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Should You See a Physical Therapist?

So you know you’ve injured yourself. You’ve got the pain or the swelling to prove it. But with so many varieties of physicians, specialists and therapists from which to choose, how are you to know when is the right time to involve a physical therapist?

Take a look at some of the following common pain points and whether they necessitate a visit to a physical therapist.

Lingering Pain

Immediately after an injury, it’s often best to do what your body is demanding of you: rest. Take a few days off from normal activities, apply ice, and give the injury some time to heal. However, if its been three or four days, and returning to normal activity is still causing you to wince, it may be time to visit a physical therapist. They can figure out the source of the pain and prescribe a plan of action.

Low Mobility

Whatever the reason for it, sometimes your body’s mobility is limited. It can be caused by injury, disease or even simply aging. When it comes to reinvigorating your lost mobility and range of motion, often the best person to see is a physical therapist, as this type of health professional is trained to evaluate and treat matters of movement and flexibility.

Poor Posture

Is your posture suffering? When it comes to sitting for great lengths of the day, you might notice your shoulders hunching over and giving you back pain related to the way you sit up (or don’t). If you’re looking to improve this, a physical therapist may be your first step. He or she can work with your body mechanics to determine the best ways to build up your balance and sitting habits.

Recurring Injuries

When you’re out on the field or at work exerting yourself, you’re bound to encounter a pull, sprain or strain now and again. However, if you’re finding yourself experiencing the same pain over and over again, it may be time to call in the professionals. The best plan when you’re experiencing a moderate to severe level of pain due to a recurring injury is to see a physical therapist. He or she can work with you to determine exactly how you continue to injure yourself, as well as how to avoid pain in the future.

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The most important thing to remember is that, if you have pain, address it. Even if you’re unsure to whom you should speak, make sure you’re seen in a timely manner to avoid worsening injury. We’re here to help.


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Gardiner and Java (1990) report remember/know/new data that heavily favor the dual process account. In their Experiment 2, participants (N=20) studied 15 words and 15 non-words and, following a 24 hour delay, their memory was tested with an old/ new recognition procedure (30 old, 30 new items). Crucially, for items classified as old Gardiner and Java required participants to make an additional classification. Participants were instructed to respond “remember” when they could recall specific contextual details, or respond “know” when they simply felt like they had encountered the item. Their data (their Figure 2) demonstrated a clear cross over interaction, such that words elicited far more “remember” responses, whereas non-words elicited more “know” responses. Importantly, the frequency of “remember” and “know” responses did not differ between unstudied (new) words and non-words.

The cross over interaction for old items in conjunction with a lack of effect for new items is highly constraining for theories of recognition and strongly favor a dual process model. Given their potential theoretical significance, the present study aims to replicate the findings of Gardiner and Java (1990).

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Because when we say ‘M’hadjeb’ we say ‘Algeria’ !!! Ma shaa Allah! Who doesn’t love them? Here is a post we share from Umm Ibrahim – barakaAllahu fiha!

Yesterday morning I sat with my sister-in-law for practical lessons in how to make M’hadjeb. It’s something I have wanted to learn to make for a long time now so it’s about time! M’hadjeb is similar in principle to the Pakistani/Indian Paratha in that it is a flat chapatti type of bread with a filling; in the case of M’hadjeb though, the dough is made from semolina rather than regular flour.

It is a very economical recipe at this time of year since semolina is a staple of North Africa and onions, tomatoes and peppers are in season and are cheap. Tomatoes are around 10Dinars/kilo (50halala/kg; 7p/kg)

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Preschool Corner: letter Ii

Gabriel-3 yrs,  8 mos.
Kaleb, my k’ner also joins us on some of the fun activities…..because they are just that fun!!

I LOVE that these great Letter Ii ideas fit in so perfectly with our ABC I Believe lessons–both on INCHWORMS!!!

Memory verse for the week:  “…for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there none like me.” Isaiah 46:9b.

A HUGE thank you so very much to the ladies who made/designed/found all of the printables and activities on these blogs/websites:
Confessions of a Homeschooler
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Danielle’s Place

Look at these CUTE printables!!

We are finally getting back into the swing of our letter of the week study!!  I spent some time looking for some fun and creative activities.  I love, love, love the two blogs listed above!  Those ladies make my life so much easier!  🙂  ABC I Believe lessons from Danielle’s place are awesome as well.

I did great taking pics…..on the first day.  lol  I kind of slacked after that.

Gabriel had fun with the inchworm puzzle.

He LOVED the cut and paste activity.

We worked on numbers.  Doing some fun games and then working on 11-20.

Played games.

Read books.

I remembered this preschool activity bag that fits right in with our talks about measurement during this INCHworm week.

Decorated his letter Ii page with his brother.

Practiced letter writing.

Letter Ii book.

We played with the number puzzle.  Don’t you love how he’s all curled up, almost upside down while working on his numbers?  🙂

Made some fun crafts!!

Great week if I do say so myself!!!

If you would like to see what my older boys did this week, their weekly report is *HERE*.

Preschool Corner: letter Hh

Gabriel–3 years, 8 months.

Our memory verse is Psalms 91:4a–He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust.

We read the corresponding story from ABC I Believe at Danielle’s Place. We talked about how God is like a mother hen who stretches her wings out to keep her chicks out of the cold, rain, and wind.  They trust her to keep them safe and warm.  We snuggled with blankets and talked about how God’s love is like a soft blanket wrapped around us all snuggly and warm.

Gabriel and Kaleb made this really cute hen and chick craft from ABC I Believe as well.  I put them on construction paper so I can add their bible verse.

He and Kaleb cut, glued, and decorated their letter pages with hand prints.

We made haystacks…..with pretzel sticks (because that is what we had on hand).

We had a fun time with some of our preschool activity bags.

We played a few games.  Operation is his all-time favorite right now with the Cars Fishing Game running a close 2nd.

I found this cool printable on Homeschool Creations blog Tuesday night.  I printed, laminated, and cut the cards apart.  Then Gabriel and I sat down to play a couple games.  First I just had him identify the numbers in order and out of order.  Of course in order he just counted to twenty.  He gets 15-19 confused, but did fairly well.  He made it to 11 out of order.  We’ll work on 12-20 now. I asked him then to put the numbers 1-10 in order.  No problems there!

I asked him to match the numbers 1-10 to the dot cards.  He did amazing!!  He would look at the number and then make an educated guess on the dot cards based on how small or large the number was, most times picking the right card first!  I’ve never seen him do that before.

We played with the LeapFrog Fridge Phonics letter game.  Gabriel and Drake LOVE game!!

Gabriel has shown an interest in writing letters so I let him give it a try on the dry erase board.

We read books, books, and more books.

We tried this ABC matching game that I bought from Scholastic….and he LOVED it (so did my toddler!)

Gabriel played with his Color Wonder light paint set and made a beautiful picture.  I thought I had a picture, but I can’t find it now.

We played with color a bit and you can see the pictures and link *HERE*.

A fun week!!  If you would like to see what my older boys are up to, their post is up too!

letter Ff activities

Danielle’s Place ABC Believe
Bible verse–2 Cor 3:18
I LOVE this week’s teaching concept:

If we accept Jesus as our Savior, we become a brand new person inside. Our sins are forgiven and we start a new life in Christ. We are given his Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us. As we learn more and more about Jesus and experience his love and forgiveness we begin to change from the inside out.

Art and activities:
Make an inside-out picture
Ff tactile art with feathers —> letter template from DLTK
flamingo coloring sheet

Our library system doesn’t have ONE children’s book on flamingos so we will use various websites to learn more about them.
We will read here, here, here, and here.
We will also use to find some National Geographic videos about flamingos.

There just isn’t a lot out there about flamingos. We’ll make do though.

letter Ee activities

I have found so many fun things to do this next week with the letter Ee!

