com/J6ozXsLKzr
— DR (@Media371) October 23, 2014
#canadianshooting A shame the Armed Forces demanded soldiers not wear their uniform. Showing that kind of fear is a message to #Islamists.
— Hava Batia (@HavBat22) October 23, 2014
It takes a strong person to put on boots and a uniform every day & protect our country. I may not support our leaders. But soldiers, 100%!
— Aimee (@AimeeAuthor) October 7, 2014
With files from Ramna Shazad, Dillon Li, and Natalie Marynowski.
Below: Our live blog details the tragedy as it unfolded.
Kabeer is a freelancer and former intern at Canadian Lawyer, a sports enthusiast and aims to be a jack of all trades one day. You can find him at the RAC or generally around Ryerson campus, his second home. Contact him for any stories you would like to be told.
Kabeer contributed to the Ryersonian in 2015.


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A South Florida physician that was detained Monday on costs of running an unlicensed discomfort monitoring center and also trafficking in oxycodone was seeing a lot of Northeast Florida people, inning accordance with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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"Agents in this workplace established various resources that were visiting Dr Sachs," Smith stated. "They would certainly pay cash money, undergo little to no examination, as well as entrust a deadly alcoholic drink of oxycodone as well as various other prescription tablets."
Several of the individuals never ever also saw the medical professional, Smith claimed.
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We had individuals from Putnam, Flagler, St. Johns, Duval, and also Clay regions all taking a trip to see this medical professional," Smith claimed. "He was called an open prescription author … you obtained a dangerous dosage just by dropping there."


