Stine Schreiber Health Sciences Center formally opened Wednesday Officials and donors cut the ribbon and toured the facility at 24 N The center will house a master’s degree in physician assistant program offered by Frostburg State University through the University System of Maryland at Hagerstown and I just want to thank you guys so much,” said Zach Schreiber Schreiber is a graduate of North Hagerstown High School and Liberty University and a member of the first class of 25 students who will begin their studies this month Schreiber and the other 24 were chosen from more than 400 applicants PAs are medical professionals who practice in various medical settings prescribe medications and increasingly serve as a patient’s principal health care provider The program will run in partnership with Meritus Medical Center Meritus Health has owned the building for many years and operates a clinic on the first floor FSU will offer the physician assistant training program on the third floor Frostburg announced that it received accreditation-provisional status for the program from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant Inc the Maryland Higher Education Commission and the University System of Maryland approved FSU’s plan to offer the program Stine Schreiber Foundation made a leadership gift of $250,000 toward getting the program started Stine Schreiber was the mother of Lee Stine Stine said the family foundation has supported a number of causes “I think this is the only thing her name is on fund the program and offer scholarships has come from a variety of sources Those have ranged from private donations to the Washington County Board of Commissioners Bowman Family Foundation and the Alice Virginia and David W describes the bleakest moment of her life as the one that made her the leader she is today “It was the day that everything changed,” she says when she remembers June 22 The damage extended from the creek from the Indigenous community of Cuninico Flor de María was seeing the first evidence of one of the largest oil spills recorded in recent years in the Peruvian Amazon All the fish and our crops were contaminated the men went to work cleaning the oil,” Flor de María recalls hired the men of the community to clean up the spill of 2,358 barrels of crude at the kilometer 42 point on Section I of the pipeline The oil leak upended the lives of the approximately 90 families of the Kukama Kukamiria community whose subsistence and worldview are closely linked to the Marañón River The temporary contract with the company to clean up the spill included a gag order and the men were forbidden from speaking out or complaining about the situation or speaking against Petroperú or the government it was the women of Cuninico who raised their voices and took on leadership roles in the aftermath of the oil spill Flor de María points to the moment in her community’s history when there was a change in the roles of women She proudly describes how they were the ones who protested when the first consequences of oil pollution became evident: respiratory diseases It was the women who organized themselves to establish dialogue with the government women had no presence at meetings and were not valued,” Flor de María says they did not have the right to have an opinion “We are no longer the silent women of before We have told our reality: how we suffer from the damage to our water we have suffered from what we have to feed our children.” Flor de María’s role in leadership stems from an innate talent From the age of 17 she was trained in the parish of Santa Rita de Castilla a Catholic mission an hour from the community that trained women and men from Cuninico in health issues She recalls that the nuns were decisive in her life to recognize her rights as a woman and shape her political role Flor de María was designated as Cuninico’s “Indigenous Mother,” a position that highlights the role of a woman who fights for the human rights of her community The Indigenous Mother has the same decision-making power as the apu An example of her tenacity was on display in Chile in 2016 during a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) dealing with the case of the Cuninico oil spill she had to drink rainwater due to the contamination of the water sources She also warned about diseases in children and adults At one point she held up a plastic bottle containing oil-contaminated water before the rights the commissioners “This type of water runs down our stream,” she stated Why do we have plenty of water if we can’t drink it?” Flor de María reported that some children worked to clean up the spill without protection Petroperú denied hiring children for cleanup work only meat,” Flor de María jokes when she remembers how she got the bottle of water to the hearing in Chile without being detected by airport security “It was necessary to take it to teach them what type of water passes through our body,” she says now She recalls the indignation of some IACHR members in 2017 the commission strongly recommended that the Peruvian government attend to Cuninico and three other communities affected by the spill The spilling of crude oil into the waterways and land around Cuninico impacted every aspect of community life: from its food systems Flor de María says the courage