First, Danielle’s Place homeschool letter Ee bible lesson focuses on Elephants. I just have to say, I think this is a wonderful resource!! The $12.95 is well worth the cost of this program! We have several activities to do this week from here including some copywork, several elephant crafts, and a game or two as well as the bible lesson and memory verse.

I found my letter template at DLTK’s Letter E Crafts for Kids as well as the Elmo tp craft we will do later this week.

I pulled a few activities from Homeschool Share’s Elephant Lapbook.

Egg match game here
. I am going to make a copy of both the colored and b&w. The color copy will be for the game and the b&w will be for the boys to color for their tactile Ee page.

I have my HUGE list of library books on hold for this week. A few of our selections:

African elephant : the world’s biggest land mammal
What Elephant?
An Elephant Grows Up
Elephants of Africa
Elephants Can Not Dance
The Blind Man and the Elephant
Edsel the Elephant Who Learned to Share
Basha Elephant Baby
Never Ride Your Elephant to School
When Elephant Goes to a Party
Also a few on Elmo and Ernie from Sesame Street.

This will be a VERY fun week for us!! I’ll be sure to take a lot of pictures and add them next weekend!


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Baseball Team Splits Four Game Series With CCSU

default article imageMonmouth University’s baseball team had a six game straight stint this past week against three different opponents. While most teams may feel pressured when it comes to playing six games within the span of five days late in the season, the Hawks kept their cool. “I don’t think we feel any pressure, we’re 30 on games into the season and we all elected to play this game,” Coach Ehehalt states, “We’re going to deal with the pressure that comes with it.”

With that said, the Hawks opened up their week with a one game series against Temple University. This game was meant to be played on Saturday, March 31 but was postponed due to rain. Coach Ehehalt handed right-hander Jon Shippee the ball, declaring him the starter. Shippee went a career best seven innings, fanning five in the process. When asked what he attributes to his daily improvement, Shippee responded “I haven’t started consistently in a while. I’m just starting to get back into the groove of things.”

MU won the contest, 3-2, but had trouble securing their victory in the ninth. Freshman Charlie Battis relieved Neil Harm and got the first batter to fly out to right field. The next batter got on base due to a fielding error by Battis. he then moved to second on a wild pitch. The next Temple player at bat also reached first base on an error by Guida, moving runners to the corners. At that point, Coach Ehehalt had figured Battis had enough and brought in Joe Loiodice to finish off the Owls. Loiodice struck out the first batter and walked the second. The bases were now loaded and Monmouth was one swing away from losing their lead. Fortunately, Loiodice did not succumb to the pressure and got the last batter of the game to ground out to third.

Scoring runs for the Hawks were Jake Gronsky, Danny Avella and Owen Stewart. The RBI’s came off the bats of Avella, Chris Perret and center fielder Josh Boyd.

After this win, the men had no time to relax since they were scheduled to host Rider University in non-conference play on Wednesday.

What began with a slow start was capped with the most exciting finale thus far. Starting in that game was fifth year senior, right-hander John McDonald. Going six innings, McDonald came out of the game with one strike-out, two walks and only three hits allowed. Regretfully for McDonald, the game was tied 0-0 when he was pulled out disallowing him to improve his record.

Up until the eighth inning, the scoreboard read 0-0 with hardly any hits from either team. In the top of the ninth, the Hawks showcased three different arms as the Rider Knights took what was a scoreless game to a 5-0 lead. Freshmen T.J. Hunt started the ninth but was soon replaced by fellow freshman, Adam Yunginger. The two compiled for all five runs. Relieving Yunginger was Jeff Paglione, who got the final batter to fly out towards center field.

Heading into the ninth, the Hawks felt relaxed. “There wasn’t any pressure on us in the ninth inning,” Coach Ehehalt says, “We were down 5-0 and look how well we did. What are the odds of Monmouth winning that game? Nobody thought we would win this game... There’s been a lot of comebacks on this field.”

MU ignited the inning with a leadoff single from Boyd to right field. Rookie Steve Wilgus mimicked Boyd hitting another single to the same spot. With runners on first and second, sophomore Craig Sweeney came into pinch hit for freshman catcher Kyle Perry. Sweeney was able to connect for a double scoring Boyd from second. With two on and no outs, left fielder Ed Martin stepped up to plate. Martin hit a single plating Wilgus. The score was no 5-2 with the Hawks still behind. Martin advanced to second on a wild pitch making runners at third and second with no outs.

First baseman Jamie Rosenkranz was the next player to step into the batter’s box. Rosenkranz hit a line drive for a single scoring Sweeney from third and advancing Martin to third. Runners were at the corners and the score now read 5-3. Rider was then faced with MU’s heart of the order. Gronsky came up to plate and slammed one for a single bringing in Martin from third. Next up was power hitting third baseman Avella. Providing Rider with their first out of the inning, Avella flew out to right field. With one out and two on, designated hitter Chris Perret was looking for his first hit of the game. Rocking a hit all the way to left center, Perret provided the game winning double bringing home both Rosenkranz and Gronsky. The final score read 6-5 Monmouth.

Perret claims he knew he would be the final at bat. “I knew eventually it was coming down to me because I had an awful day and that always happens in baseball.” Perret continues, “It was a great feeling [getting the walk off hit].”

Coming off of this big win, the Hawks were next faced with a four game series against conference rival, Central Connecticut State. Coach Ehehalt relied on his ace, star righty Pat Light, to start the series off on the right foot. Light’s line ended after seven innings allowing six hits, two earned runs, and four strike-outs. Unfortunately, this game went down as a 3-1 loss in Light’s book. MU’s only run came in the sixth when Gronsky was hit by a pitch eventually scoring off a double to right center field by Avella. This loss snapped Monmouth’s seven game winning streak.

The following day, Monmouth played in a double header against CCSU winning the first game and losing the nightcap.

Pitching for the first game was Andrew McGee who went a mere 4.2 innings giving up six runs (all earned) off of seven hits. McGee also struck out three and walked four in the outing. McGee picked up his fourth win of the season improving his record to 4-3. The final score of the game was a high scoring 14-12. All nine starters got a hit and all but Avella and Stewart scored a run. Martin went 3-for-4 with three runs, two RBI’s and one walk. Rosenkranz hit 2-for-4 with two runs, three RBI’s, and a walk. Guida also went 2-for-4 with two runs and one RBI. Perry hit 2-for-4 as well with two runs and two RBI’s in the game.

Monmouth was not so fortunate offensively in the nightcap of the double header. Stephen Frey picked up his second loss of the season as the Hawks fell 6-1 to CCSU. Frey went 5.2 innings serving eleven hits, six runs, and four walks with no strike-outs. MU’s sole run came in the third as Gronsky hit a single through the left side of the infield to score Martin from second base.

Hoping to even up the series, Monmouth went into Sunday’s game prepared for a battle. On the mound for the Hawks was southpaw junior Dan Smith who pitched a full eight innings allowing only three runs off ten hits. Monmouth’s offense provided the support Smith needed to get his fifth win of the season. Scoring five runs in the first and the fifth inning, the final score was 11-3 in the Hawks’s favor. No single player had a remarkable performance at plate, as it was more of a team effort. Martin, Gronsky, and Stewart contributed for one run a piece while Rosenkranz, Avella, Perret, and Perry each scored two runs. Gronsky brought in two runs, Perret plated four in the game, and Guida had a total of three RBI’s.

The men currently are currently boasting a 22-14 (11-5 NEC) record and will be hosting a non-conference game at 3:30 this Tuesday, April 17, against Rutgers. The Hawks will then welcome conference opponent Mount St. Mary’s for a four game series this upcoming weekend.

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was born Susana Esther Baca de la Colina in Lima, Peru, on 24 May 1944. Her parents were Ernesto Baca Ramírez, a driver for the aristocratic Nicolini family, and Carmen Eugenia de la Colina Gonzáles, a cook working in the homes of wealthy families. Her childhood was spent in the coastal district of Chorrillos, south of Lima, along with Raúl Ernesto and Maruja, her older siblings. Music entered her life at an early age, as her father played the guitar and her mother was a gifted dancer. Baca attended the 444 Public School in Chorrillos, and then the Juana Alarco de Dammert Public School. Because of incidents of racial harassment, her mother moved Baca to the Divino Maestro School, where she completed high school. She later attended the National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle in La Cantuta, Lima, graduating as an elementary school teacher in 1968 ...

