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Jaume Plensa visited his giant heads the other day. He arrived at a corner of Madison Street and Michigan Avenue, found a park bench and reflected. His giant heads appeared to be doing fine, he said. The older heads hadn't aged very much, and the newer heads, despite a long trip in shipping containers from Spain, looked serene and comfortable in Chicago. The two older heads — or rather, the two older faces: 50 feet tall and 23 feet wide, gargoyle-esque and spitting water — stood where he left them a decade ago. Plensa is the Barcelona artist who created Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. For a few moments he watched the faces etched in video within the fountain's twin pillars transform into different faces.

The fountain, which famously holds the images of 1,000 Chicago faces and has become an iconic landmark since the park opened in 2004, was a radical gesture when it debuted, a kind of video sculpture of everyday people, not a stone monument to a famous son or politician. The four new heads that Plensa is having installed in the park are more traditional, much less fluid. These new heads are made of cast iron, marble, fiberglass; they weigh many tons each. But the concept, using ordinary citizens in monumental public art, has not changed.

Plensa collects heads.

Ordinary heads of ordinary people.

His four new heads open to the public on Wednesday. “I call this ‘1,004 Portraits,' because of Crown, and for its 10th anniversary,” he said. “The three new heads on the ledge (east of Crown Fountain) are made of cast iron. This one, facing Madison, is here because Madison is the (north-south) dividing line in Chicago. I like that. It was made two years ago for Rio de Janeiro. A beautiful installation — it stood in the surf. But I always thought it should be in Chicago, because my relationship to Chicago is about water.”

He gestured to Lake Michigan. “I thought it would be beautiful to have it close to the lake, close to Crown Fountain. Water is my obsession. As a child, I could not float. I could not swim. This piece, it carries my memories of water.”

He sat back.

He squinted up at the large white head that stands now in the park at Madison. Perhaps you've seen it. It will sit there (along with its smaller, iron compatriots) until December 2015. The sculpture was originally titled Looking Into My Dreams but Plensa was asked so often in Rio about its origin, it is now Looking Into My Dreams, Awilda.

Awilda is 39 feet tall, made of marble and resin; the internal frame is fiberglass. She arrived from Spain in 15 pieces, then was bolted together. Her expression is placid, and, like many of Plensa's heads — several more can be seen at a new exhibit in the Richard Gray Gallery in the John Hancock Center into September — her eyes are closed, as if dreaming.

Or she could be an alien clone, an extra in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” smooth, featureless, eerie.

“She is real,” Plensa said. “She was a young girl when I made this, maybe 9. She is from the Dominican Republic. She came to Spain with her mother and now is officially Spanish. She is one of the women I have collected.” The eyes are closed “because we keep beauty inside ourselves, and one day we all need to look inside.” But she was made, he continued, by “capturing her portrait with a (laser) scanner, then the 3-D information was manipulated, elongated, flattened out — I like the way that this girl suddenly resembles a flame or a candle as her head becomes stretched. Next step, we decide what materials to use to build her.”

Approach Awilda head-on (so to speak), and you will notice a kind of optical illusion: Her head is so subtly elongated, it is like looking at the statue through a refracted lens. The ground beneath you feels unsettled.

“Really?” Plensa asked. “I have never heard that.”

He thought a moment.

“Yes, I love that! That could be dangerous. I could exploit that feeling,” he said. “For years, a kind of obsession of mine has been marrying sculpture and photography, the concrete and the photo image. It started with the Crown Fountain, that question of whether I could capture the image of a person in something solid but stay photolike. Because a sculpture, it is for eternity, but a photo is the opposite — it is something wider, less rooted.”

Since Crown Fountain, Plensa has only made portraits of women, he said: “I have come to think that the future is female. Men are simple.” He has scanned about 28 female heads, all roughly 8 or 9 years old.

Plensa was in town for the anniversary of the Crown Fountain and the installation of his newest heads, and now, at 58, he looks like a man playing the role of an eminent Spanish artist. His hair is close-cropped and naturally stylish, black with slivers of white that match the speckles of white in his eyebrows and beard. Even on a weekday morning, over the mechanical bangs and whines of bulldozers preparing the sculpture's grounds, he still managed to sound elegant: “For me, a face is not a reproduction of someone, it is a way of talking about the artist. The face is also a gift for others, one part of our body that we cannot see naturally. I am interested in the relationship between body and soul, and the way, as they say, the face is a portrait of a soul. When we were building Crown, I would say to engineers, ‘The body is not enough. We need the soul.'”

He stood and walked toward Crown.

He walked with a slight stoop, as if carrying a bundle on his back. The fountain was off for a repair, water puddled between its twin towers. Plensa walked through the dark plaza area. “This fountain, it was very important for me. It became a point of departure for how I thought about the body in the 10 years since,” he said. “But I also love this fountain because anyone can create a beautiful object, but the fountain created a beautiful space.” It was also never a sure thing, said Tom Jacobs, a principal architect at Krueck + Sexton Architects, the Chicago firm that build Crown Fountain: “It seems effortless now, but back then, Jaume's renderings of what his vision was, it was really hard to imagine if it could be great or, well, not great at all.”

Plensa was one of three artists asked to submit proposals. According to Edward Uhlir, then the nascent park's design director, and now executive director of Millennium Park Inc., the nonprofit that maintains the fountain, artist Maya Lin proposed “a quiet piece you would stumble on,” and architect Robert Venturi submitted plans for “something 150 feet tall, water at its base, lights where water would typically shoot. It was just too out of scale.” Plensa's fountain cost $17 million, and today the fountain costs $400,000 a year to maintain, Uhlir said. Its internal hardware has been replaced once, and park executives, anticipating another change of the video-processing gear, are already thinking about adding an additional 1,000 faces, possibly in 2016.