of residents was revived “The courage of the women of Cuninico has inspired everyone those who live here as well as those who came from far away,” she says This need to speak and be represented led several women to organize around a clear political agenda which helped them establish a presence before the government These efforts led to the establishment of not one grassroots organizations in response to the spill They include the Organization of Indigenous Women of the Marañón (Ordemim) the Organization of Native Women of the Marañón (Orgamunama) and the Association of Indigenous Women (Admic) Agnita Saboya says the needs of communities impacted by the spill drove the birth of her organization action items were established to be carried out by the executive branch and other government institutions as part of a larger agenda we did not go to meetings and we were afraid to assume a position “Do you know what men said to us when we wanted to talk when the apu Galo Vásquez” — the former communal leader of Cuninico — “took office This is how we are encouraged to take on a position.” Agnita Saboya had already been president of community work with other women and children she divides her time between her hectic home life and her duties as a leader This is not something she regards as a hindrance She says she’s convinced that the responsibility that Indigenous women have in their communities provides them with the privileged perspective to guide the urgent demands of the population “In all my meetings I always tell them that if I had known what consequences oil would bring to the community Now we want remediation to have a decent and healthy life for our children,” Agnita Saboya says took Agnita Saboya by surprise while she was in Iquitos A few weeks later she contracted the virus and since then has had to remain in Loreto Although she has still not fully recovered and speaks with difficulty Agnita Saboya maintains contact with more than 100 women from Cuninico including from the communities of San Francisco There are many leaders among the women of this land to defend the needs of my people and the rights of children so that they have a good education and a good way of life the first president of the Organization of Native Women of Marañón (Orgamunama) one of the most dramatic changes in Cuninico was the loss of food security including damage to local fisheries and crops the traditional source of subsistence of the Kukama Kukamiria people the women have managed to open up a space to be heard through Orgamunama They have even managed to make their organization part of the working groups with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) and other ministries “We started with 50 members and we registered with the National Superintendence of Public Registries [Sunarp],” she says I formed bases for the organization in nearby villages and now there are 500 women from 24 communities working in the organization.” She adds that they work on corn and rice cultivation as well as in productive development projects Sara says that at first there was a lot of resistance from the men in the community as in most Indigenous communities in the Amazon the role of women is typically limited to the domestic sphere which relegates women to the role of taking care of the home has begun to be dismantled as more women demand to have the same rights to participate in leadership is another of the leaders and protagonists in Cuninico She has been president of the Cuninico Indigenous Women’s Association (Admic) since 2018 the nuns of the Santa Rita de Castilla parish had already warned them about the risk of living near the ONP due to a possible spill she knew about the danger of oil contamination It was one of the reasons they insisted that the National Center for Occupational Health and Environmental Protection for Health (Censopas) and the Regional Health Directorate (Diresa) of Loreto carry out medical examinations on the population studies confirmed that some residents of Cuninico population had high levels of heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium in their bodies there are people here who have throat problems who are underweight and we have tested positive for heavy metals,” Paraná says She adds that the women of the community have suffered particularly severe consequences there was an increase in alcohol consumption among men that led to more cases of family violence but I do have the directive to help my people,” Paraná says “I want women to have confidence that they can work the same as men a team from the social sciences department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) traveled to Cuninico to document the government’s relationship with the community by way of the contamination produced by the oil spill is a lawyer and graduate of the PUCP’s postgraduate program in anthropology She wrote her master’s thesis on women’s organizations created in Cuninico the women of the community managed to consolidate the leadership that was already being formed at the level of public health and parenting initiatives stemming from training given by the Santa Rita de Castilla mission a stronger leadership role was promoted among these women There’s also been a diversification of their demands for productive projects advocacy