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gospel composer and pastor, was born into a family of sharecroppers in Somerville, Tennessee. Although Brewster stemmed from a humble background, he managed to study a wide variety of subjects, including theology, law, and Hebrew. After graduating from Roger Williams College in 1922 he moved to Memphis, Tennessee. By 1930 Brewster had begun a lifelong tenure as pastor of the East Trigg Baptist Church. A major aspect of Brewster's early ministry centered on the founding of theology schools, and these centers of learning helped to establish his voice as one of moral authority and spiritual guidance in religious circles.

By the time Brewster began seriously publishing his songs in the 1940s he had gained over a decade of experience in his pastoral role This experience provided a wellspring of material for songs that often relayed Old Testament stories and were enjoyed by African American congregations across the United States ...

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Domingos Caldas Barbosa was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to a white father, Antonio de Caldas Barbosa, and a black mother, whose identity remains unknown. From an early age Caldas received a Jesuit education. He showed a predilection for poetry and musical composition.

While still a young man Caldas was drafted into the military and sent to serve in the Portuguese colony of Sacramento on the Rio de la Plata. Subsequently, Caldas obtained his discharge, returned home to Brazil, and then boarded a ship bound for Portugal. He arrived in Lisbon in 1763 and shortly thereafter enrolled at the University of Coimbra. It is unclear at what point Caldas's university studies were discontinued, but author Jane M. Malinoff asserts that the young poet took leave shortly after learning of his father s death Unable to independently support the cost of his education Caldas recalled ...

Araceli Reynoso

was born on 2 December 1919 in Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca. His parents were Francisco José María Carrillo and Candelaria Morales, a mulata originally from Juchitán, a small town located within what is today the municipality of Azoyú in the state of Guerrero. He had three more siblings. His mother died when he was still a child, after which his father married Teodora Alarcón. Álvaro took his stepmother’s last name in recognition of the fact that she had raised him and his siblings.

Álvaro liked to say that he was oaxaqueño by birth and raised by the Costa Chica of Guerrero a region that has historically identified itself as the major African presence in Mexico Costa Chica or Small Coast covers the southern Pacific coast of Mexico beginning in Acapulco Guerrero and ending in Puerto Escondido Oaxaca Africans arrived in this area of Mexico in the middle of the sixteenth century ...

Mariana Isabel Lorenzetti

was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires in 1866. Marcos de Estrada (1979) explains that Cozón’s mother first encouraged his interest in music and poetry. As a child he learned to play the guitar to accompany the verses he composed. According to Montero and Cirio (2012), Cozón began to dabble in the art of payada (an artistic expression characterized by improvised verses sung over a guitar accompaniment) when he was hired by circus and theater owners in the 1890s. Together with other minstrels, he toured several Argentine provinces, including Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Corrientes, Jujuy, Salta, Santa Fe, and Tucumán. He also toured the Republics of Paraguay and Uruguay as a soloist and with other payadores However despite his travels all over the country most of Cazón s performances took place in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires itself and in various ...

Devora Fogelman

was born Alverta Elise La Pallo in New York City to Bernando La Pallo, a chef and later an author, and Ida Roberta (Small) La Pallo, who worked at Saks Fifth Avenue as a marker of prices, as well as at a small company that made diaper bags. Lee had one younger sister, Nandra.

Chamberlin attended Our Lady of Lourdes elementary school in Harlem and Cathedral High School in midtown Manhattan The year of her graduation is unknown At the age of seventeen she won a play writing contest through the New York Chapter of the American Cancer Society The year is unknown when she began her studies at Washington Square College of New York University where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority and participated in an exchange program at the Sorbonne in Paris France The year of her graduation is unknown After completing college with ...

Harmony A. Teitsworth

symphonic conductor, composer, and poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Henry DePreist and Ethel Anderson. Ethel's sister, James's aunt, was the distinguished singer Marian Anderson, a contralto who became the first African American to appear with the New York Metropolitan Opera. In Philadelphia, DePreist attended Central High School, the second-oldest high school in the country. One of the best college preparatory schools in the country, it is also a public magnet school renowned for its strong music department. During high school DePreist played percussion and timpani in the all-Philadelphia high school band and orchestra. The orchestra's director, Louis Werson, became a significant musical influence on DePreist and used his musical background to help his student start the Jimmy DePreist Quintet, a jazz band.

In 1958 DePreist received a bachelor s degree as a pre law student at the Wharton School of ...

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Shirley Graham Du Bois was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the oldest of David A. Graham and Etta (Bell) Graham's five children. Growing up, she moved with her family to various locations throughout the United States. As a teenager in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she first met W. E. B. Du Bois when he came to lecture at the local African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Soon after high school, she married a local man, Shadrack T. McCanns. The marriage soon ended, leaving her with two small children to support. “In quick succession I knew the glory of motherhood and the pain of deep sorrow,” she wrote later. “For the years immediately following, everything I did … was motivated by my passionate desire to make a good life for my sons.”

The nomadic quality of Graham s early life carried over into her educational experiences and into her later years ...

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

When Shirley Graham wrote in a 1933Crisis essay, “Black man’s music has become America’s music. It will not die,” she summed up one of her life’s ambitions: to bring to the foreground the many accomplishments of African Americans in every field. One of Graham’s concerns was that African Americans would eventually abandon their spirituals, with their unique rhythms and haunting melodies. In an effort to preserve black music, she became the first African American woman to write and produce an all-black opera, Tom-Toms: An Epic of Music and the Negro (1932). This was just one successful effort in a lifetime devoted to the preservation of black history and culture.

Shirley Lola Graham was born on a farm near Evansville, Indiana, to David Andrew Graham and Etta Bell Graham Graham and her four brothers were encouraged by their father a Methodist missionary to discover black culture ...

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

author, composer, and activist. When Shirley Graham Du Bois was thirteen years old she met the prominent scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The meeting had a profound impact on her political and personal development, for she eventually married Du Bois in 1951. She became well known as W. E. B. Du Bois's second wife, causing some to overlook her tremendous personal accomplishments.

Shirley Graham was born near Evansville, Indiana, to David Graham and Etta Graham. Her father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister, a career that caused him to move his family to various locations in the United States, including Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, and Nashville. At his churches Shirley first discovered a love for music, learning to play the organ and piano. She completed high school in Spokane, Washington, and then moved to Seattle, where she married Shadrack T. McCants ...

Vernitta Brothers Tucker

author, composer, playwright, and activist, was born Shirley Lola Graham in Evansville, Indiana, the daughter of David A. Graham, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Etta Bell Graham, a homemaker. Graham's father had read many novels to his daughter, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, Les Miserables, Ben Hur, and Quo Vadis?, influencing her to become a voracious reader. His storytelling and commitment to intellectual pursuits strongly influenced Graham's literary development.

Young Graham's early education began in New Orleans, where her exposure to classic literature put her at an advantage over many of her classmates. When she was eight or nine years old, her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned her first income writing for the local newspaper. In 1912 she attended Tenth Street High School in Clarksville Tennessee where she distinguished herself as the class poet and ...

Adebe DeRango-Adem

was born in Rochester, New York, to Cornelius Eady, Sr., a schoolteacher, and Alveta Hayes, an activist.

As a teenager Eady spent a great deal of time at Rochester’s Rundel Public Library, where he was first introduced to the works of poets Allen Ginsberg and Pablo Neruda. The library also afforded him a place to listen to records, which would foster part of the musical cadences of his writings to come. After attending Rochester Educational Alternative for his junior and senior years, Eady remained in Rochester to attend Empire State University, where he pursued English with a concentration in creative writing during the years 1977 to 1979. Although he never formally graduated from the program, it was during this time that he was introduced to the works of Yusef Komunyakaa a poet whose own acclaim in African American arts and letters had at once opened the door for ...