“I have since received many invitations to make this for other cities,” Plensa said. “But no, just this one.”

He passed through the empty fountain and walked up the staircase alongside it, shuffling sideways through the metal gates that surrounded his cast-iron heads. Groundskeepers were laying sheets of grass around the sculptures. A security guard told Plensa that he couldn't be here. Informed he was the artist, she looked hard at him, nodded and walked off. Plensa approached his dark elongated heads, each about 20 feet tall.

“Do you see,” he asked, “how the faces are stretched and seem to disappear as you walk by?” He walked around the works. “Ines,” he said, facing the heads, motioning left to right, “then Laura, and she is Paula.”

He watched men smooth out grass and noticed a line of thin, flute-shaped trees to be planted.

“The most beautiful moment with these heads,” he started to say, “is actually the de-install, in a year or so, when people feel the emptiness that was there. Excuse me.” Distracted by the trees, he found a park executive, who explained that the trees would be installed between the Crown Fountain and the iron heads.

“Where?” Plensa said.

“Here,” the man replied, gesturing to space at the top of the stairs.

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no,” Plensa said, immediately reaching for his phone and calling a groundskeeper. He spoke quietly for a minute then, apparently realizing the trees were intended for a slightly different spot between the works, apologized. He walked toward a few tree branches hanging low, within feet of his heads.

“Will these branches touch?” he asked, concerned.

A groundskeeper shook her head and explained it would take years for them to grow long enough to be a concern.

“Are you the artist?” she asked Plensa.

“I am,” he said, “and I did the Crown Fountain too.”

“You did!” she declared.

“I did,” he said.

“Such lovely work,” she said.

“Chicago,” Plensa whispered once the woman left. “Chicago, it has been very nice to me.”

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Highland Park, Illinois - On behalf of the City of Highland Park Human Relations Commission's Character Counts Committee, Mayor Nancy Rotering presented more than 30 students, residents and members of the business community the 2014 Robert Barnard Character Counts award on April 9, 2014 at the Annual Character Counts Award Ceremony.

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North Shore School District 112 Superintendent David Behlow, Highland Park High School Principal Brad Swanson, and Human Relations Commission Student Commissioners, HPHS Seniors Dara Canchester and Emily King shared the individual nominations as the awards were presented.

The Human Relations Commission named Robert Barnard as the first recipient of the Character Counts Pillar Award. An active volunteer throughout his life, Mr. Barnard gathered clothing and money for needy families in the greater Highland Park area. He also volunteered through the Highland Park Rotary at the annual Highland Park High School job fair. After his death, the City Council appropriately re-named the Character Counts Pillar Award to honor Robert Barnard.

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Desire is a sense of longing for a person or object or hoping for an outcome.

The same sense is expressed by emotions such as "Craving" or "hankering".

When a person desires something or someone, their sense of longing is excited by the enjoyment or the Thought of the item or person, and they want to take actions to obtain their goal.

The motivational aspect of desire has long been noted by philosophers; Hobbes (1588–1679) asserted that human desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action.

In Buddhism, for an individual to effect his or her Liberation, the flow of sense-desire must be cut completely; however, while training, he or she must work with motivational processes based on skilfully applied desire.

The Buddha stated, according to the early Buddhist scriptures, that Monks should "generate desire" for the sake of fostering skillful qualities and abandoning unskillful ones.

While desires are often classified as emotions by laypersons, psychologists often describe desires as different from emotions; psychologists tend to argue that desires arise from bodily structures, such as the stomach's need for Food, whereas emotions arise from a person's Mental state.

Marketing and advertising companies have used psychological research on how desire is stimulated to find more effective ways to induce consumers to buy a given product or service.

While some advertising attempts to give buyers a sense of lack or wanting, other types of advertising create desire associating the product with desirable attributes, either by showing a celebrity or model with the product.

The theme of desire is at the core of the romance novel, which often create drama by showing cases where human desire is impeded by social conventions, class, or cultural barriers.

As well, it is used in other literary genres, such as gothic novels such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, in which desire is mingled with fear and dread. Poets ranging from Homer to Toni Morrison have dealt with the themes of desire in their work.

Just as desire is central to the written fiction genre of romance, it is the central theme of melodrama films, which use plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience by showing "crises of human emotion, failed romance or Friendship", in which desire is thwarted or unrequited.

In philosophy

In philosophy, desire has been identified as a philosophical problem since Antiquity.

Plato in The Republic argues that individual desires must be postponed in the name of the higher ideal.

Aristotle in De Anima claims that desire is implicated in animal interactions and the propensity of Animals to motion; at the same time, he acknowledges that reasoning also interacts with desire.

Hobbes (1588–1679) proposed the concept of psychological hedonism, which asserts that the "fundamental motivation of all human action is the desire for pleasure."

Spinoza (1632–1677) had a view which contrasted with Hobbes, in that "he saw natural desires as a Form of bondage" that are not chosen by a person of their own Free will.

Hume (1711–1776) claimed that desires and passions are noncognitive, automatic bodily responses, and he argued that reasoning is "capable only of devising means to ends set by desire".

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Kant (1724–1804) called any action based on desires a hypothetical imperative, meaning by this that it is a command of reason that applies only if one desires the goal in question.

Kant also established a relation between the beautiful and pleasure in Critique of Judgment.