for the development of public policies through legal support with the Institute of Legal Defense (IDL) and the Vicariate of Iquitos “Women are beginning to enter organizations they are gaining attention and gaining more security and awareness of the rights they have,” Vergara says they started the claims in the Cuninico square for the feeding of their children the treatment of diseases and even the safety of the men’s work They did it for many months and even confronted the Petroperú officials.” They also came out with a podcast called “Our stories from Cuninico,” where Indigenous women and men relate their daily life marked by the oil spill and now by the COVID-19 pandemic The podcast is intended for them to talk about the needs that affect them and how they cope with adverse scenarios The episodes usually start with the women’s stories and the men also contributing The three episodes they have produced so far feature Flor de María Paraná says her team’s interest has always been to work with the women of Cuninico This is because they are in charge of caring for the family They are also in charge of getting the water a task that has been complicated because they now have to travel longer distances due to the oil pollution “It is important to rescue part of this history: the relationship of the communities with the church through the Santa Rita de Castilla parish; the entry of the Augustinian fathers in the ’70s was vital to train promoters,” Ulfe says “There is a formation of many years that the spill activated and that produced these leaders.” public services and Indigenous peoples at the office of Peru’s Ombudsperson tells Mongabay Latam that oil spills exacerbate an existing challenge in many Indigenous communities: deep inequality between men and women “The lack of safe water or food that families suffer affects women more They are the ones that have a greater psychological burden because they are rooted in their role to provide food for their family and not just any food but to provide a good life to the community,” Abanto says there are not only environmental consequences with a heavier presence of outsiders entering Indigenous communities This has a social impact through increased alcohol abuse which can lead to sexual assaults against women and minors accompanied and the importance of their voices noted,” Abanto says this does not release from responsibility the actors who must contribute to reparation but the role of the community is key to rebuilding itself It is essential that a community give women a voice so that they can exercise their leadership role.” Nueva Santa Rosa and San Francisco communities impacted by the 2014 spill the Loreto regional government approved the first health plan to address the fallout of the disaster the government plans to implement nearly $700,000 in health measures for the four communities “The health plan was announced at the hearing to follow up on the execution of the court order and sets a very important precedent,” Ruiz says the Loreto regional health directorate argued that it was overwhelmed Two or three weeks ago we met and decided to return to the subject.” He says the plan calls for epidemiological and health surveys in the native communities of Cuninico San Francisco and Nueva Esperanza through 2021 paid for entirely by the 10% in oil royalties that the Loreto government receives annually and that must be invested in the communities by law “Because the Loreto authorities said they had no funds to execute the plan the judge ordered that the money come out of the royalty funds,” Ruiz says Petroperú has tended to blame them on sabotage the evidence provided by the Energy and Mining Investment Supervisory Agency (Osinergmin) led the Environmental Assessment and Enforcement Agency (OEFA) to determine that there was negligence on the part of the operator due to the lack of maintenance of the pipelines a court in Loreto upheld an earlier ruling ordering the Ministry of Health through its General Directorate of Epidemiology to design and implement an emergency public health strategy including reestablishing a program of medical care and conducting environmental and sanitary epidemiological surveys in the population to understand how it has been affected by the oil spill within a period of 30 days Ruiz noted the role of the Indigenous mothers and women of Cuninico and the other communities in the legal proceedings: their testimonies and follow-up of the issue have been among of the most decisive things to influence the course of justice that they hope will finally be theirs “Now we feel more strengthened not only as leaders but as people,” says Sara Vásquez from Orgamunama the women of Cuninico have found their rights and their voices — and that’s something that cannot be undone Hear more via Mongabay’s podcast: “In the Amazon women are key to forest conservation” here: Banner image: Original illustration of Indigenous leaders of Cuninico as created by Los Angeles-based artist Marlene Solorio for Mongabay. (l-r) Talita Parana, Sara Vasquez, Flor de María Parana, and Agnita Saboya. You can find out more about the artist on Instagram at @m2rl3n3 You may provide up to 30 emails at a time You can provide a custom message that will preface the content in the email Museum of Fine