Nagueyalti Warren

and multitalented recipient of the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for contributions to American literature. Shirley Lola Graham, the only daughter of Etta Bell Graham and Reverend David A. Graham, was born on 11 November 1896 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the oldest of five children. Free-spirited, talented, and ambitious, Graham resisted the shackles of race and gender. She divorced her first husband, worked to support two sons, and established a career for herself at a time when women had only recently gained the right to vote.

In 1926, Graham studied music and French at the Sorbonnne. Although her tenure there predates the Negritude movement, her musical training was enriched by interaction with African and Afro-Caribbean students in Paris. In 1931 she enrolled with advanced standing as a sophomore at Oberlin College in Ohio Her statement of intent there recorded in the college s archives made ...

Robert L. Gale

Graham, Shirley (11 November 1896–27 March 1977), musical composer and director, author, and political activist also known as Shirley Graham Du Bois was born Lola Bell Graham in Indianapolis Indiana the daughter of the Reverend David A Graham an African Methodist Episcopal minister and Etta Bell She accompanied them when her father held pastorates in New Orleans Colorado Springs and Spokane He delighted her with stories about important blacks in American history In his churches she learned to play the piano and the pipe organ and to conduct choirs In 1914 she graduated from high school in Spokane took business school courses and worked in government offices in Spokane and Seattle After she married Shadrach T McCanns in 1921 she gave private music lessons and played the organ in white movie theaters hidden backstage She had two sons Robert and David and was either widowed in 1924 ...

Jeffrey Green

African‐American composer born in Charleston, South Carolina, where his father had recently founded an orphanage where vocational training included music. Jenkins abandoned his studies in Atlanta to play the clarinet with a band appearing at the Anglo‐American Exhibition in London in 1914. The band's performance was a success, and Jenkins decided to remain in England after the band's return to the United States. He then enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy of Music. His studies included composition with Frederick Corder, a Wagner enthusiast. He taught the clarinet, and graduated in 1921. With Caribbean students in the Coterie of Friends, Jenkins mounted a concert in 1919 with himself conducting; four instrumentalists were from the Southern Syncopated Orchestra, an American group in Britain until 1921. They played his Charlestonia, an orchestral work with three black melodies, and works by Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor.

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Gayle Murchison

clarinetist, composer, and conductor, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Daniel Jenkins, a former slave, minister, and founder-director of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, and Lena James. Jenkins attended the Avery Institute in Charleston. As a child he learned to play violin, clarinet, and piano. His first music teachers were his father and other instructors at the orphanage, which was founded in December 1891 and formally incorporated as the Orphan Aid Society in July 1892. By the time he was fourteen years old, Jenkins had learned to play all the instruments of his father's brass band. In 1908 he entered Atlanta Baptist College (now Morehouse College), where he studied violin with Kemper Harreld Jenkins participated in the symphony orchestra glee club and other musical activities During vacations he performed directed and toured with the orphanage band Jenkins left college during the ...

Thomas L. Riis

(b Jacksonville, FL, Aug 11, 1873; d New York, Nov 11, 1954). American singer, composer, arranger and conductor. He studied singing and the piano at the New England Conservatory in 1893, and in 1896 appeared with John Isham’s concert company, Oriental America, whose repertory consisted of solos and ensembles from serious and light opera. He returned to Florida to teach but, attracted by New York theatre, moved north again in 1899 with his brother James Weldon Johnson. He then met Robert ‘Bob’ Cole, a fellow Southerner and experienced vaudevillian with whom he developed an original and suave vaudeville act: both sang and Johnson accompanied at the piano.

Within two years of meeting Cole and the Johnson brothers had become one of the most financially successful songwriting partnerships of the era They maintained a close creative relationship and cultivated influential performers May ...

Carolyn Wedin

composer, pianist, actor, singer. Given the name planned for a daughter, with “John” added to indicate gender, John Rosamond Johnson was the second son born to James and Helen Louise Dillet Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida. With his older and more widely known brother, James Weldon, Johnson learned his first music harmonizing with the hymns, spirituals, and art songs that his Bahamian mother, who was also a teacher, picked out on the piano. He rapidly became adept at the keyboard, causing his big brother to take up the guitar and then violin in attempted competition. In 1890, at age seventeen, Johnson headed to Boston, where he remained for six years, studying piano, organ, composition, and voice at the New England Conservatory, with breaks to work to pay his way. After a year touring and making his acting debut with John Isham'sOriental America (1896 ...

Jennifer Wood

John Rosamond Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, to Helen Dillet, the first black public schoolteacher in Florida, and James Johnson, the headwaiter at a local restaurant. He and his younger brother, James Weldon Johnson, were raised in a cultured and economically secure home, a rarity for African Americans in the South at that time. Their mother read Dickens novels to them before bed, and they received music lessons from an early age. Indeed, John began playing the piano as a toddler. He later attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and his brother followed eight years later.

When Johnson graduated in 1899 from the New England Conservatory in Boston where he had studied classical music he realized that he wanted to explore the realm of musical comedy He became a vocalist with Oriental America an African American opera company whose productions differed from the pejorative stereotypical ...

Jennifer Wood

composer, performer, and anthologist, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, to Helen Dillet, the first black public schoolteacher in Florida, and James Johnson, the headwaiter at a local restaurant. He and his younger brother, James Weldon Johnson, were raised in a cultured and economically secure home, a rarity for African Americans in the South in this era. Their mother read Dickens novels to them every night before bed, and they received music lessons from an early age. Indeed, John began playing the piano as a toddler. He went on to attend Atlanta University in Georgia, and his brother followed eight years later.

When Johnson graduated in 1899 from the New England Conservatory in Boston where he had studied classical music he realized that he wanted to explore the realm of musical comedy He became a vocalist with Oriental America an African American opera company ...


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Nigerian novelist, poet, dramatist, educator, and political activist, was born Christopher Uchechukwu Andrew Abani, on 27 December 1966, in Afikpo, Nigeria. Abani’s life has been dramatically shaped but not defined by the political violence associated with the Nigerian state. Born in the Igbo heartland of southeast Nigeria to an Igbo father and British mother, Abani was six months old when the Biafran War began. His mother fled to Britain with him and his siblings, an experience that he would later narrate in poetic form in Daphne’s Lot (2003). Returning to Nigeria after the war, Abani demonstrated precocious literary talent, publishing his first short story at age ten and finishing his first novel, Masters of the Board (1984), at sixteen. The novel, a political thriller, imagines a Nazi plot to return to power by using unwitting Third World governments as its pawns.

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Sierra Leonean public intellectual, was born in the southwest Nigerian city of Abeokuta in 1848. His father was from the Krio community in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Many people from Freetown were former slaves originally of Yoruba descent, and still others traded in southern Nigeria by the 1840s. His father may have been a Muslim notable in Freetown, but his Christian missionary uncle took him under his wing. His parents agreed to send him to the Church Missionary Society (Anglican) mission school in Freetown. Though he did not stay long in school, Abayomi-Cole proved to be a formidable intellect. He mastered Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. In the 1870s and early 1880s, Abayomi-Cole made a living as a teacher. His lively intelligence attracted the interest of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, which appointed him a catechist in the Sierra Leonean town of Shenge in the Shebro district in 1885 ...

Baye Yimam

Ethiopian intellectual, novelist, playwright, and poet, was born on 1 July 1933 in Gojjam Province, Ethiopia. He was one of the prominent literary figures in modern Ethiopian literature, the author of some twenty-three books between 1956 and 1977; two are in English and the rest in Amharic, his native language. The works comprise eight novels, five plays, three poetry collections, and another five on various subjects, including translation of biographies and works on land tenure.