Hegel claimed that "self-Consciousness is desire."

Because desire can cause humans to become obsessed and embittered, it has been called one of the causes of woe for mankind.

Within the teachings of Buddhism, Craving is Thought to be the cause of all Suffering that one experiences in human existence.

The eradication of Craving leads one to ultimate Happiness, or Nirvana.

Desire for wholesome things, though, is liberating and enhancing.

While the stream of desire for sense-pleasures must be cut eventually, a practitioner on the Path to Liberation is encouraged by

The Buddha to "generate desire" for the fostering of skillful qualities and the abandoning of unskillful ones.

Within the Christian Faith, desire is seen as something that can either lead a person towards God and Destiny or away from Him. Desire is not considered to be a bad thing in and of itself, rather it is a powerful force within the human that once submitted to the Lordship of Christ can become a wonderful tool for good, for advancement and for abundant living.

Scientific perspectives

Psychology and neurology

While desires are often classified as emotions by laypersons, psychologists often describe desires as different from emotions.

For psychologists, desires arise from bodily structures, such as the stomach which needs Food, the blood needs oxygen, and so on; on the other hand, emotions arise from a person's Mental state.

A 2008 study by the University of Michigan indicated that while humans experience desire and fear as psychological opposites, they share the same brain circuit.

A 2008 study entitled "The Neural Correlates of Desire" showed that the human brain categorizes any stimulus according to its desirability by activating three different brain areas: the superior orbito-frontal, the mid-cingulate, and the anterior cingulate cortices.

While the "neuroscience of Happiness and well-being is still in its infancy", research on the "distant cousins" of pleasure and desire show that reward is a key element in creating both of these states.

Studies showed that a chemical called dopamine is the brain's "pleasure chemical".

Research also shows that the orbitofrontal cortex has connections to both the opioid and dopamine systems, and stimulating this cortex is associated with subjective reports of pleasure.

Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who is best known for his theories of the Unconscious Mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, proposed the notion of the Oedipus Complex, which argues that desire for the mother creates neuroses in their sons.

Freud used the Greek myth of Oedipus to argue that people desire Incest and must repress that desire.

He claimed that children pass through several stages, including a stage in which they fixated on the mother as a sexual object.

That this "complex" is universal has long since been disputed. Even if it were true, that would not explain those neuroses in daughters, but only in sons.

While it is true that sexual confusion can be aberrative in a few cases, there is no credible evidence to suggest that it is a universal scenario.

While Freud was correct in labeling the various symptoms behind most compulsions, phobias and disorders, he was largely incorrect in his theories regarding the etiology of what he identified.

French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) argues that desire first occurs during a "mirror phase" of a baby's development, when the baby sees an image of wholeness in a mirror which gives them a desire for that being.

As a person matures, Lacan claims that they still feel separated from themselves by Language, which is incomplete, and so a person continually strives to become whole.

He uses the term "jouissance" to refer to the lost object or Feeling of absence which a person believes to be unobtainable. For more details on the Lacanian conception of desire, see desire (psychoanalysis)


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  4. That's some serious incentive to come up with something creative!!!:D
  5. I enjoyed looking at "The Ultimate Bible Media Suite" site.
    I am very pleased that the online Bible they provide is the King James Version.
    I don't know that I have ever heard Alexander Scourby but I read and enjoyed his biography and can't imagine a better person to narrate God's word.
    I personally would be so pleased to own this suite as I see it as a good tool in home schooling as well as for my and my husband's personal use.
  6. I would be pleased to own the Bible Media Suite
    To be used as a light unto my path and a lamp unto my feet
    As a tool that will so wonderfully spread the Word
    So that the Blessings of Jesus can be heard
    It should be all of our prayers that our story
    May be used to show the world God's Grace and Glory.

  7. Contest closing soon. :D
  8. Hi, I went to the site and thought I'd share my feedback.......

    I think including the CD carry case is a wonderful idea!

    Speaking from experience.......A few years back I purchased a Bible on CD which didn't come with a case, it came with cardboard foldable sleeves, arranged in order. First, I thought....oh how nice and organized, and what neat little packages. But then I found that they were often to large to fit in the glovebox, to large to fit in the CD Stands, and ended up scattered around.

    Of course I could have gone to the store and bought a case, but by the time I realized I needed to, my children (3,1 yrs) had scattered them around, and ripped the foldable cases up, and I sort of lost interest in the whole idea if it was going to be this much work!

    Which is another feedback I have, great that it is provided in many formats! Though I didn't see a picture of a cell phone on your homepage....I have an MP3 on my cell phone, will I be able to listen with it? (I am not that tech savvy, I know it says MP3 on your site but Since I didn't see a picture of the cell phone.....It makes me wonder!)

    Also, one question I couldn't find the answer to.....Are there sound effects? Like when he reads "people shouted" will there be people in the backgroung shouting? Just wondering.....

    Ha! Ha! My other purchase is sitting less then 4 feet away from me, each cd out of it's case, and stacked up in a large "Tower of Babel" because I didn't have a case to put it in! lol, I kid you not!

    I think offering the case is a helpful tool for the buyer.....who might not be thinking about it at the time of purchase.

    God bless your company,

  9. Any product or offering that allows us to recover potentially waisted time, such as travel, lunch breaks at work etc, is a wonderfull tool for growth. And hey...gotta check out the prophecy of Israel DVD!
    What a great way to inject God's light in the midst of all the "other" influences we are bombarded with moment by moment.
    I hope the winner will put it to good use!