Arts-Washington County announces that Daniel M with a degree in Art History and a Museum Studies Certificate (2004) He served as Assistant Director and Curator of the New Britain Museum of American Art during a highly-charged 3- year period beginning in 2004 when the Museum underwent its first building expansion and renovation under former Director Douglas Hyland Director of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts stated that Daniel comes highly recommended as an outstanding scholar and helpful colleague “He has good ideas for the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts having served the New Britain Museum during a dynamic time mounting exhibitions and planning associated programs and helping to secure project support from foundations We are pleased to welcome Daniel to the Museum of Fine Arts and introduce him to the four-state regional community.” (2014) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he secured the University’s highly competitive 3-year Distinguished Fellowship Fulco was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship and a Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund Scholarship from The Pittsburgh Foundation to complete his doctoral research  Daniel also gained experience at the Phillips Collection as a Curatorial Intern (2010) and as an Assistant in the Visual Resources Collection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011) Fulco has taught Art History at Marymount University Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment (Leiden A scholar of European and American art from the 17th to the 19th centuries Daniel’s research also engages with the exhibition of Islamic art at world’s fairs who served as Chair of the Curator Search Committee reported that,“Daniel Fulco has a broad knowledge of art history and interest in cross-cultural studies including foreign languages His specialized area of study is in European and American Art which is a very good fit for our Museum’s collections His scholarship is impeccable and he has already published a book based on his dissertation research.” Stine Schreiber Curator position was established through a permanently restricted endowment given to the Museum of Fine Arts-Washington County in July 2016 by the Agnita M President of the Museum’s Board of Trustees expressed the deep gratitude of the board to the Stine-Schreiber Foundation “The earnings on this endowed fund will allow us to fund this important mission-centered position in perpetuity.” Agnita Marie Stine-Schreiber (1913-2007) was a devoted member of the Museum of Fine Arts she graduated from Western Michigan University and taught Occupational Therapy and Clothing Design at Ann J After her marriage in Cedar Falls to Lee Edward Stine in 1938 She was manager and co-owner of the cafeteria at Fairchild Aircraft Corporation for nine years she held board positions and contributed to many Washington County organizations She also served on the board of Antietam Bank who serves as Vice President of the Museum’s Board of Trustees stated that “I have wanted to help the museum secure a full-time Curator since accepting a position on the board of trustees in 2010.” Daniel Fulco will oversee a diverse collection of more than 6,500 works of art in the museum’s permanent collection He will have responsibility for the research He will actively develop rotating and permanent exhibitions associated artistic and educational programs and will provide public lectures Admission to the Museum is Free and Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m Thank you for registering to ARTFIXDaily's Email Newsletter Your first email will be delivered to your inbox shortly Ninety-two-year-old seaman and Alabama native Jack Crittenden died in his sleep on New Year's Day The World War II veteran was drafted in 1944 before he graduated high school as one of the first black seaman and earned his first assignment at Port Chicago Crittenden was featured by the Montgomery Advertiser in 2014 for its Hall of Heroes series and again in 2016 to honor local WWII veterans for the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the nation into war Crittenden was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease three weeks ago and his health quickly declined "His wife of 61 years woke up and thought he was still asleep," Hamilton said they said he had passed away a few hours earlier but that he was still able to welcome the New Year." on Saturday at Lilly Baptist Church on Hill Street in Montgomery Crittenden witnessed the horror of losing more than 300 of his comrades in the infamous Port Chicago explosion including many African-American seamen loading ammunition onto a ship all the seamen at the port who were not down at the docks were transferred to another portion of California," Crittenden recalled during a 2014 interview "They were temporarily trying to reorganize because everything was in disarray 1944 when munitions detonated while they were loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific theater It killed 320 sailors and civilians and injured 390 others Crittenden never spoke of the accident after the war because he was ashamed of how the Navy had treated the segregated black men assigned to load the ammunition and blamed him and others for the