His mother Yirgedu Belay died young leaving him to be raised by his father Gubegna Ambaye It was her expressed wish that Abbe should go to school which Ambaye fulfilled by sending him to a church school as was usual He attended different schools in Gojjam and Begemeder for twelve years and attained a high level of excellence in the traditional curriculum which included Geez poetry hymnody and liturgical dance all rooted in the ...

Cathlyn Mariscotti

Egyptian Islamic scholar and prominent writer of Arabic literature, was born on 18 November 1913 into a conservative religious household in Dumyat (Damietta) in the Egyptian Delta. She was a descendent, on her mother’s side, of a shaykh of the Al-Azhar, the prestigious mosque and university in Cairo, and her father taught at Dumyat Religious Institute. Well acquainted with her family history, ʿAbd al- Rahman sought to continue this proud tradition. She began learning basic reading and writing skills before the age of five in a kuttab in her father s village This early instruction prepared her to read the Qurʾan ʿAbd al Rahman s later education became more difficult however as her father did not believe that girls should be educated outside the home because secular education did not provide proper instruction for them As a result ʿAbd al Rahman s mother would continually intervene to help her ...

Ellis Goldberg

Egyptian jurist, government official, and author of one of the most important and controversial books of the twentieth century on Islam and politics, Islam and the Foundations of Governance. This short book, published in 1925, caused a storm of protest, and ʿAbd al-Raziq was arraigned before a jury of Egyptian religious leaders (including the grandfather of the late-twentieth-century al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri) and officially stripped of his status as a religious scholar (ʿalim).

Abd al-Raziq was born in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya to a well-known and relatively well-off family. He studied at Al-Azhar University. Although he was too young to have known the prominent Egyptian ʿalim Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905), his work appears to have been influenced by Abduh’s break with prevailing orthodoxy. Abduh was the highest jurisconsult (mufti) in Egypt at the time of his death. In 1915 ʿAbd al Raziq became a ...

Ann Biersteker

Kenyan poet, is East Africa’s most renowned contemporary Kiswahili poet, even though he has published only one collection of poetry and one epic poem. He is a political activist and scholar and teaches Swahili at Leipzig University in Germany.

Abdilatif ʿAbdalla was born in 1946 in Mombasa, Kenya. He was raised by his grandfather Ahmad Basheikh bin Hussein, who was a poet and teacher. ʿAbdalla attended primary school in Faza and Takaungu and did secondary studies through the British Tutorial College. He worked briefly as an assistant accountant for the Mombasa City Council. In the late 1960s Abdalla wrote and distributed a political pamphlet, Kenya Twendapi? (Kenya, Where Are We Headed?), in support of the opposition party the Kenya People’s Union (KPU). During the government crackdown on KPU activities, ʿAbdalla was arrested on 20 December 1968 and detained for three years He was held first in Kamiti prison ...

Aomar Boum

Moroccan troubadour poet and Sufi figure, was born in 1506 in the village of Tit near the city of Azemmour. He is also known as al-Shaykh Abu Zayd Abderrahman al-Majdoub Ibn Ayyad Ibn Yaacub Ibn Salama Ibn Khashan al-Sanhaji al-Dukkali and as al-Majdoub; his contemporaries nicknamed him El Majdoub. He moved with his father to Meknès in 1508 His father was a renowned Sufi trained by al Shaykh Ibrahim Afham al Zarhuni a disciple of al Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq Zarruq was a North African Sufi who lived through the fifteenth century Marinid religious turmoil He called for new interpretations of Islam based on juridical sainthood that stressed religious form Accordingly Zarruq asked Sufi authorities of Fez to avoid opportunistic notions of jihad that scapegoat some Muslims in order to increase the accusers political status Abderrahman El Majdoub was influenced indirectly by some of Zarruq s ideas regarding the nature ...

Emad Abdul-Latif

Sudanese poet, critic, and academician, was born in Ad Damer on 1 January 1944, after which he moved across Sudan with his family. His father was Abdul-Hayy Mahmoud, an architect who studied country planning in Britain. His mother, Aziza Ismaeel Fawzy, was a daughter of an architect as well. Abdul-Hayy married Dr. Aisha Moussa and had four children. He graduated from Khartoum University and obtained his PhD in comparative literature from Oxford University. He published many important volumes of poetry and produced many books and critical essays in both Arabic and English. In the 1970s he held some cultural and academic posts. For his last nine years, a series of ailments caused his health to decline and his linguistic memory to die until he was completely paralyzed. After a long struggle with illness, he died on 23 August 1989 in Sopa University Hospital.

Abdul Hayy was among those ...

Elena Bertoncini Zúbková

Swahili novelist, was born in Makunduchi village in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) in 1918. Even though he was a Muslim, he was educated in a missionary school. After completing his secondary education in 1938, he worked for the Civil Health Department and edited the Swahili Bulletin in the Department of Agriculture on his island. His complete biography remains obscure. He lost all his family in January 1964 during the bloody revolution that overthrew the sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government but took a heavy toll of victims among the population as well.

Abdulla’s first novelette, Mzimu wa watu wa kale (Graveyard of the Ancestors, 1960), aroused lively interest among the critics for its innovations: the abandonment of the folktale tradition, omnipresent in Swahili fiction of those days, and the concern for literary style. It won first prize in the East African Literary Competition of 1957 ...

Tina Steiner

Sudanese writer, was born in Cairo, Egypt, to an Egyptian mother (Sudan’s first ever female demographer) and a Sudanese father. She was brought up and educated in Khartoum, at the Khartoum American School, and graduated in 1985 from the University of Khartoum with a degree in economics, before moving to London in her mid-twenties to study for her master’s degree in statistics at the London School of Economics. In 1990 she moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband and three children, and she started writing in 1992 while working as a part-time research assistant and lecturer. She explains that the Gulf War, and the anti-Islam/anti-Arab sentiments that it triggered, provided the initial impetus for her writing. Aboulela has lived in Cairo, Khartoum, Jakarta, Dubai, London, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Aberdeen, where she wrote most of her fiction.

Aboulela is a devout Muslim and her fictional work engages with the role ...

Kate Tuttle

The son of an Ethiopian father and a mother of French and African descent, Peter Abrahams was considered “Coloured” in the South African racial classification scheme. He grew up outside Johannesburg and began working at the age of nine, never having attended school. He later enrolled, however, after he was inspired by hearing Othello read to him by a coworker. As a teenager Abrahams discovered works by African American writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer in the library at the Bantu Men's Social Centre.

Abrahams began publishing his own poems in local newspapers while studying at a teachers’ training college. While enrolled at St. Peter's Secondary School—a fertile political environment—Abrahams became a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (later renamed the South African Communist Party After his failed attempt to start a school for poor African ...

Khwezi Mkhize

South African-born poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist, was born on 19 March 1919, in Vrededorp, a slum in Johannesburg, though he later became an adopted citizen of Britain. His father was James Henry Abrahams Deras (or De Ras), an Ethiopian itinerant who settled in Johannesburg as a mine laborer. His mother, Angelina DuPlessis, was a Coloured woman whose first husband was a Cape Malay resident, with whom she had two children. His parents met and married in Vrededorp. Abrahams grew up as a Coloured, “a by-product of the early contact between black and white” (Abrahams, 1981 p 10 which made him aware of the social and political consequences of racial formation in South Africa His father died when he was still young Upon his father s death his family was thrown into poverty Abrahams later wrote that his mother went to work in the homes of white folk ...

Jessica Falconi

Angolan anthropologist, writer, and political activist, was born Mário de Carvalho Moutinho in Lisbon on 29 September 1932. Portuguese by birth and Angolan by nationality, Henrique Abranches also used the pseudonyms “Mwene Kalungo” and “Mwene Kalungo-Lungo.” In 1947 he and his family left Portugal to settle in Luanda, where he attended the Liceu Salvador Correia, a pioneering institution of secondary education in Angola whose students included several names that were later important in Angolan literature. After five years in Luanda, Abranches moved to the city of Sá de Bandeira (now Lubango) in the Huíla Plateau in southern Angola, where he became interested in the customs and traditions of the people of the region. He returned briefly to Portugal, where he finished secondary school and attended the Society of Fine Arts. He returned to Lubango on his own and began working for the Bank of Angola. In 1952 he ...