    The death rate is still 100%, and the only thing we take with us when we go is the love we've given and the knowlege we've obtained along the way...fill-er up!!
  10. Contest closed. I'll notify the winner soon and announce it.
  11. Read the second post for the winner's name.
  12. I am so happy, excited, blessed and appreciative!
    This will be a most wonderful thing to have for my family!
    Thank You, so very much!!!:israel: :eek: :dance::bow:
  13. I am very much happy to see that this kind of product is available. It will be ofgreat help to people that have little time to read the scripture.It will give room for them to listen to the scripture while they are doing something else, As i belive that everybody needs jut a word from the lord for transformation.
    I hope it will be available for every kind of people,both the rich and the poor.
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Former Christianity Today editor and second dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Kenneth Kantzer died Thursday June 20. He was 85.

Kantzer was known as a biblical scholar, a caring professor, and a proven builder of influential organizations. "He was a very important figure in following up the pioneering work of the previous generation of evangelicals and in strengthening important institutions," said Mark Noll, McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. "Kantzer was a helper who maximized the work of others. He strengthened institutions to allow others to follow."

Kantzer, born in Detroit on March 29, 1917, is survived by his wife, Ruth, and two adult children, Mary Ruth Wilkinson of Galliano Island, British Columbia, and Dick of Pennington, New Jersey.

In high school, Kantzer rebelled against his Lutheran parents and their religion. He said in a 1996 Christianity Today interview that he considered himself an atheist until he met members of the League of Evangelical Students while attending Ashland College. "I would go to them with the question: How in the world do you believe all of this?" he recalled. "They would recommend books for me to read, and over the course of a year I came to a firm faith in Christ."

He received a master's degree in modern history from Ohio State University and continued his schooling at Faith Theological Seminary. He was ordained into the Evangelical Free Church of America, earned a doctorate from Harvard University, and studied theology in Germany and Switzerland.

The self-sacrificing builder

Kantzer taught theology at Wheaton College from 1946 until 1963. That year, John D. Woodbridge, research professor of church history at Trinity, was a student of Kantzer's. Upon graduation, ...

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Cypress Lakes High School junior Victor Lam combined his knowledge of U.S. history and the judicial system with his love for writing to win the Houston Bar Association's 2011 Law Day essay contests.

"We had about 30 high school essay entries this year," said HBA communications director Tara Hockley "Victor's was the only one we sent to the state competition."

In competition against winning essays from local bar associations from across Texas, Lam's entry tied for third place in the state, Hockley said.

"I knew immediately it was a winner," said Lam's English teacher, Marsha Molden "His essay was not only informative, but it was also creative."

Drawing upon the 2011 Law Day theme, "The Legacy of John Adams, From Boston to Guantanamo," Lam's essay imagined a present-day lawyer who represents a defendant accused in the 9/11 attacks as he draws strength from the role that Adams played in the 1770 Boston Massacre trials.

In that historic example of an advocate defending the rights of an unpopular defendant, Adams successfully represented Capt. John Preston

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Education: Junior at Cypress Lakes High School

Fast fact: His Houston Bar Association 2011 Law Day essay tied for third in the state.

Quote: "Maybe I'll try writing a book sometime. Most likely it would be science fiction, but including some of my personal ideas and personal experiences."

In regard to the 1770 trial, Lam wrote, "When the trial began nearly a week before the final verdict, justice was deafened by the partisan screams of the patriots while truth was buried in the snow by opinion and inference. When the patriots nearly ripped the blindfold from the eyes of justice, John Adams defended it. Colonists had entered the court with assumptions about Preston and his troops, but John Adams cleared their names."

Lam, 16, remembered reading about the Boston Massacre when he was in the eighth grade. "There was no evidence that Preston gave his soldiers any command to fire," he recalled.

Lam is the only child of Chinese immigrants Jim and Bonnie Lam of Cypress. In April, all three attended a luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston, where Lam was honored for his essay. In May, they traveled to Austin for a luncheon at the The Texas Law Center, the headquarters of the State Bar of Texas.

"My parents were really excited," said Lam. "They are very supportive."

As he enters his junior year at Cypress Lakes, Lam is most looking forward to participating again in the Science Olympiad competitive team coached by physics teacher Kimberly Rodriguez The past two years, the team has advanced to state finals by building robots and Rube Goldberg devices that perform simple tasks in a complicated fashion.

Lam also plays clarinet and marches in the Spartan band.

"I will probably continue to write," he said. "Maybe I'll try writing a book sometime. Most likely, it would be science fiction, but including some of my personal ideas and personal experiences."

Lam enjoyed reading favorite author Ayn Rand's books Anthem, We the Living and The Fountainhead

"I like to read old science fiction books, especially from the early 1900s," he added. "Just about anything classic. They had ideas in them."

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In the wider world, the years 1961 and 1962 saw the first man in space, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis. It was quite a time.

But in the really important news, four Scousers called the Beatles’ released their first single, Spartacus was on at the flicks, and Brazil won the World Cup in Chile.

As the ‘samba boys’ took football to a new level in Santiago, the fans of Newcastle United were getting accustomed to life in the hurley-burley of the English second division.

Ten years earlier, the brilliance of Milburn, Robledo and the likes had set Tyneside alight at the start of a sequence of never-to-be-repeated FA Cup heroics.

It was an underwhelmed crowd of 26,000 at St James’ Park which took in a dour 0-0 draw with Leyton Orient on the opening day of the new season.

Four days later, Wallsall arrived at Gallowgate for the first time since 1898. United won a tight game, thanks to a goal from left-winger Liam Tuohy.

