 come to naught for the obvious reasons of corruption even on public private partnership basis.
[…] Africa Summit has been over for a couple of weeks. But I just read an excellent article by Zainab Usman reflecting on the U.S. and Africa. This blog post, she says, is an article she […]Empowered Youth Inc. creates program to help young men
Vibe 305 a food truck delivers more than just snacks
Ashley Montgomery | 12/25/2013, 9 a.m.
Empowered Youth, Inc. is a non-profit organization, 501(c)3, that is devoted to transforming the lives of inner-city young men through unique opportunities. This community-based program has catered to young men, 15-18 years of age, since 2006 in South Florida and in Miami-Dade County since 2010.
Founder of the program and executive director, Colleen Adams, says that she is proud of this year's group of students and refers to them as “young businessmen.”
The project has two phases, the first geared towards transitioning at-risk youth towards a more productive life. Students participate in YES [Young Entrepreneur Series], a life-skills/character development curriculum that also provides mentors and tutors. The YES course is taught by University of Miami instructors and offers courses in graphic design, sales and marketing and culinary arts.
The second phase of the program seeks to create jobs and provide training and business opportunities to graduates. After graduation, students become eligible to become an independent partner where they create and expedite business models that they created themselves.
This year's class came up with idea of a food truck that they built from the ground-up — from the business plan to the cooking of the food.
“The goal is to create sustainable businesses that will change the dynamics of inner-city communities and families — an opportunity is the pathway out of the hood,” Adams said.
“Our food truck project is unique because we are a non-profit operating a training program to give inner-city boys a chance at a better life,” Adams said. “This project is a lifeline to our students and will keep many of these boys from continuing the cycle of poverty that hallmarks so many inner-city communities.”
The 12 young men have transformed themselves from troubled or simply uncertain teens to a group of businessmen with something to prove.
“The goal is to train, employ and provide entrepreneurial opportunities for every graduating student," said Emmanuel Richmond, 24, who is a certified chef and teaches the boys the skills they need to become culinary masters.
Richmond joins other chefs that are paired with young men, mentoring and training them so they can successfully run the Vibe 305 food truck.
According the Adams, the boys have dreams of expanding their truck into a franchised business. Vibe 305 is just one of many to come — Vibe 945, Vibe 407 and others are on the horizon.
Second chances
“There are all kinds of kids in the program — some court referred with a record, some have no resume or experience and need job/training,” Richmond said. “Some are just volunteers seeking exposure.”
The young men that are court ordered get a certificate of completion and their records are wiped clean according to Adams. According to their website, 87 percent of the graduates have remained out of the juvenile justice system.
“This helps put food on the table in a positive way," Adams added. "If we can get enough of these trucks on the road, we could really change the future."
The Vibe 305 truck is already on the road in downtown Miami. Six young men divide full-time hours so that they can offer breakfast, lunch and dinner at SE 1st Ave and Biscayne.
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D. Kevin McNeir contributed to this report.Current perspectives on the clinical presentation of joint pain in human OA.

Pain is the commonest symptom of osteoarthritis (OA), the principal reason why individuals seek medical care and a major determinant of other outcomes such as disability and joint replacement. Most studies have examined knee OA: little is known about other sites. Community studies indicate only a modest relationship between structural change on X-ray and reporting of pain. Many community subjects, for example, fail to complain of pain despite extensive X-ray change, while others report pain with normal X-rays. Pain severity of patients attending hospital is even less related to X-ray change, being more dependent on body mass index (BMI), coping strategies and psychosocial variables. Many patients can identify more than one type of pain. It is increasingly clear that OA pain is heterogeneous, being classifiable on the basis of location, precipitating factors, response to anti-inflammatory and steroid medication and the effects of local anaesthetic. This potential to classify OA pain represents a useful tool with which to test hypotheses regarding structural origin of pain.The trouble is in a case like this, you have to include air resistance, and it's a major factor in the cats fall speed. 

Back when I was taking analytical mechanics in my undergrad, when we covered air resistance our professor actually showed how with smaller animals, they literally cannot call fast enough to cause real harm. If I remember right, he showed this for basically any animal up to the size of a medium rabbit. The cat here takes it further by spreading out as it falls to slow itself further.FRANKLIN – Cool Springs Boulevard commuters will be braking for a new traffic signal between Aspen Grove Drive and the Mack Hatcher Parkway by late summer.
The signal, which will stand at the Cool Springs and Windcross Court intersection, is a critical part of city officials’ requirements for developers at Embrey Partners, who plan on breaking ground by April on their $30 million Artesssa 250-unit apartment development. The apartments, when completed next year, will sit between Jordan Road and Windcross Court, which is a cul de sac now.
But the signal’s proposed cost of $384,250 had become a thorny topic between aldermen and developers.
San Antonio-based Embrey said they were told by a former city staffer that they were eligible for a break on the cost of installing the traffic signal. City engineers said the company should have to pay for all of the signal’s costs.
In the end, Mayor Ken Moore broke a 4-4 tie earlier this month among aldermen on a plan that will have the city and Embrey split the light’s installation 50/50. Embrey will get a credit of little more than $192,000 from the city on the cost of the installation.
Brad Knolle, senior vice president development for Embrey, said the company is satisfied with the outcome. Work on Artessa will get underway by April while work on the signal will occur in the middle to the later part of this summer.
“Their zoning ordinance allows us to request an offset,” Knolle said.
But aldermen like Mike Skinner fear that the city is setting itself up to pay for future costs..
The Artessa will take approximately 18 months of construction to complete.
The Borgel I bought the other day has arrived and it's not quite what I expected.
As is my habit, I've been pretty opportunistic, picking up bits of Borgel case and screw mechanism whenever I saw them and also picking up the standard military issue Borgel which. I thought, was identical in all but dial to the Mallory Borgel. Every other bit of Borgel I've picked up has been 32mm and I just assumed that this was the standard Borgel size, whether the case was round or cushion shaped.
When I bought this latest Borgel, I assumed that I was just getting the dial exactly right, but it turns out that the Mallory Borgel is significantly larger!
Where the standard issue military Borgel is 32mm, the Mallory Borgel is 35mm (39mm including the crown) and a full 10mm deep.and thus, as they say, wears large. It's also significantly heavier in the hand and makes the military variation look and feel positively gracile. It's a significantly more robust watch. The only dimension that is smaller, and significantly smaller, is the 12mm lug width, compared to the more contemporary 15mm of the military version.
As is so often the case, once realisation dawns, the signs are all there in the ergonomics of the subdial, but hindsight is always 20/20. The bottom line is that while there are plenty of Borgels out there, it looks like the majority are smaller and thus the Mallory variation starts to look like quite a rare heavy duty version, rather than a mere dial variation.
Ironically, Rolex also offered two varient sizes, with the Lambert expedition getting 34 mm Oysters where the '53 expedition got 36mm. Neither, of course were Explorer dialled, making the closest currently available watch to the most common watch (that failed to conquer Everest) in the fifties at least, the Air King. Rolex offer plenty of silver dialled and date free watches from the period, but the precise dial used by the Hunt expedition is, as far as I can discover, actually a Tudor dial that Rolex transplanted; at least, I can't find a Rolex version of the dial that isn't one of the originals gifted to the RGS in '53.
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So, with the Borgel, we have the first clearly identified watch that has been above 28,000 feet on Everest. Originally, I just meant to to do this as one great big section in an