Mpalive Msiska

Nigerian novelist, was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on 15 November 1930 at Saint Simon’s Church, Nneobi, near Ogidi, in British colonial Nigeria. His father, Isaiah Okafo Achebe, was a teacher and evangelist and his mother, Janet Anaenechi Iloeghunam, was from the Awka area of eastern Nigeria. Until the age of five, Achebe was brought up at a church school, where his father taught. When his father went into semiretirement in 1935 in Ogidi, Achebe became a child of two worlds, the modern world and the world of indigenous tradition. He began primary school at Saint Philip’s Central School at Akpakaogwe, Ogidi, moving on to Nekede Central School near Owerri in 1942. Achebe developed into a studious young man, passing entrance examinations for two prestigious secondary schools.

It was at Government College Umuahia which had a good library and extremely able and dedicated teachers that Achebe cultivated his love of ...

Simon Gikandi

Chinua Achebe is considered to be the most influential African novelist of the modern period. Over ten million copies of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, have been sold in the English-speaking world since its publication in 1958. Things Fall Apart which has been translated into over fifty languages is considered to be a seminal work in the making of modern literature and is taught in institutions of education from the elementary to the tertiary level in several continents But Achebe is also a literary and social critic and his pronouncements on a range of subjects from the role of English in Africa the ideologies of colonial criticism and problems of governance and ethics on the continent have been central in debates about postcolonial identities Just as Achebe s novels have shaped the canon of African letters his essays and lectures are indispensible in understanding the promise ...

Marian Aguiar

Chinua Achebe once described his writing as an attempt to set the historical record straight by showing “that African people did not hear of culture for the first time from Europeans; that their societies were not mindless but frequently had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty, that they had poetry and, above all, they had dignity.” Achebe's works portray Nigeria's communities as they pass through the trauma of colonization into a troubled nationhood. In bringing together the political and the literary, he neither romanticizes the culture of the indigenous nor apologizes for the colonial.

Achebe's own upbringing spanned the indigenous and colonial worlds. Born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe to an Igbo family active in the Christian church, he grew up in the rural village of Ogidi, in eastern Nigeria At a young age he received a coveted scholarship to Government College in Umuahia where he studied alongside ...

Julia A. Clancy-Smith

Tunisian labor activist, women’s rights activist, and journalist, was born in the town of Gabes in southern Tunisia. Adda rose to prominence owing to her mother’s emphasis upon female education, although her parents were of modest means. One branch of Adda’s family, who are North African Jews, was originally from Batna in Algeria; her maternal grandfather had left French Algeria to seek his fortune in Tunisia, where he managed a small hotel in the south. For her parents’ generation, it was somewhat unusual for women to attend school; to achieve the “certificate of study,” as Adda’s mother did, was a noteworthy achievement. Gladys Adda’s life trajectory illustrated a number of important regional and global social and political currents: nationalism and anticolonialism, organized labor and workers’ movements, socialism and communism, women’s emancipation, and fascism and anti-Semitism against the backdrop of World War II.

In primary school Adda attended classes with Muslim ...

Daria Tunca

Nigerian creative writer and essayist, was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, the fifth of six children, to James Nwoye and Grace Ifeoma Adichie. The Igbo family’s ancestral hometown was Abba in Anambra State, but Adichie grew up in Nsukka, where her parents worked. Her father was professor of statistics at the University of Nigeria and later became the institution’s deputy vice-chancellor, while her mother, a graduate in sociology, was its first female registrar.

Adichie began writing stories as a child. Her first pieces were heavily influenced by the British children’s literature of which she was an avid reader; her early prose was, more specifically, modeled on the books of English author Enid Blyton. When Adichie was about ten years old, she discovered African novels such as Things Fall Apart (1958) by Nigerian Chinua Achebe and The African Child (originally published in French as L enfant ...

Baye Yimam

Ethiopian painter, diplomat, customs director, entrepreneur, linguist, university professor, and novelist, was born in Zage, Gojjam province of Ethiopia, on 10 July 1868. His father, Gebre Iyesus Denke, was a priest serving a local church, and his mother, Fenta Tehun Adego Ayechew, was presumably a housewife. In Zage, then a center of learning, Afewerq learned the painting, poetry, church music, and liturgical dancing of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian tradition.

Afewerq was related to Empress Taytu Betul, wife of Emperor Menilek (1844–1913 on account of which he was brought to the palace to continue what he had started in Zage He was later sent to Italy to further his studies at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin Upon his return from Italy he began to produce mural paintings by order of the palace and decorated the churches at Entotto then the capital city However he soon ...

Lidwien Kapteijns

Somali novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, and founder of cultural and literary journals and institutions, was born in Jarriiban, Mudug region, Somalia, in 1952. His name is also given as Mohamed Dahir Afrah and Maxamed Daahir Afrax. He graduated from high school in Mogadishu in 1973. When the Siad Barre government introduced the first official orthography for the Somali language in 1972, Afrax founded the first bilingual Somali-Arabic monthly magazine using the new script, Codka Jubba (“The Voice of Jubba,” 1972–1975). In 1976, Afrax’s story “Guur-ku-sheeg” (“Pseudo-marriage”) was serialized in the Somali national newspaper Xiddigta Oktoobar (“The October Star”), laying the basis for a lasting literary tradition of serialized fiction.

In this same serialized form he also first published his popular novel Maanafaay, the story of the girl Maanafaay, who, in the Mogadishu of the 1970s, strives to be modern and modest ...


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Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The 2/4th Battalion)

Research and Resources around the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during WWI

By G. K. Rose.

By G. K. Rose.

 Snowing all day. The front posts were heavily shelled during the morning; 1 killed, 2 wounded.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Captain G. K. Rose M.C. (Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1920)

In the early morning of April 4 the 59th Division, which was operating on the Battalion’s left, attacked Le Vergier. Fighting continued till noon, but the village was not taken. The 59th lost heavily. As they formed up for their advance–which was for some 1,000 yards across the open and exposed to view–behind the line the Battalion was holding, considerable enemy fire was brought down upon us and I lost Sergeant Watkins, wounded in the arm, and several other casualties. It snowed nearly all day. In the shallow trenches, which were ill-sited both for drainage and concealment from the enemy, life was miserable.

Killed in Action 4th April 1917

201985 Private George Loveridge (Likely to have been D Company)

Died of Wounds 4th April 1917

201448 Private Creswick Franklin

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ASX Announcement: P2P
16 May 2018

P2P Transport Limited (P2P) announces it has agreed terms for a new revolving $10 million debt facility with Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC). The new facility will support P2P’s vehicle acquisition, provides P2P with flexibility as the business continues to drive growth that has been achieved since listing in December 2017 and will enable continued expansion of P2P’s vehicle fleet in line with forecast FY19 requirements.
The commercial terms of the revolving debt facility have been secured at competitive market rates and market-based financial covenants. The facility is otherwise subject to standard lending conditions and drawdowns are subject to usual conditions precedent.
Managing Director Tom Varga said “The establishment of our partnership with Westpac is a great outcome for the business. Following the announcement of the acquisition of Black & White Cabs the debt facility ensures the P2P can continue to grow and build further scale. The entire Westpac team have been very supportive throughout, and we look forward to working with them across all our transactional banking requirements will also sit with Westpac”.

P2P Transport Limited is an integrated fleet management business focussed on the provision of vehicles on a rental basis to independent professional drivers operating in the point-to-point passenger transport industry. Operating sites in Brisbane, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne P2P delivers superior service to drivers through vertically integrated operations that provide vehicle maintenance, accident repairs, rostering, payments, insurance and driver support all from one convenient location. With 1,100 vehicles in the fleet with over 93% being environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles, P2P is leading the industry in service, vehicle quality and lowering the environmental impact of passenger transport.
The primary growth strategy for P2P continues to be focused on fleet growth through the acquisition of vehicles and businesses in the fragmented passenger fleet industry. Several organic growth opportunities exist that focus on capitalising on the scale of the fleet deployment. Current initiatives include Adflow Digital, a digital taxi top advertising platform that can be controlled over the air and advertising targeted using location, temperature, time, lighting conditions and many other variables.