And an away trip to Preston gave the Magpies a further narrow win, before the gritty realities of the second division hit home.

The Magpies secured just one point from the next six games, which included a 2-1 defeat to Liverpool, a club beginning a remarkable journey to domestic domination under the management of a certain Bill Shankly.

The Reds would finish the season promoted as Second Division champions - and the rest is history.

Meanwhile, United’s losing streak brought the demise of manager Charlie Mitten who was temporarily replaced in-house by long-serving trainer/coach Norman Smith.

In an attempt to get to grips with life in the second tier, United shuffled the pack with a series of entrances and exits.

In came Barrie Thomas, a £45,000 record signing from Scunthorpe, while the prolific and, in retrospect, under-rated Len White found himself heading out.

White had never recovered from a shocking tackle by Spurs hard man Dave Mackay the previous season, and United’s all-time third-highest scorer moved on to Huddersfield Town.

Meanwhile, the likes of £25,000 Ken Leek from Leicester City failed to make an impact, although local young midfielder Alan Suddick would go on to have a fine Toon career after making his bow this season.

However, all in all, it was a campaign to forget.

United were dumped out of both Cups early, and toiled hard in the league.

Early in 1962, the Magpies found themselves in 18th place with only a flurry of wins in March and April ensuring they would finish in the heady heights of 11th.

The final league table saw United placed behind the likes of Scunthorpe and Rotherham, while Sunderland finished third, missing out on promotion by one point.

Something or somebody was needed to rescue a dire situation.

Much like three decades later when Kevin Keegan the manager rode into Toon, it would be left to a former player and terrace hero to lift the Magpies out of mediocrity.

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A hooded knifeman who threatened a shop assistant ran off after she refused to hand over cash.

The raider, who struck at the Co-op Welcome store in Lynemouth village, near Ashington in Northumberland, yesterday, is believed to have grabbed the assistant by the throat.

She was later sent home suffering from shock.

A spokeswoman for Northumbria Police said the man was wearing a grey hooded top and carrying a large knife when he went into the shop and after being refused money he was last seen running along West Market Street.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Northumbria Police on 08456 043 043 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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Late night boozing is one of the reasons behind a surge in violence revealed today.

Figures just out today show over the last year violent crime, including public order, has risen by 8.7% from 24,496 to 26,627.

Northumbria Police Chief Constable Mike Craik said the rise in violent crime is indicative of a changing society.

He said: "Developments such as 24-hour licensing mean there are more opportunities for people to carry drinking well into the night, creating more potential for disorder and crimes of violence.

"We don't have the same dispersal problems, with pubs turning out at the same time, that's now spread out over a longer period."

As the annual figures were released Mr Craik said he took a tough stance to target drunken, violent and disorderly thugs - and had expected an increase in the recorded figures for these offences.

A number of planned campaigns over the past two years has resulted in tough action in a measured approach to address the problems.

Drink was a major focus for Northumbria Police in a drive against violence, criminal damage and disorder when Mr Craik launched The Party's Over campaign. It was followed by Don't Spoil The Party at Christmas 2005.

Even though crime overall has decreased, anti-social behaviour still remains a prime concern.

Mr Craik said: "I could have buried my head in the sand but I had to make tough decisions. I listened to what the public wanted, for us to work with our partners to make the streets safer.

"Disorder is what bothers people. If that means our crime figures for violence have risen as a result of including these offences and tackling them head on - then so be it.

"I predicted there would be an increase in this category once we started to include other offences as crimes. I was prepared to take that risk because we needed to get to grips with louts."

To combat this, the police chief revealed a review is under way into shift patterns to see if officers could be better deployed.

Mr Craik added: "We want to be able to protect officers to give them the back up they deserve when they are dealing with violence and disorder on the streets. And we want to ensure the public gets the protection from the force."

Coun Nick Forbes, of Newcastle's Westgate ward, said: "You only have to walk round Newcastle on a Friday or Saturday night and you will see for yourself how alcohol is fuelling violence. It is no comfort that my predictions about 24 hour drinking have come true. There needs to be a full review of the council's licensing policy."

Mr Craik added: "It should also be said that this year's figures show fewer people have had their homes burgled and vehicle crime is plummeting."

The force puts nearly half of the violent crime increase down to officers interpreting rowdy or threatening behaviour as a public order offence, rather than a non-criminal matter.

Up to February this year, there was a 27% increase in the number of arrests for violent crime, up from 16,143 to 20,516.

In comparison with similar forces across the country, Northumbria Police has the lowest levels of reported violent crime per 1,000 population, and is one of the most successful in the country for detecting offences of violence and tackling violent crime.

Figures released today show Northumbria Police has recorded another year of overall crime reduction.

This follows a downward trend in crime since 1991. Detections are also at their highest.

Toll of drink fuelled aggro

Drunken violence has killed or left victims on life support in hospital.

Earlier this month a teacher had his ear bitten off in The Cooperage pub in Newcastle while on a staff night out.

In March one man collapsed in the street, stabbed to the heart and another needing treatment after being knocked unconscious with blows to the head following a fight in the toilets of The Trap pub in Fawdon, Newcastle.

John Fairbairn, 53, was put in hospital by a one-punch assault in the city centre last October.

That attack happened yards from where Michael Cunningham, 27, was punched to the pavement in the Bigg Market on October 15, fracturing his skull.

He suffered a blood clot to the brain and spent days on a life-support machine.

Trevor Hardy, 58, of Arthur's Hill, Newcastle, was standing up for women upset by drunken Norman Young in a city bar when he was killed with one punch on June 28, 2005, as he hit the ground, fracturing his skull. He died five days later. Young, 27, was jailed for manslaughter.