explosion Agnita Crittenden and his son Hiram Crittenden who later found out about the story when he was interviewed by ABC's Nightline news program "It was over 25 years before he told anyone," Hamilton said "Nightline then NBC's Dateline reached out to him for an interview  Agnita's favorite memory of him was when they both aired and she saw him on TV When I married Hiram and became part of the family he sat me down and told me and how strong he was and how he stood up for those involved." His son was "overwhelmed" and "amazed" when he learned his father was a part of the historic incident I really knew who my dad was and what he stood for," Hiram Crittenden said "I appreciated so much more all the teachings values and principles he shared with me as a young man." He and others were offered a pardon by President Bill Clinton but Crittenden refused because he thought if he accepted the pardon that meant he had done something wrong President Bill Clinton pardoned Freddie Meeks the last living member of the Port Chicago 50 – fifty men‍ who were convicted of mutiny and sentenced to 15 years of prison and hard labor as well as a dishonorable discharge Forty-seven of the 50 were released in January 1946 The rest served additional months in prison shook his hand and gave an apology on behalf of the Navy and their treatment," Hamilton said African-Americans were normally assigned as a cook Crittenden came in when becoming a seaman was allowed and was one of the first he was shipped to the Philippine Islands aboard a landing-craft tank Tanks would drive on it and be transferred to other parts of the island Crittenden loaded ammunition and learned day-to-day seaman duties He was discharged after the war and came home to Alabama graduated from Alabama State University with a bachelor's of science degree in social studies and taught history in Lowndes County Agnita Crittenden and later became the director of the governor’s office of Alabama for former Gov Hiram Crittenden will always remember the impact his father's life faith and values that he lived by," Hiram Crittenden said dependability and the reliability of your word." I would say this book is the best memoir I’ve ever read It does not only tell about a woman’s struggle to get a proper education lived in a unconventional family whose father doesn’t believe in the power of authority and even in public education Tara could finally go to college after battling many considerations and thoughts against public education Tara’s father heavily disapproved her going to college Her father has been the most influential figure in her life Almost every step she took was influenced by her father it did not last as  she went through her Ph.D Her father’s strong religious faith had no longer affected her as she went to higher education Reading this book halfway through I didn’t realize that she was abused by her brother he would grab both of her hands and put them on the back while pushing her head facing walls he would shout and call her ‘a whore’ without any reason They would call such an act as a game — but she actually didn’t enjoy it she always forced herself to laugh after that He didn’t do that to his sisters (Tara also has an older sister named Audrey) only Their mother also witnessed Shawn’s violent action against her daughter but she pretended not to see it And her brother wasn’t the only one abusing her Tara had kept what Shawn did to her to herself and only wrote it in her journal but as the time went by she finally confessed it first to her sister she thought that her mother would be on her side but she would not Her mother betrayed her by insisting that her memories were not true — Audrey agreed to their mother as well she wasn’t able to trust her own thoughts anymore Everything she saw she always wondered if it’s true “I knew that my memories were not memories only This meant that more than my memory was in error which invented in the very moment of occurrence then recorded the fiction.” I felt relentless desire to ask people to verify whether they were seeing what I was seeing.” who is the most religious member of the family noticed that changes in Tara He said that her daughter is taken over by Lucifer and that she should get a priesthood blessing when her parents visited her in UK her parents are more convinced that she is pure evil and tell that to everyone they met Tara finally decided to cut ties with her parents She realized that the more she learns the more she knew what morality is She believed that her father was maybe suffered from Bipolar Disorder after she attended a mental disorder lecture citing the fact that he was always angry and having excessive excitement over something But her classmate said that it was more likely to be paranoid schizophrenia as he is always scared that something is gonna hurt him or chasing after him She felt hopeless as it seemed that no one is believing in her The only one she could trust was her boyfriend Tyler — the first in the family who got into school and also the first one that went away from the family — finally stepped into the conflict Initially she got no hope in him as she thought he would be the same as Audrey “Our parents are held down by chains of abuse and control… They see change as dangerous and will exile anyone who asks