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Backpack Lumbar Cassette 10L

€ 129.00 EUR

These handy hip pockets can be positioned horizontally or vertically depending on if you'd like them to be tucked out of the way or readily accessible.

The central compartment is reinforced with a PP board to stiffen the cassette for easy packing and keeping your things safe! Also featured are practical sleeve pockets for maps and gloves.

  • 10 L of extra space for your Boblbee backpack
  • Compatible with the hardshell backpack range
  • Swedish design
  • Extra sleeve pockets

Size: 16.5 (W) × 7.5 (H) × 7.5(D) in
42 (W) × 19( H) × 19 (D) cm
Weight: 21.7 oz / 615 g
Volume: 610 / 10l
Compartments: Three plus stretch webbing on outer
right side and pocket on outer left side.
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Sir Howard Stringer takes jabs at Scotland

British former Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer couldn’t help taking a few jabs at Scotland in New York Monday, as the country weighs leaving the UK this week.

Welsh-born Stringer was at the Plaza to honor Angela Lansbury — whom he credited with single-handedly saving his former network CBS with “Murder, She Wrote” — at the American Theatre Wing gala.

“It’s on [Britain’s] ITV-3 tonight,” Stringer, who arrived from London, said of Lansbury’s series’ endless popularity. “I’m missing it. I hope the bloody Scots are too busy watching it — maybe they’ll forget to vote.”

He added to London-born Lansbury, “Angela, I’m really glad you’re not Scottish,” and, “I’m troubled by Scotland. I’m Welsh. We couldn’t organize a rugby game.”

Lansbury’s co-star from “Sweeney Todd” Len Cariou roasted Lansbury by singing: “She’s had 18 Emmy nominations without a win — 12 in a row, it’s an f—ing sin,” as well as, “Last year she got an Oscar just because she’s still alive.”

Harvey Fierstein brought the house down with a rendition of “The Man in the Moon” from “Mame,” and he also prepared for flu season by getting a flu shot from his doctor, Barry Kohn, in the Plaza men’s room (“That turned some heads,” he said.) Glenn Close, Christine Ebersole and James Monroe Iglehart also sang for Lansbury and a crowd including James Earl Jones, Hal Prince, Jordan and Daryl Roth, Susan Stroman, Heather Hitchens, William Ivey Long and Judy Collins.

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Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre marry in Morocco

Idris Elba is a married man.

The actor-turned-DJ, 46, and Sabrina Dhowre tied the knot in Morocco on Friday.

They exchanged vows at the Ksar Char Bagh hotel in Marrakesh, according to British Vogue.

Elba wore a custom suit by Ozwald Boateng and Dhowre stunned in a Vera Wang gown with an off-the-shoulder detail. She changed into a V-neck dress complete with couture lace by the same designer for their black-tie reception.

The couple paid tribute to their exotic wedding destination with a “colors of the Souk”-themed dinner the night before the wedding at the Amanjena hotel. On Saturday they’ll be hosting an all-white festival-themed party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

The “Sexiest Man Alive” and Dhowre got engaged last year at a film screening after a year of dating.

Elba shares a daughter with ex-wife Hanne Norgaard, to whom he was married to from 1999 to 2003. He was also briefly married to Sonya Nicole Hamlin in 2006.

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ICATMBC 2020 : International Conference on Alternative and Traditional Medicine for Blood Cancer

Miami, USA
March 12 - 13, 2020

Conference Code: 20US03ICATMBC

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the Open Science Index, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zenedo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCAT, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases. Impact Factor Indicators.

Special Journal Issues

ICATMBC 2020 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Alternative and Traditional Medicine for Blood Cancer. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge.

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Conference offers the opportunity to become a conference sponsor or exhibitor. To participate as a sponsor or exhibitor, please download and complete the Conference Sponsorship Request Form.

Important Dates

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline   February 13, 2020
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection   February 27, 2020
Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline   February 11, 2020
Conference Dates   March 12 - 13, 2020

Important Notes

Please ensure your submission meets the conference's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers.

Please refer to the Paper Submission GUIDE before submitting your paper.

Selected Conference Papers

1) Diagnosis of Diabetes Using Computer Methods: Soft Computing Methods for Diabetes Detection Using Iris
Piyush Samant, Ravinder Agarwal
2) Ethnic Andean Concepts of Health and Illness in the Post-Colombian World and Its Relevance Today
Elizabeth J. Currie, Fernando Ortega Perez
3) Development of a Telemedical Network Supporting an Automated Flow Cytometric Analysis for the Clinical Follow-up of Leukaemia
Claude Takenga, Rolf-Dietrich Berndt, Erling Si, Markus Diem, Guohui Qiao, Melanie Gau, Michael Brandstoetter, Martin Kampel, Michael Dworzak
4) Unsupervised Segmentation Technique for Acute Leukemia Cells Using Clustering Algorithms
N. H. Harun, A. S. Abdul Nasir, M. Y. Mashor, R. Hassan
5) Inhibitory Effects of Extracts and Isolates from Kigelia africana Fruits against Pathogenic Bacteria and Yeasts
Deepak K. Semwal, Ruchi B. Semwal, Aijaz Ahmad, Guy P. Kamatou, Alvaro M. Viljoen
6) Extracting Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils from the Lamiaceae Plant Family in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Highlights on Great Possibilities and Sever Difficulties
Suzan M. Shahin, Mohammed A. Salem
7) Relationship of Arm Acupressure Points and Thai Traditional Massage
Boonyarat Chaleephay
8) Using Multi-Linguistic Techniques for Thailand Herb and Traditional Medicine Registration Systems
Thanapol Wisuttikul, Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Santipong Thaiprayoon
9) Genetic Polymorphism of the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia and Hyperhomocysteinemia its Relation with the for a Group of Children in the East of Algeria
Yahia Massinissa, Kalla A, Yahia M, Benbia S
10) Induction of Apoptosis by Newcastle Disease Virus Strains AF220 and V4-UPM in Human Promyelocytic Leukemia (HL60) and Human T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia (CEM-SS) Cells
Siti Aishah Abu Bakar, Madihah Zawawi, Abdul Manaf Ali, Aini Ideris
11) Phenotypes of B Cells Differ in EBV-positive Burkitt-s lymphoma Derived Cell Lines
Irina Spaka, Rita Birkenfelde, Svetlana Kozireva, Jevgenija Osmjana, Madara Upmane, ElenaKashuba, Irina Kholodnyuk Holodnuka
12) Study of Iranian Biospherical Reservation Areas for Medicinal Plants Diversity
Esmaeil Yasari, Abed Vahedi
13) NFκB Pathway Modeling for Optimal Drug Combination Therapy on Multiple Myeloma
Huiming Peng, Jianguo Wen, Hongwei Li, Jeff Chang, Xiaobo Zhou
14) A Simple Affymetrix Ratio-transformation Method Yields Comparable Expression Level Quantifications with cDNA Data
Chintanu K. Sarmah, Sandhya Samarasinghe, Don Kulasiri, Daniel Catchpoole
15) Prevalence of Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Membrane Protein-1 in Jordanian Patients with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Non- Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Fawzi Irshaid, Adnan Jaran, Fatiha Dilmi, Khaled Tarawneh, Raji Hadeth, Ahad Al-Khatib

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ICRCA 2021 : International Conference on Reproductive Cloning and Applications

Cape Town, South Africa
April 15 - 16, 2021

Conference Code: 21ZA04ICRCA

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the Open Science Index, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zenedo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCAT, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases. Impact Factor Indicators.