Last year one-punch attack victim John Bell received a five-figure cash payout for an unprovoked assault in Seahouses in 1998. The 37-year-old was left epileptic with a prosthetic skull part and personality changes that led to the break-up of his marriage.


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FDA approvals clear way for flu vaccine marketing

Editor's note: This story was updated Aug 7 to include information about the start of influenza vaccine shipments by Novartis.

Aug 6, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The six companies that make influenza vaccine for the US market have won federal approval for their version of this year's vaccine, in which all three flu strains used in last year's product have been replaced, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday.

The FDA announcement clears the way for marketing of the vaccines. At least three vaccine makers have begun shipping vaccine to distributors and providers, according to recent company announcements.

The six manufacturers and their vaccines are CSL Limited, Afluria; GlaoxSmithKline Biologicals, Fluarix; ID Biomedical Corp. of Quebec (a unit of GlaxoSmithKline), FluLaval; MedImmune, FluMist; Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Fluvirin; and Sanofi Pasteur, Fluzone.

In the wake of a relatively poor match between the vaccine and circulating flu strains last season, experts at the World Health Organization and the FDA in February recommended changing all three strains of virus used in the vaccine. In most years only one or two of the three strains are changed.

"One of the biggest challenges in the fight against influenza is producing new vaccines every year," Jesse Goodman, MD, MPH, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a news release. "There is no other instance where new vaccines must be made every year."

Two of the three strains in the 2008-09 vaccine are included in vaccines now being used in the Southern Hemisphere, where the flu season is under way, the FDA noted.

The decision to change all three strains in the vaccine had generated some concern about possible production delays or low yields of the viruses, which are grown in eggs. But Curtis Allen, a spokesman for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, said today he hasn't heard of any problems growing the strains.

"Vaccine production is always fraught with risk and anywhere along the line things can go wrong, but so far they have not, and we're looking forward to a season with adequate supplies of vaccine," Allen told CIDRAP News.

At a meeting in May, manufacturers estimated they would produce a record total of 143 million to 146 million doses of flu vaccine for the US market this year. Allen said the estimates of vaccine production have not changed since then. Last year 140 million doses were produced.

Allen listed the manufacturers' production estimates as follows: Sanofi Pasteur, 50 million doses; GlaxoSmithKline (including ID Biomedical), 35 million to 38 million; MedImmune, 12 million; Novartis, 40 million; and CSL, 6 million.

Sanofi announced Aug 1 that it had begun shipping the first 1.3 million doses of Fluzone. "Vaccine shipments to healthcare providers and to the [CDC] for distribution through the Vaccines for Children Program will continue through the fall and are planned to be completed in October," the company said in a news release.

The statement indicated that replacing all three strains of virus has not caused any major production problems.

"Introduction of three new strains for the influenza vaccine was unprecedented and could have resulted in a low yield or delay given our tight production timeline. Despite these challenges, we are pleased that once again Sanofi Pasteur has demonstrated its reliability in supplying Fluzone vaccine to the US market," said Wayne Pisano, the company's president and chief executive officer, in the news release.

MedImmune announced yesterday that shipments of FluMist, a nasal-spray vaccine that uses a weakened form of live virus, had begun on Jul 31. In a news release, the company affirmed that it plans to produce about 12 million doses, a record number.

FluMist will be available at some retail pharmacies and supermarkets and in nearly 200 school-based vaccination programs and university health centers, the company said. In addition, the federal government, as in past years, is buying some doses for use in military personnel, officials said.

Novartis announced Aug 7 that it has begun shipping Fluvirin to US healthcare providers. The company said it expects to deliver 20 million doses by the end of September and aims to deliver the remaining 20 million by Oct 31. Officials said the company has added a second manufacturing facility, located in Rosia, Italy, to help supply flu vaccine earlier in the season. The firm's other facility is in Liverpool, England.

"Despite the new composition [of the vaccine], Novartis made sure we were able to deliver a timely and robust supply of influenza vaccine this year," said Rajiv De Silva, president of Novartis Vaccines in the US, in a news release.

This is the first year the CDC is formally recommending flu shots for school-age children, adding about 30 million people to the ranks of those targeted for vaccination. Allen said the total number of those targeted for vaccination—including people at risk for serious flu complications and their close contacts—is about 258 million, or roughly 84% of the population.

See also:

Aug 5 FDA news release

FDA page with chart of vaccine lot releases

Aug 4 MedImmune news release

Aug 1 Sanofi Pasteur news release

May 13 CIDRAP News story "Flu experts try to ensure record vaccine doses get used"

Feb 22 CIDRAP News story "FDA endorses overhaul for 2008-09 flu vaccine"

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The mother nature of Evolution: Selection, Inheritance and History

The mother nature of Evolution: Selection, Inheritance and History

“I am convinced that all natural range happens to be the most crucial although not unique means that of modification.” ? Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Why do fashionable people show totally different characteristics than our extinct primate ancestors like the Neanderthal? And how come some species prosper and evolve, why many others are forced to your brink of extinction? Evolution may be a intricate approach that manifests through time. Darwinian purely natural collection and Mendelian inheritance are key components to our comprehending of it. The existence of evolution is evidenced by historic fossil records and is particularly observable in present day occasions in the process, for illustration, in the evolution of antibiotic resistance of micro organism. Evolution may be the system of adaptation of the species above time in order to outlive and reproduce. What roles do choice and inheritance enjoy?