for it This is a perverted idea of family loyalty… She was able to get focus on her dissertation again Her dissertation which is based on Mormonism in it — which is basically her parent’s background — finally got her into her Doctorate title Impacts of Gaslighting and Manipulative Parents there is  a story where Tara found herself awoke while screaming in the street This is caused by stress and anxiety as her parents constantly said that her memory wasn’t true until she questioned her own mind and sanity — until she believed the lies her parents made What her parents did is a gaslight behavior a type of manipulation where an abuser is trying to get someone else (or a group of people) to question their own memory control a victim by twisting their sense of reality The abuse was started by Shawn who hurt her physically This causes her a fear of making a mistake in front of Shawn the abuse remains when she finally strong enough to confide Shawn’s behavior to her mother It takes time for the victim of gaslighting and manipulative behavior to heal she finally got support from Tyler and his family until she feels a definition of having a family again in it and she finally accepted the past and live a new life and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" © 2021 Omong-Omong Part of OMGroup Patricia Darnauer never noticed she was the only female brigade-level commander at Fort Hood until all 18 leaders came together "It's not at the forefront," said the commander of Carl R Darnauer said she's gone from not seeing very many female leaders in her chain of command to now having "two strong women who've done great things." "I'm proud of the growth the Army's made," she told the Killeen Daily Herald women taking over leadership roles got there because they are competent not because the Army thought it was time for a woman to take the job "They are judged on their competence and they've demonstrated in whatever they've done previously the success they've had and are able to do more," she said About 1,115 female officers serve at Fort Hood along with 2,439 noncommissioned officers according to information provided by Fort Hood Many of those women are moving into leadership roles that break down gender boundaries The 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment welcomed its first female commander "I'm not focused on being the first female commander I'm focused on how to be a commander," Rascon told the Herald upon joining the company-size unit I don't want them to see me as a little woman on a horse also served as a "first female," and agreed the focus should be on professionalism She led a forward support company at Fort Carson "Leadership ability always outshines the fact that you're the first," said the current support operations officer for 1st Brigade Combat Team "It's not necessarily about physical ability and it's not about having to have the first female to do the job Williams has nearly 12 years in the Army and she said she loves her job as a logistician at a time when more combat positions are open to women move or communicate unless I bring that stuff to you," she said "It's exciting to see different branches in the Army open to women It shows females in the military can do anything they put their minds or bodies to." Candra Maita also watched change happen since she enlisted in the Air Force in 1993 and even since becoming a commissioned intelligence officer in the Army in 2007 "The military is transforming itself into a stronger and that includes more females," said Maita commander for Headquarters Support Company This generation coming up is more accepting - period." Fort Hood's 36th Engineer Brigade participated in the Soldier 2020: Gender Integration Study to help create standards to open combat jobs to women Occupations still closed to women include combat engineer women really have to think about what they're signing up for," Maita said "If you want to join the military and serve your nation Maita said the military has progressed by "leaps and bounds" regarding gender equality "Fighting for your country shouldn't be gender related and we're still in the throes of making it happen but there are more opportunities (for women) now than there ever have been." Darnauer said she's too old now to forge a new path but is happy to see the opportunities available She wonders if she would have reached for such a goal as a young lieutenant "I liked to prove people wrong," she said with a laugh Darnauer began her Army career as a commissioned second lieutenant from Cornell University's ROTC program in 1986 where she said she appreciated the opportunity it provided to work in both a hospital setting and a line unit Darnauer earned the Expert Field Medical Badge the Parachutist Badge and the Air Assault Badge she said she wasn't trying to prove a woman could earn those badges but rather earn the respect of her peers in an infantry unit "The thing that set me apart wasn't my gender," she said "The discriminatory (factor) was air assault school." With so few women to look toward in her early career Darnauer said she strives to be a role model today "I'm proud of the growth that the Army's made," she said "Don't constrain your dreams or aspirations based on gender It's not an Army of that; it's not a society of that