Special Journal Issues

ICRCA 2021 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Reproductive Cloning and Applications. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge.

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Conference offers the opportunity to become a conference sponsor or exhibitor. To participate as a sponsor or exhibitor, please download and complete the Conference Sponsorship Request Form.

Important Dates

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline   February 27, 2020
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection   March 12, 2020
Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline   March 16, 2021
Conference Dates   April 15 - 16, 2021

Important Notes

Please ensure your submission meets the conference's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers.

Please refer to the Paper Submission GUIDE before submitting your paper.

Selected Conference Papers

1) Modelling and Control of Milk Fermentation Process in Biochemical Reactor
Jožef Ritonja
2) Computation of Natural Logarithm Using Abstract Chemical Reaction Networks
Iuliia Zarubiieva, Joyun Tseng, Vishwesh Kulkarni
3) Biosorption of Azo Dye Reactive Black B onto Nonviable Biomass of Cladosporium cladosporioides LM1: Thermodynamic, Kinetic and Equilibrium Modeling
L. A. S. Dionel, B. A. P. Santos, V. C. P. Lopes, L. G. Vasconcelos, M. A. Soares, E. B. Morais
4) Effects of Ophiocordyceps dipterigena BCC 2073 β-Glucan as a Prebiotic on the in vitro Growth of Probiotic and Pathogenic Bacteria
Wai Prathumpai, Pranee Rachtawee, Sutamat Khajeeram, Pariya Na Nakorn
5) Exporting Physiochemical Changes during the Fermentation of Aloe Vera
Kyaw Hla Myint, Phyoe Wai Htun
6) Pathogenic Bacteria Isolated from Diseased Giant Freshwater Prawn in Shrimp Culture Ponds
Kusumawadee Thancharoen, Rungrat Nontawong, Thanawat Junsom
7) Synergistic Impacts and Optimization of Gas Flow Rate, Concentration of CO2, and Light Intensity on CO2 Biofixation in Wastewater Medium by Chlorella vulgaris
Ahmed Arkoazi, Hussein Znad, Ranjeet Utikar
8) Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Sunflower Oil Using Central Composite Design
Pascal Mwenge, Jefrey Pilusa, Tumisang Seodigeng
9) Malt Bagasse Waste as Biosorbent for Malachite Green: An Ecofriendly Approach for Dye Removal from Aqueous Solution
H. C. O. Reis, A. S. Cossolin, B. A. P. Santos, K. C. Castro, G. M. Pereira, V. C. Silva, P. T. Sousa Jr, E. L. Dall’Oglio, L. G. Vasconcelos, E. B. Morais
10) Bioleaching of Metals Contained in Spent Catalysts by Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans DSM 26636
Andrea M. Rivas-Castillo, Marlenne Gómez-Ramirez, Isela Rodríguez-Pozos, Norma G. Rojas-Avelizapa
11) The Fracture Resistance of Zirconia Based Dental Crowns from Cyclic Loading: A Function of Relative Wear Depth
T. Qasim, B. El Masoud, D. Ailabouni
12) Feasibility Study of Mine Tailing’s Treatment by Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans DSM 26636
M. Gómez-Ramírez, A. Rivas-Castillo, I. Rodríguez-Pozos, R. A. Avalos-Zuñiga, N. G. Rojas-Avelizapa
13) Effect of Core Puncture Diameter on Bio-Char Kiln Efficiency
W. Intagun, T. Khamdaeng, P. Prom-ngarm, N. Panyoyai
14) Assessing the Antimicrobial Activity of Chitosan Nanoparticles by Fluorescence-Labeling
Laidson P. Gomes, Cristina T. Andrade, Eduardo M. Del Aguila, Cameron Alexander, Vânia M. F. Paschoalin
15) Cloning, Expression and Protein Purification of AV1 Gene of Okra Leaf Curl Virus Egyptian Isolate and Genetic Diversity between Whitefly and Different Plant Hosts
Dalia. G. Aseel

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Convos With My 2-Year Old Mimics My Life

sophia schoolWhen it comes to life with a two-year-old, you know that you’re going to end up having some insane conversations with them, that make no sense, that make you laugh, and many, MANY times are going to make you laugh until you either A) cry B) pee yourself.

So, you can imagine my delight when I came upon the YouTube channel for Convos With My 2 Year OldI’m not kidding when I tell you that watching videos of a dad’s actual conversations with his 2-year old daughter… as re-enacted by him and another full-grown man, is like watching my own life. Granted, I don’t re-enact conversations I have with Sophia with another full-grown man (and I’m kicking myself for not coming up with the idea, because it’s brilliant), but the topics, the crazy things said, all remind me of my life.

Here is the first episode from their first season. It’s awesomely hilarious. They recently started releasing episodes for their second season.

To be honest, my favorite part of these videos, aside from laughing hysterically at them, is watching them with Sophia. She LOVES them. She’s watched them so many times that she’s memorized the lines and repeats them verbatim. Even if we aren’t talking about them.

She especially loves this one about pants. Thanks to this, she yells at random times: “The tag HURTS me, it HURTS!” and “I’m not wearing ANY pants!” It’s hilarious. Well, to me, anyway.

So go watch their videos, ALL of them. Even if you don’t have kids, chances are you’ve interacted with a 2-year-old and have walked away from the conversation saying to yourself “what the heck just happened?!”

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Why Mercer International Inc. is an Undervalued Gem (NYSE: MERC) By Tyler R. Martin

Why Mercer International Inc. is an Undervalued Gem (NYSE: MERC) By Tyler R. Martin Today I’ll be writing about one of my favorite companies: Mercer International Inc. (MERC), and will be presenting a buy and hold case for this company regardless of your investment principles, personal values or financial goals. In future posts, I likely will not find another company (or find very, very few) who I’d recommend to the income seeking retiree, the young aspiring investor and every investor in between. To begin, Mercer International Inc. (MERC), is a very small company with a market cap of about 900 Million, however, its fundamentals are that of a company easily worth billions, indicating that’s minuscule market presence is due solely to the fact that too few investors are privy to its existence. Additionally, MERC has several entrenched, solidly producing irons in the fire. Primarily operating in the lumber industry, MERC produces softwood pulp for various grades of bleached paper and tissue products. To do this, MERC owns various sawmills in Europe and the Americas. Through the utilization of the natural black liquor and wood-waste byproducts of these sawmills, Mercer International Inc. (MERC) produces carbon neutral green energy at a net positive energy output. This means that the energy it produces has been more than sustaining its day to day operations and the excess is sold at a profit. This carbon neutral energy structure, along with its operation of numerous railway systems in Europe (considered a “green” mode of transport), demonstrate not only MERC’s commitment to planet friendly business (an important factor in today’s political environment) but also a commitment to keeping costs in check through internal self-sufficiency. So now some stats: Mercer International Inc. (MERC) is currently a bargain, valued at 13.35 dollars per share at the time of this writing, which puts it at ~9.21 dollars below the 52 week high. This company boasts a p/e ratio of ~7x earnings while the average p/e of the paper goods sector is ~10x earnings–(a low p/e ratio relative to peers is a very simple but effective measurement of the intrinsic value of a company). It has a current ratio of 2.60x which indicates MERC has a large stockpile of cash on hand to pay/raise dividends, pay down debt and jump on acquisitions that are potentially undervalued. MERC’s Return on Equity (ROE), which essentially measures how effectively a management team will utilize its assets to create profits, is ~23%, with the industry average hovering around 15%. MERC’s dividend is a robust and growing 3.70% with with a 23% payout ratio and a three year growth rate standing at a very healthy 30%. And last but not least, earnings per share (EPS) and revenue growth over the last 12 months has been has been solid and consistently growing with both standing at ~26%. Analysis Considering the fundamentals of Mercer International Inc. (MERC), the currently discounted price, the growing dividend and the unique and intrinsically solid business structure of this unique and intrinsically solid industry, MERC is a must have for any value investors portfolio.

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