Natural choice potential customers to predominance of a number of attributes more than time

Charles Darwin is just about the founding fathers of modern evolutionary theory. His highly-respected investigate summarized in ‘The Origin of Species’6, postulates a struggle for survival and healthy selection, in which the fittest organisms endure together with the weakest die. The competitors for minimal resources and sexual reproduction less than influence of ecological forces construct healthy variety pressures, where the foremost adaptable species, sometimes called ‘the fittest’, will achieve fitness features more than the mal-adapted and outcompete them by all those implies. The physical fitness of an organism could very well be described through the genuine variety of offspring an organism contributes, regarding the amount of offspring it truly is bodily disposed to add.1-4 An often-cited case in point tends to be that on the evolution of long-necked Giraffes from shorter-necked ancestors. As giraffes are feeding within the leaves of trees by stretching their necks to achieve them, it is usually obvious that a longer neck is useful during the struggle of survival. But how do these alterations arise to start with? It really is as a result of mutations that variability is launched right into a gene pool. Genetic mutations can alter the genotype and phenotype of a trait including the length for the neck of a giraffe. Mutations tend not to crop up as the reaction to natural and organic assortment, but are somewhat a ongoing event.” Natural and organic collection could be the editor, as an alternative to the composer, with the genetic concept.”5 But not all mutations bring on evolution. Characteristics similar to a quite lengthened neck is often handed on from parent to offspring more than time, producing a gradual evolution from the neck duration. Individuals that transpire being beneficial for survival and therefore are remaining selected on, are handed on and will persist from ancestors to current descendants of a species.

As Darwin has observed: “But if variants beneficial to any organic becoming do arise, assuredly men and women thereby characterized could have the best chance of getting preserved around the wrestle for life; and on the potent basic principle of inheritance, they will develop offspring similarly characterised. This basic principle of preservation, I have known as with the sake of brevitiy, all-natural Selection.” six As a result, only when range strain is placed on those characteristics, do genotype and phenotype variants produce evolution and predominance of a number of characteristics.7 That is a sampling process in accordance with distinctions in fitness-and mortality-consequences of these features. Genetic variations can even manifest by way of random genetic drifts (random sampling) and sexual variety. But how will these mutations bring about evolution? The genetic variation will have to be hereditary.8, 9

Heredity of genetic attributes and populace genetics

Inheritance of genetic variation is an additional important factor generally acknowledged being a driver of evolutionary forces. To be able for evolution to consider site, there needs to be genetic variation with the unique, on which organic and natural (and sexual) range will act. Current evolutionary theory may be the union of two essential thought solutions of Darwinian assortment and Mendelian genetics. eight The discoveries of Gregory Mendel in molecular genetics have largely displaced the more historic design of blended inheritance. Reported by this product, the filial era represents a set indicate belonging to the parents’ genetic substance. Nonetheless, with new knowing, this might render evolution implausible, since the crucial genetic variation will be shed. Mendelian genetics, in contrast, proved which the filial technology preserves genetic variability by using alternate alleles which can be inherited, one in every of which will be dominant greater than another. Therefore, offspring manage a established of genetic alternate options with the peculiarities in the mother and father from the kind of alleles. The impact of Mendelian genetics over the evolution on a inhabitants level is expressed through the Hardy-Weinberg Principle’, dependant upon the do the trick of Wilhelm Weinberg and Gotfrey Hardy. eight Two alleles on the locus represent two alternate options to your gene. The Hardy-Weinberg equation is: P^2 +2qp + q^2 = 1 P^2 and q^2 are classified as the frequencies with the AA and aa genotype from alleles A in addition to a of the gene, respectively as has to equivalent 1 or 100%. P stands out as the frequency with the dominant, q from the recessive allele. They determined a lot of things as essential drivers to impact allele frequencies within just the gene pool of a population. The manifestation of evolutionary forces may be expressed on the molecular stage being a modification of allele frequencies in just a gene pool of a populace in excess of time. These reasons are genetic drift, mutation, migration and assortment. The theory assumes that allele frequencies are and remain at equilibrium in an infinitely large populace on the absence of those forces and using the assumption of random mating. 8 Allele frequencies in just a gene pool are inherently secure, but alter over time stemming from the evolutionary components incorporated from the equation. The gradual accumulation of such on molecular amount bring on evolution, observable as speciation events and evolution of species (genotype, phenotype).

Modern evolutionary idea consists of distinctive mechanisms by which gene and genotype frequency are impacted and the way evolution will take site around time. The 2 key drivers of evolution are natural choice as well as hereditary nature of genetic mutations that affect health and fitness. These discover the manifestation meine of allele frequencies of several qualities in a populace over time, for that reason the species evolves. We are able to observe the character of evolution day by day, when noticing similarities amongst parents and offspring also as siblings, or via the big difference of modern individuals from our primate ancestors.


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Prince George's County, Maryland Office of Homeland Security
Date last updated: Dec 7, 2016

General Information

Month and year the CERT Program was started: December 2003

Geographic Area: PRINCE GEORGES (County)

Point of Contact:
James Morrow
Volunteer Service Coordinator
Office of Homeland Security/ Office of Emergency Management
7915 Anchor Street
Landover, MD 20785

(301) 324-4342

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On average, this CERT Program conducts the CERT Basic Training Course 11 times a year.