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This Saturday, Floyd "Money" Mayweather will step into the ring with Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao for one of the most anticipated matches in boxing history. It will also be one of the highest grossing. Once released to the public, tickets sold out in less than a minute. Tickets on third party websites were priced at over 500 percent more than face value. Early reports listed the average ticket price at close to $12,000, with the least expensive tickets, having a face value of $1500, being sold for $8780. Overall, the fight is expected to generate a live gate of 74 million dollars.
With all the hype surrounding this fight, one must ask if the excitement is indicative of the success of boxing as a sport or the two elite boxers fighting for bragging rights. Social scientists have long examined the media representations and narratives that surround spectacles to better understand our values and beliefs. The American media portrayal of Pacquiao, as a deeply religious, generous, and kind individual who has overcome challenges in and out of the ring, makes him the poster boy of the noble, mild-tempered, respectable individual. This stands in contrast to the portrayal of Mayweather, who is presented as the arrogant, trash-talking villain consumed by money. While Mayweather showers himself with high-end consumer goods, Pacquiao humbly accepts his achievements and gives away his fortune.
The cultural narratives embedded in this media representation of Pacquiao seem innocuous, since they portray him in a positive fashion. However, these narratives reinforce the model-minority stereotype and continue to mask the history of the Philippines being colonized for over 400 years by Spain and the United States, as well as the long-lasting effects of that history. Ultimately, by minimizing this history and exalting the myth of the model minority, the media is able to ignore the marginalized position Filipinos hold, both currently and historically, to make generalized statements that reinforce beliefs about Filipinos and the Philippines.
Although media images of Manny Pacquiao may be accurate depictions of the boxer as an individual, the portrayal draws on stereotypes, especially as it casts Pacquiao as a national icon and embodiment of everything that is essentially Filipino. Pacquiao's sincere demonstration of his pride in being Filipino, often seen through his ring attire that prominently showcases the Philippine flag and its blue, red, and yellow colors, has enabled others to portray him as a representation of his country. His recent music video for the song "lalban ako para sa Filipino," which switches between scenes of Pacquiao crooning in a church set up as a recording studio, succeeding in memorable matches, and participating in humanitarian aid efforts in the Philippines – all interspersed with images of Filipino children – further positions Pacquiao as the icon of the Philippines. The chorus, which translates to "I am pinoy. We are pinoy. I will fight the world with my life at stake. I will fight for all Filipino," presents Pacquiao as the warrior fighting not for himself, but on behalf of the Philippines.
The construction of Pacquiao as a national icon, which draws upon his demonstrated pride in his country, enables others to use his characteristics as a representation of all Filipinos. For example, Bob Arum, CEO of the Top Rank promotion company, stated that he "remember[s] the Philippines for their graciousness and kindness" in accepting refugees during the Holocaust. He then suggests that these traits are embodied by all Filipinos. Arum stated in a press conference, "We know what kind of graciousness and kindness the Filipinos show. We have to only visit a hospital in California or Nevada. Eighty percent of the nurses are Filipinos because they are gracious and kind people." By suggesting that graciousness and kindness are inherent traits of Filipinos, the colonial and legal history that created a pipeline from the Philippines to the United States for nurses is completely ignored. It disregards the common immigration pattern from colonized nation to colonizer, the fact that Filipino nurses earn significantly more in the United States and thus leave their home country, and US legislation – the Pensionado Act of 1903, the 1948 US Exchange Visitor Program, and the changes to immigration laws in 1965 – which either encouraged Filipinos to pursue nursing as a career through rewards or eased restrictions that limited movement between the two nations.
This history is easily ignored when the media can point to Pacquiao, whose sport is antithetical to the compassion that nurses must exhibit in their work, and praise him for exemplifying Filipino graciousness and kindness through his willingness to "give fortunes away [to] support charities in the Philippines." Individuals like Muhammad Ali have voiced their support for Pacquiao for his out-of-the-ring contributions and others have suggested that Pacquiao is so kind he is an easy "target of exploitive people." While being kind and generous are worthy traits, their reduction to essential national characteristics supports a dangerous rhetoric often used to explain Filipinos' over-representation in the service sector.
Furthermore, this construction of Filipinos not as leaders but as kind helpers reinforces a belief that harks back to the American colonization of the Philippines – the belief that Filipinos and the Philippines need the support of the United States to thrive. Pacquiao, an Evangelical Christian, attributes his success to God (he has said that he would like to share God's word with Mayweather after the fight). Bob Arum, on the other hand, credits Pacquiao's rise to more worldly powers. According to the promoter, the poor fighter from the Philippines would not have been propelled to success without an American company's intervention. Arum stated at the press conference announcing the Mayweather match:
Manny Pacquiao has been backed by HBO since he beginning of his career. The first time he came on the scene was as a substitute when he was brought in and he won a world title in his first appearance on HBO. And since then HBO has been behind him 100 percent. They built his career. They built his image. And they made him the personality that the public sees today.
This narrative, which still situates the United States as savior of the Philippines, combines with the belief that Pacquiao's 2010 election to the Philippine House of Representatives was simply because of his popularity. While his popularity in boxing may have increased his political reach, the reduction of his election to Congress to being a boxing icon reaffirms the view of the Filipino government as dysfunctional. It suggests that Pacquiao would not be a politician without western help and aid, again in the form of HBO. Although Pacquiao has a record of absenteeism as a congressman, his commitment to being a civil servant has been recognized by his trainer, Freddie Roach, as well as fellow members of Congress. The suggestion that he was elected simply because of his boxing fame ignores the fact that Pacquiao was driven to politics to combat poverty – a social ill that greatly influenced his childhood – which is clearly shown in his political work. He has spoken out against human trafficking, which disproportionately victimizes the poor, fought to increase the minimum wage in the Philippines, and has been instrumental in securing funds for classrooms, water supply systems, educational scholarships, and other structures that improve the quality of life in communities across the Philippines.
It is important to note that Filipinos may find validation in the construction of themselves as gracious and kind fighters, who succeed not on their own, but thanks to God and luck. Many individuals express this view in the popular saying "sinuwerte lang," which roughly translates to "I was only lucky" or "it was only because of luck." Perhaps this self-perception is part of the reason the diasporic Filipino community comes together to watch the humble and generous Pacquiao fight. Manny Pacquiao probably does exhibit these traits and should be commended for being a person who gives back to his community. However, media constructions of the boxer from the Philippines over-simplify these characteristics as essential elements of being Filipino, ignoring the diversity of experience and sociopolitical circumstances that shape an individual Filipino's life chances. By falling back into these stereotypes, we entrench our view of the Philippines as a struggling nation in need of American help and characterize the people of a country made up of thousands of islands into a single image digestible for the general American public.
Ultimately, elevation of Manny Pacquiao as the representation of the Philippines does not challenge our conceptualizations of Filipinos or the Philippines. Instead, it ignores the history of the Philippines as a US colony and territory and reduces Filipinos to a stereotype that affirms American ideology. Pacquiao should be commended for his accomplishments, his generosity, humanitarianism, and his role in generating Filipino pride; however, to exalt Pacquiao as one of the only individuals whom Filipinos can be proud of shifts attention away from the likes of Carlos Bulosan, Emilio Aguinaldo, Jose Rizal, and Bernigno Aquino. These figures remind us of the American colonization of the Philippines, the injustice faced by Filipinos globally and in the United States, and the marginalization of the Filipino community. For the American media, Pacquiao is the perfect candidate to represent the Philippines. His story can be framed in a way that supports the myth of the model minority and Americans' amnesia surrounding their own history as a colonial empire.


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Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies (Affiliate)
Research Overview
Broadly, my research focuses on social-ecological approaches to HIV prevention and health promotion for persons who are racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identity minorities. My goal is to better understand whether and how various community-level factors are linked to risk for HIV, particularly for sociodemographic groups who are disproportionately burdened by the epidemic, and to provide opportunities for interventions that extend beyond individual-level factors.
Currently, I am working on research projects involving the use of "big data" sources to explore community-level factors that may be associated with HIV testing behavior. One study uses data from AIDSVu to measure the availability of HIV testing services in each zip code in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area to determine whether (a) a resident's distance to the nearest testing site or (b) number of testing sites in the resident's zip code is associated with their frequency of testing or likelihood of seroconverting.
In the near future, I intend to use social media (i.e., Twitter) data to model public sentiment about Truvada. In addition, I intend to link the sub-set of Truvada tweets that are geolocated to HIV surveillance data from AIDSVu to determine whether tweets about Truvada are more common in areas with higher HIV incidence and prevalence.
M.A., 2015, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut
B.A., 2012, Psychology, Quinnipiac University
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