Number of CERT classes that have graduated since the program started: 75

Number of individuals who have completed CERT Basic Training Course since the program started: 9440

Local CERT Programs offer training to the general public and/or to particular groups in the community. This CERT Program holds classes for the following groups:

  • General public / Open classes

  • Specific neighborhood groups

  • Businesses

  • Critical infrastructure sectors (e.g., utilities, public transportation)

  • Government groups

  • Faith-based organizations

  • Teens / Youth

  • Colleges / Universities

  • People with disabilities

  • Military groups

Language(s) in which the program conducts CERT training:

  • English

  • Spanish

Supplemental Training

Does this program offer or require supplemental training in addition to the CERT Basic Training Course? Yes

Supplemental training conducted, recommended, and/or required for CERT members:

  • CERT Animal Response I

  • IS-100.a Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS)

  • IS-200.a ICS for Single Resources

  • IS-700.a National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction

  • IS-800.b National Response Framework, An Introduction

  • Amateur radio operation

  • Animals in emergencies (training other than CERT Animal Response modules)

  • Community relations

  • Additional CBRNE awareness

  • Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

  • Automatic External Defibrillation (AED)

  • Basic first aid

  • Additional Incident Command System (ICS)

  • Additional National Incident Management System (NIMS)

  • Mass care

  • Shelter operations/management

  • Additional Search & Rescue

A total of 150 CERTs have participated in 3 exercises.

CERT in Action

Number of times the CERTs have responded in actual emergencies:18

Types of emergencies/disasters to which the CERTs have responded:

  • Flood

  • Excessive heat

  • Hurricane / Coastal storm

  • Missing person search

  • Pandemic

  • Severe thunderstorm

  • Winter storm

Activities During Emergencies

Activities conducted by CERTs during past emergencies:

  • Residential / Neighborhood checks

  • Medical intervention (triage or treatment)

  • Evacuation of individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs

  • Animal evacuation or shelter

  • Debris removal

  • Sandbagging

  • Managing / processing supplies or donations

  • Traffic management / Crowd management

  • Basic search and rescue

  • Fire-related safety measures

  • Utility control / Shut off

  • Staffing Emergency Operating Center

  • Staffing shelters

  • Community relations / Distribution of emergency information to public

  • Other - Assisted in the EOC & w/ crowd control during the 44th U.S. Presidential Inaugural activities

Non-Emergency Functions

Non-emergency functions performed by CERT members:

  • Mitigation activities (including home safety/prevention assistance, such as winterizing homes, installing smoke detectors, etc.)

  • Conduct and support emergency preparedness efforts and projects, including sharing information with the public about protective actions and encouraging them to practice

  • Support emergency planning, exercises, and drills in the community, including for neighborhoods, schools, and businesses

  • Support for public safety at community events

  • Fire safety

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It took ten years for Ana Popovic to convince her father Milton to record an album together. At last she got him to the studio with an argument he could not reject: ‘Just do it for your grandchildren.’ He did. The result is a new and impressive CD from daughter and dad Popovic, called ‘Blue Room. Back to the socalled 'blue room' of Ana’s childhood - a small secluded part stacked with amps and guitars in a modest apartment on the eleventh floor in New Belgrade (Serbia). Back to the place where Milton introduced his impressive blues and soul collection to his daughter. Back to the evenings with friends when father used to take his guitar to play songs at house parties and jam sessions which filled the apartment with his smooth voice and enchanting sound. Back to the time when Ana learned about the secrets of blues, soul and rock. And so, overwhelmed by the beauty of the sound, decided for a musicians life. Now, together united on a surprising CD produced by Jim Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Santana), Ana and Milton play and sing songs they used to play in the days before. •"By the time I moved around the world, over Amsterdam and New Orleans to Memphis, I’ve listened to a lot of different artists all over and couldn’t really find anyone sounding quite like Milton." - Ana Popovic

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1.    The U.S. should, first, do no harm. NO U.S. military strikes or any further military intervention in Syria. Support UN decision-making, international law and diplomacy instead of military force.
2.   The U.S. should call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides and a comprehensive international arms embargo.  Announce plans to stop sending or facilitating any arms to rebel forces or allowing U.S. allies to do so, and urge Russia and Iran to stop sending any arms to the Syrian government.

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I am the woman who spoke to you from the audience at the March 11th Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on AUMF.  You were asking for congressional authority to demolish ISIL or DAESH.  You made it sound as though you have an explicit military target that can easily be bombed into obliteration.

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In a BBC interview you claimed, “The only people that we fire a drone at are confirmed terrorist targets at the highest level after a great deal of vetting that takes a long period of time.  We don’t just fire a drone at somebody and think they’re a terrorist.”   (BBC, May 28, 2013;  To be clear, we are talking here about extrajudicial assassinations, which are condemned as human rights violations when conducted by other countries, and which, until recently, were only conducted covertly by the U.S. government. Now I hear you defending this outrageous practice without even acknowledging that it always results in a significant number of civilians being killed as well.

Secretary Kerry, this is the U.S. military force that has spawned hatred, resistance, and retaliation.  The image of victims that ISIS has dressed in orange jump suits — to mimic the U.S. detainees imprisoned and tortured for 13 years at Guantanamo — is seared in the minds of Americans.  That message is clear: human rights violations by the United States will not be forgotten.  So rather than using the abomination of terrorist tactics to justify using military might, I suggest you hold up examples of successful diplomacy to defend your continued negotiations with Iran.  Counter the ravenous appetite of the hawks for an ongoing military fiasco.  The solution to terrorism is not brute force.

You said in your testimony that Americans are united in this effort.  You’ll never get a united front of Americans to support the barbarity of military force.  We who believe that diplomacy is the only way to peace in the world will continue to oppose the drumbeat of war.  As my sign said:  There is no military solution.

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